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Thursday Event
Thursday Evening, August 4, 1938
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
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PAGE TWO
ONLY ONE
Prim
FEW CONG
Bucs, Redskins
BEATING BACK
Are Examples
Turned Kovacs
Mathematical
Of New Deal
SPORTS ROUNDUP
Chance Saved
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Coca-Cola
I eague considers tion
However, with their backs closer 1
ing out the orchids don't overlook Burleigh Grimes for the
In
time, day or night to jump in his
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KENZ
IT'S BIG DIFFERENCE—
Two
accorded perfect
Meredith
Totals .
BASEBALL
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CALENDAR
POMPTON LAKES, N J. Aug 4
specially
EXPERT AUTO
was
REPAIRING
the Polo, grounds
Fight Results
Boston
Mr Hudson does not intend tet-
Detro
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so IM and POPLAR
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the double* and that Bobby Riggs
America’s
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(Copyright, 1938, by Vhited Pr2a)
The team captain, who ordinarily
will join the. Pittaburgh Pirates Aug
Phone 2-0113
Thursday- 8:30 P. M.
Louis
(5-6»
Westex-New Mex
TEAM
BATTLE
couldn t make it two wins in a row Speed Boat by Man OWar, owned
Sergeant Rich
Chilo Salozar
vs.
A
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Tommy Tassos
Gene Blackley
OPENER
Odis Hedrick
vs.
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WRESTLING
Pitching for Winning Team
Makes Star of Joe Meredith
Team Grappling
On Card Tonight
SPORTS PARADE
Tennis Moguls
Allison, Parker
Only Hopes of U. S.
In Canadian Meet
Broadway Operators Grow Uneasy Over
Their 3-1 Odds On Henry Armstrong
Yale's Coach Pond
Leads All-Star Poll
Phi Sigs to Take
Frogs to Conclave
Popular Dem,
Seeks Traditi
Curtain Seri
Novelty curtain mater
Net Panels
Limited quantity. 2%
Men’s Shirts
Men* white and fancy
Men’s Straw
Assortment of Mens s
Men’s Plain !
Special purchase of pl*
Men’s Summ
Assorted Men s Ties red
Brassieres
Assortment of broken s
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LEFT FIELD
SLEACHERS
little-known Canadian from Stam-
ford. Ont.
Yesterday Allison eliminated Bob
WILIS COX —
410-12 Mims Bldg.
FISCHER
BROS.
STANDINGS
an League
Virden of Abilene
Among Stars Due
To Play Friday
Foote K...
Beaty lb .
Hodge*. sa
Russell, 1b .
Miller. < ...
Leverett p
Wood, p ..
Ladies’ Sum
Our entire stock of 8
each .................
Joe Schwarting of Waco, Jess Haw-
thorne of Port Arthur and Chai
Daniel of Longview, all of whom
make the all- state team
Utilities-Pepper,
Lions and Rotary
It appeared for a time last night
that the Highway club might save
West Texas Utilities trouble of eli-
Totals ..
Coca-Cola
Highway •
Unbleached
36 wide. 64 by 60 th re
Montgomery, cf
Cudd, rf ......
Hicks 2b .....
Held p .........
Olney;
Young.
Park j.
Midland 4. Hobbs 1
Big Spring 6 Lubbock 7
CALENDAR SCRAMBLED— - .
Teams Usually Trailing In Mid-Season Step Out In Majors
For Best Wrestling Natches to
West Texas Cane to the-
The museum of the French Con-
servatory of Music contains the only
guitar known to bear the signature
of Antotlo Stradivari, violin maker
F # COW7NUE5
H5 PRESENT PACE,
TE ceJtbirsuMti
16ACINCHT8REAK
Bahe
MARK OR bO FC& 2
A CEj^ON- DESPITE'
HAKDlCAPi WHICH
RUTH aOATT HAVt.
