Pointer Leiber Leads Easy Win Over Wilmington Pirates
The Pointer-Twins club defeated the Wilmington Pirates 11 to 6 at Willis Park in a seven inning game. Leiber hit a first inning home run and the locals built a big early lead as Page Dennis filled in on the mound for Wilmington, while Jackie Mitchell of the Chattanooga Lookouts entertained with a two inning relief appearance.
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Winston
Wilmington
Jackie Mitchell
Chattanooga
Robert Hodges
Pointer-Twins
High Point
Winston-Salem Baseball Club
Willis Park
Furniture City
Wilmington Pirates
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Pirates
Wilke
Diamond Men
Mr. Hardin
Invaders
Arizona
Wilmington Pilot
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Page Dennis
Dennis
Chattanooga Lookouts
Mitchell
Salisbury High Point Golfers Tie In Intercity Match
In Blair Park matches both sides reach 18 points after 18 holes with High Point 11 2 for Aycock Wood and Snow Moffitt 3 Clinard Diffendale 1 Wooten Toetterow 2 Coleman Ward 21 2 Harrell Smith 06 totaling near equal. Last week at Salisbury the opener also ended tied.
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High Point
Municipal Park
Salisbury
Blair Park
Bill Snow
Elliott Wood
Raymond Wooten
Aycock
Wood
Snow and
Moffitt
Clinard-Diffendale
Wooten
Toetterow
Coleman
Ward
Harrell and Smith
Twin City Ready For Air Tourney
Twenty eight airplanes with speed trials completed today head tomorrow from Washington for Winston Salem to begin a 2369 mile lap of the national air races. The Atlantic wing forms the transcontinental sweepstakes handicap derby with a week of flying through the south and Midwest ending in Cleveland for America's 1932 air classic. Each ship rated on six dashes over a mile and the slowest starts first to reach control points. winners will be the fleet craft with best cumulative results.
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Washington
Winston-Salem
N. C
South
Middle West
Cleveland
America
Los Angeles
Girl To Hurl Game Here Thursday Jackie Mitchell Shocks Baseball World
Jackie Mitchell a 17 year old Chattanooga student has risen to international fame as the first woman to play organized baseball. Records show she struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig on April 2 1931 while with the Chattanooga Lookouts. She has played 57 games traveled 20000 miles won 40 and allowed only three home runs. Mitchell a noted basketball player also knows Stella Walsh and Babe Didrickson and will attend a game here Thursday under Col Joe Engel.
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Chattanooga
Miss Mitchell
Babe Ruth
Lou Gehrig
Jackie
Chattanooga Lookouts
Joe Engel
Lookouts
Dallas
Texas
Stella
Charleston Dominates Mid Atlantic Swim Meet
Charleston, led by Louise and Ruth Stuhr, won the sixth annual mid-Atlantic swimming meet in Charlotte with 14013 points. Ruth won the 100 yard breaststroke and diving. Louise took the 220, 100 freestyle, and 100 yard backstroke. Helen Stuhr swam on the winning 200 yard relay. Charlotte Buist won the 150 yard medley. Reba Morton of Knoxville set three meet records and four first places, tying for high score with Ruth Stuhr's performances among others as teams from Knoxville and others chased the Charleston lead.
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Charlotte
N. C
Stuhr
Charleston
S. C
Mid-Atlantic
Louise
Ruth
Knoxville
Tenn
Richmond
Ruth Stuhr
Louise Stuhr
Helen Stuhr
Charlotte Buist
Reba Morton
Charleston Mermaids
Miss Morton
Ish Williams
Rome
Hugh Thomas
High Point
Wilmington
Chattanooga
Trio Declared Guilty in Assault Conviction
In Dresden Tennessee a jury convicted Floyd Scott 19 the husband of aiding two friends in an attack on his 14 year old wife. Scott faces 10 years and Bob Dawson 27 and Sherrial Finley 29 receive 15 years each for the March country church assault near McKenzie.
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Dresden
Tenn
Floyd Scott
Bob Dawson
Sherrial Finley
McKenzie
Gate City Cop Shoots Negro To Death In Self Defense
Greensboro reports Patrolman R D Hayworth fatally shot 25 year old William Worthy after Worthy reportedly threatened him and made a motion as if to draw a gun. Witnesses to an inquest were summoned by County Coroner Dr W W Harvey.
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Gate City
Greensboro
William Worthy
R. D. Hayworth
Hayworth
Ashe Street
Worthy
W. W. Harvey
Tommies Edge Mebane In Tight 6 4 Ballgame
Mebane outhit Thomas Mills 10 to 9 but could not bunch runs, losing 6-4. Weston and Clark led with a homer, two doubles and two singles each. Henry blasted a four bagger. Andrews pitched well for Thomas Mills, Paris doubled and Walker homered in the ninth. Slade and Slade aided in key plays.
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Mebane
Thomas Mills
Tommies
Succumber
BE. Weston
Clark
Henry
Andrews
Paris
Walker
Wilson
Weston
Slade
Roberts
Cheek
Wilkinson
Young
Anon Soames
Waite
Bees Down Bulls for Another Win
Durham North Carolina August 20 Charlotte beat the Bulls 8 to 4 for their second straight win. Pitcher Walsh struggled with wildness in the fifth while Tom Wolfe led batters with three safeties. Key RBIs came from Snyder Carter Culbreth Sullivan McGaughey and McCarter. The series wraps up Sunday afternoon.
