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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Saturday Morning, April 9, 1955
SCOREBOARD
FRIDAY’S RESULTS
MAJOR LEAGUES
naas City (A) 10. Richmond OL>
shington (A) 11. Cincinnati (N) 5
ittsburgh (N) 10, Baltimore (A) 7
hiladelphia (N) R. New York LA)
TEXAS LEAGUE
Dallas 6. Shreveport I
San Antenio 8. Okishoma City 1
Fort Worth at Beaumont, ppd., rain
Tulsa at Houston, ppd., rain
Team
Dallas
THE STANDINGS
TEXAS LEAGUE
W
Blue Sox Beat Midland. Cagestiomh
14-8, in Seven Innings At Aggieland
, COLLEGE STATION, April B
ed up that inning with a triple, man homered with nobody aboard. (RNS) _ \bilene High School rank-
Tale singled, scoring Wollett Bier- Two Sox tallies came across in ed 8th after 36 holes of the third
man beat out an infield hit, send the sixth Ellison doubled to left, annual Texas A&M ir
Sam Antonio
Beaumont
Fort Worth ...
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Shrev eport
MIDLAND. April 8 (RNS) — Only
l ret.|80 fans sat in the stands here Fri-
• 1002 day night as the Abilene Blue Sox
i sei tripped Midland, 14-8, in an ex-
1 500 hibition baseball gam called after
» 23 the seventh inning because of cold
5 000 weather.
-
SATURDAY’S SCHEDULE
MAJOR LEAGUES
Pittsburgh (N) vs. Baltimore (A) at
Baltimore
i Boston (A) vs. New York (N) at
Richmond *
| Chicago (N)
| cleveitt & MUwaukee on at
Milwaukee .
Detroit (A) vs. St. Louis C) at St Louis
New York (A) vs. Brookiya IM at
| phi nscipnt" on vs. Kansas City (A) at
Wilmington, DeL. _
Cincinnati (N) vs. Washington (A) at
Washington
TEXAS LEAGE E
Fort Worth at Shreveport
Dallas at Beaumont
Tulsa at San Antonio
Oklahoma City at Houston
Abilene racked up six big runs
in the seventh to bolster an 8-5
lead, then allowed Midland three |
tallies of their own before the
Tate singled, scoring Wollett Bier- Two Sox tallies came across in
.......________________asssawas ..... ______invitation high
ing Tate to second. A misplayed Phillips walked and Bob Smith school golf tournament Friday with
bunt loaded the bases Barton sac-
singled, scoring Ellison. Wollett Brownwood in first place.
struck out and Tate singled, send: , Brownwood’s team total stood at
ing Phillips to third. A walk issued 598, two strokes ahead of Pine
to Bierman forced in Phillips u Tree High (Greggton) with 18 holes
Two walks were forced inby wild | remaining in the 54-hole tourna-
Midland pitchers in the Blue Sox | remaining
seventh, but Hughes, Wollett, Tate ment 614
and Santa singled. | Jefferson of San Antonio had 614
* Woodrow Wilson of Dallas 616 and
A ya a IE 1 , RI1 Reagan of Houston 619.
Marin. An FOfi LariON Nine Jack Cupit, Greggton ace, was
ICI IIII LVM I I wUls Ivlllv the 36-hole individual leader with
a one-over-par 141, including a
hole-in-one. David Boies, Brown-
| wood’s promising young golfer,
i came in one stroke back with 142
rificed with a fly and Tate scored
Another walk loaded the sacks and
Ellison hit into a forceout, scoring
Tate
in the third inning Tate walk-
ed. stole second and scored on Bar-
ton’s double, and in the fifth Bier-
WARBIRD SKYBIRDS — James Leonard (left) and Brandt Baize will represent Abi-
lene in the pole vault in the District 3-AA track and field meet at McMurry Stadium
Saturday afternoon Leonard has cleared 12 feet 3 inches this spring and is the fa-
vorite to win. (Staff Photo by Bob Gulley).
