Caps Whip Lexington 12-0 in season’s toughest test
Raleigh Caps stay undefeated by beating Lexington Yellow Jackets 12 to 0 in a hard fought game. Joe Jordan, Walton Ferrell and Lee Spears starred for Raleigh while Grady Brown and Bill Smith anchored Lexington. Spears added several key kicks and linebacker play helped Raleigh hold off Lexington’s drives.
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Raleigh High
Caps
Jimmy Maus
Xington Yellow Jackets
Lee Stone
Raleigh
Joe Jordan
Ripper McBride
Barney Poole
Lee Spears
Spears
Walton Ferrell
Jordan
Ferrell
Grady Raleigh
Nalty
Jordan Leel
Erighton
Lex
George Iry
Leroy Martin
Big Bill Smith
Grady Brown
Yeoman
McBride
Stone
Benson
Witherspoon Et
Whitley
Ovr
Ces
Cvers White LG
Poole
Baseball Men to Spend Winter with Airplane Firm
SAN DIEGO Calif Nov 6 Robert Elliott Pittsburgh third baseman and Elvin Buster Adams Philadelphia Nationals outfielder will spend the winter working for Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp in a business venture linking sports and aviation.
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San Diego
Calif
Robert Elliott
Pittsburgh
Elvin
Buster) Adams
Philadelphia Nationals
Consolidated-Valte Aircraft Corp
Regional grid scores and college results from multiple sites
Scores from Greensboro Salisbury Gastonia High Point Statesville Bartow Springs Albemarle Monroe Rocky Mount Oxford Oxford High Bethel Hill Charlotte Columbia Childrens Home Hanes Mt Airy Asheboro Galax and other venues show varied outcomes with several teams posting points including Georgia Presbyterian Wentworth Jacksonville NATTC Miami and Peru in scattered matches across the region.
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Greensboro
Salisbury
Gastonia
High Point
DAME
Statesville
Bartum Springs
Albemarle
Monroe
Rocky Mount
Oxford Orphanage
Oxford High
Bethel Hill
Charlotte
Columbia, G. C
Children’s Home
Hanes
Mt. Airy
Asheboro
Mineral Springs
Galax
Georgia
Presbyterian
City College
Geta Etao
Peru
Wentworth M. A
Jacksonville Nattc
Miami
Pla
Mauriello Beats Savold In Madison Square Garden
In New York on November 6 Lee Savold again tired in the late rounds against Tami Mauriello and lost by ten round decision. Mauriello, the Paterson, New Jersey fighter, outworked the exhausted challenger after Round six as the crowd of 14 987 saw boxing return to the Garden with a 47 dollar gross gate. Savold sustained a cut left ear from a Mauriello right in the bout.
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New York
Lee Savold
Tami Mauriello
Paterson
N.J
Madison Square Garden
Lee
Tami
Savold
Mauriello
Ned Day Tops Bowling Classic With First Place
Ned Day of West Allis Wisconsin led Buddy Bomars diamond medal event with 1651 total over eight games scoring 244 229 and 226. Chuck Hamilton of Gary Indiana posted the high game 267 and moved into second with 1620 total as many of the nations top bowlers compete through Sunday.
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Chicago
Ned Day
Buddy Bomar
West Allis
Wis
Kegler
Chuck Hamilton
Gary
Ind
Gastonia Overpowers Bison 26–6 Football Scales Eastward
Report covers college and service games as eastern football lures large crowds. Notre Dame vs Army and Navy vs Penn highlight a day of major matchups with extensive schedules and regional interests across the East and Midwest.
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Gastonia
Bison
Navy To Use Air Arm In Quaker Scrap
PHILADELPHIA November 6 Navy relies on its air arm Hal Hamberg as Navy matches Penn at Franklin Field in a key clash. Penn top players Frank Kane and Lester Zetty return from infirmary while Navy coach Billick Whelchel praises form. Navy favored 8 to 5. Penn aims to rebound after a 13 13 tie with Army and a 7 0 win last year.
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Philadelphia
U.S. Naval Academy
Philaitelia
Navy
Hal Hamberg
Pennsylvania
Annapolis
Franklin Field
Ben Martin
Penn
George Munger
University
Frank Kane
Lester Zetty
Kane
Zetty
John E
Billick) Whelchel
Bobby Jenkins
Alabama
Jim Pettit
Notre Dame
Quakers
Army
English Fans Swamped by Grid Scores Says Stars and Stripes
In London the Stars and Stripes newspaper has received hundreds of calls for American football scores and army news. To handle the flood, the paper announced it will no longer provide telephone scores. readers must wait for Monday's issue.
