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SPORTS

^FtWENTY SEVEN .

Baseball

National League

Pittsburgh 8, New York 1

Philadelphia 3, Chicago 2
Atlanta 2, San Francisco 0

Cincinnati 9, Houston 7, night
St. Louis at Los Angeles, night »

Won Lost Pct GB
48 30 .615
St. Louis

Atlanta ............... • 41 37 .526
.514
Pittsburgh ............ 38 36

San Francisco ... 41 39 .513

Cincinnati ............ 39 38 .506
xLos Angeles .... 40 40 .500

Philadelphia ........ 35 37 .486 CHICAGO (AP) — With a showdown strike by players of the 16 NFL clubs on Tuesday, kicking off the training

New York 36 40 .474 only a matter of days away, a dispute
Chicago 34 43 .442 1372 This compared with an earlier unofl

Houston 33 45 .423 15 over pension threatened Wednesday to ficial report of a 377 to 17 vote not Peft also was learned the players will

x-Late game not included.
trigger a strike by National Football to report for the training season be told the day before the training

Thursday's Games League players. season opens whether to strike.

Atlanta at San Francisco It was learned reliably that the latest

St. Louis at Los Angeles The San Francisco 49ers open rookie The Players Association reportedly
Pittsburgh at New York, 2 vote was 563 to 39 in favor of a camp Sunday and the Detroit Lions was readying a strike headquarters

Philadelphia at Chicago 2

Cincinnati at Houston, night at a Green Bay, Wis., motel.
A player from a midwest NFL club
Season’s Largest Crowd. who declined to be identified, said

f American League
J the players accepted two of three com­
Daytona, Lakeland Spl

. Boston 4, Oakland 3, night promise offers by management in a
Cleveland 1, Minnesota 0, night Detroit meeting last weekend, but were

New York 4/ Washington 1, night stalemated on pension progress.

Detroit 5, California 2, night

Baltimore 3‘1, Chicago 1-0, twi-night Art Modell, NFL president and owner

Won Lost Pct. G5 Twin Bill Before 2,838 of the Cleveland Browns, Tuesday made CAME FROM BEHIND — Bobby Allison came from last to first in his
Detroit .... ...51 27 .654 — public the owners’ concessions at the 1966 Chevelle to win Wednesday’s qualifying race of 10 laps and he 11

Cleveland .. ...44 37 .543 872

Baltimore ...40 35 .533 972 By SAM MILLER ed from the game to do it, but they Detroit meeting, explaining a 25'per start in 21st position today. The Hueytown, Ala. driver is shown altei
Minnesota . ...39 37 .513 11 cent pension contribution increase was the race, working on his car. photo Ed Baggett

Oakland ... ...38 39 .494 1272 News-Journal Sportswriter defeated the Lakeland Tigers 3-2 in

Boston ...37 38 .493 1272 the night cap of a doubleheader at offered temporarily.

California .. ...37 40 .481 1372 The Daytona Beach Dodgers needed City Island Wednesday. Lakeland won The midwest club player said the ★ ★ ★ * *
New York . ...34 40 .459 15 an extra inning and the incentive of owners declined to put any more into

Chicago .... ...32 42 .432 the first game 5-3.
17
Washington ...28 45 .384 2072 haying their manager Bill Berrier eject- A crowd of 2,838 paid, largest of the pension fund beyond a present *

the season, saw the Daytona Beach annual $1,800,000 contribution and re­
Thursday's Games jected the players’ request that money
California (Ellis 5-6) at Detroit Dodgers twin bill.

ma 6-8) (Spar- Tiant Fans 19 from an NFL-American Football League

Minnesota (Chance 7-8) All-Star game be earmarked for the
at Cleveland The second game was tied 2-2 after
(Siebert 8-5) fund.
New York (Peterson 4-3) In Tribe Win the scheduled seven innings. In the
at Washington
(Hannan 2-1) eighth, Dave Conway singled, moved to The players originally asked that

Chicago (Horlen 5-7) the contribution to the fund be increased
at Baltimore second on Tom Mitchell’s sacrifice bunt,
(Bunker ]-0) CLEVELAND (AP) — Luis Tiant to $5 million.

Oakland (Odom 7-4) struck out 19 batters and Cleveland and moved to third on John Gamble’s *
go 9-4) ' at Boston (Santia- The Detroit meeting brought accord
pushed across a run in the 10th inning sacrifice bunt. Conway scored the win­ on a reported offer by owners to nearly

Florida State League on Joe Azcue’s single to beat the ning run when the Lakeland shortstop

I bobbled a grounder hit by Ivey match a player demand for a $15,000
Minnesota Twins 1-0 Wednesday night.

