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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1975
Page
9
Avatar, ridden by Bill Shoemaker, wins the 193 600 Belmont Stakes in 2 28 1 5 as Master Derby fades and Foolish Pleasure, Diabolo, and others vie. Trainer Tommy Doyle credits Shoemaker's strategic riding while owner Arthur A Seeligson Jr. plans rest for Avatar after the tough campaign.
Odom unhappy with Indians contract and trade demands sent to Atlanta on waivers during the inter league period. Cleveland acquires right-hander Roric Harrison, while Odom’s ERA stands at 3.48 with one win this season and an 81-74 lifetime record. Harrison comes from a 3-4 mark with a 4.77 ERA this year.
San Diego's McIntosh improves to 5-3 and Freisleben defeats Montreal as McNally goes 3-5 and Rogers 3-4 in a baseball standings update.
Willie Shoemaker steered Avatar to a neck victory over Foolish Pleasure in the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown. Foolish Pleasure surged late, Master Derby ran third as 60,321 fans watched. Wager favors showed Avatar across the board at 28.40 8 5.20 with Foolish Pleasure paying 3.20 2.60 and Master Derby 5.20.
Avatar finished 2 28 1 5 in the Belmont Stakes held in heavy rain at the 126 pound limit. Foolish Pleasure faltered, Prince Thou Art underperformed, and Diabolo, Singh and Just The Time trailed. Avatar earned 116 160 and season earnings reach 272 678 while wagering reached a Belmont record of 1 649 591.
Ted Simmons hit a tie breaking two run double in the eighth as the St. Louis Cardinals beat Houston 5 1 to hand the Astros a seventh straight loss. Reggie Smith walked and Willie Davis doubled before Simmons doubled off Dave Roberts. Luis Melendez scored on Simmons’ hit. Cards added a ninth inning run on a walk sacrifice and Ted Sizemore single. Reitz and Smith produced the first run for St. Louis. Houston tied the game in the sixth on Cesar Cedeno’s double scoring Greg Gross. McGlothen pitched six plus innings for the win.
Baltimore Orioles score five in the fifth inning as Dave Duncan drives in two with a double and Mike Torrez allows five KC hits to earn the 7-3 win over the Kansas City Royals. Dennis Leonard takes the loss after a 2-2 start, while Al Bumbry Tommy Davis and Lee May contribute key hits.
SIUC athletes Jon Hallberg Glenn Tidwell and Sandi Gross join 24 men and 38 women qualifiers for the USGF Elite Nationals at SIU Arena. Bart Conner of Morton Grove competes unattached for high school eligibility. Top finishers advance to Pan American trials in Colorado Springs with finals in Miami.
Bobby Bonds hit his 14th and 15th homers of the season as the New York Yankees beat the Chicago White Sox 6-3. He opened with his 200th career homer and followed with a two run shot in the fifth off Stan Bahnsen, erasing a 2-1 Chicago lead.
South Carolina pitcher Earl Bass and Mike Cramer scattered six hits to lift the Gamecocks to a 3-1 win over Seton Hall in a first round College World Series game. The Gamecocks, riding a 14 game win streak, built a 1-0 lead on an unearned run in the second and added a second run in the third on Gary Hancock's RBI single before adding a third in the eighth via Mark Van Beaver.
Don Quarrie of Jamaica clocked 19.9 seconds to win the 220 at Hayward Field in Eugene, sharing the world mark with Steve Williams, who also ran 19.9. The effort edged the previous 20.0 record held since 1962 by Tommie Smith, aided by favorable wind and the renamed Steve Prefontaine Classic honoring the late Oregon star. Williams added a 9.1 in the 100 yards, inching toward the world mark held by Crockett and McTear.
Johnny Bench Dan Driessen and Joe Morgan homered to back Jack Billingham as the Cincinnati Reds defeated the Chicago Cubs 8-1. Bench hit his 12th homer to start the second inning, Driessen followed with his first, and Morgan added his seventh while Billingham pitched six scoreless frames before a late Cubs rally.
Sixteen players sit near the pace as 165 entries compete in the 18th annual Jackson County Country Club Invitational. Saturday scores show four leaders at two under par 70 with names Tim Dobson Pursie Pipes Dave Perkins and James Kioski. Several others posted 71 or 72 as two rounds remain to determine final class divisions.
The reminiscence traces Merle Jones’s bond with Johnny Hutchi a bank cashier who lent him money and taught banking courtesies. It also notes Hutchi’s high school basketball days with Herrin and his son Bob Hutchi later coaching Herrin High to state titles.
University of Louisville mulls joining a proposed basketball conference amid preliminary talks with independents St Louis University Cincinnati Memphis State Georgia Tech Tulane and Dayton. President James Miller says decisions will come in a week or two while coach Denny Crum backs the move despite tougher competition and questions over a post season tournament champion.
Joe C Meriweather Jr son of SIUC basketball star was admitted Friday to Carbondale hospital with a stomach virus. His mother reports he is fine and back home Saturday while Big Joe awaits the ABA draft after being drafted by Houston Rockets in the first round. Quarterhorse and appaloosa racing return to Du Quoin State Fair with 34 two year olds and eight fastest qualifiers from last week racing in heats for 300 yard straightaways and 330 yard derby and aged classes. No pari mutuel betting is planned.
Colonel Power owned by Harry Peltier of Thibodaux Louisiana led all the way to win the 18th Illinois Derby at Sportsman's Park Saturday. A crowd of 23,204 watched Ruggles Ferry second by three quarters of a length, with Methdioxya third in the 14 horse field. Bravest Roman, the 845 favorite from New York, finished sixth.
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