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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1956
Page
7
Budges and Skelly vie for the Ottawa Softball title with four possible outcomes tonight at Forest Park starting 8 p.m. A Budges win guarantees the 1956 crown in some scenarios, while a Skelly loss also favors Budges. Current standings show Budges 6, Skelly 2, Phillips 66 5, Baldwin 5.
Canton Mass. The 38th PGA Championship at Blue Hill Country Club introduces all match play, reviving the debate over stroke versus match format. 128 players compete for 2 final spots after 36 holes, with the private, home-pro oriented match format preferred by many pros over traditional 72-hole stroke tests.
Denver and Colorado A and M Pave played 54 football games with a 25 to 24 edge for Denver and five ties.
WELLINGTON Kas Verne Wellman of Newton a former Wichita University grid star has been named head football coach at Wellington High School He will also serve as track coach Wellman 26 was an All Missouri Valley Conference tackle last year He will play in the College All Star Professional football game in Chicago next month Don Bliss 27 former Topeka High School and Washburn University tackle will serve as assistant football coach here He recently was discharged from the Air Force Wellman and Bliss replace Marvin Vandaveer head coach and Jacob Webb who resigned to accept coaching jobs at Enid Oklahoma
Indianapolis strengthens its hold in the league's standings with two lefties tossing a 5-2 and 4-2 pair of victories. Minneapolis saw a rain-shortened game in which the Millers led 1-0 in the third. Omaha beat St Paul 3-2 in six innings, Wichita defeated Charleston 4-0 behind Humberto Robinson's sharp pitching. Braves fall short as Gene Host yields three walks and two singles in a key third inning frame.
The league standings show New York and Cleveland leading among others as Detroit and Washington split results. Wednesday yields Detroit 84 83 over New York and Washington 7 1 Cleveland 5 11 with Baltimore and Boston winning against Chicago and Kansas City respectively.
Major League leaders list Mantle and Kuenn atop batting and runs batted in with strong showings from Wertz Kaline and Lemon. Pitching leaders show Brewer Heston and Kucke near top decisions, with national league leaders including Musial Ashburn and Boyer.
The Tigers can force a three way tie for first in the Midget league by defeating the Dodgers today. Standings show Dodgers 2-0, Tigers 3-1, Yankees 2-1. Rain washed out most games as makeups look unlikely with league officials attending a coaching clinic. Today’s schedule includes Midget league Dodgers versus Tigers at New Forest Park Diamond and other 5 pm games ending the first round.
Boston climbs to within six games of Cleveland after a 7-3 win over Kansas City as Mel Parnell follows a no hitter with seven hits allowed. Mantle blasts his 31st homer, Kaline robs a late bid, and Boston and New York trade pivotal moves in a tight AL race.
Rainy night stymies Western League as Lincoln and Amarillo pause half season hopes. Lincoln’s 3-3 tie with Albuquerque ends the makeup win chase. Dukes to face Chiefs tonight. Colorado Springs tops Des Moines 9-6 while Pueblo defeats Sioux City 8-? as schedule resumes with four rematches.
Detroit Tigers halted New York Yankees 11 game win streak by sweeping a doubleheader 8-4 and 4-3. The wins stop the Yankees’ longest run since 1954 and pull Detroit within seven wins of a playoff pace amid a 7-7 season mark against New York.
A gas explosion in New York, blamed on a suicide attempt, killed 6 week old Margaret Mary de Gregorio and injured five others. William Kulka, 40, a mechanic, was booked on manslaughter as authorities said four kitchen gas jets were opened. Kulka’s wife had died of cancer last April. The blast leveled the two story house and damaged adjacent homes. Florence de Gregorio, 29, mother of the infant, was hospitalized after being buried in debris.
Milwaukee Braves first baseman Joe Adcock and New York Giants pitcher Ruben Gomez were involved in an altercation in the second inning of an 8-6 Giants win in 11 innings. NL President Warren Giles fined Gomez $250 and suspended him three days, and fined Adcock $100. Both were ejected after Adcock charged the mound and Gomez hit him.
23 year old Spi der Webb, an 11 5 underdog and 1952 Olympic champion, scored a unanimous decision over veteran Holly Mims in a 10 round middleweight bout at Chicago Stadium. Webb, just two months out of the Army, dominated with little damage taken in a televised contest weighing 157 pounds to Mims 157.
Navy led 6-0 as George Welsh engineered a strong drive but Army shifted to a ball control plan. Don Holleder executed a key keep, Pat Uebel scored on a goal line run, and Army sealed a 14-6 victory with a dominant ground game and two incomplete Navy passes.
The St. Louis Cardinals slumped for a third straight poor offensive showing as Vinegar Bend Mizell pitched five innings of one run on five hits in a 1-1 tie with the Pittsburgh Pirates halted by rain in the 10th. Boston Red Sox rallied for four in the eighth to beat the Kansas City Athletics 7-4 behind Mel Parnell after Parnell’s no hitter the previous Saturday. The Cardinals Pirates game will be replayed in a doubleheader on Aug. 23.
Cliff Lumsden of Toronto won the 25 mile world championship swim around Absecon Island in 3 hours 51 minutes earning $5,000, finishing narrowly ahead of defender Tom Park of Lakewood California. Greta Anderson, the 1943 Olympic 100m freestyle champion, placed first among women collecting $1,500 with a time of 10 hours 17 minutes.
Don Buddin delivered a two-run double in the eighth inning to complete a four-run surge that tied the game in the sixth and gave the Red Sox a dramatic victory over the Athletics. Parntell allowed three unearned runs as his record slipped to 4-2 while Herriage dropped to 9th defeat in 10 decisions for last-place Oakland.
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