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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1954
Page
7
Mickey Mantle shines as the Yankees sweep a doubleheader against the Chicago White Sox. Mantle drives in the tying run with a single in the eighth and belts a left field homer in the 10th to seal a 4-3 win, while New York dominates 11-1 in the second game. Cleveland wins twice. Brooklyn and the Giants also post victories in a tight pennant race.
Oliver led the 36th PGA Championship as match play began at Keller Public Course in St Paul Minnesota with a 36 hole total of 136 to claim medal. Burke and Middlecoff each shot 137 to qualify for the 64 man bracket. Lyons qualified at 147 after rounds of 72 and 75.
Aero Supply beat Rogers Steel 10 to 6 to seize first place in the Teener League second half race. Ted Francisco keyed the offense with two doubles, a triple and a single in four at bats, while Eddie Burkhart’s three-base hit loaded the bases in a big eighth-inning rally. Rogers Steel scored across early and late frames, with Dietsch hitting a home run for the Steelmen.
City Tennis Tournament opens Monday at Mead Park with 27 players across men and women divisions. Best two of three format. trophies to division winners. Readies first two rounds for July 26 27 and 28 with a rain date and semifinals to be announced in The Journal.
Aero Supply rolled to a 10-3 victory over Ajay Tron Works in a City Softball League game. The winner scored three in the first, two in the fourth, one in the fifth, and four in the sixth, while the losers pushed across two in the second and one in the third. Johnson Roskowsk and A Wotus formed the winning battery, with Merle Ottaway pitching and Roger Ottaway catching for the losers.
Corry golfers travel to Randolph North Carolina for the first of two interclub matches. About 25 visiting players are expected to face a similar number from Randolph. Tee-off is at 1 pm with a roast beef dinner afterwards in the clubhouse. A return match is set for Sunday August 1.
The subject was associated with Brooklyn in 1945 and later with the Tigers since last July. He had a standout first full season with the Dodgers in 1847 but failed to repeat that form. Dick Bartell, a Cincinnati Redlegs coach, played 2,016 major league games and compiled a 264 lifetime batting average.
A four man Corry delegation played in the Kiwanis International golf tournament at the Kahkwa Club in Erie. Leo Ul won the trophy for low net with a 71. Teammates included Richard Walker Frank McKnight and Robert Bracken. Montreal beat Havana 2 4 to 0 Buffalo defeated Rochester 3 to 0 in International League action.
The latest baseball standings show New York leading the National League with Milwaukee and Brooklyn close behind. Upcoming night games include New York at Milwaukee and Brooklyn at St Louis, with results from yesterday listing Brooklyn over Cincinnati 8-5 and Chicago over New York 13-5. In the American League Cleveland leads with New York and Chicago chasing. yesterday’s scores include New York 4 11, Chicago 3 1 and Cleveland 6 5.
In Toronto, Edgardo Romero, 248 pounds, outpointed Earl Walls, 193 pounds and outpointed Billy Leblanc, 180 pounds in Birmingham. The event notes reference the era’s early Christian art symbol.
DuBois and Uniontown meet South Briar and Pottsville teams as the Veterans of Foreign Wars tournament advances to semi finals. Yesterday Uniontown beat Chester 4 to 2 and Jes Sup defeated Punxuttawney 5 to 9, while South Blair and DuBois split their results. Finals scheduled for tomorrow.
Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians pitched seven consecutive wins, limiting Boston to seven hits as the Indians defeated the Red Sox 6-3 in the opener of a doubleheader. Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees drove in the tying run with a single and the winning run with a homer in the 20th inning for a 4-3 first-game victory over the Chicago White Sox.
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