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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The stars and stripes Page 17 or Streak Cut tigers Down senators in doubleheader Detroit a Mathews and Veteran spa Mathew us. Al Kaline jammed Home runs and rookies Cain registered his first main league Victory As the Detroit steers completed a Doublehead p sweep with a 7-0 Victory Over Washington senators Sun  tigers won the opener 5-4 on Gates Brown s run scoring a Kali Neall time Tiger or King de Mathews. 510th career or Pinch single with two out in the path inning it came after Washington had knotted the fore with four runs in their Naif of the inning. A gators slu.8ser Frank How had his six game Home runs App a in the first Gam failed to connect for a to the Nightcap. In his 18th major league season slammed his 510th career Homer and first of he year with two on in the four run Detroit fourth of the Nightcap. It put him one behind the late Mel Ott sixth on the All time major league list with511 homers. Kaline in his 16th season belted his 307th career Home with Mathews on base in the sixth inning. It was his third Homer of the year and gave him the All time Detroit club Leader ship. Hank Greenberg held the old Mark of 306. Cain a left hander trouble walking six ing 12 base runners 20-year-old Rookie was in frequent and strand before Leav ing with the bases loaded and two out in the seventh. Fred continued on Paya 20 ots 68 to grab $25,000 prize fort Worth Tex. A imperturbable Billy Casper stormed past floundering Gary player sunday and breezed to the championship of the $125,000 colonial National invitation Golf tournament. The Morman capitalist who popularized swordfish and Buffalo steaks fired a two under Par 68 for a 72-Hole total of 275 and a 5-shot Victory Over Gene Littler. Littler closed in with a 68 also for 280 and $15,000. Casper Strung together rounds of 68-71-68-68 in winning his third pea title of the year and boost ing his Money winnings $25,000to $103,868. That supplanted Tom Weiskopf As the Leader and marked the first time in history that a golfer has gone Over $100,000 this Early in the year. Casper started the final Roundin a deadlock with player the Billy Casper. Wins by 5 shots the stars and stripes Rindt gains Iii ill spot As rain slows trials Indianapolis ind. A Indianapolis motor Speedway officials made a tremendous Effort sunday to let grand prix Drivers qualify for the 500-mile race May 30, so they could run in the Monaco grand prix next weekend when final 500 tryouts Are  Only Jochen Rindt made it. The weather improved Sud Denly after an All Day rain and the track was reopened hurriedly just 15 minutes before the 6 . Est closing time. Eve timing and scoring equipment had to be brought Back to the Speedway and there were virtually no spectators. Rindt an austrian living in Switzerland qualified a Brab Ham Repco at 164.144 Miles per hour slowest Speed of the first weekend of time trials. Denis Hulme of new zealand world Road racing Champion last year got on the track in an Eagle Ford but his first few laps in the 163 . Bracket did t satisfy team Captain Dan Gurney and he was called  Duman Indianapolis and Chuck Hulse Shingle Springs Calif., crashed but escaped injury in a practice period before the rain set in. They were trying desperately to match record speeds of Satur Day s first 15 qualifiers. The first 15 averaged 167.225 . For the 10-mile trials compared with 163.55 for the first 15 last year. Something appeared to lockup in Duman s Gerhardt Offen Hauser soon after practice opened and he hit the outer Wall in the