The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 46, Ed. 2 Thursday, August 2, 1945 Page: 4 of 14
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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Thursday Evening, August 2, 1941
Mel Ott in Select 500-Homer C
Jaycees and
Grocers Play
Red & White Food Stores and the
Jaycees tangle tonight at 9 in the
topsy-turvey, anybody’s race. Major
sortball league, at Pair Park.
The Food Store team will be re-
lying on the hurling of Billy Mur-
restoring the champs to second place over idle Brooklyn.
Max Butcher blanked the Cuba with four hits while Frank Colman,
who replaced the slumping Babe Dahigren, drove home the big run with
a seventh-inning double to beat Claude Passeau.
- Johnny Hopp socked a bases-loaded homer as the Cards went wild
in an g-run second inning to crush the Reds with a 19-hit barrage, letting
Charley Barrett coast home to his 14th success. Marty Marion also poled
a four-master, his first of the year.
Brooklyns twi-light doubleheader in Philadelphia was washed out
for the second night in a row.
The Bengals bounced back with four in the last of the ninth to
shade St. Louis. 9-8. on Roy Cullenbine’s double with the sacks packed
and Vern Stephens costly error . . , u
Washington swept a doubleheader from Philadelphia, 2-1,behind------------ -----.----------—
Dutch Leonard and 3-0 on Roger Wolff's five-hit chunking to tie New chores since the Red & White team
By JACK HAND
(Associated Press Sports Writer)
Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had to shove, over today,”omkorm
in the 500-home run club for Manager Mel Ott of the Nes. 1
Ruth still had plenty of elbow room with hisslifetime, tL the
round trippers but Foxx, who is finishing his active are “the
Phillies, can feel ott’s hot breath on his neck. Double 3Xh night o
four thia season, and Ott hit the half-millennia, mark last might
Boston s portly Johnny Hutchings. . Giants ran out
Things have been breaking tough for Ott since his Canteend
oi.sprinEPsuEN $: nd RIpea ant , in nurtina ninen
the personable manager has done a good job of trying to net nis team up
by its boot straps. . voire 9.2 romp over Boston as a Dutch Leonard and 3-1
print to bod-$12 /"SAseDAI « W should & pinvea But the date - De York, forl/arecord, oil the Yankees: victory strine at five, by rallying for has lost the services of
in the record books on ou s No 500. That ATA TELA Polo grounds short four runs in the seventh and a 7-5 margin. Vic Johnson took the nod European veteran Billy
* 20-year-span, a real standout mark even u the - 5 on a fine job of shutout relief chucking ,
foul lines do give a fellow a little help was the combi- Chicago regained fifth position by stopping Cleveland. 2-1. on a
^"I nue* piny win Fioya Baker buntins and Leroy from
THEN EON HALLS SlICiNE the Bruins national league lead to five game, and third.________________
phey.
youthful fireball
hurler.
Murphey has resumed the pitching
returned
Middle-
brooks.
The Jaycees must win the game
to stay in the race having lost to the
NOO Bolts Tuesday night. J. D.
(Junior) Brown who was belted
CECIL GRIGG
Cecil Grigg
On Grid Staff
Bidding for Army - Navy Gric
Game Hot as Play Due to B
PHILADELPHNA, Aug 2(-
The annual free-for-all for the site
of the Army-Navy gridiron tussle
has opened with the Quaker city
getting in the first bid.
Reports from New York have It
that Gotham already has the game
in the bag, but chamber of com-
merce officials here say that have
received word from Annapolis and
West Point that if the game isn't
played at West Point, it will def-
initely be played at Municipal
stadium here Dec. 1.
time, and wants to maintain its i
traditional position as the locale of
the all-service battle.
It’s a long way to go before the
annual classic and it may turn out
that the “battle" for the game’s
site may become as intense as the
game itself.
Thursday Ivenkn
20 BILL!
SPEED 1
■ All-Star Teams Shaping Up
With Final Replacements
South Adds
1 Gridders
Four players lost to the
South squad have been re-
placed. while the North team
came up with one new re-
placement as the All-Star
high school players prepared
to assemble in Abilene for
their game at the high school
stadium on the night of Aug
10.
