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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1947
Page
13
Another view of Miss Dora thy Dillman, crowned queen of the Fresno Relays, as she prepares to preside over the annual track and field festival tomorrow.
Shafter sprinter Wayne Hill will run in the varsity 100 yard dash at the West Coast Relays in Fresno. Preliminaries are tomorrow afternoon with finals in the evening. Hill has clocked 10.5 and 10.4 this season and is favored to reach the finals after a Kern County meet runner up.
The Shafter Merchants baseball team will play Green Acres tomorrow at Green Acres. Lynch is expected to be Shafter's starting pitcher as the team aims to return to the win column.
The Shafter High Generals closed a successful season with a 9-0 win over Maricopa, finishing 9 wins 6 losses. Starters included Bob Scales and Sum Rice with top averages, Rodriquez earning MVP, and Long and Rodriquez anchoring the pitching staff.
Welterweight champion Sugar Robinson stopped his latest opponent in the fourth round by technical knockout in Kansas City after Ed Die was floored twice and Finazzo's corner threw in the towel.
Outstanding track and field athletes from California and across the Pacific will gather at Fresno State College Ratcliffe Stadium for the 21st West Coast Relays. More than 1200 entrants test sprint, relay, and field events with U.S.C. and California teams favored to win multiple titles.
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