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Newspaper
Anderson Herald
Location
Anderson, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1960
Page
20
The piece surveys early season races in baseball and the NL AL standings with Chicago, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and New York in play. It notes Indy 500 expectations for Jim McWitney and golf results with Campbell Gates and Berson, plus boxing and bowling highlights from local clubs.
Anderson’s Jim McWithey posted 140.378 mph in qualifications and will start 33rd in the 1960 Indianapolis 500. Rookie Jim Hurtubise wowed with a record 149.601 mph four lap average, while many garages dismantled cars during teardown week ahead of Memorial Day race.
Two amateurs and a pro led Open qualifying at La Jolla Country Club with 133 after 36 holes. M. O. Johnston Jr and Don Collett posted 66 67, while Charles Cortney had 67 66, among 2350 players across 54 cities seeking berths for the June trials.
Milton Mills Sr and the Banner couple led Edgewood Men and Women clubs in recent events west of Anderson. Mills won the 18 hole blind par tourney May 15 to 21 sponsored by Childes Coal Co with Marvin Jones second and others following. The Banners took first low gross in the two ball mixed foursome. Other winners included the Carlt ons low gross and the Forbes low net.
Auxiliary Police built a 13 to 8 win over Guide Lamp in Fairview American Little League yesterday. Five pitchers saw action for the Police as they wowed the crowd with a big sixth inning after a 0 0 0 1 7 5 run frame. Dailey Isbell Johnson Regenald Forrester and McGhee led the lineup with multiple innings of work.
Carl McNulty of 8th Street Athletics tossed a no run one hit ball as Emges fell 4 to 0 in Commercial softball at Shadyside. G Couch drove in the lone run for Emges, while Kessler's Camera Shop edged Hammons 1 to 0 in nine innings with Bonham and Miller collecting two hits. Forse’s Forse hit led Big Boy past Forse 11 to 2 as Swango homered in the third. Sunday School schedule lists Park Place vs South Meridian A, Mounds vs North Anderson A, Arrow Heights vs Christ Lutheran.
Four Americans led by Tim Holland of Rockville Centre N Y edged through rough Portrush links to win first round British Amateur matches. Ten fellow countrymen lost as rain and wind battered the event. The U S team faced its worst start since World War II but retained 15 players including byes in the field.
The National League saw Los Angeles beat Pittsburgh 1 0 while Chicago topped Cincinnati 6 and Cincinnati game tied in 12th. New York defeated Kansas City 4 3. American Association games included Indianapolis 4 Dallas 2 and St Paul 8 Houston 7. International League Columbus 2 Richmond 1 and Montreal 19 Buffalo 5. Pacific Coast Portland 5 Vancouver 2. Sunday results: Los Angeles 9 Philadelphia 6 and Pittsburgh 8 San Francisco 7 in 11. Milwaukee 3 Chicago 1. St Louis 5 Cincinnati 4 5. Washington 7 Chicago 5 2. Detroit 6 Boston 2 2. Baltimore 7 Cleveland 6 rain split. New York 9 Kansas City 7. Indianapolis 4 Louisville 2. St Paul 8 Denver 3 Minneapolis 9 Houston 1. Charleston 3 Dallas Ft Worth 2.
A slate of games features Cardwell facing Cincinnati,O'Toole starting for the Reds. Padres visit Pirates with Gibbon on the mound. Jones and Roberts square off in San Francisco Philadelphia. Buhl starts for Milwaukee against Sadecki of St. Louis. Barber vs Chicago. Monbouquette vs Daley in Kansas City. Short vs Messi in Detroit. Kralick or Woodsheirk at Cleveland with Grant. Also Indianapolis at Dallas-Ft Worth and Louisville at Charleston with N on Houston at St Paul Denver at Minneapolis scheduled.
Frank Gates and Carl Erskine join Tom Jacobs and Peewee Reese in a Pro Celebrity pro am at the Indianapolis Speedway course today. Gates and Reese form one duo while Erskine and Jacobs make the other, teeing off at 10 24 a m.
Champion Eugene Dodd of Indianapolis nailed 99 of 100 targets to win the third registered skeet shoot at the Anderson Badge and Gun Club east of the city. The event crowned class winners and a runner up with scores listed for AA through E divisions.
In Indianapolis AP report the Indiana High School Athletic Assn may add tennis to its six statewide tourney sports. Ninety Hoosier high schools field tennis teams and most back a tourney per a survey by the IHSAA athletic council. Leo Costello to lead the board July 1 succeeding Otto Albright. Judson Erne named athletic council president. A committee to study track meet rules includes Lester Parker and Norman Hubner. The council kept football jamboree dates and wrestling entrance rules unchanged.
Larry Sherry of the Los Angeles Dodgers will receive the Babe Ruth Award as the outstanding player of the 1959 World Series. The New York Chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America voted unanimously in the southpaw pitcher’s favor. The announcement comes before a night exhibition game between the Dodgers and Yankees at Yankee Stadium on June 27.
In London Sir Victor Sassoon's St Paddy rose to 5-1 to win the Epsom Derby as bookmakers at the Victoria Club fixed odds. The colt displaced Die Hard from second favorite after a Dante Stakes win at York last week.
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