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SAN ANTONIO
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ALAMO JEWELERS GRAB CITY SOFTBALL TITLE
Alamos Cop Two Straight
From Lott's in Finals
Of Shaughnessy
By U. JAY
ALAMO JEWELERS completed. Monday night at Lincoln
park, their "lightning war" on the Alamo Athletic awo-
ciation's Shaughnessy playoff for the city's Softball cham-
pionship, with the Jewelers' second straight successful blitz-
krieg on the battling Lott's Grocers, their taking the grocery
boys, despite a frantic, desperate last inning rally, by a
tune of 11-10.
The Jewelers hail taken the first
(tame of the championship series
Thursday night, August 22, by an
11-1) count.
Thus, Alamo Jewelers roared to
;he city championship with not a
single defeat in the playoff series.
In the first round of the Shaugli-
jiessy play, the Jewelers over-
came St. Anthony Hotel Walters
in two straight, 8-4, 11-10. Then,
in the final round, they blasted
lott's, 11-9, 11-10. The Jewelers
had entered the playoff series as
the No. 1 AAA team, having com-
pleted its fourteen-game regular
season schedule with thirteen vic-
tories, one defeat. Ironically,
Jewelers suffered their lone de-
feat of the year, in AAA play, in
the fourteenth, and last, game of
their regular league schedule.
After winning 13 straight, Lott's
Grocers, in the league's curtain
dropper, played inspired and bril-
liant ball to dump the Jewelers,
8-5.
Jewelers won the city champion-
ship playoff in 1038. In 1939,
Lott's and Jewelers finished the
regular AAA league play tied for
first place honors, each team
winning eleven, losing seven, in
the seven-team league. However,
last year. St. Anthony Walters,
Who finished the schedule In a
tie for third place, went on to
win the city title In the cham-
pionship plnyoff. which, last year,
was a two-game elimination affair
involving five teams.
Alamo Jewelers have left little
doubt In the fans' minds that they
have the best playing, hard-
est hitting, best disciplined, and
best managed team In the city.
The Jewelers' winning the league
championship with but one loss
In fourteen start*, and then dash-
ing through the playoff series,
without a defeat, certainly was
rot just luck and "breaks."
MONDAY'S GAME
Monday's decisive game between
Alamo Jewelers and Lott's Grocers
was one of the most tntermtlnc of
the playoff. I/Jtt's outhit the
Alamos, nine to eight—but it's
the runs that decide who wins the
game.
Alamo was behind, 2-0, when she
came to bat in the second, but
she scored four runs after two
were out in the Inning to go
ahead, and to never get behind
again during the game. In this
inning, after King had struck out,
nnd Clifton had been thrown out,
third to first. A. Brady got on
through a two-base error at third;
then, as Hilliard erred at first,
Brady scored, and E Johnson got
life. Whitfield's hard double
scored him, and W. White's boom-
ing homerun scored Whitfield a-
head of him.
The Jewelers got two more. In
the second, on an error, a double
by Homer Johnson, and a wild
pitch. They got another pair In
the fifth, on Williams' double
error at shortstop, after two were
out. With two away, H. Johnson
singled. Wright got life, with
Johnson going to third. King
grounded a ball to Williams, who
booted the ball to let H. Johnson
score, and then Williams threw
it away to let Wright tally.
Jewelers got another in the
sixth, and two In the seventh
when Wright singled, and then
Emory King drove one far, far
into the blackness of center field,
for one of the longest-hit home
runs ever whammed out on the
Lincoln lot That gave the Ala-
mos 11 runs for the night, whicn
proved Just enough.
Lott's added one in the second,
and another in the third, following
their two-run rampage in the first.
They kept pegging away, and, in
the sixth, got another pair, with
their going Into their final half
of the seventh Inning, trailing,
11-T.
Yell was safe when Taylor's
throw from third was wide, get-
ting away from the first base-
man. Hllliard's single sent Yell
all the way to third, with Yell
scoring as Williams filed out to
left field, Hilliard going to sec-
ond. Hewitt got a base on balls.
