Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 189, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 12, 1951 Page: 5 of 24
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Tayoan, Stasey
Fight For Bat
Lead In Longhorn
Johnny Teyoari of San Angelo
and Pat Stasey of Big Spring afe
fstaging a terrific fight for the
Longhorn League batting cham-
pionship.
Averages released Saturday
showed the San Angelo star hit-
ting .3793, while Stasey owned a
.3792 mark.
Leo Eastham of Odessa was
third with .373, followed by
Steve Follett of San Angelo
(.366), Bob Martin of Odessa
(.362) and Bill Cearley of Ros-
.well (.361).
m Eastham led in runs (125),
three base hits (11) and stolen
bases .29).
Tayoan had the most hits
(154), while Cearley had the
most, total bases (223) Stasey's
36 doubles were tops, while
Wayne Wallace of San Angelo
paced the home run hitters with
25. Leon English of Vernon led
in sacrifice hits. 10, and walks,
126, and Bcb Martin had the most
runs batted in, 108.
M IiT'io Beltran of Sen Angelo
•had the best pitching percentage,
.789, on 15 wins, four losses.
Dean Franks of Roswell had won
the most games, 23, and pitched
the most complete games, 23, Ed
die Jacomt of Midland hurled the
most innings, 258, and had been
in the most games, 14. Marshall
Epperson ol Vernon continued to
lead in strike outs, 111, and
bases on balls,
«CH A FKK l-'-K I VI-: l{ TO WED
• MANCHESTER. Mass., Aug.
11 (UP) Tennis Star Nancy
Craffee, 22, of Ventura, CaJ., said
today her marriage to baseball
Star Ralph Kiner of the Pitts-
burgh Pirates will take place Oct.
13 in Santa Barbara, Cal.
Stan Musial After
5th Batting Title
NEW YORK, Aug. 11 (UP)—
Stan Musial is almost a cinch to
become the first man to win the
National League batting champ-
ionship twice in a row since Rog-
ers Hornsbv boosted his string
to six in 1925.
Musial, like Babe Ruth, switch-
ed from pitching to become one
of baseball's greatest hitters and
today he was enroute to one of
his best seasons. The Cardinal
star was batting .372 in official
averages which included Thurs-
day's day games. He was 22
points ahfead of runner-up Richie
Ashburn of the Phillies and has
varied only a few points since
he replaced Jackie Robinson of
the Dodgers as league leader ear-
ly in June.
Musial, a real pro, who does
most of his salary negotiating
with his bat, believes he has a
good chance to top his best pre-
vious mark of .370. lie posted
that average in 19-18 when he
won the third of his four batting
titles.
In the American League, Or-
estes (Minnie) Minoso of the
White Sox added one point to
his average during the week and
his .315 mark gave him an 11-
point lead over George Kell of
the Tigers arid Ferris Fain of
the Athletics, who were tied for
second at .331.
Gil Hodges of the Dodgers col-
lected his 32nd home run to stay
in front in that department but
Kiner, the defending National
League champion, was close be-
hind with 31. Cius hernial of the
A's remained first in the Amer-
ican League with 24.
Bob Feller of the Indians led
the major league pitchers in vic-
tories with 18 against four de-
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TOP TOMAHAWKS—Backing up the Cleveland club's remarkable pitching are the bats of, left to
right, Bob Avila, Luke Easter and A1 Rosen. The Mexican second baseman is among the American
League batting leaders. Luscious Luke and the third baseman bat in runs and the gigantic first sacker
has the hojns-run range. (NEA)
feats. Preacher Roe of Brooklyn
had the best average among the
hurlers who have won more than
10 games. His 15-2 record gave
him an .882 percentage.
No Decision In
Nine Inning Tilt
By United 1'renn
Pampa and Amarillo played
nine innings of baseball Friday
night, but neither team won the
West Texas-New Mexico League
j game.
I No runs had been scored when
| the umpires called the game be-
cause of lain. Amarillo fans got
disappointment out of the rain-
out for a second game had been
scheduled:
All other games in the circuit
| were played to decisions.
Clovis nipped Abilene, I to 3.
although rain forced an end to
| the contest after five innings.
Lubbock hammered 17 hits in
defeating Borger, 10 to 7, and La-
mesa whitewashed Albuquerque,
11 to 0. lOd Arthur pitched a
five-hitter for Lamesa in taking
the decision.
Age vs. Youth
In Golf Tourney
When Pookio Montgomery
and C Steakley met in the
first round of tiie City Golf
Tout namerit's Championship
Flight last, week., it was age
versus youth. There is 51
years difference between the
ages of the two golfers.
Montgomery, ] 5 - year - old
competitor, defeated the 06-
year-olc! Steakley, 5-4.
