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PAGE FOUR_________
SAYS CHANDLER AT CLOSE OF SESSION-
‘Baseball Headed for Greatest
Tune in on KRHC
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Friday Evening, August 17, 19
They have applications for 30 to
35 new leagues on file. And they
I will send Art Ehlers, promotional
... director, into the field to help or-
gues apparently was strengthened ganize these circuits with an eye
during baseball’s two-day joint to compactness.___... .hatiom
planning meeting here.
As a result of this closer
feeling of kinship, Commission-
er A. B. "Happy" Chandler said
today "baseball is unquestion-
ably headed for its greatest era
in history. Both in quality and
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 - (-
The sometimes-strained relation-
ship between major and minor lea-
quantity."
The meeting ended yesterday.
The minors, where the game’s fu-
ture stars are uncovered, took steps
to make Chandler’s prediction come kids ... __
true by outlining their biggest pro- The postwar committee ree-
Friday Evening,
Reds
Era in History Stamford Guard, ACC Favorites
In TAAF Softball Tourney Here
gues that a spot be found for
every returning veteran-player
regardless of physical condition.
find places in the minors’ wide
reorganization.
In order to "take the game to
the country boys, the high schools
Only 10 leagues are in operation
this year against 42 in 1942. 1— -------. ..-.
Next season the little fellows and corner lots. AS the moguls ex-
hope to have at least 25 leagues pressed it, a fund of $50,000 will
in operation with more starting be set up in the commissioner’s
up in 1947 | office with a subcommittee to work
Chandler got two of his own ideas | out promotional schemes.
across to the minors and majors The question of signing teen-age
They provide for special at-players, objected to by high school
authorities, appeared to be near
alike
tention to returning war veterans
and giving the game back to the
motional plan. ommended to the various lea-
solution with appointment of an-
other subcommittee to confer with
educators on a set of uniform eli-
gibility rules
8Teams Play NCO Bolts Swamp ACC 11-0
At Fair Park To Take Major Softball Title
Stamford’s State Guard softball d
Sooners Picked Tattered Card
Over Texas in ldllul CU CO1W
Oil Bowl Tonight.
WICHITA FALLS. Aug 17—-
All star schoolboy squads from
Texas and Oklahoma clash tonight
in the annual Oil Bowl football
game with the versatile Sooners
given the favorite nod
It will be the first time in history ‘
Make Flag Hay
team and the Abilene Christian
College Wildcats became early fav-
orites to advance to the finals in
the district TAAF softball tourney 1
to be held here Saturday, Monday,
and Tuesday, after hearings of the
eight teams yesterday.
The Wildcats, who are in the
lower bracket of the tourney’s pair-
ings, were favored to reach the
finals due to the lack of opposition i
in the weak budget while the Stam- 1
ford team was favored in the upper
bracket, due to the pitching of Roy
Weeks.
The eight teams in the tour-
| ney begin competing for the
$200 winner’s prize tomorrow
night at Fair Park with three
games set for the night.
The upper bracket will be the
The NCO Bolts from the Abilene
Army air field last night convine-
ingly captured the Major league
softball title by making it two
straight over the ACC Wildcats
11-0.
The win for the Bolts was
accomplished before some 2,000
fans who crowded Fair Park
to see the second of a two-out-
of-three playoff series between
the first half champion Bolts
and the second half champion
Cats. m
The stellarddefense of the ACC
team built around the pitching of
Cullen Cranfill, which had kept the
Cats in the thick of the season’s
ing the Mackey Co. 9-7.
The Ramblers shut down a sev-
enth inning Mackeymen rally that
started when catcher Red How-
ard homered with one aboard to
nse out the Mackey Co.
The game was the second of a
two-out-of-three game series, and
the win gave the Ramblers the loop
title.
In the Fair Park league Merrill’s
Marauders won the loop title by
defeating the Rebels 2-1 in a sev-
enth inning rally.
Major League
NCO Bolt 210 620 0—11 15 3
ACC 000000 0 0 2 2
Teague and Schoonover: Cranfill and
Lawson.
CITY LEAGUE
cork os w utii.mc. TM MU. CAT
By JACK HAND
stronger bracket of the tournament
with the Major league champion
race broke completely as the Bolts
gathered fifteen hits off Cranfill,
while Cpl. “Big Jim" Teague held Howard.
Ramblers 025 200 0—9 6 3
Mackey Co. 030 002 2—7 6 3
Dotson and Morgan; Woods, Tittle and
"We’re so glad you’ve moved into the neighborhood— a
we’d like to have our little boy get used to playing nice
with little girls!"
