The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 80, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 6, 1958 Page: 5 of 12
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|ay, April 6, 1958.
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THE DAILY KRWS-TELEGRAM / Secthm 1 — 5
Los Angeles Dodgers
Depend on Veterans
By CHARLES MOREY
Fert Worth, Apr. 6 OF —
Spring's feathery touch is felt in
flatbush attain. Flowers are bud-
ding in the botanical garden,
within home run distance of Eb-
bets Field. Robins are chattering
in the tall tr«ea in prospect park.
The followers of the sun god are
lounging in deck chairs on the
boardwalk at Coney Island.
The bars along Flatbush Ave-
nue echo to the sound of the an-
cient arguments, Reese versus
Rizxuto, Newcombe versys Rey-
nolds, Snider and Mantle,' Cam-
panella and Berra.
It is a spring like all the springs
that have gone before, except for
one small thing, that stabbih-
pain in the brawny chest of Flat-
bush, the pain that came last fall
wherl the-Dodger s announced they
were moving to Los Angeles.
^They’re still the Dodgers,
course, but no longer the Brook-
lyn Bums. That was decided by 2
things—the move initially and the
decision of ' Los Angeles sports
people to drop the “bum” part of
it
So be it, then. The Los Angles
Dodgers. A contending team for
the 1968 National League pen-
nant. No longer the favorite, as
th*y were so many times in the
last decade. But (till a team to)
watch,f ;
Strang Pitching
What kind of a club will Man-
ager Walt Alston lead into action
this spring in Los Angelas?
It will be strong in pitching
and weak in catching. It will be
nimble defensively and not as
powerful offensively as some of
the Dodger clubs of recent mem-
ory. It will have a whale of
Clem Lahine, the captain of the
bull pen, and they have hard-'
working fellows like Don Bessent
and Roger Craig.
Bright as the Dodger pitching
looks, the Los Angeles catching
outlook is as dull.
Catcher* Untested
With the unfortunate1 Roy
'Campanella still fighting the par-
alyzing effects of his auto1 crash,
the Dodger catching burden prob-
ably will fall on Rube Walker.
Walker is a sound receiver and
a sporadic but not season-long
hitter. He has always been rated
a dandy number 2 receiver but
has never really been tested for
number.one quality. He may sur-
prise, of course. John Rose boro
and Joe Pignato are the other
contenders for the job.
The steady and ojterF brilliant
Gil Hodges is a fixture at first
of base. Charlie Neal probably will
go at 2nd, unless he has to shift
to shortstop. Peewee Reese—who
IS 38—is likely to open at short.
Very much in question is whether
he can go the de-iby distance. He
may shift to 3rd later on with
Neal going to short. In t)iat case.
Junior GilliariT probably would
move to 2nd.
-Rhndy Jackaon and rookie Dick
Gray are disputing the issue at
3rd’ base, -u,------— . ' *......-
Bob Lillis is rated a crack hand
defensively at short and Don Zim-
mer can play anywhere. When Al-
ston finishes his juggling he
should patch together a good de-
fensive unit.
The quality of the outfield Will
depend "largely on 'Snider. The
Duke has a troublesome knee. rHc
has been coming on slowly in
spring training and may wind up
Wildcats Prep for Opening
GameAgainstMountPleasant
chance to win the whole ,pot if* in'left field instead of his cus
somebody takes over behind the
plate and if two classy but trail-
worn veterans, Peewee Reese and
Duke Snider, can play close to.
164 games.
Let’s look at the pitching,
.v^here the Dodgers are deep in
trumps. They have a tall, competi-
Coach Bobby Turner expects to
announce a starting lineup for
his Sulphur Springs Wildcat base-
ball team following a final pre-
game practice drill set for 9 a.
m. Monday at Eagle Stadium.
The Cats will journey to Mt.
Pleasant at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday
to open district play under the
lights. A home game is slated for
3:30 p. m. Friday at Eagle Sta-
dium.
Only five boys seem to have
starting positions nailed down
prior to Monday's practice. They
are Harlon Marred, a sophomore,
W. B. Cox, a junior, and Dalby
Debord, L. F. Bridges and Willie
Wyatt, all seniors.
BASEBALL NOTES
Giants Sent Rhodes
To Minor Loop Club
tomary center field post. Gino
Cintoli can play center if the
Ppke has- to. vacate. The ‘'reading
rock“‘—Carl Furillo—will, be in
right field is affojher question
mark over the 1 54-game route..
