Count Fleet Thrives In Muddy Derby Warmup
Count Fleet wins a rainy Jamaica prep race, weighing 122 pounds and beating Bossuet with a four length margin. Jockey Johnny Longden guides the winner in a 1:42 4/5 mile and a seventh over a sloppy track as Derby odds shift to 4 to 5.
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Negro Boxers Hold Sway in AAU Tourney
In Boston the National AAU boxing event crowned new champions among Black boxers. Charles Cooper stopped Eddie Gettys in the first round to win the 147 pound title, with Tony Peppi, Jackie Floyd, Walter Moore and others securing decisive wins.
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Indiantown Gap
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1 O'Neal
Fort Sill
Ohlo
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Eddie Gettys
New Orleans
Tony Peppi
Herky Kamensky
Pittsburgh
Jackie Floyd
Philadelphia
Thomas Stenhouse
Buffalo
Walter Moore
Chicago
Fred Schott
Cleveland
America Wojcesses and Other Sports Notes from Wartime America
A scrambled AP column reviews diverse figures from sports and military life. It highlights America Wojcesses a savvy multi talent figure at Syracuse and Madison prewar fame as a pigeon fancier cake baker and musician, plus postwar military and coaching links. It mentions William Wallace Wade Jr at Fort Sill, regiments, and Navy rosters, and notes Wakefield fielding errors and catches. It ends with a coauthored book on hand to hand combat by Mal Stevens and Edward O Donnell.
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Dick Wakefield
Texas
Texas League
Mal Stevens
Yale
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Edward O’donnell
Ponzi Leads Mosconi In 1250 Point Billiard Title Match
Andrew Pozzi of Philadelphia built a 209 point lead over Willie Mosconi of Jackson after winning 137 to 2 in the first block of the 1250 point title event in Kansas City. Pozzi had a 92 point high run and 70 balls to finish Tuesday. Mosconi, Detroit world champion, managed a 16 point high run and fell off cue. The match, for a $1000 purse, continues through Saturday.
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Willie Mosconi
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Mich
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Mosconi
Detroit
Paul Darling Inducted Into Army
Des Moines AP Paul Darling of Estherville Iowa star fullback at Iowa State College the last two years is at the Camp Dodge induction center awaiting assignment in the army He was inducted April 8.
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Paul Darling
Estherville
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Camp Dodge
Army
City Relay Meet Halted Again
Inclement weather on Wednesday forced the cancellation of the annual City Relay Meet at Franklin. The event will be rescheduled for next Monday after noon.
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Williams Leads in North South Gulf Championship Qualifier
Corp. Ronnie Williams of Camp Butner won the opening round medal in the 43rd North South amateur championship at Pinehurst with a one over par 73. Ralph Strafaci of Brooklyn earned a seeded position with a 36-? score as the field began.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
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Wrestlers threatened by BB shot heckling at San Jose show
Pro wrestlers at the San Jose civic auditorium faced BB shot harassment from youths who used rubber bands during matches. Promoter Hale Moore warned the city council that police action may be needed to stop the practice, noting the abuse was not in the wrestlers' contracts.
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Calif
INS
San Jose Civic Auditorium
Hale Moore
Fayette Prep Nine Opens Season Versus Sumner
About 20 boys report daily to Coach R. E. Reynolds in preparation for the first baseball game on the Little Peacock diamond against Sumner Thursday. Schedule shows May 4 against Sumner.
Tug Wilson to speak at Cedar Rapids YMCA banquet
An April 21 event will feature Tug Wilson, Northwestern U. athletics director, at the Y M C A all sports banquet in Cedar Rapids. The column relays anecdotes about Wilson and football star Sid Luckman, Bears coaching practices, and other sports lore from Halsey Hall.
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Tug Wilson
Northwestern U
Y.M.C.A
Cedar Rapids
Tug
Halsey Hall
Minneapolis Star- Journal
Halsey
Bears Lose Title To Washington In Swelled Head Upset
By Tait Luckman the Bears were stunned last December as Washington defeated them for the world pro title. Sid says the decisive flaw was collective swelled heads, and notes the defensive counter to the T formation. Luckman cites a short pass to the fullback as the key scoring trick, aided by deceptive line plunges.
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Bears
Washington Redskins
Sid
Washington
Greg Rice to Run At Penn Relays
American distance great Greg Rice will make his first 1943 outdoor appearance in the 49th Penn Relays at Franklin Field on April 24. He will race in the two mile event against Colgate’s Glenn Masten, IC4A indoor two mile champion, as Rice runs for the New York A. C. in his 64th straight victory streak.
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Count Fleet
Broadway
Central Park
Lake
Nimes
Philadelphia
INS
Gregory Rice
University of Pennsylvania
Franklin Field
Glenn Masten
Colgate
Rice
New York A. C
Dimaggio Hitless as Angels Top Santa Ana Air Base 6-5
In Anaheim California former New York Yankee star Joe DiMaggio went hitless in four at bats but made several stellar running catches as the Los Angeles Angels beat the Santa Ana Army air base team 6 to 5.
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Calif
Ins
Johnng Joe DiMaggio
New York Yankee
Los Angeles Angels
Santa Ana Army Air Base
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