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London
England
Stars and Stripes
Army
Tom Harmon Devoted Airman Over China Skies
ANN ARBOR, Mich. Nov. 6. Tom Harmon, famed football star and army fighter pilot, has been reported missing since Oct. 30 over China. He wrote of faith and courage, noting a Sunday mass far from base and a bomber crash last April in Dutch Guinea, showing his resilience amid combat.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Tom Harmon
Red Grange
China
Harmon
Frank McPhillins
St. Mary's Catholic
India
Dutch Guinea
Fights Last Night Recap From AP Boxing Roundup
AP reports results from boxing cards in New York Paterson Washington Boston Highland Park Taunton Norwich Worcester San Francisco San Diego and Hollywood. Winners include Tami Mauriello Gus Dorazio Steve Reggio Jim Doyle Kenny Watkins and Clarence Brown with outpoints and knockouts across venues.
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New York
Tami Mauriello
Lee Savoid
Paterson
Washington
Gus Dorazio
Philadelphia
al Hart
Boston
Bill Weinberg
Chelaea
Mass
Jack Marshall
Dallas
Texas
Highland Park
N. J
Steve Reggio
Artie Tedesco
Taunton
Johnny Jones
Revere
al Barbosa
North Carver
Norwich
Conn
al Velez
New London
Jimmy Carlson
Newark
Worcester
Tommy Bell
Youngstown
Joe Lemieux
New Bedford
San Francisco
Kenny Watkins
Los Angeles
Jackie Burke
Pittsburgh
San Diego
Calif
Clarence Brown
Chicago
Clayton Worlds
Hollywood
Jimmy Doyle
Aldo Spaldi
Kid Coach Piloting Wheaton To Best Record
Wheaton college in Illinois races to its best record under 22 year old coach Carl de Vries. The all civilian team, undefeated through six games, marks the school's finest season in history. de Vries, a former Wheaton grid and track athlete, led the squad after four years as a top student.
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Wheaton
Ill
Wheaton College
Carl de Vries
Illinois
Vries
Camp Wallace Plans Big Basketball Team
Camp Wallace Texas on November 6 reports big plans for its basketball squad of former semi pro and college players led by Commodore Jack Smiley, a former member of the University of Illinois Whiz Kids, who is expected to make the team a threat in any league.
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Camp Wallace
Tex
Com
Jack Smiley
University of Illinois “Whiz Kids
Pencil pushers crave action on Guadalcanal
Radioman Lyle C. Stewart of Sierra Madre California and fellow crews say they want to dish it out after 150 fair raids on Guadalcanal. The men, nicknamed pencil pushers, vent their frustration at the slow pace of frontline action.
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Guadalcanal
Lyle C. Stewart
Sierra Madre
Calif
Yale Bowl Attendance Confounds Football Fans
In New York sports notes Mur ray Murdoch jokes about educating fans as Yale hosts Dartmouth Princeton Brown games draw small crowds while Notre Dame Navy Army Penn draw huge interest. Branch Rickey comments on Mick ey Owen and Penn State boxing coach Leo Houck reflects on campaign cigars.
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New York
Murray Murdoch
Rae
Murdoch
Princeton
Branch Rickey
Mickey Owen
Leo Houck
Penn State
Lancaster County
Leo
Old Army Game Cadet Letters Yield Military Ranks
West Point lists about 500 cadets who earned varsity letters from 1891 to 1940s. Among them two are generals, two lieutenant generals, 20 major generals, 38 brigadier generals, 98 colonels, 105 lieutenant colonels, 64 majors, 21 captains, 46 first lieutenants and six second lieutenants. Seven have been killed in action, two missing, three prisoners of Japan. Only 29 are in civilian life.
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West Point Statistical Department
Japan
Levi Jackson Stars Over Yale Ball Carriers
Connecticut scribes praise 17 year old Hillhouse back Levi Jackson as superior to Yale ball carriers. In a separate note, Iowa State and Oklahoma produced 81 plays versus 48 with Oklahoma winning 21 to 7. Also mentions Dodger dislikes.
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Connecticut Sports
Levi Jackson
Hillhouse High
New Haliven
Yale
Sooners
Cyclones
Oklahoma
Dodger
Brones Face Butte In Chessboard Lesson Before Game
In Butte high school stadium the Billings Brones studied plays on Coach Swede Dahlberg's chalk board. A pair of Butte players joked they had not learned the diagrams in two years. An hour later Billings led 8 to 6.
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Billings
Mont
Butte
Swede Dahlberg
Military football and training tales across bases
Service Dept Lieut Jimmy OBrien warns against fight talk around Staff 4 Joe Gallant a former Boston U halfback who served in the South Pacific and Hawaii Cadet Cecil Hare ex Washington Redskin is with North Carolina Pre Flight Cloudbusters seven regulars finished training before Wake Forest game Wake Forest game notes Cadet Alyta of Conn Republican now at Fort Fox may soon see the gear and the gees
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Jimmy O’brien
Kearns
Utah
Army Air Base
Joe Gallant
Gallant
Boston U
South Pacific
35Th Infantry
Honolulu Bears
Hawaii
Frank Kimbrough
North Carolina
Wake Forest
Cecil Hare
Washington
Notre Dame Faces Army With Makeshift Notre Dame Backfield
Notre Dame arrives in New York for its 31st meeting with Army using a makeshift backfield. Bob Kelly, 18, starts at right halfback replacing the ill Julie Rykovich as Johnny Lujack takes over quarterback duties alongside James Mello and Creighton Miller. Army counters with Glenn Davis at plebe back and Doug Kenna on the second team despite an earlier injury.
