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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                18 the stars and stripes saturday August 29, 1959 Olmedo opens . Defense of Davis cup Forest Hills  Dpi Alex Olmedo and Barry Mackay hammered through a Brilliant workout on the Center court whereas they boomed . Hopes for a successful defense of the Davis cup against Australia starting Friday. We re ready and feeling fit said team Captain Perry Jones Losangeles. I m convinced our boys will , the 23-year-old Wimble Don Champion from Peru who Al most single Anderly lifted the cup from the australians a year ago Mackay Olmedo . Favored in 5 opening pan am events Chicago up pomp an ceremony Over the pan american games settled Down Friday to their objective athletic Competition. Up for Gold medals were the Hammer throw High jump and 10,000-meter run in men s track and Field the women s javelin throw and the bantamweight Welgh lift ing championships. Of those Only in the 10,000 meters did the . Figure to lose. Oswaldo Suarez Argentina was a top heavy 10,000-meter favorite Over three . Entries Robert Soth Alex Fireck Enridge and Rols sell Bennett. The . S Best bet Inthis event Max Truex withdrew to compete in the 5,000-meter run Only. The . Looked for a sweep in Phillies trip giants in twin Bill 7-2,2-1 Chison whip red sox 5-1, boost Lead opens the defense against austra Lia s ranking player Neale Fraser. Mackay 23-year-old airman third class from Dayton Ohio then plays 21-year-old Rod Laver a red Haire Southpaw sensation who beat bar by Latman at Wimbledon to reach the final where he lost to Olmedo. In saturday s doubles Jones was expected to throw Olmedo and 18-year-old Earl Buchholz St. Louis against Fraser and Roy Emerson Australia s Wimbledon and . Champions. The singles Windup sunday will pit Olmedo against Laver and Mackay against Fraser. Our players Are in Peak form said coach Eddie Moylan of the . Team. No aches no pains and no problems. All they re waiting for is to go out there and serve with All they be got. If they re serving Well nothing else  curfew waive the opening match Friday was scheduled for 2 pm. Both captains Jones and Australia s Harry hop Man agreed to waive the arbitrary 7 pm curfew in the event any match was not finished by that time. They agreed to let me be the judge of How Long play will be Al Lowed to continue said referee Levan Richards Falls Church a. It would be up to me to decide whether there is enough Daylight left. Certainly there should be Light enough after 7 pm. If i tried to halt an unfinished match then there might be a  Luck of the draw putting Olmedo in the first match was a break for the . The Moody peruvian thus will know exactly what time he has to get the show on the Road. It also suited Fraser. No fun sitting i like to know where i stand too said the 25-year-old aussie Ace. It s no fun sitting around waiting for someone to finish a match before you can get  situation might work against Laver who never has played a match in a Challenge  Clung to his prediction of a 3-2 Victory for the aussies hoping to win the doubles with Fraser and Emerson and that both Fraser and Laver could defeat Mackay in singles. Chicago a right hander Barry Latman Hel Boston to one run and Reserve Catcher John Romano drove in three runs As the Chicago White sox whipped the red sox 5-1, thursday and raised their league Lead Over the second place Cleveland indians to a game and a half Ted Williams opened the ninth with his 10th Home run of the season to ruin Latman s shutout bid. The 23-year-old hurler Hdson seven games and lost five. After Williams Homer and an ensuing cutout Vic Wertz singled and Frank Mai zone walked. Gerry Staley relieved Latman and struck out Pete Daley and Jim Busby to end the , stepping into the clean up spot to give Veteran Sherm Lollar a rest before Chicago s important four game series in Cleve land beginning Friday night drove in Chicago s first two runs in the third. Long single with two out Nelson Fox and Jim Landis singled. Then Romano drove a single deep into Loftfield scoring Fox from second and Landis All the Way from first. Romano who entered the game hitting 291, drove in Landis again in the sixth. Landis had singled and moved around to third on bos on Pitcher Frank Baumann s wild How aimed at picking him off first. Romano s second single brought him Home. The White sox added their final two runs in the eighth inning to the Delight of a crowd of 24,879,including 9,193 screaming female fans taking advantage of ladies Day on an infield grounder by Billy Goodman and a Triplet deep enter by Jim Mcanany. 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Mcanany in h 7 0% a h o8vi b % 0 r Erbb so 3310 s 2 8 000 i 1 2 0002 21-14 system to win too Paris up Pierre Oiler a Paris chemist originated the Parl Mutual form of race track betting in 1865. Philadelphia up last place Philadelphia thursday stunned league leading san Francisco with a double reverse when the Phillies homered their Way to a 7-2 Victory in the opener and then nipped the weary giants 2-1, in the Nightcap. The double loss trimmed the giants Lead Over the los Angeles dodgers to two games going into Friday s series be tween the first and second place teams at Losangeles. V Jim Owens who contributed a bases loaded single was the first game Winner As he went the route and. Don Cardwell spelled for two innings by Dick Farrell won the second. Crashing Home runs by de Bou Chee Joe Koppe and Gene Freese enabled the Phillies to break a six game losing Streak and defeat Rigney raps rescheduling of 2 gainer Philadelphia a an angry Bill Rigney said that National league president Warren lies could have Given his san Francisco giants More consideration in rescheduling last sunday s rained out doubleheader with the Philadelphia Phillies for thurs Day you d think we were a last place club or something the consideration we were Given Rig Ney said after the giants who appeared tired dropped the first game 7-2. They lost the second Aswell 2-1. The giants arrived Here at 2 30am from Pittsburgh after losing in 10 innings to the pirates 5-4. Did Rigney agree the giants looked tired on the Field was i because of arriving so late Well what would you think i such a Case Rigney said sarcastically. Sure they looked  Giles action did t make it any easier on us. We weren t even consulted. But