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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1946
Page
8
Lanier wins his second start in a row as St Louis defeats Cincinnati 4 1 to keep pace in the NL race. Brooklyn also wins to tie the Cardinals, while Dodgers, Giants, and Phillies win. Dizzy Trout debuts with a 4 0 blanking of the White Sox. Attendance for week tops 1,000,000.
New York April 23 Bobo Newsom the right hander of the Philadelphia Athletics declares he is in shape to pitch for the first time in three years. He aims to vindicate himself against slander from last season and says he will win many games for Mr Mack. In 14 innings against the Yankees and Red Sox he has allowed six hits and one run earning two early victories. Lew Lane named athletic director at St. Marys High School Topeka Kansas
A partial Detroit score report notes a 4 to 1 result with teams from the National League and Philadelphia involved. Details are incomplete due to fragmented OCR text but indicate a baseball or tennis context with multiple city teams and players named Tate and Ufeetan.
The American Association rest day ends with Minneapolis Louisville and Indianapolis contending for first place while Kansas City faces the Millers. Louisville visits Columbus and Indianapolis goes to Toledo as St Paul hosts Milwaukee with likely pitchers listed.
Philadelphia April 2 Connie Mack and his 70 year old wife have separated amid a dispute over stock in the Philadelphia Athletics baseball club. Mrs Cornellius McGillicuddy Mack says there is no chance for reconciliation. Mack says things will be straightened out soon. The couple separated in January after she learned he transferred half of his club stock among his three sons from his first marriage.
Derby prospects at Jacksonville and Charlotte are noted with Pete Cooper and Al Smith as notable ex service men among winter golf nominees. Yale Harvard crew race revived as a sprint on the Charles then four mile New London course. Ohio State football trims squad. Coach Bixler seeks help at tackles ends. Villanova runner Bob Veegan confident before Henn Relays. Kansas official Henry Shenk to speak at Glasco banquet.
Carthage Missouri Apr 23 The Kansas Oklahoma Missouri league KOM opens May 1 with 120 games. Six clubs Pittsburg Chanute Bartlesville Miami Carthage and Ola rely on young players many WWII veterans aided by major and minor league affiliations. Midseason all star set for July 10.
In a tense game the Dodgers won 6-4 in the tenth inning with a decisive run as Fortiny Trives and player contributions shaped a dramatic finish. Cardinals scattered six runs for a 7-5 decision over Cincinnati while New York edged the Athletics with a late surge. Fox had several hits as Boston and Washington both traced strong late rallies in separate contests.
Harris of Terre is noted in a muddled Drake event with Beckett from Sudhupe and Thompson leading the two mile. Virgil Alston, Mand Font Olia, Riley Smith chase the pace as Washington and Bee University compete. Ten years ago Harry Kelley and Milladelphia Athletica triumphs are recalled while K U and Oklahoma nines cancel due to wet grounds.
Fort Smith, Ark April 28. Three veterans from the 1942 Fort Smith Giants title club return alongside a crop of promising youths. Willard Hamby, Ray Eakin, and Ray Scott rejoin a squad led by Willingham who may position himself at multiple spots. Paul Almonte anchors the mound with addition of Albrecht, Garlock, Belinsky, Groves, Lepp, and Pasciak in the pitching corps.
Sterling Kan Apr 23 17 year old Sterling high School senior Deane Yeakel was killed while practicing pole vaulting at the local athletic field. Superintendent Nobel Hiebert said Yeakel fell on a broken crossbar puncturing a boy's abdomen. He died shortly after at the local hospital. Yeakel tied for third in Class A pole vault at the Kansas Relays in Lawrence last Friday. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Don Yeakel of Sterling.
A collage of brief items from Apr 23: at the Mies Barre YMCA only five of 72 registrants were women in a dancing class, not due to manpower. Salt Lake City restuarants urge quiet on menus as part of an anti noise drive. In Phoenix a man returns a wallet and receipts to its owner after finding it months earlier in Detroit. A dairyman computes milk squirts per gallon, claiming 109,500 gallons over 15 years. Deland voters approve a gym project with radium bond rejected, and a Lost and Found note caps the page.
The War Department allows honorably discharged soldiers on or after May 12 1945 to enlist in the regular army in their MOS with pay grade based on MOS length. Act by June 30 1946 for training, steady pay, good benefits, travel and education at the U S Army Recruiting Sub Station in the post office building Lawrence Kan.
Irene Lipman Jordan, 27, of Sheffield England, arrived in New York to join Roy Jordan, 26, in Los Banos California. The proxy marriage was arranged by letter after he served with the Eighth Army Air Force in England. Jordan was demobilized last September and the ceremony occurred in Kansas City. A later note cites a 1948-49 US bus ridership survey: 81,875 motor buses carried about 9.74 billion passengers and 3.165 billion miles traveled.
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