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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Friday Evening, April 19, 1940
Friday Evenin
Classy Array of Netters
Line Up for Region Meet
Defenders on
Hand in Both
Ballinger Gridiron Invention Will
Give Blockers Recognition, at Last
GIRLS Groups
Defending champions will be on
hand in both girls' divisions of the
region 2 tennis tournament to-
morrow at the Abilene high school
stadium courts.
Murial Smith of Lohn. who ad-
vanced to third place in the state
playoff at Austin last year, has a
big Job cut out for her in dispos-
ing of little Billie McCracken of
Sweetwater.
Miss McCracken won the district
5 singles title last year but lost in
the regional shuffle She is back
with a better assortments of
strokes, which may be guessed by
the fact that she already holds a
decision over the Lohn girl in the
San Angelo invitation tourna-
ment
By FELIX R MCKNIGHT
DALLAS April 19.— (PP) —Ob- |
scured these many years by head-
line halfbacks, the boys who gath-
er bruises instead of notices for
painful blocking duties may see
justice done yet.
Felton Wright coach of a coun-
try high school football team out!
at Ballinger, Tex has invented a
contraption that takes 11 men to 1
operate—but it may be the answer.'
It made him wince to see a
Back in defense of their girls'
doubles title are Ruth and Marion
Dyer of Baird Their chief com-
petition is expected to come from
either Martha Jane Tubb and
Wanda Hawley of Sweetwater or
Dela Marie Johnson and Willye
Deene Browning of Lohn.
Dennis Humphreys of Mason is
another veteran of regional tour-
nament play. He has won the
district 8 title for three straight
years. Humphreys, like Johnny
Grubbs of Colorado City district S
champion. is an all-around ath-
lete. The Mason boy won four
numerals as a football back and
was a forward on the basketball
blocktag back cut down two tack-
lers and then hear the crowd roar
for undamaged Joe Doaks as Joe
skittered for a first down.
So Coach Wright invented an
electric board with life size play-
ers painted st each position Eleven
operators’ sit atop the press box.
each esuipped with a push button
that controls wire pinning directly
to the dummy figures on the score
board They are assigned to only-
one man and must watch his every
movement.
If the right tackle blasted
through and carried out his block-
ing assignment, a big green light
FELTON WRIGHT
line of scrimmage and his “man”
■ sifted through to make the tackle,
a he blushes with embarrassment as
I the operator throws a red light.
I The operator must "keep books”
: on the player and at the end of
: the game hand Coach Wright the
1 “hit and miss'' report Season rec-
i ords are kept on each player.
Tonight at Ballinger some of the
j southwest's leading coaches, in-
! eluding Matty Bell of Southern
i Methodist and Leo Meyer of Texas
I Christian, will join other football
1 critics for a demonstration In a
' regulation game.
1 Coach Wright points out that his
I invention will put the damper an
"grandstanding" and encourage
I team play.
Statistics used from the board
% last season showed a lad named
Powers, the blocking back, knocked
down exactly 318 tacklers and miss-
; ed only 32 for a batting average
Of 899.
But he was just second best A
sparkles at his position on the score- gent named Morris cracked 297
and missed only 24 for his 918
board
But if he was dropped at the
Williams Top
Performer on
Fight Program
David Williams, blond bomber
from McMurry, iron the accolades
of the local boxtag clientele at the
livestock pavilion in fair park last
night.
Measuring his opponent, Charley
Hurst of Spur, carefully as he
danced out of his corner, Williams
suddenly shot a right to the chin
that sent Hurst sprawling to the
canvas for a count of five. The Spur
youth went down again in the first
round.
Hurst stayed the limit. For the
class and boxing finesse exhibited.
Williams was awarded a handsome
wrist watch, symbolic of fighter No
1 for the night.
The Williams-Hurst bout, howev-
er. wasn’t the only four-star per-
formance Eight other scraps were
reeled off and each provided its
thrills.
In one of the best fights of the
evening, Charlie Watson of Colora-
do City, a lightweight, decisioned
Johnny Owens, Abilene, Watson,
demonstrating a posionous left, tore
into Owens at Intervals to shake
him all over the ring. Owens was
game, however, and kept his foot-
ing throughout. 1
After capturing the first two
rounds by wide margins, Watson
slowed up to box on even terms with
Speaking of Sports—
The Show's On
Non
average!
