Dothan Softball League Opens With Parade Monday Night
Dothan Junior Chamber of Commerce plans a full opening night for the softball league season at the Baker lot in Dixie Monday. A 4:30 parade led by the Dothan High School band starts at First Baptist Church, with decorated vehicles and prizes. City officials will toss the first ball at 7:30, season tickets grant admission, and twelve teams compete in Fast Slow and Civic Leagues in doubleheaders nightly.
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Nash Motor Company
First Baptist Church
Baker Lot
Jim Brennan
Church League
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Lions
Jay- Dees
Kiwanis
Wilson
Supreme
Methodist
Hosiery
United Telephone
Covington
Saw Jets
Cosby Hodges
Bosox Slow Start Deepens as Trucks Beats Washington
Boston struggles in spring action as Mel Parnell shines in an 11 inning win over Chicago, lifting the Red Sox to a 9-11 start. Virgil Trucks wins for Detroit to halt Washington’s nine game streak, while other early season results include Browns routing Athletics and Raffensberger’s strong outing for Cincinnati.
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Washington
Associated Press
Mel Parnell
Boston Red Sox
Parnell
Chicago
Sox
Boston
White Sox
Vern Stephens
Detroit
Don Kolloway
Tigers
Walt Masterson
St. Louis Browns
Lou Brissie
Philadelphia A's
New York Yankees
Cleveland
Cincinnati
New York Giants
Ken Raffensberger
Ralph Branca
Brooklyn
Pittsburgh
Hank Borowy
Phillies
National U21 golf trials set for Birmingham May 31
National Open Trials for the U21 championship will be held at Birmingham Country Club west course on May 31. Entry deadline is Monday May 16 with blanks due in the U.S.G.A. New York office by 5 p.m. that day.
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Birmingham
Ten mummies found near Memphis Egypt from Dynasty Twenty six
Archaeologists report the discovery of ten mummies near Memphis in Egypt, dated to the Twenty sixth Dynasty about six centuries before Christ. The find suggests royal or temple-linked burials from an era around 600 BC.
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Memphis
Egypt
Flyers Regain Lead In SEL Flag Race
Pensacola moved back atop the Southeastern League standings by beating Jackson 5 to 4 in 10 innings. Meridian fell from first as Vicksburg beat the Millers 6 to 4, while Selma edged Meridian 6 5 in 11 innings. Montgomery won 4 to 2 behind Joe Demoran seven hitter.
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Galey
Beck
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Bo Patica
Selma
Gadsden
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Chiefs
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Montgomery
Anniston
Joe Demoran
Rebels
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Atlanta Routs Pels To Strengthen Lead
Atlanta cruised past New Orleans 12 to 1 as Norman Brown held the Pelicans to three hits and Al Flair slugged a three run homer in the sixth to lift the Crackers to a fifth straight victory and widen their Southern Association lead. Lenny Yochim and Randy Heflin were rattled for 16 hits.
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Associated Press
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New Orleans Pelicans
Atlanta
Crackers
al Flair
Pel
Lenny Yochim
Randy Heflin
Atlanta Big Guns
John Kilippstein
Birmingham Barons
Yale football captain joins Berzelius society on Tap Day
Jackson of Yale, the Negro football captain, was tapped for Berzelius Society during Yale's Tap Day ceremonies in New Haven. He becomes one of six senior society members, a highly sought campus honor.
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New Haven
Dothan Team Third In Golf Tournament
Montgomery's Sidney Lanier golfer Julian Strassburger shot 74 to win medalist honors in the first state high school golf tournament. Par rish High edged to the team title with 319 as Dothan Annis ton and Ramsay tied for third in team standings. Semi finals and finals set for today with first round pairings highlighted.
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Julian Strassburger
Montgomery
Sidney Lanier
Strassburger
Otis Matthews
Selma
Parrish High
Aubrey Miller
Parrish
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Coffee
Florence
Don Goldstein
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Anniston
Tuscaloosa
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Gadsden
Danny Maness
Don Hawkins
Buddy Manderson
Dickie Howell
Hugh Morrow III
Buck Flowers
Steve Brewer
Leon Edwards
Milton Wigley
Charles Rackley
Bobby McNeely
Murphy
Bobby Blakely
Doubles Play Begins In SEC Net Tourney
NEW ORLEANS UP Doubles play opens in the Southeastern Conference tennis tournament as top seeds advance. Tulane stars Tuero and Conery win in Class A, with Mouledous Adams and Wheeler also advancing to the third round. Class B singles wrap today.
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Doubtles
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Tulane
Tuero
Reuben Boustt
Mississippi
Bil Conery
Georgia Tech
D. M. Ferguson
Dick Mouledous
Ed Adams
Tech
M. B. Wheeler
Georgia
Malone Tigers Defeat Greenwood 28 to 5 in Seven Inning Tilt
Malone improves to nine wins in ten starts as Russ hits a triple and Hall and Humber deliver doubles. Greenwood’s Arris Helms allows 17 hits and 15 strikeouts yet the Tigers score 28 runs while Malone pitchers limit Greenwood to five. Helms and Land, Smith, Duce land, Culver listed among box scores.
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Greenwood
Arris Helms
Tigers
Helms
Russ
Hall
Ham
Dunaway
Helms and Land
Smith
Duceland Culver
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