Roundup of Sports News and Transfers from York
AP dispatch from York highlights baseball salaries and pitcher wins in 1918, notes on Burleigh, Hill, and other figures, plus gossip on the Giants, Yankees, and boxing. Mentions Patler and Bradley retirements, Joe Louis, and Frankie Genaro, with various signings, offers, and college ties.
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Phelan
New York
Brooklyn
Larry MacPhail
Miami
Col
ER. R. Bradley
Joe Louis
Frankie Genaro
Greenwood Lake
N. Y
Frankie
Luttrall Reign Faces End As Langevine Main Event
Promoter Jack Smith presents a Coliseum card featuring Luttrall in the main event against Bob Legs Langevine a French Canadian star who arrives with a perfect southern record. Dick Lever battles Billy Wolfe in the opener as the high profile bout headlines a night of Southern wrestling action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cowboy Luttrall
Magic
Bob
Langevine
Jack Smith
Coliseum
Dick Lever
Tennessee Thunderbolt
Billy Wolfe
Missouri
Gustavus Adolphus College to Send Basketball Team Abroad
The piece notes Gustavus Adolphus College of Minnesota beating Spearfish Normal and plans to send a basketball team to an international tournament in Mexico City next month. It mentions Joe DiMaggio’s hypothetical salary escalation at age 80 and includes a quip from Cunnel Ruppert.
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American Association
Gustavus Adolphus College of Minnesota
Spearfish Normal
Mexico City
Cunnel Ruppert
Joe DiMaggio
Winston Outfits Now Lead In Girls Play
Winston outfits in the program promise strong wrestling action with Luttrall and Langevine facing off in a best two falls out of three. Lever Wolfe headline the Lever-Wolfe 2 event with rough tricks and skilled south wrestlers. Promoter Smith expects a large crowd as doors open 7 15 and first bell at 8 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luttrall
Langevine
Lever-Wolfe
Lever
South
Smith
Foe Love of Folly Continues on the Sunrise Mission
Polly Chelsey travels toward Dover disguised as an old woman while Jerry Whitfield battles capture aboard the Sunrise. Cabell Banks faces punishment and privateering risks as British ships hold firm in 1812. In Boston, Cabell Banks senior and Prudencenthrop await news on Cabell’s return.
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Polly Chelsey
London
Jerry Whitfield
Cabell Banks
Polly
Dover
Jerry
Mazie Miller
Mrs Majesty
Sunrise
Thames
North Sea
His Majesty
England
Lowestoft
J Whitfield
Cabell
Banks
Massachusetts
Boston
Marie Miller
Empress Josephine
Prudencenthrop
Lake Lure camp to receive concrete dam
Construction of a concrete dam for a lake on the Lake Lure camp for girls began today. The contract for the project went to Simpton and Justice of Rutherfordton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lurd
Lure
Simpton and Justice of
Rutherfordton
North Carolina Scraps Tobacco Sold Under License Fees
North Carolina growers sold 13,589,029 pounds of scrap tobacco at 1.68 per hundredweight through February 1. A 1937 law required scrap tobacco buyers to pay a 1000 license fee in each county where they operated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
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Wise Girls
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The
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Clyde Castleman
Giants
Joe
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Galento
Whizzer White
Jimmy Braddock
Sammy Shyrd
Florida
Lloyd Montgomery
Arkansas
Louisiana State
Monroe
Yankees
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Apty
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Plant
East
Washington Street
Winston
Link
Adams- Millis
Adams-Millis
Blair
Cees
Spainhour
CREMO
McCrary
Cremo Girls
Charleston
S. C
Asheboro
Raines
Quakenbush
Thelma Riddle
Bray
O'Neal
Riddle
Jones
Etee Dear
Duffy
Rains
Curtis
Sizemore
Buckner
Rachel Mack
NEA Service, Inc
Corly
Deal
Mr. Banks
Seward
Black Hawk
Veal
Commerce
Rose Brand
Beldine
SWIFT
Bennett
Glens
Libby
F. F. Vv
S. W. Horne's
Ennis and Tryon
Highland Grocery
Highland Mill
Hillcrest Grocery
Prospect Street
Lambeth Grocery
Mangum
Ideal Grocery Corner
English & Briggs
Fairmont Grocery
English St
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