Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, May 31, 1940 Page: 2 of 8
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TEAMS CERTfflEB FOR
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tball league officials met
night to work out the
rat's schedule. Not all of the
, managers were present for
approval of the card, which
urtil be submitted to them be-
fore release.
i' Otherwise, everything else ?s
set for the opening games at 7
p. m. Monday in the city ball
fk. The grandstand has been
red by city officials, the
bunds have been put in excel-
lent shape and four girls and
sfit men teams have been certi-
fied to league officials.
As in past seasons, there will
10 four games on each night's
schedule. Two girls teams are
to meet in the first game which
is scheduled to start at 7 p. m.
This game is to be followed by
a double-header between four
men's teams.
On paper all of the teams ap-
pear about evenly matched.
There are three new sponsors in
the men's division, but their
teams are made up largely cf
veterans who played under the
banner of. some other sponsor
last year.
Veteran teai/s and sponsors
back are the Nolan Furniture,
Stgrr's Sandwich shop, and Dr.
E. A. Dann's outfits in the
girls' division. Dann's Health
home is sponsoring the Busby
community's girls team, which
last season was an independent
entry. Only new comers in this
division are the NY A girls.
Veteran teams and sponsors
in the men's division are Magno-
lia - Medico, Gulf Refinery com-
pany, and U. S. Gypsum com-
pany. These three have been
strong contenders in previous
years. New sponsors but with
teams made up of some of the
veterans of previous clubs are
L&L cafe and the Sweetwater
Reporter.
The season is to close some-
time in the latter part of August.
Open dates are being left on the
schedule for a number of exhi-
bition games during the season.
As in previous years, each
club will be required to be out:
fitted in uniforms which win
add color to the contests.
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Russell Undergoes
Minor Operation
R. E. Russell, clerk of the Al-
len hotel, underwent minor sur-
gery Thursday at the Sweetwat-
er hospital.
Mrs. Ella Peacock, 903 Cedar,
is said to be seriously ill in the
hospital. Dismissed Thursday
were Marcell Jessee, Mrs. Alex
Noles of Rotan, Bobbie Books,
and Mrs. M. A. McCarthy, who
has been receiving treatment for
injuries sustained in a car
wreck east of town, April 15.
Mrs. McCarthy left Friday morn-
ing on the Texas and Pacific
for her home in Chicago.
SIMPLE
NEURALGI
PENETR
City Girl Graduates
From Junior College
Miss Bertha Eberle has . re-
turned home after graduating
from Our Lady of Victory Col-
lege at Fort Worth, completing
a two years' junior college
course and receiving a certifi-
cate in public school music.
While attending Our Lady of
Victory Miss Eberle has been
an assistant in the music depart-
ment. She served as vice-presi-
dent of Our Lady's Sodality, a
leading college organization;
vice-president of the Internat-
ional Relations club: president
of the women's athletic associa-
See CITY GIRL Page 6
Record Crowds
Attend Holiday
Double-Headers
Wild Scene at Ebbets
Field as 50,000 Fans
Turned Back at Gate
BY GEORGE KIRKSKY
NEW YORK — (UP) — Af-
ter one of the biggest and most
exciting days in baseball history,
fandom Friday had plenty of
fuel for postmortems, second
guesses and red hot discus-
sions.
A total of 237,828 persons
packed their way into seven
ball parks. But for the fact that
the Cards-Pirates doubleheader
at Pittsburg was rained out and
the White Sox-Indians played
in the rain at Cleveland, it might
have been a record-breaker for
attendance. The Red Sox-Yanks
played to 82,437 at Yankee Stad-
ium, third largest throng ever
to attend a ball game.
Thrills In Every Park
In every park there were
thrills and tense action but
Brooklyn probably staged the
wildest scene of the day. More
than 34,548 fans jammed their
way into Ebbets Field, with an-
other 50,000 turned away. It
was necessary to turn in a riot
call to control the crowd out-
side the park.
And Thursday night there
was a broken Dodger fan's hea^'t
for every light on the boardwalk
at Coney Island. Bill Terry's
hated Giants slapped the Dod-
gers down twice, 7-0 and 12-5. It
was a bitter pill to take and com-
bined with the Reds' double vic-
tory tumbled the Dodgers into
second place.