Cowboys Meet
Tech's Netmen
19th Hole
Chatter
Sunday School
Qualifying in the city tourna- |
ment at the country club closes
this weekend. A Calcutta pool and
The Hardin-Simmons university
net team completed workouts today
for Saturday s matches with Texas
. rears Tech's tennis team at Lubbock
Grube a newcomer to tennis The dual meet was rainedicous
has lettered in both football and two weeks ago The Red Raiders
basketball at Colorado City, hold an early season, win over the
The boys' doubles will be wide Cowboys in matches played here
open. Joe Stalcup and Bobby Mor- at H-SU on March, 28ta calls will
ns of Brownwood will represent Jimmy King. Wichita Pa fit
district 8. While Bernie Hawley and head a five-man team that ism
:. GIF HEMESCELlaE/ FAMmas CI"TNO Tens: is soil f.- elunone • wo under par on No. 18
are * voring a wrist injury received in a yesterday afternoon at the country-
fall in the season's opener with club.
Wayne university Detroit
H C Burrus, the Lubbock boy.
and former Big Spring grid star who pro-manager, said work under-
led the Cowboys in scoring last way resodding front of on
fall is the No. 2 man for HSU. and Nos. 16 and 17._____Sx
teams up with King for the No. 1, . —-----p
stag supper will be held at the
clubhouse Monday night.
Only qualifier yesterday was O.
D. Allison with an 87.
Add eagle club member:
Louis Green, Albany oil man.
Loop Planned
Officials and clubs managers of
the newly organised Sunday school
league, Involving six churches of
the city, will meet at the First
Christian church early next week
to perfect plans of the organisa-
tion, Edwin Koonce, director, an-
nounced. yesterday.
Churches to be members of the
circuit include the First Christian.
First Methodist, St. Pauls Metho-
the Abilene
frame.
Eddie Brock
youth in the final
loser in most in-
Pairings Set
For Tourney
Morgan Hampton, country club
dist. First Baptist and University
Baptist, The First Baptist church
will sponsor two teams.
Koonce announced that other
churches seeking membership may
do so by attending next week's
meeting, tentatively set for Tues-
stances in the past, came through
with a hard earned decision last
night. He outclassed Richard Moo-
dy. colorful youngster, by a wide
margin. Moody stayed with Brock
but was unable to cope with the
winner's all round skill. At the fin-
ish Moody’s nose was beaten into a
gory pulp. He was adjudged the
best sport on the card.
Clenl Whetsell who's grown into a
lightweight in the past few months
decisioned Sam Coker of Colorado
City in a corker. The agressor from
the start, Whetsell won handily.
Truett Fulcher, of Colorado City,
training for a scrap with Ira Col-
Uns' of Fort Worth here next week
fought a three round exhibition
with Buck Mundy of McMurry.
Though there were many fierce
slugging exchanges, no knock
downs were recorded.
The results:
Clenl Whetsel, 135, Abilene, decis-
ioned Sam Coker, 140 Colorado
City.
Eddie Brock, 147, Abilene, decis-
doming and Burrus won from sid- State Border Line
ney Moore and Lloyd Brunson or Stations Criticized
only Cowboy win in the match
SANTA PE N M April 19.-
(PP—Herbert T. Hunt of the Cali-
day night
The games are to be played on
the schoolgrounds about the city.. .... -
They will be twilight affairs, be- ioned Richard Moody, 148, Abilene.
Charlie Watson, 131, Colorado
Interservice club tennis tourna-
ment started today with first the
round matches at the high school here , Clarke Orr
stacatim courts. All first round Armand Beauchamp ClarkeRt
matches are to be completed by and Gawain Bonner will compda
Sunday announced James Cullar. Coach M H Ballard’s SamO
tourney director combination. Beauchamp and ON
Results of the matches should will play the No - doubles colere
be telephoned to Cullar at the The Cowboys play the
high school principals office- of Mines netters here next Wee
3082.nesday and Abilene Christian col-
The pairings: lege next Saturday._________
Dr. J N Burditt, Lions, vs. Byron -------------
England Rotary Otho Polk Ki- D I II CALS
wants vs James Cullar, Rotary: Baseball Calendar
Bobby Kennedy Exchange vs. D0300QI 0
Bert Chapman Kiwanis, Henry
Dalton, Lions, vs. Jack Hughes Ki - RESULTS. YESTERDAY
wants Sid Pass vs Bob Batjer. Ro- TWA were 9 Oklahoma City • •
tary: Dr Guy Gillespie Rotary vs,
Harold Austin Kiwanis; Arch Bat-
jer. Lions, vs Dr J P Gibson
Kiwanis: Dr Jerome Reese Lions,
vs. Keith Wright Exchange
Clarence Solnick, Boosters vs.
