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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 18 the stars and stripes monday May 37 Jim Lonborg. Ready to pitch red sox reactivate Ace hurler St. Paul minneapoli1 a the Boston red sox reactivated by Young award winning Pitcher Jim Lonborg saturday five months after his celebrated skiing Accident. Lonborg who suffered Tor ligaments in his left knee Anc underwent surgery after the ski mishap last december was in the bullpen As the red so bowed to the Minnesota twins 1-0.the e-foot-51/ right hander who won 22 regular season games last year and beat St Louis twice in the world series had been working out with the club before games in Rece weeks. Graham leading Memphis open by 2 Memphis Tenn. A Lou Graham playing the last six holes after a Tornado spawning storm delayed action or two hours took a two stroke Ead saturday in the third round of the $100,000 Memphis open Golf tournament with an 11-un Der Par 199.it was the lowest 54-Hole score on the tour this year Graham 30, who has won Only one tournament since joining the tour four years ago. Shot a32-3466 in one of the Best rounds of his  entered this tournament after a two week Layoff at Home in Nashville Tenn., to nurse an injured wrist watching the tour on television for two weeks drove me crazy and had me climbing the Walls and i Felt i would do Well Here because i was ready to go Graham said. Two strokes Back at 201 Kasbob Lunn 23, of Sacramento Calif., who shot a 32-39-48 sat urday. Also at 201 was b. R. Me Lendon the second round Leader who had a 99.the storm brought High winds and heavy rain sweeping East Ward. Players and spectators jammed the clubhouse and four golfers just stepping out of the showers after finishing their Annlis whip Mexico in in this cup series Berkeley Calif. A the United states won the North american Davis cup ser ies 3-0 saturday when its Young doubles team Defeated  Smith 21, and Bob Lutz 20, of the University of Souther California rallied for a 4-6, 6-3, 9-7, 10-8 Triumph Over Rafae Osuna and Vicente Zarazua. Zarazua was a late replace ment for Joaquin Loyo Mayo who lost one of Friday s single matches. Mexican Captain Eduard Guzman decided to go with the More experienced Zarazua who had teamed with Osuna in mexi co s 5-0 Triumph Over  americans finally won the match by breaking Zara Zua s serve at love in the 17th game of the final set. Earlier the americans had threatened to win the set quickly when they broke Osuna s serve for the third time in the third game but the mexicans broke Smith s in the eighth game to even it at 4-4.lutz powerful serve forced Many mexican errors. He won two games in the fourth set at the notes we compose Aren t really sour with an occasional exception. Here comes an exception though. It s not a very pleasant Story but one we feel needs to be told. Just two or three years ago Woods memorial Field at Mannheim Kae Fertal was one of the military establishment s finest sports facilities in Europe. Today it s a disgrace. We Are reasonably sure that anyone returning there today after an absence of two or three years would be just As shocked As was this reporter. In Brief things have gone to pot and we Don t mean that stuff the Flower children puff. Woods memorial Field is not a single Field. It s a sport Complex composed of adjoining baseball and football Fields the latter ringed by a Quarter mile track. Only one portion of that com plex showed any semblance of recent care the baseball Diamond. This reporter quite by Accident discovered Why during the baseball game that he had been assigned to cover. The Only reason the Diamond showed any sign of care was because the 2nd brigade baseball players managers and statisticians had come out at 8 . The game started at 2 . To Cut the grass drag the infield fasten the bases and line the Field. Fortunately they did have a Power Mower. One of the men indicated that a detail which was supposed to perform aforementioned chores had failed to show. They did t complain not a one of them though they had goo reason to. He Jular care teaching even though the Field did t look too bad closer inspection left no doubt that any sort of regular maintenance certainly had not been performed. The fences were so full of holes particularly be Hind the plate that one Umpire remarked it la be a Miracle if we Don t have a rhubarb Over this meaning that balls were almost certain to go through or under the Fence during the course of the game. In the Outfield there is a Section missing in left and scattered holes All Over. The area off the Diamond including the dugouts were something else. The dugouts were battered badly in need of paint and the Only water available on the whole Complex was a faucet not afountain in the Home team s dugout on the baseball Field. There continued on Paye 22 love and two in the first  the fourth set was tied 4-4, the scoring went with the serve through the 16th game. Zarazua serve was broken inthe 17th to give the americans a 9-8  set up an easy smash for Smith in the final game an Smith bounced it far into the stands for the match clinching Point. Lutz Strong serving Headset up Many such kills for Smith at the  final two singles now meaningless of the five match series were to be played sunday. Osuna who lost to Arth Rashe Friday was to play Ameri Ca s no. 2. Clark  Ashe America s top cup player was to