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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1954
Page
5
The 1954 pennant chase narrows to a three team clash with Cleveland New York and Chicago leading, while five other clubs fight for fourth. Bailey Goss reports from the East as the Orioles, and others, edge toward the stretch with the season half underway.
Baltimore Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro, who helped bring major league baseball to the city, will be honored before the Orioles Yankees game at Memorial Stadium. The ceremony precedes a telecast of the pre game events as a public service feature.
The piece surveys AL race positions after the All-Star break with Detroit and Baltimore separated by five and a half games and asks which clubs can still rise. It notes Detroit and Washington have many games left, while Philadelphia Boston and especially the Athletics face slim chances. It also covers Willie Mays chasing Babe Ruth’s 60 home runs and Casey Stengel’s possible year to lose, plus tributes to Grantland Rice.
Felton lost ground in the Mar Del League as Henderson defeated them 18 to 15. The win pulled Henderson within a half game of Viola and gave them fifth place, while Frederica edged Wyoming 8 to 7 and Ridgely beat Viola 22 to 10. Lewes topped Harrington 10 to 2 and Milford led 9 to 0 over Cheswold while Greensboro blanked Clayton 12 to 0.
Wrestling under the stars comes to Milford at the ballpark Monday night July 26. Promoter Bert Bertolini promotes a main event with four women wrestlers in a best of three falls Australian tag team match featuring Moola the Slave Girl and The Lady Angel vs Dar ling Dagmar and Daisy Mae. Male bouts fill the card with two half hour time limits. The four principals previously met in Wilmington with Daisy Mae and Dagmar winning. Moola claims the title by default and all four women seek the tag title despite prior losses. Delaware allows women wrestlers unlike New York and Pennsylvania.
Bob Hill of New Castle Delaware, current high point man for Delaware NASCAR Stock Car Division, won the 1244 mile Georgetown Speedway feature on Friday night for his second win of 1954. J R Beardsley chased hard with car 97 but Hill led late and built an uncontested margin as Elwood Tucker in 38 took third after motor trouble. Fred Adam in 32 and Johnny Martin in 49 followed, amid a rough meet that began with a dramatic opening heat crash involving Charlie Moyer, Vince Conrad, and Dick Twilley, sending Conrad through the outside fence and prompting a restart despite Moyer’s continued handling woes.
Wally Campbell, the Trenton N J terror and a top modified stock car driver, was killed when his car plunged over a high banked turn during a Salem Indiana practice. A 28 year old chauffeur, Campbell joined AAA in 1953 and held top honors in the Eastern racing circuit, with record wins at Georgetown Delaware in 1951 52 and early 53.
Paul Walker of Lewes Del won the feature at Dover Speedway reopening on July 17 securing a first in the 25 lap main. The race opened the regular Saturday schedule at the quarter mile dirt track five miles north of Dover. Walker led after lap 23 to finish ahead of Horace Williams and Earl Bryant in a field of sixteen.
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