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PAGE HOUR
THURSDAY AFTERNOON,
JUNE 6, 1940.
J
A. W. WELLS, Editor
Goltdom
Starts Today in Cleveland
Greatest Show
Baseball
4
I
They left after a reception for
St.
luxury goods.
By EARL MILLIGAN
pre-season
Most noticeable has been the per-
HOW THEY ST A ND •
Yesterday’s Stars
Pct.
the Boston Red
Sox;
n Nelson of
series” is slender Byro
Toledo, O. Lined up against him
“sort
At that
with Howard.
prospect of producing one of the
av-
ever, the
5c
Walter Beck,
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using them r egularly now. Lc oks
game
juries with Dallas by beat
to
like a very common sense mov
ing the Rebels 2-0 on am Nar-
sev-
they’re needed?
Ted Wilkes was holding
WE CAN BETTER underst
m<
Second-p lace San Antonio beat
with an eleven-hit bar-
home
runs. Bob
lost
his
Cliffside Park,
N.
J.,
4
its strength to
draw in the
tally the dollars. And, too, Billy ip
' recommending
a
heavyweight class.
Want ads ring tne cash register.
we
great in the
ofi politan open with a record 264: and
tion in sectional tests.
is a great boxer, but he’ll have to
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develop a punch before he can beat Cooper a Darkhorse
h
the best heavies.
THE BIGGEST
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JOKE in
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unless it‘s the promoter who
oi
sent him inside the ropes with
time he’d be a little mi
next
knocked Paychek for a loop ir 1 a thing
Joe Louis.
that the pressure which has been sealed in his favor by a
that Louis bout, anyway?
never heard that one explained.
TODAYS THE DAY that
ig
to
be decided late Saturday aft er-
The Browns pushed across two
; Threatens to Kill
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as
where she was captured.
come
following . ord r:
Southern Methodist, Texas A&M,
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with 7-2 conquest of the New York
the punch repeatedly.
Reg.
guess.
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Senators Cheered
By Performance
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now why BiHj r Conn plans to
the light-heavyweight division
playing tag
to have hit
TOOTH
BRUSH
HINKLE
PILLS
ahi. holder of the open title in 1937
and 1938. made no secret of the
confidence he has in himself to be-
come a three-time winner. He and
Nelson are bracketed in the second
this corner.
wear them if
| crown which Nelson woh after last
year’s double playoff at Philadel-
Masterson Conquers
Indians; Schoolboy
Rowe Humbles l igers
If Conn has any idea of dethron- out the
ing Louis he would do well to de- gency.
•hen they won five out
the drive really started
LARGF
SIZE
Chicago 3. Philadelphia 2.
Cincinnati 7. Ne v York 2.
Only games scheduled.
$75.60
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Limit 3 mo.
On Sale Daily
10C DELSEY
TOILET PAPER
3:25
Loser Likely Inherit
Crown; Conn Plans to
Enter Heavy Division
doctrine,
benefit.
trick last year. Then there’s Ji
my Demaret ami Ben Hogan
watch.
sume posts of command in
force soon.
The New York Yankees jumped
she on Lefty Thornton Lee for 12 hits
were able to get more than two
hits off him.
They call him “Nubby” because
the little finger of his right hand
is missing.
If he fails as a pitcher he still
is considered one of the best in-
fielders in these parts.
Also, he’s quite a hitted. Wheth-
>re in the ninth.
-setting Hquston Buffs
ven break in their four-
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itors.
A number of Gainesville physi-
cians and their wives attended.
tie against wind and distance at
Canterbury Golf club today.
The defending champion in this
44th edition of the game’s “world
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with the cellar seem
their stride.
WHITE
NAPHTHA
SOAP
Hogan Is Hot
“Slamming 'Sam” Snad and lit-
tle Ben Hogan, therefore, are rated
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Sports Appear to
I Have Hit Stride
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280,000.
Yesterdajr also
fairs committees
Athletics.,
Plagued by injuries. Washington
hardly has been able to hold its
head erect in the American league
skirmishing this season, but good
in losing, allowed only six hits to
ten given up by Larry French.
FORT WORTH, June 6 (AP).—
Davey O’Brien, immortal of Texas
Christian University football, was
honeymooning today.
He was married here last night
to his schoolday sweetheart, Miss
Frances Buster.
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the
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Texas League
Team
Houston ........
San Antonio ... .
Beaumont ......
Shreveport ......
