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Monday Even
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SPORTS
THE ABILENE REPORTERNEWS
Tune In On KRBO
Monday Evening, September 25, 1939
Schoolboy Grid Fans Watch Odessa-Austin Clash
Waco-Corpus
Wa
Battle Also
WAR--U. S. STYLE
In Spotlight
By HAROLD V RATLIFF
Associated Press Staff
The championship race opens in
six districts of Class AA schoolboy
football this week but interdistrict |
games steal the show
Little Odessa out in the turbulent
Oil Belt, and Austin El Paso), the
giant killer of the far west, clash in
one of the feature battles
Odessa was the only Texas team
able to score an in ter-sectional vic-
tory last week Previously this club
had downed Poly the Fort Worth
outfit that last week piled a‘27-0
defeat onto Vernon a district 2 fa-
vorite
Austin won over widely-hearlded
Amarillo, 7-6
The top conference game sends
Corsicana against Bryan in district
10.
Both of these games match unde- ,
feated, untied teams but the battle
between Corpus Christi and Waco
By ALAN KLEIN Class A Grid " FOOTBALLERS PITCH INTO
Teams Dig in BIG-TIME CARD THIS WEEK
League Card
After two weeks of warmup play,
a few of the Class A teams in this
sector start playing for keeps next
weekend
The conference slate is heavy in
District 8-A, with no less than three I
games that count carded High-
lighting the schedule will be Santa
Anna’s invasion of Coleman, which '
pits two traditional foes in action
Other conference games include the ■
Bangs at Ballinger and the Mozelle
at Winters frays. In non-conference ■
play. Putnam engages Cross Plains
and P/ ing Star entertains the
Brownwood "B” team.
The conference slate was inaug-
urated in District 10-A Friday with
Haskell trimming Rule. 25 to 0.
Rule continues its league schedule
this week by invading Munday. The
i Rule-Munday fracas will be the only
| conference tussle booked in the dis-
i trict.
Static
Defie
NEW YORK, Sept. 25.— (AP)—A dozen years ago, you 1
probably could not have imagined such a thing, but Purdue is 9
playing Notre Dame this week, and Pitt's Golden Panthers are 1
flying west to meet the University of Washington.
In addition, the schedule for September's last week-end
lists such games as New York university-Colgate, Temple-
Georgetown, Nebraska-Indiana,
Duke-Davidson, Rice. Vander-
Full Card for
S west leams
Bv RICHARD AI MOREHEAD
United Press Staff Correspondent
Southwest conference football
Praises
will be of major importance al-
though both took lickings last week
Corpus Christi lost an intersec-
tional game to LaFayette, La., and
Waco fell before. Woodrow Wilson
(Dallas )
Gainesville which has one of the
best records in North Texas meets
the surprising North Side team of
Fort Worth in a feature interdis-
trict clash.
There are 55 games on the sched-
ule this week nine of them confer-
ence affairs 25° interdistrict and
four intersectional.
Last weeks firing left 52 of the
101 class AA teams with defeats
There are 43 unbeaten and untied
and six undefeated but with ties on
their record
Conference games this week are
District 1—Plainview at Borger
District 7—Arlington Heights (Fort
Worth vs Fort Worth Tech. Dis- |
trict 9—Ranger at Stephenville
District 10-Brvant at Corsicana
FIRST COMUNIQUE-ACTION ON XIA FRONTS !
Nat‘l Race at
Speaking of Sports
Cats Capture
Hillsboro a: Cleburne District Il-
Athens at Tyler Texarkana at
Gladewater. District 15—Laredo at
Kerrville, Brackenridge (San An-
tonio) v# Harlandale San Antonio 1
Only one conference game has
teams will swing into action this
week on a front ranged from Ten-
nessee to California in games that
will open the season for five of the
seven teams.
Texas A & M and Arkansas, two
teams considered strong contenders
for the title held by Texas Chris-
tian university, inaugurated their
1 In other games Baird plays at An-
i son Spur invades Haskell, Stamford
travels to Seymour, and Hamlin schedule last week with easy vic-
! plays host to the Abilene reserves i tories. The Aggies scored an impres-
Two conference tilts are listed in | sive 33 to 0 decision over Oklahoma
bill, Southern Methodist-Okla-
homa and Texas Christian-U.
C L. A.
