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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Tune In On KRBC
Wednesday Evening, June 26, 1940 ,
Wednesda
Skid Is Slow, But Dodgers
SPORT
re Slipping From Heights
“ ONE FOR THE BOOK
ROUNDUP
Bruins Batter
Flatbushers
In 13th, 8-3
DEAR DIARY: THIS
WAS AN EVENTFUL DAY
/ CO VCEDED MYSELF ‘
A 4O-FOOTER AND
GOT MY EIR ST EAGLE.
By JUDSON BAILEY
Associated Press Sports Writer
There is no time like midnight to
unmask a miracle
The Chicago Cubs did it last
night, revealing even to the stout-
hearted Flatbush fans that the
Brooklyn Dodgers are no wonder- |
workers and that it will take a long
and bitter battle to bring the Na-
tional league pennant to Ebbets
field.
Of their last nine decisions the
Dodgers have dropped seven. That
scarcely is a championship pace The
fact that it took 26 innings in two.
games to beat Brooklyn the seventh
time 8-3. couldn’t cloak the Dodg-
ers’ disappointing slide
They had a better chance than the
Cubs to win last night. Trailing
by one run as they went to bat in
the last of the ninth, the Dodgers
got a three-all tie when Babe Phelps
opened with a home run Pitcher
Hugh Casey was called out on
strikes, but Peewee Reese tripled
Then Manager Gabby Hartnett of
the Cube came up with what looked
like strange strategy He ordered
Country Club
Qualifying to
Start Sunday
In order to clear the course for
visiting golfers on the regular qual-
ifying day, Abilene linksters will
tab their medal scores Sunday in
the country clubs annual invitation
golf tournament.
The tournament proper starts a
week from tomorrow
1 Players qualifying Sunday, how-
ever, will not be eligible for the
medalist prize.
I Morgan Hampton, pro-manager
at the country club, urged all Abi-
lene golfers to post their scores at
the early date if possible.
By EDDIE BRIETZ
NEW YORK, June 26.—P—Be- 1
lieve-it-or-not: Up to today the
St Louis Browns had won more
games than the Yanks-end with
Yankee castoffs, at that .. . also:
Carl Snavely of Cornell will con-
duct e coaching school at Colorado
U. this summer One of his pupils
will be Dutch Clark, coach of the
Cleveland professional Rams .
Even though he has been retired
for the season, Van Mungo will be
cut in for a full share of any series
dough the Dodgers collect . A
Newark sportsman who lost
grand on Max Bayer
Today's Sport Parade—
MacPhail Energy Should
Be Harnessed by Gov't
By HENRY McLEMORE
NEW YORK. June 26.—UP)-
The next big government project
should be th* harnessing of Larry
MacPhail.
Phail went right on
first saw it* tonic properties and
"Its Dickey and Ruffing. The big was the first to openly campaign
catcher and the big pitcher. The one
ain't hitting and the other ain't
pitching. They’ve been the backbone
of the Yanks for a long time Up
until this year Ruffing haa been the
With the Tennessee, Columbia and
Colorado rivers under control the
red-headed Irishman who heads the ___________________
Brooklyn Dodgers is potentially this win the big game The Yanks always
country's best source of horsepower.
With MacPhail’s energy diverted
guy who could walk out there and
knew he could atop a winning streak.
into the proper channels entile
states could be
lighted, factories
That's not so now. Dickey always
paced the hitters. Until this season
state# could be lighted, factories Bill was the most feared man in the
operated, and industry as a whole, league. Now he’s looking at strikes
stepped up a good 50 percent. i he used to knock out of the park
40, Take MacPhails vocal chords, for And there's something else. The
grand on Max Bayer when he instance. Right now they are oper- Yanks have won so damn much
fought Braddock, has offered Tony ating on only a 20-hour-a-day basis, they've forgotten how to lose. The
Galento $1,000 for every tooth he "
knocks out of Baer's head Tuesday
night.
won so damn much
That’s a four-hour-a-day loss, as he average team wouldn't get panicky
Ssosnn s the first to ad-if it lost three or four in a row.
for a certain number of games under
the lights.
HEDGES A LITTLE 1
MacPhail believes that your guess
is as good as his as to the 1940
National pennant winner.
"Three or four clubs have a |
chance, inculding us We’ve been . 1
shot with injuries, and our pitching
has been below par. I believe that " |
September will see three or four
clubs slugging It out for the cham-
pionship."
