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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1942
Page
2
Sun Again, Calumet Farm’s top Derby prospect, is trained by Ben Jones and owned by Warren Wright. The colt, once a possible threat for Whirlaway’s Derby record, may face ankle weakness and a crowded path after earlier campaigns and recent workouts.
The Southwest Conference title race tightens as Texas A&M holds a math lead after a split by Texas with SMU. Texas faces three games this week while A&M has one, with Baylor fading as Aggies beat Baylor 19 2. Also noted, 25 thousand British civil service typists spent a half holiday in a typing test for a $1 weekly raise.
Spring practice for the 1942 Golden Sandstorm football squad starts Thursday and runs to May 15. Coach Howard Lynch, assisted by T. G Hull, will lead about 45 players in weekly scrimmages on Wednesdays and Saturdays and an intra-squad game Saturday night at 7, with lights as needed. The candidate pool includes eight lettermen and 37 others across squadmen Yannigans and junior high ranks, led by Rex and Ray Daniel and Billy Jolly, among others.
Major league baseball launches its wartime season with all 16 teams starting together amid air raid precautions and patriotic fervor. Key matchups include Yankees vs Senators in Washington and Browns vs White Sox as rosters feature veterans and new signees.
In New York on April 14, Wide World Sports notes a string of baseball changes and anecdotes. Cleveland hosts a May 22 night game as the Browns play under lights, Newark plans 4 PM weekday games to ease factory traffic, and Vic Devincenzi of Oakland suggests weekend Pacific Coast league games with players on defense jobs. Joe McCarthy is singled out as a strong first-division predictor while other tidbits include Tony Galento training, Patty Berg’s knee trouble, Whirlaway’s Belmont entries, and humor on Veeck’s self contract joke.
Here are the year's 10 leading golf money winners from Jan. 1 to April 13. Ben Hogan leads with $9,598, followed by Sam Snead $6,078, Byron Nelson $5,822, Lloyd Mangrum $4,386, Lawson Little $3,679, Chandler Harper $3,307, Chick Harbert $3,074, Sam Byrd $2,966, and Jimmy Thomson $2,280.
Bill James longtime Texas A M line coach presents motion pictures of Camp Stewart life for youths tonight at 8 o clock in Herring Hotel Room 202. The camp near Kerrville is named after Doc Stewart the former Texas coach.
Babe Ruth, recovering from pneumonia, says he favors the Pirates to win the National League pennant while predicting the Yankees will repeat in the American League. He hopes to leave the hospital soon and return to New York. In Eugene, Oregon, April 14, Vaughn Corley named head football coach succeeding Tex Oliver, who becomes a Navy lieutenant commander.
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