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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1944
Page
7
A High Point reader sends a long letter critiquing a bait casting column. The writer argues left handed casting may improve reel timing and distance, while noting personal mixed results and inviting other anglers to test the method and share experiences.
Industrial Baseball Today reports Triangle hosts Melrose at 5:00 for game four of a seven game series. Triangle has won the first three games seeking the city championship.
The season’s top performers include Doerr and Johnson sharing home runs with 15. Stirnweiss leads runs and hits. Musial and Walker top NL batting. Nicholson leads NL homers. Wilks tops NL pitching.
The 42 500 All American golf event at George May's Tom O Shanter course in Chicago plans an 18 hole finale today after rain washed out yesterday. Byron Nelson leads with 211 after 54 holes while Harold McSpaden and Buck White chase. Amateur leader Latny Ken Heinemann and women’s leader Betty Hicks also contest final rounds amid possible two more playoff rounds.
Hal Newhouser earned his 21st win as the Tigers beat the Browns 5-3. George McQuinn led a 17-hit Browns attack with four hits and two RBIs, while Oscar Grimes and Wilfred Lefebvre fueled New York and Washington wins. Bob Johnson and George Metkovich led the Red Sox in a 7-2 opener and an 8-5 nightcap with key hits. Joe Heving and Roy Cullenbine sparked Indians to a 4-3 win and Cullenbine homered for the nightcap. Mel Ott and J Allen led the Giants in a two-homer opener and 4-2 finale. Adams and Wietelmann powered the Phillies and Braves in a twin bill. Gustine and Ostermueller drove three runs as Pirates trounced Cardinals 14-6, Ostermueller tossing 10 innings of two-hit ball. Cooper homered for the Cardinals. The text notes also reference ancient Chinese bronze, 18th-century blood pressure measures by Hales.
Navy tennis leaders skip Forest Hills event due to duties. Don McNeill, 1940 national singles champion, is expected to lead a three man battle with Jos and Billy Talbert as Frank Parker and Ensign Frank Kramer are ruled out or unavailable. Perfume ingredients aside the article notes marine aviation duties and a Mead ow club loss.
Radio listings detail Eastern War Time adjustments and an extensive network lineup. Programs include serials like The Wilderness Road and Superman, news rundowns with Quincy Howe and Lowell Thomas, musical interludes, dramatic features, and variety shows across NBC CBS and West/East networks.
Coach Charlie Stapleton leads Goldsboro's women swimmers to the Southern AAU championships in New Orleans August 30 31. Entrants include Peggy Pate Evelyn Barbee Kathleen Powell Marine Crone and Jean Pyatt.
Greensboro Tech Hawks beat Coleman Rangers 3-1 in Wichita to advance in the national semi pro tournament. Enidairs blank Kearns Eagles 5-0 in the other elimination game. A Surinam note mentions prewar bauxite supply and a line on plant energy from sunlight.
The Mercury Athletic Club meets the War Department club tomorrow night at 6 45 at the high school arena. Doris Snider pitches for the War Department, which holds a strong season record, while Mercury aims to overpower the favored opponent. Manager Pierce will decide line-up last minute as team plans a seven inning game with free will admission collected for the polio fund.
Kiwanis Club and Marsh Furniture meet this evening at 6:00 on High Point College baseball diamond for the Junior Amateur League championship.
Pittsburgh leads 14-1 while St Louis stands 6-1 in the doubleheader halted by darkness. Philadelphia tops Boston 8-3. Cincinnati vs Chicago rained out. New York 8-4 over Brooklyn 1-2. Tonight, Pittsburgh at Chicago 3:08 p.m., Cincinnati at St. Louis 8:15 p.m. Only games scheduled.
Charlie Jones and Mike Hogan have leased Bashford Manor farm near Louisville to raise race horses. They own two dozen brood mares and will buy a stallion. Carlos Escalona, head of the Mexican Lawn Tennis Association, watched Armando and Rolando Vega in national championships. Pirates allow signing meal checks up to four dollars on night road games, four fifty daylight restrictions apply.
Publicist Ted Carpenter of Marquette University defends the team, saying no players will be cut this coming season. The remark hints at scrutiny of Tom Stidham and the proposed schedule, suggesting concerns over opponents and workload remain unresolved.
Monday matinée features Enrique Bolanos, former bantam mate of Manuel Ortiz’s rival Juan Zuria, in Los Angeles as Ortiz seeks revenge. Also notes Georgia’s Claude Hipps and Al Perl’s praise, Yale football staffing, and Giants pitcher Bill Voiselle linking luck to his bookmaking.
Two ex footballers Lieut Pat Preston former Duke All America tackle and Ens John Polanski a former back who played at Tarawa visited Coach Peahead Walker at Wake Forest. Lieut Joe Garber a former one wall handball champ was killed on a bombing mission over Europe. Sam Harris and Rollie Hemsley have joined the Sampson Naval Training Center baseball team and seek a post season charity series.
International League results Baltimore 12 Jersey City 2 Newark 8 Syracuse 6 Montreal 2 Toronto 0. American Association Toledo 8 Columbus 3. Southern Association Memphis 4 Nashville 3 4 19 Chattanooga 4 Birmingham 3. Two games rain and cold weather noted for several matchups.
St Louis recovered from a near knockout to beat Detroit 17 to 2 in the nightcap, keeping the lead at three and a half games as New York and Boston split with Washington and Philadelphia respectively. George Vossekuil.
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