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11 (Royal i Girl's Battle For Mat JCdrd May 8 t- A girls' elimination battle royal, featuring five of the nation leading feminine wrestling stars, Will take the feature spot on the riext VFW wrestling card to be held in Presser Hall on Saturday night. May 8. There will be no matches here this Saturday. A girls' battle royal starts ou with all of the five contestants in the ring at the opening bell. Each girl is out to pin any of her four rivals and anything goes with only strangle holds barred.

There is no time limit during the battle royal and it will continue until only two girls remain in the ring The first girl pinned is eliminated for the evening. The second and third girls, pinned'in that order, will return later to "battle it out for consolation honors. As soon as the third girl is pinned, the two girls remaining in the ring become the finalists and they retire to the dressing! room for a rest period. The girls' battle elimination will open the May 8 card. Following the elimination down to two unbeaten girls, the second and third contestants will meet in the consolation match which will go one fall with a 30-minute time Then the two undefeated finalists will meet for the elimination championship in a match that is slated to go one fall to a' time limit.

The gigantic mat card will be concluded with a men's heavyweight feature match' that is slated to go the best two out of three falls or a-90-minute time limit. VFW Matchmaker Jim Chemi said he is lining up the five girls to-sign contracts for the battle royal. The names of the girls who will compete in the free for- all elimination will be announced Jater this week. -In last Saturday's matches, Marshall Esteppe won by a disqualification over rowdy Lou Newman of Calgary, Canada. Esteppe took the first fall with an arinlock and press, then was awarded the deciding fall when Referee Sammy Feeback disqualified Newman for failing to stop the use of a strangle hold.

Ken Kenneth, Australian heavyweight came through with a STANDING OF THE CtUBS AMERICAN LEAGUE Club Cleveland .5 St. Louis' 4 Washington 5 New York 4 Philadelphia 4 Detroit 3 Boston 2 Chicago 1- L. Pet. 0 1.000 2 .667 .625 .571 .500 .375 .286 .143 3 3 4 5 5 6 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS St. Louis; Detroit, 8, 11 innings.

New York, Philadelphia, 2. Cleveland at Chicago, rain. Boston at Washington," rain. SCHEDULE Detroit at St. Louis, 2:30.

Cleveland at Chicago. Boston at Philadelphia. Washington at New York. NATIONAL LEAGUE Club W. L.

Pet. New York 7 2 .778 Chicago 4 3 .571 Philadelphia 4 4 .500 Pittsburgh 4 4 .500 St. Louis 3 3 .500 Cincinnati 4 5 .444 Brooklyn 3 5 .375 Boston 3 6 .333 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Boston, Brooklyn, 2. New York, Philadelphia, 1. Chicago, Cincinnati, 2.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, rain. TODAY'S SCHEDULE Chicago at Cincinnati. New York at Brooklyn. Philadelphia at Boston.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, night. VFWs, Westerns Win To Tighten Men's City Loop Race I The men's bowling league race continued to tighten as the VFWs downed the league-leading Pepsis 2 to 1 and the Westerns scored over the Alpens by the same margin. As a result, the Pepsis lead by two with the Alpens, the Royals and the Internationals in a three-way tie for second place. The Vets snared the opener against the Pepsis by three pins.

Pettey starred at anchor with 609 including, 223 single. F. Pearson had 586 and 226 for the losers. Woods led the Westerns on 583 and 211. The team reached 972 scratch in the second game.

W. Holtcamp, 560, and E. Branch 203, topped the Alpens. In the VFW state tournament at St Louis the doubles team Pulis and W. Cobb had 1166 on Pulis 1 470, Cobb's 447 and 249 pin handicap.

In singles Cobb had 497 plus 132-629 and Pulis 474 plus 117-591. Pepsis: Weakly 508; Beamo 487; Sannebeck 542; Ward 535 Pearson 586; total 2658. VFWs: Pulis 526; Cobb 510; Bryan 439; M. Fisher 429; Pettey 1 609; total 2690. Westerns: Romdall 484; Spicer 452; Hassler 525; Woods 583; Sims 532; total 2762.

Alpens: L. Fisher 502; Holtcamp 560; Soldan 482; Branch 554; F. Isaacs 510; total 2608. Brown Resigns As FHS Coach, To Miami Job Leonard Brown, Fulton High School coach, announced Tuesday that he had accepted a pbsi- ion as backfield coach at Miami, Fla.) high school. At Miami, Brown will be ng with his former coach at North Kansas City High, Roy Trench.

The Miami school has 2,500 pupils. A former all-Big Six quarterback and a graduate of Missouri University, Brown took over the coaching assignment at Fulton last fall, and guided the Hornets to an undefeated season in the Nemo League and the loop championship. Brown played under Chauncy Simpson at M. U. for two years, and his last year under Don Faurot.

He uses the formation developed at M. U. Brown's announcement came three days before the deadline for Fulton teachers to return their contracts. He said that the Miami offer of $3,500 represented a $1,100 yearly increase over his Fulton salary of $2,400. Laddonia Cardinals Are Organized The Cardinals, Laddonia baseball team, has organized with Bill Hutchinson, manager and treasurer; Clayton Lower, captain; Bobby Hutchinson, reporter and publicity; Delbert Lee Avery, transportation.

Other players are Jackie Folta, Tommy Cox, I Eupeiie Kauble, Carl Thompson, I Junior Tiller, Billy Martin, Jodie Tiller, Roger Lee French, Joe Remley, Don Fendrick, Dickie Fendrick, and Bobby Garnett. Season games scheduled with Mexico, Hill, Middletown, Martinsburg, Auxvasse, and New Florence. GARRETTS HAVE SON A seven pound, ounce son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Burton Garrett of Laddonia at the General hospital Tuesday after noon.

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