Recreation program set again for summer activities
The joint program sponsored by the city and Bonham Independent School District offers swimming tennis and baseball this summer. Swimming and tennis run in age groups with evenings at the high school courts while baseball is for boys at the Little League field. All participants 6 to 12 swim 9 am to 10 am and 13 plus from 9 am to noon. fees are 10 cents per day and transportation to Bonham State Park lake is provided.
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Morrow Expected to Run At Denver AAU Meet
Olympic champion Bobby Morrow collapsed with a left leg muscle spasm during a Houston track meet and is expected to be fit for the National AAU at Denver in two weeks. Doctors said the spasm was painful but not serious as he rests with ACC teammates returning to Abilene.
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Ed Dashot Wen
Kansas Spete
Saint twin bill routs Indians. Saints surge in standings
St Paul Saints demolished Indianapolis 11-3 in the Sunday doubleheader, then 8-0 in the nightcap as they climb into a tie for the Eastern lead with Louisville. Dallas beat Omaha 5-3 to stay five games ahead, Denver blanked Charleston 10, Houston topped Fort Worth 3-1, and Louisville topped Minneapolis 8-4 as other Sunday results.
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Senator Mounds
15 Year Old Wins Top Skeet Titles
A 15-year-old Alabama boy, Minor Cliett of Remingham, captured the high overall championship at the Pan American Skeet Shoot in Dallas and tied a world record by scoring 100 straight targets across four gauges. He tied Herman Ehler's mark and fellow competitors, including Joe Frost Jr and Joe Frost III of San Antonio, tied the father son record with 399 of 400 targets. Kathlee McGinn, 15, of Houston won both the .12 and .28 gauge titles. Col Salvador Roig of Puerto Rico led Latin American shooters with 199 of 200 targets.
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Joe Frost Lil
San Antonio
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Tex Kathlee McGinn
Houston
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Salvador T. Roig
Puerto Rico
Major League Leaders Snapshot for the Season
National League leaders include Aaron and Cepeda with top batting and runs batted in figures, alongside Banks, Mays, Pinson and Burgess. American League leaders feature Kuenn, Fox, Kaline, Runnels and Woodling. Home run and pitching charts highlight Mathews, Aaron, Wilhelm, Larsen and Wilhelm again with notable win totals.
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White Sox
Pappas
Barquette Wins Rich Paris Race Despite Outsider Status
Barquette, an underdog, outran 24 rivals to capture one of the season’s richest purses in Paris racing on Sunday. Thion de?
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Barquette
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Pioneers Sweep Two From Loop In Texas League Race
Austin Pioneers beat Victoria 3-1 in the opener with Ross Carter and Nat Peeples delivering a two run homer. Austin won the nightcap 6-2 as Jack Hendl limited Victoria to five hits. Victoria holds a 6-18 lead over Austin. San Antonio split with Tulsa, with Tulsa winning 4-0 in game one and San Antonio taking game two 7-2. Waterlogged fields postponed Amarillo vs Corpus Christi. Tulsa and San Antonio to continue tonight.
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Nat Peeples
Carter
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Mauriello
Jack Hendl
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Tulsa
Mel Nelson
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Johnny Goetz
Goetz
Manuel Montejo
Amarillo
Corpus Christi
Former Geber Cage Stars Hurt Sunday in Scooter Wreck
Two former Geber high school basketball stars, Joe Larry Porter and Mac Broiles, were injured Sunday afternoon in Bonham State Park when a motor scooter skidded on loose gravel. Porter suffered arm and hip bruises. Broiles hurt his right arm. Deputy Leon Shastid investigated. they were taken to a hospital by Mr. and Mrs. Morris Ballew with Porter kept for observation.
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Mac Broiles
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Broiles
Leon Shastid
Shastid
Morris Ballew
Barquette Wins Mile and a Third Flat Race
La Chaume collected $32,000 as Barquette scored a length and one half victory in the mile and a third flat race.
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Barquette
Nationalists seek readmission to 1960 Olympics
Nationalist China plans to reenter the Olympic Games under a new name The Olympic Committee of the Republic of China IOC approval pending. George K Yeh told Rep Harold Ostertag the move follows IOC’s 1960 ouster for not governing all of China. Yeh calls IOC action deplorable and unjust.
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Republic of China
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US Department of State
Yeh
Don McGhee Named Coach at Ladonia
Donald Eu gene McGhee former Plano high school star athlete is hired as head coach at Ladonia high school Supt C F Burnett announces He will earn a degree from East Texas State College in August and move to Ladonia with his wife and two children He replaces Jim Parsons who resigned to continue schooling at STSC McGhee is a math major and physical education minor at ETSC He played in the Plano high school all star basketball game after graduating at Plano He was in Paragon Men's Social club at ETSC and officiated many local high school games while a student.
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Donald Eugene McGhee
Plano
Ladonia High School
Supt. C. F. Burnett
McGhee
East Texas State College
Vaant
Jim Parsons
STSC
ETSC
Paragon
Commerce School
Wilhelm Leads Orioles to Second Place with 3-0 Win
Wilhelm earned his 9th win without a run allowed as the Orioles shut out the Kansas City Athletics 3-0 to move into second place. Gus Triandos and Billy Klaus provided Baltimore's other runs while notable NL results included Milwaukee beating Los Angeles 8-2 and Cubs taking two from Pirates. The day featured Herb Score's six-hitter for Cleveland and Yanks splitting with the Indians after Berra and Throneberry homered.
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Wilhelm
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Harry Anderson
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Vinegar Bend Mizell
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Jack Sanford
Daryl Spencer
Giants
Brooks Lawrence
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