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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1940
Page
3
Pressboxing notes Billy Conn from Pittsburgh weighs 175 pounds at yesterday’s check, beating the light heavy limit by a sliver as rain postpones the ring battle with Bob Pastor. The delay may aid Conn’s recovery from boils and shifts focus toward a looming Joe Louis clash.
Roy Priolo of Amarillo Sandie foot ball tackle won the district heavyweight crown at Lubbock. He defeated Bob Ritchie, a former district Golden Gloves and AAU light heavyweight champion, in the final bout. A. L. Anderson of Amarillo lost a close decision to John Meyers of Lubbock in the middleweight final.
Charley Pinkley and Howard Vick powered the Druggists to a 9 to 3 win over the Jaycees in the opener of a seven game series. Four first inning hits helped build a four run lead. The next game is set for 6:15 PM Thursday at San Jacinto School with three more slated for Jaycee Park next week.
Civic League bowlers and captains are to meet at 7 30 tonight at Louies Alleys to plan the coming season. The eight team league opens Wednesday night August 28 for the 1940 41 schedule with sponsors Rotary ABC Lions Kiwanis San Jacinto Kiwanis Optimists and Amarillo Kiwanis.
Childress beat Phillips 66 Amarillo 7 to 3 in a second round ASA district softball game at Jaycee Park. Vega fell 10 4 to Dalby Motor Freight Amarillo, as Childress remained undefeated while Phillips dropped to 500. Tonight Amarillo National Bank meets Hereford. Magnolia faces Estelline in two other games with 20 cent admission. Last night’s line scores listed players Herbert Blackwell Lewis Halliburton Rexroat Shock and Harris.
Dodgers skipper Leo Durocher would not trade Peewee Reese or Whitlow Wyatt, praising Reese as a clutch leadoff hitter and Wyatt as returning strong after knee surgery. The column notes Durocher’s loyalty and his conversations with MacPhail about not trading them.
In Tucson on August 14 U P report says the U S marshal took over the entertainment of "Lieutenant" Donald C Cox a deserter who had impressed local society by touring the city airport seen as a possible site for a 119000 training base He was greeted at teas dinners and cocktails by leading residents with reporters seeking background on his non existent Army career. The airport committee chairman contacted Fort Winfield Scott to verify Cox noted as a seventh grade private and deserter.
Henry Pierce, an Aliceville farmer, was thrown from a new driverless tractor while working a field in Burlington Kansas. The machine circled the field, returned and passed over him a second time, causing fractures to a leg and severed ribs.
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