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Beats Lawson Little
On Last Round; Texans
Dominate the Field
By The Associated Press
Texas A. and M. and Texas to-
day were leading a Southwest con-
ference baseball race that so far
has resembled a track meet.
In eleven conference games 167
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“They Give Prompt Keller
Rex Ritter Gets
Naval Commission
J. Rex Ritter. assistant district
engineer of the Wichita Falls dis-
trict of the Texas Highway depart-
ment, has been commissioned a re-
serve officer with the rank of lieu-
tenant in the United States navy.
Word of the appointment was re-
ceived a few days ago.
Mr. Ritter is known to a number
of persons in Gainesville, coming
here frequently on highway mat-
ters. •
Rice beat Baylor 3-1.
Games this week:
games last week 9-6 and 10-5.
The Aggies, who pack a devas-
tating. batting punch and have
probably the league’s best pitcher
in Charley Stevenson, spit two
games with Southern Methodist,
^Winning the first 19-5 and losing
the second 14-3, and defeated Tex-
as Christian 12-6. t
In the other games last week
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and lost nine, while the Dodgers
The Aggies have won four out
of six, Texas two out of three,
giving each club a .667 percentage.
After losing their first game of
the season, Texas—pre-season fa-
place, one game ahead of the 1941
The Cards have won 19
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son, Claudie scul Gilbert. Melvin
Reid Brown, Vernon Martin. Jo
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$5,000 Land of the Sky meet here
boosted his earnings for the year
to $8,798. Little’s $750 lifted him
to fifth place at $3,479. Nelson,
finishing in the money for the 34th
straight time, got $550 for placing
third.
Hogan also made a runaway of
the Vardon trophy race by moving
up to 230 points, with his 30 gained
here.
it becomes an annual affair. . . .
Gillespie rushed to Dallas after the
game to join up with Uncle Sam
for the duration, and will be a
candidate for a commission in the
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Demaret, took fourth-place money.
The way these meets are going
now, it looks like Texas vs. the
rest of the nation, and the Texans
usually win out. "
' FODDER ... This year’s race for
• batttag honors in the American
League looks like a two-man af-
fair. With Cecil Travis in the serv-
ice, Joe DiMaggio and Ted Wil-
Hants are due to stage a private
feud* of their own. : . The Yan-
kees are beginning to click now.
Lately DiMaggio, Charley Keller
and Tommy Henrich ate slamming
out homers in mid-season fashion.
. . . Kyle Gillespie and Jack Wil-
In Masters’ Open
Harper and Harbert
Will Bear Watching
In Augusta Tourney
By ROMNEY WHEELER
AUGUSTA, Ga., April 6 (AP)—
Never a newcomer has won the
nine-year-old Augusta Masters’
golf tournament, but a couple of
youngsters may give this year’s
field a -run for the crown, if not
land for a number of years.
Last word- of Ralph Tappan was
that he was living in Sioux pity,
Iowa.
Address of Mr. and Mrs. Leck-
scheid is Box 243, Lynnfield, Mass.
PREVIOUS TO THIS two-game
exhibition series between the Dal-
las Rebels and Fort Worth Cats,
baseball observers were saying the
Rebels were tough this year and
the Cats fairly weak, but results
of the two tussles would indicate
something is wrong. The Cowtown
entry made it two straights over
the Dallas representatives yester-
. day, and looked good doin' it. The
Rebels could muster but three hits
while the Cats were blasting out
10, four by Rabbit McDowell, who
seems headed for a good year with
the stick.
LITTLE BEN HOGAN, Texas’
gift to the golfing world, won him-
self another tournament Sunday
and added to an already fat purse.
He nosed out Lawson Little down
And All Other Points W ithin a Radius of 40 Miles
(including private homes on or hear all-weather roads)
from deep in the heart of—that
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I Byron Nelson, Jimmy Demaret,
Lloyd Mangrum and Ralph Guldahl
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The Yankees have been the Na-
, tional league’s coupins this spring.
They have dropped eight of their
' 12 games with senior circuit clubs,
but managed to win enough from
American leaguers and minor
likely. Coach Lindsay stated, the
three remaining sessions will be
devoted principally to scrimmages.
