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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1940
Page
6
Baseball roundup shows St Louis Browns winning six straight by beating Boston twice while Philadelphia’s Phillies beat Cincinnati Reds 4-3 in 12 innings to snatch the NL lead from idle Brooklyn. Feller notches his tenth win as Indians crushed Senators 12-1 and White Sox shut out the Yankees 1-0. Pirates top Bees 8-7. Giants rout Cubs 6-3.
DELLE LITE reports yesterday's NL results Philadelphia 4 Cincinnati 3 in 32 innings, New York 6 Chicago 3, Pittsburgh 8 Boston 7. Scheduled games include Cincinnati at New York with Der ringer facing Gumbert, Pittsburgh at Brooklyn MacFayden against Fitzsimmons, St Louis at Boston Warneke versus Javery, Chicago at Philadelphia Lee versus Pearson.
Harvard and Yale varsity crews face each other on the Thames at lower river near New London in a long awaited annual race. Both crews train for five months and come into the showdown tempered but ready, with Harvard slight favorite and Bart Comstock Jr. as a standout stroke in the Crimson lineup.
The Mountain Loop leaders Bluefield and Huntington widened their edge with wins as Ashland and Huntington battled to a two game draw. Ashland beat the Aces 8-6 then lost 5-7 in a doubleheader while Welch fell 7-3 to Williamson. Standings show Bluefield atop with 31 wins, 20 losses, and Ashland and Huntington close behind as the circuit prepares for more games.
Tony Marteliano of New York knocked out Pete Galiano of Baltimore in a Baltimore bout. Henry Wacker of Chicago defeated Eddie Simms of Cleveland on points in a Chicago card.
New York June 21 Pitcher Bob Bowman was absolved of blame by Nat ional League president Ord Frick over the bearing incident involving Brooklyn Dodger outfielder Joe Medwick Tuesday.
In Minneapolis 223 stars from 170 colleges converged at Memorial Stadium for the national collegiate track meet. USC, the defending and recent seven of ten title holder, faces Stanford and others as Fred Walcott of Rice looms as a potential record smasher in the 120 highs and 220 yard lows. USC's John Wilson tops the high jump with 6 feet 9 4 8 inches as finals approach the next afternoon amid 14 events.
Bob Feller pitched the Indians to first in the American League with a four hit game against the Senators. John Rigney held the Yankees to five hits in eleven innings to win 1-0 for the White Sox. Chuck Klein hit a two run homer and drove in all four Phillies runs in a 4-3 twelve inning win over the Reds. Brancato singled with bases loaded and hit a homer to lead the Athletics to a 6-4 victory over the Tigers. Bible Fletcher hit three consecutive doubles driving in four for the Pirates against the Bees.
Joe Louis battered Arturo Godoy into semi consciousness, stopping him in the eighth round after a brutal exchange before a 28,000 crowd at Yankee Stadium. Godoy, down twice and with a deep cut, fought bravely but could not endure Louis’s relentless assault. Louis hinted at no retirement, while managers left open a potential September return if a Galento Baer bout materializes.
Louis heads to Atlantic City to brush up on his golf before Baer battles Galento. Joe Louis fans cheer as he racks up another round of punches in the heat. Arturo Godoy falls as the crowd watches, while Denny Carroll may retire. Dizzy Dean garners all league support as the Texas start ace. Baron Gottfried Von Cramm not aboard a plane. Owen Anderson, California player, arrives instead.
Fragmentary text references Von Cramm giving a racquet to Anderson before Nazi ties, plus brief quotes from Willie Turnesa and Faul Waner about relaxation in golf and baseball. No clear event or outcome is specified.
Flemington, a Taylor county favorite, hammered Knottsville 16 to 9 in a seven inning slugfest at Flemington. McCauley hit two homers and two singles, Lawson and Whitehair added other four base hits, Fate of the game stretched to two hours and a half as Flemington racked 19 hits to Knottsville 12. Four Flemington errors and two base hits by several players shaped the line score. L Phillips allowed 9 hits in 5 innings as the winning pitcher. Umpires Poole and Demoss. Time of game 2 12 hours.
Hamilton and R. Swisher led with two-base hits and Swisher added three runs as the team posted six steals, while Keener grabbed a stolen base and Prunty left runners on base. Lobis walked once and Plum struck out ten batters as Plumb pitched well in a close contest.
FUNTINGTON June 21. Mrs Arnold Irwin chair announces the Guyan Country club third annual invitation golf tournament to be held next Tuesday. Past winner Mrs Ann Hoblitzell from Parkersburg later claimed the state amateur title at White Sulphur Springs. Over 100 golfers from West Virginia Kentucky and Ohio are expected to enter the 18 hole medal play event including Kanawha county finisher Mrs Marie Geiger.
Draft plans set age caps for men aged 21 to 31 and specify distribution ranges with minimum and maximum percentages. It outlines penalties for evading registration or service and aiding evaders. The measure would take effect May 15, 1945, unless extended by further compression.
The state closed tennis tournament saw top seeds advance while two upsets jolted the list. Dorothy Bell of Wheeling defeated Betty Reider to reach the women’s semi finals and Deacon Parsons of Huntington beat B Harris to reach the men’s quarterfinals. Seeded favorites Charles Front and Mrs Edmonds dropped in upsets as Tickle Reed and Caroline Priel moved on. Parsons faced Fred Kell next.
A spirited debate on fat versus built-in factors like endocrine glands and genetics. The piece cites diet-only weight loss experiments, notes an Ann Arbor case, and discusses age-related tendencies. It includes reader Q and A on breaking left-hand habit and a note about a future topic overweight in children.
Meyer of Wheeling a former Duke player defeated Bob Brosius 6-1 6-1 and Wilbur Kraus, another Kanawha titleholder, 6-1 6-0. Charlie Gore seeded third beat James Gray 6-0 10-8 to reach quarterfinals, while Red Brown faced Gray in the third round. Reports note unrest as France risks a capitulation if terms fail amid German advance.
Reports say German forces push through Maginot line areas in Lorraine and Alsace with British air raids striking Cologne and Dusseldorf. French resistance holds, while four envoys travel behind German lines to hear terms that could erase France as a military power.
The readable fragment shows garbled text about advertisements and word counts. It mentions a 45 cent charge and counting initials and figures as words. No clear names, places, dates, or events are present to identify a specific item or outcome.
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