Pirates Install Pie Traynor as Manager After Loss
Harold Pie Traynor takes over for George Gibson as Pirates manager, but the team falls 5-3 to the Giants, dropping to fifth with an eighth loss in nine starts. Giants pull ahead while Pirates search for a spark amid a five-game skid.
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Fullerton, JR
Associated Press
Pittsburgh Pirates
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Pie) Traynor
Traynor
George Gibson
Pittsburgh
Pirates
New York
Boston
Chicago
Pirates change leaders as Traynor takes helm in fifth place
The Pirates shift leadership with Traynor as captain while Gibson steps back. Giants win again as Pittsburgh slips to fifth. Washington and Cleveland split a doubleheader, NY and Detroit near the top. Walter Huff leads gun in Fort Smith trap shoot preliminaries with 98 in the first hundred. Grady Alday asks about a baserunning rule on a runner scoring on a double and being ruled out.
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Gibson
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Washington
Cleveland
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Fort Smith
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Grady
1935 Southern Amateur to Be Held at Richmond
The 1935 Southern Golf Association tournament will be at the Country Club of Virginia in Richmond during June 18 to 22. The article also notes Washington State College track throwers George Theodoratos and Hal Dunker posting impressive shot put marks this season.
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Richmond
New Orleans
Southern Golf Association
Country Club of Virginia
Washington State College
George Theodoratos
Hal Dunker
Slugfest Ends 11 to 7 as Babich Leaves Early
In Brooklyn, Casey Stengel started Johnny Babich who exited in the fourth after a batted ball gloved his pitching hand, as the slugfest finished 11 to 7. The day was quiet for other clubs with Cleveland and Washington splitting a doubleheader to stay tied for third. Senators won 6-2 in the opener with early homers by Johnny Stone and Heinie Manush, while the Indians claimed a 3-0 win behind Mel Harder with Hal Trosky’s twelfth homer and Monte Weaver charged with the loss.
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Casey Stengel
Brooklyn
Johnny Babich
Goast
Senators
Johnny Stone
Heinie Manush
Oral Hildebrand
Indians
Mel Harder
Hal Trosky
Monte Weaver
Women golfers face weakening front line as Hicks turns pro
New York June 20 Helen Hicks leaves amateur status for a commercial career and Mrs Glenna Collette Vare nears retirement, weakening Americas top women players. Top contenders Virginia Van Wie Maureen Orcutt Opal Hill Leona Cheney Charlotte Ghuting and Lucille Robinson emerge as possible successors. Hicks becomes adviser to a Chicago sports firm with a five year contract and about 7500 per year.
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Helen Hicks
Glenna Collette Vare
America
Virginia van Wie
Maureen Orcutt
New Jersey
Opal Hill
Leona Cheney
Charlotte Ghuting
Lucille Robinson
Perths
Miss Slicks
Suzanne Lenglen
Charles
Cash and Carry) Pyles
Mildred
Babe) Ddrickson
Texas
Miss Hicks
Chicago
Cunningham Eyes World Half Mile Record Bid
Glenn Cunningham of Kansas, following a 4 06.7 mile, aims to challenge the world half mile at the national collegiate meet in Los Angeles. If his ankle holds, he will run the 880 Friday preliminaries and then the mile on Saturday under coach Bill Hargiss supervision.
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Glenn Cunningham
Kansas
Glenn
Bill Hargiss
Princeton
Perrin Walker
F Walker
Atlanta
Amton
Burch
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Eancon
Wes
Southeastern
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Auburn
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DuPree
Iker
Abe
Dixie
Routh
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Stanford
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Mina
Vesas
Mintosh Says Time Has Come to Look to Future
Athens Ga June 20 Henry T McIntosh editor Albany Herald and district four chairman for the National Planning Board says Americans should plan for tomorrow. Speaking at the University of Georgia summer school he said the United States can arrange the future through the National Planning Board.
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Athens
Henry T. McIntosh
The
Albany Herald
National Planning Board
University of George
McIntosh
United States
Former champions face elimination in Dixie tourney
In New Orleans three former Dixie amateur champions Harris Whitney and Perry struggle to reach the select flight after rough round on the Country Club layout. Billy Howell Richmond leads with 71, Lazard McClure Hughes close behind.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Chasteen Harris
Nelson Whitney
Sam Perry
Harris
Memphis
Whitney
Perry
Birmingham
Billy Howell
Richmond
Jules Lazard
Edwin McClure
Shreveport
Julius Hughes
Atlanta
Howell
Outlaws raid Crescent. 12 people reportedly kidnapped
Seven armed outlaws entered Crescent Oklahoma and held off residents for about an hour as they attempted to kidnap twelve people. The incident disrupted the town with a tense standoff and ongoing investigation by local authorities.
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Guthrie
Okla
Crescent
Here
Barons Edge Vols in 12 Innings for Big Win
Memphis report: Birmingham Barons beat Nashville Vols 6 to 5 in 12 innings behind Clarence Griffin on the mound. Memphis doubles Knoxville 2 to 1 and 3 to 1. Little Rock tops Chattanooga 3 to 1. Atlanta falls 4 to 0 at New Orleans. Struss injures by line drive, out 2-3 weeks.
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Southern Association
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Vols
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Clarence Griffin
Knoxville
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Gill
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Grant in fourth round of Western Net Tourney
Chicago June 20 Bryan Grant of Atlanta top seed advanced to the fourth round in the western tennis championship. He won two matches yesterday and was slated to meet Max Davidson the western champion as the field narrowed and stronger entrants remained active.
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Chicago
Bryan Grant
Atlanta
Max Davidson
George Gibson Back With Pirates as Fan After Managerial Exit
George Gibson return to Forbes Field as a fan after being replaced by Harold Traynor as Pirates manager. He plans to watch the Wednesday game and stay near the office, insisting his baseball career isn’t over and he will stay in the sport in some capacity. The move was described as amicable by both Gibson and the Pirates management.
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Boster
Braves
Pittsburgh Pirates
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Pirate
Harold
Pie) Traynor
Gibby
Gibb
Thieves Loot Farmers and Merchants Bank Safe
Night Watchman Joe Stanfield 46 targeted by gunmen who cut telephone lines, abducted several residents, and dragged a 5600 pound safe through a shattered plate glass window. The heist yielded about 2000 dollars while a crowd of 75 to 80 watched as the criminals attempted to load the safe onto a winch equipped truck.
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Farmers and Merchants Bank
Joe Stanfield
Alday Loses First Game In Two Years In 11-Inning Loss
Georgia-Florida Amateur Baseball League action sees Thomasville’s Pats defeat Alday and the Buds 4-3 in eleven innings amid protests over umpire calls. Quitman walks in the winning run with bases loaded two out in the twelfth, Nobles and Alday lasting pitchers. two teams set to meet again at the stadium tomorrow.
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BUDS
Quitman Club
Municipal Atacihira
Quitman
Thomasville
Quitmen
Ui League
Thomanville
Pats
Inca Beetle
Linge
Grady
Aldayond
Duda
Suth
Alay
Gungire
Clements
Wheeler
Quitrenan Club
Kurtis Clements
Baseball Standings and Late Scores Mixed in Jumbled Report
A garbled sports round shows teams from New York to Cincinnati with scores and matchups. The text then shifts to a violent incident where a group abducts children, releasing all but Stanfield near the Cimarron river bridge five miles south of Crescent.
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Cimarron River Bridge
Crescent
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