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Wednesday Evening, August 2, 19391
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THE ABILENE REPORTER NEWS
DOWNRIGHT DISRESPECTFUL-
Topflight Pitchers Have Rough Going
AUSSIE'S ACE
By PAP
PEREN
Ha
Both Yanks and
Reds Take It on
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ANK BOSS AMUSED AT TRIS SPEAKER STATEMENT Harmmage Bavs
NEW York. Aug 2Be- where maybe a world series depend- Barrow also would like to learn N 0
r issuing denials that the ed upon having a man in center where the rumor arose that any. V MRINY vi
15 Better Than DiMag?—
In Abi
tween issuing flat denials that the
New York Yankees are for sale
Chin in Battles
By JUDSON BAILEY
| Associated Press Sports Writer
Reputations may be priceless but
three of baseball’s foremost pitch-
President Ed Barrow is getting s
lot of quiet amusement out of a
loose statement by Tris Speaker
that he could name 15 better out-
fielders than Joe DiMaggio
When he made this extravagant
assertion the old “Grey Eagle"
ed upon having a man in center
field who could make any kind of
a catch, my first choice would be
Speaker and my second choice Di-
Maggie People don’t appreciate
what a great fielder Joe is. He can
one with five or six million dollars
meant baseball since it began had
produced 15 more brilliant flyhawks
than DiMag, men who could go
do everything nearly as good as
Speaker could, and he is better
than Spoke was on ground balls
"I see he complains that Di-
Maggio doesn’t play in close
enough That’s because Joe doesn’t
ers will tell you today this is just ..... ....__.. ____________
“Idle prattle in the major league further to make a catch then throw have to when he has a couple of
arenas
**
It’s disrespectful enough that
the World Champion New York
Yankees and the National
League Leading Cincinnati Reds
should be sullied on the same
day. Yet this not only hap-
the ball in with deadlier accuracy men like Frankie Crosetti and Joe
He wasn’t talking about batting Gordon in front of him Both can
apparently goback a mile You don't see many
"That’s a foolish statement for hits landing in front of DiMaggio."
in cash money could step up and
purchase the entire Yankee base-
ball empire, like buying stamps
“The Yankees absolutely sre not
for sale, he declared. “They can’t
be sold, because Colonel Jacob
Ruppert’s will expressly stipulates
they not be sold or the system
broken up. There is no need to
raise cash to pay inheritance taxes,
as has been reported It is not yet
even, known the amount of such
taxes, and, anyway, they are to be
paid out of the other parts of the
Ruppert estate.”
Moving Club
old Spoke to make " chuckled the !
| Yankees’ veteran head "I’ve been
watching them come and go longer
| than he has, and as a matter of fact
he can name just one better field-
■ ing outfielder than DiMaggio is to-
| day That was Speaker, himself
I "I won't take it away from Spoke |
He was a marvel, the best there
ever will be But I’m afraid he's un-
consciously comparing DiMaggio
to himself. What other outfielder,
pened yesterday with their re-
spective pitching technicians.
— Red Ruffing and Paul Derrin-
“ ger, in the control booths, but
the same short-circuit cut down
young Bob Feller.
Ruffing had not been beaten by
the Detroit Tigers since June 1937
And had won 13 consecutive games does he think was better than Joe? |
from the Bengals but Del Baker’s He couldn’t mean Ty Cobb He
surly Tiger troupe routed him 5-2 never was more than a hitter
in their series opener at New York “No, if i was in a tight spot.
Reporter ~2ems
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- Big Hank Greenberg took per-
sonal charge of the rebuttal, hit-
ting his 20th homer of the season
with two on. in the first and later
getting his 33rd double
GIANTS TURN TRICK
The New York Giants, who may
look desperate in their league
standings, preserved the claim of
distinction by edging out the Reds
burst of 15 triples—baseball’s rar-:
est hit—in seven of the day's eight
games including five in the St.
