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Show ny y qii- nwjwjrfin wf.iymy jiT ml"r $ ij"fririKii tt" !THiHlpl 11 'I l y my lifr m Piinyi f mnWiii " DESERET ISase jW undays Si NEWS, Fare: Fain And, Weis, ... 5H I Monday, 1, 1969 JJ &r! r . September 1 t ; & 'fSW' k .r Clash r.llilor $v- -- - Two National League infielders will remember Sunday's games. Clete Boyer received a kiss from a d '5ri mini-skirte- si Minority By FRED McMANE UPI Sports Writer js?7 The Oakland Athletics have joined the ranks of prime candidates who fizzled out in Washington. The Athletics, campaigning hard for first place in the American Leagues Western Division, had their program stalled over the weekend by the Washington In the next Olympic games there will be no North Korea, East Germany or Taiwan, It was agreed, following the Mexico games, that nations could select names of their own choice and were not bound by names given them by the Olympic committees. North Korea will be the Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea; East Germany will be the Democratic Republic of Germany; Taiwan will be the Republic of China. See Major League Summary, Page Senators and are entering the final month of the season In a rather awkward position. The Senators, who had beaten the As only twice in the their first 10 games, won the final two games of their seasons series, including an triumph Sunday, arid have pushed the An interesting twist: It was stipulated that this would happen only if the countries in question competed in the Mexico Olympics. North Korea withdrew and boycotted the games. This, according to the International Olympic Committee, ruled 3 North Korea out for the name change. The United States and others opposed the change for North Korea on the premise that North Korea had bojcotted the last games. A vote was taken. Our side lost 28-1- 5 That should show the opposition strength to some degree. And this vote might indicate why it will be difficult, in the times to come, for the United States to get the vote for either the winter or summer Olympics except in our rare turn. For many years one of the major tourist attractions in Nebraska was its pheasant hunting. For shooting sport you could make a trip to Nebraska worth your while. At first you could take 10 birds a day then les3 and less. When it got down to six it seemed that this was still the nations best upland bird hunting. You could take six a day for six days that made a wonderful hunting week. And Nebraska gained nation-wid- e tourist attention for it among the shotgunners. Comes now the sudden announcement of a dedown 15 percent over last crease in pheasants jear. Accordingly, the daily bag has been decreased to three birds and the possession limit to nine birds. Now for the first time, Nebraska is talking up its quail, cottontail, ducks, grouse, geese and squirrels. This pressure upon the wild birds has focused more attention on the farm-bir- d the shooting private preserves. You buy a ticket for a certain number of birds the cost for hunting which is about $5 a bird. .7 All said, that $5 a bird is the cheapest way to pheasant hunt. came shortly De? mSs'i uTertome XS al opening feats of football. modeTand f 8 clos- - est thing to Joe Palooka real ever had. He won all After all had been fed La ell joined lus wife, still wearing his apron. Pat, at the dinner table bg 43 his 49 professional fights and felt sorry by knockouts afterwards for his opponents, At and about 185 When lie and his wife were introduced, during the usual round of responses, LaVell arose, blushed to find his apron still affixed and then pointed to hi, nife and aaid, This ones Fat! and D 1-- 5 6 r 7-- ' 8-- 7-- 6-- 5--2 Sundays game, but the Senators destroyed Oaklands hopes with a four homer barrage and some fine pitching by Casey Cox. Frank Howard smashed his 42nd homer and Ken McMullen, Bernie Allen and Mike 6-- 1 8-- 0 3-- 2 games. Willie Horton drove in four runs with his 20th and 21st homers as the Tigers handed the Pilots their 15th loss in tht.r last 16 games. Don Wert also homered for Detroit as Earl Wilson went the distance to re Epstein also connected for the Senators, who scored five runs in the seventh inning to defeat Jim Hunter. n bases-loade- double-heade- p, 3-- 2 relief pitcher Ron Taylor walked Bobby Bonds to load the bases, then walked Jim Davenport to force across the winning run. Cincinnatis 5 victory ovpr the St. Louis Cardinals moved the Reds into first place in the Western Division, a scant two percentage points over San 7-- Francisco. Willie Davis extended his hitting streak to 28 games and Maury Wills cracked three hits and scored twice in leading his Los Angeles Dodger teammates to a victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. Willie Crawfords ninth home run of' the season opened the scoring in the second, and the Dodgers added single tallies in the third, sixth and eighth innings to give Bill Singer his 17th victory in 25 decisions. 