CAROLINA SHINES r
Of course, 12 years ago all these
were not "big time” football col-
leges, but the ones that were did
not play their equals at the start
of the season.
€ Of the 18 teams listed above, on-
ly Davidson and Vanderbilt already
have played. Davidson’s Wildcats
took a 18-14 setback from North
Carolina State Saturday, while the
Commodores were held to a 13-13
tie by Tennessee Tech last Wednes-
day.
Other noteworthy games last -
week-end saw North Carolina ■
Boiling Point
By JUDSON BKILEY
Associated Press Sports Writer
The thermal status of the National
league pennant race has passed .
from the boiling to the exploding'
point and when the Cincinnati Reds
and St Louis Cardinals collide to-
BUDAPEST, J
saw's radio staff
ish capital's last
side world, stood
again last night
German bomba:
said had killed
vilians.
Neither contin
terference from (
been able to sil
ers, who rapid
legendary chara
Polish refugees
Apparently igr
ger. announcers
challenges at the
give encouragem
vilian population
Despite silenc
Warsaw radio, a
in Polish acknov
city still was re
The announce
ery" of the Poli
ers, but said it w
to hold out long
rectly to them t
From their
up in a modi
the heart of
capital, the r
cled In calm.
swamp the Citadel, 50-0, Wake For- ■
est beat South Carolina, 19-7.
Arkansas and Texas A and M y
of the Southwest conference and 9
Iowa State of the Big Six also "
started well, but on the West Coast
Washington State had difficulty
beating Gonzaga, 19-6.
This week, however, it is all busi-
ness There are big games in all
sections.
A few of them are Manhattan-
Holy Cross, Furman-Army and Wil-
liam and Mary-Navy in the east
and Marquette-Wisconsin, Arizona-
Minnesota and Colorado-Missouri,
in the mid-west Down south. North
Carolina and Wake Forest may set-
tle part of the Southern conference
race offhand, while Mississippi and
Louisiana State will open the |
Southeastern conference race.
Clemson-Tulane, Arkansas-Missis-
sippi State and V M I.-Kentucky
j are other good pairings.
The Southwest features intersec-•
tional clashes such as Florida-Tex-
as and Centenary (beaten twice by
small college rivals) against Texas .
A and M Iowa State-Denver and
Santa Clara-Utah are tops for the
District 6-A. Roscoe traveling toA. & M. and Arkansas unfolded its
Merkel and Loraine playing at Roby aerial tricks to beat Central Oklaho-
In non-league jousts Snyder invades ma Teachers 32 to 6.
Slaton and Colorado City goes to I The aerial armada will open full
Monahans. € blast Friday night in Los Angeles
No conference games'are billed in when the TCU team engages Uni-
District 10-A this week Caddo in-versity of California at Los Ange-
vades Strawn, Cross Plains plays les. Coach Leo (Dutch) Meyer has
at Putnam, and Baird travels to predicted that Jack Odle, a Junior,
‘ Teams in District 8-A revealed | "III make, fans forget Devey O Brien
power Friday despite losses to AA | TCU 5 All-America quarterback and
teams. By holding the powerful Big
| Spring Steers to a one touchdown
victory, the Colorado City Wolves
bobbed ut as favorites
Fundamer
Fellowship
Annual Se
Miners Tough Di: one
... .... 3 Dixie Opener
—Wardy Outshines Heineman
FORT WORTH. Sept 25.—(PP-
Solemn Sam Nahern, a bespectacled
Brooklyn attorney who passed the |
bar in June, dropped down from | Roscoe's Plowboys evidently bit
Montreal and pitched Nashville in- off a lump too tough to digest in
to the Dixie series, gets his first the Sweetwater Mustangs. The Pon-
serious case tonight—prosecution of ies whammed the Farmers, 50 to 6.
the Fort Worth Panthers Usually a weak sister. Snyder re-
By HAL SAYLES
TIM WARDY, who starred in Austin ((El Paso) highs bi-district victory
a over Abilene in 1937, bobbed up Saturday night as the fair-haired boy
In the Texas Miners' surprising victory over Texas Tech a: El Paso
morrow something is going to blow ’
A lew weeks ago. Cincinnati’s crit-
ics. said the Reds would have to
buckle down to stave off St Louis I
They did—winning 16 of their last
20 games and seven straight up to
and including yesterdays 11-2 tri-
‘ umph over Pittsburgh.