Louis Cardinals test with the Bos-
ton Bees Johnny Mise hit two
S
with men on base and the Mar-
tins, Stu and Pep each contributed
one as St. Louis won 4-3
Dixie Walker hit two for the
LASINGS Clean Match
AN * Goes to Carr
RESU LTS YESTERDAY
American League
Detroit 5 New York 1
Boston T. Cleveland 5. —
5-4. in 10 innings and remaining _ s
the only team which holds a mar- Dodgers as Brooklyn beat
the
V.
gin over the Reds for the season
It was Cincinnati’s first setback
in 11 games.
Feller’s nemesis was young Bobby
Doerr, who hit two home runs- to
pace the, Boston Red Sox to a 7-5
triumph over the Cleveland In-
dians
Pittsburgh Pirates 5-3.
- The first day of August also
* popped, up with a couple of
other features. For one thing
Philip K Wrig lev owner of the
Chicago Cubs, chose to see his
hireling perform — an unusual
pastime for him Dizzy Dean s
$185,000 throwing arm took this
occasion, to go on the blank
again and Manager Gabby
Hartnett pushed Larry French
into action. The veteran left-
' hander, whe had complained to
_ Wrigley the day before that he
— wasn’t getting enough work,
E thereupon pitched the Cubs to
- a 6-2 victory over the Phil-
* lies.
C For another there was an out-
In the American league Tony
Giuliani Washington catcher, hit a
three-bagger with the bases loaded
in the fifth to lead the Senators to
7-5 victory over the St. Louts
Browns.
The Chicago White Sox downed
the Philadelphia Athletics 4-1 on
the effective nine-hit hurling of
Jack Knott
Chicago 4 Philadelphia 1.
Washington T St Louis 5
National League
Cincinnati 5, New York 4 tie innings).
Brooklyn 5. Pittsburgh 3.
Chicago 4 Philadelphia 1
St Louis 4. Boston 3
TEXAS LEAGU a
Oklahoma City 11. San Antonio 8
Tulsa 11 Beaument 1
Fort Worth 5 Shreveport 1
Houston 3. Dallas 1 (12 innings)
West Texas-New Mexico League
Pampa 16, Borger 6
Big Spring 11 C lovis 18
Midland 10 Amarille T
Lubbock 4 Lamesa 3
The tin-eared grunters who
headline the Sportatorium card
must be softening up a bit
Last night scarcely a foul blew
was landed in the main event as
Charlie Carr went about pinning
Pete Beleastre in what enee was
the orthodox way
Breaking clean most of the time
and becoming riled only oceasion-
ally, the two boys put on a show
for the fans who like te watch sci-
entific wrestling
Airmail Hearing
WASHINGTON Aug 2.--
The civil aeronautics authority an-
nounced today a hearing would be
TEAM—
New Yorfc .
Boston
Chicago , e
Cleveland
Detroit
Washington
Philadelphia
St. Louis -
STANDINGS
American League
W L. Pet
66 27 Tia
..........ST 34 626
.......... 53 43 mt merit of skilled tactics learned in
Carr, a speed demon from Fort
Wayne, Indiana, used an assort-
held in El Paso, Tex., August 17 to TEAM
determine whether an airmail route Cincinnati . .
between that city and Albuquerque ch heuis *
N M, was reqiured. Pittsburgh .
Postmaster General Furlev pre- New York • -
viously had certified to the CAA Boston:.
needs of the postal service required Philadelphia
transportation of mail by aircraft TEXAS LEAGUE
between the two points via Carls- SanAntonio
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PRINTERS HOPE TO RECOUP
STRENGTH FOR WTU BATTLE
3 Losers last night to Red & White
by a score of 7 to 3, young Texas
Printers will be out to regain some
of their waning prestige tonight
when they meet West Texas Utili-
ties at Sportsman park
Riding high on a combination of
hustle and good pitching the
Printers downed Utilities 5 to 4 the
last time the two clubs met That
was Thursday night of last week
Then on Saturday night the green
clad lads took a 12 to 2 drubbing
from the powerful Highway team
In last night’s battle the Printers
got away to a good start, taking a
one-run advantage when Pond sin-
gled and scored in the second The
Grocers came back in the third,
however to score Hill and Keith
for a lead they never relinquished
Hailey walked and was brought
home by Hill in the fifth; and
Whitehead drove a liner to left
and came in on Creed Portwood s
single in the sixth to make the score
4 to 1 The Grocers used one hit
two errors and two walks to tally
three more in the seventh.
