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of Hugo, Oklahoma, rounded up
45 sandbass and that story also
rounds up our brief collection of
fishermen’s tales for today.
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Washington 10 in a game (won by
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By ED WILKS
Larry Jackson, Floyd Wool-
dridge, George Schultz and Herb
Moford may not be names you’ll
find in a kid’s autograph book,
but you can bet the rent money
they lulled Eddie Stanky into a
nice restful sleep last night. ,
Not that Stanky hasn’t been
sleeping well of nights, but after
what those four right-handers did
to the New York Yankees yes-
terday the St. Louis Cardinals
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RUCKER HAD ALREADY
made a prior trip to Walnut
Creek and his 25 black crappie,
which tipped the beam at a total
of 18 pounds, was indicative of
. the way the fish were biting.
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Coach Ed Dusek’s Leopards
went through their final spring
training workout sessloh of 1955
in preparation- for their long
awaited tussle with the Leopard
Exes tonight. I
-The big spring training climax,
which will be under the sponsor-
ship of the Leopard Booster club,
is slated for a 7:30p.m. be
The four unknowns clamped
down on the Bombers and gave
up just a sheepish infield single
while the Cards were batting out
a 7-0 decision. The Yanks man-
aged to get only five balls out of
the infield, all easy flies.
Bob Turley, the young right-
hander the Orioles traded off to
the Yanks much to the disap-
pointment of Baltimore fans, was
clubbed for five runs in the sec-
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Ex cause. End Lloyd Nichols,
who gained second string All
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home & AuT 2UPPIY Tore
with the champion of the Corval-
lis, Ore., regional in which San
Francisco, -No. 1 team in the AP
poll, is favored to triumph.
Tonight’s battle between Colo-
rado (16-5), Big Seven champion,
and Tulsa (20-6), co-titlist of (the
a homer, and Bolling had three
runs batted in.
The Brooks got some help from
rookies and Sandy Amoros, still
trying to make the grade in the
outfield. Don Zimmer tied it with
former teammates a shellacking.
Last season the Leopard Exes
bumped the Leopards 20-7, so it’ll
be revenge that’ll be on the
minds of next season’s Spotted
Cats when they bump noggins
with the high school seniors.
Coach Dusek watched his co-
horts romp through a brief lim-
bering up session yesterday aft-
ernoon in preparation for to-
night’s brawl. The youngsters' ap-
peared to be in top shape and
they’ll be favored in most quar-
ters to trim their rivals on Leep-
er stadium’s turf tonight.
A large crowd is expected for
the affair and several well-known
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a bases-loaded double
eighth to give new
several 5.5 second 50-yard sprints.
Turner, on the'other hand, has
run the distance several times
and is gradually improving his
speed. ,
We watched Tommy run his
first 100 yards for the year and
he was timed at 10.5 seconds.
Since that time,: we’re told that
he has consisteptly clicked the
event in just above 10 seconds.
lost 9-7.
The only other pitch ng per-
formances popped up a: > Brook-
lyn caught up with M iwaukee
3-2 in a night game ard Phila-
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planned for the end of the cam-
paign, including the first four
teams. Semifinals for that play-
productive during the past week-
end. They, too, were in the Wal-
nut Creek area and their 18 large
black crappie most certainly
thrilled and satisfied them com-
pletely . . .
P. C. Sparks, Sr., and D. M.
McCormick made a pair of trips
to Big Joe’s and their hook dan-
gling tries were spectacularly suc-
cessful, since they caught a grand
total of 66 black crappie . . .
Tom and Robert Carlisle took
their fishing talents to Red River
and discovered that the husky
sandbass were hungry and will-
ing. They finally brought in some
40 of the luckless sandies . . .
finals to be set later at the convenience (_______-__„______
There appears to be plenty of interest generated for tonight’s
Leopard-Leopard Ex football game and we look for a large crowd
to invade Leeper stadium.
The weather should be ideal, if the
lights c_______„
son will be the expected duels
Sox manager, also got off on the
right foot with Ted Lepcio and
Milt Bolling giving him a push.
Lepcio had three hits.