, together, ate together, played to- . night,
gether -a*
the laic half title to its first half school football careers here Satur-
laurels and cop the pennant with- day night in the annual "dream
out a play-off. game.' held as a feature of the
ELBERT E. HAL
Phone 4360
Oklahoma City
Houston
Dallas h
some fancy knocking off. the Ex- ! --------- -
change will have a chance to add’ nine youngsters will end their high.
• GKEKR I A RL--T-HAWDED
• 86 . P4GS &EEN
r ALTERED...- WALLS ARE H6HER..
THERE ARE SCREENS... A BALL a
Cokes Trip Highway, 4-3 tousionbear
naon (Dallas):
Gay. Highland
son, Newcastle
Paso whLe Salozar - Wednesday resul
e Blackfy of Tua- Wik Clovis t
! COULD AVOID PLAYOFF
Provided somebody else will do
3
0
-WE INSrTRE EVERTTHING BUT THE GREAT BEYOND-
COX-HUNTER-HALL AGENCY
INSURANCE • LOANS • BONDS
Sergeant Rico lines up with Tom-
y Tassos of El T
ment
it must have been an omi-
nous message, because it turned
him dead against a man who
had been his friend, his coach,
and ills adviser for more than
five years.
That friend, that coach, and that
By the Associated Press
Rain washed out another pitching
duel between Schoolboy Rowe and
Paul Dean yesterday but the patter
lof the drop* made sweet music for,
the San Antonio Missions
123 out with the all-stars
•07 । ■ -
„ Rowe-Dean Clash
- Prevented By Rain
pose of the other in two out of
three falls "There s no time limit.
Odis Hedrick of Dallas meets Ed-
Against Coach
Berkeley Man Tries
To Get at Bottom
Of Tennis Mystery
By HENRY McLEMORE
i United Press Staff Correspondent)
NEW YORK Aug. 4. (UP>—For
25 3 6 21 2 0
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teama with Gene Blackfy of Tus-1
cola To win, one tem must dis-
AANK
GREENBERG
By special request, Abilene a dele-
catiom to the national Phi Sigma
Chi convention to Detroit are car-
rying al Texas homed \frogs with
them
tefevre Goulding, who heads the
locai delegation. said Abilene kids
gathered the frogs for one cent
each They were requested by east-
efh member, of the fraternity who
-red Goulding Wedneeday.
Total* ....... 10 0 11s 3 j
Exchange ................ ....
Reporter-News .......000 00__0
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KNOWS QUICKEST WAY HOME
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Pate figures the opponent likely | ____
will be Australia, and predict* the ting the mystery drop He is bsy
final count wm be United States 4. at work tearing away the mista ,.iat
Australia 1 Also, he is dead certain I surround the entire tranaaction *.ld
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. 4-0. and gained a half game on record number, sold for $128,276, an
Beaumont the league leader average of $2,036
The ailing Tulsa Ober*, in the Top price
throes of a losing streak that has, paid by Don
taken on the aspects of disaster, • for a bro* n
w!
IRANTEED
player, now. and furthermore.
If he should. by any chance,
need coaching, the Davi« Cup
committee would furnish it. I
told him this was absurd—that
Kovacs did need further help,
especially on hi* forehand. But
he startde talking to someone
else, and seemed to forget all
about me."
Saratoga Auction*
Bring in $128,276
SARATOGA SPRINOS .N. Y
Aug 4— P-With sorfe’of the Brs-
ship ,
Miller is on the soutHe
along with Fuel Wesson oMre
Dalton. ss
Blankenship, 1b
Harper. 3b ....
Mathis, 2b-sf ...
Deberry, c .....
Crawford, p ...
Padgett, cf .....
Johnson. sf-2b .
Woods. rf .....
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SPORT
TORIUM
Between 7th a 8th on Oak
Mervin Barackman Presents
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Eddie O’Shea
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Print Reinns
Fast color 36 wide
Davis Cup material.
Kovacs played magnificently.
Came that afternoon when a
photographer asked Kovacs and
Hudson to pose for a picture.
