Batting Averages Dip in National League Show Decline
New York report outlines 1942 NL batting averages dropping to 24 percent as 265 players posted the league result. Ernie Lombardi of the Boston Braves led with .390, tied to declines from 1941, while the St. Louis Cardinals posted .208 as the league slid from .272 to lower figures amid era of weaker hitting. Warren Giles urged new baseballs specs, while eight players hit .300+.
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Judson Bailey
New York
Ford Trick
Ernie Leambirch
Boston Braves
Hig
Brooklyn
Pete Reiser
St. Louis Cardinals
Dodgers
Cardinals
Pittsburgh Pirates
Warren Giles
Cincinnati Reds
Chicago
Landis
William Harridge
Stan Wack
Joe Medwick
Lou Navikoff
Harry Walker
Brack
Mel Olt
New York Giants
Paul Waner
Hall of Fame
Sports Roundup highlights wartime team changes and stars
Wide World Sports column notes manpower limits push to smaller lineups across football hockey basketball and lacrosse. Mentions Lombardi Slaughter Waner Olt and other Hall of Famers plus Terry Reardon low Nova Tami Mauriello and Keir Kupeinet anecdotes. Also references Corpus Christi Naval Air Station vs Texas U basketball and coach ties.
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Harold Alexander
Middle East
Tom Drake
Brooklyn
Cleveland
Norfolk Naval Training Station
Kodiak
Alaska
Corpus Christi Naval Air Station
Texas U
Jack Gray
Longhorns
Clyde Littlefield
Navy
Bob Kinney
Rice
Billy Dowell
Bouthamn Methodist
John Dick
Oregon
Texas
Simington Named All-Star Pro-Grid Guard in Pro Bowl
Washington dispatch reports 33 NFL players named by Commissioner Layden for the Pro Bowl against the Washington Redskins in Philadelphia. The lineup includes Simington at left guard for Pittsburgh and notable Bears, Packers, Giants, Lions, and Browns stars across ends, tackles, guards, centers, quarterbacks, backs, and coaches.
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Washington
Elmer Layden
National Football League
Washington Redskins
Philadelphia
George — Wilson
Chicago Bears
Eddie Rucinski
Brooklyn
Frank Ivy
Chicago Cardinals
John Siegal
John Woudenberg
Pitts
Frank Cope
New York
Lee Artoc
Edward Kolman
Augie Lia
Detroit
Ente Clont Philadelphia
Clyde Turner
Chicago Burgh
Charlie Brock
Green Bay
Milt Simington
Pittsburgh
Danny Fortmann
Chet Adams
Cleveand
al Blazis
New York Giants
Vic Sears
Perry Schwartz
Don Hutson
George Wilson
Tommy Thopson
Larry Craty
Greenbay
Sid Luckman
Cecil Isbell
Bil Dudley
Bay
Danii Magnani
Cleveland
Bosh
Pritchard
Merlyn Condit
Harry Happ
Dick Riffie
Garry Famiglietti
Citadel Goldberg
Hank Anderson
Luke Johnson
Jayden
Goldberg
Hutson
Athlete of the Year honors from AP poll noted
Sports Mirror recalls year ago when Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees was named athlete of the year in the AP poll and three years earlier Sam Snead won $10,000 at the Miami Open with a final 64 and 271 total. Don Budge and Alice Marble led rankings five years ago.
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Sports Mirror
Associaed Press Today
Joe DiMaggio
New York Yankees
Associated Press
Sam Snead
Don Budge
Alice Marble
Library Holds Training Class at City Hall Hempstead county clerks meet for regular training
The Hempstead County Library clerks met Tuesday December 15 at City Hall for the regular training class led by County Librarian Miss Elsie Weisenberger. Mrs Johnie McCabe reviewed Jesus Story a little New Testament. A quiz Merry Christmas tested authors titles and characters. Mrs Joe Jackson won first prize. Religion books were discussed and members answered questions. The meeting closed with a Christmas tree and a pitt from each member. The January class will be held the third Tuesday and will review the hundred group of the Dewey Decimal System.
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Hempstead
Elsie Weisenberger
Johnie McCabe
Maud
Miska Petersham
Joe Jackson
Ashington
Gloria Callen Selected No 1 Girl in Sports
New York Bee reports Associated Press voters named Gloria Callen of Nyack as the top woman athlete of the year with 145 points. Pauline Betz and Betty Jameson follow, while Louise Brough and others receive scattered votes. The piece notes broader postwar shifts in women’s work and family roles.
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New York
Bee
Associated Press
Beaujeaus
Gloria Callen
Nyack
Troy
Miss Cyren
Pauline Betz
Betty Jameson
Miss Jameson
Louise Brough
Miss Betz
Hanes
Helen Chenkovich
Natorial
Alice Marble
Nancy Merki sWimmey
Sirah Palfrey Cooke
Patty Berg
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Patsy McWhorter
Arkansas Heroes Rise In War Hall Of Statesmen
Arkansas produced numerous war heroes in the first year of World War II as Gen. Douglas MacArthur and others highlighted. Arkansans like Thach, McCuskey, Wassell, Marrett, Galusha, Gregg, Kingsley, Riley, Branningham, and Lewis earned high praise for bravery in battles from Coral Sea to Midway. Flight officer Neil G. Martin and others fought in Burma, Luzon, Java, and Pearl Harbor, with many listed as missing or awarded top honors.
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Sam G. Harris
Little Rock
Arkansas
Douglas Mae. Arthur
Philippines
Army
Navy
John Thache
Fordyce
Seti
Go Gellum) McCuskey
Stuttgart
C. M. Wassell
Little Roek
Samuel Heins Marrett
Harry Galusha
Cecil Gregg
DeQueen
Force
Burma
Thach
MecCuskey
Coral Sea
Midway
Wassell
Java
Marrett
Luzon
Galusha
Gregg
MacArthur
Kigssey
Darwin
Australia
Brantingham
Corregidor
Riley
Annapolis Graldware
Hot Springs
Lewis
Bataan
Gilbert
Pacific
Pearce
Manila
Qolangpo
Alvin Martin
Pearl Harbor
Scott and
Bench
Arkansas Heroic Acts Amid World War II Efforts
The text recalls Army Silver Stars awarded to Brannon of the Greenbrier base ball family and others aboard the cruiser Omaha which captured the German U-boat mother ship Odenwald after attempts to scuttle it. Chalker, Lewis, and Brantingham’s flotilla aided saving MacArthur from Japanese imprisonment.
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Ing
Stamina
Army
Brannon
Greenbrier
Omaha
Chalker
Lewis
Brantingham
MacArthur
Arkansas
Unclear fragment hints at Arkansas and Kansas history volume
Fragment mentions a second year of war and a growing second volume of the Kansas history series. References Arkansas and Kansas, with phrases about sons and voices heard from. Details are fragmentary and uncertain.
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Arkansas
Wis
Mote
Mort
Septuagenarian Knitting Champ Aims for World War I Record
The article profiles Barton, a Utah septuagenarian knitter from St George now 81, who has knitted 84 sweaters and 102 pairs of socks since last July. He began at age seven in Utah and recalls an accident that left him with a steadfast knitting habit.
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St George
Utah
Barton
Colorado
Ted
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