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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1963
Page
7
Deane Beman captured victory at the Eastern Amateur tournament in Portsmouth under AP coverage. Beman posted a decisive win to claim the title ahead of challengers in the regional event.
Bethes da, Md. native with a final-round 69 won the golf championship by three strokes, finishing 282 for 72 holes at Elizabeth Manor. He raised pace earlier, then slowed to conserve energy and staged a decisive par on the 16th after a three-way tie led by Smith and Garrett.
Lists leaders in major stats from the era including Groat and Pinson for hits and runs, Aaron and Flood for runs batted in, McCovey and Aaron for home runs, and Koufax and Drysdale for strikeouts. Includes batting, pitching, and fielding leaders with team associations and counts.
In a pair of Tuesday games at Rouss Park Gainesboro Rebels edged Oak Grove 9-8 with a ninth inning rally. Eddie Newcome issued a bases loaded walk to force the winning run as Calvin Davis drove in the decisive single.
The Senators beat the Tigers 13 to 11 at Rouss Park in TAC League playoff action. A nine run second inning gave the Senators a 10-1 lead, while Dennis Oates allowed seven Tigers hits. Allen Grim earned the win with Punchy Bromley in relief as Jimmy Shanholtz pitched for the Tigers. Bromley also led the Senators with a single, double and triple.
In Miami Beach Luis Rodriguez defeated Denny Moyer by technical knockout. In Tokyo Takeshi Nakamura outpointed Puntip ke osurya. In Sanremo Salvatore Burrini stopped Jacques Jacob.
Arnold Palmer, playing Firestone Country Club, meets Jacky Cupit and Phil Rodgers in a Tuesday playoff for the final World Series of Golf berth. The World Series will be Sept 7-8 at Firestone, joining Julius Boros Bruce Cherwell and Jack Nicklaus who already qualified.
In Mangrove Mountain New South Wales farmers report giant rabbits showing apparent immunity to myxomatosis and standing on hind legs. Scientists say the creatures are not a new master race, but a natural development in the long rabbit battle.
Syrian troops fired automatic weapons twice at Israeli workers near the claimed Huleh area in the upper Jordan Valley. An Israeli patrol returned the fire. No Israeli casualties were reported.
The article traces the rabbit's rise from 1859 release by Thomas Austin in Geelong Victoria to mass bounties in 1887. It details myxomatosis in 1949, 200 million deaths by 1951, resistance issues, and the 1080 poison era around 1959 with Mangrove outbreaks of super rabbits menacing orchards and delaying growers by years.
The city hosts the second annual City Tennis Tournament with 21 entries in the men's A division. Five rounds planned tonight after two forfeits on opening day. Championships to be decided in men's singles and doubles and women's singles and doubles this week.
In Saginaw Michigan the WBA restored Carlos Ortiz to the lightweight championship on the condition he sign to meet the Lane Armstead winner by year end. Lane and Armstead, top contenders, reacted angrily as officials insisted Ortiz face the winner in a future bout.
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