Gold Sox Open Six-Game Stand With Lubbock. Priest Shuts Them
Amarillo’s Gold Sox, after a 1-0 loss at Albuquerque and a 3-3 western trip, host Lubbock at 8:15. Doc Fletcher to start. Bob Crues may join from San Angelo. Priest earns win. Hershel Martin homers for Albuquerque. George Bernard Shaw previously served as London Star music critic Corno di Basseto.
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Jesse Priest
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Gold Sox
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Dub Akins
Luck
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Duke
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Merv Connors
Les Mulcahy
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George Bernard Shaw
The
London Star
Corno di Basseto
South Nine In Home Finals
Texas League teams begin an 11 day home stand shaping Shaughnessy playoff hopes. Houston widened its lead to nine games after beating Beaumont 6 2 while Dallas fell 7 0 to Fort Worth. San Antonio beat Shreveport 3 1 and Tulsa defeated Oklahoma City 6 2 as schedule shows Dallas at Beaumont and others at home.
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Wilbur Martin
Southern
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Dallas
Beaumont
Fort Worth
San Antonio
Shreveport
Tulsa
Oklahoma City
Ban Antonio
Ooo
Bossack
Fine
Marn
Schedule Listed For Y Playoffs
The YMCA Industrial and Civic Softball Leagues announced playoff schedules. Industrial League opens with Amarillo Gas against Phillips at 7 15 PM and Bell Telephone versus Magnolia at 8 30 PM at Fair Park. Civic League features Plains Machinery versus Western Stockyards at 7 15 and Jaycees against American Legion at 8 30 at Thompson Park.
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Magnolia
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Civic League Tonight
Plains Machinery
Western Stockyards
Jaycees
American Legion
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American Leon
Estern Stockyards
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Civic League
Circus elephants often kept as females for safety
Historically circuses preferred female elephants due to steadier temperaments, while males were deemed more dangerous or unpredictable, influencing enclosure and training decisions.
B-Sox Forfeit Tilt to Oilers
West Texas New Mexico League action saw the Abilene Blue Sox forfeit to the Pampa Oilers 9-0 after a fourth inning spat with umpire Ross Belbeck prompted manager Hack Miller to protest. Other games ended Borger 8 Clovis 7, Lubbock 3 Lamesa 1, Albuquerque 1 Amarillo 0.
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Associated Press
Pampa Oilers
Abilene Blue Sox
Blue Sox
Art Rowland
Abilene
Ross Belbeck
Hack Miller
Belbeck
Miller
Borger
Clovis
Lubbock
Lamesa
Albuquerque
Amarillo
Rooster Mills
Pete Trabucco
Dick Gentzkow
Trabucco
Ken Michael
Ed Arthur
Paul Dobkowski
Hershel Martin
Jim Reynolds
Jesse Priest
Borger Poncesis
Ft Mills
Perez
Pate
Stoddard
Abbott
Pennington
Arthur and
Marti
Michaels
Palmer
Hambletonian Classic Expected Large Field at Goshen
The 1951 Hambletonian in Goshen New York draws a mob scene as owners of the top three year old trotters arrive to post a 500 start fee. A field of about 23 horses, the largest in trotting history, is forecast for one of the most open races of the series.
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Goshen
Two Poles Escape The Iron Curtain
Two Polish sailors Adam Bajorko and Marian Wozniak fled to London to avoid returning to Communist Poland after helping man two oil tankers sold to Poland. They were jailed briefly before Britain freed them and a Polish veterans society will arrange jobs. The report notes eight Poles left the liner Batory for asylum in England and at least 22 sought refuge in Sweden last week. It ends with a note that a large North American deer is a wapiti, not an elk.
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London
Adam Bajorko
Marian Wozniak
Poland
Batory
England
Sweden
City youth league playoff results and schedule changes
The report lists results from the Kids Incorporated leagues with Crocodiles winning the Boys Peewee Championship over Forest Hill Giants, Dickie Parker earning the win and Bobby Hensley the loss. Bantam Midget Bedbugs beat Grasshoppers 9-5, Wolverines beat Ladybugs 18-16, and Midget Division games include Magpies routing Robins 30-5 while Seagulls and Eagles wins set up semifinals. several games were moved to different fields at Wolflin and Maverick Club facilities.
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Bantam
Wolflin
Glenwood Bedbugs
Grasshoppers
Maverick
Peewee Girls
Margaret Wills
Margaret Wills Wolverines
Landergin Ladybugs
Charles Weaver
Dickie Parker
Bobby Hensley
Bobby
Ray Ruffin
Andy Smith
Jimmy Quisenberry
Bedbugs
Hoppers
Wolflin Grasshoppers
Lupe Baca
Opening bout signs Blackley and Vera in Sports Arena card
Burly Gene Blackley from Buffalo Gap and Rolando Vera from Monterrey Mexico were signed for the opening bout of Thursday night's Sports Arena wrestling program. One fall, 20 minutes. Main event mixed contest Frankie Hill Murdock versus George Lopez with style flips planned by fall. Semiwindup tag battle Ray Clements and Pat O Dowdy versus Bob Cummings and George Overhuls, three falls, 45 minute limit.
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Gene Blackley
Buffalo Gap
Rolando Vera
Ray
Big Train” Clements
Pat O’dowdy
Bob Cummings
George Overhuls
Homers and Wins Across League Games
Magpie hits a five run homer and Thelton Davis adds four with a four run homer for another player. Burt McLain and Hack Long each complete a round trip for solo shots. Gary Hobbs adds a four run homer for the Robins. Kingfishers power to a 20-2 win over the Roosters with Doug Thornton earning the win and Roy Holloway taking the loss.
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Magpie
Thelton Davis
Burt McLain
Hack Long
Gary Hobbs
Robins
Kingfishers
The
Roosters
Doug Thornton
Roy Holloway
43 Texas Colleges Will Play Football
Texas will have 43 colleges playing football this fall a decline of 11 from last year the smallest number since the war. Eleven discontinued football this year with junior colleges showing the largest drop. Among senior colleges 26 will play four fewer than last year while 17 junior colleges drop seven from 1950.
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Harold V. Ratliff
Associated Press
Texas
First Ferris Wheel Built in Chicago
The Ferris wheel served as a feature attraction at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Designed by George Washington Gale Ferris, it boasted a 250 foot diameter, 56 ton axle, 36 cars for 1440 spectators, and was powered by a 1000 horsepower engine.
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Chicago
George Washington Gale Ferris
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