Strange Days Upon Champs
The Associated Press notes upsets shaping pennant races as Bucky Walters leads the Reds past the Cardinals 1 0, 2 0 and 2 1, the first ipth win by a big league pitcher since 1935. Yankees struggle with homers, Partee and Myatt spark late scoring. Stanky solidifies Dodgers. Giants edge Red Sox. Polk County region cited for vast plant life variety.
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Bucky Walters
Cincinnati Reds
St. Louis Cardinals
New York Yankees
Walters
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Roy Partee
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Washington
George Myatt
Johnny Sullivan
Milo Candini
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Connie Mack
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Roy Cullenbine
Eddie Stanky
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Brooklyn
Dodgers
Phils
National Baseball Congress aims to teach kids baseball rules
Ray Dumont's semi pro team distributes rulebooks via 125 radio stations and plans expanding teaching material next year. He notes books are pricey for most youngsters while many requests come from youths. Eric C Wilson Jr. wins state quarter mile title wearing his dad's shoes. he set 200 and 400 meter records in Olympic tryouts and dominates nine meets with 115 points. Cubs owner Phil Wrigley considers a Midwest soccer league to use baseball parks in off season. Red Rolfe assists Yale baseball and basketball by tracking non box score plays.
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National Baseball Congress
Ray Dumont
Dumont
Ray
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Oftowa City
Young Wilson
Cubs
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Red Rolfe
Yale
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Giants Dodgers and Yanks rotate at Polo Grounds
Three major league clubs will share a single venue in a novelty war bond effort. Normally each team confines such exhibitions to its home park, but this event breaks that pattern with a joint rotation at the Polo Grounds.
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Giants
Dodgers
Polo Grounds
Trippi Pledges Protective Headgear If He Returns to Football
Sgt Charley Trippi tells Camp Davis pals that if he comes back to football after the war he will first see a doctor and obtain the best possible protective headgear. Camp Ellis team walloped the McComb Indees with every man on the squad including the manager and bat boy noted. Naval Training Station seeks games with strong service outfits in New York or New England as colleges book for next fall appears unlikely.
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Charley Trippi
Georgia Grid
Davis
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Camp Ellis
McComb
Ill
Army
Naval Training Tation
New York
New England
McNutt urges coordinated wartime jobs drive to crush Hitler
Milwaukee dispatch reports War Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt calling for a nationwide job control program to mobilize industry until Nazi strength is broken. He describes the effort as tying Jo's ocean to a pledge and stresses a united home front.
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Milwaukee
Paul McNutt
Hitler
Daily Crossword Puzzle Clues and Cryptoquote
A mixed puzzle page lists Across and Down clues for a large crossword with items like Passable and Tracks left by ships, plus a cryptoquote by Campbell. Includes Yesterday's Cryptoquote phrase About living in hearts and leaving behind.
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Campbell
King Features Syndicate Inc
Downs Track Riot Quieted After Turbulent Boston Day
At Downs track in Boston investors and bettors stormed the surface after a disqualification. Bayport beat Seven Hills by a length as jockey Rocco Sisto protested the call. The disturbance halted the eighth race for 32 minutes and police charged several men with assault and disturbing the peace.
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Boston
Suffolk Downs
New England
Oak Three Farm
Bayport
Jim Carr
Seven Hills
Rocco Sisto
Johnson Says Sports Built His Battle Resolve
Major Robert Johnson, ace air combat pilot with 102 sorties, credits athletic training from Lawton High and Cameron College for his stamina and drive. He compares fighting Germans to football, noting defenders retreating foretell a breakthrough and urging teammates never to quit.
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Washington
Robert Johnson
America
Oxklahoman
Johnson
Germany
Lawton
Okla
Lawton High School
Cameron College
Chicks Lead Southern Association Chase After 6 1 Victory
The Memphis Chicks beat New Orleans 6 to 1 behind Ellis Kinder to seize the SA lead. Nashville beat Atlanta 5 to 2 as Charlie Cuellar earned his ninth win. Little Rock edged Birmingham 6 to 5 in ten innings, Chattanooga beat Knoxville 7 to 5.
