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Cleveland 4-3, St. Louis 0-1.
Detroit 4, Chicago 2.
Boston 12, Philadelphia 5.
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NEW YORK (A)— Who fooled
whom?
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cher, didn’t I?” chortled Brook-
lyn Manager Charley Dressen
today.
"In a pig’s eye he did!” re-
torted New York skipper’ Leo
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Regan, the highly-rated Houston
Two members of District 3-AAA get down to real business this
weekend with non-conference grid contests, with the other five
teams in the circuit continuing drills for their opening tilts Sept. 19.
Coach Les Cranfill and nis Denison Yellow Jackets get their
baptism of fire at Temple against the rugged Wildcats, 1951 state
AAA. runnerups to the Breckenridge Buckaroos.
Coach Charlie Mitchell should iind the going easier in his debut
as head mentor of the Greenville Lions. His team entertains Sul-
phur Springs Friday night. Though the AA club doesn’t figure in
the same class with the Lions, other 3-AAA coaches will be viewing
, the outcome of the contest with interest, for Mitchell may well have
the real darkhorse contender in the district campaign.'
Unless Cranfill’s charges are as good as he boasted last
month they woud be, the Yellow Jackets may be in for a rough
evening in Temple. The Wildcats are once again loaded and
will be lead by their 1951 passing ace, Doyle Traylor, one of
the top schoolboy aerialists in the state.
According to the Williamson system, which will rank Texas
schoolboy football teams this fall, Temple heads the first AAA
ratings of the season. The Paris Wildcats of District 3-AAA are
placed sixth in the rankings.
Highlight of the local football front this week will be a
scrimmage Friday night at Leeper stadium between the Leop-
• ards and Coach Dan Campbell’s Polytechnic Parrots of Fort
Worth. The session may go a long way in determining Coach
Larry Priddy’s starting line-up for the season’s opener here
Sept. 19 against Fort Worth Tech.
The injury jinx continues to plague the Leopards with Tackles
James Beck and Talmadge Ward joining Center Bobby Morgan and
Back Roddy Osborne on the crippled list. Beck received a leg in-
jury Friday night and Morgan, letterman guard recently shifted to
center, re-injured his bad knee. Osborne is continuing to workout
but has been kept out of heavy scrimmage sessions because of his
ailing knee. Ward is limping with a sprained ankle.
From Wichita Falls comes word that the Coyotes, perennial
schoolboy football powerhouse, will be no exception in 1952. Joe
Golding’s team is favored to capture the District 4-A AAA crown
and advance to the state playoffs.
The Leopards will have an opportunity to test the Coyotes Nov.
7 when they clash in Wichita Falls. It should be one of the bigger
games of the season for the Leopards and the Gainesville Kiwanis
is already formulating plans to run a special train to Wichita Falls.
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“Did you tell the coach that?”
“He didn’t ask me.”
“Do you want me to say some-
thing to him?”
“Dad, you stay out of this.
This is for me to take care of.”
And Doak, a quiet, modest fel-
low, took care of it. But in an
unexpected way.
The coach continued to use
him at guard. Then came the
first fullscale workout.
The other team had the ball
and called a pass play.
Guard Doak came from no-
where, leaped in the air to inter-
cept the ball and sped and
twisted to the goal line many
yards away.
That ball-carrying exhibition
was enough to convince his
or Cananea, Mexico, with pos-
sible additions making up an
eight-club circuit from Chihua-
hua City, Juarez or El Paso.
The Longhorn league will con-
vene in annual fall session Sept.
28 to approve or disapprove of
changes involving its clubs, Hal
Sayles, president, said.
Ray Winkler, president of the
WT-NM circuit, said his league
would meet Oct. 18, but that a
mail vote might be conducted be-
fore that time to determine the
league’s stand toward realign-
ment.
Classification “C” probably
would prevail in each proposed
realigned league.
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Then came the day he re-
ported for his first official, ses-
sion of football practice—-in the
sixth grade.
At home that night after the
first practice, Doak didn’t show
his usual enthusiasm for .foot-
ball.
After a while his dad spoke.
“How did practice go, son?”
“All right, dad.”
“Where did they play you?”
“Guard.”
“How do you like it?”
“It was okay.”
“Wouldn’t you rather play in
the backfield?”
“Oh, I suppose so.”
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Friday: Carlsbad, N. M., at Bowie
(El Paso), Jefferson (El Paso)
at Snyder.
District 3—Friday: Abilene at
Arlington Heights (Fort Worth),
North Side (Fort Worth) at
Weatherford; Saturday: Lamesa
at Paschal (Fort Worth).
District 4—Wednesday: Adam-
son (Dallas) vs Highland Park
(Dallas); Thursday: Jesuit (Dal-
las) vs Forest (Dallas); Friday:
Waxahachie at North Dallas; Sat-
urday: Pleasant Grove at Crozier
Tech (Dallas), Woodrow Wilson
(Dallas) at Irving.
