Oldtime Writer Blasted Sports Feud Long Ago
Kansas City AP recalls a 1941 column by Gene Kemper blasting the AAU NCAA feud over amateur status. The piece notes ongoing Olympic representation disputes and praises the unselfish work preserving amateur sports amid crossfire between the two bodies and their leaders.
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AAU
NCAA
Gersry Lindgren
Washington State
Texas A&m
Jim Ryan
Gene Kemper
Topeka
Kan
Capital
Kemper
Alliance
Times-Herald
Walt Byers
American Olympic Association
Missouri Valley District
Youthful Ryun Returns Home After Record Mile
Wichita teenager Jim Ryun, the fastest American miler, arrives to a crowd of about 150 youths after finishing the San Diego meet in 3:55.38. He credits an early sprint finish and anticipates a future near 3:50, with coach J D Edmiston and teammate Mike Peterson predicting continued progress. Ryun plans July travel for races in Jamaica, Poland, West Germany, and a U S team duel with Russia.
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Kan
Jim Ryun
National Amateur Athletic Union
San Diego
Calif
Municipal Airport
Gerald Ryan
Wichita High School East
Mike Pettereson
Ryun
University of Kansas
Ryan
J. D. Edmiston
Edmieston
Jamaica
Poland
West Germany
U.S
Russia
Senior League baseball box score snippet Eagles Elks Rotary Boys Club
Box score shows Senior League Eagles and Elks totals with AB RH players and rough stat lines. Rotary and Boys Club entries include runs hits and errors, highlighting limited data for multiple teams and players in a single page snippet.
Little League game box score summary
Box score shows American White Sox 3 Indians 5 in Little League with pitchers Wallace M and Bis hop, and hitters Cummings Wallace Roush and Baker contributing for the Sox while Firestone Mendell Wills Hermrick Overholt Jackson and others pace the Indians. National Dodgers 2 Pirates 3 box score features Seymour Doerr Griffin Bellefeuille Ingram Hopkins and other players across both lineups.
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Roush
Black
Baker
Jones
Totals
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Seymour
Cunningham
Doerr
Sheldon
Griffin
Bellefeuille
Ingram
Golden
Hopkins
Baseball Scoreboard from The Associated Press
American League standings show Chicago and Cleveland tied at 42 26 with .618, Minnesota 42 27 .609, Detroit 39 30 .565, Baltimore 40 31 .563, New York 35 37 .486, Los Angeles 32 41 .438, Boston 29 41 .414, Washington 45 .384, Kansas City 20 45 .308. Monday results include New York 3 4 Washington 0 3, Detroit 4 Baltimore 3, Cleveland 9 Boston 2, Chicago 17 Minnesota 4. Today Chicago at Minnesota Cleveland at Boston Detroit at Baltimore New York at Washington. Wednesday Chicago at Kansas City Detroit at Boston New York at Baltimore Cleveland at Washington Minnesota at Los Angeles Chicago 7 Houston 2 New York 5 6 Milwaukee 23 Philadelphia 3 St Louis 0 Pittsburgh 5 Cincinnati 4 San Francisco 5 Los Angeles 0 Houston Chicago Milwaukee New York St Louis Philadelphia Cincinnati Pittsburgh Los Angeles San Francisco Chicago Cincinnati New York Milwaukee Philadelphia St Louis Pittsburgh San Francisco Houston
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Mo Valley Junior Tennis Opens With Big Field
A strong field of 239 players gathered in Des Moines for the Missouri Valley Junior Tennis Tournament. Kansas State champion Darrell Snyder led the boys as No. 1 seed, while Mona Schale lau of Iowa City topped the girls’ seeds. First and second rounds were set for most events with some early divisions still pending.
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Darrell Snyder
Mona Schalelau
Iowa City
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Spencer Burke
St. Louis
Valley
Charles Allen
Kansas City
Pacific Northwest
John Towner
Leawood
Kan
Pam Richmond
Shawnee Mission, Kan
Greater Kansas City
Baseball box score excerpt from church league game
Sacred Heart defeated Church League teams with limited positional line reads. Nazare ne and Wellsville players posted mixed at bats and runs as totals show several players with multiple hits. The fragment covers AB RH and pitching totals for Birckhead Snider and several others with inconsistent spellings and numbers.
Defiant Collegians Off To Russia
Gerry Lindgren leads a group defying NCAA rules by competing in the AAU meet and heading to Europe for pre Russian events. Others include Tom Farrell Otis Burrell Don Owens and Theron Lewis as the NCAA debates penalties while Lindgren posts world class 27 11.6 six mile time near Billy Mills.
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Otis Burrell
Nevada
Don Owens
Grambling
Theron Lewis
Southern University
Lindgren
Washington State
Billy Mills
NFL Hires First Negro Pro Official
New York AP Burl Abron Toler, a former San Francisco University star, was hired by the National Football League as the first Negro field official in a major professional league. Toler joins five new officials for the 1965 season, serving as head linesman on a nationwide schedule, breaking racial barriers in major sports officiating.
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Burl Abron Toler
San Francisco University
National Football League
NFL
Pete Roezelle
Toler
Ketball
Zack Clayton Long
Ollie Matson
San Francisco
Mark Duncan
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