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4 Thursday Eve
PAGE TWO
SPORTS
THE ABILENE REPORTERNEWS
Tune In On KRBO
Buckies Top Attractive Slate
Ponies Reported
As Overconfident
Thursday Evening, October 6, 1938
Speaking of Sports-
52 Contests
YANKEES TJ E THE SCORE
On Class AA
Grid Program L
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Associated Press Staff
Breckenridge's battering Buck-
aroos and Tyler's high-flying Lions
meet undefeated untied teams in i
headline battles of Texas schoolboy
football this week
The Bucs and Lions, ranked
as the state’s top teams on the
basis of the first month’s play,
clash with Stephenville and
Kilgore respectively in confer-
ence games—two of a score of
championship tilts scheduled
this weekend.
On another feature little Conroe
, will be making its bid for leader- *
ship in District 13 in a battle with
Austin of Houston These teams
• also are undefeated and untied
The top interdistrict battle sends
Amarillo’s Golden. Sandies to - San
Antonio to play Brackenridge’s un-
scored on Eagles Amarillo, Pan-
handle’s favorite and now waging
a comeback after an early rever-
sal meets one of the outstanding
teams of South .Texas
Wichita Falls, favored to win
the District 2 title, starts the
conference drive against un-
: Red Mistakes
| Prove Costly
I In first Game
NEW YORK Oct. 5.—(P)—Those
Yankees, possibly the greatest set of
opportunists baseball has yet seen,
are off and running again
Victorious over the scrapping
Cincinnati Reds, 2 to 1, in yester-
day's opening battle of the world
series, they go into the second con-
test at Yankee stadium today al-
most prohibitive favorites to wrap
up their fourth straight world
championship
That was the game the Reds
beaten Electra,’ and Odessa, the
West Texas sensation, meets Big .
The Yankees knotted, the
score 1 to 1 in the first game of
1939 World Series baseball
Spring in championship, open-
er of District 3.
Masonic Home, ranked along with
Gainesville as a top team of North
Texas, tangles with Riverside the
pre-season ‘Fort Worth favorite
and North Dallas, a highly-rated*
outfitin the Dallas district, opens
the District 8 conference drive
against Sunset, last season’s cham-
games at Yankee stadium. New
York, Wednesday when second-
. — *
baseman Gordon tallied on
Dahlgren's double Gordon had
singled after Selkirk grounded
out to McCormick. Dahlgren
died on second as Ruffing foul-
ed out and Crosetti went out
on a fly. (Associated Press
Photo).
Indians Work SPORTS
On Air Attack ROUNDUP
Cowboys Rate
As Favorites
By EDDIE BREITZ EL PASO Oct 5 — Hostilities be-
NEW YORK Oct 5.—(P—One tweer football clubs representing
thing is certain—the rest of the se- Texas College of Mines and Har-
. ..__- _______..._____.___. a better pitched 1 din -Simmons university will be re-
of the top interdistrict tilts match- brate to precision out on the Mr- game than Derringer and Ruffing newed for the first time in three
es lnscored on Paris with Sulphur Murry practice field turned in yesterday What’s years here Saturday afternoon with
Springs, unbeaten but tied He also saa n .:/ to h. is dismay a this about Clipper Smith whose I the 0 utcome definitely unpredict-
- week’s ^ br - teneroWLere ohCEE . unte all vuianota team hamt been trimmed
IRIE . would pee a ones cain in two years, getting out of there
1—Friday: Quanah at Plainview ... uld r ota . a after this season? . Give Sam-
Panhandle at Borgerao RY da my Snead credit for one swell golf
2—Friday: Graham at Childress thrown for a loss or stopped near
(conference), Pampa a: Olney the line of scrimmage.
Lubbock at Vernon Electra at
Wichita Falls J conference > . 1
pion
There are 52 games on the sched- For more than an hour yester-
ule this week, 18 of them Inter- day Dale Morrison watched his ____* . .____.__
district and 4 inversectional One pass snipers and snatchers collab- ries won't produce
of the top interdistrict tilts match-11
needed Paul ' Derringer nearly
pitched his heart out, and his Na-
tional league teammates fought to
the last gasp before a friendly crowd
of over 58.000. But in the end the
great pitching of Red Ruffing and
the timely swatting of the Yanks
proved a little too much
Even if Bucky Walters, their sec-
ond fine pitcher scores for the Reds
today over the Yankees' Monte
Pearson end squares the series, the
Yankees still will have: a big psy-
chological edge They have beaten
Derringer, the man Bill McKech-
nie regarded as his ace, and they
again have proved that they can't
be overcome by fine pitching alone
Probing further into the opening
thriller, though it was won by Bill
Dickeys line single to center with'
Charley Keller on third base in the
ninth, it was lost to the Reds when
Wally Berger made the wrong
throw-in from left field in the fifth
frame enabling Joe Gordon to score,
from first on Babe Dahlgren's
zipper.
