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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1961
Page
6
In a busy baseball day, the Tigers routed their opponent while the Cleveland Indians and New York Yankees also posted wins. The card highlights ED WILKS’s game notes and key scoring moments across the games.
Detroit wallops Kansas City 10-2 to hold a 3 game AL lead over Cleveland. Cleveland outlasts Minnesota 7-5 in 15 innings. Yankees rally past Baltimore 8-2 with unearned runs and a late burst. Boston and the Angels also win as Fisher and Grba win their games.
Los Angeles Dodgers win their fifth straight overall and eighth in a row on the road 2-1 in 10 innings over the Reds behind Stan Williams four hit effort with 11 strikeouts. Willie Davis, Maury Wills score winning run in 10th after Wills singled. Giants rally past Cardinals 3-2 as Harvy Kuenn Chuck Hiller provide key hits. Orlando Cepeda hits 11th NL homer. Pirates defeat Brewers 2-1 on Dick Groat’s eighth inning homer.
Baseball results include Cleveland 7 over Minnesota in 15 innings and New York 8 over Baltimore. Also Boston 4, Chicago 1. Detroit 10, Kansas City 2. Los Angeles 6, Washington. Detroit at Minnesota and Chicago at Baltimore were listed as postponements or not completed. Other scores feature Los Angeles 2, Cincinnati 1 in 10 innings and San Francisco 3, St. Louis 1. Pittsburgh 2, Milwaukee 1. Pacific Coast and International League results noted with several games postponed or incomplete.
ASHEVILLE N C AP two co medalists Mrs Scott Probasco Jr of Chattanooga Tennessee and Mary Patton Janssen of Charlottesville Virginia led the first round match play as the women’s Southern Amateur Golf Tournament started.
The Associated Press reports boxing results with outpoints earned by Joe Scali and Ike Vaughn and a stoppage for Bobby Stininato. In school activities, Royster Junior High awards track and golf letters to multiple eighth and ninth graders, with coaches Keller Woods and Lockyear presenting.
Officials talked of a friendly and imminent solution as Arnold Palmer Gary Player and Stan Leonard face a clash over San Juan June 14 Canada Cup matches. PGA sponsors refuse release from Memphis Open commitments while players weigh suspensions and fines for defying their tour rules.
Postponed games in the Church Softball League are piling up as rainouts delay action. Tonight two games at Highland Park are on schedule with the Knights of Columbus facing the Christians at 7 30 and the Lutherans meeting the Presbyterians in the second game.
American League leaders include Temple and Cleveland at .355 and .350 batting marks with 50 hits each. Detroit’s Colavito tops runs with 32 and Gentile leads RBIs with 41. Mantle and Boros surface in multiple categories with 31 and 32 RBIs. Pitching sees Regan and Mossi from Detroit undefeated at 50 and 40 decisions. Notable batting leaders Moon and Mathews post high averages, while Cepeda and Aaron pace RBIs across leagues. Stolen-base leaders Aparicio and Wood show high activity. Cepeda leads homers with 12.
Trustees and university officials move to curb basketball after a gambling scandal linking UNC and NC State. Everett Case warns the sport must stay educational while limits are placed on non conference games and recruiting. The Dixie Classic tournament is effectively ended under new policy.
Mike King, Ed Lindblad, Roger Sallee, Bill Stevenson, Ron nie Vaughn and Dale Washburn received track letters. Paul Chauncey, student manager, was also given a track letter. Golf letters went to Dan Freeman, Ken Malson and Mike Mitchell, ninth graders, and to Steve Allen, Marc Hoofnagle and Larry Leverenz, eighth graders.
About 250 entries from Kansas and western Missouri expected for the annual Missouri Valley AAU track meet Saturday at Shawnee Mission North High School.
White House press secretary Pierre Salinger met Austrian officials to discuss a two day Kennedy Khrushchev summit next month. A tentative schedule has the leaders meeting June 3 at the U S Embassy and June 4 at the Soviet Embassy. In Saigon US supplies six ADG light bomber aircraft to the South Viet Nam air force.
American oilmen and other businessmen study Khrushchev's shift toward consumer goods and higher Soviet imports. The article notes 1960 U.S. exports to the USSR reach 193.4 million and warns Soviet oil could disrupt Western markets through cut‑rate pricing and barter.
Ma Wang shen was sentenced to death five years ago for masterminding the murder of five relatives of a retired Chinese Nationalist general. He appealed and was acquitted. Monday night Wu was arrested for killing his estranged mistress Lu Tsui hua, 31, a taxi dancer and singer. Police said he admitted the slaying. Rumors circulated in the diplomatic colony in Moscow.
Lydda Israel reports Premier David Ben-Gurion departed by plane to visit a friend in Canada and to meet President Kennedy in the United States. In France, French and Algerian rebel negotiators began their first hard bargaining over Algeria's future as the talks opened at Evian.
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