The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 165, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 15, 1947 Page: 6 of 6
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ORANGE, TEXAS, TUESDAYS JULY,15,1847
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uff's Attendance Mark
High Mark in Days of Dizzy Dean
Turnstile Count in
Houston 231,818
By Wilbur Martin
Amclitcd Press Staff
. Houston may not write many
Texas league records this year,
hut one hometown mark today
was sweet music to the Buffs.
In defeating Tulsa, 6-1, last
night the Buffs played to a paid
attendance figure of 5.06T, boost-
ing the turnstile count to a new
record of 231,818. The figure,
surpassed a 16-year-old full sea-
ton, mark set in 1931, when Dizzy
Peso was the!star attraction. The
old figure was 229,540. .
Clarence Beers rolled merrily
along as tops among Texas lea-
gue pitchers—chalking up his 16th
victory In setting Tulsa dpwn with
eight hits. He also- wrote in all
of the Buffs' six runs.
JKfl Shippers Shut Out
j Other results saw Dallas spank
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City, 3-1.
Tulsa scored its lone run in the
second on three straight; singles,
then Beers came through with a
double to score Vaughn Hazen and
Joe Niedson. Another double in
the fourth produced three runs,
while he drove in the final tally
on a high fly to centeifield in the
eighth.
A bobble by Solly Hemus in the
third was the first error the
Houston second baseman .had
made in 28 games. -
Four Baggers Plentiful
Home runs by Frank Secory,
John Davis, Bob Moyer and John-
ny Lipon paced 5 Dallas' victory
over Shreveport. •> ^
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Dwain Sloat blanked Beaumont
for the third time this year
though Bob Austin came to
rescue in the ninth. With
men on bases, Austin set the last
three men down in order—two via
strikeouts,
John Miller won his^ fifth game
of the season in besting Oklahoma
City, scattering five hits.
, Everybody gets a chance at the
same opponent tonight. Dallas
continues at Shreveport, Fort
Worth is at Beaumont, Oklahoma
his
two
SPUDDERS WIN STREAK
HALTED AT 10 -GAMES
By The Associated Press
Wichita Falls had to start all
oyer today on a new winning
streak—its old one coming to an;
abrupt halt at Austin last night
at ten games. Austin walloped
the Spudders, 11-3, in the first
game of a double bill, but turned
around and lost the nightcap, 17-
3. V /
Greenville continued to hold Its
half-,game margin over Texar-
karia, defeating Paris, 11-7', and
dumping the Red Peppers into
fifth place. Gainesville took
over fourth position by beating
Waco, 9-8, in ten innings. Texar-
kana beat Sherman-Denison, 5-3.
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Softball Standings
Herman Nies has emerged as the
leading batter in the City Softball
league with one week of action in
the second half of play past. He
now boasts an average of .471
which is some fourteen points
ahead of his nearest rival. The Dr.
Peppej; first sacker is now tied for
the lead in the hits department
with 16 safeties to his credit. He
City at San Antonio and lus is glgo jn a <jeac|ioc|c f0r run.
Houston. - I ner-up spot in runs scored, having
crossed the plate 18 times. With a
trio of home runs he is tied for
second place in that division also.
Andy Andersan and Mervin
Bingham, both of North Orange
Baptist, are 'n a dead heat for the
runner-up position in the batting
[ averages with a total of .457. An-
derson, the Baptist speedy center
fielder, is tied for second position
in runs scored with 18. Bingham,
the North Orange shortstop, is tied
with Anderson for the lead in the
hits-department with 16 to his cre-
dit. Hingham is4n a dead heat for
second position in ^doubles with 6.
Bill Ckrud of' the SheU Oilers
has scored the most runs in the
league, having crossed the plate 23
times: The Shell center gardener
has been to bat 44 times, more than
any other player in the circuit.
