Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 57, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 8, 1949 Page: 2 of 8
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LAREDO (UP) — Three tie
fending champion track teams
will he on hand at next week-
end’s 17th annual Border Olym-
pics, expected to attarct more
than 1,000 Southwest thtnly-
clads.
Texas A. & M. of the univer-
sity division. Southwest Texas
State Teachers of San Marcos
in the college division, and Aus
tin in the high school division
wll send their 1949 editions to
try to repeat last year’s perform
ances.
The junior college division
has no defending champion
since Rice Institute freshmen
took that prize last year. Hut.
due to a rule change, only ac-
tual junior colleges are now' elig-
ible for that division.
The Aggies, 1948 Southwest
Conference champions, are fav-
tiaking in sun at Tucson, Anz., training camp are, left to right, catcher Jim Hegan; outfielders Allie
Clark and Dale Mitchell, and pitcher Bob Feller of world champion Cleveland Indians.
Tuesday, March 8,1849
m/KBmngry Fans
Basketball In Big
Sport Has Future
---FKALEY
March 8 (UP)
tJsungry ftn*
sports a luors-
V the past
set getting choosy
id their money
Irish said today that
“can look forward to
even in hard times.”
Irish, the Madison Square
Garden promoter who parlayed
the lowly peach basket spot into
High Usance through his bar-
gain basement double-headers,
rates this dwindling season-' as
“one of the best.”
“People are more careful now
how they spend their money,”
he adled. “But still basketball
continues to grow. It grew up in
hard times and there’s no rea-
son tef believe that it won’t con-
tinue to grow.
"This game is like anything
else: Give the customers a good
show and they’ll fill every seat;
if you don’t, you won’t.”
The. hue and cry to move ,the
game back to the campus, away
from the public halls where
gambling and bribery are said
to he more probable, hasn’t,af-
fected the plans of the promot-
ters whose trail Irish blazed.
Eight cities —New York, San
Franqisco, Buffalo, Philadelphia,
Boston, Kansas City and Cleve-
land-operated the twin bill
basketball shows this year. At
least one more, Cincinnati, is ex-
pected to join the double bounce
parade next year.
Typical of these latecomers is
A1 Suthpin, owner of the Cleve-
land Baron’s ice hockey team,
who two years ago started to
promote double-header basket-
ball games at his Cleveland
arena.
When this portly gent with
the thatch of white hair took
over, colleges in the Cleveland
area were playing to 1,200 ca-
pacity. Using four local area
schools, Baldwin Wallace, John
Carroll, Case and Western Re-
serve, he moved basketball into
his arena where there is a seat-
ing capacity of almost 12,000.
’ Our first year was spotty,
because we hadn’t lined up a full
schedule of opposition,” Suthpin
recalled. “But this season we
averaged better than 6,000 a
night and expect to really get
rolling next season.”
Nat Holman, dapper CCNY
coach who was one of the orig-
inal Celtics of professional
fame, backed Suthpirr with the
recollection that “In those days
Cleveland was one of the best
basketball towns in the country
and is bound to come back.”
The answer apparently is that
local college reputations must
be glorified and other “name”
rivals brought in to bring out
the customers.
The idea is to eventually form
an eastern wheel, thus reducing
expenses even more, to enter-
tain the western teams. Eventu-
ally, a western circuit probably
will be worked out, too, along
these lines.
It certainly ‘would appear
that, barring a shortage of bas-
ketballs, in twin bill is here to
stay.
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Mustang Tracksters
Getting Ready For
Coming Cinder Meets
Coach Pat Gerald is running
his Mustang trackmen through
rigid conditioning schedules to
get them in shape for the invi-
tation track meets in San An-
gelo and Brownwood soon.
The Mustangs will field one
of the strongest sprint and
dash groups in the district in
hurdles and a willing but unex-
perienced crew in field events.
There are approximately 20
boys coming out for the local
cinder crew.
SAIN OPENS SEASON
| BRADENTON, Fla., March 8
(UP) — The brilliant spring
showing of Pitcher Johnny Sain
I of the Boston Braves was re-
| warded today when Manager
Billy Southworth. nominated
him to hurl'the (Stub’s opening
| Grapefruit League game against
the Brooklyn Dodgers at Miami,
I Sunday.
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Baylor Favored For
Win Over Arhona In
Western Play-Offs
DALLAS, Tex., March 8 (UP)
—Baylor was favored today to
repeat its last year’s perform-
ance in knocking Arizona out of
the running as representative of
District 6 in lhe NCAA western
playoffs al Kansas City next
week.
The Bears, Western NCAA
champions in 1948, will meet
Arizona at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow
in the opening round of the dis-
trict playoff.
Arkansas and Rice meet at 9
p. m. in the other first-round
battle of the playoff to deter-
mine which of four Southwest
teams will go to the regionals at
Kansas City.
