Fashionable sports writing meets sartorial satire
New York columnist notes how sports reporting shifts with outfits and image. He lauds a fashion school approach, cites Gorgeous Moran's provocative attire at Wimbledon, and lampoons the obsession with clothes over athletic skill across golf tennis and wrestling. He jokes about wrapping prose around robes, hairdos, and perfumes.
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Will Grimsley
Hugh Fullerton, Jr
New York
Glassy Moran
California
Budge Pally
Louis Brough
Miss Moran
Legion's Tournament of Champions Opens at Fairmont
West Virginia Maryland Delaware and DC send regional junior baseball teams to Fairmont for the American Legion Tournament. Whitesville Post 75 led by coach R D Kannon features 20 1 regular season and a 5 game state run with standout Hal Woods 21 strikeouts in the title game and Beckley as a surprise finalist led by Cotton White.
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West Virginia
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American Legion
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Whitesville
Boone County
Oak Hill
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Rufus Kannon
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Cotton” White
Cottonmen
Robby Thomas
Coach White
Harry Huffman
Jim Walker
Coy Gross
Huffman
Martinsburg
Wheeling
Harry
Harold Woods
Hal Woods
Acton
Hal
Woods
Grey Ghost dominates Black Diamond League and Greyhound racing history
Race standings show Kopperston, Princeton, Helen and Mullens in tight contention as Grey Ghost garners praise for its five-year career. Greyhound Grey Ghost, famed world trotting record holder at 155-14, boasted 55 wins in 65 starts, was Horse of the Year in 1936, and remains at owner F J Baker’s St Charles farm. Also notes Tony Lazzeri Jim Tabor Rudy York hitting two homers in a Gases game.
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Grey Guost
New York
Grey Ghost
F. J. Baker
St. Charles
Tony Lazzeri
Jim Tabor
Rudy York
Reds Sweep Pirates as Wynn Wins eleven in frame top
Cleveland pitcher Farry Wynn stars in a 3-2 ten inning win over Detroit, lifting the Indians within 2 1 2 games of the leaders. Al Rosen ties it in the ninth with a home run, Dale Mitchell's double and Avila's dash drive the walk-filled tenth. Cubs beat Cardinals 7-6 while Reds rout Pirates 13-8 in another AL NL action.
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Associated Press
Farry Wynn
Cleveland Indians
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New York
Boston
Bob Lemon
Ace Rightlander
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Lemon
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Tigers
Boston Red Sox
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Sox
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Bengals
Hoot Evers
Johnny Groth
Hal Newhouser
Flip
Speedy Bob Avila
Clark
Jim’ Hegan
Newhouser
Ike Boone
Lou Boudreau
Dale Mitchell
Bob Kennedy
Mitchell
Connie Berry
Avila
Chicago Cubs
St. Louis Cardinals
Cincinnati Reds
Pittsburgh Pirates
Pory Minor League Standings and Last Night's Scores
Pory Minor League standings show Bluefield leading with 66 wins and 36 losses, followed by Johnson City 63-38 and Bristol 58-43. Evening results include Elizabethton 7 over Bristol 5, Fulaskit 4 over Bluefield 4, and Kingsport 6 tie with Johnson City 6. Upcoming games feature Bluefield at Pulaski and New River at Welch.
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Bristol
Fulaskit
Bluefield
Johnson City
Kingsport
Welch
New River
Thy Pulaski Lt Az
Pulaski
Detroit and Cleveland Boxscore Excerpt From A Doubleheader
Detroit and Cleveland battle through a lengthy box score with numerous players listed. Key names include Diering Smatley Priddy Boone Nelson and Jowen for Detroit while Cleveland features Wynn Vander Meer and Evers. The page also notes official game totals, pitching lines, RBIs and errors amid a dense tabulation.
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Kell
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Slippery Runner and Old LSU Tittle Tale At Colts
New York Yanks tackle a harrowing car crash tale that pales beside Y A Tittle’s 1947 Mississippi mishap. In state college notes, Penn State legend Lloyd Engle is linked as uncle to Rip Engle, while Michigan State’s Clark Scholes surprises by making the roster after a late start.
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Baltimore Colts
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Mississippi
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Dad) Engle
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Rip) Engle
The
Lion School
Daddy Ransom Captures Golf Title And $11000
The 39 year old known as "Daddy" Henry Ransom won the World Pro Golf Championship near Chicago at the St. Andrews Club. He topped Chick Hart by three strokes with rounds of 69 and 72, earning $11,000 and boosting his season total to $18,885 as spectators watched a dramatic four hour match.
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Chicago
Daddy” Henry
Dallas
St. Andrews
Detroit
Chick Hart
Ransome
Harbert
Rawlin
Mrs. Ransom
Henry, Jr
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Snead
Daddy
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