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WORTH ATHLETES OLYMPIC TIMBI
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Meet
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omo negro
et Sunday
Six Park in
ontest will
Earle Meadows
And Foy Draper
Seeking Berths
AFTER BERTHS ON OLYMPIC TEAM
Stengel Moans
Lack of Power
In His Lineup
Go If
Standing Close to Ball in
Chip Shot Helps Play-
er Hit Through
SHIRTSLEEVE SCHEDULE
The Press meets Greyhound
Bus and Pirates opose Park De-
partment at 5:45 p. m. today at
Sycamore Park in the Shirtsleeve
League.
WRESTLING RESULTS
GAMES SLATED TONIGHT
Two games are scheduled to-
night at the North Main Softball
Park. Hy Myer meets General Mo-
tors at 7:30 o’clock and Commer-
cial Standard meets Texas Elec-
trie at 9 o'clock.
FOB. 20
=, Tommy
the Detroit,
is exeep-
20 games
i. It will be
ow be has
Texans Are Members of
Powerful Southern
_____________California Team.____6
He Would Trade Half of
-Flatbush of Just One
Home Run Slugger
NSW YORK. — Ralph Garibaldi.
Louis, pinned Jack Hader, Kansas City.
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By BANK RABUN
. Coach Dean B. Cromwell tropes’
. , to land 10 members of his Uni.
versity of Southern California
Trojan track and field squad on
the U. S. Olympic team and two
of that number are former Fort
W orth high school athletes.
Diminutive Foy Draper, a
sprinter who has burned the cin-
ders at the rate of 9.6 seconds
for the 100-yard dash, and Earle
Meadows, gangling youth who
hopes to attain 14 feet 6 inches
in the pole vault, are the ex-Tex-
ans who aspire for Olympic recog-
nitlon. And, according to news j
dispatches and personal corre-
spondence from the Pacific Coast
these two lads who once sported |
the purple and white togs of Pas-:
ehal (then Central) High are fa-
vorites to crash through with fly
inc colors in the N. C A A meet.
In Chicago, June 23-24
Trojans Powerful
West Coasters herald the Tro-:
an steamroller as the most pow-
erful track and field team ever
assembled at one institution. I
Tra k critics from the East will
mother in Columbus, 0. June 13
when Cromwell brings his sunkist
athletes to the Midwest for a dual
meet with the powerful Ohio State
ram. This event will serve as
4 warmup for the Trojans before
coins after rational honors in the
1 bicago meet.
Draper whom Cromwell rates
--. Along with. Charley Paddock and
Frank Wykoff for speed. in ther.
aprir ta, will be tossed against gal- r
loping Jesse Owens, world's rec-
ord holder In the 100, In the Chi:
, eago and Columbus events. The
long - seed - rt-bodied little fel- |
low who hail fro a family nf |
sprinters is € pected to give the
flying piece of ebony plenty of
trouble Draper has been-consist-.
By LESLIE AVERY:
United Press Correspondent.
NEW YORK, May 1.5. That
wailing noise from the National
League cellar today was Manager |
Casey Stengel moanin' low over |
not having a single slugger on.his |
entire Brooklyn Dodger team.
Out of 104 home runs smashed
out in the circuit to date. Sten- ,
gel's crew has accounted hut for
two of them.
In fact, Casey is so tired of
being shut out and losing games
by 1-0 and 2-1. scores that he is
ready to pawn one of his best
pitchers for a slugger. That is,
any of his pitchers except Van
Lingle Mungo.
Scout- Wants Sluggers
Stengel also has his scouts out
looking for a good hitting out-
FOY DRAPER
STAND FAIRLY (
CLOSE To THE
BALL WHEN /
PLAYING A /
CHIP SHOT )
| NEA
fielder who can help bring'
I "Brooklyn’s batting average above
the .250 mark, the lowest in the
league. Only iwo players are j
abore the 300- Ben Geraghty
| withe.333 and Johnny Hassett
■ with .343. Both are first-year
Earle Meadows
THESE two former Paschal
High students, now enroll- '
ed at University of Southern
California, have better than
even chances of securing posi-
tions on the U. S Olympic
team, according to Pacific •
men. •
The Dodgers took a terrific
shellacking from the. St. Louis
Cardinals yesterday, 12-to 4. The
Cards shelled four pitchers for
16 base hits. .
