Bocock Sweeps Winchester Speedway with Three Wins
Staunton ace Lewis Bocock dominated the Winchester Airport Speedway events, sweeping the Modifieds by winning two heats and the feature. Smokey Stover and Reuben McBee also won heats or features, as track speeds and late starts shaped a fast, record-quick afternoon with upcoming $1,000 season money in sight.
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Jackie Clare
Jack Dennison
Dick Hansberger
Buddy Stinespring
Winchester
Bob Crosen
Carroll Bridgeforth
Northern Virginia Racing Association
Ray Dover
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Crosen
Moran
Hansberger
Dovel
McBee
Bears Explode Over Steelers for 3rd in Row
Chicago Bears win their third straight exhibition game, beating the Pittsburgh Steelers 54-17. The Bears feature a three-pronged passing attack led by Ed Brown and Rudy Bukich with Zeke Bratkowski limited. Denveall and McColl caught TD passes, Brown scored, and the Bears outpaced several other NFL teams in weekend action.
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Rudy Bukich
Zeke Bratkowski
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Bill McColl
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Indians Fall Flat as White Sox Sweep Clinches Near Pennant
Chicago's go go White Sox crushed Cleveland in a four game set to tighten their hold on the pennant. Wynn and Latman led two Sox wins as Smith drove in three runs and Lown closed the second game. Don Messina shutout Kansas City helping Detroit, while Boston and Washington also won.
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Frank Sullivan
Gene Stephens
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Hoyt Wilhelm
Bob Alison
Jim Lemon
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Tex Clevenger
Hector Lopez
Sabotage claims overshadow AFL Dallas Houston plans
Lamar Hunt and Bud Adams press ahead with AFL franchise operations in Dallas and Houston despite NFL expansion moves. Hunt labels NFL sabotage as Los Angeles talks proceed for a 1960 launch, while Houston plans proceed against opposition from the Houston Sports Association.
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Houston Sports Assn
Local Bowling Leagues Open 1959 Season At Health Center Lanes
Thursday night Jack Hoover death span kicks off 1959-60 bowling slate at Health Center Lanes with Independent Loop a 12 team circuit at 9 15 p m Defending champ is Sanitary Dairy Friday 8 30 Pearl Ebert Evening Star Ladies League begins 33 week duckpin season with Buncutter Oil defending titlist Star Loop marks 24th straight season at Health Center syndicate aims to bring pro football and baseball to Houston Hunt opponents in Dallas include Sid Murchison Jr and Bedford Wynne Expansion of Dallas Houston to NFL unlikely until owners meet in January Bill Keyton reminds C League captains to meet at Health Center Lanes Wednesday 8 p m Season opening match Virginia Gentleman Girls beat Pauls TV 1696 1634 Evening Star Girls totals 535 527 551 plus 83 handicap Sol Veasey’s 342 pace winners. Pauls TV led by Bill Keyton 158 with four spares and strikes
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Pearl Ebert
Evening Star Ladies League
Buncutter Oil
Star Loop
Houston
Hunt
Dallas
Sid Murchison Jr
Bedford Wynne
Virginia Gentleman Girls
Paul
Evening Star Girls
Phoebus Sneaks Past New Orleans For Sectional Title
In Sumter South Carolina Phoebus Virginia edged New Orleans 2 1 in 12 innings to win the American junior baseball Section B title and advance to the Little World Series in Hastings Nebraska. Relief pitcher A J Krail threw six spotless innings before a costly error doomed him as the loss. Bobby Ball lead Phoebus with a double and a single while George Jones earned the win in relief.
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Ronnie Bottoms
David Walton
Krall
Miller
Phoebus
Hastings
Neb
Winer
George Jones
Walton
Bobby Ball
New Orleans
Joe Deathine
Major League Monday Games and Weekend Results
The schedule lists Monday games New York at Baltimore and Washington at Boston with no designation. Sunday results show Chicago 6 9, Cleveland 3 4, Washington 3 New York 1, Boston 3 Baltimore 0, Detroit 4 Kansas City 0. Saturday results include Chicago 2 Cleveland 0, Boston 4 Baltimore 1, New York 9 Washington 5, Detroit 9 Kansas City 3.
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Philadelphia
Fourth inning rally lifts New Orleans in tense matchup
New Orleans tied the score in the fourth as Allan Montreuil singled and stole second, was sacrificed to third by Robert Neider, and scored on Merrill Vitter's sacrifice fly to left. Hugh aead was saced to third in a later sequence as Ball's dau- scored on a similar gain.
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