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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1958
Page
8
Art Wall Jr. aged 34 from Pocono Manor Pa. edged Dow Finsterwald in a sudden death playoff at Akron Ohio to win his first golf tourney in 16 months after a birdie on the second hole.
Defending champion Robert Ross Jr. leads 184 players in the 52nd Ohio Amateur at Tippecanoe with 18-hole qualifier rounds. Former champs Tom Jones Jr. Ed Preisler Bob Rankin return. Jack Nicklaus headlines strong challengers including Bob Shave Jr and Fred Rock Jones as finals loom after Thursday Friday match play.
Top hitters and leaders list shows Fox Chicago with .327, Cerv Kansas City .323, Kuenn Detroit .319. RBI leaders Jensen Boston 68 and Cerv 62, Lemon 50. Hits Fox 97, Malzone 94, Power 86. Doubles Kuenn 24 Power 18 Malzone and Kaline 17. Triples Tuttle 6 Power 5. Home runs Jensen 24 Cerv 22 Mantle 21.
Key batting leaders include Musial 361 at bats for St. Louis and Mays 358 for San Francisco. Banks 59 RBIs for Chicago and Mays 109 hits for San Francisco lead the field along with Cepeda 92. Hoak 23 doubles tops in Cincinnati and Virdon 9 triples for Pittsburgh. Banks and Walls pace homers with 21 and 17 respectively.
Delock of Boston led the AL with seven or more decisions and a 70 game tally while Turley of New York posted a 12-3 record and 800 strikeouts. Larsen of New York owned a 7-2 mark with a 778 strikeouts pace. Turley led in strikeouts with 9, with Perce of Chicago and Ford of New York totaling 84.
McMahon of Milwaukee 6 1 record .857 earns leading win total while Farrell of Philadelphia 6 2 .750 and Worthington of San Francisco 8 3 .727 are top among others. Strikeout leaders include Jones of St Louis 98 and Droft of Chicago 76 with Antonelli of San Francisco third at 74.
Rory Calhoun, Atlanta middleweight boxer, previously worked as a pin boy, construction worker, dishwasher and janitor before boxing career. The piece notes his diverse trades prior to his rise in sport.
San Francisco crowds fill Seals Stadium for 37 Giants home dates reaching 612037 attendees. President Horace Stoneham notes that larger Seals Stadium would push totals toward 750000, surpassing New York figures of 359491 at the Polo Grounds last season.
Baltimore report lists starting positions and probable pitchers for the All-Star game at Memorial Stadium. Notable selections include Musial Mazeroski Banks Thomas Skinner Mays Aaron Crandall Spahn Skowron Fox Aparicio Malzone Ceryo Mantle Jensen Triandos Turley with teams noted as New York based on the excerpt.
City recreation director Charles McAfee unveils the remainder of the league schedule. Most games will be at the county fairgrounds field with lights installation pending. A tournament will follow the regular season.
Nelsonville Merchants beat Wood Plumbers 4-3 in a 13 inning marathon halted by the umpire. Whitcraft and Hawk homered, Court ney plated a run, and Dane earned the win after a 3-3 tie into the 13th.
Milwaukee beat Pittsburgh 2 0 while Chicago topped Los Angeles 6 2 on Sunday. Saturday Pittsburgh won 4 2 and Chicago 7 1. Philadelphia edged Cincinnati 8 5 in 12 innings. Top standings show New York leading Kansas City with Boston and Detroit mid-pack.
Ossie Virgil became the first Negro to play for the Detroit Tigers. He batted .291 in 137 games for Danville in the Class B Carolina League in 1954.
Army football coach Earl Blaik is identified as a former basketball and baseball player in Dayton Ohio high school. He later played football at Miami University in Oxford Ohio and at West Point.
Chicago middleweight Bobby Boyd began boxing under the guidance of his cousin Ernest Wilson, a former amateur fighter, who introduced him to the sport and helped start his career.
Quarterback Lee Grosscup of Utah completed ten forward passes for touchdowns during the previous season.
The Giants win in the ninth inning on a hit by pitch to Cardinal reliever Larry Jackson with bases loaded and two out, keeping San Francisco one game behind Milwaukee. Whitey Lockman, Willie Mays, and Willie Kirkland contribute, while Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and Chicago also post wins in the day’s action.
The All-Star rosters boast rested starters with 15 pitchers slated for the game. Casey Stengel led Americans with three of his Yankees among the selections while Fred Haney’s Nationals lean toward Bob Friend and other right handers. Lefties include Whitey Ford, Billy Pierce, and Billy O Dell as lineups favor right-hand hitters. The American League holds a 14-10 edge in the series.
Pancho Segura, at 37 the tournament’s oldest star, won six matches without a loss to capture $3,000 top prize. Gonazales tied for second with Rosewall and Sedgman at 4-2, earning $1,750 each. Other players earned prize money from $750 to $1,250. Hoad and Hartwig won doubles titles and split $2,000.
A fire at Randall Park race track destroys 12 horses and a pony and damages 66 stalls. Track manager Edwin C. Moon estimates losses at 80000 dollars with 400 horses at the stables. A stampede mortally wounds Pensive Song, and one horse breaks loose onto Ohio 8 prompting police to clear traffic.
Ashley Cooper, 21, won the Wimbledon men’s singles title ending the 72nd tournament. Experts expect pro interest from impresario Jack Kramer if Cooper adds the American title. Kramer has drawn top am ateurs such as Sedgman Rosewall Hoad Hartwig Trabert to the pros.
Racine tops Buchtel 3 2 in a marathon 18 inning contest tied 1 1 after nine and 6 6 after five. Chauncey defeats Murray City 13 6 in a separate game, while The Plains blank Jacksonville 4 0.
Harold Carter, ranked No. 5 by the NBA and No. 9 by Ring, faces Cuban Nino Valdes in a 10 round bout at Spokane Coliseum on ABC TV. Valdes, 33, seeks his fourth straight win after a February loss to Miteff, while Carter aims to move closer to a Patterson bout. Also Friday at Madison Square Garden, Mickey Crawford and Gaspar Ortega square off with Virgil Akins looming, in a key 147 pound match to shake ratings. NBC covers the Garden card on radio and TV.
Detroit second baseman Frank Bolling slugged three of his team's seven hits in a 2-1 win over Chicago. He doubled for an RBI and scored the deciding run on Billy Martin's single as Joey Jay limited Pittsburgh to four hits in a 2-0 Braves victory with Wes Covington driving in both runs.
Baseball scores across leagues with Kansas City Cleveland Detroit Chicago Boston New York Baltimore and Washington. Garver Dickson Craddock Gorman House Bell Porter credited with runs and home runs for Kansas City. Williams Mantle Lemon homer details noted.
Baseball scores and key notes from games featuring Philadelphia Cincinnati Pittsburgh Milwaukee St Louis San Francisco Chicago and Los Angeles with runs homers and winning pitchers listed for each contest. Dominant players include Philley Bouchee Nuxhall Landrith Worthington Drott and Drysdale among others.
Relief pitcher Herb Moford, who played 14 games in 1955 with the St. Louis Cardinals, later joined the Detroit Tigers and logged 24 innings with a 1 1 record.
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