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Monday Eveni
PAGE TWO
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Tune In On KRBC
Mondav Evening, August 19, 1940
Hit Moratorium
Bothering Reds
Dallas Rebels
In Fou
Place
AND
Lead Reduced to
41-2 Games as
Dodgers Win
By SID FEDER
fourth time he lost. In three 45
innings he has given up only IB
runs, but the Reds have backed him
up with only 13.
Bucky and Paul Derringer have
been the chief sufferers in this run-
making moratorium. Paul has won
only one of four starts, yet he has
Good Field for
Pro-Amateur
allowed lust ten runs to 35 Innings At least 10 foursomes were
allowed just ten runs in 33 innings scheduled to joust this afternoon
His pals have scored only eight
for him
Yesterday's nightcap, which
Associated Press Sport- Wrtier boosted the Cards into the first di-
That wasn’t an s-O-s that broke I vision saw St. Louis above two
runs across in the eighth for a 5-4
In on your setting-up exercises over
the radio this morning It was only
an emergency call from Deacon
Will McKechnie to rush his Cin-
cinnati Reds some bats
holes in ’em.
score
Whit Wyatt tossed his usual neat
game in the curtain-raiser at
Brooklyn, a seven-hitter. Luke (the.
without Brooklyn, a seven-hitter. Luke (the-
hot-potato) Hamlin left his home
The good deacon realizes its a
case of getting some bats loaded
with base hits—or else For the
Dodgers of Brooklyn who appar-
ently didn’t read the headlines
about the Rhinelanders being "in"
with the National league pennant
are on the prowl again
The Reds weak hitting has been
the big reason they’ve lost 12 of |
their last 20 games since the end
run ball in his locked and served up
the same duh in the nightcap.
Lefty Larry French sang the
Pittsburgh Pirates to sleep with a
six-hitter for a 9-1 Chicago Cub
victory, which left the Bucs and
the Cubs tied for fifth place.
The Phillies whipped the New
York Giants twice, 6-3, and 8-6.
Each club clouted three homers in
1 the second game.
at the Abilene country club in a
continuation of a series of West
Texas pro-amateur meets
Morgan Hampton, host porfession.
al announced late accetpances from
Gene Root, Borger, and Pete Nos-
sent, Pampa Pros from possibly a
dozen other West Texas points
were due to compete, with a scat-
tering of amateur stars of the
area, and most of Abilenes’ landing
almon pure linkmen.
Organization of a pros’ associa-
tion tentatively was docketed.
19th Hole
Chatter
Cleveland’s American league lead-
of July. And so far this month the
Dodgers have shoved Cincinnati’s ers and the St Louis Browns were
league lead down from 7 1-2 to 4 deadlocked at 2-all going into the
1-2 games
Dr Bob Estes Sunday moved in-
to the semifinals of the doctors’
tenth inning of their first game
The “clutch" hitting was miss- when rain washed out the rest of J
their scheduled doubleheader How-
ever, the Tribe picked up a half
tournament by defeating Dr. L
H Magee, 2-1.
ing again yesterday as the Reds
lost both games of a doubleheader
to the St Louis Cardinals. 3-1 and
5-4. At the same time Leo Durocher
took over the Brooklyn shortstop
game on the second-place Detroit
Tigers, for James (Miracle Man)
Dykes Chicago White Sox scored
three times in the ninth inning to
knock off the Bengals, 7-5.
chores and helped his Dodgers chill |
the warmed-up Boston Bees twice
7-2 and 3-1. The New York Yankees blew hot
In the opener at St Louis, Bucky and cold, walloping the Athletics
Walters just about pitched his
9-1 behind Steve Sundra’s six-hit
arm off, but his mates couldn't hit
elbowing in the opener, then going
down 7-3 before Johnny Babich.
Mort Cooper effectively. This
marked the fifth straight time Earl Johnson, the Boston Red
Bucky has gone the route—and the Sox recent importation of pitching
_ hope, stopped the Senators with
ITTEe hit for a 4-2 decision
WANTED
Your vote and influence the sec-
ond primary August 24th. To the
voters of precinct 3, I want to
thank each and everyone of yOU
for the splendid vote I received
in the first primary. I am now
asking for your vote and influ-
ence in the coming election
August 24th.