Chicago (A) at Comiskey | game was called.
------------ on ** | Manager Bob Westfalls Sox
see . . Lout, slammed out 14 hits, including
" St. Labs 9) AS Lease | three doubles, , triple and a home
run, in taking the second exhibition
decision over Midland in a week: Its s , won ngu T III
was Abilene’s third spring win are
against one loss and was the TICIC IOT LAllIUlllUll IUIIIUIII
fourth defeat against two wins "
for Midland. The Fort Carson, Colo, baseball
At least five Blue Soxers who had team coached by New York Yan
■ OL LaAnton been down in the hitting percent-kee second baseman Billy Martin
Jones I RU $ Johnson agts found the range against Mid- hits town Saturday night for an 8
land. Outfielder Joe Ellison slam-p.m. exhibition with the Abilene
med a double and a single in four Blue Sox.
trips; Scooter Hughes got one for It’s the next to last home exhibi-
three: First Baseman Jake Phil- tion for the Sox Sunday they close
lips got one for two alongside Bob out the pre-season games here by
Smith: Third Baseman Curtis Tate | meeting Odessa.
banged a triple and two singles: Fort Carson 'actually it’s the 61st
and Outfielder Tom Barton tripled Infantry Regiment team1 is load-
and singled. | ed with former college baseball
Catcher Howard Bierman slap- stars with a sprinkling of ex-pro-
p»d out a fifth-inning solo homer fessionals. Players from Missouri
for the Sox University, Auburn, Oklahoma.
Three Abilene moundsmen, Ken- North Carolina State, the Univer-
neth Wade, Marcus Job and Ed sity of Minnesota, Illinois, and the
Santa, allowed Midland ten hits University of Southern California
but walked ten Indians as well.
Midland tagged starter Wade for
five hits and three runs in his
three innings and got to Santa for
ST LOUIS, April B (—Ralph
(Tiger) Jones stunned George
Johnson with a left and right to
the head and left him helpless
against the ropes with a flurry
of blows for a technical knockout
tonight after 2 minutes and 1 sec-
ond of the fifth round of their
bout, scheduled for 10 rounds.
Jones weighed 158%, Johnson 155.
Favored Warbirds Host
3-AA Track Meet Today
By FRED SANNER 1 Coach Gus Snodgrass’ Brown-] Brownwood has won titles this |
Reporter-News Sports Writer wood Lions figure to give the spring in the Indian Trail Relays
„ Comet BoD GroeeClose defenda Ewe their smes competition # Brownwood* and the Brady' Re’
Ing state Class AA track and held but the Abilene team is an over-lavs
champion Abilene Eagles take an n ays.
Tone step SaturJ-y at Me- whelming favorite to win the title
Stadium toward proving and send a dozen to 15 men to heights and distances in all but
auZbentheLone the Region II-AA meet at Steph- the broad jump, shot put and high
Mrs assess enville April 23. jumps, so will be expected to low-
- The Eagles will host Sweetwater. The Eagles have gone unde- er most of the seven records that
Snyder, San Angelo and Brown feated this year while bringing are in danger.
wood in the District 3-AA meet home trophies in the Border Olym- Half-miler Bobby Mosshart will
which opens with preliminaries at pics. Southwest Recreation Meet, lead the Eagles in their onslaught
10 am. and winds up Saturday aft- West Texas Relays and Texas Re-on the records. Mosshart has run
ernoon. lays. Its second contingent finished a 1:57.8 this spring and owns the
Field finals open at 1 pm with fifth in the Cowtown Relays while old mark of 2:02.8 set last year.
the first track event scheduled the first unit was winning the Tex- The little Warbird will also team
at 1:30. I as Relays, with Don Burks, Jimmy Miller-
man and Bob Gay in the mile re-
lay. This quartet ran a 3:20.6 last
week at Austin, nine full sec-
3-AA TRACK, FIELD ENTRIES
It’s the next to last home exhibi-
Kilgore boy who played with the Ronnie McGraw led the Eagles
Dallas Eagles Spradlin is a catch- with 153 (76-77) after 36 holes. Ro
erland Snipes had 155 (76-79); Stan
It will be the second appearance Binion 158 (80-78); “d Clark
this year in Abilene for Martin. Hampton 171 92-791.
