Town Team Ball Opens Season for Garden City Pioneers
Garden City's town team opens the 1960 campaign at Clint Lightner Field against Lamar's Merchants in a Kansas-Colorado League tilt. Freshman Lynn Overton may start on the mound for the Pioneers, with Tom Bergkamp catching and Bob (Pokey) Smith at first. Garden City aims to build on a 11-5 Sunday win over Las Animas and braces for ten league games plus ten non league tilts, including rivalries with Liberal and Johnson.
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Jewel Wilson
Garden City Pioneers
Lamar
Merchants
Clint Lightner
Garden
Las Animas
Colo
Pioneers
KCL
Garden City
Kansas Ban Johnson
Sunflower State
BecJay
Johnson
Liberal
Lynn Overton
Oklahoma University
Norman
Bee- Jay
Tom Bergkamp
Kansas State University
Bob Faurot
Bob Fulton
Max Ladner
Gordon Halbleib
Darrel Morrow
Telegram
Lamar Merchants
Clint Lightner Field
Bob Bergkamp
Chico Reyes
Chicago
Bergkamps
Reyes
Murray State College
Kentucky
Tom
Manhattan
Pioneers Schedule Expanded With 18 More Games
The Pioneer slate adds eighteen contests after tonight's home opener against Lamar Merchants. The schedule splits eight Kansas Colorado League games and ten non league affairs featuring dates across May through July at Las Animas Liberal Walsh Lakin Syracuse and Johnson with home and away games and game times in Central Standard.
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Lamar Merchants
xSunday
Las Animas
Lamar
Liberal
Johnson
Lakin
Walsh
Lakin Dr
Een
Syracuse
Stringer Accepts California Coaching Post at Trona High
Phil Stringer, Garden City High Buffs basketball coach, will head the basketball program next fall at Trona Unified High School in the Mojave Desert. He will also assist in football, teach history and social studies, and move with his wife Pauline and two children. Stringer cited better facilities and a starting salary of 8,500 dollars as reasons for resigning and taking the new job through a placement service.
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Phil Stringer
Garden City High
Buffs
California
Trona
Calif
Unified High School
Buff
Oklahoma State University
Eunice
N.M
Idabel
Okla
Stringer
Paula Ann
Susan Gay
Indio
Mojave Desert
Death Valley National Monument
Mojave
Teachers Association
Trona High
Dodgers sign Galen Rottinghaus from St Benedicts College
Los Angeles announces the signing of Galen Anthony Rottinghaus a 21 year old right handed pitcher from St Benedicts College Atchison Kansas Assigned to the Dodgers farm club at Odessa Texas in the Class D Sophomore League The note appears in an AP report and mentions Telegram Want Ads as a buy sell reference.
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Los Angeles
Dodgers
Galen Anthony Rottinghaus
St. Benedicts College
Atchison, Kas
Odessa
Tex
Carpeters Top Latins In comeback for first round tie
Southwest Carpet and Tile rallied from a 4-1 deficit to beat the Latin American Club 10-6 at Finnup Park Diamond. Six runs in the sixth inning keyed the comeback as Southwest improved to 5-0. In the nightcap Garden City Co-op defeated Garden City Telegram 22-11 in five innings, as Co-op exploded for 14 runs in the fourth. Standings show Southwest leading with five wins.
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Southwest
Finnup Park
Moe Block
Carpeters
Garden City Co-op
Garden City Telegram
Carpeers
Bill Brenneman
Max Ladner
Billy Boles
Duane Hays
Mack Jameson
Jerry Schultz
Schultz
Jameson
Seco Garcia
Pete Jimenez
Jesse Avila
Tony Rojas
Nick Guerrero
Andy Guerrero
Ray Villarreal
Tele
Gram
Co-op
McClung-Payne Pharmacy
Century Refinery
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Ledger
Boston
Guerrero
Roberts
Whiteley
Smith
Dean Oquist
Pauline
Holcomb High
St. Benedicts
Rufus Delgado
Charley Crow
Jerry Wade
Crow
Wade
Jerry Roth
Benny Saiz
Paul Jellison
Dave Fowler
Frank McGaughey
Telgram
Leroy Rupp
Bob Brungardt
Ken Allen
Ivan Schaffer
Andy Egier
Doc Golay
Latins
McClung-Payne
Fansler
Century
Woltkamp
Million Motor. Co
E. Fultes
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