Youngest competitor in the
entire tournament is 1 i-year-
old Ross Thompson, who won
his first round match in the
Fifth Flight over Bill Leach.
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By tTnlted Pri'im
FKIDAV'H UKSt lXS
l.oiiglioin Leu gut*
Odessa 4-3, Sweetwater 3-2.
Big Spring 15, Artesla 1.
San Angelo at Vernon, ppd., rain.
Midland 11, Roswell 11 <tie, called in
9th, curfew*.
American League
New York 3, Philadelphia 1.
Boston 6, Washington 4.
Cleveland 0, Chicago 4.
St. Louis 4, Detroit 2.
National League
Pittsburgh 3, Chicago 0.
St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 3 (10 innings).
Philadelphia at New York, ppd., rain.
Boston at Brooklyn, ppd., rain.
Texas League
Dallas 2, Shreveport 1
Beaumont 2, Fort Worth 1.
Oklahoma City 1, Houston 0.
San Antonio 4, Tulsa 3.
West Texas-New Mexico
Lubbock 10, Borger 7.
Clovis 4, Abilene 3.
Lamesa 11, Albuquerque 0.
Pampa 0, Amarillo 0 (First game sched-
uled doubleheader, called 9th, rain),
(iulf Coast League
Port Arthur 9, Texas City 6.
, Laredo 7, Lake Charles 2.
Galveston 6, Brownsville 2.
Harlingen 6, Corpus Chrlsti 4.
Big State League
Texarkana 11, Wichita Falls 4.
Temple 14, Tyler 8.
Austin 4, Waco 0.
Sherman 8, Gainesville 0.
THE STANDINGS 'Thru Friday)
LONGIlORN LEAGUE
Team
W L
Pet.
70 37
.654
Odessa
63 48
.568
Roswell
G2 48
.564
Big Spring
62 48
.564
Vernon
56 53
.514
Midland
. 49 61
.445
Artesia
38 71
.340
Sweetwater
38 72
.342
WR8T TRXAS XKW
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Team
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Pet.
Lubbock . .
. 64 48
.571
Albuquerque
62 47
.560
Lamesa
62 49
.550
Amarillo
49 61
.44.r,
Pampa
49 60
.450
Abilene
72 39
.64!)
Borger
44 66
.400
Clovis
40 72
.357
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Longhorn League
Sweetwater at San Angelo.
Artesia at Odessa.
Roswell at Midland.
Vernon at Big Spring.
American League
St. Louis at Detroit.
Chicago at Cleveland.
New York at Philadelphia (2).
Washington at Boston.
National League
Cincinnati at St. I^ouis.
Boston at Brooklyn.
Pittsburgh at Chicago.
Philadelphia at New York.
Joey Maxim Favored
To Whip Bob Murphy
NRW YORK, Aug. 11 (UP)-
Five boxing champions have
been dethroned this year but the
odds-makers hiding in the back :
room do not believe that Joey I
Maxim will make it an even half I
dozen when he risks the light-1
weight crown against Irish Bob i
Murphy on Aug. 22.
The victims among the title-
holders this year have been mid- j
dleweight cliamps Jake LaMot-!
ta and Ray Robinson, light I
weight champ Ike Williams, wel- j
terweight champ Johnny Brat-'
ton and heavyweight champion j
Ezzard Charles. But the furtive |
fellows who hand out the odds j
make the 29-year-old Maxim a 9
to 5 choice to turn back the chal-
lenge of the slugging sailor from
San Diego.
State Title
Decided Here
The Austin Buddies snapped
a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the
eighth inning to score five runs
and defeat John Reagan of
Houston, 6 to 1, at Sportsman's
Park Saturday afternoon for the
American Legion junior base-
ball state title.
The outstanding schoolboy
teams had been scheduled to
play the title clash Friday night
at Lubbock, but rain cancelled
the plans. The contest was thus
transferred to Sweetwater.
Paul Carson hurled brilliant
four-hit ball to give the Austin
club the state championship. lie
struck cut nine Houston batters.
It was quite a pitching duel
between Carson and Houston's
Jack Schultea going into the
bottom of the eighth inning.
The Buddies then broke loose
for five big runs just before the
rains came. Austin decided the
issue on two doubles, a single, a
walk, a hit batsman and a sacri-
fice hit.
Just as the last Houston bat-
ter was retire in the top of the
ninth inning, a small flood
struck Sportsman's Park. Troph-
ies and individual awards were
presented by the Coca Cola Com-
pany, Ford Motor Company and
the American Legion.
Only a few Sweetwater fans
turned ou to see onekif the best
games staged at the local park
this season.
The line scores:
Houston .000 100 000—1 4 1
Austin —001 000 05x—6 12 2
Schultea and Boker; Carson
and Lozano.
