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PAGE TWELVE________-
Trans-Miss Golf SPORTS
In Quarterfinals ROUNDUP
Tune In On KRBC
LIL. ABNER
ouLPTFON
FOUR DAYS NOW
WE BIN A WAITIN’)
FO TH’ POST- <
MASTER T’ TAKE 1
A NO-SHUN T’
DEE-LIVER THET /
, LETTER
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Friday Evening, June 21, 1940
. By Al Capp
Friday E
TULSA, Okla, June 21.—P)—Two former champions slid out of the
Trans-Mississippi golf tournament yesterday and became innocent by-
standers as quarter-final play started today.
These favorites lost:. 0
Johnny Dawson of Hollywood, Trans-Mississippi champion in 1936.
Don Schumacher of Dallas, Tex., who won the Trans title in 1937.
Harry Todd of Dallas, western amateur champion.
E. J. Rogers of Oklahoma City, -
Oklahoma amateur champion.
Todays 36 - hole quarter - finals
matched:
Billy Bob Coffey, Fort Worth, AA AAC
rex. J. C. Hamilton Jr., Okla- Win NCAA Crown
homa City.
Art Doering, Chicago, VS. Jack
Trojans Picked to
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 21-
(P)—There‘ll be speed to burn but
Dold, Wichita, Kas. none to spare today when the
George Coleman, Miami, Okla., Y. nation’s greatest college track and
O’Hara Watts, Dallas.
Munger, Dallas.
Walter Emery, Tulsa, vs. Fred
Or Diz Seeks
Third Victory
field stars swing into the qualify-
ing program of the National Colle-
giate championships at Minnesota's
Memorial stadium.
Speed with a capital "S" will be
the keynote of this 19th meet spon-
sored by the National E
Athletic association. From the
By EDDIE BRIETZ
NEW YORK, June 21.—(P>—Louis
goes to Atlantic City today to brush
up on his golf until Baer and Ga-
lento collide. July 2 . . .. Louis
flung 34 “Joe Louis specials” in the
seventh and eighth heats last night
and everyone of them hurt Billy
Conn as much as they did Godoy,
even if Conn was sitting in the
fourth row.
Adios and toodle-oo.
Arturo Godoy was a willing old
boy
And he tried his best to stay:
But his jaw got bent and out he
went
In the South American way.
Beg Pardon Dept.: We certainly
stepped into one when we said
Dizzy Dean got one vote for the
Collegiate Texas league All-Star team. As a
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THE ADVENTURES OF PATSY
PATSY! GREAT NEWS.’ HE’S
TAKEN MY PLAY! GILBERT
MABBOT! THE BIB BOY
HIMSELF!
P OH, HOW ,
( SWELL UNCLE!
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Z GOT TO FLY TO NEW YORK
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AT RADIO CITY TOMORROW
MORNING TO START CASTING
THE PLAY-MY PLAY!
NEW YORK?
TOMORROW
MORNIN’ ?
THEN...7
7 YES, PATSY, THAT KILLS OUR
CATALINA TRIP... BUT YOU DON’T
MIND, DO YOU, TROUPER? ILL
SQUARE THINGS WHEN. SAY. 1
-IVE GOT JUST FIFTEEN
MINUTES TO REACH THE
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By Graff
COURSE I DON’T
MIND, UNCLE
PHIL: GRAB
YOUR BAG AND
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Babie
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get to first
leagues is
revolution:
the ranks.
HAMLIN RE
That’s the
Indians and
to get there
days since (
babies" appe
Bradley to f
ager. Bradle
the wishes of
and retained
dians have w
five straight
American lea
Back on t
league, the 1
• with them 8
Luke Hamlin
a home run
which enable
• the Dodgers
Tuesday’s ga
has been in
Dodger off
or deny that
pended but
Brooklyn ur
queries rega
with, "Nothin
supposedly b
lyn apartme
‘ words Larry
him in the cl
er pitcher re
whereabouts
A double bl
Sox by the r
abled Clevela
to first place
pitched a ma
tribe beat W
one of the at
about Vitt’s d
only four hits
Gerald Walke
run off him.