An honest soul, MacPhail admits
that the purchase of Joe Medwick
was a gamble.
"If Joe has a pretty good year
and his bat keeps us up there as a
C
le <
i on
A Ne
Cookie Lavagetto and Dixie Walker
purposely passed to fill the bases so
old Charley Root could pitch to Joe
Med wick.
GOOD 'STRATEGY
Imagine choosing, voluntarily to
pitch to Medwick with the bases
loaded The Cubs did And on the
first pitch Medwick dribbled a dou-
ble play grounder to short That
was the ball game The Dodgers
made five errors and virtually gave
the contest to the Cubs.
The Cubs didn’t need any urging
to grab what was offered. Dominic
Dallessandro hit a triple, two dou-
bles and a single to pace a 14-hlt
attack and Relief Pitcher Claude
Passeau held the Dodgers hitless
National League
Games Rained Out
By United Press
Baseball today:
NATIONAL
St. Louis et New York, rain,
might game).
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia rain.
2 games
His ear was bent.
They say poor Mr Ford C. Frick
fell out of his easy chair Monday
night when one of the radio fellows
calmly announced: " . . all the
other games in the major leagues,
also the ntional, were rained out."
St. Louis writers say Ray Blades
really got tough last spring and
soured the Cardinals with his
iron-handed methods Mil-
waukee has offered Ken Overlin.
the N Y.-California-Virginia mid-
dleweight king, $2,500 to meet the
winner of tonight s Tony Martin-
Cincinnati at Boston,
games
Only games scheduled
AMERICAN
rain. J
nit. As if to prove because it’s used to it. But losing is
hat he could get something new to the Yanks and
hern up to full-they don’t know how to face it contender, it’ll mean $75,000 to
Ime production From he Yankees MacPhail moved $100,000 more at the gate. If that
before you could into the subject of night baseball.
happens I'll have bought a pretty
say Knudson or with scarcely time off enough to good player for $100,000 or so. That :
Stettinius. he cor- gtt down a bet on the fourth race, is, he'll bring in enough extra dol-
Stettinius. he cor- gtt down a bet on the fourth race.
nered me at the “They’ll kill baseball,” he said.
lars to take care of half of his pur-
Aqueduct race "if they go and play more than chase price. Of course. If he has a
track yesterday seven or eight night games at home bad year, and who knows what he'll
and touched, on That gives you one night a week do. than I made a sucker move. But
more subjects than | during the really hot summer time. I've been fooled before, so it won't
* - ‘id.
Larry MacPhail He
the Encyclopedia and that's enough. Let a team start be anything new."
The Brooklyn boss thinks any leg-
Brittanica
ever playing two or three night games a
week and it'll kill day baseball just islation against the bean ball” ia
didn't hesi- as sure as I'm standing here. I don't ridiculous
ace a moment in finding a reason think that will ever happen in the "Just tell me," he said, “how any
Tony Bruna winner in, th. 1 for the collapse of the New York National League, however. A unani- power on earth is going to be able
an ove -me- Yankees. The fact that the Yanks mous vote is required to increase to decide when a pitcher deliberate- ]
are not in his league, and that he or decrease the number of night ly throws at a batter The pitcher
probably hasn't seen them play since games and there never will be a can always say it slipped, and who J
they were known as the High- unanimous vote for more of the is going to prove him a liar?"
weight go.
Baseball trend.
If you want more hits and passes.
Get yourself a pair of glasses.
Breckenridge Oilers to
Meet Printers Tonight
New York at Cleveland, clear
Boston at Detroit, partly cloudy.
Washington at Chicago, clear.
Philadelphia at St. Louis, partly
cloudy.
Old Freddie Fitzsimmons ap-
pointed himself ambassador with-
out portfolio to talk "Hot Potato"
Hamlin off his pout and bac kinto
the Dodger line-up . . . El Galento
got sore at Jimmy Frain, his train-
er. and threw a punch. It missed
Frain, but caught a character nam-
ed Blackie (the camp chauffeur)
flush on the kisser and knocked
him stiffer than an Andalusian
landers didn’t deter him
HERE'S WHAT’S WRONG
night stuff as long as I'm around." By the time the seventh race came
The chances are that the other around MacPhail was discussing
"Any fool could see what’s wrong National league club heads will lis- merits of beet and cane sugar. But
with that team, MacPhail said, I ten to MacPhail, because he is the I ll let that wait until another time,
nodded understandingly, but Mac- real father of night baseball. He । A long tune, in fact
through the four extra innings.