As to my recommendations, J re-
fer you to the vote I received in
my home town the first primary
... 141 put of 204 against my
two opponents
During the years of my business
experience, I have been taught
the lesson of impartiality ond if
elected I propose to distribute the
work amongst the working people
and farmers of this precinct. In
other words leave the odd jobs ond
road repairing for the working
class of people and thereby furn-
ish more employment to the aver-
age men who ore needy ond want
to work.
I earnestly solicit your vote and
influence in the second primary
August 24th. If elected your com-
missioner I promise an honest, fair
and impartial administration to
one and all.
Hopefully,
Glen Johnson
Candidate for County
Commissioner, Precinct 3
_-(Paid Pel. Adv.
AP Feature Service I
Beautiful sports queens aren’t always beautiful. Put ’em into com-
petition and they can make faces comparable with the worst of those
made famous by the movies’ horror men. Marjorie Gestring, diving star,
Pat Canning, and Alice Marble, tennis top rankers, and Dorothy Kirby,
golfer, are all attractive girls. Bat take a squint at those pictures above, ।
shot while the stars were In action. Thank goodness, their faces da
come back normal. The pictures at right show you the real Misses
Gestring, Canning, Marble and Kirby.
SPORTS
PARADE
‘Lefty’ Brown Takes
TAAF Tennis Title
TYLER. Aug 19.—(P—Edward
“Lefty” Brown of Waco is the Tex-
as Amateur Athletic federation
men's singles tennis champion for
the second straight year by virtue
of a straight set victory yesterday
over Bob Kamrath of Austin. The
scores were 9-7-6-3.
Other titlists include:
Men's doubles-Kamrath and Moe
Brown, Austin
Womens singles—Marjorie Mur-
ray. Galveston.
| In the women's city tournament
the first round to the championship
flight was completed with a 5-4
win for Mrs. HI Haynie over Mrs
Carroll Hull Savage
Mrs. Hellhecker and Mrs J. B
Fair are to play in the first round
of the first flight tomorrow, and
a match between Mrs. Don Stitch
and Mrs Charles Bacon for the
championship of the second flight
is cheduled this week
Mrs R. B. Leavitt defeated
Mrs Hubert Ingram, 4-3. Sunday
in the first round of the cham-
pionship consolations.
Two eagles were registered in
play at the country club Sunday
Bud Wilson got one on the par-
fire No. 8 hole, and BU1 Horton
holed his approach shot for the
other on par-four No. 4.
Grand American
Trapshoot Bagins'
VANDALIA. O. Aug 18—(An-
Six national championships were up
for decision today as the 41st Grand
American trapshoot opened, but the
big question to be decided was
whether the new maximum shot
load decreed by the Amateur Trap-
shooting association would hamper
the nation’s top-flight target
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By HENRY MeLEMORE
United Press Staff Corespondent
NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—(UP)-
Putting the sport shot here and
there:
Patience is its own reward I
picked Bimelech to win the Ken-
tucky Derby and be lost. I also
named Bimelech as the greatest
horse since Man OWar and now he
won't even finish out the season,
proving that the kiss of death is
potent as ever. Now that the Brad-
ley colt- has bid farewell, the turf
world never will know just how he
might have run if a new jockey
had been on his back Just two
weeks ago Basil James was to have
ridden him—In place of Freddie
Smith—in the American Derby but
the track came up mud Saturday
Don Meade was supposed to have
the mount in the Travers, but
again Bimmie was scratched. If
he doesn't come back-and if you
remember Lawrin. Dauber, War
Admiral, Stagehand and many
another you know they very seldom
come back—the argument of wheth.
er he was a poor horse or Smith a
poor jockey never will .be settled
TENNIS STAR
The Southwest has developed
many i good football team, dozens
of crack golfers and occasionally a
first-rate boxer, but as best I re-
member Don McNeill is the sec-
tion’s first top-flight tennis play-
er . . By that I mean a good
enough man to whip Frank Kovacs
in straight sets as McNeil did in
the Newport Casino tournament
This, by the way, was the
second tourney in which McNeill
has won a cup by humbling Ko-
vacs .... The decision of Whizzer
White to join the professional De-
troit Lions should rank as some
sort of an historical landmark . .,
It was only yesterday that all
America waited for the all-Amer-
ican to announce if he would accept
115 000 worth of football or a
LEAGUE STANDINGS
RESULTS YESTERDAY
Texas League
Shreveport 7-3, Fort Worth 15-1.
Beaumont 6-8. Oklahoma City 5-4.
Houston 4-3, Tulsa 3-2 (first game 11
innings).
San Antonio 3. Dallas 5.
