Star Studded Celebrities Golf Tourney Draws Big Names
Washington June 1. A star studded fourth annual National Celebrities Golf Tournament returns June 3-4 at Army Navy Country Club as Bus Ham of the Washington Post fields Hope Hogan Berle Kaye Winchell Thorpe Godfrey Chandler Holman Hubbell Leahy Mikan Sinatta MacRae Snead and more in a 36 hole event to raise funds against juvenile delinquency. Attendees include Jim Thorpe Babe Didrickson Zaharias and Ben Hogan for special AP awards while Frank Sinatra Gordon MacRae Walter Winchell and others join as entertainers and media figures. Funds support youth programs. notable sports and entertainment stars participate free of charge and cover their own expenses.
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Army-Navy Country Club
America
J Howard McGrath
Associated Press
Mighty Mite
Ben Hogan
Babe Didrickson Zaharias
Jim Thorpe
Hollywood
Bob Hope
Danny Kaye
Miltie
Berle
Arthur Godfrey
Frank Sinatra
Gordon MaCrae
Walter Winchell
Drew Pearson
Bob Considine
Harry Wismer
Louis Sobol
Ham Fisher
Joe Palooka
A. P
Whitney Martin
Leonard Lyons
Virginia
Hill Prince
Cris Chenery
A. B
Happy) Chandler
Lefty Grove
Carl Hubbell
N. Y
Nat Holman
George Mikan
Minneapolis Lakers
Bones McKinney
Washington Caps
Frank Leahy
Notre Dame
Earl Red Blaik
Army
Greasy Neale
Tommy Thompson
Philadelphia Eagles
Charlie (Choo-Choo) Justice
North Carolina
Pauline Betz Addie
Eddie Eagan
New York State Boxing Commission
Wall Street
Broadway
Hogan
Sammy Snead
Attendance in Cotton States League climbs strong
Helena Arkansas June 1 Attendance in the Cotton States League is rising ahead of last year. Through May 17 the eight clubs played 108 dates drawing 102,584 fans an average 3,949 per game versus 85,033 total and 867.6 per game a year ago. Pine Bluff led with 18,905 in 14 games. Monroe moved up from Helena, drawing 14,102 in 13 dates. Other clubs posted gains or listed totals for 12-14 games.
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Ark
al Haraway
Pine Bluff
Monroe
Clarksdale
el Dorado
Greenville
Greenwood
Hot Springs
Natchez
Stock Car Racer Al Gross Breaks Back Again
Al Gross a 33 year old Tampa stock car racer broke his back for the second time in three years after his car overturned twice in a 100 mile national race at the Canfield track. Doctors at Youngstown City Hospital report a fractured spine and possible fractured neck pending x rays.
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al Gross
Tampa
Fla
Southside
Youngstown City Hospital
Baseball Tryouts Begin At Columbia
The Fort Worth Cats of the Texas League open a four day baseball tryout camp at Memorial Park in Columbia La with Pete Medak aiding in the search for local talent alongside Fort Worth Scout Jay Kelchner. Tryouts run daily through Sunday and are open to young players seeking professional careers. Bring uniforms gloves shoes and personal items. expenses will be reimbursed for those signed to contracts.
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Fort Worth Cats
Memorial Park
Pete Medak
Columbia Ramblers
Fort Worth
Jay Kelchner
Pep In Non Title Battle With Terry Young Tonight
Wilkie Pep world featherweight champion meets Terry Young of New York in a 10 round non title bout at Milwaukee arena. Pep arrived Tuesday for a brisk workout while Young aims to weigh about 138 pounds, giving him a seven pound edge. Pep brings a fancy style to an aggressive challenger he has not met before. It is Pep’s fourth appearance in Milwaukee and Young’s third. Also on the card Sonny Boy West faces Harold Jones in a 10 round bout.
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Wilkie Pep
Terry Young
New York
New Arena
Pep
Young
Sonny Boy West
Washington, D. C
Harold
Baby Face) Jones
Detroit
Your Host Set for Kent Stakes at Delaware Park
California colt Your Host, once the Kentucky Derby favorite but finishing ninth, will run in the $25,000-added Kent Stakes at Delaware Park on June 10. Trainer Harry Daniels said the three year old will be shipped to Delaware Thursday for the mile and one sixteenth race owned by William Goetz.
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Your Host
California
Delaware Park
Harry Daniels
William Goetz
Delaware
May Cut Out Boxing Events May Cut Out Boxing Events
New York June 1 The television radio contract between the International Boxing Club and fight managers expired at midnight Wednesday. Managers struck, risking boxing being removed from Madison Square Garden next season. Debate sharpens as Garden board members push to drop boxing for more profitable events.
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Jake LaMotta
Rocky Graziano
Polo Grounds
LaMotta
Graziano
Catskill Mountains
Harry Markson
Markson
T. V
Sungari Wins Belmont Stallion Stakes Filly Division
At Belmont Park on June 1 7 Sungari the homebred daughter of Eight Thirty Swabia won the two year old filly division of the National Stallion Stakes going five furlongs in 56 3 5 seconds. She defeated Remove by a neck as Two Rainbows ran third two lengths back. Sungari paid 15 20 to win and earned a 16 8 purse for her owner the Westchester Racing Association president.
