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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas -- A candy company has stuck to its word and sent a Texas man a Louisville Slugger glove nearly 60 years after a bubble gum and baseball card contest began.Darwin Day, 70, of Grand Prairie was cleaning his house and found a complete collection of Topps baseball cards from 1957-58, The Dallas Morning News (http://bit.ly/2cN1ARv ) reports. The cards were included with Bazooka bubble gum purchases.Day said he was prompted to clean out his own house after having been tasked with cleaning out the Virginia home that belonged to his brother, who died of cancer earlier this year.Day, who leads tours of Globe Life Park, has always been a baseball fan and at his brothers celebration of life, he led those in attendance in singing Take Me Out to the Ball Game.It was such a consuming job that it made me think that maybe I ought to clean out my own house, Day said. So I did that, and I came across these cards.One of the cards touted a contest: Win These Swell Prizes in the 4th Bazooka Baseball Contest. To enter, the card owner had to correctly fill out scores from some professional baseball games and remit the card.Day said no deadline was listed on the card, so he sent the completed entry card to an executive at Bazooka Candy Brands, a division of the New York-based Topps Company.It did pique my interest, this kind of mysterious letter, said Tony Jacobs, global general manager of Topps Confectionery Brands. Jacobs who joined Topps three years ago and manages the candy wing of the company, which includes Bazooka Bubble Gum.Day was in bed he received when he received a call from Rogers & Cowan, a marketing firm that represents Topps. 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Iqbal Abdulla recorded the highest individual score by a Kerala No. 8, hitting 14 fours and six sixes in his unbeaten 157.Kerala began the day on 223 for 4, and lost overnight batsman Jalaj Saxena (79) in the 12th over of the day. Left-arm spinner Mehdi Hasan removed Robert Fernandez and Sachin Baby (80) to reduce Kerala to 312 for 7. Abdulla then combined with fellow left-arm spinner KS Monish (40) to put on 141 runs for the eighth wicket, and raised his second first-class hundred. Hasan was the most successful bowler, finishing the day with 3 for 134 in his 54 overs.Joginder Sharma and Harshal Patel led Haryanas fightback against Chhattisgarh , but couldnt prevent them from taking an 11-run first-innings lead in Guwahati.The day began with Chhattisgarh on 68 for 1, trailing Haryana by only 110. Harshal removed Ashutosh Singh in the first over of the day, and then trapped Mohammad Kaif in front to reduce Chhattisgarh to 80 for 3. Opener Sahil Gupta (78) and Abhimanyu Chauhan tried to stabilise the innings through a 52-run stand for the fourth wicket, before Yuzvendra Chahal broke through and opened the door for a collapse. Joginder took the next five wickets and Patel took the last, as Chhattisgarh lost their last six wickets for 29 runs to be bowled out for 189. Joginder finished with 5 for 32 - his 20th five-wicket haul - while Patel finished with 4 for 40.ddddddddddddHaryana were reduced to 35 for 3 in their second innings, with medium-pacer Pankaj Rao taking all three wickets. However, Himanshu Rana (50*) and Rohit Sharma (34*) put on 86 unbeaten runs for the fourth wicket. Haryana were 121 for 3 at stumps, and ended the day like they had started it - 110 ahead of Chhattisgarh.Tripura piled on 549 against Himachal Pradesh, before taking an early wicket in Himachals reply in Kalyani. Himachal Pradesh struck regularly in the first session - starting with the wicket of Smit Patel (111) in the second over - as they reduced Tripura to 379 for 6. However, captain Manisankar Murasingh (84) combined with Gurinder Singh (79), who scored his first fifty, to take Tripura past the 500-mark for only the second time in their Ranji history. Left-arm spinner Mayank Dagar took his first five-wicket haul, finishing with 5 for 138, and was Himachals most successful bowler.Himachal lost Prashant Chopra in the third over, before Ankush Bains (28*) and Nitin Gangta (12*) took them to 50 for 1 at stumps, trailing by 499 runs.Bandeep Singhs eight half-century helped Jammu & Kashmir extend their overnight score of 205 for 6 to 334 against Andhra at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.J&K lost overnight batsman Puneet Bisht (20) with the score on 221, after which Bandeep joined hands with medium-pacer Ram Dayal (42) to put on 73 for the eighth wicket. He was eventually dismissed for 63 by D Siva Kumar, who finished with 4 for 49 in his 29 overs. Left-arm spinner Bhargav Bhatt also added two more wickets to his tally, to finish with 4 for 122.In reply, Andhra were 72 for 2 at stumps, having lost both their openers, trailing J&K by 262 runs. ' ' '