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Nanaimo Daily News from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada • 11

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11 The Dolly Fret Press, Monday, May 7, 19 62 LiTA, OONAUD. I KESO II. fr1 II 1 1 I I II II I r-v I I II Veterans Steal In Sunday Ball Show Action homer and added two more in the second game. Mantle hit three home runs, including a tremendous 450-footer deep into the right center i COURSE RECORD ST. ANDREWS, 1 1 a (AP) Peter Thomion, Australian golf star, set a 72-hole record for the famed Old Course Saturday and won the $16,800 professional golf tournament for the third straight year.

He shot rounds of 66, 69, 72 nd 68 for a total of 275. The previous best 72-hole aggregate for the course was 278 by Australia's Kel Nagle in the 1960 British Open. bleachers at Yankee but New York Yankees bad to settle for a split with Washington. Senators took the opener 4-2. Mantle and Roger Maris, plus the seven-hit shutout pitching of rookie Jim Boston won the second 8-0.

Mantle hit two homers in the second game, Marls one. Mays celebrated his 31st birthday at Chicago with three hits, including a two-run homer, in a 7-3 romp over Cubs. Mays finally moved over the .300 mark as Giants knocked out their 26th straight starting pitcher. Hodges, fighting his way out of a spring slump, came through with a two-run single with the bases loaded in the 12th inning for a 7-5 New York Met' victory over Phollles. A scheduled second game was postponed because of the curfew that prohibits starting a game after 5:40 p.m.

on Sunday. The first game lasted four hours and 40 minutes. Cleveland found Jim Grant in near mid-season form when he returned on a weekend pass from Ft. Belvoir, and pitched Indians to a 5-1 verdict over Kansas City. Grant pitched six shutout Innings before he fjr- I bHowN ee TO i Batik, JC ViCK a hospital CfivlTVp Young Athletes Display Record-Breaking Style Eye Cuts End Middle Bout wf OH, MAM MYJ7 DOES VD' ONSMORH.

TP JESS? step, we ycWS "Ji VJ A (3LASS Of VVtVTEW 0 1 y' 1 tcQuesriHS Mr y. mm fTV NEW YORK (AP) Luis Rodriguez, welterweight contender from Cuba, backed up his sixth straight victory Saturday by stopping middleweight Yama Bahama of The Bahamas in three rounds. Dr. Harry Klejman ordered the scheduled 10-rounder halted after the third round ended because of deep cuts over both of Bahamas' eyes. Under New York rules it was recorded as a third-round technical knockout.

The favored Cuban opened an old wound on Bahama's fore-he sd, about an inch over his right eye, early in the first IRA BECKER and SON LTD. CHAIN SAW DISTRIBUTORS and DEALERS Comox Road Dial SK 4-6661 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SUn a 1 a 1 and Warren Spahn, a pair of old gaffers at 41A kicked up their heels Sunday. So did Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Roman Mejias and GU Hodges. Musial set a National League record by playing in his game and made it even more memorable by hitting a three-run homer that gave St. Louis a 3-0 victory over Cincinnati after Reds had taken the opener 54 on a wild pitch by Don Ferrarese.

Spahn continued to grind out victories, notching No. 312 while pitching Milwaukee to a 3-2 decision in the opener with Houston. Colts bounced back to win the second 9-1 on Dick Farrell'i first complete game. Mejiu reached Spahn for a women's open broad Jump with a leap of 17 feet 10 Inches and placed second in 12.1 to Karin Frisch of Seattle In the women's open 80-metre hurdles. Miss Frisch won in 12 flat.

Bob Yard, another youngster from Trail, made it a big day for the interior B.C. city when he won the high school boys' pole vault with a Jump of 11 feet six inches. USES GLASS POLE A crowd of 1,000 watched as Moro, using a glass fibre pole, cleared 14 feet seven Inches in his second attempt. The bar moved slightly, then stayed up to give him the record. It was one inch higher than the 1957 Commonwealth mark set by South Africa's Henrick Kruger and It was far above the Canadian native record of 13 feet lOtt inches set in 1959 by Bob Reid of Vancouver.

Reld and Miss Whitty were watching from the sidelines as their records fell. Reld had been eliminated in the pole valut a few minutes earlier when he missed at 13 feet. The lithe five-foot 10 inch Miss Gerace cleared the record high Jump on her. second attempt. Miss Whitty missed in three tires at the five-foot- four Inch height, one-half inch higher than the Canadian mark set in 1956.

