The Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 198, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 5, 1940 Page: 2 of 8
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BULLETIN.
BROWNWi
FTY POLLETT Be Hogan,
SETS NEW MARK And Snead Favored
$15,000 Guarantee LEAGUE LEADERS
Is Offered Jenkins BAfTLE TONIGHT
PHILADELPHIA. JM3M 5—(UP>
—Phil Olassman, P adelphla box-
ing promoter, today offered Lea
JVnkina, world lightweight cham-
pion, a $15,000 guarantee "with op- park,
tion of 40 per cent” to defend his Wat*
title against Jimmy Tygh, Leo Lank
Rodak. Oeorge Zengaras, Billy Mar- o'cloc
quart or Tommy Cron. A I
The offer was wired to Hymie when
Kaplan, Jenkins' manager the 1
To Meet Saturday
vi. tory string
Bob Low. praaident of the Brown
County Soil Conservation associa-
tion. has called a meeting of hts
organization for Saturday at 2 p m
rthouae. The Brown
1 conservation Advisory
of which H O Lucas is
chairman, will be asked to meet
with the association.
Purpose of the meeting is to dis-
cuss the recent soil district election
of 6 and determine what steps, if any.
the are to be taken toward calling an-
*nd other election at the end of a six
ire- months period
xlay l The county land use placing
had comlttee may be asked to meet with
tlce the other groups
a By UNITED FRESH
The name of
Howard ‘Lefty” I
ton Buffs went
books of the -rexas
and there were many
as "another Hubbell'
CANTERBURY OOLF COURSE,
leveland. June 5—<UPt
Hous • ["bonfire ‘boys" of the-winter golf
Into the record I circuit—Jimmy Demaret and Ben j
League today Hogan—were bracketed with Sam t
hailing him Snead today as favorites for the
National Open golf championship comm.
PoUett.l 8-year-old pitcher for the which opens here tomorrow across
league's ranking team, last night a course whose skinny fairways are
gave up but three hits In blanking soaked with rain ,
the Pa?l<»« Rebels. 4 to 0, In the Demaret. Hogan and Snead
second game of a doubleheader. The were held at the short price
victory was his 13th straight since to 1—Demaret and Hogan on
the season opened and established strength of their winter records
The city softball league** tup
«ms tangle In the first of two
itnes tonight at Daniel Baker
The
Brown wood's tenth annual tavt-
tatiort golf tournament, June 20-
23. will be thoroughly pualiclsed
tltts week at the Crrhutl tneet of
Teaae Owlf Association on the San
Angelo Country Chill course
Hugh McFarland, chairman of the
entries committee for the local
event, will head a delegation to San
Angelo today Felders rewarding
the tourney at the Brownwood
Country Club will be distributed
and other efforts made to Inter-
est outsider* to enter here
Other* from Brownwood who
planned to go to San Angelo to-
day are Ned Robertson Dr J. N.
Arvln, John L Helm and Barnes
Hoff They will compete In the
tournament. Qualifying round* will
be played Thursday and other
Brownwood golfers may report at
that Ume. »
In addition to McFarland, tour-
nament committee chairmen an-
nounced Tuesday t* W O Stew-
art. general chairman, are: A- H
CCC OuthiU But Load*
LANKFORD
M Evans. 2b
Denman. If ..
M White, ss
Ratliff, c ....
ABILENE. Tex.. June 5— <UF>— *
Mrs Sam O'Neal of Odessa and Mr*,
j. H Ball of Wichita Falls were
co-favorites today in the West Tex-
es Women’* Odf Tournament here. ;
Mrs O'Neal, the medalist, met
Mrs J. W. Roes of Amarillo in to-
day’s quarter-finals and Mrs. Ball
was matched with Mrs. Alice Phil-
lips of Big Spring- v- ,
Other matches were: Mr* Elmer
Shows of Odessa v». Mrs. T«1 Hue**,
tis of Abilene and Mrs. Harry Stai-
eup of Big Spring va. Mrs. W. E.
Powell of San Angelo.
Brownwood Golfers
Win Three Matches
Three Brownwood women surviv-
ed the initial round of the West
Texas Women's golf tournament at
Abilene Tuesday. all winning
matches In the first flight
Mrs E J. Woodwsrd. only
Brownwood contestant to qualify
for the champtonahip flight, suf-
fered a first round setback at the
Ball of Wlch-
tle for second
ford's Leather!
Bell, entertainment; B P. Blud
worth, prises; W O Kemp. Cal
eutta. and O. D. iSkeeter Mill!
can, pairings and publicity.
Nelson’sClear-a-way Sale
THURSDAY;FRIDAY, SATURDAY
Women’s Shoes Men’s Shoes „.
Tommy Armour. Vic Ghezzi
in a Id-inning contest
MY MOM'S AWFUL SMART
’ SHF ALWAYS BUYS .
hands of Mrs J H
Its Palls. 7 and i.
