High Point Bison face Durham Bulldogs in AAA tourney opener
In Greensboro High Point High School Bison clash with Durham Bulldogs at Senior High Gym to open the North Carolina Class AAA tournament. Raleigh leads Eastern action with Salisbury meeting Goldsboro and Greensboro facing Wilmington in opening round games.
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Junior High Meet Enters Semifinals
North Carolina junior high meet advanced to the semifinals as Mount Airy defeated High Point Blue 49 to 31 and Mount Airy then edged Mount Airy 40 to 30 in a thriller. The girls game featured Nance Sprinkle King and McDowell among others with Ellor Lindley and Amy Morrison noted in lineups.
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Rory Calhoun Cotton Meet In TV Fight
Rory Calhoun and Cotton meet in a 10 round TV fight on ABC at 10 p.m. Calhoun, a 3-2 favorite, has only one loss in 26 pro fights. Cotton enters with 41 wins 12 losses and a draw. Champion Gene Fullmer was set to face Cotton but withdrew due to an eye cut.
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ABC
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New York
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City Auditorium
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Calhoun - Cotton
Joey Giardello
Carmen Basilio
Unclear local sports roster fragment with player notes
Fragmentary OCR shows player names numbers and team references. Reads like a roster or box score snippet with substitutions listed as High Point Baker, Kennedy, Adams, Poteat and Caldwell, but many words are garbled and unreadable.
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Leaheville
Craddock
G—Pritte
Rayfield
High Point
Baker Kennedy
Adams
Poteat
Caldwell
Still Hunts At 87 Kills Large Oklahoma Mule Deer
Arthur Brookhart, 87, of Kenton Oklahoma, killed a 201 pound field dressed mule deer, marking the largest deer killed in Oklahoma last season.
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Okla
Oklahoma
Arthur Brookhart
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Celtics Top Rochester 92 77 In NBA Action
Boston defeated Rochester 92 to 77 while New York beat St. Louis 107 to 76 and Syracuse rolled past Minneapolis 120 to 108 in NBA scores.
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Field Set To Compete At Baton Rouge Open
Baton Rouge opens with Husky Jay Hebert of Lafayette among favorites for the sixth annual $15,000 Baton Rouge Open. Hebert, 34, a former LSU golfer now based in Sanford, Fla., has two winter tour wins this season and aims to improve results in the Baton Rouge Open after two top finishes in prior years. Slow rain slowed qualifying.
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College Basketball Results From Regional Contests
Regional college basketball results show Massachusetts, Saint Anselms, and Trinity posting wins among numerous matchups. Notable scores include Connecticut over Holy Cross 97 to 8 and Navy defeating Delaware 79 to 76 with several other high scoring contests across the Midwest and West regions.
Colleges with strong players spark debate on balance
West Virginia Tech leads in scoring and lax eligibility as an engineering school recruits players from nearby areas. Yale's John Red Lee stands out as a top Ivy guard, pursuing chemical engineering while handling a heavy academic load. Yeshiva's Red Blumenreich emerges as a notable pro prospect watched by the Knicks.
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Red) Lee
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Red Blumenreich
Yeshiva University
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Florida Racing Board to Conclude Tropical Park Probe Today
The Florida State Racing Commission neared its completion of a two day hearing into Tropical Park Inc and president Saul Silberman. It alleged eight racing regulation violations during a 43 day meet from Nov 28 to Jan 16 and ordered show cause for permit revocation. Testimony showed Silberman wagered about 660000 dollars in the meeting plus 50000 on the daily double and extended credit wagering for up to three weeks. Records also showed 116 calls from Silberman’s office to Cleveland during the meeting.
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Wilhelm to Help Cards in pennant bid
St Louis acquires relief pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm from the Giants in exchange for Whitey Lockman. Hutchinson calls Wilhelm a key addition that strengthens the bullpen and boosts the Cardinals as a pennant threat while the Giants gain a first base replacement for Bill White. General Manager Frank Lane arranged the deal in Phoenix and Wilhelm will join the club in about four days.
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Fullmer Greaves bout eyed for March in Pittsburgh
Promoter Ben Anolik offered Gene Fullmer ten thousand dollars or 30 percent of the gate for a nontitle bout with Wilf Greaves in late March. Fullmer, who defeated Greaves by decision in Salt Lake City last month, is favored to meet him again in Pittsburgh where Greaves has risen as an unranked challenger after a knock out of Johnny Eubanks.
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Panthers Face Atlantic Christian In Conference Opener
The Purse Panthers meet Atlantic Christian Bulldogs at 7 30 in the North State Conference tournament opening night at Lexington YMCA Gymnasium. Lenoir Rhyne and Elon analyses frame a balanced field with top stars Marley and Underwood aiming to boost AC’s bid.
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Rhodes sets national rushing record average at Western State
Western State halfback Bill Rhodes finished his four year career with an 8.49 yard per carry rushing average across 506 carries for 4244 yards. He earned a Little All-America berth after 1200 yards on 130 attempts in 1956 across 10 games.
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Bill Rhodes
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