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f 1 THE CUERO RECORD Wed., Sept. 11, 1968
Astros Split With Reds
By FRED DOWD
I TI Sport Writer
The Houston Astro* have a
curious attitude toward Don
Wilson, who in two seasons has
pitched a no-hitter, tied the
major league record of 18
strikeouts in a nine-inning game
and demonstrated that he can
overpower the best hitters in
baseball.
They think he'll be a dandy
when he teams how to pitch.
A Moot, 3-inch 205-pound
native of Monroe, La., Wilson
has a higlt-rlsing fast ball, a
good slider, an even temper-
ament thd an erratic history of
being either very good or very
bad. All in all, it’s not a bad
record for a 23-year-old right-
hander who bought a baseball
Airing his rookie season so he
aould get it autographed by
Willie Mays,
other stars.
Wilson had another of his
very good nights Tuesday when
he pitched a six-hitter and
•truck out 16 batters as the
Altros beat the Cincinnati Reds,
M in the first game of a
doubleheader. The Red* won the
second game, 4-3, on a bases-
filled tingle by Alex Johnson
with two out in the ninth inning.
Hfk Strikeout Total
Wilson, who pitched a no
hitter as a rookie against the
Atlanta Braves <xi June 18, 1967
Slid struck out IS Reds last July
-4, finned eight of the last 11 he
Awed Tuesday night in scoring
Ms 13th victory against 14
losses. He was 10-9 last year.
Jose Herrera hit a two-run i field stands in the third Inning,
tie-breaking double In the fifth | was 1lw big blow for the Giants
inning and Johnny Bench I as Mike McCormick Went 6 1-3
homered for the Reds’ first run
in the second inning.
Clay Carroll was the winning
pitcher in the second game after
Mel Queen, making his first
start since May 26, was tagged
for homers by Jim Wynn, Doug
Rader and Norm Miller during
7 1-3 innings. , t
The Los Angeles Dodgers
defeated the St. Louis Cardinals,
3-6, the San Francisco Giants
beat tite Braves, 4-2, and the
Chicago Cubs romped over the
New York Meta, 8-1, in other
National League games. Phil-
adelphia at Pittsburgh was
rained out.
Tigers Top Angels
In the American Iwague, the
Detroit Tigers downed the
Hank Aaron and California Angels, 7-2, the Oak-
land Athletics beat the Boston
Red Sox, 5-3, the Cleveland
Indians topped the Minnesota
Twins, 6-2, and the New York
Yankees swept a doubleheader
from the Chicago White Sok,
2-1 and 5-0. Baltimore at Wash-
ington was rained out.
Bill Singer scattered nine hits
and touched off a two-run rally
in the third inning with a single
to win his 11 th game for the
Dodgers, wdio beat the Cardin-
als for the second straight time.
The shutoue was the 163rd of
the NL season — one short of the
Major league record set by the
NL in 1908.
Willie McCovey’s 33rd homer,
a three-run drive into the right
Sports Comments Etc.
If OLAtKK HOWERTON
Ntted a little short in the pa-
ger stating anyone over six
years of age in Youngstown,
Ohio, caught strolling down the
street barefoot would be fined
f! the first time and |10 the se-
eand time. The reason given
was to reduce athlete's foot,
lockjaw and warts, . . I guess
the city dads don't care if small
children get lockjaw, warts and
athlete’s foot. Appears to me
they ought to clean up their
sidewalks and streets if there is
danger of those diseases lurking
•round. Personally, 1 am a firm
believer in going bare foot hav-
ing done so at every opportunity
ainee I could walk with the re-
sult being, a germ would have
• hard time penetrating the cal-
hiaes on the bottom of my feet.
Football tickets for the Gob-
MeiyOorput Christ! game Friday
night want on tale yesterday at
I ORGANIZATIONS
Joe Keeslers and, according to
reports, the Gobblers are ready
and raring to go. Gametime is
8 o’clock. Ahd. speaking of Gob-
bler football and Gobbler foot-
ball players we got word this
morning that an ex-Gobbler,
A/1C Charles Ramsey is still
playing the game albeit for a
different coach. Charles is sta-
tioned in Guam and is playing
football for the U. S. Air Force.
He is starting center and is
wearing number 51 which is the
number he wore when he was
playing center for Cuero High
School In 1965. The Gobblers of
1966 were coached by Bill Ford.
innings in relief to raise his rec-
ord to 11-14.
