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FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JILT 19. 1940.
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SPORTS PAGE
W. WELLS, Editor
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returned
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stool in his corner be-
out last fall, it still was
the
eighth
eight runs in the first three in- i American League*
Jersey authorities- ruled
Max Baer
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Statement
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left hand with a wild left hook in
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Newlin Lets League
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Red Sox. Pinky
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Al Hostak Meets
Tony Zale in 15-
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Middleweight Title
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By JUDSON BAILEY
Associated Press Sports Writer
The American league still is boil-
ing over, like a pot of hot porridge,
and there doesn’t seem to be any-
thing anyone can do about it.
The Cleveland Indians stumbled
into their fifth consecutive defeat
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in beating Shreveport 5-2 f o r
Beaumont. That hit, however, was
a homer by Vernon Washington I
with one on.
GAINESVILLE DAILY; REGISTER, GAINESVILLE, TEXAS.
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The National league program,
for was abbreviated to two games and 1
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Detroit Tigers had a chance to
scoot into the lead, but when they
finished battling each other at the
(end of 11 wild innings, it was De-
troit that was on top. 10-8.
This was a game that had ev-
erything. including a triple play.
The Red Sockers scored all their
• Safe
e Comfortable
Eddie Marino, Hostak’s mana-
ger. disclaimed any desire to wrap
GALVESTON, Texas. July 15.
The appointment of Frank J. Ran-
dol as telegraph manager of the,
1 Santa Fe railway’s Gulf lines with
headquarters at Galveston, was an-
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winning streak, by turn-
the White Sox ... In the
Indians Drop One to
Yankees; Washington
Continues to Win
Oklahoma City and Tulsa split
a double-header, the Indians tak- . .
‘.ing the first 5-1 with young Orval 66s ’
.Grove holding Tulsa to three hits, st -t
He’ll knock out that Zale. You wait and the Oilers winning the nightcap k - 5S 1
— - — .. --a-. 3-1 on Paul Erickson’s five-hit
yesterday, 9-6. at the hands of
if the Brooklyn Dodgers made the
most of the idleness of the Cincin- ।
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of Cubs 7-4 to narrow the gap be-1
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Shreveport at Beaumont.
Houston at San Antonio.
National Ieague
Brooklyn at Chicago.
New’ York at Pittsburgh.
Boston at Cincinnati.
Philadelphia at St. Louis,
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• tucky, the convention chairman, declaratior i of my personal desires
mt ’the motion. His decision was were gone
Galento couldn’t continue, hjs deci-
sion came‘while the clock was tick-
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the ever dangerous - New
Brooklyn 7. Chicago 4.
New York 6. Pittsburgh 1, night
game.
.Only games scheduled.
American League
Washington 5. Chicago 4.
Philadelphia 10. St; Louis 3.
SEATTLE, July 19 (APl. Aft-
1 er an argument over the amount
of hand bandages had been set-
weather was ready today for to-
night’s 15-wund fight between Al
Hostak of Seattle and Tony Zale
, of Gary, Ind., for the 46-state NBA
ces ive lays ancwon three
mounced at the general offices of
the railroad here by R! B Bal,
vice-president and general mana-
ger ;|
Mf: Randol has been with the
Santa Fe for more than 33 years.
in the
term."
“That conviction remained with
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game. . .
Beaumont 5. Shreveport 2.
National League
two >cars later following ,
feat than the Browns ever had suf-
OF the Joe Louis- Arturo fered in succession before. The HF j
tmiaybeseennqxt Sun- .victory that the Philadelphia
at the Athletics took from them was a. I
to Galveston
down the Bucs. . . . Dallas again reported to be a member of the ‘
made Cowtown’ fans exceedingly parachute corp. When he drops out ,
unhappy by making it three of the skies he'll prohably be pray-
straight! over the lowly Cats. . . .' ing Joe Louis won't be where he
Newlin. ' San Antonio pitcher, lands.....Jenkins is on his way <
" he added. "Eight years in the to state to you that my conscience
ndhaco following a period of Wil note let me turn my back on a
bleak depression and covering one call 1$ service."
I The Zale camp says Tony
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the Cleveland Indians. oe of the and handcuffed the Pittsburgh Pi- ‘
** • *’ rates 6-1 on six hits, although his
457 "We don’t object to five or ten
4491 yards of gauze on a fighter’s
380 hands,” Pian explained, "but we
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1 an 11-inning. 10-8 tussle use of 11 hits and three Chicago
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.684 broken hands.
