Sports Roundup from New York by Hugh Fullerton Jr
The roundup notes Bowl Game prep keeps football alive in Alaska and Newfoundland where Minnesota grid irons travel. Detroit hockey fans discuss amateur players who skated to the cooler penalling themselves before the referee's signal. Phil Zwick balks at signing to fight Chaly Wright in Milwaukee New Year’s Day citing public criticism.
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Kodiac
Alaska
Newfoundland
Minnesota
Detroit
Phil Zwick
Chaly Wright
Milwaukee
Phil
Connie Mack’s A’s feature 41 spring games in coast swing
Lynn C Dodgle reports Connie Mack’s Philadelphia Athletics have played 41 spring exhibition games starting in Anaheim. The piece catalogs AAU and intercollegiate champions listed among service personnel, mentions a racing commission vet identifying a jockey with a distinct horse, and notes other sports anecdotes and school honors amid a lively sports miscellany.
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Lynn C. Dodgle
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Connie Mack
A’s
Anaheim
Calif
West Coast
Yanks
AAU
Frank Darrah
Dick Ganslen
Jim Kehoe
Otto Kotraba
Andy Neiding
Johnny Quigley
Chuck Fenske
John Lyman
George Varoff
John Woodruff
Harry March
Frank Slater
Don Vosberg
Track and Field Forces
Tom McDermott
Jim Reilly
Sylvio Coucci
112Th Field Artillery
Carolina
J. G. Catlett
Florida State Racing Commission
Catlett
Coucci
Treasury Receipts and Expenditures Reported
Treasury data show receipts of 137.66 million dollars and expenditures of 59.98 million. The gross debt stands at 56.94 billion. This daily status summary provides the year’s fiscal snapshot for December 18.
Betty Newell Voted Top Women Athlete of Year
Betty Hicks Newell the 105 pound Long Beach golfer who won the national title in her first try is named woman athlete of the year by 24 of 66 AP sport editors. She leads with 101 points, ahead of tennis player Mrs. Elwood Cooke and others in the year end poll.
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Betty Hicks Newell
Long Beach
Calif
Associated Press
Elwood Cooke
Sarah Palfrey Fabyan
United States
Newell
Alice Marble
Miss Marble
Sarah P. Cooke
Nancy Serki
Gloria Callen
Patty Serg
H. Chenkovich
Babe Didrikson
Betty Jameson
Pauline Betz
Helen Jacobs
Prince Neufer
Jean Lane
Helen Davis
Phyllis Otto
Evelyn Chandler
Marion Miley
Sports Flashes From Corner of World News and Local Notes
A collage of briefs: Brook plans three weeks of spring training in Cuba with passports ready and no fear of island bombings, a New York tennis debut at Madison Square Garden on December 26, and a Brooklyn stay likely. A New York chapter of baseball writers suspends invites for its 19th annual dinner next February. In Columbia Missouri, Nellie Cliff watches her grandsons in the Sugar Bowl. Memphis Blues Bowl features patriotic song and football notes as Booker T. Washington of Memphis defeats Brownsville.
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Nellie Cliff
St. Louis
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Missouri University
Cliff Fitzgerald
Fordham
Memphis
Tenn
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O Ham
Booker T. Washington
Huskies
Brownsville
Reproduction of Mexican bean beetle described
A single female bean beetle can lay up to 1500 eggs in a season. Egg to larva development spans 5 to 14 days before eggs hatch, and larval development lasts 15 days to 3 weeks. Consequently multiple generations may inhabit a field simultaneously.
Baseball Players Will Sign Up Or Shut Up When Contracts Arrive
Connie Mack predicts that next season contracts will require players to sign up and shut up as war uncertainties loom. He favors bonus contracts to share risk with club owners, noting some teams struggled even in good years. Mack cautions attendance may fall as war effort takes priority.
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Connie Mack
Athletics
Mack
Ayer Rolls 150 Game Clevenger Posts 404 Set
Standings show Glaize taking top spot. Ayer and National Fruit lead in individual games with Ayer at 150 and Clevenger posting 404 in sets. Fries Grocery and Valley Service cling to high team totals as Studebaker and Bell Clothes push postponed games to a later date.
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Clearbrook Woolen
National Fruit
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Valley Service
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Fries Grocery
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Chamberlin
Luttrell
Draft Coaches In President's Paralysis Drive
Grantland Rice calls 10,000 high school coaches and college athletic directors to join the Fight Infantile Paralysis campaign for 1941 42. Each is asked to dedicate one winter sports event to the effort as epidemics hit the nation and over 26 000 youths have fallen ill since 1939.
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New York
Grantland Rice
Rice
Oregon State’s Rose Bowl Intersections Record in 1930s History
Oregon State, heading to play Duke in the New Year’s Day Rose Bowl at Duke Stadium, has a long but uneven 19-game intersectional history. The Beavers won 10, lost eight, and tied one, with notable upsides against Fordham and Michigan Aggies but losses to Nebraska.
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Ore
Oregon State
North Carolina
Duke
Durham
Beavers
University of Hawaii
Beaver
Lon Stiner
University of Nebraska
Huskers
Stiner
Nebraska
Rose Bowers
Pacific Coast
Fordham
Southern California Trojans
Lincoln
Oregon Aggies
Michigan Aggies
Lansing
Syracuse
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Mariinette
New York U
Detroit U
Fire Place Snack Ideas and a Historical Note
The column shares cozy evening treats with a corn popper recipe and sugar glazed popcorn balls. It also recalls Henry Wirz, superintendent of Andersonville Prison, who was court martialed in 1865 and hanged on November 10, 1865.
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Henry Wirz
Andersonville Prison
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