Top Texas Boat Drivers to Race Here for 1000 Purse
Plans for Sunday boat races on Old Bee are complete with a $1000 purse posted by Baytown Jaycees. At least 130 drivers expected, led by Nels Wilson, as Baytown drivers vie for Lone Star Boat Racing Association points and season-ending trophies. Fourteen races across classes, two heats per class, headlined by Glass A with Adis Shepherd leading and Lawrence Strauch closing in.
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Dan Shults
Old Bee Eeers
Deveres Iis Fuera Aghout
Nels Im Welson
Runnin
Freeport Jafeees
Lone Star Boat Racing Association
LSRRA
Texas
Baytown
Glass A
Adis Shepherd
Adis Shepherd Is Leading the Field By 200 Points, But Another Beytonian
Lawrence Strauch
Shepherd
Rollin Pruett
Freddy Palmer
BL. H
Wede Cellam
Jaycee
Fishing Advice and Progress Shifts in Bay Waters
In a casual fishing note, Jin Nelson passes wife friendly tips from Mrs. Richardson and reports a trawl for bait off Hog Island yielding shrimp. The column then covers broadcasting limits for major league baseball and minor leagues, arguing for stringent radio and TV caps to protect minor circuits, with comments from Frank J. Shaughnessy and George M. Trautman. A dredge near the ship channel muds a reef, altering local fishing grounds, and catches include a speck, a red, and numerous croakers and gafftops.
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Sew Fyoric
Fipi
Frank J. Shaughnessy
International League
St Petersburg
Floride
Cormissioner
Ofessional Baseball League
Star
Chicago
Treutman
Shaughnessy
Trettman
Chandler
Five Mile Pass
Freamon Pruett and G O. For tom win club trophies
Freamon Pruett and G O. For tom were presented the Jim Nelson skeet and trap trophies for top Bumbis Gun Club shooters from January through June. Nelson owns DeHart's Sporting Goods Store and donates trophies annually.
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Freamon Pruett
G O. Fortom
Jim Nelson
Nelson
DeHart
Texas A and M Season Tickets Deadline Listed
COLLEGE STATION Texas A and M announces season ticket deadlines for 1950 home games at Kyle Field ending midnight July 22. The six to twenty dollar season book includes one ticket to games versus Vai TCU Arkansas and Rice with option to add four Texas Texas A and M game in Austin. Tickets for road games at Weveda Texas Tech Oklahoma SMU Baylor and Texas also available.
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College Station
Texas A and M
Howard Nelson
Kyle Field
Vai
TCU
Arkansas
Rice
Texas
Texas Tech
Oklahoma
SMU
Baylor
University of Texas
A and M
Injury Jinx Hangs Over All Star Game Contests Hurt Seven
The major league all star game again saw seven players sidelined and 17 contests affected as stars like Ted Williams Joe DiMaggio and Yogi Berra suffered injuries. The era’s brightest arms Dizzy Dean and Johnny Allen were noted among past costly injuries, with memory of earlier hitters and mishaps shaping the grim pattern around the midsummer classic.
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Steve Sniber
United Press Sports Wester
New York
Ted Williams
Boston Red Sox
Joe DiMaggio
New York Yankees
Yogi Berra
Williams
Pittsburg
Ralph Winer
Max’ West
Boston Braves
Tyas Goodman
Cincinnati’ Reds
West
Luke Appling
Good- Turn
Dizzy
Dean
Johnny Aller
Pilcher
St. Louiz Cardinals
Dudag
Fio
Lou Gehrig
Cleveland
Larl Averill
Averill
Diz
Stock Car Races Night At Playland Park Houston
Stock car races return to Playland Park on South Main with an eight race program featuring 75 entrants from Beaumont Lake Jackson Freeport Victor Louise Baytown La Porte and more Admission is one dollar per program and race time is 8 15 p m Friday night also a midget program is scheduled next Wednesday with similar pricing and 8 15 p m start times Officials expect a crowd over 100000 cash customers over the season with postwar models and new entrants in the field
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Houston
Houston -Area
Playland Park Stadium
South Main
Fens
Channel Press
Jacinto City
Rosenberg
Baytown Lassies Defeat Galena Park 17 to 6
The Baytown Lassies softball team defeated Galena Park 17 to 6 on Wednesday at the Rumble Commissary diamond. Pitcher Wes Genta Rae Long earned the win and Dorothy Deniels hit a triple. The Lassies travel to play Highlands at 6 am Friday.
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Baytown Lassies
Galena Park
Wes
Genta Rae Long
Dorothy Deniels
Lassies
Highlands
Five pound nine ounce bass hooks on crippled minnow
A fisherman reports catching a five pound nine ounce bass in Highland Reservoir. Wood reeled in the fish after it struck a crippled minnow baited along the Goose Creek stream bed.
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Wood
Highland Reservoir
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Baytown Jaycees
United Press
Fort Worth
Beaumont Roughnecks
Kittens
Jeaders
Rex Jones
Roughnecks
Gil McDougald
Beaumont
Tulsa
San Antonio
Deilus Eagles
Shrevenort Sports
Stubby Stablefeld
Lou Morton
Eagles
Joe Montalvo
Oklahoma City
Indians
Dallas
Houston Buffaloes
Shreveport
Admirston
Curly Kayde
Som Lefi
Kai
Aiy
Zipadze
Mickey Angelo
Zip Adee
By Jin Nelson
F. A. Richardson
Mrs. Richardson
Hog Island
By Oscar Fraley
Aridwest
Justice Department
California
Pacific Coast
East
Los Angeles
San Pratcisco
St Petersberg
Lost River
Seley
Isaacks
Old River
Pele
Europe
DiMaggio
Gases
Aggrave
Thail
Mercury Motors
DéeHart
Mike Franssen
State Reserve Life
C. ¥. Buster
Sefer
Faris Gomnty
Tae
W Ho
Diventié Belinquen
Krel
Iy Stone
Fern “S
Reel Law
Lone Ee
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Svar ‘Brewing Co
Sen Antonia, Texas
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