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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1955
Page
22
Fragmentary OCR listing several matchups with cities Omaha Denver and scores 17 88. The readable items include Jana 5 Cuarbaten at Omaha and Jang 17 88 at Denver with other garbled team names and places.
Sam Snead healthy and pain free leads Deepdale field as he prepares for the fourth Round Robin championship, labelled the Adding Machine Open. The 43 year old from White Sulphur Springs West Virginia feels the best he has in years after past hand injuries.
New York pitcher Johnny Kucks held Kansas City to two hits in a 3 1 win while Whitey Ford dominated in the night game for a 6 1 victory. Andy Carey drove in the day game winner on Irv Noren's single and belted a three run homer in the fourth of the nightcap. Ford earned his seventh win, with Whitey Ford seven hits allowed and 3 2 run yields.
Early Wynn threw a four hit shutout as the Cleveland Indians defeated the Baltimore Orioles 5 to 0. Al Smith drove in two runs with a two run homer, and Wynn dominated after a pneumonia scare, not yielding a hit until the sixth inning.
Sherman Lollar hit a three run homer in the seventh to tie the game and Chico Carrasquel delivered an RBI single in the eighth as the Chicago White Sox defeated the Boston Red Sox 4 to 3 Ted Williams went hitless in four at bats.
Unbeaten southpaw Luis Arroyo earned his sixth win as he allowed six hits over the complete game to lead the St. Louis Cardinals past the Pittsburgh Pirates 6 to 2 in Pittsburgh.
The fragment lists players and statistics from a baseball game with mention of outs, hits, runs and pitchers. It references personnel such as Roel Hartley and various batters like Arroyo King and Purkey, along with score lines and fielding notes. The garbled text preserves names and numbers but lacks clear narrative or date.
The standings show Minneapolis 1 Toledo 2 Omaha Denver and Louisville in close pursuit with Charleston and St Paul. Leading hitters include Jeff Harp Peters Grabb and Joe French with multiple extras as teams chase weekly wins.
Sam Jones limits Philadelphia to two hits over seven innings but loses 3-1 as the Cubs commit errors. Roberts earns his eighth win for the Phillies while Jones takes the loss, with Ashburn and Gorbous contributing for Philadelphia and Speake and Banks providing Chicago's only run.
In Boston on June 1 Wil Iie Pep defeated Joey Cam by a fourth round technical knockout after opening a deep gash over Cam’s left eye in the third. Both fighters weighed 129 pounds and 12,486 fans watched as Pep, a twice former featherweight champion, dominated the action.
Frank DeMoss struck out 18 East Bank hitters and made a sensational bunt stop as Monongah High beat East Bank 5 to 1 to win the West Virginia high school baseball championship. DeMoss totaled 40 strikeouts in the tournament and allowed only one run tonight. East Bank edged ahead briefly in the second before Monongah pulled away with late runs and strong defense. East Bank players Tom Goins, Dave Adkins and Larry Short earned all tourney berths alongside DeMoss and other regional standouts.
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