Printers rallied in the last of the
seventh to score two but the up-
rising fell short when Corley was
forced at third to end the game
HELD TO FOUR HITS
Hailey held the Printers to four
hits and the Grocers got only five
off Brown Errors were numerous
and costly to both teams
Behind three-hit pitching
by
Claud McMinn Lone Star beat
the Humble Oilers 3 to 1 in the
slow league battle. Hughes singled
and was brought in bv Garland
'.'.’' is # sis brawls the country over in whip-
41 56 423 ping the tall and popular Belcas-
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24 66 283 tro
National League In copping the first fall Carr ap-
w l Pet plied the rocking chair split. Bel-
. , te 42 535 castre took the second with a com-
- 50 45 52« bination of the drop kick and body
43 $00 pin Carr downed the handsome
45 45 500 Oregonian in the deciding 'round
26 32 & with the body pin.
Gentleman Dale Haddock, the
%s k. ^ Michigan boy who’s just the oppo-
Houston - .............64 51 551
I Dallas ................62 54 53 4
| Tulsa ..................58 55 €11
1 Fort Worth ...............58 56
I Shreveport .......58 56
Beaumont. * ........48 69
Oklahoma City 46 71
West Texas-New Mexico League
TEAM— W L Pct
Pampa 23 9 719
Lubbock ..........23 10 697
BigSpring .................17 16 -515
, mnaina :: 1 is iss variation of the McMurry stretch
| Lamesa : 14 11 106 while he took the second by virtue
dows . 12 21 364 | of the arm lock. The final fall
GAMES TODAY
West Texas -New Mexico League
Borger at Tampa .
Midland at Amarillo
Lubbock at Lamesa,
Clovis at Big Spring
Texas League
TEXAS LEAGIa
CHICAGO, Aug. 2—()—President
William Harridge stepped forth to-
day to neatly dispose of all this talk
about moving the St. Louis Browns
of the American league to another
elty.
Discussing for the first time the
many reports a realignment of clues
in the circuit was contemplated,
Harridge said there "definitely la no
move on foot te move the Browns
or any other team in the league to
another city."
Poor attendance in St Louis this
season has inspired much talk of
transferring the Browns or the
Cards of the National league. Mil-
waukee and Kansas City of the
American Association have been
mentioned frequently as possible big
league sites Others have suggested
Detroit should have two teams, as
do New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
St Louis and Chicago.
Harridge added:
The general baseball public pos-
sibly does not realize the many com-
plications which would arise in the
transfer of a club You couldn’t
just move into a city regardless of
whether it had a minor or major
league team already.
"In the interest of fair play we
would have to see that a minor
league would not suffer if we took
one of their towns But if a major
league team did want to take over
a town already occupied by a minor
league team first of all the minor
league would have to be compen-
sated. -:
Then the minor league club in-
volved would have to be reasonably
compensated for moving elsewhere.
By the time the major league
team satisfied these claims and
built a park of big league propor-
tions. its investment probably would
total more than a million dollars.
And even then it would have no
assurance the team would draw bet-
ter there than elsewhere
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he gets between the ropes, copped
the wildest match of th night from
Sailor Jack® Adams. When Adams
wasn t on the floor, he spent most
of his time complaining, to Referee
Johnny Nemanic of Haddocks acts
of villainy. The Detroit veteran
copped the first fall with a slight
364 of the arm lock
lasted little more than a minute.
GAME SLAST NIGHT
Red & White T Texas Printers 3.
Lone Star 2. Humble 1.
There is little likelihood that the
lads who are chosen to defend the
Davis cup for the United States
will take to the courts with any
thoughts of over-confidence. Not
if they have given even scant at-
tention to the public prints of late
It seems to be the unanimous
opinion of tennis experts that the
Australians are to blow Bobby Riggs
and his supporting cast right off
the courts Perhaps they are cor-
rect .
In Adrian Quist, Jack Bromwich
and Jack Crawford. Australia has
an experienced and talented trio.