Hubbell gave the Dodgers on-
ly one hit — a single by Hud-
son in the third. In the nightcap
the Dodgers struggled from be-
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Tulsa Oilers
Halt Houston's
Winning Spree
BY UNITED PRESS
The Tulsa Oilers, fighting to
stay in the upper bracket, meet
the Shreveport Sports Friday.
Tulsa beat Houston, 5 to 4, in
a 15-inning first game Thursday
and held the Buffs to a 2-2 stale-
mate in the nightcap, called at
the end of the seventh to let
Houston catch a train.
Beaumont held its edge over
Tulsa by splitting a doublehead-
er with Oklahoma City. Beau-
mont won, 7 to 2. Oklahoma City
took the nightcap, 8 to 2.
Dallas beat San Antonio, 4 to
1. with Bob Uhle pitching 8-hit
ball and Lloyd Rigby homering
in the second inning with one
waiting.
Shreveport beat Fort Worth,
5 to 4, routing Ed Greer with
three runs in the third inning.
Friday's schedule: Beaumont
at Dallas; Houston at Fort
Worth; San Antonio at Oklaho-
ma City, and Shreveport at Tul-
sa.
Thursday's results:
San Antonio 000 000 001—1 8 2
Dallas 021 000 lOx—4 0 0
Gibson. McDougal and Hars-
hany; Uhle and Cronin.
Shreveport .103 001 000—5 0 2
Fort Worth 200 001 010—4 8 1
Reid, Brillheart and Andrews:
Greer, Nitcholas, Horton and
Weeks, Linton.
1st game:
Houston—
000 001 030 000 000—4 1
Tulsa—
004 000 000 000 001—5 8 2
Krist and Narron; Kush and
Steiner.
2nd game:
Houston 000 001 1—2 5 1
Tulsa 200 000 0—2 3 1
(Game called).
Nowak. Wachol (6) and Mar-
shall: Bertram and Sueme.
1st game:
Beaumont 020 000 000 05—7 11 1
Okla. C. 001 000 010 00—2 7
Mueller, Thomas and Parsons;
Fuchs, Steiner and Dickey.
2nd game:
Beaumont ... 011 000 0—2 9 0
Okla. City . 201 320 x—8 12 0
Conger, Manders and H inkle;
Prince, Blake and Dickey.
BY HENRY MrLEMORE
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. —(UP)
—They used to call this annual
500-mile romp around hot bricks
something for the improvement
of the breed of automobiles.
They used to say that the 160,-
000 people who picnic here ever
Decoration Day came merely, to
see some driver killed. But
Thursday all that went by the
boards. Why, even the men who
make money out of the affair
picked money from Iheir own
pockets in the interest of safety.
These fellows — Capt. Eddie
Rickenbacker, Red Allen, Pop
Myers,, Steve Hannagan and all
the rest — stood down there
in the on-and-off drizzle and in-
sisted that the caution flag, and
not the all - clear pinnon, be
waved. To realize the sacrifice
of the men involved, here's the
whole picture:
'Now It Comes'
At 375 miles Wilbur Shaw, the
eventual winner — two times
in a row, mind you—was half
a lap on top of Rex Mays, that
heavy footed madman from Cal-
ifornia. There wasn't a single
person in the crowd of 142,000
who didn't look forward to the
duel and chase between the mad-
man and the mind—Shaw. They
leaned forward on their ben-
ches. They nudged one another.
"Now it comes," they said.
It came — not the duel and
the chase, but a drenching rain.
And Rickenbacker and those
fellows down there in charge
of the colored flags called for
the yellow one—the one that
says "slow down to a safe pace
and maintain your positions."
Now here was Shaw leading the
parade and he couldn't lose as
long as the flag fluttered. Behind
him were men who needed
j money more than he; men who
never tasted the fame that comes
from getting that checkered
flag at Indianapolis. There was
Mays, who'd never finished in
six starts. There was Mauri
Rose, who gave those foreigners
'i run at Roosevelt raceway.
There was young Joel Thome,
the millionaire kid they scorn-
ed when he first came here.
There was Ted Horn the Craig
of the road, always a runner-up.
never winner.
