Sports of the week in review
By DAVE GOSSER
Kansan Sports Writer
Baseball fans eagerly awaiting tonight's All-Star classic watched the Major League season reach its mid-way mark, while the vast metropolis of Kansas City, Mo. prays the National Football League will allow its World Champion Kansas City Chiefs to open summer camp tomorrow. The week of July 7-14 was an interesting one as the Kansan looks at Sports in Review.
Hart Returns
Whenever a former star is sent to the minor leagues to prove he
Cincinnati hosts 41st Baseball All-Star game
Cincinnati's new river front stadium will be the hosting arena for the 41st annual Baseball All-Star game to be held today.
For the first time since 1957, the voting for starting lineups was left to the fans judgment.
Managers Gil Hodges and Earl Weaver have each named their starting pitchers. Tom Seaver of the New York Mets will throw the first pitch for the National League and Jim Palmer of the Baltimore Orioles for the American League.
Astro-turf will cover both the outfield and infield. Dirt patches of ten feet by twenty feet appear at the corners of the diamond. This experiment in baseball has been approved on a five-year basis.
Hopefully today's summer classic will not be affected by weather conditions. Last year's contest was postponed one day because of rain.
For a period of time it was indefinite as to whether the game would be played in Cincinnati because of construction delays.
A sell-out crowd is expected.
Syphilis gain is described
NEW YORK (UPI)—The rate of infectious syphilis increased 8.5 per cent in the last year throughout the United States in a rise "so dramatic that national emergency action is needed," a health society reports.
New Jersey led the increase among the states and New York City topped the country's urban areas.
The American Social Health Association, a voluntary agency championing the fight against venereal disease, said 20,531 cases of infectious syphilis were reported in the nation during the fiscal year 1970, up from 18,769, reported during the previous 12-month period.
"This increase is so dramatic that national emergency action is needed" said Dr. James S. McKenzie Pollock, the association's medical director.
"There's not only more sex, especially among the young people, but more indiscriminate sex," Pollock said.
Gay liberation sponsors forum
"The Condition of Homosexuality in the Community" will be the topic of an informal rap session in the Oread Room of the Kansas Union, 7-9 p.m. July 14.
The session is sponsored by the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front and concerned individuals, and is open to the public.
isn't washed up, fans offer their sympathy. But when the same man returns and drives in six runs in one inning to tie a 59-year-old National League record, people wonder if he didn't discover the fountain of youth.
The San Francisco Giants optioned Jimmy Ray Hart, a slugging infielder-outfielder to their Phoenix farm club this spring after Hart had put together seasons of 31, 23, 33, 29, and 23 homers respectively before dipping to three last year. Hart had a bad arm and it was affecting his hitting.
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The Giants recalled Hart last week. Wednesday night, July 8, against the Braves in Atlanta, Hart collected six RBI's in the fifth inning alone with a three run homer and bases loaded triple. That feat tied a National League record set by Frank Merkle of the New York Giants in 1911.
Johnson in the News
Nineteen-year-old Jan Johnson is becoming a regular feature in Sports Illustrated. His record setting performance in the pole vault competition at Drake University June 20 earned him recognition in a NCAA round-up
story a week later. Jan was awarded more ink in the July 13 issue heading the "THEY SAID IT" division of the "SCORE-CARD" column. To quote Sports Illustrated:
Reds Slump
"Jan Johnson, 19, of Kansas, who won the NCAA pole vault at 17-7, on his chances of clearing 18 feet: 'I'm sure I'll do it when I get a little older. Heck, I don't even shave yet. I can't grow the stuff.'"
The red-hot Cincinnati Reds, who have led the National League's Western Division all year, winning nearly seven out of every ten games played, finally reached a long awaited losing streak.
Losing to San Diego in the new Riverfront Stadium July 8 and 9, the Reds dropped the first of a twin-bill under the lights at Atlanta the next night before rallying to win the nightcap. The three game losing streak marked Cincinnati's longest this year. However, the Reds still remained in first place by nine games.
Royal Honor
If Kansas City Royal centerfielder Amos Otis plays in tonight's All-Star game he will become the first member in the two-year history of the club to receive such an honor. Otis is tonight's sole representative of the K.C. club. He failed to crack the starting line-up as selected by the fans. Last year's candidate, catcher Ellie Rodriguez, will not play.
Missouri Fame
Former Yankee catching great Yogi Berra and one-time St. Louis Cardinal Joe Garagiola have been selected to the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, Berra, a 17-year veteran with the Yankees, and Garagiola, more famous in a broadcasting booth than in a baseball uniform, will be officially installed Oct. 16 at a dinner in the Sheraton-Jefferson Hotel in St. Louis.
Chiefs Open
The Kansas City Chiefs, football champions of the world, are scheduled to open summer camp tomorrow at William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo. And if things go as planned, the Chiefs will be on the warpath at 9 a.m.
There was considerable thought that a difference between the National Football Players Association and the club owners would delay the camp opening, but as of press time all systems were go.
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