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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1940
Page
3
Compiled from records of RE. E. Jordan, a review of a baseball season from seventeen years past, detailing players, teams, scores, and notable events. The compilation highlights standout performances and key games preserved in archival notes.
Carter's beat Willow City 4-2 in a tight Sunday matchup at Carter's diamond. Willow tied 3-3 in the third before Carter's pulled ahead in the fourth with two runs and added one in the eighth. Willow City scored once more in the eighth. Bird and Grobe each went 2 for 3 for Carter's.
Max J. Bierschwale was appointed by the Fredericksburg Independent School District Board to fill a vacancy from Emil Walter's resignation. A former board member, he came within one vote of election in a spring race where he did not run. President Herm Fischer cited those recent votes as basis for the selection.
Members of St. Mary’s Catholic Church enjoyed their annual picnic at Klaerner’s Grove after Mass. The day featured softball games, band music, contests and dancing, with barbecue dinner served to attendees.
A three thousand 4 H Club youth and an equal number of farm men and women registered for the junior and adult sections of a state short course. An estimated 2000 visitors from surrounding counties attended without room registrations. Topics included frozen food lockers land use planning and conservation with speakers split between men and women. Associations and groups attended including the Texas Home Demonstration Association Texas Agricultural Writers Texas Agricultural Workers Master Farmers of Texas Hereford Cattle Breeders Association county agents conference and gatherings of land use planning committees AAA county committeemen and Agricultural Experiment Station staff. The Texas County Agricultural Agents also held a business session.
Mr Williams presents a travel film made on a European tour with honor students from Texas A and M College. The film shows farming methods in England and other countries before hostilities and includes city scenes that have recently made headlines. It has been screened across Texas in the past nine months.
The Fredericksbur o Giants defeated the Frenchy’s Black Kats 2 to 0 behind Al Enderlin who earned his eighth straight win. Enderlin allowed four scattered hits while Doc Kretzer matched him for most of the game. Giants' infielders turned 21 assists and fielded superbly in a creditable whitewash.
The Giants host the Dairyland Creamers of San Antonio at Seipp Park next Sunday. The Creamers, who lost twice to the locals by one run, aim for a win. Game time is 3 30.
The Giants win 2 to 9 after a fast 1 hour 45 minute affair. Molberg and L Schneider lead with three hits each while Zimmermann drives in a run and racks up a couple of key plays. Enderlin goes 9 innings for Frenchy’s. Kretzer allows two runs over 8 frames for the Giants.
Alfred Schandua an employee of the F and N Railroad was relieved of 36 dollars in cash when held up near the Mutual Lumber Company on the Kerrville road Monday night. A car with a man and woman passengers demanded the money and drove off with headlights off, hindering license number reading. Local officers investigated but found no clues.
Rubin Crenwelge, proprietor, announces tire and tube sales and service at the Fredericksburg Drive-In Station Prop 32tf. Local manager urges motorists to inspect and replace worn tires before trips. Prices and hours to be posted.
Burnett Bulletin reports Lake Buchanan fish-selling schemes, where boats use large trot lines and many hooks to harvest fish commercially. Fishermen admit supplying fish to buyers, including a mail carrier, with schemes to bypass limits. Local business leaders oppose the practice as bad sportsmanship and unsustainable for the lakes.
63 miners were killed in an explosion at the Koppers Coal Company mine near Sonman Pennsylvania. The disaster, the state's worst in 12 years, is blamed on a spark from a motor igniting gas or coal dust deep in the mine, about 1 200 feet back.
Fredericksburg High School unveils a 11 game 1940 schedule under Coach Klaerner. Home games at night include Sept 13 Boerne B here and Sept 20 Seguin here, with trips to San Saba Rochelle Goldwaithe Lampasas Richland Springs Llano Meth. Home Waco Mason and the season closes Nov 22 in Mason.
A free Ford sponsored film program will run Saturday July 27 at the old Palace Theatre Building. The lineup includes Symphony in F, While The City Sleeps, Keep This Under Your Hood, Yellow Stone National Park, and Glacier National Park. No admission will be charged.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy return to the Palace next Sunday and Monday with the comedy Laps At Sea. The famed pair play testers in a horn factory who suffer a nervous breakdown and seek a seaside recuperation aboard an old boat as sunlight returns.
Leo Petsch posted a high single game of 255 and Rubin Jordan led the three game series with 584. City of Fredericksburg topped team totals with a 893 single game and a 2561 three game series.
A church invites all to a 2 30 P M picnic with a German program by summer school students. At 8 30 P M a Luther League English three act play titled The Man in the Green Shirt. Barbecue at 5 P M with refreshments. Everyone cordially invited.
Mr Pete Weber of Luckenbach was a visitor in Grape Town on Tuesday. The brief sighting notes his casual outing and shows local interest in his appearance.
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