I’ snreveport. rain
Tulsa at Beaumont wet grounds
Oklahoma City at Houston ram.
National League
Cincinnati 1 Chicago 1
(Other games postponed.
American League
. . Boston T Washington 0
Mack Eplen. Kiwanis: Larry Tay- Detroit 4 st Louis i
lor. Lions, vs Dr. S. W Bailey. Ex- STANDINGS
change Gray Browns Exchange Texas Lrasue
vs George Barren Rotary. Davis TEAM
Scarborough Exchange vs Dr. Rercntomie
Edwin Middleton. Lions Lawrence—Fort Worth -------------
Smith Kiwanis, vs Russell Steph- Shreveport .......—•
ens. Lions: Guy Scruggs vs Ray-ReslMont
mond Elliott, Kiwanis Gene Elo. Oklahoma City .....
Lions. vs. George Dukes. Boosters: Tulsa
Joe Humphrey Boosters vs. W A NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati .........
rain).
ginning after 6 o’clock. To be elig- u
ible players must attend either City outpointed Johnny Owns 134
church or Sunday school three
times per month
Abilene
Each
fornia State Automobile associa- weekly.
team is to compete twice
Richard Davis, 75. Abilene, and
Donald Howell. 72, Trent, draw
I tion declared today that "tourist
permits and border stations, ex-
cept where the latter are absoulte-
j ly necessary to the protection of
I agriculture, have no place in mod.
I ern highways
David Sherrod. 134 decisioned
Leon Henderson 120
Kentucky Smith, 135. McMurry,
outpointed Johnny Wheeler. 135
McMurry Snaps Two McMurry.
Game Losing Streak W E. Harber 140, outpointed
3 Glenn Hicks, 140, McMurry.
Irby Jarvis. 146, Sweetwater, de-
I Speaking before the 19th annual Edging out the recreation depart-
convention the western Awe- ment by a 4-3 count, the McMurry | eistoned Weldon Skelton. 147. Abt-
ciation of state highway officials.
Hunt declared that “above all, the
highway department should use the
full force of its strength to see that
private motorists afe guaranteed
Indians snapped a two game losing lene
David
streak at Lunday field yesterday.
Bill Gray. McMurry pitcher, slam- outpointed
med a home run.
Abilene Christian and the state
Spur
Williams 145. McMurry.
Charlie Hurst, 145
freedom of movement over the
| highways with full reciprocal
agreements among the states.”
hospital .clash today
ABC- AB
Dam Basin Residents ,
Urged to Evacuate
Landers, ef
| Brown, M
Street, If ....
I Hart, 1b
Pond 36
Crawford, 2b
M Stockton, 1
H stoekton, rt
Claxton, a
VINITA. Okla April 19 — P—
With waters' in the Grand river
W L Pet
9 1 833 dam reservoir continuing a slow
3 2 5aI r se the dam authority issued today
TOTALS ....
MeMURRY-
Williams 36
Simmons if
Wheeler, 1b
R
=__- Gray, P .-.
500 a ’third warning to the remaining Green * ...
sea —A-- •.— -
im- Turner 2b
Baird, RR
J residents there.
j 2as All persons should take
s 200 mediate steps to evacuate the
area T P. Clonts, project man-
Rhumann, Kiwanis.
Cats Get Another
Whack at Missions
By United Press
Fort Worth gets another whack
Pet I ager, said.
TOTALS 18
Recreation Department
% Mc Murry .....
Brooklyn
Philadelphia .
Pittsburth .
S min . .