As a result the Cardinals, win-
Wardy zipped & 15 yard pass to Jack Tedford for the Mucker touch-
down. stealing all the thunder from the El Paso school’s celebrated No. 1
passer. Ken Heineman.
The Miners go to the west coast this week for a Saturday night
tussle with Fresno State at Fresno, returning home next week to meet
Frank Kin’brough’s Hardin-Simmons Cowboys. The Rancher-Mucker
bout, incidentally, should be a dilly. The El Pasoans haven't forgotten
that awful shellacking they took from HSU in the Sun bowl a couple
of years ago.
The 23-year-old barrister faces a vealed unexpected power in trim-
been played in the state to date EL
Paso high defeated. Ysleta 25-13 in
district 4 last week.
ning. 13 of 15 games and likewise
their last seven in a row including
a 9-1 crusher against the Chicago
forward-passing star. Experts were
more concerned over the strength of
the Horned Frog line, which lost
All-America Center Ki Aldrich. I
B Hale, and athers. -
Coach Dana X Bible will throw
his sophomore Texas line-up
against a veteran Florida team Sat-
urday at Austin, where the main in-
terest will be centered on the per-
vigorous band of base thieves, ball ming the Spur Bulldogs, 13 to 6. formance of Pete Layden, forward
murderers and generally incorrigible Rotan also looked impressive in passer. Jack Grain, shifty runner
Texas league champions, who, in beating Clyde, 52 to 0 Other teams and a dozen other sophomores,
seeking their .eighth Dixie title out in the district did not fare so well,
Merkel losing by four touchdowns
Baylor should have only a warm-
SPORTS
ROUNDUP
Cubs Sunday actually have drop- |
ped a half game further in the last |
two weeks
They must grab each of their re-
maining games— four with Cincin-
r.ati and three with Chldago—to win
he pennant by a half game should )
the Reds resume their rout of the
Pirates
Thu is how they stand today
By EDDIE BRIETZ
NEW YORK Sept 25.— P—Paul
Junior the Maine lightweight, has
just completed a $26,000 apartment |
in Lewiston," bought (with his sav-
Club— W L. GB
Cincinnati .... 93 54
SA Louis 89 57 3%
X) One game with New
cancelled
GR
7
7 'X)
York
ings from 300 fights North Car-
olina 50 Citadel 0 Have they been
hiding something down there?
Todays guest star.
Roy Shudt. Trcy N Y Times-
Record "I see where Bill Terry may
peddle* Bananas Bonura . Isn’t
of nine efforts in the past 19 years. -, _______------------ ------------,
Speaking of these Austin high footballers reminds us that the Panthers went one up yesterday with a 10-2 to Baird andRoby bowing to Stam-| but it will give a test of fire to
shattered a ten-year tradition at Amarillo’s Butler field Friday night when slaying of the Vols. ’ *
they socked the Golden Sandies: 7-6 Austin became the first Texas' Nahern must face such dangerous
schoolboy team to knock over Amarillo on the home premises. ’ characters as Walter Vazen, whose
THESE San Francisco Dons have Frank Kimbrough worried. The USP two home runs and a single drove in |
1 eleven dropped . 16-6 verdict to San Jose State Saturday, having pre- five runs: Karl Kott, who punched
viously bowed to St. Mary s of Texas
"It’s practically the same team that beat us by three touchdowns
last year. I cant understand why they’re not going better this fall.”
The. Cowboys meet the Dons in San Francisco Friday night
up with Southwestern university,
The Brooklyn Dodgers dragged ,
down their second doubleheader in
two days from the Phillies, 3-1 and
5-3. to move past the Cubs into third
place The New York Giants and
Bo ton Bees split two games. New
York taking the first, 5-4, and drop-
========
0 while Coleman downed Rising • C adets coach, Centenary lost 8 7 to
Star 14 to 0. 6‘game to Hardin-Simmons last
across three more, and—old Ed | Brady sounded further warning week.
