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Abilene, Texas, Friday Evening, June 25, 1948
100 Expected in
Golf Tourney at
Breckenridge
By JACK DURHAM
BRECKENRIDE, June 25. —A
field that is expected to slightly
exceed 100 by nightfall was busily
engaged here today posting -quaky
Hying scores as play got underway
in the annual Breckenridge Invi-
tation golf tournament.
Defending champion Don Cherry
was on hand but had such shooter
to contend with as Earl Stewart,
the 1947 Texas champion who al-
so won the Abilene Invitational l*«t
summer; the new West Texas
champ. Bill Maxwell; and a host of
other of the section’s best ama-
teur players
In practice rounds Thursday,
Stewart turned in a neat four-un-
der par 68 to quickly move into
the role of tournament favorite.
The red-head, who during his col-
lege' days at LSU won the national
collegiate crown, expects to move
on to Abilene from here to defend
his title in the Abilene Invitational
next ,weekend.
Maxwell, together with Gervis
Mcraw and Dilmus James, two
other of the young Abilene stars,
played qualifying rounds here
Thursday enroute to Austin where
I on Friday they will compete in the
Texas junior medal play 36-hole
tournament being sponsored by the
Texas Jaycees with the Austin
chapter as hosts. Seven of the low
shooters will represent the state at
Lincoln, Neb., in a nationally spon-
sored Jaycee tournament in Aug-
ust.
The Abilene trio will come back
Saturday to begin match play how-
ever, their qualifying scores can-
not be counted in the scramble for
medalist honors.
Match Play Starts in
Anson Invitation Meet
ANSON, June 25— Match® play
was underway here today in An-
son’s first post-war Invitation golf
tournament as five flights of shoot-
‘ ers set out in quest of prizes total-
ling approximately $1,000 in value
donated by Anson merchants.
Hugo White of the host club took
medalist honors yesterday with a
76 over the classy nine-hole 3.050
yard layout. The field found fair-
ways snd greens in excellent shape
for play.
" In the 16-player championship
flight the darkhorse appeared to be
the veteran Russell Crownover of
Stamford, who fired s 78 yesterday
and who was meeting Abilene’s
Red Dobbs this morning. Dobbs
turned in a qualifying score of 80.
Other Abilenians in the field in-
cluded H. C. Ledbetter, who landed
in the championship flight with an
80; Pat Patterson, Ben Tabor and
Esco Walter, all of whom were in
the first flight on qualifying scores
All-Pro Final Looms
In Women's Western
CHICAGO, June 25 (PP—An all-
professional final brewed today in
the 19th Women's Western Open
Golf tourney as three former
champions, all play-for-pay shoot-
ers, and a lone amateur hooked
up in semi-final competition.
Three-time champion Babe Did-
rikson Zaharias, of Ferdale, N.
Y., and consistent Helen Dettweiler
of Indio, Calif , a wartime ferry
pilot and 1939 open winner, tangled
in the upper bracket finale.
The lower bracket showdown
was between veteran Patty Berg
of Minneapolis. 1941-43 champion
and the sole surviving amateur of
an original 154-player field. Bev-
erly Hanson of Fargo, N D
Pirates Sign Strobel
PITTSBURGH-June 25 (UP)-
The Pittsburgh Pirates have
signed a Pacific Coast high school
pitching star, Fred Strobel, and
optioned him to the Waco, Texas,
club of the Big State League.
Strebel, a recent graduate of
Long Beach, Calif . High School,
allowed only a single run in five
of 85; and Bill Swaim whose 92
put him in the third flight.
Complete pairings with qualify-
ing scores:
Complete pairings: (Player from Anson
unless otherwise noted).
CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT
Hugo White, 76 vs. C. L. Palmer, Retan,
M. C T Myatt, W vs. Gene Spurgeon,
80; E Fagan, Jr., Hamlin, 77 vs C. L.
Sheppard Midland, 80 Hagen Edmonds,
79 vs. H L. Bray, Midland, 81 John
Coulter, Midland, 77 vs. H C Ledbetter,
Abilene, 80 W. C. Taylor Stamford, 79
vs. BU1 Pence, Jr., M Russell Crown-
over, Stamford, 78 vs. Red Dobbs, Abi-
lene, 80 BU1 Farnsworth, 80 vs. A. L.
Thompson 81.
FIRST FLIGHT
Bob Pence, 81 vs. Chuck Abbott, Ham-
Jin 85; G. C Caruthers, Stamford, S3 vs.