Hose won 10-7; Pittsburg! i got 15
and the new Kansas City "-het
ics 12 before the Pirates
performers will don the spangles
of the Exes forsthe grid fracas, off
Two All State performers — one
----- Rookie Bill Mey er stepped in to
The eventual winner collides save the Indians afte the Cubs
Texas State, Arkansas Tech and
Southeastern Oklahoma College.
Arkansas Tech plays East Tex-
as in the other semifinal.
Western Illinois nabbed its
semifinal berth with a tense
5049 victory last night over the
Gustavus Adolphus.
Arkansas Tech whipped Alder-
son-Broaddus 93-74.
A second half rally gave East
Texas State of Commerce a 66-57
victory over Beloit, (Wis) college.
Beloit- was seeded No. 2. Beloit
held a 40-33 halftime lead but
cooled off in the second period.
East Texas tied the score at 4545
and then built up a substantial
lead.
Norbert Mages and Bill Ritchie
were named to a committee to
design the schedule and it was
decided that league games will
be held on Tuesday. Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday of each
week, with double Headers on tap
for each date. Game time for
the first game, on each night,
was set for 7:30 o’qlock.
Player limit for each team this
year was named at 16 last night
and the roster for each teem must
be made permanent by the end of
the first round of play.
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~ of the interesting side-
got off to a good start, bi t there
weren’t many more.
, _ got a
2-1 lead against him and Herm
Charlie
fee winning
run on Amoros’ single.
Another important meeting is
on the agenda for March 16 and
expected to be
is held in the
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Manager
Mayo Smith his first victory«.
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pected this year. i
Noggler, according
John Hosea, hasn’t been
Garner, Callisburg light-heavy-
weight, proudly displays the
championship trophy he
during the recent Royse City
boxing tournament. Garner has
proved to be one of the stand-
out fighters on the Callisburg
team, since he also was runner-
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and maybe this spring some-
By BILL KING
Register Sports Editor
“CRAPPIE HAVE STARTED biting about two or three weeks
earlier than usual," P. D. Gandillon decided Wednesday, glancing up
from the desk in his sporting goods store and gazing longingly at
the brilliant sunshine seeping through the door and windows.
The ruddy-faced store proprietor, not only hears the fishing
exploits of others, he makes stories of interest himself, as might be
discerned from his recent trip to Walnut Creek on Lake Texoma.
P. D., B. C. (Mickey) Turbeville and Allan Rucker hooked 47 of
those big. fighting, black crappie. Gandillon was enthusiastic in
his remarks about the trip and indicated that several other local
fishermen have found the waters of Walnut Creek and its fishy in-
habitants vulnerable to the attacks of hook and line.
delphia beat Detroit 4-2.
Robin Roberts fanned the side
after a leadoff triple in the first,
and although the Tigers
Workmen have already started _ , —
painting recently sold advertis- honors as a gridder last fall and
ing on the outfield fences at Quarterback Spencer Hays. All
Locke field. We understand that State Leopard eager this winter,
the fence sign sales have been will lend their aid to the Ex ef-
brisk—more so than in past sea- fort. ‘ -
sons—and Owl board of directors David West, Jimmy Hammer,
are happy over the current situa- Gene Armstrong, Pat Ralston,
tion . . . Louise’Suggs and Mary Mike Neu, James Miller, Ed Er-
Lena Faulk today lead a picked win, Morris Morgan, J. W. Keu-
—_1 j second round of the ther and Scott Clark are other sunet SUUIS ule guy w1J S
Women’s Titleholders Golf tour- Exes ready for tonight’s action, supposed to bring the Anerican
nament ... New York outfielder, Armstrong and Clark are form- - ....