JAR
For several weeks now, rumors
have been circulating here that
from the box in the Bolt game will...._____________
probably be H T Fleming's starting Yankee stadium is being readied for
hurler Fleming has Bob Grounds the classic between the two football
and Gene Leverritt in reserve for machines figured to head the na-
hurling chores, tion, gridiron parade again this
tion’s gridiron parade again
this
In the city league the Mackey Co.
tangles with
year.
.It’s strictly speculation anyway
the Reporter-News because, according to the Office of
* - Defense Transportation, football
who anil be Ryanless at short stop Defense Transportation, football
unless a Reporter protest against games must be played at the home
barring the Red & White and
of one of the competing teams.
Newsman shortstop Dave Ryan goes Last year. Navy was the home
through in a meeting of the appeals team and the contest was held at
committee before the game 1 Baltimore, which is not far from
Ryan has been barred from the Annapolis and is regarded by many
field at Fair Park for actions in the as Navy's home field And accord-
ACC-Red & White game Monday ing to that ruling, the game should
night. The Reporter-News represen- be played at West Point this year,
tatives yesterday filed a protest ___-
with the rules committee asking for Army's director of athletics,
a re-hearing.
Lt Col Lawrence (Biff) Jones.
. in-
formed officials here that Phila-
delphia will be considered, but
the West Point is the likely site."
State Guard and the Taystee Bak- Philadelphia holds a seven-year
ery battle in a game to decide the contract, effective except in war-
In the Commercial League
challenger for the league leading
Kilowatts.
The Rebels and the Merrill's
Marauders tangle in an important 1
Fair Park League game A win for
the Rebels would put them in a tie
for the loop first place along with I
the Marauders, while a Marauder
win would increase their hold on
first place.
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KIRBY PARK
Beautiful outdoor dence floor.
Golf end Archery
Free Picnic Grounds
OPEN EVERY NIGHT
LAST DAY
LOVE AND DYNAMITE
GEORGE O'BRIEN
In
MINTED DESERT
with
LORAINE JOHNSON
THREE STOOGES
1946 BUDGET AT
a Trial federal t
“billion dollars.
War spending, 7
Receipts, 39 billic
Public debt, to 1
259 billions to 295
Deficit, 46 billion
xuretsne:
lisa
LAST DAY
MARCH OF TIME
"RETURNED VETERANS"
GinG CROSBY
STARTS TODAY
Your invitelion to
romance and
scalinhoppinessl
JUDYGARL
Ecq Curtis. Highland Park coach
and chairman of the committee max-
in the South selections, announced
Cecil Grigg member of the reach- 3.PDAL lot BeTAdt end™™
ing staff at Rice institute, will give _ —_____—------------------
out backfield strategy in lectures Want a good seat for that All-
at the coaching school of the Texas **/ram ada
High School Coaches associate: ducats are going fast. Tickets
and will help Skip Palrang tutor may be purchased at The
the South team in the all-star foot- Mackey Co. or for out-of-town
ball game the night of Aug orders write E. W. Ledbetter at
Crigg has been n the R ff Hardin-Simmons university.
Last night’s games at Fair Park
| were filled with upsets as the Ramb-
| lers downed the Links 11-3 and the
cellar North Park Lions defeated
■ the Bird Dogs, first half champs 6-4.
In the Commercial League the
Postoffice ran over the Service
JUNIOR LEAGUE LEADER—Jack Reese, Rotary Bird Dog Pertil-o, behind four hit pitching
roving short stop pictured above, is the batting leader in the 2_______________________
Fair Park League. Reese boasts an average of 526 which tops to discuss plans for entertaining
all loop batsmen for first half play He has collected 10 hits the visiting high school athletes who
in 19 times at bat for the first half champion Bird Dogs. (Re- will participate in the North-South
.concave-
honing for
longer-lasting
keenness
—Also-
VAN JOHNSON
LIONEL BARRYMORE
"THREE MEN
IN WHITE"
ROBE
ER
—Plus— ul
a PORTABLE HARBOR
a SPOTLIGHT ON CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, A
budget bureau says
and incomes of wa
be reduced in the r
by a 20-billion-dolla
ernment war spend!
