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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1961
Page
10
The Associated Press notes six major turf stakes on Saturday with $400,000 in purses. Two top handicaps headline the program as horses from Gold & Pal Wat Ganeen and Farm's Worky race for stakes money.
Softball action scheduled for tomorrow night at Senseng Park features three games. The F and M Bank Girls travel from Rich mond to face Tri City, a Class A club, in a promising scrap. Coca Cola meets TACs in another City League matchup, with two Church League games also on tonight’s slate.
McDonald led a 1717 series with a 160 game and a 399 set as Shenandoah News posted a 1717 total at Health Center Lanes. Ronnie Boyd and Mac Hyde each 124 paced Shenandoah News, Edwin Fiddler 126 for Lucky Five, Doc Hill 156 in undefeated Health Centr Grill win, and Mary Louise Miller 353 set for Duckpinners with 103 season average.
The United States faces Russia in a high profile track meet with events across sprints middle distances field events and relays. The meet uses a five three two one scoring system and features nations competing in multiple disciplines led by US sprinter Jim Elliott in the 100 and 500 meters.
Howard of New York leads AL batting with .366 on 175 at bats or more while Cash of Detroit hits .355. Mantle leads in runs with 75 and Maris adds 74. Gentile and Mantle top RBIs with 82 and 76. Kubek and Robinson pace hits with 104 and 105.
The Winchester Junior American Legion team hosts Front Royal tomorrow at 2 p.m. at Rouss Park in the second of a six game series. Winchester leads 1-0 after an 11-2 win Wednesday. The series winner advances to the State Legion playoffs with two more wins needed for four.
Virginia Schneider led High Ballers to a victory over the Chuckers with 106 points, while Nellie Vaughn 105 and Pearl Hepler 100 also contributed strong scores for the winners. The Four Aces saw 114 and Nellie Vaughn 105 in a separate tally.
Plot lists leaders by team and stat for the season. Clemente tops at bats with 359 for Pittsburgh. Altman and Mays lead runs with 74 and 68 respectively. Cepeda leads RBIs with 77. Pinson has 111 hits. Mays and Clemente tied for 21 doubles. Altman and Clemente share 8 triples. Pinson leads stolen bases with 13. Robinson, Cepeda, Mays tied for 24 homers. Koufax tops strikeouts with 141.
Cincinnati leads the National League by five games as Frank Robinson rockets to a .327 average with 24th homer and 32 RBIs in 27 games since June 15. O'Toole pitched the Reds to a 4-3 win over Chicago while the Dodgers beat Philadelphia and Milwaukee thumped St Louis.
The page lists New York beating Chicago 6 to 2 and Cincinnati defeating Chicago 4 to 3 with several rain affected or nighttime games. It outlines today’s and Saturday’s and Thursday’s schedules including Kansas City at Washington and Baltimore at Boston among others with multiple intraleague matchups.
Torrential rain empties the course forcing cancellation of two final rounds and a reset to Saturday. Arnold Palmer, one stroke off the lead, drops to a tie for second after a penalty on the 16th hole changes his position while Kel Nagle Harold Henning and Dai Rees vie for the Open.
The Yankees rout Chicago 6 2 to move into first place four percent in front of Detroit as Mantle and Maris continue Babe Ruth era pace. Mantle has 30 homers in 84 games and Maris 34 in 84. Ruth had 30 in 98 games. Early Wynn took the loss for Detroit while Jim Grant struggled for Cleveland as Jim Killebrew homered for Minnesota in a separate AL results roundup.
Schedule shows cross league games including Milwaukee at St Louis Philadelphia at Los Angeles Pittsburgh at San Francisco and Philadelphia at Los Angeles with the pairings listed for the session.
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