The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 308, Ed. 1 Monday, June 1, 1953 Page: 9 of 12
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|KI‘Lihles in both the 13-and-
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"lMnd-under Junior divi-
"L boys and girls is scheduled
f^rt Monday afternoon.
singles and doubles got
^jv Sunday, with all first
Twitches being completed.
® w in all divisions are ex-
ed^to be crowned not later
, Siturday-
)h. u^nd-under division of
'doubles, Buddy Davis and
vglly were slated to meet
f Ward and Jackie Mills Mon-
, fot the title.
6-2, in the first round and
bested Jerry Scheers and Belton
White 6-0, 6-0.
Bashrum and Como gained the
finals in the 16-and-under doubles
by drawing a first round bye, and
then downing Bill Abbott and
Stanley Ament 6-2, 6-3. Casey and
Lange bested Ronald Gran and
Gene Brewer 8-2, 6-1 in the first
round, and then won over David
Evans and Kay Daves 6-3, 6-2.
In the 13-and-under boys singles
division, Leroy Como has reached
the finals In one bracket but only
two rounds have been completed
in the other bracket. Como ad-
vanced to the finals by drawing a
Bayshore In
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uLlwnd-under division of £r*t round bye, and winning over
Thirs Douglas Bashrum Doyle Bailey 8-1, 6-1; Darwin Ges-
I Paul Como were scheduled to
, ^wrence Casey and David
.... for the crown.
C, tain the finals in the 18-and
' doubles competition, Davis
! Kelly downed Milton Dixon
I non Lumley, 2-6, 10-8, 6-3, in
Lji-hour, first round match
jaw, defeated Teddy McDan-
find John Shearer 6-1, 6-1
I ,nd Mills won over Jerry
and Kent Chaddlck 6-0,
ford 6-1,6-0; and over Jackie Mills
8-0, 6-0.
The Rotary Cubs and Commerce
O’Brien Red Sox, tied for the top
spot in the West Baytown Little
League, will be out to take a firm-
er hold on the load in the two
games scheduled Monday night at
Jaycee park.
The Cubs meet the last-place
Wilkie Indians at 6 p.m., and the
Red Sox cross bats with the third-
place Bayshore Yankees 20 min-
utes.after the first contest ends.
The second game will usually ftart
between 7:30 and 7:46 p.m.
Rotary and Commerce-O’Brien
both have lty-% won, loas record.
That half game defeat for each
team came when the two clubs
played to a nine-inning deadlock
In a season-opener last Monday.
The Bayshore Yanks are in
In the 15-and-under boys singles good position to move up the lad-
division, Paul Como has reached der. Boasting a 1-1 record, the
the semi-finals in one bracket and Yanks could take over second
Douglas Bashrum in the other. place by beating Commerce-O’-
Twenty-two players started out Brien and could even move into
in the men's singles division. All the lead if Wilkie downs Rotary.
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first round matches have been
completed, and a few In the second
round. Second round winners are
Rollln Russell, Thurman Watson,
L. V. Taylor and Hap Marshall.
In men's double* only first round
matches have been completed.
In the East Baytown Little Lea-
gue action scheduled Tuesday, the
Dittman Dodgers meet the Felton
Giants at 6 p.m., and the Paine
Card* take on the Earth man Ti-
gers in the eecond game.
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WLL STANDINGS
Rotary
Oommerce-O’Brien .
Bayshore...........
Wilkie
John LindellMakes Comeback As Hurler
He's Symbol Of Hope To Ex-Big Leaguers In Minors
> testing hi* ai
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BY DELOS SMITH of them it look* like tn insur- There he started testing hi* arm
NEW YORK, June l —UP—The mountable path back to the big again, and using a knuckle ball
saga of big Johnny UndeU must u which the Yankees
be a comfort today to the ball “ ' . , ... „ , , , .._ ,_____
plavers buried in the minor On the same team with Restelli ted him to throw because it w*»
leagues - whether they happen to there* *ec«Jd baseman Eddie Ba- regarded as a "freak” pitch bo*
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be going or coming.
