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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1948
Page
16
Baseball scores from Tuesday June 1068 list several games including New York at Cleveland and Philadelphia at Detroit with night contests. The page notes yesterday results and previews tonight’s matchups with teams such as Boston, Detroit, and Cleveland in action.
A nightly heavyweight title fight at Yankee Stadium pits Joe Louis against Jersey Joe Walcott with Louis favored. The bout follows a controversial prior decision and will test whether Louis can regain his peak form while Walcott seeks a decisive win to erase past doubts.
A garbled list from a local page shows multiple groups named Ecclesian Club Slovaks Dukes and Universals with towns like Pittsburg Ryantown South Mill Deweys and Lawrence Indies. Recurrent pairs include Deweys Frank's Margaret Slovaks West Pittsburg and South Hill Civies with scattered dates and week notes.
Tempy's trimmed Red's 2 0 in a postponed league game. Seaman drove in a run with a hit by Josephs while Jacobs and Byers starred for Beach and Red teams. Deshon annex hosts a 6 o'clock game tonight as Tempy's seeks another win. New Wilmington of North County league shut out opponents at college town field behind four hit pitcher Borowicz to claim No 14.
Rusty Payne of San Diego, at 184, defeated 217-pound Sid Peaks in two rounds at Civic Arena. Payne scored a first round knockdown and finished with a KO in the second, while Johnny Izzo lost a close decision to Nate Smith in a separate bout.
Alpha Brazile pitched a 1 to 0 win over the Boston Braves ace Warren Spahn. Nippy Jones and Del Rice drove in the decisive run in the seventh as St. Louis closed within one game of the Pirates. Yankees slam Bearden for 18 hits and 13 2 win in Cleveland.
Lawton Carver reports Joe Walcott as a running challenger, predicting a knockout for Louis in the Yankee Stadium bout. Louis hints he will not chase, weight at 213 pounds, ticket sales projected to reach up to a million with a 35,000 crowd and wide radio and TV listenership.
At a county league meeting the start time for twilight contests was set to 6 15 p m with a 15 minute grace period ending at 6 30 p m Visiting teams will have the field for batting and fielding at 5 45 p m on twilight games and 2 55 p m on Sundays Teams will occupy the field for 25 minutes and finish warm ups 5 minutes before game time
New Castle defeated Johnstown 4 to 1 while Johnstown beat New Castle 14 to 1. OU City edged Vandergrift 8 to 7 as Erie topped Butler Uniontown 9 to 8 and Youngstown won 3 to 0. County League totals show New Galilee 3 Edenburg Bronze 12 and St Lucy 2.
Bronze pitcher Stroia earned the win as Jay Bees defeated St Lucy 12 to 2. Tony Razzano powered the win with a triple a homer and a stolen base. St Lucy scored early but failed to respond after two runs in the first inning.
East Side Shamrocks host West Side Stars in an exhibition at Rose Avenue field at 6 p.m. The same night the Shamrocks meet the Dukes in a postponed City Softball league game, a pivotal test as Dukes must win to remain in the first-half race.
New Castle Chiefs won 5 to 1 in the opener, delivering the first win over Johnstown this year. Jacobsen and Feduniak homered for the Chiefs in the fourth, while Grimshaw left with a possible fractured nose after a collision on a double play attempt. Burns scored on a second inning double, and Riebesell pitched the rest for the Chiefs.
New Castle Chiefs right fielder Glenn Burns extended a 23 game hitting streak details show 15 at home and eight away. The streak began May 26 against Johnstown and continued last night in both ends of a Flood City double header. Believed to be a 1948 Mid-Atlantic league record.
Pat Devlin victim in second game as Johnstown pummels New Castle 13 to 1 with Ballestrini leading offense four RBIs including two homers. Burns extends hitting streak to 23 games. crowd 1,911 watches 60s games.
Eastbrook pounded in four runs last night to beat Volant on Volant's home field. Stankard hurled strongly, limiting Volant to three scattered hits. Fyfe was the losing pitcher for Volant.
New Castle southpaw Moran seeks revenge against Eddie Bell in an eight round boxing card at Ellwood City High Football Field. Moran carries two previous losses two knockdowns and a decision loss to Bell and aims to end the feud with a knockout. The undercard features Billy Pozza versus Tommy Stewart, Johnny Izzo against Roy Crews, and Chuck Gibbons versus Zerba with another four round bout.
Universals roll to a 3-0 victory over the Ecclesians in a postponed game. Janacone powered the offense with a three hit performance for Universals, while Zedick led Ecclesians on the mound. Evenoski added two of Universals seven hits.
Frank's Grille defeats the Slovaks 7 to 5 after a late rally. Thomas of Franks and Majeski of Slovaks homered as Adamo earned the win over Brown. Score by innings shows Franks 1 0 3 2 0 1 0 11 runs and Slovaks 0 0 0 2 0 3 5 runs.
The Sugar Ray Robinson versus Bernie Docusen title bout in Chicago was cancelled again and may be staged next Monday. Horace Ashenfelter, IC-4A two mile champion, is named captain-elect of the Penn State track and cross country teams.
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