Cardinals and Athletics Fall to Errors in Key Games
In Kansas City the Orioles beat the Athletics 8-6 after a muffed foul pop by Jim Finigan cost an inning. The Cardinals lost to the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-3 as four unearned runs followed a dropped foul pop, with Herm Wehmeier yielding the loss. Billy Gardner and Hal Smith homered for Kansas City, and Mangrum shot a 4-under 32 in a golf opener benefiting Kansas City Children’s Mercy Hospital with a $4,000 first prize.
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Kansas City Open Seeks Low Score Amid Wind
The eighth annual Kansas City Open at Milburn Golf Club opens with 127 players, led by favorites Jack Burke Don Finsterwald Billy Maxwell Gene Littler Doug Ford Ted Kroll and defending champion Dick Mayer. Windy conditions shrink scoring potential with par cut from 72 to 70 and top targets around 272. Cary Middlecoff Mike Souchak and U S Open champ Jack Fleck did not compete.
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Boston Red Sox edge toward conforming to player limit
The Red Sox near the 25 player limit after midnights deadline forced by Ford Frick. Mel Parnell placed on the disabled list for roster balance following a severe ankle twist in Detroit. Willard Nixon previously sidelined, Frick rejected using the DL as a catchall.
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League Leaders Baseball Stats Snapshot
Baseball leaders listed for both leagues include Mantle of New York leading American League in batting with .400 and 40 hits, Berra also of New York topping RBIs with 29, and Ford of New York excelling in pitching with 50 games and 1.000. In the National League Repulski of St. Louis leads batting at .446 and Long of Pittsburgh ties in hits with 37.
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Topeka Favored To Win in AA At State Meet
Topeka, Shawnee Mission, and Wichita East enter as favorites for the 1956 Kansas high school Class AA track crown. Topeka qualified 16 individuals plus three relays. Shawnee Mission and Fast each had 13 individuals and three relays. Defending champ Topeka relies on depth. East and Haskell also loom large in Class A and B, with five athletes defending titles across classes.
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Mose Richardson
Manhattan
Ken Barber
McPherson
Ted Lewis
Jim Frantz
Hillsboro
Jerry Harder
Frick Calls Major Shakeup for Minor Leagues
Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick says sweeping changes are needed to sustain the minors. Subsidy not the answer, he advocates rule evolution to help minor leaguers and curb the bonus system. He warns the minor league situation is serious and needs reappraisal to close gaps between haves and have-nots.
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Hammer Throw Record By Boston Athlete
Boston University senior Cliff Blair from Hingham Mass lifted 211 feet 3 inches in a special AAU sanctioned hammer event surpassing the then world mark of 211 feet 12 inches set by Mikhail Krivonosov. Blair improved from 193 feet a week earlier as he rose to Olympic proportions under Harold Connelly’s guidance.
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Sugar Ray Robinson Olson Ready for 15 Round Title Bout
Sugar Ray Robinson and Carl Olson brace for their fourth middleweight title fight at Wrigley Field after tense moments over ringside seat access. NBC will televise and radio the 8 p.m. CST bout as Robinson, 35, defends against Olson, 28, with weigh-ins set and cameraless time noted. Robinson previously beat Olson in Chicago six months ago to regain the crown, while Olson has prior losses to the champion in 1950 and 1952.
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Bobo) Olson
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Saxton stops Turner with late TKO in Chicago bout
Johnny Saxton wins by 10th round TKO after Dr Irving Slott halts the Turner bout in Chicago Stadium. Turner bleeds from facial cuts while fans boo as judges had Saxton ahead in early rounds. Katz denounces the stoppage amid a televised nontitle defense before Basilio rumors.
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Longtime Texas Track Coach Clyde Littlefield Heads UT Team
Clyde Littlefield has coached the University of Texas track team since 1921, guiding athletes through decades of competition and establishing a lasting program legacy. His tenure marks a century of leadership shaping Texas track culture and success.
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University of Texas
National League Road Woes Plague Pennant Chase
In the NL, traveling teams struggle with only Brooklyn posting a six game road win streak. The Dodgers and Cards trade wins as unearned runs dominate the narrative. Milwaukee slides while Pittsburgh and Cincinnati fall, and New York and Chicago suffer poor road records.
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Big Seven Officials Study Routine Matters
In Manhattan Kansas faculty representatives and athletic directors open their spring meeting with routine agenda items. They plan to devote time to the conference football television plans for next fall as a package deal remains unpublicized. Coaches urged two separate 20 day spring practice sessions.
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Coaches propose limits on practice and hash mark move
The Chanute Tribune notes football coaches plan to cap player practice at 20 days and vote to submit to the national rules committee a proposal to move the hash mark 20 yards from the sideline, up from the current 18 yard placement after out of bounds.
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North Cold West Swelters Across Nation
A weather summary notes violent contrasts with snow flurries in the North Atlantic Coast states and freezing readings in New England. Temperatures fell as much as 23 degrees from yesterday with 53 at Atlanta down from 68, and 34 in Pittsburgh and Burlington Vermont. The Far West reached the 90s to over 100 in the Southwest, Los Angeles 99, Yuma 109. Rain in the upper Mississippi Valley and upper Great Lakes diminished as showers and flurries persisted elsewhere.
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Pirates Trade DelGreco and Littlefield for Bill Virdon
The Pittsburgh Pirates traded outfielder Bobby DelGreco and pitcher Dick Littlefield to the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for outfielder Bill Virdon. Virdon was the 1955 National League rookie of the year.
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