Brock, batting for Bensley, poled
a long one to right field, Hilliard,
who bad stolen third, scoring after
the catch. Anderson doubled
Hewitt home, to make the score,
11-10.
With the tying run on base,
Carpenter, plnch-hlttlng for Tur-
bln. struck out. to end the game.
Johnson, Alamo hurler, gave
nine hits, ten runs, walked five,
and struck out four.
Turbln, Lott's flipper, was touch-
ed for eight hits, eleven runs,
walked two, struck out three.
Eggleston, behind the bat for
the Grocers, got two for four, and
was the dynamo of the Lottmen,
as well as the most colorful per-
former on the field, and In the
series. Hilliard got three for
four, for Lott's, and Anderson
got a single, and a double in
four trips to the plate.
Mussolini Johnson's two singles
P
nnd double In four times at bat,
and White's home run and single
in four tries was the best bat
work turned In by the Alamos.
THURSDAY'S GAME
With the Lott's Infield—partic-
ularly at short, collapsing in the
second Inning, Alamo Jewelers
went on a wild rampage, Thursday
night, August 22, to tally eight
runs in that one frame, which
was plenty advantage to figure In
the Jewelers 11-9 win, In the first
game of the championship play.
Jewelers scored one In the first,
when E. Johnson tripled W. White
home. In the second, 12 Jewelers
came to bat. Six errors, Including
two particularly coitly ones by
Williams at shortstop, two walks
—both lsued to Blco Wright—
three singles, and C. Brady's long
home run sent eight Jewelers Into
the promised land. Jewelers got
two more In the fifth on a base
on ball, a double by Clifton, and
a passed ball.
Lott's went scoreless until the
fourth, when Tiny Haxel pounded
out a long home run to score
Jackson and Yell ahead of him
both of whom were on by virtue
of errors. Home loose Alamo play-
ing allowed Lott's to shove two
more tallies across in the fifth.
In the seventh, the grocers
staged a four-run rally, but It was
not quite enough. Polk's booming
triple sent Eggleston and Jackson
across the plate, both of them
being on by virtue of errors on
the part of the Jewelers, who
were unusually butter-fingered.
Polk himself scored on an error.
Brock, plnch-hittlug for Anderson,
bad scored earlier in the Inning
when he singled, went to second
on Carpenter's single, nnd scored
when a high fly in short field was
muffed. Pour runs, however, was
all Lott's could get, despite frantic
efforts—and the four were not
quite enough.
Carpenter, Lott pitcher. Issued
eleven bits, eleven runs, two bases
on balls, and struck out one.
"Mussolini** Johnson, Alamo
fllnger, also gave eleven hits, but
only nine runs. He Issued out-
base on balls, struck out none.
Polk, with a triple and single,
in three times up, led the Lott
hitters.
For the Jewelers, Mussolini
Johnson not only Aid a mighty
First Call for Fpotball
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COMMUNICATIONS received here, this week, by Co-Captains
Allen Gandy and Lefty Hewitt of the Phillis Wheatley
football squad, from Coach P. D. ("Scrappy") Whitted,
brings the announcement that all candidates for the high school
football team will meet, tomorrow,- Saturday afternoon, Aug-
ust 31, at two o'clock, on the cSfflpu* at Phillis Wheatley.
Coach Whitted has completed hie summer studies at the
men from last year's squad, and
all the 'left-overs," during recent
University of Michigan, at Ann
Arbor, and has been resting up
in North Carolina prior to hla
coming home to take up the strenu-
ous task of whipping together a
state title contender at the Har-
rison street school.
Captain Gandy declared that at
least two dozen or more grid
aspirants will be on hand for
tomorrow's meeting, with more
reporting with the opening of
school on September 9.
Wheatley lost only five or six
weeks have been using various
devices for setting into shap*\
iNwnorrow's initial meeting will
be- An important one, and all
youths who have ambitions to
represent the Lions on the gridiron,
this fall, are urged to be present.
Coach Whitted arrived in San
Antonio late this week, to start
making his preliminary campaign
plans for the coming season.
Jewelers-Waiters,
Acorns-Bombers Play
For Orphanage, Sun.
