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Mays* Mighty Bat
Sinks Astros 9-5
SAN FRANCISCO — Wiilie totals to 26 for the season and [the tiebrealdng run! as the New
Mays' mighty bat, slamming 626 in his career. The two ho-
tvo home run* and scoring
five runs batted in, powered the
Giants to a 9-5 victory over
the Houston Astros yesterday.
Mays cracked a two - run
homer in tho first following a
walk to Bobby Bonds and added
a three-run blast in the fourth
after Ha) Lanier walked and!
Tito Fuentes singled
mers in one game marked the
63rd time he has performed
that feat.
Mays’ second homer gave tjie
Giants a 6-4 lead in the fourth
and they chased loser Larry
Dierker, 13-12, with three runs
in the seventh.
Elsewhere, Ray Sadecki fired
a four-hitter and Duffy Dyer’s
V
The home runs boosted Mays’! bases loaded snigle drove in
THE CUERO RECORD
Sp#rtS
S
LI M'S
S
ALVOS
tty Claire Howerton
Another reminder was issued
today by Coach Bill Gilbreth
concerning the price of student
tickets to tomorrow night’s
game and all following games.
If student* purchase tickets
prior to games the coat will be
50c while at the gate the
charge is 75c. Save the price of
a hot dog by purchasing tickets
ctiiy. Ducats are available at
principal’s offioes a: the high
school. Junior high and elemen-
tary schools.
lars and good sire. Guard Dav-
id Turner is a two-way dandy
while center Charles Kim-
brough, tackles David Reed,
Leon Franks, John Asberry and
Larry Pearce have tremendous
heft. FB Frank Mendoza and
HBs Marty Bozarth and Albert
Schuman head up the backfield.
Guard Danny Haddock, end
Gordon McKean, LHs Roy Jen-
nings and Tim Schroeder and
HB Paul Alexander are other
capable people.
Yoakum will be after revenge
.n the game tomorrow evening
since the Gobblers took them ot
the cleaners last year with a
38-0 shutout. The Bulldog* are
competing this year in Distr ict
25-AA with Bastrop, Giddings,
Hallettaville, Luting and Smtth-
ville. and are favored to win
the title. Next week’* foe is 13-
AAA Lockhart and the maga-
zine, Texas Football, has this
to ssy about Lockhart:
Lockhart took a long step
bark towards prosperity, to a
6-4, last year and retain* 6 of-
fenslye and 8 defensive regu-
RUBBER
STAMPS
CLOTHES
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CUERO RECORD
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It* B. MAIM
. Detroit pitcher Denny Mc-
Lain seems to have done it a-
gain—although Just what the
controversial hurler has done
this time is not quite clear —
Baseball Commissioner Bowie
Kuhn has suspended him once
more, at least for the rest of
the 1971 season. Kuhn said Mc-
Lain’s latest suspension his
third this year did not stem
from involvement with gam-
bler or his horseplay with a
couple of sportawritera
McLain, a 26-year-ok! right-
hander has fallen on hard
times after winning 31 games
in 1988 and 24 last season He
won the Cy Young Award in
1988 as the outstanding pitch-
er In the American League
and shared it last year with
Baltimore's Mike Cuellar.
It seems some folks just
can't stand prosperity.
York Mets whipped Philadel-
phia 3-1 to salvage a split of
their fwi-night double-header
Wednesday.
The Phillies took the opener
3-2, ending a four-game Met
winning streak.
The split, coupled with Pitts-
burgh’s 6-4 loss to St. Louis,
left the Met* and Pirates in a
flat-footed tie for the division
lead. The third-place Chicago
Cubs, who bowed to Montreal
3-2 in an afternoon game, are j
one game off the pace.
Lee May cracked his 30th
home run and a double to back
the four-hit pitching of rookie
Milt Wilcox ai Cincinnati blank-
ed Los Angeles 6-0.
In the American League,
Brooks Robinson followed Frank
Robinson’s two-out double with
a run-scoring single in the sixth
inning as Baltimore edged New
York 1-0 on 22-game winner
Mike Cuellar’s seven-hitter.
Mike Epstein drilled a two-
run homer and a triple, leading
the Washington Senators to a
5-4 triumph over Cleveland.
Mike Nagy hurled a four-hit-
ter as Boston topped Detroit 4-1.
The struggling Chicago White
Sox won their first doublehead-
er of the season, defeating Cal-
ifornia 3-1 and 11-4.
Jim Perry drove in the tie-
breaking run with a seventh in-
ning single as the Minnesota
Twins snapped Oakland’s eight-1
game winning streak 3-1 in the
first game of a doubleheader. | tr>3ng
The second game was called be-
cause of rain and will be played
as part of a
header.
Thurs. Sept. 10, 1970 THE CUERO RECORD Page S
Major League Standings
New York
Pittsburgh
Chicago
St Louis
Philadelphia
Montreal
Cincinnati
Los Angeles
S Francisco
Atlanta
Houston
San Diego
National League
East
W
75
75
74
68
66
61
West
92
77
74
71
American League
68
53
L
67
67
68
75
77
80
53
64
68
72
74
89
ret.