They may, quite possibly, be too
much for our representatives. Quist
is the balance-wheel of the team
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Crawford has seen his best day
while Bromwich is rapidly develop-
ing into one of the best.
The Australians are in dead ear-
nest this time They may rise to
inspired heights when they are
playing for their country Foreign
teams have a way of doing that.
In the national doubles champion,
ships last year the Australians
were ne match for Budge and Mako
but when the Davis cup challenge
round rolled around they same
through in the doubles.
Quist is in far better physical
shape this year than last. He has
carefully planned his campaign so
that he will not come up to the big
test ever-tennised. Bromwich is the
No. 1 player of the squad and the
experts insist he can match strokes e
with Riggs and go him one better
when it comes to applying the old |
finisher.
The terrific battle the American
players are waging for the open
bertha on the squad cannot help |
but improve the challenging team's j
chances The lads are likely to kill 1
themselves off winning a place on I
the team and have nothing left for A
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TEAM
STANDINGS
Fast League
Highway .......7 1 $75
Texas Printers .......... 4 4 500
Red a White ...3 5 375
Utilities 2 6 .250
Slow League
TEAM— W. L. Pet
Exchange.. ..........4 2 .66T
Lions ...............4 2 66T
Rotary ...................32 600
Lone Star ...................3 3. 500
Kiwanis. .. 3 3 400
Humble / 1 5 200
GAMES TONIGHT
oRtary vs Kiwamis
West Texas Utilities vs. Texas Printers
defeat at hands of the Oklahoma
City Indians while second-place
Houston was taking an overtime af-
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TODAY’S SPORT SPORTS
PARADE ROUNDUP
By HENRY MeLEMORE
United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK Aug. 2 — (UP) — I
LON
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“OF
Meyer kid playing second base
for Knoxville is a nephew of
Prof. Dutch Meyer, the Texas
Christian football coach, and is
the lad who scored all T. C.
U.’s 16 points against Mar-
quette in the Cetton bowl game
three years ago . . . Note to
Bob Pastor: Newsreels show
Joe Louis had all kinds of
trouble keeping up with a pair
of lightweights when be re-
ferred an amateur bout in
Chicago last week . . . Among
the things Bill Jurges didn’t
know until now is that Umpire
Magerkurth used to be a hea-
vyweight boxer.
Success story.
Maj. Bob Neyland, who received
3700 for his first year's coaching st
Tennessee, now draws down the
$700 plus $14,300 more.
Abilene Bowlers
Defeat Stamford
“Abilene’s sure rolling bowlers an-
nexed another victory last night
“The crew operating at Bearden’s
Alleys thrust aside a team from
Stamford by a wide margin of 323
pins
Goeth was high scorer for the
locals with a total of 573 Runner-
up was also an Abilenian. Powell
IS YI
By EDDIE BRIETZ
NEW YORK. Aug 2—(P)—LOU
Nova leaves for the east August 7
don’t mean to be an old gossip—and will do his training chores
but: The best shortstop in base-for Tony Galento at Atlantic City
ball today isn’t playing shortstop i ... Who is the 18-year-old Ten-
He is playing second base for nessee football prospect who once
I the Yankees and his name is Joel appeared on the roster of another
Gordon ... If you think Gordon big southern school as a 31-year-
is cute around second base, you
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brought ir
condition
estimate.
fair from the Dallas Rebels
The Padres lost to Oklahoma City
in a night slugfest, the final count
being 11 to 8 against them
. Dickson for the Buffs and Sorelle
old W P. A. worker with three
The curtain raiser went for a
draw Otto Ludwig a curly thatch-
ed demon from the neighboring
city of Breckenridge, got the bet-
ter of his argument with Tiger
Billy McEuin, hideous looking Wax-
i ahachie terror for most of the
| should get a peak at him when he
moves over to short in morning
McMinn for Lone Star’s first tally
in the second Galbraith and Bye
crossed the plate in the third John
Billingsley came home for Humble’s
only score in the last of the fourth.