With four representatives In the
first flight. Brownwood'* chances of
a clean sweep In the first round
wore removed when two of the
local women were paired In open-
ing matches Mrs H L. Lotosteln
won over Mrs. C. R Jones. 4 and
$6.50 ______$4.88 $6.50..... $5.48
$5.00....... $3.88 $5.00 ........$3.88
$3.95........$2.88 $3.95........$2.88
Children s Shoes at $2.49, $2.19, $1.79
Women s Play Shoes at $1.48, $1.28,88c
tsite elr* agunM
leading cola* /rom
coast to coast!” for
alter- school appe-
tites keep Royal
Crown Cola on ice!
best it twti-tot
E Lankford to grab a lend that
® eras never headed
* After the first frame William
5 Long settled down and limited
* iAnkferd to only two hits for a
® 1 nrfctini four-hit hurling )A But
[ his mates could push across but
0 cde tally in the sixth, although
* they gathered seven mfeties off
* Lankford's Aaron Long and had men
0 on base In every Inning except the
0 second and seventh.
The Lankford-OOC game was
* played in the record ume of 47
minutes four minutes under the
previous low of $1 minutes turned
* in by CCC and Coca-Cola an May
* r Weakley-Wateon and Coca-Cola
1 followed with a M-mlnule )oto to
* make last night’s program the
0 fastest at the season.
The other two Brownwood win-
ners were Mrs Ann Cunningham
and Miss Oenevtve Mclnroe Mrs.
Cunningham defeated Mrs Ru-
de Carton of San Angelo. 3 up. and
Mias Mclnroe took the measure of
Mrs O. W. Little of Abilene. 3
and 2
Mrs Cunningham was paired to-
day with Mrs Bob Byrnes of Fort
Worth, wife of a professional golf-
er Mias Mclnroe was to play Mrs
Jem Rogers at Amarillo
Mrs Lotostein’i second-round op-
ponent was Mrs Walter Whipkey
‘of Colorado City
Mrs Ball, second to Mrs Bam
’ O'Neal of Odema in qualifying
rounds, became a favorite to cap-
ture the title when she triumph-
ed decisively over Mrs. Woodward
a semi-finalist In the teuraaaMM
last year at Mineral Wells Mrs
O'Neal won over Mrs Oilet Day
POLISH
Ref. $1.00 nluei
THIS SALE IS STORE-WIDE
And includes all seasonable merchandise
NEHl BOTTLING CO. — T. B. EVANS
BROWNWOOD, TEXAS
O Smith. Ib
Ellis, cf ....
Haynes, e ...
Durham, p .
Nodurft. e .
Softball League
invitation for the .
Standings
Gvd Case Jury To
Report Friday Morning
Boston ....
Cleveland .
Detroit ...
New York
Chicago ...
Washington
Philadelphia
NcbeM HeMa Play Day
VACAVILLE, CaL— (UP) —There
Is one day In the school year here
wtien no pupil has ever been
known to play hookey or be abeent
if he was physically able to be
present That la the annual "play
day” of the Vaca Valley Orammar
school. The classes for the day
consist of relay races, games snd
jumping contests in which the pu-
pils of the same grade compete
i with each other.
Alabama KeepTkepeMie FMg
MONTGOMERY. Ala.—< UP)—A
copy of the "flag of the Alabama
Republic" has been presented to
the slate department of archives
and history by the Alabama Unit-
ed Daughters of the Confederacy
I There le only one original flag of
the republic, alee In the depart-
ment Alabama was a republic for
*>Hu after weesslon and
before she joined the Confederacy
Education i$ addition,
lade of if i* subtraction. -
Love and simple arithmetic in-
spire you to prepare your chil-
dren for life. The tame feeling
and figures can do the job for
you if you are taken away.
Check the cost of your^hool-
ing obligations and see if your
Ufe Insurance would pay the
dlinf. Big and powerful at Mercury to,
many owners-tcD ua that it drives eaaser
than any other car in their experience!
Whatever you do when you choooe
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Compare it with anything you like. Be
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Mercury S wont Vet you down *«., aa
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H you have some pot ideas of what a car
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QURPRISING for its bigness and rich-
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Surprising for its brilliant performance,
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owners are reporting up to 20 mil-
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Surprising for its effortless ease of han-
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Philadelphia
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western Life Insurance that will
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way.
Dew'/ put it eg.., See yoer
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Pittsburgh .i.... 11 2> 224
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Texas League
Beaumont 2-1. Fort Worth 14.
Houston 0-4, Dallas 1-0.
Shreveport 5-1 Oklahoma City
e. Educate.
Chicago 11. Philadelphia 4
New York ft Cincinnati 4
Brooklyn 10. •$ Leal* 1
Pittsburgh 14. Boston 2
• I DENT ■ HOME OFFICE • BALL 41
120 Lf/e Insurance in Force 9360,768,441
Brownwood Representative*
WILLIAM A. ROUSSEL
MRS. LET A N. SHELTON
BOWL TONIGHT
T. E. DENMAN
William d. king
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Jones, Ernest. The Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 198, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 5, 1940, newspaper, June 5, 1940; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1045153/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Brownwood Public Library.