The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 183, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 4, 1964 Page: 4 of 8
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t THE CUERO RECORD, Tuesday, August 4, 1M4
Yoakum LL *
Club Loses
To Austin
Five home mm, two by Rick
Mercado, outstanding Austin
receiver, featured the Weet
Austin • Yoakum LKtte League
first-round game la sectional
play la Austin Monday even-
ing, and the Capital City club
decteioned Yoakum 12-2, to
move bus die sectional finals
against Waco Tuesday night-
Ftaur other home rum, one
•nch fay Jeff Ball tf Austin, and
by pitcher Tommy CUffe and
first sacker C L. Moore «f
Yoakum new recorded.
in addktoa to Ms two round
trippers, Mercado got two sin-
gles tor s perfect day at the
plate, and batted la five of his
team's 12 rats. Ms battery
■tale, Dee MrMMton got three
far four.
Austin Jumped into the scor-
ing column kt the first frame
on a single, wild pitch, an er-
ror and Jetty Bell's single to
right to go ahead by one nai
Yoakum loaded the sacks In
their half of toe same tadiw
with only one out but failed to
tally. The losers also had toe
bases loaded with ao one out
to the fourto but failed to score.
Jerry
Play in the state Babe Ruth
double elimination baseball
tournament was slated to get
underway Monday with teams
from 12 districts scheduled to
participate, but no results of
games played on that day. if
any, were available here Tues-
day.
Two teams from this area
were eligible to take part in
the playoffs, Fayette County of
District 10 and Kenedy of Dis-
trict 5.
The winner of this tourna-
ment, which will run through
Saturday, is for boys 13 to 15
years of age, may participate
in the regional tourney at Para-
gould. Ark.
SPORTS
COMMENTS
(Etc.)
By PETE HOWERTON
Record Staff Writer
lea.
out.
back to back sing-
on a ground
to that Dean Mo-
home and Kea Marshall wak-
ed. Pitcher CUffe then took
Crenshaw's tap and held k mo-
mentarily before trying to cat-
ch a runner at third and then
overthrew the bag permitting
two runs to score and Crenshaw
to move to third. Jeff Ball
grounded out but Jerry Bell
tingled to plate Crenshaw with
the fifth Austin tun of the bat-
tog.
Yoakum scored one in the
third an Tommy CUffe's four
bagger and their only other
run, bi the sixth, on C. L
Moore’s home run over the cen-
ter field wall.
Austin tacked on another run
in the fourth on Ball's round
tripper, added two more in the
fifth on McMillan's single and
Marcado's first homer, and
closed out the scoring in the
sixth on a double by Ball and
Marcado's second home run of
the game.
Tommy Cliffe pitched the en-
tire game for the losers, giving
up ah even doaen hits, striking
out three and issuing 3 bases
on bails. McMillan likewise
went the distance for Austin,
allowing six runs, as many hits,
walking four and striking out
eight.
Game at a Glance R H E
W. Austin — 150 123—12 12 1
Yoakum — 001 001— 2 6 5
McMillan and Marcado;
Cliffe and St. Ctafcr.
SPORTS BRIEFS
NEW YORK —(UPI) —Bob
Booaer, the New York Knicks’
second highest scorer last year,
Monday signed his 1964
contract with the National Bas-
ketball Association team.
Skip Oat lews
MONTREAL —(UPD— The
Montreal Alouetes sent seven
players, five Americans and
two Canadians, to their Port-
land Me. Seahawks farm team
in the Atlantic Coast Confer-
ence Monday.
Americans Nat Craddock who
failed with the New York Gi-
ants last year, Gus Gonzales,
Dennis Gerardi, Blass Iulani,
Hugh Rohrshneider and Canad-
ians Andy Leveille and Terry
Evans hen were farmed out
Boy For Shorts
PHILADELPHIA — (UPI) —
Philadelphia pitcher Chris
Short and his wife Merle be-
came the parents of an eight
pound boy Monday.
