Night Baseball in 1945 Looms as Boomerang for Big Leagues
Dozens of clubs consider more night games after a 1944 pattern that kept attendance near daylight totals. Washington plans May 10 night tilts except weekends, while Brooklyn Cincinnati and the New York Giants anticipate 24 home night games. Giants Dodgers and Yankees steer to fewer away night games as owners debate mazda aided lighting. Night crowds averaged 1 613 per game, with Washington tops at 43 night games and Cleveland leading in overall attendance.
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Iceman Woolf targets fourth Hollywood Cup triumph
Inglewood Calif December 15 The iceman Georgia Woolf known for cool saddle work shoots at his fourth 75000 Hollywood gold cup win atop Papyrus first foal Paperboy a Seattle unit The week also notes plans for winter sports and a Christmas day frost bowl idea with veteran athletes backing the event New York December 15 Walter Lanier Barber named Red Cross war fund chairman for greater New York for 1945 Barber led a record 8500000 drive last year
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Sports Mirror Recaps Past Opening Day Records and Bets
The report notes a year ago opening day crowd of 9,527 betting 442,880 at Tropicana in a record. It mentions the Rose Bowl game between Duke and Oregon State shifting to Durham, and a decade earlier Bill Terry predicting his 1935 Giants would challenge Brooklyn, amid Dodgers feuds with Dick Bartell.
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Russian satire lampoons American business in Moscow play
Moscow theatergoers laughed at Alexander Korneichuk’s three act comedy Yr Perkins Mission to the Land of the Bolshevik. The show features a Chicago sausage king Mr Perkins visiting Russia and interacting with Russians while an American journalist acts as foil. The satire targets American journalism and wartime relations with the Soviet Union.
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Big Six Basketball Derby Heads To Races In KC
Oklahoma and Iowa State lead the Big Six as they prepare for trial heats in Kansas City tomorrow night. Seahawk-Oklahoma duel anchors a double bill with Phillips 66 AAU champs Bartlesville and the Army Air Teams of Dayton. Missouri opens late season schedule in Fulton and Kansas State splits, while Nebraska and Kansas jostle in early pre Christmas action.
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Boxing's new crop eyes Garden rematch headlines
New York boxing roundup notes returning veterans seek to defend titles as Johnny Greco faces Bobby Ruffin in a rematch at the Garden. It highlights Beau Jack Ike Williams and rising contenders Billy Fox Danny Bartfield Harold Green and others, with memories of Greasy Neale and past era figures.
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Bobby Ruffin
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Team score pace and play counts hover around league norms
Giants opponents averaged 90.1 plays to score while the Packers allowed and tallied 39.3 plays per game. League records show an average of 158 plays per game for both teams.
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Baska Breaks Collarbone Delays Jayhawker Scrimmage
University of Kansas forward prospect Jim Baska, 17, suffered a broken left collarbone in a scrimmage with Norman Heim of Leavenworth. Coach F C Allen said the injury will sideline him six weeks or longer, affecting prep for the Rockhurst game at Hoch Auditorium Tuesday.
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Linwood Defeats Vinland 48 to 20 in Season Opener
Linwood overwhelmed Vinland 48 to 20 in the season opener at Vinland gym. Vinland fought back in the second half but the Linwood defense held, with Everly, Kirkman, and Sullivan contributing for the visitors as Vinland’s rally fell short in the early game.
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Pittsburg Teachers Edge Camp Crowder Quintet 56 to 55
Pittsburg Kansas reporters say the Pittsburg Teachers defeated a Camp Crowder Missouri soldier team by 56 to 55 in a fast basketball game. Crowder forward Thomas Lucaz led scorers with 24 points, as Pittsburg led most of the night.
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Haskell Braves Face Ottawa High in Twin Bill Tonight
The Haskell Indian basketball team hosts Ottawa high school at the Braves gym in Lawrence. First game starts at 8 pm. Ottawa lost last week to Turner in a close contest. Haskell beat Garnett to open the season but fell badly to Seaman Rural last week.
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Wichita plants churn out vast wartime trainer planes
Brig. Gen. Ray G. Harris announced Wichita area plants and sub contractors have produced 22 834 airplanes since the defense program began with 19 559 training planes delivered by December 1, 31 percent of national trainers. Beech and Cessna account for 74 percent of twin engined trainers, Boeing for 44 percent of primary trainers, with many components for B 29 and A 26 built locally. International sales range across Canada through Uruguay, while Beech wings feed Douglas Tulsa, and Culver builds army version light planes for armed forces.
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That Kansas Pointers and Prairie Irony
This column catalogs a string of small town misadventures and quirks from Leavenworth Kansas. It recounts pantry thefts at a residence with eggs hamburger doughnuts and an empty carton, a railroad conductor ordering watermelon in a restaurant, a rabbit causing discomfort in an army post and a hunting trip yielding rabbits, plus humorous miscues about a necktie and a car-towing incident.
Louis and the Witches of Poldrex
Louis travels from Sante Land to Poldrex in two hours and thirty four minutes by stepping through a magical realm. He discovers three bored witches admiring themselves and a magic ivory music box. The box releases music that charms a dancing quartet on its lid while the witches ignore the tune, prompting Louis to seize the box. Tomorrow: The Witches Test.
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War Push Averts Cigarette Shortage Says Senate Panel
Washington reports Senate investigators conclude ending the cigarette shortage hinges on winning the war. Senator Ferguson notes civilian stocks cannot be boosted while hostilities continue, urging bond purchases to aid troops. Hearing details show army and navy consuming most production, with growers expanding tobacco acreage but machinery and labor constraints delaying civilian supply. If military demand eases later, some cigarets may reach civilians. blame is placed on Hitler, who supposedly does not smoke.
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Crandall Named Regional Director for WPB Midwest
Washington Dec 15 UP Louis E Crandall former chief deputy director of the War Production Board Kansas City region was appointed director for the region covering Missouri Kansas Nebraska Arkansas and small parts of Iowa and Oklahoma He succeeds W B Satterlee who resigned Crandall will also supervise the St Louis area in addition to regional duties He previously led Simmons Hardware of St Louis before joining WPB in 1941 and has been vice president of Wickwire Spencer Steel and Hollingshead Corp Camden N J
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PLAN JOBS FOR MEMBERS Wichita Kansas
Wichita Kansas December 15 7 Out of a total membership of 150000 nearly half the members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce are in the armed services Mearns T Gates Pomeroy Wash national president said here last night These young men will want jobs when the return home he said and it is up to the junior chamber of commerce to help place these men in the type of work they want Gates said he had just come from attending a conference of youth leaders from North and South America in Mexico City no plans were mapped out to make the junior chamber an international organization
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