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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1944
Page
7
Linson Battie Dleman will start on the mound for the Industrial s and Tomlinson this evening at 5 15 on a school field. Their record stands two wins nine losses while Randleman is four and four. Kirby or Barneycastle are noted as potential starters for Randleman.
A fragmentary World War II note reports Sergt Earl Bodiford of Pocahontas and the 1st Infantry Regiment captured a Japanese rifle on a Pacific atoll. He reportedly left the weapon behind during the advance after a brief firefight with Japanese forces.
The Pacific Coast conference forms a committee to study a postwar national intercollegiate baseball championship and to consult other regions on plans. Oklahoma A and M aims to lure the Missouri Valley Conference into a postwar baseball tournament. Rumors place Gunder Haegg and Arne Andersson in the U S for indoor track season. Notre Dame reportedly naming an All America center fielder with strong hitting and speed. Charley Ellis set to play T formation quarterback at Virginia after Army discharge. Ray Meyer visits a corn farm and jokes about planting corn cobs.
Observation Post reports two horsemen had licenses suspended at Pascoag Park for possessing a battery. Milwaukee Journal sports editor R G Lynch proposes wartime rules to force use of reprocessed golf balls. Joe Goodman offers Willie Pep $10000 to defend against Adie in Wilmington. Marine Larry Scarpetli listed.
Country Club to meet Blair Park golf team in an inter club match at Emerywood Country Club next Wednesday after noon at 2 00. Twenty entries from the country club will participate with listed players including Lee Shaver, C E Dillon, J H Davis, Fred Hicks and others. In a separate note New York custodians and janitors will study floor cleaning and custodian relations in a special June course at Teachers College Columbia University.
A serviceman's baseball tournament will be held in Greensboro next weekend with six teams. The opening night will send overseas replacement Sos of Greensboro the 100th Division of Fort. The title game will be played to alah July 4 with the winner eligible to advance to the national semi pro tournament at Wichita, Kan. in August. The United States produces 85 percent of the world aviation gasoline.
Listings show a full day of network programming with news, dramas, and music. Key items include the Republican National Convention keynote at 10:00 p.m. and a 10:00 p.m. convention repeat, plus children’s skits, serials, variety shows, and a late night news/dance mix across multiple networks.
Major league pitchers may send eight performers to 20 wins this season with Walter of the Reds nearest to 30 and Munger Voiselle Sewell Hughson Dietrich Dietrich among others achieving double digits. Walter reached his 12th win yesterday as Cincinnati split with Chicago.
Bobcat Bob Montgomery replaces Jimmy Bivins and Fritzie Zivic as top gun at Keesler Field Mississippi during basic training and plans to stage a few 7 con bouts when feasible. The APO 825 Panama Canal Zone team has been split up with key players on furloughs. Lieut George Franck joins Pacific base as Marine fighter pilot and Lieut Hugh Gallarneau leads operations.
Finalists for the President's Cup at Em erywood Country Club include H. Marsh, Dobbins, Woollen, Edwards, and Gifford after the fourth round of the annual handicap golf event.
Bill Dietrich won his ninth, White Sox blanked the Indians in the opener and Thurman Tucker homered in the nightcap to give Chicago a 4 3 win. George Stirnweiss opened the Yankees’ 4 3 victory over the Athletics with a homer as Ernie Bonham won the second game after a a month layoff. Stan Spence and Tex Hughson led the Senators and Red Sox with late-game runs and hits in 5-4 and 10th-inning 5-2 wins. Charlie Barrett and Bill Voiselle powered the Giants over the Phillies 5-1 and gave Voiselle his 10th win. Curtis and Bordagaray helped the Dodgers sweep the Phillies 4-1 with Bordagaray’s 10th-inning RBI. Munger’s five-hitter gave the Cardinals a 2-1 opener win over the Pirates. Passeau blanked the Reds in the nightcap as the Cubs split. The avocado pear was introduced in the United States in 1833.
Bloomfield town council asks New Jersey Alcoholic Beverage Control to implement a broad prohibition following an Armistice or surrender of Axis powers. Introduced by Charles O Heckel Jr, the idea recalls 1918 postwar drink hangover. Danish postmaster Einar Hobboll credited with the Christmas tuberculosis seal concept.
The YMCA hosts a boys swimming schedule with about fifteen schools from High Point and county areas. Activities run Wednesday through Friday from 3 to 4 30 p m at the Postoffice field and other sites, with sessions for junior senior high schools Cubs and ABC Juniors and girls scheduled in morning blocks and afternoon sessions.
National League leads include Walker of Brooklyn with a .377 batting average and 95 hits, Bordagaray driving in 54 runs, Weintraub with 48 RBIs, Ott hitting 18 home runs, and Munger 10 wins with a 9.09 ERA. American League leaders feature Tucker hitting .369, Doerr with 79 hits and 47 RBIs, Cullenbine 20 doubles and 6 home runs, with Gutteridge and Lindell cited for triples.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias captured the women's Western Open, her second in four years, ahead of a Chicago practice session. The article notes she will face top pros at Edgewater Golf Club as a 36-hole tune up before 72-hole medal play for the Victory National championship. The field includes Hogan, Nelson, Byrd, McSpaden, Demaret and Wood. spectators eye Babe’s drives, averaging near 265 yards, amid Olympic-era prominence.
Philadelphia and Chicago box scores list Case with 18 stolen bases and Maltzberger with 7 in a sparse rounding of the season totals. Hayes from Philadelphia contributed to the context with the team’s performance notes.
Winston Salem today announced the Carolinas open golf meet to be revived with play starting June 23. The event suspended since 1941 will include the Carolinas PGA championship for the first time in 15 years and serve as the qualifying rounds for the national PGA tournament.
Gunder Haegg shattered his own two mile world mark with 8:46.4 at Deestersund in the 1944 season opener. The Swede ran 400m in 59.5, 800m in 2:06, and 1,500m time cited. his mark eclipses his 8:17.8 from 1942 and tops the American outdoor record of 8:51.3. He faces Anderson next, a rival who has often placed second to Haegg.
Mason Leeper of Gastonia is the top fan choice to represent the Carolinas on the all east squad for the junior all-star game in Newark Ug. He received 2206 votes from 3648 cast after a no hit relief effort that led North Carolina to an 8 3 victory over South Carolina. Leland Helms of Charlotte was second with 408 votes and earned a spectator trip to New York.
Scores show Montreal 9 Newark 8 2 Baltimore 13 4 Buffalo 10 9 Syracuse 7 6 Toronto 5 5 second game 10 innings American Association Toledo 7 11 Kansas City 4 5 St Paul 6 5 Indianapolis 0 4 Minneapolis 4 2 Milwaukee 1 2 final note 12 innings unclear game result
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