Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 110, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 10, 1953 Page: 2 of 24
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OPENS PONY
OVER LIONS
at about 700
(to Sportsman park Friday
I to open the season tor the j
[ league with the Rotary Club
liman "handling the Lions Club
:. score of 14 to 4.
Darnell Moser pitching for the
Maty Club kept the Lions under
nd moat of the night pitching
hit ball. His curves had the
is cutting at every thing com-
ing near the plate. The Lions had
> earned run.
Dowling Ware had his trouble as
the plat ewas hard to find and 10
of the Rotary runs were unearned.
The 10 were scored on 10 walks, 12
wild pitches and four errors. The
Rotary had four earned runs, one
in the first inning and three in
the seventh.
Jerry Mclver, Nelson Greer and
Nick Dugger collected two hits each
in overpowering the Lions, while
the hits were well scattered on the
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part of the Lions with Frank Her-
rington coming through with a sin-
gle in the top of the sixth as
a
pinch hitter.
This rally
was
cut
short when Frank was out Howard
to McNeal on
a try steal at third.
Box.
Rotary
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Spradling ss
......3 3
1 2
X
2
Peter Loeb s
...1 0
0 0
0
1
Peter Loeb ss
.....1 0
0 0
0
1
Lewis If ____
..... 3 0
0 0
0
0
Lewis If ....
..... 3 0
0 0
0
0
Franklin, If .
......1 1
0 0
0
0
Melver cf
.....4 2
2 1
0
0
Greer 2b .
..... 5 1
2 1
2
0
Fitts rf —
..... 3 0
0 0
0
0
Lambert rf .
..... 0 0
0 0
0
0
Dugger lb .
......3 2
2 1
0
0
Montgomery,
3b . 0 t
0 0
0
0
McNeal 3b ..
..... 2 1
0 2
0
0
Howard e ..
..... 1 2
1 12
2
0
Thornton c .
..... 1 1
1 2
0
0
Moser p ....
......4 0
0 0
0
0
Total ....
.... 31 14
9 21
5
3
Lions
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Gesin 3b ...
.... 3 0
0 -1
0
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Morris 3b .
......1 0
0 0
0
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Harwell 2b
..... 3 1
0 1
2
0
DeBusk lb .
..... 4 0
0 6
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1
Olvera ss
..... 2 0
0 1
1
0
Comoll i ss
. .1 0
0 0
0
1
Ross c
..... 1 1
1 7
2
0
Boone rf
..... 2 0
1 0
0
0
Herrington c
..... 1 0
1 4
0
0
Lemon cf
.... 1 0
(1 0
0
n 1
1 White rf
..... 3 1
0 0
0
0
Andrews It
..... 2 0
1 1
0
0
Ware p ....
..... 1 0
0 0
0
0
Hardin p .
..... 1 1
1 0
0
0
Total .
.26 4
5 21
5
4
Winning pitcher Moser, losing
pitcher Ware. Two base hits Mor-
gan Howard, and Charles An-
drews. Monday’s g. me Jaycees vs.
Kiwanis.
Rickey Warned
Senate Group
WASHINGTON, May 9—UP—
Branch Rickey has warned a Sen-
ate Commerce subcommittee that
unlimited radio-TV broadcasting
would mean baseball "suicide.”
Testifying before the subcommit-
tee. which is studying a hill to al-
low baseball to restore a rule which
banned broadcasts or telecasts by
one club in the home territory nf
another, Hickey challenged an as-
sertion Friday that the two medi-
ums had been "major factors" in
making baseball the national past-
(time.
Baseball's founder Abner Double-
day, Hickey told the committee,
preceded Guglielmo Marconi and
his "wireless."
Hickey made his statements in
reply to a letter by Harold E. Fel-
lows, president of the National As-
sociation of Radio and Television
Broadcasters, which said: "Any-
thing that would lessen broadcast-
ers’ ability to bring major league
baseball to the American people
would he contrary to the public in-
terest."
Fellows' letter was written ip op-
position to'a bill sponsored by Sen.
