Home Run Battle Ties AL Title Chase
The AL home run race narrows to a four man duel led by Jensen Mantle Sievers and Cery. Jensen hit his 3rd homer as Boston thrashed Washington 8 2 with Runnels adding three hits. Mantle had a single as New York beat Baltimore 3 1. Sievers matched Mantle by homering to move into a two way chase. Musial lifts to .343 as Ashburn slugging in Phillies idle.
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Jackie Jensen
Boston
Mickey Mantle
New York
Roy Sievers
Washington
Bob Cery
Kansas City
Jensen
Pete Runnels
Red Sox
Runnels
Chicago
Billy Goodman
Sievers
Mantle
Tom Brewer
Senators
Hormer
Yankees
Baltimore
Art Ditmar
Orioles
Jack Harshman
Tuck
John Flaherty
Billy Pierce
Cerv
Goodman
Detroit
Cleveland
Indians
Milwaukee
Pittsburgh
Carlton Wisley
St. Louis
San Francisco
Giants
Robin Roberts
Cincinnati
Charley Neal
Los Angeles
Musial
Richie Ashburn
Philadelphia
Ashburn
Brewer
Ensen
Frank Malzone
Ted Io
Ted Williams
Surging Cards End Slump With Three Straight Wins
The St Louis Cardinals snapped a hitting drought with three home victories, tallying 42 hits. Stan Musial drove in three, Don Blasingame collected four at bats safely, and Chick Stubbs earned his first NL win in relief. In Kansas City, the Athletics lost 4-2 to the Chicago White Sox as Lefty Pierse and Luis Aparicio paced the visitors’ victory with timely hits.
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Blasin
RBI
Chick Stubbs
Kansas City
Athletics
Chicago White Sox
Billy Pierse
White Sox
Pierce
Luis Aparics
Aparacia
Harry Chile
Bob Cory
Till Buttle
Bob ‘Davis
Fin Landes
Boone
Lawrence Legion Opens State Championship Bid At Ute
Lawrence American Legion 1 baseball opens the state tournament with a 25 5 record as junior team departs for Wakeeney to face Ute in the opener at 1 00 p m Senior right hander Dave Stinson (7 1) leads the pitching staff with 84 strikeouts in 67 innings and a 13 year title drought to break.
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Lawrence American Legion
Ute
Wakeeney
Lawrence
Akeeney
Dave Stinson
Andle
Iers
Davis Rates As Rare Ace In Trackdom
In Budapest Glenn Davis of Ohio State showed versatility by running the 400 meter hurdles in 49.2 seconds, a world mark, and vaulting 13 feet. He helped the Americans set eight new marks with a 23-40 meet win against Hungary and Czechoslovakia as Rafer Johnson and others broke records. Davis also trimmed the hurdling mark by three tenths, surpassing his own 49.5 best from two years prior.
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Budapest
Glenn Davis
Ohio State
Rafer Johnson
Kingsburg
Calif
Istvan Rozsavoloyi
Hungary
Jerzy Chromik
Poland
Oleg Ryakjowski
Soviet Union
Athens
Johnson
Davis
Los Angeles
Fights Last Night Report From Chicago Ring
Chicago lights Sonny Liston stopped Wayne Be thea in New York Philadelphia area. Ed Hurley an American League umpire recuperates after left leg surgery in St Francis Hospital Evanston suburb.
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Chicago
Sonny Liston
Philadelphia
Wayne Bethea
New York
Ed Hurley
St. Francis Hospital
Evanston
Floerke Wins European Track Event at National Prep Rodeo
Kent Floerke of Kansas University won the hop step jump with a 9 inch mark as the American track and field team triumphed in a Budapest meet. Teammate Ernie Shelby placed fourth in the 200 meters with Ira Mitchell and Eddie Southern. In another event, Gloria Baugher of Lawrence Kansas won the pole handing contest in 18.5 seconds and led in barrel racing at the National High School Rodeo.
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Shelby Place
Gloria Baugher
Europe
Kent Floerke
Kansas University
Budapest
Hungary
Weéd
Ernie Shelby
Ira Murchison
Eddie Southern
al Oerter
Russia
States
Sulphur
Davice Hudson
Leon Kas
Glorida Baugher
Lawrence, Kas
Eere-Emony
Hudson
Miss Baugher
Fish Experts Probing After Pollock Affair
Mrs. Gorman McVeigh of New York hauled a 35 pound pollock at Shelburne Nova Scotia on a Wednesday prompting the International Game Fish Association to review potential records. Local fishermen say the existing record is 27 pounds set on August 25 1934 with a shoe foot plug rig.
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Shelburne
N.S
Gorman McVeigh
New York
International Game Fish Assn
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