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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1948
Page
13
PATT POWELL escorts two men to greet the honored visitor Bill, Secretary of the Texas High School, as Vernon welcomes Texas A&M College.
Barbecue for YMCA Church Softball League players managers and guests will be hosted at San Jacinto Park Tuesday night with a 7 30 start. Entertainment features the Blackburn Shaw Quartet. Amarillo and the Panhandle are Carmichael athletic director.
Leon Hayes dazzled through seven innings but wildness final tally 9-2 as Lamesa defeats Abilene for back to back wins. Walt Bucker homered and doubled to spark the Lobos, while John Kelly allowed 10 hits and 9 runs in the eighth.
Edward W. Casteredo of Shreveport Louisiana won the 1948 Grand American Trapshooting Tournament title after a 200 straight target record and a shootoff. He tied 100 hits with five others and then repeated the perfect 100 in the shootoff. Veterans winner Forest MecNeir of Houston topped 99 of 100.
Albert Flip Rosen, rookie third baseman for the Kansas City Blues, earned the American Association’s outstanding freshman of 1948. He starred in the Texas League last year leading in batting, total bases, and RBIs, and won the league title with a .349 average in 146 games. He moved from Oklahoma City to win MVP honors and lead in hits and extra bases. The 1947 AA rookie award went to Alvin Dark.
Ki Aldrich former TCU center and All American received a pair of cowboy boots from the Childress Quarterback Club for assisting the high school football team during its first week of workouts.
Austin report shows 1948 seven month traffic deaths at 1,074, slightly lower than 1947’s tally. Public Safety notes the 1948 figure is incomplete and expects final totals to be about four percent higher, signaling ongoing fatalities on Texas roads.
Frankie Groves, famed for playing football with a boys team in Stinnett, embraces motorcycle riding after the Texas Interscholastic League bars girls from grid play. The move followed a rule revision and the town receives publicity from her high-spirited endeavors.
The 67th National Doubles Tennis Championships at Longwood Cricket Club begin with seeds drawing byes to the second round. Davis Club favorites Bill Talbert and Gardnar Mulloy, and Australia's Colin Long with Geoff Brown, head the list as action starts amid one upset by unseeded teenagers Straight Clark and Gilbert Shea who defeat Mottram and Rurac 6-4 6-4 6-2.
The Metropolitan Bowling League will begin the 1948 49 season on September 7 at 8 30 at Banner Bowl. C T McCartney was elected president and A E Womble was re elected secretary and treasurer.
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