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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1955
Page
17
Reformatory defeated Bottled Gas 4-0 in a high scoring Thursday match at West Concord Seals arena. Sam De and John Dora led the winners with 310 while Italomeo posted 336 for the losers, ending most title hopes.
A jumble of names and numbers appears from an athletics page including Edward Fitz Dora Lawrence Hayes Bartolo Hojem Peterson Far Oakman Carlson Hills Perrillo Lever Palmers Kelley Mc ONeill Denaro Girardi promotional line and several small scores and entries. The legible items list players with scores and a few office related notes.
A garbled OCR note reports a contest where a reformatory team leads by seven points early. Details are unclear due to damaged text.
Club Scribner led the week with top scores 353 336 332 330 322 327 320 315 310 308 307 304 302 301 300 showing steady performance across events and placing multiple players among the leaders.
The Concord Rod and Gun Club schedules its next regular meeting for Wednesday April 27 at the clubhouse. A fishermans breakfast is planned for this Saturday to start the fishing season with breakfast served from 8 to 10 a.m. at the clubhouse.
New England Letter Club holds annual field trials at William Foss farm Carlisle with drawings at Colonial Inn Friday night. Banquet Saturday features William Harden Foster trophy for top dog of 1954 and honors Harry V. Gould. Frank Foss presides. George Burnham secretary. Trials run Saturday and Sunday.
Acton hosts Ayer in the Wachusets Baseball League opening games at Jones Field next Monday. Coach Johnton has his team ready after a two week workout. Other Eastern division games on Monday include Litteton at Groton and Lancaster at Westford. On April 28 the pairings are Westford at Littleton Groton at Ayer Acton at Lancaster.
The Owen Concord Middlesex School tennis team starts its season on Saturday April 16 with a home match against Harvard freshmen. Coach Russell H. Kettell leads the netsmen, captain Samuel C. Davis Jr., and manager James H. Wallace. The squad will face Belmont Hill on April 20 and a 14 match schedule has been arranged.
The Concord schedule for Coach John O Connell's Jauvée nine lists games against Reading on April 15 and May 17, Wakefield April 22 and May 18, Melrose April 29 and May 24, Stoneham May 3, Winchester May 4 and May 27, Bedford May 6 and May 20, Belmont May 10, Lexington May 13, and readings at Reading and Wakefield again.
Concord High opens baseball season against Lexington High as Middlesex Highs coach Lawrence Sanford Jr and assistant Samuel Cutler Jr lead the squad. Team captain is Robert MacLean of Ayer with student manager Charles Livingood. Schedule runs through early June at multiple area schools and Harvard freshmen.
Concord leads seven schools including Lexington Natick Foxboro Oliver Ames Prichard and Walpole in the 47th Patriots Day track meet at Emerson Playground Tuesday at 10 30 o clock. Nine events will be held with Memorial trophies for Merton Sanborn 100 yard dash Thomas Hanley 880 yard run Joseph D Sheehan one mile run and W Steward Gray as outstanding performer.
Suffolk Downs opens its 41 day spring session on April 19 as Racing Secretary Gordon Morrow fields applications for over 2900 horses though space for only 1150. The meet will feature more than 600 new horses from Florida New Orleans Arkansas Maryland Kentucky and South Carolina with stables from Gulfstream Park and a strong Crescent City contingent. Notables include Rollie Shepp River Divide Farm 16 horses Bob Cramer 20 horses J D Doc Canzano 23 Eddie Legere 15 Johnny Nerud 21 Joe Purpura 10 Ed Haughton 9 Mark Harris 9 and Mark Leach 17 plus New Orleans trainer Bill Ressekuet with 21 and others from the Crescent. Several from Hot Springs Ark Clyde Locklear Oscar Foster Lyle Whiting and Jim O Brey bring 29 18 17 and more respectively.
Pawtucket Rhode Island President James E Dooley announced major increases in four stakes for Narragansett Parks 1955 meet from June 6 to July 2. King Philip Handicap opens June 18 with 3 year olds plus racing one mile plus a sixteenth. Park Dandy and other races boosted prizes, Nursery Stakes June 25, and Governor's Handicap July 2 raise total stakes to 85000 from 50000. Overnight events include a sprint handicap June 11.
Athletic Director Bernard E Megin lists dates for Concord High track meets. April 19 invitational at home with April 29 Prichard meet, May 7 University of Massachusetts Relays at Amherst, May 10 Melrose at home, May 14 Bemont Relays, May 18 Middlesex League meet likely at Winchester, May 25 Merivoro Auburn Maribors, May 28 state meet at Newton, June 3 at Lexington.
