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Tuesday Evening
CANDIDATI
:PAGE FOUR______________
' Jaycees Hunting First
: League Win Against ACC
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Tuesday Evening, May 28. 1946
Sox Rally Licks Dukes
6 Abilenians
In WTGA Play
€
The Jaycees who got on 1
tory trail by trimming the Junior
Chamber of Commerce team from
Brackenridge, 6-2, here last night
are gunning for their first victory
of the new season in major league
competition at Fair Park tonight
Starting time is 8:15.
The Jaycees face Abilene Chris-
tian college.
Other games find Newmans
the vic- Market playing Camp Berkeley in
•—— the city league end Central Presby
terian meeting the Postoffice in
the Commercial league.
Hub Hubbard twirled a no-hitter
last night as the VFW remained
undefeated in major league play
Their victims were the Cowboys,
who bowed, 4-0, when George
Watson's defense blew sky high
in the second frame.
VFW has scored three wins and
leads second place Red & White
by a full game.
Hamby’s 11-run flurry in the
sixth wasn't enough in the city
loop and TUCC-USES retained its
unbeaten record, 13-12.
The Reporter-News finally won
a game in the Commercial loop,
beating Lankford’s, 13 to 5.
Pioneers Here onig
1 Four More Qualify
| For Indianapolis Race
INDIANAPOLIS May 28—-
Four more drivers qualified today
1 for the 500-mile Memorial day
1 race, leaving six places in the 33-
1 car starting field to be filled to-
: day, the last day of qualifying)
runs.
Cubs No Longer Are
KENNY QUEVREAUX
* Hal Robson of Huntington Park,
i Calif , made the day s best time.
I averaging 121.474 miles an hour
, for the 10 miles.
Cardinal Cousins
By JACK HAND
(Associated Press Sports Writer)
Thanks to Johnny Schmitz, a lefthanded giant from
j A world war II hero. Znon Wausau, Wisconsin, the Chicago Cubs aren’t "cousins" to the
J (Bud) Bardowski of Gary, Ind.. St. Louis Cardinals any more.
Failure of the Bruins to beat the Red Birds more than
six times in 22 meetings last season almost cost Charley
Grimm a pennant. The Cubs may not repeat as National
a cinch they’ll better their 1945 record
t who had sunk his savings in a
• semi-stock part racer and planned
€ to drive it today hired a driver,
1 who qualified. .
t The driver is Buddy Rush of league champ but its a i . .
r Ruskin, Fla. His qualifying speed against St. Louis with Schmitz doing the bulk of the work.
t averaged 116.268 miles an hour. Chicago has split even in six starts against the Cardinals
* Bill Sheffler of . Los Angeles with Schmitz earning two of the decisions, his latest being
J avaliten, "i20 off hnes hour a 4-1 job in yesterday’s only National league contest St.
i The 27th place was won by Louis reached the lean south-
George Barringer of Indianapolis, paw for only five hits.
j a veteran driver. He averaged Rival coaches tabbed Schmitz as
< 120.623 miles an hour, “the pitcher with the most stuff in
the National league” when they
made the swing around the circuit
for the first time. Schmitz hasn't
been disappointing them
The Standings
: El Paso Withdraws
:EL PASO. May 28—RLE red Lyone regime as Chicago
I Maxey, president, of the 5 Paso White Sox manager continued to
: club of the Mexican National produce successes as the Pale
< league said yesterday he would Hose reeled off a third straight
t pay off his players, and withdraw triumph for the veteran pitcher,
F from the circuit if it was no long- St Louis 92
: represented in organised base trimming St. Louis,*
YESTERDAY’S RESULTS
WEST TEXAS-NEW MEXICO LEAGUE
Abilene T. Albuquerque S
Borger at Lubbock, postponed, sand-
storm.
Pampa •. Lamesa Y.
Clovis at Amarillo, postponed, high
winds.
TEXAS LEAGUE
Beaumont 1. Shreveport 0.
Oklahoma City 7. Fort Worth 6.
Tulsa 2. Dallas 1.
San Antonio at Houston postponed
NATIONAL LEAGUE
the
dis-
A1
- 1th
Wit
With Luke Appling's four blows
showing the way, the Sox buried
the Brownies under a 20-hit at-
tack while Ed Lopat coasted home
to his third verdict. Lopat had a
shutout up to the eighth
Rain forced postponment until
tonight of the highly-publicized
Yankee stadium night ball debut.
