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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1948
Page
12
John M. Jackie Welsh Jr former University of Pennsylvania football star and freshman coach was named varsity backfield coach succeeding Horace Hendrickson who resigned recently to take football and baseball posts with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Stan Musial sparked five straight singles to lift the St. Louis Cardinals to a 5 2 win over the Boston Braves as Brecheen notched his eighth victory. The win kept the Cards within 1 1/2 games of the leader Pirates and within reach of the pennant. Also notes Indians beat Yankees as DiMaggio homered. Reiser cleared to join Dodgers after ankle injury.
Major league box scores show wins by New York over Cleveland Rioux, plus Washington over Philadelphia and Boston over Chicago. Highlights include Kell and Wakefield homering for Washington, Stephens and Pesky for Boston, and DiMaggio driving in runs for the Yankees in a scattered sequence of games with multiple pitchers and attendance figures noted.
The Pigeon club from New Iberia Louisiana released birds at 5 a.m. and they returned the same day covering a distance of 402.28 miles. The race featured young birds and drew notable participants including Jack C. Tymee and Carl A. Bryan among others with results listing speeds in yards per minute.
Summary of leading MLB batting and pitching figures by league and team. Includes Williams Boston Boudreau Cleveland DiMaggio New York Coan Washington, Musial St Louis Kiner Pittsburgh Ashburn Philadelphia and various pitchers like Rasch New York and Brecheen St Louis. Also notes Pacific Coast League leaders and teams such as San Francisco and Los Angeles.
In Dyche Stadium the Big Nine defeated the Pacific Coast 93 to 39 as Northwestern's Bill Porter led with a 120 yard high hurdles meet record 13.9 and a 56.8 shuttle hurdle relay leg. Porter joined George Walker and Tom Mitchell on the winning relay with Richard Maxwell. Chuck Peters of Indiana won the 220 yard dash. Southern California sprinter Mel Patton ran only in the 440 relay and left early.
Rain drenched the Trans Misssissippi event as Mission Hills hosted two rounds. Defending champion Skee Riegel beat Ben Goodwin after Goodwin quit on the first nine. Texas golfer Bob Watson won 2 under par over O. Rose to reach a Wednesday match with Orville Goens. Ed Zimmerman defaulted to Tom Cunningham and Rufus King defeated A G Carter Jr. in Wichita Falls. International League scores listed: Baltimore 3-0, Buffalo 6-9, Montreal 8-1, Newark 3-2.
Three members of the ninth district Olympic boxing team failed to meet the squad as it left for Boston for Olympic tryouts. Only Tom Adams and Charles Black traveled from San Antonio. others listed as absent include John Conway Pete Gil and Wallace Willard. AAU officials had not heard from the missing boxers. In other notes, South Atlantic League results showed Greenville over Macon and Columbus over Augusta.
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