All City Baseball Teams To See Action Saturday
Four Decatur teams are scheduled to play on Saturday. Decatur Elks face Athens in Athens and American Legion meets New Hope in a return game. Ingalls Shipbuilders host Leighton with starting pitchers to be decided. The Legion beat New Hope 9 to 8 in their opener. Ingalls aims to snap a six game skid with Herb McElroy set to start.
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Prentice Crow
McElroy
Elks To Play Corinth Miss In Decatur Exhibition
Decatur Elks host Corinth Mississippi at Legion Field at 3 00 p m Sunday admission same as other Decatur games. Corinth tours Mississippi Alabama Tennessee with six former major leaguers including a former New York Yankees catcher. Manager Frank Knoblock may pitch H L Shorty Ogle or Robert Hudson. Ogle was all city pitcher last year with eleven wins and one loss.
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Mississippi
Legion Field
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Tennessee
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Demaret and Hogan Lead Detroit Into PGA Match Play
Ben Hogan and Jimmy Demaret led 64 qualifiers into the National PGA championship match play. Demaret posted 68-69-137 to win $250 and edge Clayton Haefner by one stroke. Hogan, defending champion and automatic qualifier, faced Toney Penna as the opening 18 holes began with two sub par rounds from the Hershey and Ojai stars.
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Ben Hogan
Jimmy Demaret
Hershey
Ojai
Calif
Hogan
Alex Smith
Jimmy Thompson
Lew Worsham
Johnny Morris
Montgomery
Ala
Clarence Doser
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Baseball results from AP national and regional leagues recap
National League Pittsburgh 12 New York 2. Brooklyn 5 Chicago 1. American League Chicago 6 New York 4. Washington 3 Cleveland 2. Philadelphia 8 Detroit 4. South Atlantic Macon 8 Columbia 7 (11). Savannah 3 Greenville 2. Charleston 6 Columbus 1. Augusta 4 Jacksonville 3. Southern Association Mobile 6 9 Memphis 0 5. Little Rock 4 4 New Orleans 0 9. Birmingham 6 Nashville 5. Chattanooga 11 Atlanta 10 (10). Georgia Alabama League Newnan 7 Alexander City 5. Tallassee 5 Griffin 3. Carrollton 5 Opelika 1. Lanett 6 LaGrange 1. Southeastern Montgomery 7 Anniston 2. Selma 14 Gadsden 9. Pensacola 10 Jackson 6. Vicksburg 7 Meridian 6. Note: extra line includes a stray historical term.
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Baseball linescores from multiple games across leagues
Mobile defeats Memphis 68 to 3 in the first game with Hall Sash Hoerst Hanski and McNair contributing. Second game Mobile wins 9 to 5 led by Minner Dapper Eisemann and Sherer while New Orleans splits with Little Rock. Additional scores show Montgomery Selma Pensacola and Chicago beating New York with various pitchers listed. Detroit Philadelphia Cleveland Washington New York Pittsburgh Brooklyn Chicago also appear with final tallies and key players named.
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Alabama Dry Dock seeks Supreme Court review of overtime cap
In June 2014 the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co asks the Supreme Court to uphold a one year limit on overtime suits under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Fifth Circuit previously ruled the law invalid and upheld about 200000 dollars in overtime claims for several hundred guards and firefighters.
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Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
New Orleans
Cubs Lose 11 3 To Dallas Mills Leads Cubs Loss
Dallas Mills of Huntsville pitched Dallas to an 11 to 3 win over the Decatur Cubs at Delano Park. Austell Bowling named Cubs manager with Gradie Roberts serving as business manager. Pettus to start for Cubs against Basham while Johnson pitches for Basham.
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Decatur Cubs
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Soldiers Vote for Pitchers in All Star Selections
Soldiers overseas vote in Stars and Stripes ballots naming top National and American League pitchers for the July 8 All Star game. Warren Spahn, Schoolboy Rowe, Harry Brecheen, Ewell Blackwell lead NL picks. Bob Feller Hal Newhouser Spud Chandler and Dave Ferriss top AL choices. Joe DiMaggio leads individual vote totals with 173,251 of 419,689 ballots.
