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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1956
Page
2
Daily major league results and standings show New York, Chicago, Cleveland and Boston leading their divisions with notable scores like Chicago 14 6 and Cincinnati 10 2. Southern Association results include Birmingham and Atlanta near the top with mobile and New Orleans performances noted.
Vacation Bible School at Bethel A M E Church runs daily from 8:10 AM to 10 AM through Friday June 29 with regular classes starting at 10 AM. Nelson-Hill Post and Auxiliary No 427 plan meetings June 25 and 26 at Hicks Funeral Home with officer elections. Funeral attendees and local social notes list relatives visiting and weekend visits. A City Park baseball game versus Hope Bears is set for 8 PM on Tuesday June 26 with admission five cents and ten cents.
The flyweight and bantamweight world championships, the only titles fought outside the United States, will be decided this week. Pascual Perez of Argentina defends the flyweight crown at 112 pounds against Oscar Suarez of Havana in Montevideo, Uruguay, in the first world title match held there.
The Hope Junior American Legion team faces a Nashville squad at Legion Field starting at 8. Legionnaires seek a second win over Camden Craftsmen. Charles Gough to pitch for the Speals as Hope recalls a decisive win over Texarkana.
Los Angeles reports final Olympic tryouts unfold this weekend at the Coliseum with 13 athletes in each of 17 events per category. Veterans and high school stars compete for US team spots ahead of the fall trip to Australia as recent records surge in Bakersfield qualifying meets. Navy’s Jack Davis tops the field by clocking 13.4 seconds in the 110 meter high hurdles, breaking the longstanding 13.5 mark set by USC’s Dick Attlesey in 1950.
A collage of brief quotes from public figures including Gen Nathan F Twining John W McCormack Ina Ray Hutton Winston Churchill Goodwin Knight Eisenhower and John McGiver. The items span topics from Soviet air power to a mountain ban on women and TV skit mishaps. The compilation ends with regional listings of Birmingham Memphis Chattanooga New Orleans Nashville and Mobile.
The article describes early August torcata or white crested pigeon hunting from houseboats near Cuba. It details the birds size speed migration, feeding on guao berries, and a one hundred per day limit. A Rio Jucaro base trip by Vic Barothy’s houseboats offers the hunt, with sun and green water as backdrop.
Detroit manager Stanley W. Harrs may depart as the Tigers slide from first division to sixth with an eight game skid. President Walter Briggs Jr. criticized lack of hustle and said he would act if ownership were clear. The club lost 3-2 to the Orioles in another late-season defeat.
The White Sox crushed the Yankees 14-2 and 6-3 to sweep the four game series and pull within one game of New York. Larry Dobys three run homers sparked the offense as Whitey Ford struggled amid 18 White Sox hits and Billy Pierce earned his 11th win. The Braves extended their NL lead to two with wins over the Giants, while Cincinnati, St Louis, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Boston and Cleveland also posted results.
Gene Keeney, a Texarkana lawyer, won the Arkansas amateur golf championship with a strong putting display and an early 6 hole lead. He defeated young Hot Springs golfer Jerry Breckenridge to claim his first title after years of near misses.
Nashville Vols baseman Tammy Brown drove in the tying and winning runs in the seventh to seal a 3-2 victory over New Orleans and complete a doubleheader sweep also a 5-2 win in the opener. Brown added two more RBIs as he climbed to 59 for the season tying the league lead.
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