Baseball Sunday Benefit Game In Raleigh County
Sixteen team league resumes May 25 rainouts with doubleheaders in six towns. Eccles-Kopperston and Wind ing Gulf-McAlpin play singles while others complete postponed games. Eccles hosts Admirals vs Ropverston in A League, a benefi t game for Ralph Coldiron's family.
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Raleigh County Baseball League
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Gulf-McAlpin
Riece
Bills
Eccles
Admirals
Ropverston
Amigo
Sprague
Eccles Management
Ralph Coldiron
Montcoal
Affinity
Skelton
Whitesville
Marfork
Ameagle
Lyric Girls trounce Grant 36 to 11 in City Softball clash
Lyric Theatre girls routed Grant 36 to 11 at Woodrow Wilson diamond as Embee's and Murphy's prepared for the men's league at 7 30. Torrico and A West homered, Cooper Webb and Torrico led with multi hit games while Grant's suffered six errors and a 1 18 time.
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Virginia School Leads Golf Meet in Interscholastic Event
Craig Wright of Woodberry Forest School led medalist honors at Greenwich Country Club in the Eastern Interscholastic Golf Association qualifier. Wright shot 78 over 39 entrants from 11 schools as his school also led four-man team totals with 328.
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Eastern Interscholastic Golf Association
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Woodberry Forest School
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Greenwich Country Club
USGA Enforces Groove Width Rule Ahead of Open
Golf stars faced a choice between grinding grooves and losing spectator tickets as USGA inspectors ruled many clubs out for the National Open. Lloyd Mangrum had one sand wedge adjusted, while Sam Snead and Skip Alexander faced disqualification. The rule caps face grooves at one thirty-second inch with spacing three thirty-seconds, now enforced after wartime suspension.
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ST. Louis
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Bobby Locke
South Africa
Sam Snead
Skip Alexander
Ian
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Detroit
Public Links
Richard Tufts
Pinehurst
N. C
Golf Group
Tufts
Tommy's Shell Game Unearths Fossils in Port Washington
In Port Washington New York nine year old Tom Wing has found fossils in his yard and nearby areas over three years. He collects relics of ancient shells embedded in rocks for his own small museum and hopes to visit a rock quarry for bigger fossil hunts. Directors of the Cincinnati Reds voted a dividend of 4.50 a share on 6 000 common shares after last season.
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N.Y
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Hem
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Conn
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Tams Sophia Open Junior Loop Wins Highlight Week
The Raleigh County Junior Baseball League opener saw Elmer Caudill strand 12 as he led the Tams to a 9-1 win over Big Stick while Sophia defeated Helen 11-3 at Helen. Sophia had five runs in the second and four in the fifth as Wilbur Reed and Clyde Darby led the attack. A protest over birth certificates for three Tams players was filed by Big Stick.
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Oak Hill
Don Dalton
Trap Hill
Dirk Zeigler
Beckley
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Mark Twain
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Amigo
Big Stick
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George Springer
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eVey
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Richards
Payne
Milano
Labor Bill Said Fascism Threat
A CIO sponsored parade through Manhattan's rush hour crowds ended at Madison Square Garden where CIO President Philip Murray denounced the Taft Hartley Labor Bill as a threat of fascism. Police called it the largest labor march in New York City history with about 60 000 participants. Murray, backed by Mayor William O'Dwyer, called the bill dangerously proactive in signaling a clash with free American labor.
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CIO
Philip Murrray
New York City
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Aerial Gateways on Move In United States Aviation
Miami once a gateway to Latin America as Pan American and other lines expanded routes. New gateways emerged in New Orleans Houston Corpus Christi and Tampa while flights extend from San Juan and Havana. Military craft show long range gains suggesting future non stop links could shift gateway roles nationwide.
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Pierpoint Nine Sweeps Doubleheader Over Caloric Devils
The Pierpoint Bloodhounds defeated the Caloric Red Devils 9-7 in game one and shut them out 9-0 in the second. Manager Vernon Lambert invites local teams to schedule a game with the Hounds at Maben.
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Iet Hounds
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Babe Didrickson Reaches British Amateur Final
Babe Didrickson Zaharias of Denver defeated Jean Donald of Scotland 7 and 5 to advance to the British women’s amateur final at Gullane Scotland. Earlier she eliminated Frances Stephens 3 and 2 in the quarter finals after leading the opening nine seven up and stretching her advantage on the inward nine.
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Associated Press
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Susie Cue to Give Monday Exhibition in Bridgeport
Ruth McGinnis known as Susie Cue will perform at Smokehouse Billiard Parlor Monday at 10 p.m. The left handed woman champion, famed for beating many male pros, will entertain with an exhibition free to spectators.
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Honesdale
Judging Opens at Charles Town Horse Show
The 35th annual Charles Town Horse Show began with judging of nine heavy draft classes. Tomorrow eight more classes for thoroughbreds and half-breds will be judged at the race track grounds under an agreement with the Charles Town Jockey Club, with cash prizes and ribbons for winners. Judges are William Bell Watkins for heavy draft and E. A. Nicodemus for thoroughbred classes.
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Expensive Ring Sells for 1200 at Baltimore Auction
An ornate oriental pearl ring with 88 diamonds once worn by a Floradora Sextet member sold for 1200 to an unidentified male bidder at a Baltimore credit association auction. Two bidders attended, both men, and anonymity heightens speculation about the original owner.
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Blind bowler Rose sweeps top honors in league
Brooklyn bowler Rose won the singles, three-game series, and the season average in the 20 man Blind Men's Recreation Club league. Rice posted scores of 232 in a single game, 540 in the three-game series, and 145 for the average.
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SSS Tonic and 83 Tonic Promote Vitality From Blood Health
Advertorial claim that weak watery blood ages people and that SSS Tonic and 83 Tonic raise blood strength, improve appetite, energy, digestion, and skin color. It asserts millions benefit daily, urges purchase at drug stores.
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Minister's Son Cleared In Church Sexton Slaying
A circuit court jury in St. Joseph Missouri found 16 year old Stuart B Allen not guilty by reason of insanity in the mutilation slaying of church sexton John Frank at Christ Episcopal Church. The verdict orders confinement to a mental institution while his condition remains unchanged.
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