Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 121, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 23, 1954 Page: 2 of 24
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rs Tackle Broncs
Double Header Today
Ettes or by calling the Board of
City Development.
Game time is 2:30 p. m. and ad-
mission at the game is 75 cents.
This afternoon at 2:30 p. m. the
Sweetwater Spudders will have a
double header ball game with the
Big Spring Broncs.
This will be the first time for
the Broncs to invade the Spudders
in their new home.
The Spudders. who seem to have
gone into a fielding slump for the
past five games, jumped to life in
the final game of a series of two
with the Midland nine.
In the first game the Spudders
allowed eleven runs to cross the
plate but could arrange for only
one time across the big sack for
themselves.
In the second outing the Spud-
ders captured a one run lead in the
first inning of the game but had to
give in to a hard hitting Midland
nine who was determined to gain
the lead.
The Indians tied the game in the
second inning and then surged
ahead by four runs in the fourth
inning when they sent three men
to the final base.
The Spudders scored one run in
the fourth period and then began
to slip back into their old form as
they sent two men across the plate
in the fifth inning.
The local boys had a good
chance to catch the Indians, who
have handed them their last five
defeats, when the game was called
in the fifth inning because of rain, i e(j that Tuesday will be proclaim-
A special ticket sale is being of j ed official Little League opening
iered tor the remaining 56 home ^ay an(j the Rebels and Cubs will
games of the Spudders home sea- pajr 0ff at 8 p. m. following what
son. These tickets are going at $20 ever pre.garnP services there may
per ticket, a saving of some $22 tor j (je
Sweetwater Reporter, Texas, Sunday, May 23, 1954
Cats Club Giants;
Little League Opens
Officially Tuesday
Friday afternoon's Little Lea-
gue game saw the Cats edge the
Giants, on one hit pitching by Rog-
ers, by a 3-1 score in what was
considered by many fans as the
best game to date.
Rogers kept the Giants in check
all afternoon by allowing only one
hit the entire game which was a
bunt single by Guy.
The Cats were aided at the plate
by Law and Rogers with a double
apiece.
The losing pitcher for the Giants
was Wilson. Butler crossed the
plate in the first inning to give
the Giants their lone tally.
Tuesday Official Opening
Coach Caffey Welch, director of
Sweetwater Little League, announc-
TPajiiii Ljtv
iryouts Dcytn ror
teenager's Baseball
Tryouts for the Teenage
League, supervised by J. B.
Gibbs, will begin Monday at
Sportsman Park. All boys from
the age IS to 17 and are in-
terested in playing in organiz-
ed baseball this summer are
urged to attend on the day
specified by age.
There will be three tryouts
on three different days of the
week. Workouts for 15-year old
boys will be held Monday, 16-
year olds Tuesday, and boys 17-
years cf age are asked to try
out Wednesday afternoon. All
tryuots will begin at 6 p. m.
each day, coach Gibbs an-
nounced.
There will be four teams in
this teenage league and they
will be managed by Herman
Green, Al Echols, James Gar-
rett, and Vince Cornoyer. Each
team name will be supplied by
the manager.
"]"he Noble
By HARRY NOBLE
Sports Editor
Much to our regret we are writing the last version of the "Noble
View" for the Sweetwater Reporter. This is by necessity and not by
choice. We have been "requested" by our Uncle to pay him a brief
visit. In fact two years.
If you can bear with us we would like to take this space to thank
the persons that helped us get started and get acquainted, which was
not hard in such a friendly town.
Roy Scudday and Elmer Wright have been the two main sources
of our help on matters which we did not understand or could not cope
with.
Both took the time to go over our work with us and show how to
write the information correct.
The coaches, who have been our main sources of news, have given
us their utmost cooperation and, in all sincerity, we want to thank each
one for their help, time and information that they have given us.
Head football coach Pat Gerald and head basketball coach Bennie
Rutherford have gone out of their way to see that we had the neces-
sary, and correct, information that was needed to complete our sport
page.
