De Soto And Coon Valley Are Victors
La Crescent earns an 18 9 rout over Soldiers Grove with Walt Huebner securing his second straight win. De Soto wins 12 10 over Westby in a high scoring battle to join La Crescent and Coon Valley atop the standings. Coon Valley blasts Genoa 20 with four home runs and Gordon Henley’s seven inning gem to forge a first place deadlock.
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LA Crescent
Minn
Soldiers Grove
Walt Huebner
Ron Shepardson
Bill Lathro
Tommy Gittens
Charley Boma
Shepardson
la Crescent Power Department
Bob Iverson
Fleming
Invaders
Ferrick
Hofland
Soldiers Gr
R. Iverson
D. Iverson
Huebner
W. Leonard
de Soto
Westby
Wis
Wisconsin
Coon Valley
Dale Mueller
Westley
Lyle Olson
Harlan Bergum
Earl Ghelf
Bob Dyer
Mueller
Pat Gillespie
Dyer
Larry Rusk
Merlin Schroeder
Bergum
Gillespie
Rusk
Schroeder
Ghelf
Hal Mossholder
de Sotot
Mossholder
Genoa
Gordon Henley
Henley
Layton Hoff
Darrell Dahlke
Duane Dreves
West Salem
Trempealeau
Arcadia
Rollie Sobotta
Frank Sobotta
Mike O'Connor
Jack Mettlach
Lady Pinsters Warn New Officers At May Meeting
The La Crosse Women's Bowling Association hosts its annual spring meeting at Heileman's Club Rooms on Tuesday May 24 1955 at 7 30 p m with new officers to be elected. A league game against the La Crosse Newburgs was postponed Sunday night due to heavy rains leaving the ball diamonds unsuitable for play and has not yet been rescheduled.
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la Crosse Women's Bowling Assn
Heileman’s Club Rooms
la Crosse Newburgs
Lanesboro
Minn
Spring Valley
Rushford
Spring Grove
Independence
Wis
Trempealeau ‘Valley League
Galesville
Blair
Trempealeau
Arcadia
Whitehall
Ettrick
Blugolds Fall to Logan Then Beat Regis in Tennis
Logan defeats Aquinas 5-2 as Bob McLoone and Bagneski lead singles with decisive wins. Blugolds topple Eau Claire Regis 6-1 behind strong play from McLoone, Bagneski, Vollmer, and Luehne in singles and doubles bouts.
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Logan
Aquinas
Blugolds
Eau Claire Regis
Logan-Aquinas
Bob McLoone
Dave Loomis
Ray Schoenfeld
Bagneski
Pete Hall
B. Alberts
Oren Wilder
J. Vollmer
Jim Luehne
J. Alberts
McLoone
Loomis
Schoenfeld
Luehne
Wilder
Vollmer
Aquinas-Regis
Guard
Prairie Merchants beat Monona 10 8 in non league game
Prairie Merchants of the Dairyland league defeated Monona Iowa 10 to 8. Chuck Welsch started, Zeke Konichek finished as Prairie hit three homers led by Konichek Steiner and Welsch. Monona's Feulling pitched six innings. Prairie opens league play May 25 vs Boscobel.
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Prairie DU Chien
Wis
Prairie Merchants
Monona
Iowa
Chuck Welsch
Zeke Konichek
Welsch
Short
Welsh
Konichek
Feulling
Troster
Prairie
Steiner
Boscobel
State Park
Wyalusing Park
New Albin Hokah Eitzen Cup Up in Root River League
New Albin Hokah Eitzen and Spring Grove won Sunday games in the Root River league. New Albin beat Lansing 7 4 while Hokah defeated Canton 13 7 and Eitzen edged Caledonia 7 2. Spring Grove topped Brownsville 15 5.
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Hokah
Johanssen
Cloyd
Reed
Canton
Boutcher
Helgerson
Fowler
Ender
Leon Feil
Kitsen
Gillaume
Caledonia
Leon Schoh
Eitzen
Sparta Tops Salem as Onalaska tanks Tomah 5 2
In a Western Wisconsin League doubleheader Onalaska topped Tomah 5 2 as Bud Mahlum held Tomah to four hits with nine strikeouts and two errors hindering a possible no hitter. Sparta defeated West Salem 10 9 after a rain interrupted slugfest with Dick Schauf driving in two in the eighth. Bangor blanked Holmen 3 1 in six innings as Vondrashek fanned ten. Cashton’s opener with Melrose was washed out after three innings due to rain.
