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Published on Thursday, Oct 02, 2008
Beacon Journal staff report
The Summit County Sports Hall of Fame will induct its 52nd class in ceremonies at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Tangier restaurant in Akron.
Members of the Class of 2008 are: Marvin Beal, Jim Boeke, G. Thomas Floyd, Brian Hallett, Dan Hayes, Frank Longstreth, Calvin Moore, Dick Paige, William Reppa and Harry Reynolds.
Banquet tickets, at $35 each, are available at the Firestone Federal Credit Union, 1200 Firestone Parkway, Akron. For more details, call 330-379-6400 or 800-648-3328.
Here are brief biographies of two of the inductees:
• Moore played three seasons with the University of Akron men's basketball team in the late 1940s. He helped the Zips win a share of the 1946 Ohio Conference championship with a 19-5 record and was named second-team all-conference. After missing a season while serving in the Air Force, he returned to UA and scored 224 points and led the Zips in rebounding for a 15-9 team.
Moore did not have a fourth year in basketball because he signed a professional baseball contract — the first player in UA history to do so — with the St. Louis Browns, pitching for Toronto in the International League. He also is a member of the Stark County Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame.
• Paige excelled on the golf course from his pre-teen years. At age 12, he shot a 69 at Fairlawn Country Club to win a junior tournament.
He never lost at match play while at Buchtel High School or at the College of Wooster, where he earned medalist honors in the Ohio Conference. Paige held the course record (64) at Mayfair Country Club for many years and was a standout in the Akron District Golf Association. He was ADGA match-play titlist in 1952 and 1953 and medal-play champion in 1955, 1958 and 1959. He also won the Akron Open in 1955.
Paige qualified for the U.S. Amateur in 1952, but did not play. He did play in the 1957 tournament at Brookline, Mass., and won his first-round match. He also played in the 1951 U.S. Open at Oakland Hills Country Club in Michigan. After the first round, he was 2 shots behind legendary Ben Hogan, the tournament's eventual winner.
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