Bob Taylor lands a $100000 bonus in high stakes bidding
Metropolis catcher Bob Taylor becomes the fourth prep athlete signed to a big league bonus after a tense four hour negotiation among the Braves Phillies Dodgers Giants and Cubs. Vance Taylor and family weighed offers from multiple clubs before accepting a Braves deal likely exceeding $100000.
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Pinckneyville Centralia Rivalry Resumes November 1957
The Pinckneyville Centralia basketball rivalry restarts November 27 1957 with Pinckneyville opening the Orphan schedule at Centralia. Alto Pass seeks to arrange a Christmas tournament and one more regular game on November 26 December 6 or 9 January 7 or February 18.
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Boxing results from Port Arthur and Hollywood bouts
Port Arthur native Paul Jorgensen won on points over Paul Smith in a 10 round lightweight contest. In Hollywood, Alvaro Gutierrez of Mexico City stopped Joe Abasta in the second round at 145 pounds.
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Marion Babe Ruth Legion 6 Lions Wohlwends 12 VFW 11
Sports brief notes a scoring sequence with teams Marion Babe Ruth Legion 6 Lions Wohlwends 12 and VFW 11, indicating a set of results across the league. It records final tallies for three teams in a local matchup.
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Fullmer Meets Jones Friday Boxers Clash at Chicago Stadium
Gene Fullmer the former champion returns to action 37 days after a knockout loss to Sugar Ray Robinson as he faces Ralph Tiger Jones in Chicago Stadium. Fullmer ranked No 1 in NBA and Ring Magazine while Jones sits No 5 and No 7 respectively. The bout airs on NBC radio and TV at 9 p.m. localtime.
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Tiger) Jones
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Hungarian-born Redl to Face Ipo lito in Welterweight Bout
Stefan Redl a Hungarian born German moves toward joining the U S Army in a week and meets Frankie Ipolito of New York in a welterweight clash Monday at St Nicholas Arena The bout will be televised in sections on TV Dinsbas t at 930 p m
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Major League Stars Rally For Sox Win And Pirates Sweep
Ted Williams hit his 12th homer with two on in the eighth to lift Boston past Washington 5-3. Bob Purkey threw a four hit shutout as Pittsburgh beat New York 2-0, completing a doubleheader sweep after a 3-2 win.
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Iowa State Faces Notre Dame In NCAA Play Start
NCAA College World Series pairings set for Omaha with Iowa State meeting Notre Dame. Connecticut faces the Texas-Arizona winner while Penn State plays the Duke- Florida State survivor and the Denver- Colorado winner takes on the California-Pepperdine survivor. Minnesota misses district playoff invitation after failing to win the Big Ten title.
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Yankees Fined $1 000 Each After Night Club Scuffle
The New York Journal American reports six New York Yankees were fined 1000 dollars each for the May 16 Copacabana brawl. Named players include Hank Bauer Mickey Mantle Billy Martin Yogi Berra Whitey Ford and Johnny Bucks. Bauer faces a felonious assault hearing after a Bronx delicatessen owner alleges injuries.
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Baseball Opens At Carbondale In Five Junior Leagues
Carbondale Junior Baseball League opens this week with 32 teams across Atom Bantam Midget Juvenile and Prep divisions. Two Midget games start the season with Bears vs Braves and Blues vs Tigers at 5 30 p m at Oakland and Attucks diamonds respectively. Tuesday features Atom Bees vs Sox Cubs vs Pups Jets vs Bugs at 5 30 p m and Nats vs Owls at 7 30 p m at B and related diamonds.
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Boxing Results From Stuttgart and Milwaukee Card
Archie Moore aged 187 from San Diego stopped Alain Cherville 199 from Belgium in Stuttgart. Wil Greaves 158 defeated Johnny Neal 154 in Stuebenville Milwaukee 6 rounds.
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Phillies surge as Reds split with Cubs in doubleheader
Philadelphia Phillies win their third straight by defeating Brooklyn 5-3 behind strong pitching and clutch hitting as Richie Ashburn Triples and Stan Lopata hits homer in a balanced attack. Cincinnati Reds sweep Chicago doubleheader with Thurman grand slam in the fourth. Milwaukee up to third after 3-1 over St Louis. White Sox maintain five game lead in AL with 4-1 win over Detroit.
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Olympic brass meets to iron out flaws
Evian France June 3 AP the 10 man executive board of the International Olympic Committee opened a week long discussion of policy and technical points in organizing the world’s greatest sports carnival no decisions can be made until the full IOC meets in Sophia Bulgaria in September a major issue is how to keep the festival manageable and a proposal to split the games into spring team events and summer individual events is debated though unlikely to gain support the 1960 games plan remains fixed Squaw Valley for winter and Rome for summer
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Standings and results from the baseball leagues
National League standings show Cincinnati leading with 28 wins and 15 losses. Philadelphia second at 25 and 16, Milwaukee 24 17, Brooklyn 23 17, St. Louis 20 20, New York 18 25, Chicago 13 26, Pittsburgh 13 28. Yesterday Milwaukee beat St. Louis, Cincinnati beat St Louis 6 to 2. Sixteen scheduled games listed with Brooklyn Philadelphia and others.
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Archie Moore Knocks Out Bel gian Champion in Stuttgart
Archie Moore defeated Belgian heavyweight champion Alain Cherville by knockout in the sixth round at Exhibition Hall Arena before about 8,000 fans. Moore, 21 years into his career, also expressed interest in a title fight with Sugar Ray Robinson, amid a possible summer bout proposal from promoter Jack Hurley to meet Robinson in Los Angeles.
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