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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1946
Page
3
New York AP reports Bears and Giants fans expect a record crowd to push gate over $185000 as teams chase the top NL prize at the Polo Grounds. Last year’s total topped $164,542 with players earning around $900 to $1,469. This year Giants may earn about $1340 each if win, Bears about $1315 if victorious.
Twelve officials from Abbeville Ashford Slocomb and Dothan have been registered to work the Wiregrass Basketball League for 1946. They were chosen at a Dothan meeting and will staff all 18 games per team as each of the 10 teams meets every other twice. The arrangement has strong support from officials coaches and players.
Dothan High School opens the basketball season with two varsity teams and the B team meeting Eufaula at the gym. Preliminary Bees game starts at seven. Admission 25 and 50 cents. Coaches Hovater and Hewes describe a solid, two-squad approach and a roster mix of seniors and sophomores. The Tigers plan to alternate teams all season, aiming for a strong record. Varsity players include McGowan, Jimnett, Killingsworth, Howell, Dees, Patterson, Burkett, Dennis, Johnson, and Bees players Driver, Shaeley, Beauchamp, Farmer, and Smith.
Georgia’s 1946 football season led major teams in touchdowns extra points and total points, scoring 54 touchdowns and 48 successful conversions for 372 points. George Jernigan kicked 47 of 48 extra points, tying the college record, while Army’s Dick Waterhouse posted 11 misses.
Vicksburg travels to Midland City while Headland hosts Columbia Hartford visits Rehobeth Abbeville plays Slocomb and Cottonwood meets Ashford in a two game per week schedule on Tuesday and Friday nights.
Stanley Clark assistant coach of the Elba Tigers credits Coach G W Hause with shaping the teams clean play. Clark says Hause emphasized playing hard yet clean and the Tigers earned The Eagle Sportsmanship Award. House praises the award for raising sportsmanship awareness in the Wiregrass as 24 Tiger lettermen and officials attend the banquet.
Walter Pate, U S Davis Cup captain, trialed a new doubles combination in Australia. He teamed Gardnar Mulloy with Frank Parker for the first time and they defeated Jack Kramer and Ted…
Federal Home Loans text pitches Dothan Federal Savings and Loan Association as a government chartered service for local home loans. It lists 107 S. Foster St as the contact and encourages residents to consider the specialized loan option.
Muhlenberg and St Bonaventure meet in the Tobacco Bowl in Lexington with six Muhlenberg players on St Bonaventure’s team. The crowd aims for clear skies and moderate temperatures as a toss up game with professional odds makers giving Muhlenberg a half point edge.
DOTHAN FEDERAL offers a construction underway loan option with terms up to 20 years. No obligation to you. Available through Dothan Federal Savings and Loan Assn located at 107 S Foster St. Advance on home building projects.
Los Angeles AP reports Cuban sports director Luis Orlando Rodriguez plans to protest to the Cuban ambassador over what he calls the commercial imperialistic monopoly of U S baseball. He described a three hour meeting with Baseball Commissioner A B Chandler as a severe blow to harmonious relations and said Chandler was uncooperative on rehabilitating ineligible Cuban players and on a Latin American agreement involving the United States Cuba Venezuela and Mexico.
In Orlando Florida the Piney Woods Field Trials moved toward a final heat as 14 of 34 bird dogs entered in the $1,000 open stakes were sent over the course today. Sixteen of the 20 dogs tested remained to contest the event with the next round expected soon.
Yesterday 15 copies of quail were flushed in the open championship trials. The feature winner will be decided after today’s trials. Brownie Dog, owned by Gerald L. Livingston, posted top marks with two bevy retrieves and a single during a one hour heat. Duration Bob, owned by John Snow, won the Amateur All-Age stakes earlier in the week. The Vixen, owned by W. J. Sears Jr., won the Amateur Derby stakes. The trials conclude tomorrow with the $500 Open Derby stake.
A moving automobile occupant uses nearly twenty five times as much street space as a passenger riding a street car or bus, highlighting the efficiency of mass transit over individual cars in urban streets.
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