Playoff Set To Decide First Half League Lead
Three teams Robbins Industrial and High Paper Worx and M A Industrial vie for the first half title after equal 4-1 records. A playoff will be scheduled soon by W F Bailey to determine the winner as Adams Millis sits in the cellar. Highlanders pace scoring with Page Dennis driving a 177 point five game stretch, Boxers beat Highlanders 20 14, Robbins second with 110 points, Adams Millis 104 in two wins three losses.
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State Athletes Busy This Week In Basketball Boxing and Wrestling
Duke, UNC lead Big Five conference action while Furman, VPI, and Wake Forest play several Northern and Southern opponents. Duke and UNC have one Big Five win each. Furman opens against Davidson and UNC, then NCSU. Boxing and wrestling highlight North State action with Appalachian and High Point clashes and the Duke-UNC and Army-Navy tours noted.
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Travers Meets Travis in Early Nassau Rivalry
The 28 year old Nassau Country Club match pitted Jerry Travers against Walter Travis. Travers, then a rising star, battled the three time amateur champion, using a borrowed Schenectady putter to square the early gap. Travis held a one up edge after a tense front nine with a decisive deuce on the hoodoo hole.
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Young Jerry Downs Traver s In Historic Golf Duel
In a tight match at the 21st green both players reached in two. Travis led early but misjudged an approach at the 14th. Jerry halved the next three holes and, with a final decisive putt using a strange putter, defeated the veteran by securing a dramatic win.
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Minor league revival plan discussed after convention
A Louisville committee studied measures to invigorate minor league baseball and revive leagues disbanded by competition from other entertainment. Members include Bramham of the Piedmont League Gardner of the Texas League Harriott of Terre Haute Giles of the Three-Eye League and Carr, former Columbus club president. Major league reps Rickey of the Cardinals and Evans of the Indians attended.
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Terre Haute
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Chinese student trains for pilot license in Wisconsin
Kenosha, Wis. Chinaman Mun Jong, 23, plans to return to China to aid aerial transportation development and told his instructor he desires to fly mail.
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North Carolina Grouse Raising and Coastal Tarpon Sightings
The piece notes Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk operates a high altitude game farm raising ruffled grouse along with Ring-neck pheasants quail and mallards and mentions Edgar H Tufts and More Game Birds in America Inc. It also covers a Currituck geese case involving a man using federal permits and Jack Miner. It adds that tarpon are plentiful and a nuisance near Oregon Inlet attracting anglers from southern waters.
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Silent Scot Leads Final 36 in Los Angeles Open
Mac Donald Smith, silent Scot from Carnoustie, leads by five strokes entering the final 36 holes of the Los Angeles Open at Hillcrest. His 137 total after rounds of 69 and 68 tops Walter Hagen and Leo Diegel, with Olin Dutra and Dallas Jeffers close behind and Joe Kirkman also near the leaders. Smith seeks his third Los Angeles Open and a $2,000 first prize.
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Yankee Prospect Crosetti Emerges From Seals Ranks
Frank Crosetti, 21, hailed as the best minor league shortstop, rose from a 16 year old bush league player to regular third baseman at 17 and shortstop at 18. Signed by the New York Yankees in 1930, he stayed in San Francisco for further seasoning and earned a high Pacific Coast league salary while remaining unselfish, studious, and loyal to teammates and umpires.
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New York Yankees
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High Point Five Host Durham Huskies Tomorrow Night
High Point aims to extend its season start by hosting Durham in a varsity game after a win over Lexington last Friday. The twin bills begin 7 16 p m with the varsity to follow around 8 00 p m.
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High Point Five
Durham
Cafeteria Cagers Meet L and Y Quint in Rival Clash
High Point basketball rivals L. and Y. Quint and the Friendly Cafeteria team clash tomorrow night at 8 on the L. and Y. floor corner of Washington and Main. L. and Y. leads the series two games to one after a 27 to 20 victory last Monday.
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Younts
High Point
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Main Streets
Wildcat Bagged Near Cold Spring by Local Trap Show
A 22 pound wildcat was trapped near Cold Spring by Howard Somers. It is the first cat bagged in the area in several years, and Somers displayed the pelt to prove his claim.
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