Canonero II Still Best 3 Year Old After Belmont
Canonero II, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, finished fourth in the Belmont Stakes to Pass Catcher. Trainer Juan Arias maintained Canonero is still the best 3-year-old, despite missing training days for an infected hoof. Pass Catcher won by three quarters of a length over Jim French, with Bold Reason third.
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Ray Ayres
UPI
New York
United States
Juan Anas
Canonero I
Pedro Baptista
Venezuela
Pass Catcher
Dim French
Bold Reason
Canonero
Peter Kissel
Eddie Yowell
Jim French
Arias
Canonera
Baptista
Executioner
Yowell
Pass Caleher
Monmouth Park
Saratoga
Kodes Goolagong win French Open singles titles
Top seed Jan Kodes of Czechoslovakia and 19 year old Evonne Goolagong of Australia captured the singles crowns at the 25th French Open. Kodes defeated Ilie Nastase 8-6 6-2 2-6 7-3 in a spirited final as Goolagong prevailed in her match to claim the women's title.
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Adam Shaw Paris
UPI
Jan Kodes
Czechoslovakia
Evonne Goolagong
Australia
Kodes
Prague
Nastase
Romania
Tam
Rodes
Nice
Monte Carlo
Stan Smith
Pasadena
Calif
Arthur Ashe
Gum Springs
Frank Froehling
Froehling
Ashe
Zeljko Franulovic
Cliff Richey
Marty Riessen
Bob Lutz
Country Club teams win best ball and scramble events
The New Castle Country Club featured two golf events with notable performances. The Acker Kennaday Smith McCoy foursome posted net 35 to win best ball, while the best ball scramble saw Bill Long Ralph Galbreath Cohen clinch net 62 and a runner up team at 64.
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Tom Acker
Dave Kennaday
Don Smith
John McCoy
New Castle Country Club
Jack Allen
Frank Clarke
Jim Dunlevy
John McKinley
Ed McLeary
Bob Price
Frank Ravnak
Keith Price
Tom Bevan
Vic Ross
Tom Malvar
Gene Isidro
Bill Long
Bill Ralph
Ed Galbreath
Chic Cohen
al Weingartner
Sam Byers
Grover Washabaugh
Bob
Unser brothers duel as Al nets Rex Mays win
Al Unser won the Rex Mays Classic with an average speed of 114.858 mph on the one mile oval, matching the event purse with 17,485 dollars for his Johnny Lightning team. Brother Bobby started on pole but exited early due to fuel injection trouble as Leonard pursued before fading.
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West Allis. Wis
UPI
Bobby Unser
al Unser
Albuquerque
N.M
Joe Leonard
Bobby
Leonard
San Jose
Catif
Vel Miletich
Parnelli Jones
Miletich
Billy Vukovich
Fresno
Calif
Wally Dallenbach
East Brunswick
N.J
Art Pollard
Medford
Ore
Jimmy Caruthers
Unsers
Neshannock and Shenango deadlock in Legion opener
In Saturday’s opening round of the Lawrence County American Legion Baseball League Neshannock and Shenango battled to a 1 1 tie after eight innings. Rick Hoover and Tom Burford pitched well in a game halted by darkness. Shenango protested a ruling in the seventh inning alleging a ball that went foul then fair should have been ruled fair for a Shenango scoring chance.
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Neshannock
Shenango
Lawrence County American Legion Baseball League
Rick Hoover
Tom Burford
Bob Peterson
Gumede stops Snowball to win bantamweight title
South Africa's Joe Gumede stopped Kid Snowball to claim the bantamweight title as Vicente Paul Rondon of Venezuela knocked out Piero Del Papa in Italy. Rondon retains the WBA light heavyweight title.
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United Press International
Joe Gumede
South Africa
I Gumede
Vicente Paul Rondon
Venezuela
Piero del Papa
Italy
h.Rondon
National League and American League baseball statistics brief
National League leaders Willie Stargell and Hank Aaron top the home run race and RBIs with stars like Torre Santo Cardenal and Williams in pursuit. Pitching feats feature Dierker Carlton Jenkins Ellis and others. French Premier loses Paris doubles title to Abdelesselam Howe in a separate report.
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Stargell
Pitt
Aaron
Atl
Bench
Cin
Cepeda
Williams
Chi
Bonds
Mays
Oliva
Minn
Cash
Horton
Det
Otis
Jackson
Oak
Torre
Santo
Cardenal
Killebrew
Dierker
Hou
Carlton
Jenkins
Ellis
Marichal
Blue
Siebert
Bos
Hunter
Cuellar
Balt
Palmer
McNally
Perry
Lolich
Paris
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Henri Pelizza
Robert Abdelesselam
France
Robert Howe
Australia
Dickinson beats Nicklaus in first sudden death hole
In Atlanta Gardner Dickinson defeats Jack Nicklaus on the first hole of a sudden death playoff to win the Atlanta Golf Classic. All three contenders finished 12 under. Nicklaus missed a close birdie on the final hole while Dickinson holed a sand shot two feet from the cup on the playoff hole.
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Atlanta
UPD
Nicklaus
Dickinson
Fort Worth
Gardner
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Lost Tree
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Washington St
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Stag and Doe
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