American League
New York 9-3, Philadelphia 1-T.
Washington 2, Boston 4
St Louis s. Cleveland 2. (Tie, called
rain: second game postponed, rain)
Chicago 7. Detroit 5
National League
Boston 2-1, Brooklyn 7-3.
Pittsburgh 1 Chicago 9
Cincinnati 1-4. St. Louis 3-5.
Philadelphia 6-8. New York. 3-6.
West Texas-New Mexico League
Midland 0. Lubbock 7
Amarillo J. Clovis 8.
Pampa 2. Borger 6.
Lamesa 3-7., Odessa 2-8.
LEAGUE STANDINGS
American League
TEAM— W L
Cleveland ...............69 45
Detroit ....................66 49
Chicago ...................58 52
Boston ...................62 52
New York ...............57 53
Washington ..............49 64
St. Louis .................47 69
Philadelphia 43 67
National League
TEAM W. L.
Cincinnati ...............69 40
Brooklyn ..............65 45
New York .................55 51
St Louis ................54 53
Pittsburgh ..............54 ‘54
Chicago ..................57 57
Boston <3 66
Philadelphia 37 68
Texas League
TEAM— W. L.
Houston ................93 44
San Antonio ....... 78 62
Beaumont - ..............72 64
Oklahoma City ...........70 72
Dallas ................67 69
Shreveport ............62 75
Tulsa ................59 75
Fort Worth 49 89
West Texas-New Mexico League
TEAM— WL
Pampa ...................71 48
Amarillo ...............72 49
Lubbock .................69 51
Borger ...................65 55
Lamesa ..................65 64
Clovis ....................53 M
Midland ..........:.......5o 70
Odessa .................. 71
MARJORIE GESTRING
ALICE MARBLE
PAT CANNING
DOROTHY KIRBY
1 By United Press
1 The Dallas Rebels were tied with
a Oklahoma City for fourth place in
the Texas league standings today
1 after Dallas beat San Antonio, 5-3.
1 yesterday and the Indians dropped
. Is doubleheader to Beaumont, 6-5
■ and 8-4.
I It was Dallas’ ninth victory in 10
7starts. Earl Overman went to the ,
rescue of Clay Touchstone in the
, ninth inning to shut off a San An-
h I tonio rally that produced two runs, •
E I and saved the game.
Today Dallas sends Fred Blake,
1 who has won 10 and lost nine,
t against Maurice Newlin, seeking his
" 21st victory of the season
1 Beaumont used four pitchers in
,— the first game yesterday before edg-
ying out with six runs on six safe
-. hits. The Shippers scored four runs
on John Grove's ninth-inning wild-
SPORTS
ROUNDUP
By EDDIE BRIETZ
NEW YORK. Aug. 18.—News:
The Giants appear to have a fine
case of pitters . .
. Long distance
Pets I prediction: Duke will beat Ten-
.574 nessee at football next fall and the
Texas Aggies will not go through
51s the season undefeated . . . Joe
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GAMES TODAY
- Texas League
Shreveport at Fort Worth
San Antonio at Dallas
Beaumont at Oklahoma City
Houston at Tulsa
West Texas-New Mexico League
Pampa at Borger
Lamesa at Odessa.
Amarillo at Clovis
Midland at Lubbock
National League
New York (Lohrman 9-8) at Cincinnati
(Derringer 16-10).
•” at Pittsburgh
Only games scheduled
(c£lX * NW New York
e.Sleveland (Allen 74) at Boston (eving
acurrs, (Smith %-9) at Phindelpnia
Only games scheduled.
Rhodes scholarship. In view of re-
cent international developments, It re C ,. T
is probably a good thing White had Kex Smith Ireree
his cake and ate it, too... ITAI UPS
It is strange that in this coun-
try we have only two great cham-
pions. and that one u famed to
almost the same extent that the
other is ignored . . . The first is
Joe Louis, and I need not intro-
duce him. The second is Alice Mar-
ble. and for all the notice she gets
she might be a clerk behind a per-
fume counter instead of perhaps
the greatest woman tennis player
any of us ever has seen . . Ap-
parently she is so much better
than her opponents that it won’t be
news until she is defeated . . .
