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Starter In Derby Run Saturday
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Have Looked
Jean's Joe. owned by the Mur-
Jack Fa Aden, the BoSox train
board to fame for Citation in 1948,
son is 1:56.8.
VOICE FROM CELLAR
quite possible that Jackie Robin-
Missions Widen Lead
TEXAs LEAGEE
The Tulsa Oilers, occupying last a grand slammer.
ther televised nor broadcast.
Hack, Cubs Keep Up Clouting;
Erskine, Furillo Rip
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DR. MOLLIE ARMSTRONG
Dr. H. L. Locker
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What team, it any. did you play with last
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No Soft Touches
I keep wondering who we'll make
up that ground against.”
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Champagne Stakes last year but
seeking his first 1955 victory after
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DUROCHER. in the next breath.
I explained his side of the argu-
| LESLIE (FLOP) FAM-
BROUGH. who will be seek-
ing Texas Conference 880-
speare theory that all the world's
a stage, he asked Lacy to take a
Don't think this is a man look-
ing for customers. He is up to his
larynx in salesmen, his chosen
Promoter Jack Kearns claimed
the IBC had no connection with
the Moore-Valdes brawl, staged a
twilight before 10.800 fans in Cash-
man Field. However, Truman Gib-
from
and
I betts isn’t worried so much how
his Cincinnati Redlegs ever drop-
tion arose I
to the punch
two years ago. Last year Hasty
Road beat Determine in the fast-
est of all derby trials only to have
the result switched when the big
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great tension. So Lacy believes
that his "diaphragmatic breath-
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Fondy’s third inning double chased
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who gave Hacker any trouble He
collected the only bit off the blond
Cub knuckleballer in the ninth in-
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that athletes just get to their deep
breathing and leave him to his.
But it would be interesting to see
what would happen if the Yankee
hitters started taking big whiffs of
oxygen every time they stepped up
to face the deep-breathing Nixon.
Somebody would be certain to get
Has paralysis of the face and
throat and is unable to talk,
therefore he is retiring front
practice of medicine -
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OPTOMETRISTS
Cleveiand
Detroit
Chicago
New York
Kansas City
Boston
Washington
Baltimore
three unsuccessful tries. takes on
Nabesna. Prince Noor. Honey's Al-1
ibl, Jean's Joe. Styrunner Gemer-
ica. Royal Mon and Jet Flame in '
a race which has taken on added
significance in recent years.
ister a return-bout triumph over
Big Nino, who was generally rank-
ed as top contender for the heavy-
weight crown.
Mustachioed Archie had won a
10-round decision over Valdes in
their previous bout st St. Louis
two years ago, but Nino was sup-
By MILTON RICHMAN
NEW YORK —VP— Birdie Teb.
off to one of his finest starts in a
six-year major league career is
plain old deep breathing.
Little League baseball umpiring at
Mayes Park this summer.
But, as things stood in New
Team
San Antonio ..
Dallas _____
Houston ...
Fort Worth ..
Shreveport . ..
Beaumont
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
a composite quote
“We agree with Leo ” they be-
gan. “that deliberate interference
with a double play ball is wrong.
But there isn't a thing we can do
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BARRINQL MINT JULEPS. MUD
Brady Colt Trim Destiny Sure
lead Washington to a 12-1 victory
over Kansas City. Southpaw John-
ny Schmitz gave up 12 hits, includ-
ing a homer to Guo Zernial, but
was an easy winner
Mau in Jedie Embrey, Recreation Dept., CHy Hall Brownwood.
at the frame
Carl Furillo smashed his eighth
home run with one man on in the
12th inning to break up a tense
pitching duel between Carl Erskine
one out and then yielded the home
run to Furillo Erskine allowed six
hits and struck out six in register-
ing his fourth victory without a
I setback. The triumph gave Brook, l
Durocher, when asked about the
play the next day, said it “was a
smart thing.”
But The Lip. who is well known
1 for his verbal blasts at all umpir-
T«WW!I neseita
Tulsa 2. Dallas 1.
