Holmes KO's Spinks Early In Detroit Title Fight
Larry Holmes stopped Leon Spinks in the third round at Joe Louis Arena to retain the WBC heavyweight title. Holmes landed sustained head shots after a knockdown, with Spinks’ corner throwing in the towel as the referee halted the bout at 2:34. Holmes improved to 38-0 with 28 KOs. Spinks fell to 27-3-2 after attempting a second title reign. Don King and Renaissance Sports promoted the nationally televised card before about 12,000 fans.
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Detroit
Larry Holmes
Leon Spinks
World Boxing Council
Joe Louis Arena
Richard Steele
Spinks
Michael
Holmes
Steele
Muhammad Ali
World Boxing Association
Gerrie Coetzee
Ken Norton
Ali
Trevor Berbick
Floyd Patterson
Ingemar Johansson
George Foreman
Joe Frazier
Bob Foster
Cobo Hall
Don King
Renaissance Sports Inc
No Baseball Talks Are Scheduled
New York AP reports major league baseball players began a strike causing all games to be canceled and talks to resolve the 18 month stalemate to halt with no rescheduled meetings. The strike, first mid season shutdown in history, left ballparks locked with seven AL and six NL games wiped out.
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New York
Player Relations Committee
Yankees
Oakland A's
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
Marvin Miller
The
Players Association
Royals React To Player Walkout Strikes In Major League Debut
Royals players returned to Kansas City after checking out of a Detroit hotel as baseball began its first regular season strike since 1972. Dan Quisenberry said the strike length is up to the owners while Hal McRae and John Wathan blamed ownership frustration with Marvin Miller and demand for compensation changes under the 1976 Basic Agreement.
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Kansas City
Dan Quisenberry
Kansas City Royals
Quisenberry
Royals
Detroit
Toronto
Tigers
Hal McRae
McRae
John Wathan
Marvin Miller
Major League Players Association
Wathan
G R C City Schedule Week of June 15 196?
Community league night by night schedule listing softball, tennis, volleyball and other youth and adult league fixtures across Forest Park Ottawa and surrounding venues. includes coed and ladies leagues with times, teams, and venues plus upcoming tournaments and summer recreation programs.
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G.R.C
Forest Park
KOFO
Hickory Inn
Canoca Travel Shoppe
Hook Saturn
Overbrook
Ottawa Jaycons
Duke Mig
Ottawa Sheat Metal
Cory Corroy
al Beets Motors
Mark IV L.A
Budge
Powy É
Peak
the Pub
Gorton
Hardware
Commodore Homes
Smith Family
Ottawa Millwork
J Automotive
Briscoe Drvge
Bombers
Dawn Truck
Moorman's
Havens
Sunrine Guziki Saniers
Quaan's
Man's Diamond Church
Koighis of Columbus
Faith Lutheran
Community Foursquare
Wesleyan
C.C
Assembly of God
Ottawa Bible
Assembly of God B
Nazarene
Community
North Baptist
First Baptist
First Methodist
Lee
Transportati
H.C. Lee 3:40 Lary L Vs. Park's Super-Saver 5:30 Green Acres Vs. Dairy Queen
Lazy L
Oviry Queen
Green Acres
Glaze Drillers
Pesk
H.D
Dangel's
People’s National Bank
Budga's
Founderion Fixers
First National Bank
Rantoy
Ottawa Herard
Beta Sigme Phi
Ellen Bailey
American Legion
Perry
Onawa
Garnett
Ottawa
Lawrence
Topeka
Elks suffer first loss as Sertoma tops them in Ottawa
In Ottawa Babe Ruth League action Sertoma handed league leader the Elks their first defeat 4-1 as Jeff Reed allowed one run on five hits over seven innings and Randy Brecheisen took the loss. Sertoma scored three in the first and added one in the fourth while the Elks only answered in the fourth. Kiwanis beat the Optimists 6-4 behind Keith Hodges who allowed two hits over four innings. Eric Green and Paul Steinman led Optimists with hits. Steve Smith and Bryan Kelley drove runs for Kiwanis.
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Gary Kunt
Sertoma
Elks
Ottawa
Randy Brecheisen
Brecheisen
David McCrea
Reed
Jason Edwards
Louis Jones
Optimists
Kiwanis
Tom
Keith Hodges
Hodges
Rod Stottlemire
Steve Smith
Bryan Kelley
Smith
Kelley
Eric Green
David Moore
Paul Steinman
Lions
VFW
Rotary
Eagles
Gilbert Overcomes Bogies In Westchester Rally
Gibby Gilbert endured a first hole triple bogey to fire a 3-under 68 and share the second round lead with Leonard Thompson at the Westchester Golf Classic. Thompson finished strong with an eagle blast and birdies to post 66, while Craig Stadler and a star-studded group chased at 137.
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Harrison
N.Y
Gibby Gilbert
Leonard Thompson
Gilbert
Westchester Country Club
New York
Thompson
Ray Floyd
Tom Kite
Fuzzy Zoeller
Westchester
Lee Elder
Tim Simpson
Kite
Floyd
Elder
Simpson
Zoeller
George Cadle
Bruce Lietzke
Curtis Strange
Lietzke
Strange
Women golfers at Ottawa Country Club Tuesday pairings
Chambers list shows J Poulks and 8 Gillette paired with P Badgley while P Wiggins partners M L Sheldon and P Andrews. M Cutting teams with I Moherman. M Schneider with S Bennett. Elliott-L Ansley pairings include H Kramer with B Cummings and A Fredeen. Latimer-M Hepner and L Burney-P Brownell with J Snider, plus additional doubles. CHICAGO AP Cubs trade Rick Reuschel to Yankees for Doug Bird and other pieces.
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Ottawa Country Club
J. Poulks
8. Gillette
P. Badgley
P. Wiggins
M.L. Sheldon
P. Andrews
M. Cutting
I. Moherman
M. Schneider
S. Bennett
P. Elliott
L. Ansley
H. Kramer
B. Cummings
A. Fredeen
F. Warnock
C. Gaeddert
J. Artinger
L. Osburn
L. Osburn - §. Latimer - M. Hepner
L. Burney
Brownell
J. Snider
Man Wins Oil Lease Lottery in Kansas Ad
A 67 year old Russell Kansas antountant Pete Haas won $39,200 cash in a Wyoming oil and gas lease lottery. He also holds royalty rights from a Wyoming property. The ad urges readers to enter monthly state government lottery with a small entry fee via Dexan Company.
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Kansas
Pete Haas
Russell
Wyoming
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Rick Reuschel
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Doug Bird
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Pat Tabler
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