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P&Re 2 THE CUERO RECORD Frl. Sept. 11, 1970
Giants Put
11-0 Whammy
On Astros
SAN FRANCISCO — Willie' the Brewers. Paul Schaal drove
f lays slammed a two-run homer in 5,^ run* in the opener and
and Gaylord Perry racked u,. I<QU pinjella delivered four in
his .?0th win for the season as
the Giants .rubbed the Houston ^ para's twevrun double
Astr >s 11-0 here yesterday. climaxed a three-run rally in
Perry 20-13 joined his brother the fifth that overcame a two-
J;rn Perry of Minnesota as the cun homer by rookie Oscar
first brothers in major league; Brown and gave San Diego a
history to win 20 games in a 3.2 victory over Atlanta,
season. The Twins' right hander Lee May crashed a grand
is 22-11. slam homer and Johnny Bench
The Giants broke loose for drilled his 44th homer and two
four runs in the opening inning singles, good for four more
off loser Wade Blasingame, 3-2, RBI, to power the Cincinnati
capped by Hal Lanier’s two-run! Reds to a 13-4 rout of Los An-
Major League Standings
American League
East
single.
Mays, who had three hits,
drove his 27th homer and 627th
lifetime with one on in the fifth
and the Giants added five runs
m the eighth with Bobby Bonds'
three-run double the big blow.
Elsewhere, the New York
Mets and Pittsburgh Pirates
kept pace with each other atop
the National League East by
winning Thursday while the
Chicago Cubs also won to re-
main right on the leaders’ heels.
The Mets got two runs <n the
third innin& one on Bud Har-
relson’s steal 'of- home, saw
Philadelphia tie it in the sixth
on Larry Bowa’s homer, then
won it 3-2 in the 14th on Tom-
mie Agee’s single and Cleon j
Jones’ triple.
Then at night the Pirates
came up with a 2-0 victory over
St. Itfbuis as Luke Walker pitch-
ed a two-hitter and Willie Star-!
gell hit a solo homer.
Ernie Banks keyed the Cubs’
geles.
The Reds’ third straight vic-
tory reduced their magic num-
ber to five in the National Lea-
gue West. They need to win
only five of their remaining 16
games to wrap up the title
Washington (Gogolcwskl 0-0)
at Detroit (Niekro 12-11), night j
PPK Competition
Slated Oct. 3
Baltimore
New York
Boston
Detroit
W
92
81
75
74
L
51
62
68
69
Pet. GB
.643 -
.566 11
.524 17
.517 18
National League
East
W I. Pet. GB
New York 76 67 .531 —
Cleveland
68
76
.472 24H
Pittsburgh
76
67
.531 -
Washington
66
76
.472
Chicago
75
68
.524 1
West
St. Louis
68
76
.472 8^4
Minnesota
86
56
.606 -
Philadelphia
66
78
.458 1014
Oakland
78
65
.545 8%! Montreal
61
81
.430 14V4
California
76
66
.535 10
West
Kansas City
56
86
.394 30
Cincinnati
92
53
.634 -
Milwaukee
53
89
.373 33
Los Angeles
77
64
.546 13
Chicago
51
92
.357 3514
S Francisco
75
68
.524 16
Results
Atlanta
71
74
.490 21
Boston 14, Detroit 0
Houston
68
75
.476 23
Baltimore 2, New York 1
San Diego
55
89
.382 3614
Cleveland 13,
Washington 4
Results
Minnesota 6, Oakland 1 1st j Chicago 9. Montreal 3
Minnesota 7, Oakland 2 2nd-New York 3, Philadelphia 2
Kansas City 2, Milwaukee 0 1st (14 innings)
Kansas City 10, Milwaukee 2 2nd Pittsburgh 2, St. Louis 0
Other clubs not scheduled
Friday’s Games
Milwaukee (Downing 4-12) at
California (Bradley 2-3), night
Oakland (Segal 10-10) at Kan-
sas City (Bunker 1-9), night
Chicago, (Johnson 2-5) at
Minnesota (Zepp 7-4), night
New York (Peterson 17-9) at
even if the second-place Dod-- Cleveland (Paul 1-5), night
gers go undefeated the rest of1 Boston (Peters 14-10) at Bal
the way. timore (Palmer 19-0), night
THI CUERO RECORD
Sp.rtS
LI M’S
By Claire
Football on tap tonight at
8-3 day victory 'over 'Montreal I Gobbler Stadium with the fea,
with a three-run homer that thered flock tekin* **•? BuU-
snapped a 2-2 tie in the fourth. do8s of Yoakum. According to
He also singled in a run.
