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IMMORTAL BABE TH I BAMBINO
No. 3 — The House The» Ruth Built
Laid to Rest
NEW YORK, Aug. 1. (n—The
last, formal farewells were offered,
this morning to Babe Ruth, the bis
guy with the quick grin and the
powerful wrists.
Roman eatholic services were
held at 9 a. m. (Abilene time) in
Bt. Patrick's cathedral on fifth ave
nue. Thousands of persons—many of
whom came many miles distant-
filed through the rotunda of the
stadium where the Babe lay in
state for two days.
Many of those who came from
outside the city remained bare for
the funeral. They ineluded public
officials, prominent sports figures
and just plain fans.
There was space for about 1,000
of them to stand or sit in the
Cathedral, where Francis Cardinal
Spellman officiated at a requiem
high mass-
Only a small section of the
church was reserved for members
of Ruth's immediate family, the
honorary pallbearers and the
Yankee baseball team.
After the services a police mot-
tarcycle detail escorted the cortege
to the Gate of Heaven Cemetery.
Irritating the Manager
THINK
A Yankee for $125,000
Crashing the Headlines
Packing Yankee Stadium
Baltie For Fourth Place in Texas
League b Working Like I See-Saw
or ALL the people who knew Babe Ruth none knew
him better than Ed Barrow, .___
Barrow managed the Beaten Red Sen from 1918
through 1920 and was familiar with Ruth’s antics off
the field. One night when the team visited Washington
Barrow stayed up all night to eatch Ruth breaking
training rules. .
At six a.m. Barrow stormed into Ruth’s rooms to And
Babe smoking a pipe with the bed covers up to his neck.
-Ive been here all night,” Ruth said. “I like to smoke
this early every morning."
With that Barrow pulled back the covers and found
what he had expected. Ruth was fully dressed, even to
his shoes. The next day Ruth was serf ended
“But you couldn’t suspend a ana like that for very
long,” Barrow once said. “He loved the game too much."
Bath was unhappy in January 1920 when Owner
Harry Frazee, la need of money, sold the Babe to the
Yankees for $125,000. Bath began la Bootea and had
the place in his heart.
Bat the Babe must have taken real pride in himself
his first two years as a Yankee for he hit 54 home runs
fa 1920 and 59 in 1921, and every drive he hit helped
wipe off the stigma s the Chlease Black Sex Seandal
“I1s2 Ruth had another great year. Yankee Stadium
opened that April and the $3,000,000 park came to
be known as “The House that Ruth Built.” Ruth was in
all his glory, a new park and new honors. He batted
393 and was voted the Most Valuable Player in the
American League.
A Columbia professor once gave Ruth some 20 tests
in reactions, such as coordination, hearing and eyesight.
When it was over the professor said:
"Her one man out of a million.’ A NEWSFEATURES
Sox Move to Borger to
Face Rampaging Gassers
Reporter - Siews
01C S
Cats, Dusters
Tied for 4th
By The Associated Press
By The Associated Press
It’s wearing on the nerves for a
couple of managers but the only
race left in the Texas League
campaign—the battle for fourth
place—is working like a see-saw.
In four nights the spot has
changed hands four times. Today
San Artonio is in the saddle. To-
night it could be Shreveport again.
Last night San Antonio clipped
Doug Cox Named
Ballinger Aide
Doug Cox, former Ballinger High
and McMurry grid star, has been
elected as assistant coach at Bal-
linger High School replacing
James E. Garrett, who resigned to
accept a coaching position at Vega
High School.
Cox graduated from Ballinger
High in 1940. He played on the
8MU freshman team and on the
San Angelo Junior College team
the following year before joining
the Army. After he was discharged
from service, be enrolled in Mc-
Murry and played on the 1946
eleven.
He received his BA degree from
McMurry and last year served as
assistant coach at Colorado City
High School.
