Word: oakleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High man for the winners was Joe Oakley with 17 points to his credit. Stoughton's top scorers were Ralph Donnelley and Bob Walser, both with...
...pound: Oakley Thorne, won by decision; 130 pound: Bob Bursk, won by decision; 137 pound: John Pollard, drew; 147 pound: Miles Cunningham, won by decision; 157 pound: Dick Mortimer, lost by fall to Willy Moore; 167 pound: Bill Alpert, won by fall; 177 pound: Phil Waring, won by fall; Heavyweight: George Bates, won by fall...
Larry Corser of Holworthy was high scorer for the evening with 21 points while Joe Oakley scored 15 for the victors. Matthews won mainly because it snared Holworthy's missed foul shots off its own backboard and because its five starters remained in the game while two Holworthy players fouled out with five minutes to play...
...Oakley countered on four field goals in the second period when Matthews doubled Holworthy's ten points before the American Leaguers could score. But Bob Hardy and Corser each dropped in two field goals to give Holowrthy a one-point lead for the first time in the game, only for it to fall behind at the half, 23 to 21, on Oakley's one-handed shot from far outside...
After seeing Annie Get Your Gun, North Platte, Neb. Banker William H. McDonald, 89, who once lent Buffalo Bill Cody $4,000 to start his first traveling show, had a word of criticism: Ethel Merman and Betty Hutton were far more lively than the real Annie Oakley. As he remembered her, "she was a nice, quiet little woman...