(Beartracks) Greer, the past-40 in 8-A by tripping San Saba. 34 to The three big intersectional games
pitching veteran who has been feel- 6 Bangs tamed the Brownwood B, pit Ernie aLin. Olie Cordill, and a
ing his pitches all summer The 13 to 0. and Mozelle downed Santa highly regarded Rice team against
The Cowboys pulled through the Centenary battle in good shape lumbering giant has won 24 games | Anna, 7 to 0. | Vanderbilt at Houston Saturday
physically. The team will be free of injuries for the long California trip I Another of the old-timers. Ray Results in 12-A ran true to form, night; Southern Methodist against
unless the strenuous workouts today and tomorrow produce damages to Starr, who was sold to Fort Worth with Moran beating Scranton. 25-0 a strong Oklahoma team at Nor-
some of the men Travis Green, with a bad lime burn, was the only by this same Nashville club early| Putnam nudging Williams, 13-6. and man; and Arkansas against Missis-
casualty of the Shreveport game, in the season when he appeared dull Strawn belting Olden, 13-6. sippi State at Memphis, Tenn.
after a serious illness, choked off In 10-A, Seymour clubbed Mun-i A number of question marks may
RILL PIERCE gets our nomination for the busiest man of the past week , the Vols yesterday before 7,793 paid day, 12 to 6, Hamlin downed Lue-be erased by games this week. These
L St Edward's grid mentor pushed his Crusaders through a workout | customers. - | eders. 13 to 0. Anson slaughtered ' include:
| Friday afternoon and then hopped into an automobile and took off for FANS N’LNE Swenson 52 to 0. and Throckmorton
Brownwood He scouted the Southwest Texas Teachers and the Howard He struck out nine batters three tripped Albany, 7 to 0.
Payne Jackets that night. From Brownwood Pierce drove to Shre a port times disposing of Bert the 1 ----------------------
to eye the Hardin-Simmons Cowboys in their tussle with the Centenary sones PORE ° lead nt hittthe TSCW Registration
Gentlemen Saturday night. It was Pierce's only chance to see the Ranch- 3081 hitter st S ‘ 0-Io
ers in action before the Crusaders invade Abilene for a ball game Otc 13 out cm two Oue In the ninth be: Nears New High ________________-
Arthur (Tonto) Coleman, ACC assistant coach, will be the featured fore Kott, filling in at left field. DENTON Sept 25—As classroom back Kay Eakin and his mates car- I
orator tonight at the meeting of the Concho Basin Football Coaches made his second error in the pas- rooms opened this week registra-|ry on effectively the dazzle-dazzle
and Game Officials association in San Angelo. ture and misjudged a fly ball. tion figures at Texas State College tradition at Arkansas? Has Baylor
At the same time a similar meeting is slated for the Wooten hotel Starr waited no longer than' the for Women totaled 2.635 for the an offense equal to that last year
Can sophomore Derace Moser fill
the all-conference shoes of Dandy
Dick Todd, ace back for Texas A. &
M ? Will Rice regain the peak that |
brought its mostly-sophomore team
of 1937 a conference title? Will half- |
ping the nightcap. 5-3.
The World Champion Yankees de-
that quite a comedown for a boy feated. the Washington Senators ______________________________________________._____................
who used to deal exclusively in 3-2. here for the purpose of organizing a Central, West Texas Officials as- second inning to see his mates start 1933-40 fall semester, and officials built around bullet
ivory? , ’ The Detroit Tigers toppled the sociation. ' salting away a ball game for him, feel certain that last years record one of the conf
. Cleveland Indians out of third place | . Stopeh.. Singled d ---------------
The Haskell Indians who used in the American league with * pair THE Texon Oilers, semi-pro champions of West Texas, have challenged 964 49 0
to meet and beat the rest, now of victories 2-1 and-9-1. 1 the Lubbock Hubbers, titlists in the West Texas-New Mexico league
enrollment of 2,700 will be equalled
Bill Patterson.
conferences greatest
Rocky Mountain region, while the
Pacific Coast conference campaign
will begin with Southern California
facing Oregon and Stanford play-
ng Oregon State.
1
play, sehety s prep shed-* Enaco nS Nor ow ad-: alebmtnrc tinmabpers. utliste in the ^ Texas-New Mexico leszue. BIMa Dens out Ah InfelO HiL CALER-
the experts say | other double helping of the St Louis Texon won its unofficial Westex championship Sunday bv nudging ( .
the Reds pitching will be the dif- Browns, 11-9 and 4-3 and the Bos- the powerful Hamlin Oilers 1-0 behind the 10-inning no-hit no-run senterneid fence that Charlie
*-----* —-------- - ton Red Sox scored five runs in the pitching of Lefty Humphrey. Texon won the series opener Saturday night thert, brilliant son of Manager Larry
eighth to beat the Philadelphia Ath- a: Cdessa. 4-2 . Gilbert, speared. Starr walked and
letics. 9-4 .1
during the few remaining days of 1
ule Some of
ference in that series with the Cards
starting tomorrow
The
invita-
tions to Lou Ambers’ wedding are
out.