That one uncertain throw undid
the splendid six-hit, seven-strikeout
hurling of Derringer and put the
big right-hander in a spot where,
when the Yankees finally struck
again in- the. ninth, he was trying to
SWEETWATER, Oct 5. —
Overconfidence of the Sweet-
water high school footballers
apparently had Coaches Larrf
Priddy and Adrian Clark wor-
ried here today as the Mustangs
put on the finishing touches for
their important Permian Basin
tussle with Abilene tomorrow
night.
The game will be played in
the new Sweetwater high school
stadium.
“The boys have reed too
many newspaper accounts of
themselves as favorites In dis-
trict 3AA. They believe a lot of
the propaganda put out by so
called experts in various enemy
camps over the district that
they will finish close to the top
this season,” said Clark
"The players can't seem to
get it through their heads, that
Abilene will be tough,” Clerk
continued.
Injuries Hit .
ACC Reserves
Abilene Christian’s wild ats.
3—Friday: Abilene al Sweet-
water (conference Big Spring
at Odessa (conference . Pas-
chal (Fort Worth, at San An-
gelo.
4—Friday Ysleta at Ausun El
Paso conference; Bowie (El Paso)
at Wink.
5—Friday: Bonham at Denison
(conference). Ardmore, Okla., at
The session was the last stren-
uous one Morrison will conduct in
preparation for the Trinity melee
which is coming up here Saturday
I The game will be played at Don-
aldson field-with starting time be-
i ing 3 o'clock
Bill GU> Emerson, the In-
able :
| Or. the basis of their early sea-
| son record the Cowboys from Abi-
lene should rate as the favorites
, ._. . But Head Coach Max Saxon of the
comeback .. . Lou Gehrig, who’ll Miners is notgreat believer in
be honorably released by the Yanks pre-game dope—especially since his
soon after the series, has definitely Miners were knocked over by an
made up his mind to go into radio underrated Fresno State team last
Three clubs will try to-get Saturday, 10-7.
Morris Arnovich from—the Phils
this winter.
probably minus four of their best
reserves, shove off tomorrow morn-
ing for Conway, Ark, where Sat-
urday night they tangle in an in-
tersectional melee with the Arkan-
sas State Teachers. -
Although the gridders who start-
ed both the North Texas and Sul
Roas games are in -good shape.
Coach Bugs Morris is worrying over
the condition of his reserve corps
Likely to miss the trip because of
injuries are Raymond Chambers,
freshman guard from Abilene high;
Kenneth Whitten, sophomore let-
terman at guard: Durrell Sanders,
veteran halfback, and Cy Young,
junior backfielder. ' * -
Harold Persky, workhorse back,
heht off the FInztinig run instead of ~“i^” “ seaac to to
Bergers arm is acknowledged to against the Arkansans He devel-
be the weakest link on the whole , .
Cincinnati chain, but perhaps he shoulder pad in the Sul Ross game,
only did as he was signaled Here's * traveling erned99 -'-----
Today s Guesses.
—Loyola Coach in Doghouse
By HAL HAYLES
PIDDLED with injuries from last week's fall, your crippled reporter
Iu crawls out on the limb for more football potshots. •
This week's long longshot:
McMurry’s surprising Indians to shade the Trinity Tigers to a
hot pitching duel.
Ha rd in-Simmons over Texas College of Mines. Frank Kimbrough’s
rough riders will go in stronger for running and shoot fewer passes, we
are told We're counting on a vastly improved ball lugging dept, to pulb,
'em through, otherwise it's too bad for that unbeaten record W
Arkansas State to take Abilene Christian. In this case it's a good
offense against a good defense, but the margin will be mighty close
Sweetwater to top the Eagles Abilene concedes too much experience.
Nevertheless our lads may make a* more interesting evening of it than
many people suspect.
