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Newspaper
Anderson Herald
Location
Anderson, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1956
Page
9
Buena Vista presents Walt Disney's spaceman adventure Man In Space in Technicolor. The film opens Wednesday at the Paramount Theater and runs through Saturday for local audiences.
Results from the City Parks Anderson Tennis Club event at Riley Park show multiple first and second round wins across men’s singles and doubles, women’s singles, and girls singles. Notables include Chuck Lowe J Hart Ted Hollingsworth Gary Stanley Ronnie Meeker and Jim Thornburg advancing in various brackets as action continues. In Cleveland UPI notes Pee Wee Reese—Dodger captain in town for exhibition with the Indians—celebrated his 37th birthday Monday.
In a compact notes snapshot, players include Hunter B Hiday Kane Jones Dray Christal and Gaus Applied stats show 0-6 and 41-16 entries. The item mentions Super Six and a list of players Snider Dray Christal Jones Ake Carr with various numeric codes and identifiers.
Bob Hubble and Dave Weir plan to settle their hard top stock car duel at Sun Valley Speedway this Saturday night July 28 after a tie last week. The 30 lap feature drew about 7000 as Weir closed from a big early gap to finish even with Hubble. Gene Clements, Dick Jackson, Wendell Fall, Briar Johnson and Ellis Herbert also excelled in heats and the semifinal with more strong showings expected next week.
Kansas City has been chosen as the site for a 10 state U S Olympic boxing trials event. The competition on Oct. 44 serves as a qualifier for the U S Olympic finals in San Francisco later that month. States sending boxers include Missouri Kansas Nebraska Oklahoma Wisconsin North and South Dakota Minnesota Iowa and Colorado. Don Heffner, former Yankees infielder, manages Reading Pennsylvania in the Class A Eastern League.
Masters winner Jackie Burke Jr. and Ted Kroll advanced to the PGA Championship final over Ed Furgol and Bill Johnston respectively. Burke edged Furgol 1 up after extra holes following a late rally and missed eagle, while Kroll dominated Johnston 10 and 8 on the Blue Hill course to set up a 36 hole final.
In Cincinnati, Lawrence earned the win for the Reds while Face took the loss after a 10-4 final. Mazeroski and Bridges drove in runs for Pittsburgh, with Thurman hitting a homer and Skinner, O'Brien, and Jablonski contributing doubles and offense. Attendance 11,318.
In Memorial Park Amateur Baseball Association action the Floor Store beat Anderson Sporting Goods 5 to 2 in opening game. The Falstaffs defeated Anderson High Lifes 7 to 0 in the nightcap with strong pitching. Tonight Rybolt's meets Meadowgold Dairy at 5:30 p.m. and the Falstaffs face Anderson Sporting Goods at 8 p.m.
Fleetwood the favored Chicago yacht won the Chicago to Mackinac race by corrected time 40 hours 10 minutes 3 seconds after an 11 hour 3 minute handicap. Hilaria finished first with 2:15.16 p.m. and Sabre second at 2:16.25 p.m. Gypsy, Freebooter, and Copperhead followed as top finishers. Amorita era record noted.
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