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Sox Split Pair With
Hubs; Clovis Moves In
d By HARLESS WADE
# Reporter-News Sports Writer
The league leading Lubbock Hub-
fars blasted three Abilene Blue
burlers for 17 hits were Mon-
K night to lake a 17-4 victory in
the opening game of a doublehead-
er, but fell victim to the cellar-
dwelling Sox in the finale, 7-4. The
Clovis Pioneers come to town to
night to open a three - game stand.
“The Hubbers tallied 14 of their
in two big innings — eight
markers crossing the plate in a
fourth frame, and six more
coming home in the seventh.
“Abilene’s Sox took an early 2-0
tad in the second inning, but it
was short-lived as the Hubs turned
on their batting spree that includ-
four homers booming over the
lift field wall. Center fielder Bobby
Fernandez clouted two of the big
blows, while manager Bill Metzig
and pitcher Rene Vega slammed
the other two.
Vega pulled the Iron - man trick
for the Hubbers, pitching both ends
of the twin-bill, winning the first
with a five-hit performance, while
losing the nightcap by giving up
nine safeties.
Herb Fleisher, southpaw chunker
obtained from Port Arthur of the
Gulf Coast Loop Sunday, started on
the mound for the Sox and buried
creditable ball for three innings be-
fore issuing home run balls to Met-
zig and Vega in the fourth. He
also gave up a four - master to Fer-
nandez in the third.
Palmer relieved Fleisher with
Bill Pitcher after two were out in
the fourth, but the righthander
gave up a homer, a double and a
single in facing six men and allow-
ing five tallies to score before being
relieved by Loba Gibson. Pitcher
failed to get a man out during his
mound effort.
Gibson finished the game for the
Sox, but wasn't too effective, al-
lowing the Hubbers seven runs on
seven hits in three and one-third
innings.
Lloyd Pearson, regular outfield-
er converted to a starting pitcher,
tossed an eight - hitter at the Hubs
to get credit for the nightcap victo-
ry. In going the distance, the Sox
southpaw effectively scattered sev-
en singles and one double.
In the twilight contest, Fernan-
des and Metzig paced the Hubs,
each collecting three hits in five
tries. Fernandes also clubbed in
six RBI’s.
Palmer was the big gun for Abi-
lene in the first tilt, collecting two
hits in three attempts, including a
triple and double.
First baseman George Forker-
way. third baseman Chuck Steele,
and Zubak paced the Sox at the
plate in the finale by collecting two
hits each. Zubak had a double and
round tripper. Palmer also collect-
ed a circuit blow in the second en-
counter.
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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Tuesday Evening, June ». IBM
DUMP BUMS FOR STH STRAIGHT
Redlegs Hottest
Team in National
Odessa Edges Colts
In 10th Frame, 3-2
By The Associated Press
Despite the high scores and lop-
sided wins in the Longhorn League
Monday night, there were three
strong performances. The best
one, ironically enough, was a toe-
ing one.
Mario Saldana, San Angelo hurl-
er, retired the first 14 Odessa bat-
Schmidt Hurts
Scrappers Over
Bottlers, 22-2
Kenny Schmidt moved into
eelect company Monday night
when be Joined teammate Stewart
Peake as the only three-game win-
ners in the Pony League
Schmidt tossed a four-hitter and
rapped out four for four as the
undefeated Texas Hide * Metal
Scrappers walloped Dr. Pepper's
Bottlers, 22-2.
In the nightcap, Lewis Wheat &
Son's Wheaties won their second
game of the year with a 1044 de-
etalon over the Moutray-Moore
Drillers.
it was the seventh victory
against no detests for the Scrap-
pers.
Aiding Schmidt’s cause were a
four-for-four performance at the
plate by second baseman Pat
Jones and a three-for-four delivery
by Peake, who played renter
field
A guy named Smith was also the
winning, pitcher for the winners
but no one seemed to knew his
first name. Smith, catcher Bird-
song, and center fielder Arden
each got doubles off losing pitcher
Alan Peake, brother to Stewart.
Walter Adams got one for two for
the tosers.
Tonight’s twin bill sends
Kiwanis Club against Looters
Jewelers at 6:15 and Centex
Machinery against Creel & Childs
at 8.
ters he faced, pitched five-bit ball
over the route and lost a 3-2 deci-
sion to the Oilers in the bottom
of the tenth inning when Roberto
Fabian rapped a 365-foot homer.
The last place Oilers defeated
the league-leaders before a mer-
chant's night crowd of 4000. The
defeat however did not knock
the Colts out of first. They lead
by one as second-place Carlsbad
was idle.
The Roswell Rockets easily de-
feated Artesia, third-place entry,
15-2 behind the eight hit hurling
of Juan Del Toro.
The Rockets Unloaded for 21 hits
on two Artesia hurlers and every
man in the lineup hit safely once.