The second place Giants kept
up with the leaders as Carl Hub-
bell shut out the champion Chi-
cago Cubs, 5-to-0. Hubbell dish-
Coast track and field experts.
■ Draper, a sprinter, ' was city
sprint champion in) 1930. Mead- |
ows, who graduated In 1933.
Aniela Leads British
AT SAN FRANCISCO. Alvin Britt, Ou-
ray. Kan threw, Frank Taylor. Toledo,
— Ohio: Dr Barney Cosneck, St Louis, threw
Danny Savich. Salt Lake City.
rAT KANSAS CITY,Kan-Ted — Cox.
1 i Lodi, Cal., threw Ray Richards, Lincoln.
Neb
FIGHT RESULTS
NEW YORK. - Ray Nash. 138, Bay Ridge. .
N Y . outpointed Lou Jallos, 139, Clevee
land (10)
NEW HAVEN: Conn Steve Dudas,+193. -
Edgewater N J. outpointed Nathan
Mann., 188%. New Haven (Hr. ALA
Cox s Expansion
By ART KRENA/
NEA Service Golf Writer
“THE average golfer goes
1 about hitting the chip shot
as though he had no idea of
• what he was doing," says
Johnny Revolta. "He tries to
steer the ball, instead of let-
ting the club follow through
toward the line. Let the club •
do the hitting."
Stand close to the ball, much
the same as for the putt. ' A
firm grip with the left hand la
necessary. This permits the
player to hit through, and pre- 4
vents rianger of collapse before
impact with the ball.
ed out only five hits. I.on War- -
neke was the losing hurler.
1 Pittsburgh’s Pirates gained an
even break in their series with
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Cromwell believes that with the I .
press re on the Ty jan may nt BRANIFF TO GIVE
FISHING NEWS TO
Vaulting stars under Cromwell’s.
wing A sophomore he has been | |
thrust into the backtroun M BH F
Sefton, a senior, but the Fort
Worther has hren clearing the bar
at heights da - near the
world mark of 14 feet 5 1-8 inch-”
Soaring Over 14 Feet
Roy Lewis, former student at
Masonic Home and School who is
now attending U. S. C . writes The
=^-~==-~^^----
. Meadows has been reaching.
M feet 3 inches regularly. In a
recent talk with him he told me |
that he hopes to go three inches |
higher in the national tryouts in
June And T believe he will do.
w. He is heavier, stronger and
much faster than last season, and.
SALT FISHERMEN
A NY salt water fisherman
A who gets ants in his fish-
in’ bril* hes along about mid-
night of any Saturday and
craves to wet a line in the.
briny, deep of the gulf coast
can get rid of the yearn, ace
| cording to Douglass Wood,
press agent for Braniff Air-
lines
“We” have established a
fishing bulletin department,” |
said Wood this morning.
Well have bulletins from vA-
rious Coast fishing spots every
day as to water conditions and
I whether the fish are biting.
te Size
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morrow!
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lies
won the city, state and national j the Boston Bees by winping 5
titles in the pole vault. to-2. It was Ray Benge’s first
----- defeat of the season, Bush, who
1 - relieved Tising, was the winner.,
A O T In the American League the
L leading New York Yankees made
it two out of three over the St.
| Louis Browns with a 6-to-1 de-
Local Golf Star Even Par Over
First 18 Holes In British Meet
Veihl - Crystolax Game Is
- • Postponed
Bradford Transfer defeated T
Trinity Portland, 3 to 0, yester-
day in the Muny Twilight League |
at Sycamore Park. The Veihl-
Crystolax game was postponed
cision as Ruffing held, the:
Brownies to four hits, Joe Di-
Maggio, rookie outfielder led the
Yanks’15-hit attack with three
doubles and a single in five at-
tempts..
-..........._====== Grove Wins Sixth
Lefty Grove registered his sixth
Shoots 75 to Top First Day of Qualifying Play; Is Two’ victory win seven starts as’ the
Strokes Ahead of Nearest Rival over tno"petron,Te owRO he
-.. o - - —‘the Bengals to five hit« ,rors Lehaw 2
The Chicago White Sox moved |
because of wet grounds.