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Durham
N. C
Charlotte
Bulls
Joe Walsh
Big Tom Wolfe
Hittier
Snyder
Carter
Culbreth
Sullivan
McGaughey
McCarter
Walsh
Lyle
Holt
Caver
Kearney
Docket Sets Three Day Municipal Court Trial For Strike Disturbances
A heavy three day municipal court term begins Tuesday with Judge Lewis E Teague presiding. About 16 trespass and riot inciting cases from strike disturbances are set for jury trial with special local counsel likely for the defense. named defendants include Ernest Siler Luther Little J M Yow and many others. The calendar spans Tuesday August 28 to Thursday August 25 1982 with cases of probation violation drunkenness speeding and assault among the charges.
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Lewis E. Teague
American Civil Liberties Union
Ernest Siler
Luther Little
James Herman Reese
J. M. Yow
Ervin McDowell
Jule Fagg
Will Morgan
Hortense Wallace
R. R. Robbins
Claud L. Hayworth
Travis Leonard
C. R. Thomas
R. H. Walker
Fairbanks Holmes
G. C. Hensley
Glenn Barnhart
Clarence Wallace
Homer Northcutt
T. B. Hyde
W. R
Waimingtons at Hien Seins Seave at Raleigh
The readable line notes two games involving teams or players named Waimington and Seave visiting Raleigh. Details and outcomes are unclear due to damaged OCR text.
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Waimington
Hien 'Seins
Seave
Raleigh
Country Club Ladies Tourney Set For September 15
Andy Merrilles, the club pro, announced the High Point Country Club ladies championship tourney will be held on September 15. Ladies planning to participate should notify Mr Merrilles to help finalize event arrangements and prize details.
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Country Club
High Point Country Club
Andy Merrilles
Merrilles
Dead Man’s Curve on Brownsville Road Gets $6000 Fix
San Benito Texas reports state highway workers spending six thousand dollars to eliminate the famed Dead Man’s Curve on the Brownsville road. The curve has claimed twenty lives and left several hundred injured.
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San Benito
Tex
Brownsville
Island Men Man the Yachts from Deer Isle
Yachts belonging to Julius Fleischmann and George F Baker are crewed entirely by islanders from Deer Isle Maine. One third of the crew on J P Morgan’s three yachts hail from here.
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Deer Isle
Julius Fleischmann
George F. Baker
J. P. Morgan
Small Crowd Forces Caps To Postpone Game
In Raleigh on August 20 AP a Piedmont league game between Raleigh and Greensboro was postponed due to only about fifty paying spectators. The Capitals failed to meet a $25 field rent plus electricity and ball costs, leading to the double header tomorrow starting at 2:30 PM. Umpire George Repshaw announced two games tomorrow. The Raleigh players run the club and must cover nightly park rent due to owners' arrears.
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Raleigh
Greensboro
Raleigh Capitals
George Repshaw
Athletic Moguls From Nine States To Attend UNC Coaching School
Secretary FE Rankin announced UNC will host its eleventh annual coaching school from August 22 through September. Coaches and athletic directors from nine states including North Carolina Georgia Virginia Kentucky Maryland New York Connecticut Pennsylvania and Illinois have reserved rooms, with registration on Monday in Rankin's office.
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Chapel Hill
N. C
FE. R. Rankin
University of North Carolina
North Carolina
Georgia
Virginia
Kentucky
Maryland
New York
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Rankin
University team opens athletics program with multi sport coaching
The opening class will be conducted early Tuesday morning with instruction from the university’s regular coaching staff. Lectures in the New East building mornings and practical workouts on Emerson field and in the Tin Can afternoons. Basketball practice at 7 30 p m in the Tin Can.
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East
Emerson Field
Local Swimmers Medal in Yard Medley and Freestyle
William McAnally of High Point won second in the 300-yard medley. Hubert Barrier of High Point placed third in the 200-yard freestyle.
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William McAnally
High Point
Hubert Barrier
Convicts Make Tags For 1933 Pennsylvania Plates
Prisoners in Pennsylvania penal institutions manufacture 2,000,000 sets of automobile license tags for 1933 registrations. At peak output 125 inmates produce 250,000 tags per month in the Western penitentiary shop.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Western
Weight Lost Swim Tie in Leetsdale Race
Patrolman Roy Wilson and Miss Helen McCrea swam one mile in the Ohio River and tied after both losing 4 1/2 pounds. The winner was to be determined by total weight lost.
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Leetsdale
Roy Wilson
Helen McCrea
Ohio River
Crossing Crashes Rise in Pa During Early 1982
Harrisburg reports 796 accidents in five months due to drivers failing to stop at through street and highway crossings. Eighteen of these crashes were fatal. State Highway Patrol records show the trend through May 1982.
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Harrisburg
State Highway Patrol
Navy to shoot sun eclipse with giant cameras on Maine hill
A Navy eclipse station on a 700 foot Maine hill will deploy a battery of cameras rivaling battleship guns to photograph the sun during the August 31 eclipse. The project uses clockwork to track the sun for a precise four-contact timing over a 100 second event, aiding astronomical knowledge.
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Navy
Washington
Maine
Unoon
Limerick
Limington
C. H. J. Keepler
Naval Observatory
C. B. Watts
G. M. Ransford
G. C. Whitaker
United States
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