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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1936
Page
9
Texas meets Texas Christian in Fort Worth as both chase the SWC title. Texas struggles after a 44 to 30 loss to SMU while TCU aims to slow the Longhorns and press Arkansas for the league lead. Arkansas hosts TCU’s foes and eyes home advantage as key games loom.
Scout Ben Smith reports from Pensacola on Bill Terry's baseball school at Egton Field with a large trainee body and notable staff. Johnny Revolta wins the Thomasville purse by one stroke after a final round four on the 72nd hole. Miss Minnie Ludwig dies from carbon monoxide fumes in Port Worth while shampooing.
Closing events at the fourth Olympic winter games drew 130000 fans amid mud and chaos as Adolf Hitler and Nazi officials attended. Norway dominated with Birger Ruud and Ivar Ballangrud winning multiple titles, Sonja Henie retained her figure skating crown, and Britain upset Canada to win the hockey title while American efforts were limited to the two man bobsled.
Germany hosts the 1936 Olympic events naming champions in skiing, skating, bobsled, and figure skating led by Christl Cranz Franz Pinner and Sonja Henie. Nations include Norway Sweden Finland United States Austria Switzerland Britain and Germany. Air patrols in California inspect planes to guard against malaria mosquitoes.
River Nile the African giant frog tops a public workout with a 12 feet 10 inch leap as odds drop to 4 to 1 for the late February finals. Angels Camp entrants Jim Smiley and California Sunshine are tipped as contenders ahead of a 10,000 spectator show.
In Harrisburg a U P report notes inmates in Pennsylvania penal and correctional institutions under the Department of Welfare now average 1 054 trainees versus an average of 1 000 in 1934.
A checker column explains standard openings like Ayrshire Lassie and Laird and Lady with over 500 variations. A sample game ending to Laird and Lady ends in a draw white to play. The writer asks readers who would join a future Amarillo checker tournament.
Col. Harry J. Landry announced the suspension of heavyweight champion Danno O Mahony after a Texas commission complaint that he failed to wrestle in Galveston on February 8. The action covers 37 states plus Canada Cuba and Puerto Rico while O Mahony awaits Texas hearing and explains illness kept him from the match.
More than 1,600 basketball teams in the Texas Interscholastic League championship race will be narrowed to 32 this week through district tournaments. District 26 title decided on season percentages. eight regional winners advance to state in March. Den ton is current champion after last year’s 38 to 23 win over Lamesa.
Max Baer says he will return to the ring within three months and aims to become heavyweight champion again in about a year and a half. He trained at Jimmy Duffy's Gym, noting hands as his main obstacle and hoping to debut against Phil Brubaker after Brubaker's recent win. Baer predicts a possible world title clash with Joe Louis by next June.
Gene Venzke of Pennsylvania won the milers title at Madison Square Garden in 4 minutes 10.2 seconds as the national A A U trials loom. The race pits Venzke against Joe Mangan and Glenn Cunningham with a likely three cornered duel anticipated over 1500 meters in the AAU meet.
NEW BRAUNFELS February 17 Lester Sykes and John Smith textile mill workers recover from injuries after a Sunday car overturn near here. John L. Sullivan 32 died from a fractured skull and internal injuries. Sullivan came here from Gonzales. Survivors include two brothers and two sisters. Smith suffered cuts bruises and a broken arm while Sykes had a fractured shoulder.
A fire at the Italo-Chilean Cinema Company building in Valparaiso, Chile, destroyed a three story block and left 17 bodies recovered, mostly women, with authorities fearing 13 more perished. Firefighters battled the flames as adjacent residences were destroyed.
The national football rules committee, meeting west of Philadelphia, approved two major changes for the 1936 code. A blocked kick that does not pass the line of scrimmage becomes a free ball that may be advanced by either side if recovered before dead. The slow whistle is eliminated to reduce injuries.
The University of Wisconsin athletics tangle prompts a potential Western Conference inquiry. Prof. George A. Works of Chicago polls members to see if an investigation is needed after regents dismissed director Walter Meanwell and coach Clarence Spears. Guy Sundt rumored as new athletics director, though he remains neutral.
Mrs. Ethel Johnson, 25 or younger, was given a 25 year term by a jury for murder in the shooting of her daughter in law, Bernice Blankenship. Prosecutors still pursue charges over the shooting of her son, Joe Dean Blankenship, with a prior trial ending in disagreement.
Colonel Joseph I. McMullen, the army patent law authority, stood trial before a general court martial on charges of offending good military order. He allegedly accepted two round trip railroad tickets to San Francisco as a reward for legal advice to a civilian tied to army contracts. His defense moved to dismiss part of the specifications for insufficient grounds.
Professional accounting firm V Robertson & Company offers tax counsel and auditing services with contact at 2-2038 Oliver Eakle Building.
Houston February weather shrouds the Country Club event as practice rounds begin for the Annual Golf Tournament qualifiers. Notables listed include Daw son Ossie Carlton Kingsley Goldman Todd Munger Hamman Novotny Watts White Cameron Crisman King Dawson McGonagill McClure with Moreland unable to defend his title.
Treasury data from February 14 shows receipts of 6.08 million dollars and expenditures of 14.06 million, yielding a net balance of 1.87 billion. Fiscal year receipts total 2.24 billion with 4.53 billion in expenditures, including 2.07 billion emergency spending, and a gross debt of 30.51 billion. Gold holdings stand at 10.12 billion.
Arcadia California February 17 UPI three horses that finished in the money last year in the 100000 Santa Anita handicap are DIscovery Top Row Time Supply and Azucar seen as main threats to Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt s Discovery in the second running of the stakes With Cavalcade and Head Play scratched Top Row time Supply and Azucar have beaten Discovery in weight races and could challenge the favorite as at least 13 horses line up next Saturday Wayne Wright the renowned jockey rides Top Row for A A Baroni who has kept Top Row out of races this season since Christmas Stakes in a bid to surprise Discovery at the world s richest racing purse.
The Home Owners' Loan Corporation announced it has granted 987,833 loans totaling 2,990,418,259 dollars as part of refinancing home loan distress. Loans outstanding equal about one sixth of urban mortgage debt. Roosevelt said about 1 billion of HOLC lending authority would be cancelled and the HOLC expected to finish examining all applications well before June 13.
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