The only other game in the Na- tonight in the feature performance
tional league saw the Pittsburgh
Breckenridge Oilers, one of the tween Joe Pee and Curly Hays,
top softball aggregations of West the Red and White Grocers emerg-
Texas meet the Texas Printers ed with a 3-0 win over the Elec-
tric Dealers in the fast loop night-
Pirates outlast the Phillies to win
at Sportsman park while
cap Pre gave up only two hits.
Ex- while Hays limited the Grocers to
change battles Community Oss in a half doeen safe blows
Birdie in Tennis!
LEXINGTON, N. C., June 26.
—(AP)—S. G. Welborn, a Da-
vidson college student, scored a
birdie—in a tennis match.
Just as he served a sizzler
the bird dipped low over the
court and was knocked dead by
the ball.
9-7 and rise into fifth place again.
The day was a big but generally the opener on the ~= eosuc - - owvae ucu mu wv-an. .
ineffectual interim in the American ticket. Grant relieved Hardwick on the WT NN Graroe
The Ofers and Printers met two mound for the Kiwanians in the Stores
.w opener He walked Cleveland and
weeks ago at Breckenridge, the Jake Billingsley before Phipps sidland
Abilenians gaining the verdict in singled to bring in the winning ' -
that battle run.
Humble Oilers needed eight in- _
Kiwanis......100 010 00—2 7 1
that Humble Oil . ..200 000 01—3 a 1
slow league With the score tied at two-all
goat
We could scarcely be-
lieve our eyes when one of the
N. Y papers today called Joe Di
Maggio "just another center
fielder" ... Joe Louis (who doesn't
go for that sort of thing) to mak-
ing his ballyhoo of the Baer-Galen-
to camp under orders from higher
up
Today's guest star
Tom Meany, New York P M.:
Ben Chapman to now wearing
glasses . . undoubtedly they will
league where the Cleveland Indians
stopped the New York Yankees again
while Boston and Detroit were
standing each other off in a double-
header
Hal Trosky hit his 16th and 17th
homers of the year to lead the In- nings to nudge the pesky Kiwan-
dians to a 5-3 triumph over the ians last night, a triumph that
world champions before rain halted clinched for them the first half
the game at the end of five In- championship in the slow league man: Derryberry and Lambert
nings The count was 3-2 Red and Write ..021 000 0-3 6 3
The Red Sox routed Schoolboy In s great pitchers duel be- Electric Dealers 000 000 0—0 2 1
Rowe for his first defeat in taking ---------------------------------Pee and Avers Leverett: Hays
. and Sam Smith.
Hardwick Grant and Eliott, Ruh-
'enable him to do a better job of
umpiring."
Lupbeel = ,0200,02001020022,71 Ouch dept
Johnson and Wilson; Stack and Cas- The club standings column in one
of the New Orleans papers has the
000 022 20% 16 J Washington Senators 104 1-2 games
Mohriock and Mutator? Patterson and - %—a - a— *---ex leamna
Pride
Odessa
Lamesa
behind in the
American
league
race.
SIZE 6.00-16
the first half of their doubleheader .ne T
11-7. but in the second game Hal Semi Pro Tourney
Newhouser ‘ stopped the Red Sock- 3CI-TTO TOUTTEY
ers. 5-1. TTII1
The St Louis Browns downed the ry Headoearc
Philadelphia Athletics 12-10. 10 1IV nedugear
The Washington Senators staved
off a four-run rally in the ninth by
the Chicago White Sox to win 7-6.
Amarillo 00# 000 033—s 6 1
Pampa .. 100 011 200—5 15:
Dorman, Crider and Ratliff: Hallbourg, _ ... a
a AM *T" 000-11 , Cancel Wimbledon
, shiFley and sehmien: fyako, crue. and Tennis Tournament
Speaking of Sports—
Fancy Flailer
City Softball
RESU LTS LAST NIGHT
Humble on 3 Kiwanis 2
Red and White 3 Electric Dealers •
FAST LEAGUE
TEAM— W L
W T U ... ..... 11 5
Red and White ..
