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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1941
Page
6
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Locals fear the Athens team as the two meet at Alabama park in a 3 pm tilt. Athens brings an airtight defense and dangerous hitters while locals prepare for Ramsay or King to start pitching with Black likely on the mound for the Blue Devils.
Bryan age cestor leads fighters in an invasion style event against the Decatur visitors. Jerry aims to field the best local quintet as officials announce line ups Monday at 8 30 with many top contenders on the card.
Charles A iy reports from Fort Bliss Texas that the 280th coast artillery football team began practice July 23 with 188 candidates. Players arrive from Alabama Minnesota Kansas TCU Georgetown and other schools seeking open dates this fall. Harvard’s gridiron cabinet visited Boston College and coach Dick claimed to have come to sweep aside the ferns on an estate BC has acquired.
Mann told Atlanta writers he would visit Lester Burge for 1000 dollars per home run. He later collected 50600 from the Dodgers for Lester and pitcher Bob Chipman, a sum nearing Burge’s home run total at the time.
A fragmentary sports note recalls the Daily double at Dade Park paying 1118 dollars and 60 cents from a two dollar wager. It references Dodgers, Yankees, and Brooklyn figures, with mentions of Leo Durocher, Bobby Feller, and Russ during spring roster chatter.
Birmingham Aug. 9 The form sheet was discarded as two players won only six games in quarter finals of the Alabama Women's Tennis Tournament. Margaret Gresham lost 6-3 8-6 to unranked Charlotte Padgett of Monroe Louisiana, while Etta Coyne of Atlanta defeated Jane Davenport of Chattanooga 6-2 6-1. Madie Cameron of Fort Worth awaited a match between Betty Jo Vinson of Nashville and others.
In the Men’s Tennis tournament finals race, top seed Don Buffington of Atlanta faces Louis Schopfer of New Orleans after Buffington beat Wood Herren 6 1 6 3. John Ager of Birmingham defeated Mike Cafarella 6 1 6 1 while Stuart Reynolds ousted Glen Hewitt.
Col. W. T. Persons announces Mrs. Bertha Smith of Auburn named night matron at the Wetumpka Prison for Women. The appointment brings the on duty matrons to three, enabling 24 hour supervision.
Miss Cameron advanced to the semi finals defeating Jean Clarke of Birmingham 6-0 6-2 to face either Nashville or Mrs Paul Johnston of Birmingham in the next round.
AMERICAN: Boston 15 Washington. Chicago 16 St Louis 2. Philadelphia 5 New York 3. NATIONAL: New York 3 Philadelphia 2 in 11 innings. Brooklyn 6 Boston 2. Chicago 1 Pittsburgh 0. SOUTHERN: Birmingham 9 Knoxville 5. Chattanooga 2 7, Memphis 0 6. Little Rock 3 3 Atlanta 2 2. New Orleans 7 0 Nashville 4 4.
Today features New York at Philadelphia Washington at Boston Chicago at Cleveland St Louis at Detroit Philadelphia at New York Boston at Brooklyn Cincinnati at Chicago Pittsburgh at St Louis Little Rock at Atlanta Birmingham at Knoxville Nashville at New Orleans will be played later date
More than 200 candidates including 52 graduate students will receive degrees at Auburn University closing exercises August. Harry M. Ayers editor of the Anniston Star will deliver the Baccalaureate address. Dean Zebulon Judd will introduce Ayers and Dr. L. N. Duncan will confer the degrees.
Crip Polli pitched two-hits in the 2-0 opener as Chattanooga blanked Memphis Chicks. Park Olson then led the Lookouts to a 7-6 win. Nashville’s Rixie Lawson held New Orleans to four hits in a 4-0 nightcap after a 7-4 opener. Birmingham beat Knoxville 9-5 with Harrington driving in four Baron runs.
Word arrives that Rev Peter M Dennis former rector of St Johns Episcopal church and current Episcopal minister in Dothan will join Camp Forest Tennessee near Tullahoma as chaplain August 14 He plans to greet local friends August 13 on the way to Tennessee.
National League pennant contenders face a pivotal weekend as Brooklyn tops the standings by three percentage points and St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and others collide in a packed slate. Paul Erickson’s one hit sinks Pittsburgh, while Brooklyn's Whitlow Wyatt and Babe Young spark big wins as the NL races tighten. Meanwhile the Yankees slip again as Philadelphia wins 5-3 in a night game. Cleveland sits idle. Boston and Chicago surge in the standings.
Don McNeill, the National Singles champion, defeated William Talbert 7-5 6-3 to reach the Eastern Grass Court Tourney semi finals in Rye New York. Frank Kovacs beat Ted Schroeder 6-2 7-5. Bitsy Grant and Wayne Sabin reached semis by upsetting Frank Parker and Bobby Riggs. The women’s final features Pauline Betz and Sarah Palfrey Cooke with Kramer Sabin and Mulloy in the doubles semi finals.
A playful exploration compares ancient plant life to a war between flowers and ferns, explaining how floral strategies and pollen shaped ecosystems and even left coal as a fossil trace. The piece invites readers to request free astronomy plans from Prof Selby Maxwell and to make a simple telescope at home.
The bulletin notes unsettled to stormy conditions with high humidity across Alabama. The northwest portion will be wet while most of the southwest stays dry and the rest of the state experiences moderate dryness and cool temperatures.
Readers ask about making barometers rain gauges and wind indicators with free plans and self addressed envelopes. They seek guidance on tidal theory fishing barometer use project lenses and telescope focus noting altitude not required for barometer readings and that pressure changes signal storms.
The scrambled clipping notes a three day warm period favoring the Axis and Russians, with four days cool and clear favoring the Germans. Mentions a four day cool spell and the overall week tilting toward various wartime powers.
Tobacco farmers in the Georgia Florida belt closed the first week of the annual marketing season trading leaf for sil ver dollars. Top price 45 cents per pound, most sales 21 to 25 cents. Waycross held the second annual tobacco jubilee with about 7,000 attendees featuring speeches dancing and music.
Regional weather notes list temperatures and conditions for Alabama Georgia Kentucky and Tennessee. Entries describe moderate warmth cool to warm periods with windiness cloudiness and varying precipitation. Repeated patterns show calm to windy conditions and moisture levels across the Southeast.
The report notes a range from 26 to 30 cents for bulk onions with medium grades up to 6 cents above Vidalia figures. Average prices for common logs and leaves in Statesboro reached 21.25 cents, with other Georgia and Florida markets showing similar trends.
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