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Daily NewsSaturday, August 21, 1943Baxter BeatsKellogg NineoAXTKk—Baxter’* bateball team made It, thre*' straight over theKellogg Athletir Club's nine Sunday by taking advantage of the visitors' errors to pull ahead and seizea 12-7 decisionThe Kellogg team, with Arnold I Reed on the mound, stayed ahead until about thlt; mid-way mark when the Baxter team stole ahead. Dick Butler was the winning pitcher.DUNN ENTERS TOURNEYPHILADELPHIA—(API— JoanneDunn. Des Moines, is scheduled to meet Amy Roosevelt. Birmingham, Mich., a relative of PresidentRoosevelt, in the annual nationalgirls* lawn tennis tournamentwhich opens here today at the Cricket club sixty players from 15 states are entered in the tournament.Byrd ChangesTo Golf, WinsTop '43 CrownBY CHARLES CHAMBERLAINCHICAGO—(APi—Sam Byrd nowis a two-letter man in major sports—baseball and golf.The 36-year-old Philadelphian, who got the golf bug” in 1936 when he won the annual baseball tournament in Florida, walked off with the top links’ crown of 1943 yesterday—the Chicago victory national championship.It was the first major title won by the ex-outflelder for the New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds and established him as one of the top golfers in the country. It took Byrd seven years to really convince himself that he had the talent required to keep pace with the game's top tournament followers, His fellow pros began recognising
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Newton Daily News
Newton, Iowa, US
Sun, Aug 22, 1943
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