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Scorcher. In St. Louis, Clarence Brown Jr. was hospitalized and treated for burns after being hit by a line drive in a sand-lot baseball game. The batter had scored a bulls-eye on a pocketful of stick matches...
Fleshy, flashy Ray Dumont, onetime Wichita sporting-goods dealer, is a prolific begetter of brain children. Six years ago, to stimulate his trade, he organized the country's sandlotters into the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress. To ballyhoo the sand-lot business, he introduced many innovations: automatic home-plate duster (compressed air whooshed through an underground tube), neon-lighted Scoreboard, jack-in-the-box microphone for umpire's announcements, electric eye to detect balls...
First tryout: next summer, when the pick of President Dumont's 70,000 sand-lot teams meet in Wichita for the national semi-pro championship...
...British had, besides, sent troops and planes to Iraq. In three weeks of sand-lot holy warfare, they had crushed the Air Force and just about crushed the land forces of the pro-Axis Premier-by-Revolt Rashid Ali El-Gailani. Last week the British reinforced their garrison in Iraq by sending units of the Fleet Air Arm to the top of the Persian Gulf...
...Wichita, Kans. last week, 26 of the best sand-lot teams in the country, the winners of district, State and regional contests, batted it out under floodlights for the U. S. semi-pro championship. After a two-week round robin, the Buford (Ga.) Bona Allens, who came to the tournament with a record of 96 victories in 112 games this season, went home with a purse of $5,000 and the national title...