To those " 1
skinski. the fiddle-playing former neath ^
W-*yu“P: “? Z*CZ™n&To He started back'in 1951 with
John is proof that if you have the tales of their days under the big r,cord .nd ias* Ye#r stood Pa*
stuff, you'll get your break. And to i£l p£r«W cific Coast hitters on their crani*
those wi h memories of the big 5 f ‘"ger and a bix urns with a 24-9 mark. Thus it was.
time, he s an example of the Cin- Hingmg for Oakland, and a b g big John retUrned to the
d^lanSne *S *" * W ^ SE ££ ™ ”» tim' « he should haV* SUrted'
There are many of them in the Diego Padres.
keep, plugging. .. , _ 5S2~JS£ them up t<X ** ' miner leaguers, be murt
minors in both categories. Bill VoiseUe, the big guy from «d iheiifmmflrie*tiWiT
Most of them don t have a pray- Ninety-Six, N. C..Q who hit lus peak -—--——-
er. Yet there are others who had with the Giants, was let go by Tor- $OVB 0* Dividend*!
a taste and are playing out their onto but caught on hopefully with IN(URANCa
key Livingston still
mitt at Shreveport.
hearts for another shot. Like Boo Buffalo. Micki
Ferriss at Louisville. You remem- thumps the
ber how he pitched the Boston Red Johnny (Double No Hit) Vender
Sox to a pennant with 25 big tri- Meer manages Burlington in the
umphs. And his dreams must be Three-Eye League and old Kirby
bright as he seems to be regain- Higbe, the Dodger immortal, still
ing that old magic touch with the shows the old form at Montgom-
Colonels. ery, Ala.
RIAL UTATI
Or Dlno Restelli. twice up with
the Pittsburgh Pirates, who i
You’ll remember little Al Glon-
____________ failed friddo of the Dodger* and his
in 1949 and again In 1951. But out spectacular catch to rob Joe Dl-
at Portland he’s banging the ball Magglo of a home run la the 1947
with steady vigor — and dreaming World Series. He’s managing
PHONI SOSS
nAYTOWN, TEXAS
m\ MARKET ST.
There are a lot more of them
whom you'll remember. For most
Drummondvtlle fat
Provincial League.
the Canadian
NEW YORK. June 1 -UP- The
New York Yankees appealed Mon-
day for the return of Mickey Man-
tle’s historic home run baseball,
which has been stolen from a show-
case at Yankee Stadium.
National League
Players Complain
COVERED WITH THE GRIME of 600 gruelling miles of high
speed driving, Bill Vukovlch sits tn his speedy racer at Indianap-
olis Speedway's Victor’s Lane, and receives a double prise, a kiss
on each cheek by his wife (left), and actress Jane Greer. In the
background is the trophy, emblematic of his 128.740-mlle-an-hour
victory. In addition he set a record in taking all but two of the
200 laps for a prise of $28,200 which, added to the winner’s purse
will make his day’s pay in excess of $18,000.
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Rene Lehde
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The ball is the uellett that Man- Ralph Kiner. the National League
tie hit for a homer in Washington player representative, said Monday
on April 17 — the only homer ever the lub owners would have to do
hit completely out of Griffith Sta- something about the “terrible ir-
dium and measured by Yankee regularity of the schedule.”
About Schedules Men's Golf Tourney
Now In Second Round
NEW YORK. June 1 -UP-
The field tn the championship
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Fourth flight—Chandler vs. F.
flight was narrowed to eight last Higginbotham, McLemore bye, team ”
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Item* were to be sent soon teams Kand we certt^V*im to K*et Second round matches in all
to baseball’s Hall of Fame in some satisfaction.” . fMghta must be completed not lat-
Cooperstown. N. Y. Instead, it was The National League home run er than next Sunday,
stolen from the showcase Sunday, king with the Pittsburgh Pirates First round matches in the con-
The thief apparently tried to steal said the matter would be brought ^lons flights also have to be
the bat. too. but found it wired too up at the summer meeting of play- finlshed BOt later y,an Sunday
securely.----- jrW*enMm at Cincinnati on ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
"It wouldn't be so bad if the ,naf “f1
club owners would just abide by Championship—Pate O’Sullivan
Rene Lehde is the new president
of the Baytown Women’s Bowl-
ing association. She was elected to
the post at the association’s an.
nual banquet last week.
Other new officers for the com-
ing year are Ruth Kelley, vice-
president; Jesselee Velie, secre-
tary; Addle Sawey, treasurer; and
Bobble Hand, sergeant-at-arms.
A trophy for the sponsor of the
first place team for the past year
was presented to Mildred Ashley,
captain of the Buck Turner Chev-
rolet team. Other members Of the
are Vera Wilson, Rene
Hilda Center and Jesselee
VrtK
All of them must tak# an interest
in Lindell, who started the journey
up 15 year* ago as a sensational
21-year-old minor league hurler. On
the way he hurt his pitching arm
but the Yankees made him an out-
fielder who helped them to three
world championships. But big John
lost some of his spied and his bat-
ting eye dimmed, and he trekked
to St. Louis and, finally, Holly-
wood.
