General News of Day, Daily Racing Form, 1938-10-07

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! GENERAL NEWS OF DAY f From Sydney, Australia comes word that Jim Ferrier, Australias golf champion, met and defeated Bobby Locke, the Irish andv South African title holder in a match in thirty-seven holes on Wednesday, one up. The Notre Dame football team left South Bend Thursday for Atlanta where they play Georgia Tech on Saturday. Thirty-three men were in the party. 1 The series between Newark and Kansas City Blues in the little World Series is now tied two games apiece. Kansas City evened up things Wednesday night by defeating Newark 9 to 8 before a crowd of 15,272 fans, who were treated to every variety of baseball. For six innings the game was a pitchers battle with Kansas City leading 2 to 1. Then the Blues maie four runs in the seventh after Newark had tied the score. The latter went on a rampage in the eight and scored four runs, while the Blues could only gather two. Newark made two more in the ninth and Kansas City finally managed to put across the winning run in their half of the ninth. Greyhound, worlds champion trotter, and Billy Direct, the nations leading pacer, will make no more attempts to establish records this 3 ear both horses being retired, it was said at Lexington. Charles Hare, Englands No. 2 Davis cup player, was eliminated from the Pacific Coast tennis tournament Wednesday by an unseeded player. The 6-2, 6-3 victory of George Rice, 37, Oakland, Calif., over Hare was the days only upset.


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