Yankees extend win streak as Turley dominates
Detroit falls 8-1 to New York as Bullet Bob Turley earns his seventh win in seven starts. The Yankees push their season mark toward 23-5 while other AL and NL results shift pennant race standings. Bill Mazeroski and Dick Groat pace Pirates in a 4-1 win. Stan Musial lifts his batting average to .470 for St Louis.
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New York Highlanders
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New York Giants
Grover Alexander
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Gil McDougald
Elston Howard
Yogi Berra
Wynn
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Baltimore
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Lennie Green
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Cal McLish
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Indians
Roger Maris
Russ Nixon
Billy Harrell
Ted Williams
Don Buddin
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Willard Nixon
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Los Angeles
Chico Fernandez
al Dark
Ernie Banks
Bobby Thomson
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Bill Mazeroski
Dick Groat
Stan Musial
Trane Plant League Softball Sunday Matchups Listed
Trane Co. Plant League games set for Sunday May 25 at Trane Park and Houska Park. Chiefs meet Mohawks at 10:00 a.m. Bluelions face Nite Hawks at 10:00 a.m. at Houska Park.
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Wilt Chamberlain Quits Kansas for Pro Tour
Wilt Chamberlain announces he is leaving the University of Kansas to launch a 160 game barnstorming tour with two 10 man squads one of Negro players and one of whites He plans to begin in South America and continue into the next season aiming to prepare for a pro career with the Philadelphia Warriors His criticism of Kansas basketball mirrors tensions in the college game and he says he will pursue NBA play after graduation in 1959.
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Look Magazine
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National Basketball Assn
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Kan
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Baseball Standings and Schedule From The National League
National League standings show San Francisco leading with 24 wins and a .612 percentage. Milwaukee and Pittsburgh follow, with Chicago and Philadelphia mid pack, and Cincinnati near the bottom. Weekend results include Chicago 11 Philadelphia 4 and San Francisco 5 Milwaukee 3. American League standings place New York atop with 23 wins, Cleveland 18, Boston 17, and Baltimore 14. Weekend results feature New York 8 Detroit 1 and Chicago 1 Baltimore 0, among others.
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Waukon Joins FH League In Iowa Guardian Move
Waukon Iowa has joined the Fillmore Houston League replacing Canton Minnesota in the league lineup. The Iowa team will open Sunday June 1 and arrange games with Hokah and Lanesboro.
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Giants Defeat Braves 5-3 Behind Antonelli Holding Spahn
Giants top Braves 5-3 as Johnny Antonelli allows three hits for his fourth win. Warren Spahn fans nine but yields six runs in six innings as Willie Mays and Bob Schmidt homer to spark the late rally. O'Connell reaches base twice and drives in a run, with Mays hitting his 18th homer and 200th of his career.
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Johnny Logan
Spahn
Antonelli
Milwaukee
Gene Conley
Giants
Mike McCormick
Aquinas Opens State Meet With 2-1 Victory Over Notre Dame
Aquinas, led by Larry Fox's four hit pitching and nine strikeouts, defeated Milwaukee Notre Dame 2-1 in the Wisconsin Catholic High School baseball tournament opener. Price and Hansen drove in runs for the Blugolds, while Notre Dame staged a key double play to stop a rally in the second inning.
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Milwaukee
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Jim Vaaler
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Bill Hansen
John Price
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Price
Jim Brenner
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Don Banicki
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Oordman
Schr'ber
O Price
Tielsnik
O Lyneh
Weibel
a-Clements
Rbi Hansen
Banicki
Kojis
Schaeffer
Catholic High School Baseball Semifinals Set in Wisconsin
Edgewood St Mary and St Bonaventure win in Friday action of the Wisconsin Catholic High School Baseball Tournament advancing to semifinals. Madison tops Milwaukee Plus 6-5, Kenosha beats Beloit Catholic 8-3, La Crosse edges Notre Dame 2-1, Sturtevant crushes Little Chute St John 16-3.
