Night baseball gains steam as major league revival seen
Sportlights By Harold reports conversion of ownerships to night games and easing wartime pressures fueling a banner season. Griffith cites night baseball as faster and more thrilling while Sporting News notes plans for unlimited night games if St Louis and St Louis win pennants. Briggs and Bragg discuss postwar deployment and roster expansions as leagues rebound with renewed confidence.
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Alamo Jewelry Guards Face Strong League Night Schedule
Daily play at Kelly field centers on Alamo Jewelry vs Swift and Company as Alamo’s squad leads early Major B action. Other matches include 820th vs ASC Replacement Depot and 256th vs Monnclow, with Sunday doubles featuring Red All Stars vs Randolph field post team and light aviators vs Randolph. The week builds to a Sunday finale, with managers and officers meeting Thursday evening at a local Mexican restaurant.
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Span Am League Sunday slate sparks fans at multiple parks
Span Am League Weekend slate features early 110 am match at Kelly Richter field between Ploch Ol rs and Kelly Industrial Soldiers, with five afternoon games at Pittman Sullivan park. Highlight 2 pm clash at Pichman Sullivan as Fast Stic j thletics faces Dance Care wom. 530 pm contest pits Miller Park Giants against Normagic Test Pleat club as season action continues with leaders and winners advancing.
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Busy Week in Jakucki and the Service League Action
The article outlines a busy slate for the Jakucki hurlers and the Service Baseball League with three makeup games, Sunday showdowns at Randolph Field and Cadet Center, and key appearances by top pitchers including Pollet joining SAACC and Yoliet available for duty. It notes Randolph and Kelly leading in standings, mentions Brownwood and Bowie matchups, and reports St Louis Browns defeating Detroit 5-2 behind Jakucki for his 11th win, with Christman driving in multiple runs and a 13-hit Kelly attack in a separate game.
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Dodgers edge Phillies in ninth to take 4 3 win
Brooklyn saves one hit in the ninth to beat Philadelphia 4 3 as Whitlow Wyatt earns his 9th win. Bill Lee worked eight innings for the Dodgers before the late rally. Capped by a three-run frame, Brooklyn moves ahead in the top of the ninth and holds on for the victory.
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Baylor Back On Grid in 45
WACO June 17 Baylor University, after wartime cutbacks in 1943, plans to revive football by 1948 under President Pat Nell sant. The Southwest conference is expected to ease manpower strains as the program restarts.
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Giants Split With Braves Yanks and A's Split Twin Bill
In New York on June 17, the Phillies and Yankees drew a 2 to 2 tie in game one while the A's won the second game 4 to 2. Alley Donald outpitched Jesa Flores in the opener, Estalella homered for the A’s in the seventh, and Nick Etten with Oscar Grimes fueled the Yankees early offense. In the nightcap Frank Hayes sparked Philadelphia’s four-run seventh to seal the A’s victory. Boston and New York also played a doubleheader with the Braves taking the opener 2 to 1 and the Giants tying 8 to 5 in game two.
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Cooney, 43, Signs With New York Yankees
Forty three year old Jaluany Cooney signed with the New York Yankees as an outfielder after being released by the Brooklyn Dodgers on Thursday.
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Park Awaits Youngsters Eighteenth Texas Junior Championship
The Southwest's top junior golfers contest the eighteenth Texas Junior at Brackenridge Park August 23 to September 1. Murray B Brooks oversees the event with war bonds and stamps as prizes. L M Orantell Jr. of Dallas won last year against Sterling Brown of San Antonio. Entry blanks are circulating, with no entry fee and multiple match rounds planned at the municipal course.
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Stable Fire Charges Filed
Leroy McCammish, 30, a one legged ex stableman, confessed to starting a devastating fire at a Detroit race center. The blaze killed David Scott, 66, and destroyed 31 thoroughbreds, with two grooms, two firemen, and eight spectators injured. McCammish claimed he warned others and cited 1942 Detroit accident as driving madness. Omer Ferguson lost the stable including Bell Buzzer.
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Horse Racing results from Aqueduct and Bay Meadows meets
In New York at Aqueduct Ted Atkinson rode By Dimming to win the Sherie handicap in 1 462, returning $8.99 $3.00 and 5 70. At Bay Meadows San Matho Bull Reich paid long odds with exotics, and at Haythorne Lincoln Fields Chapay Sea finished second as Grohs’s mount paid a top price of 34 to win.
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Bundy Wins National Clay Courts Net Crown in Dramatic Final
Santa Monica player Miss Bundy, daughter of two champions, defeated Mary Arnold of Los Angeles 7 5 6 4 to win the women’s national clay courts title. She did not drop a set during the tournament, losing only 26 games in ten sets. In the men’s final, Tranisca Segura and Billy Talbert advanced to Sunday’s title match after sweeping to the finals, with Segura beating Tex Norris 6 1 6 1 6 1 and Talker routing Dilley 6 0 6 0. The doubles finalists included Segura and Talbert, who defeated Johnson and Norman to reach the final.
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