The Daily Sun (Goose Creek, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 278, Ed. 1 Monday, May 5, 1947 Page: 5 of 6
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5, 1947
Y 5,
THE DAILY SUfi GOOSE CREEK. TEXAS
iters Maintain Winning Streak
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Laughs Lacking
As White Sox
Again Hove Up
Jet Pilot Still ‘Unknown1 Few Fish Bite
for Anglers Here
I Ihry town Oiler* looked
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todftywter winning iheir
wvmymx, Ky., May 8. —OIRl .
Jet Pilot went to Pimlico for the
Preaknosa today luted a* an un-
known quantity among the na-
tlon’* three-year-old* despite hit
in the Kentucky derby
NEW YOltK, May 8. --(UR)
laughed when the Chicago White triumph
Sox nettled down to play at being Saturday
kTZTJrm le±e»B.n HUu ^ wasn't impressive
alghY I'ontest"Sundayaf- ot the second-place Tigers and «nd‘whllo th^dcrb^dUUnw"w«5 ES the ****• thc
Srsf: aJS-s • iSx^srBSffissB i& a .aaryf ™ asjrar .-4r ss:
chants oy a #nU two from the Athletics on „ ” " au" raltd hlm■“ * *Prlnt' font on a fact track. If the track
, „ Elbow at Cedar Bayou, caught 12
Phalanx this season. Off a bad ^ ■"breaker and five gaff-cat- Ham*
last in the 13-horse field which Reports. on Weekend fishing re- reports that other people out that
oMh * derby He* a,||nutt* n’alnp<* slow today, but Saturday way were dragging tn catches too.
« ^vrtiTi5£,S **£," Jarpiif.iS «sU-
- A. . , . . „ , . b> Cleveland on private property founder of the city of Granada,
-On that driving finish, Phalanx nabbed a four und three-quarter Cordoba.
rst contest this week will Sunday. ,• They were betting 100-to-i that ""iii
aSSSSs llstlll SSsiiKS
with the Higginbotham 18 games. Sometimes the Sox win to Uke the triple crown - the and a »ixteenth on a fast atrip
bnpany of Houston as a on pitching, like Thornton Lee** Preaknesa and the Belmont stakes but on' B sloppy, -muddy, heavy or
incident of the annual seven-hit job Saturday or Orval But these same so-called ex- ,low tr*ck hc *• »* hl* b®*1 *nd
dav program. Grove's four-tilt 1 to 0 triumph pert* weren't convinced last year thc dcrhy Ukrtance of a mile and
.iiic will Start at 3 p.m„ over the A'* In yesterday's second when Assault, who then went on * quarter wasn't too far for him.
L will be ho odmlsKlbn. game. Other times It's hitting, like to a turf record'Vor earnings for Thc Preaknes* is only a mile and
[s will put on the annual the 10 to 3 Job on the Tanks Sat- a single season, was as good a ‘bree-sbrteenUta.________
urduy, or the 8 to 7 first goma horse as ho looked In winning Should tKe Jct'win the Preak-
wln over Philadelphia yesterday. thoTlerhy. Thon they thought that ness, then the speculation will be
The champion Red Sox, begin- lord Boswell, one of the three whether the mile and a half Sei-
ning tn fly right after a bad start, that Maine Chance ran last year, mont stakes isn't too far. Jet Pilot
dumped the St. Louis Browns was the victim of had racing luck does his best running early and
twice. 3 to 2 and 8 to. 1. Bobbv and would atone for his derby dc- even on a slow track may not be
Poerr ietl the attack in thc first feat in the Preaknesa and thc able to go that far. Phalanx, a no-
game HS his double led to the first Belmont. But the lord never did torloUMy slow starter, barely miss-
Boston run and his two-run homer catch up with Assault, ed Saturday and had the race been
won thc game. Boston got all its And just as it was lord Bos- h furlong further would have won
well last year, it is C. V. Whitney's going away.
was Saturday, Jet
i-on,
Maine
nond show before several
spectators Who are ex-
be there,
| is being rushed on addl-
leachers which have been
of rebuilding for sev-
fcks. ' .
Mangier M,- V, Berry
tax angling for « contest.
next Sunday afternoon,
■t will be announced as
lit Is arranged.
report's Push
By Rebs
runs In the first three innings of
the nightcap and rookie Tom Fine
coasted home with * five-hit vic-
tory,
Washington, unawed by Bob Pol-
ler's 23 straight scoreless .innings,
went right to work on the Cleve-
land righthander when he galloped
Sports Parade
By Oscar Fraley
game •
lull Dallas scores came on
|by Davis in the fourth in-
Finley in the eighth with
loaded, Shreveport failed
|set for a slngTe lRime fun.