Mickey Mantle, was swindled out er All District players.:
of $3,500 by a man, who sold him For the Leopards, Richard
100 shares in the “Will Rogers Hackler will » start at quarter-
Underwriters association.” Will back, with Jackie Holt! and Jim-
Rogers, Jr., son of the late hu- my McKinney at halfbacks and
morist, had asked officers to in- either Fred Forester or Johnny
vestigate the affair. The swin- Morgan at fullback.
dler is currently in jail in Okla- Kenneth Lillard and either
homa City . . .Unbeaten Frankie George Culp or Bobby Morris
Ryff meets Danny Joe Perez to- will open the game at ends, while
night in a lightweight fight ... Bill Roberg and Royce Gilmore
Don’t forget tonight’s football or Tom Mobley open at tackles. ’
game at Leeper stadium. You’re . Steve Carroll has been as-
sure to enjoy the out-of-season signed one guard post, with ei-
taste of the autumn sport and be- ther Tommy Carr or Gale Scott
sides, the Leopards deserve your set to start at the other. David
support. Moss has been announced as the
-----------------------—----- pobable-starter at center for the
The Leopards will run from
the split-T and Bear-T formations
throughout most of the fray.
- They have concentrated on both
of those type offensives during
the spring work.
BERT DAVIS, Joe Henry and
Lloyd Groves sacked up 21 sand-
ies and one giant-sized black bass
during their recent jaunt to some
undisclosed spot on Texoma . . .
Jess Ritchie, Bill Tuggle and
Ernest Reeves did their hook-
wetting in Red River’s depths
during the weekend. They had
plenty of success, too, and came
home lugging some 50 large
sandbass...
H. C. Palmer took time out
from dishing up Dairy Queens
to haul in a few fish. He and his
brother-in-law, L. M. Sheppard
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the affair a roaring success . . .
There were probably more youngsters in Valley Vi
you’d ever be able to stir with a stick. The annual —----
Playground meet was scheduled to have been held there all through
the day and there were grade school, junior high and high school
divisions—both for boys and girls—in softball, volley ball and ten-
nis, so you can imagine what an uproariou ------* hei heen hem
by school officials.
Action was to have gone only to the semifinals today, with the
Others, to sample the Walnut
Creek type of luck were Mason
Winters and Dock Spears, who
brought home 25 fine black crap-
pie. Harold Homer and his wife
hooked 14 of the crappie in . the
same area, while Mr. and Mrs.
Tony Dulock and Mr. and Mrs.
Eddie Dulock had even better
luck. J . .
Tony, and his wife tried their
skill first and they were so en-
thusiastic over the 40 crappie
they boated that they took Eddie
and his spouse with them on
their next sojurn in the Walnut
Creek area. On that particular
trip they managed for 33 large
crappie.
J. P. MCBEE AND his wife
were others to find the fishing
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got to Bob Hooper for, four runs
in the ninth.
Minnie Minoso grand-slammed
for the White Sox. The Redlegs,
who used six pitchers without
much effect, were charged with
eight errors.
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in 10 innings; and the Chicago
Cubs out-hit Cleveland 15-9 but
betwe n Joe Noggler of Muen-
ster a nd Tomihy Turner of Val-
ley Viewin the 100-yard dash.
Nog gler edged Turner during
___1 meeting last season, but
the battles were nearly always Hena F auK
close and more of the same spir- m, h
ited 1 idividua competition is ex-
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According to Hosea, Noggler I _
has been working mainly on his t Twelve teams will be included
starts this year. He has been re- in an enlarged 1955 Cooke County
garded as a notoriously slow Softball league.
starter, with a strong finishing Managers and sponsors* of
kick and so far this year he has those 12 outfits turned in their
been timed only for 50 yards. $25 entry fees Thursday night in
Hosea revealed that the Muen- the Gainesville VFW building
ster senior has clocked 5.5 sec- when an organizational meeting
onds in 50-yard sprints and has was held under the direction of
improved appreciably in his get VFW Commander J. C. Sluder,
aways this year. Teams from Sinclair, Schlum-
----------------------------- berger, Lindsay, Texas Power &
mI ■ Light, Callisburg, Woodbine,
HAMuMrAMeI Muenster’s B-29 club, Bezner, Na-
■ •MIIV tional Supply, Era and Gaines-
m mm ■ ■ ■ ■ • ville’s VFW indicated that they
Mee Fjelei IN would enter the league this sea-
um ■■ ume Lindsay, Woodbine and Nation-
Wellew WAA al Supply are new entries in the
" V ■ -% "" • circuit, since the others were in-
Many and varied springtime eluded in a 10-team county league
activities were due to have been last season.. ,.