Associated Press Sports Writer
Billy Southworth’s tattered St. Louis Cardinals, limping same bracket with the Stamford
from town to town and aching in every muscle, still cannot seama S.leirdayceremtrithesRoith
NCO Bolts and the Jaycees in the
for picked teams from the two be counted out of the National league race. . sale
states to meet and Oil Bowl officials Five games back with 42 to go, 12 against Chicago, the the stronger tens,
hope to make it a yearly affair. world champs are making hay in the Philly sunshine while At 7:30 on the
.Tr Texansiheavr III VAWne e: the Cubs are w restling w ith the alert Brooklyns.
pad power through windrawals Although Charley Grimm’s happy band all but knocked
of four top performers also have the Dodgers loose from their moorings in a 20-6 series opener.
Lippy Leo Durocher had the
Bums back on their toes yes-
terday to grab a 2-1 evener be-
shind Tom Seats.
a game that will eliminate one of
the Cats to two scattered bingles.
The ACC crackup came in the
third inning when Jim Sileo drove
a line drive at pitcher Cranfill,
striking him on the wrist. Although
the Bolts failed to score in that
Fair Park League
Rebeds 000 01-1 3
Merril’s Marauders 000 02—2 2
Smith and Hancock: Ray and Fry.
3
Altus tonight meets the smooth
New Orleans Jesuit high school
Bluejays in the finals, and must win
two games to take the regional tit
been handicapped because several
key squad members failed to arrive
until practice sessions were virtu-
ally finished Workouts opened last
Monday.
George Graham of San An-
gelo. Bob Goode of Bastrop.
Byron Gillory of Marshall and
Preston Smith of Bryan, the
Knox City takes on the Quarter-
masters from Camp Barkeley, while
the Stamford team plays the Aven-
ger Field of Sweetwater at 9 p. m.
tomorrow.
Although the Wildcats are in a
, inning they broke loose in the
west diamond fourth inning to bat completely
around scoring six runs off six
hits as Cranfill lost all control.
The Standings
NATIONAL LEAGUE
latter two all-staters did not
come here necessitating last
minute recruiting to fill out the
squad. These four were import-
ant members of the all-star
team at the Texas Coaching
school at Abilene.
Coach H N (Rusty) Russell of
Southern Methodist university. who
is directing the Texans, agreed with
forecasts that the Oklahomans
would win but said he expected an
interesting game
Coach Dewey Snorter Luster of
Oklahoma university head man of
Seats copped a real important
one for Durocher yesterday with a
banner holiday crowd of 27 882 paid
pushing the season attendance to
903.512 and adding another $5,000
to Leo’s bonus-plus salary
The lefthander scored the
first run, knocked in the second
and fanned Bill Nicholson on
a called third strike with the
tying run on third in the ninth.
Durocher wasn’t around to see
t the finish because I Empire Ziggy
Sears waved him to the club-
house after he had stormed
around the three arbiters in
protest of a called strike on
bracket where little opposition is
expected, they will still have no
easy time of it, since they must
play two games Monday night if
they advance past their first foe,
the Junior chamber of commerce.
Finals in the tournament will be
Tuesday night, and the the win-
ner will be eligible to enter the
Luis Oimo A
While the Bruins were falling, the 2
the visiting contingent, said the Cards were shutting out the Phil- : I _
Texas folks were er 4 Ken Burkhardt’s two-
but wasn’t very convincing about hit effort Only Vince DiMaggio and
it with such boys as Alan Greenberg Andy Seminick with singles were ____
TOM SEATS
state TAAF softball tournament
opening at Dallas Aug.
AAF Tourney Opens
LUBBOCK, Aug. 17.— P)—Pampa.
Lubbock Enid, Oklahoma, and
Liberal, Kansas, Army air fields ad-1
vanced to the second round semi-
* . finals. of the northern division AAFT
3 Central Flying Training command
softball tournament yesterday.
Pampa beat Childress, Texas, AAF
8 to 4 and Enid defeated Carlsbad
iES N. M., AAF 8 to 1 Liberal and Li b-
bock advanced on forfeits In an ex-
hibition game last night Liberal de-
| feated Lubbock 18 to 4.
The fourth inning was the down-
fall of the Cats and the rest of
the game became a nightmare of
base hits and runs, that the Cats
could not stop.
Jim Sileo was top slugger for
the Bolts, slamming out three
the first three times up and
flying out to left field his other
trip to the plate. Only one man
on the Bolt team failed to
gather at least a clean single
during the game and that was
pitcher Jim Teague, well re-
spected for his home-run pow-
ers. Teague however sent two
long hits to the Cat outfield
that fell in waiting receiver’s
hands. Both long flys scored
runs.
