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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1939
Page
8
Pirates and Browns meet in a welfare exhibition game at Kanawha Park at 8 pm with proceeds to local charities. Preliminaries include a Legion league game, slugging contest, and senior officials overseeing distance measurements.
Amateur Baseball Department defeated Beer Baron 8 to 1 with R Perdue as winning pitcher and Wooten as leading hitter. Reed Ducks beat Clay 5 to 2 as Carr pitched and Morton and Hallace hit. Dry Branch crushed Chelyan 13 to 5 with McBrayer striking out 14. Mammoth beat Nitro 6 to 4 as Johnson won. Newton tops Odessa 6 to 0 and 9 to 1 in a doubleheader. Summersville over Clay 5 to 1. Dwansdale over Elkhurst 8 to 2.
All players in the American Legion Junior Baseball league must report in uniform to their managers at 7 tonight at the left field entrance of Kanawha park. The Belle-ABC game at 3 30 is the only game scheduled today at Kanawha park. Three games are carded Wednesday and three are listed for Friday.
Charleston defeated Youngstown 7 to 6 at Ka nawha park to sweep the three game series. Diehl Schumacher and Wolfe pitched for the Senators with Finck and Sanford for the Browns. Charleston led with two in the third and added in the eighth before Youngstown tied it in the ninth. Kosinski doubled and Sublette reached third on a walk before the rally ended with a run scoring on a miscue and a late effort to plate the final tally.
Henry Picard of Hershey, Pa., shot two under par 68 to win the Anthracite Open at Cranton with a 72 hole total of 273. Sammy Snead finished second at 279 after a 73 in the final round. Jimmy Hines, Ray Mangrum, and Terl Johnson tied for third at 280. Byron Nelson posted 291. other final scores ranged from 282 to 288.
F Smith held Carbide to three hits in a 3 0 shutout for Pritchard lifting the Kanawha Valley league into its second half. Vencill hammered a third inning homer with a man aboard to drive two runs. Buckley and Vencill added RBIs as Pritchard won 3 0.
New York reports a striking shift in public support for Tony Galento ahead of his heavyweight title bout with Joe Louis at Yankee Stadium. Odds have moved from 10 to 1 against Galento to as low as 1 to 6, with promoters citing strong box office and Galento’s confidence. Louis, meanwhile, is training but showed vulnerability in drills, and promoter Mike Jacobs forecasts a 60,000 crowd and a $400,000 gate.
National League games featured New York 3 Cincinnati 2, Chicago 4 Philadelphia 3, Brooklyn 6 Pittsburgh 5, and Boston 8 2 St Louis 5 0. American League tallies show St Louis 7 New York 3 11, Cleveland 8 Philadelphia 4 14, Detroit 6 Washington 5, with Chicago at Boston listed.
Boston at Washington Grove and Detroit at Cleveland Bridges headline the night with Haynes Harder and Had ley Pippen also on the slate. No other games scheduled.
Boxing chiefs promote two title fights with Joe Louis defending against Tony Galento at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday while Solly Krieger risks his middleweight title in Seattle against Al Hostak. Dodgers add Art Parks with Montreal Royals optioned pitchers and Goody Rosen. Gehrig appreciation day slated for July fourth at Yankee Stadium with gifts to be decided. Skeet shoot at Remington Gun Club crowns Dick Shaughnessy as individual champ after a dramatic shootout. Hill Top Gun wins team title. Joe Scott repeats national decathlon title at Western Reserve with 6 671 points. Nicholson sold to Cubs for 35000 plus player. Lookouts’ Bill Nicholson trade to Cubs for 35000 and Dee Miles. Wimbledon opens with Bunny Austin and rising Hungarian Joseph Asboth.
The St Louis Browns beat the world champions 7 to 3 in game one then lost 11 to 2 in the nightcap. Bill Dickey homered twice in the opener driving all New York runs while Oral Hildebrand held off the Yankees in the nightcap as the Browns split to avoid sweeping the series.
In a tight second game St. Louis and New York traded runs as Kennedy Trotter and Spindel led New York while Hoag delivered for St. Louis. Rolfe homered for New York in the first and Hoag homered for St. Louis in the fourth.
Detroit nips Washington 6 to 5 as Ken Chase wobbles amid seven walks and two costly errors. McCoskey Averill Gehringer Greenberg Kress McKain Chase contribute runs while Thomas earns the win and Krakauskas the loss before 12,000 at Washington.
The Athletics divided a twin bill with Cleveland before 19 392 fans at Shibe Park the largest crowd of the year and won the second game.
Veteran Clem Weichman of Logan wins West Virginia open golf title at Bluefield Country Club with a six over 278. He finishes 36 holes in 137 and final round 66 to beat Earl Tolley by four strokes.
Logan Indians defeated Ashland Colonels 11 to 4 despite nine Ashland errors. Minnarsik and Hayden closed for Logan. Zieger and Wooldridge pitched. In Huntington Welch Miners beat Aces 11 to 8 on 18 hits as Gray Bowles Hager Priode Pawelek Hoffmann shared duties.
Williamson Red Birds edged Bluefield 2-1 as Sessi and Wickel delivered timely singles in the sixth. Smith and Carman pitched for Williamson with Martin and Gibbs catching for Bluefield in a Mountain State League clash.
Capitol View and St. Albans golf teams battled to a 6-6 tie at the Capitol View course. Notable results show CV pairings Dick Galligan and Carl Leachman winning 3 0 while St. Albans pairs swept several matches including B E Webb and F McCormick 0 3 and D A Welch with B Leighty 2 2.
New York Giants edged Cincinnati Reds 3-2 behind Harry Gumbert's eight-hit pitching to sweep the series. Zeke Bonura and Mel Ott delivered key hits as Ernie Lombardi scored twice for Cincinnati with Lombardi's two hits. Cardinals fall in doubleheader to Bees 8-5 and 2-0 as Max West drives in three in Game 1 and Bill Posedel shuts down St Louis in the nightcap.
Huntington's 18 year old Parsons defeated B F Arkle 6 2 6 1 6 1 to win the singles crown at the Charleston Tennis club. He and Ann Miller captured the mixed doubles 6 3 6 2 while Parsons and Tickle Reed lost the men's doubles 6 2 6 3 12 10 to Hennessey and Allen. Dorothy Bell of Wheeling retained the women’s title by beating Ann Miller 6 2 6 4.
Frank Parker of Pasadena Calif and Gardner Mulloy of Miami Fla win their semifinal matches at the 29th national clay courts tournament and will meet for the title. Parker defeats Gene Mako in straight sets 6-3 9-7 6-0, Mulloy beats Wayne Sabin 7-5 6-0 6-3. Parker and Mako then win doubles final 7-5 6-2 6-0.
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