Willie Puts Giants Into Second Spot
Willie Mays homered three times in the opener and added a triple and a double as the Giants swept a Philadelphia doubleheader to move into second place in the NL race by 0.092 percentage points over the Dodgers. Mays raised his average to .331 and drove in five runs in the nightcap, while Ken Lehman and Marichal pitched in relief for a sweep that also left the Reds and Cubs in a tight chase.
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Local Girls Smother Ottawa In Forest Park Clash
Jola's girls softball team defeated Ottawa 34 to 1 at Forest Park in the second game of the season. The locals had lost to Gar nett 58 to 2 last week as they looked to rebound.
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Fine Pitching Gives Orioles Fifth Victory
The Baltimore Orioles won their fifth straight by defeating Kansas City 6-2 behind Dick Hall’s two-hit start. The win lifts Baltimore to 8-1 in nine games as they begin a three game set with AL leaders Detroit. Detroit beat Chicago 5-2, widening the gap over the idle Yankees. Cleveland fell 3-1 to Washington, their 10th loss in 12. Boston prevailed 9-5 over Minnesota.
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Baseball Schedule Babe Ruth League Game at Forest Park
Yankees meet Giants at Forest Park at 5 p.m. today in a Babe Ruth League baseball schedule item.
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Softhall Schedule at Forest Park Local Games Night
Softhall Tonight features North Baptist versus First Methodist and Sacred Heart against First Baptist at Forest Park with 7 and 8 30 p m showings. Saturday includes Church of the Nazarene versus Trinity Methodist and Rich ter Methodist against Wellsville Methodist at Forest Park. Sunday Ottawa faces Marling Hornets at Topeka 7 30 p m.
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Branch Rickey Is Improving After Heart Attack
SUDBURY Ont AP Branch Rickey aged 79 is improving from a heart attack suffered Tuesday while vacationing on Manitoulin Island. Dr John Stirgridge said there is little chance he will be released from the hospital before two or three weeks.
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Cawley Tops NCAA Track Stats in 1961 Final Report
Rex Cawley of USC led the 1961 NCAA spring season statistics with a :22.5 in the 20 yard low hurdles and a :49.9 in the 400 meter hurdles. He shared the 440 yard dash record at :45.2 with Earl Young and Adolph Plummer. Ralph Boston of Tennessee A&I led in two events but had a wind-affected 22.2 in the 220 low hurdles disallowed.
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Probe may extend to cover college football
New York AP By DON WEISS extension of the grand jury term to December 29 boosts speculation that Dist Atty Frank Hogan will expand his basketball fixing probe to college football. Indictments and arrests link Tucker, Wagman, Budin and others to bribe schemes across Connecticut Detroit New York University Oregon and Ohio State with players and games under scrutiny.
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Negro Youths Stop A Game at Kansas City Diamond
In Kansas City Missouri area two carloads of Negro youths disrupted a public diamond practice between white teams Thursday night. Four white men were hospitalized including Charles Rollins 36 who was knocked unconscious and McPherson Horner 57 believed in serious condition. Earlier the youths pulled a light switch and were chased away but returned with reinforcements. They attacked players and bystanders until police arrived and the youths fled.
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Baseball Scoreboard Highlights and Friday Schedule
Baseball scoreboard shows Detroit 5 Chicago 2 Boston 9 Minnesota 5 Washington 8 Cleveland 1 N Baltimore 6 Kansas City 2 N. Friday games include Detroit at Baltimore Washington at New York Cleveland at Boston Chicago at Los Angeles Minnesota at Kansas City. Saturday schedule Cleveland at Boston Washington at New York Detroit at Baltimore Minnesota at Kansas City. Sunday matchups Chicago at Los Angeles. Thursday results include Chicago 15 Cincinnati 8 San Francisco 84 Philadelphia 7 1st game 10 innings Pittsburgh 4 Los Angeles 2 N. Los Angeles at Philadelphia San Francisco at Pittsburgh St Louis at Chicago Cincinnati at Milwaukee Los Angeles at Philadelphia San Francisco at Pittsburgh 2 Cincinnati at Milwaukee 2
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Mulkey Favored To Win National AAU Decathlon
Phil Mulkey of Memphis opens as the odds on favorite to win the National AAU Decathlon in Albuquerque. He competes tonight in the 100 meters broad jump shot put high jump and 400 meters and on Saturday in the 110 hurdles discus pole vault javelin and 1500 meters. Mulkey, 26, a schoolteacher, unofficially surpasses Rafer Johnson’s official world decathlon record of 8,683 points.
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Tournament Opens Today at Ottawa Country Club
The Ottawa Country Club Wom en's Golfing Association begins its club tournament with first round play to be finished by July. Championship flight matches span 19 holes while A and B flights play nine holes. First round pairings include Peters with Roberts and Gollier with Foulks in the championship flight.
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Keating Pushes Federal Bribe crime for Sports
Senator Kenneth Keating of New York introduces legislation making it a federal crime to bribe an athlete to underperform in any sport. The bill, drafted with the NCAA, targets fixing of amateur or professional events across team sports including boxing. It creates an automatic interstate commerce presumption for offers or acceptance of bribes to influence outcomes.
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