Coaches Figuring Angles as Loop Meet Nears
Kansas conference prep builds to Satruday meets with eight teams racing for 225 points across 15 events. Ottawa University coach Bill Boucek plots every angle while College of Emporia aims for early wins and heavy points in seconds to fifth places. Preliminaries Friday morning, finals at 2 p.m. with presumed winning total above 60 points.
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Hawks Seek St Louis Move For Milwaukee NBA Team
The St Louis committee reports over 600 season tickets pledged or sold to lure the Milwaukee Hawks to St Louis as the NBA meets in New York to decide on a team transfer and 1955-56 schedule. Owner Ben Kerner could move the club due to Milwaukee home-date shortages. Jules Schweig, chairman, notes many pledges remain unsettled but interest exceeds six hundred.
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Jules Schweig
Kerner Sets 1,000 Advance Season Tickets Goal
Kerner aimed to bring the relub by setting a goal of 1,000 advance season tickets and urged supporters to turn in their checks.
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Relub
McPherson Wins Quadrangular Track Meet In Kansas
McPherson scored 7 1st places to top a quadrangular meet in McPherson Kansas. Kansas Wesleyan finished second with 785 6 points, Sterling placed third with 341 3, Bethany fourth at 26 points. Wesleyan won seven events, McPherson six, Sterling and Bethany one each.
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Colorful In Ring McNeece Draws Johnson in TV Fight
New York light heavyweight Billy McNeece from Islip fights to a ten round draw with Tony Johnson at Eastern Parkway Arena in a bout watched by 1,210 fans. McNeece, nine pounds over weight after auto crash injuries, eyes Paddy Young at Madison Square Garden on June 3 as he vies for Television Fighter of 1955. Isaac Logart, Cuban welterweight, also won in another spirited scrap last night.
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Billy
McNeece
Islip
N.Y
Eastern Parkway Arena
Network TV
Tony Johnson
Paddy Young
the Garden
Johnson
Jline
Isaac Logart
Ottawa Herald Sports: Streaked to Six In 10 Round Victory
The Ottawa Herald reports a unanimous decision by Logart over Ludwick Lighthurn of Honduras in a 10 round bout at St. Nicholas Arena, telecast nationwide. Logart outweighed his opponent 14214 to 1384 as he extended his streak to six.
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Campanella's batting ascends after hand injury
Roy Campanella, Brooklyn catcher, quiets doubts on his recovery as he climbs to .353 hitting after a prior .207 season. He trails only Duke Snider in RBIs with 26, as AP stats name Virdon .424 and Mueller close at .421 in the NL. AL leaders Skowron .451 and Power .415 pace the league. The piece also notes U S farm land at about 512 million acres.
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Campanella
Campy
Duke Snider
Duke
Associated Press
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St. Louis Cardinals
Jeader
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New York Giants
Mueller
Rip Repulski
St. Louis
Bill
Skowron
Vic Power
Kansas City
AY Kaline
Detroit
Harvey Kuenn
Tigers
Baseball standings unchanged in WV games yesterday
Associated Press notes standings remained the same as yesterday with multiple American and National League games scattered across major cities. No team changes recorded in WV reports. schedule highlights Brooklyn Chicago New York Pittsburgh and Detroit Washington Kansas City Baltimore Cleveland New York Chicago and Boston matchups noted.
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Byrd
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Laraen
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Boston
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Harshman
Brewer
Birthday Party for Connie Frakes in Edgerton
Connie Frakes was honored with a Thursday afternoon birthday party hosted by her mother Mrs. Edward Frakes. Four-year-old Connie enjoyed yard games and refreshments while friends Judy, Nancy, Kerry, Gary, and others received suckers and bubble gum.
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Larry Burke
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Margaret Kirk
Stella Marsa Andi
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Mary Corbin
Marjorie Myers
Alvin Myers
Clathe Base
Wadsworth
Denver
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Barbara Page
Page
Ray Braun
McCarthy
Everett Lewis
Babe Griffin
Jo Shippee
Bernard Dwyer
William Green
Edward
Frakes
Bill Norris
Pat Strange
Pat McFarland
Art Griffin
Three Arrested In Miami County Drunk Driving
In Paola Kansas over the weekend three men faced drunk driving charges. Orville Overhide wart Paola was involved in a crash with Buddy Jordan Jr Baldwin Jordan received $100 fine and suspended 30 day jail. Saturday night Willis A Ross Fontana 22 was charged after his 1951 Ford overturned on US 169. Elaine Kirkpatrick 20 Osawatomie injured. Fred Matney 22 Osawatomie cited for drunk driving after sideswipe with John Brooks Osawatomie car.
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Orville Overhide
Rt. 2
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al Farrar
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Tom Pivonka
Willis A. Ross
Fontana
US 169
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Osawato- Imie
Bill Hicks
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Osawatomie
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Five Brothers Hold Reunion in Denver After 58 Years
Five Layton brothers aged 71 to 90 reunited at Alonzo Layton's Denver home after more than five decades. The siblings True, John, Ora, and Alva live in Oklahoma, Florida, Wyoming and Kansas, while Alonzo is the 90 year old host. True recalled the group as wild boys who felt they must be tough.
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Alonzo
True
Welch
Okla
John
Miami
Fla
Bartlett, Kas
Lon
Takes Over Reins Of Montgomery Ward
John A. Barr 47 elected chairman of Montgomery Ward succeeding Sewell Avery who resigns but stays on as director. Edmund A. Krider 42 also resigns as Ward's president. Barr previously vice president and secretary, hospital release noted amid leadership change. No immediate successor named.
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Montgomery Ward and Co
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Montgomery Ward
Rockefeller Center
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Barr
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Ward
Body Of Real Estate Man Found In Whitewater Grove
Oliver Neal, 55, a Whitewater real estate man, was found hanging from a tree in a wooded grove six miles from Potwin. Sheriff Glenn Tarrant said Neal looped barbed wire around a limb and tied it about his neck after being missing from his home since noon yesterday.
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Oliver Neal
Glenn Tarrant
Neal
Potwin
Surprise marriage for Joan Crawford shocks Las Vegas crowd
Movie star Joan Crawford flew to Las Vegas and wed Alfred N. Steele president of Pepsi Cola Co in a surprise 2 10 a m civil ceremony at the Flamingo Hotel penthouse Judge John Mendoza officiated Crawford 47 said it was the happiest moment of her life Steele recently divorced is from New York City
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Alfred N. Steele
Pepsi-Cola Co
Flamingo Hotel
John Mendoza
Steele
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