The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, February 17, 1950 Page: 5 of 8
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TEXAS. FRIDAY. FEBRPAHY 17. 1980
THE ORANGE LEADER
Mar**
. _ . ’flSMSS”—Red Sox slugger Ted Wil-
liams grins after signing a 1650 contract reportedly calling for
more than flOMOU as Boaox general manager Joe Cronin looks on
(left^ (n Boston. Williams, dressed in the outfit he wears while
giving flycasting demonstrations at Sportsmen s Show in Boston,
told pewsman “I only hope I deserve It” after signing.
' ' *; (AP Wirephoto)
Manager Goes Down Swinging In
Over Peanuts at Baseball Park
3AB FRANCISCO, reb. 17—
(4*)—Shelled from - all sides, the
head man
Seals I conn
opened the
Jo thd Rad
of the San Francisco
[conceded defeat and re-
the club's baseball park
Jo thd Rad-Jacketed little goober
so dejir to the fans' collect K e
palate. The pressure was too
muchlfor Paul I. Fagan, president
pf the Pacific Coask league team.
It was a brave, but ahort-
llvad edict: No more peanuts in
Seals I stadium; coats too much
($20,000 a season) to clean up.
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Hardly had the'ipk dried on
this pronouncement when Fagan’s
phone started doing a fandango.
4nd. ns the day progressed yes-
terdaV, irate fans were making
suns on peanut vendors—evident-
ling to mail' the portly .
*y $ hatfulLof shells,
applied fpr city licenses '
b operate portable peanut stands
tutside the hall park.
era to spread the wont.
“He (Mr. Peanut) wins. It’s
the first time in my life I’ve been
beaten, and it had to be by a
peanut!” V***
Columnist Reviews
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Goings On in Texas
By William C. Barnard
Associated Press Staff
A fast look around the state:
Gainesville policeman put their
foot down. They refuse to take
coins left on windshield wipers
and deposit them in parking
meters. Too many motorists got
in the habit of putting nickels
under the wipers but none in the
meters! bj, a
So popular was the "*¥<Jld Ca-
nasta tournament” at ' Weslaco
last week that the city had a
ve up." Fagan said and | shortage of card tables and
lly telephoned sportswrft- Rio Grande valley chamber
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One-stroke Margin
By Harold V. Ratliff
HARLINGEN. Feb 17—(4*1—
The $10,000 Rio Grande Valley
Open golf tournament slashed in-
to its second round today with
jo\ ial Little George Fazio out front
by one stroke.
While the galleries followed the
co-favorites, riashy Jimmie De-
maret and handsome Cary Mid-
dlecoff, the lightly regarded Fazio
slipped in with a seven-under-par
64 yesterday.
MMdlereff. the O r m e a d
Beach. Fla., dentist • turned-
golfer who Is defending cham-
pion here, and Demaret. the
OJai. Calif.. fashlan plate, star-
ed within striking distance with
cards of SS and 7* respectively.
I Fazio, balding professional
j from Conshohocken, Pa., who
] hasn't won a tournament in two
I years, found the par 71, 6,095-
, vard Harlingen Municipal course
| to his liking, showing a card of
31-33.
Thirty-two players were in a
range of four strokes at the end
of the first round which saw over
half the field of 151 better or
equal par. Eight withdrawals
came during or after the opening
round. By tonight it will be down
! to 90 and tomorrow will be trim-
med to the 60 low scorers and
lies for the final round Sunday.
A stroke back of Fazio were
Ernie Tardiff, little known pro
from Watertown. S. D.: hulking
Skip Alexander of Knoxville.
Tenn.. and John Barnum of Grand
Rapid. Mich., while six were
deadlocked at 66. They were Jack
Burke Jr. of White Plains. N. Y.;
Jay Hebert of Great Neck. Long
Island. N. Y.; Bob Watson of
Wichita Falls: Ralph Blomquist.
of Glendale. Calif.; It E. Barnes
of Salina. Kan*., and Middlecoff.
There wasn't an amateur able
to shoot under 70. Ed Brady Sr.
of San Benito. Tex., and Mai Gal-
letta of St. Albans. Long Island.
N Y.. were the simon-pures at
that figure.
commerce had to issue an emer-
gency aopeal for more. There
were plenty of chairs.
