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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1947
Page
8
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W H Weber of Clarksburg sent a certified report of a Sept 6 1947 rubber bridge hand at the Elks Club in Clarksburg. The deck was riffled to produce seven six distributions with same spot cards. Cribbed notes discuss bidding oddities and strategic misreads by Worth and East in the wake of the freak deal.
Frederick High School Cadets suffer a 30 to 7 defeat at Martinsburg High on Friday night under West Virginia lights. Frederick fails to mount consistent aerial attack, completing 3 of 13 passes as Martinsburg builds a 24 point lead in the first half. Hall, Hovermale, and Rice pace Martinsburg while Frederick’s lone score comes on a second half return. Attendance 1,800.
U S Marine Corps Reserve football team from Baltimore adds All American tackle Gene Flathman to a lineup that will include Lud Michaux. The 275 pound flathman weighs in at 505 pounds with Michaux as a pair. The Marines seek a sixth straight win in the Eastern State Conference while facing a crippled local Veterans of Foreign Wars squad.
Maryland fans react to William L Brann withdrawing Escadru from the $25,000 Pimlico Futurity. Calumet Farms Citanon looms, with Escadru's absence widening the field after Escadru just won a $17,500 stake in New York.
Walkersville girls clinched the District 1 Class championship by beating Hancock High at Boonsboro. Jhe Eaves scored three goals including two in the third period to seal the win as Hancock failed to score in the first half. Middletown defeated Boonsboro 3 to 1 to reach the district final.
Thurmont High School defeats Boonsboro 1 0 to win the opening round of District 1 play in the State Class C tournament on Armistice Day. Late in the first half center forward Lare scored the goal as both teams played a furious but clean match on neutral ground in Frederick County.
Gallorette, 45, famed money winner of the turf, is among 30 nominations for the $10,000 added mile and a sixteenth Prince George Autumn Handicap to be run at Price George County oval on November 22. Owned by W L Brann and trained by E AL Christmas, Gallorette has earned $347,685 and could top $400,000 with remaining starts this year. Also named is Ridgewood Stable's 3 year old Double Jay. other contenders include The Doge Our Tommy Golden Bull Flashburn and Butler.
Senator Ralph Flanders proposed consumer level meat rationing as the sole way to curb rising costs. He argued meat now consumes up to 40 to 60 percent of low and middle income family budgets, despite Secretary Clinton Anderson saying rationing would take too long to help the current emergency. In a separate item, Bill Eddleman, 33, of Berwyn Md, was electrocuted after a crane he operated touched a power line in Chevy Chase Md.
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