Feller Beats Giants as Openers Loom In Spring Action
Baseball clubs prepared for the season openers with key pitchers named for big games. Pat Seerey homered and drove in the decisive run as Bob Feller beat the Giants 4 3, while Van Lingle Mungo faced discipline in New York. Other notes include Lions on a light schedule, Greenberg and Mayo sidelined, and Tex Hughson’s strong White Sox outing.
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Drake retains Green and Easton as coaches and Relays director
DES MOINES AP Vee Green will continue as head football coach at Drake University and Bill Easton will be retained as track coach and Drake Relays director. President Henry G. Harmon announced the decision after a conference with Russell Cook, new athletics director. A head basketball coach and an assistant football coach plus a business athletic assistant remain to be appointed.
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Italo Chelini Former White Sox Pitcher Passes Away
San Francisco report notes Italo Chelini age 31, once a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox and Oakland, with details incomplete in the clipping. The notice references his former major league status and teams, indicating a memorial or obituary context.
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Oakland
Chandler Hits State Department On Mexican Baseball
Cincinnati AP reports A. B. Happy Chandler the baseball commissioner criticizes the state department for meddling in baseball amid tensions with the Mexican league. Chandler says the department relies on unofficial reports and should await official word before acting, noting no official recognition of Mexican baseball. He warns that disputes with a key ally risk harming international relations.
Wilbur Moore Divorce Granted in Uncontested Case
Mrs. Wilbur J. Moore wife of former Minnesota back field ace now with the Washington Redskins in the NFL was granted an uncontested divorce Thursday in Minneapolis.
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Washington Redskins
Critical British Golf Ace Invited To Play Nelson
New York UP Dick Burton British Open champion who criticized U S winter tour scoring was invited to meet Byron Nelson in a Goodall round robin match in New York May 30 to June 2. Elmer Ward sponsor offered to pay Burton's expenses and proposed he play in the tournament after the match. Burton challenged Nelson to a $600 bet and Nelson indicated willingness to meet Burton any time a match could be arranged, suggesting England and the United States as venues.
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Dick Burton
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Byron Nelson
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Elmer Ward
Ward
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England
Hot Springs
Dykes Relapses, Readmitted to Cedars of Lebanon
Jimmy Dykes, manager of the Chicago White Sox, suffered a relapse after a recent abdominal operation and was ordered by physicians to return to Cedars of Lebanon hospital on Thursday for further treatment.
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Hollywood
INS
Jimmy Dykes
Chicago White Sox
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Coe Inter Class Meet Slated for Saturday
Coach Harris Lamb expects the Kohawks to measure early season potential at the Coe inter-class meet Saturday starting at 1 30 p m The event marks Coe College track teams first competition this season after not taking part in any indoor meets
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Walter Johnson III Ailing Left Arm At Hospital
Washington AP Walter Johnson the Big Train famed for 21 years in major league baseball was hospitalized with a sore left arm. An attending physician attributed fatigue exertion and slight blood pressure rise to overwork. Johnson 59 years old operates a farm near Germantown Maryland and had career 3 497 strikeouts and 414 wins.
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