Opening Game of World Series Set for Yankee Stadium
Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees prepare for tomorrow's World Series opener at Yankee Stadium with Whitlow Wyatt and Charley Ruffing as the likely starters. About 170000 fans are expected. Dodgers boast 22 wins from Wyatt, while Ruffing brings World Series experience to the Yankees.
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Louis Triumphs Over Nova as Gross Gate Soars
In York on September 30 a crowd of 56 549 attended the heavyweight title bout. Joe Louis won by a technical KO over Lou Nova at 2 59 of the first round. The event drew the 15th largest attendance in boxing history and ranked 11th in gross gate to date.
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Ed Burch Tops Winchester Park Batting in 1941 Season
Ed Burch led Winchester Park with a .418 average as six Park players hit over .300. Joe Swanson posted a perfect 6 0 record in 6 starts, while Bobby Houghton went 6 8 with a .429 percentage. The Park finished 14 9 after 23 games, closing with an 11 3 win over the Winchester Redsox.
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Whitlock Leads with 148 in Rustic League Night
Results last night show Health Club 3 Eagles 0 and Rustic 2 to 1 wins. Top scores: E Whitlock 148 for Royal Crown, Hunt 148 for Rustic, Rhea 139 for Health Club. high set Rhea 390, White 369, Hunt 378. Team totals: Royal Crown 602, Rustic 596, Kurtz 573. Rustic tops total pinfall 1745 ahead of 1669 and 1636.
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Champion Baby Beef From Clarke Leads In Sales
Sale of 4-H Club baby beeves at the Virginia State Fair moved to Richmond for the first time in 21 years. Prices averaged 3 1 4 cents above market with top bids up to 33 cents per pound for the grand champion steer bought by Egan and Company. Daley's Restaurant paid 19 cents per pound for the grand champion lamb. The event highlights county agent and Beef Cattle Producers' Association efforts to improve Richmond beef markets and encourage 4-H youth.
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Louis defeats Nova by technical knockout in sixth round
New York report notes Joe Louis 202 1 4 pounds defending heavyweight title with a sixth round technical knockout of Lou Nova at 2 59. The Miami Beach result lists Joe Legon 147 3 4 pounds stopping Tommy 153 1 2 in Havana with a knockout.
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Facts and Figures on World Series
World Series details Knicks Yankees vs Dodgers with schedule at Yankee Stadium and Ebbetts Field. Weather mostly cloudy with showers. all games at 1 30 p m EST except Sunday 2 p m. Estimated crowds 70 000 opener and 32 000 at Ebbetts Field. Mutual Network broadcasts. Red Ruffing and Whitlow Wyatt expected to start. Champion is team reaching four wins.
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Local bowling leaders post rising scores across leagues
Artie Kiracore led Winchester with a 151 game and 561 five game total as S anitary Dairy trailed in the Ladies Commercial League. Frances Anderson and Corrine Carskaden starred for Winchester Woolen and Nurses respectively while Piccadilly Soda Shop posted the day's high team score 540.
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Helen Lillis
Lavella Widmyer
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Hugh Funkhouser
Legless British Pilot Tries To Make Escape
Berlin reports Wing Commander Douglas Bader, a legless former RAF pilot and German war prisoner, attempted to escape hours after receiving a new artificial leg by parachute with German approval. A Nazi spokesman said he vanished after a dinner, then was found hiding in a barn near the base.
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Joe Louis Knocks Lou Nova Cold At Polo Grounds
Joe Louis delivered a devastating sixth round right to Lou Nova at the Polo Grounds before 60,806 fans and knocked the Californian flat. Nova rose at the count of nine but absorbed a barrage as the referee halted the bout at the bell. Louis, awaiting army call, showed timing and power that could define his legacy.
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National Fruit Leads Ladies in Commercial League
National Fruit tops the Ladies Commercial League with a 5 to 1 margin over Valley Pride and Sanitary Dairy. Hawkins and Pine pace scoring with 118 and 113 points respectively, while Michael and Hawkins lead sets with 509 and 301. Independents claim the top team game with 1300 points, Valley Pride 1308, and McCrory’s 1283.
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Two-Year-Old Eats Razors in Indiana Pa
In Indiana Pennsylvania on September 30 two year old Gerald Wetzel showed a curious appetite for sharp objects. His mother found he had been chewing on a double edged razor blade and had torn it into small pieces. No mouth injuries were reported.
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California Automobiles Enter State Amid Defense Boom
In the first seven months of 1941 more than 58000 automobiles entered California with the influx attributed largely to expanding defense work.
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Louis Knocks Out Nova In Fifth Round Fight
Joe Louis defeats Munn Nova in the fifth round after a tense exchange at Yankee Stadium. Louis capitalized on a moment, landing a decisive punch that finished the bout as 56,549 fans watched. The crowd and pundits noted Louis found the opening after a back and forth with Nova’s careless defense.
Six and a half pound girl born to the Chakales family
In High Point North Carolina Enterprise the Chakales family welcomes a baby girl born at 4 55 a m weighing six and a half pounds. The father Soc Chakales is noted in the paper head line as a new father and the young lady studies him at first meeting. A reference follows to Louisiana Red Bones, a mixed French Spanish and American tribe with a largely unintelligible patois.
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Ready To Broadcast Baseball Classic
Brooklyn and the MBS network prepare for the World Series with Red Barber assigned as "The Voice of Brooklyn." The Brooklyn Dodgers broadcasts on WORB will lead at 1 15, marking MBS third consecutive year of exclusive coverage.
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Gas House Blues
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Special News Service
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Red Barber
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Four-job Parley nickname used for James A Farley
Colonel Frank Knox used the label Four-job Parley in a Burlington speech on August 29 1936 to describe James A Farley who held multiple posts including Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and New York State Democratic Committee and National Committeeman from New York before his leave of absence as General on August 1 1936.
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