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the rules that already are supposed wer Ralph Sharpless; l up, J. L.
to be in effect,” he said. "But they Pattenon oyer Bruce Wood 6-8,
won even do that. We’re not sup- M. C. Kelley over Bob Barfield
sed to play night games before 4-2, Fred O’Hagan over Jim Moon
double header. And. except 2-1, Bubba Choate over Blue Brad-
iaiws Ml KCUT*way uUJC uar
ve leave a town for another one.”
Kiner said that the players nat-
G. C. Blair over Bill Wilkins 2-1.
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June 15 we are going to violate flight~Ben Groner over
both of the rules. We play a make- CSunk Humphriea, Fldo Williams
up night game with Milwaukee at over Perry Britton 4-3, R. L. Pat-
Pi ttsburgh and go out that night by teraon over C. D. Hebert 2-1, Colon
train to play a doubleheader the PetUway ovar Dickie Rosenfeld
next day in Chicago. How do you 4-3, Tommy Rochelle over Charlie
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suppose the player* are going to Seligman 1 up, Howard Lee over
fee! when they take the field after Harry Stefani 2-1, and Dr. C. L.
that?” Liggett over Rufus Honeycutt by
“Look at wh$t we had to do over default,
the weekend.” he said “We played Third flight-Bill Taylor over
double header on Saturday to
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PARIS. June 1 -UP- The
narr by default, Bruce Ramsey
over Johnny Hughea 3-2, Sam
Meador over Bob Peterson 1 up,
and Dr. W. T. Jones over Rex
Curtin.
Fourth flight—C. F. Kelly over
George Chandler 3-2, Joe Reid
over F. R. Higginbotham, Jerry
CHEVROLET
French championships showed that Wilson over Holly McLemore 4 up,
American tennis is just about what Paul Meeks over Bill Hardy by
Aero—Radio—Heater—Seat Covers
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it was last year — tops in the default, Branch Gullett over L. J.
women’s division headed bv. world Higginbotham, and Dr. H. L Davis
champion Maureen Connollv and over Stan Norton 4-2.
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master of all except the Austra
lians in the men’* competition.
Miss Connollv of San Diego and
Australia’s Ken Rosewall, two 18-
year-oid masters, dominated the
13-dav championships Which ended
Sunday.
Miss Connolly played near-per-
fect tennis to win the women’s
singles title Saturday with an easy,
6-2 64 triumph over defending
Wto <«. M-aa * mi*
appearance in France and the vie- man, Stefani va. Honeycutt,
tory made her the youngest player Third flight-ldoux v». King,
ever to hold the four major crowns Stewart vs. Alexander, Kannarr
—Wimbledon. U. S., Australian and <vs. Hughes, and Peteraon va. Cur-
French. tin.
In the other Saturday feature.
Here are the first round pairings
in the consolation flights.
Championship — Sharpless vs.
Wood, Barfield vs. Moon, Brad-
shaw vs. Reilly, and Robertson vs.
Wilkin*.
First flight -Schniedsr vs. Hay-
nes, Morgan vs. Watkins, Choate
vs. Johnson, Hazelwood vs. Kan-
narr.
Second flight—Humphries
ne tnc youngest
win the French
DODGE 4-DOOR
Rosewall
player ever to .....
men’s title when he defeated Vic
Seixas. the U.S. No. 2 from Phila-
delphia. 64, 64, 6-2.
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Pitcher Jess Burch won his own
ball g*me Sunday, slapping out a
single in the 10th tnntng to drive
in the tie-breaking run that gave
the Baytown Oilers a 6-5 victory
over the Port Arthur Stars.
ie Oilers' next home game is
nst Gibson Bakery of Houston
Jit * p.m. next Friday in Humble
Bail Park. •:
The Otters play the Huntsville
Merchant* Thursday la Hunts-
ville.
Three Church League softball
games are scheduled Monday
night on the Lee diamonds.
Central Baptist takes on SL
Marks Methodist at 7:30 p ia
and Second Baptist meet Re-
deemer Lutheran at • pan. on
diamond one. Wooster Baptist
plays Presbyterian at 7:80 p.m.
on diamond two.
Britain’s Roman Wall, a section
of which is still standing, was
built by the Emperor Hadrian in
the second century A. D. It formed
a son# of fortifications extending
across England for 78 miles. It was
intended as s harrier against bar-
barian* from ths north.
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 308, Ed. 1 Monday, June 1, 1953, newspaper, June 1, 1953; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1042504/m1/9/?q=%22~1~1~1~1~1~1%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.