The District 6 berth will be
at stake Thursday night when
winners of the opening games
collide.
Arizona, which has not met
any one of the three Southwest
conference co-champions this
year, is expected to fall before
the Bears, who eliminated Ari-
zona from district honors last
year with two straight victories.
Arkansas is rated only
slightly an underdog in the
contest against Rice, who holds
two victories over the Porkers
in regular season play—49-48
and 54-48.
Arkansas broke even with
Baylor, while the Bears hold
iwo wins over Rice—63-47 and
55-54.
EAST
Villanova Gf>, Georgetown 57.
Holy Cross 76, Dartmouth ii.
MIDWEST
Michigan 70, Illinois 53.
St. Louis 08, Notre Dame 59.
Nebraska 52, Missouri 48,
\AIH Tournament At Kansas
City, Mo.
Eastern Illinois State 89, Uni-
versity of Miami 73.
Indiana Central 72, New Brit
uin (Conn.) 59.
St. Trornas (Minn.) 74, Peru
(Neb.) Teachers 44.
Emporia (Kans.) State 67, Pel
tu State 57.
Hamline 76, Arkansas State 43.
Junior High Lads
Gel Physical
Training Sessions
Pacific Clubs Are
Lashed By Mexicans
For Player Raids
Local Colored Hoop
Team Will Play In
Regional Tourney
Sweetwater’s Negro basket-
bull squad will compete in the
regional colored quintet tourn-
ament at Tyler Saturday, March
12. The local hoopsters copped
the crown in District 21 and 22
at Anson this season, a district
made up of surrounding coun-
ties.
A 16 inch trophy is being dis-
played by the local champs, as
a result of smothering Loraine
33-19 in tile finals at Anson
Pel). 26. Tiie Sweetwater Negro
quintet, captained by Ray
“Sweety” Johnson, have a dis-
trict competitive record of seven
wins and no losses.
'The "most valuable player”
award went to Captain John-
son, who was high iwint man in
this district. Johnson is also
captain of the local Negro track
squad. He won second place in
the 440-yard dash in last year’s
slate meet.
Other players on the victori-
ous Sweetwater basketed- crew
include Sonny Dawson, Henry
Washington, C. L. Jones, Nel-
son Staten and .lames Hunter.
Reagan Junior High sports
activities are being confined to
the physical conditioning preli-
minaries, Coach "Red” Beard
said Tuesday.
He lias nearly 40 boys work-
ing out each afternoon. He is
stressing wind sprints and dis-
tance racing at the present
time.
The “Gerald farm system” of
teaching youngsters to crawl in
a sport before running and walk-
ing is being applied vigorously
in the earlier grades of Junior
high and the primary schools.
MEXICO CITY, March 8 (UP)
—The Pacific Coast league to-
day drew the latest verbal
broadside from Dr. Eduardo
Quijano Pitman, president of the
Mexican Baseball League, for al-
leged player “raids” in his cir-
cuit.
According to Dr. Pitman, at
least two former Mexican lea-
gue players have been lured in-
to the P.C.L. this year.
Last week, the Texas-Arizona
league was accused by Dr. Pit-
man of signing all players from
(he “Hot Tamale” league.
Dr. Pitman reported that he
has received inquiries from U.
is. ballplayers about playing in
Mexico, but has not negotiated
with them because of an agree-
ment re reached recently with
Commissioner A. B. Chandler
and Minor League President
George Trautman.
Texas Semi-Pro Club
League Recognized
Odessa To Be Host
For Women's Track
SAN ANTONIO, Mar. 7 (CP)
—The Neches-Coast semi-pro
league, comprised of eight south-
east Texas cities, today was ac-
cepted in the National Associa-
tion of leagues the first of an
even dozer, expected to be or-
ganized in Texas.
Texas Commissioner Jerry
Feille said that six cities already
have been accepted into the
circuit -Port Neches, Neder-
Voth, Silsbee, Woodville
md Port Arthur.
The league leader as of July
t automatically will qualify in
‘he state tournament under
rational baseball congress rules.
The state tournament is sched-
uled here July 22.
ODESSA, Tex., March 8 (UP)
—The National AAU Women’s
track and field championships
will be staged here Aug. 12-13,
it was decided last night at a
meeting of AAU officials and
local sponsors.
Teams from Canada and Mex-
ico are to be invited to the
meet to add an "international
flavor,” AAU Representative
Eric Pohl of San Antonio said.
The date was changed from
one originally scheduled for
September.
Bob Clark, member of lhe
Odessa High School coaching
staff, was appointed director of
the meet.
Indians In One
Piece With No
Vital Holdouts
sion for their third straight year.