Oklahoma City 7. Port Worth S.
Shreveport 13. Beaumont 7.
San Antonio 7, Houston 1.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
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Yester@ay» Mesetta
Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 1.
Brooklyn 2, Milwaukee 0, 13 innings
Chicago 4, Philadelphia 2, completion
of suspended May 1st game
Chicago 3 Philadelphia 1
Only games scheduled.
AMERICAX LEAGLE
Baker's Homer Wins ond place behind the pace-setting
Outfielder Jim Greengrass, who Indians with a 7-1 victory over the
came to the Phillies from the Red- Yankees who tumbled to fourth
legs Saturday, was the only man place behind the idle White Sox
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_________ Hack says. “You won’t his second victory in less than a
find any defeatist complex around week, the 23-year-old Purkey, who
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NEW YORK —UP— If you are
one of those unfortunates who flub
a needed three-foot putt, gutter the
ball when you have to make a
"There's a much better spirit
the Hub.*’ Hack =e-= “‘V~. ---
quiring reporter questioned had
seen it before and not all agreed
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The Texas Conference‘s annual
spring mec». originally slated for
Brownwood High Stadium May 13
but tentatively shifted to Abilene
i late last week, will be held in
McMurry Stadium again this year.
It willmark the fourth straight
year for McMurry to host the T-C
ma City, in seventh place, downed —
Fort Worth 7 to 5 on Howie Boles mil An i goA, gmme
as WHO'LL STOP EM?
Groth.
By UNITED PRESS _______, _
.___ but the Cats stranded 12 runners.
Oklahoma • two delegations in
By MILTON RICHMAN
Umited Press Sports Writer
The second-place Chicago Cubs
are being tagged the “surprise
team” of 1955 so far but they’re
certainly no surprise to Manager
Stan Hack, who drew a lot of
horse laughs in the spring when he
predicted they might wind up in
first division
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cinder. golf, and tennis meets.
Coach Guy Gardner. Howard
Payne athletic director, will re-
main in charge of the meet, which
Howard
“He brought Nixon to me and I
merely taught Willard how to use
| breath control, or deep breathing."
Steve Gromek held New York to
six hits in registering the 17th win
________________of his career over the Yankees ,
ning of the abbreviated tussle and against 10 defeats. Bob Wzeisler
The word on this comes from
Jack Lacy. who was the original
of the "Barney Google" comic
strip character made famous by
Billy De Beck after they were kids
together in Chicago’s stockyard
district "Barney" didn’t need De
Beck s "Spark Plug." He made his
fortune teaching some 100,000 sales
executives and salesman how to
breathe to eliminate tension.
He may have trouble selling this
to the Yankees, but Jack says that
what he did for Nixon wasn't "any-
thing very startling.”
"Willard used to have a lot of
trouble in every game because he
would fight himself, run out of gas
and be unable to finish nine in-
nings." Lacy explains. "When they
started to bit him he'd tighten up.
umpire can call out the batter as
well as the runner. It's a judg-
det’s co baek to the Ar-
Derby, which Trim Desti-
Nixon is the strapping right-
bander of the Boston Red Sox who
has been driving the New York
Yankees daffy for two years. He
beat them four times last season
and already has gone halfway that
far this time around. one of his
wins being a fine two-hitter.
The Yankees say they can’t un-
derstand it, yet it's merely a mat-
ter of "diaphragmatic breathing ”
PHIL LOBSTEIN, Brownwood Lion golf star and semi-
finalist in last year’s National Jaycee Junior links meet
at Los Angeles, will team with"David Boies. Billy
Boysen and Don Turner at Austin Friday for opening
rounds of annual State Inferscholastic League links tour-
ney. Lions won district and regional 2A titles to gain
State meet. Only Turner and Bill Knobler, who is out of
action because of a sprained ankle, will graduate this
, spring. Team leaves home Thursday for Austin.
Bpectal to me Bunetim
BRADY—The hopes' of a lot of
Brady folks will be riding with
Trim Destiny in the fabulous Ken-
tucky Derby Saturday afternoon.
