Trojans Eye NCAA Track Crown at Minnesota Meet
USC enters 14 athletes the largest team among 97 schools for the NCAA track and field meet at Memorial Stadium, led by Melvin Patton and other stars. The 68 year old coach Dean Cromwell seeks a final championship after a record career with 12 team titles and many individual champions.
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Robert W. Hefty
Minneapolis
U.P
University of Southern California
USC
Trojans
University of Minnesota
Memorial Stadium
Melvin “Pell-Mel” Patton
Dean Cromwell
Southern Cal
Wily
Cromwell
Illinois
Navy
Illini
NCAA
Ilinois
Patton
Trojan
Bob Chambers
Roland Sink
Wells Deloach
John Montgomery
National meet crowns top women golfers in Columbus
Sixteen leading college girls compete in match play for the 1948 national women's collegiate golf championship in Columbus Ohio Grace Lenczyk of John B Stetson University leads as favorite after a record 72 in the 18 hole qualifying round Defending champion Shirley Spark of Michigan State Normal also advances Rollins College wins the team title with 346 strokes per the qualifying scores Championship pairings list Marie Jacks of Arizona vs Rosann Shaffer of Rollins College.
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Columbus
Grace Lenczyk
Newington
Ohio State University
Little Carol
Babe” Freese
Reed College
Portland
Ore
Rollins College of
Winter Park
Fla
Marie Jacks
University of Arizona
Rosann Shaffer
Rollins College
Chavez Set for Comeback Match Tonight in L A
Chavez aims for a comeback in an Olympic Auditorium main event against Mario Trigo. Trigo, a switch-hitting Mexican contender, is favored to win.
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Los Angeles
W.p— Fabela Chavez
Olympic’ Auditorium
Mario Trigo
Trigo
Budge Rises to Round of 16 in Forest Hills Pro Tennis
Red haired Don Budge of Hollywood California advances to the second round at Forest Hills in the National professional tennis tournament. He faces Jerry Adler as Wayne Sabin meets Dinny Pails in the other singles match. Four players reach the quarterfinals: Kramer Kovacs Van Horne Segura. Defending champion Bobby Riggs also wins in straight sets.
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New York
U.P
Don Budge
Hollywood
Calif
Toany
Forest Hills
Budge
Jerry Adler
White Plains
N. Y
Wayne Sabin
Breton Woods
N. H
Dinny Pails
Australia
Jack Kramer
Frank Kovacs
Welby van Horne
Pancho Segura
Kramer
Robbert Stubbs
Scarsdale
Segura
Carle Earn
Los Angeles
Kovacs
Bob Harnfon
van Horne
John Nogrady
Bobby Riggs
Ernest Koslan
Mexico Olympic Cagers Triumph Over Pepperdine
Mexico's Olympic basketball team defeated Pepperdine College 61 to 44 in Mexico City to take a 2-1 lead in the five game series. Lowther 11 points for Pepperdine, while Galindo 10 led Mexico with Rojas and Acuna each 7. Remaining games set for Wednesday and Friday.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Pepperdine College
Los Angeles
Calif
Lowther
Furlong
Smart
Galindo
Rojas
Acuna
Phillies Sign Two School Stars From West Coast
San Francisco June 15. Outfielders Maurice Nordell 17 who hit .422 at Turlock high school and Harold Wallace 20 from Fresno State were signed by the Philadelphia Phillies yesterday by Scout Don McShane. They will report to Klamath Falls Oregon for the Far West league.
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San Francisco
Maurice Nordell
Turlock High School
Harold Wallace
Fresno State
Philadelphia Phillies
Don McShane
Klamath Falls
Ore
Lions Schedule Three Exhibition Games For Fall
The Detroit Lions arranged three non championship exhibition games for the fall against NFL rivals. A night charity game with the Philadelphia Eagles is set for Sept. 2 at University of Detroit Stadium, sponsored by the Variety Club of Detroit. Other exhibitions will be against the New York Giants on Sept. 7 at Atwood Stadium in Flint Michigan and the Pittsburgh Steelers in Pittsburgh on Sept. 12.
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Detroit
Detroit Lions
National Football League
Lions
Philadelphia Eagles
University of Detroit
Variety Club of
New York Giants
Atwood Stadium
Flint
Mich
Pittsburgh Steelers
Pittsburgh
Pasadena Hurler Wins Helms Award for JC Baseball
Bob Johnston, a 5 foot 3 inch pitcher from Pasadena City College, was named junior college player of the year by the Helms Athletic Foundation baseball board. He won nine games and lost one, batted .464, and led his team to the Western State conference crown.
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Los Angeles
Bob Johnston
Pasadena City College
Helms Athletic Foundation
Johnston
Jockey Nichols Injured at Hollywood Park Practice
Inglewood Calif June 15 United Press Jockey Jimmy Nichols sustained a broken ankle after being thrown by Mrs Rea Warners Capt Flagg on the main track at Hollywood Park during a Monday practice workout. Nichols was reported nursing the injury Tuesday evening.
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Garson Baily
Nichols
Inglewood
Calif
U.P
Jimmy Nichols
Rea Warners
Flagg
Hollywood Park
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