meet Loyo Mayo. Rounds Mot a dozen running into the Mena room to escape the storm i was two stroke when play was suspended was praying we could round Graham said � Bajck out thru with six left i bogeyed u to Hole was t so sure i wanted there after All. But then two birdies and a   said he made his new shot of the tournament so far f16 when he pushed his drive k Hind some Trees and then hit is on a i just sea he chipped on two feet from ithe pm and made the putt fort Birdie. Mclendon survived a cubs Jenkins throws three hitter at giants Chicago up Ferguson Jenkins pitched a three hitter and singled Home a run during three run sixth inning rally saturday leading the Chicago Ferguson Jenkins. Helps himself sex goalie Rollins to coach jets Spokane Wash. Up a Rollins former National hockey league goaltender has Bee named coach of the Spokane jets. Succeeds Coli was fired Las Rollins 41,Kilburn who month after the jets won the Western International hockey league  jets lost in playoffs to the Drumheller Alberta Miner for which Rollins was goalie and coach. He began coaching the miners in 1955 after a five year  began his hockey career in 1943 with the Newyork rovers. Lie later played with the Chicago Black Hawk Sand the new York rangers. Singer returns to . Houston up right Han Der Bill Singer of the los Angeles dodgers who is leading the National league in strikeouts returned to Losangeles saturday suffering from an Eye infection. On the fourth and a double Gey on 11 by making birdies n i three of the last six holes Arnold Palmer and Gay cubs to a 3-0 Victory Over the first place san Francisco , who struck out four and walked one in scoring his fifth win of the season was Given a 1-0 Lead when Ron Sant opened the sixth inning with his seventh Homer of the year Offray Sadecki. Randy Hundley doubled wit two out in the inning and Adolfo Phillips was intentionally walked so Sadecki could pitch to Jenkins. The big Pitcher crossed up the strategy with a single scoring Hundley and do Kessinger followed with a double that drove in  loss ended a three game winning Streak for the , a 20-game Winner last season had lost his two previous starts by 1-0 scores although he allowed a total of Only 10 hits. The loss was Sadecki s fourth of the season against six victories. Santo claws san Francisco chicagoan r h blab r h by Hunt 2b 4010 ices Singer att Avenport 3b 4 0 0 0 Beckert 2b Brewer shot 68s to come in at202. Both were using putters Given them this week by Mem Phis Amateur golfer Curtis per son or. 4 one putt greens Brewer one putted for four birdies on the Back Side before the rain and parred the last two holes after the storm. The weather Bureau said two tornadoes touched Down in the Memphis area one reportedly four Miles from the course. Running for cover the crowd at the 18th Green did t see Jack Nicklaus sink a 12-foot Birdi putt for a one under Par 69 that gave him a 205.larry Hinson Only one stroke behind the Leader after two rounds shot a 71 saturday. Bob Murphy former National Amateur Champion made a run Al the leaders on the front Side but had two double bogeys later and dropped eight strokes off the Pace. The leaders Tou Onihan 67-66-g6-1m Bob Lunn 65-6s-6s-201 b. R.  65-07-69-201arnold Pulim r g9-65-sj-2ib Gay Brewer 67-67-68-2 12 Jack Mcgove in 6s-c6-63-203 Bob  63-70-6j-m3 Monty   Miller  Courtney Bob Goalby Davo mar Quarry Hin Sim Gene Lieut Billy Maxc Luljack no Klitus Dick Mayer r. H slices 70-6s-65-m3 70-67-w-m3 6s-69-67-2w69-68-65-T to Mhz move t in Calno i Mays of Hlatt Libhart if Tetz c Jalou it Linlor a Radccki p 3000 a imams if2000 Santo 3b 1 0 1 q bunks ib2000 a Jolson of 3010 hum Ley c3000 Phillips of 3000 Jenkins p2000 Oil 000010 131010 010120 2110 4011 Marshall i to 1000 total 28 0 3 0 total 31 3 11 3sanfrancltco .,000 000 000 0 Chicago 000 003 0 0 x 3ehart. Do Chicago i. Lob san Francisco 2, Chicago 0. 2bhundley,. Or Santo 7. In h n by by so Sadecki l,6-l8 11 3 3 3 Jenkins ,6-4� 3 0 0 1 4 Vanraaphorst takes nil players Golf Palm Springs Calif. A place kicker Dick Vanraaphorst of the Cincinnati bengals fired his Best score saturday in four Days of play to win the Sec Ond annual professional foot Ball players Golf tournament. Vanraaphorst carded a final75 for a 72-Hole total of 306 eight strokes ahead of Zeke brat Kowski of the Green Bay pack ers who had 314. Sam Grimeisen of the san Diego chargers finished third with 322. Howry Dick lot Bob Murphy Joel old Strum Harold Hennink Dave Hill 71-66-70-20769-6s-10-201 67-71-70-m& John Hugh Royer Rtchard Marline Bert Yance Jorry Stock Julih Ken still Bobby Motel ill. Steve Hel Charlie Sihon Peter Townie my Rocky Thompson Cost Bobby Cole Bill Garrett 70.70-70-2wdick Carmody ta.66-71-2w Kel Nagle b9-70-71-2w Dick Hai com w-bw-210deorgo Butwill 70-67-73-210 bred Marti 74.68-69211kon Corr do 70-71-70-2" Tom Jacobs 72.69-70-21 Bruch a Raint in 7 9-70-211 Mako hug bins 70-69-72-211 John Boli Luo 71.67-73-2hray Floyd 7o.72-70-21 Jim Ferrier 70-71-71-2v Dave Klch Elih i it 70-71-71-212 David Al mime 6s-72-72-21-Wayne Yuu i 73.67-72-212 Ron Horn 7.-65-73-2 Herb Hopper 72-70-h-21 Hale Irwin 69-72-72-2nbob both 70-71-t2-21 Lafty woo 73-68-7221j Bob Smith 70-tl-w-21 Jim Grant 70-70-73-2 f pick Shyun 72-68-73-Bob Verwey Ivett la i m. C. Futa 72-70-75-,Byron Coiusiu-1 w-71 11,""", Joe Porter 7 Jy-7ti-Jsbunky Tonry  
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