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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1968
Page
17
Arthur Daley notes football probes a drastic no-kick extra point experiment for 23 interleague exhibitions, weighing balance and excitement against tradition while baseball clings to its time-worn rules. Wellington Mara and George Halas comment on potential impacts and cautions.
General Woodworking defeated Teter Motor 5 3 and Ideal TV routed Blackshear Cleaners 14 4 in Wesmon Little League at Westover Park yesterday. Sam Brock struck out 12 batters.
Today’s T Y sports slate lists Rugy League Cup, soccer Oakland Clippers versus St Louis Star, wrestling, golf and baseball games across several days. Notable runs include General Wood edging Ideal TV with a three run homer and Ideal TV’s Mascioli four hits. Lions Club beaten 13-12 by Ter Ter with Moeller contributing two hits.
Beth Bonner of Zan A C. topped the Johnstown meet with a 2 37.9 half mile, breaking the 1956 record and earning a national semi final berth July 20 in Meadville. The program notes 19 records set or tied and outlines Meadville qualification for Knoxville finals in August.
Denver Broncos announce the free-agent signings of Gus Kasapis and Joe Critchlow. Kasapis, from Dearborn Michigan, is a four-year CFL veteran who played defensive tackle for the British Columbia Lions and Edmondton Eskimos. Critchlow, 23, was starting defensive tackle for the Charles ton Rockets of the Continental League from 1965 to 1967 and will be looked at as an outside linebacker by coach Lou Saban.
Chicago White Sox beat Minnesota 1-0 as Bill Voss broke Dean Chance's no hit bid with a one out single in the ninth. Voss scored on Dick Kenworthy's two out hit. Chance pitched 8 1 3 innings of no hits before the walk and single. Kenworthy drove in the decisive run for Chicago.
Frank Howard crushed his 20th homer of the season a 450 foot shot to the upper left seats as Washington built a four run sixth inning and defeated Cleveland 6-2. Ken McMullen hit his 10th homer for a 2-0 lead while Bernie Allen and Paul Casanova contributed key hits in support. Cleveland answered with a fifth inning run before Darold Knowles shut the door.
Ken Harrelson drove in four runs with a homer and a two run single powering Ray Culp and the Red Sox to a 5-1 win over the Baltimore Orioles. Culp allowed three hits and held Baltimore in check with long sequences of hitless frames. Yastrzemski extended his hitting streak and raised his average to .345 as Petrocelli and Harrelson also supplied power.
Detroit trailed 4-0 before Bill Freehan drove in three runs with two singles as Pat Dobson and Fred Lasher held New York to one hit over 8⅔ innings. Freehan delivered the go ahead run on a single to cap Detroit's 5-4 comeback victory, with Northrup initiating the rally.
Mike Shannon homered with one out in the 10th to give the St. Louis Cardinals a 6-5 win over the New York Mets. The homer came off Cal Koonce, the first earned run he has allowed in 22 innings this season, after St. Louis rallied from a 4-1 deficit with three runs in the seventh off Nolan Ryan. Tim McCarver opened the tying rally with a walk and scored on Shannon’s double, with Julivan Javier and Lou Brock contributing key hits and Curt Flood delivering a squeeze bunt to level the game.
Denny Taylor WVU pitching ace earned a berth on the All Southern Conference baseball first team after going 6-0 with 56 strikeouts in 40 innings and a 0.45 ERA. He was WVU’s lone representative, joining selections from GW, The Citadel, Richmond, Davidson, William & Mary, East Carolina, and others as coaches and writers recognized top players.
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