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By United Press.____1
SOETHPORT, Eng. May 15 -
' Mrs Aniela Gorezyca Goldthwaite
of Fort Worth. Texas playing par
golf, led early finishers today in
I the first 18 holes of qualifying
play in the British women a golf
ANGELA’S CARD
THE card of irs. Goldih-
-----aite in the qualifying
• round follows
Par-
: into fourth place ahead of the
Tigers by beating out the Wash-
| ington Senators 13 to-12 in a
tronste eatueeinr mammetint
homer for Washington Knotted
Totals 22 6 18 *6 Totals 23 615 18
Bradford ..-..-,...200 01x
Trinity Portland . .: 000 000 0
Summar: Runs. Craig 2 -Hunter. Ere
1 rors Lehaw 2 Two-base hits, Craig
Brow# McClung Hunter. Struck out
Lindsey 2. by Brown 5 Bases on balls.
- off Brown 2 off Lindsey. 1 Stolen bates
I Lindsey, O Smith. Time -of zAme, 1 23.
: Umpire Mays r
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The Expansion Sale brings
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brand-new suits . . the very
kind, you’ll need for hot
weather . . in all the newer
double
breasted models, plain and
sports backs in a variety of
new colors and patterns.
Whipcords! Cotton gaber- •
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championship *
The dark Texas matron, whose |
, early showing abroad wasn’t
; good enough to w in her a atari-1 |
. out 354 111 333—37
In 514 443 551-38—73
the count in the ninthat 1.2-all.1
Mrs. Goldthwaite
‘Fishermen can catch our
as you probably know, this added
speed will go a long way toward ,
more height I € Corpus that
4 A. m. plane, land in Corpus I
at7 bells, fish Al Iday, leave
“Draper is the fastest thing on ;
the West Coast, lust how he "
would rate- with Peacock, "Met-
calfe and Owens remains to The
peen, but it’s a good bet bell be
close. If not-in front, when they
ptreak past that wire in the 100.
Of the two I’d say that Mead-
pvs s the most likely Olympic
north A err Both have « darn-
pd Eo 1 chance th land but
Meadows has been catching the
pee of everyone out here who is.
land here at 1O"
night at 7 and
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MUNSELE IN DRAW:
DALLAS. May 15. The win
but Fred Marberry lost the game |
‘for himself when he fielded a
| bunt and tosised to third when
j -nobody was there. Haas round-
| ning streak of-Junior Munsell.
I Oklahoma City .Indian
heavy-
weight boxer, had been ended to-
day after he fought to a draw last
night with the veteran Jack Van
Out 341 314.534—37
In 511 112 645—58—75
I led third and came home with the
I Cup matches, went out over the i------------------:---:—:—.---winning Sox run
tricky Southport and Ainsdale , rAss Three-hit pitching by Dusty
course in 37 and came home in 38 | ception of the ninth where a nine Rhodes - ,. the Philadelphia
foot putt gave her a birdie four. Athletics a- 4-to-fr shutout
Coming home, Mrs. Goldthwaite 1 the Cleveland Indians, Johnson '
went over twice and under twice homered for the A s.
—the same as she did on the out- •
er’s berth in last week s Curtis I
Noy of Dallas. Munsell prevtous-
| IV had a string of 20 victories to
MEN'S STRAW HATS
Bs United Press
MINERAL WELLS, May 15—
The West Texas W omen a Golf
for a par 75.
Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare of
i Philadelphia, twice runner-up in
this tournament, moved into sec-
ond- place, two strokes behind Mrs.
Goldthwaite, with a 77, two
strokes over par. The six-times
American < iampion went out in
8 and cante home in 3.9, each
e o a
Three . strokes behind Mrs.
Goldthwaite were Wanda Morgan,
his credit.
over i -----------
ward nine. She played par ail |
the war to the 135-yard 15th
where she birdied with a two. She
HART EY WINS GAME
Harvey Ice Cream defeated
Weatherford, n to 9. yesterday in
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went one over on the par-five Weatherford in a baseball game..
16th, went one under on the 17th * -----—----—•---
and over again on the last hole.
Mrs. Goldthwaite made marvel- |
ous recoveries on her inward nine.
track wise."Assn tournament entered the see
Draper, whose father andtwo ond round today with Mrs. K. E
biking oTrntih he Heent Winger and Mrs. F E. Rochon
tur left Pa scha H gh in 1030 both of Fort Worth; battling it out
‘so enroll in a Los Angeles prepfor what observers believe will be |
school He won the city sprints the tourney championship.
to n-TEedoWon The 5EN| M" Winger defeated Mrs The
e ampionship in the pole vault Vernon, Abilene, yesferday 9 and
He won the 7. and Mrs. Rochon won over Mrs.
