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Burns Could
Sew Up Flag
RaceToday
By JOE REICHLER
Associated Press Sports Writer
There is no doubt today but that
best team in the National lea:
me will represent it in the world
Tribe Pulls
Gul for Till
With Aggies
A squad of 25 McMurry athletes
left the Methodist reservation by
bus at noon today to do battle with
the New Mexico. Aggie, at Las
Cruces, N M Friday night at 8 Page 4
Coach Willord Moore stated the -----
Reporter-fems
Jacobs Gets
5-2 Decision
Over Broncs
SCORING DUEL
SEEN FOR PROS
Thursday Evening, September 18, 1947
serie Brooklyn Dodgers, only *
couple of steps away from becom:
ing the official opponent of the
New York Yankees in the fall
classie which gets under »a> a
Yankee stadium Sept,
th proved conclusively that they
*re the best ball club in the
“mor circuit when they knocked
St Louis out of the race last week
riaht in the Cardinals own lair
All season long, the Dodgers were
forced to listen to that same old
plaint, ‘the Cards are the best baU
club in the league .
But what the experts and fans
failed to see was that the Dodgers
had a bunch of stars in their own
might Six of their first nine were
selected on the National league.
All-Star team back in July. They
were Ed stanky. second base: Ree --------------
Wee Reese Shopisiewalker. right MAY MISS GAME—Jim Dobbyn, classy triple threat back for
wards cat Reiser center field and the Abilene Eagles, probably will miss Friday night s game trade:
Ralph Branca, pitcher. The other here with the Brackenridge Eagles of San Antonio because of rjght
three. Jackie Robinson Johnny 1 injuries. He still was not able to suit out for Wednesday's
Jorgensen and Carl Furillo, eamen practice because of a leg injury received in last week's game
distinction, too Robins are rated with the Breckenridge Buckies. David Guin or Dick Collins
an iroore for rookse-of-the-year h“- is scheduled to fill in for Dobbyn.________________________________
team would spend Thursday night a •
at Van Horn and would proceed 1 A
to Las Cruces by way of El Paso TATTIAG T
The team will arrive in Lass CruelTTEIEES BIAI
sometime Friday afternoon heW a tel W W • V M •
Coach Moore stated that his In-
dians are in good physical condi-ga • • •
tion for the Aggies R M "Pat"Y • • 2
Patterson 230 pound tackle is the I ■ As
on the McMurry R w W ■
squad. Patterson has a sore elbow I . e ■■“ 7 ■ "
but may be able to see consider-
able action I By The Associated Press
The Indian squad has been Highland Park of Dallas, one of
strengthened recently by the addi-the ranking big four of Texas
tion to the backfield of Bill Hare, school-boy football, opened the sea-
Floren Hoefer, quarter-back, is - i..» -iah+ with • 14-7 daision
also back in the lineup following
By The Associated Press
Ballinger had Big Spring against
the ropes today as the two clubs
traveled to Big Spring to wind up
the Longhorn league Shaughnessy
play-off finals.
Ballinger won 5-2 last night to
take a three-to-two lead in the ser-
ies and all it needs now is one
victory to capture the champion-
ship.
Dewey Jacobs fanned 10 and held
Big Spring to four hits while Bal-
linger was getting nine Gene Hix-
on, Ballinger center fielder, pound-
ed three hits in four trips to the
plate, drove in two runs and scored
two.
DALLAS, Sept. 18—UP)-
A battle of touendowns loomed
today as the Chicago Cardi-
nals and the Boston Yanks got 4.
into stand-by position for their
tilt in the Cotton Bowl tomor-
row night.
With explosive scoring noth-
ing out of the ordinary in pro-
fessional football, the Cards
and the Yanks offer even great-
er possibilities, with two of
pro football’s better pass peg-
gers. Paul Christman of the
Cards and Paul Governali of
the Yanks are the men to
watch. "
Rangy, cotton-topped Christ-
man earned his All-American
rating at Missouri a few sea-
sons back through the medium
of forward passes. Waiting for
his passes will be Bill Dewell,
formerly of SMU, and Mal
Kutner, the Texas All-Ameri-
can.
son last night with a 14-7 decision
58 battles set for tomorrow night
Top game of this evening sends
Marshall, one of the East Texas
favorities, to Dallas to meet Wood-
row Wilson. Other games have
TEAM
his recovery from a shoulder oper-
ation.
