First Season Turnout Boosts Wartime Baseball in 1944
Turnout for three night games totals 58,078 with Pittsburgh, Washington, and Cincinnati drawing strong crowds. Night attendance suggests potential owl schedules, while actual games saw Washington, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh win. notable highlights include Walters’ 200th start, Niggelin’s knuckler, and Mel Harder reaching 200 career wins.
Army and Navy lead entries in ICAA track meet
Intercollegiate A A A track and field meet at Philadelphia May 20 lists 49 Army and 45 Navy entrants. Total entries reach 403 from 30 colleges, eight fewer teams than last year. Neither service academy has won the ICAA 4-A team title.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Army
Navy
Philadelphia
Service Academy
Baseball Results and Upcoming Amateur World Series in Venezuela
A rundown of results from yesterday’s National and American leagues with scores for St Louis Brooklyn Philadelphia Chicago Cincinnati New York Pittsburgh Boston Detroit New York Cleveland and more. The seventh amateur baseball world series was announced to be held in Caracaa Venezuela between September 23 and October 14 with eligible nations listed. Lou Nova arrived in Oklahoma City to train for a May 11 bout with Don Brouillard. Chicago boxing officials plan to have Jack Dempsey referee a May 19 prelim. Cubs appoint Phil Cavarretta as field captain after Stan Hack’s absence. Belmont Park saw Teddy Atkinson win the daily double, echoing Johnny Longden’s earlier feat. Harder struggled to limit hits as the Sox lost follow-up to Cleveland, with Ed Klieman cited as key.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Bucs
Washington
Cincinnati
Bucky Walters
Eddie Miller
New York Giants
Walters
Jim Russell
Johnny Barrett
Frank Za
Boston
Johnny Niggelin
St. Louis
Yankees
Nats
Rick Ferrell
Detroit
Paul
Dizzy) "Trout
Tigers
Ernie Bonham
Luke Hamlin
Chicago
Athletics
Cleveland
Mel Harder
Specs Klieman
Boston Red Sox
Morton Cooper
Cardinals
Brooklyn
Whit Wyatt
Phils
Ar Gerheauser
Philadelphia
New York
American Association
Columbus
Kansas City
Milwaukee
Toledo
Minneapolis
Indianapolis
Louisville
St. Paul
Wet Grounds
Caracaa
Venezuela
Manuel Reyes Idunate
International Amateur Baseball Federation
United States
Cuba
Guatemala
el Savador
Nica
Panama
Dominican Republic
Puerto Rico
Mexico
Colombia
Oklahoma City
Lou Nova
California
Don Brouillard
Nova
Chicago Cubs
Phil Cavarretta
Cub
Charlie Grimm
Cubs
Stan Hack
Johnny Longden
Teddy Atkinson
Belmont Park
Longden
Soulful
Romanock
Atkinson
Cincinnatinn
Xew Yorke
Imnaionne
LHS
Louis Incase Wis
Sisinieem
Washington Insiitent
Cleveland Vinenimnen
Bbhiadeth
Detroit American Asaeciation
New
Kansas
Mel Harder Reaches 200th Major League Win
Mel Harder, with a shy smile, earned his 200th win as the only active American League pitcher with that total. He credited Ed Klieman for a key assist after Fenway Park saw Stevens beat the Red Sox 4 to 0. Harder noted Klieman's relief and expressed thanks for the support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mel Harder
Boston
Ed Kiteman
Cleveland
Fenway Park
Stevens
Red Sox
Mel
Ed Klieman
Klieman
Sports Roundup highlights and minor league notes
Rv Bugh S Fallersen Jr reports on a personality program for the All American Girls pro league. Pimlico winner Twilight Tear is praised as a top three year old. Carmine Fatta shifts to political campaigning for Augustus W Bennet against Hamilton Fish. Gilberto Torres, rookie third baseman for the Senators, listed as a pitcher with a 19-11 minor league tally and a .321 spring average. Also notes no Empire City racing this summer, a Tommy Gibbons Esquire piece, and Texas president Homer Rainey as a former prospect who refused Sunday work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ken Sells
