Yanks Win in Sports Poll Week Card
Yanks win in weekly local sports poll card featuring bowling leagues and golf events at Amarillo venues. Panter League at Victory Bowl 7 30 P M Classic Scratchem at Banner Bowl 7 15 P M. Amarillo golf schedule includes Women's Luncheon Tourney at Amarillo Country Club and Weekend Handicap at Ross Rogers. Civic League, Texaco League, and Metropolitan League play across Victory Alleys Banner Bowl and Ross Rogers course. Remember the early Christmas shopping line.
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Victory Bowl
Banner Bowl
Amarillo
Amarillo Country Club
Amarillo Municipal
Ers Course
Bowling Civic League
Victory Alleys
Amarillo Municipal Golfers Association
Ross Rogers Course
Yankees Win AP Sports Writers Team Of The Year
New York Yankees edge Notre Dame for the 1943 Team Of The Year in AP poll voting. Illinois Whiz Kids place third with 11 first place ballots, while St Louis Cardinals and Chicago Bears also rank among leaders.
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New York
New York Yankees
Joe McCarthy
Notre Dame
Associated Press
Great Lakes
Yankees
St. Louis Cardinals
Red Birds
St. Louis
Illinois
Chicago Bears
Iowa Pre-Plight
Ohio State
Wyoming
University of Wash
Southern California
New York Giants
Detroit Tigers
Cincinnati Reds
Cardinals
Patty Berg Named Athlete of Year
Lt Patty Berg of Minneapolis wins the United States Marine Corps Reserve athlete of the year in the Associated Press sports editors poll. This marks her second annual top honor, previously crowned in 1938, with Gloria Callen third and Pauline Betz mentioned as a tennis champion in the rankings.
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New York
United States Marine Corps Reserve
Patty Berg
Minneapolis
Associated Press
Miss Berg
Alice Marble
Gloria Callen
Pauline Betz
Randolph Field Faces Tricky Longhorn Plays in Practice
Randolph Field's Cotton Bowl squad, set to meet the University of Texas January 1 in Dallas, tested Longhorn plays in practice and found them difficult to stop. Coach Frank Tritico concentrated on defense with Jimmy Fixx simulating Texas back J. R. Calahan for the second unit running the Texas plays.
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San Antonio
Randolph Field
University of Texas
Dallas
Frank Tritico
Jimmy Fixx
Va. Poly Institute
J. R. Calahan
Texas
Blooper Ball Hurler Honored by Dapper Dans
Truett Rip Sewell of the Pittsburgh Pirates won the fifth annual Dapper Dan Club athletic award. The blonde hurler of the slow blooper ball polled 20 votes, six more than Fritzie Zivic, and will receive a pocket watch at a February dinner in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
Truett
Rip) Sewell
Pittsburgh Pirates
Dapper Dan Club
Ball
Fritzie Zivic
1944 Baseball to Use Synthetic Rubber Core
National League President Ford Frick announced that a new baseball with a synthetic rubber core has been approved by the major leagues and will enter quantity production for the 1944 season.
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New York
U.P
Ford Frick
Bobcats Panthers Hold Light Practice in Texas Camp
San Angelo Bobcats and Lufkin Panthers held light sessions as they prep for the state schoolboy championship in Dallas Saturday. Coach Buck Prejean kept the Panthers on the field over two hours while the 15 semi final players trained lightly. the Bobcats focused on defense with no scrimmage.
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San Angelo Bobcats
Lufkin Panthers
Dallas
Buck Prejean
Goose Creek
Panthers
Bobcats
Lufkin
Cats
Jewell Wallace
Dennis Doyle
Doyle
Bowling Bits Reveal Consistent Three-Game Scores Across Leagues
Local bowling notes highlight several players posting identical three-game totals such as Ray Prien with 188s in the Classic League and Julius Caplan's 169s in the Diamond Shop. Irwin Gore’s 691 three-game set and a near 700 highlight, plus roster shifts at Banner Bowl as Jim Fletcher departs and Vic Langley steps in.
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Ray Prien
Julius Caplan
Diamond Shop
Jim Fletcher
Reager
Elmer Pelat
Ted Neely
Harvey Southworth
Lefty Bleakney
Borden
Squirky Blanchard
John Farrell
Hank Gittrich
Grid Booby Trap That Backfired
Clemson coach Frank Howard warned officials about a trick play before the 1942 game with North Carolina State. NC State ran the same screen pass for 62 yards to the Clemson one yard line, exposing the trap.
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Clemson
D. C
North Carolina State
Don Newton
Frank Howard
North Carolina
State
Murder Incorporated Derided by Nazi Press
German press published two pictures showing American flier Kenneth D Williams of Charlotte North Carolina with the caption Murder Incorporated. Williams flew a Fortress named Murder Incorporated and was shot down in a raid on Emden November 26, the Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau reported from Berlin.
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Stockholm
Kenneth D. Williams
Charlotte
N. C
Europe
Berlin
Williams
Emden
Ipress
Liberty Ship Named in Honor of Paddock
SAN PEDRO Calif Dec 21 A Liberty freighter will be named for track star Charles Paddock who died in an Alaskan plane crash last July The ship carries a pair of his old spiked shoes in its pilot house to honor his achievements on cinder tracks.
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San Pedro
Calif
Charles Paddock
Colleges to Reopen Football After Wartime Pause
Chicago December 21 Major John L. Griffith states the Western Conference proved wartime football value and predicts many colleges that paused the sport will resume in 1944, signaling a return to gridiron action nationwide.