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neck and neck for a couple of
weeks.
Pittsburgh has won 17 of its 23
games to date, including 10 out of
13 against American league teams
and four out of six in the National
league.
The Browns, who own a record
of 14 victories and five defeats,
have won nine of their 10 inter-
league tilts and two out of three
against other American leaguers.
More impressive, however, and
possibly more surprising is the
record of the Senators, who have
played 25 games, only one of which
was outside the majors, and won
18 of them.
Third in the Grapefruit stand-
ings, the Nats have come up with
seven out of 10 against other
American league clubs and 10 out
of 14 with National entries.
Cardinals Are Fourth
The Cardinals, who are expected
to challenge the Dodgers for the
National league flag, are in fourth
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Bob Miller, Jr.
Edward Fette was placed in
3-A bracket.
John Lincon Stubblefield
Bernard Wilde were given a
classification.
too, for he played pro baseball in
the Southern Association for four
years. He starts to work in Den-
ton on July 16.
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By The Associated Press
ASHEVILLE, N. C.—Ben Hogan won Land of the Sky Open golf
tournament for third straight year. His 276 total shunted Lawson Little
to second place for second consecutive time. ,
•i NEW YORK—Frederick A. Hall of Toronto was elected president
of the newly organised Ski Union of the Americas. Next meeting will be
held in a South American city during 1944.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Yale university won National A. A. U. in-
door swim title for first time with 59 points with Mercersburg, Pa.,
Academy next with seven. Adolph Kiefer broke own world 150-yard
back stroke recordWby 2.2 seconds with time of 1:30.5.
AIKEN, S. C.—Lovely Night took fifth running of English-modeled
Imperial cup at two miles over hurdles. •
MIAMI, Fla.—The Chief annexed $5,000 Ponce de Leon handicap at
Tropical park. Llanero was second and Signator third in mile and six-
teenth,clocked in 1:43.
BOWIE, Md.—Cape Cod won second stake victory in three days
by taking $5,000 Bowie handicap. The former selling plater led all the
way in the mile and 70 yard test and reached the wine in 1:45 4-5.
TORONTO—Detroit Red Wings defeated Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 to
2, in opening game of best-of-seven final series for world professional
hockey championship and historic Stanley cup.
PHILADELPHIA. — Villanova captured National Junior A. A. U.
indoor track and field championship with 36 peints.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Indianapolis defeated Hershey, 8 to 3, in
the fifth and final game of the American Hockey league’s championship
playoff series. ,
Home From Spring
Training Camps .
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American Loop Clubs
Lead National Teams
In Exhibition Tilts
By AUSTIN BEALMEAR
NEW YORK, April 6 (AP).—
Teams are going home from spring
training; pitchers are going the
route in exhibitions and the fans
are going in circles—all of which
means that major league baseball
is about ready to get going in the
pennant races of 1942.
With little more than a week to
wait until they start playing for
keeps, the teams in the American
league are but in front of the Na-
tional leaguers in exhibition com-
petition today by five games.
Representatives of the junior
circuit have triumphed in 55 of the
105 spring training battles involv-
ing opponents from the opposite
side of the majors.
Equally as unimportant as that
interesting but inconclusive data
is the fact that five weeks’ play
in the Grapefruit belt has elevated
three clubs in each league as the
ones to beat when the chips go
down. ,
On the basis of their showing
against all forms of competition in
exhibition games, the Pittsburgh
Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals and
Brooklyn Dodgers top the senior
circuit while the St. Louis Browns,
Washington Senators and New
York Yankees look like the class
of the American league.
Pirates Are Leaders
The Pirates head the Grapefruit
son, ex-Southwest Conference’
stars, led the Paris J: C. Exes to
the stretch to take
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field goal from a difficult angle
. that helped with the ball game.
Bill Woodside reports the game a
financial success and is hoping that Barley, No. 2, bushel
has finished in the money in every
tourney since.
Short odds in the Masters’ tour-
ney will be Ben Hogan, who won
at San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Pinehurst and Asheville; Sam
St. Petersburg and at St. Augus-
tine; and defending champion
Craig Wood.
But sideliners believe the H-boys
—lithe, baldish Harper, and angu-
lar, boyish Harbert—might be the
whiz kids for a long-shot bet.