7 T t. He the had the shortest reach of all, 68 inches. Always willing to take a punch for the chance of landing one, he took and gave terrific beatings. Jt never occurred to him he might lose a fight. He gave up boxing in April 1956, not quite four years after he won the tlUe from Jersey Joe Walcott. It had been a lonely existence, full of second-lightes- 1 Jersey. Joe Remembers 'The Rock' CAMDEN, N.J. (UPI) Jersey Joe Walcott lest a friend when Rocky Marciano was killed in a small plane crash on Monday morning. The Rock and I were great said the man who friends, lost the heavyweight title to Marciano in Philadelphia on We had a Sept. 23, 1952. among unique friendship fighters. The last time I saw the Rock was six weeks ago in New York City. We just bumped into each other near Madison Square Garden. We chatted a little bit, talked about the boxing game . . . watcha doing, how ya doin . . . that sort of stuff. s They had been locked to-- J gether twice in the ring, gain- ing that strange intimacy that is shared by fighters. Jersey Joe had felt Rockys pulse and warm breath and perspiration in the clinches. 4 n 4" r. It is hard to believe, Walcott said. He was a bundle of s energy. The guy was pleasy out of the ant, ring, but in the ring he w'as a lion. I think its a heartbreaking blow to boxing and our great country. He was not only a great champ but a great American. happy-go-luck- V Ht t 11 Tmninrff'ir rrffiwrfinrfimiirtfiiiirf Rocky Marciano, shown here taking world heavyweight title from Joe Wallcott, died Sunday. clean- - living, Marciano was the TV Highlights 5-- 3 SSTkEg afterward, The other day they put a kitchen apron on coach LaVell Edwards. And LaVell joined other BYU coaches at broiling the steaks for the annu- - - 7-- 5-- 4, cord his 12th victory in 20 decisions. The Orioles, however, maintained their 1214 game lead over Detroit in the Eastern Division by edging the Angels on Boog Powells two-ru- n single in the second inning. Powell climaxed second inning rally a three-rud with a single which raised his seasons runs batted in total to 113. The Cub wm boosted their lead over Eastern Division rival New York to four games r as the Mets split a in San Francisco. The Giants Willie McCovey got the only extra base blow, a triple, off Tom Seaver, as the Met hurler struck out eleven on seven-hi- t his way to an shutout in the first game. New York dropped the night-cain 11 innings, when single-engin- " Financial In other American League action, Detroit stretched its winning streak to six games by Baltimore whipping Seattle New York edged California defeated Kansas City and Chicago rallied in the ninth inning to whip Cleveland CinChicago beat Atlanta cinnati edged St. Louis Pittsburgh beat Houston Los Angeles topped Philadelphia 41, Montreal lost to San then took the nightcap Diego and New York blanked San before bowing Francisco in 11 innings in National League NEWTON, IOWA (AP) -Rocky Marciano, the undefeated heavyweignt champion who never really learned to box and never really had to, died Sunday night when a light plane crashed in a pasture near here. He would have been 46 today. The retired knockout king was flying from Chicago to Des Moines, Iowa, with two companions who also were killed when the plane plunged a low overcast, through struck a tree and smashed to earth on a farm near this central Iowa town. Friends said he had been en route to a birthday party for him at a Des Moines steak house. Jasper County Sheriff Darrell Hurley said Marciano was found dead in the fuselage of e Cessna. The the bodies of pilot Glenn Belz, 37, and Frank Farrell, 23, both of Des Moines, were found amid wreckage that was scattered for 500 feet. A flight service official at jgS Moines said the pilot told him about 9 p.m. he intended to land at Newton but gave no Where Went The Pheasants Sports Athletics 414 games behind the Minnesota Twins in the Western Division pennant race. The Athletics, who have 32 games remaining, have six left against the Twins, but the schedule still favors their opponents. Minnesota has seven games remaining against the lowly Seattle Pilots while the Athletics have 10 games left with the improving California Angels. The Athletics sorely needed Champion Marciano Dies In Iowa Plane Crash abstentions. tCT ION fS Ex-Fig- ht with 12 The Lady Is Over There D-- miss who bolted from the stands. The uninvited gal was "escorted" from field. y U UVX1 & In Olympics San Francisco's Ron Hunt was carried from the field after being hit by a pitch, while Atlanta's g hard and separations from his wife, Barbara, and their daughter. Last year he reealleu. You look around and you say, What do I want the money or my family? His menacing square figure founded with the comfortable weight-watchin- life. Marciano also tried his hand at many things before turning to boxing: ditchdigging, dishwashing, candy mixing, truck driving. As a boy lie dreamed of baseball and the Chicago Cubs gave him a tryout as catcher m 1946. Verdict: good hit, no throw. His ring career started In the Army during World War II. After discharge he boxed as an amateur and persuaded manager Al Weill to take him on as a pro in 1948. The tutelage of trainer Charlie Goldman polished the Brockton Strong Boy somewhat, but he maintained his brawling, swarming tactics. With lus great stamina and mauling power in both hands, he had little need of finesse. Marcianos first professional fight was on July 12, 1948 a knockout. Fourteen more knockouts fol'owed nine in before he the first round was held to a decision victory. He Lrst gained the big-tim- e e spotlight in 1S50, defeating Roland LaStarza at Madison Square Garden. Then came a s p e c t acular eighth-rounknockout of former champion Joe Louis, which sent Louis back into retiremert for good. d Rocky Marciano f the man Walcott, they called Old Pappy, was a 1 underdog when he defended his title aeaint Marciano |