Amazing White Tops MLB Pace As Dodgers Rally
New York June 2. Major league leaders stumble as Cardinals drop to share NL lead with Dodgers after a series of costly miscues. Indians slip in AL as White Sox surge. Yankees and Senators win, Red Sox climb to fourth. Cubs take doubleheader to fourth. England’s rationing now allows about 200 miles monthly for the average driver.
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Mel Ott
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Lee Grisssom
Five Top Notchers Favored to Win Fort Worth Open
In the Fort Worth Texas National Open field Jack Doyle names Ben Hogan Byron Nelson Timmy Demaret Lawson Little and Sam Snead as the five favorites at 8 to 1. The odds reflect heart and nerve for the pressure packed final 18 holes with Snead counted among the top contenders despite past Open jitters.
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Sam Snead
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Nelson
Little
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Horton Smith
Henry Picard
Ralph Guldahl
Vic Ghezzi
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Johnny Revolla
Bud Ward
Dick Metz
Lloyd Mangrum
Ray Mangrum
Harry Casper
Dutch Harrison
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Johmmy Goodman
Sam Byrd
Jimmy Hines
Dick Chapman
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Willie Turnesa
Walter Hagen
Eddie Brietz
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Special News Service
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Byron Nelson
Ralph Guldahi
Francis Ouimei
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Chick Evans
Johnny Goodman
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Henry Pickard
Guldahl
Craig Wood
Harald MeSpaden
Johnn Revolta
Softball action returns with three games at Washington Park
Jefferson City softball association resumes play after a three day break at Washington Park tonight. The Civic League leaders Columbian Squires face Burke's Boys in a key match versus Missouri Power and Light, a near perfect club. At 9:15 p m Unemployment Compensation Commission No 2 meets Kiwanis. Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America plays the Lutherans at 7:43 p m.
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Lutherans
Pleasant Valley Defeats Marion in High-Scoring Bout
Pleasant Valley routed Marion 16 to 6 after taking an eight run lead in the first inning. Marion pitcher Taggart allowed 16 hits and struck out eight, while reliever Bob Tipton fanned nine batters. Line score shows Marion 105 000 600 and Pleasant Valley 811 030 11x.
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George Gretlein
Pi. Valley
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Daily baseball scoreboard highlights yesterday results
National League results include Chicago 9-1 over St Louis and Philadelphia 5-0. Cincinnati 2-3 New York 3-2. Brooklyn 3. St Louis postponed by rain at Boston. American League show New York 2-5 Cleveland 0-3 Boston 7-8 Detroit 6-5. Philadelphia 5-5. Chicago 2-4 second game 11 innings. American Association Columbus 4-2 Toledo 1-3 Milwaukee 9-1 Kansas City 5-5 Indianapolis 2-0 Louisville 3 St Paul 5 Minneapolis 4 in 11 innings.
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St. Paul
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St Louis
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Oil Washington Te
American Association
Minneanatis
Milwaukee I
Open Golf Tourney Odds and Baseball Banter Roundup
Eddie Brietz surveys golf odds favoring Hogan Demaret Nelson Guldahl and Law son with 12-1 to 1-1 bets across the field. He also riffs on players and managers, night baseball talks, a college coach claim, and notes from Fort Worth and Denver.
Owls rally past Merchants in ninth to win 7 6
Jefferson Citys Owls trailed early but tied the game in the seventh and won in the ninth as Frank Nichols delivered a clutch single with two outs to drive in the tying and winning runs. Herman Bremmerkamp homered and Buddy Bremmerkamp added two doubles as the Owls held off Marshall Merchants in a North Missouri League contest at Washington Park.
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Til Cunningham
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Cardwell
Lammes
DeBroeck
Gray
West Wonders Beat Cedar City Pirates in Tight Game
West Wonders topped Cedar City Pirates in a high scoring affair. Bratton and Palmer allowed nine hits while Rosas contributed. Line score shows Cedar City 012 000 203 for eight runs and West Wonders 060 920 02x for ten. Bratton Palmer Kerchner Ross and Haymart aided the victory.
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Local Women Golfers Meet Columbia Here
A Columbia versus Jefferson City women’s golf match will be held tomorrow at the Country Club. The local squad includes Mrs. Phil A. Dallmayer, Mrs. Leo Weiler, Mrs. Virgil Rule, Mrs. James T. Blair Jr., Miss Jewell Brandenberger, Mrs. Fred Fritz, Mrs. C. G. Hammond, Mrs. John F. Heinrichs, Mrs. Floyd Newham, and Mrs. W. A. Swearengen.