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Fred Weibel
Trempealeau Tops Onalaska In District Playoff
Trempealeau defeated Onalaska 7 to 3 in a district playoff game in West Salem Wisconsin. Ken Baran hurled a four hitter and contributed a run scoring single and a bases loaded triple to pace Trempealeau. Neil Van Vleet added two hits including a fifth inning triple for Trempealeau. Baran fanned Barry Freitag to close the win as Onalaska left runners on base in the seventh.
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Bears
Ron Johnson
Baran
Sonny Wilkins
Tony Bouillion
Hilltoppers
Barry Freitag
Johnson and Freitag
Kirkey
Quality Lumber and Coal Co vs Wisconsin Motor Corp
The two teams meet in a weekend series at West Avenue Field with quality players Willie Taylor and Rolf Syneground on the mound for Quality. Bobby Giroux leads Wisconsin Motor Corp as its top fireballer and defending Industrial Fastpitch champions prepare for the matchups.
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West Avenue Field
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Rolf Syneground
Bobby Giroux
Trane Co Beats Merchants in Classic Baseball
Trane Co defeated the Merchants 5 to 4 in the lone Classic League game Friday night at Trane Park. Raymond Bros won by forfeit from Wiggert Bros, who played with eight men. Bud Jones homered as Trane Co, led by pitchers Dick Dahlby and Loren Oelke, yielded six hits.
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Loren Oelke
Trane Park
Bud Jones
Major League Leaders Baseball Statistics Snapshot
The column brings top batting and pitching leaders with names like Nieman Cerv Mino and Maris Mays. Highlights include Cerv leading RBIs at 31 and Mays with 60 hits while Turley and Spahn top pitching with spotless records and high strikeout counts across several teams.
Spahn Loses No-Hit Bid as Giants Top Braves 5 3
Warren Spahn’s bid for a perfect game ends in a 5 3 Giants victory over Milwaukee. Bob Schmidt Willie Mays and Willie Kirkland homered for San Francisco, who pulled away from second place Atlanta to lead by 2 1/2 games. Spahn allowed a seventh inning walk then saw Mays deliver a decisive ninth inning homer.
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Antonelli
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O'Connell
Hank Sauer
Ed Mathews
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Bob Schmidt
Willie Kirkland
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Schmidt
Kirkland
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Braves Box Totals 33 1 33
San Francisco fails to score as Milwaukee wins 3 to 1. Antonelli earns win for San Francisco while Spahn suffers the loss in a tense late innings battle. Crandall and Schmidt power Milwaukee with key hits.
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Spahn
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Sports Results From Various Leagues
In the Pacific Coast League Spokane beat Vancouver 3 2 in 10 innings while Portland defeated San Diego 6 3. East Lake City edged Sacramento 2 1 and Phoenix defeated Seattle 3. In the International League Montreal routed Columbus 10 3, Toronto beat Richmond 6 0, Buffalo triumphed over Miami 3 2, Rochester won 8 2, and Havana beat ? In the American Association St Paul prevailed 5 4 over Omaha in 14 innings, Minneapolis won 10 2 over Denver, Louisville vs Wichita was postponed, and Indianapolis beat Charleston 2 3. In the Northern League Winnipeg downed Minot 8 2, Duluth Superior beat St. Cloud 7 4, Grand Forks beat Paigo Moorhead 10 6. In the Threat League Burlington topped Rochester 9 3, Cedar Rapids defeated Davenport 3 2, Green Bay beat Fox Cities 4 3. In college baseball Wisconsin 4 Northwestern 2, Wis Milwaukee 7 Beloit 6 in 15 innings. In tennis Beloit beat Carroll 8 1. In boxing Johnny Busso defeated Lahouari Godih in New York and Zulu Joe Ngidi defeated Billy McDonnell in Melbourne.
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Beloit
Carroll
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Johnny Busso
Lahouari Godih
Algiers
Melbourne
Joe Ngidi
Billy McDonnell
Australia
Logan Tops Cotter With Late Surge 11-8
Logan scores three in the sixth to defeat Winona Cotter 11-8 at Copeland Park. George Nelson starts the decisive rally with an inside the park homer, followed by walks and Wayne Houser’s triple for insurance. Cotter had tied the game at 8-8 in the sixth before Logan pulled away.
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