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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1958
Page
8
The Pittsburgh Pirates surge into the final stretch challenging the Milwaukee Braves for first place. Spahn wins 19th game as Cubs, Dodgers, Reds also win to shape NL standings. In AL Mantle bangs 39rd homer and power leads league batting races with key club records and veteran pitchers pacing the chaos.
Musial St Louis tops NL batting at .340 with Ashburn Philadelphia at .336 Aaron Milwaukee .334 Banks Chicago leads RBIs with 117 Thomas Pittsburgh 105 H Anderson Philadelphia 89 Aaron 182 hits Ashburn 181 Mays 175 Great doubles 32 for Aaron and Musial. Ashburn 12 triples. Banks 44 home runs. Stolen bases Ashburn 27. Mays tied for second with 103 runs.
Baseball briefs recap standings and results from the National and American leagues. Highlights include Milwaukee Pittsburgh and Chicago competing, with noted Sunday results and upcoming schedules. The item ends with a reminder that the first major league game was televised from Ebbets Field on August 26, 1939.
The A's rally to beat Detroit 3-2 as Bob Avila drives in the decisive two runs with a pinch double in the eighth. Washington’s Pete Ramos, urged by Vice President Nixon to win 17, improves since his August call, posting a 1-0 win and extending the scoreless string. Yankees split doubleheader with 7-0 loss to Duke Maas and a 1-0 win for Washington.
Althea Gibson defeats Darlene Hard 3-6 6-1 6-2 to win the national women’s tennis title for the second straight year at Forest Hills. She becomes the first to win Wimbledon and Forest Hills since Maureen Connolly. Ashley Cooper wins the men’s title over Mal Anderson 6-2 3-6 4-6 10-8 8-6.
Fred Hutchinson faces uncertainty as St. Louis Cardinals manager with the team sliding into fifth place and a final-month decision looming. Officials say no decision until season end, with possible coaching staff changes and a new manager from within the organization.
Pitching Pete Ramos and the Senators beat the Yankees 1-0 in the first game of a doubleheader on six hits with six strikeouts and two walks. The Yankees won the nightcap 7-0 behind Duke Maas four hits. Ed Bailey of the Redlegs delivered a pinch hit three run homer with two out in the ninth to win the opener, then doubled and singled for another run in the nightcap as Cincinnati swept Philadelphia 6-4 and 9-2.
In boxing talk, Bob Fullmer and challenger Webb seek a title crack next year as Sugar Ray Robinson and Carmen Basilio settle their feud. Fullmer rides a five fight win streak after losing the 160 pound crown to Robinson last year, improving to 49 wins and 4 losses. Webb recently won his last three to reach 29-3.
City league standings list teams such as Midwest Office Supply Cole Motors First National Bank Johnsons Furniture Humboldt and Wards Bootery with team scores and high game details. Individual leaders include Allison Finney Cochran and Morarity with 200s and high 30s across Humboldt First National Midwest Office and Elks clubs.
Chicago Cardinals defeated Los Angeles 27 to 26 while Washington beat Philadelphia 35 to 31 Green Bay toppled New York 41 to 20 Pittsburgh 13 Baltimore 10 and San Francisco edged Cleveland 21 to 16 per The Tribune.
Fred Hawkins of El Paso Texas fired a 10 under par 62 in the Utah Open at Salt Lake Country Club to reach a 54 arbitration total of 199. Don Finsterwald and Bob Rosburg followed with 201s while Tom Nieporte and Arnold Palmer were at 202. Bill Collins Jim Turnesa and Don Fairfield were near 205.
In Bologna Teddy Wright from Detroit stopped Gunter Hase of Germany in 150 2 rounds. Muskegon Kenny Lane defeated Orlando Zulueta from Cuba by decision 10 rounds. Havana Robinson Garcia from Cuba outpointed Pete Kawala of Cuba in 130 2 rounds. Winnipeg Mike Holt from Johannesburg beat Roque Maravilla from South Africa in 173 0 rounds.
At Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, a Sunday fox hunt proceeded without foxes or hounds. The event drew 40 riders on horses and about 70 in horse drawn coaches on a five mile ride around the reservation, with no wildlife sighted.
Boxer Ralph Dupas, 22, returns on the long road back meeting Lanky Johnny Gorman, 22, of New York in New Orleans. It is his first ring action since a stoppage by lightweight champion Joey Brown on May 7 in Houston. The bout is not televised.
Tipton Missouri marks the centennial observance with a Sept 16 departure of a stagecoach along the 2800 mile Butterfield route to San Francisco. The 24 day trip retraces past stops through Springfield Fort Smith Indian Territory West Texas New Mexico Arizona into Mexico and to California. John Butterfield launched the service in 1858 when Tipton was the western terminus of the Pacific railroad.
Osawatomie Mrs Frank Bowker has been appointed director of volunteer services at the state hospital in Osawatomie Kansas. She has served as a recreational therapist at the hospital since November 1955 and previously led the recreation commission in Hutchinson Kansas.
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