Russian Holds Chess Edge Over Fischer WILLEMSTAD, Curacao (AP) Bobby Fischer of the United States and Mikhail Tal of the Soviet Union adjourned their fourth-round match in the 1961 internat tonal candidates chess tournament with Tal holding a slight edge Sunday. The adjournment was called after 41 moves. Playing a Sicilian defence on the black side, Fishcer managed to take one of Tal's pawns but the former world chess champion was compensated by the strong position of his knight against Fischer's weak bishop. Chess authorities said Tal had a slight advantage that could eventually bring him his first victory of the tournament. Tal lost his first three games.

Victor Korchnoi of the Soviet Union and Pal Benko of the United States adjourned their match after 42 moves. BASEBALL SCOREBOARD was removed after walking the first batter in tht seventh. Willie Klrkland's homer helped Cleveland pile op its margin against A's. Bernie Allan, Minnesota's rookie second baseman from Purdue, hit a three-run homer into the rlghtfleld bleachers the ninth as the Twins beat Detroit 10-7. It was Minnesota's seventh victory in their last eight games, including a three-gam sweep over Tigers who now have dropped five la row.

SMOTHER ORIOLES Los Angeles Angels, Inspired by Bo Bellnsky's no-hit pitching of Saturday night, ripped Into Baltimore staff for 19 nits in a 15-7 romp over Orioles. Angels scored six runs In the fifth, their biggest outburst of the year. Brooks Robinson hit grand alammer for Orioles. Gary Gelger's first hit of the season off a left-hander enabled Boston to'take the opener from Chicago 3-2 but Turk Lown struck out three in a row in a dramatic ninth inning rescue to save a 5-3 second game vic tory for White Sox. Lown earn in with the potential tying run on first and nobody out He struck out Carroll Hardy, finch hitter Pumpsta Green and Lu Clinton.

The Los Angeles at Pittsburgh game in the National was rained out round of the televised fight It bled freely. In the third, Rodrlguet's two- fisted combinations ripped the skin over Yama's loft eye. Then Dr. Klelman Intervened. It was the second time Ba bama had been stopped in 89 pro fights.

The first wjs eight years ago. Rodriguei. the No. welter, outpointed Bahama in Miami Beach Nov. 16, 1960.

Both referee Art Mercante and Judge Tony Castellano gave Rodriguei all three rounds. Judge Jo Agnello bad It 2-1 for Rodriguei. Rodriguei weighed 151 pounds to Bahama's 158. National League WL PctGBL San Francisco 20 6 .769 St. Louis 15 7 .682 3 Pittsburgh 14 9 .609 4H Los Angeles 15 10 .600 4H Philadelphia 11 10 .524 6tt Cincinnati 12 12 .500 7 Milwaukee 10 14 .417 9 Houston 9 13 .409 Chicago 6 19.240 13H New York 4 16 .200 13 SUNDAY National League Los Angeles at Pittsburgh, ppd, rain.

First Houston 002 000 000- 2 81 Milwaukee HOlOOOOx 3 9 0 Golden (1-1) and Smith; Spahn (3-3 and Crandall. HRs: Hstn Mejias (5) MuVCrandall (2). Houston 21 010 131 9 12 0 Milwaukee 100 000 000 1 4 2 FarreU (2-2) and Ranew; Wil-ley (0-2) Plche (5), Butler (6), Clonlnger (9) and Torre. HRs: Hstn Mejias 2 (7), Larker (3), Browne (1). San Fran 201 004 000- 7 10 1 Chicago 000 100 020- 3 7 0 O'DeU (4-0) and Bailey; Buhl (1-2) Schulti (6), Hobble (9) and BertelL HRs: SF Mays (1), Kuenn (1).

First St. Louis 000 000 031- 4 11 Cincinnati 100 101 02x 5 10 0 Broglio, Ferrarese (0-2) (8), McDaniel (8) and Sawatski; Jay, Henry (8), Staler (1-0) and Edwards. HRs: Cln Coleman (4). Second St. Louis 000 000 003 3 5 0 Cincinnati 000 000 000 6 5 0 Gibson (3-1) and Oliver; Dra-bowsky (0-3) and Edwards.