Khile, the league-leading
Itonio Missions kept their
in as reUcf pitcher in the seventh NEW YORK* Cjji It’s hard to on from here to overtake
.. „_rss inning. Feller walked two batters imagine a ball player celebrating front-running Dodgers. *
. and then Buddy Lewis shot a hard hi* trade from q fifth place club Thc Phils, too, had a bright spot
uTLJ. to center ffcM. It went to one currently in thf cellar but'after acquiring Harry Walker and
cl*"™ through George Mefcfcovich’s legs such was the case today of Ron Pitcher Fred Schmidt in the deal.
and •R three runners seored. Fel- Northey, thc hqrd rock outfielder Ralph LaPointe, the former Ver-
Icxed ttUir noscics in an- jcr, rattled by this rough handling, from Ponnsylvahta’s- hard coal mont athlete, stood up at short-
'ti^ihinilLadlr v?efnrv y° next w™icd UP • home run ball country. ' stop’through a doublehcader.
Slrr down three **?£ 5*5*1 th*!, *U"‘ T>« lifting sands of the dia- Which may allow the game of
rt pitrhws m Shrcvc^rt 5* ? t0 3 ?"*tor vtetory and. mond carried NorlheV from the to take s bow. Lapointe's
, to 7 victory” inthc ult Fclhr* *econd Io“’ * Phils to the Cardinals yesterday, trouble was that he couldn t un-
nd their margin of victory Hal Newhouscr of Detroit and Which some might say would be Ms mps and get power into
ccond game was 4 to 0 sP|,d Chandler of New York-bat- enough said, looking at the situa- his.hits. They put him on a driv-
econd game .was to ^ to a 2 to , glx.lnn,ng Xi< ,ion \nm „ year" angle ing range- and yesterday he got
a game stopned bv rain. Eddie' Surecedtog years may prove an- three for eight and knocked in
Lake homered for Detroit, ' other story, with the Phils deter- {our runs as the aging Bkbeter
Biggest new* in ths National mined to improve their lot. Ne„'^Cn/°fup y..,™Th,
league was the St., Louis Cardi- But as far as Ron was concerned, *™hil . . . h
nals'9 to 0 victory over the Boston hc wasn't satlsflcd in Philadelphia, m*anw , f ' '
„.v„ Brave* in the second game of a Dissension often has cropped up Reports front Billy Renns town
tan by mopping up on ,Ok- doubleheadcr. ending a nine-game between him and the Phifly pow- indicate^that there is one of the
City in a doubleheadcr, losing streak for the ‘world cham- ers, which his first day Job with [easona the Phils are ‘“king over
onio took the first game pions. Boston won tjie first game, the Cards may indicate.’For North- the Mjviest shwe or tne pstron-
ifter Archie hit a homer ,4 to 8. with four run* In the sev- ey had himself, quite’ a day and a8e-.J"®/, Me Wmi? to ornia-
jthird inning with two on enth inning. Harry Bhocheen pitch- starred as (he Cards broke their and the As arent. wmen must do
anjo scored a circuit clout ed the fjve-htt Rcdbird triumph losing streak. - one of_ the^ m°{a!e"pcdu_a^>r®a'
inth' and yorthcy' in ,l He hit two homers, his first of "Xr rclievcd^tX
> second game, however, trade with the Phils on Saturday, thc year, while getting three hits , p*u ciBhth inning and lost
ions showed the lads from hit two homers and a single and in four trips as the Redbirds came ' . B
.. ------- ....... -'batted in four runs. Stan Musial up from nine knockouts. He thus
hit a three-run homer. Boston took batted In four runs and may. be
the opener with a ‘solid uprising the "spark the. Cards needed .to go
against Murry Dickson. Carvel • 1
‘Howell led off with a homer and ...... . _ .
four more hits, climaxed by Tommy 1A/||L| a Taaftl In
Holmes’two-run single, settled the Tllinfv ICnlll 111
game. *, _ _ *. T
The Phillies drubbed-Cincinnati
twice, 5 to 3 and 10 to 5. All five
of their vruns fh the first game'
came on a five-hit attack on Ewell
Blackwell in the sixth inning.
Ralph LaPointe batted In foureuna
In Mr nightcap as- The L. A. Wjikic teqi»»in thc
away to an S to 1 major city league will make a
mercy, Archie con-
Iwith a home run in the
ling to start the ball rolling
|thg end of the inning It
fcre in the tally book .and
fchoma Citians had relieved
and put "in Blackwoorl to
hem. Naranjo connected
(homer in the first Inning
one man on base,
ulna Oilers had to gVU
with: the Houston Buffs
IfinaUy^gaining a 9 to |
| Tulsa, used three pitcher*
out die game while Hous- with tvt’O hits
|r«r pitchers -couldn't stop the Phils got
Double trouble: The Boston Rod
Last year in tiielr penftant romp
hey .never lost - both ends or a
doubleheadcr. Fourteen times they
took ’em both and 13 times they
Even Break With
Famed City Nine
counter. Tulsa’s victory lead and then coasted
the llth inning,
’ 'second game, however,
tumhd the tables by win-
lt*i 3, Glaviano hit a circuit
[in the eighth Inning with
serious bid fpr top ranking.