Dallas ..........
Tulsa ...........
Oklahoma City ..
Fort Worth .....
National League
Teani
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170 Shot-Makers
Will Compete on
•Tricky Terrain
to give Hum a three-t o-one edge in
the series. Ed Greer pitched stellar
Italy Notifying
(Continued From Page One)
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Medical Men in
By DALE STAFFORD
DETROIT, June 6 (AP)+Gus
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BAYER
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SPORTS PAGE
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Tell your meroaant you saw
advertisement in The Register.
chance to win the light-heavy4
weight boxing championship of the
world last night but he woke up
today with the knowledge that the
title will probably be his within a
tassium balance with Alkalosine-
A and these troubles will disap-
near. Sold on money-back guaran-
tee. (30-day treatment $1.50) by
Austin Pharmacy. •
yesterday? The players will pi
- sue the same schedule today .
Gene Thompson allowed ten hits
and knocked in three runs to make
sure of his seventh victory.
The Reds got only seven hits'
but they went to work on Harry
Gumbert for five runs in the sec-
ond and two more in the third. All
the good relief work of Paul Dean
and a couple of other hurlers there-
after was wasted.
In the only other game in the
Davey O’Brien is
Married Man Now
ly 170 survivors of more
starters will tee off, the winner
Cincinnati ......
Brooklyn .......
New York ......
Chicago ........
Philadelphia ....
St. Louis .......
Boston .........
Pittsburgh ......
' American League
Team —
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Cleveland .......
• Detroit..........
' New York ......
! Chicago ........
Washington .....
Philadelphia ....
St. Louis .......
m- Lawson Little, twice-winner of the
his British and United States amateur
Why shouldn’t t ley , .. .. .
L. ‘ the co-favorites at 6-1 Jo take the
we know of. Ralph Guldahl did €
| Take Eight of Last I 1
Games, Pace-Setting
Bu is Wallop Rebels
bled with bases loaded for all Chi-
cago's runs in 3-2 victory over Phil-
lies.
Walter Masterson. Senators All-
lowed Indians only four hits for 6-1
decision.
Bob Harris, Browns - Pitched
seven scoreless innings in relief and
I Calqreen Atqenc
GAINESVILLE.'
$64.60
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Limit 21 day*
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12-hit assault on White Sox.
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is generally agreed, is a fair test . The pesky St. Louis Browns
yet a course expected to hand nudged the Boston Red Sox into
Last night';: battle came out
predicted. Lesnevich lool ked
early rounds, conn/Wood, recent winner of the Metro-
innings).
Detroit 9. Philadelphia 1.
National League
Daily Special
Special ter Friday, June 7
Pinto Beans
Col. Frank
(Continued from Page One
One of the many darkhorses in
the field and a star regarded as
as choice wagering with Jimmy Dem-
aret of Houston, Texas; Craig
I ~___
Convicted Woman stadn '
runs in the ninth to tie the count.
PINT
Hydrogen
PEROXIDE
235
THRASHER’S
GROCERY
four-hit pitching performance that
was the day’s brightest achieve-
ment in the major leagues.
What made the effort more ex-
citing for the Senators, however,
was the fact that it came upon the
heels of a three-hitter Masterson
hurled May 30 in a seven-inning
year or two."
Wafer, 6 feet 1 % inches tall and
weighing 174 pounds has pitched
170 1-3 innings, won 18 games, lost
4 and struck out 271 battrs in his
three seasons in high school.
Twice the past season he struck
out 21 batters in a game and only
twice did he fail to fan as many
as ten.
He pitched two no-hitters, and '
only two teams during the year
gcmarensukativgisocTEKh Az-smeb
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TOOTH
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2:25
Mrs. Largent intimates a
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
McKINNEY, Tex., June 6 (AP).
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Largent travel
30,000 to 35,000 miles a year look-
; ing for baseball talent to send to
the Chicago White Sox but t h ey
found Howard Wafer practically
sitting on their front doorstep.
The McKinney High school sen-
UNCLE
EZRAS’
physically,
to grow into
All Equipment Air-Conditioned
xamples of round trip Summer Fares
from GAINESVILLE to SAN FRANCISCO
senior circuit the Chicago Cubs
saw foreign af-1
and Indians at the top of the
oi ARIZONA
one-tavo ana three
Conn Retains His
Title by Victory
i Over Lesnevich
I i
football race next fall. He che
PAVMOWNE
Sports hav< won eight of their last
eleven starts and today they rest
a game ard a half out of third
place.
