City Golf Tourney opens with Ritter among favorites
The 10th Annual City Golf Championships start tomorrow at Wildwood Courts with a 72 hole format. Jimmy Ritter, former champ, is among the 75 entrants in a wide open field led by Joe Herr, Jerry Brown, and Shorty Wagner. Former winners Emmett Greenwell, Bob McCabe, Walt Pagne and others are not all playing. Herr serves as general chairman for the event.
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Wildwood Courts
Awa
Jimmy Ritter
Ritter
Jimmy
Tommy
Wyoming Country Club
Korea
Ritters
Joe Herr
Jerry Brown
Shorty Wagner
Emmett Greenwell
Forest Hills ‘Country Club
Bob McCabe
Walt Pagne
Dick Getter
Herr
Pro Golfers Welcome Chicago Rain
Rain delayed the Chicago Open at Gleneagles public course forcing a one day postponement. Bo Winger of Odessa and Art Wall Jr. of Pocono Manor are noted contenders as the $9,000 first prize draws attention amid damp greens and a rescheduled finish.
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Chicago
Gleneagles
Odessa
Tex
Art Wall Jr
Pocono Manor
Local Middletown Swimmers Enter AAU Open Meet
Four Middletown swimmers join about 400 entries from 32 clubs at the Miami Valley Chautauqua Open AAU Championships in Chautauqua. Participants include divers and sprinters such as Gloria Millar Steve Easton Bob Beckett and Dan Shibley with top divers Glenn Whitten Fletcher Gilders Tom Gompf Sam Hall and Dick Kirpe among the standouts.
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Middletown
Chautauqua
Melva L. Brick
Gloria Millar
Steve Easton
Bob Beckett
Dan Shibley
Glenn Whitten
Melbourne
Australia
Fletcher Gilders
U. S
Tom Gompf
Te Ymca
Sam Hall
Ohio State University
Dick Kirpe
YMCA
Gompf
Hall
Kirpe
Dayton
Bill Cass
Rivera Club
Indianap
Tennis Tip 1958
A Monday feature from the New York Herald Tribune Inc notes a tennis tip compiled for readers. The item highlights practical advice and drills aimed at improving technique and match performance.
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N.Y. Herald Tribune Inc
Unique Tri-State Golf Opens Saturday in Cincinnati
The unusual Tri-State Golf Tournament brings two-man Ohio Indiana and Kentucky teams to Kenwood Kendale course in Cincinnati. This 19th annual event features scotch foursomes on Saturday and a best ball format on Sunday with four championships and state team totals from the five lowest two-man scores per state.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
Kenwood
Neal “4 Club
Keniwood
Kendale
Carolina Teens Light Up USGA Junior National Tour
At the University of Minnesota course in St Paul the Carolina pairings reach 14 wins against 1 defeat after three rounds of match play. George Fookes of Concord leads with 3 under par facing George Smith of New Bern at 3 over. Billy Womack and Gordon Bake of Florence, S C, are in separate brackets for the fourth round.
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University of Minnesota
Carolina
George Fookes
Concord
George Smith
New Bern
Billy Womack
Gordon Bake
Florence
S. C
Mexico to Defend Sharp Cup at Wedgeport Tuna Match
Mexico will defend the Sharp Cup in the International Tuna Cup Match off Wedgeport. The three time winners will compete against British, Cuban and American teams with school tuna as their prey. Tests set for September 10 to 12.
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Mexico
Wedgeport
N. S
Middletown Night Knothole Players Seek Bus Funds
About 380 Knothole baseball players plus 28 chaperons seek transportation funds for Crosley Field trip on August 14. The Cincinnati club provides tickets. Middletonians must raise $1.20 per day for 10 buses. Organizers Keith Wolfram Bill Cunningham and Alden Williams call for donations as 35 to 40 busloads are anticipated. Gus Bell, named most popular Redleg in Middletown balloting, will be honored.
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Knothole
Middletown
Crosley Field
Cincinnati Baseball Club
Keith Wolfram
Aeronca
Bill Cunningham
Alden Williams
Elame News
Gus Bell
Monza-Style 300 Lap Classic At Dayton Speeday
Daytons Monza style 300 lap race offers a $7,000 purse with top names like Unser Elisian Rathmann and Katona. The event features three 100 lap segments with a 20 minute break between rounds as drivers from USAC MARC circuits contest for overall points.