"His hand/t are better than ever.
ternational situation had developed. ■
“Every day that passed called
for the postponement of personal •
You’ll make the BEST deal in town in this BIG
LEAGUE SALE Every car a real bargain . . . AND
you can buy here with confidence, for we always
stand by our promises. Our reputation is your
dssurance of fair dealing.
grid teams in the big town next
fall. They’ll get an early.season
they run into Si rede Me- the Cubs for six innings on one
T. Looks hit after, Chic ago had got rough,
homers and ten hits The Indians teammates on the New York'
have dropped five straights. . . . Giants fell apart with five errors. I
- "with the They gave "Hub" plenty of assit-
"As president of the United . . ..
was my duty, with the ice of the
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by blow About all you can____
doy do is take a flock of Louis
He hurla two-dy Myer scored the tying run and
thirds of 4 frame against New Or-1 then Letty Ed Smith walked two
i third men to force across the deciding
run.
The streak to end all streaks,
however, was the one the St. Louis
three innings of mound dty isn't Browns extended to 14 games, all
would 1 losses, yesterday. This isn’t a rec-
ord yet but it is one more de-
l h o! Ic n mo.
393 thing but gauze, and scoffed at the
reports Al would bandage his
r
had won in the eighth.”
fore his home town crowd. Pro-
moter Nate Druxman said he ex- 1
! pected. some 17.000 persons would
pay $50,000 'to see the scrap at
THURSDAY’S RESULTS
Texas League «
Dallas 10, Fort Worth 7, night
game.
Oklahoma City 5-1. Tulsa 1-3,
night games.
We know a country
Dallas pound out eighteen hits and noigustain the policy of the good. =
Fort Worth 10. Lefty, Bob.Uhle He trac d the course of national r
outlasted three Fort Worth twirl- defense plans and told how the in-
A couple of
over in Jersey City,
Galento lost wi ile sit-
the Dallas News says Forest Ave- tween first and second place to!
be one of the toughest three games.
one-hit affair to give the Ja.n .y caang ....
i a victory over4 tie league- wants another shot at Armstrong
___ . Buffs. Tulsa split a pair He'd better toughen up a bit before '
with Oklahoma City and Beau- signing for a second engagement. ' .
FODDER Bill i McClanahan
latest posible moment," he said.
1 “The normal
which I would have made public |
st rong battle before the bell rang I
for the beginning of the seventh i 0d “I, W nomwas I ee and easy
round. Hence the technical knock- JackWilson. The Tigershad kept
out was credited to the sixth; nibbling away atEoston s.margin,
round over in Jersey City, the and had it down to 8-7 when Wil-
‛ t stopped by the doctor -
• the bell had already 1
sixth round TKO.
the Dodgersiwon over the mont turned back the Sports . . .
made his Max Schmeling has a tough as-'
chopping signment y. He is
BUYS!
Team
Cincinnati .4
taxi Job No. 3 is an antique book
business. , . 1 -
was to be counted as a
17-hit as-
Baseball bats are made mostly
from wood imported from India. ’
Tell your merchant you saw hi
advertisement in The Register.
WORTHING. Sussex. Eng (UP),
Mrs. A. D. Booth of New St..
Worthing, is holding down three -
jobs whie her husband is at the
j front. Job No. 1 is a pony site on
! Worthing Beach. Job N9 2 is a
speaking from the White House.
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other hands at the end of my said and added. f 8 rollewing a short in-
Those are the reasons why l ness
have to admit to myself and now
don’t want any tape or plaster of
Pct paris or that stuff so. a fellow can
ing off seconds
. than two-thirds of the delegates, good and of the international scene.
i After President Roosevelt s ad- I came to the reluctant conclusion which he worked in various relay
dress, the convention adjourned that such declaration should not be offices on the Gulf lines. He also
sine, die at 12:05 a. m. CST. made before the national conven- served for a short time as a sta-e
t । When the presidential acceptance tion. It was accordingly made to tion agent in the Beaumont terri-
speech came on, the crowd was you within an hour aiter the per- tory
• still. There was one rustle of ap- manent organization of the con- In 1913 he was re-appointed chief '
plause. which died as Mr. Roose- vention. clerk in the telegraph manager's
; velts voice plowed straight through Feels Honored ■+• office. He was promoted to tele-
it. A light played upon a big pic- "Like any other man. I am com- graph and telephone ’supervisor for.
i ture of tht president at the end of plimented by the honor you have the Gulf lines in 1923 He was made
i the stadiu- done me. But I know you will un- construction engineer for the ‘
! “I find myself as almost every- derstahd the spirit in which Isay Santa Fe system in 1929 with'
; one does sooner or later in his life- that no call of .party alone would headquarters at Topeka, Kansas,
time in a conflict between deep prevail upon me to accept reelec- but due to force reductions.
