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Era diamond and
three-hit ball
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A large crowd turned out to
watch the tournament openers
McAlester ...
Gainesville
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Bezner
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e runs in the bottom of the
nth inning at Locke field Wed-
sday night to overtake the Me-
ester Rockets 9-8 in a Sooner
10'
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tstanding college
on one hand
next boss and the rough, and
ready high school Leopard men-
tor was not one to judge a boy
by past reputs lions. He actually
had doubts that the lad could
Shell's club appeared at the lo-
il field ready for play, but Cal-
lisburg officials were
field a team arid for
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to continue Friday.
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Sooner State league foe. Sem-
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which fell by the way-
side in the late Owl rally.
John Young, Kanehl and Tony
Young led tne Rocket hitting
with two hits each, while Hanra-
however, and in-
Umpires — Timoney and Werry.
tendance—200. •Time—2:40.
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Softball Play
Shell Gets
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Wednesday
The Story of a Football Player
Ayor OFTEN DOES Gainesville produce an ottsta
% football player. You can count the greatones
and probably the last of any significance was Hugh Meyer, big
Texas A&M center. but unless we miss our guss, the next few
‛ hesday night
pulverized Vandervort’s
catur 14-3 and Te. C
WEEK'S SOI
Friday—Mae:
chlumbergr
Owl runs to cross the plate, and
balk proved the undoing of the
Rockets.
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gazio to Met orkle. R H— Dunn 4, 7,
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men of the
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porta nt runs
Dunn was relieved by Bob Bly-
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On Era's Diamond
half. Had Manager Bunny Mick’s
minions from McAlester stopped
the Birds last night however, the
situation would be different this
morning and the Rockets would
have owned that third spot.
, McAlester couldn’t quite turn
the trick, however. and tonight
totals J.....,
GAINESVILLE
Hanrahan, ss :.....,
Luttrell. If ..J.....
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advertisement in The Register.
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years will be more bountiful for Circus to
Chuck Curtis and Hank Crowsey I
should make Grade A backfielders with I
Abe Martin’s Texas Christian University I
Frogs of Fort Worth, and there is an- I
other lad from this city that we feel will I
do a crackerjack job of football playing |
before his college career is over. <
We say this because we have known I
and watched the lad play football since I
he was knee high to some of the grass- I
hoppers in the area and he has grown in I
stature, playing wisdom and desire |
through each phase of his schoolboy ca-
jreer. .
Let’s take a backward glance. Re-
and now tips
bounds and il
his improvement into another
phase of football play, as he has
in the past several faces at SMU
the eighth and was chased to the
showers in a three-run Owl
nost of the time, but in 1953 al
lew era beamed on the horizon
that won the game
came off Blyen berg’s efforts, so
charged to his rec-
he paced the
place tie in the district and was
on the lighted Era diamond and
they saw Richard Mosman twirl
The Lawton Braves, current-
ly the hottest baseball team in
the Sooner State league, ex-
tended their winning streak to
eight games last night at the
expense of cellar team Pauls
Valley.
The Braves came from be-
hind with a five-run rally in
the top of the ninth to win 9-6.1
Carl Hrovatic’s three-run
homer climaxed the spree.
Still Lawton couldn’t gain on.
Shawnee, which remained 13
games ahead of the field by de-
feating Ardmore 9-5 as right
hander Don Kenway won his
13th victory against two losses.
Willard Fox and Fred'Harri-
son homered for the winners.
Seminole rode to vietory 5-3
over Ada on Ken Post’s three-
run homer.
New series tonight find
Shawnee at Ada, Ardmore at
Lawton, Seminole at Gaines-
ville and Pauls Valley at McAl-
ester.
or the boy, gr-____ _____
uries kept him on the bench
we're talking___ ______
borne and we'll betcha that the
Rocket Shortstop John Young
was the "goat” of last night’s
Locke field fiasco. The Owls
trailed the visitors 4-8 going into
the bottom of the ninth, but a
tremendous uprising. terminated
by Young's two-run error, liter-
ally pulled the tilt right out of
the flames of defeat.
A pair of walks, singles by
T ave Hanrahan And Bob Picciano,
coupled with two errors. includ-
‘ _ 1 and following in
the footsteps of his idol, the for-
star. Doak Walker.
rhe circuit's leading scorer.
Suffers injury
The next season was a bad one
Hoedebeck helped out
double.
BAIL SHEDULE
Sr v«. ox-Hamon;
। Sinclair,
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.... DP—Pier ano to Rigazi
corkle: Dunn to Maguire to T. Young:
unable to
— —___ the second
straight time they were forced
‘ ~ ithout lifting a bat.
Ninth for Win Over Rockets
terback on the starting lineup,
Cats to a second
ord. Bill Hopkins, Lanky Gaines-
ville right-hander, gained the win
Chopped Beef
Chilimm
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Cat coach back down in pleasant
surprise.
Not only was this lanky quar
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Winner — Hopkins. Loser—-
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Jim Dunn started on the hill
for the losers, but weakened in
SWIFTS SELECT BEEF
Extra Good
Action in the Cooke County
; stand-
some future grid-
State league tussle.
The win by the Hdoters kept
them in third place and increased
their hold there to a game and a
Swift's .. Can 19-
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Pork & Be
As a special added attraction,
$10 worth of paint will be given
to a lucky ticket holder Friday
night. The prize is being given by
Dave Tupman of the Gary-Nees
Lumber company.
A fountain pen, given by Frank
Dustin, was presented to ticket
holder Elmer Hatcher, Route 1
last night as a gate prize. The
a’fer of a prize proved no in-
wit h a
make his starting lineup, but
made the Spotted
Hole's' Tri-City _
pected to invade Locke field for
the first of a two-day stand.