West Concord Bowling League plans five matches at Maynard 7 p m Friday Concord High faces Reading High in baseball at Reading 3 p m Hudson High meets St Mark s in Southboro 3 p m Lexington High vs Winchester in baseball at Lexington 3 p m Little League Night at Monument Hall 7 30 p m Middlesex School plays St Sebastian s baseball at Newton 2 45 p m Middlesex vs Harvard freshmen tennis at Middlesex 3 p m Monday Maynard intra town bowling three matches at Tutto s Alleys 7 p m Concord High invitational track at Emerson Playground 1 30 p m Maynard intra town bowling seven three matches at Tutto s Alleys 9 p m Wednesday Hudson High vs Framingham High at Framingham 2 p m Middlesex School vs Belmont Hill tennis at Belmont Marlboro High vs Franklin at Franklin Middlesex vs Roxbury Latin baseball at Middlesex 3 p m Ladies Ten Pin Bowling Club two matches at Lexington 8 p m Maynard High vs Marlboro High baseball Midland League at Crowe Park 3 30 p m Wakefield High vs Concord High baseball Middlesex League at Erderson Piaggicuna 3 p m
An organizational meeting at Townsend hosted by secretary Charles K Johnson set April 17 as last entry date. Teams accepting include Marlboro West Concord Harvard Littleton Chelmsford Groton Nashua with Fort Devens Leominster Fitchburg Lunenburg among others expected. season slated to begin May 1, marking the league’s 32nd year.
A fishing record event occurred when a Channel bass was caught off North Carolina on a test line aboard a sighted rig. The catch was recorded using a 124p6tmd line and a 6014 ce ee machine for tackle.
Concord to host a 1:30 p m baseball contest at Emerson Playground on April 19 as part of the town holiday celebration for the George E Johnson Memorial Trophy. Lexington seeks first win as Concord holds two trophies including recent success and a 1928 class memory. Maynard was last year’s opponent.
Local streams announced as stocked for the trout season include Acton Nashoba brook Bedford Kiln brook Shawsheen river Vine brook Carlisle Hale brook Concord Jennie Duggan brook Mill brook Walden pond White pond Spencer brook Hudson Assabet river Fort Meadow brook Hog brook Littlet on Beaver brook Lexington Maple brook Vine brook Stow Assabet river Assabet brook Heathen Meadow brook Sudbury Landham brook.
A reader note urges Concord athletics to delay opening day beyond April 7 due to sore arms and a catcher out with a split finger. It recalls opening day umpires and nearby league schedules while mentioning Newton beat Medford, and Middlesex League talk of May 7 games and a historic 1947 Concord-Lexington tie.
Concord High opened its season with an 8 2 win over Woburn High at Emerson Playground. Dick Goyette pitched six strong innings for Concord, allowing six hits, striking out 12, and issuing two walks in a near freezing afternoon.
Concord rallied after an early Woburn lead as Al Beecy doubled home Paul McLaughlin to put the Bedford volunteer ahead. Beecy, Thorpe, Ballou, and Duggan contributed key plays while Goyette worked through five innings and fellow players filled the roster in an 16-player effort.
The Division of Fisheries and Game will study the Taunton river drainage this spring and summer to assess its current and potential value as a fishing area. It is the final segment of a four year project funded in part by Dingel-Johnson federal aid.
Concord point Nazareth Sperandio of Concord Country Club elected third vice president as the group renames to New England Golf Course Superintendents Association. An Educational Tourney is planned at Marlboro Country Club for May 2.
Lincoln Downs suspends all horses trained by Gordon Helton after doping accusations. Rose Pol, winner of the second race, tested positive for Thiamine stimulant. McElroy says the case has been referred to the Rhode Island Racing and Athletic Commission. Rose Pol paid 12.40 and won by 3 1/2 lengths, with a prior Lincoln Downs win on March 28.
Concord junior high baseball opens next Tuesday with Concord facing Acton. Weston schedule includes games coached by John Mee Grail: Weston home April 28, April 29 at Lexington, May 3 at Wayland, May 5 at Maynard, May 10 at Lincoln, May 12 Acton home, May 17 at Acton, May 19 Wayland home, May 26 at Maynard, May 31 Lexington home.
Concord opens with girls softball hosting Belmont on May 3 at Concord and tennis meeting Belmont the same afternoon. Boys golf starts April 26 at Arlington.
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