AFSICAN LEAGUE
at San Antonio’s Texas league lead , Etna :
today after whittling it to a game Doroati
and a half yesterday in the only New York .:
game played in the Texas circuit. Daitet
Fort Worth turned back the Washington
Missions 9 to 5 with Otho Nitcho- GAMES TODAY
0 1000
TITS DODGERS OPENING DAY!
= BUT IT'S GIANTS WHO DODGE
H Good Hurling
!; Helps Red Sox
• • NEW YORK April 19.—(UP)-
fo Two victories are a long way from
0 J a pennant but two straight shutouts
0 o shout out loud that maybe the Bos-
I o ton Red Sox pitching staff isn’t as
o i feeble as the experts riding the
• 0 Yankee bandwagon judged it to be
2 2 Two games, two victories, two
* a shutouts— that’s the record the Bos-
: ton Red Sox had as they moved
— home to open the season today in
first place Jim Bagby chip off the
old block, followed up Lefty Grove’s
opening day shutout by blanking
| Washington again yesterday, 7-0, al-
lowing only five hits
las pitching nine-hit ball and Hank Texas League
P * Fort Worth at San Antonio
Oana, the Hawaiian star putting
the ball over the fence in the sixth
with one on base
It was Ban Antonio’s first loas
of the season
Oklahoma City at Houston
Dallas at Shreveport
Tulsa t Beaumont
American League
Washington at New York—Krakauskas
vs Gomez
— —------Philade‘pmis at Boston - Caster and
Dallas at Shreveport, Tulsa at Bl *.. PITAlien.
Beaumont and Oklahoma City at Chicago ■< st Louis — Riney n Kuxer
National League
New York at Brooklyn—Gumbert vs
Casey
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh— Wa iters va.
By HENRY McLEMORE
NEW YORK, April 19.—(UP)—Brooklyn today was a
mecca for connoisseurs of baseball openings.
Just as art lovers make pilgrimages to the Uffizi gal-
leries and music lovers travel to the Metropolitan opera,
those who appreciate the very best in opening games make
it a point to be in Brooklyn when the Dodgers first play
host to the New York Giants. .
NOTICE!
TO ALL MY FRIENDS
AND CUSTOMERS —
I am now at 4th and Butternut
handling Mobil Gas and Oil
H T. FLEMING
•t Louis at Chicago- Cooper vs French.
Boston at Philadelphia - Errickson va
Mulcahy
The game itself is incidental, serving only as an excuse
for some 35,000 people to re-
lease their grip on reason,
shed their sanity, and enjoy
two or three hours of good.
Houston took time out because of
cold weather and wet grounds. The
schedule was unchanged today
wholesome giddiness.
Cincinnati, Detroit, Boston, Cleve-
Giant who shows his noggin in Eb-
beta field will get the same greet-
ing only more so, that John Mc-
Graw and his boys did years ago.
Joe Cronin came north banking
on Jim Bagby to be on the Red
Boss Mg winners and his form yes-
terday indicates that the tall right-
handed son of the old Cleveland
picther learned his lesson last sea-
son when he was disciplined for get-
ting fresh with the Red Box boss.
Now he’s likely to live up to his
1938 promise when he won 11 games
as a freshman With Grove as his
once-a-week ace. and Bagby as the
mainstay of his Mg four Cronin now
will seek his other three regulars
to challenge the Yankee dynasty
from among Woody Rich, Denny
Galehouse. Emerson Dickman, Herb
Hash, Bill Butland, Jack Wilson and
Fritz Ostermueller. And they aren’t
the burns the Yankee supporters try
to make them out.
A WEST CENTRAL TEXAS
REFINERY
.•J
land and other of the major league
cities stage substantial and stylish
baseball openings, but they aren't in
a class with Brooklyn The good
burghers of that borough put on a
show that. In many ways, won’t be
matched until we see what the first
minutes marking the end of the
world are like And even then some
of Brooklyn’s stuff probably will
have been borrowed Some of the
sound effects, most likely.