TWO CHANGES
In Louis’ case the law of sup-
ply and demand might just as well
be repealed . . Joe is in great de-
mand of opponents, but there is no
supply whatsoever . . . If he ac-
cepts a proposed offer to four South
America, he will be the first heavy-
weight champion ever to venture
below the equator on this hemis-
phere . . . Certainly, the Gauchos
couldn’t have waited for a more ef-
ficent man to come along ... If
you pride yourself on your skill
as an amateur magician, think, of
Jimmy Dykes . . . The Chicago
White Sox manager hasn’t spent
more than a dime for a ball player
since Connie Mack first donned his
celluloid collar yet the Sox con-
tinue firm in their position as the
No 1 troublemakers of the Amer-
ican league . . . Just what keeps
them in the first division, I don’t
know, but If Dykes isn’t using mir-
rors he must know all the rites of
witchcraft or hypnotism ... or
both
Lawson Little dropped by in the
midst of his current exhibition tour
and reported that In Asthabula and
Sebring, Ohio, and Kane and War-
ren. Penn., there is a great Increase
in golf Interest ..Ted Williams,
the Boston Red Sox fielder. Just
lately announced he would rather be
a fireman than a ball player The
Yankees, always eager to please,
have promptly intsalled a fire alarm
in their dugout and whenever young
Wiliams comes to bat his ears may
bear the sweet music of the profes-
sion he calls his first and true
love ... If the Yanks can’t win, at
least they are willing to oblige .
Frank Hayes of the Philadelphia
Athletics finally Is gaining some
of the recognition which he so long
has deserved ... He has worked
oftener this season than any other
catcher in the major leagues . .
Whatever happened to the spurt of
the Pittsburgh Pirates: Whatever
City Goat Ropers
Rex A Smith, with four catches
on six goals, led the field at the
regular Sunday afternoon roping by
members of the Abilene Goat club
His times on the catches were 23
seconds, 57, 50 and 25 1-2.
Smith also led his team to victory
over a team headed by Dr M T.
Ramsey. A large number of specta-
tors gathered at the E Lilius barn,
15th and Vine, where an arena has
been constructed.
Many favorable comments were
heard on the activities of the club in
furnishing this free recreation lor
the public
Starting time will be moved up to
4 p. m next Sunday to allow more
time for roping
Challenges has been sent to roping
clubs to other towns and it is pos-
sible that one of these clubs will
accept for next Sunday afternoon
happened to Duck-Wucky Med-
wick? Whatever happened to your
chance as a three-year-old title
contender? Frankly I don't know
.. But if you want to know what-
ever happened to the National
doubles tennis tournament, I’ll tell
you: It opens today to Brookline.
Mass. I’ll do more: I’ll give you my
seletcion Bobby Riggs and Wel.
by Van Horn. Lucky people
Cambira. Washington's one-man
scouting system, who already owns
the Springfield (Mass.) club, is
dickering for the Shelby (N. C.)
franchise ... Of the 23 backfield
candidates for the Alabama Crim-
son Tide, not one is a senior.
HOORAY FOR WHIZZER
Whizzer White has seen the light
and once more is a pro, ha ha.
His stay at Yale produced no kale,
so now he’s out for dough, ha
ha;
Oklahoma City will stage a "be
kind to umpires'' night next Fri-
day . Jack Dempsfey, more pop-
ular than ever, will be the main
speaker at the N.B.A. conevntion at
Milwaukee next month . Phila-
delphia papers say Mike Kaplan
of Boston really beat Milt Aron of
Chicago the other night although
the best he got was a draw . . .
This is straight fro mthe feed box:
Ace Parker, who was injured play-
ing baseball with Syracuse this
summer, may not play a lick for
the Brooklyn football Dodgers next
fall.
Today's guest star.
Prof John P. Carmichael, Chi-
cago Daily News: "That must have
been a strange phenomenon in New
York: the rain falling in the Polo
Grounds, washing out the Billy
Conn-Bob Pastor fight, while
right across the Harlem river the
Red Sox and Yankees were able
to play a double-header until dark-
hess intervened."
While his injured finger was
mending. Buck Newsom collected
$100 and expenses for personal ap-
pearances to Michigan State league |
parks If Kid Brewer, the Old
Duke star, doesn't come home a
winner in that North Corolina po- |
litical race, the odds are bell join
the North Carolina U. football
coaching staff.
It's a thought
I wonder if the Yanks went stale |
From drinking too much Ruppert's |
ale . . . Buy Hensley
Question box.