Edwin C. Johnson iD.-Colo. > which
would ban unlimited radio and TV
casts of big league games. John-
son, president of the Class A West-
ern League and chairman of the
subcommittee, called Fellows "oft
base,”
Baseball’s top brass, including
Commissioner Ford Frick, National
League President Warren Giles and
Minor League President George
Trautman had testified earlier in
the week that unlimited TV and ra-
dio broadcasts would cause the
major leagues to “eat their young,"
or kill the minors as a source of
player material.
Going one step further, Rickey
said: “Destruction of the minor
leagues is not just eating our young
but eating ourselves. It's a quick
destruction of ourselves that is be-
ing forced upon us—a suicide.”
Backing up both Rickey and
Johnson, Sen. John W. Bricker i R-
Ohio), also a committee member,
said the Justice Department also
got "clear off
"threatened” anti-trust
Rice Whips Texas
4 to 2 For SMU
Southern Methodist, back on top
in the Southwest Conference base-
ball chase thanks to Rice's sur-
prise win over Texas, meets Texas
Christian Saturday to wind up its
1953 season.
Rice, humbled twice Thursday,
rebounded to whip Texas, 4 to 2,
at Austin Friday. It was the Owl’s
first win over a Texas nine at Aus-
tin wince 1930, and their first vic-
tory of any kind since 1940 over a
Longhorn baseball team.
in other Southwest conference
play, Baylor shut out the Texas
Aggies, 5 to 0, at Waco, behind the
three-hit pitching of Bobby Holick.
Ken Owens was the Baylor batting
star, driving in three runs with a
brace of homers.
Southern Methodist had a .half
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game edge in the standing*, with
an 11-3 record, compared with Tex-
as’ mark of 10-3. The Longhorns
have two games left, next week
against Texas A&M.
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Here A There
By DALTON HILL
By DALTON HILL
S .veet-
The summer program for
water got under way Friday night
in a big way. Several hundred
people were out to see the softball
and the Pony League open in big
league style.
The Pony League will have little
trouble taking the place of the
Longhorn team Sweetwater had last
year. The boys are good and can
put on a show worth the money.
Some of I ho men in charge were
not completely satisfied with the
show, hut it did not run ton long
being the first night and the boys
were entitled to be a lit He jitlciy
on opening nigh! and uiuAw tin;
circumstances n was a gPid ball
game.
The softball league was a little
smoother but bare in mind most
of the boys on the Lone Star Ce-
ment team and also the DeMolay’s
have played a lot of ball and have
long pasi that stage of getting ex-
cited. They were in mid-season
form from I he way a few fans put
it.
'Inc thing that did mar the open-
ing of the Pony League c ar the
fact that everything on the pro-
gram was set up for a PA sys-
tem. There was no PA system so a
part of the program was omitted.
Plans are to have it from now on.
Just in case you Sweetwater
people want professional baseball,
now could he a good time to act.
Harold Webb of the Lamesa Lobos
is probably getting interested in a
place to take his clot) in the Long-
horn League. Only about 400 fans
were out to see Lamesa and San
Angelo play a good game Friday
NM. We would say six and two,
but Odessa has had a complete
bread-down.
According to reports from some
of the wire cast it is supposed to
rain this week end and also the
forecast is out that the world is
coming to an end today. It could
happen one way or the other as
it is awfully hot and dry.
Any way, in case it doesn’t, it
will some time. From here we can-
not see any reason to just sit and
wait it out. If we are just going to
sit, why not start making .some
plans for the rodeo arena. When it
does start raining we arc all going
lo be loo busy to plan anything.
It would be a city-county project e
and a good one. Between the city '
and the county no doubt there is
plenty of good land and in a good
location. It would be here for gen-
erations to come, so why not go at
it in the proper way and have
Clean Fight
Beteeen Rocky
And Walcott
CHICAGO, May 9—UP—Felix
Bocchicchio. manager of Jersey
Joe Walcott, Saturday hailed Liv-
ingston Osborne’s disqualification
ruling “a distinct victory for Joe"
in advance of next Friday’s fight.
"Now Walcott can make a clean
fight of it," Bocchicchio explained.
