Pro Loop Faces Player Woes From Topping Plans
Two players, Pug Manders and Bruiser Kinnard, balk at joining Dan Topping’s new allAmerica football conference after signing with the Boston Yankees. Contracts bar playing elsewhere but lack firing clauses, risking a financial headache as top salaries and guarantees loom.
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Silent Tom Smith Appealed Doping Case Ends
The appeal of trainer Silent Tom Smith from Maine Chance farm ends as defense rests. Smith, suspended a year on stimulation charges, faced Austria case tied to Magnific Duel. Foreman Ernest Perler admitted spraying the horse with ephedrine solution. defense argues no harm to racing condition.
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Sugar Bowl guests St Mary and Oklahoma A M attend bowl party
St Mary and Oklahoma A M celebrated Christmas a day early as guests of bowl officials after rain washed out Kiesee practice.
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Cubs Sign Four Ex-Service Men To Tulsa Texas League Club
The Cubs added four ex service men to their Texas league farm team in Tulsa Oklahoma. Gene McCarthy outfielder and first baseman from Chicago Alvin Leedy right handed pitcher from Chicago Wayne Harrington lefty from Baltimore and Jim Myers first baseman from Vineland New Jersey.
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Fraley Picks Of Bowl Battles and New Football Plans
Oscar Fraley surveys bowl season bets with Alabama over Southern California and Oklahoma A&M over St Marys. Ray McBride signs Creighton Miller for Cleveland backfield depth as Miami coach Bill Fox previews his star lineup. Navy faces coaching questions as three giants may end their playing days and Arnie Herber and Ken Strong exit.
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A Christmas Story By Whitney Martin
The war veteran Johnny returns home for Christmas after years of combat and fear. He reflects on fox-hole memories and the wish for normal life while reconnecting with family as snow falls and a quiet Christmas night unfolds.
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Michigan State Nips Minnesota In Overtime Christmas Eve
Michigan State's basketball team rallied from behind three times to beat Minnesota 50 to 48 in overtime at East Lansing. A late first half basket gave MSU a 28 27 halftime edge, and Dave Ruliffson kept Minnesota within reach with a late tying free throw before overtime.
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Milo Komenich Scores 18 Points For Night Honors
Milo Komenich led scoring with 18 points as he claimed scoring honors in the night’s action.
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Finalists Ready for Japanese Rose Bowl
In Kyoto the 41st division crushed the army service command 27 to 2 to earn a date with the 11th airborne division in the Tokyo Bowl on New Year’s Day. The 41st scorers included Lacoste Farbian Wiggins Groshen, while the 11th airborne won 35 to 6 over the first cavalry to meet the 41st for the right to face Jock Sutherland’s Hawaiians in Pan-Pacific Olympic play.
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Jessop's Prospects For New Mark Fade
Hallandale Fla INS The hopes of jockey Dean Jessop for a new single season win record faded after he went without a winner for the third straight day at Gulfstream Park. The 19 year old from Nibley Utah has 284 wins this year while Jackie Westrope set the 301 win mark in 1933. With seven racing days left he must average better than two wins daily to topple the record. Jessop has six victories in nine days at Gulfstream.
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Big Sports Boom Seen After War Wind-down
New York AP report notes a national belief in a postwar sports boom surpassing the roaring twenties. Writers foresee prewar standards returning by 1947, with stars reemerging and a surge in money and attendance in 1945 as war effects loom large.
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Associated Press
America
1945
Georgia Oil Bowl practice on Christmas Day in Athens
Athens Georgia December 25 1950 Christmas day was a normal practice for Georgia Oil Bowl team coach Wally Butts planned a light scrimmage and expected players who had gone home for early Christmas to return by Tuesday.
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Wyoming Cowboys Hit East For Tour After Big Seven Win
The Wyoming team, favored in the Big Seven, opens an eastern tour Wednesday night after a 62 to 33 win over Kansas State and a 43 to 27 victory last Saturday. The first string played little more than half the game in the latest win.
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