Floyd Patrick of Miami, Okla,
wants to know why Mike Jacobs |
doesn’t give Max Baer another |
McSpaden and Snead
In Golf Play-Off
TORONTO, Aug 18.—(UP)—De-
fending Champion. Harold (Jug)
McSpaden of Winchester, Mass.,
and Sammy Snead of Shawnee-on-
Delaware, Pa . shoot for the Ca-
nadian Open golf championship
and the $1,000 first prize that goes
with it, in an 18-hole playoff today.
McSpaden, who won the title for
the first time at St. John N. B.,
last yea., shot a 73 and 68 in the
36-hole final Saturday to post a
72-hole aggregate of 281 which
Snead, who paced the field with a
first round 67 and an even better
66 in the second round, failed to
better. Snead, who won the title to
1938 slumped to 75 in the morn-
ing round and turned in a 73 in
the afternoon, just missing the title
when a 20-foot putt on the 18th
green rimmed the cup. ,
Ray Mangrum of Oakmont, Pa.,
finished with a 283 for third posi-
tion and $400 prize money while
Ralph Guldahl was fourth with 284
which made him $300 richer. Stan
Horne, Montreal and Bob Ora, To-
ronto. tied for Canadian honors
with 388
shot at Joe Louis . . . Well. (A)
Mike can't get Baer and (B) be
can't get the old public (which is '
very necessary.)
ness. In the second game, the Ship-
pers pounded three Indian hurlers
for 15 safe hits and used Bob Hardy,
Dick Conger and Charley Fuchs to
hold Oklahoma City to seven hits.
Houston stopped Tulsa, 4-3 in a
doubleheader. The first game, an
11-inning affair, was chalked up as
another loss for Dizzy Dean Ed
Wiseman ninth-inning relief hurler,
was the winning pitcher. Henry No-
wak won the nightcap with 5-hit
pitching
Fred Marberry was limping on a
sprained ankle after pitching Fort
Worth to a 15-7 victory over
Shreveport in the first game of a
doubleheader yesterday. Marberry
hurt his ankle trying to cover first
base and retired in favor of Ed
Greer in the fifth. Jackie Reid
pitched Shreveport to a 3-1 victory
in the nightcap. Roy Easterwood
homered for Fort Worth in the first
inning of the opener with one on.
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National Doubles
Championship Starts
BROOKLINE, Mass., Aug. 19.-
—Tennis stars of the nation—men
and women—open the annual na-
tional doubles championship at
Long wood Cricket chib today with
the women furnishing the color and
the men promising most of the ex-
el lament
15-Year-Old Girl
Breaks Swim Marks
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug’ 19.———
A new American champion thrice-
over towered today above competi-
tors to the National women's AAU
swimming championships which
ended last night.
The girl- Mary Ryan, slender 15-
year-old distance star on the Lake-
side club, Louisville. Ky.
The American records—23 min-
utes 15 seconds for the mile; 5
minutes. 30 and one-tenth seconds
for the 440-yard freestyle; 11 min-
utes. 26 and four-tenths seconds for
the 880-yard freestyle.
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SHERIFF
SID H. McADAMS
Once again, many thanks to
the voters of Taylor county for
giving me a long lead in the
first primary for re-election as
sheriff.
Their confidence and trust
in me make me feel grateful
as well as humble
It makes me feel that my
work is sheriff has been appre-
ciated. and strengthens my re-
solve to carry on the work with
renewed vigor and purpose
I am always glad to answer
any question regarding my con-
duct of the sheriff’s office. I
have tried to conduct it in an
open and aboveboard manner,
conscious always that my only
boss is the people of Taylor
county.
I offer my services again on
the basis of experience, effi-
ciency and energetic activity,
Sid H. McAdams
Candidate for Reelection as
SHERIFF
(Pd. Pol. Adv.)
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HIS RECORD IS AN OPEN BOOK
After six years os a police officer, McQuary was elected constable
—Under McQuary the constable’s department has become one of the
county’s most active and efficient law enforcement agencies ....
McQuary has cooperated to the fullest extent with all other law en-
forcement groups of the city, county and state . . Since January,
1937, when McQuary took office, the constable’s department has
handled 83 felony coses in which convictions were obtained—57 in
state courts and 26 in federal courts.
McQuary has made a good officer.
PROMOTE HIM—HELL MAKI A GOOD
SHERIFF
(This advertisement paid for by H. T. Fleming and Other Abilene
Friends).
It Takes many an hour and many
a dollar to build an automobile
. .. but in one swift moment it
may be destroyed . . . and worse
still your savings may follow it
if a lawsuit is brought against
you. Insure thru this Agency.
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