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Jefferson City
Country Club
Phil A. Dallmayer
Leo Weiler
Virgil Rule
James T. Blair, Jr
Jewell Brandenberger
Fred Fritz
C. G. Hammond
John F. Heinrichs
Floyd Newham
W. A. Swearengen
Track and field feats and coaching moves echo history
An archival snapshot notes Pittsburgh's 2913 point team aggregate without a first place finish, Helen Wills Moody's return match loss to Mary Hardwick at St George's Hill, and Janko Mikkelso's appointment as Harvard head track coach following the 1920 Finland Olympic team era.
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Pittsburgh
Helen Wills Moody
England
Mary Hardwick
St. George's Hill
Janko Mikkolo
Harvard
Jury Frees 13 Year Old Who Shot Father
Flowery Branch Georgia June 2 The coroner jury acquitted Leonard Thomas Jefferson Bennett 18 after he shot and killed Rex Roberts 45 on a tenant farm. Bennett testified Roberts threatened his sister and mother, sought the shotgun, and then pursued him. The jury urged the boy to go home and be a good boy and forget it.
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Leonard Thomas Jefferson Bennett
Big Creek Baptist Church
Rex Roberts
Roberts
Leonard
Leonard Thomas
J. B
Vickers
Remembering the old swimming hole and lost youth
A speaker recalls a long vanished swimming hall and youthful escapes from controlling parents. He cherishes sunlit afternoons, hidden treasures, and friendships forged to evade supervision, yet acknowledges the danger and maturity that came with those memories. He notes envy of a clean youth continuing the ritual.
Radio Schedule Sketch 1941 MUTUAL Broadcasters Night
The listing details a June 2 1941 MUTUAL Broadcasting System schedule with programs from 5:15 PM to midnight including musical variety acts, orchestras, news, sports, and a late night ending, followed by a factual note that 126 Class One railroads exist in the United States.
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Lang Thompson
Xavier Cugat
Art Jarrett
BBC News
Jan Savitt
Leighton Noble
Carman Cabalerro
United States
Crete and Britain's Path to Baghdad in World War II
Editor notes this analysis by Fred Vanderschmidt on Crete's impact, Britain's control of the route to Baghdad, and the wider strategic picture. It details German losses, British resilience, and how Crete shapes Near East access via Cyprus and Syria, with Turkey watching British leverage at Alexandria.
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Long Island
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Royal Navy
Asia Minor
Baghdad
Turkey
Warner Brothers offers summer contracts to film students
Hollywood June 2. Selected college students from across the country will receive summer contracts and be brought to Hollywood under a talent development plan announced by Warner Brothers. Barbara Barton of Winnetka Michigan, niece of Congressman Bruce Barton, is the first student signed. Barton, a junior at Christian College in Columbia Missouri, will travel for a screen test next week. The studio will sign a limited number of students for summer tests. if satisfactory, they stay until fall. Contracts are renewable each summer until graduation.
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Winnetka
Bruce Barton
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Christian College
Columbia
Warner Brothers
Seven year old saved from train wheels in Kansas City
Frankie Reilley, seven, narrowly escaped death after slipping under a Rock Island freight and reaching the Kan sas City Southern streamliner. Gerald Spiess, a former railroad fireman, pulled him from the tracks, applied a tourniquet to his severed leg, and rushed him to hospital. The boy suffered the loss of his left leg and a severed right heel in the incident.
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Frankie Reilley
Kansas City Southern
Gerald Spiess
Yung Reilley
Rock Island
Spiess
Spies
Reilley
Former Dancer Jenny Dolly Ends Life in Hollywood
Hollywood reports Jenny Dolly, once a famed international dancing partner with her twin Rosie, hanged herself after years of illness and a career setback following a 1930s auto crash in France. Once wealthy with a million dollar jewel collection, she later faced tax penalties and lived with adopted daughters Klari and Manzi Vinissky in Los Angeles.
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Bordeaux
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Fenny Dolly
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Union Square Theatre
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Chicago
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Manzi Vinissky
Bernard Vinissky
Could 'Student' Be Misnomer at Fort Worth College
Fort Worth Texas by AP survey at Texas Christian University finds the typical college student is short of money a football ardent and an avid dancer.
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Tex
Texas Christian University
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