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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1955
Page
25
Reidsville crushed Bur-Gra 4 0 while HI TOMS beat Fayetteville 1 0 in 11 innings. Durham won 4 3 over Winston Salem and Danville routed Greensboro 17 2. Sunday games feature Greensboro at Danville and Winston-Salem at Durham.
High Point ace George Steelman held Winston-Salem to two hits as the Red Shield team racked 11 hits and powered to a 10-1 state championship. Key third inning featured Billy Johnson's bases loaded triple and Frost's two hits, with Frost earning MVP honors for the tournament.
The Cleveland Indians beat the Kansas City Athletics 5-3 to extend their AL lead to two games. Herb Score earned the win with help from Ray Narleski in the ninth. Jim Hegan homered to break a 1-1 tie and Al Smith, Al Rosen drove in key later runs.
Hurricane Connie’s late gusts halted four major league baseball games two international tennis series and a harness racing program at Vernon Downs. Rain and wind postponed the Australia Italy Davis Cup final at Germantown Philadelphia and the United States Great Britain Wightman Cup at Rye.
Supple an 18-1 shot owned by Hal Price Headley and ridden by Willie Hartack won the Princess Pat Stakes at Washington Park. The 2-year-old filly overcame early trouble to beat favored Guard Ball by a neck with Fideles and Guard Rails behind. Supple paid $39.40, $7.00, and $4.20. Guard Rail paid $3.00 and $2.60. Fideles $4.80.
Bo Wininger moved into a one stroke lead at 54 holes in the World golf tournament in Chicago amid windy, tough greens. Rosburg faltered with an 80 to drop behind. Ulrich and Littler shared second at 210, Boros fourth at 211, while Toski and Snead trailed in the pack.
Rich pitched nine hits allowed for the Hi-Toms while Hal Wood limited Fayetteville to five. Noah Goode delivered an 11th inning RBI single that scored Fred Harrington from second, giving Rich his 18th win of the season in Finch Field action.
Tommy Qualters hurled a six hitter and Ellsworth Dean and Don Cameron delivered key hits as Reidsville defeated Bur-Gra 4-0. Dean drove in two runs, Stricklin led with four at bats, and the win moved Reidsville within three games of the Hi-T League lead. The two clubs meet again at Finch Field with Rene Solis set to start for Reidsville.
Detroit battled wind and rain to beat Chicago 9-8 at Briggs Stadium. Harvey Kuenn lofted a sacrifice fly scoring Fred Hatfield from third for the winning run after a ninth inning rally that included a critical error on a Fox throw and timely hits by Hatfield Kennedy Lollar and House.
Moran and Holland post four hits each including a homer as the Leafs rout Greensboro 17 to 2. Lefty Larry DeVita tosses a complete game, allowing only three walks while teammates Collins and Holland lead the attack with strong three run support and multiple runs.
Durham Bulls win 4-3 over the Minneapolis Twins as Bob Taylor delivers a clutch infield single in the bottom of the ninth. Slender Tom Van Remmen fanned 15 while limiting the Twins to three hits in a complete game effort. Taylor, Deakin and Lau drove in runs for Durham, with Neff adding a pair of hits.
Darwin Williams of Kinston Roger Krerpers of Gastonia and Hal Knott Henderson named outstanding players in the three North Carolina high school all-star games this week Williams scored 12 points as the East defeated the West 77 to 57 in basketball.
William F. Hensley, Wake Forest sports publicity director since June 1953, is named sports publicist for North Carolina State College effective Sept. 1. He succeeds Ed Storey who resigned months ago. Hensley, a 1950 Wake Forest graduate, has been a sports writer for the Asheville Citizen and a FBI special agent.
Carolina Saw Downs Hanes 40 in a feature game at Harvell Park to force a final Monday between the two powers. Hanes Hosiery suffers first loss of the tournament and must win Monday night to defend its title. Delphine Surratt doubled in two runs in the third, Winston errors spurred Carolina scoring, and multiple pitchers were utilized as the schedule shows a Class AAA final between Hanes and High Point at 9 15 with Tip's battle at 8.
Asheboro and Gray's Chapel led a night of competition with High Point Deluxe Law and Tool 4 Saxaphan 5 in Class A. Monday at 7:00 Madison Throwing faced High Point Jack's Drive-In in Class A.
Wild pitches by Eunies Futch sparked Carolina scoring as two more runs crossed. The Class A clash energized a section of the event, forcing an extra night of play while Reidsville and another team faced elimination. Contests are set for Monday at o'clock in Madison.
Washington jumped to an 8-0 lead and cruised to an 18-9 win over Boston in the first game of a doubleheader. Mickey Vernon belted a grand slam in the seventh and Jose Valdivielso and Eddie Yost added homers as the Nationals rapped 18 hits off four Red Sox pitchers. The second game was rained out and rescheduled as a night game.
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