Boxing notes mix in New York and Canada spotlighting bets
The report highlights Moe Berg's quick check of the international situation, Ken Overlin's $400 bet against 1000 on beating Ceferino Garcia in the Garden, Garcia pressing the boxing commission over thumbing and batting, Eddie Miller trade chatter with the Cubs at 100000, and Peter Scalzo named the featherweight champion by Onkel Heinie Miller. It also mentions Bill Dickey's leg injury, a Maryland polo club with two bit admission, Babe Dahlgren injured by a rock, and the Wrestling Equity Association strikes against Jack Pfeffer and Rudy Dusek seeking clean up. East Denver High School teams dominated many sports last year.
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Canada
Ken Overlin
Ceferino Garcia
Henry Armstrong
Overlin
Garcia
Boxing Commission
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Cubs
Eddie Miller
Bill Dickey
Maryland
Cleveland
Babe Dahlgren
The
Wrestling Equity Association
Jack Pfeffer
Rudy Dusek
Sox Ready for Tonight Showdown With Oilers
The Amarillo Gold Sox and the Pampa Oilers may play at 8 15 tonight after last night rainouts. The Gold Sox hold first place and face a two game series at Pampa starting tomorrow, with pitching uncertainty due to Dorman and Lynn absences.
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Pampa Oilers
Big Spring Barons
Lubbock Hubbers
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Hubbers
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Lamesa
Midland
Clovis Pioneers
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Price College to Honor Athletes At Banquet
Price College awards letters to football and basketball players at tonight's activities banquet starting at 6 30 pm. Regulars receive eight inch letters, reserves six inch, flyweight four inch. Football honorees include Captain Kevin Heyburn Walter Nussbaum Bernard Smith Roy Doerfler Dan McDade and Dan Pawlik. Reserves are William Brown Lou Evers and Leon Shoat. Basketball regulars listed with captaincy Jack Brown Walter Nussbaum Bernard Smith Tom Sheil James Probst Chester Pawlik Ed Murphy and Henry Boyd. Reserves include William Brown Lou Evers Don Van Dever William McWhorter Calvin Clarke Hershel Hines. Flyweight players Jack Herrmann Carlos Hinkamp Edward Shoaf Werner Koelzer Hugh Cypher. Heaaaenes Anenagy Skipper Jonnard note potential early season move if weather warms and the Sox return home for a two game series with the Barons.
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Lou Evers
Leon Shoat
First Star Since Bob Jones Wins ECE Two Straight Years
The national open champion repeats for a second year, lowering his scoring record to 281 in 1937 then winning again in 1938. He has been among the leaders and previously won the Western Open at Canterbury two years ago.
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Bob Jones
Canterbury
Lou Gehrig Earns the Golden Laurel of 1939
Henry McLemore argues Lou Gehrig deserves the 1939 World’s Fair golden laurel for outstanding contribution to sport. He cites Gehrig’s courage in eight illness‑stricken games, graceful bowing out, rejection of riches, and later social service work as a prison parole commissioner.
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Lou Gehrig
Gehrig
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Loulis
DiMaggio
Burk
McCarthy
Iron Horse
Mayo Clinic
Lou
Louis
Oarsman
Rochester
Jas
Amarillo arc of weather and new city curbs on soliciting
Weather interrupts outdoor sports in Amarillo with rained out golf and softball events. Archery range opens with balloons to pop prizes. Ordinance No. 1566 bans hailing motorists to solicit lodging, imposing up to 200 fine for violations, effective after May 14, 1940.
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Jaycee Softball League
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Amarillo Women’s Golf Association
Sam Thomas
Tenth and
Parker Streets
City OF
Amarilio
Texas League Results From Fort Worth to Beaumont
Wednesday results show Houston 5 over Fort Worth 1 and Dallas 4 over Beaumont 3. Edgar Red Lynn of Amarillo, a consistently winning pitcher, was recalled to Kinney to tend a seriously ill father and will rejoin the team as soon as possible.
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Edgar
Red
Tulsa
Shreveport
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Oklahoma City
Las
Beausmont
San Antonio
Dory Detton Faces Knox in National Guard Armory Bout
Dory Detton aims to stay undefeated in a main event with Buddy Knox at the National Guard Armory as four matches headline the night. The card opens with Bounding Bob Cummings versus Spanish Mike Romano at 8 30, followed by Yaqui Indian Joe against John Nemanic and Chuck Powell versus Joe Lynam leading to the Knox Detton showdown.
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Buddy Knox
West Virginia
National Guard
Norton-Kinew
Bob Cummings
Mike Romano
Joe
John Nemanic
Chuck Powell
Joe Lynam
Knox-Detton
State rules against fifth floor climb for unemployment
Hartford Conn WP). Unemployment official Odlum ruled a woman who refused a job requiring five flights of stairs may still receive benefits. She had climbed four flights daily. the fifth floor proved too strenuous. The decision allowed reconsideration despite employer objections.
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Worman
Frank R. Odlum
Odlum
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