Appalachian Names Kirk Fresh Coach
Boone July 24 Appalachian State Teachers College selects John Kirk former grid star as new freshman football coach for fall September 1 replacing resigning James Malcolm Kirk previously coached at Reynolds High Winston-Salem and played at Appalachian before the war earning all conference honors He is a Lexington native married with a sixteen month old son and served as a Marine in the Pacific during World War II.
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Kirk
Pacific
Marine Corps
Appalachian
UNC Coaching School Highlights Football at Chapel Hill
CHAPEL HILL July 23 Football tops the agenda as UNC’s 23rd annual coaching school opens Monday and runs three days. Coach Carl Snavely leads two daily classes focusing on the single wing and T formation. Lectures cover baseball, athletic equipment, and related topics with films included.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Carl Snavely
Entries Close for North Carolina Women’s Softball Tourney
The NC Amateur Softball Association invites entries by Monday for the Women’s Tournament to be held in August 4 4 and 11 13 in this area. Jim Day and Bill Currie handle registrations for the event. Seventeen-player squads are allowed with 15 regulars and two extras. the High Point Hillcrests, 1948 winners, have disbanded and a dozen teams competed last year.
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North Carolina Amateur Softball Association
Jim Day
Reidsville Recreation Commission
Bill Currie
High Point Enterprise
High Point Hillcrests
Bill Tucker Records Hole-In-One at Blair Park Course
High Point golfer Bill Tucker scored a hole in one at Blair Park Municipal Course yesterday afternoon. His four iron shot found the cup on the 194 yard No 12 hole as he posted a medal score of 74 while in a foursome with Dake Sechrest Bernie Papson and Jdlin Albertson.
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High Point
Bill Tucker
Blair Park
Municipal
Tucker
Dake Sechrest
Bernie Papson
Jdlin Albertson
Ace Admiral Wins Sunset Handicap At Hollywood Park
Ace Admiral ridden by Johnny Longden led from start to finish to win the $50,000 Sunset Handicap at Hollywood Park. The horse shaved a full second off the world record for a tie and five eighths, matching the 1946 record set by Historian at this meeting.
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Arcadia
Calif
Ace Admiral
Hollywood Park
Johnny Longden
Lye
Hollywood
Carolinas Open A A U Swim Meet Heads to High Point
More than 200 swimmers from the Eastern United States travel to High Point for the Carolinas Open A A U meet at City Lake Pool Jamestown. The event features open senior and junior national relays and draws teams from Trenton Watchung Plainfield Raleigh Tarboro Greensboro Ambassador Camp Lejeune UNC Wilmington and others with record goals for 1947.
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Raleigh
Carolinas
Bill Ward
High Point
Bill Currie
Enterprise Sports
United States
Jamestown
Dick Meisky
Trenton
New Jersey
Marietta
Georgia
Mercury Club
Brighton Hotel Swim Club
Watchung Lake
Plainfield Swim Club
Plainfield
Tarboro
Greensboro
Durham
Ambassador Swim Club
Washington, D. C
Camp Lejune Marines
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Wilmington Y.M.C.A
Columbia
South Carolina
Ambassador Club
Watchung
Ambassador
Elwood Hotel
High Point College
Softball League Announces Playoff Format and Schedule
Recreation softball plans a postseason with top four teams in a two phase playoff. Semi finals are best two of three, winner meets in another two game series for the crown. Schedule lists seven games from July 25 to July 28 and directs managers to arrange makeup games with Tommy Forster. Chicago Big Ten track wins four straight meets against Pacific Coast Conference over nine seasons of league play.
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Recreation
Tommy Forster
Recreation Department
Forster
Chicago
Sappenfield to Meet Kivett in Golf Tournament
Defending champion Bud Kivett faces Free Sappenfield in Blair Park's city golf tournament feature match as local links enthusiasts follow the action. Kivett shot 68 in round one and aims to defend the title against a fast field while Tommy Langley, 18, ousted Dake Sechrest 7 5 in a key championship flight. The day marks the last for second round play with results to be announced Monday.
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Bud Kivett
Free Sappenfield
Blair Park
Kivett
Sappenfield
Allen Jay All-Stars Romp To Eighth Win Of Season
Allen Jay All-Stars defeated Gibsonville 13 to 4 yesterday for their eighth win with Tysinger pitching despite an injured leg. Tysinger earned his fifth victory while Bill Smith and Tysinger provided key offensive fireworks for the winners.
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Allen Jay
Gibsonville
Tysinger
Bill Smith
Coaltown Wins Arlington A At Arlington Park
Coaltown streaked to a four lengths victory in the $54,700 Arlington at Arlington Park. Star Reward, the only horse to beat Coaltown this season, finished second with Armed third and Stud Poker fourth.
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Coaltown
Arlington Park
Star Reward
Armed
Stud Poker
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