Dodgers Indians Top Rival Leagues Hottest Clubs in Early Season
Dodgers extend seven game NL winning streak with a 9 4 win over Pittsburgh as Indians hold first in AL with 5 4 and 1 0 wins over Boston. Francona delivers clutch hits while Score and Baxes supply key blows in split doubleheader. Braves lead NL as Pizarro and Antonelli win. White Sox top Yankees in Chicago. Lions set NFL season ticket record with 42 154 sales.
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Boston Red Sox
Don Demeter
Gil Hodges
Charlie Neal
Danny McDevitt
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Mr. Clutch
Tribe
Herb Score
Jim Baxes
Braves
Johansson Fights Own Way to Heavyweight Crown
Ingemar Johansson defies the old guard by calling his own shots as world heavyweight champion. He negotiates his own contracts with Edwin Ahlquist and Dr. Gosta Karls son advising, while his father Jens acts as Europe manager. Johansson rose from street work to amateur and European titles, then the world crown after signing in New York.
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Floyd Patterson
al Weill
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Gosta Karlsson
Ingo
Jens
Europe
Ingemar
New York
New York Athletic Commission
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Davidow
Ahlquist
Helsinki
Antley Leads West Monroe Past Oak Grove in Low-Scoring Victory
West Monroe beats Oak Grove 8 to 4 as Antley collects two hits and stars at short. Esters earns the win over Smith in a game marked by eight Vol errors and key two-run innings. Oak Grove suffers its 10th straight defeat while Monroe stays in first in the La-Ark League race with a 10-1 mark.
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Bob Bennet
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Aulds
Dave McKenzie
Kelton Bacon
Antley
Ronnie McNabb
Neal Duncan
Robert Perkins
Mac Hunt
Ralph McNabb
Shorty Smith
Pee Wee Hart
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SR — Hunt
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Bacon
Duncan
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Smith
Jones
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O'Neal
Canal
Perkins
Hart
Ion
Caldwell
Associated Press
Bastrop
Crossett
Reds Lose Ed Bailey To Finger Injury
Cincinnati Reds catcher Ed Bailey suffered a split middle finger on his right hand after a foul tip by Ray Katt in the fourth inning of the second game with St. Louis. Bailey joins shortstop Roy McMillan on the injured list with a broken finger.
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Brown and Daniels Sweep AAU Women’s Meet Events
Mrs Ear lene Brown of Los Angeles and Isabelle Daniels of Tennessee State doubled up at the 37th annual AAU women’s track championships in Cleveland. Daniels won the 200 meters in a meet record 24.1 seconds and defeated Barbara Jones in the semifinals of the 60 meters. Brown claimed the discus with 153 feet 8 inches and the shot put at 46 feet 4 1/4 inches. Tennessee State dominated with 19 finalists and the team title, as Queens Mercurettes followed. The top finishers earned spots on the U S team to face Russia in Philadelphia and Pan American selections for Chicago.
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Tennessee State
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Tuskegee Institute
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Queens
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United States
Russia
Philadelphia
Chicago
Favor Thomson Favored For British Open Title
Muirfield hosts the British Open as Peter Thomson and Gary Player loom as favorites. Thomson at 4-1 and Player at 5-1 head a field of 258 after late scratches. Americans, many amateurs, fill the rest with Watson and Goggin among the notable entrants.
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Gary Player
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South Africa
Locke
Max Faulkner
Britain
Ben Hogan
Willie Goggin
San Jose
Calif
Bob Watson
Ardsley-on-Hudson
N. Y
Sherman Lollar leads double win for White Sox over Yankees
Sherman Lollar hit two home runs in Chicago's double victory over New York. His sixth inning homer erased a Yankee lead in a 9-2 win, and his first inning homer with two on helped fuel a 4-2 win. Herb Score pitched a two hitter for Cleveland in a 1-0 win over Boston after an earlier 5-4 Cleveland victory.
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Braves
Eddie Mathews
Antonelli
San Francisco
Orlando Cepeda
Lindy McDaniel
Cardinals
Sherman Lollar
Earl Battey
Bubba Phillins
Hal Smith
Tigers
Harmon Killebrew
Jim Lemon
Senators
Howard Reed
Kansas City
White Sox
Chicago
Yankees
Yankee
Sox
Herb Score
Indians
Jim Baxes
Cleveland
Boston
SMU Rookie Billy Dunn Signs with Chicago Cardinals
Chicago reports Billy Dunn a first pro contract signing with the Chicago Cardinals. Dunn, SMU quarterback, was the seventh quarterback signed by the Cardinals after throwing 34 completions in 69 attempts for 481 yards last fall.
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UPI
Billy Dunn
Southern Methodist University
Chicago Cardinals
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Cardinals
SMU
Dawkins To Jump School At Ft Benning
Pete Dawkins Army All-America football star and Rhodes Scholar will report to Fort Benning Georgia for airborne training before heading to England to study under his Rhodes scholarship. He is scheduled to undergo airborne training in Columbus Georgia prior to departure.
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UPI
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Army
Ft. Benning
England
Bears Roll Over Crackers To Forge Southern Lead
Mobile Bears swept a doubleheader from Atlanta 7-1 and 5-0 to join Birmingham in a first place deadlock as the Barons split with New Orleans. Don Schaeffer and Bill Dailey pitched gems for Mobile, while Nashville and Shreveport split and Memphis beat Chattanooga. Don Bradey and Gordy Seyfried starred in New Orleans wins as the race tightens.
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Chattanooga
Nashville
Shreveport
Mobile
Birmingham
Barons
South Alabama
Don Schaeffer
Bill Dailey
Bears
Atlanta
Schaeffer
Dailey
Jack Waters
Jack Kubiszyn
Hartwell Field
Hal Trosky
Lookouts
Dick Duffy
Bill Slack
Southern Assn
Shreveport. Com
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Today and Tomorrow's Major League Baseball Schedule
Baseball card listing games for today and tomorrow across the American and National Leagues with times in EST, teams including Kansas City Detroit St. Louis Cincinnati Milwaukee San Francisco Philadelphia Los Angeles and more, plus yesterday results and upcoming matches across divisions and cities.
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Chicago
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Philadelphia
Los Angeles
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Sanford
Craig
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Philadia
Misi
Pacific Coast League Texas League Scores Saturday
Amarillo beat Austin 4 1 in the first game. Corpus Christi won 7 5 over San Antonio in the first game. In the second games Austin defeated Amarillo 7 2 and San Antonio beat Corpus Christi 4 1. Victoria edged Tulsa 3 2 in the nightcap.
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Reading
Lancaster
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Albany Ca
Pitt Athletic Boss Admits New Job Offer
Pitt athletic director Tom Hamilton confirmed a job offer but declined to identify it. He will meet with Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield this week to decide his future, stating he has not resigned. The report links him to the commissioner post for the Athletic Assn. of Western Universities. Norris DC. Dean is noted as Georgia Tech's track coach for 16 seasons.
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University of Pittsburgh
Hamilton
Pitt
Edward H. Litchfield
Athletic Assn
Western Universities
Washington
California
UCLA
Southern California
Norris DC. Dean
Georgia Tech
Orioles sign Byram star Nielsen Cochran to farm club
Nielsen Cochran of Byram High School, who led the team to the state class C title with pitching and hitting, has signed with the Baltimore Orioles. He will report to the Orioles Bluefield farm club in West Virginia this week for the Class D Appalachian League season.
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Fragmentary OCR text mentions a military class and a phrase Vie 'tary awa. The readable parts hint at a stylized or garbled note about a task or event, but no clear names places dates or outcomes are readable.
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