It should reach a peak today, for
more reasons than one in the first
There isn’t any way to adequately
describe the Brooklyn greeting to
the opposing team on opening day powerhouse with their lethal beta
Perhaps the best way to convey a and the Tigers won their first game
picture of what happens is to say by beating the Browns. 4-2. Green-
that it offers a complete preview
of 1MO models in firecrackers, cow-
bells, sirens, kazoos, razzberries, in-
I suits, groans, growls and general dis-
order Even the rudest Hatfield or
McCoy would consider It an Impolite
greeting
As I said, the opening this year
should be the best of a long line of
good ones Rat only will the Olanta
be there, but the
Brooklyns will be
place the Olanta are the opposing doubly excited because, after many
team and nothing so incites a
Charlie Gehringer and Hank
Greenberg touched off the Detroit
berg hit a homer with Gehringer on
base and tripled with Campbell
aboard Gehringer’s homer account-
ad for the other run Tommy Bridges
had the better-of Vernon Kennedy,
although each allowed only eeven
hits.t
The strength of the Cincinnati
pitching ataff waa borne out again
yesterday when Gene Thompson,
Reds' sophomore, outdueled Claude
Passeau to give the National league
Employing Texas people — using Texas
sweet crude— selling Its products in West
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Motorists.
DISTRIBUTOR FOR DIAMOND 760 MOTOR 01L
. ,years, they have * right to feel
Brooklyn citizen like the sight of a that their team has • chance to
New York Giant. Wild Indians could win the National league pennant,
troop across the Brooklyn bridge. Even during thooe years when the
or even Martians armed with zap- | Dodgers were so sorry that no choosy
zap guns, without creating the stir cat would have dragged them in, „„ san ... ..,
that the invasion of men wearing and they finished as close to the hitter Bill Nicholson to end
gray, flannel suits with New York cellar M they could without infring- game. m 7
stitched on their chesterdoes. 1 ing on the riparian rights of the 1_________.___________
.one might think that having seen Phillies, their fans gave them roue- the eighth when Ernie Lombardi
theseGiants year after year the ing support. Now, with a team bet-was hit by a pitched ball, and
Brooklyns would take them in ter than the one that finished a Rookie Mike McCormick and Billy
stride. But such ia not the case, bang-up third last year, their en-
Familiarity has really bred contempt thusiasm is likely to know no bounds
and hate in this case, and the first unless it be out of bounds.
champs their second straight victory
over the Cubs, 2-1 He blanked the
Cuba until the ninth, and then with
the tying and winning runs on bate
he snapped over three called strikes
on Hank Leiber and fanned pinch-
| the
ing on the riparian rights of the
game ,
The Reds broke a scoreless Ue in
Myers rapped out doubles.
Gold weather and rain prevented
Ithe other five games.
—You'd Better Get There Early
By HAL SAYLES
NOW here’s a little advice to the dyed-in-the-wool track
‘ and field fans, assuming that a few gals and fellows
around town can get dyed-in-the-wool over the gravel grind-
ing sport.
If you’re anxious to see in action some of the fancier
steppers, jumpers and throwers in the far-flung Texas inter-
scholastic league, drop out by the high school stadium Sat-
urday morning as well as Sat-
urday afternoon.
This little bit off advice is
passed along for what it’s
worth, remembering that quite
a few of our spiked-shoe faith-
ful were bitterly disappointed
last year when they overslept or just plain passed up the
preliminaries of the regional cinders show.
What happened in the morning trials? Just this: record
in the 220 yard dash was broken in each of the trial heats,
one of which was won by E. C. Condra of Sweetwater, chief
hope of the Ponies again this week; record of 9.7 in the 100
yard dash was equalled by Doug Calley of Brady, now a
freshman track sensation at LSU; and record in the pole
vault of 11 feet, 10 inches was established by one Bake Ed-
mondson of Mineral Wells.
BAKE will be on hand again Saturday morning, hoping to clear the bar
D at 12 feet or higher Finals in pole vault and shot put are scheduled
at 10 o’clock. We wouldn’t be surprised to see the Mineral Wells young-
ster better the regional mark if he’s favored with a warm, still day.
The shot put isn’t likely to provide a record-smasher, but husky
J. B. Montgomery of Moran, the defending champion, is capable of
pushing the 12-pound iron ball between 50 and 52 feet.
All of which is worth seeing if you're a dyed-in-the-wool.
The track program lists the finals for Saturday afternoon, running
events getting underway at 2 o'clock and the high jump and discus 30
minutes earlier.