The league's three-time 20-game
winner. Midland's Eddie Jacome,
reached the halfway mark in his
fourth big pitching year with a
14-1 win over Big Spring. The In-
dians helped Jacome considerably
by rapping out 16 hits. Jacome
has a season record of 10-3.
Macera Defeats
Blackley at Arena
Gene Blackley and Baron Von
Poppenheim captured the tag team
match Monday night on the weekly
wrestling rerd by whipping Roger
Mackay and Johnny Henning to
two straight falls.
In the main event, Blackley ten
victim to Lugi Macera, after
Blackley tried an iron-man stunt
at performing in both the feature
and tag teem events.
Bleckley won the first fall over
Macera to one minute with a
Boston crab, but Macera bounced
berk to take two straight falls
to the prelim the mad Prussian
defeated Henning with a Boston
erab in 14 minutes.
To Meet Friday
PITTSBURGH un—Pres. David
J McDonald of the CIO United
Steelworkers summoned his big
union’s top policy makers to ses-
sions here Friday, June 12, bring
tag speculation they will be asked
to okay a steel wage agreement
Longhorn League
To Remain Intact
With Seven Teams
MIDLAND, Tex., ---The Long-
horn League, after losing the Win-
ters-Ballinger team late Friday,
will operate as a seven team
league for the rest of the season.
League directors voted yester-
day to continue with seven clubs
since none of the clubs offered to
drop out There were no big offers
from soother city to adopt the
orphan club owned by Hal Webb.
The only alternative, continuing
with the club as a awed team, was
not popular with any directors
The league will now have three
games each night and the seventh
etab. the team originally scheduled
be idle. This means no schedule
revision was necessary.
The last-place Winters-Ballinger
Eagles came into existence May
a after Lamesa folded
Three home games were played
b ythe Eagles—all losing efforts-
sad after an opening night crowd
of 1800 only 1600 fans looked in
on the second and third games
Webb then said be was giving up
the club
Webb has five ball players still
under contract and meet dispose
of them within 15 days.
League directors fined a price
of 21 plus tax as the admission
for the July 30 all-star game here.
They decided to feature the New
Mexico members against the four
Tessa clubs in the league
Palmer
SOFTBALL RESULTS
INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE
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COMMERCIAL LEAGUE _
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Mackey Conquers
Optimists, 11-2
Pitchers Don Baker and Jim
Leonard hurled six-hit ball Monday
afternoon to the Teen Age League
to lead Mackey Company to ■ 11-1
victory over the Optimists.
It was the first victory of the
year for Mackey Company. How-
ever, they hold a Me with West
Texas Utilities that le scheduled
to be played off later this week.
Sherrill Hicks pared the Mackey
batting attack collecting three hits
to four trips, including one
double Cullen Hunt stemmed a
home run for the Mackey nine
The Optimists were led by see-
and baseman H. E. Dunlap, who
garnered two hits to two times at
Bet.
Johnny Lenker and Rogers tolled
on the mound for the losers, al-
lowing Mackey sluggers only eight
hits. The Optimists committed six
errors.
home one run and two more scored
on a triple by Matt Batts in the
seventh-inning rally.
Cincinnati got ahead in a hurry
at Brooklyn, scoring twice in the
first inning on Bell's two-run
homer and then adding five more
in the fourth on five singles, includ-
ing a two-run blow by Bell, and
a pair of walks.
The Giants and Cubs both suffer-
ed fielding collapses that would
have looked pretty bad in a class
D league.
By BEN PHLEGAR
AP Sportswriter
Rogers Hornsby, reportedly on
M the skids ss manager of Cincinnati
5 as recently as a week ago, was
chi riding high today with a five-game
winning streak and the sluggingest
club in the majors, a
S With the advent of June the hit-
happy Redlegs have busted out all
over. They've pulverized opposi-
tion pitching for 65 hits in their
last five games, producing 44 runs
0 in their longest victory string of
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PHILLIES’ LOPATA SCORES ON WILD THROW — Stan Lopata, Philadelphia Phillies
catcher, scores under a wild throw to the plate by Chicago Cubs pitcher Paul Minner, who
was backing up third base, although Catcher Joe Garagio’a stretches for the ball. This ac-
tion occurred in Monday’s game in the second inning. Lopata was en route to third on
Bob Miller’s single to centerfield when Fielder Frank Baumholtz threw wild, so Lopata
sped home. Minner's overthrow to the plate allowed Miller to score also. (AP Wirephoto)
Borger Take 4th Place After
the season. | At the Polo Grounds the New
The word was spread late last Yorkers, ahead 2-1. presented Mil-
month that the Cincinnati players waukee with four unearned runs
were fed up with Hornsby and his in the sixth inning on three errors
iron hand rule. The club was down, and one lonely hit. with the gates
both mentally and in the standings, opened, the Braves poured in seven
But on their current road trio more runs in the next two frames
the Redlegs are playing at a 750 to move ahead 12-2 before the
clip, winning six of eight, including
an 8-5 verdict last night over the
Brooklyn Dodgers, who were trying
for five in a row of their own.
