Beaumont Leads Texas League After 10 Years
Beaumont Exporters topped the Texas league pennant race by 12 points, first time in about a decade a Skipper nine led at this stage. Elmer Hanson dominated Spudders, giving Beaumont another strong win as Jim Lindsey notched his thirteenth victory for the Cats. Buffaloes, Shreveport, and San Antonio also posted wins in openers as the circuit showed a southward brace.
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Associated Press
Beaumont
Claude Robertson
Hearties
Wichita Spudders
Elmer Hanson
Van
Rube Stuart
Magnolia
Spudders
Southland
San Antonio
Steers
Buffaloes
Cats
Jim Lindsey
Shreveport Nine
Waco
Oscar Tuero
Hanson
Dutch Wetzel
Lindsey
Les
Buffs
McCabe
Devaney
Roy Moore
Indians
Charlie Barnee
Frazier
Barnabe
Ray Flaskamper
Sterling Dallas
Mellano
Warwick
Cubs
Tuero
Bernie Deviveiros
Sport
Cub
Burleson College Names New Coach J K Sikes
Greenville Texas July 17 J K Sikes Leonard star athlete from Texas A and M College in 1925 26 is named Burleson College football coach Officials announced the selection yesterday Duties begin late August Sikes expects a fast team with several strong high school players set to attend
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Greenville
Tex
Miss Turpie Wins Third Gold Medal
In the Third Annual Woman's Trans Mississippi Golf tourney in Denver, Miss Marion Turpie of New Orleans, medalist this year, advanced to the second round after strong play and key holes. Mrs. O. Hill of Kansas City, the reigning champion, also moved with a 44 and 88 total in her match before proceedings paused temporarily.
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Martha Norelius
Miss Norelius
Toronto
Helen Meany
Tamarack Country Club
Greenwich
Conn
United Pres
Denver
Colo
Hill
Kansas City
H., Johnson
Omaha
George Enkinson
Marion Turpie
New Orleans
National League and American League Seasonal Baseball Leaders
Key leaders from July 16 AP roundup with names like Ott Gehringer Simmons and Gehringer again. Highlights include batting, runs, RBIs, hits, doubles, triples, homers, steals, and pitching records for teams Giants Browns Tigers Pirates Yankees and Athletics. Includes notable figures such as Ott Manush Gehringer and Grove.
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Herman
Robins
Ott
Giants
Terry
Frederick
Hafey
Cards
L. Wangr
Pirates
Klein
Brinnes
Cuyler
Cubs
Grimes
Manush
Browns
Gehringer
Tigers
Simmons
Athletics
Johnson
Miller
Aethletics
Gehrig
Yanks
Stolp
Cissell
White Sox
Grove
Phillies
Wilson
Bottomley
Ruth
O'Doul
Stephenson
Heilmann
Falk
Indians
State Champion Contest Progress Notes
Yesterday Miss Turpie, the state champion, played the first nine holes in par 42. She won the first three holes, halved the fourth, stood one up at the turn, then birdied twice and parred the next four to stay near the lead.
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Miss Turpie
Loughran to defend title vs Braddock amid retirement doubt
Tommy Loughran defends the light heavyweight crown against James J. Braddock at Yankee Stadium with plans that a victory may lead him to future heavyweights. If he wins he may fight again as a light heavyweight in September before shifting up. Odds favor Loughran 7 to 5 a day before the bout.
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New York
Tommy Loughran
James J. Braddock
Jersey City
Yankee Stadium
Jimmy
Loughran
Mike McTigue
Tommy
Braddock
Ex flyweight boxer Mason dies after TB battle
Frankie Mason, 39, once America's flyweight champion, died in Fort Wayne after a four year battle with tuberculosis. The former champion Frank McCan lost his title to Jimmy Wilde of England in Toledo weeks before illness.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Frankie Mason
America
Mason
Frank McCan
Toledo
Jimmy Wilde
England
Featherweights Meet Tomorrow in Chicago Card
Earl Bastro of Chicago faces Billy Shaw of Detroit in a ten round featherweight bout in Chicago tomorrow night. Lightweight Soug Myers of Pocatello and Joey Medill of Chicago also meet in ten rounds on the same bill.
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Chicago
Earl Bastro
Billy Shaw
Detroit
Soug Myers
Pocatello
Ida
Joey Medill
Panama Negro Stops Cormier in Fourth Round Knockout
In Portland Maine last night Al Brown known as Panama Negro fought Vernon Cormier of Worchester Massachusetts in a B round bout. Brown weighed 121 pounds Cormier 120 pounds and scored a fourth round knockout to secure the victory.
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Portland
al Brown
Vernon Cormier
Worcenter
Mass
Brown
Cormier
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