Black Days Ahead
For Army Gridsters
WESTPOJNT, N. Y„ Aug. 11
(UP) — Dejected players of Ar-
my's "out-going" football team
solemnly scanned the patch-work
roster of West Point's 1951 .squad
today and dourly predicted
"black days ahead" for the Black
Knights of the Hudson.
Curiously figuring the 31-man
roster, hastily put together by
head football coach Earl (Red)
Blaik, seven varsity men of the
1950 eleven who now face dis-
missal shook their heads in cha-
grin and offered the opinion that
Army's grid team will have to
rely chiefly "on passes and pray-
ers" during the forthcoming sea-
son.
"I notice there's only one quar-
terback on the roster (Dick
Boyle of Providence, R. I.)." ob-
served a veteran tackle. "Boyle
isn't a bad player but I don't
know if he's ready to play first
string yet. They're sure going
to miss Bobby Blaik, I'll guran-
tee you that."
All 90 cadets accused of crib-
bing on examinations at the I'.
S. Military Academy are expect-
ed to be expelled from the in-
stitution early next week.
A four-man final review board
set up to "process" the dismissal
proceedings expected to complete
its hearings on Monday with an
announcement of the expulsions.
The dismisseii cadets will be
given two weeks to leave the
academy.
Col. John Smith of Harris-
burg, Pa., a military law expert
who came here as an attorney
for one of the accused cadets,
said there was no hope that any
of the 90 will be allowed to re-
main.
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Sweetwater Reporter, Texas, Sunday, August
East All-Stars Win
MEMPHIS, Tenn.. Aug. 11 —
(UP) — A thunderstorm and a
play-wrecking defensive halfback
Friday night cooled off pass-hot °n a.
by Buddy fx-ake. of Mi
and a second-half do
brought the wide-open
squad down to earth where
Eastern rivals rolled over t
7-yard pass interception
Larry Oaham of Houston, Te:
as the Eastern High School All-
Stats rolled to their third
straight victory over the West,
15 to 0.
A combination of pass-stealing
I Leake and
the-middl'
of Plant City, Flu.
|a 60-yard, through-
print by Fred Cason,
Cute-Spencer Ambulance
I tin I 4717
PICTURE of the WEEK
Curlew Causes Tie
Lon.ghorn League basel
i tennis of Midland and Ros\
(deserve an E for effort tod;
There was no decision in
j l wo -lulls' game at Roswell
; day night, but it wasn't beca
i the players on both sides d
! try.
j The contest was called at
end of the ninth inning with
i score tied li to 11. The game i
U aiied at midnight because of
I curlew ruling. The tilt was in
rupted three times by rain.
Game Here Today
Sweetwater's Carpenters' Un
■on baseball team will play Rob-j
I ert Lee at Sportsman's Park this |
afternoon at O'clock.
Jimmy Cook will pitch for the
local club.
| WALSH WINS TWO
Walsh Construction copped
both ends of a double-header
from Lamar Baptist in softball
games at Southside Park Friday
night. Walsh won the opener.
9 to 1. then came back to
take the second game, 3 to 2.
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BASEBALL RESULTS
By I*lilted Press
National League
Philadelphia 4, New York 0.
Brooklyn 8, Boston 1.
Chicago 4, Pittsburgh 3 (1st
game).
American League
Washington 7, Boston 1.
Detroit 7, St. Louis 4.
New York 7, Philadelphia 4.
This is Ginger Rogers, 2'A, years old, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Harley Rogers who reside in Midland, Texas.
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HUNTING REGULATION'S
AUSTIN, Aug. 11 (UP)—Wa-
terfowl hunting regulations for i
1951 are expected to lie an-
nounced next week, Howard I
Dodgen, executive secretary of j
the Game, Fish and Oyster Com j
mission, said today.
Dodgen, basing his statement |
on an "unofficial notice" from i
Washington, said indications are !
that Texas, along with the other
central flyway states, will have [
about the same season as in 1950.1
POBBV PAGE STARS
TYLER, Aug. 11 (UP)—The
North team, led by Bobby Page
of Leverett's Chapfel, defeated
the South, 20 to 0, Friday night
in the annual East Texas school-
boy all-star football game.
Page's pin-point passing coll-
ided with top play by Linemen
Doyle Ntx of Texarkana, DeWitt
Laroux of Kilgore and Jimmy
Garrett of Forney proved too
much for the South eleven.
LONGHORN ROOKIES
ABILENE, Aug. 11 (UP)—
Four youngsters were nominat-
ed today for the Longhorn Lea-
gue's third annual "Rookie of
I he Year" award. League Pres-
ident Hal Sayles said the candi-
dates, chosen by team managers,
were Mike Fcrnielias of Big
Spring, Floyd Martin of Odessa,
Bob West of Roswell and Hay-
den White of Midland.
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