Also helping us no end was J. D. Smith, Ray Newton, Billy Savage
and J. B. Gibbs.
We hope to return to this fair city,
our hitch with the army is completed.
and to the newspaper after
Cardinals Draff*
McHan For -954
Football Season
the entire season.
Tickets may he purchased from j
either the Jaycees or the Jaycee- i
It was also announced by Coach
Welch that a public address sys-
tem will be used at every game in
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Yanks Honor Hoi I
Of Fame Members
NEW YORK, May 22 —UP
New York Yankees announced Sat-
urday that they have invited all
the living members of baseball's
. Hall of Fame — 28 in number —
order that the fans may know who | (0 attend their eighth annual old-
is playing. j timers' day program on Aug. 14.
I The Yankees are scheduled to play
] the Boston Red Sox on that date,
j The Yankees said they hoped to
I stage a two or three-inning game
I pitting National League hall of
j farmers against American League
i hall of famers.
The living members of the Hall
1 of Fame are Connie Mack, Clark
Griffith. Cy Young. Ed Walsh,
Chief Bender. Fred Clarke. Tommy
Connolly. Hugh Duffy. Nap Lajoie,
Honus Wagner. Bobby Wallace, Ty
Cobb. Tris Speaker, Mickey Coch-
rane, Dizzy Dean. Bill Dickey,
Jimmy Foxx. Frankie Friseh, Char-
ley Gehringer, Lefty Grove, Rogers
Hornsby, Carl Hubbell. Mel Ott,
Al Simmons, George Sisler. Billy
Terry, Pie Traynor and Paul Wan-
er.
Softball League
Starts Monday
Monday, May 24, is the official
' opening date of the Softball league
| in Sweetwater, according to Presi-
| dent W. M. Mullins.
j There will be a double header at
| southside park between the Roscoe
Boys Club and the Lone Star Ce-
j ment Plant with the first game
J beginning at 7:30 p. m.
These soltball games which start
| Monday will be played four nights
i a week and a play off between the
top four clubs in the league will
I be staged at the close of the sea-
! son The nights that there will be
j softball at the southside park are
i Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and
! Friday. The senior division will
j play on Monday and Friday and
j the junior division will compete on
' Tuesday and Thursday nights.
CHICAGO, May 22 —UP— The
Chicago Cardinals Saturday signed
their first draft choice for the 1954
National Football League season,
quarterback - halfback Lamar
McHan of Arkansas.
McHan, who handled the ball on
365 plays as a single wing tail-
The ! back last fall, was second in the
nation on total offense with 1,516
yards. He scored QW touchdowns.
In addition he passed for 1,107
yards on 78 completions in 150 at-
tempts, gained 409 yards in 143
carries, returned 21 punts for 233
yards, averaged 40.2 yards punt-
ing and intercepted two passes.
The Cardinals introduced McHan
and their other top six draft
choices at a press party.
Other draft choices present were
end Gary KnafelcN Colorado, sec-
ond choice, halfback Bobby Cava-
zos. Texas Tech. third choice, half-
back Bill Bredde, Oklahoma A&M,
fourth choice, end Don Dohoney.
Michigan State, fifth choice, and
fullback Tom McHugh, Notre
Dame, sixth choice.
Wrong Address
MILWAUKEE — UP — Frank
Zagorski, of 830 W. Appletree Road
suburban Glendale, chided his
friends because they did not send
in their income tax returns as ear-
ly as he dltl. One day* the mail-
man delivered his tax return to
him. He had addressed it to 830 W.
Appletree Road. Milwaukee, Wis.
Native Dancer To Run
Four Aqueduct Races
NEW YORK. May 22 — UP-
Native Dancer was nominated for j
four handicap races to be run dur- i
ing the Aqueduct summer meeting. !
the list of stakes nominations re- j
vealed Saturday.
The big gray owned by Alfred j
G. Vanderbilt was named for the
S25.000 added Queens County, June
14: the $25,000 >added Edgemere.
