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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1945
Page
10
A three Friday night bowling singles tourney at Banner Bowl Amarillo Bowl and Victory Alleys offers prizes and a free medical checkup for the low score. Entry is 50 cents per line, handicaps set at 75 percent of the gap to 200, no score carryover, and all funds go to Bowlers Victory Legion for armed forces recreation.
Lt. Comdr. Laurence J. Mullins the athletic director at the Iowa pre flight school has been transferred to the naval air training base in Corpus Christi Texas Lt. Comdr Jack Meagher who coached the Seahawk football team to an undefeated 10 game schedule last fall will succeed him in Iowa City as athletic director
MATTER OF FACT notes drivers hurry to service retailers with Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer while remaining careful and courteous on the road. The ad urges customers to ask again if Pabst isn’t available, from BADGER HERRING Sales & Drug Co. in Des Moines.
Plains Chevrolet defeated Amarillo Furniture 27 to 9 in a high scoring contest marked by 12 errors and 12 free passes. D Williams Caldwell and Farmer doubled for Plains as Mims Lauder and Hall combined for five innings on the mound with 11 strikeouts.
Local sports week features baseball and softball at Tri-State Fair Park and Amarillo venues. Golf events include Ladies Day at Amarillo Country Club and mixed Scotch foursome at Ross Rogers Course. Bowling announces Victory Legion singles at Amarillo Bowl and weekend handicap events at Ross Rogers and Amarillo Country Club.
Eight year old Janet Pierce of Leominister uncorks a 17 pound rainbow at Spec Pond. The feat, achieved without assistance, set a local record for the area and drew praise from onlookers.
In the Amarillo schedule the Annual Amarillo Country Club Championship runs May 26 to July 1 with singles and a Friday night event at Amarillo Bowl. Baseball features Amarillo Field versus Sheppard Field in Wichita Falls over a weekend. The Annual Amarillo Junior Golf tournament takes place June 22 to July 1 at Ross Rogers Course. The region’s lumber industry employs about 70,000 workers across five Western states.
Promoter Bob Leeds will host a meeting at Olver-Wiggins Lumber Company at 1200 West Sixth where all team managers must attend at 8 o clock. He aims to organize the league with seven teams and set rules, schedule, and participation details, addressing prior player shortages. Teams likely to attend include Mechanics and Civilian Bombers of Amarillo Field, Jaycees, Pantex Ordnance Plant, Amarillo National Bank, Amarillo Field GI, and the Texas State Guard.
Am rillo Country Club launches tennis activities with an exhibition led by Bob Yeager. Players include James Utterback J. E. Lovelady Red Morrison J. L. Parmalee J. D. Smyth Bud Bussard Yeager and the writer.
Mrs. Ernie Dowell captured first in the Amarillo Municipal Women's Golf Association Weekly Tournament at Ross Rogers Course. Play was stroke play. Dowell carded 82-44-38 for a total 164. A two way tie for second included Mrs. Art Querry 61-22-39 and Mrs. J R Brown 58-19-39.
Fred Cochran world welterweight champion resumes activity after a Navy break and will fight Eddie Miller of St. Louis, a middleweight, in a non title bout Monday night in Atlanta.
In the fifth century the Venetian Republic rose to world leadership in glassmaking. The era marks Venice as a dominant center for glass production and innovation shaping trade and craft across the Mediterranean.
The Amarillo Junior Golf Tournament runs June 22 to July 1 at Amarillo Country Club. Open to local youths 18 and under, with eight players per flight in match play, entry fee $1, and four prizes per flight. Final action decided at the Amarillo Golf Association meeting led by President Tex Muncy. Dr. E. W. Cain is tournament chairman.
Yesterday Brooklyn defeated New York 6 to 3 while Cincinnati won 4 to 1 and Chicago played St. Louis. Today's standings show New York 28 wins 17 losses 575 in first place, Brooklyn 19 537, St. Louis 18 561, Chicago 18 514, Cincinnati 9 39 500, Boston 21 244. Tonight Cincinnati visits Pittsburgh and Chicago goes to St. Louis with Boston at Philadelphia.
After more than two decades at 1311 Polk W B Burkhalter sold City Dry Cleaners to J D Potter formerly of Potter's Cleaners. Potter assumed active management Monday with Burkhalter remaining head of the hat department.
Velma and Adele Shows, Amarillo High School commercial teachers, spend the summer with their parents in Ovett Mississippi.
Mrs Alma Wihle of 412 East Ninth watched a four engine plane bound for the airport emit heavy smoke from its port engine yesterday morning. Public relations at Amarillo Army Air Field confirmed there was no fire and no injuries despite the smoke.
Amarillo High School science head C. A. Wallace spends the summer with his mother in Enid Oklahoma.
The Amarillo Field Sky Giants face a sparse schedule as Hobbs Army Air Field and Lubbock Army Air Field cancel contests. Despite a 12 game win streak this season and a 20 game stretch over two seasons, the team will travel to Wichita Falls for a two game series with the Sheppard Field Eagles.
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