Washington will be the attraction
with a crowd of almost 70.000 .ex-
pected As a 30.000 plus attend-
ance is due to jam Ebbets field! ABILENE
for Brooklyn's feud with the New Pampa
York Giants, the big town's two Borger,
after-dark games probably will Abuquerg
draw in excess of 100,000 fans Lamesa
I A DetroitCeleveland night fray Clovis •-
in the American also was washed TEXAS LEAGUE w L Pet
out and rescheduled for tonight. Fort Werth 28 12700
Boston and Philadelphia were not Pull z:::^.";": sa 15 519
scheduled in either league The San Antonio ......20 ta 526
Cincinnati-Pittsburgh and New Beaumont, **........71 22 411
York-Brooklyn tilts in the Na- Houston .':.'. u 28 13
. tional were postponed because of Oklahoma City 12 29292
| rain and wee sounds-r "ATONAL Act „ ..
Softball Standings ======== 5 $ a
Boston ...................16 17 485
MAJOR LEAGUE . New York ..................M 18 471
W L Pet. Pittsburgh .......13 16 448
3 0 100. Philadelphia .........s 24 250
1 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE
} 1 2 Boston ..............E % "res
1 3New York ...........23 15 605
0.3000 Washington ..............19 14 576
w t PA Detroit ................19 18 514
5Cleveland .................16 20 444
1 St. Louis ................’• 21 432
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Chicago 4. St Louis 1
New York at Brooklyn postponed.
cinemnati at Pittsburgh, postponed,
rain.
(Only games scheduled 1
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington at New York, postponed,
rain.
Detroit at Cleveland, postponed, rain.
Chicago 9. St Louis 2
‘Only games scheduled)
WEST TEXAS-NEW MEXICO LEAGUE
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EREVHOUnD
Cats Lose to
Cellar Tribe
By The Associated Press
There were some changes made
in the Texas league last night
Top ranking Fort Worth Cats
took a 7-6 licking from the cellar
club Oklahoma City Indians.
Tulsa’s fast climbing Oilers
pulled into a second-place tie with
a 2-1 victory over the Dallas
Rebels. --
The Beaumont Exporters nosed
out Shreveport in a 1-0 game on
Raymond Stelmach's one-hit hurl-
ing.
The only quiet spot in the cir-
cuit was San Antonio at Houston
—postponed because of rain.
Oklahoma City came from be-
hind in the eighth inning to clip
the Fort Worth Cats for the tying
and winning tallies. Indians Jim
Hill and Kenneth Braun each
singled. Two Cat errors did the
rest.
Tommy Warren of Tulsa gave
up only five hits against Dallas to
gain his sixth straight triumph.
Hank Oana was the losing pitcher
for the Rebels.
The Shreveport Sports got their
lone hit when a fluke hit bounced
over Stelmach’s head and past
second base. The Exporters scor-
ed the winning run in the fourth
when Doyle Lade, Shreveport
hurler. walked one with the bases
loaded.
Pinch Hitter Kenny Quevreaux
singled with the bases loaded to
drive in the two eighth inning
runs that enabled the league lead-
ing Blue Sox to turn back
the Albuquerque Dukes,
7-5. here last night.
It gave the Sox a sweep
of a three game series with the
Dukes and marked the Abilenians'
fourth straight win.
Moving in tonight for the first
of a two-game series are the Clovis
Pioneers.
Manager Hayden Greer said thia
morning he had not decided on a
starter for tonight and probably
wouldn't reach a decision until
shortly before the 8:15 game time.
DickTross, the big Arizona fire-
baller, ‘got credit for last night's
win.
Tross got off to a shaky start,
giving up three runs in the first
and two in the third. An error
and a passed ball brought in two
of the runs, however, and the big
fellow got stronger as the game
progressed.
He blanked the Dukes with only
one hit through the next four
frames before he was lifted for a
pinch hitter.
Bill Werbowski pitched the
final round and set the Dukes
down in order.
The Sox got their first run in
the fourth when Ed Krage, who
had tripled, came in on a roller
to the infield.
