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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1944
Page
2
Frantic box score chatter centers on the Yankees, as Boston and Chicago games tipped the scales. Key pitchers like Newhouser and Mack shuffled rosters, while red hot colleagues in Cleveland and Philadelphia delivered notable wins. The scene features tight standings and shifting hopes across the league.
Local notes indicate a theater program in Spall River Mass was postponed tonight due to rain. Patrons are advised to watch for updated schedules and check with Carmi Fatta and ABC Works for new show times. The fragment mentions Mass Manuel Ortiz and Caytor among attendees, with no further concrete details available.
An overseas sports update from Fleet Post Office Francis Buckley reports Seabee athletic clubs in the central Pacific seek football uniforms as they compete with service teams. Buckley notes boxing defeats, track placing, and plans for fall football, with references to Princeton, North Africa, and GI booster clubs.
A village chief in the Pacific region sold a brass skirt and a girl to a visiting airman for 10 pounds, then faced confusion over his purchase. Lt Robert Wankelman writes of a friend who tried to buy a brass skirt as a keepsake, musing on the odd barter.
Chicago June 30 1942 Ben Hogan leads the big four rivals and Navy Lt Patty Berg co leads the pro woman division as Edgewater hosts the Chicago victory national championship. McSpaden Nelson Byrd Wood Revolta Koosis Kovach Hines Dudley and Foulis figure among top scorers in two days of team play with amateur and pro results highlighting a return to normal tournament golf after two years away. The Revolta Berg pair win the pro am title while Hogans 67 70 set strong contention noted across the field.
Eastern boxing debut sees Manuel Ortiz win a 10 round decision as he tops a late frenzied rally. In baseball, Larry Bolvin of Providence helps put up early pace in a rain-shortened Pittsburgh draw with New York, while Chicago and Boston show mixed results across the circuit.
War brief describes Italian campaign moves with captures near Montepulciano and Chianciano, east of Lake Trasimeno near Magione, and patrol advances north of Perugia. It notes German re-equip efforts derailed by Allied air strikes destroying a large shipment of vehicles and tanks. Also reports League and American stand arithmetic and a tense traffic of operations toward Livorno and Cecina, plus police notices in Gratton about examinations and estate claims.
Chicago plays New York in a night game while St Louis visits Boston Detroit heads to Philadelphia and Cleveland travels to Washington for late games.
Billy Conn of Pittsburgh former world light heavyweight champion was to begin straining today for a boxing exhibition tour of British army camps. The U S army corporal arrived yesterday. Ma John Li Griffith Western conference commissioner says war leaders realize sports in competition is as necessary now as in time for peace. Griffith spoke during the Chicago Kiwanis clubs annual sports day program noting the impending intercollegiate events.
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