A &M and Texas
Are Deadlocked
The Johnny - comhe - latelys are
smooth-swinging Chandler Harper
of Portsmouth, Va., and smiling
Chick Harbert, the skinny shot-
maker from,Battle Creek, Mich.
Both got their bids to the tourney,
April 9-12 just a week ago, as the
two professionals previously un-
qualified who compiled the best
record on the winter PGA circuit.
Both rank among the first seven
money winners for the winter tour,
and both have been firing top tour-
nament golf.
Nor are they afraid of big
league competition. Harbert star-
tled the headliners at eaumont,
Texas, by taking first money, re-
peated on the swing east by win-
ning the Texas Open at San An-
tonio in a playoff with Ben Hogan.
He tied with Lawson Lettie for
third in the Los Angeles Open and
finished out of the money only
thrice in 13 starts.
Harper, son of a wealthy Ports-
mouth family, turned pro in 1935
after spectacular amateur play.
Today, Horton Smih calls his
game “among the best in profes-
sional goU"
i Had Poor Start .
He withdrew from the $10,000
Miami Open after a disappointing
start and skipped the Beaumont
and Harlingen, Tex., Opens. Then
he placed sixth at Los Angeles and
Houston, it is announced. The
change was made because of re-
strictions on tires and automobiles.
Rice officials stated. Now, just
how that would save more auto
tires than staging the game in
College Station has this scribe
completely baffled.
Anyway, the switch has been
made, which gives "the Owls seven
home games next fall, with only
one conference tussle, that with
Arkansas, to be played away from
Houston. That home-gridiron psy-
chology favors Rice, without ques-
tion, but the Owls will have to be
better than we figure they are to
get far in the conference chase.
DON’T BE SURPRISED if the
North Texas Egle gridmen sing a
few-numbers between halves next
season. Their new coach, who
succeeds Jack Sisco, is to be Lloyd
Russell, former singing quarter-
bick with the Baylor Bears. Rus-
sell’worked while he played down
at Baylor. It was nothing to hear
him hummin’ a tune while making
an off-tackle smash or a sweeping
end run. The new Eagle mentor
served as backfield coach under
Southern Methodist at Dallas.
Thursday — Baylor vs. Rice at
- " Houston.
Morley Jennings at Baylor for
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has been
loops to boost their total to 16
triumphs and 11 defeats.
Mayor Presides in
City Court Trials
Entering pleas of guilty, two
men, charged with drunkenness,
were assessed fines of $10 each in
city court Monday morning. The
men were taken into custody over
the weekend by Assistant Chief of
Police Jack Garrett. Court was
presided over by Mayor Sam
Lanius. •
One person was given a ticket
for improper parking Saturday
afternppn.
There is beginning to be a brisk demand* for furnished rooms, furnished
apartments and houses by men employed, or to be employed, at the Army
camp four miles north of Gainesville. This demand will be increasing
each day in the near future. The Gainesville Daily Register is receiving
calls. Newcomers are scanning the classified columns of the Daily Regis-
ter. People know to look on the classified page for rental property.
i Friday — Baylor vs. Rice at
Houston; Texas vs. Southern
Methodist at Dallas.
« Saturday—Texas A. and M. vs.
Baylor at Waco; Texas vs. South-
a FORT WORTH GRAIN
FORT WORTH, April 6 (AP) —
Wheat No. 1 hard, 1.25% to 1.28%;
barley No. 2 nominal, 70 to 71;
sorghums No. 2 yellow milo, 1.13 to
1.18; corn shelled No. 2 white,
1/05% to 1.06%; oats No. 2 red, 65
to 66.
CHICAGO CASH GRAIN
CHICAGO, April 6 (AP)—Wheat
No. 3 red, 1.21%; corn No. 1 yel-
low, 86% to 86%; oats No. 1,
mixed, 56% to 57.
FoRr WORTH LIVESTOCK
FORT WORTH, April 6 (AP).-
Cattle 2,700; calves 900; most
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I Now in its 52nd Year
AN INTRA-SQUAD game was
staged Friday morning between
two teams captained by Charles
O’Neal and Jack Williams. The
Williams crew won a closeiy
fought battle by a score of 7 to 6.