I IANDICAPPING the Southwest conference elevens: •
• Texas Aggies and their old Oil Belt backfield to tab a win over Santa
Clara at San Francisco Friday night. . . A weak vote for TCU over
Arkansas. . . Rice to smother Centenary . Ditto for SMU over North
Texas . . Wisconsin in a close one over Texas
Guessing otherwise: /
Odessa to lick Pat Murphy’s Big Spring Steers. . . . San Angelo •
to clout Paschal of Fort Worth. ... St. Edward s gets by a crippled
Southwestern eleven. . . r Howard Payne bumps Texas Wesleyan. . . .
Austin college to find Daniel Baker a little easier than McMurry. ...
Texas Tech to tab an intersectional victory over Gonzaga.
Add to the local hole-in-one club:
W A Paul, oil driller, who plopped the pellet in the cup from the
eighth the out at the country club . a 120-ya rd shot. Paul was playing
with Dallas Scarborough, F P. Ramsey, and Otto Savage.
THEY’RE saying out in Southern California if Howard Jones or Babe
1 Horrell get themselves in the doghouse with the football fans, they’ll
have to sleep on the backporch.”
. Michael J. Pecarovich got himself an exclusive lease on the spot
when his Loyola Lions were knocked over by the Whittier Poets, 19-13,
last week. Mike hadn't exactly helped his cause when the Loyolans bare-
ly eked out a 6-0 win in the opener against the usually weak Redlands
outfit.
While the fans are talking about the good old days when Tom Lieb
was at the helm (ed’s note: Lieb was fired last year after the Lions e
won only four out of nine games), rumors are going the rounds
that Loyola, an October foe of the Hardin-Simmons Cowboys, is
proposing to change Its name to the University of Los Angeles.
Dick Hyland of the Los Angeles Times voices a strenuous objection
to the move His comments, in part: * *
"For one thing, we have a well-known educational institution in the
county already using the words ‘university’ and ‘Los Angeles’ to describe
itself and a degree of confusion might well arise did another enter the
field now occupied by the Bruins.
"For another thing, the move can be misinterpreted. It suggests to
cynical minds that Loyola is willing and eager to assume an alias, to
become a politician’s son who obtains personal benefits not through his
own efforts alone, but rather by virtue of carrying a potent name The
dubious could fairly think that Loyola changed its name because Los An-
geles is already well and favorably known—and that those who advocated
the change hoped the university would gain a modicum of unearned
glory and publicity through the use of the name Los Angeles’."
Jap
Foreign
Denies
Pact Dei
/ TOKYO, Oct
/ than 100 official
ployes of the fore
today in protest a
1 tion of an indepe
1 istry.
The resignation
the government's
forming the mini
diplomatic admin
First Shikao Me
of the commerce
• chief officials of t
their resignations
•Admiral Kichisab
eign minister, of
proving the trade
nounced yesterda
suiting his subord
• A few hours lat
additional employ
Foreign reports
denounced its
agreement with G
in view of the Hitl
a ship, were denied
fice.
* % spokesman,
sized that Japan’s
tinued at the nazi-
ments.
The spokesman
Y
The Cowboys hold an early sea-
son victory, 7-6—over Centenary
Gainesville..
»—Friday: Paris at Sulphur
Springs Ennis at Greenville.
—Thursday Poly For: Worth’
■ vs Arlington Heights - Fort Worth1
conference; Friday: Riverside (Fort
Worth) vs Masonic Home Fort
Worth conference Saturday:
North Side Port Worth) vi Fort
Worth Tech conference)
8—Friday Reagan Houston) a:
Adamson (Dallas):. Sherman at
Weedrow Wilson Dallas Satur-
day Sunset (Dallas) vs North Dal-
las conference)
9—Thursday: Kerrville at
dians starquarterback, injured in
practice Tuesday, was out on the
field walking without a trace of a
limp Whether he’ll start Saturday,
however, remains problematical A
knee and an ankle still bother him
when he subjects them to pressure
Should Emeraor. be unable to start.
Clifton Beasley soph triple threat-
er will step into his shoes
Other casualties of scrimmage
and the Austin game last week will
Today’s guest star.
John P. Carmichael, Chicago
Daily News: “On Wednesday
the American league's annual
lesson on how to play baseball
will get underway in two cities
. . . The Yankees will tutor
the Beds in New.York while
the White Sox give the Cubs
some helpful hints for winter
reflec tion.”