Twilight Tear
Ben Jones
Carmine Fatta
Newburgh
N. Y
Augustus W. Bennet
Bennet
Hamilton Fish
Harvard
Gilberto Torres
Senators
Clark Griffith
Gilberto
Cuba
Joe Cambria
Epitacio Torres
Chattanooga - Montgomery
Hillis Layne
Luis Saurez
Washington
G. Forres
Empire City
Saratoga
George Barton
Minneapolis
Tommy Gibbons
Esquire
Homer Rainey
University of Texas
Charley Robertson
Rainey
Bloomington
Ind
Jimmy Wilson
Cubs
Service Dept. Sgt Peebles notes dispersed Cumberland team
Dick Peebles reports the Cumberland reception center baseball squad has scattered with Pat Mullin and Tommy Hughes remaining at Camp Sibert Alabama and manager Joe Lawler heading to Camp Patrick Henry Virginia. Capt Dwight Sloan has been made executive officer of the military police at River Rouge Michigan. Soldiers at Camp Croft South Carolina raised 300 for 10 year old Karl Brandt who lost a leg in a traffic accident. Ninety nine percent of the body's calcium is in the bony structure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Peebles
Sharon
New Cumberland
Pat Mullin
Tommy Hughes
Camp Sibert
Ale
Joe Lawler
Camp Patrick Henry
Dwight
Paddlefoot) Sloan
Chicago Cardinals
Detroit Lions
Military Police Co
River Rouge
Mich
Camp Croft
S. C
Karl Brandt
Croft
Platter Is the Horse To Beat in Preakness
Baltimore May 11 P-Conn McCreary says Platter is the colt to beat in the 64th Preakness Stakes. Pensive faces a strong challenge as War ren Wright’s Kentucky Derby winner aims for the $61,000 Woodlawn vase on a fast mile 3 sixteenths track. Other contenders include Stir Up Gay Bit Gramps Image Alerter and Stymie as Platter and Pensive duel down the stretch in a field expected to test their speed and endurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Conn McCreary
Platter
Pensive
Warren Wright
St. Louis
George D. Widener
Conn
Mrs. Payne Whitney
R. Bruce Livie
A. J. Abel
A. C. Ernst
Alerter
Ethel D. Jacobs
Stymie
Tigers and Dodgers release list shocks baseball
Sports Mirror notes Detroit Tigers unconditionally released Gunder Haexe and Paul Waner exits Brooklyn Dodgers. Also recalls Germany’s WWII era style threat tied to winter Olympics and skiing exhibitions from five years past.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Gunder Haexe
Stockholm
United States
Dick Bartel
Detroit Tigers
Paul Waner
Brooklyn Dodgers
Germany
That and This in Kansas and Nearby Oddities
A Kansas brief from May 11 recounts locals in Ottawa, Hutchinson, and Larned with humorous misadventures. Highlights include a farm dinner hat mix up, flood salvage stories of a washing machine and a 1200 pound refrigerator, and a GI asking for Good Intentions while staff misheard.
Move to higher ground to protect family during flood
Kansas report notes a man and family moving their small house to higher ground for safer living until he can return from service. Lt. Bert O Baker, co pilot, to attend combat flying course at Alexandria Army Air Field and later move to combat area. Neighbors and relatives, including Dent and Turner, assist Bakers amid flood damage to farm home west of Corliss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson
Bert O. Baker
Alexandria Army Air Field
Alexandria
Bert
Elen Baker
W. H. Dent
John Turner
Bonner Springs
TC. WeMott
Kansas City
Charles Baker
Bakers
Corliss
WeMotts
Joe Milter
BH. Sonntag
Mr. Chainey
Olathe
Dent
Leland Penner
Buzzer warns as speaker nears time end in Kansas town