O P Hudson, 86; Pat Patterson, Abilene,
85 vs Ben Taber, Abilene, 85; C Sham-
buerger, Stamford, 84 vs. Herb Rowland,
86; J. B. Tabor, Stamford, 83 vs. Esco
Walter Abilene, - 85 Bill Morrow, Sta m-
ford, 83 vs. B P. Davenport, Jr., Stam-
ford, 86; Everett Beavers, S3 vs. Grady
Bowdry, Stamford, 85; Leon Thurmon, 85
vs Webb Vaden Stamford. 87.
SECOND FLIGHT
Durwood Neville, 88 vs. D L Patton,
Stamford, 89; S C Ferguson Hamlin,
88 vs. L. F Mitchell 90 T w Carlton,
88 vs. Dean Culp, Stamford, 89 Ruben
Lindsey, Stamford, 88 vs Ray Carlylse,
93; John Willoughby, Stamford, 88 vs Ben
Lupe, 89 Carl Savage, 88 vs Bill Swain.
Abilene, 92; Harry Bounds, Stamford, 88
vs. Oran A. Dean, 90; C. Smith, 88 vs.
C. D Swift, 92
THIRD FLIGHT
A. J. Smith, Jr , 92 vs. Carl Young, Ham-
lin, 95 Bill Beard, Los Angeles, Calif,
94 vs. R. R. Kelley, Stamford 96 John
Farns worth, 93 vs Bill Bartlett, 95 Doc
Wilson 94 vs Bill Rust, 98 Hoyt Good-
win, 93 vs. J. R Edwards, 95 Elmer
Fagen, Hamlin, 94 vs. Foy Easley, 98; J.
Roy Edmonds, 93 vs Bill Pence Sr. M
Paul Bettis, Stamford, 95 vs Haskell Car-
ter, Hamlin, M
FOURTH FLIGHT
F M. York, 499 vs. v. Henderson, 101:
J L Gordon. 101 vs C L Stevens,
104; A R Compton 100 vs Dan Ray 106;
R B Caruthres, 101 vs George White
108 N H Touchstone 99 vs Rusty Pierce
104; Sam Baiter 101 vs Jodie Creel,
106 Tom Howell, 100 vs. M Smith 104
Don Sealy, 101 vs. J C Duff 100 L C
Roarie, 99 vs Poe Berry, 108.
BIG LEAGUES
Are Indians
Ready for
Scalping!
By RALPH RODEN
Associated Press Sports Writer
Are th* Cleveland Indians ready
to bo scalped?
Manager Lou Boudreau's Amer-
ican League pace-setters have lost
their first crucial series of the year
and Bob Feller shows no signs of
returning to the form that made
him one of the greatest pitchers in
baseball. These two factors have
cast a cloud over a once rosy out-
look.
“This la the year," shouted
Cleveland fans when the Tribe op-
ened the season by tearing off six
straight triumphs Their belief that
the Indians would win their first
pennant since 1920 grew stronger
as the Tribe opened up a comfort-
able lead.
Today, however, they are not so
sure. Only a game-and-a-half sep-
arates the Indians from the pur-
suing World Champion New York
Yankees.
The Yanks came into Cleveland
Monday night three and a half
games off the pace. They knocked
off Southpaw Ace Gene Bearden,
lost a 5-2 game to Sam Zoldak
Tuesday, beat Don Black in 11
innings Wednesday and yesterday
thrashed Feller 4-0. Cleveland now
has lost eight out of its last 12
starts.
Feller allowed the Yanks only
five hits yesterday, but three of
them were home runs and resulted
in all of the Yankee runs. The
loss was Rapid Robert's eighth as
against only six victories.
Philadelphia's third place Athlet-
ics pulled to within two games of
the Indians by nosing out the
Browns, 6-5, in a night game at
St. Louis.
A four-run eighth inning rally,
highlighted by Ferna Fain’s triple
and Barney McCosky’s two-bagger
enabled the A’s to win. The Browns
culled only three hits off three Ath-
letic pitchers but 13 bases on balls
kept them in the game.
The up-and-coming Boston Red
Sox divided a' doubleheader with
the White Sox in Chicago, winning
the second game, 8-5, after Bill
Wight pitched the White Sox to a
3-1 victory in the opener
Ted Williams smashed his 14th
and 15th homers of the year and
drove in four runs to spark the
Red Sox'* nightcap triumph The
Red Sox slugger also boosted his
league-leading batting mark from
413 to .417.
The St. Louis Cardinals stormed
to within a half gam* of th* first
place Boston Braves in the Na-
tional League pennant race by
trouncing the Braves, 112, in a
night game at Boaton.
