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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1945
Page
15
Athens faces a critical clash as Pomeroy aims to deny the Bulldogs in a high scoring showdown. Jackson Afonmen leads the Rockets in a bid to disrupt Athens bid for the Southern League title and possibly force a shared finish with Logan.
Sports column notes Eddie Eagan's scoring system idea for a bout tested by judges, New Orleans fan choice and referee selection. Army relay gets Millrose Meet baton permission. Bil Tilden to headline at Grossinger Canteen show and birthday Feb 16. Bix Ten commissioner job has no applicants. Lou Brissie wounded in Italy in 20 shell hits. aims to play again.
Brooklyn report flags national push to curb game fixing and illegal betting. A Kings County grand jury indicts two men for bribing Brooklyn College players. Assemblyman Malcolm Wilson pushes penal law changes extending penalties to nonprofessional athletes and broadening gambling offenses.
A person was taken to Dr R E Boices office for X rays after a fall Tuesday at her daughter's home. The report mentions a mariner s compass was introduced in Europe in the 12th century. Wald er vv ae and other fragments appear in the text.
TAMPA Fla AP Be hind the wheels of service jeeps is being developed the greatest collection of daredevil racing drivers in history says Jimmy Wilburn world's champion dirt track auto driver Bat boxers No says Comdr. Jack Dempsey the former heavy weight champ There are no real good boxing men that I've observed in this war It takes three or four years to develop a topnotch fighter People say the last war produced great fighters It didn't Gene Tunney came along but it was seven years after the war before he became champion Wilburn back from a 13months job overseas as a civilian technician with the Army Air Forces predicted a tremen dous postwar boom into auto racing as well as other branches of sports The kids who drive those jeeps over the battlefields through rivers across deserts through swamps are the nerviest lot of them all he told Pete Norton sports editor of the Tampa Tribune Lots of them will turn to auto racing after the war That's when racing fans are going to see some real thrills Dermosey chief of the Coast Guard physical fitness program in an interview at Miami with Guy Butler sports editor of the Miami Daily News emphasized sports are necessary for morale purposes Wohardt HUMUKED MIDDLEPORT Claude Bus kirk 1924 Mecca Road Columbus was voted an award of Individual Production Merit by the Labor Management War Production Drive committee of the Curtiss Wright Plant He devised a new procedure for issuing stock on the shop cribs which will save at least 300 man hours per month
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