Running a total on the Los An-
geles'* dub it comes out like thisr
tive rightthander, Don Drysdale, - j[,e strong picthing should keep
who is likely to make a bid for.) the c|ul) jn the tiglij. Whether it
• - J?.n,e«~sW4 *n ,.the er mtir close-. (s*. the lop-
league. have big Don Newcombe,
determined ..to fight back, and a
sore-backed but swift-dealing lef-
ty named Johnny Podres, a terror
when in shape. They have young
Danny McDevitt and Sandy Kou-
fax, two talented if unpolished
southpaws. They have Carl Er-
akine, who knows how te pitch
and will prove it i{ his arm stays
jn on* piece. They have durable
spot wifi depend on the veterans
—Reese, Snider and Furillo—and
the catching of WitltVi. or anyone
else who gets the job.
Mrs. Ultus Alvarez, wife of fhe
rookie Cincinnati Redle£ outfield-
er, is a professor of English at
the University of Havana and
president of the Cuban Associa-
tion of University Women.
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A World Series hero of 1954
— Dusty Rhodes—u back in the
minors today. But he may be
bark -with _ the San Francisco
Giants. .*
Manager Bill Rigney said he
hid little choice but send Rhodes
to Phoenix, the Giants’ farm club
in the Pacific Coast League where
he can pipy regularly. Rigney
said he will rebili- Dpsty by June
loth if he regains his batting
eye. "
Rhodes said he will be back
before then. In his last two sea-
sons with the Giants in New
York, Rhodes hit .217 and .205.
During the training season this
spring, he had two singles in
eleven trips to the plate.
In 1954, Rhodes was the hero
of the Giants’ World Series sweep
of the Cleveland-Indiatis. Hd won
the opening garde with a homer
to set the pattern for the Giants.
Thb Bfcitiihofe OYdoles have
signed outfielder Jo Durham to
Vancouver in the Pacific Coast
League. The Orioles still have
32. players on their roster—four
over the number they are allow-
ed to start the season with . . .
Manager Danny Murtaugh of the
Pittsburgh Pirates is determined
he will Rave enough players who
can play several position^ this
season. He lias been using third
baseman Gene Freese' in the out-
field and Johftny O’Brien, a sec-
ond baseman and a pitcher, at
shortstop. . . . Frank Robinson
elubed a two-run holder last
night in- helping Xincinnatl beat
t A'-Washington Senators in
Charlotte, N. C. . . . The Los An-
geles Dodgers have erected a
screen in Memorial Coliseum. It
stands 42 feet high' at the
point where the left field foul
line meets the outfield wall, 250
feet from home plate. The screen
runs along the outfield wall for
150 feet, then dips down for the
next 30 feet to 8 feet in height.
And in deep center field, it joins
the 6-foot outfield fence that
runs across to the right field
foul lihe. The purpose of the
screen is to prevent cheap hom-
Harred is lijtely to fill an in-
field post if he does not edge
put Debord for the starting pitch-
er assignment. Both are right
handers and both are noted as . . ... ... ,
fast ball pitchers. Debord wields ^ana Tr<?n, n»tional junior col-
a booming bat and is apt to play le“e fo^tba" ^■mpionship, w,l-
Junior Colleges
In Texas Field
Strong Teams
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
AaecialW Pc*** Sport* Editor
Of more than passing note is
the fact that Texas won the na-
tional junior college basketball
championship.
It just accentuated the fact
that this state has within the past
three years become the national
leader in junio^ college athletics.
The record speaks for itself.
The Victoria has been the na-
tional junior college track cham-
pion. for three straight years.
For two years in a row Arling-
ton State. College won the Junior
Rose Bowl game. Last fall Texar-
elsewhere if not on the hill.
Cox, a good glove man at sec-
lege
loping .Fairbury, Neb
For three years in succession
Texas has been national-junior
ond base, is one of the best hustl- j co||qje basketball champion—Kil-
ers on a club filled with hustling ! Kore in 1950, San Angelo in 1957
players.' 1 amj Kilgore again in 1958. .
Bridges currently looks like a There are no baseball champion-
sure thing at first base. He ship or Texas probably would win
throws and bats from the left! that, too.
side. I It's good to recount the ac-
Don Knotts has been playing! fomplimhments of the Texa* jun-
be ,or ,n view what the
senior colltgea^have just finish-
..
‘Chi .. ~ , ..
shorUtop regularly, but may
edged for that position by Hai-
red. Knotts is one of the best
fielders on the squad.