Billy Williams drove in six
runs with three homers, giving
him a record tying five homers
in two games, and raised his
league-leading run batted in
total to 94 in pacing the Cubs
to their victory behind the eight-
hit pitching of Bill Hands.
Trull Put
On Oiler
Taxi Squad
HOUSTON flTPli - The Hous-
ton Oilers today added quarter-
back Don Trull to their taxi
squad.
Trull, a former Baylor Uni-
versity great, was cut by the
Boston Patriots last week.
He was to work out dally with
other members of the taxi
squad, but would not be allow-
ed to accompany the team on
road trips.
General manager Don Klos-
terman said the injury Monday
of utility man Ode Burrell made
It possible to add Trull to the
taxi squad without making any
cuts.
Baseball
Standings
By United Press International
NATIONAL LEAGUE
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Chicago
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Atlanta
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Pittsburgh
70
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Philadelphia
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Los Angeles
66
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Houston
66
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New York
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Meets 2nd A
,4th Thursday,
7:90 p.m.
S.YJL Bldg,
aty Park
A. W. Schaffner, Commander
Wilfred Leist, Quartermaster
All visiting members
welcome.
Meets 2nd A
4th Tuesday
each month 8
p.m. Ameri-
can Legion
Civic Center.
Calvin Webb, Commander
Bulgaria, Adjutant
The University of Houston
Cougars open their football sea-
son this weekend in the Astro-
dome against Tulane and Sep-
tember 21 the Cougars will tra-
vel to Austin to give Cbach
Darrel Royal’s Longhorns a
whirl. The game in Austin is a
sellout so don’t drive^ up there
expecting to buy a ticket at the
gate. It Is to be hoped that
Coach Royal can field a team.
Cliero Ledge No. 409
A. 1*. A A. M. meets
•vary second and
fourth Thursday each
month at 1:00 pun.
Visiting mutters are
always welcome.
•ON* LODGE
RO.11
Poets every 1st Toss, at tbs
a Prause
I have heard a lot of "fish”
stories in my time but one from
the Fort Worth Star Telegram
takes the "rag off the bush” as*
someone said the other day. The
story is credited to one A. W.
Stubbeman, one time Cuero re-
sident and follows:
Stubbeman is regarded as an
expert on Lake Texoma. When
he tells you the lake is awfully
rough at times — as rough, say,
as the Gulf Of Mexico — you
don’t register doubt. You regard
it as gospel.
It was during one at those
rough spells a few years ago,
Stubbeman says, that a fellow
in a small outboard boat was
running a trot line near the
Oklahoma side of the lake.
It contained a real prize —
a 70-pound catfish. The man
put it on a stringer dangling
from his boat.
Then his motor wouldn’t start.
He tried paddling, but the lake
was too rough — he could make
no headway.
"About then," Stubbeman
says, "that catfish took off —
it towed the boat to shore."
That’s not one of those fisher-
men’s lies, Stubbeman swears.
It's the honest-to-goah truth. It’s
easier to believe, at that, than
the kicker to the story.
Stubbeman says the fisherman
was so grateful to the catfish
tor rescuing him from toe rough
waters that he cut toe strii^er
j and let it go.
Tuesday's Results
Los Angeles 3, St. Louis 0
Houston 3, Cincinnati 2 1st
Cincinnati 4, Houston 3, 2nd
San Francisco 4, Atlanta 2
Chicago 8, New York 1
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh,
night, ppd., rain
Today’s Games
All Times EDT
New York at Chicago 2:30 P
m.
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh
6:05 p.m.
Houston at Cincinnati, 2, 5:30
p.m.
Los Angeles at St. Louis 9 p.
m.
San Francisco at Atlanta 8 p.
m.
Thursday’s Games
No games scheduled
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DALLAS (UPI) — Defending
champion Texas AAM turned
out to be a surprising runaway
choice to win the Southwest Con-
ference football title again in a
poll of 20 newsmen who made
the annual fall tour of the
league's eight training camps.
While the Aggies, owning a
seven-game winning streak and
the men voted outstanding of-
fensive quarterback Eckl Har-
gett snd defensive linebacker
BUI Hobbs prospects, had been
well regarded in previous pre-
season polls, the nod had gone
to the Texas Longhorns for No.