The probable starting lineup for
the Indians as announced by
Moore: 'Leslie Cowan, left end:
D. E. ‘Steamboat'’ Jones, left
Truman Nix, center: Mel Lowell,
guard: "Pat" Patterson.
right tackle: Rudy Haile.
right
end: Floren Hoefer or Vernon
Townsend, quarterback: Brad
Rowland, left half: Townsend or
over stubborn Sunset 'Dallas).
It was the only game of the
night. Five more are scheduled
tonight with the bulk of the week’s
SPORTS ROUNDUP
ors
BEST RELIEFER
Then there is fireman Hugh
Casey, considered the best relief
pitcher in the league. The Brooks
reserve are rated the best in base-
b*The Dodgers can clinch the flag
today provided they win and the
Cards lose They opened up a nine
Sna a half game bulge last night
bv defeating the Pirates 4-2 in
Pittsburgh while the Boston Braves
were shellacking the Cards 10 8 in
St Louis Any combination of two
can sew it up now The Brooks
have nine games left to play and
College Grid
Slate Is Heavy
Royce Smith, full back: and E. C.
Barry, right half.
The remainder of the traveling
squad: Marvin Sanders, Franz
Myatt. Wesley Daniel. E A.
Fluff ’ Myers. Bill Hare. Troy
Kegans, Aubrey Frazier. Bob Rei-
ly, Floyd Sampson, Edgar Payne,
Otis Holiday, Charles Austin,
Tommy "Doc" Ellis, Elmo Cum-
mins, Robert Ellis, and manager
Donny Holloman.
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Associated Press Sports Editor
Another Southwest conference
football campaign opens tomorrow
night as Baylor s Bears meet
the Cards 12. , ,
The battle for second place in
the American league continued to stephen F. Austin of the Lone Star
wax hot as the Boston Red Sox conference at Waco.
moved Into the spot a half game
to the good of Detroit The Red Sox
split their double header with St.
Louis while the Tigers dropped
both ends of theirs to the Athletics
Saturday four more members
swing into action, the feature be-
ing Texas Christian's clash with
Kansas at Kansas City in a night
intersectional headliner
Saturday afternoon finds Texas
A. and M. taking on Southwestern
in Philadelphia.
DOBSON'S 1-HITTER
After losing the opener to the university of the Texas conference
Browns 9 4 despite a three-run at College Station, Texas engaging
homer by Ted Williams, his 30th, Texas Tech of the Border confer-
the Red Sox won the second when ence at Austin and Arkansas play-
righthander Joe Dobson pitched a jng Northwest Louisiana State at
Fayetteville.
Stephen F Austin, which should
Fullerton’s
Grid Picks
By HUGH FULLERTON, JR.
NEW YORK. Sept 18 ——The
mark of success as a pitcher is
winning 20 games a season (re-
Douglas, Ariz., at Bowie (El
Paso, Gainesville at Poly (Fort
Worth), Cleburne at Stephenville
and St Thomas (Houston) oppos-
ing Jeff Davis I Houston
Tomorrow night the 1946 state
finalists. Odessa and Thomas Jef-
ferson (San Antonio) figure in the
feature battles. Defending cham-
pion Odessa journeys to Fort
Worth for a clash ’with rugged
North Side Thomas Jefferson en-
tertains the Temple powerhouse.
Other stand-out contests tomor-
row night have Childress at Ama-
rillo, Denison at Wichita Falls.
Brackenridge San Antonio) at Abi-
Apuene
Albuquerque
Amarillo
dorger .....
Clovis ...
Lamesa ....
Lubbock ...
rampa
Totals
PAID ATTENDANCE
1941
50,20
. 101 043
2.72011
44,602
00,20
177,621
619,901
1946
1%
*1=
54,114
103.73
658,796
| member when it used to be 302)
| and from all indications there
won’t be many pitchers holding
out for more pay next spring. . .
Two major league elbowers-
lene, Arlington Heights ’Fort
! Worth' at El Paso high, Sherman
at McKinney, Paschel I Fort Worth)
at Breckenridge, Crozier Tech
(Dallas) at Corsicana, Port Ar-
thur at Longview, Paris at Tyler.
Brooklyn's Ralph Branca and Cin-
cinnati's Ewell Blackwell —
have made it to spare with 21 vie-
tones each. Three or four others
still can attain the coveted 20. . .
