Hunt Returns to Charles Town in Moon Landing Salute
Larry Hunt, veteran apprentice and former Army rider in Viet Nam, leads with seven wins at Charles Town as he rides Redwing 2nd in the 7-furlong AOK Purse headliner saluting the lunar trip. Hunt tallied 32 mounts in six nights of the week-long meeting after returning from service.
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Charles Town
W. Va
Larry Hunt
Viet Nam
Hunt
James B. McKathen
Rockingham Park
Florida
Shenandoah Downs
Redwing
AOK
Area Sports Schedule For Monday Through Wednesday
A dense reading of local sports listings shows Monday events at Charles Town and Bodie Grim Field with horse racing and softball leagues including Lions Field and City League. Tuesday features church league softball and teen and pony league baseball across Rouss Park and Clarke County venues. Wednesday lists additional horse racing at Charles Town and city league softball matchups at Grim Field and other venues with evening starts through 10:30 p.m.
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Charles Towne
Lions
Exchange
Buncutter Oil
Huntsberry
Luptons
Anderson Sheet Metal
Charles Town
Grim
Sunnyside
1St Brethren
Gainesboro
Lutheran
N. Frederick
Baptist Lions
Brucetown
Market St
Braddock
Terry Industries
Renner Plumbing
Midway
Crown Cork and Seal
J. W. Arthur
Rubbermaid
Phillips 66
Godfrey VW
Nichols
Ward Plaza
City
Major League Exchange
O'Sullivan
Miller - Anderson
Winchester Electric
Anderson Metal
Pearson Wins Volunteer 500 at Bristol in Ninth National Win
Stock ace David Pearson roared to his ninth NASCAR Grand National victory of the season in the Volunteer 500 a 250 mile race at Bristol Tenn and pushed his season earnings to more than 100000 for the second year in a row Twenty five golfers earned more than 61000 on the 1968 PGA golf tour.
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Bristol
Godfrey Volkswagen Earns Third in District Fast-Pitch
Garland Whitlock of Coca Cola Winchester awards Godfrey Volkswagen team coach Gil bert Smallwood for finishing third in the District Fast-Pitch Tournament. Kneeling players include Jerry Updike Steve Denney A D Hott James Grease Golightly Fred Shoemaker bat girl Donna Golightly. Standing are Denny Smallwood Ronnie Cle venger Jimmy Orndorff Dennis Spurs and Bill Edmunds. The finish earns a state tournament berth.
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Garland Whitlock
Coca-Cola Company
Winchester
Gilbert Smallwood
Godfrey Volkwagen
Jerry Updike
Steve Denney
A. D. Hott
James
Golightly
Fred Shoemaker
Donna Golightly
Denny Smallwood
Ronnie Clevenger
Jimmy Orndorff
Dennis Spurs
Bill Edmunds
Will Sager
Perry Hits First Career homer as Giants Top Dodgers 7 3
Gaylord Perry slammed his first career homer and pitched the Giants to a 7 3 victory over the Dodgers. The win tightens the NL West race as Willie McCovey hit his 30th homer and Willie Mays moved into 16th on the all time hits list with a single and double. Atlanta routed San Diego 10 0 and Chicago swept Philadelphia.
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Associated Press
Gaylord Perry
Perry
Neil Armstrong
Edwin Aldrin
San Francisco
Giants
Los Angeles
Claude Osteen
Dodger
Bobby Bonds
Bonds
Osteen
Willie McCovey
Willie Mays
Zach Wheat
Atlanta
San Diego
Chicago
Philadelphia
Montreal
New York
Houston
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Orlando Cepeda
Ferguson Jenkins
Grant Jackson
Cubs
Phillies
Jackson
Don Young
Jenkins
Don Kessinger
Dick Selma
Ron Santo
National League standings and weekend results update
NL East standings show Chicago first with 60 wins. New York 53. St. Louis 49. Pittsburgh 47. Philadelphia 39. Montreal 31. West leads Atlanta 56, Los Angeles 53, San Francisco 54, Cincinnati 48, Houston 48, San Diego 33. Saturday results include Montreal over New York 5-4 and Philadelphia over Chicago 5-3. All Star game set for Washington at 4pm EDT.
