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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1944
Page
5
The senior golf program features 748 players with first and second rounds of match play underway. Tonight at 8:30 p.m. seniors and their wives are invited to Charlie Pryor’s Amarillo Hotel party, with semi finals and finals set for tomorrow across all tournament flights.
Red Gober of Austin and Joe Swillum of Albuquerque tied for medalist honors with 74s in the qualifying rounds of the Tenth Annual Tri-State Senior Golf Tour at Amarillo Country Club. A record field of 187 entrants entered the event, surpassing the previous high of 104.
The Amarillo Army Air Field Bombers may play home games at Malin Park with the Amarillo Dodgers. A tentative June 18 matchup is planned, with possible games June 25 against Frederick Army Air Base and a double header if both teams host Sundays. Joe Gordon may appear in July with Camp Luna.
The O B Jackson annual horse show will be held in Plainview June 18 at the Jackson stables on the northeast edge of town. Exhibits span five gaited three gaited fine harness roadster walking fox trot palomino quarterhorse and children classes with the Plainview Roping Club presenting an exhibition. The event is free to the public with no judges choices.
The Amarillo Country Club hosts the Tenth Annual Tri State Senior Golf Tournament from June 6 to 8 with the first round of the Amarillo Country Club Championship Golf Tournament match play continuing through Sunday.
Chicago June 6 Pursued by a Sunday jinx Thurman Tucker Chicago White Sox outfielder fell 12 points off his batting pace yet still led the American League with a .383 average. He has 23 hits in 26 games while Cleveland's Cris Hockett rose to .354 and Detroit's Chuck Hostettier slid to .320. Other top averages include Myatt 0.329 Johnson 0.322 Doerr 0.315 Swift 0.314 Hall 0.313 Cullenbine 0.307 Fox 0.307. Cullenbine also led in hits with 54 and in two base hits with 16 and home runs with seven. Don Gutteridge five three-base hits and 11 bases. Vern Stephens 30 RBIs. Hank Borowy 7 wins 1 loss leads pitching. Jack Kramer 52 strikeouts tops.
NL results list Cincinnati at Pittsburgh and Philadelphia at Brooklyn with no games scheduled. Standings show St Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Philadelphia Chicago with wins and losses and percentages. AL results report no games and standings include Detroit Chicago Boston Philadelphia Cleveland Washington. tonight Detroit at Chicago and New York at Boston.
In London the first U S soldier WAC show satirized rules against officers dating WAC privates in Europe. A standing room crowd including brass hats applauded a numbers sketch about fraternizing, ending with a soldier’s plea for affection over rank. In Bulger Pa a man found a century old Sevastopol siege newspaper in a barn, noting similar carnage. English casualties in two days numbered 38 officers and 422 privates.
Sport Shots reports Bill Longson returns to Dallas June 20 for a war effort benefit show after a crowd frenzy and a recent bottle-throwing incident. Dizzy Dean rejoins Texas League crowds in Houston and Dallas for a limited pitching stint with 40 percent of gate receipts. Dallas selectee Jack Lindsey, 17, from Adamson High School, is chosen for the All American boys game in New York August 7 and may attend the University of Texas if scouts don’t lure him away.
Bill Hulse of the New York Athletic Club enters the 800 and 1500 meter races at the A A U track and field championships in New York’s Tri borough Stadium on June 17 and 18. He holds the outdoor mile mark of 4 06 and aims to become the first to win both events since Glenn Cunningham in 1933. The field includes Johnny Fulton Charley Beetham and Ed Guice in the 80 meters.
Dixie Walker of the Brooklyn Dodgers maintains a .426 batting average into week seven, leading Stan Musial and Eric Tipton in the NL. The report notes weekly hits, runs, and home run activity plus other league leaders and a pitching update on Max Lanier and George Munger. Johnny Allen signed with the Giants for the rest of the season.
A list of morning and afternoon matches for multiple flights at a regional tennis event. Pairings include players from Albuquerque Vernon Electra Oklahoma City Lubbock and other cities with starting times from 10 15 to 1 35 and 9 30 to 10 05 across six flights. Names include Swillum Oswalt Myers Terry Smith Orr Payne Mahone Gober Allen Day Jennings Storey Davis Holmes Pierce etc.
On invasion day sports plants closed. only Delaware State Park and Bay Meadows remained open. Major baseball and racing circuits canceled programs, postponed games, and war bond drives rose. An Angott Williams bout was moved to tomorrow at Shibe Park. an all star soccer game at the Polo Grounds donated gate receipts to the Red Cross.
D. W. Curnutt 106 vs J. R. Fox 102 at 8 25 and 8 30 times mark bouts with John Patton 106 and J O Dudley 104 vs W R Lovett 108 8 35 Eighth flight L Peake 108 vs Guy Ford 110 1 45 J F P Dreinhoffer 109 vs P T Merrick 116 1 50 T R Wise 108 vs Tom May 114 1 55 Jimmie James 109 vs M Reynolds 118 2 00
Katy Jenkins, widow of former lightweight champion Lew Jenkins, buys Carmine Fatta’s contract and signs Harold Valand as she pursues a large fighting stable. She notes her ex-husband is stationed in England with the Coast Guard. Maine is listed oddly as the easternmost state.
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