Trim Destiny la a three-year-
man at second in a double play.
shot out of the dugout scream-
ing. And I'd have insisted that
the umpires call it a double play
anyway. They'd hafta call it that
way.' They'd hafta.”
and Gene Conley and give Brook-
lyn a 2-0 triumph over Milwaukee.
I Until the 12th. Conley had yielded
only three hits but in that inning
he walked Jackie Robinson with
lyn a six-game lead in the Nation-
al League
Bob Purkey. steadily developing
into Pittsburgh’s No. 1 pitcher,,
paced the Pirates to a 5-1 victory
But Valdes’ Manager. Bobby ,
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“They used this fight to get r
Nino out of the heavyweight pic-
ture.” he declared angrily.
crown in September because of
his impressive 15-round victory
over big Nino Valdes of Cuba here
Monday night.
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LAS VEGAS—UP—Light heavy-' .. r ■ MAI
weight champion Archie Moore according to latest NAIA
was praised by the international track and field report. Fam-
Boxing Club Tuesday as a “must brough's best time this sea-
challenger" for the heavyweight
I INDIANAPOLIS —UP— Bill Vu-
| kovich, who is shooting for a third
straight triumph in the :500-mite
Memorial Speedway race on May
30. waa on hand and waiting Tues-
ay for the new car he will drive
this year. He will drive a car en-!
tered by Lindsey Hopkins
over the same route which led to
its first Kentucky Derby victory
Tuesday when the promising colt
took on eight other aspirants in
the 18th running of the 910.000 add-
ed Derby Trial.
Two years ago Dark Star, also
sporting the silks of Harry F. Gug-
genheim's stable, served notice
that he was ready for the "big
race" by winning the trial Dark
Star was ignored when derby day
rolled around. But it was that
same Dark Star who upset mighty
Native Dancer in the 1953 Rose
Run, the only time Alfred G Van-
derbilt's gray ghost ever was beat-
en
going to pitch the next day he
couldn't sleep that night. It was all
due to tension."
idea He talked it over with
Junior Gilliam, second sacker, and
n
ora
San Antonio clubbed Houston 7
to 1 at Houston to move four full
games ahead of second-place Dal-
las. and Shreveport scored 10 runs
in the fifth inning en route to a 13
to 7 victory over Beaumont
Tulsa Pitcher Stan Pitula allow-
ed Dallas nine hits, and the 22-
year-old hurler singled and scored
the winning run in the eighth
Joe Macko, who is acting Tulsa
manager pending the arrival of
Henry Schenz, had tied the game
with a home run in the seventh.
Fort Worth knocked Oklahoma
1 City’s Bob Upton from the box in
the first inning when Dick Wil-
liams slammed a three-run homer.
But Taylor, who relieved Upton,
and Groth, who came on in the
eighth, made runs hard to come
by after that. Fort Worth got 14
We'll get straightened out But
Warren Hacker making his first with a six-hit effort The Indians,
appearance on the mound since held to four hits by loser Russ
pulling a hamstring muscle in his Kemmerer. Skinny Brown and
leg April 24, closed out the sus- Tom Hurd, won the game in the
pended game by pitching the ninth first inning on a double by Al
inning and then kept right on go- Smith. a walk and Dave Pope's
ing with a fine four-hit effort in homer
here any more."
Last season, for example, the son. scattered seven hits and col-
Cubs didn't win a game in Phila- lected three himself. Harvey Had-
delphia. but Monday night they dix was the loser.
swept their three-game series with The Giants and Redlegs weren't:
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Wynn Beata Boston
Early Wynn, one of Cleveland's
in there and count on taking a se-
tt was a major victory for 38- ries. Those Pirates have come up
year-old Moore, who had been with some fine pitchers and they’
pronounced "washed up” by Cali-1 battle you right down the wire
fornix physicians. They claimed I "And Chicago isn't any soft
he had a heart ailment and would | touch either. They’ve come up
not permit him to fight in the I with good pitchers, also, and those
____ ____ ____Race ly, none of the players were hurt,
track fans still were talking Tues- "As if we don ‘ have enough
day about the two dead heats at troubles already," Birdie said.
