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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1955
Page
3
The 1955 men's softball season opens this evening at Forest Park weather permitting. Three league games are on the slate Baldwin Co-Op versus Biltire 66 and Gilmore Service against Budge's Hardware. First game begins at 8 p.m. There is no admission charge.
Three Ottawa High athletes placed in state track and golf meets over the weekend. Marvin Wilson scored four points for the Cyclones at the state track meet in Wichita, placing third in the wide jump and fifth in another event. Golfers Roger Casida and Jack Henning led Ottawa with a 317 team total at Salina, Casida shooting an 80 and Manning an 82 for the two-man field. Wichita East won the two-man title with 291, El Dorado St. Degnes Highland Park and others tied for second.
Kansas City Athletics will run a baseball clinic for high school Ban Johnson and 3 and 2 League players on June 4. Students are invited as guests at the Red Sox game after the session. Applications to attend must be sent to Jim Larimore Municipal Stadium Kansas City by May 28. Players must report with their team coach Pepper Martin manages Macon Georgia via the Class A Sally League.
Modesto Calif hosts the 14th California Relays where six athletes set three world records on the baked clay. Bud Held threw 268 feet 2 1/2 inches in the javelin, Texas posted a 440 yard relay in 40.2 seconds, and Wes Santee ran 880 in 1 48.5. Lon Spurrier clocked 1 47.5 in dual meets, while Santee’s time tops Mal Whitfield’s standard. Golfers Billy Joe Patton and Marjorie Burns named outstanding amateurs by the Carolinas Association.
Ottawa Junior American Legion hurlers led by Ted Brill and Don Walburn defeat Garnett 14 to 5 in a practice game. Walburn fanned six over three innings with no hits. Shofner hit the first home run of the campaign in the fifth. Ottawa hosts Topeka Mosby Macks Saturday and opens District play against Overland Park Sunday at 2 p.m.
Pomona defeated Paola 6 to 5 in 10 innings to stretch its East Kansas League win streak to three. Lynn Firestone drove in the decisive run on a fly to score Jack Bittenbender from third, while Bob Moore earned the win with a complete game. Pomona to visit Louisburg next Sunday for a league game.
John F. Moakley, known as Jack, longtime Cornell University track coach and former head of the U S Olympic track team, died at his home Saturday night at age 91.
Charles Tidwell of Independence shattered statewide marks in the 180-yard low hurdles and 100-yard dash at the state high school meet in Wichita. Newton’s Henry Wiebe twice topped Class AA events, while Clay Center’s Bill Tilman and Gardner’s Duane McIntire posted top Class A and B times. Overall champions were Shawnee Mission AA with 20, Clay Center Class A with 20, and Gardner Class B with 24 points.
Enos Slaughter, aging but undeterred, batted three times in Kansas City's 14 hit assault on the Chicago White Sox. In the doubleheader, Kansas City won 7-2 in the opener but lost 10-6 in the nightcap as Alex Kellner earned his fourth win against one defeat by scattering eight hits and aiding a six-run second inning.
Johnny Adams became the fourth American jockey to win 3,000 races and was to be welcomed into the 3,000 club on Adams Day. He rode Mister Black to win the $25,000 Continental Turf Handicap at Balmoral, tying the track record for the mile and an eighth turf. Eddie Arcaro and Johnny Longden planned to attend, Ted Atkinson might not, as he rode for Green Tree Stable.
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Lawrence Kan The Big Seven Conference directed Oklahoma to take action immediately to conform with athletic regulations after the NCAA placed Oklahoma on two years probation for rule violations The conference reviewed the NCAA action and stated it relies on each member school to uphold conference regulations and has confidence the University of Oklahoma will act promptly
Baylor University and Colorado University have agreed to meet in Boulder on September 26, 1959 and in Waco on September 24, 1960 marking a two game football series between the schools.
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