The Brooklyn Dodgers dumped
the Pittsburgh Pirates twice, 6-2
and 8-6, at Brooklyn. The second
game was halted after the Pirates’
half of the eighth inning because
of darkness. The twin setbacks
dropped the Pirates from second
to third place and moved the Dodg-
ers from sixth to fifth.
At New York, the Chicago Cube
and the Giants divided a twin bill.
the Giants winning the first game,
3-2, and the Cuba the second, 11-2.
games this season.
Heafner-Keiser
Lead Inverness
TOLEDO, O., June 25 (UP)-
The pacemaking team of Clayton
Heafner and Herman Keiser was
expected to pick up additional
ground today while clashing with
Cary Middlecoff and Jim Ferrier
in the second round of the unique
Inverness Invitational Best-Ball
Golf Tournament.
Heafner and Keiser took a two-
point lead in the round-robin scor-
ing system yesterday by defeating
Dick Metz and Lloyd Mangrum.
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BONUS PLAYER-Hugh Frank Radcliffe, 19-year-old Thom-
aston, Ga., high school pitching phenomenon, signs with the
Phillies for a reported bonus of $40,000. Scout Johnny Nee
looks on with the expression of a child with its hand in the
cookie box.
Dukes Defeat
Dlue Sox, 3-2
ALBUQUERQUE, June 25. -
Albuquerque’s Dukes strengthened
their hold on second place in the
West Texas-New Mexico League
standings last night at the expense
of Abilene’s hard luck Blue Sox
who lost a 3-2 decision in a pitch-
ers duel between' Bernis Coapland
ABILENE
Stone. If ...
Means, lb
Falappine, rf
Stathos. of
Neal, c -
Glica M ....
Crandall, 3b
McNulty 2b
Coapland, P ..
TOTALS
ALBUQUERQUE
Attyd, 3b
Okrie, ss
Dixon. 25
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Neather Will Be Right for Fight
Tonight, Forecaster Announces
NEW YORK, June 23. (P)— Th*
weather man predicted early to-
day that the twice-postponed
heavyweight till* fight between Joe
Louis and Jersey Joe Walcott will
go on tonight.
“There'll be a fight tonight,” the
U S Weather Bureau forecaster
said on the basis of 6 a. m. (EST)
data.
Tonight will be fair, he said,
adding that-scattered showers pre-
dicted for late afternoon are not
expected to continue late enough
to force a third postponement.
The two veterans fighting men,
their nerves strained by two de-
lays. are scheduled to try again
in Yankee Stadium at 8 p. m.
(GST) in their 15-round world
championship bout.
The forecast for Saturday is fair
and cool The contest will be shift-
ed to then if conditions don't per-
mit it tonight
The sponsoring Twentieth Cen-
tury Sporting Club has through
Monday to get the business out of
the way. The New York Yankees
come home Tuesday to take over
their ball park. Prize fighting is
against the law in New York on
Sunday.
The combatants will not be
forced to weigh-in again. At the
ceremonies Wednesday. Louis
weighed 213% and Walcott 194 3-4.
Both fighters were in their dress-
ing rooms and thousands of fans
were either inside the perk or mill-
ing at the getes lest night when
the area was struck by the full
force of a thunderstorm-pouring
rain, sharp lightning and sound ef-
fects.
The storm hit shortly before 7
p. m EST and the fight was
called of by Promoter Mike Jae-
obs and his assistant. Sol Strauss,
at 7:25 p. m.
At the time there were some 4,-
400 paid customers, thoroughly
soaked. Inside the stadium. The
promoters announced plans for re-
placing the stuba with new tickets
today and for redeeming ticket*
of those unable to stay over
Louis returned to PomptonS
Lakes. N J Walcott remained at
a hotel in the city.
SOFTBALL
STANDING
MAJOR LEAGUE
Team W
Mackey Co. 3
Horace Holly
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Universal Motors 0
Carpentres Union 0
CITY LEAGUE
Pet.
Team W L F
Police Dept 2 0 1.
Employment Comm. 3 1
Hamby 2 1 .
Marauders 1 1-1
Plumbers Union 0 3
Fire Dept. 0 3 .
COMMERCIAL LEAGUE
Team
Lone Star Gas
West Tex. Cot. Oil
Sev
On
By BU
Barqs and
@and two tean
Major League
already have
their aecond 1
tonight at Fa
, ture of the sev
on tap.
The Vet’s 01
the firat half
Largest Field Entered in
South Texas AAU Track Meet
and Ray Machado
With the contest tied up at 2-all
from the third inning on, it ap-
peared as though extra rounds
would be necessary to settle the
issue when the break came in the
last half of the ninth.