Captareo Crows
TOKYO (UPI)— Fumio Kai-
zu captured the Orient mid-
dleweight title for the third
time Monday night by outpoint-
ing Masao Gaondo, also of Ja-
pan, in a 12 round bout.
“TRY
KING
EDWARD’
Amarica'« Largest Selling Cigar
Area baseball fans will b c
watching with interest how the
Yoakum and Fayette County
teams fare in Sectional Little
League and State Babe Ruth
tournaments which got started
Monday. Local youngsters per-
rmed against both these
teams in lower category {•Lay-
offs before being eliminated
from nirther contention.
Little League tournaments
will be single elimination af-
fairs, probably due to the vast
number of clubs involved,
which would stretch such tour-
neys out over too long a period
to determine the state champ-
ions, so when any team drops a
single game they are eliminat-
ed. This fact alone is incentive
g«»»nmttm»t»nH
BASEBALL
STANDINGS
SOLDIER KILLED
HANU, Germany (UPI) —One
soldier was stabbed to death
and another injured in a street
clash here b tween American
white and Negro servicemen, a
U. S. Army spokesman said to-
day.
Lead Pacers
WESTBURY, N. Y. (UPI) —
Rival pacers Wear Hanover
and Race Time head the list of
nine 3-year olds pacers slat-
ed to run in the 3150,690 Mes-
nger Stakes at Roosevelt
Raceway Aug. 8.
Pregenser Cornea Up
PHILADELPHI (UPD— San
Francisco pitcher Jack San-
ford, who is on the disabled
list, will be replaced by John
Pregenzer, who was recalled
Thursday from the Giants' Ta-
coma farm club in the Pacific
Coast League.
Duke Adds Coaches
- DUHAM, N. C. (UPI)— Hal
McElhaney and Mike McGee
have been added to the coach-
ing staff of Duke University's
varsity football team.
McElhaney, formerly with
Dickson College, will be assist-
ant coach in charge of lineback
ers and McGee, who was pro-
moted from the assistant fresh-
man .coaching Job, will handle
the offensive line. i '
enough for every pee wee group
in the naming for national hon-
ors to go "all-out in every ap-
pearance.
On the other hand, the Babe
Ruth League affair is conducted
on a double • elimination bask,
which means that an entry can
lose a single game and stifi con-
tend for the title by copping
the remainder at their bookings.
In this writer's book the dou-
ble • elimination tourney is much
more fair because any and ev-
ery team has an 'off-day' once
in awhile.
Said playoffs are being staged
at widely - separated points,
with the LL tournament now un-
derway in Austin and the Babe
Ruth loop shew holding forth in
Levelland. Both got going Mon-
day.
Don’t know how playoffs sites
are chosen in these leagues, and
have no comment to make about
the show at Austin. But Level-
land. Man, that's halfway to
California! Some of the teams
will have to grease the wagon
half a dozen times before reach-
ing the Hockley county seat.
And when the carnival is over
they've got another pretty fair
hop, even for Texas to return
to their respective home cor-
rals.
After getting off on the dis-
tance some of the Babe Rvi'h
League teams will have to tra-
vel if all enter the tourney, let
me say that of the 12 teams sup-
posed to participate, 8 of them
will have to travel a minimum
of 407 miles, one way, to reach
the playing site. Mayhap the
West Texas teams involved fig-
ured they would wear out the
opposition on the high road and
therefore not nave it too tough
on the diamond.
Anyway, to list distances from
each of the 8 aforementioned
towns to the city of Levelland,
this is what was found after con-
sulting one of Mr. Connally’s
Texas Highway Department
maps: Austin, 407; San Anton-
io, 425; Kenedy, 497; Fayette
(La Grange), 525; Houston, 540;
West Columbia, 569; Carthage,
591; and Nederland, 640. And
these figures are for one-way
trips. Some of those distances
will exceed the mileage that our
7th and 8th grade football teams
will have to make this fall.
