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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1956
Page
4
Fans can vote for the 23rd annual All-Star game by selecting players by position with no team indicated. Voting runs today until midnight June 24. Mail ballots to Sports Desk The Garden City Telegram Garden City Kansas.
The Knothole League opens Monday afternoon at FinnUp Park with minor games at 4 45 p m and major games at 6 p m The top Knothole teams will meet in tournament play July 26 27 Midget league also starts with Alta Brown Hutcheson boys at 1 30 p m on the Alta Brown diamond Wednesday Garfield Jones and St Marys kick off on the Jones diamond at 1 30 p m The loop schedule lists games from June 4 through July 24 featuring Lions Knights of Columbus Rotary Optimist and Kiwanis in various matchups.
Junior Legion baseball players will receive uniforms at 6 p.m. at Legion hall. Manager Joe Salerno will lead a 8 p.m. lights workout at Clint Lightner field after uniforms. Players must bring birth certificates for regional certification. Salerno has limited the squad to 16 players.
Pat Flaherty left Indianapolis for Chicago after sharing a record $93,819 from the Memorial Day 500 mile classic with car owner John Zink. The total purse hit $282,050, with Flaherty’s haul including $49,000 first prize plus bonuses and lap awards. Sam Hanks took $32,919 for second, Don Freeland $20,419 for third, Johnny Parsons $15,769 for fourth, and Dick Rathmann $10,744 for fifth.
Barbara Smith and Dr. Dick Stone shot a net 32 to win the Scotch Foursome during the Memorial Day holiday at the County Club. JoAnn Davis and Howard Blanchard shot 34 for second, while Verna McKee with Doc Schrader and Florence Burris with Fred Finnup tied for third at 35. Leona Crotty and Bob Shields won high prize with a net 50 as fifty four golfers participated in the event.
Compton Calif hosts the Compton Invitational with world record holders in track and field. Denmark’s Gunnar Nielsen and Belgium’s Roger Moens headline events including Nielsen’s 1500 meter and Moens’ 800 meter. Athletes from UCLA Villanova San Francisco and Olympic champion Mal Whitfield compete in distances from the flat mile to the 880 yards and 440 yard dash. Parry O’Brien and Fortune Gordien headline field events, with Jim Lea and J W Mashburn in sprint clashes. Hill Russell lines up in the big jump as Fresno’s top entrants pursue marks amid a galaxy of star power.
In Chicago the Brooklyn Dodgers opened a swing through the West with Jackie Robinson benched and Carl Furillo on the block as a possible trade asset for Cubs veteran righty Bob Rush. Manager Walt Alston shuffled the lineup three games, tested Gil Hodges at outfield, and eyed Nelson as first baseman to strengthen the bench. Robinson, animated but unbitter, urged not to trade Furillo and offered himself in a trade instead.
Patty Berg of St Andrews WL held a one stroke lead over Marlene Bauer of Asheville NC going into the second round of the 7500 dollar Churchill Valley Country Club Women’s Invitational in Pittsburgh. Berg, the leading money winner among women professionals, shot 35 37 72 in the first 18 holes of the 72 hole event.
Jaycees will start advance ticket sales for Garden City’s Ban Johnson baseball game. Ted Blue, ticket chairman, announced that 500 ten ticket books will be offered at five dollars each. Sales begin Saturday with tickets available June 10.
The Missouri Valley AAU track championships come to Shawnee Mission High School with top names from Big Seven, NAIA, and conference rivals. Competitors include Gene O Connor, Bill Tidwell, Peter Orr, and Robert Lang across senior junior and women's divisions.
The annual meeting of the Gar den City Men's Bowling association has been called for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the American Legion building. George Hayden, association secretary treasurer, said officers will be elected, checks distributed to teams and individual and team awards given. Members of each league championship team will receive chevrons, cash awards will go to individuals who bowled the high game of the season and the high three game series. Other retiring officers are Ernest Nelson, president, Charles Peebles, vice president and John Boxter and Alvin Konilofske, executive directors.
Kerr Implement wins the Garden City Men's Bowling Association title for 1955 56 after topping seven league champs in playoffs with 4 936 pins and a 868 handicap. Team members include Irvin Wilken Charley Goodin Bill Abbey Claude Kerr Bud Kerr and Paul Cooke. Northern Natural Gas finished second with 4 815 pins and 865 handicap. Third place went to Optimist Purple with 4 782 pins. Other playoff results show Rickman Body Shop 4 750 715 handicap Garden Bowl 4 718 480 Western Kansas Airways 4 627 650 Bishop Wholesale 4 355 960 and Barton and Crist 4 341 655. League champions listed by league include Garden Bowl American League Northern Natural Gas Sportsmen League Rickman Body Shop Sugar Beet Kerr Implement Yankee League Barton and Crist Athletic League Optimist Purple Wheatbelt Western Kansas Airways Classical League Bishop Wholesale. Garden Bowl received the association trophy. Sailey, winner of the 1956 Gulf Stream Park Handicap, has a full brother named Sea Test.
Wilmer Mizell and the St. Louis Cardinals powered into a tie for second in the National League by beating Cincinnati 9-3 as Mizell earned his fifth win in seven decisions with another complete game. Milwaukee remained ahead after a 15-8 win over Chicago while Brooklyn, Philadelphia idle. In the American League, Mickey Mantle and the Yankees beat Washington 9-6 and Bob Porterfield allowed four hits in Boston’s 4-1 win over Baltimore. Twilight night doubleheaders in the Eastern League begin at 6:30.
Deerfield extended its unbeaten streak by routing Southwest 12-1 in five innings. Bob Fulton held a shutout until the fifth, while Lopez hit a bases loaded homer to spark the offense. Fankhauser and Johnson provided key hits as Deerfield dominated. The Telegram noted a late rally by Southwest and referenced past Triple Crown winners Sir Barton to Citation.
After three innings the newspaper team led briefly in the fourth but could not hold. The Drugist nine tied it with Burns single and Shearmire three bagger in the fifth. Five late runs sealed the Telegrams win as Cock gave up five hits while Wankhauser, Allen, and Frazier were among a dozen Telegram hits.
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