First baseman Ron Bowen
slapped a double to score Lew At-
tyd from second and broke up the
game With one away, Attyd had
walked and then after Okrie skied
out to Glica, Will Dixon drew a
base on balls to set the stage for
Bowen's blow.
X 2 losing
33
Coapland allowed but five hits
while the Sox
Machado for eight safeties.
tapped
Thorntons
Meads Bakery 1
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INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE
Team W
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Dawson. If .. .. ..3 0 0 1 0 1
Mulcahy. c 4 0.0.910
Machado, p ..-.. .... 4 0 0 0 00
TOTALS 33 3 5 27 16 5
a—Two out when winning run scored.
Abilene 002 000 000 2 8 2
Albuquerque 200 000 001 3 5 5
Runs batted in Martin. Coapland.
Rowan Two base hits Bowen 12), Cran-
dall Double plays: Machado, Dixon and
Bowen: Dixon, Okrie and Bowen. Left
on bases Abilene 5. Albuquerque 11.
Basese on ball* Off Coapland 7, Macha
do one Strike-outs toy Coapland 6,
Machado S Wild pitches Coapland 3
Winning pitcher Coapland Losing
piteher: Machado Umpires: Czajka,
Fisher and Adams. Time 1 31
Maxwell Favored
In State Jaycee
Tourney at Santone
The two clubs meet again to-
night in the second game of the
three-contest series.
Last night Clovis won its seventh
strsight by blasting Lamesa 31-11
The Pioneers now are only a game
out of seventh place
Pampa whipped Borger 10-7 to
keep its two-game lead over run-
ner-up.
SAN ANTONIO. June 25 (P)—The
largest and probably the most tal-
ented field in the South Texas AAU
track and field meet is expected
to smash records wholesale to-
night.
Some 15 athletes will be on
hands with marks likely in virtual-
ly every event scheduled
Feature race will be the 100-
meter dash which matches Char-
ley Parker and Perry Samuels of
Texas. Wendell Davis of Texas Col-
lege Bill Carter of Lackland Air
Base and Matthews Clay of Prairie
View. A 9.5 100-yard dash is com-
mon among that group.
Davis also is likely to give Park-
er trouble in 200-meter dash.
Paul Leming, Beaumont High
School's great hurdler, gets his
taste of big time competition in
the 200-meter lows
The 2900-meter relay will be run
for the first time in South Texas.
Ray Holbrook of Texas A.& M.
on several occasions this year has
bettered Art Harnden’s 48.5 in the
400-meter and could be pushed to a
record by George Berger and Rob-
ert Pickering of Lackland
Texas’ John Robertson has
been broad jumping 25 feet, consid-
erably better than the record 22
feet 11 inches held by Eural Davis
of Prairie View, who will be on
hand to defend his title
Almost certain to fall is the 400-
meter relay record set by Texas
last year at 42.2. Texas, Lackland
or Prairie View are capable of bet-
tering the mark.
S B Eccota. Alice High School
bov. will be shooting at the 5000-
meter 16:29.8. He almost lapped
the field last season in winning
with a 16:31.6.
Field records in danger are the
203 feet 4-inch javelin throw by
Garland Adair of the University of
Texas, who will not be defending
the title; the shot put mark of 46
feet 10% inches by George Raborn
of San Antonio and the 158 feet 7
inches discus heave by George a-
dera of Texas A & M . who will
be absent
Other returning champions in-
cluded Ken Boren of Texas in the
400-meter hurdles and John
Donaldson of Houston in the dis-
cus throw.
Radfords
Sun Spot
Arnolds Cafe
Naval Reserve
Meat Cutters Union
WOMENS
Team
Freelancers
Victory Club
Carrol Dickensons
Smith Trucking
Biggerstaff
Independents
KITTEN
Teem
North Park
Yankees
Longhorn Creamery
LEAGUE
W L
LEAGUE
W L Pct.
3 0 1.000
Cobb Park 1 1 500
College Heights > 2 -333
Eoxi/Ranch 8 3 080
RESULTS LAST NIGHT:
Mackey Co. •. Universal Motors 1
Employment Comm. 2. Marauders 1
Star Gas 6 West Tex Cot Oil 3
Radfords Gro. 9. Meat Cutters • <•
InL’mMChorn Creamery s. Centre! 1
North Park 10 College Heights f
GAMES TONIGHT:
Police Dept vs Hamby Z
V. F. W. vs Bargs 1
Post Office vs Thorntons
Neva! Reserve vs Sun Spot
Victory Club vs Freelancers
Yankees vs Boys Ranch
Longhorn Creamery vs Cobb Park
O A COMPLETE SELECTION et
Plenty of frisky
Nana RED HORSE
5wdeD> MINNOWS
FISHING BAIT—TACKLE—ALL KINDS
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AUSTIN. June 25. (UP)—The
• 1948 Texas Junior Chamber of
A scheduled day gante between
Washington and Detroit and a
night game between Cincinnati and
Philadelphia were postponed be-
cause of rain.