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Chicago
John L. Griffith
Arkansas governor backs act to outlaw horse and dog racing
Gov Homer M Adkins announced he will sponsor an initiated act to outlaw horse and dog racing in Arkansas after the racing commission granted a 1944 permit to the Oak Lawn Jockey Club in Hot Springs despite his objections.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Homer M. Adkins
Racing Commission
Oaklawn Jockey Club
Hot Springs
Japs Resist Bombs in Melbourne Strategic Debate
In Melbourne, Vice Admiral Helfrich doubts air attacks will force a Japan surrender and says landings may be needed to retake East Indies islands. Calcutta reports Field Marshal Wavell states India will host a stronger, larger war effort with ships, armies, and air squadrons than ever seen in the East.
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Melbourne
Australia
Conrad Helfrich
India
Calcutta
Lord Wavell
Shrine members visit Amarillo as applicants in Kiiva Temple
J C Wilkinson Paxton Smith L F Lillard and John Roden of Bovina completed their Knights Templar work on a visit to Amarillo this week. They are applicants for membership in Kiiva Temple. Bovina has an unusually large Shrine membership. The Shrine club’s last weekly meeting of the year is postponed from Christmas to Wednesday Dec 29 at the Capitol Hotel to finalize plans for the New Year 89er Ceremonial on Dec 31.
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J. C. Wilkinson
Paxton Smith
L. F. Lillard
John Roden
Shrine
Shrine Club
Capitol Hotel
Smithsonian Founder James Smithson Bequeathed Estate
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington D C was founded by Englishman James Smithson who left his estate to establish the museum and research center.
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Smithsonian
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D. C
James Smithson
First European to sight California at San Diego Bay
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, a Portuguese navigator, was the first white man to view California. He anchored in San Diego Bay in the year 1542, marking a key early expedition along the Pacific coast.
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California
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
San Diego Bay
Healing bowler returns to right hand action
The article notes a bowler who is healed and back to bowling with his right hand. It also introduces P. K. Bleakney, daughter of the bowling alley’s assistant manager, described as universally friendly and always smiling.
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Bob Hibbs
Victory Alleys
P. K. Bleakney
Mistletoe Sale Funds Beds at Amarillo Day Nursery
The Pilot Club of Amarillo sold mistletoe at its Christmas party raising 110 dollars for ten beds and mattresses in the nursery. Mrs Dan Usery presented the check to Bertha McClelland as club members, minus those with flu, gathered at the nursery. The club’s main project is the Day Nursery and it also adopted a hospital ward with a decorated tree and gifts. Mistletoe was supplied by 4-H boys down-state.
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Amarillo Day Nursery
Pilot Club of
Amarillo
Dan Usery
Bertha McClelland
Pilot Club
Amarillo Field
Red Faced Clerk Sells Green War Stamps
In Shreveport Louisiana a temporary clerk sold 400 dollars of two cent and one cent war stamps that share a green color leading Christmas card recipients to use stamps as one cent postage. Patrons failed to notice the misprint amid holiday rush. Jimmy Stewart led a Liberators raid on Bremen in the European theater. Eisenhower visited Bethlehem on the way home from Tehran.
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Shreveport
Jimmy Stewart
London
U.P
Bremen
Stewart
Air Force
Eisenhower
Bethlehem
Cairo
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mediterranean
SLI Players Back From Mumps Ahead of Oil Bowl
Southwest Louisiana Institute rejoined by two players Virgil Ike Eikenberg and Bob Nowling after mumps, as SLI tunes up for the Oil Bowl in Houston on New Year’s Day facing Arkansas A and M. Mustangs edged by Army quintet 39 to 36 at Majors Field in Dallas.
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Lafayette
Southwest Louisiana Institute
Houston
Virgil
Ike) Eikenberg
Rice
Bob Nowling
Arkansas A. & M
SLI
Mustangs
Dallas
Southern Methodist Mustangs
Southwest
Majors Field Army
Greenville
Allies Begin Bombing Of Eastern Asia
A combined American and British force attacked targets in Bangkok during the night of December 19 in the first long range operation of the Eastern Asia Air Command. The announcement came amid war reports from multiple theaters.
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Eastern
Asia
New Delhi
Bangkok
Thailand
Eastern Asia Air Command
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Sandies
R. A
Big Butch” Boyter
Golden Sandie
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Corpus Christi
Ansley Cleaners
Taylor
OLD Forester
Kentucky
Brown-Forman Distillery Co, Inc
Louisville
Longhorn
Blooper’ Ball
Dapper Dans
Tannelli
Zivic
Boston
Ralph Tannelli
Providence
R. I
Fritzi Zivic
Boston Garden
Razorbacks
Port Smith, Ark
The
E. A. Harris
Irwin Gore
Victory Alley
Irwin
Gore
G. I
Noble Paulk
Builders Supply Company
Noble
Catherine Odell
Jim
Abilene
Vic Langley
Jim Pletcher
Vic
Bowlers Boobie Club
Sam Fenberg
Jenkin's
Kelly Tire Service
E. 10Th St
Nursery Fund
Bataan
Washington
Corregidor
Philippines
Lisbon
Embla
Marseille
Uncle Sam
Surance Company
U. S
Gram
Surance
Amarillo Insurance Exchange
Askew & Brown
T. B, Bruner
J. C. Burkhalter Rolla V. Cartwright
Finch & Gavin Lemons Agency
K. 8. Loving & CO
James Oakes
Ordway-Saunders CO
D. W. Owen Bates
Panhandle Ins. Agency
Thomson-King Company
E. A. Regal
Harold
Blackburn ‘Bros
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