District 5—Friday: Palestine at
Tyler, Cleburne at Waco, Vernon
at Wichita Falls.
, District 6—Friday: Kerrville at
Austin, Burbank (San Antonio)
at Laredo, San Antonio Tech
(Houston) vs St. Thomas (Hous-
ton); Friday: Galveston at Aus-
tin (Houston); Saturday: Sunset
(Dallas) at Reagan (Houston).
District 8—Friday: Texarkana
at Baytown, Odessa at Port Ar-
thur.
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The Dodgers beat the Giants
yesterday, 4-1.
Southpaw Preacher Roe, with
a brilliant three-hit performance,
stopped the Giants’ five-game
winning streak and put the Dod-
gers five games up on their
rivals.
Righthander Sal Maglie was
shelled from the mound in the
seventh inning and suffered the
defeat.
Roe rarely beats the Giants. In
fact, he was not supposed to have
pitched at all. Maglie rarely
loses to the Dodgers. He had
been primed for this game for
nearly a week. Now back to the
rhubarb.
“I really fooled that guy,”
Dressen exulted. “He (Durocher)
thought all along I was going to
pitch righthander Joe Landrum
and he started three lefthanded
hitters against us. That’s just
what I wanted him to do. You
should have seen his face when
I made that last-minute switch
to Roe. He nearly had a fit. But
he was horn-swaggled. There
was nothing he could do.”
Dressen said it was this way:
“I planned this move several
days ago. I got the idea when I
noticed Leo yanked Hank
Thompson and Don Mueller,
both left handers, for righthand-
ers Bob Elliott and Clint Hartung
when the Phillies pitched Curt
Simmons, a southpaw, last Wed-
nesday.
“I figured if it could get Duro-
cher to open with the lefthanded
hitters, I’d switch to Roe at the
last minute. I didn’t want those
righthanded hitters facing Roe.
I wanted that extra edge. It
worked good, didn’t it?”
Dressen worked his plan out
like they do in the movies. He
had Landrum warm up before
the game for everybody to see.
Roe, in the meantime, accompa-
nied by three others, was warm-
ing up in the bullpen.
“I made out four lineup cards,”
he explained. “Three cards had
the name of ‘Landrum’ as the
pitcher. The other had ‘Roe.’ I
gave one ‘Landrum’ card to the
announcer, another to the Giant
bench and held another for the
reporters. The ‘Roe’ card I gave
to the umpires. That was the one
which counted, you see. Leo
never got wise.”
Durocher insisted he knew
from the beginning that Roe was
going to be the pitcher.
“I spotted Roe warming up in
the bullpen from my office in the
centerfield clubhouse,” said Leo.
“I turned to Freddy Fitzsimmons
(Giant coach) and said:
“That little so-and-so is going
to pitch Roe.”
“But I never thought of mak-
ing a change. I could have, If I
wanted to. It was long before I
handed in my lineup to the um-
pires. But why should I change?
I’ve been winning with it.”
“I’ll tell you what. Should
Dressen pitch a lefthander
against us today, I’ll stick with
the same lineup.”
Dressen’s answer to Durocher’s
last statement was this:
“Ask him if he wants to bet
on it.”
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Defending champion Lubbock
waits another week to open the
season but 27 of the 48 teams in
the Class AAAA division of
Texas schoolboy football will
start the campaign, one game as
early as Wednesday.
Adamson of Dallas and High-
land Park, its cross-town rival
in another district, clash Wed-
nesday night and that will be the
first AAAA contest of the sea-
son.
Four Teams Set
For TL Playoff
Opening Tuesday
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Associated Press Sports Editor
A battle between two Negro
pitchers who have proven to be
the top drawing cards of the
Texas league race features the
opening of the play-offs Tues-
day night when Oklahoma City
contests at Dallas and Shreve-
port at Fort Worth.
The regular season ended Sun-
day night with Dallas closing out
with a 6-3 victory over Okla-
homa City to finish first by six
games; second place Fort Worth
taking a 5-2 drubbing from Tul-
sa; third-place Shereveport los-
ing to Beaumont, 5-4, in 10 in-
nings, and San Antonio edging
Houston, 2-1.
Dave Hoskins, who won 22
games and lost 10 as the leading
pitcher of the league, will be on
the mound for Dallas, opposing
Bill Greason, who joined Okla-
homa City in late season but
compiled a record of nine vic-
tories against one loss. The duel
of the two Negro hurling stars
should pack the park at Dallas.
At Fort Worth, the Cats will
rely on either Elroy Face (14-
10); or Wallace Hood (5-2), while
Shreveport is expected to use
Fred Baczewski (6-4), who beat
Fort Worth in his only appear-
ance against the Cats during the
season. Face won one and lost
two to Shreveport. Hood never
worked against Shreveport.
