Winchester All Stars Meet Redskins Tonight in Twin Tilt
The Winchester All Star club faces the Washington Redskins in a two game set at the Armory tonight with three full city rosters ready. Pre game ticket sales promise a record turnout as Bell Clothes Store sponsors a door prize and fund raising for an electric scoreboard.
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Washington Redskins
Redskins
Sargent
Frank Anderson
Armory
Bell Clothes Store
Redskin
Girls’ Athletic Assn
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Boyce Boys
Methodist
Hilma Hottie
GAA
Yvonne Butler
Vera Heitz
Fay Nelson
Jo McIntyre
Page Leary
Anna Belle Pulley
Martha Kiracofe
Ann Weiner
Adelene Long
Connie Shull
Billie Creger
Margie Grim
Betty Lou Cramn
Alice Neal
Betty Ryman
Betty Bemis
Ruth Derflinger
Virginia Shields
Mildred Richmond
Dorothy Bray
Hazel May
Willow Petit
Mildred Bane
Doris Rinker
Phyliss Bowman
Four-State Farmers Tour Planning Meeting Set
Local farmers and county agents prepare for the annual Four-State Farmers Tour with an early planning meeting in Martinsburg on March 15. Attendees include county agents and two farmers from each Pennsylvanian West Virginia Virginia and Maryland county. Committeemen urge farmers to share farming methods crops and equipment to be demonstrated on the tour and to submit suggestions. The meeting convenes at 2 p.m. in office of Agent W N McClung.
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Martinsburg
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Virginia
Maryland
Fred Stine
Frank Brumback
Mark Hannum
Herman Stockslager
Farmers’ Committee
Ince
W. N. McClung
Bendetsen Sworn In as Assistant Secretary of the Army
Karl R. Bendetsen of Aberdeen Washington was sworn in on February 2 1950 as Assistant Secretary of the Army in a formal oath ceremony. He assumes duties overseeing Army civilian affairs and policy.
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L.R
Karl R. Bendetsen
Aberdeen
Wash
Army
Two Kingpins In Golf AP News
In Harlingen Texas sportswriters and players name Ben Hogan as the top golfer of the past decade in a Rio Grande Open poll. Hogan edged Sam Snead nearly two to one amid debate over careers, skill, and mental approach with others like Nelson, Snead, and Nelson praised for power, consistency, and strategy.
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Harlingen
Tex
Wee Ben Hogan
Hogan
Sam Snead
West Virginia
Cary Middlecoff
Byron Nelson
Snead
Dick Metz
Jules Huot
Montreal
Jim Turnesa
Lawson Little
Nelson
Clayton Heafner
Jimmie Demaret
Bobby Jones
Walter Hagen
KY Laffoon
Alexander
Fred Haas, Jr
ED Furgos
Johnny Palmer
Sports Roundup From The New York Scene
The column quotes Billy Sheridan criticizing spring football and TV wrestling's impact on spring sports and Olympic chances. It also features Frank Dodson advising coaches to pursue long contracts, Eddie Ford as a Yankees rookie hopeful and Art Klein’s small sample pitching feat.
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New York
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Lehigh
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Sheridan
Frank Dodson
Maryland
Richmond
Yankees
Eddie Ford
Eddie
Kansas City
Art Klein
Cubs
Nashville
Janesville
Wis
Appleton
Portsmouth Girls Set New World Bowling Record at Leesburg
The Lucky Strike Girls of Portsmouth rolled a five game 3017 set at Jack Zimmerman’s alleys in Leesburg surpassing their prior world mark by 49 pins. Eloise Gumm led with a 702 series as the team defeated Leesburg with strong anchors and multiple league results noted across teams.
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Portsmouth
Leesby
Eloise Gumm
Stephens City High School
Orioles
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Blue Jays
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Libby Courtney
Pat Swink
Swink
Lorraine Marker
oOrioles
Gangries
Pat Singhass
Prisoner Returned By Law Officers From Statesville
Sheriff O L Sheetz and Deputy Lester Tidler returned to Woodstock with Willis Eugene Thomas, 25, prisoner from Statesville North Carolina. Thomas faces assault and battery on an officer and prison escape charges in Warren County and carries a three year term for car theft in Front Royal last November.
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Lester E. Tidler
Woodstock
Statesville
N. C
Willis Eugene Thomas
Thomas
E. E. Marlow
Warren County
State Penitentiary
Front Royal
NC State Opens Southern Conference Tourney in Durham
NC State faces Virginia Tech in the 7:30 p.m. opener as the Southern Conference Tournament begins at Duke Indoor Stadium. William and Mary meets North Carolina at 9 p.m., with George Washington and South Carolina also in action and Duke chasing a home-floor edge in the event.
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North Carolina State
Duke
South Carolina
Wake Forest
George Washington
Everett Case
Virginia Tech
Fame
William and
Mary
George
LaSalle Named to NIT as Explo ors Roll Past Gettysburg
LaSalle, ninth in the AP poll, earned a National Invitation Tournament berth after a 61-50 win over Gettysburg for their 19th victory in 22 games. Bradley, Duquesne, and St. Johns of Brooklyn also earned NIT spots with eight teams still to be chosen. Syracuse crushed Temple 105-76 as Jack Killey scored 26 points to boost NCAA bid hopes.
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Associated Press
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Duquesne
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Temple
Orange
Jack Killey
Cornell
Canisius
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Toledo
Columbia
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Lewis Is Handed Summons on Train
President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers was served a summons on a train in Ohio, ordering an answer to a coal mine operator's suit for 1.5 million dollars. Deputy Sheriff Donald V. Kehnast delivered the papers. this marks the second summons in under six weeks amid multiple suits under Ohio's Valentine Act alleging labor combinations to restrain production and influence coal prices.
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Defiance
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Ohio
Donald V. Kehnast
Emma Jean Yeary Shines In Virginia High School Basketball
Emma Jean Yeary of Pennington Gap High School scores 954 points in 24 games of 1949 50 season. She tallies 63 points in two consecutive nights against Keokee setting state high school records. Coach J C Smith Jr praises her two handed overhand shot and predicts two points every time she touches the ball.
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Pennington
Emma Jean
Pennington Gap Lassies
Keokee
Virginia
J. C. Smith, Jr
Louisiana
NLPC Opposes Tyro Bonuses in Baseball Contracts
Marty Marion NL representative to the players committee proposes to end bonuses paid to unproved players. He says club reps agree action is needed to stop large bonus payments to inexperienced players as MLB seeks to curb practice nationwide.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Marty Marion
National League
Executive Council
St. Louis Cardinals
Fragmented thoughts on money harming baseball lore
A fragment argues that rightful pay leads to dissension and distrust within a ball club and warns that ongoing such practices could ruin baseball. Also notes a claim that modern machines can produce 550 nails per minute.
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DELCO
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