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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1956
Page
13
Drake Relays open in Des Moines with 30 universities and 45 colleges. Drake forecasts up to 10 new records across nine events led by shot put where NC champ Bill Nieder and Parry O'Brien vie to surpass 60 feet 10 inches.
Boston slugger Ted Williams is not recovering from a sore foot as quickly as hoped. He said he is doing everything to bring the foot around but it does not respond after the Red Sox 4 1 loss to Washington. Williams hopes to appear in the series with the Yankees this weekend but is uncertain. He has bled in the foot and has not played regularly since the season's second game.
Norman Okla The University of Oklahoma will drop boxing as an intercollegiate sport. Coach Dewey Luster says college boxing at Oklahoma has proven impractical due to absence of boxing teams in the Big Seven Missouri Valley and Southwest Conferences.
Kansas City rookie Bobby Shantz left the mound with a pulled back muscle in the fourth inning of last night's game against Cleveland. The injury halted his bid to anchor the A's staff early in the 1956 campaign.
Shantz lasted three innings, surrendering three runs in the first and one in the fourth before exiting with runners on and two outs. The Indians secured a 5-2 victory as Shantz, who had one prior win this season, nears a return within a week.
Fort Hays State Tigers defeated Kearney Teachers 100 to 64 in a non conference track and field dual at Hays Kansas. Rex Wilson opened with a 202 foot 42 inch javelin throw and the Tigers showed strong team balance. Fort Hays also swept tennis 8 to 0.
Frances Alberts known as Mom Alberts, 76, longtime Bellevue Country Club cook, died last night in Atchison. Born in Germany, she came to the United States at age six and earned wide reputation among club members nationwide.
Frank Thorpe, retired farmer and brother of the late Jim Thorpe, died yesterday in a Shawnee hospital. He was 79. Norm Siebern, Yankee rookie out fielder, received 139 walks in 137 games with Joplin, Mo., in 1952.
In the American League batting leaders Mantle of New York tops with 448 at bats while Skowron of New York hits 438. Berra and Mantle lead home runs with four each, and pitching leaders include Ford and Perry with 20 wins. In the National League Batting leaders show Boyer of St. Louis at .800, Long and Sarni tied at .420, while Jabironski leads with 15 hits and Roberta and Mixell share 2-0 with 1.000 earned run averages.
Elmer Vale of the Kansas City Athletics posted a .452 batting average as a pinch hitter across 40 games in the 1955 season, highlighting his clutch hitting and valuable role off the bench for the club.
In Miami a hotel union official Bert H. Ross international vice president of the Hotel Employes Union narrowly escaped injury when two bullets shattered a living room window. An anonymous caller shortly after warned him to leave town. Ross and wife Catherine, both in their forties, were seated as the shells struck. Neighbors heard a car speed away.
The apparent low bid of 361,744 to divert the Arkansas River into the Big Slough Cowskin Floodway was submitted by Joseph L. Pohl of Nevada Missouri. District Army Engineers said yesterday.
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