Amarillo High Track Sets 16 Records in 1950 season
The Amarillo High School track team, led by coach John Whinnery, scored 457 23/45 points across meets, breaking the 1949 record and setting 16 school records plus tied three others. Key performers included Robert Whiddon with 92 19/20 points and Galen Fowler with 64. Multiple records fell at Greenbelt, West Texas Relays, and district meets, with Whiddon and Fowler earning top honors. Only five athletes to depart include Whiddon, Fowler, Swink, Gallogly, and Clark.
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Munhall nets 66 to win Amarillo CC Weekend Handicap
S T Munhall's net 66 paced the field in the Amarillo Country Club Weekend Handicap Golf Tournament. His card read 80-14-66. Other winners included M T Johnson Sr 77-10-67 Raymond Mann 71-4-67 Dick Bivins 80-13-67 and Bob Greene 78-10-68. J R Brown took low gross with 70.
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Albuquerque vaults into West Texas New Mexico lead tie
In a doubleheader, Albuquerque swept Clovis 11-6 and 5-1 to pull even atop the league standings. Abilene swept Lamesa 5-2 7-5 with Ralph Rhames and Bob McChesney delivering 3-for-3 days for Abilene. Pampa beat Lubbock 8-3 7-5 as Roy Parker and George Payte earned their fifth wins. Amarillo defeated Berger 12-5.
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Schoolboy To Play Again In All America Game
Claude Climer of Cleveland Tennessee, a one legged former player, will be “honor ary captain” and handle the ball for both teams in Memphis Aug 9 as part of the second national high school All-America game. Proceeds go to his scholarship fund above $5,000. The East and West squads feature players from 32 states, selected from 500 newspapers and 153 sports broadcasters. The piece also notes Meyer brothers in harness racing, Levi Jackson heading to Ford, and Marquette football players taking summer jobs in Milwaukee breweries.
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Marquette U
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Amarillo Country Club Breakfast Golf Meet Tomorrow
The Amarillo Country Club hosts a breakfast golf meet with breakfast served at 8 15 AM and Bob Howie as master of ceremonies. An 18 hole medal event follows with prizes for low net and low gross plus awards for five age groups. Entry is one dollar. Police searching for a 90 year old Vancouver Scotland woman found she was on her honeymoon.
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Bob Howie
Vancouver
Scotland
Temple Eagles win eighth straight in Big State League
Temple Eagles defeated Gainesville 14 to 2 for their eighth straight victory and moved closer to sixth place. Don Spyker pitched well, Roy Lanner hit a two-run homer in the ninth, and six runs in the first inning sparked the surge. Wichita Falls beat Austin 9-2. Sherman Denison, Greenville, and rapenee also posted wins.
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Indonesia Expands Palm Oil Output Amid Postwar Shortages
Indonesia raises palm oil production while domestic supplies remain well below prewar totals. The shift aims to bolster export capacity and stabilize cooking oil markets as farmers boost yields and processing capacity scales up.
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Hit Pitching Duel Tonight
Tulsa hosts Fort Worth in a Texas League opener as Tulsa brings the league’s strongest hitting and Fort Worth the top pitching. Fort Worth led class AA, Tulsa trailed six games back. results from the prior day show Dallas beating Fort Worth and Tulsa edging Oklahoma City. Shreveport and Houston split, San Antonio and Dallas posts noted.
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Phillies Take NL Lead With Split Of Giants Series
Eddie Sawyer's whiz kids beat the New York Giants 3-1 in the nightcap after a 5-2 11th inning victory as Dick Sisler and Dick Whitman drove in the decisive runs. The Phillies moved one half game up on Brooklyn, while the Yankees and Athletics split twin bills and Detroit narrowed the AL lead.
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Mixed Doubles Title Decided This Evening at Ellwood Park
Public Parks Annual Tennis Tournament heads to Ellwood Park Courts at 5 30 pm with Bud Bussard and Mrs Guy Chisolm Jr facing George Smith and Carman McGee in mixed doubles final. Imogene Wagner swept women's singles 6 4 6 1, while Bud Bussard and Jake Fishbien reach men s final. Fishbien beat Roger Wheatley 3 6 6 3 6 4.
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Fired by Look Waitress Appeals Unemployment Claim
Delores Davis, a Sparta waitress, says her boss fired her after he noted there was too much help. She left the night club and is appealing an industrial commission ruling denying unemployment compensation.
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Odessa Builds Lead With Ten-Inning Win Over San Angelo
Odessa stays atop the Class D Longhorn League by beating San Angelo 4-3 in ten innings as Wayne Batson scores on Jimmy McClure’s error on a pop fly. The Broncs had seven errors and six hits.
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Bellaghy Water Botted by Buckets as Town Struggles
In Bellaghy Ireland residents still haul all water by hand from a neighboring county forcing a six month project to finish a 240 room hotel in Milan using mechanized methods.
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Icelandic rates rise after devaluation in Denmark sees shorter stays
International rates for telephone telegraph and postal services were advanced after Iceland devalued its currency. At the same time the average tourist stay in Denmark has fallen to five days, reflecting broader regional economic adjustments.
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