State Boxing Meet Set At Charleston May 1-2
Coaches meet in Beckley approved postponement of the state high school boxing tournament to May 1 and 2 at the Charleston Armory. Eight weight classes from 95 to 165 pounds will contest with sixteen entrants per class once filled. Entrants weigh 125 pounds or under box eight rounds with eight ounce gloves. heavier boxers use ten ounce gloves.
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Charleston
Beckley
Ward Wylie
State Boxing Commission
Arthur E. Rezzonico
Morris Harvey College
Winding Gulf
Beckley Hotel
Charleston Armory
John Brawley
American Legion
State Board of Appeals
I. E. Ewing
Charleston American Legion
Art Rezzonico
Softball League Reorganized For Ten Team Schedule
The Beckley Softball league met in the newspaper office and proposed eight teams with potential additions to reach ten. Teams named include Glen White Cranberry Bemeco Utilities Gulf Huntington Top Coca Cola and Richmond Cleaners with Kes ter Cleaners Beckley Hardware or Raleigh likely joining. Season starts May third with each team playing two games weekly and a two half schedule ending July Fourth and September Fifth. Playoffs begin the following week. Eligibility lists of 15 players due by May first. Raleigh Register to run boxscores and managers to submit entries. Each game to have a scorer and leading batters will be published periodically. Rules tighten on eligibility and forfeiture if seven eligible players aren not present.
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Beckley
Glen White
Cranberry
Bemeco
Utilities
Gulf
Huntington Top
Coca Cola
Richmond Cleaners
Kester Cleaners
Beckley Hardware
Raleigh
Traynor Blames Rainy Weather For Pirates Practice
Pittsburgh Pirates manager Pie Traynor blamed rainy, chilly weather for cutting practice short. With a week before the championship race, he urged warmer temperatures for players to regain form. Only the batteries practiced, briefly, at Memphis Chickasaws Park ahead of a scheduled exhibition with the Chickas.
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Associated Press
Enti
Tenn
Pie Traynor
Pittsburgh Pirates
Texas
Memphis Chickasaws Park
Pirates
Indians And Giants Unable To Play In Spring Game
Pulaski Va April 19 A field covered with mud stopped the Cleveland Indians and New York Giants from resuming their spring training rivalry yesterday. Steve ONeill Tribe manager announced Charlie George would accompany Walter Tauscher in return to the Minneapolis American Association club Saturday.
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Preas Pulaski
Cleveland Indians
New York Giants
Steve O'Neill
Tribe
Charlie George
Walter Tauscher
Minneapolis
Greenberg To Replace Simmons In The Lineup
Detroit Tigers manager Mike Cochrane said Hank Greenberg would bat cleanup, replacing Al Simmons, as spring training stats show the club at .226 while Greenberg has yet to strongly improve on Simmons.
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Simmons
Associated Press
Durham
N. C
Mike Cochrane
Hank Greenberg
al Simmons
Detroit Tigers
Tigers
Coch
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