Bert Bell says Davey O’Brien will
Last week’s game with San Fran-
cisco university ended in a 6-6 tie
The Mucker principal claim to
feme is a 7-2 win over Texas Tech
in the season opener.
Gilbert Salcedo regular left half-
back will be lost to the Mucker
squad for three weeks because of
a trick knee injured in the Fresno
tilt Salcedo will be replaced by
200-pound Mike Maroe, a letter-
man
Brownwood Friday: Weather-
ford al Ranger Cisco at Min-
era) Wells conference . Steph-
enville at Breckenridge (con-
be reedy to go Saturday Clyde
Wood: recovering from a lacerated
face could have scrimmaged yes-
terday had he been called on while
Buster Peek also injured last week
took part in all the rough stuff
Dayton Walston, Don Raymond
and Red Howard all guards also
appeared recovered
hurts ,
Morrison named
from early
his tentative
_____--- I OYOLA meets Alonzo Staggs Pacific (upsetter of mighty California
oped a sore arm from an unlaced L last week) at Loe Angeles tonight. St. Mary s Gaels the next week
,........._........ .______then Arizona, Hardin-Simmons, San Francisco, San Jose State and Santa
A traveling squad of 23 players Clara in order Even a change in name, wouldn’t make the now Loyolans
what happened- will leave by bus Friday morning a favorite against a single adversary left on the schedule.
The Reds were ahead, 1 to 0. the for Dallas. From there the team There’s not much hope for Pecarovich to get out of the doghouse,
result of a walk to Ivan Goodman, will ride by train to Little Rock 1 -. . -
his steal of second and Frank Mc- and then make the 30 mile trip to
Cormclk’s hit through the infield | Conway by bus.
Derringer was wheeling
through in great style.
them
NO TUT OFF’
. So, with one out in the
fifth.
Gordon lined a single to left. Dahl-
Rotarians to Hear
Athenia Survivors
Clara Driscoll to
Build 19-Story'
gren then cracked one over the Z
third bag that Bill Werber just Experiences of the Robert T|
failed to spear It went on to the Bridge family in the Athenia dis--
boards and Berger fielded It smart- aster will be told tomorrow at the
ly as Gordon tore between second weekly luncheon of the Rotary club Bids
and third Then Berger lazily by Mrs. Bridge and her son and
winged the pellet toward second daughter, Harry and Constance
Art Fletcher, coaching for the The Rev. W C Ashford Will" give
Yanks, saw instantlythat the Reds | the Invocation and L E Dudley is
hadn't arranged for a "cut-off" I
play, as he said later, and he waved
Hotel in Corpus
FORT WORTH, Oct. 5.-(P-
will be opened in Corpus
Christi Saturday for
of a- 19-story hotel
construction
and office
chairman for the day. Entertain-
I Med
The Miners’ defensive set-up was
to be given a complete working over
clean up around $40,000 this year this week as it was the line plung-
in salary, testimonials, endorse- ing of Bob Peterson and Ernie
ments, etc . . , Joe Louie, ardent Poore of the Fresnoans that spelled
Tiger fan, is betting on the Reds defeat for the El Pasoans.
Ltty O’Doul, manager of the ! Line Coach Harry Phillips indi-
San Francisco ball club, opened a Seated several changee might be
cocktail lounge in Frisco the day made in starting positions m the
after the Coeet league season ended.forward wall.
pure colonial Spanish g
Located on the Muff of North
Broadway and Antelope street, the
hotel will face Corpus Christi bay
Most of the top floor of the
structure will- be occupied by Mrs
Driscoll’s private apartment.
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In the World war 1.390,000 Amer-
ican soldiers saw active service at
the ft on t, ------- (
the fa
Airway h
blended
coffees. A
the word!
yet pleas
Yes, cour
Airway b
building to be erected in that city |
by Mrs Clara Driscoll, it was an- |
nounced today by Wyatt C Hed-
rick, Fort Worth architect and en-
ment will be furnished by Mildred
the fleet Gordon on home Linus
Frey took Berger’s heave, and made
a high peg to Ernie Lombardi at the
plate as the Yankee slid into the
pan.
As It was Paul went into the
ninth looking fairly secure in the
three previous frames he had set
the Yankees down in order
After Rolfe went out on a ground-
er Keller, the rookie from Newark,
caught hold of one that went a mile
high toward the 407-foot sign in
right-center
Goodman went after it and so did
Frances Cook.
