Sapulpa Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 298, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 20, 1938 Page: 4 of 6
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Today's Sport
Parade
lass riant I o Mol
Annual Picnic Tonite
By Hr nr) Nrlrmarr
United Err** Will Oonv-spondrnt
BOSTON. Aug 30 (lP> Victorious
o.er Ocrm.iny In what surely muni
hwve toe' ll Uie drewra-st mteraone (Inal
The ■wUett-OoUin* *!**» plant
will hold Its annua! picnic pailv to-
night »t the Municipal park at 8
o’clock
A special musical program and
other entertainment lias been plan-
ned Wa rmelon will he arrved.
Saimmlng and feature* have i*en
i«T *• 36 years of Oa“m 'cup' pig,' *» *** •emb'T‘ ** ‘he
Australia ? taro man expeditionary l1**nt -ta.1 and gues s.
force today looked forward to the ’
challenge tound meeting in Septem-
ber with the holding nation, the
United States
Yes. not only looked forward, but
looked tonvard hopefully, because the
Australians consider they have much
OKLAHOMA BRIEFS
'By United Press)
W.SOONER -Filends who have not
seen each other In five years will
___ on A i ‘
more than lighting chance to regain wagoner high school class of 1933 will
the cup and take It down under for ^ hfld herP September 3-4-5
the first time since 191*. | __
Oddly enough this ofitlmiam Is not1
Greenberg Bat
Is Picking Off
Homers Again
CHICAGO. Aug » (IP>—Hank
Greenberg’s home run bat is hot
again and Babe Ruth's record ot 60
homers in one season—one of the
greatest marks on the books—today
Is once mote In jeopardy.
Greenberg hit three circuit clout*
yesterday in a doubleheader against
the 8t Louis Browns to raise no
season’s total to 41.
Only a few days ago when Hank
was ui Chicago with the Tigers h$
was disconsolate over hi* home run
slump and tiad about given up on his
chance* of breaking Ruth's record
rout of the narl cup team without the Hr dlKl ol heart disease after kh h(. wxnl mt() a .slump and until he
banged out three yesterday he had
loss ol even one set would have been weeks illness
something to brag about.
But that was viien Baron Gottfried
Van Cramm was taking hi? exercise
on the courts of the world and not in
h prison court yard Georg Vo,, Met-
axa. wtvi rcplacey] the jailed baron, is
an internal lonaHst in dress only
There arc rioarns of American players
who could deleat him with case Hrn-
ner Henkel, the oilier half ol the
German team was handle apimt not
only by Mctaxa hut by a badly in
jured right elbow as well. As a re
atilt Adrian Qulst and Jack Rrom- j
wich. Australia’s players, won as they
pleased
Germany * collapse was very dis-
connected for only one homer this
LAWTON John McCown. a farmer mootiL
living six miles east of Geronlmo
delivered the first bale of cotton here
yesterday (rom the 1938 crop in
Comanche county. The gross weight
of the cotton was about 2 000 pounds
“I can’t explain my slump." Green-
Iwrg said at that time ’When I try
to pull the ball to the left I dont
get a good piece of It.
•’Most of my power seems to pre-
, t ail when I hit to center and right
and that handicaps my chances ol
breaking Ruth's home run record.
‘ guess 111 Just have to be (onlent
DURANT The last concrete ha.
been imunxl on the new city jail un-
der construction here Installation of
* doors and window* and the (minting | wlth'slnglto"
ol the walls will complete the job. | oreenberg drove in eight runs with
~ . j Ida three homers. He hit his first
FREDERICK Establishment of a, , prrr men on in the third, his
junior college here is being pushed by MCOnd wlth lhp Pm|Hy m the
aiavantine io th. America. ix»vis nm <lv,c l,B,lers R ** Christian. one ol nlnth and third with two men
a«*atnunc to fh« America,, LtoU* cup lhr lenders ol the projec t, said that I on m u„. (lrst 1IinlIlK oJ lh,. nlgh,_
group of 30 scholarships- needed to • (ap The Tigers won both games
carry the plan to completion-had | from thp Bromhs ,.7 and 7-4
been underwritten. i jj, getting his 41 homers Greenberg
committee, out In full force to aoout
the Aussies Wearing their Biinday
pants and all their Importance the
committeemen iwrken themselves hard
-Geo:
1 toon
by the court* and tried to study
tl.emselves out of a deep log Even
Bobby Riggs, who will share the
American singles duty with Donald
Budge was here to examine the
weakness and strength of Qulst and
**”*** The committee arid RigK* 1 .^ol^g"V'Mirch'
gained lltUe inform ittoii. The Oer-
maiu dldn t play well enough to un-| HOBART—City officials said today
cover the defects of the Australians >
M March, city
manager, said
installation of a police radio system
at El Reno would be started next
Monday. The Installation probably
will be completed in a week or 1C
or make them show their strong
point*.
Hie optimism of the Australians is
based on 'll what happened to Budge
tuid Gene Mako when they visited
Australia last winter, and (2) their
belief that Riggs may be beaten in
both his tingles matches.
