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M:.:i:'v'Iv;:li'':'?.?:4: i '. '.... .4. v"i ; ' v ' ..;... ys ' .'. , .,,'' 4 r -- V , W,. & ..y.iY. ,V v vsix '. '&&' ' " 4-- 1 ' v - ' the set and taking a ,V'! ' $$A0faw "' ' J t V fh Australian Rod Laver won the Wimbledon men's singles title by upending John Newcombe today. ' 'A, r me Matlt r.liller lllllll!!lllllllllllllllllllll!lllllllllll!llllllllllllllll!lll!lllillllll!IIIIIIIIIIIIN if l4 & W On Dec. 9, next, Bill Kelly will be enshrined with seven others in Footballs Hall of Fame. Here is what the Hall of Fame Committee found to be Kelly history: Wild Bill Kelly was born in Denver in 1904, but his family moved to Missoula, Montana when young Bill was only seven years old. lie led his high school team to that schools first state championship. At Montana, from 1924 to 1926, he was by the opposition although Montana eleven. He was a breakaway runner who excelled in the long scoring plays. As a sophomore, nine of his scores were on runs of more than 40 yards and included two scoring sprints as well as two dashes 75 50 each, with an additionof and payoff 90-ya- rd gallop. As a junior and senior, he ran kickoffs for scores, including two the star of the 1927 East-Wetouchdown pass to Russ Sweet the game, throwing Kelly was st which decided that 3 Kelly lived only 27 years. He died while watching a football game in Syracuse. He was a member of the New York Yankees pro football team at the time. Not often in football do our mountain men make it. All hail to Wild Bill Kelly for the honors he has brought all of us! 7-- spine-tingle- r. recent years. $7,200 victory was worth to Laver, who has been ranked No. 1 in the world since 1965 while consistently leading the pros in earnings. It was from the start, with Laver somewhat off form with his overhead shots and Newcombe plagued continually by service mistakes. In that time Mrs. Jones the former Ann Haydon had reached the final once and the semifinals seven times. But she had always been the bridesmaid. 5-- 4-- 1 half-volle- Mrs. King had won Wimbledon three years running and was rated the world's top woman player. Its a bit of a relief to lose that halo, Billie Jean said. It gives me something to fight for at Forest Hills next month. The partisan crowd of 15,009 went crazy with excitement when Mrs. Jones won the match and received the trophy from Princess. Anne, daughter of Queen Elizabeth. Bonds Rips Atlanta; Cubs Win tv t'V f ' Theyre talking about a new stadium, in Las for professional football and the univerVegas sity there. They figure that in one year they will have raised the $1.1 million needed to start the project. The first plans call for a 15,000-scplace with ample expansion room. The site will be on 160 acres the Clark County School District has near the southern Nevada Vocational Training School. The Las Vegas Convention Authority put a $22 million bond issue before the voters List fall and the voters vetoed it by a large count. at But the movement is in the making and they are now admitting that it is possible that the 1970 football games will be played in it. Evidently voters dont count. The Buffalo Bounce I read in one of Southern Utahs best weekly journals that this reporter attended Hanksville Relief Society recently. Well, I did and didnt. Not that I would avoid It! We were to rendezvous with others at Hanksville, near the church, a favorite landmark. They didnt see Hanksville and drove on to Bullfrog. But while waiting at the church yard one of the ladies came and invited us in. Afraid of missing our members we declined the grateful invitation. The Hanksville church holds a warm spot in this old buffalo hunters heart. It was Dec. of 1950 that we were hosted to a dance following Utahs buffalo hunt. first modern-da- y to a combo with a long and little fiddle biggest event since Butch Cassidy came to Charley Gibbons store to restock his Robbers Roost supply. our buffalo all right, but remember for this reason dancing might the dance best have been the best action. Wonderful hosts Hanksville folk were then, a characteristic they have never lot! We got iMdMNWlktNMW By JOE CARNICELLI UPI Sports Writer For the last few years, Bobby Bonds has been touted as the man to replace Willie Mays as the San Francisco Giants center fielder. He showed why Friday in a By GREG GALLO CPI Sports Writer watched Jackson Reggie as the Minnesota quietly Twins slugged their way into a first place tie with the Oakland Athletics in the Western Division. The Athletics muscleman, who has slammed 33 homers and is far ahead of the record pace of Babe Ruth and Roger Maris, was limited to a double Friday by Bob Miller as the Fourth Twins clobbered Oakland 10-behind home runs by Harmon Killebrew, Leo Cardenas and Rod Carew. The victory moved Minnesota .004 percentage points behind division leading Oakland. relief a veteran Miller, pitcher who was making