Hoskins and Greason will be
meeting for the second time.
They dueled at Dallas Aug. 3
with Greason winning 3-2. Hos-
kins gave up six hits and Grea-
son four. That has been the only
appearance against Dallas for the
Negro star. Hoskins has beaten
Oklahoma City five times and
lost twice.
Dallas and Fort Worth would
appear to be favorites to take the
two series and clash in the fi-
nals. For the season Dallas has
defeated Oklahoma City 14
times to nine while Fort Worth
has downed Shreveport 13
times to 10.
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St. Louis____56
Detroit _______ 45
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Boston ______ 72
Washington __ 72
Sunday’s Results
Fort Worth 2, Tulsa 5.
Dallas 6, Oklahoma City 3 .
San Antonio 2, Houston 1.
Shreveport 4, Beaumont 5.
Dunlap Wins TL
Batting Crown
DALLAS, Sept. 8 (P)— Grant
Dunlap, Shreveport first base-
man, held the Texas league bat-
ting championship today. Dun-
lap wound up with an average
of .333 compiled on 154 hits in
462 times at bat. Second was
Babe Martin of San Antonio
with .329.
Harry Elliott of Shreveport
got the most hits with 204. Joe
Frazier of Oklahoma City and
Elliott tied for the lead in dou-
bles with 48 apiece, Jim Green-
grass of Beaumont led in triples
with 15, Harry Heslet of San
Antonio in home runs with 31,
Russ Burns of Oklahoma City in
runs batted in' with 120 and Joe
Koppe of Shreveport in runs
with 99.
The base-stealing title went to
Bill Hunter, Fort Worth short-
stop, with 24.
Dave Hoskins of Dallas was
the winningest pitcher with 22
victories against 10 losses.
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Longhorn league: Midland, Big
Spring, San Angelo, Abilene,
Odessa, Lamesa, Artesia and
has dropped into Class AAA this : Carlsbad.
year but has the usual strong ! „ This, omits Sweetwater, whose
team. | franchise is held by A. C. Gon-
Abilene, another toughie of the f zales. He has not announced defi-
Lubbock district, plays well- ‘ nite plans for 1953.
liked Arlington Heights at Fort I Unnamed league from the
Worth and Sunset, a Dallas dis-, Southwest International and Ari-
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At Abilene Meeting
ABILENE, Sept. 8 (A) — One
i league will be eliminated and
two others changed considerably
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! ment meeting here yesterday go
I through.
Representatives of seven
leagues in the southwest met at
the call of President George
Trautman of the minor leagues.
Under proposals tentatively ac-
cepted in a joint session, the
Southwest International and Ari-
zona-state leagues would merge
but El Paso and Juarez of the
latter circuit would enter the
West Texas-New Mexico.
Abilene and Lamesa would
leave the West’ Texas-New Mex-
ico league and enter the Long-
horn league.
The elimination of the one
league and realignment of the
others would hinge on the dis-
position or cancellation of some
five club franchises.
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The Big State and Gulf Coast
leagues had representatives at
the meeting but were not in-
cluded in realignment discus-
sions. Howard Green, president
of both leagues, said that so far
is known now, the Big State
league will operate in 1953 with
the same members.
He said “possible changes” in-
volving the Gulf Coast and
Evangeline leagues were being-
considered. Representatives o f
the three leagues convened in
interim, session and agreement to
make no arrangement of prob-
able changes “at this time.”
From some 15 realignment
proposals chalked on the black-
board at the joint session of rep-
resentatives of the leagues came
these tentative agreements,
pending aproval of individual
leagues at future meetings:
New Alignments
West Texas-New Mexico
league: El Paso, Juarez, Albu-
querque, Lubbock, Amarillo,
Roswell, Clovis, Borger and
Pampa. Nine clubs are listed,
with the possibility that Pampa
might give up its franchise or
that El Paso and Juarez might
combine into one operation.
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He went on to stardom in jun-
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High, Southern Methodist uni-
versity, and now the pro Detroit
Lions.
Doak is most-headlined player
in the Lions’ training camp. And
although he’s only 25, Doak is
starting his 15th season playing
on an organized team.
And thanks to an intercepted
pass in that first season, he’s a
back and not a lineman.
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YPSILANTI, Mich — Doak
Walker of the Detroit Lions will
go into the records as one of
football’s all-time great backs—
along with Jim Thorpe, Ted
Grange and others.
But oddly, Doak might have
remained a guard instead of
booming into the headlines as a
high-scoring backfield sensation.
An obscure incident in the
sixth grade proved the turning-
point.
Doak was in elementary
school in football-conscious Dal-
las. They start playing football
there almost as soon as babies
leanr how to say the word.
In the kids’ informal sandlot
games Doak usually played in
the backfield.
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