Silver City Daily Press from Silver City, New Mexico • Page 5

MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1965 SILVER CITY DAILY PRESS PAGE FIVE Track Victors Europe-Bound After AAU Meet By BOB MYERS Associated Press Sports Writer SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) -There was a mass exodus of the track and field contingent today, most of them Europe- bound and led by Billy Mills, Gerry Lindgren and mile sensation, Jim Ryun. The books closed on the 77th annual U.S. AAU RACING THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBLIN--Meadow Court won the Irish Sweepstakes Derby at Curragh. NEW YORK Affectionately, $4.10, won the Vagrancy Handicap at Aqueduct.

STANTON, Del Turn to Talent, $3.80, and Ogirema, $12.60, won the split divisions of the Blue Hen Stakes at Delaware Park. INGLEWOOD, Calif. Arks- roni, $13.20, won the Cinema Handicap at Hollywood Park. BOSTON Slystitch, $3, won the Governor's Handicap at Suffolk Downs. CHICAGO Isaduchess, $7.60, won the Modesty Handicap at Arlington Park.

OCEANPORT, J. Turbo Jet 2nd, $4.20, 'won the Longfellow Handicap at Monmouth Park. TORONTO Whistling Sea, $16.40, won the Queen's Plate at Woodbine. OMAHA BF's Own, $13.60, won the Omaha Gold Cup Handicap at Ak-Sar-Ben. CHICAGO--Race Time, $3.20, won the National Maturity Pace.

PARIS Reliance won the Grand Prix of Paris. Draft Beer IN THE NEW NO-DEPOSIT glass keq WITH TWIST OFF-TWIST ON CAP NO INCREASE IN COST! ships after a stirring Sunday evening in which: Seasoned Billy Mills of the U.S. Marines barely edged out 19-year-old Lindgren in world record time in the six-mile run. And 18-year-old Ryun, a Wichita, high school lad, defeated two of the world's greatest, Peter Snell and Jim Grelle, in American citizen's record time. The electronic timer separated Mills and Lindgren by 1- 2flth of a second, as both were clocked in 27:11.6.

AAU officials said both will be certified for a record, which smashed the 27:17.8 set by Ron Clarke of Australia in 1963. Ryun's time of 3:55.3 bettered the pending citizens mark of 3:55.4 by Grelle in Vancouver, B.C., June 5. The outstanding performance Saturday night was Bob Schul's 13:10.4 in the three-mile race. It bettered his own American record of 13:15.6. Lindgren, Washington State freshman, will compete abroad several times before the American team assembles for the dual meet in Russia July 31- Aug.

1. Mills, America's Olympic Games champion last year, is due to race at Helsinki, Finland, this week. But his plans may be changed after blood blisters developed on his left foot Sunday. This was Snell's last race in America. He plans to retire after coming meets in Europe and England.

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Las Cruces, N. M. Young, Burson Win Trip To Russian Meet SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) -George Young, a native of Silver City, N. who now teaches school at Casa Grande, won the steeplechase in the National AAU championships over the weekend.

Young, American record holder in the steeplechase, ran the event in 8:50.6. A former University of New Mexico track star, Adolph Plummer, won the 220-yard dash. Plummer tied his career best in the 220 with a :20.7. An unattached Western New Mexico University athlete, Lloyd Burson, was third in the three- mile with a time of 13:38.8. All three were named to the American team which will compete against the Russians at Kiev July 31 and Aug.

1. WINS IN SHOOT ALBUQUERQUE (AP)--Capt. Leon E. Everhart, Holloman Air Force Base, was named New Mexico Grand Handicap champion in the 17th annual New Mexico Trap Shoot after breaking 97 of a possible 100 clay pigeons. An Albuquerque man, Eugene B.

Stites, was named New Mexico High All- Around champion by hitting 378 of a possible 400 birds. COWBOY POI.O. a IIPW altraclinn in Grant County, will lie played Sunday afternoon, July 4, in conjunction with the annual Sheriff's Posse rodeo at the local arena. Photo the Silver City I'olo Club defeating the Las Cruces club 9-4 In an exciting contest here June 20. This Is the first year for the Stiver City team, while the Las Cruceans have been playing about 15 years.

They were runnersup for the world championship last year. 'Affectionately' Wins Handicap Carries Record 127 Pounds By TED MEIER Associated Press Sports Writer There's no doubt about it. Affectionately has proved herself one of the great mares of American turf history. The 5-year-old daughter of Swaps Searching carried a whopping 137 pounds and still won the $58,900 Vagrancy Handicap at seven furlongs at Aque duct Saturday. The impost was a modern weight-carrying record for a filly or mare, and equivalent to 142 pounds for a male.

Affectionately, owned by Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs and trained by her husband, Hirsch, showed her herculean prowess by carrying the staggering weight through a 22.1 quarter, the half- mile in 44.3, the six furlongs in 1:09.1 and the seven furlongs in 1:23 to stave off a late bid by Sought After, under 111 pounds, to win by a head. "She was a little slow getting if PRO BASEBALL STARS By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PITCHING Bob Gibson, Cardinals, won his first game since May 20, snapping a six- game losing streak with a five- hit, 12-stripeout performance as St. Louis walloped the Chicago Cubs 8-0 in the opener of a doubleheader.

BATTING Vada Pinson and Frank Robinson, Reds, led Cincinnati to 10-9, 10-2 doubleheader over Milwaukee and to within one game of the National League lead, Pinson collecting a grand slam among his four hits and Robinson two homers among his five hits. WANT ADS started," said jockey Walter Blum after the race. "Maybe I ought to say slower than usual. I suppose the weight had something to do with that. But once she settled down and got rolling she pulled away.

I only hit her twice. I hit her on the shoulder about the quarter pole and again about the eighth pole. She was doing her best and there was no sense in punishing her. "The weight was telling at the end, but, boy, she's some mare." No one can dispute that statement It was Affectionately's 47th career star, 27th victory her sixth stakes victory this iyear. She now is the second filly or mare of "all time with $528,750.

Cicada's $783,674 tops the list. Bowling Results Sixty-Five Summer Mixed Sounder's Texaco 6 2 Grant County Bank 6 2 Silver Lanes 4 4 Team No. 2 4 4 C. B. 2 6 Team No.

3 2 High Team Three Games Saunder's Texaco 1,702 Grant County Bank 1,700 C.D.A.'s 1,697 High Individual Three Games F. Eacret 570 J. Thompson 5C3 Billie Hendrix 548 High Team Single Game C.B.A.'s 605 Silver Lanes 602 Saunder's Texaco 585 High Indlvdlual Single Game J. Thompson 219 Billie Hendrix 209 F. Eacret 204 SWIM LESSONS HURLEY SWIMMING POOL Beginning July 2, 1965 Swimming Team (free) 1:30 2:00 P.M.

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