Ernie Nevers Seeks San Francisco NFL Franchise Postwar Plan
Chicago AP reports Captain Ernie Nevers, Marine officer and former Stanford and Chicago Cardinal star, will pursue a San Francisco NFL franchise after return from the Pacific. He has funding and will begin talks with Elmer Layden to rejoin professional football’s top league.
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Former Major Leaguers To Coach Seahawk Nine
Iowa City officials announce two former big league pitchers will coach the 1944 Seahawk baseball team at the U S Navy Preflight School. Lts Verne Thompson and Vernon Wilshire to lead the squad as practice starts Monday and schedule talks proceed. The season runs May through Labor Day with Thompson returning to form a Preflight officers team last summer.
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Training Camp Briefs from a Busy Baseball Week
Multiple spring exhibition results and roster moves across major leagues. Notable items include Tony Ansoreno and several players sent to minor leagues. Red Embree and Vernon Kennedy listed for Cleveland. Cincinnati Reds beat the Chicago Cubs. St Louis Cardinals rally past Browns. Pirates edge Tigers in 10 innings. Athletics fall to Yankees. Blue Jays topple Senators in ninth.
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Golden Valley Golf Club Invitation Dates Set
The Golden Valley Golf Club invitation tournament will occur July 6 9 as decided by the Professional Golfers Association. Honorary President Tom Walsh and Executive Secretary Tom Crane stated the date, with President Ed Dudle agreeing with Walsh and Crane who were chosen to settle a controversy over the scheduling.
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Major League Notes From Page 1 Week Highlights
The Browns recover from illnesses with Mike Kreevich and Gene Moore boosting the outfield. Jeff Heath, in Seattle shipyard, refuses terms despite President Peckinpaugh's offers. Cleveland Indians at Muncie, Indiana show only one weak spot, while Detroit Tigers, Evansville, Illinois, prepare as Rudy York hones his stroke after a 13 to 1 win over Rochester.
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Gene Moore
Cleveland Indians
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Ind
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Seattle
Roger Peckinpaugh
Detroit Tigers
Evansville, Ill
Tiger Battery
Rudy York
Rochester
Rudy
Tigers
Yankees pound A's as Levy shines in 13 5 win
The New York Yankees snapped Oakland’s six game streak 13 to 5 led by Ed Levy five for five at the plate while Paul Trout yielded his first run in almost twelve innings. Navy call ups thin the club as Johnny Lindell heads to service. Cubs tease a 1945 return at French Lick as Sox Cubs feud garners attention.
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Big League Camp News From Spring Training Mixes Draft, Injuries
The Philadelphia catching staff gains depth with Andy Seminick now in camp. Cardinals at Cairo brace for 1-A draftees while Ora Burnett prepares for April 10 reporting. Pirates toast win over White Sox and welcome a newly classified 4-F. Cubs, Reds, Giants and Dodgers detail rosters, injuries, signings, and spring plans as Mel Ott, Leo Durocher shape lineups.
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Cairo
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White Sox
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Tommy Holmes
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Zivic Ends Boxing Career Before Army Enlistment
Pittsburgh report says former welterweight champion Fritzie Zivic will join the army next week and retire from boxing. At 30 he cites leg fatigue and injury risk, noting a 267 fight career from November 1929 to March 1944 and no comebacks planned.
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Pittsburgh
Fritzie Zivic
Fritzie
Cedar Rapids soldiers write home and shipboard notes
A Cedar Rapids release from World War II era collects letters from service members in the South Pacific and elsewhere. Included are updates from Manus Kime, Ernie Mineck, Elbert Beaver, Lew Dochterman, Bill Kelly, and Jack Carney plus local sports and pinned community jokes.
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Manus Kime
Hill Park
Cedar Rapids
Cpl
Howard Cerney
South Pacific
Kime
Merchants National
Ernie Mineck
Craig Field
Ala
Elbert Beaver
Navy
R. Lew Dochterman
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Pacific
McKechnie Must Work Reds Pitching To Challenge In 1944
Cincinnati Reds face a pitching crisis as manager Bill McKechnie plans a pennant push without stars Vander Meer Riddle Shoun Beggs Mallory. With 4-Fs and military calls depleting the staff, youngsters like 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall loom, while outfield remains a weak spot as Walker, Marshall, and Criscola head to service.
