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Sweetwater Reporter, Sweetwater, Texas
Big Spring's Broncs swept a
three-game series with the
Sweetwater Sports as the league-
leading Hosses trotted to a 9 to
1 victory last night before a paid
attendance of 1,610.
Roy Outen was on the mound
for the Sports and he allowed
the tough Big Spring squad only
eight hits. The Broncs left four
men stranded on base: the
Sports had 11 players without
life savers.
Dave Steger clouted two for
four to lead the Sport hitters.
Sweetwater slammed three two-
base hits—Kenny Peacock, Hal
Jackson and Steger banging out
the doubles.
The Sports lost to the Broncs
Saturday and Sunday by the
same count of 4-3.
Today the Sweetwater club
journeyed to Vernon where they
meet the Dusters in a two-game
stand. They then go to Midland
for three days before returning
to the home park.
The box score.
Sweetwater
Reynolds, 2b .
Taylor, rf
Dunlap, c
K. Peacock, 3b
Steger, cf
E. Peacock, If
ab r h po
.4 0 0 3
0 0
0 0
5 0 0 2
5 0 0 3
2 0 12
4 0 2 4
4 112
Jackson, lb 4 0 1 8
; Lee. ss 3 0 1 0
. Outen, p 3 0 0 0
, Totals 34 1 6 24
Big Spring
Bosch, 3b .
Yasquez, ss . .
McClain, 2b
Echeverria. 2b
Fernandez, if
Azpiazu, lb ...
Baez, rf
ab r h po
5 0 10
.4 2 0 0
3 2 1
0 0 0
1 1
2 2
1 I
DAVE STEGER—Leads Sport
batters in Big Spring contest;
slams double and single. (Pho-
to by Etz).
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j Totals 29 9 8 27
Sweetwater 000 000 010 .. 1
; Big Spring 001 240 20x .. 9
Errors—Reynolds, Dunlap 2;
i Vasqufcz. McClain, Echeverria.
; Assists—Reynolds 2 K. Peacock
j 3, Lee 3, Outen; Bosch, Vas-
quez 3, Echeverria, Aspiazu, J.
i Perez 4.
Runs batted in —Bosch, Fern-
andez, Azpiazu, Baez 3. Two
base hits—K. Peacock, Jackson,
Steger, McClain. Home runs—
Baez. Stolen bases— Vasquez,
McClain. Sacrifices—Outen, Pe-
rez.
Double plays—K. Peacock to
Reynolds to Jackson: K. Pea-
cock to Jackson. Left on bases
—Sweetwater 11, Big Spring 4.
Bases on balls—Outen 5, Perez
3. Strike-outs—Outen 2, Perez
10. Hit by picher, by Perez (K.
Peacock) Outen (Baez, Vas-
quez). Passed balls—Transpues-
to. Umpires— Tondrick and
Eiler. Time 2:06.
WHITAKER'S
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YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Longhorn League
Midland 12, Odessa 11.
San Angelo 2, Vernon 1 (10
innings).
Big Spring 9, Sweetwater 1.
Del Rio 7, Ballinger 0.
Texas League
Shreveport 8, Houston 1 (1st,
7 innings).
Shreveport 2, Houston 0 (2nd)
Fort W orth 4 .Oklahoma City
1.
Tulsa 5, Dallas 4.
Beaumont at San Antonio,
postponed, wet grounds.
Big State League
Austin 9, Waco 4.
Sherman-Dennison 14, Gaines-
ville 6.
Wichita Falls 10, Greenville
2
Texarkana 10, Paris 7.
Lone Star League
All-Stars 3, Kilgore 2.
West Texas-New Mexico
Albuquerque 10, Lubbock 5.
Pampa 13, Clovis 4.
Abilene 17, Borger 9.
Amarillo 22, Lamesa 3.
Longhorn Standings
Team W L Pet.
Big Sprine 50 27 .649
Odessa 48 32 .600
Midland 45 35 .563
Ballinger 40 33 .548
Vernon 38 41 .481
Sweetwater 37 45 .451
Sail Angelo 35 44 .443
Del Rio 23 59 .280
GAMES TODAY
Longhorn League
Sweetwater at Vernon.
Odessa at Ballinger.
Del Rio at Midland.
San Angelo at Bie Spring.
West Texas-New Mexico
Abilene at Borger.
Lubbock at Albuquerque.
Pampa at Clovis.
Lamesa at Amarillo.
Texas League
(No games scheduled).
National League
(No games scheduled).
American League
(No games scheduled).
Del Rio Blanks
Ballinger 7 To 0;
Colls Nick Vernon
By United Press
The Big Spring Broncs moved
3 % games out in front of the
Longhorn League pack today.
The Broncs had little trouble
disposing of Sweetwater 9-1 last
night, while runner-up Odessa
was losing a close 12-11 contest
to third-place Midland. The vic-
tory left Midland three games
back of Odessa.