Pittsburgh at Brooklyn and the n,ls was made certain today
Chicago Cubs at the Giants were aften looking at their recent rec-
postponed due to rain. ord Yesterday they gained an
So yesterday tn their first twin
bill the Bosox, trying to get out
of the second division, played their
first twin bill and took both
games. In the process they belted
out 19 hits which included live
doubles and a hombr,
As Northey smashed a pair of
round trippers for his first circuit
clouto of the year, six others join-
ed the club. They were Murrel
.Tones, Lqke Appling and. Jack
Wallacsa of the White Sox'. Stan
Vorth and Beaumont split
kbbader with the Shippers
he first game, 9 to 8, and
Worth team coming bdek
[second to. win 3 to 2.
The Standings
’-.even split with the famed Grand gpence of Washington; Bama
TEXAS LEAjBl’E
San Antonio
Fort Worth
Ivc the biost moisture, sum- Beaumont . .
■ tillage, must begin soon Houston
i have started, not later
Irly June;.
fN MOWERS and
WER MOWERS
Shreveport %.'..
Oklahoma'City
Dallas
Tulsa ..........
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Prixe LatiA American team from novyei| of the Braves and Bert
Houston in a twin engagement at Haag of Cincinnati,
the Baytown Junior High diamond. <yd Hudson, of the Senators, who
The Houston team won the first never has quite been able to as-
gamc, 12 to 7, but the WiIkies sum* his expectcd^ mantle^ of
came back to gain a 3 to 2 de- greatness, indicated this might be
cision in a well-played nightcap, the year.»His tnumph ^vgr the
sgte
in six appearances at the plate And In the Jnte^te jeague.
In the games On. of bis bloWs was Sunbury sent WeengrenmdcAJo
Tno- a home fpn. Vt
wi for thc circuit,
Willie Morneo also hit
■ Sharpened. _ •
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Sunday’s ResiilU
, Tulsa 9-3, Houston R-S.
-a-JBeadmont 9-2, Fort Worth 8-$.. .
San Antonio 6-18, Oklahoma City
54,
Dallas 15-4, Shreveport-IW).
Schoolboys Set
3 Track Records
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
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Chicago ..............10
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CI*VcHuid ............. 7
New Yorid............ 8
. AUSTIN May 5. Three ne#1:
L pet achodlboy records went into booRs
K -'an? of the Texas Interscholastic league
iy as a result Of fhc 37th State
meet held hero Saturday.
■333 Cleburne Price, North Dallas, re-
.600 tained his low hurdles brown and
.500 -bettered his hold on it by kneck-
.406 Ing four-tenths of a second off
,286 the 22.7 mark with which hc won
in 1946. Arthur Ochoa, Laredo,
kept his broad jump title hut failed
to equal hW own former mark of
21 feet Shi inches. Pricr- was. in-
Chlcago 8-1. Philadelphia 7-0. dividual high scorer for the gec-
Detroit 2. New York 2 (tic, called ond year with 26W points.
WaaMfton i . _
Boston ......,. 8;
8t. Louis 6
Philadelphia
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Washington 6, Cleveland 3.
Boston 3-8, St. fouls 2-17"
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end of sixth, rain).
Corpus Christi, meet winner with
■ ™ 46 points, set a new record in thc
. _ . miirrelay of 3:24.9.
S -Javier Mont* of Bowie school,
a ' « El Paso, set a'new record of 4.25
2 571 In the mile, run and Lee Miller of
.Burbank school, San Antonio, did
the 120-high hurdles in 14 seconds
m flat in preliminaries. That was a
417 record but in the finals he ran
j* 34 fourth against a best time of 14.5.
LOTHES
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
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Brooklyn 9
Pittsburgh ........... 8
Chicago ..............‘8
Bostort»rr,:.,......I.: 8 6
Philadelphia .......... 8 8
New York . ........... 5 7
Cincinnati ............ 7 10
SL Louis 8 11 Behind Corpus Christi in^team
Sunday’s Results P«ints were Be5UIr2flla^n wmi°°l»
gs***-1-!}.*!?* 3's- S SSf meSStVSf»”
K? oS. Bowi., B Of,
games a ton, 15; Pasclml, ^rt Wortt, «md
--- Freeport, 15 each. Wen F Aus-
tin. Houston, the 1946 champion,
*' ■ ap»ppd but 11 pofnts‘ :
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played this summer.
' one of them will be located-on the Room HT at Robert B. Lee fiign
c,s axastsa-M !cs,»»u. - w«~i
cil director, said he. had received the sponsorship of the Trt-Cities
fine cooperation from many groups Recreation council, but it will baye
jn this community wh0 are aiding its own officers and directors,-Dan
in the work at a minimum of ex- Stallworth said. '
pensc. , Any representative of any
League play starts thc last of church In the Tri-Cities will be
this month, welcomed, Stallworth said.
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Hartman, Fred. The Daily Sun (Goose Creek, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 278, Ed. 1 Monday, May 5, 1947, newspaper, May 5, 1947; Goose Creek, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1100607/m1/5/?rotate=270: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.