only his third start of the season, ninth insurvived a four-ru- n ning as he evened his record He was staked to an at lead when early three-ru- n doubles by Ted Uhlaender and Tony Oliva scored one run and Killebrew followed with his 20th homer of the season. In other American League action Detroit defeated Baltin a game halted imore after 4 innings because of rain, Washington downed Boston 1 before dropping the New York edged nightcap before the IndiCleveland Kansas ans rebounded and City swept Seattle and California downed Chicabefore losing the second go 5-- 4 3-- 2 13-- 2 3 game 3-- Carew and Oliva, each chipping in with three of the k 16 hits, hit Twins doubles for a run in the third inning. Cardenas led back-to-bac- 6 MUM W'Y 5-- 5 inning homer, doubled home two runners in the 10th to give the Giants the victory. In the second game, Bonds connected in the third inning and singled during a five-rusixth inning rally that wiped cut a Atlanta lead. Elsewhere, New York swept n 3-- 0 Pittsburgh Deseret News Sports Writer. Booby Baker will be out to capture his second auto racing win in as many nights this evening at the Fairgrounds Speedway following an overall a A Division win Race-A-Ram- Friday. As nearly 6.000 fans looked on Friday, Baker nabbed the overall A Division title by placing first and third in the two A races and racking up the fastest qualifying time of tlie evening. Second-leadinpoint winner so far this season in the A bracket, Baker did not gain a lot of ground on kingpin Joel Terry despite the win. Terry, who was leading Baker by 71 points going into the evenings races, posted second place finishes in both A events to rack up a good point total himself. Mcl Andrus easily won the second A Main race and would have been a threat for the overall crown had he not been forced out early by car trouble. B Division rrjl.es Friday. g and 11-- 6 Chica- in 10 ingo edged St. Louis nings, Cincinnati beat Los Montreal swept Angeles and and Philadelphia Houston shut out San Diego 3-- 1 4-- ;T two-bagg- off the fourth with his fifth homer of the season and two outs later Uhlaender singled and Carew hit his sixth home run. Oliva then singled and scored on Rich Resses single for the fourth run of the inning. g doubles by Uhlaender and Carew in the seventh ended the Minnesota scoring. Miller lost his shutout with two out in the ninth when Danny Cater singled in a run and Rick Monday followed homer. with a three-ru- n Norm C a s hs three-ru- n 4-- d n crackups. First smashup in B competition occurred when Dave Perry and Theo Vanderwoude got tangled on the northwest turn and rammed the wall early in the first race. flipped, and for a moment it looked as if it was going to jump the wall. Neither driver was hurt seriously thanks to safety belts and roll cages. Perry was able to get his car repaired in time to compete in the final B race of the evening, but was forced to sit out the rest of the evening due to extensive car damage. Another mishap in B action occurred when Fred Luttmer Jr. flipped and rolled several times coming out of the southwest turn at the start of the final B race. Luttmer too, was unhurt. Overall B Division winner was Odis Price, who won the 'hy dash, finished fifth in tne first B race and then won the final B event going away. Stan Robinson, leading the B division point chase going into Fridays competition, had er enth inning rallied the Red Sox in the nightcap. Reggie Smith and Brant Alyea also homered in the second game. Gene Michael and Bobby Murcer helped Fritz Peterson to his ninth victory as they each drove in two runs in the Yankees first game triumph over the Indians. But a two-ruhomer by Ken Harrelson off the left field foul pole and a two-rudouble by Tony Horton enabled Cleveland to gain a split n n the double-headePizarro pitched a in the second game. of Juan r. five-hitt- Win Race-A-Ra- ma were marred by two different car homer in the first inning was the key blow in the Tigers victory over the Orioles. Mickey Lolich chalked up his 11th victory against a single loss as he allowed only a solo homer to Frank Robinson in the fifth inning. The game was held up twice, for 68 and 34 minutes. Ken McMullen batted in three runs and Frank Howard blasted his 28th homer as the Senators topped Boston in the opener but Carl Yastrzemskis two-ruhomer in the first indouble ning and a three-ru- n by Tony Conigliaro in the sev his worst night yet this season. He was bothered by car trouble all evening and didnt place in the money in any of the races. Jay Eaton won the overall Stock crown and regained his season poin lead in the process. Bob Taylor, who was leading Eaton by three points for the season, started well Friday by winning the trophy dash. Eaton, however, came back to win both stock main events, as Taylor spun out after opening a big lead In the second race. Tonight's racing program will be a regular slate featuring