And in the minors, the same situa-
tion prevails. . Figures for eleven
minor leagues appearing in this
week s Sporting News show just
eight pitchers who have won 20 or
more games .Top man on this
list is Clarence Beers of Houston
with 25 wins in the regular sea-
should win. A. and M. and Arkan- Schoolboy Grid
sas are not due to have much >
trouble. Taame Hara Cara
There are 18 college games for ICCHii Cre TdCC
Texas teams this week-end, eight ,
of them of intersectional nature RIcy irheruie
In addition to the Kansas-T.C.U. tllowure
tilt, McMurry of the Texas con-
ference will play New Mexico A Abilene's schoolboy footballers
and M at Las Cruces, N. M., swung into action yesterday after
Texas Mines of the Border confer-noon at Clyde when a portion of. .
ence will go to Des Moines, la., the Abilene high B team scrim-son And, judging by his attitude
to test Drake and Sam Houston maged Clyde High school on world series television spon-
This afternoon at 4 the North sors. Happy Chandler wouldn’t
okay Clarence for the big leagues
Austin 'Houston1
Waxahachie at
Charles, La., at
(Houston), Milby
Goose Creek,
at Texarkana.
Bryan. Lake
John Reagan
(Houston)
Brownsville
Orange, Waco at Austin
at
at
and
BIG SPRING
moreay, JO
McClain, 2D
Del 10TU. ss
stasey, rr-ce ...
marun, ef .......
mengoza, lb .... ..
varona, If
Bostick, 1o-rf ....
Baez. 1f-rf .....
iraspuesto, e ...
Cinaan, p --------
Totals ..........
BALLINGER
McMillan, M ....
Hixson, Cf .....
Williams, 1b .......
Harrison, If
Smithhart, 3b ...
Geiger, 2b
Springfield, rf ...
Sutton, c . .....
Jacobs, P ........
AB R HOA
4 0 0 3 1
Assault Has Sharp €
Workout tor Race
sault today had his sharpest work-
out since he began training lor
his match race with Armed at
3 Belmont Park on Sept. zi.
o . u > recovered from the loot
0 ailment which caused cancellation
0masen n Chicago last month.
0 the Texas Terror stepped out of
T 6
O A
1 2
veimone s main track and whirled
a mile in 1:39 4-5. Clockers report-
cu .ue 1946 horse of the year turn-
Totals . 34 s s n s
Errors - Moreno 2, McClain, Del Toro,
Bostick. Baez. Runs batted in — Tras-
puesto 2 Hixson, Williams, Harrison 2,
Geiger Two base hits — Stacy, MeMil-
lan Hixson 2. Left on bases — Big
Spring 6. Ballinger 6. Bases on balls —
off Cindan 1, off Jacobs 5. Strikeouts -
Cindan 8, Jacobs 10. Umpires — McMa-
hon. Russell, Meadows and Guntar
e1 the eight furlongs handily, es-
p.c.any since the footing was still
slightly “off" from recent rains
armed, meanwhile, was expect-
ed to have a gallop tomorrow and
a siiiier work on Friday for the
$100,000 winner-take-all mile and
a quarter match.
Full-Ti
Returi
Austin, se
@var days of i
turn for all 1
one beginning
Lone except
Texas field. v
producing day
- in order to ]
the oil reserv
Return of
production for
1939 was ann
Ernest O. Th
athe Texas R
was he issued
ration order.
The order
go-ahead sign
duction at m
operation was
a flow of 2,371
crude oil per
month. *
Production
field will be
one more day
mH P. Nichol
‘Oil associatio
reduction to
Wins in Tokyo €
TOKYO. Sept. 18—(P)— T-Sgt.
Alex Litman of San Angelo, Tex.,
struck out 16 and allowed only
three hits as the Philippine-Ryuk-
yus team opened the Far East
Command softball tournament with
a 2 to 1 victory over Korea.
AS
Sharpshooting Time
In Midland Area
MIDLAND. Sept 18—(P—You‘ve ,
heard the one about the fellow who
shot a hole in a target center boast-
ing his skill and then along came
another fellow and shot through
the hole.
Well, the shooting out here in
West Texas is that close. In sev-
eral skeet matches between the
Midland gun club and the San An-
gelo gun club 8,200 rounds have
been fired and the San Angelo
clubs leads by only two targets.
