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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1940
Page
6
Towncats president Jack Sakiison fills in as guest columnist for Hank Squire who is on vacation. Sakiison writes about team reflections and downtown football scenes with his usual direct tone.
Mike Casteel returns from a Midwest vacation to lead a squad of about 50, with 17 returning lettermen and roughly 23 from the frosh team. Several key positions see turnover, including end and fullback, while guard and tackle groups remain strong. Towncats booster club details and recent growth to 500 members are noted as community support.
From Arizona and California top swimmers and divers arrive for final tune ups at University Park pool in Phoenix. The meet starts tomorrow night to decide Arizona senior and junior Southern Pacific A A U championships with 29 outdoor Arizona titles and eight junior SP titles at stake. Dr. R J Stroud of Tempe named director of events. Out of state entrants compete for Southern Pacific titles, not state titles.
Cubs react to P K Wrigley naming Gabby Hartnett manager in 1941 by dropping a 8-3 decision to the Boston Bees. Dick Errickson earned his 10th win as Chicago slips to sixth. Bees outhit Cubs 15 to nine as French, Root, and Bryant surrender. Pirates split with Phillies. Giants reclaim third with 5-2 win over Cardinals. Dietrich drives White Sox past Red Sox 3-2 in the only AL game.
ALBUQUERQUE N M Aug 29 Six players from the Albuquerque Cardinals will move up next season. H Louis Hahn president was informed today. Per a call from the St Louis Cardinals the two year veterans will not be drafted this fall but will get a tryout in a higher classification league than the class C Arizona Texas league next season. Players named Clair Donald Glasby 22 left handed pitcher Spalding Idaho Paul Hjort 21 outfielder San Francisco Elwood Curtis 19 Whittier California Dick Adams 20 Stockton California Jerry Gardner 19 catcher Long Beach California Luther French 20 pitcher Riverside California.
In Hershey Pennsylvania sixteen golf stars compete on the rain soaked Hershey Country Club course to decide eight players advancing in the PGA tour. Veterans Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen, aged 48 and 38, face young contenders Dick Metz Sam Snead Ben Hogan and Henry Picard as they seek one more major victory. Hagen and Sarazen, with eight PGA titles and Open titles between them, hope for a late bid while predicting no win. Today's matches include Sarazen versus Picard and Jag McSpaden with potential head to head with Snead and Hagen if both win. Other pairings feature Metz against Byron Nelson Arthur Clark against Eddie Kirk Al Brosch versus Hogan and Ralph Guldahl versus Jim Foulis.
Nearly 85 000 fans crowd Soldier Field to watch Dr Eddie Anderson's all star Iowa squad face the Green Bay Packers in a seventh annual charity game. Lambeau also coaches the Packers in a clash featuring passing, speed and deception as a nationwide poll picks the coaching staff.
Billy Conn, world light heavyweight champ, trains for next week’s bout with Bob Pastor in New York. The piece jokes that Pastor is a “college guy” with a long list of academic feats, including football at New York University and appearances before famous institutes. Conn notes college guys rarely win in boxing.
At the Tri-state Diamond Belt championships in San Francisco, Arizona, Utah, and California amateurs competed. Mike Moreno of Prescott No gali es Arizona won the 118-pound class on points against Harry Vasquez of Oakland Athens club after an early deficit. Ellis Ross of Phoenix could not fight in the 135-pound class due to injury. Joe Bravo of San Francisco faced Art Candellario of Oakland, losing by second-round technical knockout.
Conn embraces hands on schooling and street fighting theory learned in Pittsburgh. He believes true education for a fighter is fighting in alleys where traffic won’t stop a right smash midair. He now seeks to knock the mortar board off the head of any A B or B S who ever lived.
The Pittsburgh Pirates announced the purchase of Aldon Jay Wilkie a southpaw pitcher from the Seattle club of the Pacific Coast league. The Pirates will send one player plus cash in the five figure range and Wilkie will report next year.
Five years ago Glenna Collett Ware of Philadelphia captured the U S Women’s golf championship for a sixth time by defeating Patty Berg of Minneapolis 17 3 and 2 in a 36 hole final.
A large crowd is expected for the Cowboys final home game of the season against the Bisbee Bees at Randolph Park. Jerome faces Burpo in a anticipated pitching duel as the series stands 2 to 1 Bees after last night 8 to 4 win.
Albuquerque defeated El Paso 5 to 1 to move ahead of the Texans into first in the standings. It was the second night the Cards trimmed the Texans. Dick Adams robbed El Paso with sensational catches while Joe Behrman held the visitors to eight hits and drove in two runs. The Cards had 12 safeties off Johnson.
Games between Means and Slocum Races and the Ochoa Reds on Sunday and the Races versus the Co‑op Daily on Monday have been postponed, officials announced today.
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