Market Bravo Win Titles in ee and Junior leagues
The Rio Bravo team claimed the first half title then Adamson Trucking won the second half and a decisive playoff, with Rio Bravo clinching 10 to 7 on Friday. In Pee-Wee, Central Market dominated, beating Brown Bryant 21 to 6 to secure the season championship after a split first and second half.
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Riovo
Eerong Adlan Tr
Een
Rio Cave
Adamson
Rio Bravo
Adamson Trucking
Pee-Wee
Central Market
Brown & Bryant
Rex Allen
Gontalon
Playoffs Begin in Men and Girls Softball Leagues
The Men’s and Girls’ leagues opened their playoff races for the 1948 season. In the men’s league a tie between Hitchcock Auto Parts and the 20-30 Club required a one game playoff to decide the second-half winner, with a potential 2 out of 3 series depending on results. In the girls’ league a preliminary three-game series started as Buttonwillow faced McFarland with another game set for tonight and a possible third early next week.
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Hitchcock
Auto Parts
Hitchcock’s
Buttonwillow
McFarland
County Baseball League Standings Update
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo records 22 Holstein cows producing 606 pounds of butter fat over 294 days with 2 and 3X daily milkings in the county league notes.
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Cal. Poly
San Luis Obispo
Softball League Standings Highlight California Farms and Water
A regional feature notes California north of Sacramento holds 33 percent of the state's farmland and supplies 75 percent of its water, in context of local softball league standings and regional issues.
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California
Sacramento
Kern County Fair and Horse Show Promises Wide Appeal
Barbara Olson of Buttonwillow invites farmers merchants and children to the Kern County Fair and Mammoth Horse Show. 4-H livestock poultry hogs and Future Farmers compete for cash prizes while mothers and housewives learn cooking and chores displays. Exhibition builds for a community gathering at the show of all shows.
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Kern County Fair
Barbara Olson
Buttonwillow
Calif
Softball Trophies to Be Awarded August 18
Trophies for four local softball leagues will be presented on Wednesday night August 18 during a special game. An All-Star team from the Shafter Men's league will face Superior Oil of the Bakersfield Industrial league, a county stronghold. Caps and managers of the top teams in the Shafter Men's Girls Junior and Pee-Wee leagues will receive trophies. Junior and Pee-Wee champs have been decided as Rio Bravo beat Adamsom Trucking and Central Market defeated Brown & Bryant. The Men's league title was undecided last night with McFarland and Buttonwillow in a possible 3 game playoff.
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Shafter
Superior Oil
Bakersfield
Rio Bravo
Adamson Trucking
Central Market
Brown & Bryant
Market Boys
McFarland and
Buttonwillow
McClure-Wasco and Girls Playoff Games Tonight
Tonight at the Primary softball diamond Mc Clure Drug Store Rio Bravo of the Shafter Men s league clash with Waste in exhibition play. A preliminary game pairs McFarland and Buttonwillow girls in their second game of a three game title series.
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McClure Drug Store
Rio Bravo
Shafter Men’s League
Waste
Pipkins Vacation Trips Near Yosemite Then Heads to San Francisco
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Pipkin and son Gordon with Bobby Vic nolo return from a week of fishing at Tuolomne Meadows near Yosemite. The group then leaves Tuesday for another week long stay in San Francisco.
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Pipkins
Kenneth Pipkin
Gordon
Bobby Vignolo
Tuolumne Meadows
Yosemite
San Francisco
Shafter advances toward Shaughnessy playoff with 10–7 win
Shafter small‑towns team eyed a playoff spot after a 10 to 7 victory over the Bakersfield Chicks. Billy Boyd pitched well limiting Bakersfield to nine hits as Shafter built leads with timely hitting and a three‑run third inning. The county semipro league playoff format pits the lower division winner against the upper division contenders for a county title.
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Shafter
Shaughnessy
Bakersfield Chicks
Annhex
Kern County
Chicks
Billy Boyd
Boyd
Bass
Chick
AB Anderson
G. Scales
Peters
Boyd Susan R. Scales
L. Rice
D. Johnston
M. Scales
A. Johnston
Local Softball Results From Hitchcock's Auto Parts to Legion
Local softball results list: Hitchcock's Auto Parts defeated 4-20-30 Club 4 to 3 while Lawson-Lowe edged American Legion 11 to 8.
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Hitchcock’s Auto Parts
Lawson-Lowe
American Legion
Bakersfield swimmers and golfers enjoy Union Avenue Plunge and Alta Vista play
Dr. Henry Voth Ray Rexius Chuck Klassen and Marvin Weidenbach swam Tuesday night at the Union Avenue Plunge in Bakersfield and then played a round of miniature golf at the Alta Vista Golf Course.
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Henry Voth
Ray Rexius
Chuck Klassen
Marvin Weidenbach
Union Avenue
Bakersfield
Alta Vista Golf Course
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Jack Hare, Inc
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Shafter Press
Priday
Sports & Amusement Section
Hoosier Hotshots
Song OF
Idaho
Ted Donaldson
Rusty
Susan Peters
Edgar Buchannan
Ray Corrigan
Keener
Gene Stratton Porter
Wey
Pyrenees
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Seventeenth
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Gordon M. Dean
Miami
Fla
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Radio & Appliance CO
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