Jinks Plans Break From Ridge After Three-Day Wrestling
Joe Jinks announces a three day stretch of matches against Ridge and hints at taking a break from attempts to unseat him. Dynamite may intervene, with results expected by late June.
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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1931
Page
3
Joe Jinks announces a three day stretch of matches against Ridge and hints at taking a break from attempts to unseat him. Dynamite may intervene, with results expected by late June.
Clyde Headrick dominates talk as he trains daily for a Nevada showdown with Mickey Wallace at the Legion arena. The undercard features Dick Swartz versus Battling Williams and Santa Cruz facing Merwin Hunting, amid heavy local boxing attention in Las Vegas.
Washington Senators swept the Detroit Tigers in a doubleheader at Navin Field. In the opener the Nats won 4 to 3 after a late rally, with Marberry pitching shutout innings in relief and earning credit for the win. In the nightcap Detroit battled but fell 4 to 0 in ten innings as the Nationals pushed across the decisive runs in the extra frame.
America’s four man 1931 Davis cup team Frank Shields Sidney B Wood George Lott and Johnny Van Ryn reach the Wimbledon third round with only one set lost. Joining the favorites Borotra of France Bunny Austin and Frederick J Perry of England also advance Borotra defeats Al Brown of England 1 6 6 4 6 6.
In Chicago on June 23 the New York Yankees opened a six game set by taking both ends of a doubleheader from the White Sox, 8 to 6 and 9 to 4. Babe Ruth hit his 14th homer with a man aboard to put the Yanks ahead in the opener, while a late surge in the last inning sealed the nightcap after White Sox early scoring.
Albert B. Kuppenheimer, noted clothing maker, wills $2.25 million of his $3 million estate to the University of Chicago and Michael Reese Hospital. The remaining $750,000 goes to distant relatives and friends.
United Press lists leading hitters by batting average after games through Tuesday, June 23. Notable names include Ruth of the Yankees. Gehrig also on the Yankees. Simmons of the A's. Hendrick of the Reds. Morgan of Indians. Cochrane and Klein among others.
In a series of PCL games Mission 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 San Francisco 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 28 Pillette, Brenzin, Gibson, Baldwin log Battery details. Oakland 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 4 Daglia, McMullen, Orwell, Woodall. Sacramento 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 4 Flynn, Gillick, Wirts, Pagla, Bonnelly, Cox. Seattle 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 x 5 Wetzel, Gillick, Wirts, Pagla, Bonnelly, Cox. Los Angeles 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 Wetzel, Anders Bassler, Ballou, Yerkef, Peter Schulte. James Rowland Anse dies in New Haven. President Angell of Yale was en route to London when the S S Minnetonka carried the news.
In Sports section from St Louis, the Browns and Athletics split a doubleheader at Sportsmen's Park. The Athletics won 3 0 behind Letty Grove s two hitter. The Browns claimed the nightcap 5 4 in 12 innings highlighted by Goslin s fourth inning homer and Miller s fifth inning tying shot.
Greenwich Conn’s Billy Burke Whitty Coy of Brooklyn and Craig Wood of Louisville Ky earned spots on the American Ryder cup team. They will meet a selected British squad next Friday and Saturday in Columbus Ohio to begin the rivalry.
Dan Potter of the Northern Club underwent an appendectomy at Ferguson Balcom Hospital with physicians reporting excellent condition. City Clerk Viola Burns was confined to her home by illness. Mrs. C W Cooper arrives from Hollywood to visit her mother Mrs. Helen Kipps for a few days. Me and Mrs J Warren Woodard return from a ten day southern Utah vacation. Marie Afferbach of Great Falls identifies a skeleton as a man six feet four inches tall, not matching John Afferbach who vanished in 1916 while transporting Harry Randolph to Nebraska.
J Luke at 205 Sod Fourth Street received a handsome blanket donated by the city shop at 417 Fremont Street. The event drew neighbors and locals seeking warm gear amid a damp afternoon.
Yale boys dominated the final day of the thirty fifth Intercollegiate golf championship at Olympia Fields Chicago to win the team title with a 610 total for their four best scores over 36 holes. Jack Reese of Jamestown Pa, a Yale graduate, earned medalist honors with 146, three strokes ahead of his nearest rival. Also noted: Herb Neal Baker, manager of Triangle Rock and Gravel, was in town, and two city licenses were issued for Jazz Gardens and a soft drink outlet on Stewart Street.
Cincinnati Reds defeated the Boston Braves 2 0 in the first game and 8 4 in the second, which ended early due to rain. Red Lucas limited the Braves to three hits in the opener while the Reds racked seven off Sherdel, and Larry Benton yielded ten hits and four runs in the nightcap as Berger hit his ninth homer of the season.
Mildred Burton, author of the Sunset Magazine easing article on Nob Hill and nearby Las Vegas scenery, has been in Las Vegas for several days. The piece was reprinted in The Age by Sunset’s permission.
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