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W, IL
Pet
G.B
Chicago
New York
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Philaphia
Montreal
Atlanta
Los Angeles
San Fran
Cincinnati
Houston
San Diego
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Boston
Detroit
Wash
Cleveland
Minnesota
Oakland
Kansas City
Seattle
California
Major League Leaders From The Associated Press
American League leaders include Carew Oliva and Jackson with top batting averages .364 .339 and 37 home runs for R Jackson. Pitching leaders show McNally 13 0 1.000 and Lolich 13 2 .867 with 156 strikeouts by McDowell.
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Carew
Minnesota
R. Smith
Boston
Oliva
R. Jackson
Oakland
Blair
Baltimore
Killebrew
Powell
F. Howard
Washington
Harper
Seattle
Campaneris
Kelly
Kansas City
McNally
Lolich
Detroit
McDowell
Cleveland
Charles Town Results Debutante Leads Trade of Horses
Charles Town results list entries including Lucky Debutante Mreddi Pop Transmontana Choata Well do Lynn Won River Sprite Beau Cricket La India Evening Charm Toman Road Laforadora Girl Indian Paradise Rhoda Rocket Notartificial Nearly Lost Amy D High Sod Fear Nothing Just Shined Sagidal George B Jr.
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Mreddi
Lynn Won
River Sprite
Beau Cricket
Amy D
Fear
Sagidal
George B. Jr
Y. O
Wise Fox
Lewis
Goliah Lady
Rivera
Williams
Shamba
Pen
Noble Destroyer
Hedge
Parrafo
Lucky Debutante
Redwing
Hunt
Tunnell Turner
Little
York County
Cannon
Agnello
Vasil
John E. V
Sigler
Fast al
Reynolds
Reinar
Doreen
Wilson
Abram S
Admiral Peveron
D.D. Smith
Gustines
Kastel
Sun
Barnes
Lynns
Goliard
J. Kratz
Louviere
Honey Bee Wolf
McDowell
Fiery Holley
Y. O. Sun Oates
Cape
Snag
Espinosa
Grove
Robison
Blackbird
Wilt
Reeder
Spicy Beau
Bowcut
Key Bob
Little Pincher
My Sweetie
Mar Pat
Erin’s Joy
Besomlady
Our Robert
A- W. N. Wright
L. Stephens
Braulio Baeza Wins Belmont Stakes Twice More in 1969
Jockey Braulio Baeza secured his third Belmont Stakes victory aboard Arts and Letters in 1969 following earlier wins with Sherlock in 1961 and Chateaugay in 1963.
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Braulio Baeza
Arts and Letters
Sherlock
Chateaugay
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Winchester Evening Star
Jesse Davidson
Floridan
OLT
Rogers
Ta Smith & Wesson Browning
Harrington & Richardson
Astras
Berettas
Hopkins & Allen
Navy Arms
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Colt Scout
U.L.L.R
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Pearson
Dodgers
Hal Bock
Gaylord
Braves
Pat Jarvis
Gary Waslewski
Mack Jones
Bob Bailey
Bobby Wine
Mets
Bobby Pfeil
Ron Swoboda
Swoboda
Adolfo Phillips
Aurelio Rodriguez
Jim Spencer
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Reggie Jackson
Sal Bando
Danny Cater
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Major League
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Alou
Stargell
Kessinger
Santo
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McCovey
Tolan
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Pera
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Brock
Marichal
Gibson
Verrone
Gregora
Bob’s David
Bernie
Air Charger
Exacta
A-Ha
Dogo
Roman Victor
la Platita
Susie
F. Kratz
Quirock
Witmer
Miss Bibro
Johnston
Pettina
Dick Gibson
A-J.g,. Kramer
Church League
Wesley Ll
1St Presbyterian
Lutheran 1St Brethren
Grace Bible N
Frederick Braddock St. Baptist Market St
J.W. Arthur, Inc
Hansbrough & Carter, Inc
E. Boscawen St
Poe
Oldsmobile
Olds
Oncy
DR. Sharp
Sharp Locker
Monza
CPE
Pont. Sec
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