Nick Altrock the sly money pitcher of early baseball
Nick Altrock, once a top left handed money pitcher, starred for the White Sox and later became a Washington coach and comedian. The article recalls his 1901 LA walk seven then pick off, 1906 World Series duel with Three Finger Brown, Cleveland era, and career arc through the Senators in 1918.
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Harry Grayson
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Nicholas Altrock
Nick Altrock
Cincinnati
Altrock
Fielder Jones
Los Angeles
Jones
Doc White
Ed Walsh
White Sox
West Side Park
Mordecai Brown
Cubs
Brown
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Sox
Miner Brown
Louis
Chicago
Jimmy Callahan
Pale Hose
Milwaukee
Callahan
Collins
Clark Griffith
Senators
Chief Bender
Athletics
Washington
Monument
Beaumont Hires Tyson to Lead South Park Athletics
Paul Tyson, a 29 year veteran of Texas coaching, signs to be director of athletics and physical education at South Park Senior and Junior High Schools in Beaumont. He will coach the South Park High team and develop a school counselling system. contract starts July 1.
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South Park
Tyson
Texas Christian University
Denison
Woodrow Wilson High School
Dallas
Aiso
General Victory Corps
Texas Net Star In Second Round
Evanston Illinois June 23 Walter Driver of the University of Texas faced Francisco Segura of the University of Miami in the second round of the 59th Annual Tennis Tournament of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Segura defeated Horace Filer of DePauw in two sets 6-1 6-0, winning in 20 minutes.
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Evanston
Ill
Walter Driver
University of Texas
Francisco Segura
University of Miami
Ecquador
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Segura
Horace Filer
Depauw
Filer
Dodgers Gain On Cardinals in Major League Action
In a day of tight pennant battles the Dodgers edged the Giants 7-4 to gain a half game on the idle Cardinals. Len Merullo delivered a 1-0 Cubs win over the Pirates with a clutch single, while Jimmy Vernon drove in two runs for the Senators in a 3-2 victory over the Yankees.
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Washington Senators
New York Yankees
Yankees
Senators
Jimmy Vernon
Hank Borowy
Early Wynn
Tex Hughson
Boston
Red Sox
Cleveland
Philadelphia Athletics
Hughson
Sox
Russ Christopher
Bert Kuczynski
Eddie Lake
Chicago White Sox
Don Guttteridge
St. Louis
Browns
Johnny Humphries
Thurman Tucker
Chicago
Harland Clift
Detroit
Brooklyn Dodgers
St. Louis Cardinals
New York Giants
Kirby Higbe
Len Merullo
Harry Lowrey
Johnny Wyrostek
Chicago Cubs
Pittsburgh Pirates
Paul Derringer
Bob Elliott
Pirate
Lowrey
Elliott
Johnny Podaging
Boston Braves
Phil Masi
Philadelphia Phillies
Manny Salvo
Phillies
Jack Kraus
Cincinnati
Stephens and Dahlgren Hold Batting Leads
In Chicago on June 23 Vern Stephens of the St. Louis Browns preserves a slim AL batting lead at .358 while Dick Wakefield advances to third with .317 and Lou Boudreau tied for 10th at .283. In New York Babe Dahlgren tops NL batting at .359 as Billy Herman rises to .340 to challenge and Musial and Walker slip.
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Stephens
Detroit
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Roy Cullendine
Lou Boudreau
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New York
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Philadelphia
Ellsworth
Babe
Herman
Lonnie Frey
Cincinnati
Musial
Walker
Beck
Dahlgren
Frey
Frank McCormick
Frank Gustine
Pitts
Spindrift to Run Six Day Week in July At Navy School
The Iowa Navy pre flight School Spindrift will switch to a six day week in July, dropping the daily sports period from Saturday. Gene Mauck of Los Angeles emerges as a Dodger shortstop prospect after working with the team alongside former high schoolmates of Mickey Owen, Cliff Dapper, and Roy Partee. Carl Hubbell marked his 40th birthday by shagging flies in pregame. The piece also notes golf handicap ideas, tennis scheduling impacts, and university athletic fundraising efforts in a brisk, survey-like sports column.
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Hugh Fullerton Jr
New York
Iowa Navy
Spindrift
Dodger
Gene Mauck
Los Angeles
Mickey Owen
Cliff Dapper
Roy Partee
Carl Hubbell
Seven More Hardin-Simmons Players Ordered into Service
Sixteen Hardin-Simmons University students, including seven football players from the Border Conference championship squad, are ordered into service July 1 by the navy and marines. Names and assignments include John Raymond Cook to Kansas State Teachers College and Ralph Marmolejo to Texas Christian College, with several others sent to Louisiana Polytechnic Institute and additional V-1 program placements.
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Hardin-Simmons University
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Marines
Kansas State Teachers College
Pittsburg
Kan
John Raymond Cook
Baird
Jimmy Graham
Kaufman
Joe Dabney
Wichita Falls
Edward Hamilton
Jack Martin Clarke
Billy Ray Goldsmith
William Robert Hall
Midland
H. B. Armstrong
Karnes City
Ralph Marmolejo
el Paso
Francis Eugene Hickey
Texas Christian College
Louisiana Polytechnic Institute
Ruston
Lennie Cortese
San Angelo
James Callam
Goose Creek
J. R. Steele
Huntington
James Jones
Ada
Ave
Fort Worth
Tommie Teal
Cowboy Band
Harold C. Seefeldt
Brinkley
Ark
Longhorn Golf Squad Enters National Meet
National Collegiate Golf Tournament entries total six with Yale and Texas filing four man teams. Nineteen schools represented, ten with full four man teams. standings mention Musial Walker Hack Kurowski Vaughan Cavarretta with .305 to .323 batting averages listed.
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Longhorn Golf Squad
Chicago
Olympia Fields
Yale
Texas
Softball Meeting Planned Friday to Organize League
Ross Larsen, director of the Amarillo Recreation Program, announced a meeting at 8 p m Friday night at C M Williams and Co to organize an adult softball league after last night’s session failed to form enough teams.
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C. M. Williams & Co
Ross Larsen
Amarillo
Forest Hills to Stage National Net Meet in Six Days
The 1943 national tennis championships will be held at Forest Hills on a streamlined schedule from September 1 to September 6. The men's and women's singles and doubles and mixed doubles events will be compressed with fields halved to 32 singles entrants and 16 doubles teams.
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New York
Forest Hills
United States Lawn Tennis
McKay Invited to All-Star Team for Aug Game
Roy McKay six foot two hundred pound full back from the University of Texas was invited to join the All- Star squad to face the Washington Redskins in Evanston on August 25. He becomes the first backfield man named to the squad.
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Roy McKay
University of Texas
Washington
Redskins
Evanston
Mecnay
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