Rain Delays Pioneer League Training in California
Persistent rain disrupted Pioneer league camps in central California. A Twin Falls Cowboys at Stockton game and a Salt Lake Bees at Reno Silver Sox exhibition were canceled, with forecasts suggesting no games this weekend. The lone bright spot was Pocatello Cardinals at Fullerton where Bert Bonomi, after a strong Fresno season, joined for workouts.
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Stockton
Cal
Pioneer League
California
Twin Falls Cowboys
Salt Lake Bees
Reno Silver Sox
Pocatello Cardinals
Fullerton
Chicken thief eludes Patton but 11 hens perish
Justus Patton of Coulterville Illinois fired his shotgun after hearing a noise in the hen house. He shouted Ive got you covered as the burglar fled. In the aftermath 11 chickens lay dead, the thief escapee.
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Coulterville
Ill
James Patton
Patton
Zale May Quit Ring If Rocky Hits Too Hard
Tony Zale, 34, warns he may retire for good if Rocky Graziano knocks him dizzy in their third middleweight title fight set for Newark on June 9. He vows to quit if defeated badly and cites his two daughters as a motive to stay in the ring only if able to walk off upright.
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Zale
Rocky
New York
Tony Zale
Rocky Graziano
Newark
Gary
Ind
Tony
Sam Pian
Art Winch
Chicago
Barney Ross
Henry Armstrong
Pian
Barney
Winch
Reds Leader Is Holding Hope Team Will Make First Division
Cincinnati Reds manager Johnny Neun believes the club can reach the first division this season. Key factors include Babe Young power, rookie shortstop Tom Stallcup, and improved rookie pitchers Ed Vehmeier Kent Peterson and Ev Lively. New outfielders Hank Sauer Johnny Wyrostek bolster the roster as Eddie Miller departs.
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Reds
Hope
Leo H. Petersen
New York
Johnny Neun
Cincinnati Reds
Neun
Dodgers
Cardinals
Braves
Giants
Babe Young
Tom Stalltup
Ed Brantt
Kent Peterson
Ev Lively
Herman Wehmeier
Howard Fox
Hank Sauer
Johnny Wyrostek
Eddie Miller
Miller
Stallcup
Jersey City
Young
Grady Hatton
Ben Zientara
Bobby Adams
Augie Galan
Frank Baumholtz
Wyrostek
Sauer
Syracuse
Clyde Vollmer
Bob Usher
Nean
Ewell Blackwell
Vehmeier
Vox
Comiskey Locks Door Too Late For Ed Lopat
New York columnist critiques Chicago White Sox owner Charles Comiskey for letting star pitcher Ed Lopat depart to the Yankees. The piece contrasts Comiskey’s rhetoric of developing homegrown talent with actions that traded Lopat for castoffs and cash. It also cites Connie Mack and Ban Johnson to frame ownership power and the era’s baseball politics.
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Comiskey
Ed Lopat
New York
Charles Comiskey
Chicago White Sox
Squire
White Sox
Mr. Comiskey
Ted Lyons
Luke Appliby
Edward Lopat
Yankees
Chicago
Charlie
Charles
Happy Chandler
Happy
Sox
Leslie O’connor
Ban Johnson
Johnson
Chance to buy prime Idaho beaver pelts at auction May
Boise Idaho will host an auction of 2000 beaver pelts on May 5 at the game department warehouse. Director T B Murray said John W Smith will oversee the sale with R E Williamson of Denver as grader and auctioneer. The event aims to establish an annual Idaho fur auction and follows a market rise from beaver management programs. Pelts are described as top condition and high priced at recent exchanges in Seattle and Denver.
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Boise
Idaho
Game Department
T. B. Murray
State Fish and Game Department
John W. Smith
R. E. Williamson
Denver
Williamson
Smith
Seattle
Murray
Deonne Bailey Wins Contest at KEIO Kiddies Klub
Eight year old Deonne Bailey daughter of Mr and Mrs A E Bailey 42 Greenwood Ave won first prize a wristwatch in the KEIO Kiddies Klub contest Saturday morning. Contest number Ave Maria. Second place went to Vicky Vi Bullock 6 who sang and danced A Gal in Calico. Vicky did not know her parents.
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Deonne Bailey
A. E. Bailey
Greenwood Ave
Keio Kiddies Klub
Ave Maria
Vicky Vi Bullock
Calico
Vicky
Horse value shifts in 1948 county assessments
In early days a horse thief faced hanging. Richardson County livestock values show a two year old horse at 10 dollars and a goat at 5 dollars in the 1948 schedule of values.
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Falls City
Neb
Richardson County
Earl Hogan Held On Check Fraud Charge In Columbus
In Columbus Indiana a deputy sheriff arrested Earl Hogan after a confrontation. Hogan was the suspect in a check fraud case and jailed on a related charge.
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Columbus, Ind
ULP
Earl Hogan
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Ray Mueller
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Cornelius Mack
Philadelphia
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John Lardner
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National Guard Armory
National Guard
Lord Albert Mills
London
England
Bob de Marc
Green Bay, Wisc
Steve Crusher
Casey
Ireland
Cliff Thiede
U. of Cal
Pocatello
POST
McCammon
ARIMO
Bancroft
Soda Springs
Paris
Montpelier
Pocatello Post
Circulation Department
North Main
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