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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1949
Page
7
Jewel Box softball team earned its second win of the City league season by defeating Rockingham 6 to 3. All six runs for Jewel Box came in the opening inning, while Rockingham was held scoreless until later frames.
In football weather RC Cola rallied to defeat Jewel Box 7-5, overturning a 5th inning deficit. Key hits from B Moore L Grim and L Pope propelled RC to a late comeback, with Larrick allowing 12 Jewel Box hits as RC moved into second place.
Clarke County tops the league with 3 wins and 0 losses as Legion at Middletown, Front Royal, Strasburg, and White Sox show varied records. Sunday matches will pit Clarke County at Strasburg, White Sox at Middletown, and Front Royal versus American Legion. Appendicitis is more common in youths, especially boys, than in older people or girls.
The American Legion Post defeated Strasburg 6-3 for its first Northern Virginia league win and then beat Winchester White Sox 8-5. Lester Shickle earned the Strasburg win, fanning 9 with 9 hits allowed as Legion hitters collected nine. Key at bats came from Burch, Fawcett, Keller, and Spurs who had four hits and a home run. The Legion moved to second place, tied with Front Royal and Middletown behind Clarke All-Stars.
New York May 31 Attendance figures show 52 156 in major league baseball 26 836 racing fans and 1 294 466 in pari mutuel bets across eight ball parks and ten tracks compared to Memorial Day a year ago Wartime and postwar sports boom appears past its peak Only four of eighteen venues drew over 50 000 Tops were 60 095 at Belmont Park for Vulcan's Forge 56 000 at Hollywood Park Arcadia for Ace Admiral 53 053 at Polo Grounds Giants Dodgers split, 40 530 at Chicago White Sox Tigers doubleheader 150 000 for Indianapolis 500 race
Among earliest examples of American folk art are glassware objects blown after hours by glass workers for themselves and their friends from the fag end of the glasspot.
Bill Holland of Reading, Pennsylvania, wins the Indianapolis 500 after waiting for rivals to falter. Duke Nalon set the early pace before a wreck and burns, Rex Mays and Lee Wallard led at times, and Mauri Rose suffered engine trouble. About $185,000 in prize money awarded at dinner.
Water delivered to Rome by the ancient aqueduct system in the first century A D is estimated at about 92 million gallons per day.
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