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Onalaska
Wis
Bud Mahlum
Tomah
Wisconsin
Gene Osgood
Sparta
Mahlum
Osgood
Cucker
Mack Bursinger
Harley Jones
Jones
Butch Tabbert
Dale Hubbard
Tabbert
Mills
West Salem
Dick Schauf
Invaders
West Salera
Norm Kowitz
Tremain
Dick “Red
Woodworth
Gordie Miller
Schauf
Harry Meinking
Meinking
Dean Benedict
Young Benedict
Bob Schroeder
Don Groth
Holmen
Bangor
George Vondrashek
Dick Chapiewsky
Binger
Johnny Langrehr
Elmer Muenzenberger
Bob Steigerwald
Reg
Istered
Muenzenberger
Art Wittmershaus
Myron Nelson
Vernon Grannum
Vondrashek
Sanford Nerby
Cashton
Melrose
Western Wisconsin League
Southern Section
Coon Valley
la Crescent
Soldiers Grove
la Crosse Ovo Viroqua
West
Genoa
Northern Section
Tomah Hoimen
Blair, Wis
Whitehall
Blair
Trempealeau Valley
Hendrickson
Moeni and Matson
Blair Doc Larson
Roger Fuchs
Henry Matson
Lyle Anderson
Matson
Caledonia doubles up Mabel in county league clash
Caledonia overwhelmed Mabel 10 to 5 in a Fillmore-Houston County league game Sunday afternoon as Al Richards yielded six hits over six innings. Matt Merzenich and Richards with a triple led Caledonia, while George Palmer collected a double and single for Mabel.
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Mabel
Minn
Caledonia
al Richards
Jim Harris
Bob Nelson
Matt Merzenich
Richards
Eiken
George Palmer
Turner Lake
Houston
Harmony
Strum
Byom
Ettrick
Briggs
R. Wall
Myers
Clayton Erickson
Bob Hickley
Unanswered Probe into Harold Johnson Drugging Incident
The Pennsylvania Athletic Commission ended its probe into Harold Johnson and Julio Mederos after an NBC televised fight with no finding of drugging or wrongdoing. The decision leaves the question unresolved with no charges filed.
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Philadelphia
Harold Johnson
Julio Mederos
Pennsylvania Athletic Commission
Ted Williams Set for Exhibition Clash With Giants
Ted Williams, 36, returns to the Boston lineup against the New York Giants in an exhibition game to aid hospitalized war veterans. He will wear No. 9, take part in a home run hitting contest, and resume his old left field post.
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Boston
Ted Williams
Boston Red Sox
New York Giants
Ebosh Amato Bowl Tie for Sixth in ABC Tourney
Fort Wayne Indiana Willie Ebosh of Cleveland and Tony Amato of Irvington joined forces to grab sixth place in doubles at the American Bowling Congress tournament.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Willie Ebosh
Cleveland
Tony Amato
Irvington
Nfl
No Major Changes Noted In WIBC Meet
Keglers from 17 states failed to bring a major change in the Women s International Bowling Congress tournament on Sunday as action concluded.
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Omaha
Keglers
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RFD
de Soto and
B. Schultz
K. Schultz
Ghilardi
Corti
F. Jambois
P. Dahlen
Thige
Lady Pinsters
Regis
Christianson
Krumenquen
Wolfe
Palvalski
Wolf
New Albin
Eitzen Cup
Salem
Bursinger and Boehm
Klonkowski
Spartan
Benedict
R. Schroeder
D. Groth
Miller
Chaplowsky
Wittmershaus
Nerby
L. Olson
Routs
Arcadia Routs
Mousmbia Co
Dwaa Ljee Ee
Harmony, Minn
al Harnish
Duane Halverson
Dick Stanton
Bill Christenson
Stanton
Rollie
Eversole
Altz
Lakey
Ken Hovel
Charlie Schurrer
Don Lakey
R. Sobotta
F. Sobotta
Angst
Schurrer
Iwhitehall
CBS
Koepke
Moen, Matson
W. Johnson
Dick Byom
Ekttrick
Rollie Bier
Myers and
Bradison
Johnson Probe
Giants
Main ST
Roy’s
Ferry St. Dial
Ford
Fairlane
Victoria
America
Ator
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