Brownwood at Kerrville. Corpus
Christi and Harlandale (San An-
tonio) open the District 15 confer-
ence race at Corpus Christi.
Buffs Spank Dallas
Rebels in Opener
HOUSTON, Sept 18 —— The
groggy Dallas Rebels send round
man Bobby Hogue to the firing
line tonight in an effort to halt
the surge of the Houston Buffs
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state will entertain Louisiana col-
lege at Huntsville There three Side junior high team entertains
games will be Friday night Ballinger junior high at Fair Park
Saturday night.’Austin college of stadium, and tonight the South
the Texas conference tangles with Side junior high boys invade Al-
Southeastern State Teachers of bany for • contest with the junior
Oklahoma at Sherman, University team there. Freshman team goes
of Houston of the Lone Star con- to Winters this afternoon for a
ference meets Centenary at Hous- set-to with Winters reserves
.1 Abilene’s Eagles play Bracken-
one-hit 4-0 shutout.
Athletics knocked the Tigers _____________________________.____
they be much stronger than usual, still | ton. West Texas State of the Bord-
er conference engages Tulsa at ridge high San Antonio Friday
Tuba and Daniel Baker an inde- night at Fair Park
pendent, plays Panhandle A and Then Saturday afternoon at 2:30,
M of Oklahoma at Brownwood the high school B team takes on
Other games for Texas colleg- Weinert at Fair Park The B team
won over Loraine 15-6 last Satur-
The 1_______
out of second place when J _______
beat the Bengal, 6-4 and 8-6. com- doesn’t appear to offer much of s
ing from behind in each game to test for the ambitious Bears, mak-
ing their start under new coach.
Bob Woodruff, late of Georgia
Allie Reynolds boosted his__
chances of hurling the world senes Tech
opener for the New York Yankees
when he pitched his team to a 5-0 have its hands full with Kansas,
win over the Chicago White Sox in rated one of the better teams of
the Yankee stadium He fanned |hp nation Kansas though, has
eight for his 18th victory. He has never beaten T C.V . even when it
lost seven. . was supposed to. Dutch Meyer has
Allen Gettel hurled a six-hit 7-0 the aerial guns to hurdle the Jay-
shutout for Cleveland over the Sen- hawks again
ators in a night game at Washing- Texas will encounter a rugged
ton to move the Indians within a team in the Red Raiders but
game of third place. ,----
Johnny Mize rapped out his 48th
and 49th home runs of the season to I4 n
tie Ralph Kiner of Pittsburgh for 11 ancners
the major league lead as the New | AOlus •
header with the Cubs in Chicago |
The Giants won the opener 9-3 and A T LI
the Cubs took the second game in IPOW HIRT
slugfest 12-10 VI ITGA LII
Johnny Vander Meer pitched his
second successive four-hitter for Forty-one Hardin-Simmons foot-
the Cincinnati Reds as he shut out ballers will leave for San Antonio
the Philadelphia Phils 12-0 in Cin-early Friday morning and are due
einnati Rookie Outfielders Frank to arrive in time for a light work-
out that afternoon in preparation
Texas Christian, however, will
Saturday — Howard Payne vs day night in their first encounter
Texas A and I. at Kingsville. East of the season.
Texas Baptist college vs Dallas! Games this week will open the
naval air station at Marshall,! season for the two junior high
Abilene Christian college vs South* teams and the freshman team.
west Texas State at Abilene, Hard-
in college vs East Texas State at
Commerce, Sul Ross vs San Ange-
lo college at Alpine, North Texas
State vs Brooke army medical
center at Denton and Hardin-Sim-
mons vs Trinity at San Antonio
Hubs Square
WT-NM Series
Marshall, Kilgore
Series Is Squared
■ » The Associated Press
Marshall and Kilgore carried
their Lone Star league play-off
series to Marshall today with the
battle all square at one victory
apiece
Marshall evened the count last
night by beating the Drillers 5-2
behind the eight-hit pitching of
Paul Kardow, who kept the Kil-
gore blows well-scattered.
Baumholtz and
each drove in three runs.
Tommy Tatum
Texarkana and
Wichitans Win
By The Associated Press
Texarkana and Wichita Falls
held two-to-nothing leads today in
the Big State league Shaughnessy
seven-game semi-final play-offs.