The battle for fourth place in the Stamford Gets
Reporter-News Service
BORGER, Aug. 1.—The Abilene
Blue Sox, after losing their second
straight decision to Amarillo last
night, were faced with the un-
wholesome task of stopping Bor-
ger’s rampant Gassers, who wal-
loped Lamesa, 29-0, Wednesday, in
the series opener tonight.
The Sox, limited to six hits by
righthander Joe Budny. dropped a
10-1 verdict in the Amarillo finale,
although lefty John Kelly allowed
the Gold Sox only eight blows—two
of them home runs.
It was the fourth consecutive loss
for Abilene.
GASSERS EXPLODE
Red Roden, Odessa, One of
Low Amateur Qualifiers
Pg. 4 Abilene, Texas, Thursday Evening, August 19,1948
New Found Mound Strength Making
Dodgers Team to Beat in National
Longhorn League is something to
see.
As of today, Ballinger and Ver-
non are tied for it. Ballinger has
lost fewer games but Vernon has
won more.
Last night San Angelo licked Bal-
linger, 9-5, while Vernon was edg-
ing Del Rio 1-0 to bring about the
Meanwhile, Manager Eddie Car-
nett. starting his second game of
the season on the Gasser mound,
handcuffed Lamesa with two safe-
ties to hurl Borger to a 29-0 shut-
cut over the Loboes. It was Car-
nett's fifth win of the season.
Tonight's tilt shapes up as a
crucial test. The Gassers, trailing
the Blue Sox by a single game in
sixth place, could move into a fifth-
place tie with Abilene by turning
in a victory.
It was expected that the rival
By WILL GRIMSLEY
NEW YORK, Aug. 19. UB—Robert
(Skee) Riegel, who opens defense
of his National Amateur Golf
championship at Memphis Aug. 30
now has his work cut out for him
—and it looks rugged.
The 33-year-old ironmaster from
Upper Derby, Pa., will face eight
past U. 8. and British champions
and 301 survivors of the largest
list ever to enter the venerable
Fort Worth 5-1 while Shreveport
was losing to Tulsa 7-2. So, today
San Antonio to one-half game
ahead of the Sports.
Houston broke a losing streak #t O
three-games by downing Dallas
6-5 and Beaumont whipped Okla-
homa City 4-3.
San Antonio got three runs in the
first inning and coasted in. At the
same time Ben Antonio's manager,
Gus Mancuso, heard from the
league office that Ms protest of
Tuesday night's game in which
Fort Worth beat the Missions had
been overruled.
Dallao moves to Shreveport to (
night with Fort Worth at Beau t
mont, Oklahoma City at San An
tonio and Tulsa at Houston.
Horton Sold to
Wichita Falls
SWEETWATER, Aug. 19. — Out
right sale of Claude Horton, veto- ,
ran pitcher, to Wichita Falls of C
the Big State League was an-
nounced today by the Sweetwa-
ter Sports of the Longhorn loop. '
The former Texas Leaguer was
to report immediately to the Wichi-
ta Falla club.
GOP RADIO SI
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When Ben Hogan recently set
a record of ST - onal
Open he did it over the Rivlers
Country Club course in Los An
geles, longest courses over which 1
the Open ‘ever has been played.
Ex-Wildcat Act
Bill McClure, quarterback on the
1938 Abilene High School team and
backfield performer for the ACC
Wildcats in 1939, ’40, ‘46 and ‘47,
was appointed assistant football
coach of Stamford High School
Wednesday.
He replaced Buford McCauley,
who resigned and la planning to go
to Fort Worth.
McClure is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. 0. D McClure of Abilene.
He served with the Marine Corpa
from 1941-45.
The two top quarterbacks with
the Buffalo Bills are George Rat-
terman and George Terlop, both
from Notre Dame.
During the first half of thia year
Ben Hogan averaged 69.86 strokes
over 51 competitive golf rounds.
Bus. Pho. 8242 Res. Pho. 9868
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deadlock.
Leading Big Spring was besten
by. Sweetwater, 6-2, and second-
place Odessa gained a game by
walloping Midland 25-6.