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George D. Wideners
Belmont Park
Swabia
Hal Price Headley
Remove
Brookmeadestable
Atalanta
Sungari
Westchester Racing Association
Chicks win at Mobile as Higdon homers on bunt
Southern Association game recap shows Chicks outfielder Bill Higdon homering on a bunt to spark Memphis past the Mobile Bears 3 to 2. Higdon scored on a misplayed bunt in the third, sealing the series win 3 games to 1 and sending Mobile on the road to face Chattanooga.
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Ala
Chicks
Bill Higdon
Memphis
Mobile Bears
Higdon
Bruin
Walt Rogers
Lou Ruchser
Ruchser
Fred Postolese
Keystone
Postolese
Bears
Chattanooga
Barons
Birmingham
Cotton States SPAS BLAST OILERS IN El Dorado game
Hot Springs trounced El Dorado 14 to 5 in a Cotton States game in El Dorado. Dan Phalen drove in three with a triple as Hot Springs built a big third inning lead and Leroy Alexander hit a solo homer in the same frame. Oilers managed six hits and a late run, with Colburn Gingerich and Lee handling the mound duties.
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Ark
Hot Springs
Cotton States
Dan Phalen
Leroy Alexander
Oilers
Colburn
Gingerich
Lee
Quicutis
Schalk
Decker
Roosevelt Raceway Opens Eleventh Harness Campaign
The current season at Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury New York marks the 11th harness racing campaign for the famed track as it begins a new schedule of racing events.
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Roosevelt Raceway
Westbury, N.Y
Parsons wins 500 mile race at Indianapolis speeds prize record
Johnny Parsons of Van Nuys California topped a $199 435 purse in the 34th 500 mile race at Indianapolis earning a prize of 57 458 63. The speedway added a 58 000 bonus to the 75 000 purse while drivers receive varied splits and prizes including 32 500 from the purse plus 16 820 in lap prizes and 412 12 refund of entry fees. A Tulsa owner disputes a fifth place finish but accepts official results after charts and tape confirmation.
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Calif
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Speedway
Billy Arnold
Bill Holland
Parsons
Tulsa
Ervin Wolfe
Wolfe
American Automobile Association
Solunar fishing times from Knight tables
The schedule of Solunar Periods from John Aiden Knight's Solunar Tables guides days for Major and Minor periods. Major periods begin at specified times and last about one and a half to two hours, while Minor periods are shorter. the listed dates and times indicate optimal fishing or hunting windows.
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Missouri's Gallup Pair Poised To Bolster McGuire Finishing
U of Missouri adds a strong distance pairing as freshman Pete Gallup runs a 4 20 6 mile and 9 35 9 two miles beating records while Bill McGuire forms a formidable duo. Also notes on Saratoga yearling sales, Ohio U. catcher John Biskup, Virginia football seating changes, and top Metropolitan golf prospects Dick Mayer Doug Ford Art Wall Shelley Mayfield Jay Hebert.
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U of Missouri
Pete Gallup
Bill McGuire
McGuire
John Munski
Larry MacPhail
Saratoga
Brooklyn
Branch Rickey
John Biskup
Ohio U
Biskup
U. of Virginia
Dick Mayer
Doug Ford
Art Wall
Shelley Mayfield
Jay Hebert
Davidson College Cheerleader Vote Honors Coach Charley Jamerson
After two seasons Charley Jamerson, Davidson College football coach, faced poor results with an eight losses in ten games and a 16 of 18 baseball setback. Yet students elected him cheerleader for the next season, showing support amid expectations of a rebound and a best season in 25 years.
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Davidson
Charley Jamerson
Charley
Jamerson
Wildcats
Trade talk lingers as White Sox and Senators keep players
Baseball experts hunt the White Sox Senators trade that could spark a spate of deals, but both clubs say they will hold what they have. Al Dark’s slump delayed last winter’s Giants Braves deal, a point noted as Braves owner Lou Perini resisted further moves.
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al Dark
Giants
Cornell Spring practice ends with White team edging Reds 39 to 33
Coach Lefty James says defense leads after spring drills and staged an intra-squad game at Cornell where the Whites defeated the Reds 39 33. In Harlingen Texas the Rio Grande Valley League park uses neon uprights near foul lines with a tilt bell and flashing sign for close calls.
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Cornell
Lefty James
Reds
Harlingen
Tex
Sports Milestones: Musial Heroes Cardinals Past Dodgers
A look back at notable moments across sports history. Stan Musial belted two homers to power the St. Louis Cardinals to a 6-3 win over the Brooklyn Dodgers a year ago.
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Stan Musial
St. Louis Cardinals
Brooklyn Dodgers
New York Giants
Bill Voiselle
Johnny Hopp
St. Louis
University of Pittsburgh
Babe Didrikson
Gehrdes’ 100 yard dash disallowed as record
Wind aided 9.5 second 100 yard dash by B. Jim Gehrdes against Navy was not certified as a Penn State record due to a six mile per hour tailwind. Gehrdes already holds Penn State hurdle records and narrowly missed a sprint record.
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State College
Jim Gehrdes
Penn State
Navy
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