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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1934
Page
7
Detroit beats New York 6 5 to even the series at 2 2 leaving the Yankees four percentage points ahead. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig played through injuries as Detroit and Boston surged in the standings behind Cleveland and Washington.
Galveston rising star Joe Gibbs won his tenth game of the season beating Oklahoma City 3 to 1. Gibbs is now tied for the league lead in wins with Red Phillips Beaumont and Charlie Barnabe Dallas. Beau Bell continued his hot hitting with three singles in three at bats. Fort Worth beat Beaumont 3 to 2 in ten innings behind Peaches Devis on the mound. Maxwell West aided Dallas with four hits and the winning run. San Antonio fell 13 to 3 to Tulsa, Oklahoman bats unleashed eight homers. Dallas Steers lost to Houston 12 to 7 for their fourth straight defeat.
Yesterday's stars include Pete Fox of the Tigers delivering a ninth inning double for the winning run against the Yankees. Dick Porter of the Red Sox collected five runs driven in and five singles in a doubleheader. George Earnshaw and Leslie Tieje helped the White Sox win two games against the Athletics. The article also notes that beavers once reached bear size with specimens found in Ohio, New York, Michigan, South Carolina, and Texas.
The Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees 6 to 5 to move within three percentage points of the AL leaders. Pete Fox drove in two runs with a ninth inning double as Mickey Cochrane and Joyner White scored on the play. Crosetti homered with two on in the third, and Gehrig hit his seventeenth homer with none on in the fifth.
New Orleans hosts the Southern Amateur Championship in a 36 hole qualifying event at the Country Club course with about 100 players. Defending champion Ralph Redmond did not enter and past champ Nelson Whitney eyes a qualification run. Notables include Sam Perry Thad Street and Julius Hughes as the field seeks to tame a 6514 yard par 71 layout amid recent heavy rains.
Winnsboro defeated the Tallulah Indians 4 to 0 on June 19, scoring four in the eighth inning. Antonelli pitched effectively until the eighth, with Hawkins allowing six hits. Polvogt and Hackney delivered key eighth inning singles, Womack led Winnsboro with two hits, and Hackney made a notable defensive showing.
Philadelphia June 19. Bob Johnson of the Athletics hit his 18th and 19th homers in a doubleheader game against Chicago, lifting him to the major league lead over Jim Foxx. The Oklahoma outfielder added five homers in three days against the White Sox, while Foxx trailed by a margin. The season-long homer race remains close as Johnson and Foxx exchange the lead.
Louisiana State University sharpens for the national collegiate championships in Los Angeles with ten athletes led by coach Bernie Moore. The Tigers face Stanford and Southern California as Auburn Georgia Tech and others travel by train and car to compete.
Box score fragment shows Alexandria against New Iberia with Burrows Valentine Hancken Gore and Camalo noted in pitching and lineup. Final tally 9 to 1 with errors and runs listed in the late innings.
The Crackerjacks overcame a late deficit to beat Woodmen of the World 13 to 12 yesterday. Key hits came from Jackson Gibbs and Frank Anzalone who hit a bases loaded homer in the eighth. Pumphrey and Miller opposed Newton and C Neese in a high scoring game.
Chicago White Sox win 3 to 2 in game one and 5 to 0 in five innings as Bob Johnson homers twice to reach 19 and claim the major league lead. Sugar Cain takes the loss in relief of George Earnshaw after a costly wild throw by McNair.
Chicago beat Philadelphia 3 to 2 while the second game ended in the fifth due to rain. Detroit won 6 to 5 against New York. St Louis lost 5 to 9 to Boston 6 to 14 with Cleveland at Washington rain. A second Cleveland at Washington game noted. Chicago at Philadelphia and Detroit at New York on schedule with only games listed.
Nashville defeated Birmingham 8 to 7 and Little Rock beat Chattanooga 8 to 3. Upcoming games include Atlanta at New Orleans and Dallas at Beaumont with several postponed or rain affected matches. Yesterday’s results featured Jackson 2 over Clarksdale 10 and Fort Worth 3 over Beaumont 2.
New Iberia clinched a 2–0 victory over Alexandria in the sole game reported. The feature notes a new Barking England power station riverfront unloading claim, stating four thousand tons of coal can be unloaded from a ship in eight hours using cranes grabs and conveyors.
Light horse Harry Cooper of Chicago overcame a five shot morning deficit and beat Denver pro Laffoon by three strokes in double overtime to claim the Western Open title. Cooper finished 25 under par for 108 holes, Laffoon 22 under, after a morning 67 and an afternoon 66.
Sunday results include St. Matthew's 4 over American Legion 1 with several pairings listed in Neville and Plum Street venues. A separate note reports a snail shell in London's Natural History Museum with a live snail found inside after five years.
Nashville refuses to quit as Lance Richbourg hits a bases loaded homer in the ninth, overturning an 7 8 deficit to beat Birmingham 8 to 7. Chaplin Speece O'Malley Wise Hughes Neisler tally for Birmingham. Sharpe Rice Gould Holbrook secure Little Rock win over Chattanooga 8 to 3.
In Paris at Roland Garros Stadium on June 19 1933 Jack Crawford of Australia defeated France's Christian Boussus 2-6 6-2 4-6 6-4 6-0 to clinch the series and send Australia to the European zone final against Czechoslovakia. Andre Merlin earlier beat Vivian McGrath to keep France in contention.
The Queens club tournament in London drew a strong American presence as top U S players faced reduced English and Japanese entrants. Frank Shields and Clayton Burwell played, while Dorothy Andrus and Virginia Rice won their women’s singles matches.
In California, 1,362 elementary school districts operate with just one teacher. The figure highlights the prevalence of sole-teacher districts and potential resource implications for rural communities.
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