Keller easily reached third It was gineer who prepared plans for the
scored a triple, though a lot of project
Yankee partisans felt that Joe Di- Estimated cost of the structure.
| Maggio would have had it in his which will be known as the Robert
pocket t Driscoll hotel and office building.
Keller easily reached third It was
Derringer then purposely passed is $1,750,000.
D[Maggio to set up a possible dou- The entire building containing
1 ble play Why he didn't also pass 312 guest rooms and apartments
| Dickey while he was about It. thus and 164 commercial offices will be
setting up a force play at home had | air conditioned It will be the first
I not been explained at this hour
| For Dirkey pumped a clean single
into center that Craft fumbled and
Sox Call on Lyons
To Square Series
hotel in the state with complete
air conditioning specified in its
original plans
Diet note.
Dunking has been introduced
at the training table of the
Lang Island university football
didn’t even bother to recover, be-
cause Keller long since was across
the plate and the crowd was leaving
Harry Craft Both, playing in an
_________... . ou .eu Lyons unfamiliar park, appeared to be
today to square their account with bothered by the possibility of crash-
the Cubs in the second game of the ing into the wall
citv series * Goodman just reached it. The ball
Behind the 39-year-old right hit his glove and bounced off, and
hander the south aiders hoped to do
better than in the series opener last Charley Root to the mound for to-
night when the Cubs took a 10 to 9 day’s daylight game
decision in 10 innings to check the A spirited crowd of 42.767 fans
Sox’ drive for a fifth 'straight city | saw the extra-inning contest. The
title. | championship will go to the winner
The Cube summoned 40-year-old of four out of seven games ′ placed at 7,450,000
The building will be of modified :
Spanish architecture except the pa-
tio, where the design will be of
starting lineup yesterday It In-
cluded Wood and Reynolds, ends;
Wyhe and Carter tackles Walston
and D Raymond, guards Ander-
Tyler at Kilgore son °r Wheeler, -center; Emerson
ference
10- Friday Cleburne at Waxa-
hachie
conference) Mexia at
Bryan
il—Friday
(conference
Park
Gladewater at Fair or Beasley, quarter: Peek and
(Shreveport) Palestine at Stovall, halves; and Simmons, full 1
Athens Highland Park (Dallas at .
. . „_. LL conference . Friday Jefferson
Longview Henderson at, Marshall San Antonio) at Laredo confer-
Wils PS Texarkana, at ence » Saturday * Wmhanio at
....s at Cen Brackenridge San Antonior Hills-
12-Prdas Jeff Davis Houston) Pie Upper racket—priday Nor-
vs Sam Houston (Houston ■ (con- man okl. , Corpus Christi;
* Saturday: Conroe " Amin wiieer ^XX^^
ontierenes.......... * hpungen La rera st San
Benito
. 14—Friday Beaumont at Orange
iconference) French •Beaumont
vs South Park Beaumonti Milby
(Houston) at Goose Creek Sa .
day! Port Arthur at Byrd high
(Shreveport) Forest Dallas) at
Galveston
Antentl M
Harlandale San
San Antonio Tech century.
The great Mojave desert of Cali-
fornia has twice been under the
surface of the sea
The mariner’s compass came into
use toward the close of the 12th
team
Trainer Sam Mea-
rello says it relaxes the gladia-
- ten ... He should know.
Paramount Shows
Football Short
Paramount theater helps usher in
the football season this afternoon
with the first showing of popular
Pete Smith’s latest M-G-M short.
Football Thrills of 1938."
Smith .breezes through the past
66
YOU'LL BE DOUBLY
27
campaign, showing highlight scenes
| of the country’s major games—in-
cluding one of the season finales,
the Rose bowl tussle at Pasadena
I It condenses dazzling plays of such
top flight’ squadrons as USC, Ala-
bama Duke Pitt Carnegie Tech.
| Minnesota. Washington, Army, No-
tre Dame, Penn Columbia Wiscon-
sin and Northwestern
The sport short will be shown in
connection with Thunder Afloat,
featuring Wallace Beery. The pro-
gram continues through Saturday.
CHICAGO, Oct. 5.—FP—The
White.Sox called on old Ted Lyons
Much has been made here of
Derringer’s hard luck, but Ruffing
pitched the better-game
The Reds got four hits off him
In the last five innings the Na-
tional leaguers went down in order
The number of men killed in
battle in the World war has been
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First game attendance and finan-
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I Attendance 58,541.
Receipts $219,041
Players' pool $111,710.91
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