Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 1956 Page: 6 of 8
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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
Thursday, April 12, 1956
SHARKS PLACE SECOND IN DISTRICT 116B TRACK MEET
Shelton Will Take Standouts
To Regional At Kingsville
The Pulacios High School Sharks,
improving steadily throughout the
track season, paid off with a
second place in District 114B com-
petition at Victoria Saturday.
Racking up three first places,
f-'ve second places, three thirds
and one fourth, the Sharks needed
only one and a half points to pass
the district-winning Industrial cin-
dermen.
Industrial topped out with 37V^
points while Palaeios trailed with
36.
Coach R. C. (Sharky) Shelton
said this week that he was taking
his standouts to the regional meet
in Kingsville April 21.
Shelton's traeksters took a first
place in the mile run and mile re-
lay, as well as the 100 yard dashes,
at the District meet.
Donnie Beard spiked the local
■cindermen's attack, clocking 10.4
for an individual first place in the
100 yard dashes, 20.4 in the 180
low hurdles and 20 foot four inches
in the broad jump.
Kenneth Countryman, Lonnie
Beard, Paul Taylor and Jimmy
Jackson made up the first place
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mile relay squad. Jackson ran the
best time of the four, clocking 54.8.
Countryman clocked 56.3, Taylor,
57.3 and Beard, 57.4.
John Beard, on the mile run,
took an average of 5:04.3 for a
first place and five team points.
Marshal Rodgers collected two
team points while Lonnie Beard
got four in the 880 dashes.
Countryman took a third place
and Jimmy Jackson, second, in the
440 dash events. Lannie Gillette
ran third in the 120 high hurdles.
Bennie Starr, Jackson, Jack
Crawford and Edward Pennington
timed 47.4 for a third place in the
440 relay event. Marshal Rodgers
and Lonnie Beard placed in the 880
dashes 'for a combined four points.
Shelton said he would take a
mile relay team made up of Don-
nie Beard, Countryman, Taylor and
Jackson to the regional meet.
Beard will also run in the 100
yard or 440 yard dashes and the
low hurdles. John Beard will be
entered in the mile run with Mar-
shal Rodgers trying the 880.
Jackson, Crawford and Penning-
ton will team up for the 440 relay
event.
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L. A. House, Commander
Noel D. Curtis, Adjutant
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District 116b boys and girls vol-
leyball will be played o'ff in a
tournament here Friday beginning
with Industrial girls facing Pala-
eios girls at 10 a.m. in the junior
high gym and Bloomington girls
playing Tidehaven girls in the
high school gym at the same time.
Only two schools, Bloomington
and Goliad, will enter boys teams
in the district meet. The two
squads will play off at 1 a.m. in
the junior high gym.
Goliad and Louise girls will
meet in the junior high gym while
Yorktown and Ganado girls play
in the high school gym at 11 a.m.
The winner of the Palaeios and
Industrial game will meet the
winner of the Bloomington-Tide-
haven game at 2 p.m. in the junior
high school gym.
At the same time, the winner of
the Goliad-Louise game will play
the winner of the Yorktown-Ga-
nado game in the high school gym.
This elimination will leave two
finalists. They will vie off in a
scheduled game in one of the home
gyms.
Coach Joanna Hendricks will be
in charge of the girls matches,
while R. C. (Sharky) Shelton will
manage the boys game.
Coaches of the various teams
will act as officials.
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Hornet Cindermen At District Meet
Today; Coach Smith Is Optimistic
Coach Ted Smith was optimistic
about .the Palaeios Junior High
School Hornet's chances in District
116b track competition at Victoria
today.
Although the Hornets only
placed a tied fourth with Lamar
Consolidated at the Boling meet
last week-end', Smith said he
thought his boys had a good fight-
ing chance for first place at the
district meet today.
Johnny Penland took a first
place in the 880 event at Edna
with a 2:18.9, then came right back
Present Day Duos Do Not Compare
With Ruth-Gehrig Or Simmons-Foxx
The Pittsburgh Pirates set a
club record this spring, says The
Sporting News, for the number of
their offspring around the Fort
Myers training base. There are 24
k:ds. Pitcher Red Munger is the
champion father with four young-
sters. Vern Law and Fred Waters
have three each. Twelve Pirates
are bachelors.
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Baseball doesn't have its great
one-two blasters any more—com-
binations like Ruth and Gehrig,
Simmons and Foxx, Mize and Med-
wick. Those days are over. But,
says Joe King, there still are good
one-two punches in the majors, and
enough of them to make it difficult
to name the best.