The big round came in the
sixth, the Sox punching over four
runs to knot the count. Leo
Thomas started it off with a single,
Krage followed suit, and then
Greer singled to right to knock in
two r— ny Anderson singled
to left and Greer came home when
the ball rolled through De Fazio’s
legs. Anderson counted on Jim
Matthews' single to left center.
Abilene threatened to tally in
the seventh when Krage got his
third hit of the night and Greer
was safe on an error. Pitcher
Gilbert Archcluta of the Dukes
bore down, however, and retired
the side by strikeouts.
The Blue Sox moved a game and
a half ahead of the idle Amarillo
Gold Sox, who are now virtually
tied for second with the Pampa
Oilers.
Pampa downed Lamesa, 9-7, in
the other game played last night.
The Clovis-Amarillo and Borger-
Lubbock tilts were postponed be-
cause of high winds.
ALBUQUERQUE
Dixon, 2b ........
Pride. 3b-ss .....
Goldsberry, 1b
De La Garza, 88-31
Trusky, rf ......
De Fazio, If ......
Robinson, cf .....
Diers. C ..........
Archeluta, P ....
TOTALS .......
ABILENE —
A B
Abilene will have at least six
golfers in the West Texas Golf as-
sociation tournament which opens
Thursday at the San Angelo coun-
try club.
The local entries will include
Doug Jones, city champion, and
one of the finalists in the meet
now underway here; Gervis Mc-
Graw, also • finalist in the city €
tournament; Bill Boyer, E. V.
Price, Bill and Bob Maxwell.
Should Jones or McGraw reach
the finals at San Angelo Sunday,
the city finals, scheduled for that
day, will be postponed a week.
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Olson, rf
Tross, p
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Next to oil. the growing and
harvesting of timber brings the
state of Texas its greatest in-
come. ____________
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Oscar Cooper Recalls Old
TOTALS ...........36 7 11 n 9 3
X—Battea for Tross in eighth.
Albuquerque .........302 000 000-5
Abilene .........000 104 00x—7
Runs batted in — Quevreaux 2,
Trusky, Ozark. Greer 2. Matthews. Three
base hit — Krage. Stolen base — Da
La Garza. Double play - Greer to Spa-
tafore to Ozark. Left on bases — Albu-
querque 9, Abilene 8. Bases on balls —
Archeluta 1. Tross 5. Struck out - Arch-
eluta 8 Tross 3, Werbowski 1 Hits off-
Tross 6 in 8 innings. Hit by pitcher —
(Ozark, Anderson), by Archeluta. Pass-
ed balls — Matthews 2. Winning pitch-
er — Tross. Umpires - Fritz and Sandt.
Time - 2:11.
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GAMES TODAY
WEST TEXAS-NEW MEXICO LEAGUE
Clovis at ABILENE
Albuquerque at Lamesa
Borger at Amarillo.
Pampa at Lubbock
TEXAS LEAGUE
Dallas at Tulsa
Fort Worth at Oklahoma City ,
I San Antonio at Houston
Shreveport at Beaumont
AMERICAN LEAGUE
. Washington at New York night)-
| Leonard 4-0 vs. Marshall 1-0
Philadelphia at Boston—Knerr €-3.
vs Butland 10-0
Detroit at Cleveland night)— Hutchin-
sen 1-1 vs Harder 1-1
Chicago at St Louis (night) —- Grove
4-2 vs. Ferens 10-3.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
. New York at Brooklyn night —Kos-
lo (3-3) vs Hatten (2-2
Boston at Philadelphia night —Sain
(-3. vs Nawo (2-2)
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (night —
* +1 or Walters 11 VI Bahr
st Louts at Chieago—Beazley (2-1) vs.
Passeau (3-1).
Kurowski Tops
Nail Hit List
NEW YORK. May 28 — (P) —
Whitey Kurowski of the St. Louis
Cardinals belted the ball at a .522
pace the past week to displace
Brooklyns Dixie Walker as the
National league's individual hot-
ting leader
The blond third sacker from
Reading. Pa . jumped his average
12 hits in 23 trips to the plate
55 points to .383 by pounding out
including games of Sunday.