Out of a dear sky, Kovacs re-
fused
Asked why, he answered. “I
have my own reasons. I can’t
have that picture made."
Sitting in the lounge of the Gov-
LEAGt a
Ameri
TEAM
ew York
Sale Anklets
Assorted color*. Sizes
giants of U. S tennis Frankie Park-
er of Beverley Hills, Calif, and Wil-
mer Allison of Texas, were Amer-
ica's chief hopes in the quarter-
final round of the Canadian stngles
championship today.
Laird Watt, hitherto known as a
fine doubles player but currently
blossoming into a dangerous singles
competitor, meets Allison today.
Parker meets Gordon Robinson,
Seinsoth pitched scoreless baseball
for four innings
San Antonio, in second place,
picked up a half game on the
league leading Beaumont Export-
ers. winning 4 to 0 from Fort
Worth, With Charles Wagener, the
victorious pitcher, permitting only-
three hits. It was one of the best
hurling exhibitions in the Texas
league this season. Lefty Clyde
Smoll, the losing moundaman, had
only one bad inning, the fifth. in
which San Antonio scored all of
its runs. He gave up five hits.
Tulsa. falling rapidly after being
ousted from first place, had an-
other bad night, losing a 5 to 3
game with Shreveport, The teams
finished the ninth with the score
tied at 3 all. then in the last of
the 10th George Fleming broke up -
the game with a home run, scoring
credit for the victory.
4 0 0 1
day if he feels he needs it. He
meets Ambers Wednesday night at
10 at a salary of 515.000 but will la very sparing in his predictions
return to Chicago in time to work was feeling expansive at yesterday’s
LINCOLN. Neb. Aug 1
popular democratic govel
to shatter tradition by tri
third consecutive term 11
ka s primary election nexl
Rust to make it dubby, all
gressmen, four democrats!
publican, also are after a
nominations. I
Despite the trial of "ui
phychology, the state's
campaign has been dull a
bereft of national issues:
Gov. R L Cochran, whl
. trap and gallop off to solve a mys- i to the wall than ever before, the
tery. Cokes came out of it in time to
Because George Hudson, tennis nudge the road builders. 4 to 3.
body battering blocks on the Oil
Belt gridiron, this fall
Also back in town after a month
or so absence is Bill Reeves tank-
like fullback, who is working at |
Sportsman field Reeves is around
130 in avoirdupois at present
will be
By HOWARD GREEN
How twirling for a winning team
wil transform a perennial loser in-
to a shutout pitcher was received
Tuesday night when Joe Meredith,
hurling for West Texas Utilities.
’ whitewashed a star studded Coca-
Cola aggregation. 2 to 0.
By EDDIE BRIETZ
NEW YORK, Aug. 4.— (AP)—Broadway operators who made Henry
Armstrong a 3-1 choice to trim Lou Ambers have the tters because of
reports that such operators u Beverly Brown of St Louls; Frankie Gatto
of Kansas City and Babe Barron of Chicago are gobbling up all the 2 1-2
to 1 dough they can get their hands on... Now that Bloody Ryan is off
the jints he can resume sending those famous “They can't beat us!”
wires—which may do the jints a lot more good then Blondy did sitting on
the bench That Strickland-Farr bout which Toronto had set its heart
on is definitely off—not enough dough for Farr.
2 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 0 0 0 0
Ready to Ascend
If Oilers, Indians
Keep on Faltering
Houston was knocking at the
door of the first division to ths
Texas league today, ready to enter
into select company if either third
place Tulsa or fourth place Okla-
homa City should continue to fal-
ter.
Houston gained a full game last
night by defeating Oklahoma City.
4 to 3. The Buffaloes made 11 hits
off Clay Touchstone, the Oklahoma
City pitcher, and broke a Ue with
the winning run in the last of the
ninth. Harry Brecheen, the starting
Houston pitcher, was knocked out
of the box in the fifth inning, and
Bill Seinsoth. who replaced, him,
y after last night’s
which 63 yearlings, a
P—Equipped with
0 0
1 1
0 0
0 0
1 0
that he baa socked the pellet
hard and been caught out.
