Stage Set For Big Fight At Armory In Decatur
The Armory hosts a top local boxing card featuring Moon Mullins and Plemmons as they chase the Decatur champion title in a bid for Golden Gloves success. Other bouts include Kep hart vs Shirley, Campbell vs Manley, Worley vs Posey, Hamilton vs Rogers, Cambron vs Peebles, Hunter vs Boutwell, and bouts booked to continue into summer as the Boys Club plans more events with top southern teams in July and August.
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Jasper
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Glen Rogers
T.A. Cambron
Fil Peebles
Glenn Hunter
Lonnie Boutwell
Boys Club
Gehrig memorial tickets and Yankee fan souvenirs
New York reports the Yankees will unveil Lou Gehrig memorial souvenirs on July 4 with printed tickets and rain checks bearing his likeness. Lou Nova trains in Maine for a Louis bout, and Connolly is named custodian of gates for the American Legion baseball title in Kansas.
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American Legion
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Birmingham Team Faces Young Virginia Bridge Nine
The Birmingham amateurs, bruised by a defeat to Columbia last Sunday, prepare for a visit from Virginia Bridge. Key players include Decatur-born David Motherway and veteran Warren Tricks. Most players work at Virginia Bridge fabricating unit, forming a true company team.
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Baseball Tonight Schedule Across Leagues
Today's schedule features AMERICAN LEAGUE games including St Louis at New York Cleveland at Boston Chicago at Washington Detroit at Philadelphia One night game. NATIONAL LEAGUE matches New York at Chicago Philadelphia at Cincinnati Boston at St Louis Brooklyn at Pittsburgh SOUTHERN LEAGUE schedules three night games Birmingham at Knoxville Atlanta at Little Rock Chattanooga at Memphis New Orleans at Nashville.
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Pittsburg
Associated Press
Suit lists damages from auto crash including pipe
In Miami on June 2 Harry Glickstein files a damages suit for an automobile accident. Among items claimed is a broken pipe charged at 10 dollars.
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Harry Glickstein
Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons Shuts Pirates in Dodgers Win
Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons, nearing 40, pitched effectively as the Dodgers beat the Pirates 9 to 4 in a key NL race game. His third straight win improved Brooklyn within a half game of idle St. Louis, with an eighth inning pinch homer by Herman Franks sealing the verdict. In Chicago Claude Passeau beat Hal Schumacher 1 to 0 in a brilliant pitchers duel. The American League had a day of rest.
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Giants
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Schumacher
Stan Hack
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Red Evans Wins 11th Straight in Southern Association
Red Evans pitched six hits and Chattanooga defeated Memphis 4 to 2 to extend Evans's streak to eleven wins this season. The Lookouts moved into fourth place, half a game ahead of idle Birmingham as Tom Drake of Nashville won 7 to 5 over New Orleans after fending off an eighth inning rally. Ot clubs were unscheduled yesterday.
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Russell
Publinx Sees Record 2,824 Entries in National Public Links
The National Public Links championship drew 2,824 players this year, surpassing all major golf events. The field will be narrowed to 192 starters for the July 14 to 19 tournament at Indian Canyon, Spokane, Washington. Five former champions earned automatic exemptions. 187 spots remain for sectional rounds at 23 locations including Denver, San Francisco, Chicago, Buffalo, and Detroit.
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Oil East Holds Back Moves Amid Gulf Coast Reserves
Oil men describe unmoved stocks accumulating near Louisiana fields as rationing debates rise in the East. An order limits July production from Louisiana wells even as civilian and military demand appears to grow.
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Baton Rouge
Gulf Coast
Louisiana
Goodyear Wingfoots Face Ingalls In Decatur Softball
Softball games were rained out but tonight the Goodyear Wingfoots chase a win to stay within one game of first place in the Decatur league. Alabama leads the standings as Garrisons seeks an upset in the nightcap, with last night’s games postponed to the last week of first half play.
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Georgetown eyes Babe Connaughton for graduate manager post
Babe Connaughton is the leading candidate to replace H. Gabriel Murphy as Georgetown's graduate manager. Lew Raymond of New Orleans debuts as Birmingham matchmaker with a card featuring Harry Weekly and Mit enes. The column also notes sports personalities including Tommy Harmon, Bo Molenda, and Ollie Carnegie.
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Lew Raymond
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Harry Weekly
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Guy Lombardo
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Bo Molenda
Ollie Carnegie
Times Star society notes on McKechnie daughter wedding plan
A Times Star society blurb notes Bill McKechnie plans to give his daughter away, mentioning Mixson Denton Cincinnati as part of a guest star context. The item reflects social column tone and 1930s era, with limited readable detail.
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Come Out To Jersey And See Us
Crookston Daily Times relays a Camp Claiborne tale from soldiers in Louisiana. Two mosquitoes buzz into a tent where a big soldier sleeps and debate whether to eat him there or take him along. They fear bigger mosquitoes in the swamp would steal him.
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Don McKenzie
Crookston
Minn
Daily Times
Camp Claiborne
Readers seek origins of the seventh inning stretch in baseball
Ed Mitchell asks readers for the origin of the seventh inning stretch in baseball. Peter J. Farley, 19, joins with a query on youth in sports writing. Gayle Talpot notes New York Yankees near the lead with no standout pitcher in sight.
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Durham
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Herald
Peter J. Farley
New Bedford
Mass
Standard- Times
Hugh Mulcahy
William Whelton
Gayle Talpot
Yanks
On the Nose Before Louis Conn Fight
Jersey Jones, drum-beater for the Louis camp, urged reporters to pick Joe in the 13th. He says 13 is his lucky number as Louis trained here 13 days and was born on the 13th.
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Jersey Jones
Joe
Jersey
Athens Softball Schedule Cut to Two Nights a Week
The Limestone County Softball Association in Athens Alabama announced games will be played only Monday and Wednesday nights to save electricity. Last year games were played nightly, and the reduced lighting should yield significant savings.
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Athens
Ala
Limestne _County Softball Association
Seven Columbia sergeants wear upside down shirt chevrons
The Columbia police force reports that seven sergeants did not wear the new shirts as issued. Each sergeant received six shirts, but the chevrons on every sleeve were sewn on upside down.
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Dentists find many Alabama schoolchildren lack toothbrushes
In Montgomery on June 24, the State Health Department reported that over ten percent of 25,900 school children examined in the oral hygiene program last year did not own a toothbrush and about half had never received dental treatment.
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Montgomery
Ala
State Health Department
Ruth and Cobb to Face Off in Charity Golf Exhibition
Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb prepared for an 18 hole charity golf match at Commonwealth Course in Newton Massachusetts. Ruth, older and faster than in 1927, aims to best Cobb who has long challenged him in sports. The event funds Golden Rule Farm in Franklin New Hampshire.
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