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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1949
Page
5
Ambiguous text describes Friday night games or events involving Van Batel, Pootville, and listed individuals. Mentions Douglas Gal Guenther, Vanesvile, Cl Larson, and Ai Henning with several names scattered. No clear outcomes or dates due to garbled OCR.
A brief scoreboard item from the State League game in Green Bay at Appleton records sville two points and Ss Pont eight with Karuas Guy contributing four. The tally appears in a post game listing.
Bay Bluejays moved into first place in the Wisconsin state baseball standings after a rain-impacted schedule. Green Bay was delayed by rain, with Lac Oshkosh and Sheboygan also in the mix as the season heated up.
Seattle was awarded the 1951 women’s in tournament during a business session. Next year’s tournament will be in St Paul. Marrian Brister was re elected treasurer Kay Port was mentioned.
Batts and Kazak lead St Louis with multiple runs while Gordon and Kiner pace New York Brooklyn and St Louis players with key hits. Lockman Dark and Ashburn top hits for New York Boston and Philadelphia in a fragmented box score style summary.
Belleville beat Hollandale 20 to 5 to stay undefeated in the State Line league. The win puts Hollandale in a three game skid and ties them with Argyle for first place while Belleville finishes with Blanchardville tomorrow and Argyle ends its schedule with three wins. Belleville slugged 16 runs in the first two innings led by Robert Stuessy and Bill Adams who both homered. Stuessy collected four hits in five at bats as Belleville pitchers held Hollandale to four hits despite 11 Hollandale errors.
The village of Monticello will open a new road at the east corner of the Evan gelical United Brethren church parsonage, extending north and south from South Main Street. At the south end John Stein mann bought property from Adam Duerst and plans to start construction of a new use as ore once the road is completed. P. Ryan Sons of Janesville oversees the road work.
Ambrosia fed the gods in ancient myth as the food and nectar they were believed to drink. The term appears in classical texts describing heavenly sustenance and immortality.
The Monroe High School tennis team resumes after a three week layoff with a 3:45 p.m. match at Madison West on the West courts. The squad includes Ernie Vogler and Dick Kundert with star rival Jack Vincent of Madison leading the West lineup.
Marquette University football plans a spring intra-squad game with seven sophomores set to start in the two backfields. Head Coach Frank J. Murray relies on first-year players. quarterback Frank Volm of Green Bay leads the Gold squad while Don Leahy of Omaha captains the Blue backfield.
Edwin Stewart of Milwaukee took over the state bowling tournament minor all events lead with a 1876 total. He posted a 610 in team rolling a 619 in doubles and added a late mark to stay ahead.
Wisconsin's junior varsity team exploded for 24 hits eight for extra bases and scored in all but one inning to crush Milton 29 to 2 yesterday.
Chicago White Sox tie an American League record by scoring in every inning in a 12 8 win over Boston. Cubs rally to defeat Philadelphia 4 2 as Ken Heintzelman loses his first game in five starts. Other majors mention Cincinnati over New York 4 2 Boston 7 0 St Louis 5 3 and Washington 11 1 Detroit 3 2. The piece praises Joe Kuhel of Washington amid a rough start to the road trip and notes Cleveland’s 3 2 win over New York before a large crowd in Cleveland.
The Superior Blues defeated St. Cloud 5 4 while Eau Claire Bears beat Duluth 6 2 in Northern league baseball. Aberdeen crushed Fargo-Moorhead 16 3 and Sioux Falls beat Grand Forks 12 9 in other circuit games.
In New Rochelle the Goodall round robin at Wykagyl features Bobby Locke and 15 top Americans competing for first prize of 3000 and total cash 15000. Participants include Herman Barron Sam Snead Byron Nelson Lloyd Mangrum Cary Middlecoff Vic Ghezzi Fred Haas Jr Jimmy DeMaret Clayton Heafner Chick Harbert Johnny Palmer Skip Alexander Jim Turnesa Bob Hamilton Dutch Harrison. One round today two tomorrow one each on Saturday and Sunday.
Former De Paul star and Minneapolis Lakers centerpiece George Mikan will receive his law degree from De Paul University on June 8. The event marks his transition from basketball fame to legal education.
The new Joe Louis Madison Square Garden venture bids to control boxing by absorbing the Tournament of Champions. Two T of C stockholders George Kiletz and Lawrence Lowman announced a possible sale amid NBC and Columbia Broadcasting interests in TV rights. Directors said they would accept the offer if certain conditions are met, though details were not specified.
John M Thompson of the University of Wisconsin was selected for the 1949 All America rifle team announced by the National Rifle Association. All ten named shooters had competed in at least ten matches.
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