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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1948
Page
6
Indians sweep a doubleheader from the New York Yankees 8-6 and 2-1 as attendance nears a season mark. Eddie Robinson belts three homers to lead Cleveland bats and the A's beat the Browns 4-4. The Tigers win twice, and Boston Braves extend lead in the NL.
Lloyd Mangrum Sam Snead and Dutch Harrison advance to an 18 hole playoff for a winner take all $10,000 purse at Tom O Shanter Promoter George S May bills the event as a world championship Mangrum already earned $12 500 from the 72 hole all American tour and a course record 63 in the qualifier could push total to $22 500 with a playoff win.
In Lancaster on August 9 Cyrus Dietrich a 14 year old angler with friend Willard Smith used dough as bait. After two small bites a wet five dollar bill appeared on the end of the line. Dietrich kept fishing hoping for a bigger catch.
Decatur Legion loses 6 5 in eleven innings and 15 2 as Monsanto sweeps Sunday twin bill in Columbia. Graham pitched game one with Ogle using Ramey and Craft drives. Lindsey homered in eleventh to seal win. Game two saw Monsanto run away with seven in the big fifth inning, Lemly on the mound for the visitors.
In baseball schedule notes from AP, St Louis visits Cincinnati and Philadelphia travels to Brooklyn in the National League with both night games listed. Cleveland plays Detroit while Chicago visits St Louis in the American League. Southern Association matchups include Birmingham at Chattanooga and Mobile at Memphis with New Orleans at Little Rock.
22 year old Sam Lippitt Jr. of Albany won the Radium Springs invitational in Albany defeating Chub Kile of Atlanta 10 and 9 in the 36 hole finals. Lippitt posted 33 36 69 with eagles on six and eight and birdies on one fourteen and fifteen. Bo White beat Guy Inman for the consolation title 3 and 2. Wendell Barnes won first flight with a 5 sand 4 triumph over Bill Rambo while Duck Wight took the consolation crown over Herbert Green 5 and 4.
Los Angeles Dons defeated the Baltimore Colts 27 to 21 in a season-opening exhibition. Placekicker Toeless Ben Agajanian booted two first-quarter field goals and added a points-after-touchdown, with linchpins Glenn Dobbs and John Kimbrough supporting the victory as veterans paced the scoring.
Ohio runners Bobby Hill of Columbus and Billy Huber of Canton tied for the national 10 mile AMA title at Lakewood park in 7 minutes 46.67 seconds a new track record Ted Edwards of Atlanta placed third Officials said it marks the first AMA championship decided in a dead heat Charles Wright of Gadsden Ala won the novice 10 mile event in 8 09 25 Bobby Hall of Westerville Ohio won the amateur 10 miler.
Berlin’s population fell from about four million to two million in the aftermath of World War I, reflecting the city’s postwar demographic upheaval.
Nashville's Vols gained a half game on first place Memphis Chicks by taking both ends of a doubleheader from Atlanta Crackers 6-5 and 7-6 with the second game called at the end of five innings due to darkness. Birmingham and Chattanooga divided a pair as Birmingham won 14-0, Chattanooga 3-2. New Orleans Little Rock was rained out. Crackers led 6-0 in game one before Nashville rallied. Burgess hit a 16th homer and Mollory’s triple drove in two to win the nightcap. Mobile beat Mobile 7-6 and 1-1 tied in fifth when the game ended.
London August 9 The Olympic games near end of the run feature nine lesser events as 1,900 meter river race finals unfold at Henley on Thames with 21 crews from nine nations racing. The United States aims to win three crowns to match its 1920 and 1932 marks while Wembley hosts boxing cycling fencing gymnastics and weight lifting with 870000 spectators.
A compact roundup lists top hitters and pitchers with figures for 1950s MLB leaders. Notable names include Musial, Mize, Kiner, DiMaggio, Ennis, Henrich, and Feller across batting averages, runs batted in, runs, hits, doubles, triples, home runs, stolen bases, and strikeouts.
A sweep of scores from multiple circuits shows Jersey City over Montreal 2-1 and Buffalo 8-5 in International League action, plus Milwaukee 2-10 and St. Paul 12-1 in the American Association. Pacific Coast lists Los Angeles 4-5 and Oakland 6-3 among others, with rain noted for New Orleans at Little Rock and long extra innings in several games.
Ed Robinson slugged three home runs in the two games for the Indians as they defeated the New York Yankees 8-6 and 2-1. He homered twice in the opener and again in the eighth to break a 6-6 tie. Ed Kleiman pitched superb relief in both games, retiring the only two men he faced in the opener and delivering key relief in the nightcap.
Valley moved back into first in the Georgia Alabama League by sweeping Alexander City 2-0 and 3-2. Tallassee beat LaGrange 2-1 and Opelika defeated Griffin 7-4. Newnan and Carrollton were idle. Jesse Danna earned both wins for Valley. Bill Kallaher notched his 20th win for Opelika. Childs had three hits in four at bats for Tallassee.
Final scores show Pensacola Gadsden Taylor Ford 3 9 2. Anniston 0. Vicksburg 14 with 14 runs. Pitchers listed include Scherzer Zelinski and John son plus guise and Jarmon. Montgomery at Jackson postponed Yankees to one hit in two scoreless innings after Gromek relief.
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