Giants’ victory over the Braves. It
By JOE REICHLER
Associated Press Sports Writer
A new found strength on the
mound is making the Brooklyn
Dodgers the team to beat in the
National League.
Burt Shotton’s Brooks shutout
the Philadelphia Phillies last
night 1-0, to climb' within one game
of the slipping Boston Braves. The
Braves were beaten by the Giants
in New York 8-2.
Rex Barney for the Brooks gsve
the best performance of his major
league career. He permitted only
one hit.
The third place St. Louis Cardi-
nals also took advantage of Bos-
ton's defeat, coming from behind
O
coast made bids for the "sudden
death" eliminations at the Mem-
phis Country Club Aug. 30-Sept. 4.
There were only two prominent
casualties. Walter Emery of Tulsa,
runner-up to Lawson Little in 1235
blew himself to a 155 at Oklahoma
City and failed to qualify. Harold
Paddock. Jr., the Ohio amateur
champion, didn't make it at Cleve-
land. Ma home, after taking 153
for the 36 holes.
The veteran Johnny Dawson of
Hollywood, who dropped a 2 and
1 decision to Riegel in the finals
at Del Monte, Calif., last year,
stroked his way In at Loo An-
geles with 73-71-144, four over
par.
He placed second to Bruce Mc-
Cormick, also of Hollywood, who
set a qualifying record for the Cal-
ifornia metropolis with 72-65—137,
three under.
Ray Billows of Poughkeepsie. N.
Y., twice a runner-up in the Na-
tional. was right behind Boros at
Great Neck with a 4 -75—141.
At only 15 of the 32 qualifying
centers was the leader able to
beat par.
was Jones’ 12th triumph.
The Pittsburgh Pirates rallied
for six runs in the top of the eighth
to come from behind and defeat
the Chicago Cubs, 7-4.
The Cleveland Indians extended
their first place margin in the
American League to three full
games over the Boston Red Sox
and Philadelphia Athletics by de- .____.... _
feating the St. Louis Browns, 3-0. the tournament to decide a state
The Red Sox climbed over the
Athletics into second place by two
Oilers-Freighters Win
WACO, Aug. 19. in — Hardman
Oilers of Grand Prairie and Cen-
tral Freight Lines of Wsco go after
their second victories tonight in
champion of the National Softball
Congress.
the shoe
everybody
Hardmsn last night whipped
Hubbard American Legion, 7-1, In
the first game of the tournament.
Central Freight defeated ABC Cab
of Grand Prairie, 3-1. Treadwell
Cafe of Dallas forfeited its game
to Morris Jewelers of Wseo.
percentage points when they un-
leashed a 17-hit attack against
three Philadelphia pitchers to whip
the A s, 10-2.
Vic Raschi earned his easiest
victory of the season when the
New York Yankees detested the
tourney.
The field was decided in sec-
tional qualifying trials yesterday
from coast-to-coast, paced by a
pair of golfers hardly known out-
side their own sections—William
Roden of Odessa, and Julius Boros
of Bridgepoet, Conn.
expecton .... .... ...... Roden, known as "Red" in the
will shoot their aces into open Southwest country, ripped six
strokes from par as he registered
70-68—138 at San Angelo Boros
fashioned a nice 66-69—135, five
under regulation, to lead the 88
who tried out in the fast Metro-
politan area at Great Neck, N. Y.
Their performances stood out
as 1,221 golfers from coast-to-
managers
tonight's fray—Carnett calling on
lefty Clayton Fries or Hugh King,
and Tex Coapland using either
himself or Fred Fazzio for Sox
mound duty.
Last night's box:
Clardy, If s n s
Kelly, P ....
TOTALS .