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Bill McKechnie
Cincinnati Reds
St. Louis Cardinals
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Great Mound
Johnny Vander Meer
Elmer Riddle
Clyde Shoun
Joe” Beggs
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Riddle
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Ray Starr
Bob Ferguson
Bucky Walters
Arnold Carter
Syracuse
Tomas de la Cruz
Hamilton
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Joe Nuxhall
Max Marshall Rejoins Reds as Van Harrington Heads North
In Bloomington Indiana the Cincinnati Reds prepared for road games in Louisville against the Chicago Cubs. Outfielder Max Marshall, delayed by a military induction, will rejoin the club while infielder Rol...
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Reds
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Chicago Cubs
Max Marshall
Iowa
Ropland van Harrington
North Carolina
Exhibition Baseball Results Startled by Scoring Errors
A chaotic report covers multiple exhibition games played in Wilmington Delaware St Louis Evansville and Louisville among teams including Washington Philadelphia Pittsburgh Detroit and Cincinnati. Scoring inconsistencies and cancelled Newark Louisville events appear in the fragmentary box scores with pitchers listed as Barrett Donahue Seminick W Cooper and others.
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Philadelphia
Candini
Ullrich
Wolff and Ferrell
Guerra
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West
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Heyworth
Jurisich
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Munger
Schmidt
W. Cooper
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Pittsburgh
Detroit
Cuccurullo
Gee
Rescieno
Camelli
Hewhouser
Overmire
Richards
Mary
Hawks sweep doubleheader with nine thefts and timely hits
Hawk Nine stars pace a split finale with a homer and two singles. Iowa steals 11 bases in game one and nine in game two as Spencer, Hughes, and Bendorf drive offense while Gildea and Anderson add key blows.
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Marquette to Host NCAA Track Meet
Marquette University in Milwaukee will host the NCAA track and field championships on June 10. NCAA president Philip O. Badger from New York University and Kenneth J. Tug Wilson of Northwestern chair the track committee. The meet will use a one day format with trials in the afternoon and finals at night to suit navy competitors with travel permits. The Central Collegiate Conference outdoor championships at Marquette will be suspended this spring. Marquette Stadium has hosted major events including the 1934 and 1937 national amateur championships and the 1936 Midwest Olympic trials.
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Marquette Stadium
National Amateur Athletic Union
Yankees scouting report paints lean talent pool
Yankee scout Johnny Nee warns the Yankees face a thinning talent pool as he tours the South for message on the 1940s team. Nee says the army has taken players and the supply lines from Kansas City and Newark are stretched thin while predicting a wake up for prophets who expect McCarthy to miss the top division.
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New York
Johnny Nee
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Kansas City
Newark
Joe McCarthy
Browns Face Loss Of Three More Men
The St. Louis Browns announce pitcher Al Hollingsworth and outfielders Al Zarilla and Gene Moore were ordered to report for pre induction physicals next week. Zarilla of Los Angeles and Moore of Washington DC requested transfer of their exams to Jefferson Barracks.
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Jefferson Barracks
Coast League Scores From Four Cities
Pacific Coast League results list Portland beating San Francisco 5 3 with 12 hits and 1 error. Hollywood beat Seattle 7 to 1. Los Angeles defeated Sacramento 5 to 1 with strong pitching from Prim and Sarnl. Oakland toppled San Diego 5 to 3 as Kleinke and Raimondi led the offense.
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Sacramento
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Levault
Babbitt
Marncel
San Diego
Oakland
Bettors Set Records at Jamaica Race
New York racing hits a record day at Jamaica with 45,796 in attendance and betting of 2,601,836. Devil Diver wins the Paumonok Handicap with Ted Atkinson riding, Apache second, Brownie third.Officials predicted 30,000 and 1.5 million but actual figures rivaled the track record and attendance neared Belmont Park levels.
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Snyder Considers Future After Surgery With Bears
Bob Snyder veteran quarterback for the Chicago Bears said Saturday night he is undecided about playing next season. He lies in Michael Reese hospital recovering from a spinal operation to correct a condition from an old gridiron injury.
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Chicago Bears
Michael Reese
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