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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1933
Page
7
A fragment lists Monday results from the Texas League with unclear team names and scores. Readable items mention a 7 to 1 or 2 to 1 result and several garbled phrases. The legible parts reference teams and a base score line without full context or dates.
In Monday action the American League scoreline shows Rosalie and New York winning 6 to 5 over Washington 4 to 5. Detroit and Cleveland both notch 3. Rovian Philadelphia beats Louis 5 to 1 while Chicago defeats Louis 9 to 6.
Readable portions show multiple teams and venues with batter totals and lineups. Entries reference Houston Philadelphia Milwaukee and Shreveport among others, with incomplete scores and unlisted dates, indicating a truncated league roundup.
Fragmented report lists multiple bouts with rival fighters including Pittsburgh competitor and others. Details are jumbled with numerous names, places, and numbers. core outcomes and opponents are difficult to parse from the OCR.
Yankees prevail in two dramatic late innings at Yankee Stadium to stay within one game of the Washington Senators after a 5 4 opener victory. Ruth and Gehrig homer as Combs and Chapman spark a ninth inning rally. Cy Moore defeats Van Atta for the winning pitcher. Tigers weakly fielded Indians in Detroit series. Bucky Walters shines in Red Sox debut driving in five as Boston beat Philadelphia.
The Lions field team edged the Joske Breakers for first place as Handy-Andy Aces posted a 688 final game. High scores included 653 by the Grocers and 600 by Fed Bottoms. Captains elected at a postmatch meeting to strengthen lineups. schedule set for upcoming week at Lions Alleys with several players posting 200s.
Exus Steer notes project a weak Orange and White season for Texas as 1934 prospects rely on reshuffled backfield and new linemen. Captain Bill Smith anchors center play while James Fadvnek and Jay Arnold vie for wing roles amid a near wholesale rebuild under coach Clyde Littlefield. Seventy five players report in September as Steers aim to avoid last year’s doormat status in the Southwest Conference.
Yesterday's Explanations recall Mrs Caleb F Fox who defeated Glenna Collett at Berlleaire Height Florida for a 13 point match loss. A 77 medal score is noted for a later match in Dedham Massachusetts. Also features a quirky combined story on paperhanging and a teaser for a human interest theater piece at Alpert J Smith’s Electric Chair and a reader mail offer to Alex Kinley.
Big Moose Johnson joins the St. Joseph Saints boosting batting and team play in the Western league. He misses a road trip with the Saints and is deinstated to join the Muskogee Oilers for a first appearance with the cellar-dwelling Quinhoma Orphans in Omaha. Meanwhile Topeka Bators chase leaders against the Cardinals at Borghheld, Des Moines Demons face Bartlesville Broncs, and Joplin hosts a three day Saints stand. Exhibition games feature Omaha and Des Moines vs Negro clubs. Parkers beat Memphis 11 to 6, Temons fall 14 to 3 to Kansas City Monarchs.
New York opens the eleventh annual national public parks tennis championships with a 40 player field. Walter Levitan and Francen Walker are notable seeds as 112 entrants compete across Gentri park. Defending champ Helen Cermaine advances in women's play while Arnold B. Simons and Theodore Drewes also progress in men’s and mixed draws.
Kilgore Texas August witnesses say John King a former Texas league player and umpire helped in arresting four men tied to the disappearance of oil from a local property. Officers believe over 6500 barrels were stolen and stored near a Finis well. Charges against the suspects are being prepared with King cited for aiding the arrests.
The forty first Western Open opens with Virginia Van Wie national champion and Berowice Wall of Oshkosh facing strong Chicago rivals. Wall tops qualifying with 34 40 1. Van Wie shoots 83. Defending champ Opal Hill and Minnesota champ H Alison Pardue draw tough matchups. Oak Park CC causes upsets as Mary Browne and Joseph Palma miss out.
The Lone Star Pigeon Club held a Sunday race from Georgetown covering 100 miles. Goodson Lecey’s Goodson Lecey bird won in 2 hours 41 minutes and claimed second and fourth places, with T. G. Arsh’s birds taking third and fifth. Four hundred birds from one lofts competed in the event. The next meet is slated for April 3 from Waco, 176 miles away.
Theodore Ailey of Altamire California and James Larky of Phoenix Arizona led an exhibition in Denver in which Ailey pitched 42 shoes and 671 ringers for 70.7 percent, surpassing the prior 73.8 percent world mark. Lecky pitched 8 danons and one fill ringers for a A Td percentage. Allen won 17 games with no reverses while Lecky lost one of 17. Lecky is 21 and Allen 18. dates and places reflect an August Denver event.
Aric Mag bP Howard Jones, famed for tough coaching, arrives to lead USC football. Clyde Littedeid of Texas and Notre Dame alumni Frank Daviden join the staff as others await approval this week.
The Twenty third Infantry Doughboys rally in the ninth to beat the Kelly Field Fliers 3 to 2 after falling behind in the eighth. Highlights include Barnett drawing a walk and scoring on Kerbow’s hit, with Kerbow Neyrey and Woods producing hits for the winners amid a late Fliers push led by Wynne and Minals.
Matchmaker Charlie Wright today announced Friday’s wrestling card at Coffman Wright arena 420 South Slemo sheet with three bouts. Main event Pete Brown the Mexican jiu jitsu star vs Billy Edwards in best two of three catches. Semi final Lithuanian Joe Ahimkus vs George Bauer best two of three. Jimmy Lott returns for one fall. Pat O Brien signed to oppose Lathh. Tickets on sale at Gunter Hotel cigar stand and at 210 East Travis.
Los Angeles reports Sonnenberg, once a Dartmouth football hero, has recovered from a heart attack after a beating by Jim Browning. he will wrestle Sammy Stein of New York in a Salah match at the Olympic Club tomorrow night.
A charity playground ball event organized by the Spanish American Girls league and City Becior Jeuanie raises funds for Lunia for the Mexican Blue Crow. Four teams compete Tuesday night at San Pedro Park with City league and Spanish girls teams.
Three San Antonio youths Velinder Walthall and Dulling advanced in the national junior singles tournament at Culver. Velinder, runner-up for the Western title, beat Paoli Brown 8-1 6-0, Dulling defeated Miller Sherwood 6 0 8 9, and Walthall awaited a top rival Gene Mako with Dulling to play Jay Cohn in later round action.
In Austin on August 8, labor commissioner Jack Flynn urged boxers and wrestlers to obtain Texas licenses to compete after the licensing law takes effect September 1. Flynn said the labor department would be ready to operate on Labor Day bouts and that several promoters’ licenses have been tentatively approved with more applications awaiting action.
Scattered box score notes from a Texas game show BUFFS heating up, with detailed player at-bats, hits, errors, and pitching lines. Names like Brower, Binder, Vance, and Moore appear amid a jumble of stats and abbreviations indicating a high-scoring, multi-entity box.
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