■But." he maintains “my tacky
Mows far outnumber the well-
hit ones that were trapped.”
Though this season marks his
first to play either softball or base-
ball. Marshall Boykin of West Texas
Cottonoll covers the hot corner as
adequately as any rival slow leagu-
Possessor of ah accurate arm he
whip* runners out consistently from
far away third Only on rare occa-
sions are error* chalked up by his
name
Gilliam StovaH, Highwayutil-
Hy man, looks like he might
play a tot of Mocking half bark
(of a workout. He went five rounds
yesterday and may work again to-
Kovacs playing at
Reporter—News AB R H PO O E
Shreveport •.Tubb tnnngs)
Mouston 4 Oklanoma City 3.
San Antomio 4. Fort Worth *
Dallas at Beaumont rain
Hudson told me what a shock the
boy’s behavior had been to him.
"I asked him what was the
-matter, and so did my wife,"
Hudson said "All we could get
out of him was that certain
tennis officials had told him he
West Texas Utilities catches Dr , Texas high School Coaches asso- Madden of Detroit, ranked secopd
Peppers ball club tonight in the elation coaching school I in Michigan dehind Fischer, 5-4
main go in the South Fourteenth Ten of last years' all-state per- 7-5.
milling. On for the slow league formers are on the squads. five to ----------------------------------
I are the last moving Lions and the play for the north, coached by
, antiquated Rotary Harry Stuhldreher of .Wisconsin Ambers, Armstrong
Busy With Training
George Hudsons sake I wish there
were a Baker street in New York.
and that on Baker street lived minatine
Sherlock Holmes ready at any
Two new wrestling performers.
Sergeant Rich of Houston and Chili
Salozar of Mexico City, wil be fea-
tured tonight in the team grappling
headliner on Mervin Barackmans
card
completety equipp'd
TORONTO Aug.
MONTG
I HONE 6279
ABILENE'S M
Rusk; Jono, Athens. Doss, Tem-
11 7 4 15 1
with me. take any lessons from
me or travel around with me.
I haven't seen him since. Just
what the orficials told him
would happen to him unless he
left me I do not know, but it
must have frightened him "
I asked Mr. Hudson if he had
not made inquiry among the
tennis father*
"Yes, but I got Little satis-
faction .I talked to .Mr Hol-
combe Ward and he told me
that Kovar* did not need my
from fast
this year.
that Gen* Mako wil continue to ; promises some interest «r.g develop-
partner the peerless Don Burge in menu in a few days.
..... ... — I, along with the estimavie Doc
WASHINGTON. Augu
elections show that all bl
sentatives who have aske
have obtained it, I
Tennessee, picking c
house seats, is the twent
that have chosen candid*
196 house seats were at st
Herbert E Hitchcock!
who asked for renominat!
senators, Dietrich of Illini
back to Washington. Th!
senators were renominate!
SIX CONGRESSMEN LO
Of the 190 house seats
to the scrutiny of the |
representatives nave won I
proval for two more ye
seats were vacant when
manes were held. I
Twelve of the 19 red
fives who have not been
inated did not ask fori
term. Some voluntaril:
from congress, and!
soght senate nominati
Six of the representativ
ask renomination were d
the primaries. They were
ans one from Illinois, one
ginia, and two from Pen
Another Texan still faces
primary* l
AU those beaten, eithe
house or in the senate
democrats. In most cas
eve- olitical students :
conditions as much as J
elsr contributed to thei
Whether the men wer
against presidential poll
not always a major fact
Promise to Keep
'White Spot W
Totais
HIGHWAY-
S Cheek. 3b .
Fulcher. *f ....
Ayer, e ........
Price. 11 ......
Hendrick, lb ..