As stated before, don’t know
how the Levelland playoffs site
was selected, but it would not
take a body with a Masters de-
gree to designate a more cen-
trally - located (statewise) city
that boasts a sufficient number
of ball diamonds to properly
handle such a playoff.
Am not thinking so much of
the players themselves, but a
body should consider the team
officials and the inevitable ma-
mas and papas who are getting
along in age, but who will make
the trek in spite of everything.
Well, the sites have been cho-
sen and the youngsters started
butting heads Monday and some
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TEXAS
LEAGUE
W L
Pet.
San Antonio
64 42
.604
Albuquerque
59 45
.567
Tulsa
59 45
.567
Austin
47 57
.452
El Paso
46 59
.438
Fort Worth
39 66
.371
Monday's Results
Tulsa 3 Ft.
Worth 0
San Antonio
6 Austin 1
Albuquerque
3 El Paso
L
Tuesday's Games
Albuquerque at Austin
E3 Paso at
Tulsa
San Antonio
at Ft. Worth
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W L
Pet,
Philadelphia
60 42
.568
San Francisco
60 46
.566
Pittsburgh
55 46
.545
Cincinnati
57 48
.543
Milwaukee
54 49
.524
St. Louis
54 50
.519
Lee Angeles
51 51
.500
Chicago
49 53
.480
Houston
46 62
.426
New York
34 73
.318
Monday’s Results
Pitts. 3 San Fran. 2
L. A. at Phila., ppd., rain
Only games
scheduled
Tuesday’s Games
Chicago at St. Louis nMe
San Fran, at N. Y. nite
L. A. at Pitts. 2, twi-nite
Milw. at Cinci. 2 twi-nite
Only games
scheduled
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W L
Pet.
New York
63 38
.624
Baltimore
66 40
.623
Chicago
64 40
.615
Los Angeles
56 54
.509
Boston
52 54
.491
will continue
doing so most of
the week and
may the
best
teams win.
5.
Incidentally, will make every
effort to keep you informed on
game results in both tourna-
ments, particularly if Yoakum
and - or Fayette County wins.
Hansen T o
L. A. Meet
Cutiines beneath an action
picture of Cuero’s Fred Hansen
clearing the bar at 17 feet 4
inches in the U S.A-Russia dual
meet held in Los Angelos July
25-26 stated: "Highest Vault.
Rice University's Fred Han-
sen, who still must try for a
place on the U.S. Olympic team
in the September final trials,
clears 17 4 for a new world
mark."
Hansen lias four official vau-
lts of 17 feet or better, and three
of them are over the pending
world record of John Fennel
(17 3/4). Pennel's listed 16
feet 10 1/2 inches is the recog-
nized worlds record leap.
Despite Hansen’s previous
record-breaking vaults, accord-
ing to some sources, he has on-
ly the remaining final Olympics
trials meet on September 12 la
which to qualify for a trip to To-
kyo. This meet will be conduct-
ed in the Los Angeles Coliseum,
the site where he negotiated Ms
tremendous world record leap
on July 25 and where he has
been practicing the last two
weeks.
FIGHT RE8ULTS
By United Preas latemaMoaal
TOKYO —(UPD— Fumio Kai-
ai, 155H Japan, dec tenoned Ma-
sao Gondo, 159, Japan.
NEW BEDFORD. Mass. —
<UPD— Dick French, 150, Provi-
dence, R. I., drew with Gray
Gavin, 150, New York 10.
Minnesota
Detroit
Cleveland
Kansas City
Washington
50 56
51 57
48 58
40 65
41 70
Monday's Results
Balti. 7 L. A. 0
Cleve. 4 Wash. 2
Only games scheduled
Tuesday’s Games
N. Y. at Kan. City nite
Boston at Minn, nite
Balti. at L. A. nite
Detroit at Chicago nite
Wash, at Cleve. nite
.418
.472
.463
.381
.369
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