O’Neal scored early for his mates
when he broke through for a 65-
yard gallop. Williams knotted the
count later in the tussle when he
circled end for 15 yards and a
score. He added the point from
placement to win the ball game,
i- O’Neal’s running probably high-
lighted the setto, with his twisting
and hard driving. Williams turned
in some neat gains also, as well
as connecting with several passes,
mny of which were dropped by
mates.
Williams suffered a slight knee
injury but is expected to be ready
for today’s workout. More than
Major League Baseball Teams Are About Ready for Pennant Races
game there Wednesday night. They i Clubs Are Going
started training on the same date
as the Leopards.... Over at Camp
Wolters are. two former major
league hurlers who are playing
with the camp baseball team. They
are Charley Stanceu, who hurled
for the New York Yankees last
season, and Dick Midkiff, former
moundsman for the Baltimore club
in the international league. If we
classes of cattle fairly active and
fully steady; calves strong; com-
statgnt.zendof theskyopren yanhiimgau mottmxh: steerscons,
Texan, MJ 40 MJ.— -(sueeers.
remember correctly, Dick once
lived here in Gainesville. . . South-
west Conference- baseball starts
this week’s schedule Tuesday aft-
ernoon, when Texas Christian plays
S. M. U. in Dallas. Other games
come Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day. ,
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON’S
• VV session down at Leeper sta-
dium will be the last workout for
the Leopard grid squad this spring,
this date winding up a 30-day
i training period, the maximum al-
lowed under Texas Interscholastic
league rules. Coach Lindsey states
that he is well pleased with his
prospects for the 1942 grid squad,
with the exception of two guard
slots. Withdrawal of Gordon
Flannery from school and Roy
Fleenor’s decision not to go out
for the sport this year created
quite a problem at these positions,
which may weaken the Leopards’
chances in conference play this
fall. Bob McCoy, a newcomer, and
Floy Martin, reserve tackle from
last year’s squad, are now filling
in at guards. Both are willing
Al Leckscheid is
First Lieutenant
Cooke county friends’ of Al
(Shorty) Leckscheid. former citi-
zen of Gainesville, will be pleased
to learn that he is a first lieutenant
in the First Observation squadron,
Massachusetts State Guard Air
corps.- now stationed at Lynnfield.
Mass., Mr. Leckscheid is expected
soon to be in the ferry command,
flying airplanes to foreign lands.
“Shorty," as he is best known to
intimate friends, came to Gaines-
ville many years ago with a “flying
circus’’ and, in company with
Ralph Tappan, made spectacular
flights from various "locations
around this city, as well as tak-
ing passengers on sight-seeing
tours of the community. Leckscheid
and Tappan were in charge of the
airplane that flew Joe Leonard of
the Daily Register when the latter
Byron Nelson, came in third and
still another Texas golfer, Jimmy
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hands but must gain experience at(Ap.Five Texas golf troupers
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crack at a fresh golf gold mine
in the Georgia foothills.
Game-hearted, hard-handed and
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headed for the Augusta Masters
tournament.
Hogan, the top hand among
them, carried with him his third
straight first prize money in the
Asheville Open, taken from Law-
son Little with a strong-arm 68
for the second year in a row. He
achieved his winning 276, ♦ eight
strokes better than par, with a kill-
ing 32 on the last nine holes, just
enough to nip the luckless Little
by one blowj
The other Texans finished like
this:
Third, Lord Byron Nelson, with a
70 for 278; tied for fourth, Jimmy
Demaret, with 4, 73 for 283 and
Ralph Guldahl, with a 70 for 283;
tied for tenth, Lloyd Mangrum,
with a 68 for 287; tied for seven-
teenth, Ray Mangrum, with a 68
for 291, but he hasn’t been invited
to Augusta. a,
Demaret Weakens \ A
Of the six, all in the mney, only
Demaret was over par the last
round, and the other five totaled 11
under. Demaret, despite his col-
lapse on the last nine holes yester-
day, is rated right back of Hogan
as a threat to take the Masters,
which he won in his great 1940
campaign. A
Hogan’s $1,000 top money in the
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