H Check, as
By United Press
NEW YORK—Small Montana,
111. Philippine Islands, decistoned [
Katsumt Morioka. IM 1-4. Vancouv-
er, B C. <131; Bonny Jones, 147.1
Vancouver. B C. outpointed Sea-
born Aahley, 145 1-2. Bayonne. N. J . i
<•>.
Amarillo; Melton. Woodrow WU-
son (Dallas: Ware. Lubbock;
Brand. Wichita Faile. Crawford.
North Side (Port Worth); Pappas,
San Angelo; Matthew*. Pampa;
Lowry. Paschal (Port Worthy; Vir-
den. Abilene; Crain, Nocona;
Wardy, Austin (El Paso); Patrick,
’ squad j of taking all those punches he ab -
'emple, sorbed this afternoon.”
service* any longer—that he
Then the, reached Seabright,
a tournament important enough
to bring out high U. S.LT.A.,
officials, on the lookout for
The Xeranodon. a creature that |
lived during the Cretaceous Period. {
; la the larges flying animal that I
ever existed it had a wing-spread I
of 21 feet
second singles tor Waison. am very interested in
somethin drastic what Sherlock Holme* prooaliy
Schoolcraft, if ... 1 0 0 0
I_I
NEW YORK Aug 4—UP— Waiter ,
Pate captain of this country* Da-
Mis Cup team, can't feel even a little
bit of alarm about the challenge
round to be played just a month
from now at the Germantown
Cricket club near Philadelphia.
for Dewey Mayhew next fall
Hardened by a summer of toil
on the highway, he weighs im
the neighborhood of lie pounds
at present. Alwiys one of the
roughest of Abilene Eagle*.
Stovall may make some oppos-
ing gridders feel the sol of
die O'Shea in the semifinal num-
l»*t night ua. 22000 her. beat two out of three falls, 901
Smezqaiirom "e n”‘ bou
luncheon at which his particular
pride and joy Budge war presented
the Jame* E Sullivan Memorial
trophy as the outatanding amateur
। athlete of 1937.
LUBBOCK Aug 4—P—Forty-
(mYull Celebrate I
6 _ M TMESE MILOWER,TASTIER,
positively must not be seen
job he is doing in Brooklyn . The guy ain't had so much as a posey
' since the day he signed to manage the Dodgers... Name of the gal who
did such a swell broadcasting job on a Syracuse baseball game a few
nights ago is Helen Detweiler of Washington. D. C.. and she's available
for future engagement of the same sort.... (No charge for the ad. lady) received
Al Will, who manages Ambers swears the Armstrong fight wil Jo
veate-rjs v tha: Byron player unless ■ ■ । •
White Colorado* al!- happens to the young Chicagoan would have called “thu mystery af
After watching Lou go through rain,
four rounds with two sparring =-=
partners yesterday Tony, who ohce
had Lou as a spar mate, advised, "I'
don't think Lou is working right for
this fight He should move around
more, step from side to side instead
Ph adriphia at Chicago »i»- Potter «].
. 5, Roes (0 "B Eee « ■> and Knott
built headgear. Henry Armstrong
with Fleming on the Northern today plunged into a furlous last
squad are Pat Lowry of Austin (El week.of preparation .for his bid for
Pasos, Arthur Goforth of wichita I Lou Ambers lishtweight title.
Pans, Danny Reese of North Side The new helmet 1. necessitated by
(Fort Worth, and Odell Dameral ’ cut on .the inside o his lower lip
of Wichita Pall*, other members of I and another on hl* cheek, souvenirs
the 1937 mythical selection.