Texas Printers
Electric Dea ers
WICHITA, Kas. June 26.-
As a result of the recent aeries of
"beanings" of major league baseball
players Ray Dumont, president of —Sledge Hammer Lives Up to Name
the National Semi-Pro baseball con- 3P me
gress. has decided to give head pro- By HAL SAYLES
lectors for batsmen a thorough trial TAIEY 11
during the National tournament here I HEY call him Sledge Hammer.
August 16-28 Whoever put that tag on Bvron Sherrill, the University
The use of protective bonnets of Texas light heavyweight champion from Sweetwater evi-
LONDON. June 26.—(AP)-
The All-England lawn tennis
tournament, which was sched-
uled to be held at Wimbledon
July 19 and 20, was cancelled
today.
The *
Standings
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Humble Ofl ........9
Exchange.................7
Rotary ..................T
Lions ........... 7
Community Gas .......5
Kiwanis .... 3
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SUMMIT.
Tony Galent
.mere shado
And every i
cumference 1
The grud,
Maxie Baer
seen one-an
line bristlin
come up anc
Tony tangl
in the Jerse
Tuesday for
brawl for th
screwballs a
whackos. It
gent from ,
same about
himself, took
day stuff la
called that I
of "quitting"
back there ti
"Imagine
Louis " he s
dat burn out
So Tony
home-made
. Now, some c
only part of
fight, but no
accused the r
* subtle.
He took the
best judgment
They poin
could mean r
by his stand 1
he was a cine
anyray.
"I gotta bel
the man with
added today,
rounds, too."
So Tony is |
of shape for
be alarmed.
• beer diet. He
anything, of t
tell you. But
he has shed
started trainin
has actually
around his ml
jor operation.
There Wi
Third Me
JERSEY cr
(UP)—Abe J.
one-man boxir
denied the des
and Maxie Bae
brawl at Roos
day night be
benefit of refer
Greene as
this is a primit
well be conduc
man in the rir
eree—and a go
McEuin T
Lyman in
Bill McEuin
at the Sporta
Bight.
Wild William
royal and then
. event by takli
fall* from Joe
Rod Fenton
while Ray Cl
Cummings acra
• the opener
RESULTS YESTERDAY
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 8, Chicago 3.
Pittsburgh 9. Philadelphia 7
St. Louis at New York, rain r
Cincinnati at Boston, rain
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 5. New York 3
Washington 7. Chicago •
Boston 11-1, Detroit 7-5.
St Louis 12. Philadelphia 10.
TEXAS LEAGUE
Houston 11, Oklahoma City 2
Pan Antonio 5. Fort Worth 3.
Tulsa 4-4, Beaumont 3-5
Dallas 6-1. Shreveport 1-5.
WEST TEXAS-NEW MEXICO LEAGUE
Lubbock 4, Midland 3.
Lamesa 16 Odessa 0
Amarillo 6. Pampa 5.
Clovis 7. Borger J.
. will not be compulsory among the dently knew what he was talking about
Pe. 500 players at the tourney.” Dumont ___... “ ' 1 6 about
313 said today "However. If the head- Sherrill made his ring debut here on Monday night's
15 gear proves of definite protective amateur card and left the impression with the local boxing
value the question of making it a addicts that he means business when he beats out a two.
