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...score: ab r h rbi Bergantino, 3b 4 1 1 0 Shue, ph, 3b 1 0 0 0 Cleary, 2b 2 3 1 2 Harrington, 2b 1 0 0 0 Simourian, 1b 3 2 3 1 Hastings, ss 3 2 2 3 Botsford, rf 4 1 1 3 Getch, 1f 2 1 1 0 Fisher, 1f 1 0 0 0 Stahura, cf 5 1 2 0 Haughey, c 3 1 0 2 Bernstein, p 0 0 0 0 McGinnis, p 2 1 0 0 Hathaway, ph 1 0 0 0 Brigham, p 0 0 0 0 Totals...
...Died. Ab Jenkins, 73, bronzed, white-haired iron man of auto endurance trials (his last record: 118.37 m.p.h. for 24 hours in a stock Pontiac-TIME, July 9), onetime mayor (1940-44) of Salt Lake City (before he took office he changed his name legally from David Abbott to Ab, to twit critics who said he needed more dignity); of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. Among Ab Jenkins' unbroken records: 200 miles at 195.85 m.p.h., 1,000 miles at 172.83 m.p.h., 3,000 miles at 165.76 m.p.h...
...Ab" (David Abbott) Jenkins holds more auto distance-speed records than any other living man, possibly because he has been at it for 35 years. At 73, he holds the record for 1,000 miles (at 172.8 m.p.h.) ; 3,000 miles (at 165 m.p.h.); for 24 hours (at 161.84 m.p.h.), among others. Last week old Ab Jenkins climbed behind the wheel again in a Class C stock car 24-hour endurance trial at Utah's famed Bonneville Salt Flats...
...around the circular ten-mile track, and the temperature inside the car rose to a stifling 120°. Jenkins gave no sign of needing a relief driver, but after 9½ hours, his nervous wife insisted that he turn the wheel over to their 36-year-old son Marvin. Ab jauntily downed two glasses of milk, was soon back at the wheel, in all drove for 16 of the 24 hours. Despite a broken patch of track which caused the car to swerve each time around and cost him minutes, Ab got himself another world's record: 2.841 miles...
Botsford took over in left field for injured Dick Fisher. BOX SCORE ab r h po a e Levine, 3b 4 0 0 1 2 2 Cleary, 2b 2 0 0 2 1 0 Simourian, 1b 3 0 0 10 1 0 Hastings, ss 3 0 0 2 3 1 Botsford, lf 4 0 2 2 0 0 Getch, rf 3 1 1 1 0 0 Stahura, cf 1 2 1 1 0 0 Crosby, c 2 1 0 7 2 1 Repetto, p 2 0 0 1 1 0 Kessler, p 1 0 0 0 0 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- Totals...