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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1957
Page
3
The 1956 season starts with the Yankees and Dodgers defending titles as 16 teams swing into play. Orioles edge Senators 7-6 in 11. Gus Triandos drives in two, Carl Pawis adds a sac fly. Yankees host Senators while White Sox visit Indians. Newcombe and Roberts duel in Philly as Spahn faces Rush.
Red-haired Wiffi E Smith from St Clair Michigan defeated rivals to win the Dallas Women's Open for $7,500. It was her first tournament win after just over three months on the tour, marking a meteoric rise in women's golf.
The Appanoose High School baseball team beat Rantoul High 10 to 5 in a weather shortened game after 4 1/2 innings. Pitchers Hepner and Maag limited Rantoul to nine hits while walking 12.
Garnett Bulldogs finish second at the Pittsburg Relays with 4 points. Olathe won with 62. Richard Copeland led with a 120 yard high hurdles win, high jump tie for first, and mile relay leg. Ronnie Lybarger added a javelin first. Second places to Charley Thomas in discus and 120 yard hurdles. Fourths to medley and 880 yard relays. Rankin, Adams, Thomas, Powell. Rankin added two fifths in 100 and 440. Powell fifth in 880. Adams fifth in broad jump. Garnett mile relay Sayers, Coppenbarger, Copeland, Hermreck placed fifth.
Oakland light heavy Bob Satterfield stopped Ben Wise in 1 22 of the first round to claim a knockout win. Satterfield weighed 184 pounds to Wise’s 19314, and his manager Ike Bernstein said they would pursue Archie Moore’s crown as top heavyweights duck the challenger. Satterfield’s knockout tally reaches 35 in a 47-23-4 career, Wise suffers his first KO defeat in 14 fights and falls to 7-7-1.
Boston at Baltimore Brewer versus Went and Washington at New York Stobbs against Ford lead the schedule. Detroit travels to Kansas City Lary while Chicago faces Cleveland Pierce versus Score. Baltimore edges Washington 7 6 in 11 innings in the only results reported.
National League action features Brooklyn at Philadelphia with Newcombe facing Roberts, Milwaukee at Chicago with Spahn opposing Rush, St. Louis at Cincinnati featuring Wehmiler against Klippstein, and New York visiting Pittsburgh with Antonelli facing Friend. Each matchup threads veteran ace talent and midseason form across four key venues.
PALESTINE Texas former major league pitcher John Wesley Coombs died at 74 after an apparent heart attack. A longtime Athletics and Connie Mack star, he won three World Series games in five days in 1910 and pitched a 24 inning complete game in 1906. He later coached at Williams College Princeton and Duke and scouted for the Athletics.
LAWRENCE A rematch of last year's Olympic finish in the shot put has been announced for the Kansas Relays here Saturday. Parry O'Brien of Los Angeles and Bill Nieder of Lawrence formerly of the University of Kansas, finished 1-2 in Melbourne. Their exhibition at 1:30 p m will not count in collegiate competition. O'Brien, a former Southern California star, holds the world record at 63-13% and Nieder has shown strong marks in recent dual meets.
The text recalls 1956 relations between throwers Nieder O'Brien and Parry. Parry’s 59-74 relay record was not counted after graduation. O'Brien beat Parry with 60-2% in competition. Nieder defeated O'Brien once, in a pre‑Olympics practice, with a 61-6 toss.
Baldwin gained 13 points to finish seventh in the Class B portion at Emporia Relays Monday. Melvern added 6 points to place fourteenth. The meet was won by Peabody with 25 points, Wathena second with 20. Top Bald win came from Walter Bailey.
An ad explains constipation as a thrifty colon that robs moisture and urges remoistening and bulk to stimulate regularity. It touts CoLonalp as a gentle, effective laxative that relieves overnight, safe for pregnancy, and unobtrusive to nutrient absorption. Price quoted is 98 cents for sixty tablets.
Yerapped finished second in the javelin and Vernon Danley was runner up in the 440. Eddie Schwaim took third in discus and the mile relay placed fourth. Fred Delano of Melvern won the half mile in 2 05.9 with teammate Terry Reams and John Schultz contributing points in a five way tie for fourth in the high jump.
Albert H. Ford of Salina, 68, died in a yesterday head on collision between his pickup and a sand truck at a country road intersection three miles south of Salina. The other driver escaped injury.
The Hutchinson News invites Kansas editors and trade press to an open house Saturday May 4 at its new building, which opened April 8. The paper, formerly Hutchinson News Herald, traces its roots to the July 4 1872 founding by editor J P Harris.
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