Hughes’ two for three was tops
at the plate for Lone Star while
Jack Byes play at short stood out 11, ., Leonard (104)
on the defense Reese contributed Cleveland at Boston (2) Hudlin (T-5)
some classy fielding for Humble at and Harder (5-7) vs Rich 4-3) and
second, Clyde Billingsley got two Of r^ca#^ a: Phligdelphi (2) Dietrich Texas is Shaved
the three hits registered against 44 and Rigney :s vs Ross (3-8) icaux 13 pnovee
McMinn and Stewart the other and Nelson 6-3.
or , *oLo-r NATIONAL LEAGUE By The Associated Press
New York at Cincinnati Lohrman | The San Antonio Missions found
Lone Star got two safeties off (T-8) vs Thompson (5-1) or Moore The San Antonio Missions found
Derryberry in the second and four(10-6) their lead in the Texas league shav-
m the third He held them hitless | .2*. Etaburmh- Haman (11-ed a game today by virtue of their
in every other frame Philadelphia at Chicago — Mulcahy (5-
Rotary will meet Kiwanis in to-sn t St. Louis Turner (3.6) vs
night S slow league engagement. ; Warneke (9) or Cooper (6-45
The boxes ----------------------------------------------
Shreveport at Dallas
Houston at Fort Worth
Beaumont at Ok ahoma City
San Antonio at Tulsa
(All night games)
AMERIC AN LEAGUE
Detroit at New York—Rowe (3-9) vs.
Donald (12-0)
St Louis at Washington— Kramer IT-
match McEuin rallied, however,
during the closing minutes and
-.eld Ludwig to a draw
Padres' Lead In
Speaking of Sports—
for the Rebels engaged in an old-
fashioned mound duel for 11 frames
with the score deadlocked at one
all. In the twelfth Houston put
together two doubles a single and
a walk to win 3 to 1.
Hopping on Tate and Hardy the
Tulsa Oilers chalked up 11 runs
to rout the Beaumont Exporters.
Milstead spaced eight Shipper hits
for a single run.
Greer held Shreveport scoreless
after the first inning, limiting the
Sports to five hits and one run,
while the Fort Worth Cats were
touching Klaerner and Coombs for
seven hits and five runs
workouts and starts, handling the
ball. . . . It is his natural post-
tion, and all he needs is a pair
of bowlegs to make you think you're
watching Hans. Wagner to his
prime
I doubt if anyone could clearly
explain to me how there* is a pos-
sibility of Henry Armstrong losing
his welterweight title to Lou Am-
bers when they meet on the night
of Aug. 23 for the lightweight
championship ... To begin with,
Armstrong won t be a welterweight
that night. . . . With his amaz-
ing ability to gain or lose weight
at will he will have gotten himself
down to the lightweight pound-
age . , : Ambers certainly won’t
weigh enough to qualify as a wel-
RED & WHITE- A B
Hl st 3
Keith cf 2
Whitehead, 3b ...4
Cotton Portwood 2b .... 3
Creed Portwood, as .....3
Johnson rf 1
Dobbs, rf ...........2
Henry 15 .............3
Hul p..........2
TOTALS . ......35
PRINTERS - AB
elton
as
Brown, t
Cheek, cf-ss.......
Pond If .........
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Van Cleve 3b .....
Cook 2b ...
TOTALS
RED A WHITE
TEXAS PRINTERS
LONE STAR
Galbraith, €
Hampton 2b ......
Bye ss
Russell, 3b
Hughes of
C McMinn.
Rowland 1h
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TOTALS
HUMBLE- ,
Stewart ss. 4
Jake B ings ey, -3b
John Billingsley c
C Billingsley 1b .
Ward, cf ......
Lambert If .....
Reese 2b .....
Bouchette, rf
Scroggins sf ....
Hamilton, 2b-rf..!
Derryberry, P ....
TOTALS .....
LONE STAR ....