Leading Coach Frank Ander-
son’s outfit will tie the mile-re-
lay team of Connie Ludwick, Er-
vin Bilderbaek, Donald Mitchell
and Ray Holbrook. That quartet
has; already warmed up this esa-
son with victories in lhe Sugar
Bowl and a special Washington
D. C. meet.
Big George Kadera will puace
the Aggies in the shot put and
discus and .). D. Hampton, Aggie
long distance specialist, is fav-
ored in the mile and two-mile
runs.
The Texas University squad,
in second place last year, and
Rice lnsstitule are exp:ected to
provide the competition for Hu
college Station boys.
Yankee second baseman George Slirnweiss shows his new shoes to
pitcher Ed Lopat, center, and shortstop Phil Riizuto in St. Peters-
burg. Fla. Reporting to camp at a trim 169, Snuffy hopes to regain
the speed tyat carried him to league base stealing honors in 1944, ‘45.
Tigers Have Five
Men After Second
Base Position
Tennis Team Begins
Work On Style For
Coming Net Tourney
Sweetwater tennis titans went
to work this week in a speed up
campaign to get ready for the
annual Sweetwater tennis invi-
tation tournament to lie held on
the high school courts here next
week.
Fresh out of a 9 to 1 win over
tiie “weak” Odessa nutters, the
locals loom as one of the top
contenders in the forlhcoming
event.
“The group lias a will to win
and a good sporting attitude hut
they are not whipping into shape
as well as they can and should
to he a threat in the meet next
week,” said coach Overton Tues-
l.AK ELAND, Fla., March S
(11111- Five candidates, all with
equal ehanees, will compete for
the second bn- c jeh wilh tha I )c
troit Tigers, Manager Ri d Rolfe
announced today. 'The five play
er:s arc Neil lleriy. Eddie Lake,
Eddie Mayo aural Kook it
Mavis and Johnny I lei u.
First base also is open,
announced, with Georgi
I loll
Rolfe
Vico.
Tony Lupien and Haul Campbell
in the field.
PAULK
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110 E. Broadway
day.
The locals have
TUCSON, Ariz., March 8 (UP)
Tile champion Cleveland Indians
today bore a closer resemblance
to the one, big happy family of
last October following the ac-
ceptance of terms by pitcher
Bob Lemon, second baseman Joe
Gordon, pitcher Gene Bearden
and utility infielder Johnny
Herardino.
Cleveland's only remaining
holdouts are infielder Roberto
Avila and third-string catcher
Hank Ruszkowski.
a probable
team engagement with Colorado
City this weekend.
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ROBINSON IS INJURED
ORLANDO, Fla., March 8 —
(UP) The Washington Sena-
tors were keeping their fingers
crossed today over the condi-
tion of First Baseman Eddie
Robinson, who wrenched his
back in batting practice yester-
day.
Robinson, counted on for
cleanup duties, underwent treat-
ment by the club trainer,
George Lentz, who said the ex-
Cleveland player would be un-
able to play against the Phila-
delphia Athletics this week-end.
When It’s Time To ,
It’s Time To Refresh *
Hodges Looks Good
In Batting Drill
lohnny Small Takes
,ead In Bowling
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J„
March 8 (UP)—Johnny Small of
Chicago, a veteran of 15 Ameri-
•an Bowling Congress tourna-
ments, fired a 1,942 total last
night to take over the lead in
'he all-events division of the
annual championships.
Small displaced Charles
(Chuck) O’Donnell, who scored
VERO BEACH, Fla.. March 8
(UP) The Brooklyn Dodgers,
who were held back by their
lack of home run power last sea-
son, got some hope of future
slugging today from converted
first-baseman Gil Hodges.
Hodges boomed a homer over
the centerfield shrubbery yes-
terday to lead Peewee Reese’s
! Colonels in a 9 to 2 win over
Bruce Edwards’ Californians.
NEWCOMERS REMAIN
PHOENIX, Ariz., March 8
(UP) New York Giants Man-
ager Leo Durocher indicated to-
day t hat four of his youngsters
have gained at least a temporary
reprieve from farm clubs. He
said that Hofman and Bill Jen-
nings, both 23, George Spencer,
22, and Gail Henley, 20, would
remain with the main squad for
some time.
Sam Webb, rookie right hand-
er who won 18 games for Jer-
sey City and two for the Giants
last season, will pitch for one of
the lineups in tomorrow’s intra-
squad game.
QUALITY
Dry Cleaning, Alterations
Chadwell Cleaners
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Steam Cleaning
1,918 last Saturday.
The 42-year-old kegler from \
■he windy city also got credit ;
for the high series of the tourna- ;
ment — a strike-studded 772 ;
count in the doubles competi-
tion. In the second game of the
doubles, he opened with 10
straight strikes and scored 289.
Small rounded out his work
with a 618 in the singles and a
552 in the team event.
With better service for oar customers in mind we
have added the service of Cleaning Motors, Chassis,
Tractors, Track and Equipment to our Regular
Washing, Lubricating, Polishing and Waxing.
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