Bay Area Curling Club to Host Bonspiel at Belmont rink
The Clubhouse The Bay Area plans a winter bonspiel at the Bel ArenA Belmont rink with San Francisco Curling Club members John Ingram Robert Laird and Clark Drummond among charter participants. The group aims for four nights weekly on eight teams with a 64-person mixed membership, eyeing autumn start. Curling, a Scottish Canadian pastime, uses 40-pound rocks on a 146-foot sheet, with brooms sweeping for carry as teams score by rocks closest to the bulls eye. Cookie Lavagetto of Oakland leads the baseball notes alongside betting chatter on the Yankees and Santa Anita Derby prospects. Two San Leandro swimmers, Dick Beaver and Bill Zirzow, impress Indiana frosh with record 880 backstroke times and medley versatility.
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Golden Gate To Open Tomorrow Silky Sullivan Due
Albany report previews Golden Gate opening with Silky Sullivan aimed at the Kentucky Derby plans. Stable will race at Albany. trainer Reginie Cornell shifts rest of stable to Albany, with possible Gulfstream or Florida Derby options. Inaugural and Albany Handicaps headline opening card. post time 1:15 p.m. daily.
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O'Dowd Spikers Home Pirate Swim Today
Bishop O'Dowd track team opens season with San Lorenzo in a home debut against McClymonds in the Oakland Athletic League. In San Leandro a Sequoia swim meet with San Leandro Pirates was moved up to 3 50 pm this afternoon.
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Jockey In Critical Condition After Shooting Incident
Miami and Atchison, Kans based jockeys figure in a troubling report as a rider believed despondent over family and private problems shot himself in a motel, later found in critical condition. Police say the event involved others in training circles with competing teams in the first round action.
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Bears Smash USC For NCAA Regional Berth
California Bears earned a 57 45 victory over Oregon State to secure a second consecutive NCAA regional bid. Don McIntosh and Al Buch each scored 13, Earl Robinson and Bob Dalton 10 apiece, while George Sterling sparked early scoring as Cal pulled ahead 28 19 at halftime and rolled to the win behind a fierce defense and full court press. USC awaits Friday’s regional pairing as Idaho State or Arizona State looms. Oregon State was led by Dave Gambee and Ken Nanson.
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Rademacher Sees Title Go
Columbus, Ga. Heavyweight Pete Rademacher rejects a $10,000 offer to fight Terry Lewis, saying his aim is a title bout with Floyd Patterson. Sports editor Tom Kinney notes Rademacher’s plan for a possible title fight in London this summer.
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Mays in '58 Debut as Cubs, Giants Tangle
Mesa Arizona reports the 1958 opening for Willie Mays in center field as the Giants plan to face the Cubs. Managers Rigney and Scheffing name top pitchers Ruben Gomez Tom Bowers and Stu Miller for San Francisco and Jim Brosnan Glen Hobbie and Dave Hillman for Chicago. Barring rain, games run daily through March 3 with Mays returning from flu absence.
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Giants PCC Farm In First Workout In Florida
Sixteen Phoenix Giants who joined the revamped Pacific Coast League reported to camp in Sanford Florida and completed a two hour workout. Included was Tom Haller a catcher the Giants signed for fifty thousand dollars. General manager Rosie Ryan said longer sessions will begin tomorrow.
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Humez Wins 10 Round None Title Bout In Paris
A crowd of about 18 900 gathered at the Dalaio Trae Cuarte in Paris to watch Cher ies Humez of France defeat Gustav Scholz of West Germany in a 10 round non title middleweight bout.
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Eddie Machen Folley Title Bout Delayed to April 9
Eddie Machen shoulder injury forces postponement of the 12 round heavyweight bout with Zora Folley from March 19 to April 9 at an NBC sanctioned event. Promoter Bennyy Ford said tickets from the original date will be honored. Folley trains in good condition and plans an exhibition in Richmond March 18 while awaiting Machen's recovery.
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Boston Star Homer Tops Sox in 1941 Style Matinee
A garbled sports blurb cites Ted Williams and a 6 average across 68 pro bouts, noting a peak after a 1941 era high. It mentions Scholz taking his first defeat and a Boston Red Sox matinee performance with two knockdowns and a salon style homer, framed as a career high in an echoed 1940s tone.
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Pollard Denies Laker Job Bid
Jim Pollard denies offers from pro teams including the Minneapolis Lakers after resigning as LaSalle College basketball coach. He will remain at LaSalle at least until the baseball season, starting duties as baseball coach with a separate one year contract. He says no coaching offers influenced his resignation, despite past pro interest.
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Casey Moans As Yankees Drop Third
Casey Stengel laments the talent-filled Yankee lineup as the team loses 8-5 to the Boston Red Sox in the Grapefruit League. Irregulars dominate the Bombers while Ted Williams, Jim Piersall and Frank Malzone sit out for Boston. Vaulde Jensen hits a bases-loaded triple driving in four runs. Mickey Mantle goes six innings with two hits including a bunt single.
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Venturi Inches Ahead in Final 36 at New Orleans Open
Bill Casper Jr. of Apple Valley moved into a three stroke lead with a three under par 4 on the front nine over 45 holes in the New Orleans Open. Venturi, Palmer and Burkemo chased as play tightened under a drying, sunlit course with 18 players within three strokes of the leaders.
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Archie Moore TKOing Albright in seventh round
Vancouver bout saw light heavyweight champion Archie Moore stop unranked Bob Albright of Hollywood at 1 45 of the seventh round in a scheduled 10 round non title fight. The early rounds were even before Moore dominated rounds five six and seven delivering the stoppage.
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Lopes to Meet Carter in Ten Round Sacramento Showdown
Light weight contender Joey Lopes faces former division champion Jimny Carter of Los Angeles in a 10 round return bout at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium tonight.
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Vaughn Beecham bout set for March 19 in D C
Willie Vaughn of Hollywood meets Jimmie Beecham of Miami in a 10 round middleweight bout in Washington D C on March 19. Vaughn is ranked eighth among middleweight contenders and the fight will be televised nationally by ABC, replacing the Eddie Machen Zora Falley card.
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