“And it will be up to the referee to
force i Rocky i Marciano to fight
clean—or disqualify him.”
fight of it,” Bocchicchio explained.
"And it will he up to the referee to
force i Rocky i Marciano to fight
clean—or disqualify him."
Chairman Osborne of Ihc Illinois
Athletic Commission ruled Friday
that the Marciano-Walcott title limit
at Chicago Stadium could be lost
on disqualification for repeated
fouls.
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At a physical examination before
the meeting, both fighters were
and
something that every one could | found in excellent condition
look at with pride and say "ours." there was no sign ot a recurrence I
Give every one a part in it. Ail the of Rocky’s nose injury, which j
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do is manage it and keep it in top from April 10 to Friday night,
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Elmer E. Shaw Jr., 309 W. Tex-
as St., Sweetwater, will receive a
letter jacket in ceremonies held by
the air force ROTC at East Texas
State college of Commerce May
12.
Shaw will receive his letter for
May 9— i )lis participation in the rifle team
UP—Seven expatriate Southern ; activities
Conference collegs banded togeth- ‘ ,v senior industrial education
er Saturday in a new big-time ath- j ma jor, h(, js „ former student of
years. Figure it out. There couldn’t
be but a few against such a proj-
ect.
New Conference
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radio and TV broadcasts. | ,a?j Wec/ , ... . .
______ ! Some how a few people think La-
jmesa fans just cannot support the
idea of stepping from the West
Texas-New Mexico League to the
Longhorn. We did not say down as
some might think the step would
be. In taking both leagues and
picking eight of the strongest clubs,
one would have to pick live from
the Longhorn and three from WT-
Conneetieut is the 461 h state in
size, hut it is first in percentage
j of skilled workers in a total work-
I ing population. It is 28th in popu-
lation and in wholesale trade. 21st
in retail trade, 11th in value added
i by manufacture and fourth in pop-
ulation density.
IN THIS CORNER—Rocky Marciano, left, defends the heavy-
weight championship against Jersey Joe Walcott at the Chicago
Stadium, May 15. (NEA)
football tie-up with th- Orange
Bowl.
The schools which abandoned the
sprawling 17 - member Southern
Conference were its strongest ath-
letic powers. They were Duke,
North Carolina, North Carolina
State, Maryland, Wake Forest.
Clemson and South Carolina. It was
expected that Virginia or West Vir-
ginia also would be asked lo join
the group and make it a more work-
able eight-member conference.
It was learned reliably that the
Orange Bowl committee would like
the eventual football champion of
the new league to qualify automat-
ically as the hosl team in its New
Year day classic at Miami, Fla.
The arrangement probably will be
completed as soon as the new con-
ference is formally organized.
Many of the schools in the group
were the most active in bowl par-
ticipation year after year and
chafed at the Southern Confer-
ence’s restrictions on post-season
games,
Maryland and Clemson accepted
howl bids after the 1951 season
without first obtaining conference
permission. As a result, they were
suspended from conference play
last football season.
What remains of the old Southern
Conference will continue lo function
under that title.
In addition to Virginia and West
Virginia, the remaining schools are
Virginia Tech. VMI. Washington
and Lee. Richmond, Davidson, Fur-
man. Citadel and George Washing-
ton. This group will retain the con-
ference’s assets (about $150.0001
and Commissioner Wallace Wade.
The reasons why the seven maj-
or schools broke away from the
conference: The group had become
loo larg": there were schedule in
equalities among member schools;
! and there were wide differences in
athletic programs.
A spokesman for Ihe group said
the split was for Ihe benefit of all
concerned. ’ He added that the two
groups now are made up of schools
with comparable sports programs
For purposes of standings and de-
termining championships, the split
will not become effective until
1 Sept. 1. The full effect of the divi-
sion is not expected to be felt until
1955 because most of the schools
have completed their 1953 and most
I of their 1954 schedules.
in Stcphen-
villc.
llis parents arc Mr. and Mrs. E.
Shaw Sr., Sweetwater, Texas.
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Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 110, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 10, 1953, newspaper, May 10, 1953; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth713575/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.