Fort Worth, 8
English girl, the defending cham-
pion, and Bridget Newell, Derby-On the 420 yard par five 10th she
shire Both had 78‘s bobbled her second shot and was
Next, with a 79, was Patty Berg short with her approach. She got
of Minneapolis who faltered com-on and then ran down a nine foot
ing home after going out in 38, putt for a par.
GARDEN FEMS PLAY-.
Glen Garden Women’s Golf
Assn. will meet today in regular
nine and 18-hole play.
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STREI I FLOOR
for three season!
prate championship in that event Hattie Collins,
in 1932 and 1933. .
and 7.
one over par.
Mrs. Goldthwaite played splen-
didly on her outward nine. On
the second hole, where she had a
On the 11th she overran the
green but sank a 30-foot putt for
a par four. On the 13th, her ap- |
proach was short but again she
ATTENTION PARENTS!
birdie four, Mrs. Goldthwaite half- ran down a long putt- 12 feet —
topped her drive. A brilliant for a par four. On the 15th. she
spoon and a chip dead to the pin sank a 15-foot putt for a birdie
enabled her to recover, two. Her drive went into a
On the fourth, where she went bunker on the 16th where she
one over par for a five, she hook- went one over par. She rounded
ed her drive into a bunker. On out a perfect performance with a
7 77 Y 7 7 I the par four fifth, she scored a five, one over par on the last hole
L y / / / /y / 01/ /) 4e | fi'r The other holes she played w hen her a pproach dropped
D(SCUCIV CCICIICGT in orthodox fashion with the ex-| short.
Texas League
TEAM STANDINGS.
Team w l r-’
Houston ........ 18 11 631
Beaumont .......17 11 607
Ear
Galveston ..
Fort Worth
481
439
233
RESULTS THURSDAY
Galveston 4 Fort worth 1
Tulsa 6 Beaumont 5.
Oklahoma City S. San An-
tonio1
Houston 12, Dallas 11.
WHERE THIFY II NY
Houston at Fort Worth.
City
American League National League
TE KM STANDINGS
TEAM STANDINGS.
1ER
Team
New York ....
Boaton .......
Cleveland ..-
Washington ...
Chicago ...,
Detroit ...
Philadelphia 1.
St. Louis .....,
Y LE Tram-,
1 A 1 St. Louis .....
* 10 600 New York ...
J 11 320 Pittsburgh ...
1 10 524 Chicago .....
2 12 son Cincinnati ...
1 15 375 Boston .....%
4 32 154 Brooklyn
Philadelphia
th
Ml st CIS THL RSDAY
Boston 3, Detroit 1
Philadelphia 4, Cleveland
0.
Chicago 13, Washington
12
New York • St. Louis 1
WHERE THEY PLAY.
Philadelphia at Detroit
New York at Chicalo
Boston at Cleveland
Washington at St. Louis.
Southern Assn. AXerican
TEAM STANDINGS - American Assn.
Team — W. I Pet
Atlanta ......36 4 .862
Little Rock .15 11 .577
New Orleans "
Nashville.
Chattanoosa
Knoxville .
• Birmingham
• Memphis ..
TEAM STANDINGS.
Tram — W. L. Pet.
w. LPet.
5 8 .682
11 10 .565
.12 12 500
12 11 462 .
,11 1.1 .468 I
in is 400,
11 16 1,407 I
RESULTS THURSDAY
St Louis 12, Brooklyn 4
Pittsburgh A, Boston 2
New York 5. Chicago 0
Cincinnati at Philadel-
phia, cold.
WHERE THEY PLAY.
—Chicaso at Philadelphia
St. Louis at Boston *
Cincinnati at New York.
Pittsburgh at Brooklyn.
E. Texas League
22 6 .780 Gladewater
7 667 Palestine
9 .640 Henderson
10 .615 Marshall ..
16 429: Tyler .....
14 .333 Longview
18 280. Jacksonville
1 “Kilgore ...
TEAM STANDINGS.
TeamW.L. Pct.
St Paul
25 Kansas City
553 Milwaukee .
441 Minneapolis ....
34. Louisville
321 Indianapolis .
VAT Columbus ............
* * n: » Toledo .......... 6 19 .240
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