Starring in the revival are slug-
gers Gus Bell and Ted Kluszewski
and relief ace Frank Smith. Bell
has driven In 10 runs in the last
five games. His 11 hits over that
span include six for extra bases.
Big Klue hammered his 16th home
run last night moving within one
of the league lead
Smith has the National League's
best pitching average. He won his
fifth straight game as he took over
from wobbly Howie Judson at
Brooklyn in the fourth and pro.
tected the Redlegs' lead.
more runs in the next two frames
Giants quite recovered.
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Max Surkont registered victory '
No 7 for Milwaukee against one
loss with Sal Maglie taking the
defeat, his first at the hands of
the Braves in two seasons.
At Connie Mack Stadium the
Cubs committed four errors In the
second inning which permitted the
Phillies to score four runs—their
eventual margin of victory.
Steve Ridzik, who took over from
Bob Miller in the fifth inning, was
the Philadelphia winner over Paul
Minner.
Steve Bilko doubled home Red
Schoendienst with the tie-breaking
St. Louis run in the top of the 12th
at Pittsburgh and rode in on a
single by Rip Repulski. The rally
climaxed a pitcher's battle in
which Paul Lepalm, knuekleballing
southpaw of the Pirates, struck out
11 and walked only three in 11
innings. He was lifted for a pinch-
hitter and the winning runs came
off Johnny Hetki.
Four hurlers tolled for the Cardi-
nals with Al Brazle, the third man,
getting the decision.
Sweeping Twin Bill From Dukes
the Dukes. It was the fifth straight in the six-run sixth. Charlie Deal
setback for Albuquerque.
Hitting honors went to center-
fielder Pat Lorenzo of the Gassers
who got six hits, including two
homers, two doubles and a triple.
Lubbock hurler Rene Vega tried
the old iron man stunt at Abilene
but it got old i nthe second game.
He won the opener on five hits but
was nicked for nine blows and the
loss in the nightcap.
Clovis snapped its four - game
loaing streak and stopped Amaril-
lo’s winning streak at three games
at Amarillo.
Amarillo got four hits off veteran
Red Dial in the ninth but manager
Jim Matthews lined out with two on
to end the game. The loss went to
starter Jack Venable, knocked out
By The Associated Press
The Borger Gassers rode their
six - game West Texas-New Mex-
ico league winning streak into
fourth place last night, sweeping
both ends of a twin bill to tumble
the Albuquerque Dukes to sixth.
The Gassers hammered out an 8-4
victory in the first game then came
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back to outslug the Dukes 19-10 in
the free-scoring nightcap.
In the other doubleheader last
night, the top and bottom clubs split
with the league leading Lubbock
Hubbers taking the first 27-4 and
s Abilene winning the second 7-4.
finished.
Plainview also had a rally going
in the ninth but it ended just as
badly as the Amarillo uprising. Vet-
eran rightbander Max Molberg
came on with a run with the bases
loaded and none out. He got the
next three men out without allow-
ing a run.
The victory went to Ed Hughes
who had taken over from starter
Ben Quintana in the fourth. The
loss went to starter Lee Gatewood,
chased in the fourth.
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Lubbock 17-4, ABILENE 4-1
Pampa 10, Plainview •
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Houston 4, Oklahoma City 1
Sam Astente 4. Tulsa # .
Fort Worth R. Beaumont •
Dallas 1. Shreveport •
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Lomgyly 1 Texarkana •
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Clovis snapped Amarillo's win-
ning streak at three games, 13-10.
and Pampa got a fine relief job
from Max Molberg to nip Plainview
10-8 in the other games.
John Flowers with help from Joe
Borrego in the seventh, won the
opener for Borger with the loss go-
ing to Len Santos.
Gus Rodrigues went all the way
to pick up the second game victory
—a loosely played affair—with the
loss going to Bryan McGoldrick of
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for Paris today, en route to the
U. S. He declined comment on ____________
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Cincinnati's most recent success
was a bitter pill for the Dodgers,
who slipped a full game behind the
Milwaukee Braves. The Braves
plastered the New York Giants,
12-8, in an afternoon contest.
The St. Louis Cardinals, who had
lost five straight, battled 12 innings
against the Pittsburgh Pirates,
winless in their last four starts,
before picking up a 5-3 triumph.
Philadelphia defeated Chicago, 7-3,
in the other National League game.
In the only American League
contest the Detroit Tigers finally
won a game after 12 setbacks in-
terspersed with two extra-inning
ties. The Tigers scored four runs
in the seventh inning to whip Bos-
ton, 6-3, for their first success
since May 22.
A single by Walt Dropo brought
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