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Eddie Dyer
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Stars and Stripes
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Boston
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Philadelphia
Harry Brecheen
St. Louis
Ewell Blackwell
Cincinnati
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Cleveland
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Detroit
Spud Chandler
New York
Dave Ferriss
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Tip-Top and Dots Win League Games In Friday Action
Tip-Top beat Darleen 14-6 while Dot’s defeated Hartselle 14-2 securing Dot’s eighth straight win and Tip-Top’s sixth. Scoring details show Tip-Top’s early runs and multi inning bursts, Dot’s capitalized with Love’s homer and Sparkman triple, while Hartselle managed two runs in the fourth.
Life expectancy rises for US women to 14 more years at 65
Standings show that white women in the United States reaching age 65 can expect about 14 additional years of life. This reflects aging patterns and demographic estimates for longevity among older women.
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United States
Georgia Peach Becomes Free Man After 39 Year Divorce
Tyrus Raymond Cobb known as the Georgia Peach is divorced from Mrs Charlie Lombard Cobb after 39 years of marriage. District Judge William McKnight granted the divorce on grounds of three years separation and an out of court property settlement. The Cobbs wed in Augusta Georgia in 1908 before Cobb rose to baseball fame. Mrs Cobb had sued in March in California seeking $5,000 monthly alimony and division of community property valued at about 7 million dollars, but the suit was withdrawn.
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Tyrus Raymond Cobb
Georgia Peach
Charlie Lombard Cobb
William McKnight
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Major League Leaders Baseball Stat Highlights
Batting leaders include Boudreau Cleveland at .352 and McQuinn New York at .344. Key run totals show Williams Boston with 43 and Henrich New York with 38. RBIs crown DiMaggio New York with 37, Williams Boston, Keller and Johnson New York with 36.
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Huntsville Manufacturing tops Ingalls 7 6 in eighth inning rally
Huntsville Manufacturing Company rallied for four runs in the eighth to beat Ingalls Shipbuilders 7 to 6 at Ingalls field. Ed Phillips and Louis Smith sparked the comeback with hits, Claude McMurtie drove in three on a triple, and Stovall closed the game with a double play to end it. Graham suffered his fifth loss. Ingalls’ sixth straight defeat.
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Mobile Bears sweep Memphis to extend streak and lead
The Mobile Bears won 6-0 in seven innings and 9-5 in the nightcap to stretch their winning run to eight and widen the Southern Association lead to 2.5 games. Al Piechota shut out New Orleans in the opener for Little Rock, 4-0, with two hits allowed.
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They Did. York, Higbe Lead Rally Wins in MLB Roundup
Rudy York hit a two run homer to cap Chicago's four run rally in the fifth inning as the White Sox beat the Yankees 6 to 4. Kirby Higbe matched a workhorse performance for Pittsburgh allowing eight hits in a 12 to 2 victory over the Giants.
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Red Sox Take Over Lead in Dizzy pennant chase
Baseball pennant races tighten as Boston leads AL after an eight game run while St Louis climbs to fifth on seven straight wins. Giants stumble with injuries as Brooklyn and Philadelphia gain, and weather spoils a Reds game.
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Patty Berg to Meet Louise Suggs in Open Semifinal
Atlanta June 20 Patty Berg national open champion from Minneapolis faces defending champion Louise Suggs of Lithia Springs Ga in the semifinals of the 18th annual Women s Western Open. Grace Lenczyk meets Dorothy Kirby while Suggs and Berg won their quarterfinals.
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Louise Suggs
Lithia Springs
Grace Lenczyk
Newington
Betty Jameson
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Legion Drops 9 to 7 Game
The Decatur Americans fell to the Cullman American Lion 9 to 7 in ten innings at Legion Field. Decatur led early with three runs in the first, one in the second, and two in the third but failed to score again until the tenth. Cullman answered with three in the second and one each in the fourth fifth and sixth, then three in the tenth to seal the win. Tom Bolding pitched the complete game for Decatur allowing ten hits. Cullman used Ballard and McElroy with Bolding and J Brewer.
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Ed Braselton
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Tip-Top to Play Florence in Saturday Doubleheader
Tip-Top Softball faces Florence State Teachers College in a 7:30 p.m. doubleheader at Delano Park. For the first game J O Braswell will pitch for Florence and Earl Paine for Tip-Top.
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State_Teachers College
Delano Park
J. O. Braswell
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