Texarkana whipped Paris 10-5
last night with a 17-hit attack and
Wichita Falls made it two straight
over Greenville 6-5 by scoring the
winning run in the eleventh as
Pitcher Nat Love walked Milt Sch-
roeppel with the bases full.
for the season opener against the
Trinity Tigers in Alamo Stadium
Saturday night
included in the group which were
selected by Head Coach Warren
B Woodson to make the trip, are
twenty lettermen from the champ-
ionship squad of 1946. including
nine former first stringers, eight of
whom are due to repeat as starters
for the Cowboys Only Strawberry
Row an. all-conference tackle on the
undefeated 1946 team. Is the only
former first stringer still with the
squad who is not slated for a start-
ing berth in Saturday night s con-
test Rowan, who suffered a knee
injury in practice sessions last
week has been ordered sidelined by
By The Associated Press
The West Texas-New Mexico
league Shaughnessy play-off finals
shifted to Amarillo today with the
series squared
Three home runs helped Lub-
bock edge Amarillo 6-4 last night
to even the count with Buddy
Ahrens and Eulis Rosson combing-
ing for a six-hit pitching job
Eighteeh-year-old Ahrens was
removed in the eighth when the
Gold Sox exploded for three runs
but got credit for the victory.
PIGSKIN PICKINS
Football is getting an early
gong:
Let's start right in to pick
’em wrong.
Mississippi vs Kentucky
If this is played right by the
rules
toward the Texas league champ-
ionship.
Dallas fell apart last night in
the opening game of the Shaugh
nessy play-off final series and took
a 12-1 licking as Al Papai held
the Rebels to one hit.
Football Results
Highland Park (Dallas) 14. Sunset
Dallas 7
— Jack Creel, who has won 15 and
, . lost 10, will be the starting hurler
Kentucky will be drowned in I for Houston tonight. Hogue carries
pooles.
Penn State vs. Washington State
The Dittany lion
Will have to be tryin’.
California vs Santa Clara
The golden bears of pappy
a 17-8 record to the mound.
| The clubs go to Dallas tomorrow
! but do not play again until Satur-
i day night They take time out to
Waldorf
Will win, unless the game is
see the Chicago Cardinals-Boston
Yanks pro football game
"I pegged ’em plenty higher
than $5’5"
called off.
Kansas vs. Texas Christian
The passes of Ray Evans
Will fill the Texas heavens
Michaels Resigns
| BISBEE. Ariz. Sept. 18—(P—A
i new president of the Arizona-Tex-
as league to succeed Gus R. Mic-
says
Major Leaders
By The Associated Press
AMERIC AN LEAGUE
Boston 339
Batting - Williams, Boston, 339 Mc-
Cosky Philadelphia and Wright, Chica-
go 330,
Home runs—Williams, Boston 30, Gor-
don Cleveland 29
Pitching— McCahan Philadelphia 10-4
714; Lemon. Cleveland 10-4 714.
NATIONAL LEAGU F
Batting - Walker Philadelphia 362
Cavarretta. Chicago 317
Home runs—Mize, New York and Kin-
er Pittsburgh 49
Pitching— Jansen. New York 19-5 .792;
Blackwell Cincinnati 21-8 729
haels, who announced last night he
would move from here soon to ac-
cept another position in Phoenix,
will be selected at the annual
meeting which probably will be
held in October at Globe-Miami.
Michaels, who in addition to his
post with the league was manager
I of the Bisbee chamber of com-
merce, said he had accepted a pos-
ition as sec ret ary-mana ger of the
Arizona Retail Lumber and Build-
ers Supply Association in Phoenix
Slugging Red Sox star
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than 200 trades and skills. YOU
can further your educational de-
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Get fell details at your Army and
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Doak Walker Expected to Give
Mustangs Spark for Winner
(This is the last of a series
discussing Southwest confer-
ence football prospects i
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
DALLAS. Sept. 18 ——If
h»
Expect for a thinness in guard 4
and tackle reserve strength, the —
Mustangs stack up with any team Yacterdav. Raculte
in the section Bell also says he Testerdoy « Results
TED MISSED THIS ONE!
We showed him 8 well known
shoes — priced $11.95 down to Thom McAn’s $5.95
— with prices and names hidden. Asked him
to pick out the shoe that cost the least.
Ted looked at 'em from all angles.
