City Softball pennant race narrows with two weeks left
Royal Crown Cola suffers a 1–0 setback to Emily as O'Sullivan Rubber Co. tops Novick 8–6 to reach 20–10 and stay in first. Plumly wins to claim fourth place while Moose Club upsets Arthur 11–8. With two games remaining, RC must sweep J W Arthur to claim the title, else O'Sullivan or Arthur could seize the pennant.
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Royal Crown Cola
Emily
Plumly
Battlers
J. W. Arthur
BC Now Ust
O'Sullivan Rubber Co
Fly In
Novick
Iun
Arthur
Bottlers
O'Sullivan
J. W. Arthur Insurance Co
Crown Cola Corp
Bobby Jackson
Ernie ‘Burch
Boxwell
Ott Spaid
Larrick
Haymaker
Tilers
Moose Club
Shaughnessey
Jesse Donald
Secrist
Henrietta
Don Smith
Moosemen
Tillotson
Hart
Church League
Cork St
Presbyterian
Braddock St
Girl shooter breaks 100 in big trap shoot
At the Grand American Trap Shoot in Vandalia Ohio Joan Pflueger an 18 year old from North Miami Florida became the first woman to break 100 straight in the champions race. She then added 74 of 75 in a shootoff to defeat 37 state champions and boost the feminine standing in the event's 51 year history.
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Vandalia
Gomaney
Joan Pflueger
North Miami
Fla
Local Cocker Wins D C Show at Capitol City Club
Coronet's Count owned by Mrs. Dorothy deGrange Baldridge of Winchester earned second prize in the nine to twelve month Cocker Spaniel class at the Capitol City Cocker Club show at Haines Point in Washington D C. The dog also secured blue ribbon as best male cocker and placed second in best dog at the SPCA show last month.
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Coronet
Dorothy deGrange Baldridge
Winchester
Capitol City Cocker Club
Haines Point
Washington, D. C
Baldridge
SPCA
Tigers Clash With Yanks In Crucial 3-game Series
Detroit and New York square off in a pivotal three game set at Yankee Stadium as pennant race tense. Red Rolfe selects Hal White to start game one while Casey Stengel taps Allie Reynolds to duel Detroit.
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Joe Reichler
Associated Press
Detroit
Tigers
New York
Yankee Stadium
Red Rolfe
Casey Stengel
Yankees
Stengel
Allie Reynolds
Rolfe
Hal White
Bombers
Vic Raschi
Tommy Byrne
Reynolds
Art Houtteman
Houtteman
Fred Hutchinson
St. Louis Browns
Dizzy Trout
al Widmar
Davis Cup Doubles Match Signals Slipping Form
In Brookline Massachusetts, Jack Bromwich and Frank Sedgman defeated Gardnar Mulloy and Bill Talbert 7-5 8-6 3-6 6-1 in the National Doubles final. Mulloy and Talbert, age 36 and 32, seem unlikely to avoid Davis Cup doubles play at Forest Hills later this week, despite four National Doubles titles since 1942. Bromwich, with teammates Sidwell and Quist, showed peak form.
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Brookline
Mass
Jack Bromwich
Frank Sedgman
Australia
Gardnar Mulloy
Bill Talbert
Long
Mountain Falls Edges Lost City 4 3 in Bi-state League
Mountain Falls defeated Lost City 4 to 3 in Bi-state Baseball League action. Mountain Falls pitcher limited Lost City to three runs while the offense produced the winning runs in the late innings.
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Mountain Falls
Lost City
Choo Choo Justice Declines Richmond Rebels Offer
North Carolina’s three time All American halfback Choo Choo Justice will not sign with the Richmond Rebels, choosing to devote his full time to the Medical Foundation. Rebel owner Harry Seibold then announced the signing of Virginia great Bob Thomason, a former VMI star and 1948 passer for a Los Angeles Rams. Thomason will leave an engineering job in Birmingham for Richmond, terms of the contract not disclosed.
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Richmond
Richmond Rebels
Charlie
Choo-Choo
Justice
North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Harry Seibold
Virginia
Bob Thomason
Thommson
Jean
Los Angeles Rams
Rebels
Birmingham
Seibold
Richmond Stadium
Medical Foundation
North Carolina Medical Foundation
Thomason
Baseball Standings and Schedule Daily Update
Major Leagues by AP shows National League standings with Philadelphia lead at .609 and Brooklyn at .565. Yesterday results include Philadelphia 4 New York 0 and St Louis 9 Boston 2. Today's games feature Brooklyn at Pittsburgh and New York at Chicago among others.
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Vic Wertz
Hoot Evers
Trout
Wertz
Evers
Philadelphia
Phillies
New York Giants
Curt Simmons
Larry Jansen
Willie
Jones
Andy
Seminick
Don Newcombe
Dodgers
Pirates
Pittsburgh
Brooks
Jackie Robinson
Willie Werle
Duke Snider
Clyde McCullough
Danny Murtaugh
Jim Russell
Murtaugh
St. Louis Cardinals
Boston
Braves
Timmy Glaviano
Harry Brecheen
Johnny Sain
Cincinnati
Chicago Cubs
Associated Press
Brooklyn
St. Louis
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Cleveland
Washington
M. St. Louis
Dunn Enders Cup Honors In Berryville Tennis
Eugene Dunn wins the Berryville championship for the third straight year at the Rixey Moore Memorial Courts. Reginald Fuller defeats oe Reginald Fuller 6-2 for the title, while Mrs. Charles J Enders Jr regains the ladies crown 6-2 10-8 over Camille Wisecarver. Herman Lloyd and Fuller win men's doubles 11-9 6-3, and Mrs Kenneth Levi with Fuller take mixed doubles 6-2 7-5. Ann Cooley presents trophies.
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Rixey Moore Memorial Courts
Eugene Dunn
Berryville
Reginald Fuller
Charles J. Enders, Jr
Camille Wisecarver
Herman Lloyd
Fuller
Dunn
Preston Pitta
J. Kenneth Levi
George P. Greenhalgh, Jr
Ann Cooley
Clarke County
U S Amateur Golf Enters Second Round
In Minneapolis the U S Amateur Golf Championship moves into the second round with several favorites already sidelined and more expected to fall as play continues.
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U. S
Minneapolis
Stranahan Faces McHale in 64-Handle Round Match
In a dawn to dusk round with 64 matches, Frank Stranahan from Toledo meets veteran Jim McHale. Stranahan seeks the national title after British Amateur success, while the two have traded words before and this bout promises a tense showdown.
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Frank Stranahan
Jim McHale
Stranahan
Toledo
McHale
White Hall Softball Team Faces Martinsburg Moose Club
The White Hall softball squad travels to meet the Martinsburg Moose Club tonight for a regional matchup.
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White Hall
Martinsburg Moose Club
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D.C
Yanks
Malloy-Talbert
MT. Falls
Ford
Mrn
Shenandoah Motor Company, Inc
Handley School
Choo-choo Justice
Major
Frederick Motors, Inc
Martinsburg Pike
Valley Wrecking Co
N. Kent St
Agered
Globe Brewing CO
Baltimore, MD
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