Last night Shreveport beat Ok-
lahoma City 7-5 by displaying the
the physicians who
Baylor, Texas -Christian, Texas
Rice and Arkansas. Doesn’t look O. E. Gerron.
STOMACH COMFORT
Why suffer with indigestion.
Gas, Gall Bladder Pains or High
Blood Pressure? Restore your Po-
O’Brien is a member of the Phil-
adelphia Eagles, professional foot-
ball team. He was an all-American,
at T. C. U. in 1938. his final year.
The Cincinnati Reds improved
I’ll kill everyone their station in the National league
if it hadn’t been for you 1 ' ~ . ” - -0
Would have been con- Giants in another night contest.
GAINESVILLE DAILY REGISIER, GAINESVILLE, TEXAS.
the National Open
singled home winning run in 14th
against Red Sox.
Junior Thompson, Reds -Scored
seventh victory, keeping ten hits
scattered and batting in three runs
against Giants.
270-Mile .
i (Continued From rage One)
won’t be 20 years old until June
22. set the Cleveland Indians on
their ears 6-1 yesterday with a
k V
Fort Worth 6. Beaumont 4.
San Antonio 9. Tulsa 1.
Shreveport 7. Oklahoma City 5. |
American l eague
PERFECTION
FACIAL
TISSUES
Box apgc
500 4“»
"I got out before and and stopped the Chicago White
and placed their "trust in the,
hands of young Bob Harris, who
pitched seven scoreless innings in
preparations, the German minister
of agriculture, Walter Darre, who
has charge of the reich’s wartime
food supply, came to confer with
Italian authorities who seek to in-
sure adequate supplies for Italy. -
It is rumored that Ettore Muti,
secretary of the fascist party, prob-
ably will command the corps of
W.
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Last night a 1
with very little
LOctors’ wives, in attendance,
were guests at a luncheon,- an in
CLEVELAND, O., June 6 (AP). saticn. over a period of three
Golf’s greatest shew the National years, has averaged a dozen strike-
Open championship sent an all- outs and held the opposition, to
star cast of par smashers into bat- four hits per game. Mrs. Largent
■■ ’ ’ - - - - calls him a major league prospect
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
Texas League
Houston 2, Dallas 0.
few days. ball in a relief role and got cerdit
Billy Conn, the champion. rebuilt for the vic tory.
the blasted hopes of Lesnevich a —
few minutes after receiving the de- NAI-, MAnAI,
cision in a 15-round defense of his % dV} -VIVllc}
crown. , (Continuea From rage One)
Lesnevich was in a shower cool-
ing his tired body when Conn protect federal' or seized property." ‘
walked in. The FBI, informed sources said,.
“It was a nice fight, Billy,” said already has numerous investiga-
Gus. “I have no alibi.” tions under way into charges of
move to divert all economic ef-
! forts into war production by plac-
ing drastic restrictions on sale of
out somehow."
Chicago ring. How did he ever #et only an open tournament places five-run flurry in the fourth when
We ye on competitors will be heavier here; Jim Bloodworth homered with the
than in many years. Canterbury, it .bases loaded.
National Guard in emer-
Pending legislation per-
Dining Car and Chair Car Service
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pion was going strong and had
opponent hanging on. That Conn titles and low qualifer for the na-
edged out the Phillies 3-2 with
Dom Dalessandro accounting for
game against the Philadelphia
T ie Senate appropriations com-
Imittee reommended passage of a
The fight itself, seventh cham- house-approved amendment to the
pionship boxing bout in Detroit’s relief bill! barring aliens, commu-
history, was a replica of the first nists andnazi bund members from
battle in New York last Novem- WPA rolls.
ber between the men. Conn, a no- i In the strictly military field, the
toriously slow starter; appeared to army chief of staff. General Geo.
disadvantage in the early rounds C. Marshall, recommended an in-
and then closed in whirlwind style crease in the regular army's man-
to win the unanimous decision- of power to 400,000.
Agent, Santa Fe Station
Gainesville
noon, unless a couple of the be ys
tie, ike they did last year. 7 he r
best golfers in the world are P ir-
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White Sox Scouts Find Howard Wafer
Sitting on Their Own Front Doorstep
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formance of the Sports in the past
four days v
of six, but
May 28.
On yow wtuj o the
GOLDEN GATE
ynkwaflonaL aposalm
San Francisco
maintaining that their batting
erages would show improvement.