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Mike Dooley, Bill Serena and hasn’t already heard (which would
Jack Cerin got the big blow, for be a miracle > oung Doak Walker
the Hubbers. Serena blasting hi, | is going to have much in common
2 ===== FARAH =
lar season with. record-breaking nea the world around on his shoul-
, 1.I ders because Doak is only 5-feet-11
Coach Woodson. He will be re- The clubs play three games at and weighs , bare 175 pounds
placed by D N Taylor, Husky 220 Amarillo and if they don I decide But walker seems to be built just
pounder who lettered at the tackle | the seven-game series will return | right to fit into the gridiron plan, at
position on the undefeated 1946 to Lubbock. . Southern Methodist university and year, after this,
squad. The right guard post, va-AMARI O *■ a ■ 041- ... ... . .1 — -----
I cated through the graduation of Okrie M 5
| All-conference guard Al Milch, is Ruamen b .7.77.7.77 *
being filled for Saturday's opener Crues rf ------4
by Joe England 202 former tackle Dapert 36 : 4
letterman. The other position whichtamprien € ******* 5
won't be manned by a 1946 starter | ConermanPx .... 1
is the left halfback spot, left blank Heller a ............0
by the graduation of little all-Amer- Totals 33
ican Rudolph ’Little Dock Mob- | Lr SEUCk out for SpearAll FA o a | may argue that the competition
lev." It will be filled by Pat Bailey.' McAlexander. 3b 51 11 1 wasn’t so tough in those days and
170 sensation from South Bend I Samans 26 4122 2 that Walker will find the going
Richardson lb -.3 0 14 3 quite difficult in a Southwest con-
Rooney, *r 4.. I n P 2 o ference campaign expected to
Wilemon. if ............2 1 0.1 0 reach an all-time high in quality.
But you can’t argue that with
Coach Matty Bell and his assistants
out on the hilltop. Walker, they
say, would have been good in the
same kind of league two years ago
Doak was a star in service foot-
ball last year: he has returned to
S.M.U. the same coolly efficient
passer runner, kicker and thinker
of 1945 He is the spark of what
looks like the best Methodist team
Indiana who lettered as an under-
study of Mobley in 1946.
The other positions will be man-
ned by former first stringers: J W
Steadman and Bob McChesney at
ends. Leon Cooper at tackle. Jack
Ellison, left guard Red Cleveland.
center. In the backfield Coach
Woodson will have Al Johnson,
quarterback. Bullet Cook, right
halfback, and Virgil Dugie' Turn*
er, fullback
Babe in Texas Open
FORT WORTH Sept. 18 —
Rabe Didrikson Zaharias, U. S and
British Women's Golf champion
who recently turned pro, will de-
fend her Texas Women s open title |
at River Crest country club here
Oct. 5, officials of the City Golf
is rapable of carrying the team to
I J a high place in the Southwest con-
6 o ference race,
J 2 Walker gained fame in 1945 when
» 1 he came home from the service to
% % play just one month with the Mus-
0 0 tangs. He turned the Methodists
_ _ from a doormat to the best team in
24 8 the conference at the finish Some
Dooley, C ............41 110 0
Ahrens p ............3 0 001
Rosson, p ....* * . 0 0 0 1 1
Totals ...............336 9 27 7
Amarillo ...—*=***** 010 000 030 4
Lubbock 022 110 00x—6
Errors — Bauman 2. Lamprich 2
Richardson Runs batted in Crues 1.
Dooley 2 Cerin, Richardson Sullivan.
Serena Bauman 2 Two base hits —
Duarte McAlexander Home runs
Crues Dooley Cerin. Serena Stolen
bases — Richardson, Sullivan. Sacrifices
— Decker Double plays — Elias to
Decker: Okrie to Decker to Bauman
Left on bases - Amarillo 8. Lubbock 7
Bases on balls a T ANrens+. Spears 2.
Rossen 1 Heller 2 Hits off -- Ahrens
6 for 4 runs in 7 innings Spears 9 for
6 in 7 innings Strikenuts — Ahrens S
Spears 11. Rossen I Winning pitcher
Ahrens Losing pitcher Spears Um
nires - Rabe, Smith, Craig Barhour
Time — 2:09
Raps Proselyting
BEAUMONT, Sept 18 'A-Ath-
letic Director Bill Carmichael of
in six years.