RED SOX B
The Brown
twice, 2-1 and
ning streak to
four in a row
Harlond Clift
broke up a p
Galehouse ar
opener. The 1
• hits in the ni
ers by Hoag,
ardino.
The Athleti
6-game winni
victory. Chub
relief, was the
McCoy hit he
Greenberg got
Losing to th
the second sti
ran their los
straight and
even 500 p
bested Monte
duel decided
Rookie Bob .F
The Dodger
• al league lead
hand when th
victory over th
Chuck Klein.
. adrift by the
washed up. v
Phils’ second
champions. He
singles, drivin
runs. Kirby H
eight hits, wir
Joe Beggs v
Thompson in
loser
The Giants
game of the t
the Cubs three
6-3. The box S
made no error
nett’s club pla
Harry Danning
tack with “3 f
Elbie Fletch
Bee, slammed (
a single, leadir
8-7 victory over
hit the longest
• in the Bees’ p
than 400 feet
fence.
• Yesterday’s
Cleveland ace,
land into the /
with a 4-hit tri
ton.
matter of fact, he’s No. 1 choice for
the starting pitcher. From the mail
we got every fan in the league is
on the Dean bandwagon, rooting
hard for his comeback.
Today’s guest star
Harold C. Burr, N. Y. Post: "The
moccasin telegraph from the In-
dians’ dugout has it Oscar Vitt is
being permitted to finish out the
season to save the club’s face .
It’s believed this was common
dashes to the distance races even-
ly matched fields carry the prom-
ise of closely fought, record pro-
| ducing duels. And with scores of
Dizzy Dean, who hopes to use sectional champions entered. the
the Texas league as the spring- preliminaries will require premium
board for another trip to the ma- performances which should pre.
jors goes after his third pitching clude the chance of any coasting
mictore tonight into Saturday’s payoff finals
It’s the hard-hitting and re- Southern California’s mighty Tro-
furenated Dallas Rebels he must jans will be heavily favored to win
utnated 2 their sixth straight NCAA team
Dean was sent to Tulsa by the title. One of the few schools ra-
Chicago Cubs after failing to win ted a chance of stopping USC 15
with a sore arm. His first Tulsa Stanford—which will be represent-
start was a 5-4 win over Fort ed by one of the speed merchants
Worth, with Diz himself scoring the of the field, Clyde Jeffrey
deciding run. His next was a - , ,
stumbling decision, 4-1 over Okla- Texan Floor Leader
homa City. Dean was replaced in E
a faltering seventh inning. For Candidate igTE
Dean watched the Rebels beat 1
his club 12-2 last night. PHILADELPHIA, June 21.—- the most fun out of baseball, just
second place San Antonio gained Taft-for-president headquarters an-relax. ..
on the idle Houston Buffs with nounced today that R. B. Creager,It must be what the doctor or-
. 5-1 decision over Beaumont. republican national committeeman | dered, all right
Houston’s engagement with Shre- from Texas, will be the Ohio sen-
veport was rained out. ‘ ---------------
Oklahoma City “ beat
By The Associated Press
knowledge among the disgruntled
players when they called off their
demands to have Vitt burned at the
stake."
One-minute interviews
Willie Turnesa, ex - amateur
champion: "If you want to play
good golf-relax."
Paul Warner: “If you want to get
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By Sick les
Y’LOOK TOO HOT 1
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NOW YOU’LL
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Fort the presidential nomination at next T’ICIl T TUDO
week’s national convention: -
— Everett Sanders, once chairman Connoration
of the republican national com- LOUUCICHTUI
mittee, and former secretary to
President Coolidge was selected by | OKLAHOMA CITY. June 21.—P)
.....000 100 020-3 11 3 the Taft campaign directors ate —Gov. Leon C. Phillips, chair-
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Pellegrini, Honeycutt Kanagy and Mu- cluding prominent republicans from
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Roosevelt yesterday that he extend-
ed "the full facilities of the organi-
zation in the national defense."
"We have taken notice." Phillips
said, “of your reported statements
to the press that the oil industry in
the states of the compact should
Pet meet instantaneously any changes
642 in the wold oil istuation.
467 "I agree most heartily with that
357 statement.”
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