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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1940
Page
7
Louisville writer Henry McLemore recounts his misadventure betting on the Derby hopeful Bimelech. He laments overestimating the horse, describes his travels from Louisville to Cincinnati, and urges bets on Bimelech in the Preakness while praising Louisville’s parks and weather.
Sammy Hale's Midland Cowboys travel to Amarillo to face the Gold Sox at 8 15 p m for the first Ladies Night crowd. Women admitted free, crowd expected to boost standings in the Midland league as Lamesa Pampa and Big Spring press the Sox.
Board of Insurance Commissioners of the State of Texas certifies Trans Continental Insurance Company of New York complied with Texas laws to do business in the state for the year ending February 28 1941. Certificate issued by Walter C. Woodward Chairman of the Board.
The piece notes NCAA holds on southern colleges paying players and no future games after current contracts end. It mentions boxing names like Bob Pastor and Ceferino Garcia and forecasts, plus a joke about Buddy Baer and a poultry dealer buying boxers for low prices.
Fort Worth defeated 13 to 4 while Oklahoma City prevailed 15 to 4 in Sundays Texas League games. The results reflect a productive day for both clubs with runs in multiple innings.
Furr Food tops team standings with 3205 scratch score and 382 total handicap 228. Charley Finkley wins singles with 692 including 141 handicap. Matt Hudson and Carl Beadle take doubles with 1271 including 207 handicap. 19 five man teams 32 singles players 21 doubles teams competed.
Police reported an attack in Memorial Park in Houston where a black man forced a white woman’s escort to hold their two year old son at gunpoint. The assailant robbed them, took $2, and drove off in the couple’s car. A second city attack the previous week left John Frank Lee dead.
In Columbus a unique birthday alignment occurs as Francis Kunce shares a birthday with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Kunce. A daughter was born to the couple on that same date, creating a rare family birthday record observed by the family.
In a doubleheader second games lasted seven innings Dallas 15 Tulsa 6 and Houston 4 Shreveport 3. Standings list clubs: Houston San Antonio Oklahoma City Beaumont Tulsa Dallas Fort Worth Shreveport with Monday schedule including San Antonio at Beaumont Fort Worth at Oklahoma City Houston at Shreveport and Dallas at Tulsa.
The Amarillo Texians defeated Lockney 10 to 9 after falling 8 runs behind in the first two innings. Bowlden settled in on the mound and Corky Cornelius homered twice with two RBIs, lifting Amarillo to a comeback win before hosting Lockney again next Sunday at Malin Field.
Buddy Baer stands six and a half feet tall and weighs about 250 pounds with long reach and powerful punches. He stopped Nathan Mann in seven rounds with relentless attack but showed signs of rust and caution against Mann, suggesting he is not yet ready to face Joe Louis.
The article recalls Paul Pagnozzi finding a steel tapping tool he used as a toy at age two in New York. It also tells of Barbara Joyce Davis of Memphis who lost sight and hearing to meningitis eight years earlier and was blinded. doctors believe she may learn to talk through touch like Helen Keller.
Gen. Walter Krueger and his Ninth Corps Area troops drill in the East Texas woods amid peace time maneuvers against Maj. Gen. Walter Campbell Short's Blue Army. Red Air units at Shreveport await orders to strike bridges on the lower Mississippi. One Red Army death reported Private E Marillo of Lawton Oklahoma was killed in a vehicle crash. Sgt. L A Murphy injured.
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