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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1957
Page
7
A chaotic local sports roundup lists multiple games and results across leagues. Teams including Shawnee, Lawton, Cleveland, Kansas City, New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Milwaukee appear with scattered scores and matchups. cloudy schedule details, plus international notes and weather lines, fill the page amid partial game listings and future fixtures.
Coaches set man to man defense to excite fans in the OSL BOWL as Texas lacs seek revenge for last year’s 73-57 loss and Oklahoma aims to snap the series. Notable players include Strange from Texas, McLeod from Merkel, Pope from the North South standout, and Oklahoma’s Bond Burter Leonard Weaver Hale delivering solid post and guard play.
New York Princeton leatherhead Charlie Caldwell relies on single wing and a strong sophomore line to topple Yale. Tom Morris leads the offense with eight TDs. returnees include Sapoch Tilly and Grubb. Yale, Dartmouth, Penn, Brown and Cornell seek improvement after graduation losses, while Columbia and Harvard launch new regimes amid mixed rosters.
San Francisco move dominates board vote with eight in favor and one against. Horace Stoneham plans a new park at Seals Stadium while negotiating with the Red Sox to relocate the Giants coastward and telecast games on Skiatron.
Kenith Neile, a 41 year old salesman from Kirkwood Missouri, led the Western Amateur qualifying round at Old Warson Country Club with a 70. Elgar Updegrail, Artz, Ed Brantley, and Ward Wettlaufer trailed by one stroke with 71s. Chick Evans, a 67 year old Chicagoan, also posted a solid score.
The deciding game of a three game series between Chickasha and Bethany for the South Central District Sandlot title is set for tonight in Chickasha. Chickasha won 21 to 6 last night after Bethany took the opening game 65. The winner advances to the state championship starting Thursday here.
Moray night action sees C and H Supply take three from Team No 5 led by Elmer Schulz 188 558. Guy Rogers tops Team No 5 with 188 304 while Bill Clark nets 179 177 178 524. American Realty sweeps three from Ben Hoyt's Restaurant paced by Julius Vince 220 571 with Pete Benson 204 547. LaVon Crook tops Ben Hoyt 185 492 and Vince 220 A71 sets league high. Team No 4 wins three from Youngs Collectors as Despard 201 345 and Guerra 555 lift the effort. Cartermen stop Clover Printing as Stovall 529 and Besson 502 pace Ray Besson. Erie Flowers Auto beat 1th FA Bn three points behind Toohey 195 507. Meeting set next Monday 8 40 p.m. to organize the season. contact Ray Besson at EL 5 3895 or EL 23 7888. League plays Thursdays.
Four teams from Oklahoma Kansas Missouri and Iowa arrive for the regional American Legion junior baseball double elimination tournament in Hobart Oklahoma. Medley Insurance of Oklahoma City represents Oklahoma and opens against Bancroft Iowa while Topeka Kansas faces Washington Missouri. Medley carries a 34-1 mark, defending champion St Louis failed to qualify.
Lawton high school football holds 28 tryouts as coach Bob Bodenhamer notes 16 lettermen returning from last year. Key returnees include six starters Tammy Raley Arnold Marshall Jerry Moon Eddie Newcombe Lawrence Reed and Byron Beaver. Among others trying out are transfers George Moses H W Green William Freels and Preston Holsinger with fullback Billy Stamps sidelined until mid September.
Washington reports Toby Martin D Oklahoma says no comment on land dispute rumors over 20700 acre Wichita Wildlife Refuge for Ft Sill expansion. Army Interior talk lingers after Feb agreement. Wildlife Institute renews criticism while Pentagon notes unsigned languageClarification. basic agreement remains.
Undersheriff Hoyt Shelby said six Lawton youths accused in an alleged hit and run near Gate 3 at Fort Sill will appear at the sheriff's office this afternoon after Pvt. Henry W. McDaniel reported being struck as he walked near the post entrance. Deputies questioned the driver and five occupants who denied involvement. The private’s injuries were not serious.
Local officers were alerted to a 1957 Plymouth stolen last night from a Chrysler Plymouth dealer in Sulphur. The thief also took Oklahoma tag 61 3591. Sulphur police notified Lawton about the theft and a tire and wheel were reported stolen from a Plymouth owned by Bryan Wade at 906 Dearborn, along with a shotgun stolen from A. P. Gent’s car at 410 McKinley.
Herbert Woesner Jr Cache 4M trader Clark Guthrie and Albert Logar 4 H members returned after a three day wildlife conservation camp at Lake Murray near Ardmore Representing the county were Doi Reid Faxon and Larry Watson Flower Mound
Public school boundaries announced by Shoemaker superintendent. Changes affect Grover Cleveland elementary and Tomlinson Junior High while high schools split among Douglass Lar rance Gore Lawton Ferris and Fort Sill Blvd. Elementary zones listed by school with streets and areas detailed. Local residents urged to contact Board of Education in Central Junior High for questions.
Four Lawton bootleggers forfeited bonds after a raid, totaling 240 dollars, for liquor possession operating a joint and public nuisance. Names include Bob Traughber Ed Rose Henry Watson and Ab Hill with various quantities of wine gin and whisky seized. Additional cases: William Gunkel fined for assault Elmer Turlyfill fined for vagrancy Delmar Cotlan for assault and battery Pic Glen Bales sent to military authorities. two persons fined for public drunkenness.
Col A H Davidson of Chickasha has been assigned to head an Army unit at Ft Belvoir Virginia. Davidson served 16 months as an engineer with the 8th Army in Korea before receiving the new post.
A light plane clipped a fence and overturned while landing at Oleene yesterday. Three men employed by an airplane company escaped serious injury. The crew, identified as John Ganosney Bethany Max Martin and Cecil Knight, all of Yukon, were en route to dismantle a plane that had crashed two weeks earlier.
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