Here s news
The Arkansas Razorbacks, with
a powerful line averaging 211, are
ready to resign their title as the
“passingest team in the nation” in
Westbrook Takes
Six-Man Grid Tilt
favor of a more conservative
ground attack.
COLORADO CITY, Sept.
Splo—Bill Pletcher’s Westbrook
Wildcats came out well ahead in *
25,—
scoring spree staged by the Wild-
cats and Garner's six-man football
team at Westbrook Friday after-
matriculation. •
er Eddie Kearse smacked one to the . Enrollment at the college is
slightly greater than last year at
the same date All the campus dor-
Old Sniper Conley, one-time star of the Dallas club in the Texas Kott doubled Stebbins and
league, manages the Texon contingent.
running high-goal games at low fense yesterday with a 13 to 3 vic-
prices, has added the national open tory over the Philadelphia Eagles
title to his laurels. ’ and Green Bay cut loose with a 21
The Bostwick field team collected pals decision over the Chicago
Conn vi Bettina tonight will be
Pittsburgh’s first 175-pound title
match although both Harri Gregg noon The score was Westbrook 52
and John Henry Lewis called the Garner 31
“Smoky Cit me.... Mel) Hein The game was a conference match—1 D —
center of the New York—Glants.—in—the over-100-enrollmentdi- Take Pro Openers
became a father on the eve of the vision of district 12 six-man foot-)
start of his ninth season in pro bail_________________
* Bostwick Poloists
Cop National Title
Conn. Bettina
Scrap Tonight
PITTSBURGH Sept 25—
In cautious days like these when
the
Starr
across the plate
Three more came across in the
third; Chatham got an infield hit
mitories are filled to capacity, and
more than 500 applications for en-
trance have been returned Because
of the limited capacity of the col-
and Stoneham doubled to lift, out- 1940-41 term.
fielder Dugas, with an injured leg.__:
lege, applications for admittance
have already been received for the
the crown at Meadow Brook club -----.,--------------,-----
yesterday by upsetting Tommy Bill Clark Grobs
Hitchcock’s great greentree quartet, 2 TEA P
8-7 Four States Title
Giants and Packers
failing to hobble to an easy catch in Father and Son
time Lutz replaced Dugas and had rather one on,
to shag down Cazen’s single that Are Found Dead
3
passers and punters? Will TCU re-
tain its mighty defensive strength
and can Odle dc the Job left by O'-
Brien? Has the "Bible plan" at Tex-
as at last begun to show successful
results?
Billy Doyle, Vet
Ball Scout, Dies
PORTSMOUTH O Sept 25 —
(PP——William T (Billy) Doyle, 57,
who rose from a pitcher in the old
Ohio State league to dean of base-
bail scouts in the American league,
will be buried here Wednesday, "
He died early yesterday in Wash-
ington. Pa. where he had stopped
to scout a club for the Detroit
Tigers while en route to New York *
with his wife and two daughters.
Many of the men who soared to
baseball heights were his "discov-
eries." They included First Base-
man Hank Greenberg, Pitcher Torn- ■
my Bridges and Outfielder Jo-Jo
White all of Detroit.
The first ann
Texas Fundamer
ary Fellowship
Corinth Baptist
morning at 10
day meeting a
nouncement by
Peak, pastor of
state chairman <
About 300 out
and th i wives
meeting, as well
of other visit
throughout the
Dr. Louis Enta
ident of the %
Baptist Mission
national oreani:
for the meeting
series of addres
number of other
messages on v
continuous prop
ranged, and the
tinue until Fr
SE vkers includ
Kemp, former ,
pastor of th
church. Amarill
Wilson, pastor (
Baptist church.
D Johnson, pa
nacle Baptist cl
Rev Luther R
the Central Bar
ton: the Rev W
tor of the Ft
church of Big I
ber of others
The Corinth E
• ter tain ing the (
evangelist mis
wives by furnis
meals which wi
church.
-
For
Dancing
Direct Fr
property needed will be bought with-
in the next few days.
