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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1938
Page
6
A murky sports note discusses how a lively ball alters infield play and power hitting. It mentions hitters pressing the pace, calls for changes, and echoes from players and editors about baseball’s direction amid noisy fan interest.
A garbled schedule lists teams and venues from the Hope Softball League with references to Southern Cafe, Unique Cafe, Highway Dept, and Beater family names. It mentions games across Monday through Sunday with scattered city and college references and partial scores like 87 to 1 in New Orleans and Brooklyn 4 Pittsburgh 4, but many details are unreadable.
The piece surveys infielders like Chirley Gehringer and Billy Jurges, noting how the lively ball speeds plays and encourages quick, sharp fielding and aggressive baserunning. It contrasts old and modern approaches, citing Speaker and Cobb and discussing shifts in strategy from backfield plays to single-base advances on outs.
Byron White, Colorado All-American quarterback, reevaluates a $15,000 one season Pirates offer after seeking a Rhodes scholarship. Pirates president Art Rooney disclosed White sent telegrams delaying Oxford plans to fit football and scholarship.
Nashville fresh off a Sunday doubleheader swept Little Rock with scores 8-0 and 1-0. Sharp Kerk sieck led 34 hits while Birkofer limited the Travelers to six, banking a night game pitching duel won by Johnson over Braxton. Monday wrapup notes Knoxville series upcoming in Tennessee.
Birmingham Barons win the opening 3 to 1 and take the afterpiece 3 to 0 against Chattanooga Lookouts, clinching the series three games to one. Kirby Higbe shut out the Lookouts until the ninth inning as Johnson outpitched Pat Malone in the opener.
Brooklyn's Dolph Camilli hit his 13th homer with a on base, driving in a key run as Bill Posedel pitched seven strong innings to beat the National League leading Pirates 4 to 3 in the first game of a doubleheader. The second game was rained out. Pirates remained five games ahead of the Giants, who lost to Cincinnati.
Three of the five top seeds advanced to the finals at Fair Park. Semifinal results featured E. P. Young Jr defeating Weldon Taylor in a tight 3 2 3 2 match. Richard Stanford won by default over Clinton Jones. Round results include Jack Pritchett over Dwight Ridghill 3 0 3 0 and Robert Porter over Lamar Cox 3 0 3 0. Doubles saw Will Orton and Lawson Glover beat Harold Hopson and Red Roberts 3 2 9 0, while Ridgdill and Frisby defeated Moore and Hawthorne 1 3 3 2 3 1. In semis, Pritchett and Porter defeated Ridg dill and Frisby 3 1 3 1.
Magnolia Cotton Mill, in Magnolia, Arkansas, defeated Rosston 8 to 6 on Sunday afternoon. Key hits included successive doubles by Stages Sunday West and Eddington in the ninth inning producing three runs for the winners. Batteries were Parker and Simpson for Magnolia and Butler and Hudson for Rosston.
Noblesville Indiana notices how John Duckwell, a rural mail carrier, modified his automobile with two steering wheels to match his delivery route. He switches from right to left seat to keep the mail coming from the proper side, an extra wheel enabling efficient daily rounds.
Clarence Baie's shepherd dog tormented a pet rabbit until the rabbit attacked, clamped on the dog's shoulder, and would not release. Baie shot the rabbit to free the dog.
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