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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1962
Page
10
Promoters expect more than 5 million in gross revenues for the Patterson Liston heavyweight title bout in Chicago at Comiskey Park on Sept 25. Tickets run 100 to 10 dollars, with about 4 million from closed circuit TV shown in national theaters.
Beaumont Texas AP A field of St pros and 15 amateurs led by defending champion Mary Lena Faulk of Sea Island Georgia begins the 7500 Babe Zaharias Women s Open at Beaumont Country Club The 141 hole event runs through Sunday with Faulk favored by rivals including Mickey Wright Ruth Jessen Betsy Rawls Louis Suggs and Marilynn Smith Patty Berg not entering due to business commitments.
Dixie League action saw Central Bank score 12 runs and shut out Standard Lumber. Brazell tossed a one-hitter with Soloman going 3-for-3. Whitlow and Cohn sparked the losers. Suncrest defeated Southern Equipment 5-3 with Cupples and Murphy on the winning battery. Warner Torrance and Pritchard took the loss. Dryer went 2-for-3 for Central Bank.
Monroe hosts the Fifth District season opener at Legion Memorial Stadium tonight at 7 30 with Brown Rivers Scogin of Monroe facing Bernice amid late day showers in Louisiana. Rain caused postponements for several district games and a ruston match is moved to Saturday at 7 45. Bernice coach Malvin Sistrunk plans to start John Jeffcoat from Dubach High.
Associated Press reports Thursday results with Detroit over Chicago and Cleveland over Baltimore. Night games include Washington at Minnesota, Boston at Kansas City, New York at Los Angeles. Saturday and Sunday schedules list multiple matchups across major and minor leagues including Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Houston, and Philadelphia.
Maury Wills of the Dodgers swiped three bases in a 6-3 win over the Mets, raising his season total to 27 steals in 30 attempts. He trails Ty Cobb's 1915 mark of 96 in a 162 game pace, but cautions the pace may slow as the season heats up. Wills notes the Dodgers rely on singles and steals to score, and he aims to make base stealing a meaningful asset at contract time.
Indianapolis driver Rodger Ward and owner Bob Wilke shared a record purse of 124,515 for winning the 500 mile race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Wilke owned the car Len Sutton drove to second, with $44,566. Parnelli Jones finished seventh for $33,516, including 18,000 for leading 120 of 200 laps at 150 per lap.
The Washington Redskins signed end players Bill Whisler from Iowa and Lee Curley from Rutgers for the 1962 NFL season. Whisler was the No. 13 draft choice and Curley joined as a free agent.
In a busy Little Boys Baseball schedule, Park-McLemore's defeated Scott Fhow ers 10-9 at West League Thursday. Fontana and Freeman led winners, Cooper Mareau Ross and Hale pitched or hit for losers. An 8 p.m. North side park game La Power and Light vs Firestone was rained out. Ouachita Bank crushed Central Bank 31-5 in a South League game with Miletello and Auldrich bright for the winners and Lambert Hebert for the losers.
Albritton collected four hits while Koseroa hit a homer and three hits as Central defeated an opponent with four hits for Albritton and two for the Central club against Miletello on the mound. In the north league, People's Loan beat Bancroft 8 4 with Rus sel and Oglesbee winning and Rankin Gates losing. Russell had three hits in four at bats.
Yesterday Jake Wood drove in five runs including a three run homer and a two run double as Detroit won its 10th in 12 games by beating Chicago 13 to 5. Jerry Walker pitched Athletics to a 1-0 shutout of Washington on six hits for their sixth win in eight decisions.
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