If you get to the stadium along
with coaches, competitors and the
allday picnickers, you won't be dis-
appointed. This high jumping affair-
will feature Tom Hill of Aspermont,
who not only will be kicking up his
reels for a regional record but for
a state record as well. The sandy-
aired Stonewall county youngster
ounced over the cross bar at 6 feet _
1 7-8 inches in the Sweetwater district meet. That's not far below the
state record. It's better than the regional.
'pH At Associated Press story in Wednesday evening's paper about the
1 dazzling feats of Denzil Kennemer, Iraan’s one-man track team, can
be matched by that of Tahoka’s Max Minor
Kennemer is given a good chance to win the state title on the
basis of the following district meet marks:
100 yards in 9.65 seconds.
220 yards in 22.1 seconds.
120 yards high hurdles in 15.3 seconds.
. Javelin throw of 174 feet. 7 Inches.
Now, let's take up the case of Minor, who accomplished the follow-
ing in the Lubocbk district meet:
220 yards low hurdles in 25.6 seconds.
100 yards in 10 flat.
220 yards in 23.1 seconds.
Bread jump of 21 feet, 4 inches.
Minor won the low hurdles at the state meet last year in 24.2 seconds
so don't be fooled by that 23.1 he turned in for the furlong at Lubbock
Just to keep the records straight. Minor is the younger brother of
James Minor. Howard Payne’s football and track star
Ex-Champion
Head FieldinHOSTILE
S wafer Event
SWEETWATER, April 19—Head- -
ed by three former champions and'
many of the veterans of the see-
tion’s golfing wars, match play in
the fourth annual Sweetwater in-
vitation tournament got underway'
this morning.
Doug Jones, young but experi-
enced Big Spring campaigner, who
now attends business college in Ab- *
iene, copped medalist honors with
a 73, one over par. •
Battles with Old Man Par were
futile as high and piercing cold
winds wreaked havoc with the ef-
forts of between 150 and 160 who
posted qualifying scores yesterday.
Previous entries upped the list to
over 200
Red Watkins, squatty McMurry '
college student of Abilene, posted a
73 Sunday to equal the shotmaking
of Jones. Only Thursday qualifiers
were eligible for medal honors. . i
Deadlocked with 74s were Wallace
(Red) Bost, McMurry golf coach.
and J. T.
Champion
Defending
Hammett, a former
champion Lonnie
Wendland didn't have to qualify
but elected to try for medal laurels.
He struggle in with a robust 80.
R. R. Lacy, who won Sweetwater's
first invitation In 1937, also earne
home with an 80.
Clyde Southworth, Sweetwater
mail carrier, was second yesterday,
posting a 75.
Herman Stewart, Big Spring,
copped long driving contest honors
with a swat of 266 yards. He failed
to land in the championship flight,
qualifying with an 87
Largest number of entrants are
from Abilene, six of whom were
from McMurry college
Calcutta Pool favorites are Wat-
kins, Hammett, Wendland, Jones,
Bost and Robbins.
Grant Meets Cook
In Net Semifinals
HOUSTON, April 19— (UP)-
Bryan (Bitsy) Grant, tennis vet-
eran of Atlanta Ga., seeking his
fourth River Oaks tennis title,
plays Elwood Cooke of Portland,
Ore , today in the only semi-final
match scheduled. ,
Bobby Riggs, national champion
from Chicago, plays National In-
tercollegiate Champion Frank
Guernsey of Rice Institute, who
won the singles trophy here last
year, in the other semi-final match
tomorrow ...
Grant reached the semi-finals by
winning over Ed Alloo of Berkeley,
Calif., 9-7. 6-4. yesterday while
Cooke downed Bill Umstaedter of
Louisiana State, 1-2, 9-7.
Riggs won his quarter - final
match over Western Indoor Cham-
pion Tom Kelley, 6-3, 6-4, as
Guernsey overcame Wilmer Allison
He'll be heading for Howard Payne next year where he'll take the
haunting of Hardin-Simmons in football and ACC in track. The big of Austin, Tex., former national
brother is a past master at the art
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 321, Ed. 2 Friday, April 19, 1940, newspaper, April 19, 1940; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1634620/m1/2/: accessed May 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.