In Australia. Budge and Mako
proved they could be beaten both In
singles and doubles. Bromwich, a pow-
erful left-hand youngster who rmplojs
an awkward but tremendously elec-
tive two-fisted backjiund beat Budge
at singles ag many time* a* Budge
beat him They split. I believe, six
matches. In doiMes. Budge and M:iko|
never were able to take the measure
of Qulst und Bromwich Three times
they met, and three times the Amer-
erlcans runic oft serond best Qulst
rtnd Bromwich are a rather extraord-
inary tandem They have been playing
together less than a year and have
yet to lose a match, although their
competition has Included the most
formidable combines in the world.
Neither Qulst nor Bromwich has
that work will be started soon 014
planting a shelterbelt around the
city's properly at the Hobart lake
Trees will be planted over a five-mile
area
QUYMON—The men here have de-
cided that the girls, with their bathf
ing suits and play suits, have at-
tracted too much attention So a
masculine bathing beauty contest will
be held next Friday In conjunction
with a band concert.
TEXAS LEAGUE RESULTS
----- ... ■ _ „ . , Texas league fans toda\ received
......H!1 ? *?* unknown ,hp news lnat lherc wouW be anotlier
^ 4 n. . 4. . tJ mr jura uiai umr Ruuiu w miiuuici
?’*“ ,!v rn pitching ^ *«*«•.. **“>“ 1 Dh 11y 1
' ,* h gvlen da> they stand a ij,an and Lynwood ,8choolbov, RiTke.
•ncA.^r ,mn* he d0eM The two rivals will meet Sunday In
^ "Uiri Dallas when Beaumont leading the
, W l > 1 Tew* iwicue. and Dallas. Deans club
l,°7aanDls ««»«>•« «» k«-P out of the cellar,
really nianber 1 in the world But
lias been In 109 games. Ruth cook
nge M Manh city p, ge( hp, 41^1 In 1937 Hank has
lay that work on the games tn which to hit the 20
necessary to smash the bambino's
mark.
The New York Yankees continued
their drive toward the American
league pennant by defeating the
Athletics. 5-2 and extendUig their
lead to 10 game*. Spud Ch and ley
pitched a slx-hltier and Lou Gehrig
hit homer No. 23
Cleveland lost its third straight
when Lefty Lee pitched the White
Sox to a 7-2 victory over the slumping
Indians The White Sox combed
Whltehlll and Galehouse for 13 hits,
including homers by Owen and Kuhei.
The Boston Red Sox defeated Wash*
lngton. 4-3 In 10 innings and climbed
within a game and a half of the
eecond-place Indians. Bobby Doerr’s
single drove In the winning run
Jimmy Foxx hit homer No. 33.
The New York (Hants reduced Pitts-
burgh's National leag'te lead to four
and one-half games by deteatlng the
Phillies. 4-2. Bill Lohrman allowed
the Phils only four hits. Jimmy nip-
ple hit a homer with one on and
Harry Dunning got one with none on.
In a night game the Dodgers down-
ed the Boston Bees, 1-0. tn 11 Innings.
The game left the teams tied for
fifth place In the National leagfhe
j Cookie Lavagetto’s single with two out
In the last inning drove home the
' cnly run of the game and ended
pitcher Lou Pette's winning streak
at eight games.
STAFFORD— Funeral services wen*
held here yesterday for Mrs. Lucy
I Argo of Arapwho. killed Tuesday In
en automobile accident near Harrison.
Ark She was a pioneer Custer county
resident.
VICTORY-Mrs. G. L. Neely sal*
that she has at last found a use tor
extreme summer heat. The sun
hatched eggs which a settlngTTen had
abandoned.
there Is always the chance that the
c.'uunpton will have an off day. they
remind you.
tOouyriRht 1938 bv United Press!
TALI Kl snti’NTs INVIltl)
BUTTE. Mon' ltij>y Butte has def-
lnlte.v entered the field of offering
special Inducements for tall people to
play
Beaumont added two more gamed
to Us league lead last- night by de-
teattng Port Worth 11 to 3 and 8 to 0.
Oklahoma City spilt a double-
header with Houston, losing the open-
er 5 to 2 and talcing the nightcap
3 to 2 after playing four extra ui*
nines
San Antonio won both parts of Its
doubleheader with Dallas. 5 to 3 and
come here and settle down ’ >11 r 14 to 3 to come within a hall game
have been instructed to see that all!of Oklahoma City's second place berth
awnings tn the cltv measure up to I Tulsa defeated Shreveport 2 to 0
the elty ordinance altitude of 7 1-21 and 10 to 5 with the last game
feet from the ground. i turned Into a home run carnival.
Yesterday's hero—Hank Greenberg
who hit three homers to raise his
total to 41 for the season and jump
11 games Ahead of Babe Ruth's record
schedule of 1927.
n\me:i> saved HIM
George Washington, Indian, raved
two dollars this morning in police
court because he was named after the
famous first president of the United
States. Instead of Aaron Burr, a dis-
liked character tn history.