An automatic buzzer warned speakers two minutes before their time ended and a loud bell would ring if ignored. The bell never rang as the buzzer did its job. The column notes quirky snippets about local people and events including mentions of Maj. Schiller Shore, Esther the waitress, and a series of community updates from schools, churches, and residents with births, deaths, and relocations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maj
Schiller Shore
Chester K. Shore
Augusta Daily Gazette
China
Esther
Atchison
Halsey Condit
Northeast of Liberal
Local notices from Oskaloosa and surrounds
Social notes list residents visiting relatives and traveling to events. Highlights include Mrs Roscoe Jenkins and family in Wichita, Donna Jean Morris visiting her grandmother, and Dorothy Norman moving to Corpus Christi for store work. Death of Joseph Douglas at Leavenworth veterans hospital noted with funeral details. Rotary district meeting attendees exceed 400 delegates. updates on families in Topeka, Orange, and Farragut. Household news covers visitors, engagements, and wartime letters from service members in the South Pacific and England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roscoe Jenkins
Wichita
Alice Fisher
J. W. Cleland
Lloyd Morris
Donna Jean Morris
K. A
Herrandmother
California
Dorothy Norman
Corpus Chriati
Tex
Jack Sprat
A. W. Hamilton
Manhattan
O. M. Rhine
West Coast
Grace Leaverton
Lawrence
Etta Bourne
Joseph Douglas
Veterans’ Hospital
Leavenworth
Gabe
Homer
B. FP. Davis
Buster Cemetery
Aliee Finley
Pauline Smith
Mabel Braddock
Minnesota
John Douglas
Joe Douglas
Alice Sharp Douglas
Wadsworth
Topeka
Rotary District
Max Engle
L. M. Waggoner
John Roberts
M. Brown
Vernor Hundley
Ken Goss
Henry Wilson
England
George Fowler
Milford Fowler
Nortonville
Bernard Fowler
Reno
Nev
Bernard
Pearl Harbor
Thelma Rogers
Richmond
Cal
Jennie Davis
Ida McCreight
Ruth Long
Edith Morris
Ida Gragg
Lena Roberts
Mra
Edmonds Church Round Grove visit and local births
Social notes recount a May 3 welcome by class members with guests Miss Helen Bell and baby Derald Marvin. births announced for Derald Marvin Edmonds May 3, plus a homecoming for Cpl Kelly Ward Oswald and service travels. References to visits, showers, and club meetings with multiple Edmonds and Lange family members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Bell
Baby Philip
Marvin Edmonds
Leavenworth
Derald Marvin
Edmonds Church
Round Grove
Cpl Kelly Ward Oswald
Iceland
Cpl
Elson Edgar
Camp Breckenridge
Oswald
Miami Beach
Fla
Ralph Edmonds
Ruth Zook
Harry Willits
John Lange
Elizabeth Althaber
Waldo Tate
Kansas City
Mob
Elmer Lange
Ida Brown
Archie Brown
Chicago
Nesl Cain
Rock Spring
Wrc
and Mirs
George Richards
Ruth Peppar
Wes Burroyne
George Meyer
Topeka
William White
Richard Lenitz
Clarence Lenitz
A. Dick
Dc. W. Brown
C. A. Lenitz
Mclouth
Los Angeles
Eflen Harding
MeLouth
Val Rhodes
Mountainsburg
Ark
Clarence Seager
Harry Lee Willits
Willits
Harley Lee Willits
West Side Club
Wilma Rhodes
Mirs. Darby
Sehully
Leland McThergan
Victor Daniels
Charles Goward
Lawrence
WY. A. Edmonds and Sons
Clarence Kell
Walden
Emma Jones
Bflis
Ganga
NcSouth
Harry Lee Willts
Joseph Moses
Vincent Edmonds
Ray Lobb
Francis Gwinn
Clarence Seaver
Esther Keil
Harley Shockley
Milt Edmonds
Clarence Keil
Corriss Oma Dent Weekend Visit and Flood Viewings
Oma Dent of Kansas City visited her parents Mr and Mrs W H Dent at Lexing ton with Oma and Mr and Mrs Penner and Leland Penner. They toured the valley to view flood damage from April 23 and noted river overflows on May 2 and 4 not quite six feet high. Other locals included Lloyd and Sadie Hake Kate Penner and John Turner relatives. John Atkinson returned home after overseas service and a two week furlough. Harold Anderson, recently in Texas, is home for two weeks.
