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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1946
Page
6
The Clovis Pioneers open a three game series at Gold Sox Field tonight amid a tense race as Amarillo Sox push for wins. Key players include Joe Dotlich and Bill Evans, with Evans seeking his 21st victory after a tough stint.
Amarillo’s Gold Sox slide continues with nine losses in twelve games dropping to third place, two games behind Pampa while Lubbock and Borger threaten fourth. Manager Bob Leeds seeks pitching aid by Aug 20 to secure a playoff spot, with upcoming series against Clovis and Albuquerque shaping title hopes.
Ex Dodgers catcher Mickey Owen contemplates reinstatement to the majors to finish the season with the pennant bound Brooklyn Dodgers. Reports place him traveling from Boston to Springfield Missouri and possibly visiting Cincinnati to seek Chandler’s help lifting his five year Mexican League ban.
Arlo Hudson and Roy Snodgrass will lead the golf team as captains for the Amarillo Junior Chamber of Commerce Dinner Tournament at the Ross Rogers Course Friday afternoon. A dutch supper follows with losers paying. Members urged to play. contact John Peterson or Jack Fyfe with details.
The article notes that Southern Indigenous peoples cultivated lima beans after settling, while early settlers delayed. It lists domestic turkey breeds among the Bronze, White Holland, Narragansett, Bourbon Red, Black and Slate as prominent varieties.
Wesleys edged the Jaycees 10 to 7 as Ike Wehrman pitched. Graham Hoeme and the Carpenters Union won 5 to 4 over International Harvester in a tense mound duel. The Carpenters 5 4 victory over Civilian Bombers featured Carl Carson striking out 10. Pinkney won by forfeit over Panter. Tonight in the Blue Bonnet League Fred Seale and Red Lawrence meet at Tri-State Field with Santa Fe Shops facing Greyhound Lines.
Drew Crossett, former Amarillo Municipal champion, shot 73-7-66 to win the Amarillo Municipal Golfers Association Weekend Handicap Tournament at the Ross Rogers Course. Other winners include C. J. Morton 82-14-68 and A. A. Kuntz 82-14-68.
Corpus Christi reports the sixteenth annual Texas coaching school with changes to both all-star rosters. Hubert Kitchen joins the North cage team as it faces the South in the first school boy game. Football adds Frwin Kapps Jr replacing Jim De Groat who enlisted in the Marines. The South squad remains led by Dr Bible with Ray Eliot coaching the North. the event marks the largest enrollment, 820 coaches.
Willard Smith June Davis and Dr A B Goldston tied for top honors with net 63 in the Amarillo Country Club Weekend Handicap Golf Tournament. Smith 89 26 63 Davis 73 10 63 Goldston 87 24 63. Dr E M Roberts 91 26 65 and J R Brown won low cross ball 70. High gross ball went to John Boyce at 105.
In Austin on August 6 Frankie Pancho Womack spun a two hit game for Houston's San Jacinto Bears as they beat Fort Worth Polytechnic 12-2 to win the State American Legion Junior Baseball championship. Womack fanned 22, extending his state meet strikeout streak to 65, after earlier wins over Longview 6-1 and Polytechnic 2-1.
The Associated Press lists NL batting leader Walker of Brooklyn at .377 with Hopp of Boston at .364. Slaughter of St. Louis leads NL RBIs with 81, while Walker has 80. Mize of New York leads NL home runs with 22 and Kiner of Pittsburgh has 16. In the AL Vernon of Washington tops batting at .357, Williams of Boston at .351. Williams leads RBIs with 97 and Doerr has 89. Williams also leads in home runs with 29, Greenberg of Detroit has 24.
George Victor of Chicago Frank Stranahan of Toledo and Wilford Wehrle of Louisville led the second half of the 36 hole qualifying at the Northland Country Club in Duluth Minnesota two strokes ahead of the next challenger in the 44th Western Amateur Golf Tournament. They carded records of 68 to break a 13 year old mark of 70 set by Runcie Martin and Pat Sawyer.
Carolina and Duke officials announced all tickets for the November 23 gridiron clash at Kenana Stadium are sold out. Orders by June 12 filled all seats and public sale left about 9 000. Officials anticipate a record crowd approaching 42 000 in the state’s famed rivalry game.
Coming events list Amarillo Gold Sox host Clovis Pioneers at Gold Sox Park on Aug 6 7 8. On Aug 15 a junior heavyweight world wrestling championship is planned at Gold Sox Park advertised in the News Globe Want Ads.
Dodgers beat the Braves 7-4 as Joe Hatten and relievers halt a late rally. Brooklyn maintains the NL lead with 101 games, riding Leo Durocher’s timely mound changes and a long streak against Philadelphia. Giants, Cubs, and Cards also mix in, while Johnny Mize injures a hand in exhibition loss to Yankees. marriages rise in first quarter.
Elkhart, Ind August 6 Jimmy Saunders of Amarillo seeded number 1 won his opening round junior division match 6 0 6 0 over Donald Long of Elkhart. Keith Williams of South Bend defeated Ray Goldbeck of San Antonio 7 5 3 6 6 2. Charles Devoe of Indianapolis beat Addison Appleby of Amarillo 6 1 6 1.
Play in the men's singles of the Eastern Grass Court Championships resumed in South Orange New Jersey as rain delayed action. Top seed Billy Talbert of Wilmington Delaware was absent from the firing line.
Mrs Gene Root captured medalist honors with an 84 in the Amarillo Women’s Municipal Golfers Association Match Play at Ross Rogers Park She edged defending champion Mrs H L Reynolds by one stroke Root’s round totals and match pairings are listed with early rounds set for today semifinals tomorrow and finals Thursday
Top seeds James Evert of Fort Lauderdale and Bernard Bartzen of San Angelo won easily to advance to the third round in the Mid-Atlantic Open Tennis Tournament doubles. They defeated Robert Clapp and J Richard Ramsberg of Frederick 6 2 6 1.
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