Fear of unfavorable public opi: ion
is the big reas son for the comp ra-
tively few window-wearers. How-
time Shreveport was
mired in seventh place and get-
FINDING SPORTS rather dill ____ ___
at this time of year. Charles B ir- terday by plane from Tipton. Ind., Reds Halt Giants
ton youthful scribe of the Lal
News, takes a guess on the o it-
I Tulsa 91
rage which included three
Nw York 7. Cl icago 5.
Washington 6, Cleveland 1. ____ ...___ „ ...
Louis 4, Boston 3 (fourteen a trip through the southern states
1 to Washington, Philadelphia, New ,
York and Canada.
FODDER — Tennis players a
having a tough time running ■
the state tournament down
Houston. Rain halted play aga in
. number is increas ing
with such players as Bill I ieti ich,
ting adriye toward the first divi-
sion under way, beat Beaumont 6-4
Danny MacFay ien,
Dom DiMaggio and Paul Wa ner
Referee Sam Hennessey and He advanced this
Judges Michael (Dad) Butler and promise for the disputed proposal
Harry Hall. to empower Mr. R osevelt to call
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17 fl
jb-
being a slow s tarter. By the enc
the 15th round, however, the ch;
about this spring, are rightfully
cheerful over the suddenly sensa-
tional pitching of young Walter
Masterson.
The lithe righthander, who
54,7 •
i~ ... Worth Cats, in the cel-
lar but sh wing symptoms of get- ] mits, an army increase of only 50,-
000 men to bring
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are some 169 other top flight pro-
fessional and amateurs. And up of understanding
L. Pct.
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17 .605
17 .564
19 .537
24 .442
25 .432
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25 .390
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national open golf tournament g ts plenty of punishment to players their third straight defeat. 4-3 in
under way up ;n Cleveland. Exa k- lacking in staying power because of 14 innings, to preserve the one-
— - - than 1. 00 the severity of the final four holes, half game margin between the Sox
___—------------— he likely to upset the dope is Harry
fighting game is Johnny Paychek, Cooper of Chicago who in the past i pitching would solve most of the
de 10 years has finished among the'club's troubles. The Nats haven’t
de first four on five occasions. Diek garnered less than ten hits in any
Louis. That promoter really should Metz. handsome Chicago pro. has of their last eight games.
have been suspended from his p 0- played well enough in practice Hitting Heips
fession f<i>r a spell. Then ma; be rounds to gain numerous backers. They got ten yesterday, and
next time he’d be a little more Predictions on wlat the winning, masterful pitching by Masterson,
careful how ne matched the bops, aggregate will be ranged from 285 He shut out the tribe for eight
" 19-year-old negro, to 200; but the big name golfers | innings before letting a run trickle
tt.3 experience, in thefield are in agreement on one • across in the ninth. The verdict
ry’s crew. That should mean : in-
other Cincinnati victory ... Di: zy
Dean is on his way to .Tulsa, i nd
should report for duty Saturd »y.
He’s billed to pitch Sunday agai ist
the Cats.
AS
"I’ll get
of the Southwest conferen ce screamed.
se I 11 do it again and I’ll kill you. I Sox 7-5. Monte Pearson weakened
killed one man and I will kill you." in the ninth and gave up three]
—• , She was addressing Sheriff runs, including a pinch homer by]
• Reeder Webb and County Attorney Ken Silvestri.
her cell she threw jail
at two negro women.
row's two-run homer in the
enth while
iiLallas to eight hits.
Sop effand wisi
n GMND
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somethe-bappenatg hisgarm sr■“ After Slow Start
"Don't feel bad.” answered Conn, alien activity in widely scattered
’’because the championship will be sections of the country. .
yours in a few days. This fight The house passed yesterday and
convinced me I can’t take off sent to the senate a bill provid- I
weight any more and from now ing for swift deportation of aliens
on I’m a heavyweight. You can who engage in espionage or sabo-
beat the other light-heavies.” tagt. or W ho are convicted of fel-
° onieS
”But I don’t want the title that Home Defense studied
way remonstrated Lesnevich. I The senate military committee
want to win it in the ring. studied proposals for creation of
if you want to fight me again a “home defense force" of a mil-
become a heavyweight, ’ said Conn, lion men and a “national defense
thereby signalizing his vacating of corps,” the latter to guard against
the title. He says he hopes To get sabotage in key industries.
a shot at Heavyweight Champion —
50c
Ipana Tooth
3113
in both houses mTTIA.