Wyatt, a returning lrtterman
ed doings. Three Texas colleges
—Texas A AM, Rice and Texas—
took wallopings in the major bowl
games. The Southwest Conference
at the third sack, will probablj?; teams in Texas got sdisolutely no
I play that position again. H« did | whye in . the NCAA basketball
;.a good job in the Intra-sqUad : playoffs. Southern Methodist did,
game Thursday.
era. ' But there are critics who I Turning to the outfield, a pick
of three will have to be made
Bill Bailey,
however, beat Kentucky, which
became the NCAA champion.
say the screen is ,not high enough.
. . . Manager Casey Stengel of
the New York Y'ankees says the
Boston Red Sox have the most
improved team in the American
League. He rates the Red *&ox
right behind the Chicago White
Sox ^gs the chief" contenders
against the Yankees. . . .-The
Chicago Cubs expect to use two
rookies in the infield when the
season Opens. They are Tony
Taylor at second base and John
Goryl at third. '
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Hitting will have to pick up
some if the Wildcats hqpe to
knock the Paris Wildcats off the
top rung in the district. Pitch-
Any sports gathering^ always
gets around to discussing the most
colorful football coach of them all
—Francis Schmidt. And if some
fellows who once played under
Schmidt are in the crowd a new
story of this fabulous coach pops
up. t '
There have keen so many
stories told through the years of
era Harred and Debord and field- i S(.hni;tJthumorout. 0r dramatic
er Hanson got the best licks in 1
the intrasquad game.
Don Phillips and Alan Payne
will battle it out for the position
of catcher. Both lads did fine
jobs last. week.
CANVAS PITCH—:A1 Dome takes time out from an Arizona va-
cation to pose for two of his ballplayer students, Turk Lokrn, left,
of the Chicago Cubs and the San Francisco Giants’ Ray Crona.
Dome, is president cf the Famous Artists Schools of Wpstport,
Conn. The pitchers are studying commercial art. (NEA).
actions that it’s hard to believe
all could have happened. But take
it from Joe Coleman and Dan
Salkeld. who played fooffiall at
Texas Christian under Schmidt,' room. There were teats in
there -just isn’t any story that
couldn’t have occurred if Schmidt
was involved. He did everything.
f oieman and Salkeld got to tell-
ing Schmidt stogies at a party
held in connection with the West
Texas Relays at Odessa. We heard
all of them except; one but it was
about the best yet.
Salkeld recounted that when
Texas Christian played Texas
A&M in 1932 Schmidt refused to
come to the^ TCU dressing room
at the half although, the Horned
Frogs were leading 6-0. He sent
word that he didn’t want to talk
to a bunch of guys who played
like that.
“Foster Howell sent word back
to Schmidt that we wouldn't come
out until he visifed us,” Salkeld
recalled. “W hen Schmidt heard
that he hurried to the dressing
his
eyes when he said ‘I didn’t mean
it fellows. I wouldn't have failed
tb come here for anything.” - >
Dave Sime Beats
Bobby Morrow
Big Spring, Apr. 5 GW — Dave
Sime of Duke has won the 100-
yard dash duel with Bobby Mor-
row of Abilene (Jhristlan. +
Sime came in at $.6. follow-
ed by Bill Woodhouse of Abilene
Christian and Morrow.
Josiah Cjuincy, 15th President
of Harvard University, expelled
the whole sophomore class for a
roughhouse tn 1-834.
Attend Church Sunday
The East T<*xas j
in three out i
Commerce
track team, victors
of the four meets entered this I
season, will give the home fans |
a look-see Tuesday nigh,t with a j
tri-meet. Oklahoma Baptist and
Louisiana Tech are the other two |
teams.
FieltJ events wiil begin at 6:394
p.m. witfl the races following!
shortly under the" lights.
The Lions have suffered only I
one setback thus far in their
schedule — and that in the Texas
Relays in Austin last week-end,
where they were matched with |
the large universities.
But the F.Texans came away |
with thejr share of the honors
in the meet. James Baird picked!
up a second place in the broad!
jump and set a new school record j
with a leap of 24-10 3/4. Buddy;
McKee ran second to Ohio State’s 1
Olympic ace, Grenn Davis, in the
high hurdles finals after whipping {
Davis in the prelims.
The 440-^ard relay team |
(Marvin Adams, Clyde Harris,;
Baird, and McKee) kept their un-
defeated streak going with a |
42.7 first place time and the milei
relay took third place honors with'
an improved time of 3:17.5. They
led everyone until the last 15!
yards.
The Lion Tracksters take to the |
road again April 12 for the South-
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 80, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 6, 1958, newspaper, April 6, 1958; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth828805/m1/5/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.