Golden State Fields, both of which "You know what they say. "It nev-
almost became triple dead beats er rains but it pours.’ ”
In one race, Thumb Bell and Tole 1
Call finished in a deadlock just a I
nose ahead of Provincial. In an- :
other. Direct Current finished by a !
headinfront of Happy Albihai an
Hi l ardner, who were in a dead
heat for place.
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place and with a new manager on Tuesday night's schedule: Fort
the way. edged Dallas 2 to 1 at Worth at Oklahoma City. Dallas at
, Mt Tulsa even though they got only Tulsa, San Antonio at Houston ______
a SM four hits off Red Murkf. Oklaho- and Beaumont at Shreveport. ' the air.
then rapped him for three more
1 in the regular game
in the suspended game. Gone
Baker's seventh taxing homer off
Jack Meyer snapped a 2-all tie
and turned out to be the clinch-
er in the regular game. Eddie
Midland beat Odessa 14 to 2 and
Roswell edged Hobbs 16 to 15 to
move into the first place tie with
San Angelo, which lost to Big
Spring 8 to 3 Artesia beat Caris-
ad 5 to 1 in the other game
Tuesday night's schedule is a re
match with Artesia at Carlsbad.
Roswell at Hobbs, Odessa at Mid-
land and San Angelo at Big Spring.
Gibson said after the bout. ped into last place as he is about*
mv-- -p-2: -------- | -Moore's showing tonight was so how they're ever going to get out.
mankind, he says, which normally impressive that the heavyweight "Everyone's telling me not to
champion must defend against worry." Tebbetts says. frowning,
him. possibly at New York in Sep- : "and that our hitting will come
tember." ; around okay, but what I'd like to
The bout, which started shortly know is which clubs are we go-
before sunset, drew $102 678—con- ing to make up the ground
son produced a new one on April ment Play. .The ump.hasto.use
13. No baseball man this in- his judgment just like when abase
- - - runner tries to take out the middle
i ing, hurried to add: “But if that
play happened the way I heard
it happened, he wouldn't have got
away with it against me. I'd have
2-1, in the regular scheduled con- big three, finally won his first
took one round away from each
battler because of low blows Hei.
charged Moore with a foul in the Tebbetts' troubles almost were
fifth and Valdes with a foul in the compounded when the train the
1th. Redlegs were traveling on from
Pittaburgh to New York Sunday
morning was Involved in an acci-
dent with another train. Fortunate-
involves athletes
Payne. MeMurry,
New Mexico.
beneficiaries. and
Gran Hamner Oul
PHILADELPHIA —UP—
yard run title in Abilene
May 13, has tenth best time
asks, please.
HMM
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NATIONAL League President
Warren Giles wasn’t so timid.' He
didn't object going on record.
“There’s nothing in the rules
against the play in question,” said
Giles in his usual frank fashion.
"After I read in the papers about
Robinson's maneuver. I checked
back through the book and found
i nothing to prevent it. Leo can
squawk and protest all he wants
but I'm afraid it will be to no
ay woo hands down. That too
Flying Fury.
winner of the
way Arthur Daley began his
column for the Times. "Yet it’s
Philadelphia Phillies, who have
been plagued by injuries this
spring, were without the services
of shortstop Gran Hamner Tues-
day Hamner suffered a bruised
shoulder against the Cubs Sunday
and was out of action against
them Monday night. Roy Smalley,
who formerly played with Chicago
took Hamner’s place.
side.
