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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1952
Page
8
Bayou Bi district playoff between Cedar Bayou Bear and Groveton to be held Thanksgiving Day at Bayou Stadium. Game time 7 39 pm with tickets on sale for Bayou season ticket holders next Friday. Reserved seats go on sale Monday through Wednesday and at game start Wednesday. Bears finish 6 2 this season and Groveton 3 2.
This week’s Baytown area grid schedule shows several games at Memorial Stadium and Crosby. Cedar Bayou meets Crosby at 8 pm Thursday to close their regular season while Lee Sui cide Squad challenges Port Arthur at 7:30 pm and Friday features Lee at Port Arthur and Humble at La Porte. Reserved seats and student tickets are noted at 50 cents.
Lee Ganders head coach Dan Stallworth reports no new injuries after a Pasadena game. Both teams enter Friday’s showdown with near identical 8-1 and 7-1-1 records as District 8-4A championship implications loom and the winner advances to bi district play versus Houston champ John Reagan.
Aime Morgan and Jim Moon teamed up to cap low gross honors in a golf tournament at Baytown Country Club Sunday. Morgan shot 76 and Moon 77 to lead. Low net honors went to Don Harmon with 71 and Ernest Hauser with 87. Second low net honors went to Rose Kelley and Pat Patterson Sr.
The Carver Panthers closed the regular season with a 38-0 win over Texas City to finish 10 wins and no losses. They likely meet Palestine in bi district, with officials planning the time and site at Trinity next Friday.
Philadelphia ace Robin Roberts edged Brooklyn rookie Joe Black by one vote in United Press all star player of the year balloting. Roberts won 28 games, 7 losses, 330 innings, 40 complete games, 148 strikeouts. Black went 15 and 4 with strong relief work for the Dodgers. Stan Musial led batting, Ralph Kiner and Hank Sauer tied for homers, Campanella strong in catching.
WOONSOCKET R I Nov 17 Tony Despirito an 11 year old apprentice jockey from Lawrence Mass hopes to return Tuesday to chase two new national victory records after falling twice in one Lincoln Downs race Friday He was hospitalized with a brain concussion and had 42 wins in a season close to the 388 mark needing about one more win to set a new record before the Florida season.
An unclear Baytown report notes a deer hunting incident near Tay with mentions of Hullum and Hallam residents. Details are fragmentary but indicate a nine point buck was involved and claim a local person killed a deer near a refinery area. Further readable facts are sparse.
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