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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1961
Page
3
Friday at Ruidoso featured ten races with belts of purses and results. Winners included Asalend, Mach One, Mr. Wall, Bar Tonto Jr., Red Pepper Dee, Shoolah God, Blaze Comet, Abbot Miracle, Pokeyv Tom, Capriche, and Condemnation among noted owners and jockeys. Total attendance listed as 100 with a total handle of 93,315 dollars.
Dan Orlich of Reno Nevada leads the 1961 All American Trapshooting Team named by Jimmy Robinson editor of Sports Afield He posted over 99 percent breaks on nearly 6000 targets and tallied 100 straight breaks 30 times and six 300 straights He is captain of the main squad with Las Cruces New Mexico resident Dan Griggs named to the sub junior team and Bill Lambert San Diego California and Clinton Bailey Big Springs Nebraska named co-captains of the sub junior group.
Doug Harvey, Montreal Canadiens defense star, weighs a new three year offer from the New York Rangers at a higher salary after turning down previous terms to join as player coach. The veteran defender contemplates his next move amid renewed talks late in the week.
The Washington Senators and Los Angeles Angels beat Frank Lary as Detroit held the lead. The Angels won 5-4 in Los Angeles on Earl Averill's tie breaking double and three unearned runs, narrowing Detroit's advantage to three games.
Warren Spahn kept date with 300 career wins as he beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 10 to 2 in Milwaukee. The victory marked his 293rd all-time and his second win over the Dodgers this season, the first time in a decade he has two wins against the club.
Skyline athletic directors at a two day meeting remained unaware that Utah, Brigham Young, New Mexico and Wyoming universities plan to quit the league to form a new conference with Arizona and Arizona State. Formal notices may come at the June 11 presidents meeting, with current schedules honored through 1962 63 in most sports.
Bradley University expelled senior Alpha Saunders and sophomore James Tim Robinson for failing to report bribe offers. An overnight student protest followed with 500 demonstrators, a dean of men effigy, and police blocking downtown Peoria as 30 to 50 car cavalcade dispersed.
Two pass catching ends from Iowa State Don Webb of Jefferson City Iowa and Mickey Fitzgerald of Detroit were signed today by the Toronto Argonauts of the Big Four Football Union.
In Grand Junction Colorado North eastern Oklahoma fell to upset victims as the third annual National Junior College Baseball Tournament opened with a frantic first round. A four game schedule followed in the five day double elimination event continuing Tuesday.
Floyd Weaver of Paris Tex Junior College struck out 21 batters in nine innings yet his team lost 5 3 to Wright of Chicago as the Tournament defendents suffered a first round exit. Pueblo Wilmington Mesa and Wright won their first round games in the double elimination event.
Northeastern Oklahoma entered the meet with an 8 7 record and faced a Pueblo opponent in a 97 loss. Other games saw Wilmington NC edge Boise ID 6 5 in 12 innings Wright CHI defeated Paris TX 5 3 and Mesa Mavericks blank Manatee FL 4 0.
Herb Score, once a million dollar pitching ace, is optioned to San Diego of the Pacific Coast League by the Chicago White Sox. Manager Al Lopez says the move will help Score pitch regularly and work out of trouble, aiming to regain form after eye injury and years of wildshow.
In Houston Texas most of the nation's leading bowlers began competition in the $22 000 Fred McGee Professional Bowling Association Classic on Saturday at the Houston event site.
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