AMARILLO
0 0
TOTALS
Abilene
..31 10 8 27 1 s
. 000 000 100— 1
see 003 00x—10
Runs batted in: Folkman 2, Halter 3
rues 1. Gentzkow 4 Falappino. Tun
ase hits: Harriman, Halter, Falappind
Home runs: Gentzkow, Folkman Sto
ases: Harriman, Folkma
Double plays: Harriman «•
Lewis: Budney to Folkman
Fausett to Lewis: Fausett to
Lewis. Left on bases Abile
H10 6 Bases on balls: Kell;
1 Strike-outs Kelly 3 Budr
pitcher, by: Kelly (Crues, B
pitches: Kelly. Passed balls. .
pires: Fisher and Gatlin. Time
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FRIDAY
AUGUST
20
for the -
ALL-STAB
to edge the Cincinnati Reds 4-3.
The Cards now are only two and
a half games off the pace.
Eight-hit pitching by Sheldon
Jones and home runa by Johnny
Mle (No. 29) and Sid Gordon _
(No. Ml were the highlights of the cause of rain.
Washington Senators, 41, in s
game called st the end of the
fifth because of rain.
The Chicago White Sox-Detroit
Tigers game was postponed be-
WT-NM Leaguers
Still Hitting
By The- Associated Press
The West Texas-New Mexico
League just won't rest on its laur-
els of being the hittingest circuit
in professional baseball
The Borger Gassers did their bit
to keep the loop's reputation last
night by clouting four Lamesa
pitchers for 25 hits and shutting
out the Loboes 29-0. Borger got
eight home runs, three of them
by Hugh King, a pitcher who was
playing center field for the night.
Ed Garnett gave Lamesa only two
hits.
League - leading Albuquerque
trimmed Pampa, 8-4, with Frank
Shane notching his eighteenth
m- pitching victory.
Second-place Amarillo battered
Abilene 10-1 with John Budny win-
ning his eighteenth
Lubbock whammed Clovis 10-4 as
Virg Richardson paced a 12-hit
attack with two homers, a double
and a single
Weldner-Harrel
Team Wins Match
The team of Billy Weidner and
FOOTBALL
GAME*
*COLLEGE ALL-STARS
vs.
CHICAGO CARDINALS
BADEBA
14
Yesterday’s Results
WEST TEXAS-NEW MEXICO
BEE amw 10
pampa 4. Albuquerque #,.
Lubbock 10, Clovis 4 E
LONGHORN LEAGUE
Midland 6, Odessa 25
§25.‘*mi,e
Del Rio 0. Vernon 1__
TEXAS LEAGUE
Dallas 5, Houston 6,
Fort Worth 1. San Antonio •
Oklahoma City 3. Beaumont 4
Tulsa 7, shr
ille 4-10
4
s 2
AGUE
Boston 2, New York ■
Brooklyn Philadelphia •
Pittsburgh Chicago 4
Cincinnati 3, St. Louis 4
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 4, Washington 1
Philadelphia 10, Boston a
St. Louis 0, Cleveland 3.
Chicago at Detroit, pp-rain
League Standings
Jet Harrell whipped Jack Carter .
and Kari Gray in the Australian o
tag-team match at the Fair Park | M
Supper Club grappling bouts Wed-
nesday night *
Harrell copped the first fall by
pinning Carter and then the New
Zealander came back to square the
match by downing Harrell with a
rolling leg Mck.
But Weidner clinched the match
by pinning Gray with an airplane
spin
Dory Detton and Billy Hickson
fought to a 45-minute draw in the
preliminary event after each had
captured one fall.
Hickson served as referee for
the tag-team fray.
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70 Collegiate Gridders Ready
For Game With Cards Friday
CHICAGO. Aug. 19. (P)—Seventy
collegian football stars rested in a
downtown hotel today before clash-
ing with the national football league
champion Chicago Cardinals tomor-
row night before a sellout crowd of
100.000
The squad went through a snappy
drill under the soldier field lights
last night.
Perhaps never has an all star line
been so strong and so deep end to
end The same goes for the line
backing, which will be handled by
such giants as Oklahoma's John Ra-
pacx. Navy's Dick Scott, Kentucky's
Jay Rhodemyre, Indiana's Howard
Brown and Alabama's John Wor-
niak.
Halfback Chalmers Elliott of
WEST TEXAS-NEW MEXICO
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Lubbock..............
