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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1944
Page
9
Fragmentary scores and place names appear for a sports or athletic event in Los Angeles with several numbers and team mentions. The readable items include geographic locations such as Hollywood and Sacramento and multiple ratios or statistics, but key details are missing.
Baseball scores across leagues include Syracuse beating Baltimore 6 to 5 and Newark defeating Toronto 6 to 3 in the International League. Other highlights: Milwaukee 17 over Indianapolis 8 and Portland 7 over San Francisco 2 in the Pacific Coast League.
The item notes Don Faurot's year ago appointment as Iowa Pre Flight coach and Sammy Snead’s Canadian Open win with a 274 score from five years past, along with Cincinnati Reds extending their league lead with a double header victory three years ago.
Fred Hayden defeats Calumet Darling in a twilight race as tears flow in the crowd and the crowd reaction reflects a dramatic finish. Local spectators witness a tense finish with Hayden taking the win.
In Belmont Park's Alabama Stakes Vienna outs An outsider 8 to 1 over Twilight Tear, with Thread O Gold and iVenna backing Woodward's entry. Jockey Buddy Haas notes heavy weight and teamwork led to Twilight Tear's defeat. Navy pilot Kenny Cotton is cited in a July 1 report describing his last aerial action in the Philippines Sea.
The Army postal information branch at Camp Lee Virginia handles odd requests from home. A Minnesota father asked to send a washing machine to Guadalcanal while a dentist officer’s wife threatened to pull every postal clerk’s teeth after three months with no mail.
Yesterday's game saw Bill Voiselle scatter eight Pittsburgh hits to strand threats, as the Giants won 14th with an 8-4 edge. New York sparked a 3-run rally in the sixth inning to erase an early deficit.
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