- THURSDAY - FRIDAY - SATURDAY ‘
Muncrief limited the
ve blows.
ticipating, and whoever wins ma
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409 , 1 By The Associated Press i
4931 Schoolboy’Rowe, Tigers Limited
4: ' Athletics to seven hits and knocked
.464 three inns home in winning fourth
straight.
George Selkirk, Yankees — Got
three hits, including homer, to lead
a Texas’golfer to capture hone rs.
. ca...g ........... By JUDSON BAILEY
y winner of the winter was hot Associated Press Sports Writer
The Washington Senators, who Lesnevich, a plodding pugilist from
have had little enough to cheer Cliffside Park, N. J., lost his
'■ M I
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1j wr). T t
“VWi--uam
yiTE DIDN’T KNOW until recent- |
fl ly -that Jimmy Foxx, mighty
swatsmith of the Boston Red Sox
SPORTS A:,
nzzum"
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Dom Dallessandro, Cubs Dou-
Phone 344
BUERGER, City Pass.
as a corii-
and two m
The pace
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SEE BOTH FAIRS FOR ONE FARE
$90ca San Francisco • New York $135
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* A couple of fair fights are on t he .
menu tonight. Buddy Baer mests j
Valentin Campolo, the Argent . .
scrapper, and Pat Comiskey, Iri ?h ( North Texas Medical Association
knockout specialist, takes on « Id i was held at Lake Fengin,
Steve Dudas. Steve is the boy whol Bonham Tuesday, with Dr. I. L. _______________________, ...
handed the Irishman his only < e- Thomas of Gainesville, president,- all Chicago’s runs on a double with
feat, winning on points last le-jin charge of the sessions. ' " - - - — ----
cember .. . The Texas amateur, r- ” — —1— eff
golf ’tourriament gets under W y i was among . „
in San Angelo today. Match pi ay read papers during the meeting,
starts Friday and th final rounds
come Saturday . •.. The Bost on
Red Sox must be in the midst o:
like a bad pick to this corner. 5 e -11 kill you.
only hope he hits the nail on t he cf you.
head, especially that first ph ce I never
ting nowhere fast. Then they
started clubbi ng the ball all over
the lot. The result was that the
against all of them are,the 6,921 Wafer is not going into profes-
yards of Canterbury’s .tricky ter-isional ball just yet. Only 17, he
a godsend to the French right
now,” he said. “We are not in
any .immediate danger, and we
could quickly replace ships sent to
Europe with even more up-to-date
models. We might also sell the
allies our over-age destroyers
without impairing our naval
strength. It would be much bet- j
ter to send them our ships and
planes now than our boys later.”
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Tell your merchant you saw hif
advertisement in The Register.
the evening a chicken barbecue
! and fish fry was given for the vis-
S1.00
Hinds’Eom and Almond 49
of the first order.
Wafer still runs the risk of be-
ing mobbed by -baseball scouts be-
cause he hasn’t signed anything
with -the White Sox. However,
By The Associated Press
Shreveport's Sports, pre-season
favorites in th Texas league mar-
athon. after almost two months of
bones about it, it’s the money I e‛
after, and its the big ‘boys v hb \ ethers rated excellent chances of
crowds, and incid en- coming home in front. Ralph Gu!d-
enter theeheavy weight group, a
reading when but 6,090 fans i
slump. The ‘Brewns licked the
Beantown sluggers again yest
day, winning n the 14th frame
The Rebel are thankful the Bu
are leaving, town. The Tallasi es
dropped J another to the leap ue
leaders yesterdav. The Cats
vade Rebel Field tonight. Thse
• Texas’ Byron Nelson
Is Defending Champ;
Snead, Hogan Favored
punch when needed. The Sports
pushed over two runs in the eighth
Reds stopped the Giants, 7 to
in their first night, tilt of the s a-
son. Bucky Walters is due to tn Re
the mound today against Bill Ter-
IEMM
Grand Canyon Side Trip. Round Trip Coach $3.00
Round Trip Standard $7.00
travel the; scenic short route
for delailt and reaervationt call
shoot some sensational golf. J is onuecA m. I., c/Ap, -c . . . . .. . -
♦ E.t. Watrictim we’ll n : k ODESSA, Tex.. June 6 (Al ).— relief and singled the winning run
o ’ b Threatening to “kill every one of across with two out in the four-
. 1 ... . 1 you,” Isabelle Messmer, convicted teenth.