unreeled in Valley View today Various items were discussed
when the District 40-B Play- and committees appointed to
ground meet was staged there, make, final arrangements for the
Teams from Valley View, rapidly approaching season. In
Muenster, Callisburg, Era, Sang- one important move, Sluder was
er, Saint Jo, Walnut Bend, Rad named commissioner of the soft-
Ware, Capps Corner and Burton ball circuit for ’55._______________
were to have vied for honors in mimm
softball, volley ball and tennis1
competition.
The meet was doped to have
lasted the entire day, after be-
ginning at 8 o’clock this morning
and (there probably wasn’t a dull
moment for area coaches or their
cohorts.
The District 40-B literary event
will be held in Valley View next
Friday and the circuit’s track and
field meet is slated for Denton’s
North Texas State college track
on March 25.118
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Large Turnout for Wildlife Show.
UNTERS FROM ALL around the G ainesville area made their
II way to the county court house last night in order that they
might be on hand for the Wayhe Weems show. -
Weems, who hails from Fort Worth, is nationally known for
his wildlife calls and he gave over 50 local outdoorsmen—and wom-
en, too—graphic illustrations on the proper methods of employing
the noise lures of his own creation. i • 1. I
The audience appeared to eagerly grasp everything that the
visitor pointed out, during the 45-minute show and the Gainesville
Rifle club, which sponsored the event, can most assuredly consider
pected to produce the ultimate
Manhattan champion.
In the other game. Southern
Methodist (16-7) engages a stub-
born Bradley team (8-19) which
during the regular season scored
an 82-73 victory over the Mus-
tang champions of the Southwest
Conference.____________ ■
Yankees Get One
Hit Off Unknown
Cardinal Hurlers
• QUIET • POWERFUL
Track Season Begins ’
With the end of spring football
training tonight, Gainesville ath-
letes will be able to look forward
to Monday’s beginning of a brand
new sport, i
Track season, under the direc-
tion of Jimmy Eaves, Will begin
at that time and the Spotted Cats
will make preparations to de-
fend the District 8-AA crown,
which has been captured the past
two years in a row by Gainesville
cinder aggregations.
Several local young trackmen
have already started work on the
freshly graded Leeper stadium
track and one of them is Roy
Stamps, Jr., who is more com-
monly known for his picture tak-
ing abilities than his athletic
prowess.
The young red-head told us
that he’s going to run the mile
and do just anything else that
Only County SMuTgskles
Track Entry NCAXTOnight
Joe Noggler fleet-footed cin- MANHATTAN, Kani Mar. 11
der ace, will be Muenster s sole (A) — The battle of “unknowns”
representative in Saturday s Pos- in the NCAA basketball tourney
sum Kingdom relayS.. ,, starts in the regional meet here
The gala.track meet willbe tonight as Colorado tackles Tulsa
staged in.Graham.and Noggler and Southern Methodist faces
participant..He.will compete,in Of the four regional meets to
both the, 100 and 220-yarddasheg determine the semifinal field as-
in the Class A, and.Bdivision.o fsembling for championship play
the high school part of the meet- at Kansas City next weekend,
Coach John Hosea of Muenster this one seems destined to pro
had planned to enter his ertire duce the most dark-hued dark-
team in the Graham competition, horse '
but many of his cohorts had to 1
work on Saturday, so it was de-
cided that only Noggler would i
mAethfortri-sprinter won see | Now Boasts 12 Teams
ond place in the state last year '
in both the 100 and 220-yard A ■ A . ■ 4 d■■
bsmems Cooke County Softball
corded early in 1954 on Leeper m mm A " a m a
stadium’s dirt track when he I H.Ea G,‛ mauamEmam Eama.
U»“ .00 steps in 8 see LOOp las urOWing rains
Nick Mosman, David Sluder,
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Coach Eaves might desire. He
Clothiers
a LEO M. KUEHN
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