Northwest  Little later Hulse hit the in Ner Wall coming out of the Northeast turn. Both cars were damaged too badly to be repaired for Sun Day s trials. There will be two More sessions next weekend. Only a few thousand fans were scattered through the Miles of stands in cold Windy weather. Hulse 40, announced after his wreck that he was retiring from racing. He operates a tire store in Rancho Cordova Calif. Bengals sign Utah Stater Cincinnati a the Cincinnati bengals of the american football league signed Bill Sta Ley a defensive lineman from Utah state. He is a native of Walnut Creek Calif., stands 6 foot-4 and weighs 245. Scott cops. Y. Road Raee br1dgeiiampton, n. Y. Robert l. Scott of a won the Vanderbilt round four of the . Road Union ship Over the 85 mile Bridgehampton course sunday. Mark Donohue andr who front Row in m. Both fell out mechanical failure. Don Hue went out when a broken half Shaft sent him spinning on the 35th Lap while Well in the Lead and Mots Heidacher on the 18th Lap with a broken ring and  then led for the remainder of the 60-Iap, 171 mile Spring classic. Only seven cars of the 19 starters were running at the finish. Scott driving a Lola Chevy Simoniz Spe Cial averaged 107.868 Miles per hour Over the winding  Lap honors were earned by Donohue on Lap three when he blasted the circuit with a one minute 33 second tour for a 112.826 . Lap a new record for the  five of the nine races in the series still to go Donohue leads with 18 Points and Scott is second with 15, having earned nine Points from sunday s Victory. It was Hulse s third wreck at the Speedway since he first showed up there in 1960. He took an eighth place in the 1963 me Morial Day 500 but had crash Din the last three seasons. He was 1959 Champion of the California racing association and finished no. 4 nationally in the . Auto club standings in1963. Hulse was in a spectacular Accident during a sprint race at new Bremen Ohio in 1964. His car flipped end Over end with such centrifugal Force that his eyes were damaged and he was unable to focus for several months. Indianapolis ind. Fall the tentative line up of 1c qualifier saturday Ami sunday of the 500-mile race May 30 at the Indianapolis motor Speedway to be changed Only if some of the 16 Are not among the 33 fastest qualifiers through next weekend first Row Joe Leonard Sun Jose Calif.,  Pratt & Whitney Turbine 171.559 . Graham Hill London England Lotus Pratt & Whitney Turbine 171.208. Bobby uni i Albuquerque n.m., Eagle Turbo harped offenhauser 169.507. Second Row Mario Andretti Nazareth a. Hawk turbocharged Ford 167.s91. Lloyd Ruby Wichita Falls Tex., Lay cock Mongoose Turbo harmed offenhauser. 167.613. Al Unser Albuquerque n. M., Lola turbocharged Ford 167.0ii5. Third Row Roger Mccluskey Tucson ariz., a ble turbid harmed offenhauser ltki.976. A. J. Foyt Houston Coyote Ford 16t.821. Gordon , Hastings mich., Ger Hardt turbocharged offenhauser 166.775. Fourth Row Dan Carney Santa Ana Calif., Eagle Gurney Ford 166.512. Art Pollard Medford ore., Lotus Pratt & Whitney Turbine 166.297. Wally Dallenbach East Brunswick n.j., Finley turbocharged offenhauser 165.518. Fifth Row Jim Mcelre Atli Arlington Tex., Coy ote Furd 165.327. Jim Malloy Denver colo., Vollstedt turbocharged Ford 165.032. Jerry Grant. San Diego culif., Eagle Ford. 164.782. Sixth Row Sochon Rindt Vienna Austria Brab imm Repco 164.14. Pride of South Africa at 207. That was three under Par for three rounds Over the 7,000-Yard colonial course. Tommy Aaron and Earl Ste wart or. Were four strokes Brackat 211 and Littler was at 212. Aaron made a spirited bid for the