He mentions Yogi Berra and
Mickey Mantle of the Yankees,
Ted Kluszewski and IWially Post
of the Redlegs, Duke Snider anl
Roy Campanella of the Dodgers,
Ted Williams and Jackie Jensen
of the Red Sox, Ed Mathews and
Hank Aaron of the Braves and A1
Kaline and Ike Boone o'f the Tig-
ers.
If you look at the record, King
says, the Dodgers and Redlegs
hitters are the most destructive,
and productive. But it must be
stressed, he adds, that the Na-
tional leaguers have the edge in
home run production because their
parks, on the whole, are more kind
to sluggers.
In 1955, Snider of the Dodgers
had 42 homers and 136 run batted
in. The other half of the one-two
combination—Campanella—had 32
homers and 107 runs driven in. In
Cincinnati, Kluszewski hit 47 hom-
ers and batted in 107 runs, while
his comrade, Post, blasted 40 home
runs and drove in 109 runs. Both
are the ideal one-two punches, says
King, because there's a lefthander
and righthander in each one. All
of the others mentioned, except De-
troit's, also are left and right com-
binations. On the Yankees, there's
more maneuverability because
Mantle is a switch hitter with lef-
ty Berra.
Speaking of other clubs, the
Cardinals for instance, they have
their hitters but not a feared one-
two combination. Musial, lefthand-
ed, has Rip Repulski but Rip, al-
though a power man, doesn't mea-
sure up high enough. On the
Giants, Willie Mays is a destruc-
tive hitter, but there's nobody to
go with him at the moment. The
Cubs have no outstanding mate
for Ernie Banks, who hit 44 hom-
ers and drove in 117 runs last year.
Several teams which already
boast a one-two punch, says King's
article in The Sporting News,
have further possibilities. Brook-
lyn, for instance, has a wealth of
home run hitters. Hodges had 27
homers last year and Furillo 26.
Don Zimmer, with not much of a
batting average, is dangerous. He
had 15. Randy Jackson, who hit 21
for the Cubs, may do better at
Ebbets Field.
The Redlegs, besides Kluszew-
ski and Post, have a power hitter
in Gus Bell. The Yankees may
have another big boy ready in Bill
Skowron, who hit .319 with 12
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homers in only 288 at-bats.
At Milwaukee, comebacks from
injuries would add the power men
of Bob Thompson and Joe Ad-
cock. Bill Tuttle may climb at De-
troit. With the Red Sox, Norm
Zauehin put 27 out o'f the park
last year.
There are power hitters, and
there are some good one-two
punches. But for brutalizing com-
binations, says King, you have to
go back a ways. Babe Ruth and
Lou Gehrig, he says, would hav?
to be the best over a period. In
1931, together they had 92 homers,
and 329 runs batted in. When Ruth
hit 60 homers in 1927 and had 16'
runs batted :'n, Gehrig hit 47 four-
basers and drove in 175 runs.
Priess Resigns
As Goliad Coach
Eugene H. Priess, head football
coach and physical education di-
rector of the Goliad High School,
has submitted his resignation from
that position to take effect at the
close of the present school term.
Priess did not announce his
plans for the future.
He was elevated to the head
coaching post at Goliad last Au-
gust after enjoying two highly
successful years as Goliad Junior
High coach. His junior teams won
14 games and lost two in football
over a two-year span.
Press's junior squads claimed a
district co - championship both
years and won two district titles
in track and one in baseball.
His high school team last fall
had a record of two victories, six
defeats and two ties.
with a first in the low hurdles.
Bernie Keszler threw for third
place in the shot put and Ruben
Salinas took second place in the
same event.
Smith expects to enter Penland,
Roy Hogg and Bobby Fowler in
the 120 yard low hurdles at Vic-
toria today. Kenneth Cock, Rudy
Diaz and Keszler will run the 100
yard dashes.
Penland, Carroll Ramsey and
Bobby Fowler will be entered in
the 660 while Diaz, Hogg, Paul
Treybig and Keszler will run the
440.
Cook, Norris Crawford and Bob-
by Fowler will sprint the 50-yard
dashes with Penland, Cook, Hogg
and Diaz making up the 880 med-
ley relay team.
Jesse Ellis and Cook will com-
pete in the high jumps and pole
vaulting events with Keszler, Reed
and Salinas trying the eight pound
shot-put.
Keszler will throw the discus
with Ellis entered in pull-ups and
Diaz and Treybig in the broad-
jumps.
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Local CAP Squad
Postpones Camping
The Palac'os CAP squad discuss-
ed and postponed a camping trip
rt. their regular meeting last
Thursday at the CAP building.
With Major J. L. Koerber, Jr.,
i", charge, the unit took a test on
aeronautics.
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