Miami 5W^T"e“ay'\Resu,ts Armstrong. salary minimum and also on a
Tiant, who earned his seventh shutout

PPd. rain) ' P 1 (second game Berrier and Dodgers third baseman graduating scale for exhibition play,
with a spectacular strikeout it was reported.
Cocoa 2-1, Orlando 1-9 Doug Crawford were thrown out of
performance, climaxed it in the 10th

when he struck out the side after the the game in the fifth when they disputed ainin.g’ players—now getting a

Fort i oeacn 4, Leesburq 2 a balk call on Daytona Beach pitchei uat $10 for daily expenses—were offered
PPd. ram. erdale at st- Petersburg, Twins had runners at first and third

with none out. Bob Selleck. Berrier managed the re­ ?ookCie $1° a day for a
EASTERN DIVISION mainder of the game via messengei fori for a tw°-year-man; $30

MINNESOTA CLEVELAND
Miami W- L. Pct. Behind boy from the clubhouse. vear r?1*66'7631' man; $40 for a four
Daytona.......... . 28 .582 Tovar 3b' aib' r 1h 1bi ab r h bi

Cocoa 33 .548 2 Holt If 4 0 1 0 Alvis 3b’ 4 0 0 0 Selleck went the entire eight innmgs vear S5 and $5° per day for fiv*

West Pa I m BeaCh " 34 .507 5 Ki Hebrew ph 3 0 1 0 LBrown ss 3 0 0 0 as he picked up his third win against had du?V^r veterans. The players Lee Roy Yarbrough
Fort Lauderdale - 33 .500 572 Allison If 1 0 0 0 Johnson If 4 110 game S $5.°° f°r each exhibition RECORD SETTER

western31Div3,2s1o-4 6 Uhlaendr cf 0 0 0 0 Azcue c 4 0 2 1 clone for the Firecracker 400 at a
492
Orlando J 4 0 1 0 Cardenal cf 3 0 0 0 f°The°Ti|ers had managed only one from fhoS\k^tarans wil1 be in framing S » S*S«r
TAmpa ........................... 33 .560 Oliva rf 4 0 0 0 Sims lb 3 0 1 0 hit Sff of SeUeek until the cont.over^ the exhib rthlrd week July until
’
St. Petersburg 33 .548 1 Reese lb' 4 0 1 0 Harper rf 3 0 0 0 xhibition season starts Aug. 1. Richard Petty, who earned second with his Nj Photo by Ed
Lakeland ... ’ L 35 39 .473 Quilici 2b 3 0 1 0 Fuller 2b' 3 0 0 0 fifth when they picked up a . g
Leesbura .............. 41 .446 6V2 Roseboro c 4 0 1 0 Tiant p 3 0 0 0 ★ ★ ★ with a 183.342.
y ....................... 49 .355 81/2 Hernandz ss 3 0 0 0
Rollins ph
15’/2
1 0 0 0 ^ytona Beach boun<?edfS?
“‘™ONYSSLReSU''‘ RCIark 3b* 0 0 0 0 Strike Called.

Merritt p 4 0 0 0
Lakeland 14, w. Pai™ Leesburg 2 singled and was driven b°"£orej Ti ibune Reports

'Qmpa 3Z Po t . alrn Beach 5 Total 35 0 6 0 Total Armstrong’s triple. Armstrong Quiniela <ays
Miami at St PJ;auderda,e 1 None out when winning run scor
7? ppd, wef grounds on Miguel Santos sacrifice tiy.^ the
Minnesota .... 000 000 00 'fribuni^saki WeZ) h~~ The ChicaS°
Cleveland ......... 000 000 00 Selleck then gave up a u£ akela!id The Chicago
Fort Lauderda^ptla?,,S Garnes Gordv Dlfd }7dnecsday ni§ht that John
_,E Tovar. LOB—Minnesota
Pa|ni Beach at L Petersb-g sixth to tie the game.^T fiec
at i_eesb(j Cleveland 3. 2B— Tovar, Reese. S- hall League ofJhe National Foot-

Cocoa at Orla^T<>NA beach ' aa IP H R &F tally came on a tr«p» called a strike layers Association, has
Ferrin ZL,5 eVT"? e ' $103

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Jim Flynn held the Tig ail the
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mfrained a 2-1 leac him for
and maint him for has directed thoDetroil Llons veteran, Quiniela payoffs averaged more than pleted a 4.7 dady 0° sixthoo.
of the associntT°re than60°mernbers $40 for the 11 matinee games, wit

at training eam^°n ?Ot to sh™ up five paying more than $50 an

-Don pcg_.CamPs next week. third game paying $78.40 at the y

tona Beach iai alai fronton Wednesday