Lead at one Point but bogeys on three of the final five Hole blew him out of Contention. He took third at 281 and picked up $9,375 with his closing Par 70. Player skyrocketed to a 76 and wound up in a fourth place tie with Lee Trevino a 71 shooter. They received $5,812 each. Casper seized the Lead for keeps at the first Hole Sunda when player encountered trap trouble and took a bogey. Casper birdied both nos. 1 and 2 with putts of eight feet and 18 inches. Player dropped entirely out of the picture at the fifth Hole where he took a double bogey. Casper got his Only double bogey of the tournament at the Par-3eighth, missing the Green then three  said he had the worst round in five years but had no excuses. I just swung badly All Day he , the 1964 colonial Champ was taking his 38th pea Victory. His five under Par total was second Here Only to the record 272 by the late Clayton Heafner in 1948."i played Well but not As Good As yesterday Casper said. The greens were a Little hard and it was Tough to Stop the Ball by the  had shared the Lead after the first and third rounds. His five stroke margin was the biggest on the tour this year breaking his own record of four shots at Greensboro. He won Tholos Angeles open earlier. The winners Billy Casper s2o,000 Gene Littler 515,000 Tommy Aaron $9,370 Lee Trevino s5.s12 Gary player  Julius Boros $4,29 ? Earl Stewart $4,291 Harold Henning $4,291 Dudley Wysong $3,375 Tommy Bolt s3 375 George Knudson $3.000 Bob Goalby 52,750 George Archer 52,225 Terry Dill $2,225 leu still $2.225 ack Montgomery s2.225. Dave Stockton $2,225 1. Dickinson 52,225 Johnny Pott $1.550 cel Nagle $1,550 7ony Jacklin $1,550 Ricky Thompson ,250 Don january $ 75 Bob Lunn $9 Homero Blaness $975 r. H. Sikes $975 love Spray $375 Chuck Courtney Soo nil Rodgers Soo Hris Blocker $653 Ionel Hebert $653 Billy Maxwell $663 Jay Hebert $557 Tummy Jacobs s5s7 John Lotz i$5s7 Ermit Zarley 55s7 Bob Verwey .$457 Miller Barber 457 Bob Charles $4s7 Bruce Devlin s4s7 Laurie Hammer $412 Marty Fleckman $412 Charles Coody $350 Doug Sanders $350 Dick Crawford $350 Steve Reid $2s7 fran Beard $287 Don Cherry $215 Bobby Nichols $215 Jack Mcgowan $210 Gay Brewer $215 Bert Yancey $215 Charles Sifford $200 Roland Harper $200 Steve Oppermann $200 Jerry Edwards $200 Deane Beman t$200 Don Massengale $175 Ray Floyd $166 Jim Colbert $166 Ernie Vossler $166 Dewitt Weaver or. $150 Bob Dickson $150 John Sethlee $150 Rex baser $150 Ross Collins $150 Dow Finsterwald $150 Billy Martindale .$150 Jacky Cupit 6s-71-6s-6s275 71-72-69-6s20 69-74-6s-7025,1 71-71-70-712s3 70-65-69-762.53 73-71-70-712s5 69-73-69-74255 71-73-70-71255 72-73-70-71256 70-72-73-71256 75-70-72-70287 75-70-72-71253 74-72-72-71289 70-75-73-71259 69-71-74-75259 09-77-6s-752s9 70-72-71-76259 71-73-70-752s9 71-70-76-73290 69-77-69-75 2 0 72-73-69-76 290 77-73-71-70 231 73-75-71-73292 72-s1-6s-71292 76-77-67-72292 72-74-70-76292 72-74-69-77292 74-73-72-74293 74-75-67-77293 74-76-72-72294 71-72-77-74294 76-73-6s-77294 77-73-72-73295 79-73-70-73295 72-77-72-74295 72-74-72-77295 75-75-73-73296 72-77-73-74296 70-74-77-75296 75-71-72-78298 75-72-74-76297 6s-76-75-76297 78-73-73-74293 77-72-73-7629s 74-77-71-76298 74-77-72-762h9 72-7b-70-79299 75-72-74-76300 74-51-72-73300 77-73-73-77300 73-75-75-77-300 75-75-70-50300 75-76-71-76301 75-72-77-77301 74-75-73-79301 74-77-72-7s 3ui 75-74-72-77301 75-75-77-75303 76-75-77-75303 74-75-76-75303 73-so-70-so-303 74--76-73304 76-7s-75-75304 72-80-73-79304 74-77-81-74 -30t 76-75-73-793l� 78-79-76-74307 73-78-79-77-30t 76-51-77-73307  
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