1.
But the writers, after visiting
the Longhorn drills and taking
note of the fact elghl players
quit the squad, dropped Texas
into No. 3 behind the Aggies nnd
last year’s runnerup, Texas
Tech.
Coach Gene Stallings’ Aggies,
SMU Player Hurt
In Scrimmage Play
By United Press International f mage Tuesday he was pleased
__ _ _ ^ _ ! ...til. SLx ..Mxnr taix noxl
ACROSS
N. Award for
Git.
82. And Others:
Abbf.
33. Device to
drain water
from boats.
37. Dusk.
38. Too sun-
shiny.
89. setup to get
a lusher
(3 wds.)
41. Pishing
2. Pitched a
tent out*
doors.
Y. Knife need
by fisher*
men.
U. By word of
mouth.
14. Sail for
pleasure.
18. Anglers on
Erie, On-
tario, eta.
(3 wds.)
IT. Walked
upon.
18. Most In
Want.
19. Joke.
81. Micah:
Abbr.
S3. Bent from
the waist, 45. Scot’s no.
88. It’s used 46. And ae
tor bottom forth,
fishing. 47. City rail*
29. Mouths: roads,
let 48. Observe.
DOWN
1. Young
home.
3. Sandarao
tree.
3. Atlantic
shark, great
sport flab.
4. Solemn
promise.
5. Sprite.
«. Fading out,
as a camp*
fire.
soots not on Flan,
boats, A Put belief
43. Gripe. **•
43. Catch ——
thing late-.
Df
44. Th# Out-
door own-
9. An ear.
10. Citrus to
flavor
drinks.
30. Poisonous
snakes.
32. Fishing
float.
33. Not imita-
ting others.
34. Pollacks
worth
catching.
38. Small
French
coin.
38. Repeats.
87. Sail by tbs.
chart.
38. Neat
beauty.
31. Discover.
34. Lot*
nosed river
fish.
11. Suffixes do- 36. Chief cook
noting lan* and bottle-
guage. washer.
18. One way to 38. Brain
get a mm- membrane,
mer rot* 40. Looaeleaf:
tag*. Abbr.
16. Southeast: 41. Sheet oC
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Baltimore
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Boston
78
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Cleveland
78
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New York
75
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Oakland
75
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Minnesota
69
77
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California
63
84
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Chicago
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Washington
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Buffaloes Open
Season Saturday
Yet another Southern Method-
ist went on the lame chart
Tuesday — as the temporary in-
jury list continued to grow dur-
ing some obviously rough work-
outs.
The latest addition to the out-
of-action roster was defensive
#hd Tommy Fraser, who strain-
ed a knee during an afternoon
no-contact workout in prepara-
tion for a scrimmage today.
SMU spokesmen said Fraser
would not see action for the
rest of the week but probably
would be ready to start against
Auburn Sept. 21.
In Houston, Rice's Owls
caught a bit of the Mustangs’
injury bug as offensive guard
Tommy Peel suffered a shoul-
der separation. Coach Bo Hagan
said Peel probably would re-
turn witli a slmulder harness in
three or four days.
The Texas Longhorns pre-
pared for the Cougars of Hous-
ton with a controlled scrimage
Tuesday. Coach Darrell Royal
said he <*as pleased with the
offensive line blocking and with
the lack of injuries in the scrim-
mage.
Way, out west in Lubbock, the
Tech Red Raiders worked on
their air game, as coach J. T.
King said , the two-a-day work-
outs might end today. King
Tuesday praised linebackers
Dennis Lane, Fred Warren,
Mark Fincannon and Robert
Jene H.
Baylor’s Bears planned to
wind up their pre-season scrim-
mages Thursday night with the
annual Green and White game.
Coach John Bridgers said after
his team’s final controlled scrim-
with both the offensive and de-
fensive units, particularly quar-
terback Alvin Flynn and run-
ning back Pinkie Palmer.
TEXAS FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Eastern Division
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Beaumont
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Dallas
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Tulsa
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who also won the CWfofi Bowl
game over Alabama last Season,
reoei d 15 of the 80 fWt-plaoe
votes and shared two others
with Texas Tech. Texas Tech
got one undisputed vpfe for
first, as did Texas and Texas
Christian.
