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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1962
Page
7
A terse readout highlights a performance by a standout local athlete named George. Report mentions team context and a notable score or play, with emphasis on the player's impact within a short, period voice.
After 13 days and six games, the Giants and Yankees are tied heading into Game seven. Jack Sanford faces Ralph Terry as the series shifts to decisive action. Cepeda, Pierce, and Ford anchor a lineup and weather expected to cooperate for a classic showdown.
Texas moves to the top of the AP college football rankings after beating Oklahoma 96 and Alabama falls to No. 2 following a 143 victory over Houston. Arkansas up to No. 7 after defeating Baylor. USC LSU, Mississippi, Ohio State round out the top ten with Penn State dropping out.
Army, after beating Penn State 9-5 last Saturday, holds the lead in the Lambert Trophy voting for major Eastern college football. Cadets named first on six of eight ballots, while Penn State has two votes. top ten also include Holy Cross Syracuse Pittsburgh Dartmouth Navy Princeton Boston College and Villanova.
San Francisco managers Alvin Dark guided a resilient Giants crew who bounced back five times in the 1962 season. They tied the Dodgers on Sept 30 with a Houston win as LA fell to St Louis, then won the third playoff game in the ninth. Orlando Cepeda paced late with a three hit showing and key RBI while Billy Pierce fired a three hitter in another tense clash. Cepeda and Dark credited the team’s grit and Cepeda’s heavier bat as factors in lifting confidence for the winter.
Bears jumped to a 10 victory over the Trojans as Blynt intercepted a first quarter pass and scored on a keeper. Hillstrom added a 43 yard TD run and the extra point, with two games left in the seventh and eighth grade league. season wrap tomorrow.
Jose Pollo Gabino of Houston decked Ollie Blackshear at San Antonio in the fifth round to win by technical knockout. The contest at 1374 featured a late flurry before referee stopped the bout.
Titusville Jayvees upset Corry 18 to 7 as Jim Van Horn scored on a five yard run Ed Slayton added a seven yard TD and Al Wakefield a 14 yard score. Corry’s lone points came on a Bill Bachemer pass to Larry Nichols. The Rockets, with seven first downs, controlled most of the action at home.
San Francisco Giants beat the New York Yankees 5-2 as Mick Mantle and Roger Maris showed moodiness and silence. Maris homered in the fifth and later spoke little, while Mantle cursed his own late-season form, finishing 0-for-2 with a 0.091 average.
Coan and Barr led Bowl-Aire Men's A League featuring sixteen 200 plus games. Coan logged 203 223 185 while Barr added 203 212 185. Clark 208 201 and Hammond 206 200 also hit the mark as Len Migiaccio posted a high 233. Other 200s included Hand 223 Barr 211 Harvey 207 Thorne 205 Oesch 205 Baressi 203 Douglas 200. Meerholf led with 1003 in one game, Moose's Restaurant 1010 last month. Querreveld topped Clymer Handicap with 235 and Everett Tryon reached 220. Red McCray paced VFW Men’s B with 229. Cobbett 212 Glavis 204 Harned 200 Stec 200. Sorenson Perrin 224 led Me fhnes Steel Shop League at Ava on Center. Don Jones 211 tops VFW Businessmen’s League. Warren McChesney 212.
Joe Zuger, rookie quarterback from Arizona State, threw eight touchdown passes as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats routed Saskatchewan 67 to 21. Zuger completed 23 of 32 passes for 493 yards, with Hal Patterson and Garney Henley each catching three TDs and Dick Hasterly and Tim Reid adding one apiece. Frank Cosentino started at quarterback, throwing five passes with two touchdowns.
New basketball season begins with the Los Angeles Lakers facing the Detroit Pistons and the New York Knickerbockers meeting the Chicago Zephyrs at Madison Square Garden. By week’s end, all teams except the transplanted San Francisco Warriors will have played. The Warriors begin at home against Detroit next Tuesday.
SAN FRANCISCO AP recalls 50 years since the Giants lost the World Series to the Boston Red Sox in eight games. Orlando Cepeda ends his slump with three hits in a game. Lefty Billy Pierce, linked to Roger Maris’s 1961 record, pitched a three-hitter in this series. The Yankees linger near a potential series record as hits slump to .196.
Sparta baseball closed its season with a 12-6 win over Tidioute in an Upper Allegheny Valley League game. Joe Prisma's nine contributed three singles as Manchester England bookmakers split other action in the same edition.
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