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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1949
Page
9
Boston star Ted Williams edges Jackie Robinson in the early All Star Baseball poll with 3,782 of 8,202 ballots. The game is set for July 12 at Ebbets Field Brooklyn with Williams ahead among voters announced by the Chicago Tribune.
Mel Carpenter of Harbor Hills and Charles Schmitz of Mound builders won the annual best-ball golf tournament at Shawnee Country Club Lima. The duo posted 65 minus seven under par. George Shafter with Bob Roll and Gene Marchi with Don Penney each tied at 66.
Floyd H. Baker, former Martins Ferry High School basketball coach, said he accepted a teaching and coaching position at North Webster High School in Indiana. He had resigned months earlier as Richmond High School cage coach.
Rainbow Inn will practice at 5 30 P M at Douglas Park on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday of this week Manager Mitchell Thomas announced today Rainbow meets Frontier Cafe in a big City League game Thursday.
Groesbeck defeated Middletown's Merchants 8-7 after 13 innings in a Buckeye League game. Trailing 7-4 in the ninth, Middletown rallied with a Dick Cope triple, Charles Garman double, and Bud McCollum homer. McCollum started pitching and moved to right field later. Slick Cope had two errors while McCollum and Lunsford excelled with multiple hits. Dick Cope added a triple, double, and single. Lunsford hit two triples, a double, and a single.
Sam Snead of White Sulphur Springs W Va wins the Decatur Invitational on the South Side Country Club course, taking $500 with a 36 hole total of 62 63 125, 17 under par. His 62 sets a new course record and he notes the 62 63 were the lowest consecutive rounds he has ever shot.
McKinleys Grocers edged Mason 6 to 5 at Barnitz Field yesterday afternoon. Ballard struck out 13 as Dale Lukens led the offense with a double and a single in the win. Scores of the other two games were not reported.
Butler Pennsylvania AP report says the Class C Middle Atlantic League club the Butler Tigers will award 1000 women passing through the gate June 28 with genuine Princess Aloha orchids. The orchids will be flown in from Hawaii for the promo as Butler, a Detroit Tigers farm team, hosts Youngstown. The Tigers currently sit in last place.
The 106th Infantry Division known as Golden Lions will hold its annual convention July 30 and 31 at the Congress Hotel in Chicago. A two day session includes a banquet dance and several parties with each unit assigned a headquarters room for former members to meet. Reservations can be written to 106th Division, 1115 Patterson St., Chicago 13, Ill.
In the latest Associated Press table, Robinson of Brooklyn leads NL batting at .349 with 44 runs and 73 hits. Reese also has 44 runs. Branca of Brooklyn tops NL pitching with 81 strikeouts. Kell of Detroit leads AL batting at .346 with 73 hits, and Raschi of New York has 9 victories.
Marion Red Sox of the Ohio- Indiana League won eight straight by taking both ends of a doubleheader from Muncie. They triumphed 6-2 in the first game and 3-2 in 10 innings. Richmond fell to Lima 14-8 after using four pitchers amid a two and a half hour game.
The article details advances in natural gas pipeline construction with new machines and methods. Bulldozers and trench diggers prepare rights of way while welding crews and gamma ray inspectors join to ensure weld quality. Coating and wrapping use tar enamel and glass fibre, then tractors lay pipes in trenches, backfilling as crews advance, adding over 850 miles to Texas Eastern's system this year.
In Columbus AP report Ohio House prepares to examine a bill penalizing public employees including officials teachers and state workers who join groups advocating government by force. The measure faces delays from absences and a Senate counterpart exists alongside budget action and FEPC debate with a compromise draft likely to be submitted.
The Butler County Bar Association plans a Wednesday picnic at Mark T. Brown’s home one fourth mile north of Venice. Activities include baseball, horseshoe pitching, badminton, swimming and other games with lunch and refreshments. W R Stitsinger reports reservations indicate large attendance and the event begins at 1 30 p m.
State officials warned that without a enacted budget by July 1 Ohio may exhaust operating funds. Temporary appropriations approved last January would expire then. A Senate inspection of construction at Apple adds context to the funding outlook.
Pope Pius II canonizes Maria Giuseppa Rossello, founder of the Daughters of Our Lady of Mercy. Born 1811 Albissola, died 1880. The order now runs 263 homes across Italy, Latin America, and the United States, with 3400 Sisters. Saint Maria Guiseppa’s feast day is December 7. Nearly 20,000 witnessed the elevation at St Peter's Basilica. 11 cardinals and 70 bishops attended. Pietro Molinari cited as miraculously cured tubercular meningitis by her intercession.
Finance Committee members visited the Creek State School for Feeble Minded on Thursday to inspect a $3 500 000 construction project within a $50 000 000 state building program prompted by reports of faulty work. Ohio State University President Howard L Bevis and Dean Charlies A Dean of the medical school face House questioning Tuesday. Rules Committee plans to question admissions restrictions and hospital staff practices. Several bills scheduled include abolition of capital punishment proprimary conventions coal strip mine regulation and a Sandusky Bay fishing problems study commission.
Samuel Tuture, 19, of Euclid, died yesterday while swimming in the Chagrin River at Sandy Beach. Physicians believe a fatal injury from diving or a drowning caused his death, with possible fractured skull or broken neck.
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