TRADITIONAL enemies will clash. Sunday night, Septem-
ber 1, at Lincoln park field, for a most worthy cause,
when the Alamo Jewelers, the 1940 city softball champions,
and the St. Anthony Waiters, last year's champions, both
AAA teams, clash in their annual benefit game for the Ella
Austin orphanage.
A second feature of a gala double attraction, will be a
girls' game between the two bitter i tween the two teams is as tradi-
Amerlcan Woodmen rivals, the I tionalij colorful, and competition
American Woodmen Acorns, and as hard fought as Is any college
the American Woodmen Brown
Bombers.
All proceeds from Sunday's
games will go to the Ell* Austin
orphanage.
The St. Anthony-Alamo Jeweler
game Is a "natural" and the In-
tense, friendly rivalry here dates
back to the days when tbe Jewel
SS D.
Play Under Way for
City Tennis Title
THE recently organized Alamo Tennis club, got under way,
Monday August 26, on the Central playground courts,
what is to be an annual tournament for the tennis cham-
pionship of the city.
This year's city meet promises to be the best of recent
years, as its star studded entry list reveals the very cream
of the local tennis crop is back in action, vying for titular
I honors. Entrants include last year's
might be missing when the first clty cliailll>l011- Artm:ln mand. and
tail is made for practice 011 Metli j RoWlJ. n.lUpy fo,.lm.r i>r.,jrie View
I college star, and city title-holder
| in 1037 and 10IJ8, who did no?
couplo'l tt0n]jK.t(. |n i„m year's meet.
with losses through scholastic <lif J .\niong the popular favorites is
ficulties. falling for the TAN O-1 17 year-old sensation. Junior
odist hill the first week in Sep
tember. Other schools are having J;
kindred STAlt trruble
SOFTBALL
RESULTS
SHAUGHNESSY PLAYOFF
Monday, August 26
Alamo Jewelers 11, Lott's Gro-
cery 10.
STANDINGS
SHAUGHNESSY PLAYOFF
(Final standings)
IVani "• I"
Alamo Jeweler® _ 4 4 0 1.000
lott's Grocery 5 2 3 .6"0
•Mack's Grocery 3 12 .333
•St. Anthony Walters 2 0 2 .000
•Eliminated In first round.
STANDINGS
REGULAR AAA LEAGUE
(Final for regular schedule)
Team P. W. L. Pel.
Alnmo Jewelers—14 13 1 .92!>
Lott's Grocery— 14 10 4 .714
Hlack's Grocery. 14 9 5 .643
St. Anthony Waiters 14 8Vi 5V4 .60
CAX-L1VK A S < HE AI'LY A S ONE"
"Buckwheat"' Ellis. Ellis, in
humbug, et cetera. j played, Monday, up*et one
The writer is reminded just here 0j, jjJp favored entrants, Virgil
of the time when !ih saw a self-!\danwOn. in straight sets, Ellis
styled turf, expert lose his money thus advan<.lnR t0 ,he semi-final
and shirt by wagering a chance I bracket.
acquaintance that the two "XO. Ein«,pr Br0*n also advanced to
BOYS'' listed on the racing pro ; th<? sc.niI.fina,Si Tuesday, defeating
gram were brothers, and darn good j A , Collins. Brown will play
jockeys to boot. We hope to keep winner of Artman Bland-Vin-
our vest pockets (!>oth vests)
lined with perfecto.s by smart foot-
ball experts that fall in the same
category with the "turf-expert.'*
Writers' Ass'n
Seeks Control of
Sports Publicity
cent Collins match. Ellis is wait-
ing the victor of the Robert Bai-
ley.Claude Booker, Jr., setto.
The finals will possibly be play-
ed Monday or Tuesday.
Tennis enthusiasts are invited
to watch the matches which are
being played daily on the Central
playground courts.
cording to Kuss Cowan, sports
editor of the Detroit Tribune.
