Mark Twain, Pax, Stoco and MB Quints Win Authors Draw
Mark Twain leads the Authors past Clear Fork 69 48 in Raleigh County League play. Pax defeats Marsh Fork 74 59 while Meadow Bridge top Sandstone 83 65 and Stoco Alumni 58 55. Oak Hill opens tonight against Kingston, Baileysville at Herndon, Glen Rogers at Mt View.
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Mark Twain
Wildcats
Pax
Meadow Bridge
Indians
Stoco
Tri-County
Raleigh
Clear Fork Panthers
Marsh Fork
Sandstone
Oak Hill
Beckley
Flying Eagles
Kingston Mountaineers
Baileysville
Herndon
Glen Rogers
Mt. View
Clear Fork
Stotesbury
Steve Soltes
Meredith Trent
Bob Brumfield
Tex Williams
Gordon Lilly
Authors
March Fork
Clint Stover
Lowell Payne
Carl Bradford
Bulldogs
Jack Shockey
Tom Woolwine
Joe Gilkerson
Ed McMillion
Woolwine
Grads
Dick Heath
Billy Trystuck
Snead Favored In Miami Open Return
Sam Snead, the Old Slammer, enters the Miami Open aiming for a sixth title after last year’s setback. He opened with a six under par 65 at LaGorce Country Club to lead a top pro field, while Ed Furgol and Walker Inman tied for second with 68s. Seventy six pros were exempt from qualifying for the $12,500 event.
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Miami
Fla
Sam Snead
Snead
Bob Rosburg
San Francisco
LaGorce Country Club
Miami Beach
Ed Furgol
Creve Coeur
Walker Inman Jr
Augusta
Federal hearing set on injunction against rival Little League group
Federal Judge Frederick V. Follmer in Lewisburg Pa. scheduled a hearing for today on a petition seeking a permanent injunction against organizing a rival Little League for youngsters. The action would restrain Carl E Stotz from forming the new group after his removal as league commissioner last month amid breach of contract claims and a $300 000 damage suit.
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Lewisburg
Frederick V. Follmer
Carl E. Stotz
Stotz
Donkey Basketball Game Set at WWHS
Woodrow Wilson High School hosts its annual Donkey Basketball event in the gym benefiting the WWHS wrestling team. The Flying Eagle wrestlers form one side with fans expected to laugh at bucking donkeys while Beckley Collegians led by WWHS graduate Joe Long make up the other team. Admission is 35 cents for students and 75 cents for adults.
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Woodrow Wilson High School
WWHS
Flying Eagle
Beckley Collegians
Joe Long
Crab Orchard Grade League Quints Sweep Hollywood Wins
Crab Orchard won both games at the Rec Building. Sixth graders defeated Hollywood 22 to 15, while the eighth graders beat Hollywood eighth 17 to 14. The twin bill gave Crab Orchard the Grade School League doubleheader victory.
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Crab Orchard
Rec
Hollywood
Handlan Named WV Babe Ruth League Director
Joseph Handlan of Parkersburg, a former radio executive, is the new West Virginia director of Babe Ruth Baseball League activity for the coming year. The Trenton headquarters announced the election, with Handlan succeeding Pete Romano of Clarksburg. Handlan serves as vice president of WCOM Parkersburg and is a member of the Handlan and Earley law firm.
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Parkersburg
Joseph Handlan
West Virginia
Trenton
N. J
Joseph W. Cookson
Handlan
Pete Romano
Clarksburg
WCOM
Handlan and Earley
Old Grads Tumbled Alumni for Points
Lester Smith scored 22 points, Bill Trystuck 16, John Thomas 4 as the Old Grads defeated alumni team. Final score details not provided. game featured shooting by Smith and Trystuck with Thomas contributing.
First southpaw wins ABC singles title Marshall Levey
Marshall Levey of St. Louis became the first left handed bowler to win the American Bowling Congress singles title after tying a 624 series in 1907 at St. Louis and prevailing in the rolloff.
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Marshall Levey
St. Louis
Eyebrows Rise in NL Over Trade Sending Randy Jackson to Dodgers
Rival NL managers protested a Chicago Brooklyn swap that sent third baseman Ransom Jackson to the Dodgers for Don Hoak and Walter Moryn. Cubs GM Will Mathews hinted a follow up deal could appear, possibly adding veteran pitcher Russ Meyer after roster trims.
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Randy Jackson
Dodgers
Chicago
National League
Brooklyn
Ransom Jackson
Don Hoak
Walter Moryn
Cub
Will Mathews
E. J
Buzzie) Bavasi
Russ Meyer
Cubs
Walker Cooper
St. Louis Cardinals
Washington
New York
Mickey McDermott
George Weiss
Yankees
Bobby Richardson
Jerry Lumpe
Norm Sieburn
Bill DeWitt
Weiss
Charlie Dressen
Senators
Casey Stengel
Cleveland
Baltimore
Paul Richards
Indians
Hal Smith
Orioles
Smith
Jim Wilson
George Strickland
Art Houtteman
White Sox
Walter Dropo
Bob Nieman
Earl Battey
Sandy Consuegra
Sox
Wilson
Houtteman
Nieman
Dropo
Cardinals
New York Giants
Red Schoendienst
Giants
Chuck Feeney
Majors Reject Minors On Game of Week TV Plan
The National League rejected minor league demands for a Game of the Week TV plan and higher pay, while offering only a cautious nod to using revenue plans. Ford Frick disclosed Justice Department rebuff on a test case for regulating baseball broadcasts. The majors also refused to extend player contract terms or adjust the World Series TV pact ahead of the 1956 season.
