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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1943
Page
5
In a Philadelphia roundup the Athletics shut out the Boston Red Sox 5 to 0. The item mentions other sports notes from Philadelphia and Jacksonville, including boxers and athletes like Sailor George Abrams, and references to battles and events in early 1940s sports.
Notre Dame four mile relay team expects to set a new world mark around 17.16 seconds at Franklin Field during the Penn Relays. Coach Al Handy says the Irish are ready, pending an improved track after a slow Friday. The squad opened with two wins the distance medley relay and the two mile.
The Philadelphia Athletics blanked the Boston Red Sox 5 to 0 on Good Friday as the season saw its eighth shutout in 12 spring games and only one home run to date. A. G. Spalding and Bross VP Lou Coleman said the current ball is dead due to cement in binding layers, with a new cement and pellet expected in two weeks.
The 1919 Chicago White Sox scandal is recounted with profiles of players like Shoeless Joe Jackson and Eddie Cicotte. The piece notes their peak form, later expulsion from records, and the lasting impact on baseball’s history.
The column rails at Lou Novi koff and the Cubs amid wartime priorities. It contrasts pro ball salaries with national sacrifice, notes Georgia Tech plans for a 30-man football squad, and jokes about bond drives at race tracks while urging restraint and duty.
American League Philadelphia defeated Boston five to zero in the only game. Southern Association games Knoxville at Chattanooga and Nashville at Atlanta were postponed. Birmingham beat New Orleans five to one and Little Rock routed Memphis ten to four. International League Buffalo at Jersey City postponed and Montreal at Syracuse postponed, Toronto beat Baltimore two to two. Early end after 21 innings Newark over Rochester due to darkness. Tonight’s games include Chicago at St Louis, Detroit at Cleveland, Boston at Philadelphia, Washington at New York, Pittsburgh at Chicago, New York at Boston, Philadelphia at Brooklyn, St Louis at Cincinnati. Grasshoppers clog Queensland roads. Brazil seeks coal use for locomotives.
Louisville gears up for a war-time Kentucky Derby next Saturday with about 50,000 expected attendees. Soldiers from nearby camps flood the city on weekends, and Churchill Downs will enforce Keeneland-style travel rules restricting non cardholders from entering.
The 34th Drake Relays at Des Moines proceed to finals with quarter and distance relays, sprints, hurdles and field events. Illinois wins sprint and distance medley events, Ralph Tate posts fast times, Slim Jerry Thompson defeats Virgil Alston in the two mile, and Jamaica children send $400 in pennies to Princess Elizabeth for wartime charity.
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