Pat Bean of Dr. Pepper and Geor-
ge Toal of North Orange Baptist
are tied for the lead In doubles
with 7. Grover Squires of North
Orange Baptist is leading the pack
in home runs with 5 circuit
clouts. With six doubles, he is tied
for second in that division. Mickey
Blanda of Dr. Pepper has two til-
pies to Jead that department. Uz-
zle and Bonin of CoVe, Grace of
Naval Statlohl^ind'Cclktes of FUrit
3apt|i*t', prq tied f0r second place
in home ruhs withrj3 epch.l
. . 30 to 30 .
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Pitcher Bud Lively
By Jack Hand
(Associated' Press Sparta Writer)
Cincinnati's one-man pitching
staff, Ewell Blackwell, will have
to shove over to make jroom for a
robust No. 2 boy In Everett (Bud)
Lively.
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The 2t2-year-old unknown Irort
Alabama elbowed into Manager
Johnny ' Neun's inner circle last
night with a qne-hit job that frac-
tured Brooklyn's sfven-game
win streak. Other one-hitters
have been tossed this season but
none have been finished In more
spectacular^ fashion than Mr.
Lively's 9-0 performance at Eb-
bets field.
Branca Gets Tagged
Ralph Branca, the Dodgers' hot*
test pitcher with a personal seven-"
game win string, was Lively's foe
but -he -failed to survive, giving
way iff the fifth after he was tag-
ged for 10 of Cincinnati's IS
hits including a homer by' Ray
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The Dodgers maintained their
three-game National league lead
for Boston fell before Chicago in
an afternoon game, 5-3, as the
Cubs finally came out of a nine-
game losing spin. . ^
Hughes Wins Third
Tommy Hughes of the Phillies,
who appeared to be or, the way to
a new record for games lost a
few weeks., ago, turned in hif
third straight well-pitched vic-
tory, downing St. Louis, 5-2.
1 The New York Giants fell back
on their favorite weapon, the
home run, to drub Pittsburgh 5-1
with Bill Rtgney, Sid Gordon and
Johnny Mize hammering homers'.
It was No. 13 for Rigney, seven
for Gordon and 26 for Mize,
boosting the Giants' total to 116
in 76 games.
Two Rained Out
Rain cut the American league
schedule in half, washing out the
New York Yankees' attempt : to
stretch their win streak to 10 in
Chicago. The Philadelphia :at
Detroit, tilt also was rained out
after the A's had scored two on
Hal Newhouser in the first inning.
Don Black of Cleveland, fresh
from a no-hitter, and Boston's
Dave Ferriss hooked up in a score-
less battle for eight innings until
Bobby Doerr gave this Red Sox
a 1-0 victory on hie ninth homer
of tbe dosa^., .
St. Louis cut loose with a 20-
hlt attack to submerge Washing-
ton, 13-3, before a gathering of
only 478 fans in Sportsman**
park, the smallest turnout of the
big league season.
TRMED BY FIRST BAPTISTS
Jax Return To
Second Place In
Lone Star Loop
By The Associated Press
Jacksonville's Jax were back in
Second place in the Lone Star
league today, a 4-2 victory over
Marshall plus Lufkln's defeat by
Kilgore, 8-0, turning the trick last
night.
League-leader Longview was
helpless before a 17-hit Tyler at-
tack, bowing 11-6, as Doug Con-
dit helped-win hi; own ball game
with a grand slam home run in
the second inning.
Cellar-dwelling Bryan tore into
Henderson for 24 hits and a 16-6
victory as Pete Christie, Tony
Phillips arid Johnny Qui<£ hit
home runs. ;
Danny Rowland pitched .four-
hit ball for this 12th win of the
season In putting Jacksonville in
second.
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Team Standings Through
Friday's Games:
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Dr. Pepper 11 11
N. Orange Baptist 10 9
Lutheran-Troop 12 8 5
Staff 11 a
Shell Oilers 10 5
-"iSaval Station 10 5
First Baptist 10 4
Housing Authority 8 2
Keown Supply
10 0 10
Batting Averages Through
Friday's
Games
More Than 20
Times
at Bat
AB
R
H
Avg.