Cowan was selected secretary while
Frank (Fay) Young of the Chi-
cago Defender was named presi-
Majestlr Man's Shop 14 7 7
Kress Cafeteria 14 4ty 9V4
ARC Garage - , 14 3 11
Plata Hotel 14 113
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DETROIT. Mich—Still chafing dent.
under their collars, as they have! Cowan avers that the big game
been for the past few years be-, ltt Negro origin, with Negro
cause a white sports writer ha« j baseball players as the principals
had charge of the publicity for, caterin& chiefly to colored patron-
the famous East-West baseball
age. with most of the publicity
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trnme. ench year, nnd other sports i i,an<||(.j through colored news-
event*, a group of sports writers I pa!,ers, nnd flint colored sports
from the larger weekly newspapers ( wri:erg „r(, thoroughly rape, hie >f
enrne together immediately after | i,a0l|Hng any nnd nil sports evenu.
the big East-West game In '.'111 ; a* for the ha?e.«ll cinssic. the
cago. last Sunday, and formed a |
"Sports Writers association," ac i (Continued on Pub* k.i
ers were the Porters A. C., and
the Waiter-Porter feuds were
classics. The Porters are now
the Jewelers, but they have their
original personnel. Just a down-
pert Job of pitching, but he also/
J town sponsor, and the rivalry be-
got a triple and two singles in j
three official times at bat. A. j CENTRAL POOL
Brady got two for thiee, and
Wayne White two for four.
or Jiifli school feud. Hoy Mosley
la <h- master mind ot the Jewel-
ers, while Wendell Carrlngton
an.l/fct-d. ("Hitler' ) Fntterson form
busters' brain trust.
If Jiut as an intense
rlvall totWMi "is two
tea«is and fur Is sure to fly' / paatkM* and Tigers in last week's
Sua<l«y when the two squads getfC0lunm
togetS>T. "Dou't get overheated, Inds.
tickets for the game went on i Ni-!l _\uprtist has had such serious j
sale this week, and the public proi.ienw tint what the frost of,
What "Father Time" has most)
certainly begun, will be hastened,
to a climax by youthful, lithe, j
and muscular 19- and 20-year old i
boys—few of whom are Boy Scouts ,
who practice respect for the AGED.
STRANGE BUT TRUE, more]
than a score of Prairie View j
nnd Bishop partisans are now en-j
gaged in a heated, but friendly,
debate over the 1940 conference1
grid UU# since tills headache fore-j
one-two finish of the/.
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appreciable sum for the orphans.
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READY FOR
JUNIOR MEET
According to an announcement,
this week, Central swimming pool
officials have all In readiness for
the scheduled junior swimming
meet—for both boys nnd girls—
Sunday evening, September 1, be-
ginning at seven o'clock. This
will be Central pool's last program
of the yenr.
Ages of Junior boys who will
be permitted to participate, are
11-17. while no age limit has been
set for the girls.
Swimmers wishing to compete
must register at the swimming
pool, any time between seven
o'clock In the morning, nnd ten
in the evening.
An added attraction of the meet
will be an exhibition of water
drills and life saving by the
American Woodmen aquatic team,
and the junior life saving team.
The competitive progrum will
include the following events—40-
ynrd dash, free style; 60-yard dash,
free style; 120-yard dash, free
style; 80-yard dash, breast stroke
40-yard dash, back stroke; under
water swim, no distance; diving,
with the front, Jack-knife, and
swan dives being required, and two
other optional.
REFUGIO BABY
CUBS COP
TWIN BILL
November could settle permanently |
—if you get what we mean."
A local Lane college alumnus i
avers that Ox Clemmons is nnx-|
eleven of fourteen games played lous to invade the great open;
this season, with their dropping
thre<>.
Their next game is Sunday. Sep-
temlH r 1. with
Pacific nine.
*-
the Southern
BErt;GIO, Texas—The Refugio
Baby Cubs played steadily behind
brilliant pitching, Sunday, to sweep
a doubleheader, the Cubs beating
Corpus Christ!, Texas, 7-4, In the
first game, and then nosing out
Bishop, Texas, 3-1, In the second.