HUMBLE
1 Tysko Hit Hard
As Borger Loses
To Pampa Oilers
1 8/7 If Borger could get the pitching
| that Abilene used to see, the Gassers
9 ‘, wouldn’t be floundering about the
1 1 1 i bottom of first division
3 0 2/2 2 % When the Apaches got six runs
3 1 1 i o q’' was a story and when they pro-
3 1 0 4 0 1 duced more, it was a miracle Now
3 102 9 J however, the Borger pitching staff
1,1 seems to be shot Even Johnny
2 •• 2 2 1 Tysko was manhandled last night
is 3 4 21 . s as the Gassers dropped a 16 to 6
I decision to the powerful Pampa
002011 3 1 Oilers, who maintained their slim
half game lead over the truculent
AB R H 2AE Lubbock Hubbers. Johnny used to
3.0 0 2 2 % win * lot of games for Abilene
1 1 3 . with six runs but the Pampans
311 1 2 0 pounded him all over the Panhandle
a o J ; 3 J last evening
3 0 010 0 1 Gus Hallbourg, who was about as
? 1 1 1 J ! effective as a prime donna covering
Med to Move?
—Gossip Tabs Him at S’western
By HAL SAYLES
ITS rumored that R M Medley is ticketed for the Southwestern uni-
1 versity coaching job left vacant by the untimely death of Lefty Edens
The veteran McMurry coacher has been directing athletic activities
on the southside campus since 1923 Med has been particularly success,
ful in getting a lot out of scant material. And Southwestern hasn't been
overburdened with athletic material since the Texas conference was in its
ter that night so how are two
men, neither of whom will weigh
enough to classify as welters, go-
young ‘ens? . . . Josh Cody is
trying to get the U. at Florida ath-
letic committee to sign up another
ex-Pitt star as assistant coach.
Honor roll
Gerry Nugent of Philadelphia
and BIH Dewitt and Dow
Barnas ef St. Louis are on this
week’s honor roll of the opti-
mists’ club . . } They Insist
the Phillies and the Browns' are
improved.
Tuscaloosa, Ala, will move to
New York bag and baggage on two
special trains for the Fordham
game Oct 7 . . . One of the Ne-
braska football stars who is having
plenty of book trouble is Sam
Francis kid brother, Vike ... If
Red Tipton, the ex-Duke star, de-
cides to play pro football, he’ll lean
towards the Washington Redskins.
Must be the heat
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sports while hurling for Lamesa,
subdued the Gassers with six Kite
Big Spring advanced into third
place a full game ahead of Borger
by nosing Clovis, 11 to 10. aa two
hurlers saw service on each aide
* Midland and Lubbock copped the
” other tilts Cowboys trimmed Am-
" arillo. 10 to 7. It wax the second
0 straight win over the Sox for Sam-
This Arthur Derrell-George Tucker scrap slated fee the fair park
pavilion August 14th leems as the killer-diller of the season.
Dorrell has perhaps the largest following of any amateur fighter to
Texas He’s sort of the Henry Armstrong type—always hammering away
at his opponent until somebody drops Like Armstrong, Derrell hasn't
“’S tupporihe" card waif have an all-star favor, and the Booster
promoters are arranging for another match that could easily steal the
show from such experienced campaigners as Dorrell and the Southpaw
Tucker They'll be ready to announce the added attraction in a day or
so.
THE new interscholastic league grid district S-AA looms as a pretty
1 rugged little circuit. . ________
If you had counted on Midland, just up from the old class. B rank-
ing, as a breather it's time now to get matters straight.
Midland's hefty mentor Weldon (Bud) Taylor, will have a nucleus
of ten lettermen with which to start building a club next month
Included in the ten is Jay Francis, holdover backfielder, whe
was one of the brightest stars in West Texas class ■ circle# last
autumn. Other backfield veterans are Dell Trulove, halfback; Tem-
ple Harris, halfback, and J. M. White, fullback. Francis will be
stationed at quarter.
In the line Taylor will have two lettered guards, Klatt at 170 and
mie Hale and companyEidson at 165 pounds: Lelland Foster, left-pound holdover at tackle;
In a bitter, hurling duel Lubbock Maurice Bratton and Weldell Williams, both 180 pounders and veteran
nudged Lamesa 4 to 1 Walter
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Phone 3556
Gorski and George Needham, two
of the brightest hurling prospects
in the league, allowed five and six
hits respectively.
