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The Kokomo Morning Times from Kokomo, Indiana • Page 15

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KOKOMO MORNING TMIS Tmriqr Angurt 1. 1W7 Lumber-Sox with needed timber The newest to: the Chicago White Sox' pennant-driving team is this duo of Rocky Colavito (left) and Ken Boyer. Both sluggers are expected to help the weak- hitting Chisox of manager Eddie Stanky. Colavito was traded from the Cleveland Indians and Ken Boyer came to the Windy City from the New York Mets. (UPI Telephoto) Boxing schedules 'twin-kill 1 in search of heavy NEW YORK (UPI)--Four heavyweights in search of a title square off in a pair of 12- round elimination bouts at the Houston Astrodome Saturday night, highlighting the week's boxing card.

Ernie Terrell meets Thad Spencer and Jimmy Ellis opposes Leotis Martin in the unique doubleheader sponsored by the World Boxing Association, seeking to find a successor to Cassius Clay as heavyweight champion. The winners will advance to the semi-finals of the tournament. Two other bouts in the eight- man elimination tourney-Karl Mildenberger vs. Oscar Bonav- ena and Floyd Patterson vs. Jerry Quarry will be held in the fall.

Terrell, the WBA champion until he was thoroughly whipped by Clay over 15 rounds oh Feb. 6, suffering an eye injury in the process, is rated fourth while Spencer holds the No. 5 rating. Ellis is eighth among the contenders and Martin ninth. The long and lean Terrell, the oldest fighter of the quartet at 28, is 39-5 with 18 knockouts while the 25-year-old Spencer, a counter-puncher from San Francisco, is 34-4, including victories his last seven bouts.

Ellis, a native of Louisville, and a former sparring partner your ISHEREI and we're NOW featuring SPECIAL PRICES on 'REELS Tackle Boxes just $1.50 up Squirrel Hunters! We have all of your hunting needs! 22 RIFLES just $24.95 up INLAND MARINE Tht twood Area's Sports E. Main St. of Clay, has won 26 of 31 bouts- including eight in a row, and Martin, from Philadelphia, is 24-1. The bouts will be nationally televised by ABC-TV at 4:30 p.m. EOT.

Joe Brown, 42 year-old former lightweight champion, launches a comeback attempt against Percy Pugh at New Orleans on Monday, while Eddie Cotton, one year his elder at 43, will retire from the light heavyweight ranks on Tuesday after a bout with Ernie Gibson at Anchorage, Alaska. Horacio Accavallo of Argentina defends his WBA flyweight title against Japan's Hiroyuki Eoihara in a Saturday night bout in Buenos Aires. The schedule: Monday New Orleans, Joe Brown vs. Percy Pugh; Las Vegas, Cabe Terronez vs. Gregory Fernandez; New York, Pablo Lopez vs.

Mike Cruz. Tuesday -Sacramento, Roger Rischer vs. Freddie Lewis; Miami Beach, Yama Bahama vs. Lennie Johnson; Houston, Dave Zylgle- wiz vs. Willie.

Besmanoff; Honolulu, Paul 'Fuji vs. Fel Pedranza; Anchorage, Alaska, Eddie Cotton vs. Ernie Gibson. Wednesday Los Angeles, Buster Mathis vs. Giulio Sa- raudi and Scrap Iron Johnson vs.

Sante Amonti; Trieste, Italy, Rene Libeer vs. Fernando Atzori. Thursday Los Angeles, Rang Sun vs. Placido Rodriguez; Oakland, Ferd Hernandez vs. Jimmy Lester; Portland, Pete Ricitelli vs.

Tiger Armande; Philadelphia, Stan Hayward vs. Pete Toro. Friday Sorell, Canada, Joey Durelle vs. Billy Wells and Burke Emery vs. Johnny Clinton.

Saturday Ernie Terrell vs. Thad Spencer and James Ellis vs. Leotis Martin, Buenos Aires, Horacio Accavallo vs. Hiroyuki Eoihara. Coach school Aug.

7-10 INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)- The 19th annual Indiana High School Athletic Association coaching school has been scheduled for Aug. 7-10 at Purdue, according to IHSAA assistant director Herman Keller. The school will include programs on football, basketball and wrestling. Instructors in the football sessions, to be held Aug. 7-8, will be coach Doug Dickey of the University of Tennessee, and Purdue's Rose Bowl football coach.