He was with the Fort Carson bas- | San Angelo’s Jim Davidson
ketball team when it was here dur- fired 170 and John Gandy had 171:
ing the winter, and he’s engaged to Forrest Daniel of Kermit had 163
an Abilene Christian College coed. | Sweetwater ranked ninth in team
Martin made himself famous for totals with 642 Individual scores
the Yankees during the 1952 and were Doyt Dill 148, Don Whorton
[ the 1953 World Series. In 1952 he 157, Henry Meyer, 162, and Don
made a remarkable catch of an in-Wafer, 175.
| field popup by Brooklyn’s Jackie | Brownwood scores were Boies
| Robinson The bases were loaded 142, Phil Lobstein 149. Billy Boysen
and two were out in the seventh 149, Bill Knobler 158.
inning of the final game, and the I A total of 130 players from 29
Yankees went ahead to win, 4-2. schools are participating in the
Then in 1353 Martin did the in- tournament,
credible and hit .500 for the six ------------
adorn its lineup.— .
Two Fort Carson teams are tour- | games against the Dodgers, getting
and is a good bet to better the
present record of 150-1.
four hits and four more runs in the |
last two frames.
Midland took a 2-1 lead in the
first inning. Abilene scoring one
run when Phillips lined a single to
lett, scoring Barton
But the Sox came back with three
in the second frame and
G. W. Davidson of Abilene has
run a 4:39.6 mile as compared to 5 never ,USL
the record of 4:43.2 and Burks of adopted." William Wollett open-
But the Eagles’ own better times. Abilene has cleared the low hurd- Outfielder William wouett open
les in 19.8 with the record stand-
adopted a lead they never lost.
ing at 20.1 his own.
THE BOX
Other top entries are sprinter Bil- ABILENE d4
ly Hollis of San Angelo, broad Mamtons, %
jumpers Ben Norton and Jerry | Ellison, r
Bob Hutton of Brownwood, sprin- muP 21
ters Harrell Hobbs and Dale Lit- Wollett rt
tiefield and half-miles Clay Reeves i Bierman. €
of Sweetwater and sprinter Jack Wade, P
x-Villodais
Spikes of Snyder
MEET SCHEDULE
12-YARD HIGH HCEDLES: Abilene—Hobbs: Smyder—Fred Cross. Wallace Lang- onds under their own 3-AA record
Don. Burks. James Brooke San Anre les. Tom Gavy, Morgan of 3:29.6.
- Encase, daw Giser Mor ***** AMEESEAE: The Eagle 440-yard relay team
.'T^^ri^ Jamer. *** bott Fiston Marshal Molli: nr~s- of Gay, Millerman, John Barfoot.
100-YARD DASH: Abilene—Bob Gay Jim Sweetwater—None: Snyder - Spikes, Pol- and Ronnie Mulhern has turned
Welch. John Barfoot: San Angelo Biy lard. Baxter. Kent Fields I in 43.1 twice this spring, as com-
Mo" nCEmP "Herron soles. OLF S.NTSAS n: pared to the Eagle mark of 43 9
pikes. Bob wood—Dale Middleton, Donald Chesser: last vear
Sweetwater—Gerald Pullig: Smyder—Harold c
• Books, Dick Martin. James Leonard of Abilene, Ger
MILE RUN: Abilene—G. W Davidson
Roy Long. Carter Conoway: San Angelo
Richard Flores Brownwood24
D-k M-A-P Epifamio Zepeda;
James Leonard of Abilene, Ger-
._____________Roy Jones.BROAD JUMP Abilene-Mulhern: ald Pullig of Sweetwater, and
Bob McCurry, Epifanio Zepeda: Sweetway I Hiouis: Brownwood—Jerry Bob Hut- Dale Middleton of Brownwood have
“Luff Bulier, Carroll Beni Ree - None: all cleared in the neighborhood
180-YARD LOW HURDLES: Abilene— HIGH JUMP Abilene L Danny Owen.
