Regional Track Meet Set for Huntington in Sixth Year
Preliminary plans for a sixth regional high school track meet next spring in Huntington were outlined by the West Virginia High School Athletic Association. The track committee led by Marmet principal Jake Moser will decide participating schools and qualifying numbers, keeping total regional qualifiers to 13 for each state meet in Charleston.
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Charles & Lewis Associated
Frets
Huntington
W. R. Fui Bitl
The
High School Athletic Association
Jake Moser
Marmet
Charleston
Beckley
Parkersburg
Wheeling
Martinsburg
Fuell
Association
Board of Appeals
Fugitt
Athletic Association
Fairmont
Oak Hill
St. Marys
Red Devils eye another strong season under coach Moore
Oak Hill High School aims for another competitive football year led by veteran coach Big Billi Moore. After an 8-1 record last season the team returns five starters and several veterans, while seven starters departed including three backs and two ends.
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Oak Hill High School
Charleston
Beckley
Red Devils
Billi Moore
Johnny Chmara
Dan Donnelly
Ken Uryga
George Todorovitch
Ken Stover
Bob Rogers
Sanger
Charles Moro
Tom Dixon
Jerry Snow
Edward “Picky” Thomas
Charley B. Price
Price
Uryga
Moore
Val Samuels
Gene Dickinson
Bill Cody
Heisel Bailey
Frank Lich
Charles Hayes
Steve
Mike Miller
Brother Cambo
Salt Hill
South and North clash in 2nd Little Kanawha Bowl
Tonight's second annual Little Kanawha Bowl features senior squads from Calhoun Jackson Pleasants Ritchie Roane Tyler Wirt and Wood counties. The South coached by Gene Corain and Bud Cox faces the North led by Jim Snyder and Howard Brinker as 10,000 fans expect a revenge rematch after last year's 26 0 defeat.
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Associated Press
Parkersburg
Calhoun
Jackson
Pleasants
Ritchie
Roane
Tyler
Wirt
Wood Counties
Ohio University
Jim Snyder
Howard Brinker
West Virginia University
Gene Corain
Bud Cox
Kanajwha
Mountaineers Begin Jackson's Mill Camp Under Lewis
Morgantown reports WVU football recruits for Jackson's Mill camp start in a week under coach Art Lewis. The 40 man squad includes few sophomores from last year's frosh unit. Practices begin next Thursday with a scrimmage in Clarksburg September 9 and Weston session the following week. Season opener versus Western Reserve set for September 23 at home.
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Iby
Associated Press
Morgantown
West Virginia University
Jackson's Mill
Art Lewis
Mountaineer
Mountaineers
Lewis
Clarksburg
Weston
WVU Ovens
Western Reserve
Cuscn
Gene Corum
Fairmont College
Fairmont
U S Cup Hopes Centered on Ted Schroeder
Forest Hills reports set the Davis Cup defense on Ted Schroeder with Schroeder slated for all three days. Schroeder will play singles and doubles alongside Gard Sunday as the United States meets Australia in the challenge round.
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Associated Press
Forest Hills
United States
Australia
Ted Schroeder
Capt. Altick
Schroeder
la Crescenta
Calif
Ted
Gard
Nor Mulloy
John Sedgman
Brown
Bromwich
Sedgman
McGregor
Baseball Leaders Mixed From AL and NL Season Totals
The report lists top players in the American and National Leagues with batting, runs, hits, doubles, triples, home runs, stolen bases, and pitching figures. Notable names include Goodman Boston Kell Detroit Doerr Boston Wood ling New York Rosen Cleveland Musial St. Louis Ashburn Philadelphia Kiney Pittsburgh Jethroe Boston Spann Boston Miller Chicago and others with assorted counts and averages.
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Boston
Stephens
Kell
Detroit
Doerr
Woodling
New York
Rosen
Cleveland
Petes Dimagsio
Stikeouts—Lemon
Picking—Trout
Musial
St. Louis
Torgeson
Ennis
Philadelphia
Louis
Ashburn
Kiney
Pittsburgh
Jethroe
Silcout Spann
Miller
Chicago
Robinsons Title On Block Tonight
SCRANTON Pennsylvania Sugar Ray Robinson defends the middleweight title tonight against Jose Basora in a 15 round bout. Robinson faces financial troubles including a $1600 boxing commission debt and $5000 in damages. Basora is a hard punching challenger with a prior draw against Robinson.
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Associated Press
Scranton
Sugar Ray Robinson
Robinson
Jose Basora
Pennsylvania
Jake LaMotta
National Boxing Association
Boxing Commission
Basora
Commission
Charley Fusari
Damon Runyon
Stranahan Favored to Win National Amateur Golf Title
In Minneapolis at the National Amateur Golf Tournament Frank Stranahan leads as a prohibitive favorite in the semi final stage. He faces John P. Ward in the first 46-hole set with Ward surprising earlier rounds. The second match pairs Robert Knowles Jr. against Sam Urzetta as Stranahan nears the finale, with Knowles and Urzetta viewed as strong challengers.
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Ken McCregor
Tom Brown
San Francisco
Australia
Frank Sedgman
Associated Press
Minneapolis
Frank Stranahan
Stranahan
Railbirds
Toledo
John P. Ward
Ward
Robert W. Knowles, Jr
Brookline
Mass
Henry Wadstworth Longfellow
Sam Uraeila
Rochester
N. Y
Knowles
Urzetta
New England
South Carolina
Husky Urzetta
St. Bonaventure
Police Ask No More Laidley Field Duty
Charleston police want no more off duty assignments at Laidley Field events. A 69 member petition from 87 officers complained spectators used insulting names like blackjack gang Ray's thugs and gestapo at the North South game. They asked Chief Charles W. Ray to remove their names from duty rosters.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Laidley Field
Big Reds Upset Panthers Complicate Playoff Race
Princeton Oak Hill edged Princeton 8 to 5 in a tense late season game that tightens the Black Diamond league playoff race. Oak Hill’s pitcher earned his first win after nine straight losses as Dixon delivered a game winning hit in the ninth, while Oak Hill’s bats connected for nine hits led by Mudd Ingram and Dancey.
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J.C. Winkler
Pauley
Blankenship
Reds
Oakitt
Mudd
Ingram
Dancey
Alba and
Webb
Princeton Oak Wit
Register
Oak Inilil
Lean Oak Hill
Big Reds
Tee Dixon
Princeton
Malens
Oak Hilt
Dixon
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Tians
Seay
Sued
Erry
Gee
Milley
Indingle
Xian Bantz
Dish
Areer
Oak Hill
Price
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Pes Ler
Melputity
Skes
Mullens
Coatter
Insram
Ender
Hix
Inger
Keesainnikon
Kopperston
U's
Keaton
Helen
Kopperstan
Sisight
Mulens
Oak Hil
Wompkins
Pop” Williams
EE Speiol
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