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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1955
Page
8
The city softball playoff culminates tonight with the championship between Dave's and Letts at Oregon Field at 8:30 p.m. A 7 p.m. third place contest features Avenue Lunch and Coca Cola. Trophy ceremonies follow the final. Rain delayed the final from Monday to tonight.
Cincinnati Best Legion Jr team with a 37 4 record enters the opening of the Little World Series of American Legion Junior baseball. Manager Bob Kenney says records don’t mean much and cites a win over Michigan City. Lincoln Nebraska meets Salisbury North Carolina in the initial game, while Cincinnati faces Bunker Hill Post of Washington DC tonight.
On the eve of MHS football’s 1955 season, Muskies coaches Gantenbein and Kochneff run 32 players through early scrimmage work at Jefferson field. A playful penalty system has players carrying dummies for loafing laps as they refine ends, tackles, guards, centers, and backs.
New York Chris Christensen stopped Gene Poirier at 6 in Niagara Falls after a 146 3 4 fight. Brockton Bobby Murphy outpointed Lem Harvey in Boston. Nat Killer Jackson defeated Carl Coates in New Orleans by outpoint.
Two elite 3-year-olds Nashua and Swaps face off in a $100,000 winner-take-all at Washington Park over 1 1/4 miles with CBS TV coverage. Swaps owned by Rex C. Ellsworth, Nashua owned by William Woodward Jr., Arcaro rides Nashua and Shoemaker Swaps. Odds list Swaps 2-5 and Nashua 9-6. post position No. 1 for Nashua. About 35,000 fans expected in fair cool weather.
Iowa will use a redecorated north locker room in Iowa Stadium for the 1955 season to dress near the practice fields. New showers and remodeled facilities will be ready by Aug. 31 for Press Radio TV Day. First home game is Sept. 24 versus Kansas State with tickets available from Francis Graham.
Washington Park hosts a $100,000 match race with Swaps ridden by Willie Shoemaker and Nashua by Eddie Arcaro. Both legends discuss their careers, Derby memories, and the race ahead as the sport’s top riders face off in a high profile event.
Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella closes in on Phillies' Richie Ashburn with under a month left in the season. Campanella hits .324 to Ashburn's .332 as Ashburn briefly held the lead last week. Al Kaline tops the American League at .348 with Vic Power at .316.
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