Small Crowd on Hand
by a batted ball, he is auto-
. 1 matically out and the ball is de-
' dared dead He could be called
K, out for being hit by a batted ball
Ah or he could be called out for
interference But ont both Base-
M i ball limits one out to each custom-
avail.” this simple statement. "Valdes
The whole deal was one of died in the last couple of rounds '
Dodger Captain Pee Wee Reese's in the 13th session. Nino's left
eye was closed tightly shut and he
posed to have improved much
since then, whereas Moore was
believed by many experts to hate
started down the toboggan
Referee Sole Judge
Archie wtapped up the fight with
wtHealsaahadalotafadiftinulty FRED RUsS and Aaron Longi
with headach;wh.il wthattme might have the solutions to all
Jack adds Whene venathey told the problems that make up this
him the day before that he was column. They as some of you
know by now, form the “Men In
Blue" team that will handle the
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I CORNER AUSTIN a COGGIN
‘Too Potent’
over the Commercial National
Bank here, they'd like to see TD
come through Saturday, If nothing
more to climax Mr White s rac-
ing career. He will be 80 years
old next August
The Brady colt is a definite
starter. That's the word from his
trainer. Cecil Locklear, already
with him and other White horses
“What rule did he violate? If
it’s deliberate interference, the
hand.
was a fast track on a mile and
an eighth stretch, but TD‛s time
was 149 3-5. a full becond under
Nashua’s mark. And Jockey L.
C. Cook rode TD “under steady-
lns restraint" and said after the
race that Trim Destiny "could
ALBANY. Calif —UP-
Oh, we've got that figured out, TEXAS LEAGUE
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820 Oklahoma s two deiegauons in | San Antonio got 18 hits off two
48 the Texas League — Tulsa and Houston pitchers, enabling Char-
mo Oklahoma City — inched up a lit- ley Locke to pitch a leisurely six-
43 tie Monday night, but the offen- hitter for. the win. . ,
320 . . . ' E" . . u, I Nine of Shreveport s 10 runs in
sive-minded San Antonio Missions the fifh inning were on homers
still threaten to make a runaway by Les Fleming, Leon Brinkopf
of the race, and Jim Ackeret. Brinkopf s was
too. Remember in the Wood Me-
morial at Jamaica April 28?
Nashua beat Summer Tan by a
neck on a fast track. The time
was 1:50 3-5 for a mile and an
And both horses
exhaustion" when
Team
Brooklyn
Chicago . .
St Louis ..
Milwaukee
New York
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
made. Maybe the shortstop would
have thrown the ball into, right
field. How do we know" And we
hope the rules never are changed
to cover the issue Robinson rais-
ed. Then it would be a matter
of judgment, and an umpire’s life
Is tough enough without having
that complication added to it."
have no intention of doing so”
Thus far, Cincinnati has won
only four games and lost 13 for a
sickly .235 percentage The Red-
legs are a same and a half be-
hind the seventh place Pirates and
10 games off the pace.
“There isn’t a soft touch in the
league." Tebbetts moaned. “Who
are we going to make up the
I ground against Brooklyn Mil-
waukee New York or St. Louis"
Thev’re all rough and you have a
battle on your hands against any
one of them
"1 don't want to start making
any comparisons between omr
league and the American League,
but over here we can’t walk into
a Kansas City and count on win-
ning a couple of games. We can't
walk into a Baltimore . "
Tebbetts sighed as he talked but
he made It clear he was not dis-
couraged.
“When I became manager " he
said "I realized there would be
some losing stretches and this hap-
pens to be one of them. It’s hell
living through it, but I'm sure it'll
pass.
