Montreal Baseball Franchise Still Hopes to Play
Montreal sponsors insist the franchise will rise to the National League despite two backers withdrawing. Buffalo bids to step in if Montreal defaults, with Montreal officials, including Charles Bronfman and Lorne Webster, continuing efforts with Mayor Drapeau to replace missing investors.
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Montreal
Buffalo
N.Y
J. Louis Levesque
Marc Bourgie
San Diego
Bob Swades
Major League For
Buffalo, Inc
National League
Lorne Webster
Bronfman
Webster
John Newman
Sidney Maislin
Robert Islay
Chicago
Jean Drapeau
Baseball Scoreboard of Today’s Games
New York faces Cleveland in a night game while Detroit meets Baltimore and Chicago travels to California. Boston travels to Washington as Minnesota plays Oakland and Los Angeles visits Chicago. San Francisco hosts Houston and Cincinnati tours New York, St. Louis plays Pittsburgh, and Atlanta eyes Philadelphia in a 2 2 twi night slate.
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New York
Cleveland
Detroit
Baltimore
Chicago
California
Boston
Washington
Minnesota
Oakland
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Houston
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Atlanta
Philadelphia
W. L. Pet
G.B. Detroit
L. Pet
San Fran
Phila
Phia
Pittsburgh New York
Orioles
Gibson Dominates Phillies in 5-0 Victory
Bob Gibson turned back Philadelphia with a five hit shutout for his 11th win and eighth shutout this season. Northrup and Torre finally snapped droughts with home runs, NL wins mixed with rains and late drama across the league.
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Mike Recht
Associated Press
Northrup
Joe Torre
Bob Gibson
Gibson
St. Louis
Philadelphia Phillies
Baseball global reach eyed by Eckert and Shoriki
Baseball Commissioner William Eckert told Toru Shoriki that the aim is to spread baseball worldwide including China and Communist nations. They discussed the sport linking nations as a tool to ease tensions while noting higher attendance in Japan versus a year ago.
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New York
Tokyo Giants
Peking Reds
Los Angeles Dodgers
William D. Eckert
Toru Shoriki
Yomiuri Giants
Eckert
Ted Sorenson
John Kennedy
China
Shoriki
Tokyo
Japan
City Scores Junior League Dodgers Cubs Cardinals Braves Pirates Giants
In a junior league card game, Dodgers beat Cubs 22 to 20 with Siders and Reed leading from the mound. Cardinals posted 24 runs in a strong showing with Geist and S. Finch contributing. Giants fought to 25 runs, Beeman and Lysaught pacing a late surge as Pirates tallied 18.
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Dodgers
Siders
Smith
Leitaker
Dixon
Hart
Bird
Highie
Holden
Sherman
Bouski
Reynolds
Bugner
CUBS
Miller
Switzer
Jay Schoonover
Bennett
Jeff Schoonover
Carey
Stark
Thompson
Dunn
Wassmer
Cardinals
Geist
P. Finch
Criqui
S. Finch
Bettge
Raley
Byrd
Gorton
Harris
Marstall
Savage
Totals
Braves
Jones
Pope
Hettler
Brownrigg
Duffy
Bloomer
Sheldon
Turner
Rice
Ambler
Olmstead
Pirates
Reed
Snyder
Roth
Ward
Walker
Hernandez
Anderson
Ledom
Saffron
Minnick
League Leaders in the American and National Leagues
The AP reports top players in batting hits and runs batted in across both leagues. Key names include Harrelson, Oliva, F Howard, Brock, Flood, McCovey, and Staub with figures for hits, runs, RBIs, doubles, triples, home runs, stolen bases, and pitching wins and strikeouts.
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Fregosi
Calif
Stroud
Wash
Howard
W. Horton
Det
Campaneris
Quak
Cardenal
Cleve
McLain
Wright
McDowell
Tiant
McCovey
S.F
Hart
Flood
St.l
A. Johnson
Cin
Brock
Staub
Houst
Clemente
Pitt
R. Allen
Phil
Wills
Abernathy
Marichal
Jenkins
Chic
Singer
L.A
District II Legion baseball tourney pairings set at Lawrence
The first round pairings for the District II American Legion baseball tournament at Lawrence Municipal Stadium include Paola earning a bye after a three-way tie with Ottawa and Lawrence. Osawatomie and Olathe start the upper bracket at 2 p.m. Sunday, Ottawa faces Iola at 6, and Lawrence meets Garnett in the lower bracket. The double elimination event runs Sunday through Saturday.
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American Legion
Lawrence
Municipal Stadium
Paola
Ottawa
Osawatomie
Olathe
Iola
Garnett
Minnesota Golf Lead Herded By Unlikely Group
U S Open champion Lee Trevino slumped to 74 as five newcomers led the Minnesota Golf Classic first round with five-under 66s. Pete Brown J C Snead Jim Colbert Harry Toscano and Bob Stanton shared the 66s atop a field trimmed to 7 plus ties, Trevino eight back after his rough start.
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Minnesota
ST. Paul
Ardmore
Okla
Trevino
Tom Weiskopf
PGA
Weiskopf
Dave Eichelberger
Monte Sanders
Father Son Duo Lead Odessa Pro-Am Golf Round Two
Odessa Texas AP reports Earl Stewart Jr and his amateur son Chip led the 35,000 Odessa pro-am after round two with a one stroke edge over a 100-team field. Chip birdied six of nine holes building a late surge to pull ahead despite fierce challenges from the Massengales and Brewer Cain duo.
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Odessa
Tex
Earl Stewart Jr
Dallas
University of Texas
Chip
Stewart
Massengale
Don
Rik
Gay Brewer
John Paul Cain
Massengales
Boxing Results From Multiple Cities
Boxing results list several bouts including Buster Mathis stopping Jim Beattie in Bloomington Grand Rapids Jim McDermott stopping Sixto Martinez in Portland and Irish Beau Jaynes outpointing Mike Cruz in Lowell. Rubén Navarro stopped Ray Adigun in Los Angeles and Waymon Gray KOed Raul Herrera in Mexico City with others noted.
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Bloomington
Minn
Buster Mathis
Grand Rapids
Mich
Jim Beattie
St. Paul
Portland
Maine
Jimmy McDermott
Holyoke
Mass
Sixto Martinez
San Juan
P.R
Beau Jaynes
Lowell
Mike Cruz
New York
Los Angeles
Ruben Navarro
Ray Adigun
Nigeria
Waymon Gray
Raul Herrera
Mexico
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Phil Niekro
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Hank Aaron
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Selma
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Johnny Bench
Tommy Helms
Don Pavletich
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Ann Purucker
Kansas City
Kan
Lavonne Dailey
C & M Boat Sales
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Betty) Haverty
Cliff Haverty
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Bost
Oliva
Rune—McAuliffe
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Uhlaender
R. Smith
B. Robinson
Balt
M. Alou
Rose
Santo
Maini Crite
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Welborn
Storey Street
Topeka, Kansas
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