The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 281, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 18, 1961 Page: 13 of 16
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Recreation
Figures Rise
After Slump
Participation In the Gty-School
summer recreation program rose
slightly from its mid-summer
slump last week.
Playground participation'was tip
to 9.391 and swimming 4nd Jun-
ior Oiumpics programs showed in-
creases. Swimming instruction at
three pools totaled 1,440 and the
Junior Olympics reported 105. Ten-
nis was down to 35.
That gave the program a sixth
week total participation of 10,971
and pushed the summer’s total to
88,714. Playground reports reach-
ed a season total ot 77,712.
Although playground reports still
were below their peak, three beat
1,000. Harlem reported 1,020, De-
Zavala had 1,018 and Carver total-
ed 1,(00. . I
Other playground reports includ-
ed Cedar Bayou, 80S: Baytown
466; Horace Mann, 581; Highlands,
*17; REL, 308; Travis, 538; Bur-
nett, 197; San Jacinto. 450; La-
mar, 493; Ashbel Smith, 660;
Alamo, 413; and Austin, 518.
Roeeland Park pool continued
to lead the swimming programs
with a total of LOW. The REL
pool reported 306. and Carver had
85. Swimming has run up„a six-
week total of 8,042.
The recreation-program is joint-
ly sponsored by the Goose Creek
Independent Consolidated School
District and the Gty of Baytown.
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GUS MANCUSO, BUG KETS OLIVER CHAT
Right: Eddie Dyer, Wilto n Roper At All-Star Gsme
Bayshore Club Makes
Meeting Date Change
The Bayshore Rod,* Red and
Gun Gob will bold future month-
ly membership meetings on the
third Thiasday of each month, ae-
; to Jack Walker, president.
“I used to play ball with this
guy,” Wilton Roper said of the
thick-set man with the flat
nose, "and he had a dirty trick
be used to pull.”
Cancer Victim --
Ty Cobb's
Game Ends
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ATLANTA, Ga. (APl-Ty Cobb.igusta,, Ga. The Cobbs wiere mar-
whose many records stand as a ried in 1908 and divorced in 1947.
towering monument to the fierc- Two years later, Cobb married
est competitor ever to flash across
toe baseball scene, is dead at 74.
The incomparable Georgia
From the fellow's build, you Peat* died Monday « rancer of
could tell he must have been
quite a man in his day. and it
was apparent he was enjoying
this brief reminiscence.
‘When he was catching with
ft runner on first,” Roper con-
tinued. "he’d drop a pitch and
tumble around with the ball and
then throw the runner out at
gland. The diagno-
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claimed
the prostate gland. The
sis, first* made in 1959,
made public until death
the baseball great at Emory Uni-
HospitaL f
"Authorised Deeler'
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bershlp at its regular meeting
Monday night, at 3223 Minnesota,
the club building. Heretofore toe
club has held its sessions an the
third Monday of each month,
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"I had another one I used to
pull sometimes,” Gus Mancuso
wh« to71ttoreInwtsPS', a”d
•pitch'and flip that potato back
behind me. When the iunner
broke for second, I’d throw
himout” .’X ....
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Roper and Mancuso were talk-
ing about the days when they
played together in ft Houston
versity HospitaL Cobb, who had
made several trips to Emory, en-
tered the hospital lor the last
time June 5.
•‘fa addition toD» 'car, he ™
* diabetes and ch c heart 88
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Game No. 297
In Pitcher's
Win Column
By ED WILKS
Associated Pres* Sports Writer
The magic number now is three
or Warren Spahn, toe southpaw
ace who has discovered the last
five are the toughest in his bid
for that charmed 300th victory.
Spahnie got No. 297 Monday
I hight. bbatttVg' Cincinnati for‘the
first time this season as the Mil-
waukee Braves clobbered the
Reds 13-4 and trimmed their Na-
tional League lead to tour games
over second place Los Angeles.
Hie second place Dodgers held
off Pittsburgh for a 6-4 victory.
Last place Philadelphia knocked
off San Francisco 10-7, and the
St. Louis Cardinals came from
behind in both games for a 10-fi
and 8-5 twi-night sweep oyer the
Chicago Cubs.
In the American League,^ De-
troit whipped Kansas Gty 7-4 for
a one-percentage point edge over
New York. Hie Yankees beat
Baltimore 50 but the second
game of toe twinbill was rained
but. The Chicago’White Sox beat
Boston 4-1, with Early Wynn win-
ning No. 292. in (he wily other
eaifte scheduled.
g Spahnie (9-11) gave up 11 hits
and blew a 3d) lead when Wally
Post banged a two-run homer in
the third inning, buV walked just
one and went all the way. Howie
Nunn (2-1* war the loser in. je-
lief
Duke Snier, batting eighth for
the first time in five yeans, hit a
hvo-run single as the Dodgers
built a 6-2 lead with four runs in
the seventh timing off Bob Friend
(Ml). It was barely enough for
Stan Williams (158). who needed
relief help in the eighth when he
MR UPWIf "■••» Wi was jolted fat solo home runs by
at nearby Royslon, The fafoiiy BiU- Mazeroski and pinch-hitter
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Frances Cass of Buffalo, N.Y.,
and they were divorced.
Private funeral services will be
held Wednesday at 3 p.m. Easiem
Standard Time in the chape! of
toe Thomas J. MCGahee Funeral
Hone, Cornelia), Da., with burial
requested that in lieu of flowers. _ _ _ _
contributions be made to the Cbbb ^ered for the Pirates. Tommy
Education Foundation.
Death thwarted Cobb’s desire to
build a home—“In whieb to diC
as he put if—atop a mountain
was about 1924,” Mancuso said.