The new road will go straight west
from the northwest corner of the
courthouse square, will cross Duck
creek, west of Dickens about three
miles, at a point about one-half mile
from where the creek is crossed |
now. The end of the first 5.6 miles
of construction, which will be a
completed job including pavement i
• PROMPT SERVICE
—CALL US TODAY—
Russell & Roberts
scored Chatham and Stoneham. i N . 5
Metha sacrificed and Stebbins dou-BAN ANTONIORSPL. mm T
ble scored Caien : A verdict murder and suicide
Cazen dropped his second home the Peace Raymond Gerhardt in
TEXARKANA Ark Sept 25.—(PP) out of the park in the fifth Metha the deaths of Frank Williams, 53
-For the second time, Bui Clark of singled, went to second on Steb-and his young son, Frank Williams
bins groundcut stole third s n d jr who was found dead in bed
scored on Kott; single Two were Sunday morning with a shotgun
out in the seventh when " Kearse wound in his forehead,
doubled and scored on Starr's sin-
will bring the hew road into the
was returned today by Justice of present highway and will take out
approximately a dozen sharp curves
1442 Butternut
Ph. 5278
Gladewater holds the champion-
ship of the four states invitational
CHICAGO, Sept. 25 —P) The golf tournament here
• New York Giants, pro football
He retained the title by nosing
out two Dallas stars, Don Schu-
macher, Texas amateur champion,
and Henry Todd, Western amateur :
sons brilliant campaign. | champion. Schumacher was elimi-
George H Peter Bostwick, noted Both are away to good starts and nated, * one up in the semi-final
amateur steeplechase jockey, the now tied for the top spot in their round yesterday morning and in the I
Smailest big-time polo player and respective divisions of the league I finals. Clark turned back Todd, 2
the man who made polo popular by I The Giants opened their title de- and 1.
champions, and
the runner-up
NEW
YORK Sept 25 ——
Green Bay Packers already have
shown they expect to take up this
fall where they left off in last sea-
gle.
Williams, a retired army sergeant.
died on the front porch of hl* home
Lute got hl* third hit in the ninth with his right arm nearly severed
and with two out, pinch better Bill by a deep knife wound
Rodda sent a liner to Kott, which - -----------------------------
he dropped. Luu scoring Gilbert Uihsy in Dirvonc
drove in Roda with a single. Highway 111 UI(K6nS
IIMMV WII ON DECEDVEC HTINY OE FI AG MONEY
pension and the lemonade con - J H r I VV U L IKVE TUNA
cession for risking his crown, the " 1 1 1 AS LEIN ‘ I UNA I LAU I IVANE I
attitude of this town’s Billy Conn
is refreshing
about everything except a federal
alt
LD
CS Area To Be Rebuilt
By HENRY McLEMORE
United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK Sept 25 UP) — If
and when the time comes for the
tonight against Ewarthy Me lio Bet- Cincinnati Reds to vote on how to
tinathe Beacon N Y scrapper divide the world series money, I
from whom he won it only a few trust that they will remember their
• months ago. and B j doesn’t even obligation to Jimmy Wilson whose
have a promise of a return bout .naine is heard every seldom, these ______... ,.. .... ......
days since he quit managing The. Dizzy Dean won 30 games for the
Phils and began coaching the Reds
Ever if Jimmy was voted a double , such a mark in the National league
or a triple share it still would not
Billy is making the first defence
of his light-heavyweight title here
He doesn’t want one, he told
Promoter Miquel Jacobs.
What do I want with one of
those return things?" he a*ked the
flabbergasted Jacobs "If I can’t
knock that mug out this time I
compensate for his contribution to
the Reds pennant chances He is
the baseball artisan who fashioned
the most important single part of
don’t want him doing me any
favors All I want to know is when the Reds’ diamond machine It was
I rent Joe Louis. I'll fight him he who, back in 1934 took a then
and his brother at the same time rather uninspired player oft third
for the fifty grand Pastor got. base stuck a baseball in his hand
Though he won from Bettina on-and said, “Son, from now on you’re
ly by a close decision the last time , pitcher.” And, he made the third,
the Pittsburgh I terror won’t talk
any thing out knockout tonight
From all indications, Bettina has
trained 1
baseman pitch, and pitch and pitch
until he became a pitcher .
all indications, Bettina has The baseball guiena pig who sur-
well and is confident The vived the experiment is now pitch-
southpaw still has * stiffer punch ing tor Cincinnati and hist name is
than Conn even though Billy boasts Bucky Walters This amazing young
that he has put on "two good, solid man is the chief reason the Reds
pounds wore they last fought are 3 1-9 games in front of the
pack and apparently headed for
the pennant and the world series
with the Yankees His sinker ball
has won 27 of the 93 games that
the Reds have in the win column
and his record would be even better
that he has piching fairly well lick-
ed. and twould like to return to the
infield and master it.