Harold Sims was the Cubs' win-
ning toiser In the first tilt, with
Lloyd bohind the plate. Sims
struck out 12, In taking this
Corpus' battery wns T. G. John- jiilfonu, and In case you've for-
son and Johnson. Soften, B. C. has a Negro half-
The Cubs' pitcher, In the tight hack. Gil Walker, who l« even
duel with Bishop, was Billnps.
with Lloyd again handling the has been diverted from football to
work behind the plate. Haines trnok for perhaps obvious rea-
was the Bishop pitcher.
The Refugio Baby Cubs, man
aged by Bob Shaw, have won
Boston College to
Bench Montgomery
In Tulane Opener
By IK. iiinrliua Kaero Prill.
JbSTON', .Mass. — New England
college football practice opens next
wo.* with Lou Montgomery of
Boston college still the topic. Be-
came. If the ex-Brockton high
school star returns to college
next month, it lfi dollars to dough-
nuts that lie won't be In the B.C.
opaiii'P game of the 1940 season
Th« game Is at New Orleans—B
C. vs. Tulane.
[iinj sports writers have been
feJ tfi«' story that white colleges
m tq.yheir schedules decades -
h, ill of time. ThM is not true.
Tulane was put on the B. C.
sclirilule only recently—while Mont-
gomery was still in school. More-
over. feveral other southern eol-
legc< were being considered by tlie
B. O. authorities only last year in
spite of protest by many Hub fans,
and, marked a nation-wide
condemnation of the B.C. policy as
everfone knows. Whether because
of Ibis fact or not, the B. C.
fitat string quarterback, Ed Cow-
hig, who was co-captain in the
Cot'un bowl affair last season, has
B(,n suddenly quit B. C-, and will
«ut,-r the priesthood next month,
It not known.
Another quiet and sudden move
l1H. been the B.C. ousting of the
HOT athletic administration heads,
ami a substitution which, so fur,
|,ls not indicated any greater
Christian policy thnn the Inst.
This new B. C. set-up will Just
alH.ut decide whether any more
Negroes will don a B. C. football
Cuter than Montgomery, but who
sons. Walker is as big as Mont-
gomery and he was a star on the
his 1940 edition of Lane college
Dragons, and would be willing to
make the trek for a very modest
guarantee since the Jackson, Ten-
nessee school has its own bus.
In case you want to know a little
something about the Lane Dragons,
follow these deductions on the
1939 team: Clemmons' outfit blast-
ed Arkansas State 23-0 in the sea-
son's opener for both teams, and
about mid-season, they hopped ovi-r
to Florida where they pinned Bill
"Bell's Florida A. and M. jugger-
naut's ears back with a stunning
24-0 pasting. This was Florida's
only loss of the 1939 season nnd
knocked them out of the running
for the mythical national collegiate
title. Tliis happened to be the
same Florida team that took the
Wiley Wildcats for that heclic 4J-0
ride in a post season tilt the second
week in December. Need we go
any further???—Hey, Elmer! Slip
me another aspirin. Abhli—! In
the meantime. Ox, drop "Big"
Rettig a line at Texas college.
According to the Steers' present
schedule, they are playing entirely
too many games against that out-
fit that masquerades under the
name of "OPEN DATE."
Marvin Comins, unassuming 175-
pound bnckfield star who was
getting away all last year for
Lincoln while the opposition was
keeping its eyos on Robert Quails,
bas cast his collegiate destiny with
Wiley. Comins and Quails art-
close, close friends, but bath are
eager to be at schools where th-y
will lie opposed to each other
rather than running mates as they
have Veen for the p«st three years
when they cavorted In a spectac-
ular manner for the Booker T.
Washington Bulldogs nnd then
climaxed their prep grid careers
as members of the fine Lincoln
bi eleven that won all its games
last year except a post season af
fair with Jack Yates in Houston
December 17, to determine the non-
existent grid title.
Dame Rumor has It that Tom
Carl Upcliurch, and Czar "Black
Beauty" Ingram, mainstays for the
past two years on the Wiley eleven
Walker Is kept out of football,
Montgomery will have no successor.
In fact, Montgomery may be the
first and last B. a Negro varsity
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