The south will be fighting ‘to even
coach at the Berkeley Tennis club, and retain a mathematical chane
of Oakland California, and one of at the last half crown the Armwrong fight wit! _
the finest teachers of the game, is Pushing across three runs in the >150,000, but Mike Jacobs (who is only the promoter) probably would
confronted with a mystery’ The third ano with Jackie Reid going settle for half that—and pay a commission to boot.
mysterconeerns Lawn offieialsa I strong i seemed that the Fleming- | New yellow ball made a hit here with everyone except the Cards—
is s/srt chonnkantslog a? •*- tnketadernposgcon ssrsa 1:4
vacs on a hot and sticky afternoon They started whittling away in state in the union for the fifth annual Sugar Bowl game in New Orleans
during the recent Seabright tourna- the fourth at that three run deficit next January 1 . . Daily Whitehead bulletin: He swatted a double that
though, by tallying once. Two more broke up a 21-game winning streak for the Plymouth (N. C-) Rocks,-.,
countera in the fifth tied the score Jimmy Braddock said it didn’t make him * bit homesiek to w.Uh Lou
and one in the seventh clinched the Ambers traininz yesterday—not to that heat.
decision. . Is this some sort of a record? ..In a game between Hobbs and
LEVI BREAKS SLUMP J Clovis in the West Texas-New Mexico league the other night the first
Burns MeKInney and Levi An- Lhnee Hobbs uys to.Fo.to bat in.the last of the.eighth swatted homer*
dru* each with three hit* paced ... The Groel* ml*hl have a word for it at that_____
adviser was Ceorg. mudson He I the Cokes to victory. Andrus, in
"8; 4G Rovs isted
Frank developed Sufficient stroke each of his four appearances at the 7 DUY> LIIUU
equipment to be one of the most I Piat: I
, promising players in the country.! After Gene Leverett was hopped A . . . e . I
When Frank decided to come east on tor three runs tn third. Billy f In NArth \AnIth
this year for a whirl on the big- Wood went to the mound for the III I IVUI III DUU II I
time circuit, he asked Hudson to Cokes and throttled the road build- °"1 -
come with him; made Hudson ers the iest of the way— permitting
pledge that he would accompany I not a run and but three hit*. C.:. A. 11*1
him every step of the way John Oilliland’s one hit pitching lrn I II ITTITC .
Hudson, paying his own way, left and some timely hitting by his VI IVI V LI I I I IJ
the coast with Kovacs early in June. mates was too much for the hapless
The two—pupil and coach—went to Reporter-News and Exchange won j
tournaments in Kansas City. Chi-1 7 to 0 in five frames to account;
1 cago and Cincinnati. They roomed ; for the slow league contest last
By SID FEDER
Associated Pre** Sports Writer
The calendar must be wrong if I
this 1* August 4, then what are the
Pittsburgh Pirates, who are usually
sound asleep at this time, doing up
there 5 1-2 games in front of the
National league pack and how come
Cleveland s Indians, once so docile
and sweet to the leaders, are in
there punching only two games off
the Yankees in the American league
party;
And those arent the only
eases where either the calendar
is way off or someone has his
2 0 0 5 0 2
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.1 0 0 3 0 1
1 0 0 0 0 0
| tor Dallas business
Ban Antonio downed Fort Worth, auction
support and worked with confidence
that some fluke poke would not
likely be gummed jp As a member
of the Dr Pepper elub he at no
time looked as effective as he did
against the Cokes
Henry Dalton leading hitter
of the slow learue, may be *H-
enced at she plate for a while
teal he proved last night that no
matter what the pitcher may
have on the ball, he is liable to
sock it.
John Gilliland was letting the
newspapermen down without a
scratch when Dalton spoiled it all
' tn the fourth by driving a terntfic
single into right for the only Re-
porter-New* safety
Dalton explain* his phenomena!
battng average by asserting a four
I letter word, "uck , is responsible
He doe lares that time after time he
ha* barely tapped the ball and seen
it go for a bese hit.