i Don t plan any pro test. No i did t Chew the Fellows out. They be been playing their Heads off and they la continue to do so As soon As we can get breather. And Don t forget we re still  Fisher Hooks crowns to Gulf Tennis meet Baton Rouge la. A Sec Ond seeded Ronnie Fisher Houston won the men s singles title in the fifth annual Gulf states Tennis championships by beating another texan top seeded Jim Schmidt Sou Lake 6-2, 6-8, 6-4. Fisher teamed with new Orleans Ronnie Fenasci to defeat Schmidt and Wayne Parker Beaumont tex.,6-3,v4-6, 6-3, in the men s doubles. Brown Kos cuban in 7th of no title scrap Baton Rouge la. A world lightweight Champion Joe Brown making the first ring appearance in his Hometown since be fore world War ii knocked out cuban Santiago Ramirez thursday night in 39 seconds of the seventh round. The bout was a no title Over the weight Benefit affair. Brown weighed 138%, ramirez136%, ,. The Champion floored the non ranking contender for counts of eight in the first and third round before putting an end to the fight with two Quick lefts to the body and a right to the  caught most of the punch ing on his shoulders and  his title not at stake he seemed in Little hurry before the crowd estimated at 3,000. After flooring Ramirez with a right Cross that landed High on the head in the first round Brown held Back until the third whence put several combinations to work and dropped Ramirez with another  end came suddenly when Ramirez leaped in with a looping right and Brown caught him witha counterpunch. Ramirez dropped face Down in a Neutral Corner and rolled Over at the count of seven but did t get up. Bouchee Anderson Mike Mccormick for the first time this season in the opener which was marked by a wild rhubarb when the giants pitchers beaded Harry Anderson in the sixth in Ning. Phillies players streamed fro the dugout and a groggy Anderson was held Back in attempts to reach Mccormick. The big outfielder with cuts about his ear from where his helmet was crushed against his head was taken to Temple University Hospital for a rays. They proved negative and he returned in time to suit up for the second game. Mccormick departs Mccormick who had beaten the phils five times this season was shaken visibly by the incident which followed homers by Koppe and Freese giving the Phillies a 3-1 Lead. The fired up Home club then went on to Nail it Down. Mccormick pitched three straight balls to George Anderson and was lifted for Gordon Jones. He finished the walk to Anderson and then walked Joe Lonnett to Load the bases. Owens singled Home two runs and Richie Ashburn singled Home the fifth run of the inning before Dfisher got the Side out. All of the scoring in the second game came in the first inning when Al Worthington attempted to duplicate his Victory of last week Over the phils. Willie Mays hit his 22d Homer in the first inning but that was As far As the giants got with card Well. The phils scored their two runs when Solly Drake walked to open the game and went to third on Koppe s single. Bouchee hit a Sac Rifice Fly and after Koppe moved to second on an infield out scored what proved to be the winning run when Wally Post single sharply to left. Box scores on Page 2% stud playing for keeps Boston up like pee wee Reese of the los Angeles dodgers Boston celtics Star Bill Sharman was a Marble shooting can Union during his youth in Portelle Calif. The Hammer throw with world rec or Holder Harold Connolly Al Hall and Bob Backus As its entrants. In the High jump world record Holder Charlie Dumas Harold Wil Liams and Vance Robinson figured to be better than anyone the other23 competing nations from North and South America had in Thefield. Marjorie Larney appeared the Best bet in the women s javelin with Amelia Wood and Margare Scholler her chief threats. � Charles Vinci jr., Cleveland the defending pan american Champion who also won the 1955 olympic title looked like a standout for the Gold medal in bantamweight weightlifting. Each nation is permitted Only one entrant in each weightlifting division. In All Competition in 12 sports was to Start Friday. On the schedule were qualifying heats for the 400-meter hurdles,100-meter dash and 800-meter run in men s track and. Field and the 60-meter run for women. In soccer the . Meets Argen Tina where the . Admittedly had Little Chance. The games drawing 2,200 ath letes from 24 nations in the West Ern hemisphere were officially opened in Chicago s 90-degree heat thursday a crowd of about 35,000 far below expectations and the 100,000 capacity of Soldier Field hear Chicago mayor Richard j. Hadley declare the games open after  Eisenhower acting for his brother president had bid the ath letes Welcome and Good Luck Chicago a pole vaulter Don Bragg s infected right Heel is responding to treatment and he May be Able to compete saturday in his specially at the pan Amer ican games. The Heel is responding to treat ment said or. Willis Jacobus los Angeles one of the physicians forthe . Team. We re not sure yet but he maintains he s going to compete. Well take him out of the Hospital  Bragg 24-year-old husky from Penns Grove n.j., was hospitalized wednesday. He developed a Blister which became infected on his right Heel while wearing a new pair of Street shoes. Bragg holds the world indoor record of 15 feet 9v6 inches. Louisville seeks pro Grid team new York a two Louis v i 11 e representatives conferred with Harry Wismer member of a three Man expansion committee thursday on prospects of a Louis Ville franchise in the proposed american football league. The kentuckians were Bill Henry director of promotions at the Kentucky fair and exposition Center and George l. Baker Louisville and Chicago advertising executive. Baker represents a Louisville Syndicate which is putting up the Money for the project. Other Mem Bers of the group were not identified. Henry came As a representative of the state. Six cities already Are included in the framework. They Are Newyork Dallas Houston Denver los Angeles and Minneapolis St. Paul. Prep grinder puts Best feet Forward Dayton Ohio a foot Ball practice two grueling hours of it was Over for the Day at. Wilbur Wright High school. Assistant coach Joun Schoedler asked the youths any complaints if this is the time to file com plaints i be got one said Asomau freshman. I be got two left   
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