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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1979
Page
2
The Ottawa Junior High Relays will be held Thursday afternoon at Ottawa High Stadium. Fifteen schools are expected to compete. The ninth grade boys and girls events will start at 42 30.
Poor weather today forces Ottawa High to postpone the Bishop Miege Invitational track meet at Mission to Tuesday May 1. A tennis match at Olathe is canceled and will be played April 18.
Ottawa entries dominate District Kids Wrestling with Wayne Walker finishing second in the 55 pound final for 10 and under. Barry Baldwin places fourth at 43 pounds in 8 and under while Richard DeLaTorre takes fifth at 90 pounds in 12 and under.
USC star Randy Brewer joined Wichita Swim Club’s Steve Unruh Dennis Finegold and Mike Sheffer to set a new National Age Group Record for 11 12 boys in the 200 medley relay at 1 52 06. The old mark 1 52 39 was held by a Pacific Valley Association team in California from 1978. Randy helped Missouri Valley claim 44 of 54 events at Lincoln Neb last weekend, winning the dual meet by over 300 points and taking first in the 100 breast, 200 free relay. third in 100 back and 200 I M. sixth in 50 free. Sugar Ray Leonard open to May 20 bout with Tony Chiaverini in Baton Rouge but Chiaverini’s adviser doubts he will take the fight.
Watson names favorites ahead of the Masters at Augusta National while noting Raymond Floyd Gary Player Jack Nicklaus and his own chances He says the course is in peak condition and warns against big mistakes as players like Lon Hinkle and Fuzzy Zoeller draw attention and CBS plans national telecasts of weekend rounds
Tuesday games showed Toronto 10 Chicago 2 Milwaukee 3 Boston 0 New York 7 Baltimore 6 Texas 5 Cleveland 0 Detroit at Kansas City postponed by rain Minnesota 8 California 1 Seattle 4 Oakland. Wednesdays feature listed matchups including Minnesota at California and Oakland at Seattle with multiple doubleheaders noted. Thursday schedules include Boston at Milwaukee New York at Baltimore Cleveland at Texas Minnesota at California Oakland at Seattle.
Central Methodist defeated Ottawa University 80-65 in a dual track meet at Fayette Missouri. OU's Dave Olson won the high hurdles and long jump and teammates won several events including Mark Killingsworth in the pole vault and Keith Butler in the discus. Next action is the William Jewell Relays Friday at Liberty.
Ottawa University edged Pittsburg State 5-4 as K Dean Snell and Keith Staubus led the Braves. They won the No 2 doubles after rallying from a set down to clinch the match 6-7 7-6 6-1.OU also faced injuries and defaults earlier in the day.
Dan Issel led Denver with 30 points and outplayed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the Nuggets beat the Los Angeles Lakers 110-105 in the opening game of a best-of-three series. Boswell added 19 points as starter for the injured George McGinnis. Denver leads 1-0 and can clinch Friday in L.A.
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