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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1955
Page
24
Qualifying rounds for the City Junior Golf Tournament sponsored by the Jaycees and City Recreation Department will be held June 27 on Blair Park course. The low five qualifiers will advance to the state tournament later in summer. Entrants must be 18 or younger on August 15.
Brooklyn lineup changes show Furillo out with left arm injury after being hit by Frank Smith and replaced by Gil Hodges in right field. Jackie Robinson sits with a pulled muscle, Don Hoak taking third base duties while Kellert starts at first.
Blair Park course renovations continue as golf pro Chuck Alexander reports tee and green rebuilding, new bridges, and clubhouse updates. The High Point Amateur runs June 18 to July 4 with first rounds July 5 17 and a City Handicap after. Bud Kivett is defending champion.
The Red Cross and City Recreation Department will start free swimming instruction on Monday June 13 at 10 am at the City Lake. Open to children six and older, the program uses an assembly line teaching method. Parents are urged to assist as instructors and may call 68221 to join. Life-saving classes are not yet scheduled.
The prompt asks if you can swim 10 yards and 25 yards. It presents two distance goals and challenges you to demonstrate ability or respond with confirmation of capability.
Joe Conrad a 25 year old Texan and Air Force lieutenant won the British Amateur title 3 and 2 over England's Alan Slater in a day of wind hail and rain at St Annes. The decisive 27th green moment saw Conrad drain a 12 foot downhill putt to seal the match despite Slater’s late surge and a valiant defense from the English finalist.
Speedy Thompson captured his third straight Charlotte victory in the 30 lap modified stock car feature at the Southern States Fairgrounds. Bunk Moore led most of the race but axle trouble on the final lap allowed Thompson to win. Moore finished third with Dink Widenhouse second and Banks Simpson fourth.
Gloria Wood of Stuart Virginia won the 30 lap sportsman feature at Fayetteville Raceway Friday night. Bill Myers of Germantown and Bob Myers of Winston-Salem finished second and third. Wood led from the pole, with Earl Hatcher Roy Murphy Johnny Dodson and George Dunn following in order. One restart occurred after Shotgun Carroll's fence mishap after the first lap.
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