Major City softball standings show Humble and Dittman top tied
Humble and Dittman each hold 11 wins and 3 losses atop the Major City softball standings. Nine games are on tap this week with makeups from rainouts, including Humble versus Hemphill and General Tire against Culpepper.
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Be Hombie
Dittman
O’brien Grocery
Joop
Humbles
Humble
Camac
Lee
Diamonds
Gray Leather
Higginbotham
Hemphill General Tire
Gulpegoes
Gray Lorber
Diamond One O'Brien
Dithran
Spm
Hemphill
General Tire
Culpepper
Diamond One
Gray
O'Brien
Dittmanst
Ise Dittman
OBB
Bemphill
Gray Lumber
Middleton and Grant Win Ner Titles
Middleton and Grant win city junior tennis titles with multiple finals. Middleton defeats Russo 5-7 6-4 6-1 to claim the boys singles crown, Wilkins edges Middleton in a semifinal 6-3 7-5, and Grant captures the girls singles by beating Horn 6-4 6-0. Horn and Grant share girls doubles with Timmins and Bramlett 6-3 6-0.
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Rob Middleton
City
Rollin Russo
Middleton
Paul Wilkins
Russell
Don Dixon
Sathleer Grant
Miss Grant
Helen Horn
Grant
Miss Horn
Lulie Timmins
Janie Bramlett
Timmins-Bramlett
Margie Pollock
Linda Pierce
Tommy Roberts
Ronnie Gieger
Thurman Watson
Gieger
Watson
Emory Halliman
Bill Dixon
Roberts
Wilkins
Don Fuller
Bill Wilkins
Tommy
Geary
Baseball Managers Face Uncertain Futures in 1949 Season
Sports Parade notes a tense managerial landscape as 1949 approaches with Rea Corriden fixed for success, Jack Onslow and Steve ONeill joining, and seven others on precarious ground. Veterans like Connie Mack, Casey Stengel, and Red Schoendienst loom as holders of long-term jobs, while several stars like Lou Boudreau and Hadie Dyer face job doubt amidst a season of shifts and health scares.
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New York
Leeson
Ead
Seasorm
Fellen
Rea Corriden
Nemed
Jack “Onslow
Beach
White Sox
Steve Oneill
Red Sox
Joe McCarthy
Teo Durocher
Giants
Frankie Frisch
Cubs
Bucky Harris
Senators
Billy Southworth
Braves
Eddie Sawyer
Phillies
Connie Mack
Bil Meyer
Casey Stengel
Red Wolfe
Brut’ Shotton
Zech Bevler
Deke Sewell
Lou Boudreau
Indies
Hadie Dyer
Cardinals
Mack
Jimmy Dykes
Meyer
Pittsburgh
Bucco
Wankee
Engel
Casey
el Wh
Worthet
Rolfe
Tiger
Tedhead
Stengel
Cincinnati Reds
Teyior
Browns
Boudreau
Poudreau
Highlands First Baptists win hard play in church league
Highlands First Baptist beat St Marks 7 6 in a close church league softball game. St Joseph routed Baytown Second Baptist 33 3, Highlands Second Baptist outplayed Wooster Baptist 5 3, and First Christian won its second straight game 7 4 over Grace Methodist as Hunter Wayland Dedmon allowed only three hits.
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Highlands First Baptist
St. Joseph
Highlands
St .Mark's Methodist
St. Marks
St Joseph
Baytown Second Baptist
Highlands Second Baptist
Wooster Baptist
Woost Ers
Christian
Grace Methodist
Hunter Wayland Dedmon
Methodist
Snead Mangrum Haas Lead Open After Blistering Pace
In Detroit three golf stars Sammy Snead Lloyd Mangrum and Fred Haas Jr surged to the Motor City Open final round with a 12 under par pace totaling 204 212 under par as Red Run Golf Club hosts a dramatic showdown before the final 18 holes, amid notes of distant Chilean alfalfa history.
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Detroit
Golfdom
Sammy Snead
Lloyd Mangrum
Fred Hass, Jr
Red Run Golf
Chile
Attendance Slump Haunts Texas League Through Half Season
Texas League attendance lag persists in midseason reports. Through the first half, eight clubs drew 53,999 paid admissions, well below 1,051,570 a year earlier, a per game drop from 37 82 to 30 61. Shreveport Dallas and San Antonio posted the largest declines despite a Cotton Bowl boost.
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Dallas
Milton
Price
Shreveport
San Antonio
Deiles
Tulsa
Beaumont
Fort Worth
Tailender
Crowley Narrowing Gulf Coast Loop Lead
Crowley’s lead in the Gulf Coast League shrank to one and a half games after a 14 7 loss by the front-running Millers to the Lake Charles Lakers. The Lakers and Millers battled in a hats game last night as standings tighten in the circuit.
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Exceed
Crowley
Millers
Lake Charles Lakers
Bauer Injury May Put DiMag Back In Outfield
Washington reports Joe DiMaggio after first base debut may return to outfield. The 35 year old Tankee star played 13 chances without an error yesterday, awaiting orders on a potential round trip to the outfield amid Bauer injury concerns.
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Bauer
DiMag
Washington —Cp
Joe DiMaggio
Tankee Star
Davm
World title bout and state title match set for Friday wrestling card
Houston report notes two out of three falls clashes topping the program at City Auditorium Friday night. Mildred Burks defends the world women’s crown against Elvira Snodgrass in one main event, with Dot Dotson serving as referee. Gardiner, Maine, birth update reports Mrs Gordon Hutchins fears her next baby’s weight after prior weigh-ins of 9, 20, and 16.5 pounds.
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Houston
Texas
City Auditorium
Mildred Burks
Elvira Snodgrass
Elvira
Gardiner
Gordon
Hutchins
Houston Woman Hooks 103-Pound Tan Tarpon
A Houston woman secured a 103 pound tarpon during a holiday fishing outing. The catch was reported alongside other big game fish including a 193 pound sailfish, highlighting the day’s trophy counts and notable sport angling.
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Houston
Ane
Thiel
St Marks Brotherhood to Hear Bil McCraw
Bil McCraw former Texas attorney general will speak on Christian Brotherhood at St Mark s Methodist Brotherhood dinner. Ray Weaver Joe Dotter and Rex Couch will sing. Meal prepared by St Mark s Women s Society of Christian Service.
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William
Bud MccGraw
Texas
Christian Brotherhood
Tom
St. Mark's Methodist Brotherhood
Ray “Weaver
Joe ‘Dotter
Rex Couch
St. Mark's Womer's Society of Christian Service P.W
Hebel
S.C. Bramlett
Brotherhood
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