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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1947
Page
5
Brooklyn holds a 4 1/2 game edge as the Dodgers face the Cards with a must even split planned. Remaining schedule favors the Cards and Dodgers, with 42 games left, including 17 against first division teams and 21 home games for the Dodgers.
Milwaukee 14 Jones of Waukesha clinched his 10th consecutive Wisconsin state horseshoe championship finishing the round robin at the state fair with 15 straight victories. He will compete next in the national meet at Salt Lake City.
The tight pennant race narrows to Phillips and Smith Bauman Hardware Waffle Shop Baumgartner s Baumgartner s Wenger and Kramer and Schuetze Clothiers as the season ends Aug 29 With two weeks left top teams schedule crucial midweek clashes and potential upsets loom over the final standings in this hot league battle
Sep Palin driving Victory Song for Castleton Farm wins the first heat in 1:59 the fastest mile trotted on a Wisconsin track. He also wins the second heat and takes both heats of the $10,000 American stakes with Hoot Man. Ensign Hanover wins one mile of the Dan Patch pace but Millbrook from Ridgeway stable prevails in the other.
Green Bay coach Curly Lambeau drilled the squad after several players flunked a written quiz. Right Halfback Ken Keuper pulled a muscle, bringing injured list to five. Tony Canadeo and Dick Wildung injuries could keep them from starting versus the New York Giants in Saturday’s exhibition. Canadeo shoulder and Wildung knee.
Monroe defeats Oakley 12 to 5 at Recreation Park in a Southern section game. Lefty Andrews allowed three runs in the first inning and finished with seven hits, 14 strikeouts, and no walks. Kohl held Monroe to two runs through six, then allowed seven hits and five walks in the seventh and eighth. Oakley’s errors fueled the comeback, as Monroe erupted for seven runs in the eighth. Next Sunday Monroe travels to Monticello for a postponed game against the defending champions.
Louise Suggs, a bantam-weight star from Atlanta, dominates the Western Amateur at Evanston by beating Carol Diringer of Tiffin 9 and 8. Suggs fired a 72 in the morning round and nearly matched the course record, as she moves toward the women’s national amateur title in Franklin Michigan.
Beait boy Dick Brilliott of Madison reached the third run off in the all American soap box derby yesterday before elimination. Nearly 100000 spectators watched Kenny Holm boe, 15, of Charleston West Virginia win the major race with Merit Saunders Beloit finishing second in the 14th category.
National League results Brooklyn 5 Philadelphia 4 Pittsburgh 12 St. Louis 7 Boston 4 New York 1 Cincinnati 7 Chicago 6 American League New York 1 Boston Q Philadelphia 5 Washington 2 Cleveland 8 St. Louis 2 Association Kansas City 12 8 Milwaukee 4 0 Minneapolis 13 St. Paul 10 Columbus 6 6 Toledo 1 4 Louisville 4 4 Indianapolis 2 14
Scores show Boston 2 3 New York 1 1 and American League entries Boston over New York 3 0 in 11 innings. St Louis 6 Pittsburgh 5 in a game halted after 4 innings scoreless. Philadelphia 4 4 Brooklyn 0 4 with second game six innings. Cincinnati 2 11 Chicago 0 3. American Association Kansas City 15 Milwaukee 5. Indianapolis 4 Louisville 1. Toledo 4 Columbus 3. Minneapolis 16 St Paul 7. Detroit defeated Chicago 0-4 and Cleveland 6 4 at St Louis.
Pittsburgh at Boston and Cincinnati at New York night matchups headline a busy schedule. Chicago faces Philadelphia and Boston meets St Louis with night games across the slate.
The schedule lists games at night with Columbus facing Milwaukee, Louisville meeting Minneapolis, Toledo playing Kansas City, and Indianapolis against St Paul, outlining a quartet of regional contests under the lights.
Brookline Massachusetts hosts the U S national doubles tournament on Longwood grass with 350 entries including Rob Kramer Ted Schroeder top seeds and Mulloy Parker Talbert Sidwell Falkenburg Brown as leading pairs. Foreign leaders Bromwich Long and Drobny Cernik seedings noted with possible withdrawal. Louise Brough and Margaret Osborne head the women’s doubles field seeking sixth consecutive title.
Sixteen doubles teams entered the Monroe handicap tennis tournament to be played at Recreation Park courts over seven to 10 days. First round pairings in the upper and lower brackets are listed with matchups starting today or tomorrow. Also noted is a statistic: about 171 million acres of land in Texas.
The Monroe American Legion juniors defeated Janesville Chevrolet 14-8 at Recreation Park. Monroe rallied from 7-3 down in the sixth inning, then added four more runs in the eighth. Vogler led the 17 hit attack with three singles and a double, while Ableman had three singles.
A partial score line shows Janesville trailing Monroe as the batter Bermeey hits a first inning home run to pace the Janesville attack. The box score lists multiple players across both teams with incomplete inning details and no final result.
About 8 percent of the 4200 company stores in the United States are operated by coal companies. This detail highlights the reach of coal firms into retail operations and their influence on regional commerce.
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