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Jack Hand
Chicago
National
Walter O'Malley
Brooklyn
Ford Frick
Justice Department
Washington
Imajors
All County Football Team Picks Honor Four Oceana Players
Four Oceana gridders named to the All-Wyoming County squad announced by county coaches. Pineville and Mullens each place three. Glen Rogers adds two. End Bob Payne and guard Kermit Gentry, tackle Olie Grose, Nick Taraczsky, and others earn selections led by a swift backfield.
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Glen Rogers
Harold Palmer
Pion Oceana High School
Pineville
Wyoming
Mullens
Indians
James Whitt
Jack Burkett
Bob Payne
Bob Lively
Richard Yates
Gene Chenoweth
Rickey Tolley
Olie Grose
Butch Goode
Nick Taraczsky
Kermit Gentry
Palmer
Oceana
John Whitt
DuBois Blue Hawks return ten lettermen for season
DuBois High School in MT HOPE brings back ten of twelve lettermen led by Charlie Mills a 20 point per game scorer and Everett Tucker averaging 10 points. The team travels 15 miles daily to Fayetteville for practice and schedules games against Kingston Park Central Excelsior Simmons Lincoln and other area rivals through late February with a 9 11 last season.
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Mt, Hope
DuBois High School
Blue Hawks
Fayetteville
Charlie Mills
Everett Tucker
Hawks
Kings
Charles Mills
Howard Scott
Robert Jones
Kenneth Ross
William Hunter
Raymond Harper
Calvin Walker
Marsden Walker
William Anderson
Joe Wallace
Stanford Wells
Charles McGhee
Emory Ross
Leon Moore
Norvell Wright
Clyde Owens
Park Central
Kingston
Byrd-Prillerman
Excelsior
Simmons
Lincoln
Conley
Washingto
Washington
Stratton
Stratto
Simmee
Nashua and Belair Horses Put Up For Sale
New York reports Nashua the 1955 leading money winner is no longer in Belair Stud colors. Executors of William Woodward Jr. estate placed Nashua and 61 other thoroughbreds up for public sale with sealed bids due by December 15. Nashua, second among world money winners, earned 945 415 as a 2 and 3 year old and 752 550 this year. Now valued mainly as a sire, he may race in Miami and Santa Anita before turning four. Other Belair horses listed for sale include Ambidex trous Ambient Black Emperor Citation Cote D Or First Flower Game Chance Tremor and Valence.
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New York
Nashua
Belair Stud
William Woodward Jr
Woodward
Citation
Clairborne Farms
Paris
Miami
Santa Anita
Ambient
Cote D’or
First Flower
Game Chance
Tremor
Valence
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MB Quints
L.L. Hearing
Bob Thomas
Pat Swift
Bob Bowers
R.W. Powell
Harold Smedley
Bernie Ruben
Buddy Stover
Harold Peters
Delano Dillon
Claude Stover
Stoce
Darrell Mullins
Carl Craiger
Ken Campbel
Benny Honaker
Frank Skeens
Roger Cassell
Jim Belcher
Paul Stover
Clay Hurd
Mark Twain Boyd Logan
W. Meadows
K. Meadows
Charles Davis
Larry Belcher
Dale Donley
Jim Mullens
Kermit Wilson
Nee Eee
Fred Vaught
Alumni
Don Proffitt
C.W. Minton
Noah Howerton
J. Beckelheimer
Jack Sizemore
Paul McCarty
Cotton White
Sam St. Clair
Pax Crab Orchard
Keaton
As Tucker
Bob Phillips
Hess
Bill Stover
James
Jack Bailey
Wooten
Pat Humphrey
Charles Hall
Ree
Keith Williams
Willis
Woods
Marsh Fork Stump
Ray
Jarrell
Hambrick
Jim Midkiff
Haddock
Maynor
Gene Deitz
Larry Sarrett
R. Satterfield
Scott Jarrell
B. W. Humphrey
Tilley
Bob Peters
Huffstuttler
Taylor
Dennis Hughes
S Anderson
Gary Barker
Quintier
Goss
John Marra
Horace Hollywood
Legg Roles
Stump
Sandstone Christian
McClaugherty
E. McMillion
Bower
Tom Adkins
Buck Eckle
Melvin Bragg
Charles Garten
Calvin Hayes
Oswald Cadle
Everett Cyrus
George Gwinn
Bob Harris
Emery Elkins
Bob Morris
Elwin Clay
Bob Gwinn
Eugene Parker
Beasley
Frank
Phia
del Ennis
Philadelman
Stan Lopata
Century Club
Lilt
raight_Bo
Whiskey
DuBois
Universal
South Fayette St
Buick
Jackie Gleason
First Avenue
Bays Buick, Inc
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