ALVOS
final pre-season game against
the Eagles of that city. Neither
club has a very impressive pre-
season record - the Oilers are
1-4 and the Eagles suffered
their fourth straight loss last
week, 27-7, against the New
York Giants. The Oilers only-
win came over the Dallas Cow-
boys, 37-21. Houston opens the
1970 National Football League
campaign next week in Pitts-
burgh against the Steelers led
by rookie quarterback Steve
all available information, the
In the American League, Bal- Gobblers are in good shape
timore edged the New York physically and ready for the
Yankees 2-1, Cleveland walloped:fracas * the first real test of
Washington 13-4 and Boston the "ew season- Cuero won la*‘
blasted Detroit 14-0 while in -vear’s meeting 38-0 but should
twi-night doubleheaders, Minne- r‘*1 8° into tonights game with
sota took a pair from Oakland'any degree °* complacency as
6-1 and 7-2, and Kansas City !tfle Bulldogs have been picked j*!""
swept Milwaukee 2-0 and 10-2. ^ win the title in their district, Blaasna •
Runs on Chico Salmon’s single ^A.
and Andy Etchebarren’s homer; --
pushed Baltimore past New; The second weekend of white-
Y rk for Dave McNallys 22nd wing dove hunting is set for
victory. ; Saturday and Sunday. From
Frank Howard took over the all reports the first weekend
AL home-run lead - \ hlttipg his ; was not up to snuff. Except for
4ist and 42nd of the iJason, bat gome pretty isolated places, the
Cleveland easily beat Wasti ng- birds just weren’t there in great
1 1 as led Uhiaender drove in enough numbers to make the
four runs with a three-run ho-1 blood run fast and the barrels
mer and a bunt single and Duke turn hot, as they have in Veiley
Sims doubled home three more, j shoots in the past. Aside fromjten,ber 26 Just recently a
Ray Culp slopped Detroit on the comparative scarcity of the1 young lady signed a profession
three hits while Mike Andrews whitewing variety, mourning oal football contract just to hold
a~d Car) Yastrzemski led the doves were not there in any, ibe hall for a kicker. Now ac-
Red Sox' assault with five and great numbers either. curate place kickers are in
four RSI, respectively, and a ——- ■ ! great demand with the pro
hr"at apiece. ' j Publicity out of Kingsville in- teams and if you really want
Cosar Tovar cracked three dicates that ex-Gobbier Larry \ equality, the football field would
h'ts and scored three runs as Smith, who was redshirted last! h® * fine place to get it.
the Twins won the opener be- year, is a probable starter at a
h. .1 sptithoaw Tom Hall. defensive comer, spot when the
Tony Oliva homered and Javelinas of Texas A&I 0 .n the
Erant Alyea stretched his RBI season September 19 against
streak to six games with a two-! Trinity University in Kingsville,
run single in the nightcap as Coach Gil Steinke said depth is
Minnesota stretched its AL West one of the main problems the
iead to 8*,4 games over the sec- Javelinas face this fall and the
ond place A’s. coaching staff is turning to
Bill Butler and Ted \htmat- freshmen to remedy the situa-
hy combined for a four-hitter in tion.
the first game and Dick Drago --
scattered five hits in the night-; The Houston Oilers journey to
San Diego 3, Atlanta 2
Cincinnati 13, Los Angeles 4
San Francisco 11, Houston 0
Friday’s Games
Philadelphia (Short 8-14) at
Montreal (Morton 15-10), night
St. Louis (Gibson 20-6) at New
York (Seaver 18-10), night
Atlanta (Nash 12-8) at Hous-
ton (Forsch 1-0 or Billingham
11-7), night
^Cincinnati (Nolan 16-6) at San
Diego (Dobson 11-14), night
Los Angeles (Sutton 14-11) at
/
Cuero’s fourth annual FP&K
, competition, sponsored jointly
by Weber Motor Company and
j the Cuero Jaycees, has been set
! for Saturday, October 3, at 2
! p.m. at Old Gobbler Stadium.
! Registration is currently in
j progress for the contest at Web-
; er Motor Company on North
; Gonzales.
Youth age 8 through 13 are;
I eligible to compete. Registrants
' must be accompanied by a par-;
j ent or guardian when signing
up.
Jaycee Alan Kahiich will be
in charge ol the October 3 af-
fair and also a practice session
under competition rules which
is slated for Saturday, Septem-
ber 26.
San Francisco (Marichal (10-
10), night
Only games scheduled
September 26 Is deadline for
registration.
Three trophies are presented
in each division in the local
contest. Also registrants re-
ceive a free PP&K book with
pointers from the pros and
oomplete PP&K rules plus
helpful conditioning exercises.
Local winners will advance to
further competition in district,
area, and state. State winners
advance to national competi- j
tion in Los Angeles.
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Will Give Your
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and Go You Want ...
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Wonder if there is anything
in the rules that says a girl is
barred f am the PP&K competi-
tion coming up the first Satur-
day in October? In line with the
Women’s Liberation movement
currently in progress, perhaps
some young lady aged 8 through
13 might care to test - registra-
tion is going on at the moment
and will continue through Sep-
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WHEN IT’S TIME
TO GAS UP,
COME TO
DROMGOOLE
ENCO Station
m K. Esplanade 975-1741
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He’s thinking about his new teacher. And the old gang.
And arithmetic-ugh! He’s likely not giving a thought In
the world to a car coming around the corner. And he
might run into the street in the Mink of an eye.
That leaves it up to you, the grown-up In the driver’s
seat, to think about him and be careful. It means making
these youngsters the most important thing on your mind
when driving.
But, unfortunately, every year about this tims, too
A boy has a lot on his mind
the first days of school.
. But getting there safely
isn’t one of them.
many children are killed or Injured by motorists who for*
get to remember.
Your new car dealer is concerned about the
the children in your community. And he asks
your help In getting ail the bq}$ and girls to
school safely. And home as
National Autonv*-“j®^“1
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