R EtipMen Mm %. QbEed OITAINE fisted rat-a-tat-tat on the face of an unfortunate foe
RA board of directors meeting next His second round technical knockout over Harold Jones
winter." of Colorado City certainly stamped him as a top hand among
the newcomers in the sector's fist-throwing circle
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Georgetown Golfer
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SLEDGE HAMMER and two of his Sweetwater pals. Irby Jarvis, who
O will make either the light or welterweight division, and Jay Turner
i heavyweight, are in training for the district TAAF tournament to be
MANCHESTER Vt June 3#—P held here. July 22-23
Hen Is ‘Catnaper’ —The national1 collegiate A A soir Turner an older brother of Bulldog, the footballer, weighs 203 pounds
____championship moved into the first He is anxious to tangle with Leon Joeris the vastly-improved Abilene
HARTFORD CITY Ind P—A round at Ekwanok today with John- clouter, and the opportunity likely will be afforded in the district show
hen on Roy Pruden’s farm has kid- ny Burke of Georgetown yesterday * _ All three of the Sweetwater scrappers are training under the able
naped five kittens from their medalist and the 1938 champion, direction of Bobby Clark, ex-pugilist who started Lew Jenkins on the
mother The hen drove the mother paired against John Leidy of Mich- wards title,
cat away and has fought her off igan
every time she comes near The
GAMES TONIGHT
Exchange vs Community Gas
Breckenridge Offers vs Texas Printers
Burke shot a pair of sparkling
Prudens are seeing that the kit- rounds to lead the qualifiers with
tens are fed
a 71-72—143
Sherrill fought six times with the University of Texas boxing team,
winning five of the fight* and dropping a decision in the other. He won
two from Texas A. & I, two from St Marys and broke even with the
light heavy from the Temple YMCA 1
AMEMIC AN LEAGUE
|TEAM- W
Cleveland ................40
Detroit . ......... 35
Boston ..................33
| St Louis ..................30
1 New York ..............28
Chicago ............ 26
Washington .............25
Philadelphia 22
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Pet
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603
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476
475
448
397
386
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SEVERAL ol the Abilene boxers will go into action again Friday night
D at San Angelo Joeris is matched with James Brown of Ban Angelo
in the card s headliner Others who likely will make the trip with Ray
Crowell and Dr. Hugh Cockerell, the local amateur fisticuffing maestros,
are Cleil Whetsel, lightweight: Bill Davis, bantamweight, and Richard
Moody welterweight
TEAM
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York
Chicago .................33
Pittsburgh ...... 22
st Louis.................22
Boston..............19
Philadelphia It
TEXAS LEAGUE
Dr. Cockerell informs us the next fight card for the fair park TEAM-
pavilion to tentatively set for Monday, July 8. | san" Antonio
* Beaumont
Efforts are being made to line up the strong Stephenville team for Dates.........-
a meet with a picked group of fighters from thia district Anreveport ' 3
THE National collegiate rules committee, through a sub-group has for worth
-released a set of regulations to standardize the keeping of footbell WEST TEXAR-NEW MEXICO
statistics TEAM w
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Pet
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532
415
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EAGCE
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00 urANNS
From the subcommittee comes the following decisions Rampal
I Distance of a punt which rolls untouched into the end zone to Lamenn
measured from the line of scrimmage to the 20-yard line, out from the Lubbock
goal line
2 A forward passer trapped behind the goal line has the lose charged ouerse
to the team’s rushing total, not its passing The loss goes into the Clovis
records as a black mark to be deducted from the potential passer’s ground
gaining total. -
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..3 No first downs shall be credited when a touchdown fa scored.
This to dene by many statisticians from coast to coast. The committee
decided first downs were only a means of progression to the real, Inel-
denlal le touchdowns.
4 Distance of field goals, for the purpose of the record books, is
measured from the line of scrimmage to the goal posts. Thus a kick
from the 10-yard line to a 20-yard kick
MOST of the press box workers in this section figure the committee
A erred in ruling that a touchdown to not a first down Especially
is this true in the case of high school football where many tie gamer are
decided on penetration* and first downs. Supposing a team does reach
the five or six yard stripe with first and four to go. Many a seasoned
campaigner will tell you that five or six yard* to harder to make against
a good defensive club than two first down* in midfield
The only other change for most scribes will be in measuring the field
goals from the line of scrimmage to the posts. The new punt rule was
generally accepted by the writers last year and we've never heard of
a sports writer charging a trapped passer who fails to turn loose the
bell with anything except a loss in yards from rushing It’s not a pass
until the is thrown, whatever his intentions might be.
WEST TEXAS-NEW MEXICO Leant ■
Midland at Odessa
Lamesa at Lubbock.
Borger at Pampa.
Clovis at Amarillo.
TEXAS LEAGUE
Dallas at Beaumont (day)
Fort Worth at Houston (night).
Oklahoma City at San Antonie (night).
Tulsa *1 Shreveport (night).
A MERIC CAN LEAGUE
t Cleveland - Ruffing (5-5)
New York " Cleveland - Ruffing (5-6)
A. Allen (4-3) or Harder (3 4)
Boston at Detroit — Bagby (5-5) ve.
Gorsica (2-2). *
Washington at Chicago — Masterson (3-
3) vs. Smith (4-6)
Philadelphia at St Louis — Caster (1-
11) vs. Niggeling (2-2) 2°
Detroit - Bugoy‘ (s-5) ve.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St L outs at New York (night)- MeGes
(4-5) vs. Melton (6-1).
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia (2) Sewell
(3-1) and Bowman (1-5) vs. Blanton (0.
11 and Pearson (1-5).
Cincinnati at Boston (2) Derringer
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