Willie Smith's Bat Lifts Angels to Seventh Straight
Los Angeles Angels beat Washington 20 to 0 as Willie Smith, formerly a pitcher, hit two singles and a two run homer. Smith also drove in the tie breaking run with a pinch hit the previous night in a 5-2 win over the Senators. Manager Bill Rigney backs Smith's shift to the bat.
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Pittsburg Wins In Final Inning
Pittsburg humbling Chanute 5-3 after three late runs in the seventh. Chanute led 3-2, with Richards, Thompson and Swan sparking the offense. Pittsburg tied it on Boldrini’s homer and sealed victory on a sequence of hits and an error. Chanute travels to Coffeyville tonight and hosts Fort Scott tomorrow.
One-Hitter by Cooper Sparks Chanute Windup over Cubs
Chanute Outlaws beat Independence Cubs 7 to 1 in a non league game as David Cooper pitched a one hitter with 17 strikeouts. Only eight inning single by Independence and a fielder's choice error produced their run. Outlaws compiled 16 hits led by Glen Barnhart four for five and multi hit days by Sigler Ellis and others. Next games: Arcadia at City Park tonight and Fort Scott Friday.
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Bob Ellis
Bud Lecov
Leonard Anderson
Don Papst
Bob Franklin
Arcadia
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Nicklaus Eyes Cleveland Open Top Prize In Humble Prep
Cleveland golf crowd gathers for the four day 72 hole event with Nicklaus chasing the $20,000 top award at the $110,000 Cleveland Open. Arnold Palmer and Tony Lema sit high in earnings as players cope with 90 degree heat and tornado warnings while Nicklaus solo practices and notes his rounds.
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Tony Lema
Nicklaus
Ken Venturi
Don Finsterwald
Baseball league leaders and stats excerpts
This item lists leaders in batting with Williams of Chicago at .366 and Mays of San Francisco at .347 for average. runs with Mays 57. RBIs led by Mays 53. hits with Williams 89. doubles tied Williams Chicago and Clemente 18. home runs led by Mays 22. stolen bases with Wills 23. pitching indecis. leaders Farrell 101 games and .909, Bunning and Mahaffey 72 decisions .778. strikeouts Koufax 106 and Drysdale 104.
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San Francisco
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Philadelphia
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St. Louis
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Pittsburgh
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Callison
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Houston
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Los Angeles
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Aparicio
Baltimore
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Ford
New York
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Wilson
Boston
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Cleveland
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Detroit
Baseball season leaders and stats summary card
Batting leaders include Oliva at 341 at bats and a .328 average. Allison leads Minnesota with 49 runs and 48 RBIs, while Killebrew tops with 23 home runs. Oliva and Hinton share doubles with 18, and Yastrzemski and Versalles lead triples with 6. Ford leads pitching with 10 wins and .909 ERA, while Ford also has 92 strikeouts.
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Minnesota
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Los Angeles
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Stuart
Boston
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Hinton
Washington
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Eddie Pace Downs Aristeo Chavarin in Honolulu Fight
Eddie Pace of Los Angeles defeated Aristeo Chavarin of Mexico in a boxing bout held in Honolulu. Pace improved his record with a tenth round stoppage victory.
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Los Angeles
Aristeo Chavarin
Mexico
Culp Throws Nine Inning gem as Phils split twin bill
Ray Culp returns to form with a 9-0 shutout of the Cubs in game two, lifting the Philadelphia Phillies to a 9-0 win while earning a split of the doubleheader. Culp allows no baserunner until Len Gabrielson’s single, and manager Gene Mauch says five starters will be used going forward.
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Philadelphia Phillies
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Len Gabrielson
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Bunning
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Cub
Gene Mauch
Phils
Dennis
Bennett
Art
Mahaffey
Chris
Short
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Philadelphia
S&W Marine Routs Johnsons Studio In Pee Wee Leauge
S and W Marine blanked Johnsons Studio 17 to 7 to hand the league leaders their first loss. Abbott and Gutierrez limited the visitors to one hit while West and Abbott each handled two. Johnsons Studio fumbled six errors as De La Torre and Marrow chased windups.
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Albert Gutierrez
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C. C. Harris
Steve de la Torre
Teener Legion and Elks win to climb standings
The Elks defeat Fowler Transport 3-0 to gain a share of first in the Junior Teener League. American Legion beats Naff and Bolze 9-3 in the other game. Dean Oliver pitched a one hit shutout for Elks, while Bill Carter allowed four hits in the Legion win. Both games feature multiple errors as the four team league tightens.
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Marty Barnhart
Jerry Russell
David Holloway
Darrell Brown
Ash Grove, Merle Kelly Win Majors
Ash Grove handed Bank of Commerce its first Major League defeat last night 5-4 and knocked the losers out of first place. Merle Kelly Ford defeated Consolidated Oil 7-6 in the other game. Ash Grove remains the only undefeated team with a 3-2 mark while Bank of Commerce stands 3-1 and Ash Grove sits third. Bret Richman pitched for the winners and held the opponents to three hits while his club committed one error.
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Don Noland
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Consolidated
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Mike Collins
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Amos
Wayne Morrison
Busy Bee and B H Market Tie League Lead
B H Market and Busy Bee Cafe edged opponents to move into a first place tie in the Minor League standings with 3 1 records after 20 9 win over Han s Flowers and 6 4 win by Busy Bee over Mitchell Buick The game featured late scoring and was called after three and a half innings James McGuffey earned the win with Mick Roush catching Han s Flowers batterymates John Hasty Terry Taylor The Busy Bees 4 H Club held a county judging school and a Neosho Valley Busy Bees meeting was held with Roger Erickson presiding
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Busy Bee Cafe
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John Hasty
Terry Taylor
Busy Bee
Howard Smith
R. 2
Neosho Valley
Busy Bees
Erie
Roger Erickson
Neosho Valley Busy Bees Hold Food Class
Members of the Neosho Valley Busy Bees 4-H Club met Saturday afternoon at 1 30 in the home of Virginia Madill 916 W 10th. Mrs Robert Lopeman is their leader. Leeva Carter demonstrated the
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Stone Slab Gift Shifts Cassius Clay Home Return
New York AP reports heavyweight champion Cassius Clay arrived home from a five week African tour with a gift a 3500 pound stone slab from the Giza pyramid. He plans to view it then perhaps donate it to a museum or craft a living room couch from it. He expressed pleasure to be back.
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Baseball Scores From Recent Games
Chicago defeated Philadelphia 2 to 0 while Milwaukee routed Los Angeles 9 to 5. Pittsburgh beat New York 5 to 1 and St Louis edged Houston 5 to 4 in other scores.
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Tuesday Baseball Scores Across Leagues and Rain Delays
In the majors Kansas City fell 2 to 3 while Detroit lost 1 to 9 and Baltimore topped New York 9 to 8 Chicago was 2 to 0 Boston 0 against Los Angeles 2 to 6 tied Minnesota 6 to 6. Pacific Coast League Portland won 5 to 2 Dallas 3 to 0 Denver 4 to 1 Spokane beat Tacoma 6 to 1 Salt Lake City 4 to 2 San Diego 2 to 0 Arkansas 0 Oklahoma City 7 Seattle 5. International League Syracuse 3 to 1 Jacksonville 2 to 8 Rochester 4 Atlanta 3 in a rain shortened 6 2 innings Columbus played Buffalo, Richmond at Toronto postponed by rain.
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