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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The stars and stripes Page 17 activities curtailed in tribute to Frk two months that sports paused in deference to a slain National Leader. Most athletic events also were called off following the assassination of or. Martin Luther King on april 4. In the violent aftermath Ondr. King s murder every major league baseball game was postponed setting Back the Start of the season. But mos games have not been called off because of the presidential candidate s death. The games Between Californi and the Yankees at new York Atlanta and the cubs at chicagoan Minnesota at Washington Avis cup pairings drawn n Mao the Davis Cupi cud zone finals Friday a Jarrotte coliseum ,.,."f a draw pairings thursday Graebner of Miquel Oliv in the second prove  of last year s zone final Are vivid for both  lost both his singles matches and Olivera and Guzman won the doubles As the . Lost 3-2. Last year the . Did take us very seriously car Rera said. This time they May be taking us too seriously. Think Ashe might tighten up a Little too  s players have been going through much Shorter workouts than the americans on the carpeted playing surface inthe Charlotte coliseum. The draw thursday set the Ashe Guzman match for 7 30p.m. Edt Friday night to be followed by the Graebner Oli Vera match. Saturday night s doubles also Start at 7 30  s singles beginning at 1 30 p.m., will have a Guzman Graebner match followed by an Oliver a Ashe match. Were the Only contests put off on a full saturday schedule. The sunday games at Bosto Between the Chicago White sox and red sox and Oakland a Baltimore also were postponed and the starting times of saturday games will be set Back until after sen. Kennedy funeral. Kennedy s funeral will be he Din new York at 10 . Edt on saturday and the body the will be taken to Washington for burial i cemetery. Arlington National sunday has been team for sat night is still in doubt.21-year-old univer the stars and stripes Crampton fires 68 for 2-stroke Lead in Speedway open 7 bunched at 70i t it it. A ran n �1 to i or of Arthur Ashe. In opening match Indianapolis ind. A australian Bruce Crampton ral lied with four birdies on Sheback nine for a four under Par 68 thursday and grabbed he first round Lead in the $100,000speedway open tournament. Seven players tied for run ners up at 70, including John Lively who shot a Hole in one on Billy Casper the pea s Lead ing Money Winner and twice Winner of the Speedway tour  also shot 70 despite a two stroke penalty on the third Hole when his Caddy raked the Sand trap before Casper shot. Tied with them were master s Champion Bob Goalby Speed Way defending titlist fran Beard Don Fairfield and a pair of newcomers Bobby Cole of How they scored Indianapolis ind. A first round results of the Speed Way open Golf tournament thursday Bruce Crampton John Lively Bob Goalby Don Fairfield. Frank Beard. Billy Casper. Jim. Grant Bobby Cole 35-3570 36-3470 36-3470_ Ken Fulton. 353&-71 in in Hill. Jojo 135-3671 35-3671 Mike Hill Sam Snead. R. H. Sikes dutch Harrison Ken still Dick Lotz Gibby Gilbert Peter Thompson Alan revving Fred Marti. Suglmoto 30-38-74sugi Allan White Larry Ziegler Tony tacklin 38-3674 36-3874 38-3775 37-3875 37-3875 36-3975mya a Erich Bassett Bobby Nichols Billy Maxwell on Wjk Dale Douglass. Lee elder Walt Zembriski David Jiminez 36-3975 38-3775 South Africa and Jim Grant of  Tuthill pea tournament director said a special service will be held in memory of the late sen. Robert f. Kennedy be fore Start of the tournament s final round sunday. There also was a seven Waytie at 71veteran Sammy Snead r. H. Sikes Ken still Ken Fulton Mike Hill dutch Harrison and Dick Lotz. Crampton 32, won his la tournament on the pea tour in he 1965 Speedway open. Theo Urney was held at Greentree country club that year because he Speedway course was being  aussie was even Par the first nine. Then he birdied to health Hole and ran a string of three straight Birds through no. 37-3875gaylan Simon. Q_75harry Toscano. 3639-75 a 3639-Sam Carmichael. Or in i 35-36 7137-3572 ""4-72 Clark Graebner. Oliver a s opponent sity of Southern California Ace was injured in a tournament last sunday in Sacramento Rulif Smith and Bob Lutz also m Southern California have been the usual . Doubles team. Charles Pasarell ranked no. J Amateur in the . Who re poly completed Basic training n the army is. A possible substitute for Smith. Nam a not yet been formally nominated As a substitute an approved by Danny can Era Ecuador team Captain. His a Piovani is needed because the nage is being made less than  before a match. Can Era Don Cherry Don headings. Dudley Wysong. Permit Zarley Teve Reid Landy Petri Eorge Thorpe. Tarty Fleckman Lin Ferrier Don Essig John Molenda Arry Mowry. Abron Harris Ashe. ? the pressure build Fox it a a particularly see it car reinsure is on the we beat them la Snow they have to 75 7 �37-72 38-3672 35-3772 36-3 572 36-3672 38-3573 36-3773 35-3873 35-3s73 34-3973 38-35-71dewitt Weaver. I8-35 73 37-3673" Ron Aleks Hris Blocker prank Boynton Dick Crawford Dave gum la Harold helming. Babe Hiskey Monty Kaser Mac Mclendon. Orville Moody Pommy Aaron Jerry Steelsmith Dick Rhyan Bob Deakin Dick Evans Larry Wood Herb Hooper. Mike  George Smith Charles Center de Knych Jess Snead Aldridge Miles Rod Funseth Mickey Powell Al Besselink Paul Bones on Dick Carmody Jim Clark Oroo -75 37-3673 Bill Garrett Dow Finsterwald Bob Mccallister Butch Baird. Steve Spray Everett Vinzant. Jim Picard Charles Sifford. Rocky Thompson Coble Legrange Bob Verwey 36-3773 39-3473 35-387 36-37-71. 