Monroe Stateliners Finish Strong With .340 Team Batting Average
The Monroe Stateliners led the league with a .340 team batting average, 924 at bats, and 272 hits. Standout at bats include Leo Butts with 103 at bats and 43 hits for a .417 average, Alfred Henning’s .455 in 11 at bats, and LaVerne Andrews batting .402 with 82 at bats and 33 hits. Other notable marks include Ed Loeffel at 15 at bats for a .400 average, and several players posting solid percentages from the lineup.
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Monroe Stateline League
Leo
Paul Bunyan
Butts
Alfred
Butch) Henning
LaVerne
Lefty) Andrews
Charles Ebert
Gene Mason
Allie Stauffacher
Frank Butts
Bulloon
Dick Wainwright
Bob Gibbons
Jack Calder
Jerry Dwyer
Charles Blum
Bob Rieder
Fred Huber
Roy Beach
Bob Brawand
Ed. Jordan
Erv. Indergand
Baseball scoreboard shows multiple league results and schedules
National and American leagues list many home and away results with teams like New York Boston Philadelphia St. Louis Cleveland Detroit and Chicago. It includes today and tomorrow games, yesterday none, and special notes on Detroit at Boston Chicago at Washington and other matchups.
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New York
Boston
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Cleveland
Detroit
Chicago
Washington
Brooklyn
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Leaf
Pittsth
Hockey League Starts Schedule Innovation
The 1949-50 hockey schedule introduces a break tied home and away pattern, with teams staying in cities to face the same opponent after intervals. The league expands from last season's 60 games, starting Oct 12 and ending March 26, signaling an earlier start and later finish. Tokyo reports wartime figure Keijiro Otani receives a 10 year prison sentence for aiding Allied prisoners.
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Montreal
Esc
Tokyo
Keijiro Otani
Japan
Kempeitai
Otani
Firemen Shape Hopes in Yankees Cards Title Run
Baseball stars Joe Page and Ted Wilks, the firemen for the Yankees and Cardinals, loom as key figures in the stretch drive. Each has appeared in 51 games and must keep producing as the last interleague series opens. Page helped in five September games and saved Reynolds and Sanford once each. Berra’s homer form returned boosting morale, with Henrich back and delivering key saves. Casey Stengel may call on Smoky Joe today as Lopat starts an opener against the Browns and Hood gets his first major league start.
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Associated Press
Joe Page
Ted Wilks
New York Yankees
St. Louis
Yanks
Page
Wilks
New York
Boston
Tommy Byrne
Allie Reynolds
Fred Sanford
Casey Stengel
Smoky Joe
Eddie Lopat
St. Loui Browns
Casey
Wally Hood
Hood
Kansas City
Yogi Berra
Tommy ‘Henrich
Migratory Waterfowl Moving in Michigan
The conservation department reported the earliest migratory waterfowl since 32 years, based on reports from Tracy Grosvenor operator of a ferry service between North and South Manitou islands and the mainland. Flocks near North Manitou island included black ducks and geese. Usually migrants arrive in late October or November.
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Cannes
Conservation Department
Tracy Grosvenor
South Manitou Islands
Lake Michigan
North Manitou Island
Florican Well Aims For New Winning Mark At Reading
Florican, a two year old trotter from Ar den Homestead stables, looks to set a new money earnings record. He captured his third straight Grandait stake by winning the 11141 Reading fair futurity for two year old trotters yesterday.
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Reading
Florican
Arden Homestead Stables
Reading Fair
Bagarus Released by Washington Redskins
Washington officials Sam Marshall and Billick Welchel placed Swivel-hipped Steve Bagarus on waivers confirming he is washed up. The former Notre Dame halfback is formally out as a Redskins star.
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Bargus
Washington
Steve Bagarus
George Marshall
Billick + Welchel
Notre Dame
Top Toledo Bowler Dies After 700 Series Attempt
M Becker, 39, a leading Toledo bowler, nearly notched a 700 three game set last night. He opened with 269 and followed with 236, reaching 120 in the sixth frame of the third game before collapsing on the alley approach. Rescue Squad Lt Ray Seelman says heart attack likely.
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M. Becker
Toledo
J. Becker
Ray Seelman
Becker
Injuries Hit Midwest Football Camps and Packers Sign End
Midwestern football camps report numerous injuries with several starters sidelined for the season. Ohio State lists left end starter Gandee out for the year with two fractured vertebrae. Indiana right end Bartkiewicz hospitalized for a kidney injury. Northwestern linebacker Sondheim also sidelined with a foot issue. Wisconsin players Parish Teteak Hanzel and Meyers return to drills. Packers announce signing of Frank Leno, former George Washington halfback.
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Chicago
Bugaboo
Ohio State
Sherman
Sonny) Gandee
Joe Bartkiewicz
Indiana
Tom Martin
Bill Noonan
St Tinos Ih
Laz
Bill Willis
Northwestern
George Sondheim
Wisconsin
Frosty Parish
Darel Teteak
Larry Hanzel
Tilden Meyers
Sherrod M. Smith Dies at 58 in Reidsville
Sherrod M. Smith, longtime Brooklyn mound star in the teens and early twenties, died last night at age 58 in Reidsville. In Monticello, six year old Duane Spring, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Spring, broke a bone in his left arm after a fall from a playground slide during the first week of school.