I personal desire for retirement on tion to the presidency." ’ . was
San Antonio’s hustling young the one hand and that quiet, ih- He spoke of the developing de-
Missions are rapidly closing a gap visible thing called conscience on fense plans, related that numerous
between them and Houston’s Buffs the other" Mr Roosevelt said, persons helping to work them qut
that for a time threatened to put speaking from the White House, had put “patriotism above all else" ters in Chicago on Max 15. 1940,
the Texas league leaders in a class When hees elested for a serend at hie ca1 e"" ’ -
by themselves.
Houston lost its third game in a
day. Mon lav and Tuesday — —
we’re- informed. A usual .comkination! five-hit hurling by
night’s fight, which really- ended
between ths sixth and Seventh
Cleveland in First Place, But the Fifth Took ’em Out
YESTERDAYS Sts r - Tele-
gram Flem Hall, sportsfeditor,
had the following to say:’
. "Wish those fellows up East
i would make, up their minds. The -eret „0, ,
New York boxing commission of- firsplace, butfve took em out
, ficially ruled that Wednesday Both the Boston Red Sox and
blasting out
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nings. Then the Tigers, using five I Team
pitchers, held them helpless the ■ Detroit ...
g * a <■ v ,1,0, rest /of the way. Cleveland .
EASILY explained. The ! .. Four Hurier.
referee stopped the Jenkins- Arm-1 20 Hur . . . ,
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a half games out in front—quite a me,’ ,—I
contrast to the ten and twelve mar-1 presidency
gin the Buffs boasted consistently h *’ 1 7
ring about 9 pin (PST) for their until the past week, world crisis after another normally
... -tie-- -- -he- ------- .. Maurice Newlin, labeled ready to entitles any man to the relaxation
produce in the majors by his man- which comes from honorable
ager, Marty McManus, gave up tirement."
one hit as San Antonio beat Hous- The president said that when the
ton 2-0 last night. The Buff base ‘ war broke
knock was a single by John Win- his intention to announce simply
sett in the second inning, and clerl}, at an early date, "that
a brick ! Generally it was a round of good under bo tonditions would I accept
pitching, there being another one- reelection. . ,
hitter and a three-hit performance This f jct was well known to
I Les Mueller gave up one blow my friend# and I think was under-
1 ■ — eteed h* many citizens," he said.
HEN NUMBERS EGG “3"
ASHLAND. Ore. iUD. J E.
Haney believes the mother of his
pet Rhode Island hen must have
been frightened at some time in
her life by a bookkeeper. Recently
the hen laid two eggs with the fig-
ure "3" on each one, the figure
"1" on another and still another!
with a figure “6.”
--L-— company as an operator
to preserve our < enerkoina ntdewasepronpnted iachie,
. office in the same year. He became
keep our domestic affairs adjusted a train auditor in 1910 but re-
to shifting world conditions, and turned to the telegraph depart-
a report that the I fight
- and a long fly for the tying run.
eigth. Naturally, when thedo said Inthennth he walked three men to Brooklyn
- 1 ‛ T fill the bases and Pinky Higgins
spanked a two-run single to, win Chicag°.
ciphth the game.
himr That TKO, of course, was i . The Yankees sCwed up their vic-
credited wi th the eighth round. I tory, in the first two innings. Bud-
r b "T । dy Rosar homered with the bases
brings' loaded in the first and Red Rolfe FRIDAY’S SCHEDULE
betwen hit for the circuit.with one.onin Texas Teague
Jenkins and Armstrong was called thesecon ' Joe DiMaggio extended - ......
off a few minutes before Line for his hitting streak to13 consecutive
them to go on, but the commis- games hy poling .his 17th home
sioner finally gave in and let therunin the seventh inning- f ..
boys get together. Seems the trou-Although they are in fourth
Fe arose over the amount o' band- place,, the world;champions, are
age Armstrong’s manager insisted j only four games behind the lead-
use on his hands. Rer- E... — . .
gardless, t he fight did take place. F ’J’ Triumph
and Jenkins took a first class beat-' The amazing Washington Sena-
. mg. but has a check for. around * torz,who were in last place only 8ames.
his pocket for his trou- last Sunday, chalked up then fifth -----
"sports triumph in a row with a 5-4 deci- 1
d glady take two'beat- sion over the Cho ago White Sox •
‛ [ ■ Lemons bolters sent the Sox away
! to a good start with a three-run ‘
|N THE Southern league shomer in the first inning, but the
nas a relief hurler who' Chicago pitchers couldn t hold onto
pitched th ee innings in three sue- it. In the eighth inning two singles •
' . i ■ and a perfect squeeze bunt by Bud-
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Civic Stadium Field, under pre-
dicted starlit skies.
two They were to weigh in af 2 p. m
l touay.
ings for the same amount.
Tigers Take Top
Spot by Beating
Boston Red Sox
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