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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1968
Page
3
In a 14 Aquinas win, a Run on the Way error allowed Sokelik to continue toward home plate, scoring the only run. Journal foe
Fort Madison Aquinas edged Hayes Catholic 1-0 as Davis threw a no-hitter and Beckey allowed two hits in a pitchers duel. Sokolik’s first inning single sparked the only run, with Beckey and Davis both strong on the mound. Hayes Catholic falls to 1-1, next at Bennett at 6:30 p.m.
Gary Player, South African star, shot 68 on a misty wet day at Colonial National, taking a one stroke lead at 138. Billy Casper sits one back after a 71, with Johnny Pott and George Knudson tied for third at 141 as Malty Fleckman and others trail.
Muscatine West Junior High 8th graders placed second behind Iowa City Southeast at Heinz Field in a quadrangular with Muscatine Central Iowa City Central and Iowa City Southeast. In 8th grade Southeast led with 56 points, West 22, and Central 15 and 12. In 7th grade Southeast led with 43, West and Central 31 each. Dan Reed won the 80 yard hurdles in 9 seconds, and the 88 yard relay team of Weatherman Newman Hunt Schmidt won in 1 minute 58 seconds.
Marquette's top basketball program remained intact after six Negro players withdrew over a racial dispute. Coach Al McGuire met with four players in a late session and the group chose to stay in school and pursue change through university channels. George Thompson issued a statement backing the cause while pledging to support the team. The university signaled a commitment to hiring a Negro administrator amid protests from whites and Negroes, though it would not be coerced.
Muscatine High School finished third with 49 points behind Ottumwa and Burlington at the 44th Little Six outdoor conference meet in Ottumwa. Bob Hathaway set a 6-4 high jump record, Goran Selders and Steve Lawrence won sprint events, and ex-Muskie Mike Wendling competed for Burlington. Hathaway also anchored a school record leap while Lawrence won the 220 and Selders took the 108.
Ottumwa claimed the Little Six conference outdoor track team title with a surprising 99 points, sweeping indoor and outdoor crowns. Burlington finished second with 73 as Ottumwa won eight events, took three relays, and set two records in field events led by Bob Hathaway and Don Presson. Next year Davenport Assumption hosts as Assumption joins the Quad City conference and Muscatine and Bettendorf enter the Mississippi Valley conference.
Results list from Little Six meet with top marks in broad jump high jump pole vault discus shot put and running events. Included is Don Dell predicting that professionals may join the Davis Cup within two or three years expanding open competition.
Australian Rod Laver urges tennis bodies to embrace promotion and Madison Avenue tactics to boost open tennis, saying fewer love-for-the-sport administrators and more hard-nosed businessmen are needed. He faces Ken Rosewall at Madison Square Garden for $7,000 first prize in a $30,000 invitation tournament after Rosewall’s semifinal win and Laver’s 6-2 1-6 6-3 7-5 victory over Roy Emerson.
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