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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1959
Page
28
Guilford College Quakers pull away after a tight first half to win 80 63 over the High Point YMCA. Collins scores 19 points, Jack Powell 15, and Ken Prosser 13 as Guilford leads 38 31 at halftime.
Mike Souchak cards a 69 to reach 202 and lead by one over Dave Ragan and Bob Rosburg at Mission Valley Country Club. Contenders include Doug Sanders, Marty Igol, Joe Campbell, Jack Burke Jr., and Bob Duden. Art Wall Jr. holes out for a 69. Arnold Palmer shoots 73.
Burly Willie Goggin of San Jose and Leland Gibson of Kansas City share the 54 hole lead at 212 in the PGA Seniors Championship. Dick Metz trails by one stroke at 213 with Melvin Hemphill posting a 68 record front nine and Mike Seriano at 215.
High Point Junior High School cagers defeated Thomasville Junior High 41 20. The locals led 13 4 after one quarter and 35 13 at halftime, then emptied the bench for an easy win. Jimmy Hart scored 14 and Lee Sherrill 13. Koontz had 9 for Thomasville. Next visit Asheboro February 3.
Harvard foilists Bill Bassetti from Abilene and Phil Charat from Dallas share Texas roots as members of the university fencing team.
Catawba edged Elon College 52-48 in a slow North State Conference game to split for second place. Horace Medford topped Catawba with 19 points and Doug Chalk added 12 while Eddie Burke led Elon with 17.
Charles R. Coe of Oklahoma City was named captain of the U S Walker Cup team to face Britain at Muirfield Scotland May 15 16 The squad leaves New York May 7 including four veterans and four newcomers with William Hyndman III William J Patton Frank Aaron and H Ward Wettlaufer among the veterans Jack Nicklaus Denae Beman are also on the roster Alternates are William C Campbell Charles R Kocsis and Richard D Chapman The 1957 cup was won by the U S in Minneapolis
Captain George A. Young of Parris Island shot 47 of 50 targets to lead at Pinehurst Gun Club in Pinehurst North Carolina. Over 130 shooters entered the event with multiple gauges contested and winners named in AA A B and C classes plus two five man teams.
Rain halted the Sea Island Seniors Golf Tournament delaying the final round to Sunday. The 122 players aged 50 to 84 awaited completion with J Wolcott Brown of Sea Girt New Jersey and W Freeman Darby of St Simons Island Georgia tied on 72 after 18 holes of the 36 hole event.
Western Carolina pulled away in the second half to beat Atlantic Christian 61 to 41 in a North State Conference game. Randall Shields led Western Carolina with 16 points and strong rebounding as the Catamounts improved to nine wins against one loss.
The Citadel outraced Furman 85-80 in Greenville as Art Musselman led with 23 points. The Bulldogs built a 50-34 halftime lead before Furman rallied to within one late, and Citadel secured victory with two late free throws and a final five point margin.
Belmont North Carolina AP report notes Abbey College players secure a victorious basketball tilt against Pfeiffer University with both teams led by 17 points each.
The American Softball Association chose Clearwater Florida to host the 1959 world series, marking the third time in five years the gulf coast city hosts the event. The tournament is slated to begin September 21 with prior events in 1955 and 1957 cited as financially successful. The women’s national tournament will return to Stratford Connecticut, set for September 4-11.
IBC President Truman Gibson in Atlanta says the organization will sue Cas D Amato over a 26000 debt as part of a legal prelude to the Patterson Johansson heavyweight title clash. Gibson notes TV deals with NBC and ABC influence future promotions and stresses sponsors’ caution before high stakes bouts.
New York AP The National and American Leagues voted to allow native major league players to play winter baseball in the Caribbean if equal employment is offered to US players with under two years of big league experience. Frick noted possible future limits on winter league rosters and argued salaries should remain performance based rather than budgeted.
Enrique and Alber Torres won a two fall tag match at the Lexington YMCA defeating Tarzan Tourville and Cris Zaharias. Zaharias won the first fall with a rolling face lock. Enrique won the decisive fall with a flying scissors. Schnabel was disqualified in the third fall for choking Managoff in the ropes. Babs Wingo defeated Betty White in a Negro girls bout.
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