Monday, Jul. 23, 1956
Scoreboard
P: Outmanned, outgunned and outfought, a lame and lackluster collection of American League All-Stars took an embarrassing beating from their National League rivals in Washington's Griffith Stadium, 7-3. With a line-up heavily larded with Cincinnati Redlegs (five of the starting nine), superb pitching by Pittsburgh's Bob Friend and New York's Johnny Antonelli and some acrobatic fielding by St. Louis' Third Baseman Ken Boyer, the National Leaguers led all the way to win their sixth of the last seven games.
P: After two bad seasons plagued by assorted arm ailments, the Boston Red Sox's aging (34) Southpaw Mel Parnell demonstrated that he is no longer on the way back but has arrived. Parnell stopped the White Sox 4-0, pitched the first American League no-hit game since Bobo Holloman and the St. Louis Browns beat the Philadelphia Athletics 6-0 in 1953.
P: The two fastest four-year-old thoroughbreds in the U.S. spent a pleasant afternoon romping off with a total of $178,200. At New Jersey's Monmouth race track, Veteran Trainer Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons had his millionaire charge Nashua running as if he needed the money, and the big bay won the Monmouth Handicap by 3 1/2 lengths. In California's Hollywood Gold Cup at Hollywood Park, Jockey Willie Shoemaker eased up and still did not stop Rex Ellsworth's Swaps from winning and setting a track record (1:58 3/5 for 1 1/4 miles).
P: Vastly surprised to find himself leading Wimbledon Champion Lew Hoad in the semi-finals of England's Midland Counties tennis championship, a 19-year-old Briton named Michael Davies was moved to try an ingenious bit of gamesmanship; he walked around the net to say that he was defaulting. Prevailed upon to change his mind, Davies went back to whip the startled Aussie, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. After that Davies had nothing left. In the finals he lost to South Africa's Trevor Fancutt 7-5, 6-3, 6-4.
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