Jody Nicholas Wins National Amateur Motorcycle Race
Nashville rider Jody Nicholas won the 100 mile national amateur motorcycle race at Daytona Beach on the new course, posting a winning speed of 69.92 mph to set an automatic record. The race covered about 500 laps with six sharp turns and tricky curves as the first national championship on the course.
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Jody Nicholas
Nashville
Tenn
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Nicholas
Elorde Defends World Title Against Lopes in Manila
Gabriel Elorde of the Philippines defends his junior lightweight crown against Joe Lopes of Sacramento in a 15 round outdoor bout expected to draw over 40 000. Elorde won the title last year with a knockout of Harold Gomes and retained it in a first round KO in a rematch. Lopes, 30, sought a world title after facing top lightweights over a long career and previously lost to Joe Brown in 1957.
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Gabriel
Flash
Elorde
Philippines
Joe Lones
Sacramento
Calif
Harold Gomes
Providence
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Gomes
Lopes
Joe Brown
Sandhills Cup 21st Running Slated for Saturday
In Southern Pines North Carolina the Stoneybrook Hunt Racing Association schedules seven races on M G Walsh training grounds for the Sandhills Cup event. The feature offers a $1000 purse over two and a quarter miles with 12 timber fences. Proceeds go to Moore Memorial and St Joseph in the Pines hospitals.
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N.C
Stoneybrook Hunt Racing Association
M. G
Mickey) Walsh
82Nd Airborne Division
Pinehurst
Moore Memorial
St. Joseph in-the-Pines
Two Way Radios Boost Stock Car Racing Tactics
Atlanta AP report credits Dolphe Vermont Jr Bud Moore and Joe Weatherly with a successful two way radio system on Weatherly s 1961 Pontiac planned for the Atlanta 500 on March 26 The setup aids driver awareness track crashes debris pit stops and tire changes and reduces sign board misreads that ruined races including a Daytona 1959 incident The system is praised by Moore and Weatherly as a major advance likely to spread to major tracks and improve safety and pace
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Dolphe Vermont Jr
Bud Moore
Joe Weatherly
Vermont
Spartanburg
S.C
Weatherly
Indianapolis Speedway
Daytona
Jack Smith
Moore
Charlotte
N.C
Smith
Roanoke
Fireball Roberts
Daytona Beach
Atlanta
Nixon Says Lane Gave Him Biggest Break
Catcher Russ Nixon of the Boston Red Sox credits former Cleveland GM Frank Lane for his career break after being traded by Cleveland to Boston twice in 1960. Nixon recalls tempers, salary changes, and his move to Boston where he batted .298 with five homers. He faces competition from Jim Pagliaroni and recalls Lane’s role in his ups and downs.
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Scottsdale, Ariz
Russ Nixon
Boston
Red Sox
Frank Lane
Cleveland
Nixon
Bosox
Sammy White
White
Russ
Lane
Joe Gordon
Jim Pagliaroni
Spokane
Kansas City
Detroit
Pembroke Tops Milligan 10 3 in locally reportable game
Pembroke defeated Milligan College 10 to 3 in Pembroke North Carolina. Ralph Ward started for Pembroke working six innings allowing three hits while Al Costa and Al Sestito held Milligan to one run. Pembroke hit three triples Nick Bailey Guy Merritt and Ed Carrier. Ward drove in two runs with a bases loaded single in the fourth.
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Pembroke
N.C
Milligan College
Ralph Ward
al Costa
al Sestito
Ward
Hack Hyder
Milligan
Nick Bailey
Guy Merritt
Ed Carrier
Purple Squad Triumphs Intra Squad Football Scrimmage
East Carolina College held an intra-squad spring game with the Purple squad beating the Gold 26 to 13. Dan Rouse scored two touchdowns and threw for 26 yards to Frank Galloway, while Nick Hilbert rushed 140 yards and ran for a second TD. Vince Elduke and Gary Parker led the Gold, with a 50 yard pass to Larry Rudisill setting their lone TD and Parker adding a six yard keeper.
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Greenville
N.C
Gold Squad
East Carolina College
Dan Rouse
Frank Galloway
Purple
Nick Hilbert
Aeanaes
Gold
Vince Elduke
Gary Parker
Elduke
Larry Rudisill
Parker
Americas Cup golf slated for Oct 21 22 in Monterrey
The biennial Americas Cup golf contest for amateur players from the United States Canada and Mexico will be played in Monterrey City Mexico October 21 22. The schedule shifts from even to odd years per the United States Golf Association. The last event in 1960 Ottawa saw the United States win.
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United States
Canada
Mexico
Monterrey City
U.S. Golf Association
Ottawa
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