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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1942
Page
9
A columnist riffs on brash determination in sports, noting DiMaggio, Hogan, and Rice each with 56 straight performances. The piece toys with which athlete faced the toughest stretch and hints at a lively argument lasting through the night.
The Brooklyn Dodgers square off with the New York Giants in Harlem tonight in a nationally watched game to aid Army relief. Van Lingle Mungo debuts for the Giants vs Dodgers starter Whitlow Wyatt as a four game series opens amid strong attendance hopes.
First round play begins at Ross Rogers Municipal golf course in a 36 hole format with 42 entries in two flights. Notable pairings include Ernest Dowell as medalist in Championship flight and byes assigned to Walter Elder C A Armstrong and others. In the American League the Yankees lead the Browns and Indians as Detroit tops Boston in doubleheader action. Washington’s Chicago game is postponed.
Navy players from Texas arrive Saturday for a 2:30 p.m. Sunday game at Malin Field against the Army Air Force Glider School. The event, free to all, includes a welcoming banquet and dances for the visitors, with Will Rogers Range Riders on hand for crowd entertainment. Umpire volunteers are sought for the hour long bout of lighthearted rivalry and local celebration during New Comer's Week in Amarillo.
Army and Navy personnel will lead the eighth National Skeet Championships opening in Syracuse New York. Henry A Ahlin of Boston National Skeet Association president announced a plan allowing service members unable to obtain leave to compete. Scores will be telegraphed from their home fields to the Onondaga Skeet Club in Dewitt for the national meeting.
In Austin on August 3 the Texas Amateur Athletic Federation opens a three day state boxing tournament with sixty amateur boxers. Weigh-ins start at 2 PM and first-round pairings are set late today. Light heavyweight bouts are expected to headline with Tom Attra defending the title against Buddy Shumway of Dallas.
American baseball returns to Cooperstown as the St. Louis Cardinals face the Philadelphia Athletics in a major league exhibition on Doubleday Field. The game honors Abner Doubleday, who helped organize the first baseball contest in 1839 on a Cooperstown cow pasture.
Beaumont’s hopes in the Texas League were halted as the Exporters lost both ends of a Sunday twin bill to Tulsa, 7-5 and 11-6. Tulsa moved 3 of 4 in the series, reducing Beaumont’s lead as San Antonio and Fort Worth closed in. Henry Duse pitched the opener for Tulsa. Joe Berry shut Beaumont down in the nightcap.
In Waco Texas on August 3 193? the semi pro state championship series opens with Sheppard Field of Wichita Falls facing Camp Barkeley of Abilene next Thursday night. The Mechanics crushed the Waco Dons 12 to 5 to reach the finals. Dons beat Hughes Tool 7 to 4 and Mechanics beat Camp Wolters 2 to 1 in semi finals.
In a candid portrait of Van Lingle Mungo at Coogan’s Bluff, the once-feared pitcher is described as rehabilitated and ready for a comeback with the Brooklyn Dodgers. The piece traces his fiery temper, major league arc from 1931 to 1937, arm injuries and surgical recovery, plus a Havana detour and recent performances at Minneapolis and with the Dodgers organization.
Abilene hosts the tenth annual Texas High School Coaches Association grid clinic drawing nearly 200 Texas Louisiana and Mississippi coaches plus college staff and sporting goods sellers. The event acts as a recruiting office for schools currently without coaches with Notre Dame’s Frank Leahy to coach the North All Stars and Wallace Butts of Georgia to helm the South squad in the charity game.
Chick Harbert and Dutch Harrison finish regulation 72 holes tied at 280 to force an 18 hole playoff for the St Paul Open with $11,000 for first. Harbert trailed Harrison by three entering the final 36 holes as Harrison eagled early and both posted low rounds before halting with a 69 and 69 in regulation.
Southwest Texas State and Dr. D. K. Brace of the University of Texas physical education head coordinate on an athletic program partnership.
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