"We broke up that league,
Wen it about six
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All this Was along toward the’
Jfcbft Iten
m game at the
turned out to
more of an All-Star night,
) Opitmist dub sponsors
Ray examinations in December,
1959, showed that the cancer had
spread to the pelvic boneand ver-
tebrae. • ,.
•Tfe died-peaeeft^t and wife-
out pain,” the physician reported.
Wife Cobb during his last days
were his son, James, two daugh-
ters, Miss Shirley Cobb and Bev-
erly McLauren, all of California;
and his first wife, fee former
Charlie Marion Lombard of Au-
Narrows,'
he was bom Dec.
' where
1886. ■
came back to Georgia to R^Sjknu^
St Eddie.Dyer showed up
aria chatted with sqme of the
Optimists on hand. Enroute
through Baytown,, he stopped to
watch a few innings of fee dou-
ble-header between Baytown and
South Houston All-Star teams.
"He was very complimentary
about the work we’re doing in
summer baseball," Optimist
Dick WHscn said later.
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Then, about half way through
Be nightcap, somebody spotted
Mancuso sitting in fee stands
with E. H., (Buckets) Oliver and
With two me
in sick bay <
covering from
today in the first half Of a two-
day track and field meet. ' ■
Sprinter Paul Drayton of Villa-
nova is on the shelf wife a muscle
won tiie 800 meters in the meet _____ ,. ____ ___
against the Soviet Union over fee son when fee first group wa«*en-
Opener Tonight
Ui. Track Team
On West
ly Today
STUTTGART. Germany (AP)-
mejjbers of the team
ly and two others re-
™ns:and a&leJSB teses. He stole - . . . .
n * bases in 1915 for one pf his Texas Leaguers commg out ahead
todav in the first half # ft two- many •*- to v
Cobb’s position at the summit N.ow the. ^*'club .leaKues ,p'?.
of baseball was emphasised in J2 gamps to Texas League telTi'
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weekend, has a bad cold. shrined in baseball’s * Hall of
In addition, hurdler Fran Wash- Fame. i
ington of Santa Clara, Calif., ‘"I wouldn’t change a thing,
" ‘ "* “ Octob declared receritiy in revfew-
Hubbell, too, in King Carl’s 1-0,
18 inning masterpiece. And he’s
| going off for a couple of reun-
) ions with fellows like Dean the
last of this month. Gus said
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STORK HOUM PJd.
217 W. TEXAS
went through a session with fee
dentist Monday, arid pde vaulter ing his basbbaU career. “I played
John Uelses of the Quantico Ma- e-ery game to fee Wit I always
rines is recovering from an m- played to i '
they enticed him down to meet fected leg- • < .’my ipikes __ -
fe|| ~ ' ‘ West Gennany probablyrhas the fed, arid. I never eWiberately
strongest team in Western Eu- anyone in toy life ■
rope,,but still is riot rated'in fee Cobb was frequently critical of
cte of even a sub par U.S. team, power baseball after his retire-
ao. Coadt JIM Ettiott has no meat He deplored the trend away
a few of fee players and some
of the Optimist workers.,
"B feat the l^tow that E«ed
Deah?” some
Dean arid Ctfrl
worries.
underway at 1:30
Standard Time in
of baseball. Projects close to his
Ilium. The U.S. women competed jl^’i^'^p^^Jl^Memoria!
aftsk »
tion l||d,riRe endowed fee hos-
Davis Wt a homer for fee’
Dodger*’ first two runs, in fee
"u^Phfllies twice came from
on a
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die,’” Cobb said in one o! Ws last (3-1) was fee wtoner and Bob Bo-
Interviews. ‘Tm a small town boy lin (2-1) fee loser, both in relief,
who never got used to fee big - St. Louis eoUeeted 33 • hits
lights.” . - against the Cube. Reliever Lindy
He ^pent most of his retirement McDanW saved both games-the
years at Atherton, Calif., and at first for Curt Simmons (4-7) and
Lake Tahoe, Nev., before return- fee second lor Ernie Brogtio (7-9)
ing to his native state in 1968. He who returned from fee bullpen
lived in a small apartment in Cor- tor Ws first «*»£ since *ne 2L
nelia. - Rdiever Don Elston (M), and
He quit baseball after the 1928 Jim Brewer (0-4) were the Iqpera
Season with a lifetime batting
a Detroit oatflelder in 1905,, then’ ^ ‘"L
topped .300 for 23 consecutive
years,. Ws last two at Fhiladel- . ...
phia. He managed Detroit for six By 1MB ASSOCIATED PKBNi
years starting in 1921. The second phase of toe Pan
Cobb led fee American League American Association interlock-
fa hitting, for 12 seasons, nine of fag schedule between tile Texas
them consecutive. He hit over .400 and Mexican Leagues opens Tues-
three, times, compiled a lifetime day night. „
total -oL't^Wlb scored 2.2* of 72 games
” - - wos played in Mexico with the
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has no meat. He deplored
from finesse. •
July 30, then move on to the
SL Louis Cardinal reunion early
in August --*—- ■
BACK ABOUT 1953, fee Gan-
ders had a 200-pound tackle who
achieved the distinction of
blocking five punts in one sea-
son, two in one game. Five in
10 games is a pretty fair rec-
ord in anybody’s book, and Beau-
Piwetz earned all-district
for his defensive work
year.
of his death at 28 last
■ame as a shock to fee
who knew and worked
ing^ service fa
stationed at Fort
s time of his ‘
his second h
The men’s m4et will foUw fee
de-
pattern of the one against
except that there will be ijo
cathalon or walk.
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pital and fee furid frfari fee con-
siderable wealth he accumulated
through investments. He set aside
rided money for college si
by needy boys and girls.
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 281, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 18, 1961, newspaper, July 18, 1961; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1058195/m1/13/?q=%221961-07%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.