On other oecasions he admit*
SUMMIT. N J. Aug. 4-(PLou
Ambers moved into the last week
of hl* training for his lightweight
title defense against Henry Arm-
strong today with the words of his
idol and former employer Tony
Canzoneri ringing in his ears
— final* last fall when both starred
0 as Longview won the champion-
and Shreveport bleated them down . by H ■ Scott
6-3, in ten innings. Tulsa had lost ~~— '1,1 —
Shreveport foa, night Southpaw Finalists
Pair of Ex-Caddies
Harry Brecheen had put out the Ga. Alex j Antonio of Linden
dlstress signal in the fifth then | N J, fight it out today for the
supplled the hit that won Iff left-handed golf championahipi or
same in the ninn ythe United State* over the rough,
O ( '
.... 1 0 0 5 0 0
.... 3 0 0 0 1 1 Ple: Burleson, Smithville. Haskett.
.... 1 0 0 0 0 0 Robstown; Price, San Perlita: Pon-
.... 1 1 0 0 0 0 ton, San Baba; Russell, Cleburne;
_____= Prieto Port Arthur; ■ Brannon.
... 20 4 12111 1 [Longview; Roger* Corpus Christi;
AB R H PO A E Clark, Hull-Daisetta; Basey. Aus-
.... 2 0 I 11 0 tin; Looney. Conroe; Swanson, Aus-
.... 3 0 0 2 0 0 tin; McMahon. Longview; McOar-
.... 2 0 0 12 0 0 fey. Port Arthur
.... 3 0 1 2 0 0 North: Brumbaugh. Riverside
.... 3 0 0 2 0 0 (Fort Worth: Judd. Vernon; King.
tough Westchester Country club
course
Everett runner-up last year at
Chicago where he bested Antonio
in the semi-finals, is naturally
enough the favorie. But If An
tonio’s putting is on—he 1* erratie
on the greens-the 36-hole Match
should b* tight all Um way.
Ke-nee, -MS'
Boston at C lve and--Grove
Jurges r0-t »
- Ayy ' -Luu;
Ex*
PRINGE ALBERT mO
119 nounced
319 «Whizzer»
A3 *:*
McKinnev rf.....2 . > 2 3 2 but the north won at Fort Worth,
xsrs . 261100 1936, and.. Waco, »
Blackmon. “...........Other members ot the sqund are:
South: Brumley, Edinburg; Har-
rell. Conroe; Hall. Whco; Dickey.
The 'former Detroit ace, now with kest and heaviest trading in years
Beaumont, hold* two minor league already on the book*, the annual
decisions over Dean, who is toiling Saratoga sales heades for a banner
two base runners ahead of him
Jim Bivin was the winning pitcher,
shading Irvin Stein, who hurled
for the Oilers. Walter Stephenson.
Shreveport catcher, hit a home run
in the seventh, and Stan Schino
tied the score for the Oilers in the
ninth with his 20th homer e the.
season. Schino’s hit put him into a
tie for the league leadership with
Mervin Conners, Shreveport in-
fielder
Beaumont played Shreveport
Thursday, while second place San
Antonio had an open date. Tulsa
played at Dallas, and Oklahoma
City a Fort Worth. Houston also
had an off day.
Wednesday's results:
Fort Worth ...000 000 000—0 3 3
San Antonio . 000 004 OOx —4 5 2
Smoll. Winford and Hane ken.
Wagener and Swift
Tulsa 003 OOI 0-1 10 0
Shreveport 000 000 201 3—g 11 1
Stein and Bottarint; Bivin and
* Stephenson
Oklahoma City 000 030 000— 3 9 •
Houston ......003 000 001—4 11 1
Touchstone and Andrew*; Bre-
cheen. Seinsoth and Poland.
Dallas at Beaumont, postponed.