Tis. Gilger: Sweetwater Haryei Sayder Gilger, Norton: Sweetwater—Pullig: Sny-
Bud Morgan, Baxter, Berry, derJames Spikes, Ward.
220-YARD DASH Abilene—Ronnie Mul-
hers. Welch, Jim Millermam: San Angelo
Hollis Ellington, Abbott; Brownwood
Brown Elledse Ben Norton: Sweetwater- 3 %
Dale Littlefield. Bobby Hartzraves. Bobby 22991
McDonald Smyder — Pollard. Baxter, S
NYAED DASH: AbDene-Doux Pan- piscrs. abdee-Miehen. Vancr. Mein this event
er HenryColwell. Welch SancAnceio Moeen "Brownwood"" Chesser. Piper. Billy Mitchell of Abilene has
cope. Paul Piper Hendrix wheeler suet. Woodson: S-ete r oninerame dry sailed the discus 157 feet 2 inches
water—Sammy Glass. Scott Hamilton: Sny- der—Spikes. Dous James, Robert James.--
der—Johs Ward. Duane Merritt, Fritz
Smith
f sa feet in the pole vault and
the record is 12-1.
Jack Woodson of Brownwood has
tossed the shot 52 feet 4 inch
HOT PUT: Abilene—Jim Briggs, Billy
tchell. Stuart Peake San Angelo- and San Angelos Bob Smith, the
“by Smith, Gauntt: Brownwood—Piper, * 2 ,
= -; Sweetwater—Pete Cunning- defending champ, and Abilene s |
15 Smyder—Frank Minton, Walls Den-Jim Briggs complete a potent trio
PRELIMINARIES
TRACK
10:00—120-Yard High Hurdles
10:15— 190-Yard Dash
10:30—440-Yard Dash
10:40—180-Yard Low Hurdles
11:00—220-Yard Dash
FIELD
10:00—Shot Put; Broad Jump;
Discus
FINALS
TRACK
1:30—120-Yard High Hurdles
1:45—100-Yard Dash
2:00—440-Yard Dash
2:15—180-Yard Law Hurdles
2:30—440-Yard Relay
2:45—880-Yard Run
3:00—220-Yard Dash
3:15—Mile Run
3:30—Mile Relay
FIELD
1:00—Pole Vault: Shot Put
1:30— High Jump
Santa. p
TOTALS
MIDLAND ()
Jones, 2b
Deckman cf
Jiminez, rf
b
BalseP
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Pickens. P
22-Alvorano
TOTALS
x-Hit into double 1
2-Hit into force for----—
zz-Walked for Pickens in 7th
Middlecoff
alfwe
Leader at 137
SSe-TARD RUN: Abilene—Bobby Moss-
hart. Wayland Keesler. Fred Beall: Sam (
Angelo — Edgington; Brownwood - John
Brock Charles Newman, Max Yates:
Sweetwater - Clay Reeves, Duane Me |
Queen: Snyder — Jerry Shaw, George . •
===== But Bantam Ben 4 Strokes Back
water—Hartgraves Littlefield. Harvey,
Abilene Speedway
Reopens Sunday
By HUGH FILLERTON. JR.
AUGUSTA, Ga., April 8 @ —
Cary Middlecoff. the 1949 - Open
Golf champion who has tried vain-
round, gave Middlecoff a 36-hole
total of 137 Hogan, making a
the year before be „
victory, but the best 18 he could
strong bid after Sam Snead had
; set the early pace, was relegated
to second place with 73-68—141
shoot then was 69.
Abilene Speedway nine miles
south of town on the Coleman accomplished that feat with a 65
highway, will be a beehive of ac- today to take the 36-hole lead in
tivity again Sunday as stock car the Masters Tournament
racing opens up lor the 1955 sea- The tall ex-dentist from Me-
son phis and Kiamesha Lake, NY..