In the league's other games
De) Rio blanked Ballinger 7-0
and San Angelo nosed out Ver-
non 2-1 in 10 innings.
Ezznrd Charles
Ezzard Charles Pilot
Lives In Dream World
By CHESTER L. SMITH
N EA Special Correspondent
Now that Joe Louis has re-
tired, what comes next?
The answer may be under
the battered gray slouch hat of
a gab-whacky little man from
Pittsburgh who has done about
everything there is to do in the
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Sport Business Exec Stars
John Leeson, Sweetwater
Sports business manager, pitch-
ed a two-hit ball game Sunday
afternoon in Abilene for the
Delta Sigma fraternity nine.
The playing business exec
for the Sport baseball club!
struck out nine men in hurling
the Delta fraternity college I
boys to a 10-5 victory over the |
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The two hits garnered 'off
Leeson were both singles. The
five runs scored by the Khoda
Deru nine were all unearned.
Leeson struck out five men in
the first two innings.
* * * ,
Amateur Boxers <
Boys who report regularly
for training in the Sweetwater
amateur boxing program will
receive a jacket next month, ac-
cording to officials of the Sweet-
water Athletic Association.
Trophies will also be award-
ed winners in each weight di-
vision when the city tourna-
ment comes off the tirst part
of August.
* * *
Colts Purchase Leedy
The San Angelo Colts of the
Longhorn League have pur-
chased Pitcher Leedy, right-
hander, from the Sherman-Den-
ison club of the Big State Lea-
gue, according to Claude Mc-
Aden, Angelo manager. Leedy i
won fifteen games for Sherman- j
Denison last season.
fight business, including sweep
out the joint after the show.
Jake Mintz is co-manager and
part owner of Ezzard Charles,
25- year- old Cincinnati banjo-
thumper. It is generally agreed
where the slug-nuts collect that
this negro veteran of three
years ot war is, pound for pound,
the best fighter in the country
today.
Charles boxes at between 170
and 175. He has no trouble mak-
ing the light-heavyweight limit.
Some day he may go 180, al-
though this is doubttul. But he's
big enough. He can hit as hard
as Louis ever did. There's no
comparison between Jersey Joe
Walcott's punch and his.
Mintz is now both the pur-
sued and the pursuer. Sol Strauss
and the 20th Century Club are
chasing him with contracts. He
has a July date in Madison
Square Garden if he wants it.
The Tournament of Champions,
the new outfit that stepped in
with the Tony Zaie-Rocky Grazi-
uno match, is making eyes in
his direction. He has signed
Charles to tackle Jimmy Bivins
again in Washington, Aug. 2.
Baltimore is on his trail and
there is an order from the Pa-
cific coast.
At tiie same time, .lake is
stalking (Jus Lesnevich, 33-year-
old holder of the light-heavy
belt. Mintz wants to match
Charles with Lesnevich in what
could be a $500,000 gate at Yan-
kee Stadium, Sept. 22.
But Lesnevich, in London for
another shot at Freddie Mills,
.I ulv 26, makes it plain that he
prefers Walcott. For more than
a year Lesnevich has made it
clear that lie wanted no part of
Charles.
The Mintz-Charles combine got
one bad break that still has Jake
moaning. Ezzard failed to make
an impression when he appear-
ed for the first lime in the Car-
den. Had it been the other way,
Charles and not Walcott might
have been chosen for that date
with Louis last lie-'. 5.
Jake has been told as much.
It pains him to speculate what
Charles might have done to the
Louis who was, in so many
minds, beaten by Jersey Joe
that night.
But Jake Mintz consoles him-
self with the thought that it was
nothing more than a temporary
detour.
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Retains Title;
Jack Stays 6
By OSCAR FHALEY
I'. P. Sports Writer
PHILADELPHIA, July 13,—
(UP)— Beau Jack, a brown-
skinned little man with a bulg-
ing balcony over each eye, sat
in a warm little room deep un-
der Shibe Park and smiled
eagerly and forlornly.
He still was shaking the cob-
webs out ot his brains after a
technical knockout at the flash-
ing hands of lightweight cham-
pion Ike'Williams ana the one-
time Georgia bootblack still
wasn't sure what had happened.
But ot one thing he was cer-
tain. This wasn't the old Beau
who could send a solid stream
ol leather whistling in at his
opponent for 15 rounds. This
wasn't the tireless "Golden
Boy" who twice had won the
ligntweignt bauble and once
was the hottest "box office" in
the game. This Beau's clock had
run ilown after five fast rounds
and in the sixth he had been a
helpless target, hands hanging
limply at his side, as the taller
boy facing him battered him
with rights and lefts.
