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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1989: Sharon Hughes and Lisa Harrison had teamed up to win the championship flight of the annual Colonial Park Ladies Golf Association Championship Tournament.
In other sports news:
• The Clovis High School Wildcat Football Booster Club was preparing for its first meeting of the season. Dues were $3 per person or $5 per family.
• Cal Ripken had played in his 1,208th consecutive Major League Baseball game, moving him into third place on the iron-man list behind Boston’s Everett Scott (1916-1925) and Lou Gehrig (1925-1939).
Steve Garvey predicted Ripken would not likely catch Gehrig. “The odds are against you,” Garvey told The Associated Press. “You run into a bout of flu. You can catch a cleat on artificial turf. Things happen.”
Ripken broke Gehrig’s consecutive-games record by more than 500 games, finishing with 2,632 in a row.
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