Modified stock cars, boasting shot one of the finest rounds in
ly to take the measure of the
Augusta National Course, finally Snead and the first-round leader.
i Jackie Burke wound up in a tie
for third with 143’s
A sensational putting streak cli-
maxed by a 75-foot putt for an
eagle 3 on the tricky 470-yard 13th
hole carried Middlecoff to the first
some 20 per cent more power than
the junkers, will take the track
Sunday at 2 pm. for time trials.
Races start at X
the history of this colorful tourna- 65 ever scored in a Masters tour-
ment, only one stroke over the
Masters record to gain a four-
nament. After Mangrum’s 64. three
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12 hits in24 at bats, two home runs, Midwestern Blanks
two triples and a double In the PCWCICT eune
.... .... .------,-------------first game Martin hit a bases- T u L
by Ken Stonecipher (former Kan- loaded triple and won the sixth ITIDE UOTCO, U'U
game with a ninth-inning single
His 12 hits was a new record for WICHITA FALLS. April 8— Mid-
six games, western University’s golf team
------------------blanked the McMurry Indians, 6-0,
ing the West Texas-New Mexico
League this week, the 61st, and the
40th Field Artillery team, coached
sas City Blues catcher1.
Included on the 61st Regiment
team is the name of Ron Spradlin.
Brady, Paschal Win
At Tarleton Relays
STEPHENVILLE, April » (RNS)
— Brady and Paschal of Fort
Worth shared honors in the fourth
annual Tarleton State College Re-
: 2 . lays Friday night.
• • • Brady rolled up 43 points to win
» * J the Class A and B division. Miner-
• • 1 al Wells coming in second with 26%
and Hamilton and DeLeon tying for
P1% third with 11 each. Cisco and Clyde
s • • scored six points each, Stephenville
0 1 % five and Comanche 4’1
• • ol Paschal had 45 44 points in the
here Friday afternoon.
Tom Bullard defeated Jerry Eng-
lish. 1-up. and Bill Bookout defeat-
ed Otis Ratliff. 5-4, in one four
some. Bullard and Bookout took
the team points with a 3-2 victory
over English and Ratliff.
=-**=====
other singles. Pappas and Smith
Jake Sandefer won a second for trimmed Hendricks and Bowden
the Buckies in the 220-dash, coming 5-4 in the team play.
in behind Crow of Paschal who McMurry has lost two dual
ran it in 22 7 Sandefer was also matches and won none this season
third in the 100-yard dash won by They appear next at the Odessa
Harris | College Invitation tourney in Odes-
sa April 16 The McMurrians will
play a return engagement with
Midwestern at Abilene Country
AA division. Weatherford was sec-
ond with 28%, Arlington Heights
1 (FW) was third with 25% and
Breckenridge fourth with 23%. Fort
Worth Poly got 19 1-3 and Fort
Larry Munnerlyn gave Brecken-
ridge another point, running fourth
in the mile It was won by Arthur
| Waldrop of Fort Worth Tech in
4:54.3. Harris tied for fourth in
the broad jump, won by David
Norvell of Poly with a 21-64 leap
Cotton gave Breskenridge a
Club April 22
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N A-L-in-nd. I Doug Crow of Paschal hung up
5 n»« points for top individual hon-
. ...........131 012 s—1 ors in th* AA division while Doug
MIDLAND 210 1013-4 Ammons of Mineral Wells and Bil-
RBFBarton 2. Ellison. Phillips 1 Smith ly Nicholas, Brady, tied in the
2. wolletts. Tate 2 Jieuman stout." Burns | Ab class w.th tea each
duncder 26 Barton. Ellison. Tate. 3B-1 Breckenridge broke the 100-yard
wollett Han e wet dash record, the 440-relay and the
Deckman DP—Hughes-Smith-Phillips Wil-440 dash record mark in winning
wse wWicride sosathe 2300 three firsts.