Walker heads an imposing array
of lettermen— -26 to be exact. The
Mustang squad has three outstand-
ing passers including Walker Gil-
bert Johnson, ineligible last year,
is rated by some an even better
thrower than Doak. Frank Payne.
a sensation in 1946. may complete
more than either Walker or John-
could use more backfield speed
but since the boys throw the leather
so well maybe they won’t have to
do more than a modicum of run-1
ning anyway.
Key men of the team will be
Walker. Guard Earl Cook and End
Sid Halliday. Bell rates all three
with the best in the conference
Cook will be playing his fourth
varsity season. Halliday his third
LONGHORN LEAGUE
Big Spring 2, Ballinger 5Ballinger
leads final series 3-2 .
WEST TEXAS-NEW MEXICO
Lubbock 6. Amarillo 4 Final series
1-1).
TEXAS LEAGUE
Dallas 1 Houston 12 First game final
playoff
BIG STATE LEAGUE
Texarkana 10, Paris 5 Texarkana |
leads 2-1).
LONE STAR LEAGUE
Marshall S, Kilgore 2 Final series tied |
SOt THERN ASSOCIATION
Mobile 13, Nashville 4 (Mobile leads
2-0 in final series).
NATIONAL LEAGU E
New York 9-10, Chicago 3 12
Philadelphia D. Cincinnati 12____________.
Brooklyn 4. Pittsburgh 2
Boston 10, St. Louis 8
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 4-6 Philadelphia 6 8
St Louis 9-0 Boston 4-4
Chicago 0 New York 5
Cleveland 7. Washington 0
The top punter of the squad is Standings
Ed Green, who averaged 41.7 yards NATIONAL LEAGTE
last season before being injujred NATIONAL Wol5 Pet. on
S.M.U. has a star kicker every Brooklyn ......01 M Sa
season and this year there’ll be Boston ’ 80. si 544 12
several Bill Sullivan, Dallas fresh- New York ■• .........75 68 524 15.
man, can boot the ball into theeincampau : * 2 2 18 243
next county Philadelphia ...... 59 86 .407 32
next counts . Pittsburgh - 59 87 404 32 a
Among the new members of the amebic an LEAGUE
squad are three capable ends— j^on0^ 7s S 530 133;
Bobby Folsom, letterman before he Detroit 77177'^7 7s 68 534 14 *
went to West Point two years ago Siirsderohia ***
and who was on the first string Chicago ........ 67 78 .462 24′2
squad there last, season: Grady Weirton ”.■.■.■.■.. M M 543 33
Martin and Harold Clark, who
Walker, of course, has two more
The veteran backfield has Boh
ramsey at blocking back. Paul
Page at wingback. Dick McKissack
at fullback and Walker at tailback.
In the line the starters will be
Halliday and Dick Reinking, ends:
John Hamberger and Joe Ethridge,
tackles: Cook and Brownie Lewis,
guards; Cecil Sutphin, center.
They’re all lettermen and all ex-
cept Reinking, Ethridge, Lewis and
Walker were starters last fall.
were due to be the regulars last
year but suffered injuries in a pre-
season squad game that kept them
on the shelf.
Claude Hill, three times a letter-
men, furnishes good first line re-
serve strength in the forward wall
where he will play both guard and
tackle But from there on capable
replacements for those positions
are pretty scarce.
“We have a ball club that will
Association announced today
Entries of Betty Jameson, Helen Texas A. & M rapped the spread- son This gives the correct impres-
Detweiler, Beverely Henson, Patty Ing growth of athletes’ subsidiza- sion that S.M.U., once famed from
Berg. Mary Agnes Wall, Peggy tion in an address before the coast to coast for its serial circus,
Kirk, Sally Sessions and Jean Hop- ■ Beaumont Ex-Eagle club here last may come up with its greatest give the fans plenty for their
kins also were announced. 1 night i passing attack of all time. i money," says Bell.
Games Today
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn at Pittsburgh - Barney (5-2 |
vs Roe (4 14
New York at Chicago — Jansen (19-5) ,
vs Erickson 17-11
Philadelphia at Cincinnati — Leonard
(17-10! vs Erautt 13-9
Boston at St Louis night: — John
son (6-9) vs Hearn (11-7) or Dickson
(12-14), _____
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago at New York — Lopat (15-11)
vs Shea (12-5),
Cleveland at Washington (night) —
Embree (8 91 vs Kennedy 10-0 .
St Louis at Boston — Fannin 16-7) vs
Ftee 41-2
(Only Games). 1
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