West Virginia Eyes Strong Show In Court Tourney
West Virginia and three other teams enter the National Invitation Tournament semifinals at Madison Square Garden. Toledo led by Bob Gerber, favored to win, beat Rhode Island State 82 71 as Gerber scored 37. Western Kentucky and Creighton also won first round games as Mountaineers Dick Kesling and Ruby Baric starred in a comeback over Long Island University. The Cotton county fire report notes two Sunday blazes, including a woods fire sparked by a cigarette near LeMerson and a chimney blaze on the Bar Tier property near Linganore.
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New York
Madison Square Garden
West Virginia
Bob Gerber
Toledo
Western Kentucky
Creighton
Rhode Island State
Gerber
Mountaineers
Blackbirds
City College
Long Island University
West Texas State
Bart
Quinn
Frank Clemons
Swede Anderson
Rhode Island
Long Island
Dick Kesling
Ruby Baric
Scotty Hamilton
Garden
Hamilton
S. I
Hilltoppers
Fd Diddle
Ray Blevins
Blevins
City
Kentuckians
West Texas
Bluejays
Eddie Hiskey
Pumper
Graduated to Full Membership in Y Club
Five members of the Lou Gehrig club were graduated to full membership in the local Y M C A Saturday night. The group received sponsored membership cards from William S Ray, the boys work director, during a feast hosted by the Junior basketball team in the boys department room of the Y. The new full members were Norman Geiser, Eugene Engle, Gene Smith, Richard Miller and Charles Winpigler, selected from thirty enrolled in the club. The Junior Y M C A basketball team hosts for the entertainment were Ken neth Clark, Kenneth Brachey, Joe McNeal, Scott Welty and Charles Crum.
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Lou Gehrig Club
Bcards
William S Ray
Norman Geiser
Eugene Engle
Gene Smith
Richard Miller
Charles Winpigler
Exhibition Games And Batting Averages For League Matches
Exhibition games list multiple MLB matchups with box line scores, teams like Washington New York St. Louis Boston Brooklyn Cincinnati Philadelphia Pittsburgh Chicago and pitchers and battery combinations. The long tabular text notes runs hits and errors across games and lineups, showing varied results and players in early season exhibitions.
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New York
St. Louis
Chandler
Breuer
Robinson
Beazley
Lanier
Dickson
Hutchinson
O'Dea
W. Cooper
H. E
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Keh
Davis
Owen
Moore
Vander Meer
Starr
Hemsley
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Christopher
Marchildon
Wagner
Klinger
Wilkie
Lopez
Chicago
Dietrich
Rigney
Haynes
Tresh
Olsen
Bowman
Flores
McCullough
Outstanding Members To Get Free Camping Prize
The Lou Gehrig Club of MC announces a free week at a summer camp for an outstanding member. Douglas Weddle disclosed the plan on Saturday night, funded anonymously by a friend of the late Gehrig. Readiness includes physical tests, sportsmanship, and adaptability with tasks like bar lifts, pushups, rope climbing, shooting, and running.
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Lou Gehrig
Douglas Weddle
Weddle
Gehrig
Stamps in the News: War Censorship Affects Pacific Covers
The Shanghai Tine reports mail from the Pacific suspended due to war, with censored markings and return to sender notes. Covers from Tokyo, Shanghai, and other ports reappear in New York with San Francisco routing or Honolulu hops, bearing “Return to Sender Service Suspended” and “Parsed by Censor” stamps. New stamp issues include Brazil and Australia provisional overprints, King George VI portrait releases, and a Paraguay air mail to regular postage conversion.
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Pacific
Tokyo
Shanghai
Manila
New York
San Francisco
Honolulu
Bender
Great Britain
Brazi
Australia
George VI
Paraguay
Servicio Aereo
Ted Williams Faces Backlash As Red Sox Worry About Draft Tie
The Boston Red Sox confront a storm over Ted Williams amid training camp. Williams, the majors first 400 hitter in 11 years, fears quitting baseball if boos hurt his batting, while Cronin reshapes the roster with Pesky, Foxx, and DiMaggio providing center field and infield coverage.
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Harry G
NEA
Sarasota, Fla
Boston Red Sox
Theodore Williams
Red Sox
Ted Williams
Williams
Hell
Jimmy Dykes
White Sox
Teddy
New England
Boston
Cronin
Johnny Pesky
American Association
Joseph Edward Cronin
Pesky
Bobby Doerr
Jiddie Pellagrini
San Diego
Skeeter Newsome
Tabor
Wicked Willow
Ulysses Lupien
Louisville
James Emory Foxx
Robert Moses Grove
Joe Cronin
Jimmy Foxx
Dominic DiMaggio
Yawkeys
Pete Fox
Lou Finney
Sox
Okeh
Frankie Pytlak
Bill Conroy
Oakland
Johnny Peacock
Mickey Harris
Earl Johnson
Heber Newsome
Charley Wagner
Joe Dobson
Yank Terry
Oscar Judd
Ken Chase
Terry
Judd
Shaughnessy to Begin Work as Maryland Coach in April
Clark Shaughnessy will become Maryland head coach and director of athletics and physical education in April. He joins as a full-time Maryland faculty member on permanent appointment and will organize spring practice after two weeks at Stanford assisting last year’s coach. The plan unifies athletics and physical education under one bureau with Shaughnessy in charge. Boxing becomes compulsory for all male students not active in other sports.