220-Volt, %-Ton Deluxe
installed,
525000
OFFICIAL BALLOT
REGISTER’S ALL STAR SOFTBALL TEAM
(Entries must be dated no later than August 3.)
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hat squad. Tall,
lanky, red-headed James (Babel
ght-hander, gamed the win
-his third Against five losses—
in a relief -role. Gene Lippold
started for the Birds, but was
replaced in; the ninth by Bob
Moore. Moore finally gave way
to Hopkins, i
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Then the oungster moved to
h ha1 "e was beginning
his lanky frame
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in going the route for the win.
His mates banged out 11 hits
off the offerings of Decatur's
Billy Gage and the issue was
never in doubt.
Granville Miller paced the
Chick offensive attack with three
hits out of four tries, while Gene
UnicKS Crush Decatur
In Softball Tournament
continuation of the well-re-
.d tourney.!:
Game time for the first affair.
rh is report Ad to Im* t he Bowie-
onvair clash, has beeh set for S
p. m. i J J
In a tournament semi-finals
game Friday night, Bezner takes
on Texas Cafe Hhe team that re-
cently won a similar softball
tourney in Decatur—in an impor-
tant struggle. 1
the quick-thinking
the Leopard team
his greatest years.
arenchuk
Haas
Pieciano ..
Jaekson .....
Rigazio .
Merriam
TOP
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Brosnan .....
I; Anderson .
| Marrs .....
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Corkle and pan Merriam man-
aged for one-base blows to sky-
rocket the Owls to a trio of im-
Owls Rally
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boy makes the grade at Aggie
land. He's nearly six feet tall
CHOOSE YOUR
WEATHER FOR
HOME OR OFFICE
The youngster literally took
charge on the field and J. M.
Lindsay's Bobcats roared to sec-
ond place in the city champion-
ship chase.
Bill Rike’s Robert E. Lee Dog-
gies won the title, but Lindsay’s
little quarterback paced his mates
to a 40-6 win over Lee in a game To tc-0+ p..1
played under the lights at the UnderMeCainE Ruhe,,i.
Eeacon’e finish L nder Hora e MeC ain s bril-
season 5 unisn liant leadershi >, the boy contin
i.That wa only a preview of ued to show improvement in a
things to come for the boy was , nevy phase in his football
growing.and. he.really .showed an he paced the Panthers
the world a few things the next of their gretest undefeated sea-
season when he led the Bobcats | sons T ।
- to the city championship. McCain thoght so highly of
More Improvement his diminutive. . .
— . i__a . .1 . ... the No. 1 on his jersey, that he
- Take heed to the significance ‘ " r
of this improvement. As the junior high elven,
young quarterback grew older. Then the youngs
he. improved and in $o. doing high school? He
helped the Lindsay team the next । to grow arid l
season to a record of six wins :found the rigors of high school
and a loss for the title, football no me re menacing than
We can speak with authority j the two steps I e had just passed,
when we say that the youngster ! Coach " — - - •
Left Fielder ..
Center Fielder
Right Fielder .
Aann..H.n Brach’s Assorted
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enberg, who staggered through
until one man was out in the
he, too, had to be
removed from the battle. Gaylen
ial two
—____ ____ inning, striking out
Owl Manager Dick Rigazio and
then watching Young make his
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member back when grade school football Ah. wn |
was highly organized and the schools ? d dh *
Competed for a grid crown each season? ——
Well, about 1947 and 1948 a boy came RODDY OSBORNE
out for the J. M. Lindsay grid team that
. was destined for great things in Gainesville
The boy was no bigger than a double-jointed! goober, but when
he dressed himself in his football togs, you kinda had to admit that
football player.
A double by John Young, sin-
gles by Bob Maness, Rod Kanehl
and John Young, coupled with a
walk gave the Rockets four runs
Not only did he look like a
ball player, he acted the part as
Coach Jim Reed soon realized.
Schlumberger
Sinclair
Callisburg
Thursday, July 29th
and
Friday, July 30th
SEMIOLE OILERS
vs.
GAINESVILLE OWLS
Prizes will ba given.
Save your rain-chock.
2. Maguire. Mantle. Rigazio. Merriam,
Maness 2. MeCorkle. Two-base hits
Dunn. J. Your g i Stolen bases—Maness
2. T. Young. Mantle. Kanehl 3. Sacri-
fice hits— Rigazio. LOB—Gainesville 7.
-.t. $. SO—Dunn 3. Hopkins 1.
Lippold 5. Hudspeth 1. Moore 1. BOB-
Lippold 5. Dupn 4. Blyenberg L Moore
LEWISTON, Idaho (UP
of the Lewiston rodeo this
year is Marilyn Monroe-a 16-
year-old high shool
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Sliced Bacon
coaches of t
(Does not inelude last night’s game.)
AB H Pct. RBI
187 38 .364 14
330 112 .339 58
268 84 .313 48
1202 63 .311 48
•84 86 .282 61
89 26 .281 8
PITCHERS
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crucial error on a grounder by
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Lippold. p . .j
(a) Marrs
Moore, p
Hopkins, p
(b) Brosnan
TOTALS ..........—___
(a) Struck out for Lippold in 8th.
(b) Walked for Hopkins in 9th.
CUTLETS
ROUND STEAK
SIRLOIN STEAK
CLUB STEAK
Softball league was <
still Wednesday night
VFW diamond. I[ f r
Texas Power & Light and Sin-
clair had postponed their clash,
which was scheduled for last
ght and Shell took a forfeit
win from Qallisburg, so local
fans Were disappointed to find
that circuit softballers had a
n ght of rest. ’
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in the Gainesville high school.
You all knot.' the story of that
season. Ed Dusek coached the lo-
als to their first circuit title in
15 years and
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a round 200 fans found their Way
to Locke field to watch the. tus-
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