"1 just forgot to duck that
left hand," he said hurriedly,
smiling in the pathetic manner
of a Cocker Spaniel which had
just been spanked. "But 1
didn't think the referee would
stop it so quick."
Despite these protestations,
and tnose of manager Chick
\\ ergeles, Jack was a well beat-
en tighter. They simply were
trying to talk their way out uf a
bad situation. But A! (the best i
Weil, a so-called "adviser" in
the Jack camp, swabbed his
chest with a towej and called a
spade a spade.
"I'm glad he stopped it," Weil
said. "That's all I've got to say."
He, and they, knew that
this little man who had just
been heaten in an attempt
to become the first three-
time winner of the Light-
weight crown was only a
"has been" now in the 13ft
pound division.
Jack had sweated and starved
to make the weight and it took
away all the old energy. Sure,
the little battler denied it.
"I was strong enough," he
protested. "Making the weight
didn't bother me at all. Tough'.'
Sure he was tough. They're all
tough."
But everybody in the crowd
sitting under the stars knew
that this title-shooting star had
fallen gelow the horizon. His
weakness, as much as Williams'
punches, cut him down even
though his dogged courage kept
him on his feet as the referee
tore the furious Williams away
in the sixth.
Nobody knew it any more
than Williams. "He wasn't too
much," the arrogant, dead-pan
ned negro said as he stripped
down in his dressing room. "1
didn't feel a single punch."
That was the final straw. Win,
lose or draw, the other guy
usually admitted against the old
Beau that lie had been in a fight.
But then, this wasn't the old
Beau.
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Tuesday, July 13, 1948
City Golf Tournament
To Be Held In August
Qualifying rounds for the an-
nual City (3olf Tournament will
begin August first and continue
through the 15th and match
play will continue through the
following four weeks, according
to an announcement made by
Carl Pratt, president of the Golf
Association, following a meet-
ing of the association last night
at the BCD office.
The calcutta pool and barbe-
cue will be held Monday even-
ing, August 10. A fee of $3.00
will be charged entrants and
this will cover the calcutta pool
and barbecue, it was announced.
Prizes similar to those given
in last years tournament will be
given winners.
The group also discussed the
financial outcome of the Invita-
Tulsa Leads Buffs,-
Shreveport Wins
Two From Houston
By United Press
The annual All-Star game in-
terrupts the Texas League cam-
paign tonight as the Tulsa Oil-
ers replaced Houston as the im-
mediate challenger to the lea-
gue-leading Fort Worth Cats.
The Cats boasted a two and
one-half game lead today after
turning back the Oklahoma In-
dians again, -1-1. as Bob Austin
struck out, 11 and hurled air-
tight ball until the ninth when
he was nicked for three succes-
sive hits in the ninth and re-
lieved by Dwain Sloat. Walt
Fiala homered for the Cats.
Meanwhile, the Oilers swept
their series with the Dallas
Rebels by turning in a 5-4 vic-
tory and moved a half gam.)
ahead of the Houston Buffs,
who dropped a twin biil to
Shreveport 8-2 and 2-0.
tational Tournament held in
April and the improvement oL
the tees at the course. '
Various committees were ap-
pointed hy Pratt to look after
the arrangements of the tourna-
ment.
Local Riflemen Top
Shoot Match Here;
Stribling Leads •
Three Sweetwater men were
top shooters in the shoot match
held at the local rifle range Sun-
day afternoon with gunmen
front San Angelo and Abilene
participating. The shoot was
sponsored by the Sweetwater
Rifle and Pistol Club.
J. C. Stribling, Jr. of Sweet-
water had the highest score of
7&:i out uf a possible 800 points^
Collie Fish of the local club
came out second with 778 points.
Elsworth Graham copped third
place for Sweetwater with 774-
25x.
The next three men that plac-
ed in the two firing events were
from San Angelo. A. R. Barth
got 77-l-20x; II. F., Tooms collec-
ted 703 points and J. G. Lancas-
ter had a 7.r>9.
Stribling, a student at Texas
Tech, shot 200 at 50 yards antfc
1 n« at 100 yards m the second
event for a hair-raising shooting
spree. After collecting his win-
nings. Stribling was so over-
impressed with his high firing
that he left some $100 in gun
equipment at the range.
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Texas-New Mexico League to-
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dominated the schedule for the
third straight day.
Not a one of the four winning
teams last night scored less than
10 runs as the Albuquerque
Lukes held on to their 2'£ game
lead over Amarillo by downing
Lubbock 10- 5.
Amarillo's Gold Sox went on
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across 10 runs in the first four
innings, resting one frame, then
closing with 12 in the final three
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Pampa got nine runs in the
11th to defeat Clovis 13-4 and
Abilene smashed Borger 17-9 in
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Welsh, Edward. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 166, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 13, 1948, newspaper, July 13, 1948; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth283496/m1/2/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.