.528
.528
.521
.476
.462
_ I Baltimore
I ; New York
i Detroit
gi^ [ Boston
.433 13% 1 aevela«d
Washington
.634 - .
.546 13 j Minnesota
.521 16% ; Oakland
California
Kansas City
Milwaukee
Chicago
.497 20
.479 22%
.373 37%
E»«*
W
91
81
74
74
67
66
West
84
78
76
54
53
50
L
51
61
68
68
76
75
56
63
65
86
87
92
Pet. fifl
.641* -
570 10
521 17
521 17
.469 24%
468 24%
600 -
553 6%
.339 6%
.386 30
.379 31
.352 3?
Results
Boston 4. Detroit 1
Results
Montreal 3, Chicago 2
Philadelphia 3, New York 2 1st
New York 3. Philadelphia 1 2nd New /ork „
St. Louis 6 Pittsburgh 4 Washington 5, Cleveland 4
Atlanta 6. San Diego 3 lst Chicago 11, California 4
111 innings) Chicago 3, California 1
Atlanta at San Diego 2nd • (g innings)
1st
2nd
FORTY-THREE POUND drum is proudly dis-
played by Mr. and Mrs. James A. Jackson
of Cuero. Jaekson caught the large fish over
the Labor Day weekend off the Port Lavaca
Causeway. He says he landed the fish on a
30 pound test line with a 70 pound test pole
while using crab for bait.
— Record photo by Jeanie Blalock
FOR FIVE GAMES
Astros Returning Home
battling Houston Astros, | in the Astrodome. Then Houston mail by writing Tiel
desperately to°overtake | will play the Cincinnati Reds in
Atlanta Braves for fourth two games in which the Reds
place in the National league, may he very close to clinching
twi-night double-! East, come home Friday for the 77 L East pe,inant.
three games against the Braves These five games will be the
last Astros games in the Astro- j
dome until tho final four-game j
series with the San Francisco!
Giants on Sept. 28-Oct. 1. The j
Braves series wall be the last
weekend games.
The Astros and the Braves
will tangle at 7:30 p.m. this
Tickets, P. O.
Box 1691, Houston, Texas 77001.
Box seats $3.50, Reserved seats
$2.50.
j Cincinnati 6, Los Angeles 0
S Francisco 9, Houston 5
Tuesday’s Late Scores
Cincinnati 5, San Francisco 2
Atlanta 3. Los Angeles 2
. Thursday’s Games
Philadelphia (Bunning 10-13)
at New York (Koosman 10-6)
Montreal (O’Donoghue 0-1) at
Chicago (Pappas 11-7)
St. Louis (Briies 5-51 at Pitts-
burgh (Walker 11-6), night
Cincinnati (McGlothlin 12-8)
at Los Angeles (Moeller 7-6),
night
Atlanta (Reed 6-8) at San Die-
go (Roberts 5-13), night
Houston (Blasingame 3-1) at
San Francisco (Perry 19-13)
j Minnesota 3, Oakland 1 lst
Oakland at Minnesota 2nd game
j postponed
Milwaukee at Kansas City post-
poned
Thursday’s Games
i
Milwaukee (Morris 2-1) at
j Kansas City (Drago 7-14), night
Oakland (Hunter 16-12 and
Odom 8-5) at Minnesota (Kaat
11-10 and Hall 7-6), 2, twi-night
Boston (Culp 14-13) at Detroit
(Kilkenny 7-3), night
Washington (Hannan 9-8) at
Cleveland (Paul 1-5), night
New York (Bahnsen 13-10) at
Baltimore (McNally 21-8), night
Only games scheduled
Denny McLain Gets
Third Suspension
PscUMm F» Parti m
SANDS
STEAK HOUSE
AND MOTEL
YOAKUM BWT.
NEW YORK - Baseball
Commissioner Bowie Kuhn yes-
terday suspended Detroit Tiger
pitcher Denny McLain again,
this time at least for the rest
of the 1970 season.
Kuhn said McLain’s latest
penalty — his third suspension
(his year—did not stem either
from involvement with gam-
bler*. which kept him on the
sidelines until July 1, or from
his Aug. 28 dousing of two De-
troit sportawriters with ice wa-
ter. for which the Tigers
slapped him with a one-week
suspension.
’’cel^n Hn^^negaLn'r have | Frida^ J :3° P-m, Saturday and
been brought to my
including allegations regarding
attention. | - f' m' .Sunday. Sept. 11-13. The
Astros then will have an off day
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McLain’s conduct with respect
to the Detroit management and
information that on occasions
McLain has carried a gun.”
After 3% hour* of meetings
with McLain, his lawyer and of-
ficials of the Detroit ball club
and baseball, Kuhn announced
the new suspension, which he
said wss ’’pending further pro-
ceedings. which by agreement
of course will not take place
before the end of the season."
on Monday and come back to
play the league-leading Reds at
7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wed-
nesday nights, Sept. 15 and 16.
Tickets to these and future
Astros home games are on sale
daily at the Astrodome, or by
Use a Want Ad!
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