June 20; the $50,000 added Carter
and the $50,000 Brooklyn Handi-
caps.
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Four Local Lakes
Get Fish Supply
After Oak Creek has been sup-
j plied with thousands of fish and is
still getting them from the hatch-
| ery at San Angelo, a program for
restocking Lake Sweetwater, Lake
Trammel] and Santa Fe Lake has
|been arranged.
The city has contacted L. A.
i Proctor, superintendent of the state
Game and Fish Commission hatch-
i ery in San Angelo and arranged
for a program to "catch up" on
stocking these lakes.
] For the past two years the lakes
j have been so that more fish could
i not be put into them—Trammell
! and Santa Fe iakes having been
i completely dry.
Two loads of 10.000 two-inch fin-
! gerling bass have been delivered
i to the lakes and plans are under
I way to have the lakes stocked with
all species.
Trammell Lake is an excellent
fishing resort because much fish
food comes into the lake. Santa Fe
Lake too has long been famous as
a fishing resort. Ariangements are
being worked out soon for closing
season on these two lake which
have been dry.
Bush, Townsend, Others
Expected At National
Intercollegiate Meet
By FRANK ELEAZER
House subcommittee's investiga-
tion of alleged Army coddling of
athletes took a reverse tack Sat-
urday when Chairman William E.
Hess iR-Ohio) ordered an inquiry
into possible discrimination against
big league ball player Billy Martin.
"We don't want to see sports fig-
ures get favored treatment from
the Army," Hess said, "but we
don't want them deprived of nor-
mal privileges, either. If there has
been any discrimination against
Billy Martin we want an explana-
tion."
Hess acted after Billy — the New
York Yankees' star second base-
man known to the Army as Pvt.
Martin, Alfred M. — wrote the sub-
committee his treatment as a GI
not only hadn't been preferential
but sometimes had seemed "more
severe" than that of other draftees.
'Not Belly-Aching'
Martin said he was not "belly-
aching" but that he thought the
subcommittee should know he nev-
er was coddled by the Army "in
any way or form."
Billy, who recently was trans-
ferred to Camp Carson, Colo., for
assignment, said that during his
training at Fort Ord, Calif., he was
not permitted to try out for the
camp ball team, although oher
trainees were accorded this priv-
ilege.
During the same period he said
the other men in his company got
more off - post passes than he did,
a fact which he said was explained
to hitn as being due to his connec-
tion with big league baseball.
No Comment on Carson
He didn't say anything about his
more recent luck at Camp Car-
son. AccoF'ding to press dispatches
his treatment there has been strict-
ly GI in at least one respect: His
first chore was KP.
Hess said the subcommittee
would request a full report from
Martin's commanding officer at
Fort Ord. He pointed out that the
subcommittee, during public hear-
ings early this month, already had
cautioned the Army not to react
against athletes as a result of the
inquiry.
Martin was among a number of
big - name sports figures whose
service careers were explored by
the Hess group at a three - day
hearing ofi reports that some draft-
ed athletes had gotten soft jobs,
short hours, and relief fF-om GI
choF'es and overseas shipments.
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MAMA KNOWS BEST—Mrs. Georgia Jackson and her son
were called before the New York Boxing Cor.iFnission because
the Rockaway Beach heavyweight said he told his mother he
was going to'lose to Jimmy Slade and was glad he did Miama
treated him like a baby, the fighter said, woudn't even let him
have a girl friend He apologized and was suspended foF 30 days
because of a swelling of the right forearm caused by a blood
clot. (NEA)
ABILENE, Tex., May 22 —UP—
An estimated 300 athletes from
more than 75 colleges are expect-
ed to participate in the June 4-5
National Intercollegiate track and
field championships here
Theodous Bush of Texas South-
ern College, defending champion in | ijn'J'nn
the 100-yard dash, will be back. He
won in a photo finish last year
over Ralph Aldredge, a teammate,
| in 9.H seconds.
