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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1960
Page
1
Ottawa Church softball league moves into the second half at Forest Park tonight with Trinity Methodist leading at five and zero and North Baptist close behind at four and zero.
national league, 13 10 favorite to beat Americans in first of two all star games. crowd of 30 611 for game one. Mantle knee setback may sideline yankees star, kaline could start in center. Alston Lopez debates opening pitchers Friend Monbouquette Bell. NL power lineup includes Banks Aaron Mathews Boyer Mays Adcock Skinner Crandall Mazeroski.
Brief score note shows a baseball game with two innings completed and a noon start time. No teams or officials named.
Fort Worth Texas AP reports grocery owner B C Russell age 59 triggered a booby trap he rigged to protect his store and was shot in the right side while opening a back door. The device killed 21 year old Earl Wayne Hanson last September after he broke in.
Kansas Forestry Fish and Game Commission reports cooler weather has improved fishing statewide with best catches in the northeast. Lake reports show fair to good fishing for channels bass crappie bluegill and carp across Nemaha Leavenworth Brown Atchison Sabetha Lone Star Kahola Herington Council Grove Chase and river sites along the Delaware Wakarusa and Upper Neosho with channels flatheads drum bullheads and bass noted.
In Los Angeles, the Dodgers beat the St Louis Cardinals 11 to 7 as Frank Howard and Norm Sherry powered a 16 hit attack. Howard homered twice driving in five runs while Musial's hot bat cooled to a .300 season average. Cardinals pitchers Duliba Broglio and Gibson struggled as Los Angeles moved up to third in the NL while St Louis fell to fifth.
Forest Park hosts Monday athletics at 5 p.m. with Babe Ruth League Yankees facing Richmond Cubs, and Little League Indians versus Tigers and Giants versus Pomona also scheduled in the same park. Church and other leagues feature First Christian against Nazarene Assembly of God and Westminster Presbyterian versus Sacred Heart at 7 and 8 30 respectively, with Trinity Methodist versus Wellsville Methodist and Ruhamah Union Chapel against United Presbyterian in Forest Park.
The New York Yankees once swept the Chicago White Sox, dropping them to fifth. Since then the Sox have won 14 of 20, closing to three games behind in third place after splitting a doubleheader with Cleveland. The Yankees then lost to Boston 9-5, with Washington defeating Baltimore and Detroit rallying past Kansas City on Rocky Colavito’s two homer game.
The Los Angeles Dodgers win 11-7 to move into third place, while the Pittsburgh Pirates extend their NL lead to five games by beating Philadelphia 6-2 in a late-inning rally. Milwaukee thumps Cincinnati 7-1 and San Francisco down Cubs 5-3 after a losing streak.
William J. Reilly 53 general manager of Ford Motor Co steel division died by gunshot at his home on Saturday. Police indicate the death was a self inflicted act linked to a heart illness.
The notice promotes bonded brake shoes, master cylinders or wheel cylinder kits with no extra cost over quality linings. A small deposit on old shoes applies until return. Brake cylinders are honed before kit installation and genuine Thermoid parts and fluid are featured.
Babe Ruth and Little Leaguers finish league play Friday and Wednesday and will enter two weeks of tournament action. Recreation director Orlis Cox says the Little League tourney should start late this week or early next week, with Babe Ruth following a few days later. The aim is to fit a second-round schedule into the calendar, and a consolation bracket will ensure each team at least two games.
Dorothy the elephant, once condemned to death but reprieved, injured Robert McDonald 36 as he led her toward the barn. Ken Riddle 19 intervened by separating Dorothy with another elephant before McDonald was moved to safety.
A Tulsa radio station intervened after a 1958 incident in which a performer allegedly injured a circus worker, leading to her presentation to the Tulsa zoo.
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