• And if the war
before next sur
would be an even
back in spending,
effects on econo
America.
a The extent of un
such a case would be
the effectiveness c
plans.
Those forecasts w
revised budget for
1946, which started
©On the assumptio
continue through t
the bureau estimate
at $70,000,000,000, 1
$90,000,000,000 in the
It estimated total
ing at $85,000,000
9th $100,000,000,000
But Budget Dire
Smith was not coi
assumption the wa
another 11 months.
He termed it of
tance ” that all go
thes prepare their
for continuing war
early peace and de
Smith put much
speed and effective
version." He said t
ands before next sur
men be faced with
rapid demobilization
inevitably mean n
ment. Its extent w
the degree to whirl
sion machinery is
des full load at an ei
sin.ce.1934 FinE 10 #. AT AycOCK of Longview, Marvin Bine-
shoo seth that time AS head ham of Orange and Perry Samuels
touch at Austin college of Thomas Jefferson, San Antonio.
backs
Replacements are Frank Struska
of Taylor, Arthur Sweet of Brack-
enridge. San Antonio, and a boy
named Butts on whom Curtis does
not have full information but who
now is in Texas A and M. all backs,
porter-News Staff Photo).
Oldtimers rate Grigg as ohfe of
the greatest running backs in Texas
when he played at Austin college.
He made 13 letters at Austin col-
lege and later played at Dallas
versity, winning all-Southern and
all-American mention He also as
a star of professional football in
the game’s earlier years
Grigg also umpired in the South-. or tackle,
em and Texas baseball leagues sev-ef
eral years-
Besides Grigg and Palrang, The
clinic's staff of instructors includes
Dutch Meyer of TCU: coach of the
North team; Bill James, line coach
at Texas A and M Lil Dimmitt,
assistant coach at A and M Tom
Dennis. Port Arthur high school. „ orieinally an.
coach Charles Turner. Paschal high squads r main a. onainany, .an
school coach Bones Train Thomas Inpunced representing the best foot:
Jefferson high school ach Lt ball talent available from. dast
Comdr Matty Bell Genree Pre- year's seniors 1.. Texas high school
Flight school Capt Don Rose and competiti r
Sgt. Red Bale Randolph field
Carroll Benson
To Kermit Post
and Ben Proctor of Austin, * center - " . :
Gene Clark of Gladewater will be Carrol Benson has resigned as tains a release from the San Angelo
shifted to tackle He is listed eith- head football coach at Merkel high school system
school, accepted the head coaching Patterson was to confer with
post at Kermit and in his place at Supt Bryan Dickson at San Angelo
—!- --a appears that RudyBau— Merkel will be Jack Patterson, now today.
football game on the night of Aug
10 and for plane of the coming foot-
ball season
The meeting was called by Mar-
jorie Williams, president of the or-
ganisation
The pep squad will serve as host-
esses for a dance to be given at the
Playtorium after the North-South
game
I Officers of the pep squad, besides
I Miss Williams, are Lillie Beth
Coughran, vice president: Joy Mun-
den secretory Maewyn Bailey,
treasurer and Joan Hughes, chair-
man of checkers The field marshals
are Nancy Sanford and Ann Walker
HOSPITAL Brand Blodes hove
concave honed edges comper
able to the precision keenness
, of the Sneat surgical instrv-
r ments — your guarantee of
closer, cleaner shoves. You’ll
feel the difference, too, when
you we these blodes for the
first and Afth shoves are
equally smooth and satisfying.
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HOSPITAL
BRAND
RAZOR BLADES
| The Standings
Broomyn
St Louis
Pittsburgh
New York
Cincinnati
NATIONAL LEAGUE
V 13
Pa Beiphia
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 52
New York 47
Washington 47
Boston 47
2 %
St Louis
CHINA'S CHILD ARMY
will thrill you with truth stranger
than fiction!