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Associated Press
Memphis Chicks
Southern Association
New Orleans
Ellis Kinder
Chicks
Atlanta
Birmingham
Nashville
Little Rock
Crackers
Barons
Lynn Johnson
Jack Miller
Charlie
Cuellar
Vols
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Knoxville
Santiago Itrich
Wells
Memphis
Dress
Balser
Byrd Lights Up War Bond Golf Tour in Philadelphia
Sam Byrd the former Yankee outfielder shot a 66 in the Inquirer War Bond Invitational at Torresdale Frankford Club leading a field of about 120 pros service men and amateurs. Bob Hamilton and Bud Lewis followed with 68 and 69 as Craig Wood Harold McSpaden and Byron Nelson posted 70 or 71 in the 72 hole medal play event. The field shrinks to 50 low pros and 10 top amateurs after today as rounds continue through weekend.
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Sam Byrd
New York
Torresdale-Frankford Country Club
de Luxe
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Bob Hamilton
Evansville
Ind
Pinehurst
Bud Lewis
Oreland
P. G. A. King
Craig Wood
Mamaroneck
N. Y
Harold ‘Jug? McSpaden
Byron Nelson
Toledo
McSpaden
Nelson
Diamondback Terrapin Raised as Egg Laying Fowl
Forty year tests at the U. S. Fisheries Laboratory at Pivers Island North Carolina show diamondback terrapin can be bred as egg laying poultry.
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U. S. Fisheries Laboratory
Piver's Island
N. C
Babe Ruth Eyes Return as Hitter After Surgery
June 9. Babe Ruth, the Sultan of Swat, may reappear in baseball this season. He plans surgery to remove a cartilage from his right knee, hoping to regain mobility for a possible return as a pinch hitter, aided by promoter-type support from Jack Schaefer.
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New York
Babe Ruth
Swat
Yankees
Jack Schaefer
Ruth
Schaefer
Mass
Stanley Goudreau
France
Ingalls 97 Triumphs Over Office Workers In Opening Game
Ingalls 97 defeated the Ingalls office workers 12 to 10 in a hotly contested softball opener on the new Ingalls field. The time department meets Travis material department Monday afternoon. Jasper, former Pirates pitcher, struggled but flashed moments of form. Slugger Coulter hit .500 for the losers.
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Jasper
Pittsburgh Pirates
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Sparkman
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Medels
Short
A Briscoe
Warwick
Alexander
Hammett Sf
Coulther
Rambokos
Lang
Paratroopers Heroic on Cherbourg Landing Night
A wartime account recalls paratroopers who hit Normandy coast after midnight on D-day. It highlights individuals from Forest City Arkansas to New York City and California who fought hedgerows and German detachments, capturing troops and equipment while adapting to the strange country and night combat.
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Cherbourg
Normandy
James A. Dodson
Forest City
Ark
Dodson
William Pruck
New York City
Karol Southard
Nubieber Calif
Cpl
Lester Beshears
Larned
Kas
Robert Bensel
West Palm Beach
Fla
Daniel Chute c
Amsterdam
N. Y
Ernesto G. Burciaga
Roswell
N. Mex
Laurence J. Welsh
Quincy
Picture of a Normandy Beachhead
A wartime photo by Lewis Hawkins shows a Normandy beach near low tide with wreckage strewn across the water. The narrow 20 to 50 foot strip between water and grass holds invasion paraphernalia, while derelicts lie along the shore for hundreds of yards.
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Lewis Hawkins
Normandy
Beachfire casualties amid foxhole defenses described
The report depicts heavy fire during landings with foxholes dug in a sandy strip and a small rise shaping defenses. Soldiers move around wounded and bodies as litter bearers rush to aid those injured, detailing the lethal chaos of the scene.
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