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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1943
Page
15
Readable fragments describe a Star page piece about training and programs, with mentions of Jonas and various agents. The text hints at agriculture related topics and possibly a group or event, but many words are garbled.
Ohio University will begin 1943 football with West Virginia on Oct 2 at Morgantown. The schedule shows seven games, including home dates with Cincinnati, Miami, and Xavier, plus trips to Athens and Dayton’s absence noted. Coach Peden expects many first year players and plans to coach the squad with Traut. Holyfield and others.
National league leaders include Musial St Louis with 42 hits and 4 home runs tied among Ott Maynard Lithwhiler. runners include Herman Brooklyn 24 RBIs and Murtaugh Philadelphia Gustine Pittsburgh 4 stolen bases. Pitching Allen Brooklyn 3 0. American league leaders list White Philadelphia 20 runs Spence Washington 19 RBIs Wakefield Detroit 36 hits Keller New York 5 home runs Case Washington 5 stolen bases Carrasquel Washington 4 0.
The article notes African mahoganies thriving in Florida with trees planted 12 years ago now reaching 40 feet in height and 8 inch trunks. The trunks are twice the diameter of pines of the same age.
The daily standings show New York leading Chicago 4 to 2 and Pittsburgh 17 to 4 over Brooklyn. Cincinnati beat Philadelphia 1 to 0 while Boston edged St Louis 4 to 3. Several games were postponed including Detroit at New York and Cleveland at Boston with weather and Chicago-Philadelphia also delayed. Columbus defeated Kansas City 1 to 0 in 10 innings. Indianapolis beat Minneapolis 4 to 1 and Louisville downed St Paul 4 to 1. Milwaukee vs Toledo postponed.
Lou Boudreau, Cleveland manager, asserts the Indians are still the one to beat in the American League. He notes balanced lineup, laments Mel Harder's fracture, and hopes on Mike Naymick to supply a fourth starter while Jim Bagby Al Smith and Chubby Dean carry the mound duties. Smith and Dean delivered their third straight wins as they defeated the Yankees.
The Indianapolis Indians, chasing their first Association pennant since 1928, lead the race by two and a half games after a 4 to 1 win. George Dockins defeated Tommy Reis 1 to 0 in 10 innings for Columbus. Louisville beat St Paul 4 to 1 after late scoring, while Milwaukee at Toledo was postponed. Don Cameron's joke about Count Fleet’s cost sparks the closing note.
Cincinnati pitcher Bucky Walters helped the Reds beat Philadelphia 1 to 0, scoring the winning run after a balked pickoff. Si Johnson started for the Phillies and Elmer Riddle for Cincinnati. Walters earned the win with a 1-0 shutout in 1 hour 37 minutes, 7,512 in attendance.
Manuel Ortiz, the world bantamweight champion, retained his title by decisively defeating Joe Robleto before 4,100 spectators in Long Beach California. Ortiz weighed 118 pounds to Robleto’s 117 pounds, and demonstrated a powerful single punch over Robleto’s sustained aggression.
Kansas City muscled to a 1-0 win in extra innings against Columbus after a late heavy rally. Verban drove in the only run with a clutch hit as Milosevich and Verban sparked the offense. Reis and Dockins pitched well. Attendance hit 974 on Ladies Night, with Umpires Fenton and Naylor.
Major league night games produced few hits as the Cincinnati Phillies and Washington Browns won 1 0 and 4 3 respectively while daylight games featured high scoring slugfests. The Pirates crushed the Dodgers 17 4 and the Giants beat the Cubs 4 2 amid 22 and 28 total hits. Mad Russian made his 1943 debut without a hit.
The International League cites two of the youngest pros in custody John Henry Moesch a 16 year old Baltimore infielder last December and Walter Dyche a 17 year old Jersey City southpaw. The piece also notes weather halting the Yankees and mentions Abner Doubleday rumors and track meet plans in New Orleans with a quirky aside about Tony Galento’s sparring exhibition in Milwaukee and a strange remark about tomatoes and celery.
Ernest Jones compares golf swing analysis to horse training in a colorful analogy. Pvt Artie Dorrell gains permission to teach boxing basics to air corps trainers at the University of Arkansas in his spare time. Fort Monmouth reports two no hit baseball games in consecutive days with the 26th Service Unit suffering losses to the 15th Signal Training Unit and Camp Wood led by Mel Shapso witz.
Murray City youth Ronald Dale Reynolds, Class of 1943, received War Department notification of satisfactory performance on the joint Army Navy pre induction test. The achievement offers special consideration for the Army Specialized Training Program or Officer Candidate Schools.
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