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Fag 11 HsttfeAurs AMERICAN Wednesday, June 26, 1968 Dixie Senior Foul weather plagues Wimbledon net tourney 'A 1 1 I aw I. 1 2 plead innocent to robbery charge Two Negro men charged with the June 19 armed robbery of a liquor store owner pleaded innocent Tuesday afternoon when arraigned in Forrest County Court. Jimmie Lee Coleman and Edgar Johnson, both of Hatties-burg, are accused of threatening Aaron Morris with a pistol and taking $500 from him. Morris operates Morris Package Store on Lee St. He told officers two men wearing white hoods entered the store about 10 p.

robbed him and locked him in a rear room. Coleman and Johnson were denied bond by Judge Harold Cubley, who remanded them to county jail to await action of a grand jury which convenes July 8. Two wrestling title matches set Thursday Two championship matches and a girls contest highlight one of the best wrestling schedules ever Thursday night at the Hattiesburg Auction Arena on Elizabeth Ave. The first championship match, fo rthe Gulf oCast title, features defending champion Rocket Monroe against challenger Pepsi Perez. The second title match, for the Gulf Coast tag team belts, pits the Interns, managed by Dr.

Jerry Graham, against Bobby Fields and Cowboy Bob Kelly. Rounding out the card will be a girls wrestling match between Ann Casey and Mae Young. The doors open at 7 at the Auction Arena and the first match gets started at 8:30. Tickets will be available at the door. -r iifl 72 Leaders win close games Pepsi-Cola nipped Woodward Electric 4-3 and Police Dept.

stopped Natchez Electric 3-1 in two close Hattiesburg Dixie Senior League games Tuesday night at Greater Hattiesburg Park. In the first game Mike Smith was the winning pitcher for Pepsi-Cola and Hiram Lucius was tagged with the loss for Woodward. Dusty Freeman led the winners with two singles and Steve Moore added a double. Al Aimmons had a single and double for the winners. In the second contest Buddy Davenport was the winner for Police and Bobby Myrick took the loss for Natchez.

No one had more than one single for the winners and Dennis Wilson led the losers with a triple. Standings: Team Won Lost Pepsi-Cola 4 2 Police Dept. 4 2 Natchez Elec. 3 3 Woodward Elect. 1 5 WMiMH eajielaaiaaiffiiftl years ago.

He won his first round match Tuesday, defeating Ramanathan Krishnan of India 6-2, 6-4, 6-3. Hoad 33 year old Australian who turned pro after winning Wimbledon in 1957, defeated another Indian, Jaidip Mukerjea, in three straight sets Monday. Herb Fitzgibbon, 26, from Garden City, N.Y., claimed Monday's honors by knocking out Nikki Pilic of Yugoslavia 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-2. That was the tournament's first upset of a pro by an amateur. Pilic, a semi-finalist at last year's Wimbledon, was the No.

16 seed. The two top seeds in the women's singles both professionals got off the mark with victories. Defending champion Mrs. Billie Jean King of Long Beach, downed U.S. Wightman Cupper Peaches Bartkowicz of Hamtramck, 7-5, 6-4.

Mrs, Ann Jones of Britain, last year's defeated By GEOFFREY MILLER Associated Press Sports Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Bad weather is casting a cloud over the first Open Wimbledon tennis championship and threatening to put added strain on the veteran pros. After two days hit heavily by rain, 14 of the 64 scheduled matches in the first round of the men's singles still hadn't been started. Tournament referee Mike Gibson, said: ''It's the older pros like Pancho Gonzales and Lew Hoad I feel sorry for. "Normally we space out the singles matches so that players get a day's rest between rounds. But because the weather has interfered so much with the program, we shall not be able to avoid asking them to play on consecutive days." Gonzales, 40, from Los Angeles, is competing in the All-England tournament for the first time since he turned pro 19 mond; Mrs.

Redmond; and Mrs. Pearl Collins, her granddaughter, (Staff photo by Jim Ellis) BIRTHDAY PARTY Celebrating the 106th birthday of Mrs. Mary P. Redmond, 267 Graveline St. Tuesday were from left; her 70-year-old son, Howard Red finalist, overcame Kathy Harter of Seal Beach, 6-0, 4-6, At age 106, she would like only to see all of her family sitting on a porch with her older brothers and sisters listening to the sounds of a music box.

She does remember walking several miles to and from school for four or five years and learning to read and write. Of her long life Mrs. Redmond says only, "The good Lord ust let me live." Current events READING CLUB Children In grade levels from the first through the sixth are invited to register through June 29 for the Hattiesburg Public Library Summer Reading Club. PLAY AT SOUTHERN The suspense drama, "Dracula," will be presented at 8 nightly through Saturday, at the Red Barn Playhouse on the USM campus. Call 266-7400 for reservations.

Tickets are on sale at the box office. At 106, Mrs. Mary P. Redmond has only one wish for the future to see all of her family, including several great-great-grandchildren whom she has never seen. Mrs.

Redmond, whose birthday was Tuesday, has two sons, the youngest of Hattiesburg and the eldest of Los Angeles. She has three grandchildren, eight great- grandchildren and 12 great-great-grandchildren. Owen Houlditch assistant dis-says only, "The good Lord just trict manager of the Hattiesburg Social Security District Office, Tuesday delivered a personal birthday greeting from Robert M. Ball, commissioner of Social Security, to Mrs. Redmond at her home, 267 Graveline St.

She has been a social security beneficiary since September, 1941, and has received a widow's benefit since the death of her husband in 1950. Her sons, age 73 and 70, also receive social security benefits. Aresidentof Hattiesburg since 1912, Mrs. Redmond was born on a plantation a few miles from Okolona. She lived on a farm with her husband before she moved to Hattiesburg in 1912.

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