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Esther Davies
Marlin Dorei
Methodist Church
W.F. Thompson
Bryan Stoffer
Weshburn Municipal University
Paul Brooke
Thomas Moore
W.S.C.S
Fellowship Hall
Alma Casebier
Homer Wroten
Maude Jacquemin
Elmer Weibel
Victoria Shrader
B. P. Davis
Mesdames Casebier
Jacquemin
O'Brien
Ahrens
Brown
Sweyer
Hessie Brown
Clark Meredith Spillman
Ross
Lara Burnam Coberly
Gabel Funeral
Blanche Gibson
Pauline Jacobson
Pleasant View
Wil Burnam
Coberly
Lora Burnam
Don Wilhelm
Ponieren
Chicago
Birs
Lula Coleman
Dan
Winchester
Baker U
Bradford
Earl Hall
Olathe
McLouth
Ralph Cain
Cornus Christi
Tex
Gordon Beckett
Frank Landon
Archie Landon
Los Angeles
Landon
Katherine Meyer
Mueller
Kansas City
Elizabeth Ehler
Harold Gilbert
Ednamae Dick
McLouth High School
William White
A. G. Shoemaker
Wilma Askworth
Ig.a
Topeka
Carl Hall
Leavenworth
Milt Edmonds
Frank Sherman
Harve Bateman
Oskaloosa
Edmonds
Jay Bond
Thelma Scholes
Winifred Kimmel
Thelma Ridgway
McLouth Farm Bureau
Wesley Robinson
P. c. Dressler
E. C. Edgar
Kay Perry
Maggie Shrader
Orville Beitz
Roy
Cushing Hospital
Cecil Luss
A.S. Darrel Smoots
Navy
Clon College
Schenectady
Darrel
Seaman
Edward Lange
Elmer Lange
Harry Willits
Joe Moses
Harry Lee Willits
Camp Gordon
Nathan Osborne
David
Wadsworth
United Brethren Church
James Bell
Walter Bradford
Bond
E. C. Steeper
Ellen Harding
Arkansas
Oma Dent
W. H. Dent
Mirs
Dent
Oma
LR. Pener
Leland
Kate Penner
Sfeht
Lloyd Hake
Sadle Hake
Leo Brooks
Kansan City
John Turner
Howard LeSueur
Jasper LeSueur
David Jewett
Lexington Grange
Masonic Hall
de Soto
John Atkinson
Harold Anderson
Texas
Marriage license issued by Douglas county court house
Married by Judge James A Woody and Erma Lee Shaw of Osceola secured a license yesterday and united in marriage by Probate Judge J B Wilson. Also notices of Board of Equalization hearings for 1944 tax assessments, probate hearings for A F Brown estate, final settlement in Christian Nuffer estate, and other court actions in Douglas County Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Woody
Erma Lee Shaw
Osceola
Douglas County Court House
J. B. Wilson
Lawrence Daily Journal-World
State of Kansas
John Hulce
Moses Diven
Adeline E. Diven
H. P. Welch
Lawrence D. Bailey
George Hart
Josephine Shirley
Robert H. Shirley
Ella_R. Hulce
Adolphus G. Hulce
Alice M. Hulce
John_L. Hulce
Abner W. Bailey
Flsbeth Stackfieth
Ida Hartman
Minnie Stackfieth
L. D
John F. Bachelor
Dudley Hulce
Dudley B. Hulce
Sarah A. Hulce
District Court
Douglas County
Kansas
George A. Steele
Glenn Steele
Delbert Steele
Chas. A. Springer
A. F. Brown
Lucy Brown
Lawrence
Pennants Court
Christian Nuffer
Wiland
August Nuffar
Forrest A. Jackson
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Washington Gamns
Ness
Mexico City
South Seas
Martha Gray
Cypress Gardens
Florida
By William Ferguson
Kwin Koumy
Track Kearns
Jack Dempsey
Dempsey
Coast Guard
Willie Pepe
Frankie Rubino
Sox
Indians
Rv Bugh S. Fallersen, Jr
Sports Mirror
Joe Degeorge
Arkansas City
Kan
Bernie Bienfang
Chamber of Commerce
Bienfang
The
Ottawa Herald
Nate Rhoades
Ottawa
Marins Des Cypries
Amy Bullard
Smoky Hill Army Airfield
Hutchinson
T. Roy Campbell
Larned
Anzio Beachhead
Pfc
Peter Alteruzzo
Beverly
Mass
Jpandiworkae
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Atte
Ine Aang
Iba
Bide Ln
Earou
Tadave
Rowees
Sunflower State
D. Flora
U.S. Weather Bureau
Gearge County
U. S. Weather Bureau
Rolla A. Clymer
el Dorado Times
Clymer
Hitler
Europe
Leonard Sekavec
Holyrood Gazette
Leonard
Papa Bear
Mama Bear
Baby Bear
Jennie Charian
Was & Guest
Eliz Rice
Elizabeth Slade
Douglass County
Helen L. Crocket
E. Lloyd Crocket
Tyne
Board of County Commissioners
State Commission of Revenue and Taxation
R. Gerhart
Hart Schaffner & Marx
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