s. samta s. Pickens 7. Balse 2 So-Wade Clyde Harris knocked off the
2 Bale, 7, Pickens , plkeM S o 10 dash mark in the preliminaries
runs in s innings: off Job 1 for 1 runwhen he ran a 10 flat. That was
unrae saken * AM2 m-I tied by Don Cleveland of Stephen-
nings HBP—by Balse (Smith). W Wade ville in another prelims heat and
1-Balse. t-z» —clipped a record of 10 1 set two
years ago by Carter-Riverside of
Fort Worth.
Harris won the dash in the finals.
gained his Open I for second with an opening 71.
slipped back to 74 for 145. Julius
| Boros, with 71-75, came in with
fourth place tie in the high jump
1 Thirty teams and 425 athletes
entered, a record field for the
Texas Aggies Even
Series With Lobos
Tarleton affair. Windy afternooon ALPINE. April » (P—Dick Mundy
weather and a cool, misty afternoon
provided some discomfort to fans
Two records were broken in the
A and B division Joe Noggler of
Muenster smashed a 220-yard dash
record by running 21 7 in the pre-
lims. Floyd Reasoner of Mineral
Wells set a new mark in the pole
vault.
scattered five singles after giving
up a first-inning home run to Nor-
man Cash, Sul Ross leftfielder, to
pitch Texas A&M to a 4-1 win here
today and an even split with Sul
Ross.
Kelton Russell, in losing his first
game ol the season, struck out nine
and allowed only four hits- but wild-
ness led to his defeat
Purpose of the lewis and Clark
A&M 020 000 020—444-2
Sul Ross 100 000 000—1-6-2
expedition was to explore the Lou-
isiana Territory and discover a Mundy and Williams; Russell
land route to the Pacific
and Patterson.
running a 10.3.
John Cotton of Breckenridge
broke the 440-yard dash record
twice He ran a 51.6 in the pre-
lims and a 515 in the finals The
old record was 51.7 set last year by
Arlington Heights.
Harris, Dick Carpenter. Cotton
and Edwin Robertson legged the
although he bewailed a a big group at 146.
Sne 1, aitnougn ne Snead, grinning and talking to
the big gallery that followed him.
commented wryly after the finish
about the difficult pin position on
the big greens and said:
couple of wasted shots, also had
a fine round today, 36-35—71. He
was four strokes better at the 36-
hole stage this time than he was
a year ago, when he came on to
tie Hogan with a record high score
and then beat him in a playoff
Burke the first day leader with
• If it hadn’t been for those two
shots 1 loot on the 14th and 15th.
I’d be in a real good position
a 67, fell far off today, bitting his “It was the round of all rounds
shots badly and putting erratically for me,” he added. -Some of those
THE RESULTS
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Grand Opening of The
1955 RACING SEASON
MODIFIED STOCK CAR RACES
SUNDAY, APRIL 10
TIME TRIALS AT 2:00 P.M. — RACES BEGIN AT 3:00 P.M.
ADMISSION . $1.00 - TAX INCLUDED
8 EVENTS - 35 LAP FEATURE RACE
ADDED ATTRACTION - IS LAP POWDER PUFF DERBY
FREE Easter Egg Hunt at 1:30
FOR ALL CHILDREN 12 YEARS AND UNDER
ABILENE SPEEDWAY
9 MILES SOUTH ep COLEMAN-BALLINGER HIWAY
CLASS A AND B
100-YARD DASH 1. Doug Ammons.
Mineral Wells: 2 Don Cleveland. Stephen-
ville: 3 Joe Noggler, Muenster; 4. Bob
Line. Clifton. Time 10.5.
220-YARD DASH I Doug Ammons, Min-
eral Wells: 2. Noggler, Muenster: 3. Leon
Barr. Clyde: 4. David Cleveland, Stephen-
ville Time 22 4. (New record set in pre-
lims. 21 7 by Neggier)
120-YARD HIGH HURDLES: 1. Billy
Nicholas, Brady; 2 Ted Conner. Hamilton:
3. Bob Burris. Mineral Wells: 4. Don Mit-
I chell. DeLeon. Time: 15.7.