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Sherrod M. Smith
Reidsville
Sherrod _ M. Smith
Brooklyn ‘Mound Corps
Monticello
Duane Spring
Willis Spring
Louis Stauffacher’s 55 Leads Bowling in Minor League 3
Louis Stauffacher’s 55 lead marks a 537 by Louis grauusener in the Minor League No 3 contest between Century Service and Uncle Ed’s. Century Service won two games as Sickinger posted 213 178 160 551, Green County Service and other teams also posted multiple 522s and high series figures.
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Louis Grauusener
Century Service
L. E. Sickinger
Moose Lodge
Green County Service
G. Matzke
Robert Mueller
R. Hendrickson
Independents
Rockon
Charles Mathias
Pleasure Bend
F. Walters
A. Wagner
L. Hackle
C. Buehler
Sod L."smith
Boy, 14, shoots mother in Kentucky home
Huntington W Va state police report a 14 year old Kentucky pupil admitted killing his mother as she slept in Sharondale Ky. He said she had beaten him with a poker on occasions. The boy was held in jail after his confession.
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Huntington
W. Va
Kentucky
Sharondale
Collision kills Zeise of Canton and injures Davis near Adell
In Sheboygan county on highway 57 near Adell, Emil W Zeise 60 Canton Ohio was killed and William Davis 55 Green Bay was injured when their car crashed head on with a truck. Elsewhere Milwaukee reports Harold Parker Weeks 53 Rock Island found dead in a ditch between streetcar and Milwaukee road tracks near Wauwatosa after being reported missing from the Milwaukee sanitarium.
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Sheboygan
Emil W., Zeise
Canton
Ohio
William Davis
Green Bay
Sheboygan County
Adell
Milwaukee
Harold Parker Weeks
Rock Island
Wauwatosa
Milwaukee Sanitarium
Ceiling Repair Pitch And Odd Anecdote From Page
An advertisement touts a CELOTEX ceiling replacement at low cost. A disjointed snippet mentions a middle aged woman discarding a bid window into a garbage can and a derogatory remark about Americans.
Wisconsin herd records show steady milk and butterfat yields
W G Timm of Monroe reports a 20 cow Holstein Friesian herd averaging 371 pounds butterfat and 10 818 pounds milk in official registry tests with milking twice daily supervised by the University of Wisconsin. Queen Cascade Ollie of Monroe posted 820 pounds butterfat and 20 000 pounds of 4 1 percent milk in a 365 day test aged six years nine months. University livestock expert J J Lacey warns livestock numbers are low across cattle sheep and hogs as the cycle nears a 15 year beef phase and calls for herd rebuilding amid high stock prices and uncertain demand.
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W. G. Timm
Monroe
Holstein-Friesian Association of America
University of Wisconsin
National Holstein Headquarters
Ollie
John W. Ruff
J. J., Lacey
Lacey
New Glarus Visitors Gather for Sunday Meals
Mr and Mrs Millard Tschudy hosted New Glarus visitors Mrs Millard Tschudy Mrs Melvin Jenson LaVonne and Vergene Belleville and Victor Jenson Platteville guests at Sunday dinner Mr and Mrs Kundert Madison hosted supper with Mr and Mrs Fred Duerst Monticello and Mr and Mrs Fred Tschudy Mrs Melchior Schiesser and Mrs Mollie Frick returned from Milwaukee trip Also Paul J Altman and son Rev Paul Altman Cincinnati arrived for a visit with relatives Mrs Altman to accompany home later.
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Melvin Jenson
LaVonne
Vergene
Belleville
Victor Jenson
Platteville
Millard Tschuday
John Kundert
Fred Duerst
Madison
Adam Duerst
Monticello
Fred. Tschudy
Melchior Schiesser
Mollie Frick
Milwaukee
Paul J. Altman
Paul Altman
Cincinnati
Chicago Markets Report on Hogs Cattle and Produce
Livestock sales show hogs 220 lb and under slow with most breaks 25-50 cents. sows steady. top hogs around 22.50 with varied weights. Cattle and calves active with steers and yearlings up 50-75 cents, vealers 50 cents to 1.00 higher. load weights reach 1,486 pounds and 33.50 top for prime. Produce notes list live poultry and produce prices with receipts around 15,4445.
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Chicago
USDA
Grain Prices Mixed as Wheat Strength Leads Trading
Chicago Wheat rose with reports that government buying prices were lifted by two to three cents over yesterday’s basis for Philadelphia. Corn lacked catalysts for gains, while Soybeans fell on broad liquidation as commission houses began selling and support weakened.
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Chicago
Board of Wade
Philadelphia
Wall Street Gains On Steel Labor News Rally
Wall Street trading rose today on optimism over progress toward settling labor management disputes in the steel industry and anticipated benefits from Washington plans to ease international trade. U S Steel Bethlehem Steel Nickel Plate Studebaker and Bu Pont led gainers as bonds moved higher.
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Wall Street
Washington
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem Steel
Nickel Plate
Studebaker
Bu Pont
First ironworks in America on Falling Creek
Fragmentary note recalls the first ironworks in America located along Falling Creek in Virginia. The brief line mentions early iron production and historic placement on the creek bank. Further context is unavailable in the readable text.
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America
Falling Creek, Va
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Monroe Chickeries
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