4 Heustenlami Make Caver
The Glenn McCarthy story in
| Time magazine got In a guahv
plug for Texas - - - a lopsided
yarn: “Texas throbs with pros-
perity.” No problems, no troubles,
no worries. Millionaires every-
where! McCarthy was the fourth
Houstonian to make the mag’s
cover. The others: Mrs. OveU
Culp Hobby, executive vice-pres-
ident of The Houston Poet; Jesse
H. Jones and cotton tycoon Wil-
liam L. Clayton. Speaking of
Clayton, the Anderson. Clayton
and company. America’s biggest
cotton firm, has moved into the
coffee business. Its first sideline.
The initial 264.000 pound ship-
ment of S^Mth American coffee
beans arrived at Houston tiff
week. Future shipments will
go to every American port.
Trsvelteg ( so pie Visit Beansaeet
Visitors at Beaumont were ■
couple who 42 years ago traversed
the United States from south to
north and then from west to east
in a two-seater, two-cylinder
Maxwell. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
A. Hover are still motoring, now
on their second million miles of
auto travel. He's 82 and she’s
73.
Out at Lubbock. West Texans
must have been horribly embar-
rassed when Woodrow, an enor-
mous, five-year-old whlteface
steer, lost a little weight before
he was sold at the recent Fort
Worth livestock show. The Spade
ranch fattened him to the aston-
ishing weight of 2.400 pounds, but
the trip to Fort Worth didn’t
agree with him. He was down to
2.170 pounds before he sold for
94M: As a youngster, Woddrow
was sickly, whichll give you an
idea of what wholesome food,
clean living and tender care will
do for a steer.
Dnqnesne, Western Ky. Aboat “1b” for Na
By Ted Meier
NEW YORK. Feb. 17—bP)—
Looks as if Duquesne and West-
ern Kentucky ore just about "in”
for the national invitation college
basketball tournament next month
— Niagra. too. maybe.
Once-beaten Duquesne, ranked
seventh in this week’s Associated
Press national poll. smashed
sixth-ranked Long Island, 60-53,
in Madison Square garden last
night.
Western Kentucky, ranked
ninth, chalked up its 13th straight
victory by overwhelming Miami
(Fla >. 83-47.
Niagra upset City college of
New York, 68-61. This strength-
ened Niagara's hopes for a bid to
N.I.T., but the selection commit-
tee is reported leaning towards
TOP COMPETITOR — Mildred
“Babe" Didrickaon. named the
greatest female athlete of the
half-century in The Associated
Pres* mid-century poll, is one of
the few direct competitive links
with the decade called the "Gol-
den Era” of American s|Mirts.
Here she holds the women's pro-
fessional trophy she won in the
Tam O’Shanter’s “world” golf
tournament in Chicago, Aug. 14.
1949. She gained fame in basket-
ball and track events in 1930 and
individual star of the Olympics
in Los Angeles in 1932.
(AP Wirephoto) ^
Music Teacher Paid
Debt After 33 Years
DALAS, Feb. 17—(4*1—Thirty-
three years ago Otis Deaton of
Dallas was teaching music in the
little town of Dougherty in West
Texas.
The father of one pupil didn't
have the money to pay. He prom-
ised to pay as soon as possible
This week Deaton received a
check for $33 from the father,
now a Fort Worth resident.
"The bill was only $10.” Dea-
ton recalled. *‘I guess he meant
the rest for interest.”
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Franchise Is Released
By Owners at Longview
LONGVIEW, Feb 17—(4*)-
Stockholders of the Longview
baseball club have released their
franchise because the "club has ! Canislus.
been a liability for two seasons." Murry (Ky) state came from
The club finished first in the I behind a U-2 deficit to beat the
Class C East Texas league Iasi | New Britain (Conn.) teachers, 62-
year, drawing 63,103 admissions, j---—— ........ • ■ — ■ - -
The action was voted last night
by stockholders after a check of
records by Earl Hollandsworth,
W. B. Johnson and E. C. Johns-
ton Sr.
Under league rules the fans of
the city will have fiist chance
on taking up the franchise. All
players owned by the club will
become free agents March 1 un-
less they are sold or the franchise
is taken up.
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Michigan. 85-71. U u
I . St. Mil
Vanderbilt, ranked 20th, clung fjr,t Vermc
to first place in the Southeastern | pionstdp In 1
conference by swamping Missis- I Norwich,
slppi, 80-47. William and Mary j trimmed
spurted in the last 20 minutes to ! the* Border ’
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The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, February 17, 1950, newspaper, February 17, 1950; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth558253/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.