Davis Cup Captain
Sees Easy U. S. Win
2 541 McMillin. Indiaha who led the poll
27 333 , yesterday cropped to fourth place
41 .-583 with 2.682.801
4 Officials of the all-star squad an*
3 0 0 0 0 0
2 0 110 0
2 110 0 0
2 11110
2 110 10
Reds Hang On and
Dodgers Too; Cards
Wallow In Seventh
dates twisted. For inatance.
there are the Cincinnati Red*,
doormats of *37. tied with the
up-and-down Chicago Cub* for
the National league’s third place,
while the somewhat gasless
Cardinals wallow a round in sev-
enth and Brooklyns baffling
Dodgers head the second divi-
sion
And over in the American league,
the supposedly woe-begone Wash-
ington Senators hang grimly ont
fourth place, while Mickey Coch-
ranes Tigers can t seem to stay
above the 500 mark
The Bucs added half a game to
their first place bulge yesterday by
knocking off the Bee? up in Boston
in both ends of a doubleheader 9-4
and 5-3
From the loo as of things; the
Giants. 51-2 games back—seven or.
the losing side—arent going to do
much catching up even though they
showed signs of coming to life in
'•walloping the Cuba 8-3 yesterday
with an attack featured by four
homers *
The Yankees can t seem to put
any appreciable space between
themseives and the Indians
Yesterday they added a slim
half-game to their edge by
downing the Tigers. 16-7 in ton
innings, with Joe Gordon a over-
time homer featuring the win-
Ring rally. The Tribe, after
dropping a 4-3 decision to Bos-
ton* Red Sox. tn a twin-Mil
opener, came bach to take the
nightcap 8-6
Ival Goodman * 27th homer paced
a three-run rally in the tenth to
give the Reds a 8-3 decision over
the Phillies, moving the Cincinnati
ckouters into a third-place deadlock
The Cardinals nipped the Dodgers
3-2. in a ten- inning night fuss
Connie Mack s Athletics bombard-
ed four pitchers with 34 hits to
trample the White Sox twice, 14-2
and 13-5 Buck Newsom turned in
his tenth win of the year in hurlhg
the Brouns to a 5-3 victory over
the Senators
2 0 11
2 0 0 3
2 0 0 0
2 0 0 0
RESCI T* IESTERDAT
American Leagee
New York 10 Detrort Z
St Louls 5 W ash on
Philadelphia 14-13 Chicago : a
C eve ane i • Bost - 4 •
Natiomai League
P ttsburrh 9-5, Moton e-.
Cincinnati 6 Philadeipha 3.
New York a Chicago 3
St Louis . Brook yn (10 ini
CHICAGO Aug 4 (UPI—Ra-
mond Pond Yale, held Tirst plate
, today in the nation-wide poll to
select a staff of coaches for the
Pet college All- American team which
932 will meet the Washington Redskins.
.334 champions of t.e National Football
-2 league in Soldier Field Aug 31
52 He had 2.808.649 points. Elmer
372 Layden Notre Dame was second
3-5 with 2,747 694 and Harn Kipke, un-
Pet. attached, third, with 2 724 639. Bo
EXCHANGE-REPORTEE PO a r - "
ernor cinton hotel esterday. with Frken‛2.......030026 Tnn-sWaldorf of Northwestem
Southampton. Tunneni ..2 11:10 It probably wu be the first foot-
Roe. rf ..........3 0 0 1 0 0, ball played in the nation thia sea-
Pool st ..........2 1 1 0 0 o'*°n
GUlUand, p ......3 0 1 0 3 0 Headlining the all-star game will
Browne, m .......3 0 0 1,0 0 be another duel between last year's
Wright. 3b ........1 1 o 0 0 0 most publiclzed player*: Dandy
Addington. 3b ... 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dick Miller of Longview and Har-
Signor cf . 2 0 5 0 0 0 old (Preacher Fleming of Wichita
Scarborough. If .. 2 1 11 0 0 Fall* These two backs met in the
Chicazo at New York Presen (T -18) v,
Lhrman (5-01
I.Pittsburgh at Boston swrt es 5, vs
MarFayden (9-3)
Cipcinnat at Pha adelphta Derrinzer
VMS’ ve Mulcan -514.
(Only games scheduled »
Texas League
Qklanoma Cit3 at Fvrt worth.
Tulsa at Deiiat < .
Beaumont at shreveport
San Antonto at Hoston
(Al nizht gamesn
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