Lcfo
ever
man. All-State and from Amarillo, serving as an assistant mentor at The newly appointed Merkel
cannot get a leave fro mine Nor- San Angelo high school coach had for the past three years
man Naval Air Station, so he has This triple-barreled announce- served as B team football and bask-
been replaced by Dan Foldbere of ment came from Merkel yesterday etball coach and bead track and
Sunset high in Dallas with the lone qualification that Pat- field coach at San Angelo. Before
For the most part, however, the terson will take the job if he ob- that time he taught two years in
the Merkel grammar school and
was assistant roach at Merkel at the
time
The game is the climaxing feat ire
of the Texas High School Coaches
association coaching school which
gets underway Monday at the Har-
din-Simmons university campus TEAM-
... NCO Bolts
That the school will be one of Re * White
the largest ir the 13-year history of .....es
Softball
Standings
MAJOR LEAGUE
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with
HARRY CAREY
PAUL KELLY
PHILIP AHN
JIMMY DODD
1
NOW OPEN
PICNIC — SWIM
end
DANCE
American Legion Pool
East on Se. 11th St.
MAJESTIC
STARTS
SATURDAY
Patterson was an outstanding
track and field performer at Rice
where for two years he was the
National AAU 400 meter hurdles
champion and in 1937 and 1938
Pert toured Europe with a picked group
*7 of American AAU champions
vw He played football, basketball
133 and participated in track at Merkel
I high school where ha was graduat-
"Iil ed in 1934
ear Benson had been head coach at
9 Merkel since 1940. During that time
2 the Badgers won three district foot,
ball titles and last fall captured
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DOUBLE
FEATURE
NOW!
"SHE GETS HER MAN”
■ LAST DAY
—With—
Joen Devis-Williom Gergen
"THE LADY TAKIS A CHANCE
—With—
Jean Auther - John Wayne
First Abilene Showing
Charlie Chan
Gi RLS TO MAKEY OUR HE /
SPIN!
Prt
* today's reservation list which is ILEY -
41 37: approaching 300 Many more, reser- Ram ers
* 3 vations for coaches are expected n Ir. C of C
«: the next two days and several likely MaHer News -.-1 3
1 : will arrive without making arran- COMMERCIAL LEAGUE
■ cements for quarters TF AM— w a
v. The coaches are to be housed at a mats * 1
3 •--. Wooten Windsor and at Har- sta-d Guard S i
322 din-Simmons dormitories Pos: " r 3 1
Meeting with the coaches this year Ser ’ HR PARK LEAGUE
or the first time in the Texas TFAM— w 1
a Sports Writers association. Mars ders ♦
Br Dogs ...7.........3
North Park 2
Panthers e
RESULTS t AST NIGHT
Co Ramblers 11 Link: 3
Com ercial Postoffice 1S
the organization was indicated wtih
CITT LEAGUE
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Nazi-Exterminator
HORIZONTAL 60 He was called
EN:A E2S85
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sian militarist, -
"Extermina-’
tor" for his
; As.
Prt the region 2 championship Benson
JU had been on the Merkel school fac-
600 ulty since 1937.
* He is a graduate of Hardin-Sim-
* mons university where he was an
Pet outstanding football and basketball
135 performer
son Benson hails from Hamlin
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Abilene High Pep
Marshal
Alexander
M --
9 Collection of
sayings
aga nst the
Nazis
VERTICAL
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F
ders
Park - North Park. Bird Squad Will Meet
GAMES TONIGHT 3
nmonc New: V* Minckey Ce Pep squad of Abilene high school
■I State Guard i Taittee will meet Friday afternoon at 5
ark - Rebels Y* Merrill • Mar o'clock at the high school building
Let us recap your tires
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wear smooth Having the
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time may mean the dif-
ference between getting
thousands more miles of
service—or having to
junk it and perhaps lay
up your ear. All work
done by skilled workmen
in a modern shop.
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23 Measure
7 Parrot
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wreaths
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