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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1937
Page
5
Nine coaches report injuries across major bowls including California Alabama and Colorado. Notable cases include California ends Willard Dollman and Henry Sparks sidelined, Alabama's Jesse Sparks and Dollman injury updates, and Colorado facing White and Penn State. Monitored are Saints and Buckeyes?
Market ad from Grafton West Virginia invites selling beef hides and scrap junk at top prices. MENDELSON JUNK COMPANY offers prompt payment, with contact phone 9643 and a sales window from November 22 to December 22 in Grafton WV.
Grafton High overpower Kingwood High 64 to 12 as Eddie OConner led with 17 points and Graham added 14. The Bearcats opened with a 32 to 5 lead, then extended it into the second half, while Kingwood managed only 12 points. Grafton earns a 12 day vacation with practice continuing over the holidays.
Four young men from swanky west end society circles face a $70,000 jewelry theft tied to a Cartier Bond Street raid. They were remanded for further hearing January 6. one defendant, J C M Lonsdale, was granted bail of $25,000. Evidence was not disclosed.
Havana bout saw Kid Chocolate defeat Johnny Mirabella of New York by knockout. Details on weight classes weren’t available. Mirabella fought valiantly, but Chocolate dominated the ring in a swift stoppage.
Freddie Rauch and Bob Glass led Ohio's All-Stars to a 19 to 0 victory over a Florida West Coast eleven in a charity game for the American Legion hospital for crippled children. Rauch, from Cincinnati, and Glass, from Massillon, sparked the Buckeye attack with three scores across the four periods.
Ralph Guldahl shot a 67 to lead the 14th annual Miami Open with Stanley Horne also 67. Sam Snead and Frank Champ posted 68s, while 41 players were within five strokes, including amateur leader Earl Christiansen. Johnny Revolta balanced a 70 to sit even with eight others.
Sarasota report reveals Paul Waner praising Joe Medwick as possibly surpassing Rogers Hornsby and equaling or exceeding Joe DiMaggio in hitting. Waner notes the dead ball era and predicts lower averages but insists Medwick remains a dominant bat. He plans to use lighter bats next season after swinging 37-ounce wood last year.
West Virginia University football team arrives in El Paso after a three hundred mile dust storm ride through Kansas Oklahoma and Texas. In city ceremonies coach Marshall Glenn and athletic director Harry A. Stansbury announce players will have time to attend Sun festival events before New Year’s Day game. Pinion knee injury and Nebera ankle sprain noted along with Richardson knee injury.
New York December report cites Harry Mehre poised to take Michigan coaching job after Fielding H. Yost retirement. Contemporaneous boxing notes mention Tommy Farr, Max Baer, Braddock rematch, and other sports chatter from the era, with scattered references to Alabama and Columbia figures.
Muhlenberg college may have to advertise to fill that October 28 game on next fall's football schedule. Registrar Harry Benfer said he contacted 48 colleges without success and expects ads to appear in the games wanted column to find an opponent.
The Strand offers the MGM comedy Live Love and Learn starring Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell with Robert Benchley and Helen Vinson in a festive New York Village setting. A penniless artist and his wife navigate marriage amid Bohemian salons and tenement slums as rivals and relatives complicate their path.
The Opera House opens Samuel Goldwyn's film version of Sidney Kingsley's Dead End starring Sylvia Sidney and Joel McCreA as a powerful city street drama. Review lauds lavish production, moving performances, and Welles direction.
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