Budges Wins Softball Title in 1956 Ottawa League
Budges clinched the Ottawa Softball League championship by defeating Skelly 9 to 0 in Forest Park last night. Ace pitcher Larry Webker earned the win as Budges swept the best-of-three playoff, after Skelly led the season with a 6-3 mark. Budges finished 6-3, with Webker also winning Monday’s 2-1 victory, setting up the sweep and the trophy presented by the First National Bank of Ottawa.
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Forest Park
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Webker
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Hardware
Gilmore
Baldwin
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Lawrence Vfw
Great Bend
Ralph Emerson
Budgee
Carlson
Birckh'd
Bowman
Roger
Bittenbender
Blackste
Caecees
Bkelly
Vecreese
Budge's
Keltner
Alien
Grand American trapshooting features top shooters in Vandalia
At the 57th Grand American amateur clay targets championship in Vandalia Ohio about 200000 shotgun shells will be fired as the 200 target 16 yard race decides the capital crown. Ned Lilly of Stanton Mich seeks a shootoff after missing the 114th target yesterday as Miss Iva Pembridge of Phillipsburg Kas scores a perfect 200 in class A to claim the women’s crown.
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Vandalia
Ohio
America
Ned Lilly
Stanton, Mich
Lilly
Iva Pembridge
Phillipsburg
Kas
Joe Hiestand
Hillsboro
Fred Waldock Jr
Sandusky
Mike Kaelin
Wathena
Kan
Herbert Longden
Taylorsville
Bowlers to Meet National Rep Lee Mitchell in Ottawa
Bowlers will meet Lee Mitchell a national bowling representative who will answer questions and show films at a special Ottawa Bowling Association session. The meeting starts at 7 30 p m in K of C Hall with the annual fall meeting set for August 31 in the same hall to discuss rules for the coming year. team captains or representatives are urged to attend.
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Lee Mitchell
Ottawa Bowling Association
K. of C. Hall
Kluszewski Sparks Redlegs In Pennant Race Drive
Ted Kluszewski, back after a spring slump and lingering back ache, leads Cincinnati in a race for the NL pennant. In seven recent games he hits .480 with eight RBIs and five homers, fending off rookie Frank Robinson in the club’s home run chase.
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Ted Kluszewski
Row
Cincinnati
Redlegs
Frank Robinson
Birdie Tebbetts
One Run Defeats For K. C. Cards Upset in Ninth
The Kansas City Athletics fell 4-3 as Bob Boyd hit a walkoff single for the Orioles in the ninth. Tom Gorman took the loss in relief. In St Louis, Junior Gilliam led the Dodgers with four hits and a steal of home as Brooklyn beat the Cardinals 2-1, narrowing the NL rivalry gap to 1 game. Herm Wehmeier pitched well but lost to fall to 9-9.
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Bob Boyd
Grady Hatton
Oriole
Tom Gorman
Brooklyn Dodgers
St.Louis ‘Cardinals
Junior Gilliam
Burns
Redbirds
St. Louis
Dodgers
Cards
Brooklyn
Walter Alston
Fred Hutchinson
Cliff
Herm Wehmeier
Standings and schedule from major leagues
League standings show Milwaukee Brooklyn Cincinnati St Louis Philadelphia Pittsburgh Chicago New York leading. Wednesday games feature New York at Philadelphia and Brooklyn visiting St Louis with pitchers Craig Poholsky Haddix Jeffcoat Littlefield Rush. Tuesday results include Cleveland 3 New York 0 and Detroit 8 Washington 3.
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Washington
Kansas City
Wynn
Sturdivant
R. Coleman
Wilson
la Palme
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Sullivan
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Wiesler
Stone
Kretlow
Ya Fornles
Lopez To Quit As Big Chief Of Indians
Milwaukee reports say Al Lopez will resign as Cleveland Indians manager at season’s end regardless of final standing. Two potential successors named are Joe Gordon and Jimmy Dykes. A turbulent 1956 season and sub 90-win projection loom, with Greenberg possibly trying to persuade him to stay.
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Milwaukee
Cleveland Indians
al Lopez
Associated Press
Indians
Joe Gordon
New York Yankees
Jimmy Dykes
Cincinnati Redlegs
Cleveland
Yankees
Hank Greenberg
Greenberg
Missing Plane Wreckage Found Near Gateway Colorado
A five day search ended with scattered wreckage in John Brown Canyon near Gateway. All four aboard, pilot Robert Pruess 39, Ruth Owens, and brothers William and Ted Lewis, all of Grand Junction, were killed when the private plane disappeared last Thursday en route from Grand Junction to Phoenix and apparently crashed within 15 minutes after takeoff.
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Colo
Gateway
Civil Air Patrol
Phoenix
Ariz
Robert Pruess
Aes
Continental Uranium
Ruth Owens
William and
Ted Lewis
John Brown Canyon
Three Year NCAA Probation Hits UCLA And Washington
Denver reports UCLA and Washington receive three and two year probation from the NCAA for cash payments to players. Violations center on booster funds and staff allowing misleading information. Ineligibility includes bowl games and conference championships during probation. USC case under study.
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University of California At
Los Angeles
University of Washington
Pacific Coast
National Collegiate Athletic Assny
Ncaa Council
UCLA
Washington
PCC
NCAA
University of Southern California
Mrs Speer Wins Way To Championship Flight
Mrs L N Speer captured the championship flight at the Otta wa Country club tournament on Tuesday. Nineteen members and two guests joined a golf luncheon. Mrs Basil Kelsey won the golf ball prize. Enos Slaughter of the Athletics asserts he was the first major leaguer to wear a protective helmet in regular play, testing one in 1939 spring training but not using one in a game until 1946. Buy or Sell through Want Ads.
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Ottawa Country Club
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Don Shade
John Sheldon
Enos Slaughter
The
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