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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1961
Page
1
Maris and Mantle chase Ruth’s 1927 pace as Yankees surge in September. They reach 45 homers in 117 games while Ruth hit 45 in 132. Twin bill vs Senators ends split. Yanks extend lead as Twins, White Sox, and Orioles win. notable: Koppe’s grand slam for Angels and Earley error costs Red Sox.
The Los Angeles Dodgers ride a six game win streak and 19 victories in their last 22 games while Cincinnati stays within 24 percent of the National League race. Duke Snider is noted as a veteran Dodger.
Carolyn House 15, modern era’s youngest U S swimmer, headlines a 12-member team plus two divers selected from the national AAU outdoors to face Europe Aug 16–Sept 5. Nancy Kanaby, Robyn Johnson, Laurel Watson also feature as the squad pursues medals and world titles.
Topeka built its first place cushion to 31 games Sunday night by defeating Cedar Rapids 6-3. Cedar Rapids scored all its runs in the seventh on Ron Hunt’s three run homer. Dave Bristol drove in two for Cedar Rapids. Des Moines beat Lincoln 8-2 behind Jess Hickman’s six hitter, despite four Chiefs errors aiding the Demons. Bill Jackson hit his second homer of the game and a solo shot in the fourth as Burlington edged Fox Cities 4-3.
Baseball results show Washington 12 Chicago 4 New York 2 Baltimore 6 Boston 5 in 11 innings Los Angeles 8 Cleveland 7 Minnesota 13 Detroit 5 Chicago 9 Kansas City 3 Saturday results Washington 5 New York 1 Los Angeles 3 Cleveland 0 Detroit 17 Minnesota 3 Chicago 2 Kansas City 1 Baltimore 8 Boston 3 Monday games Kansas City at Minnesota and Los Angeles at Washington Tuesday Chicago at New York Boston at Cleveland Baltimore at Detroit St Louis at Los Angeles and other matchups Pittsburgh 13 Philadelphia 4 Milwaukee 8 Chicago 3 Cincinnati 8 San Francisco 1 Los Angeles 8 St Louis 0 Pittsburgh Philadelphia 0 Milwaukee 8 Chicago 6 San Francisco 6 Cincinnati 4 Los Angeles 5 St Louis 1 St Louis at Los Angeles Pittsburgh Milwaukee Cincinnati at Los Angeles St Louis at San Francisco
Ottawa Andrews-Phillips 66 was eliminated from the District Softball tournament by Leavenworth Hawks 3-0 in nine innings at Lawrence Sunday night. Webker pitched eight no hit innings, facing 29 batters and leaving six on base. Ottawa had seven hits and one error, while Leavenworth earned three runs on three hits.
Orris Cox director of Ottawa Recreation Commission program and athletic director at Ottawa High School will serve on a panel at the annual high school coaching school in Wichita from today through Thursday. He joins in discussions on instruction and coaching of high school track with H K Stevens also attending. Cox plans to stay until Wednesday then travel with his family to Colorado to visit his daughter Mrs Darlene Welborn, returning August 22.
In Eugene Oregon Anne Gunderson of Kirkland Washington won the Women's Trans Missis sippian tournament title by beating 18 year old Heidi Prentice of Winnetka Illinois 3 and 2 in the 36 hole final Gunderson trailed by one hole at the start of the final nine but eagled birdie putts of 15 7 4 and 12 feet set up the win Prentice thrilled spectators with a 60 foot chip and a 30 foot birdie putt earlier in the match
The National League leading Dodgers shut out the Cardinals 8-0 in Los Angeles as Stan Williams and strong bullpen work held St Louis to a pair of innings from Bob Gibson. Duke Snider tripled, Roseboro hit a three run double, Larker added a run producing double. The Cardinals drop to fifth place tied with Pittsburgh. Aparicio led the White Sox with three hits four runs and two steals in a 9-3 Chicago win over Kansas City. Bauman went the distance for Chicago and Bass yielded 12 hits for Kansas City as Deron Johnson drove in all three Royals runs.
Ottawa Little Leaguers defeated Thompson Electric of Kansas City 14 to 8 at Forest Park highlighted by a 3 hit pitching effort from Johnson and Murphy. Ottawa collected 12 hits including six doubles, winning with two big innings and noting a post season rule change affecting runners.
Dennis Smith defeats Conrad Downing 7-5 1-6 7-5 to capture the Ottawa Summer Tennis men s singles title as the Ottawa Recreation Commission wraps a 10-bracket tournament with 80 entrants.
US chess champion Bobby Fischer refuses to play at 11 a m for the scheduled game against Samuel Reshevsky. The referee forfeits the game but Fischer questions forfeits. Reshevsky leaves for New York with a one point lead as the 12th game’s timing and Sabbath conflict spark a controversy.
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