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New York
Notre Dame
Army
South Bend
Bob Kelly
Chiacog
Julie Rykovich
Rykovich
Kelly
West Point
Navy
Johnny Lujack
Angelo Bertilli
Parris Island Marine Camp
Enly
Lujack
James Mello
Creighton Miller
Knollwood Country Club
New York City
Yankee Stadium
Glenn Davis
Doug Kenna
Earl Plaik
Kenna
Thomasville Battles Concord High on Saturday
Concord notes their squad led by Dink Honeycutt and Gerald Hagler hosts Thomasville High for a Saturday game. Concord posts six wins and one defeat this season, a setback to Children's Home earlier. Lem Willis, injured in the Kannapolis game, will miss action.
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Concord
Concord High
Taiis Dink Honeycutt
Gerald Hagler
Thomasville High
Thomasville
Spiders
Kannapolis
Lem Willis
Gastonia Hosts High Point In Football Scoring Quarter Breaks
In a charged game at Gastonia the score by periods shows several players listed including Kearns Grigg Frye Pearson and Walker with key contributions from 6000 fans. Institutions noted include Gastonia Best Turney Bunyan Ratchford Groves and Levina as part of the event context.
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McCraw
Lg—Ferree Seun
Alexander C Smith
Sekbaease
MacDonald
t—Kearns
Gastonia Oe
Grigg
Frye
Pearson
Vg Nell
Levina
Gastonia
Eagles Plan Birthday Gift For Coach Neale Tomorrow
New York reports coach Earl Neale of the Philadelphia Eagles turns 52 today and the team plans to beat Sammy Baugh and the Washington Redskins tomorrow at Shibe Park in Philadelphia. A strong Packers Bears game in Chicago also lures big crowds as both teams chase division wins. Washington, though undefeated, faces a tough stop against a defense trained to neutralize Baugh’s aerial game.
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New York
Earl “Greasy” Neale
Phil-Pitt Eagles
Sammy Baugh
Washington Reds
Shibe Park
Philadelphia
Green Bay
Chicago Bears
Chicago
Eagles
Packers
Redskins
Washington
Earl
Baugh
Brooklyn
Sports Mirror Highlights Aged Baseball and College Scandals
A year ago commissioner Landis fined Frank Crosetti and Joe Gordon 250 each for a World Series row with umpires. Crosetti also faced a 30 day start of 1943 season suspension. Three years ago James Lynch at Cornell denied Ohio State charges of sideline coaching influence in a win over Ohio State. Five years ago Ray Blades named manager of St. Louis Car.
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Landis
Frank Crosetti
Joe Gordon
Crosetti
James Lynch
Cornell
L. W. St. John
Ohio State
Asa Bushnell
Eastern Intercollegiate Association
St. John
Carl Snavely
Ray Blades
St. Louis
Tommies Prep as Coble to Shoulder Role in Key Game
The Tommies prepare for a pivotal contest with Russell Coble handling a major share of duties and Grady Ss likely to see reserve action. Local hopes hinge on improving standing in the South Piedmont conference where Lexington remains undefeated and unscored on, and Children's Home also has an unbeaten record.
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Tommies
Russell Coble
Grady Ss
Lexington and Children’s Home
Lexington
Children's Home
Riches To Rags Highlight Gastonia Victory At High Point
Gastonia Green Wave overcame High Point Kich’s eleven 26-6 at High Point College Stadium. Gastonia built a 7-6 halftime lead with Pearson to a 36 yard run and a first-quarter TD pass to Frye, then pulled away in the final period with two more scores led by Frye and Grigg.
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Earl Gibson
Tony Cernugel
Bison
Cernugel
MacDonald
Bob Koonts
Mel Walker
Gastonia
Pearson
Gene Kearns
Kearns
High Point
Fry
High Point High
High Point College Stadium
Musical Corps
Henry Hodgin
United States Army
Army Air Corps
Crawford
Frye
Gaston County Boys
Green Wave
Fred Grigg
Wave
Mystery Lake Floods Gibbs Farm Amid Longstanding Cycle
After 15 years Mystery Lake floods Gibbs farm in McCammon Idaho for fall. Warren Gibbs leaves post harvest to take a war job as water remains in 20 acre field, forcing harvest from a rowboat.
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Mccammon
Idaho
Mystery Lake
Warren Gibbs
Gibbs
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