The Wildcats, who have consist-
ently been able to pull games out
the fire through the seasons and
have endured the fire of extra in-
ning battles failed to stay up to
par as the Bolts ran roughshod
over the runnerups.
In the City league the Ramblers
% on the City league title by defeat-
of Classen High Oklahoma City able to touch the Red Bird fresh-
and 198 pound Bob Cutsinger of| man who was registering his 13th TEXAS HUNTING FISHING___
Perry showing fancy ball carrying victory. ‘
and passing m the brisk practice Cincinnati finally broke its 13- T I 1A II I s 1s I LAJsI 1:6 FI 1
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Russell has Sammie Pierce, the couple bill from Boston. 5-3 and 8-3 IUCKeT KeVITdllZe0 WIIOIIe Federation
Vernon line cracker, and Bill Engie Joe Bowman and Vern Kennedy * ‘ 7 - * V - VWVI CA1IVI
of Greenville as his powermen and were - hit hard but outlasted the By TED READ
is depending upon August Pelz of Braves A t ssers Tommy Holmes L nited Press Staff Correspondent
Wichita Falls for some top-notch booties leading batting aver- According to information received
passing Each starting line will av- age to 371 with five hits including in Austin, there will be a meeting
efage 194 pounds but the Texans three home runs to pace both cir- in San Antonio Aug. 31 to revital-
The terms of Martin and Reed
expire Sept. 1. Good sources
several weeks ago said they
boast a weight advantage in the cuits with 23 lize the Texas Wildlife Federation,
backfield The Van Mungo-Ace Adams com- And into the scheme of things fits
would be renamed to the places.
After that, however, came the
Tucker incident, which is said
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the scoreboard ran out of space last
night in a wierd Junior American
Legion ball game that finally put
the Altus, Okla Beavers into the
Region Six finals.
The score was Altus 20, Dallas 12
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W. D Bond, who pens fishing
news under the heading of "Hook,
, Line and —". resents persons run-
| ning down the recreation advantages
of West Texas lakes, particularly
around Abilene.
Scannell of Maskat Temple bination clicked again for the New the possibility that Will J Tucker
Shrine, which sponsors the On Bow. York Giants in a 2-1 photo finish will become its administrative head
game, predicted a crowd of 9.000 victory over Pittsburgh on the Several years ago the Wildlife
He said indications were that , strength of Manager Mel Ott’s 17th: Federation was a prominent influ- the new members will be from the
largest attendance the . ...- round tripper ‘ ence in outdoor activity in Texas Beaumont area Reed formerly re- , .
o: he E. : " eight A E MPPete tossed bit It once maintained offices in Aus- sided there when appointed. but lakes and streams may not be ad-
stands at cevote stadium: T, - n the hi and Washington prompts an and publ shed a magazine Capt since has moved to San Antonio,
the previous high was 7.500curled up again for the 10th Henry Klasendormer, Galveston
Assisting Russell in coaching the time in two years and the firth’TARr was president of the organ-
Texans : Thurman Jones Wichita straight this season 9-2 Detroit Tucker. deposed executive secre-
Falls high school mentor W rkinz kayoed Marino Pieretti to the de- tary of the State Game Fish and
with Luster, 15 Billy Stamps former light of 35.681 fans who hfted the Oyster commission, is said to have
Southern Methodist university star reason total close to the 900 000 many friends among those who are
who coaches at Duncan, Okla mark, and restored its lead over the planning t rejuvenate the Wildlife
Federation It is expected that he .
would be their choice to direct the - the county where stationed without
to have ruffled some feelings.
It is likely that at least one of
In the Abilene Reporter-News.
Bond writes that the West Texas
mired as much as some in Michigan
and Minnesota, adding
Armed forces personnel again ."What we have in this region
this year will have the same hunt- does not deserve, I think, any
ing privileges as resident Texans scorn Indeed some of our lakes
The game commission has announ- should draw favorable comment from
ced that the policy of last year will the aristocrats in water sports."
be extended for the approaching sea- An dthere are plenty who ve en-
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the mound in trimming Boston.
11-3 for their fifth win in a
row. The Pale Hose, now only
2 games behind Washington,
raked Ferriss for 12 hits in four
frames
News that Charley Keller will re-
join his New York Yankee mates
tomorrow failed to pull the Me-
Carthy clan out of its slump as they have anglers clubs and hunting and
bowed to St Louis 7-2 their sev- fishing associations It is possible
enth straight loss, falling into a that the Wildlife Federation could
groups undertakings
Many other states have Wild-
life Federations which are pow-
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Their memberships take in all
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Tuesday and get the new hunting
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