Cats Win 3d
Straight Game
Under Dockins
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Associated Press Sports Editor
One robin doesn’t make a spring
and three ball games don't make a
manager—but that’s a good start
George Dockips, who took over
as skipper at Fort Worth when Les
Burge was fired, is halting 1.000 in
the managerial ranks and the Cats
are again knocking lustily at first
place in the Texas League.
Dockins has boon headman of
the Cats for three nights and no
one could ask better results—three
victories Last night Fort Worth
beat Shreveport 4-2 to advance
within a game of the top
Houston look over the lead after
being out of it for two nights as
the Buffs trimmed Tulsa 13-3 II
dropped Tulsa to second place,
just five percentage points ahead
of Fort Worth
San Antonio downed Oklahoma
City 3-0 to cling to fourth place
while Dallas remained a half-game
back by edging Shreveport 2-1
Chris Van Cuyk unlimbered a
three-hitter as Fort Worth won its
fourth straight victory. The big
left-hander allowed only one ball
out of the infield That was Jack
Richards' hit that figure d in scor-
ing the Beaumont runs.
Houston got seven runs in the
first two innings and Tulsa never
had a chance Cloyd Boyer gave
up ohly eight hits and fanned 11:
George Archie parked one in the
third inning with a runner on base
to give San Antonio its victory
over Oklahoma City. The Missions
also got an unearned run in the
ninth.
Dallas rallied in the ninth to
shove across two runs in the defeat
of Beaumont. Quentin Altizer
limited the Exporters to four hits
but one was a, homer «by Bill
White
Tonight San Antonio again is at
Oklahoma City. Beaumont at Dal-
las Shreveport at Fort Worth and
Houston at Tulsa.
Commerce Golf Tournament open-
ed today with some 75 youtnfy
linksters lined up for th* 36-hole
medal play
The one-day championship tour-
ament will determine a state win-
ner and seven qualifiers who will
go to the National Jaycee Tourn-
ament at Lincoln, Neb , in August.
The state tournamentt 3 favorite
was Billy Maxwell of Abilene, but
he was expected to draw topflight
competition from Joe Conrad, win-
ner of the San Antonio Invitational I
tournament, Johnny Powell of
Dallas. Billy Erfurth of San An-
fonio Morris Williams, Jr of Aus-
tin. Don Addington and Buddy
Weaver of Houston. Herb Davis
and Don January of Dallas and
Sid Frink of Freeport. \
Mrs. Leaviff Bows;
Odessans Dominate
Angelo Golf Field
Reporter-News Service
SAN ANGELO, June 25. —The
battle for the 11th annual Wom-
en’s West Texas Golf Association
title may be strictly an Odessa af-
fair when semi-final play begins at
9 o’clock Saturday morning
Four Odessans won their first
round matches at San Angelo Coun-
try Club Thursday They are Mrs
Sam O’Neill defending champion
and Bonnie Awtrey, both in the up-
per bracket and Bobbie Huestis
and Estelle Chilton. In the lower
bracket
Mrs. O’Neill defeated Ruby Lee
Edmiston of Brownwood by a score
of 4 and 3 The defending champion
took 79 strokes In carving out the |
victory.
Bonnie Awtry won a decisive
victory over Olive Leavitt, of Abi-
lene. 7 and 6; Bobbie Huestis won
over Olive Day of Ft. Worth, 3
and 2; Estelle Chilton eked out
a 2 up win over Lola Morris of Ft.
Worth
The San Angelo Country Club
champion Ida Mae Powell was
eliminated from championship
flight play by Sybil Flournoy of
Midland. 2 and 1. -
Reet Anderson of Del Rio loomed]
as a darkhorse threat as a result
of her 6 and 5 win over Zelma Bar-
ber of Colorado Cly.
Another possible title threat ia
hard driving Betty London of
Brownwood, who eliminated Lu-
cille Morris of Ft. Worth 2 and 1.
In the other first round champion- |
ship flight match, Mrs. E J. Woo-
ward of Sweetwater defeated Vi
Ossenfort of Ft. Worth, 4 and X
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