They havt /or the last.two.yeas, murderess, was back in the Ector Schoolboy Rowe pitched and
LI , 416 county jail today to await transfer batted the Detroit Tigers to a 9-1
year, and Byron Nelson, turned.the to the penitentiary. triumph over the Philadelphia
She escaped April 8 after being Athletics in a night game. He
convicted of slaying Buford Arm- scattered seven hits in acquiring
strong, Odessa baseball player, his fourth victory without defeat
and sentenced to three years. and batted in three of Detroit’s
1 The woman was returned yes- runs.
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resilant. .
two are fairly well matched .
Ed Greer rushed to the mound I
night to halt a Beaumont ral Y.
enabling the Cats to come throu Ph
with a slim victory . . . The Cir y
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them in the
BULCHER, June 3.—Mrs. J. A.
Bridges returned home last week
from Olt, where she visited rela-
tives. . .
Olen Cannon an t son of Illinois
Bend spent Wednesday with his
father, W. R. Cannon.
I Cleburne Tucker of W i c h i t a
Britain and France while there Falls spent Wednesday night with
was still time to use them. j his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. R.
"Five hundred planes would be Tucker.
Huey Blakely is spending this
week with relatives at Spencer.
A large crowd from Bulcher at-
tended the homecoming at Mt.
Hope Sunday.
Miss Valentine West of Sherman
spent the weekend with her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. West.
Mr. an. 1 Mrs. Calip Cannon, Jack
Blakely and son, Huey, and Mrs.
and Mrs. Robert Milburn and chil-
dren were St. Jo visitors Satur-
day.
Through Pullman Ft. Worth to I os Angeles via
Grand Canyon. Car to car transfer en route to
through Pullmans to San Francisco and Los Angeles
• direct.
DR. LYON’S 71 c
$1.25 Tooth Powder (Limit One) .... • m“
.. phia. Snead has been xceptional-
" In ' ly long and straight off the tee
tet i while “Battering Ben," leading
most spectacular, free-for-all
fights in open history.'
The players known to be consist-1
ently long and straight are given ;
the best chance of licking the
winds and Canterbury $ par of 36-
36 72 over the three-day. 72-hole
grind.
Per lb.....L.
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velop more punch than he showed
last night. Only in the final round
did he jab Lesnevich appreciably.
The Cliffside, Park, N. J., battler
went to the canvas for an instant
after catching a left hook on the
chin in a corner where the canvas
had been made slippery by water
splashed from a bucket, ‛rhat was
the only knockdown of the fight,
which was witnessed by a slim
crowd of 6,075 spectators.
Lesnevich delivered his most
damaging blows in the fifth round
when'he dazed Billy with a right
and followed up with a sharp left.
The bell sounded a few seconds
later.
Except in the early part of the
fight w’hen Lesnevich landed a
number of stabs to the body. Conn
boxed superbly, beating his foe to
28c
1 vitl l mone
114 * enough to produce three sub-par
last night in Detroit between cbnn rounds in consecutive practice
and Gus Lesnevich. Conn makes 119! Jaunts-
But there are a dozen or more
volunteer parachutists being
! formed along the lines of the Ger-
man corps.
Italy continued to keep her
watch on the war with an indica-
tion she was waiting to see what
success the Germans would have in
their drive on France before enter-
ing the war.
The newspaper II Tevere said
that, barring a miracle, it seemed
that France’s fate “will be decided I
in the next few days.”
After that, the newspaper went
on, the war will enter the thin!
state “which will be more interest-
ing and will decide the war and the
destiny of two empires,”—the Brit-.
ish and French.
Thousands of fascist soldiers de-
parted today to join 2,000,000 com-
rades assembled in Italy and along
the roads of her empire, expecting,
a signal from Premier Mussolini
which would launch a campaign for,
the nation’s territorial aspirations.
Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo
Cianc, Ettore Muti, secretary of
the fascist party, and Alessandro:
Pavolini, minister of popular cul-l
ture, all of whom have been re-!
called to arms, are expected to as-
Wore glasses eff the field for r ad~
ing and other purposes. "Double
X” has -never worn cheaters in a
regularly schduled league game,
but scribes have seen him use t em
in exhibition: skirmishes. - M any
baseball officials believe that more
players should put on the blinc era,!
spreading out
seems certain
nessed the hampionship ba
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