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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1930
Page
5
The Star continues daily sport coverage with local and state updates spanning high school leagues and regional teams. Highlights include football, basketball, and track results with standings, schedules, and notable player performances.
The report notes New York beat Boston 4 to 1 with Babe Ruth and Charley Ruffing keying the Yankees win. Detroit rocked Chicago 12 to 4 as 17 hits produced 29 bases. Cleveland defeated St Louis 6 to 3 while New York topped Boston 10 to 4 in another game.
Hartnett drives Chicago Cubs with a homer and two doubles in a 10 to 7 defeat of Pittsburgh in the series opener. Meine and Spencer faltered early as Pittsburgh scored four in the first before rallying. Bool adds two homers for the Pirates in a high scoring start to the matchup.
Nineveh Virginia notes report Mr and Mrs Guy Jones and family leaving for a visit with friends and relatives. Mrs Lucie Hicks Sowers dies near Nineveh. interment Friday. Mrs Laura Heartley returns home after visiting with her daughter. Mr John Mc Cauley recovers from illness. T D Miller remains indisposed. A A McKay and daughter Louise visited Wheatland Farm. Mrs Daniel Hughes arrives for a few days with her siblings.
Otto Brinkman displays a model of a baby blimp built in Germany for a proposed United States flight. The craft will carry 24 persons, but five are slated for the Atlantic crossing planned for early October.
Wheatland Farm reports social rounds with Leo Jett and wife visiting uncles A J Jett on Wednesday. Charles Powers and daughter Charlotte shopped in Winchester on Thursday. Miss Mary Weaver returned to Washington after visiting sister Guy Jories.
Chief Fire Warden C. Lee Barr warns residents to limit burning to daylight hours and avoid yard fires. He notes the extreme danger this season as grass and foliage are highly flammable and city ordinance imposes fines for nighttime burning.
Officials urge extreme care while burning trash amid dry conditions. Presence to extinguish any spreading blaze is advised and local laws restrict fires at night and may apply during the day under current drought, as several fires have already started locally.
The fourth quarterly meeting of Reliance Change United Brethren Church will convene Tuesday August 5 at 8 p m Rev Dr Brunk will attend A delegate will be elected to the annual conference to be held at Stayton Va September 11 Officials will report department work The pastor Rev H E Richardson urges full attendance
Sparks Circus heads to Winchester next Friday with a famed lineup of gaited and high jumping horses including Lady Fashion. Mexican horseman Carlos Carreon leads the department with sensational tricks and bucking bronco acts. Matinee prices: children under 12, 25 cents. adults, 50 cents.
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