remained full. But there was no shuns newsprint controversy. The
doxew Pk Giant Manager Leo MnTaeanuaRlae ^ly "oonemaar
basis would they speak. Here is
--- • e a. -aa- a .™. er. Is a friend of Laey’s. He knew „ -c
Hill Gail in 1952 and Dark Star of the work Lacy was doing teach- York City ii few days ago, the
law people how to relax in front of new Jackie Robinson episode was
audiences, and in other critical sit- drawing argument: from all sides
nations, and working on the Shake- I 'They say that there can be ment
no new plait in baseball, is the
about it. He can scream and
rant all he likes but no umpire J
has a right to presume that a
double play would have been
4
Of course, the bl* Georgia boy
needs a fine fast ball and a good
change up to make tt stick. But
at Churchill Downs. Only
the winning run home Ernie
Banks' fourth homer gave Chica-
go its first run in the second in-
ning but that was matebed by Del
started for the Yankees and gave
up two runs enough to lose the
game. In the first inning on Har-
vey Kuepn's single, a walk and
Ferris Flam's double
in thy only other game sched-
uled. Roy Sievers and Jim Bus-
by each smashed two homers to
Carl Erskine Jim Greengrass
state Las Vegas doctor ssaid his two guys around second base (Er-
heart was okay, and Archie s per- nie Banks and Gene Baker' are
formance apparently upheld their : getting better all the time
diagnosis. I “Frankly." Tebbetts added •I
His superior stamina and snap- don't think Pittsburgh is going to
pier punches enabled him to reg- finish last again. You begin to
wonder who will. We certainly
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old colt owned" by G. R. White of “near (
Brady. McCulloch County cattle- . finished,
man, former A&M College direc-
tor, and longtime race horse fan-
cier. Around Mr. White's office
one of the bls reasons why he's
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Results
what should be done about The runner isn t tagged, hut the
umpire calls him out for leaving
_______ ! the baseline. It’s a matter of
JACKIE broke up a.sure double Judrmnent Frisch, the Old Flash,
play by permitting himself to be to the confusion.
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Catcher Roy Campanella ground- The umpires have to caU both
ed to short. Robinson let the outs anyway •
ball hit him. So he was declared Daley next sought the advice
out. Campy was credited with from several umpires, a breed of
an automatic hit and the bases . -
fought on half-blinded and fa-
tigued Moore’s superiority in the
14th and 15th rounds clinched the
fight and gave Moore his 20th
straight victory. The decision
snapped Valdes winning string at
11 straight.
Braddock, fotmer heavyweight
champion and sole Judge of the
bout favored Moore in a round
basis, 8-5-2 The United Press had
Archie ahead, 8-6-1
In the rough, excellent battle
staged as the sun sank over the
park's western wall. Braddoek
tween San .Angelo. Midland and
Roswell All three bad 8-4 records
The after Monday night’s games
2rOwaw0o BULLETIN. Tuesday, May 3, 1959 ' McMurry To Host
Conference Meet
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Longhorn League
In 3-Way Deadlock
By UNITED PRESS
i The Longhorn League Tuesday
waa in a three-way deadlock be-
siderably less than promoter against?
Kearns had expected. It was nei- "Not Pittsburgh' You can't walk
Scheduled Today
! LOUISVILLE. Ky. -UP- Cain
Hoy Stable started Flying Fury
Detroit 7, New York 1.
Cleveland 4. Boston 3.
Washington 13 Kansas City 1,
Only games scheduled
BIG «T4Y1 vracre
Yesterday’s Results
Waco 4. Gaiveston G
Tyler 5. Harlingen 1
Fort Arthur 4 Austin 3
Corpus Christi 4, Texas City 4, 11 in-
nings
WEST TEXAS-NEw MEXICO LEAGLE
Yesterday B Results
Amarillo 13. Abilene S
Albuq uerque 4 Pampa 4.
Clovis 26 Platnview 9
Lubbock 4, El Paso 3
LONGROAN LA AGUE
Yesterday’s Results
Artesia ». Carlsbad 1.
Midianc 14 Odessa 3
Bic Sprint 4, San Angelo 3
Roswell 14 Hobbs 11
' spare, or choke up on the speech
which Bounded so fine in your bed-
room. take a tip from Willard
Nixon.
“Derby Trial Run
have ran fear more miles." •
Cook probably will be in the
V „ -o.eni. > midav saddle when Trim tries to go the
roken.l or..posihly.a d mile and a quarter route of the
track.couidukeschimeeutcounto Kentucky Derby Saturday
wRaisede im.MeCuloch, Count: Trainer Locklear isn't as confi-
which.has.besn.Prettyadr forstthe dent of winning the Derby as some
last three years. irim —e:tny
doesn't like the mud He show- HOh .. he the
Partita this spring at“akiawn route, but I don't know whether
Parkin HotosprinfsnAr.hen he can run with those top horses.
in.onera csona nPteltrack he He didni beat much in the Ar-
leisurelx.gawoped.in lasty. him kansas Derby, If there‘d been
,.But.Mr Whitencan." tor Trim anything •» al to push him he
for..thatwperformananfor nErm could have set • track record."