36-3874 38-3674 36-3874 30-3874 37-3875 39-3675 40-3575 37-3875 38-3871 38-387fa 37-307b declared a National Day of mourning by president Johnson. All of us in baseball Are shocked and borrowed by the tragic death of sen. Robert ," said baseball com missioner William d. E c k e r  deepest sympathy goes to members of the Kenned family. In respectful tribute to sen. Kennedy i have directed that All major league games on saturday with the exception of those in new York and Washington will not Start until after the funeral. There will be no games played in new Orkand Washington. Appropriate tribute in addition appropriate trib Ute will be paid to the senator by our clubs prior to or during the games on sunday june 9,"he said. He added that appropriate tribute also would be paid during minor league  Park and Finger lakes the Only thoroughbred tracks now operating in the state of new York were closed on Friday and Roosevelt raceway at Westbury ., cancelled its harness racing program Friday night. Belmont requested that it bellowed to remain closed on saturday but the new Yor state racing commission de Nied the track  switched in Calif. A 12-round elimination Bou middleweight Griffith and Bob Smith Wally Armstrong. Jerry Abbott Jim King Larry Hii won Alan Henning Tom Shaw 4- -36 7h k r tril f its. 40-307 37-397 34-427 3s-387 37-39-7 37-397 38-397 36-417 36-4177 39-3877 38-3977 41-36-77 37-4077 36-41-77 36-4177. 39-397837-4178. 41-3778. 37-4178 30-3978 Dean retrain Ron Cerrudo. Joel Goldstrand Joe Campbell Ray bolts 35-3974 38-367435-3974 " m7-37 74homero Blancas 39-3574 " t n \38-3674 37-3774 37-3774 39-3574. 39-3574 de Griffiths Bob Moreland. Randy Quick. Jim Hiskey. Dennis Rouse Dick Hanscom. Jim Ferriell. Cluck Courtney 37-41-78 42-3678 40-3979 Cliff Brown Pete Brown Byron Comstock. Dave Eichelberger Lou Graham. Will Humenuik. John Jacobs. Rives Mcbee Chi clip Rodriguez 30-38-74 Perry Comstock Bob Mitchell Richard pot Ner Bert Greene Bob Holdt Jim Langley Terry Winter Jerry me gee Arthur Paul Gary Robertson or Anil a fires a duo Tea Lumalu 41-3080 38-4280 38-4280 30-4180 30-4180 41-3980 38-4381 42-3981 42-3981 41-4081 39-4281 38-4583 41-4283 43-4285 43-428 g he just missed a 20-foot Down Hill putt on the 17th Hole and despite a shot in the rough and one Over the Green he still finished with a Par 4. Lively s Ace was Only the Sec Ond in the 9-year-old Speedway tourney. The first was made by kentuckian Bobby Nichols on the 193-Yard second Hole in 1966. Lively hit a three Iron that bounced in front of the Greenland rolled into the cup on the Par-3 204-Yard 17th Hole Casper assessed stroke penalty Monsoon As he saw the Caddy raking footprints from the trap. The penalty gave him a six on the Par 4 Hole. He finished one under on both nines. Almost lost in the traffic Jam for second place was Goalby first double Eagle. He used a River and four Wood on the Iar-5, 503-Yard 7th  from the Field was Bob Lunn Winner of the la two tournaments whose Daugher was hospitalized with Neu Ionia in Atlanta. Between forme Champion Emile Andy Heilman in Oakland,Calif., was switched from Friday night to tuesday and trans american Sedan race scheduled for sunday in Lexing ton Ohio has been pushed Back a week. Two major television net works announced that their saturday sports programs will be preempted by coverage of the  american broadcasting company won t carry its wide world of sports program or a special called the racers Craig and Lee Breedlove and the National broadcasting com Pany suspended coverage of us weekly baseball game. The two himself As Blasingame hrs in Japan Osaka Japan a Doime former St. Louis Blasingame cards and Washington Sena tors second baseman hit Athree run Homer and paced the Nankani Hawks to a 4-3 Victor Over the Niti Shutetsu l on in Pacific league baseball Gam thursday. Person cops seniors Golf Rye  A Curtis person 57-year-old Mem a Phis tenn., Auto Salesman � Defeated David spec a o id m a a 59 year old j Dallas construction executive by three strokes thurs Day in an 18-Hole playoff for the title in the 64lh annual � . Seniors Golf Asso Clu j Tion tourney. The two tied earlier this t week at 143 alter two grounds Over the Par 3  j 72 a swamis club course. In the playoff person had 73 and Goldman 76. The two ,. Were even after 13 holes but Goldman scuffed his j second shot on the Mali and bogeyed the Hole while Pei son had a Birdie  
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