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Dayton
Dayton Speedway
Jerry Unser
Ed Elisian
Dick Rathmann
John Marcum
Unser
USAC
MARC
Iggy Katona
Lambertville
Mich
Katona
Rathmann
Aole
Indianapolis
Elisian
Darrell Dierringer
Harold Smith
Ford
Smith
Ohio
Les Snow
Chevrolet
Jack Bowsher
Jack Shanklin
Nelson Stacey
Rain Delays City Softball and Baseball Games
Rain caused all softball and baseball games scheduled for yesterday at city parks and diamonds to be postponed. Tom Carlson of the Parks and Recreation Department said the delays push back all Parks Department led softball games by one week. Knothole league play at Smith Farm awaits rescheduling decisions.
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Tom Carlson
Parks and Recreation Department
Parks Department
Smith Farm
Miami Corrals 3 Top Gridders
Coach John Pont revealed three Cincinnatians accepted grant in aid athletic scholarships at Miami University. The group includes Roger Vorhart Western Hills 6 3 240 sackle Don Fender Mariemont quarterback and Paul Brill Woodward end 6 1 175. Scott Taylor Hughes and Harry Anderson Purcell will enroll without aid.
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Oxford
Legion To Play Two Here Sunday
The American Legion Post 218 junior baseball team, champions of the Dayton Amateur Class A League, hosts Haywood Electric in a Sunday twin bill at Smith Farm. First game starts at 1 p.m. These games warm up for the State Class C Amateur Tournament in Canton on Aug 8 against Lakewood.
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American Legion Post
Dayton
Haywood Electric Nine
Smith Farm
Canton
Lakewood
Cycle Scramble Slated Sunday
The Middletown Motorcycle Club sponsors its first AMA sanctioned Class A scrambles this Sunday August 3 at a course five miles north of Middletown off Route 4. Time trials start at noon with the first race at 2 p.m.
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New
Softball Tonight At Goldman Park And Barnitz Field
Evening softball slate at Goldman Park features evangelical unit ed Brethren versus Oakland Presbyterian at 6 20 p m on Diamond 2 Yankee Rd Church of God hosts Calvary Methodist at 8 p m on Diamond 1 Holy Trinity faces Middletown Nazarene at Diamond 2 At Barnitz Field American League play begins with Three Brother's against Frisch's on Diamond 1 at 6 p m
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Oakland Presbyterian
Yankee Rd
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Calvary Methodist
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Middletown Nazarene
Barnitz Field
Imfeld Hospitalized Amid Diabetes Fight
Vince Imfeld, longtime umpire figure for the Middletown Umpires Association, is hospitalized at Mercy Hospital in Hamilton with diabetes. Family reports heavy calls about games and umpiring duties that he normally handles, leaving others puzzled.
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Vince Imfeld
Middletown
Feature At Cin City Bowl Aims For 30 Laps
Five regular races plus a 30-lap feature and a demolition derby highlight Cin night at the Cincinnati Race Bowl. Norwood’s Jim Melzer, up to eighth in points after his first win, seeks higher in the standings as six cars enter the derby where the last car running wins. Qualifying starts 7 30 p m with racing at 8 30 p m.
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Cincinnati
Cinnight
Knodel Named Marion Harding Coach in Ohio
Don R. Knodel 26 of Hamilton was named head basketball coach at Marion Harding High School, succeeding Jim Gibson. A 1949 state champion with Hamilton, Knodel led Oxford Talawanda to a 29-11 record the past two seasons and played at Miami University where he was a three letter athlete in basketball and an all conference outfielder in baseball. The appointment by Supt. Robert S. Brown awaits board confirmation August 11.
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Marion
Ohio
Don R. Knodel
Hamilton
Marion Harding High School
Jim Gibson
Knodel
Oxford Talawanda
Miami
Talawanda High School
Robert S. Brown
Board of
Jeducation
Courtney Confirms Retirement From Track Competition
Warsaw AP Courtney No Longer Gets Excited Ready To Quit Courtney announces retirement from track after this season. He aims for another 800 meter record while facing Poland and American teammates in a two day meet in Warsaw.
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Courtney
Warsaw
Poland
Tom Courtney
Fordham
Roger Moens
Belgium
Pike injures fishing trip by biting line in Aquia Creek
Walter Stone caught a 26 inch pike in Aquia creek and tossed it into the boat. The fish seized a rubber gasoline line in its teeth and punctured it causing the trip to end early.
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Fredericksburg
Walter Stone
Aquia Creek
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