West Texan Win»
NEW YORK, Aug 2—(AP)-
Lew Jenkins, 132, Sweetwater,
Tex., outpointed Joey Fontana,
132 3-4 Brooklyn in an eight-
* round fight here last night.
wingmen; and J M. Wallace, nubbin center last year who now weighs
110 The other tackle slot likely will go to Fred Cocke or Mike Buffington,
inexperienced but bulky enough to take care of themselves.
(NUR NOMINATION for the toughest sports assignment of the week:
’ * Reynolds Smith, golf writer for the Dallas News, covered the Amaril-
lo invitation for his paper Scribe Smith also did a little playing in
the tournament and when the firing was over Sunday night. Scribe
Smith’s story was the phenomenal play of Golfer Smith Reynolds won
the tournament he wrote about Hes rather new at thia writing business,
but Smith handled the story with ell the poise and finesse he uses on
are golf course It would have been much easier to write If Don Schu-
macher had beaten him in the finals. —----———t—
Claire Bee, coach of the undefeat-
ing to decide the welter title? . . , ed national champion Long Island
: don't know, do you? U. basketball team, told friends the
At long last Frankie Parker ap-other day he'd rather coach one feed
pears to have developed a forehand medicre football team than ten Luck '
which gives him the all-around championship cage outfits.
who compiled a score of 568.
ABILENE
Player— 1st 2nd 3rd Total
Goeth .............230 150 193 573
Cook .............135 136 123 394
Wood..............130 114 146 390
Powell ...........181 221 166 568
Martin .......- 188 159 134 481
TOTALS .......864 780 762 2406
CHIL
LOTS
Ran
STAMFORD
Player—
Reed ... .
%
tennis game he lacked before ...
It stood up under the attacking |
pressure of Americas ranking play-
era at Seabright and he may yet
turn out to be the fair-haired boy
of the De via cup team . .
This department would hate to
hang by its only two thumbs until
Tris Speaker gives the names of
the 20 outfielders he said he could
name who are better than Joe Di-
Maggio. ... I keep thinking that
I an on Speaker s list, and It makes
me terribly nervous to think of
having to come to a showdown
against Joe. . . . Isn’t it about
time for someone in the National
league to demand that the Reds
be broken up before interest to the
pennant race is killed? . . . The
Reds are only a little bit closer to
their nearest rival than Mars la to
the earth and appear a cinch to
win the pennant by more games
than the Yanks.. . I don’t want
to anger my reader to Cincinnati
(name furnished on request! but
I'm afraid the Reds big lead la not
the result of their having a super
bar team, but that the other ball
teams in the league are very un-
super.
New Yorkers don't need a calen-
far to tell that it la Aug. 1. Al-
ways at this time of year Mrs.
Helen Wills Moody is here trying to
decide whether or net to play to
the national tennis championships
st Forest Hills. The suspense isn't
very great, however, because ev-
eryone knows that at the last min-
ute she will refuse to send to her
entry
Jimmy Johnston will have the
humane society after him if he in-
Official ticket headquarters
for Nova-Galento have been set
up in Lew Tendler’s Philadel-
phia restaurant . . . That
sists on going through with his plan
of making his fighter. Bob Pastor
aland up and slug it out with Joe
Louis instead of running away. .
Even his best friends won’t tell
Pastor he can punch, and to a
stand-up fight with Joe ha couldn’t
last as long as a keg of beer at
an Elks’ convention. . . . Lou Nova
will finish Tony Galento Inside of
eight rounds, stopping the belig-
gerent barrel just as he did Maxie
Baer-by cutting him to bits. . . .
The boxing commission should take
time off at one of its musical com-
edy sessions and decree that Billy
Conn must make his first defense
of the Ught-heavywelght title
against Mello Bettina, the man he
won it from in a fight as close as
Siamese twins when they're hug-
ting
BATITEY DOWNY
OUT or GANT gor a Tlah
GEO MORRIS
AUTO SUPPLY
DIAL 727
Courtney .
Nix
Upshaw ..
TOTALS
1st Rnd 3rd
93 105 167
201 148 189
131 157 131
100 112 130
119 166 184
644 698 741
Total
368 .
426
332
‘ 415 1
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