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Clark Shaughnessy
University of Maryland
Curly) Byrd
University
Shaughnessy
Maryland
Stanford
Chicago
Palo Alto
Byrd
Clark
University ,of Chicago
Snead and Wehrle Win From Nary and Haas in Am Best Ball
Sammy Snead and Wilford Wehrle defeated Bill Nary and Freddie Haas 6 and 5 to win the $3,000 national amateur professional best ball tournament for the second year in a row in St Augustine Florida. Snead earned $1,000 and Nary received $500. Wehrle and Haas received the Massive River trophies after a strong first nine and a late surge to the final 33 for Nary and Haas. Walker Tsytue prep football for Frederick High School with eight eligible Walkersville players and an officials plan were announced with team duties and timer needs.
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St Augustine
Fla
Sammy Snead
Wilford Wehrle
Bill Nary
Freddie Haas
Hot Springs
Slammer
Wehrle
Racine
Wis
Snead
Nary
Husky Young
Rancho Santa Fe Calif
Haas
New Orleans
Walker Tsytue
Wii
American Legion
Frederick
Harry Smith
Walkersville
Walter Dudrow
Richard Martin
Joseph Engle
Robert Nicodemus
Richard Smith
Donald Smith
Elwood Toms
J. F. Minor Simpson
Elm Street
Bob Ray
Frederick Dairy Herd Improvement elects Crum president
Bruce E L Crum of Frederick was re elected president of the Frederick County Dairy Herd Improvement Association at the annual election last Thursday night Other officers named were James K Ferrell Knoxville Henry H Shoemaker secretary treasurer Maurice Lee Dade Lander and Luther W Rems berg Jefferson on the executive committee Dr K L Turk of the Maryland University Dairy Department spoke on Value of Records in Improving Production Reports from county testers Chester Zentz Monroe Free and Ellis Hood were reviewed at the meeting Hood resigned and John Whitmore Walkersville was appointed to fill the vacancy A meeting to discuss elimination of WPA labor in road construction was announced for today between State WPA officials and Philip C Turner Maryland Farm Bureau president to protest continuance after April 1 The article notes US steel production from 1900 to 1940 totaling 1 437 000 0000 net tons
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Bruce EL. Crum
Frederick
Frederick Court
Chester Zentz
Monroe Free
Ellis Hood
Mr ‘Hood
John “Whitmore
Walkersville
Frederick County
WPA
Philip C Turner
Maryland Farm Bureau
Turner
Frederick County Farm Bureau
Pomona Grange
Fordham to tag defense stamps on tickets for war fund
Fordham publicist Tom Deegan proposes adding a 23 cent defense stamp to each complimentary football ticket next fall to raise about 1200 for Uncle Sam, with the Treasury Department inviting coordination. Clark Shaughnessy plans more work at Maryland as the school faces coaching depth.
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Hugh Fullerton
Wide World
New York
Tom Deegan
Fordhaam
Fordham
Defense Service
Uncle Sam
Treasury Department
Deegan
Clark Shaughnessy
Maryland
Public Sale Near Jefferson Brings $4177.25
Alonza K Darner’s public sale on the farm near Jefferson grossed $4177.25. Items sold include a horse rake for $9, a binder for $42, five bows of team harness at $10 each, a sow and nine pigs at $117, another sow and 10 pigs for $95, shoats at $16.25, milk cows $75 to $185, and harness items. Auctioneers Emmett R Bowlus with clerks Elmer F Bussard and Clarence M Phleeger conducted the sale.
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Alonza K Darner
Jefferson
James C Darner
Alonza K. Darner
Team Hells
Elmer F. Bussard
Clarence M. Phleeger
Emmett R. Bowlus
May lengthen bus schedule on Maryland routes
Blue Ridge bus lines may lengthen running time between Frederick and Baltimore and Washington in line with Governor OConor's request for a speed limit of 40 miles per hour on Maryland roads.
Hornell Pirates Official to Run Pirates Rookie School
Official President Hering of the Hornell Pirates will head the Pittsburgh Pirates rookie training school at McCurdy Field from April 6 to 11. The Hornell club owned by the Pirates will train with Oil City in the Penn State League next month and seeks housing for 50 players, with 16 already secured in Hornell, N Y.
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Hornell Pirates
Hering
Pittsburgh Pirates
McCurdy Field
Hornell Club
Oil City
Pirates
Hornell
N. Y
Local Fans Pick Yankees Poll Divides on National League
A Sunday poll of major league baseball fans shows a strong tilt toward the Yankees in the American League with three votes for the Red Sox and several for White Sox or Senators in second place. In the National League the Cards edge the Dodgers for favored status with each team drawing four votes and Giants receiving a single backer. The tally includes eight named respondents listing preferred teams for both leagues.
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Frederick
Yanks
Dodgers
Boston Red Sox
Red Sox
White Sox
Senators
Indians
Athletics
Cards
Giants
Paul Etzler
Farmer
Pirates
Robert Garrett
Louis Hill
Porter
Dorsey Shipley
Sporting Goods
Charles Knowles
Irvin Shaner
Jim Smith
Reds
Bill Burger
Roger Harley
Steward
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Galehouse and Swift
Javery
Earley, Sain and Lombard
P. C. Bol
King Gustavus V
Sweden
Oe Rayson
Kendall Chase
Snead and Wehrle
United States
Dairy Herd Improvement Association Elects
Hans Lebert
Phils
Babe Curran
Newark
N. J
Abe
Babe
Joe
Bob Goodwin
Urichsville
Ohio
Jack Doyle
Yankees
Ned Everhart
Miami Biltmore Country Club
Monroe McConnell
Calif
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Billy
Navy
Army
Oakland Pacific Coast League
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Jack Doolan
Georgetown
Quantico (Va
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Albert C. Palmer
Robert G. Mumma
Lincoln Loan Service, Inc
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Potomac Edison Co
Fred Hering
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Steph Brothe
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Markell & Ford Woop
Fredericktown
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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