Judge Brown told him that if his
name had been Aaron Burr or some
other such character It would have
called for an eight dollar fine. As
It was. he received onlv a minimum
fme o( j
Vs Armstrong Won World Lightweight Crown
1 If!
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r
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Armstrong lands left on Anibera’ Jaw *
Vicious le
above in w.
enable! H< 1 ...............„____
weight crow n from the Herkimer Kid in a wUpus
the Jaw. *uch as the one ahown
->- -reiving end,
.11 uie v rid ll”ht-
15-round battle In New York. Homicidal Henry
thus became the first man In pugilistic history to
hold three world boxing titles simultaneously—
feather, l.i,ht and welterweight.
Meeting Of Movie Star
Mr and Itoi A. A Moulder Just
returned from a vacation trip through
New Mexico. Ariadna. Colorado, and
Utah, today related the coincidental
meeting of Tyrone Power movie act-
or. and his director. Henry King, at
Albuquerque. N. M . en route to Mis-
souri. to snake the film ' Jesae James "
at Ptneviile
“Before leaving on the trip, we had
seen a screening of 'Alexander* Rag
tune Band.' featuring Power as one
of the star* I had Intended writing
to tell him how I thought he stole
the picture But the chance meeting
to a cafe at Albuquerque gave me the
opportunity of telling him that I
Jiought he waa top*." Mr*. Moulds-
said
He gave the credit to hi* director
Laughingly. Mrs Moulder, who os
an exhibitor of pictures at the Criter-
ion theatre here ha* followed closely
the rise and fall of movie star*, said
alie told Power that he was top*."
big to "keep his shirt on" Mr. King,
the director, smiled hit approval. Mrs
Moulder remarked.
She was very enthusiastic over
meeting the movie actor and director
Power was easy to talk with and con-
genial He had permit ten his hair to
filming of “Jeme James"
Both picture* will be shown at the
Criterion theatre
THE HOLLYWOOD ROUND IT
•Copyright 1938 by United Press,
HOLLYWOOD Aug 30. (U»i—Lupe
Velex eager to leave Hollywood since
divorcing Johnny Weismuller leaves
for New York tomorrow to resume her
role in a musical comedy on Broad-
way
“I will say farewell to California
for a while" she said, "because 1
know I will be happiest away."
Miss Velez said she would not see
Weismuller before her departure
Tom Brown today was the first
casualty of the 1938 football season,
suffering a sprained ankle during J.he
filming of a football scene
Mown and Andy Devine, who
weighs 246 pounds, collided in the
scene while Devine was supposed to
be showing him hew to tackle Th<-
romedlan fell on Brown s ankle Brown
probably will be back In action in
"Swing That Cheer" Monday
Irvin 8 Cobb today was reported to
have started work on his autobto-
grapny. climaxing a writing carter of
more than 25 years during which
he has turned out between 300 and
several books
Cotob. now acting in the Arkansas
Traveler." said that he would devote
a large portion of the book to his
experiences in Hollywood
Carl bmond. Briush film actor, to-
day was signed for his first American
role that of a German war ace. in
"The Dawn Patrol an aviation pic-
ture.
R will be Esmond s first experience
in that type of role He played
romantic lover parts in his British
filmn.
From a list of five of the fastest
thoroughbreds in America, producer
Edward 8mali is selecting a horse U4
appear in a racing p£turc. "King ot
the T\irf "
Because of the important part to
be played in the picture by the racing
champion. Small decided to get an
outstanding thoroughbred for the role
rather than using one of the bones
owned by movie studios
The producer is consulting with the
owners of Seabiscuit, Stagehand
Ligaroti. War Admiral and Lawrnn
BRONSON Mich <Uh—Mrs Man
Sikorsky derided it wouldn’t be any
rocking chair and lace for her on her
100th birthday—she celebrated It by
helping her son wl*e the chorea a
she has done every day for years
Oil Price Reduced
DALLAS Tie* . Aug 30 <LP»—‘Th
price of east Texas crude oil wa* r«
a need from $135 per barrel to $139
today by one large purchaser
Ehat Texas Refining company, with
headquqarters here posted Its new
price effective at 7 a. n>
The company buys between 6 vat
and 7 000 barrels dally from 350 wtT
Freeman W Burford pref idem 01
the company said the new price wa
In line with prices being pa it by larv I
purchasers of crude in olh, t Texas
fields and for ail oemg imported mu,
Texas from Arkansas and I xNiisuna
NEGRO LEGION F|UK< < »VT '
NEW OFFICERn F UK TL AR
At a meeting of the * fn» Felton
post of the American Le gjon. colored
last night, officers for the new year
were elected.
These Included Carl Eastman com-
mander: Alexander Wllwni. l4r.,t vice
commander and Oeorg* Nelson sec-
ond vice commander. EYank Jackson
wa* made adjutant; Alexander Wll-
■nn, finance officer; Rand Brittm,n
sergeant at arms; James William*,
historian and Clair le Bag-by, service
officer.
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