Jack Mollenkopt Assisting them will be high school coaches Robert Springer of Indianapolis Washington and Jerry Brewer of Jasptr. basketball coaching school, to be held Aug. HO, wlll be headed by coach Baddy Waters of the University of West Virginia and a Purdue's assistant coach Bob King. Helping Waters and King will be high school net coaches Jim Raush of Evansville North, present state high school cage champs, and Marion Crawley, retired basketball coach of Lafayette. In the wrestling coaching school, to be held Aug.

9. coach Grady Penninger of Michigan State University, National Collegiate wrestling champs will head the instruction with the assistance of coach Allen Morgan of Franklin Central High School. IHSAA officials expect a out of from 150 to 200 persons at each of toe coaching schools. Error, single beat Yankees NEW YORK (UPI)-John Donaldson's two out single scored Dick Green with the tie- breaking run following Charlie Smith's ninth-inning errorMon- day, enabling the Kansas City Athletics to defeat the New York Yankees 8-6. Green hit a bouncer to third with one out in the ninth and Smith hobbled the ball for his second error.

One out later, Bert Campaneris singled Green to third and Green came home on Donaldson's second hit of the Bergman qualifies in AAU BLOOMINGTON, Club of Louisville won the women's division title and Indiana Aquatic Club of Bloomington the men's division championship in the Region 6 AAU swimming championshipr. during the weekend. Riviera of Indianapolis and the Cleveland Swim Club were second and third behind Plantation, and Lake Erie Cokes and the East Lansing, Spartans second and third behind Indiana Aquatic. Eleven Hoosiers qualified for the National AAU Junior Olympics meet Sunday. They were Georgiana Herrick and Donna Atkinson of Westwood Swim Club; Pat O'Conner and Chuck Johnson of Indianapolis Athletic Club; Joe Weiss, Miramar Club; Maury Wolfred and Terri Auda of Riviera; PAT BERGMAN, KOKOMO YMCA; Steve Rosborough, Mar ion YMCA; and divers Jim Henry of Indiana University and Barbara Shafer, unattached.

The Junior Olympics will be held in Washington Aug. 22-23. Announcement was made at the close of the meet that the 1969 NCAA national swimming championships would be held at the Indiana University pool. game. Another single by Joe Nossek gave the A's an insurance run.

Tnad Tillotson, the last of four New York pitchers, suffered his eighth consecutive defeat after three straight victories. Both runs in the ninth were unearned. Tony Pierce, who retired three batters in order in the ninth, was credited with his second victory in three days. Diego Segui, who served up a game-tying homer to Smith in the eighth, walked Rube Amaro with none out in ninth and threw one ball to Joe Pepitone before Pierce quelled the threat. Smith and Steve Whitaker accounted for all six New York runs.

Whitaker had hit a two- run homer in the eighth off starter Paul Lindblad to cut the deficit to 6-5 before Smith greeted Segui with his fifth homer. Whitaker singled home one run in the first and Smith hit a sacrifice fly in the first and a run-producing triple in the sixth. The first seven batters of the game reached base safely and the A's raked starter Fred Talbot for five runs, the key blow being Rick Monday's two- run ground rule double. Lindblad hit his first major league homer in the seventh inning for the sixth Kansas City run. Kan.

C. 500 000 102 8 13 0 New Y. 200 001 030 6 10 3 Lindblad, Segui (8), Pierce (9) and Talton, Roof (9); Talbot, Monbouquette (1), Verbanic (6), Tillotson (8) and Gibbs. WP-Pierce (2-1). LP-Tillot- fion (3-8).

HRS-Lmdblad (1st), Whitaker (10th), Smith (5th). Bargain NEW YORK (UPI) Timothy J. Mara and Will Gibson were granted a National Football League franchise for New York for $500 on Aug. 1, 1925. Ontario Regatta TORONTO (UPI) The first North American Canadian Centennial regatta will have more than 20 nations entering crews and scullers.

The international rowing competition will be contested Aug. 10-13 over the Royal Canadian Henley course at St. Catharines. Ontario. Baseball A Go-Go! It seems everybody is getting into the wild dancing act.

Anyway, umpire Paul Pryor managed to plant his feet and swing his arms in a frugging manner when he called this play at home recently. The runner, ready to protest, is Tito Fuentes of the Giants and the catcher is Phillie Clay Dalrymple. (UPI Telephoto).

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1964-1967