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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1943
Page
7
New York report notes Beau Jack trains to extreme condition while facing questions about pacing. Discussions index gate receipts and crowds for matches against Zivic Armstrong and others, with future rematch plans at the Polo Grounds and Madison Square Garden.
Eddie Collins stood five eight and 160 pounds yet dominated 1910s baseball as keystone and keynoter for the Athletics and White Sox. His speed, base running, and leadership helped league titles, while peers credit his headwork and team-first approach. He never matched Cobb in steals but exceeded in batting and influence.
Baseball briefs report Pirates off day after a 13 2 win over the Tigers in Muncie Ind. Frank Frisch cancels a game and gives a vacation. Johnson drives Washington with four RBIs in a 12 6 win over the International Leagues Crosses in Baltimore. Dodgers await Camp Dix clash after three straight wins as Vaughan shines. Phils end a city series with 16 A’s facing Fuchs in five innings.
New York Giants veteran Rick Bartell had tape removed from his injured wrist but is unlikely to play against Brooklyn in the Camp Dix game. Ottmen pitchers Ace Adams and Tom Sunkel will start. St Louis open date halts city series, but Cardinals and Browns resume with a long workout.
Three Piedmont League clubs Roanoke Richmond and Greensboro open 1943 practice sessions under managers Heinie Manush Larry Kinzer and an unnamed replacement for Lynchburg while Durham Bulls begin drills with Dodgers at Bear Mountain New York. Rufus Lenoir Patterson longtime board chairman of American Machine and Foundry Co dies at 70 in New York. born in Salem North Carolina.
Durham April 12 Five hitters from N C State North Carolina Duke and the Navy Pre Flight School at Chapel Hill are batting .500 or better as the Ration League enters its third week Five players lead the averages Marchand Neimic Katkaveck Hayworth Davis and others include several doubles triples and RBIs The circuit has played five games so far with five more scheduled this week Duke and Pre Flight shine in defense with five double plays and two homers by Kale and Stott of Duke.
UNC and Navy Pre-Flight meet in the Ration League tilt aimed for Emerson Field at 4 p.m. Tuesday. The first regular game follows three practice scrimmages that favored neither side, with prior weather delays pushing earlier meetings into weeks past. Charley Moors is expected to pitch for Carolina.
UNC athletics plan six home games this week across baseball tennis and track. Navy Pre Flight, Duke, and Navy Cloudbusters visit Emerson Field for baseball while tennis heads to Annapolis, Brooklyn, West Point and New York on its northern tour. Track hosts Duke in a key dual meet after last season 66 60 win.
Indians raise staffing for outfield as Jeff Heath signs for 12 000 a year after leaving Seattle shipyard. Cris Hockett returns to camp from Dayton with no stated reason. The club plans to use Al Milnar Allie Reynolds and Steve Gromek in left or right field as needed while Moore seeks to build on a 6 0 season mark from 1942 and Hearn eyes him to quiet Navy bats.
Lieutenant Charles Gehringer coaches a naval pre flight team at St Marys College California and compares Bobby Doerr and Joe Gordon as top second basemen noting Gordon's flashy fielding and Doerrs steadier contact He emphasizes hitters habits and judging pitcher throws and praises umpires for fair decisions He plans to return to Detroit in sales and engineering after the war.
New York April 12. The Boston Braves and Washington Senators lead their leagues after spring play with seven and eight game records respectively. Both teams have not faced major league opponents, as Dodgers and Giants stay tied in the National League with six wins in seven games. The Athletics trail in the American League with four wins in five games while the Nationals hold a 15 to 10 edge over the AL rivals following last fall's World Series victory.
Mrs. W. O. Moss of Southern Pines rode seven year old Dark Victory to the championship of the middle and heavyweight hunters in the fourth annual Southern Pines horse show drawing about 2,500 spectators. Hermit's Boy owned by Mrs. William J. Kennedy of Dedham Mass ridden by Mickey Walsh won the triple bar class Little Hugh owned by Kennedy and Walsh won the open jumpers class Pvt Thomas Kenwood of Camp Mackall riding Hermit's Boy won the soldiers class Miss Virginia Franks of Philadelphia won the experienced horsemanship class Miss Barbara Poole of Carthage won the children’s amateur horsemanship and a team captained by Miss Paula Desanza of Paris France won the potato race
An 18 hole qualifying round today launched the 43rd annual North and South amateur golf championship at Pinehurst. Match play starts tomorrow with favorites Ronnie Williams of Detroit now Camp Butner and Ralph Strafaci of Brooklyn. Turkey shipped over 21 million pounds of licorice root to other countries last year.
North Carolina Secretary of State Thad Eure certifies the voluntary dissolution of New Service Laundry Incorporated, a Guilford County company based at 205 Centennial Avenue High Point. The unanimous stockholder consent was filed, with dissolution effective April 2, 1943, as recorded in Raleigh.
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