Howard Payne's Darrell Town-
send of Howard Payne has turned
in a 97 performance in the 100 and
I will be in the NAIA meet.
Lynch's .388 Tops
In Texas League
By UNITED PRESS
Danny Lynch, the stellar Tulsa
Oiler keystone guardian, refuses to
yield the Texas League battiFig
leadership.
The Oiler secoFid baseman failed
to slip as he appeared in m roead
more games and as a result he was
hitting a healthy .388 through
Wednesday's games to boast a 14-
point lead ovcf' Frank Murray of
Oklahoma City, who climbed into
second place at .374.
Buzz Clarkson, the loop's home
run (Hi and runs-batted-in <42>
king from Beaumont, was in third
place with .307. Then there was an-
other 14-point spread to fourth-
ranked Glen Gorbous of Fort
Worth at .353. Manager Les Flem-
j ing of Beaumont F-ounded out the
I top five with a .343.
I Clarkson was the only double
leader. Other individual pace-set-
ters included Howie Phillips, Hous-
ton. doubles <14>; Ed Mickelson.
Shreveport. and Willie Brown, Dal-
las, hits 154 each); Ken Bover,
Houston, Pat Quintana, San An-
tonio. stolen bases (8 each I; Chuck
Oertel. SaiF Antonio, runs < 34 >. aFid
Wiley Moore, Dallas, and Joe
Koppe. Shreveport. 'triples 4
each i.
Red Murff of Dallas continued to
set the pitching pace with a 5-0
record, trailed by Halph Butler of
Fort Worth and Bill Tremel of
Shreveport at 4-0, but Karl Spoon-
er of Fort Worth led in games won
with his 7-2 record while also lead-
ing in strikeouts '73). Pat Scantle-
bury, Dallas, had worked the most
innings ' 72 >.
San Antonio led in club hitting
with a .277 average, 18 points ahead
of Fort Worth, and also led in home
runs '39), runs (229), hits (359),
RBI's '205) and shared with Dal
las the lead in triples (10 each!
led in stoleiF bases ' 29:
and ShF'eveport in doubles < 67 ).
Dodgers Rip Cards
In Pony League Play
The Dodgers of the Pony League
shaved off a late rally by the Card-
inals as they won the league tilt
Saturday, 17-12. at Sportsman Park
Johnny Clark was starting pitch-
er for the Dodgers and did not give
up a hit or run for four complete
innings when he was Felieved by
Jimmy Pullig who gave up five
hits and five runs in two innings
and Dodger Fnanager had to re-
call Clark to finish the inning and
gave up Five hits and seven runs
in his second appearance of the
same game.
Taylor Daniel suffered the de-
feat as he gave up 11 hits. Two
errors behind him also hurt. Hin-
son, Bromley, and Bunch each
clobbered two hits for the losers.
Scott and Johnson were the
leading batsmen Iof- the victorious
Dodgers with two hits apiece.
Monday's game will pitt the
Yankees against the Dodgers in
Sportsman Park at 8 p. m.
DODGERS (171
Players
McGinley lb 3
BFOFnley ss-p 4
Davenport ss-p-2b 4
PONY LEAGUE
Standings
Team
W
L
Pet.
Indians
2
0
1 000
Yankees
1
1
500
Dodgers
1
1
.500
Cardinals
0
2
.000
Last Week's Results
Indians 10, Yankees 3; Indians
12. Dodgers 3; YaFikees 15, Carflj-
nals 13; Dodgers 17. Cardinals •
Next Week's Schedule
Yankees vs. Dodgers, May 24 x
Cardinals vs. Indians, May 25 x.
Cardinals vs. Yankees, May 27 x.
Indians vs. Dodgers, May 28
xNight Games.
LITTLE LEAGUE
Parker cf
Kent If ... .
Hunter If ..
Hinson rf
Bunch 31;
Butler c
R. Danels e
T. Daniel p
Major 2h
Shubert 2b
AB R
2
2
0
1
(I
0
Team
Cats
Apaches
Tigers . .
