Wild base running mixups mar Beckley Oak Hill scrimmage
Beckley Post 32 juniors faced Oak Hill in a practice game as Darren Thompson, nicknamed Bubs from a Winding Gulf baseball family, made a heady but odd baserunning error. The piece also recounts Chicago Cubs Phillies baserunning capers and Tom Harmon leaving football for radio.
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Beckley
Oak Hill
Darren
Bubs” Thompson
Red” Martin
Thompson
Gulf Thormpsons
Bubs
Philadelphia
British Open Qualifiers Cut to 100 as Field Shrinks
The British Open field will be trimmed from 275 to 100 after final 18 hole qualifying. A. S. Tibbles of London led the first round with a Gull Lane course record 67, while Fred Daly and others trailed. Notables like Stranahan and de Vicenzo posted 68s earlier, with many Americans and Brits chasing the cut at Muirfield and Gullane.
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Associated Press
Muirfield
Scotland
Torrnament
A. S. Tibbles
London
Fred Daly
Ireland
America
Tibbles
Jimmy Thomson
Roberto de Vicenzo
Argentina
Gullane
Frank Stranahan
Toledo
Ohio
Henry Colton
Britain
Brazil
Mario Gonzales
Guilane
Tom Pearson
John Carroll
Dublin
Sugar Ray Robinson Decisions Docusen to Retain Welterweight Crown
Sugar Ray Robinson defeated Pennie Docusen in a 15 round unanimous decision at Comiskey Park to keep the welterweight title. Robinson, who weighed 146 1 2 pounds at the scales, endured dehydration and a solid diet to make the limit and delivered power and precision throughout.
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Sugar Ray Decisions
Docusen
Associated Press
Chicago
Ray “Sugar” Robinson
Pennie Docusen
al A Sthan
Harlem Sluziger
Comiskey Park
New Orleans
Robinson
Cates
Skoog
Tony Zale
Shoog
Unclear Boxing Bout Ends in Stumble and Loss
A battered fight recap notes a boxer named Regg wins after his opponent grinds through a nine count and collapses into a flurry that ends the match. The article highlights the victor's persistence amid a grueling exchange and the loser's fatigue.
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Bert Haas
Waitkus
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del Monte
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England
Jack Jacobs
A. G. Lacey
W. S. Collins
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Gudlane
Daly
Charrofon
Johnny Bulla
Phoenix
Ariz
Art Clark
Huntington
Ed Kingsley
U. S. Army
Charles Bolar
Frankfurt
Germany
Claude Harmon
Louisville
Philco
Sys
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Beckley Music & Electric Company
Colin McLackey
Fayette
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