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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1949
Page
11
Wade Williams led scoring with a 74 to top 48 Ouachita parish entrants at McGuire Park Golf Club West Monroe. Pro C J Shirah schedules first two rounds across five flights, with semifinals and finals next week.
In Cooperstown NY on Monday the Washington Senators beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 8 to 7 in the annual major league exhibition at the historic field where Abner Doubleday started the game. Home runs came from Wally Westlake Eddie Beckman Dixie Walker and Clyde Vollmer.
The Central High School Tigers of Jackson defeated the Gulfport Commodores 9-3 to claim the south Mississippi zone title. They will face Corinth, the north Mississippi champion, for the state title. The Mayflower carried 101 aboard with Christopher Jones of Harwich as captain.
Seroco beat Nichols 4 to 2 as Ray Hedgecock delivered a homer off Carl Russ after Hood walked. Nichols no hitter bid by Russ ended with two Seroco hits. Wilbur Smith held Nichols to two safeties in a two hitter. Red Sox routed Progressives 3 to 0 with Jack Dyer supplying four hits including three homers. Spatafora's Grocery edged Spatafora's Pharmacy 7 to 6 in the final inning behind four hits by David McKenzie and key plays by Kilcoyne and Marionneaux Jr.
Ardmore of the Class D Sooner State league pitcher George Sady believes 10 is his unlucky number after taking three losses this season in which he surrendered 10 runs to the opposition in each game two 10-4 losses and a 10-7 defeat.
In New York on June 14, Ray Lamanno’s value to Cincinnati faded after a long run as a top catching prospect. Mueller’s return shifted duties, Lamanno slumped to .242 with poor defense, and a Syracuse assignment failed to revive form. Giles doubts a future sale price, while Ewell Blackwell shows signs of comeback after kidney surgery.
Winnsboro Louisiana June 14 business and professional men will meet Tuesday night at the American Legion Community Center to organize a Winnsboro Business Men's Association. Temporary chairman Tom C Hatfield said officers will be elected and a ten man board of directors chosen. The group will pattern after West Monroe and seeks guidance from C G Wall president of the West Monroe association. There is no local Chamber of Commerce.
Whitney Martin reports from New York on Frankie Frisch moving toward a front office role with the Chicago Cubs as Charley Grimm shifts to the manager’s chair. The Giants and Cubs see shifts in leadership and morale, with Grimm’s humor noted as a stabilizing force and Frisch expected to contribute in Chicago.
Quarterback Frank Tripucka of Notre Dame and halfback Clyde Scott of Arkansas along with center Chuck Bednarik of Pennsylvania were named to the College All Stars roster for the Soldier Field game on August 12. A 70-man squad will be selected for Bud Wilkinson’s team to face the Philadelphia Eagles, champions of the NFL.
A local game featuring Thermatomic and Employes L. P. and L. held in Sterlington. Both teams faced off in a competitive matchup with scoring opportunities for each side and a final result yet to be revealed in the report.
A fragment reflects resignation and humor about growing past each baseball defeat not ending the world finding a calmer view of life and sport.
In Lancaster, a 14 year old babysitter fatally beat six year old Ronald Keller with a piece of wood after he shut off a washing machine. Ronald died five hours later at Lancaster General Hospital. Jean Sonnen of Lititz, held by the county shelter home for girls, was hired to do laundry for the Keller family last week.
Mrs Catherine F McCarthy of New Hyde Park says she is glad Daniel McCarthy, a former G I who sought German citizenship, has been sentenced to eight months in jail in Frankfurt for illegally entering the U S zone. She hopes the punishment will cool him and prompt reflection. She previously tried to talk him out of becoming German. She stresses law and accepts responsibility for his actions.
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