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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1943
Page
3
Detroit wins 6 to 0 to open a four game set, slugger Rudy York homering for the Tigers and Paul Trout earning his eleventh win in a shutout. Grove struggled with ten hits allowed before fading in the eighth. York's 15th homer carried Detroit past Chicago.
Yesterday results include Philadelphia defeating New York 4 to 1 at Cleveland and Washington beating Boston 4 to 2. Detroit routed Chicago 6 to 9. St Louis lost to Cleveland and Chicago faced Detroit with today’s matchups Washington vs Boston and New York vs Philadelphia plus St Louis at Cleveland and Chicago at Detroit.
City softball league results show Dr Pepper defeating F. 1 and S Co. 0 in a compact game summary.
Braves hit a three run homer in the 10th to defeat Brooklyn and threw out the tying run at the plate. Reds relief pitcher Joe Beggs saved the game against the Cubs in the ninth. Phillies star Rem Northey belted two homers driving in three as they beat the Giants. Tigers outfielder York hit a two run homer backing Dizzy Trent in a six hit shutout of the White Sox. Senators pitcher Dutch Leonard and Stan Spence's two run single in the fourth powered a win over the Red Sox. Indians hurler Allie Reynolds blanked the Browns on three hits for his fifth victory. Athletics right hander Roger Wolff shut out the Yankees for the eighth win. Cardinals’ Ray Sanders and Max Lanier combined for five run production in a win.
SID FEDER reviews active sports happenings. Lew Jenkins is serving with the Coast Guard in Africa and sparred a native, who knocked him down. Luke Appling nears 2,000 hits, Pat Purcell shifts boxing promotion to Minneapolis, and Walter Hagen practices with mirrors for golf form. Also mentions Roosevelt’s sports commission idea, Jimmy Walker, and various brief items from boxing to baseball to golf.
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New York August 6 1940 Phillies toppled the Giants 7 to 4 after Ron Northey drove in three with two homers and Babe Dahlgren added a two run double as the Phils took the day’s first game. New York later won 5 to 4 in the resumed contest after Newt Kimball’s bases full walk forced in the decisive run with Sid Gordon misplaying a foul fly for an error.
The league leading Dr. Pepper team beat Frederick Iron and Steel 5 to 0 at Baker Park. Max Kehne allowed five hits while his teammates chased down four errors by the Iron Workers. Ramsburg opened the scoring with a double, then Swom Ley and Desauter added runs as the defense faltered.
AP summary lists top players by league. Batting leaders include Musial with 347, Vaughan 124 hits in the National League, Nicholson 5 home runs, Vaughan 13 steals. Pitching leaders show Sewell 7-3, Grove 10-2 and Chandier 13-3 among others with team designations.
Swedish distance star Gundar Haeggz eyes a sub eight minute half mile pace in Cincinnati at Withrow Stadium as he faces Gil Dodds Bill Hulse and Bob Berger. Interpretor Kjell Peterson says Haeggz prefers the two mile event, with his final American appearance set for a mile handicap in New York next Wednesday.
East St. Louis youth baseball project draws interest from major league clubs including the St Louis Cardinals Pirates Reds and Indians The program run by the East St. Louis Junior Chamber of Commerce led by Ray Rice features two divisions with 60 foot bases and a 42 foot pitching distance for younger players and aims to feed future talent to the majors. Powell Rejoins Senators After trade from Yankees to bolster bench for western trip in a season where he starred in the 1986 World Series.
Fort Meade’s baseball nine faces the Hustlers at McCurdy Field at 2:30 p.m. A bolstered outfield features Danny Wertz and Pete Stout may play his last game this season. Wertz brings Buffalo Bisons experience, while right field will be manned by Haisbeahey Tyska and Denbow in center and left respectively. Waldt and Bumstead to start for Fort Meade. Don Rice expected to start for the Hustlers. Stout’s Army induction possible. final lineup to mirror prior 7-2 Frederick loss.
In Aberdeen on Aug 6 the Curtis Bay Coast Guard squad beat the Aberdeen Military Police 11 to 9 as Barry hit a bases loaded homer in the ninth. Aberdeen led 8 to 4 entering the final frame before Curtis Bay surged back with Plitt winning and Pfund taking the loss.
Refugees fleeing bombardment in Hamburg are reported arriving in Berlin amid panicked chatter of mass evacuations. Reuters and other agencies note Berlin anxieties, talks of open city status to Dresden and Prague, and Goebbels warning of potential German retreat while Berlin’s population thins.
A broadcast from Hitler's headquarters frames Hamburg's wreckage with a gloom filled outlook. The report notes misstatements by a German voice reflecting a shifted wartime stance and follows an RAF commentator's grim hour of doom remark from the prior day.
Annapolis August 6 Judge Ridgely P. Melvin of the Fifth Judicial Circuit declared unconstitutional the Anne Arundel County trailer tax law enacted by the 1943 Legislature. The $80 annual license fee on trailers was ruled a revenue measure not meeting uniformity and equality tests, with the statute failing in both respects in the case of James Matthew English trailer owner of Rock Creek versus the County Commissioners.
The county building inspector and the Clerk of the Chest Court debated constitutionality of a tax. English argued the tax violated the right to live in one’s own home. In a July 28 hearing the case centered on this contention and the tax’s legal basis. Charley Keller’s batting slump noted as he went hitless in four at bats yesterday. Rollie Hemmley, sub for Russo, walked in the seventh inning and kept swat percentages steady.
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