The Aggies, on a preferential
ballot basis, received 16 of a
possible minimum of 20 points,
while Texas Tech received 53
points and Texas 66. Fourth
place was voted to TCU with
73.5 points. Arkansas fifth with
86.5, followed by Rice With 118,
Southern Methodist with 144.5
and Baylor last with lp2.5.
The Aggies got no vole below
second place, sharing runnerup
ties with Tech in two ballots
and with Texas and 1W in the
other ballot. «
Only one writer, Galyn Wil-
kins of the Fort Worth Star-Tel-
egram, came up with a ballot
identical to the concensus.
Hargett received 12 of the 20
votes as outstanding back, while
Hobbs got 17 first-place votes
as top defensive prospect.
Top offensive sophomore hon-
ors were shared 10 voles each
by fullback Stew Worster of
Texas and quarterback Bill
Montgomery of Arkansas.
Tbp soph defender was rnd
Mike DcNlro of the Aggies with
six votes to five tor Randy
Last Week’s Results
San Antonio 31, Texarkana 21.
Fort Worth 50, Odessa 13.
Dallas 36, Texarkana 21.
Th s Week’s Schedule
at Texar-
Yew leaps Possible
In East Ism Cities
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Tuesday’s Results
New York 2, Chicago 1, 1st
New York 5. Chicago 0, 2nd
Cleveland 6, Minnesota 2
Detroit 7, California 2
Oakland 5, Boston 3
Baltimore at Washington, ppd.
rain
Today’s Gamas
All Times EDT
Boston at Oakland 11 p.m.
Detroit at California 11 p.m.
Cleveland at Minnesota 9 p.m.
Baltimore at Washington I p.
m.
Chicago at New York t p.m.
Hramday Games
Baltimore at Washington,
night
Only game scheduled
Florida and Louisiana are the
only two states on the U. S.
mainland that grow sugar cane, j tional 114 yards
By MIKE WESTER
CANYON, Tex. (UPI) - The
West Texas State University
Buffaloes, led by All-America
prospect Eugene ‘‘Mercury’’
Morris, open their 1968 football
season at home Saturday night
against Lamar Tech’s Cardinals.
The Buffs will be bidding for
national prominence following a
second straight 7-3 season In
1967 capped with a 85-13 victory
over San Fernando Valley State
in the Junior Rose Bowl
Seven offensive and four de-
fensive regulars return and the
Buff running game is at poten-
tial full strength, causing head
coach Joe Kerbel and his staff
to anticipate the greatest sea-
son in West Texas State’s 58-
year football history.
Morris, the second leading
rusher in toe nation last year
with 1,274 yards In 191 carries
heads an offense that should
equal or surpass file 1967 team
that ranked fifth nationally in
total offense and second nation-
ally in rushing. The entire start-
ing backfieid returns.
An awesome fullback combi-
nation of Duane Thomas and Al-
bie "Double O ’ Owens and
highly regarded quarterback
Roy Winters return to add depth
to the Buffalo backfieid. Win-
ters ranked 12th nationally In
total offense last year, passing
for 1,552 yards and tone touch-
downs and rushing tor an addi-
first Appear inn
Os Grass Coarse
By United Pram International
Dr. Fager, a leading candi-
date for Horse of to# Year hon-
ors, make* his flret appearance
on a grass course today when
he takes on 10 rivals in the
8106,000 United Nations Handi-
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Dr. Fager carries high weight
of 134 pounds for the 1 3-16 mile
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ATI. FOOTBALL STANDINGS ! Representatives «f several
By United Prees alernattenal j major league clubs will meet at
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W L T Pet. to discuss formation of the pro-
1 0 0 1,000 posed circuit with represent a-
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Only game scheduled.
Men day’s Game*
Kansas City 88, Houston XL
Only game scheduled.
.000 major league umpire Lee Bak
lanfant in toe preliminary plan-
ning.
The majors currently operate
three similar leagues - the Pio-
neer, the Aantoaehiaa and toe
Gulf Coast.
West Texas State’s kicking
game should be dependable with
veteran Tommy Fambrough
back to handle punting, extra
point and field goal chores. Last
year he averaged 35.1 yards
punting, booted three field goals
-wap.
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ters last year. West Texas does
have 22 returning lettermen
from which to rebuild a defense.
The first book printed In F.n-
glish in America was toe Bay
Psalm Book 1640 published by
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