Walkers mark dropped from
389 to 369 but be managed to hold
second place. The Cards' Stan
Musial trailed Walker by one point
last week but the Donora Grey-
hound tumbled 22 points during
the week to third with 362
Musial continues to lead the
senior loop in most hits, 46. and
also is tops in doubles with 13 and
tied with Billy Herman of Brook-
lyn. Andy Pafko of Chicago and
Andy Seminick of Philadelphia for
most triples, three
Enos Slaughter of the Red Birds,
and Tommy Holmes of the Boston
Braves, are tied for the runs batted
in honors with 27 apiece Pistol
Pete Reiser of the Dodgers has
scampered across the plate the
highest number of times. 30 Phil
Cavarretta. of Chicago, is runner-
up with 25
Johnny Mize, big first baseman
of the New York Giants, increased
his home run output to 10. five
more than either Reiser. Kurowski
or Ralph Kiner of the Pittsburgh
Pirates have clouted.
By HOWARD GREEN .
THEN Branch Rickey's private plane landed at the Abilene air-
Y port last Saturday, on hand to meet the Brooklyn Dodger presi-
dent was a friend of 26 years standing er-xa;
He was Oscar Cooper, veteran Abilene oil-man. , L
The two met in New York in 1920 and have been close friends
Mr Cooper is a regular attendant at Blue Sox games and
loves to recall the game at the Polo Grounds when he wore a St.
Louis Cardinal uniform and watched his friend. Branch, pilot the
club from the bench.
“One day I told Branch." Mr Cooper recalled last night, that
rd Uke to watch a major league club handled from the bench.
"Bill Doak had pitched the day before and I was given his uni-
form I made quite a sight, I'm sure, but enjoyed myself thor-
0 5 That night Cooper was with Rickey when McGraw and Charles
A Stoneham called on the Cardinal manager in an attempt to pur-
chase the great Rogers Hornsby, then the rising young second
baseman of the Cardinals. .
McGraw told Rickey that the Yankees were filling their
stands with a punk named Ruth," Mr Cooper said, “and that the
Giants needed a counter attraction He first offered 8190,000, then
$175,000 and finally $200,000, but Branch wouldn’t sell.”
Hornsby paid off handsome dividends for the Cards in years
that followed, leading the club to the pennant and world s cham-
pionship In the fall of ‘26 he was peddled to the Giants after a
misunderstanding with Sam Breadon, president of the Cardinals.
TIMMY ZINN, pilot of the Albuquerque Dukes, rates bis own Gor-
J don Goldsberry as the outstanding prospect of the West Texas
New Mexico league. .
Goldsberry is a 19-year-old first baseman from Los Angeles,
who is on option from Hollywood . d
Goldsberry was almost drafted, being saved only recent
legislation. He left the club to enter the armed forces but the
selective service law expired, aa originally enacted, before he could
be taken.
Zinn welcomed him back with open arms
The Albuquerque skipper also likes Frank McAlexander. the
Lubbock Hubbers’ third sacker and at least four of the Abilene Blue
Sox—namely, Leo Thomas, third baseman, Dan Ozark, first base-
man. and Pitchers Ken Olsen and Dick Tross.
"I hear this Hall la quite a prospect but I haven't seen him.
Zinn said. ‘ Furthermore, I'm in no hurry.”
J. C. (Pat) Patterson, the insurance man, remembers Zinn
as his boyhood idol.
-When I was a kid in Wichita Falls," Patterson recalled last
night. “Jimmy Zinn was the star pitcher of the old Spudders. 1
used to watch him pitch and win double headers Ironman Jimmy
Zinn,’ they called him ” A
Kovacs Titlist
DALLAS, May 28—*>—Frank
Kovacs, California, outlasted Wel-
by Van Horn, Georgia, in five stub-
bornly fought sets last night to
win the singles championship of
the first Texas professional tennis
championship here. The scores
were 4-6, 6-3, 8-1, 3-6, and 8-6.
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Club, Invitation Meet Talked
Tennis enthusiasts in the city
will meet Thursday night at the
Windsor mezzanine to organise the ,
Abilene Tennis club which has as
its No. 1 objective the develop
meat of better netters among the
younger players.
Ram rodding the organization is
Heavy Batjer, former University
of Texas tennis star, and Ralph
Anderson
The club also will sponsor inter
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city recreation department in stag
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sibly revive the invitation tourna-
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Batjer asked that any players
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Tommy Hill, Abilene over Tom
McCarty, Wichita Falla, 86, 1-6,
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