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dee seeeeuneuuioI 06 20 26%
Lamesa. ........41. T9 342 35
Lonononn LEAGUE
TEAM W. L. Pet GB
Ballinger ...........£ E 517 17
Vernon.............9 8 12
Sweetwater M1 5247 14
San Angelo...........-9
Del Rio 35 84204 38%
TEXAS LEAGUE
TEAM w. L M GB
= 1 1 S E
San Antonio ..........61 ft 488 10
Shreveport.. ........ft ft 44 1.
Dallas.................55 71 .437 21%
Oklahoma City.......54.71 432
Beaumont 52 75 400 25
NATIONAL LEAGUE
TEAM W. L. Pet. GB
Top Swingers In
Premier Tourney
LONGVIEW, Aug If (—One of
the hottest collections of South-
western smsteurs ever assembled
for a Texas golf tournament will
toe off tomorrow in qualifying
rounds of the Premier Sixth an-
nual invitation tournament.
First and second round matches
are carded Saturday with the
semi-finals and 27-hole final slated
Sunday.
Competing for the crown relin-
quished by former State Champion
Earl Stewart, who is directing this
year’s event for Premier, will be
top amateur golfing talent in a
three-state area including virtual-
ly every member of the Texas
cup team and eight linksmen
boasting state tiles.
Michigan, today was elected to
captain the College All - Stars
against the Chicago Cardinals at
Soldier Field Friday night. Due to
an injury, however, his participa-
tion in the game la doubtful.
The 33 - year - old Wolverine star
from Bloomington. Ill, suffered a
knee injury in Saturday's Intra-
squad game at Dyche Stadium.
Meanwhile, Earl Maves of Wis-
consin was moved into Elliott’s
halfback spot in the single wing-
back formation head Coach Frank
Leahy plans to couple with a T-
formation squad against the Card-
inals.
Coach Blair Cherry of Texas.
Leahy's aide on the single wing
board of strategy, rejoined the all-
stars today after a trip to Austin,
Tex , where his mother was ill.
TAAF Tourney Opens
FORT WORTH, Aug. 19. (—
Boxers from at least 15 cities, in-
cluding throe defending cham-
pions, start swinging tonight in the
Texas Amateur Athletic Federa-
tion state boxing tournament here.
Teams entered are from Houston,
Sweetwater, San Angelo, Odessa,
Port Arthur, Corpus Christi, Dal-
las, Tyler, Cleburne. Cisco, Lub-
bock, Amarillo, Austin, Galveston
and Fort Worth.
Six former Notre Dame athletes
are members of the Buffalo Bills
of the All-America Football Con-
ferences.
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New York .....56 53 800 %
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St Louis .............43 ft
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Games Today
WEST TEXAS-NEW MEXICO
ABILENE at Borger
Pampa at Clovis
Lamesa at Amarillo
Lubbock at Albuquerque
TEXAS LEAGUE
Fort Worth at Beaumont
Ocinom. "fy 2 E. Antonio
Tulsa at Houston
NATIONAL LEAGUE .
Boston at New York—Sain (15-11) vs
R"s ende-go sowan a -
I semelnau at St. Louts—Raffennberger
(9-5) vs Brecheen (14 4).
Only games scheduled). _
AMERICAN LEAGUE .
New York at Washington—Reynolds
01-6 or Byrne 63.4) or Shea (810) vI
"pmund.ioein at Boston—rowier (11-0
vs Dobson (13-6),
(Only games scheduled).
Polly Wins Match
SAN MATEO, Cal, Aug. 1S.
(UP) — The cream of America's
feminine amateurs, tee off today
la the quarter-finals of the 18th
annual women's Trans-Mississippi
tournament. Headlining the chase
is defending champion Polly Riley
of Fort Worth, who powered her
way past tiny Alice Bauer of Long
Beach, 5-3, yesterday. Miss Riley
tangles with veteran Dot Traung
of San Francisco, who moved
along with a mild upset win over
Mary Sargent of Monterey, 1 and
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