Nies, Dr. Pepper
34
18
16
.471
Anderson, NOB
35
18
16
.457
M. Bingham, NO
35
15
16
.457
O'Banion, Tr. 12
31
6
14
,452
Lewis, Housing
20
10
9
.450
Toal, NOB
29
8
13
.448
Sweet, Staff
27
9
12
.444
Turner, Oilers
32
"9
14
.438
Green, NOB
28
12
12
.422
McFarlane, NOB
22
9
8
.409
Bus sell, N. St a.
27
10
11
.407
Sargent, Oilers
33
13
14
.400
Moore, Keown
20
3
8
.400
Bowser, N. Sta.
23
" 7
9
.391
Nance, Troop 12
23
! 8
9
.391
Yonce, Staff
26
11
10
.385
Bean, Dr. Pepper
32
13
12
.375
Gregory, 1st. B.
24
8
9
.375
Willis, Dr. Pep.
35
12
13
.371
Morgan, Tr. 12
30
13
11
.367
may have the declffWg'lU
who will lead the West Texas-
New Mexico league after the cur-
rent three-game series end.
^ The Dukes last night handed
pace-setter Lubbock a 5-4 lidtlrtg,
cutting the Hubbets' lead to four
percentage points over Amarillo—
victor over Lamesa, 12-7.
In other games yesterday, Bor-
ger nosed out Abilene in ten inh-
Clovis, 8-0. Bob Kramolisch
scored the inning run for Borger
on Hodge's error.
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air of exciting games were
off in West End park last
night in City Softball league ac-
Uon. The opener trw First Bap-
tist ease by Naval Station 9 to 8.
Cqve* upset Lutheran-Troop 12
by a score of 20 to 16 in the later
affair. _
The Baptists counted seven
runs In the lajit of the seventh
Inning to take the contest. Brad-
ley, Coker. and Daly of the vic-
tors divided batting honors with
two sjtfftties each. J. J. HiU start-
ed the Naval Station run making
Jni the first frame with his third
homer of the yeSr. BOwlin pitch-
ed excellent bail tor the winners,
allowing the sailors jonly six hits.
The Baptists got nine safeties off
of C. L. Hill and six of these came
in tbe, seventh canto, when the
chitrchers won the affair.
Game Winning Rally
Daly led off the Baptist seventh
with a. single. Bowlin doubled to
put Daly on third. Wilkerson was
safe on ah error and both run-
ners- counted. Wilkerson advan-
ced to third on Moore's one bag-
ger and both runners counted.
Wilkerson advanced to third on
Moore's one bagger and Fitzger-
ald walked to fill the sacks. Co-
lter came through with a terrific
double to unload the bases. Glenn
Bradley lined a scintillating two-
bagger to center Jo count Coker
and tie the game. Coates follow-
ed with a single and Bradley
scored with the winning run.
Cove ran wild In the first inn-
ing of the later game, scoring a
total of sixteen runs. Troop 12
then settled down and held them
to only four tallies the rest of
the game, hut they could not close
the gap. little of Cove contin-
ued his batting streak with two
tingles and Mi. fourth homer of
the' year. ;V\ i
Green b Big Out
John Green of the Scouts took
batting -honors for the evening
with four safeties, one of which
was a four bagger. O'Bauton,
Nknltz, and Lenhard also got two
hits for Troop 12. The Scout
fielding cost them the game. They
made many costly errors for Cove
got only nine hits off of the com-
bined efforts of. Don Nance and
Leon Parrish. Nance hurled ef-
fectively after the first frame, ,
striking out nine batsmen. Troop j
12 collected fourteen hits but'.
Jerry Guldry kept them scatter-
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Winners of the last four months
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Long horn Nines on
Wild Scoring Spree
By The Aaaoclated Press
The Longhorn league soared off
into another 'wild scoring spree
yesterday, 59 runs resulting from
88 hits.
Big Spring stretched its lead to^
two and one-half games over
Midland, dumping Vernon; 16-2,
as Odessa swamped Midland, 17-
2. Big Spring pounded out 21
hits in winning, while Odessa col-
lected 22.
In the other loop tilt, Ballinger
outscored Sweewater, 13-9.
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