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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1943
Page
5
Los Angeles based Franklin and Savold meet for a third time tomorrow in Chicago as both boxers claim confidence and tease a dramatic finish. Fans recall their two prior decisive rounds with Savold once knocking down Franklin but losing in the later rounds.
The Fair City League race narrows as leaders survive a tense night. Schmids and Northwest Bank split results while Bankers edge Standard Oil to clinch runner up spot. Jodingan tops with a 235 high game. Cochrane and others post strong marks as final standings loom large. Major League Exhibitions recap follows with Brooklyn and New York games.
Sports roundup chronicles Ross the swimmer turning to army flight training at Miami after a storied career. He will join two sons and his dog in service, while his wife vents about not joining WAACs. Also notes on Ormsby, curvy bar talk, and Lem Franklin and Lee Savold boxing at Chicago Stadium with a projected $40,000 gate.
Evansville health officials quarantine the Vanderburgh County jail after a prisoner contracts measles. Trials and arraignments are halted. inmates remain confined. In Lakin Kansas a bank window poster demands thirteen billion dollars for war bonds, with three pennies left by boys as a note.
New York April 15 predicted pennant winners in the major leagues. Brooklyn Dodgers favored for the National League with St. Louis Cardinals expected to challenge. Dodgers benefit from veterans and draft-proof lineup, while Cards face losses and early absences. Order forecast: Dodgers, Cardinals, Reds, Cubs, Pirates, Giants, Braves, Phillies.
Harry Grayson surveys the Hooper Lewis Speaker trio of the Boston Red Sox, praising their throwing accuracy and base running flair. He notes Speaker’s two unassisted double plays, Hooper’s swift line-drive catches, and Lewis’s clutch hitting, all contributing to 1912 15 World Series and 1916 18 championships.
Radio New York broadcasts outline Thursday and Friday programs including Town Meeting from Cincinnati on lowering voting age, War Loan discussions with Great Taggart, Slassen of Minnesota on peace patterns, and a long slate of CBS NBC and blue networks featuring stars like Fanny Brice Bing Crosby Dinah Shore and Paul Lavalle. schedule spans 7:30 to 10:00 PM with multiple stations and genres.
Purvis, a former Duquesne University grid great, endured 13 weeks of Army Air Forces training after a neck injury first suggested by X rays. He attended officer candidate school at Miami Beach and later reported to Kelly Field San Antonio in December where surgery confirmed a serious fracture. Doctors said he was extremely lucky to survive.
New York April 15. Don Meade a leading jockey was denied a riding license by the Jockey Club stewards. Action on his application was deferred. Meade faced accusations of collusion in a October 19 handicap at Jamaica and his suspension ran through December 31. Eddie Arcaro, Kentucky rider famed on Whirlaway, had his license revoked September 26 for piling up the field in a Cowdin Stake at Aqueduct.
OPA agents reported in Dallas that fifteen hams hung in a bathroom, two cases of razor blades, fifty-two pounds of butter, two new automobile tires, and an extra 514 cans of food beyond the 850 declared at rationing start. The agency said the illicit items would be donated to the Dallas war chest for hospitals and the needy.
Parents wait for word on Lieut Thomas Harmon missing since April 8 after serving as a bomber pilot in the Caribbean. The University of Michigan star, known as Old 98, scored 237 points in three varsity seasons and held 33 touchdowns, entering the U S air forces last year and earning a second lieutenant rating.
A six year old girl risked a fall by pacing a narrow third floor ledge of an apartment building in Chicago. A spectator shouted for help, and police were summoned. The worried watcher admitted she could not take her eyes off the child as the mother pledged to stop her “window cleaning” play.
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