Destiny. won.the.Arkanss.Derb But Trim Destiny has a debt
and racen.m axinghim to "P»y his trainer, and winning
themleadingsmoneyrtwinning th® Derby Would be * good way tol
thoroughbred (812,100) of the Oak- do it Last fall in Brady while
LAfterakiawn. Locklear moved locklear.wastciippingrhimsPr-
Tmim Destiny, “nd^r^
Lexinstona y-andnitsnnearacs th® hone just below the knee.
came in last in a field if nine. Lockiear spent mo otathe, winter Flying Fury. Jean's" Joe and
But the Brady folks have an "earins • cast, and stil “ Honey’ AUW were the only en-.
answer to that, too. It's a deep • th .. Trim trants with an almost certain!
sandy track at Kenneland, and nAt on '006 td j nd te chance of starting in the Kentucky
TD just didn’t like it. Very Destiny1"er6u,°hem at end j Derby Saturday For each of the
temperamental boroe we’ve got, last rrpay supporters think “heli others it was a "do or die" situa-
you know. Besides that. Trim . - F aturdav at about tion. Unless they show improve-
Destiny already bad beaten three «? t the Post Saturday at about ment over recent form Tuesday,
of those nags previously in Ar-1 "Eockiear",was reared at Goldth- they probably will not get to the
kasince then Trim Destiny hM>« and is a brother of Jack pstiforathes first of the triple
raced one other time. That was Locklear..Brrady. Jubils. rrace
last Saturday at Churchill Downs, tear trainer for the Reynolds cain Stable, loomed as favorite for
andinais VST heccamrnin second,.. Fort Worth cattlemen and the trial that served as the spring.
Swaps.nOr coursenswaps.won.by ' E“Mrhowhite,t and- Fred Hall,
there's no use getting hot and Chariey parley ana Jack lockiear,
bothered whe X'S got.the Sui^l^TieX Now'2 those
Kentucky Derby coming a week Kentuck colonels just wont spi
How does Trim Destiny expect their mint juleps on the track ... chips were down five days later.
to beat Nashua and Summer Tan?
Chief reason for the last-mi- sv
nute shift in sites was the per- Is
formance of Howard Payne's inter- 5
collegiate rodeo, which is sche-
doled for Daniel Baker Park the m
night of May 13 BY
The conference tennis and golf P.
tournaments will begin Thursday s
morning, May 12. Finals in the E..r
net meet will be held Friday mom- g..
ing. The track and field pre- 23“.
liras are to begin Friday morning. gE
with the finals being unreeled JKr
under the arcs Friday night, a.
New conference champs are ■■
sure to be crowned in the tennis ■
and track meets Abilene Chris- H227
tian, which withdrew from the
j loop after the 1954 contests. sack- peg
ed up title-; in both those events.
leaving the throne room empty. 82
Howard Payne grabbed the gnn
i championship in golf, sweeping mE
i both the team and individual ME
I trophies. 2“
Most observers have tabbed the myi
, Jackets as threats to sweep the gse
meet this year. EG
T,,lec Fringe Rv
IUISQ CQQ65 DY •U 11 US, tension and quit fighting himseif .”
- * Athletes, naturally, are under
, - - WHENEVER a ball player
Yma m mangles an easy double play and
T E% 21 gets only one out instead of two.
N. . . f he isn’t charged with an error be-
i0 1 cause the officials scorer is in-
_ ‘ structed that he is "never to pre-
a • a sume a double play would have
-aK• • I been made That has to apply
/• A • • y A to umpires too
} UA Aus E A Durochers has toun-
•A ■ •• ■ dations the common
aEB• " I justice but none in the rule book
•w " a At least that is our opinion
K -e- -E W Because when a runner is hit
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