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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1930
Page
6
The National League standings loom tight after one month as the Giants and Cubs lead with near-identical marks. The Yankees in the American League hit a .500 stride behind Hoyt and solid hitting as Cleveland, Philadelphia, and others jockey for position. The season's early fireworks featured the Indians, Athletics, and Tigers, with scattered rain delaying several teams.
Athletic Director K M Ross of West Virginia Wesleyan College announced the annual recognition day for Bobcat athletes with letter awards for football tennis and track and field seasons and the 1920 basketball season. Forty four awards will be presented at Atkinson Chapel with 6 track 9 tennis 10 basketball and 19 football recognitions.
Paris Christian Boussus, a rising French tennis player, is laid up with a torn fragment in his left leg and may miss tennis all summer. Milwaukee boxing commission votes to use two judges in deciding bouts. New York exchanges total $1,203,000,000 with $192,000,000 in capita.
Earl Mastro of Chicago faces New York’s Jackie Cohen in a ten round featherweight bout Monday night marking Cohen’s first appearance in the ring this week. Pittsburgh Pirates list injured players including Stu Clark Waner brothers Pig Traynor and others. Lil Stoner is released to Fort Worth Texas league. Decatur and Quincy meet in Three Eye League night game as MLB and minor league officials observe.
Covington boxer Joe Anderson faced possible suspension for failing to fulfill a Chicago engagement with Haak on Hansen, after about 600 spectators and a gate near $1,500. The Illinois state athletic commission planned a meeting to act today, a move that would automatically affect other national boxing associations.
National League leaders include Batting Stephenson Cubs .458 Runs ferry Giants 29 Hits Frederick Robins 42 Doubles Comorosky Pirates 11 Triples Cuyler Suhr Pirates 5 Home Runs Wilson Cubs 9 RBIs Suhr Pirates Wilson Cubs Klein Phillies 27 Stolen Bases Cuyler Cubs 7 American League Batting Rice Senators .414 Runs Ruth Yankees Bishop Athletics Hodapp Indians 26 Hits Oliver Red Sox 42 Doubles Cronin Senators 12 Triples West Senators 5 Home Runs Foxx Athletics 6 Stolen Bases Rice Senators 5 RBIs Simmons Athletics 28
Louisville May 14. American Legion officials say George Cook heavyweight champion of Australia has accepted an invitation to replace Al Friedman as the opponent of Mickey Walker in a 10 round headline fight Friday night. Friedman injured his hand in Boston and was suspended by the Kentucky athletic board for fighting within five days of the scheduled appearance.
Young Jack Thompson, Oakland, holder of the world welterweight title less than a week, faces dispute over his first defense. Dunn of Detroit’s Olympia club says he signed Corbettard of Fresno for a championship bout at Navin Field on August 27, while Thompson’s manager Alvis argues no definite opponent or terms exist. A no-hit no-run game was also pitched by Lefty Brawley for Norfolk and Western.
Non professional interest centers on Lexington as residents await the Earl of Derby who will inspect famed nurseries before Churchill Downs. He will spend two days at Elmendorf Farm with Joseph E. Widener as host and will visit Versailles with Camden and Winn before Louisville for the Derby. Mrs Woodrow Wilson will attend as guest of Shouse and other New York leaders are in Louisville gauging Derby contenders.
In a derby trial today Uncle Luther surged ahead of a field of six other eligibles in a mile event. The United States Walker Cup series, inaugurated in 1922, features four two ball foursomes and eight singles matches. Foursomes are scheduled for tomorrow, with singles on Friday.
Diamond Stars Mel Harder aided by a strong Indians defense blanked the Senators to one hit in a 21 to 6 win. Hack Wilson hit his ninth homer as the Cubs edged the Braves 9 to 8. Waite Hoyt limited the Browns to five hits in a 4 to 1 Yankees victory. Chuck Klein drove in four as the Phillies beat the Pirates 14 to 8. Art Herring pitched Tigers past the Red Sox 4 to 1 with scattered hits.
In Paris on May 14 the Franco American golf event was arranged with the American women led by Glenna Collett to face eight French players captained by Simone Thion de la Chaume. The matches will occur at Chantilly, site of de la Chaume’s May 5 national title, or at La Boule. The French lineup includes Mme Roger de Vilmorin, Pauline de Bellet, and Mme R Thion de la Chaume among others.
Sandwich Eng May 14 Hopes for a sixth straight win as Bobby Jones American Walker Cup team opens a two day contest against Britain's picked amateurs at Royal St Georges. Great Britain has never beaten the Americans in Walker Cup play.
Weston High beat Flemington 21 to 0 in a conference baseball game. Calvert and Worley limited Flemington to three hits as Mahooney tallied five hits in five at bats and Wyatt collected two triples a double and a single.
Morgantown May 14 A fifth championship trophy for the thirteenth annual West Virginia scholastic track and field meet will be circulated this year. Huntington and Parkersburg have repeatedly dominated, with Charleston close behind, as the Big Three share most honors in twelve years of competition.
La Blan defeated her sister-in-law to stay in contention for the 1928 French title. Remaining players include Mme. P. Munier, Mme. A. M. Vagliano, and Mm. D. Esmond, with two more to be chosen for the eight-player team.
Results show Jeannette 8 Fairmont 3 in 12 innings, Clarksburg 13 Cumberland 4, Charleroi 7 Scottdale 4, Johnstown 8 Wheeling 3. Philadelphia 14 Pittsburgh 8 and St Louis 6 New York 4. Chicago 9 Boston 8 Brooklyn Cincinnati. Boston at Chicago. Brooklyn at Cincinnati New York at St Louis. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh. AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia 14 Chicago 7 New York 4 St Louis 1 Detroit 4 Boston 1 Cleveland 11 Washington 6. Games today St Louis at New York Chicago at Philadelphia Detroit at Boston. Cleveland at Washington.
Devaorated report by Prete Piola Willian C. Dappity on the Auburn New York prison riot of December 1929 wins the 1930 Pulitzer. He is managing editor of the Auburn Citizen. His cousin Cecil Holley, 21, of Satis, is shot and killed on a farm near Nitro. Logan Mack Williams, a Black man, convicted of slaying French Bills six years ago, is sentenced to life imprisonment. Proceedings suspend in the case of William Fane of Morgantown on slaying charges. Morgantown and Benwood city officials seek probe into city records burning at West Alexander Pennsylvania after the automobile of ex-city clerk John W. Edwards Jr. was buried May 8. Moundsville prison officials report Janes Dougherty, 17, and Owen J. Dougherty, 29, Lewis County brothers, escaped from a Food camp at Frametown.
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