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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1947
Page
10
New York Jan. 30 The All-America Football Conference owners plan a player draft or transfer system to strengthen lower teams after endorsing efforts to level the league’s power with the stronger clubs like the Yankees and Browns. The aim is closer races and better box office competition.
Bramham announced the suspension of five players including Paul Pugit Alvin Kaiser Leonard Pecou W C Thomas and Don Veteres for conduct detrimental to the game. The report alleges manipulation of the Abbeville Houma playoff results for betting interests with quotes from Fugit on players driving to bookie operations and potential earnings.
Leading golfers started the $10,000 Tucson Open with a "beat Hogan" campaign gathering heat on the fairway. Hogan led 1946 money winners with $42,000. PGA stats show he has $4,833.33 earned in three Western 1947 events so far.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias of Denver shot a one under par 71 at Miami Country Club and faces Mary Anes Wall of Menominee Mich in the tournament's third round after eliminating Jean Hopkins of Cleveland City.
Miss Wall staged an upset thriller to defeat Jane Crum Covington of Orangeburg South Carolina in a tight match ending in an eight stroke advantage.
Plans for Sammy Angott of Washington Pennsylvania to fight Johnny Bratton of Chicago in a 10 round bout were blocked by the Illinois State Athletic Commission. The panel refused to sanction the match saying Angott is out of training and the bout would contribute nothing to Chicago boxing.
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