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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1947
Page
4
A post banquet review at the Herring Hotel credits fans for supporting West Texas State grid plans as the team seeks a California trip fund. Kimbrough and Jarnigan delivered strong addresses with musical help from Thelma Gean Mercer and the West Texas State Collegians under M. F. Newman.
In light snow and gusty wind Bryan Nelson and Johnny Bulla defeated Harry Todd and Dennis Lavender 4-2. Nelson, semi retired from pro golf, shot 72 while Bulla added 75 Lavender 76 and Todd 78 in the amateur style event in Dallas.
Ken Mayne, popular Salt Lake City wrestler, returns to Amarillo this week with a likely semifinal bout at Pair Grounds. Main event features Wayne Martin and Hy Sharman in a best two of three. Amarillo College aims to raise about $3,000 for the Badger cagers to travel to Compton, with less than $1,000 collected so far. Revenue from a dance, skating party, and ticket sales funds the trip as the school board approves but notes lack of funds.
Nita West and Norman Grand staff led the top score 1301 in the Amarillo Women s Bowling Association Weekly Mixed Doubles Sweepstakes at Amarillo Bowl. Other winners include Lucy Moore and Mick Green 1213 Agnes Dowell and Guy Cook 1219. All scores include handicaps. Next Sunday the event moves to Banner Bowl.
Directors decide opening date April 23 and an all star game July 24 at the city with the highest home attendance through July 4. Opening pairings include Odessa at Ballinger Midland at Big Spring and Sweetwater at Vernon.
Otto Mangold's Boys Ranch Juniors beat the Maverick Juniors 23 21 at Boys Ranch to pull even atop the Texas Junior League standings. Dale Hulsey led Mavericks with eight points while Jackie Crowell and Freddie Bryant paced Boys Ranch with seven and six.
Corpus Christi Junior College has hired Ralph Murff to coach its first football team. Murff comes from Texarkana Arkansas High School and will report in April for spring practice. He was an all state back at Marshall High School in 1928 and later coached at Texarkana Junior College Arkansas State and Stephen F. Austin. He served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy until 1945.
Santa Fe and Hereford Implement clash in a losers bracket game at the college gym for the Amarillo AAU Basketball League playoff with 7 30 tipoff. West Texas State Freshmen await the winner for the title after defeating both in the playoff run. Admission is 36 cents.
Local bowling results show multiple leagues with wins by Pinkney Packers John Farrell Lumber and several others including Raiders Supply Amarillo National Bank Sparks Khiva Temple and more. High scores include M McMinn 580 Coker 500 Bechtold 566 and Prince 620 at Liquor Mart.
Regulators led scoring with Hogan 427 Kerney 372 and Jacobson 491 while Electrons and Southwesterns had no wins. Riders, Radars, Cycles and Hi Liners posted single victories with top scores ranging from 258 to 610 and 443 to 485 for individual scorers.
Amateur boxing's biggest show the Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions opens at Chicago Stadium with three rings of fights featuring 312 survivors from about 50 000 entrants in home towns across the nation.
Graham Steers and Amarillo Golden Sandies prepare for a bi district showdown after split results in non conference play. Amarillo leads with 23 wins to 2 losses, Graham at 20 and 6. key players Oatman Swaim Wilde Wright Nall return for Graham while Carter Wartes Pickens lead Amarillo. Tickets limited at Maxor Drug. tipoff 8 p.m. Thursday with potential neutral site rematch if needed.
Vera Huskey of Dallas won first place in the seventh annual Oklahoma City Times Women's Singles Classic with a net 864. Babe Stephenson of Stillwater was runner up with 850, Virginia Kroll led Amarillo entrants with 787, and other scores included Claire Mann 783 and Edith Green 719.
Tex Muncy shoots a net 67 to win the Ross Rogers Course Weekend Golf Sweepstakes. Second through several other winners include Jack Lee 86-18-68 and John Stockton 79-10-69 with scores and entries listed for multiple players.
James Garner earned the singles spot on the Amarillo High School team by defeating Ernest Northcutt 6-3 6-4 at Ellwood Park. Garner, ranked No. 8 nationally in boys doubles, previously claimed 1946 Amarillo Open titles in singles and doubles and junior singles.
D L McDonald tops the Amarillo Gun Club weekly skeet event by breaking all 25 targets. Gravestock misses one in the same field, runner up with 24. Others scoring include Train 23 Chapman 23 Filkins 22 Lawson 22 Williams 21 Riggs 20 Walker 20 and more.
An advertising notice touts LMOROLINE HAIR TONIC as a remedy for irregular dandruff flakes. It promises relief from itching and dry scalp and positions the product as a solution for unsightly scalp conditions.
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