With Jimmy Wilson's experiment
with Walters having proved so suc-
TEAM —
Cincinnati .
Bt Louis .
Brooklyn.
New York
STANDINGS
National League
W L. Pet. a B
..........93 54 633
............89 57 610 34
..........78 66 542 134
Pittsburgh
Boston
Icessful, I am rather worried for I Philadelphia
than this had he not been called the future of baseball as we know
in so often for rellef. Not since it today I can see ambitious fhan-
71 72 500 2144
67 81 453 28%
60 83 420 33
44 101 303 50
TEAM
New York
each incoming baseman Chicago
- - - ----— — agers at training camps next year
Cardein 1034 has any pitcher had greeting
with something like this:
And Walters’ victories are the kind "Get any idea of playing third
that count—against the top teams base out of your head, buddy. Get
It’s amazing how little you hear out there and pitch. If Bucky Wal-
of this shy ex-third baseman of terse could do it you can ''
the Philadelphia Phillies. Remem- .... .... .......y ...u-DS-JEve
ber when Dean was winning all his the elimination ol third base from
games? Radio stations had to
This will eventually necessitate
Cleveland .
Detroit
Washington
Philadelphia
St Louis .
American League
W U Pet. QB
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DICKENS. Sept 15—'SplI—The
highway west of Dickens to the
Dickens-Crosby county line known
as U. S. 82 and 62. is to be rebuilt,
it has been announced The distance
from Dickens to the county line is
slightly more than 12 miles, but
only half of the mileage is to be
constructed now, the other to be
built after completion of the first
half
Dickens county commissioners this
week began the work of purchasing
5.6 miles of right-of-way which is
to be used in the first construction.
The court will meet again Monday
for further purchase of the right-
of-way and it is thought that all the
in the highway.
The present road from Dickens to
the coun, line, containing more'
than 20 sharp curves in a 13-mile- I
age was built about 14 years ago
and wax not built to take care of
the heavy traffic now on the high- J
way since its completion It is part
of the Lubbock-Fort Worth high-
way and carries a heavy traffic The
road was built to take care of 30-
mile-per-hour driving and is inade-
I quate for present traffic. Repair
work on the old highway during the
I past few years has been extremely
costly.
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She'll like the delicious food and
pleasant surroundings.
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YOUR loss does not stop
when the recall sounds—unless
you have Rent Insurance. Rent
Insurance covers your loss of
rentals. This after the fire loss
is as real as the fire loss and just
as much in need of insurance
until your building is ready for
use again.
change their wave lengths to get
away from Deans ‘static. He was
good he knew it, and he wanted
everybody else to know it.
Walters doesn’t even like to talk
about his pitching He likes to spin
yarns about the “good ol‘ days"
when he was playing a poor third
base for the poor Phillies His am-
bition is to stop pitching and get
the game because there won’t be
anybody to play It As I lie here in
my opium den, visualizing the game
of comorrow. I see that the players
are going to have to run directly
from second base to home plate.
This will necessitate their running
through the pitchers’ box, where
the pitchers will be allowed to tag
them /if he can, because he will
- - always be an ex-third baseman and
bare on third ba*y A conscientious, | still have the powers of that posi-
workmanlike cuss, he seems to feel Ition
St NDAP‘8 REST LTS
National League
Brooklyn 3-6 Phradelphia 1-1.
Boston 4-5, New York 5-3.
Chicago 1, St Louis 9
Ptsburgh 2. Cincinnati 11.
American League
Detroit 2-9, Cleveland 1-1
S: Louis 9.3, Chicago 11 4.
New York 3 Washington 2.
Boston 9, Philadelphia 4
Dixie Berles (
Nashville 3. Fort Worth io (Fort Worth
in series, 16)
MONDAY’S M HEDU LE
National League
Boston at New York
(Only game scheduled)
American League
St Louis at Chicago
(Only game scheduled).
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