Duckpinners Reach Finals In One-Run Softball Thriller
Duckpinners edged Commercial & Savings Bank 16-15 in eight innings to reach the finals against Farmers & Merchants. Seckford Abrell starred in the eighth with a three run homer and key hits as darkness threatened the finish.
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Duckpinners
C&s
Commercial & Savings Bank
Som
Apse
Health Center
Farmers & Merchants’ Girls
Luttrell
Doris Conner
Maxine Miller
Judy Abreul
Darlene Conner
Hartman
Seckford
Wynn Beats Yankees 5-1 to Tighten AL Lead
Early Wynn, 14-3 this season, held New York to four hits in a 5-1 victory for the Chicago White Sox over the Yankees. A beanball scare from Jim Coates sparked Wynn to threaten the visitors as Chicago moved into sole possession of second place. Detroit, Washington, and Cleveland won behind strong late-inning runs and solid pitching.
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C&s
Doris
Duckpinners
Brown
Legg
Myers
Doris Conner
Chicago White Sox
New York
Yankees
Wynn
Yankee
Jim Coates
Umps
Coates
Billy Pierce
Yanks
Sox
Detroit Tigers
Baltimore
Orioles
Washington
Kansas City
Cleveland
Boston
Lew Burette
Louis
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Cincinnati
A Grba
Grba
Nellie Fox
Gene Freese
al Smith
al Lopez
Pierce
Tigers
Charlie Maxwell
Wes Stock
Detroit
Maxwell
Rocky Colavito
al Kaline
Bill Fischer
Harmon Killebrew
Reno Bertoia
Jack Kralick
Mudcat Grant
Mike de la Hoz
Indians
Frank Sullivan
Bowling action seals two wins in delayed Major League duel
Health Center Lanes hosted a postponed major league night with Cave leading a 372 series and Swartz and Sheetz bright spots for a pennant-winning lineup. Zimmerman’s 630 game helped Zimmerman's clinch the league title as teams like Brown-McCall and Carper-Easter vied for second place in the Tuesday League season kickoff.
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Bob Unger
Bill Roth
Ed Cookus
Bobby Butts
Donnie Cave
Cave
Zimmerman
Health Center
Joe Zimmerman
Mike Perry
Evan Creswell
Richard Sheetz
Charles Swartz
Swart
Betty Funkhouser
Phyllis Kiracofe
Eugene Funkhouser
Artie Kiracofe
Brown-McCall
Aggie McCall
Lightweights On Television Chicago Showdown
Substitute Le roy Jeffery faces Gene Gresham in a 10 round lightweight bout at Chicago Stadium televised by ABC at 9 p.m. EST. Jeffery, 24, replaces ill Doug Vailliant. Gresham, 22, ranked ninth by the NBA and holding a 25-1-1 pro record, seeks victory after a 1959 knockout loss while Jeffery owns an 18-2 mark with 15 knockouts.
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Chicago
Leroy Jeffery
Gene Gresham
Detroit
Jeffery
Doug Vailliant
Irving E. Slott
Illinois Athletic Commission
ABC
Gresham
National Boxing Assn
AAU
Candy McFarland
Boxing Roundup Of AP Results In Five Cities
In Los Angeles Jimmy Hornsby KOOs Oscar Ortegon in six. In Miami Beach Freddie Blades outpoints Sonny Ray over ten rounds. San Antonio’s Santiago Gutierrez defeats Karl Heinz Guder by decision in ten. In Phoenix Lauro Salas outpoints Chuck Flores over ten rounds.
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Los Angeles
Jimmy Hornsby
Oscar Ortegon
Robstown
Tex
Miami Beach
Fla
Freddie Blades
Fort Lauderdale
Sonny Ray
Chicago
San Antonio
Santiago Gutierrez
Karl Heinz Guder
Germany
Phoenix
Ariz
Lauro Salas
Monterrey
Mexico
Chuck Flores
Youngest PGA Member Leads Milwaukee Open First Round
Buzz Garvin a 19 year old from Denver led the Milwaukee Open qualifying with a 68 22 under par out of 81 players a field for the 72 hole medal play. Other qualifiers included Ed Meyerson Ray Montgomery and Tom Raney with 69 while low amateur Emil Esposito shot 72.
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Milwaukee
Buzz Garvin
Denver
Colo
Garvin
North Hills Country Club
Ed Meyerson
Los Angeles
Ray Montgomery
Indianapolis
Tom Raney
Little Rock
Ark
Bill Krause
Los Altos
Calif
Huston la Clair
Birmingham
Ala
Paul Farmer
Sacramento
Emil Esposito
Chicago
Olympics Veto Bikinis Motion Sparks Debate
The International Swimming Federation rejected a bid to relax swimsuit rules at the Olympics. Czech submitters urged two piece or similar styles, but the federation kept its single piece, modest, non transparent standard. Max Ritter of Jenkintown Pa. defended the existing rule.
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Rome
International Swimming Federation
Max Ritter
Jenkintown
Federation Executive Board
Dear Abby Advice Column Readers Voice In Everyday Strife
A reader panel of outsized domestic woes spans overworked husbands, teen pregnancy, workplace coercion, and large families. Letters seek guidance on marriage criticism, safe handling of a predatory supervisor, handling parental guilt, aging in-laws, and the burdens on the eldest daughters. Abby replies with practical counsel.
Firefighters Are Getting Best Of Wests Blazes
Firefighters hold back major blazes across California Nevada and the Black Hills South Dakota as 500 workers with bombers and bulldozers contain fires. In Nebraska 150 firefighters cap a 3000 acre blaze. Sierra fires burn 70000 acres with wildlife losses and log losses valued over four million dollars. Restoration efforts begin with seedings to prevent erosion and floods.
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Associated Press
California
Nevada
Sierra Nevada
Black Hills
South Dakota
Nebraska
Sierra
Truckee
Calif
Reno
West
Sowbelly Canyon
Chadron
Charles Dick Injured in Auto Accident
Charles Dick husband of Patsy Cline formerly of this city was seriously injured in an auto accident on Aug. 13 in Nashville Tennessee. He remains in General Hospital Nashville with a fractured skull and jaw and other fractures. His condition is reported as good as expected. Mrs Hilda Hensley mother of Mrs Dick has just returned from a visit with her son in Nashville.
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Abby
Charles Dick
Patsy Cline
Nashville
Tenn
General Hospital
Hilda Hensley
Mrs
Firefighters Contain Several Blazes Across South Dakota
Fire crews battled three major fires in the Black Hills and dispersed to 15 smaller fires in timberlands west of Hot Springs. The week-long activity scorched about 2 560 acres across the state.
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Abrell
Conner
Bankers
Taylor
Spiggle
Paugh
Kelchner
Anderson
Martha Kelchner
Evelyn Luttrell
Martha Taylor
Beverly Seckford
Beverly Hartman
New York Yankees
Virginia
Peggy Crisman
Ewing-Webber
Carper - Eastep
Kenneth Eastep
Peggy Eastep
Big Gun
Blair Webber
Castleberry-Lam
Snyder-Crisman
Ralph Lamp
Sonny Crisman
Maxine Patton
Conner-Patton
Floyd-Garrison
Channel Surf
Hebrides Isles
Hebrides
PGA
Dear Abby
Abigail van Buren
McGregor
Misty Isles
the Hebrides
Scotland
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