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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1938
Page
3
Jerry the Second, a 450 pound lion at No Social Lion resort, escaped while Paul Lowman tried to teach wave riding. The beast darted along the lake shore as onlookers fled. Lowman recaptured the animal and returned it to its cage.
The New York Yankees rolled to 10-0 and 13-1 wins over the Athletics, lifting their season record with five wins in six and an average of over 13 hits per game. Lefty Gomez and Bump Hadley pitched four-hitters as the club moved within three games of Detroit in the standings, while the Giants widened their NL lead with 9-1 and 6-2 wins.
Radio highlights list nightly and daytime programming from New York stations on June 30. It covers town meeting broadcasts from Harvard to California and Chautauqua Northwestern and Denver with the Gettysburg anniversary battle live and various music and drama programs through the day. It notes scheduled guests including Secretary of War Woodring and several entertainers, plus Wimbledon coverage from England and a lineup of music and variety shows across WJZ WEAF WABC WOR and other stations.
Friends fear for the life of Suzanne Lenglen former women’s tennis champion in Paris as she lies gravely ill with anemia.
Protestant Catholic and Jewish leaders join discussions on church problems at the twelfth annual institute of public affairs opening at the University of Virginia. Rev Deane Edwards will lead a July 11 16 round table on The Church Faces an Insecure World. Vesper July 10 by Rev Ivan Lee Holt of St Louis bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and past president of the federal council of Churches of Christ in America.
The column highlights Pitt football decline after nine players declared ineligible, Doc Sutherland touring Scotland, and a possible Pitt comeback. It notes Los Angeles or San Francisco may host the next heavyweight bout and mentions athletes like George Kojac and Pinky Higgins setting or approaching records. It also references NC State 11 games next season and Moe Berg commenting on Tris Speaker’s hit record.
In Emporia Kansas the Minnehaha patrol is officially renamed the Minnie Hot Cha patrol after a swing into local Girl Scout ranks by the Jitterbugs.
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