Hrs: St.L-Muslal (4). First NY 10 601 120 002. II Phlla 002 100 200 000- 8 11 1 Moorehead, Miller (7) Mac-Kenxie (7) Anderson (8), Craig (12) and Landrlth, taylor (7); Hamilton, Locke (7), Batdscbun (8), Mshaffey (12) and Dairy mple. New York at Philadelphia, second game, postponed because of Pennsylvania curfew. FLIES HIGH SIOUX FALLS (AP) Pole vaulter John Uelse of Washington, D.C.

bettered his afternoon Jump of 15 ft 2 in. by topping the bar at 15 ft 6H In. OPTION PITCHER KANSAS CITY City Athletics Sunday optioned pitcher Bill Kunkel to Portland of the Pacific Coast League and placed injured outfielder Gen Stephens on the disabled list VANCOUVER (CP) Ma Stewart shaved two-tenths of second off her Canadian record for the 100-metre women's free style Sunday, but she bad to hare the limelight at the Pacific Northwest swim championships with 10-year-old Vito Dunford of Prince Rupert. The 16 year old Vancouver Miss, who holds the world record in the 100-metre butterfly warn the freestyle In one minute 2.2 seconds Sunday to crack the 1:02.4 Canadian mark she uaa ei nerseu. Young Dunford, swimming in -Tjje Class tor ooys years oia end under, cracked three Canadian open records for his division as he won the 50-metre freestyle, backstroke and but terfly at the two-day meet.

In all, .23 Canadian open swimming records fell to swimmers from B.C., Washington and Oregon as 500 competed In various age brackets. Only other open-age record to (all went to Carylyn Wood of Portland, who won the women's 400-metre freestyle in 5:07.8 to clip. 5.6 seconds off the previous mark set by Kathy Campbell of Vancouver in 1960. Dunford swam the 50-metre butterfly in 35 seconds flat, knocking 2.6 seconds off the previous Canadian open mark. He covered the distance by breastroke in 44 seconds, 1.5 seconds under the previous record and he completed the freestyle distance in 32.8 seconds, almost a full second faster than the previous mark of 33.7.

VANCOUVER (CP) Canadian and Commonwealth pole vault records and the Canadian women's high Jump record fell Saturday to two young athletes from Trail, B.C. Gerry Moro, a 19-year-old University of Oregon student from Trail, cleared the bar at 14 feet seven inches to establish Canadian native and Commonwealth mark for the pole vault. Diane Gerace, a 16-year-old blgh jumper from Trail, wiped out Alice Whitty's long-standing tiigh Jump record when she cleared five feet four Inches in the women's event. Miss Gerace also won the DENNIS Refrigeration Fridge and Range Repairs 308 Fiuwilllam SK 4-7151 it kv, v.lllpfllll1'" 51 'ijllr( I THOUGHT VOL) I OH, THATS JUST IM TO 1 VItwonwereny PERSON- VJE STILL 1 f.FhSl 1 Vw-SPEAKING SPEAK TO EACH Hy 1 p11 Mt pave n7eamco rt uBM.UcrteJeX''. 5JI I I TO HAVB VJ AOAOl YntL' 1 1 ibv rVkAN uart.f,7frvv"v vr 1 lav iwi.isk tvw wi im ii i ssw xrr I 1 Be.

mliSUI I enk w. "1 By THE CANADIAN PRESS American League WL PctGBL New York 14 7 .667 Cleveland 12 8 .600 H4 Minnesota 14 10 .583 ltt Los Angeles 11 9 .550 2Vt Chicago 13 12 .520 3 Boston 11 11 .500 IV, Kaniu City 12 14 .462 4H Baltimore 10 12 .455 4H Detroit 9 .450 Washington 4 16 .200 BV4 American League First Washington 100 000 030 4 6 0 New York 000 300 000 2 41 Stenhous (1-) Hamilton (8) and Retzer; Terry (4-3) Bridges (9) and Blanchard. HRs: Wash -Woodllng (2). NY-Mantle (4) Second Wash. 000 000 000 0 7 2 New York 300 200 SOx-8 8 0 Burnslde (2-2) Cheney (5), Hannan (7), Green (8) and Schmidt) Bouton (1-) and Howard.

HRs: NY-Mantle 2 (6, Maris (5). First Chicago 10 100 000- 2 10 0 Boston 020 000 10- 3 11 1 Pizarro (2-3) Fisher (7) and Carreon; Conely (3-2) and Pag-liaroni. HR: Chi Carreon (2). Second Chicago 102 002 000 5 1 0 Boston 000 000 003 1 71 Horlen (2-2) Fisher (9) Bau-mann (9), Lown (9) and Lollar; Wilson (0-1) Earley (6)o Stalls rd (9 and Pagliaronl. Cleveland 010 031 000 5 9 0 Kansas City 000 000 010 1 61 Grant (1-) McDowell (7), Allen (6) and Romano; Bass (-4) Archer (6), Grim (9) and Sullivan.

HRs: Cle-Klrkland (2. Detroit 012 001 210- 7 11 0 Minnesota 005 020 00310 13 1 Foytack, Agulrrl (1-1) (7) and Brown; Paacual, Stlgman (7). Moor (1-0) (8) and Battey. HRs: DetBruton (3). Minn Versalles (3), Allen (4).

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