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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1959
Page
11
Former Redskin star Eddie LeBaron played for Coach Stagg at the College of the Pacific in Stockton, a detail tied to his early football career and the school’s storied program.
Otto Graham will use an individual substitution strategy in the All Star game against the Baltimore Colts at Soldier Field. The Colts are 16 point favorites in the telecast on ABC at 8:30 p.m. EST. The lineup features quarterbacks Lee Grosscup, Buddy Humphrey, Bob Newman, Bob Ptacek, with Dick Petitbon on defense and receivers Kreitling Sherer Dowler among others.
Miller and Anderson No. 1 defeated favored Buncutter Oil 5 to 4 yesterday morning. Hitting leaders included Whitacre and Plotner for M and A while Kuykendall led Buncutter with a triple and single. M and A faces ShoeCenter today at 1 p.m. for the title.
Stan Musial was benched for the remainder of the season by the St. Louis Cardinals as manager Bing Devine outlined plans to play younger players. The 38 year old NL star expressed optimism about returning in 1960 despite a .261 batting average this year.
New York AP reports Alonzo Johnson rose to world No.7 among heavyweight contenders in six months. He meets Argentina's Alex Miteff at Madison Square Garden in a 10 round showdown aired on NBC radio and TV at 9 p m EST. Johnson, 17-1 with five KOs, has won 13 straight since losing to Cortez Stewart early in his career. He is backed as a 7 to 5 favorite and hails from Braddock Pennsylvania though fights out of Pittsburgh.
A $200000 factory to employ about 100 people will be built south of Martinsburg at Tabler Station along the Pennsylvania Railroad. Construction starts now with occupancy hoped by December 1 if steel is available. Milton Shifman and the Berkeley County Development Corporation announced plans. eight acres purchased off Rt. 11. Products include mattresses box springs bunk beds divans and dual-sleep furniture. Newark plant remains in operation.
About 1 000 Maine wood processing plants operate producing roughly 500 million dollars' worth of wood products each year.
Early Wynn nears 20 wins at age 40 as he notches his 16th victory guiding the Chicago White Sox to a 9-0 win over Detroit. The win hushes talk of other leaders and inches Wynn toward 300 career wins.
Front Royal defeated Phoebus 48 in the third game of the baseball championship. The Western Zone champions now trail the Eastern champion Phoebus by one game in the best of five. Bob Pickrell pitched seven shutout innings after an early three run flare. Hugh Boyd had three hits in five at bats.
Mamie Eisenhower arrives in Denver to spend most of the day with her mother Mrs. John S. Doud 81 in frail health. A Secret Service agent said Mrs. Doud is believed no worse than during a prior visit. The Denver Post notes a recent slight cerebral hemorrhage.
Sidi bel Abbes in Algeria serves as the headquarters of the French Foreign Legion, central to the unit's operations in Africa.
Seattle defeated Phoenix 2 to 1 while Portland triumphed 5 1 over Sacramento. The brief results list two NBA style scores showing city teams and final tallies.
League President Shirley Chug White announced the A League will start its 1959 60 season Monday September 14 at 7 p.m. at Health Center Lanes. All twelve teams remain, with Novick Transfer defending its championship and a 550 team average limit set for the season.
In Kansas City Harry Murphy Jr. a 10 year old pitcher nicknamed Murphy the Great will throw the ceremonial first pitch before the Kansas City Athletics host the Chicago White Sox Saturday night. Murphy led his Peewee League team to a perfect 7-0 season with no-hitters in every game and pitched six no hitters in 18 innings.
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