three trophy dashes, six heat races and three main events. at 7 Qualifying will begin p.m., with races uled to start sched- around 8:30. Friday's results: Trophy dash winners Bob Taylor, Odis Price, AAel Andrus. C John Main Jay Eaton, Semi Arnold Enstrum, George Frampton, Davis. C Main Jay Eaton, John Frampton, Bcb Taylor, George Davis. Overall C winner Jay Eaton. B Semi Main Bob Thomson, Fred Luttmer, Dick Atkinson, Kyle Dean. B Main Odis Price, Kay Hawkins, Dave Mattes, Frank McCarthy. Overall B winner Odis Price. A Semi Main Bobby Baker, Joel Terry, Dick Card, Pete Cazier. Joel Terry, A Main Mel Andrus, Bobby Baker, Pete cazier. Overall A winner Bobby Baker, A1 Gas Bills Bob Oliver led the Royals to sweep over the Pilots by belting the first grand slam of his major league career in the opener and singled home a run in the r.ightcap. Kansas City took a lead in the second game but Pat Kellys seventh inning single knocked in the eventual winning run. Jay Johnstone's grand slam homer boosted the Angels to their opening game victory over Chicago before Joe Hor-le- n hurled a and scored the run to lead the Whie Sox to a nightcap triumph. VW 2033 So. Main PH. Today 4S6-21- 11 VOUSWAGEN IHTERMGIINTAIH double in the opener two-ru- n fifth into climax a four-ru- n to climax and he tripled ning a five-ru- n first inning in the second game. Tom Seaver won his 13th game in the opener and Cleon in the Jones, recaptured the NL batting lead from Matty Alou. 0 double-heade- r, Billy Williams doubled in one run and scored another on Ron Santos single as the Cubs scored twice in the 10th inning off Bob Gibson to beat the Cardinals. Don Kessinger, See NL on Page A 6 four-hitt- Teamwork Helped Lee Roy DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. Lee Roy Yarbrough (UPI) better says driving on his part brough said after powering his white and red 1969 Ford through two crashing cars and past runner-uBuddy Baker of Charlotte, N.C., to win the Firecracker 400 stock car race Friday. I think I definitely had the fastest car. the handsome Columbia, S.C., driver said. This engine runs flawless. It just sings. and teamwork improved among his pit crew make the difference between his four major stock car racing victories this year and his string of second-placfinishes last season. p e I think weve been tying up all the loose ends, Yar Modifieds Stocks AUTO RACES HI-BA- NK SUPER SPEEDWAY 12 Events 3 Mains LAPS OF SPEED & THRILLS TOHITE Drive the new the batting .167, lashed five hits and drove in five runs in the Mets sweep of the Pirates. Weis had a a 150 wjplsf-&- Weis, who entered double-heade- r NEW Graduate to Small 7-- 8-- 5 Gambled and lost! White Sox' Gail Hopkins tried to stretch single into but California's Jim Fregosi waited for the tag ot second base. The teams split a twin bill. Baker Nabs By BRENT CHECKETTS outfielder 7-- 3 2-- 7-- July power display. belted three home runs to power San Francisco to and victories oyer the Atlanta Braves, the Western Division leaders. He hit his first homer in the third inning of the opener and tied the game with his second in the eighth. Bob Burda, who tied with a ninth the game at 4 1 of The See Major League summary on Page A 6. 5-- New Stadium In Las Vegas We danced The match, which lasted just over 2 hours and 13 minutes, was one of the longest mens finals at Wimbledon in The first of Newcombes nine double faults gave Laver in the deciding break, at the first set after the favorite blew a advantage. Newcombe smashed his way back in the second set and appeared to lie in command in the third when he fluffed a y badly, double faulted at game point to give Laver a break and presented the champ with another break two games later. Laver, who banged over aces four times at critical stages, kept the pressure on the rest of the way. Twins Rip 16 Hits tains. five 6-- 2 trying. L s remember a kid named Wild Bill Kelly of Montana University. Those of us younger in our years would only have heard the mention of his name. For he was one of the greats to be quarried out of our moun- 80-ya- rd lead fourth. Newcombe battled gamely the rest of the way, but could not keep up with the powerful defender. The 8 Saturday, July 5, 1969 4A f If you were a football fan 45 years ago youll al back 0 the reigning champion, Mrs. Billie Jean King of Long Beach, and won Calif., the womens crown for the first time after 13 years of A For Kelly! out-mann- British fans cause for enthusiasm Friday. She defeated the Scores 524-444- ..iTv Fame's Hall labeled fabulous playing for an in gave the r, 3-- 4 ' Av DESERET 6-- 4 V., wiXS!yS3i?'i ' vr. ' S' z .,t , M- : - HiI $. f C fcT- j i' - : i II' ' ' English 6-- 5-- 6-- ..V; Mrs. Ann Jones, ENGLAND Rod WIMBLEDON, Li , Beats Newcombe, Wins Wimbledon Crown - 8:00 QUAL. 7:00 FAIRGROUNDS SPEEDWAY - 50c Gn. Adm. $2.00 Kidi low,rS,ct. $2.50 Box Seat, $3.00 Tick, Hon Sol, 19 Edit 2nd So. 335,081$ MM |