They Wanted to Go
They wanted to go. rain or
shine, to coin a phrase. In front
of them Shaw wanted to roar,
too, because a record for this
parkway was in his clutch anrl
Wilbur isn't a man to fear
competition. As a matter of fact
1 e's one of the great eompeti
tors of all sports. Golf in the
70's, planes at dips and eu>l!-
<iues, and auras that skid and
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Shaw Travels 114
Miles an Hour to
Win 3rd Victory
BY HENRY SUPER
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (UP) —
When you win the Indianapolis
500 mile Motor Marathon once,
they call it luck.
When you take it a second
time, skill is the thing that's
supposed to do it.
And when your number goes
up a third time, it's a miracle.
So today, in this speed-nutty
city, the boys were figuring out
what to call it if a dapper little
hometown fellow runs his streak
to four.
For the little man called Wil-
bur Shaw, born a horn's toot
from great speedway, already
was thinking ahead to next
year's race — figuring how he
can write into the record books
the greatest chapter in automo-
bile history.
Mighty Midget
The mighty midget who
weighs but 138 pounds, roared
his great Maserati-motored ma-
chine to victory for a second suc-
cessive time out there on the
great red brick track, slippery
and treacherous from oil shot
from 33 screaming machines and
from rain which started to fad
at the 375-mile mark.
That was the third time Wil-
bur had won, for he first took
the winner's check of $20,000
back in '37. He was the first
man ever to win the race twice
in a row and he and Louis
Meyer are the only drivers ever
to win three of them.
The Rains Come
There were some who seemed
to think that he might not have
won without help from the
judges' stand. That came at the
375-mile mark, with Shaw a lap
in front of heavy-footed Rex
Mays. At that point the rains
came and the judges hauled out
the yellow flag which means
"slow down to an average of 85
to 100 miles an hour and main-
tain your positions."
The judges had seen three
men crash earlier in the race—
Raul Riganti, the Argentine,
whose car leaped the fence antt
almost crashed on his head; and
Tommy Hinnershitz and Ralph
Hepburn, who went into spins
near the grandstand. So the of-
ficials weren't taking any chanc-
es with the rain.
Shaw by a Lap
And that's how the race end-
ed — Shaw by a lap; Mays, Mau-
ri Rose, Ted Horn, Joel Thorne,
Bob Swanson, Frank Wearne,
Mel Hansen, Frank Brisko, Har-
ry McQuinn.
Up to the time they were slow-
ed down, Shaw had been roll-
ing along at a record clip and
seemed certain to shatter the
average speed mark of 117.200
set in 1038 by Floyd Roberts,
who was killed last year. In
those last 125 miles Shaw's av-
erage dropped from somewhere
up around 119 miles an hour \o
a final average of 114.277.
51 String Bands
Play At Athens
ATHENS, Tex. — (UP) —Fif-
ty-one string bands tuned up
their instruments Friday morn-
ing and started a concert that
will last far into the night.
The occasion was the ninth
annual old fiddlers' contest, an
event that draws musicians
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slide on slippery bricks. Tops::
To be quite truthful about it.
Rickenbacker, an old racer,
wanted to see this hcll-for-leat'n-
t<r finish himself, out with re-
gard for life and limb and mini
and heart 'Rick" put out the
' ellow liag He knew that this
quiet 'r<''ng undoubtedly would
hurt the gate next year, but he
g3t his ieward after the race
when Louis Meyer, three-time
winner ; long with Shaw, and
this year manager of Mays' Pit,
said:
Yoii Did Just Itiglit
"Eddie, you did just right.
There was no earthly sense in
taking a chance. Lives of kids
mean a lot. Tex and I arc satis-
fied with second dough."
You've heard about that "die
for dear old Rutgers" stuff, but
here was an amateur heart in
a professional body. Money and
men! And men came first. Maybe
there won't be 142,000 here next
spring. Maybe there'll be more.
I hope so, because I saw a dis-
play of sportsmanship that isn't
common to American sport.
Back in the Indianapolis ath-
letic club bar after the race, I
asked Rickenbacker if he was
satisfied with the race and the
way it was won. "Before I ever
try to make a dime at the risk
of one man's life, they can burn
the joint down."
Eddie's squadron slogan used
to be "My hat's in the ring."
Mine is "My hat's off to Eddie".
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, May 31, 1940, newspaper, May 31, 1940; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth282327/m1/2/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.