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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1934
Page
7
Detroit Tigers win the first game 20 to 2 against Cleveland. Knickerbocker delivers a ninth inning triple to win the nightcap for the Indians, snapping Detroit’s potential league lead.
England's famous Country Fair known as the Darby will race at Epsom tomorrow with up to a half million spectators on site and many more watching worldwide as Irish Sweep stakes payouts total nearly ten million dollars. Lord Glanely's Colombo, the favorite, faces a strong bid from Aga Khan's Imidwar and Lord Woolavington's Easton among 18 probable starters in this 156th running.
The Phillies outslugged the Brooklyn Dodgers in a doubleheader, 11 10 in the first game and 4 0 in the second. Bud Clancy debuted with a homer in the ninth to seal the opener for Philadelphia.
Miss Neosho Carley is set to marry Rod Fenton, the wrestling contender, Thursday night amid a main bout featuring Don Hill and Lou Mueller. Mueller aims for Gus Kallio's middleweight title while Cyclone Mackey vows a post wedding haymaker on Fenton.
Hank Thormahlen veteran left hander walked out on the Tulsa Oilers and is believed home in Boston after suspension for failing to stay in condition. Manager Jakey Atz said the pitcher was left at home for yesterday’s start in Oklahoma City series opener. Thormahlen had been a Texas League standout with Galveston in 1932-33 and began the season strong before recent rough outings.
Results yesterday show Pittsburgh at Cincinnati and Houston 6 Fort Worth 4. Standings list Tulsa Beaumont San Antonio Galveston Fort Worth Houston Oklahoma City and Dallas with varied records. Tonight Beaumont at Dallas Houston at Fort Worth Tulsa at Oklahoma City San Antonio at Galveston. Other scores include Atlanta 4 Nashville 6 and Jacksonville 6 Paris 5 in 11 innings.
Silvert on June 5 Special to The News H H Robinsons Bonnie Parker and Drift wood dope bucket upsetting race horses from Amherst and Doss Fulchers Sun Meddler and School Girl from Abilene are probable entries in the Amarillo meet to be held June 15 25 Driftwoods revenge for a three length loss to School Girl at Snyder was the high spot of Sunday finals Bonnie Parker won the last race a length ahead of Golden Dream local fans look forward to the Amarillo clash Sun Meddler easy victor in Saturdays two furlongs is a favorite and should give a good account of himself.
The Tri-State Fair Association offices will operate at the exposition grounds this morning, with Ted Taylor stating they will remain there until after this year’s exposition. Eva Lewis is named office manager, returning after previous stints with the fair and most recently the Federal Land Bank at Wichita.
Harvard undergraduates painted white running pants on a life sized bronze discus thrower statue outside Hemenway Gymnasium and added the letters H A A across the chest, in Cambridge Massachusetts. Tobacco growers of Wilsoy County North Carolina report the best quality of leaf since 1911.
Jimmie Moore, 10 year old son of Dr. Ralph Moore, shot 43 on Amarillo Country Club back nine. Amarillo Women golfers invited to qualify for the Women’s City Golf Championship on the Country Club course June 14. Club pro Bill Garre says practice three days before qualifying. green fees to be announced soon. Jack Bush invites Tulsa Country Club members to Wolflin Course Sunday for a 20 to 25 player match. contact Jack Bush at 4743.
A bitter clash at the disarmament conference in Geneva pits Arthur Mendelson against Louis Barthou as the steering committee debates a sine die adjournment. Barthou warns Henderson on a fiery complaint while Davis remains silent amid charges of partiality and FrancoBritish tension.
In Fort Worth, June Ay Manager Carey Selph led the Houston Buffs to a 6 4 victory over the Fort Worth Cats in the opening game of the series. Selph had five RBIs and three runs scored with three doubles, while McHenry hit a homer and drove in two runs. Oklahoma City Indians topped Tulsa Oilers 6 3, snapping an eight game skid. Posede and Berger led Tulsa. Galveston beat Dallas 7 1 with strong hitting from Wiltse and Goss.
The Panhandle opens its season tomorrow with fourteen days of racing at the Panhandle track. A nine day program follows at the Amarillo Fair Grounds with six races daily and specials led by the Inaugural $150 purse claiming race for three-year-olds and up. The Panhandle Derby closes the meet in a bid to rival Arlington Downs as West Texas’s peak racing event.
Philadelphia June 5 The Na tional Open at Merion may see a new 72 hole scoring mark as top golfers Goodman Little Bunyan Smith debate the likelihood of beating the 286 existing record by Evans and Sarazen. Pros and amateurs cite Merion’s demanding lay out and precision play as the key factors shaping the possible record bid.
The T. J. Tidwell Show, largest Southwest carnival this year, opens Monday night at Fourth Avenue and Jefferson Street for a six day run. C. R. Patton arranges details. Tri-State Fair Association sponsors. 20 shows on the midway. 265 people in the troupe. After two more weeks, Tidwell will join fair circuits in Missouri and Kansas and other Southwest cities.
Mrs Emmett Coble leaves city after visiting her mother Mrs Olive K Dixon and other relatives at 1610 Jackson Street. She is en route to her home in Clayton New Mexico.
Smith Patterson Herman Foster and Hugh Dixon depart Sunday morning for Santa Rosa and Eagle Nest Dam in New Mexico to camp and fish for a week.
Three hundred feet of the state highway between Burlington and Hinesburg sank underground, vanishing almost overnight. The road runs through a swampy section and appears to have been undermined by water.
Ford Motor Company representatives held a service policy launch and party meeting for Ford owners in Walter Irvin show rooms. About 250 garagemen from the Panhandle area attended as C. F Mahaffey and H. M. Darlan spoke on Ford precision manufacture and service. Virgil Brown, manager of the Oklahoma City branch, attended representing the sales division.
Mr. Irvin said the meeting aimed to enable every Ford dealer independent garageman super service operator and fleet owner to know as much as authorized dealers. The gathering was one of 12 held in the Oklahoma branch district.
In Epnhville Texas June 5 Rh E Dealy of Dublin was sentenced to one year in prison for transporting beer and whisky through a dry sector. Geo Biddon pleaded guilty to the same charge and received a five year suspended sentence.
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