Cubs
Giants ..
Standings
H P
W
2
1
1
1
0
p*
1.000
1 000
.501)
.50(1
.000
Totals
35
12
10
18
9
DODGERS (17.
Clark p-3b
. . 3
0
1
4
1
Scott 2b
•i
2
2
1
0
Butler 2b
I
1
1
2
0
Fisher e
2
1)
0
10
1
Whitaker e
0
1
0
0
II
Bishop cf
1
3
0
0
0
WilliaFns llj-.'lli
4
3
2
3
0
Pullig 3b p
4
2
1
0
3
Johnson cf ...
2
2
2
1
II
Hilley cf
. 0
0
<1
(i
II
Reed ss
4
2
1
0
2
Heron rf
4
1
1
(1
II
Sanders rf
. 4
1
1
0
0
Blackwell If
1
II
II
0
0
Totals
29
17
11
21
5
G I
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
Last Week's Results
Tigers 32, Cubs 3; Apaches 19.
Rebels 1; Cats 19. Tigers 10; Cats
3, Giants 1; Cubs vs. Giants, ppd.
rain.
Next Week's Schedule ^
Rebels vs. Cubs, May 24 x.
Cats vs. Apaches, May 25 x.
Tigers vs. GiaFits, May 26.
Cats vs. Rebels, May 27 x
Cubs vs. Apaches, May 28 x.
xNight Games.
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Scotland's Weather
Bothers Amateurs
GULLANE, Scotland. May 22 —
UP—The vagaries of Scotland's
weather were the principal worries
Saturday of the American golfing
stars readying themselves for the
British Amateur golf champion-
ship. which begins on the Muirfield
links next Monday.
Frank Stranahan and big Bill
Campbell have been here all this
«'cpk nlavina practice i-ounds in
warm summer weather, but Satur-
day orought a contrast as a cold
north-easterly wind swept the links.
Stranahan went out with Henry
Lcmaze of France, and after each
shot the American paused to try
and blow some warmth Into his
numbed hands.
Naturopathic
Pecan Street
Nelson May Compete
In Golf Tournament
DALLAS, May 22-UP—Byron
Nelson, the one-time lord of the
j fairways but now a chicken and
cattle raiser, may take another
«-*pk at the National Open golf
tournament this year.
A former U. S. titleholder—in
] 19ud—lxeisoFi hasn t played in the
Open since 1949. He said he had
filed his entry for the June 17-19
USGA Open at Springfield, N. J.,
but hung a provisional "if" on j;
whether or not he will play—de-
pending, he said, on how well he
does in the $25,000 Colonial Nation-
al Invitation al Fort Worth next
week.
Oak Creek Lake
Maps Available
A large supply of maps of the
j new Oak Creek Lake is now avail-
able for distribution to interested
persons, Manager A. C. Bishop of
the Board of City Development
said Saturday.
Business houses and public plac-
es throughout this area have been
supplied with the maps, including
sporting goods houses.
Several thousand copies remain
ut the B.C.D. oflice in the Blue
Bonnet Hotel building lor distri-
butioFi to the public.
Party-Liners Timed
CLIMAX, Mich. — UP—The tele-
phone company here has solved
the problem of patroFFs talking too
long on party lines. A conversa-
tion timer has been installed. Alter
seven minutes, a buzzer sounds; a
minute later the call Is cut off.
Complaints of Inability to get a line
have been sharply reduced.
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The Hub Store
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Oneita's Tot Shop
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Pittman Floor Covering*
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Jnrvis Office Supply
223 Oak St.
Cowen's Shoe Store
219 Oak St.
Chudwell Dry Cleaners
407 Oak St.
Callender Pharmacy
417 Oak St.
201 Oak St.
White Auto Store
Chas. Turner Ser. Sta.
400 E. Broadway
Harp Music Co.
206 E. Broadway
Reed Bros. Ser. Sta.
1609 E. Broadway
Cameron Beauty Shop
211 Oak St.
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