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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1968
Page
12
The 1968 piece notes baseball faced a national test after Kennedys death with clubs honoring him while avoiding disrupting Bat Day and Sunday games. It highlights a rare player protest, questions managements response, and suggests rising militancy among athletes across sports and within baseball.
In Longwood Stadium Brookline Mass AP Roche 23 year old rookie defeated Ken Rosewall 4 6 10 8 6 3 7 5 a stunning upset for the Australian. Rod Laver the defending champion beat Mal Anderson 10 8 6 4 6 1 to reach the semi finals. Rosewall seeded second Roche and Anderson unseeded as Laver seeks a fourth U S pro title on sun backed grass.
Britain defeated the United States to win the Wightman Cup at Wimbledon for the first time since 1960. Christine Turman Jones and Nell Truman won the decisive doubles 6-3 2-6 6-3 over Kathy Harter and Stephanie DeFina.
Dan Mathews of North Little Rock hooked and landed a 23 pound German brown trout from the White River near Flippin, nearly matching the Arkansas state record of 25 pounds set in 1964 by Tom Gulley. Guide Bill Olliverson says Mathews fought the fish alone for over an hour in swift water.
In Newcastle Northern Ireland the United States beat Britain 102 to 7 in Curtis Cup golf. Mary Lou Dill Peggy Conley and Phyllis Preuss won the final three matches to seal the victory. Dill defeated Ann Howard 4 and 2, Conley edged Mrs Margaret Pickard 1 up, and Preuss won 2 and 1.
Trish Brady of St Peters burg hauled a 176 pound tarpon Thursday at the Tampa docks, setting a new all time mark in the 21 year Tampa Tarpon Tournament. The previous record was 174 pounds in 1954. Brady used a pin fish and watched the fish jump six times during a 15 minute battle.
Steve Heckel a SIU senior from Carterville will represent Southern Illinois University at the NCAA university division golf championships in Las Cruces New Mexico. The tournament runs six days starting Monday. Heckel has been the Saluki No 1 for most of the season and averaged 73.6 in 16 rounds as the team finished 24 8.
SIU adds two All-America certificates for 1980 NCAA Championships. Ed Mossotti placed third in the 50 yard freestyle with 21.1 seconds and earned his second All-America. The 400 yard freestyle relay, Mossotti, Scott Conker, Bob Schoos and Vern Dasch, finished sixth in 3:09.4, first SIU relay to win All-America.
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