180-YARD LOW HURDLES: 1 Bill Nich-
1 olas Brady. 2. Mitchell DeLeom: 1. Floyd
Reasoner. Mineral Wells: 4 Dorman Rid-
dles. Brady Time: 20.7. .
440-YARD DASH: I Tom Davis, Gram-
bury: 2 Tom Reynolds, Cisco: 1 James
Womack. Clifton: 4. Jerry Nance, Clyde
Ha
17-
flags weren’t even on the greens
1 had to look three or four times 1
LUEDE
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Friday aft
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Wylie with
Old Glory
Trent, I
Taylor, ot
trict, did
the meet.
Hurdler
er Bruce
L. Thornt
double vic
ham of As
4 dual with
Graham
high and
ley, finish
daab and
third to th
Land w
yard dash
the 880-ya
The Asper
the oldest
clearing I
top ths 5-1
moot la 11
Cooley 1
Hawley ti
vidual poi
each.
Wylie •
high divis
hi Was 1
for a 76
Six strokes behind at the half-
way point, these two appeared to
have little chance of overtaking
the two pace setters 1
Alone at 144 was Bob Rosburg
of- San Francisco, who shot his
second par 72. Mike Souchak, tied
66s were the best previous scores:
made on this great course in the
usually the boss of the big course
Middlecoff putting like a de
stroke margin over Ben Hogan.
Ten San Angelo drivers, includ-
ing Glenn Simpson, the 1954 high-
point driver there, will be on band mon, had nines of
to help reopen the Speedway A
35-lap feature race and a 15-lap
Powder Puff Derby will highlight
the initial meet of the reason
TEXAS LEAGUE
Dallas 001 102/002-6 9 1
Shreveport 300 000 000-3 8 2
Singleton and Murray: Blanton and
Jones
Okinhoma City 000 000 0101 6 2
San Antonio 103 000 40x4 7. 0
Long, Bagwell <1) Taylor (5) and Tom-
Ainsom Diemer and Tabacheck
swn. nau sunes vi 31 and 34, seven
strokes under Augusta National's
par of 36-36—72, and would have
tied the record if he hadn't fal-
tered on the 17th green
Mangrum Holds Record
The record for the Masters and
for a competitive round on the
annual appearances of America’s
greatest golfers.
Hogan Shot Ooe
Hogan shot one of those when
he set the tournament's 72-hole
record in winning his second Mas-
ters two years ago
Today Hogan was shooting for
the lead after a comparatively
THE LEADERS
6,950-yard Augusta National Course
is 64, made by Lloyd Mangrum
in the first round in 1940.
This great round late today, fol-
lowing a par-72 on the opening
poor first round and he would have
had it except for Middlecoff’s sen-
sational round He shot 35-33—68,
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Hot Rolls, Butter & Honey 1.00
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Phone 4-4261
playing beautifully on the back
nine and never going over par
A huge second-day crowd, close
to 10.000, massed around the 18th
green when Ben finished, then
took out after Middlecoff It caught
him just about the time he put his
second shot on the hack of the
13th green then plunked in a putt
which was measured at 75 feet.
Before that Cary had canned Ed
putts ranging from five to IS feet
Cary Middlecoff. .
Kiamesha Lake, N.Y.......72-63T
Ben Hogan, .
Fort Worth. Texas ......73-68141
Jack Burke. „
Kiamesha Lake, N.Y.......67-76-143
Sam Snead.
White Sulphur Springs
Bob Rosburg,
San Francisco ......
Mike Souchak.
Durham. N.C. ........
Tommy Bolt.
Houston Texas .......
Pete Cooper.
Detroit ,............
x-Harvie Ward.
San Francisco ......
Skee Riegel.
Ithrn. Pa............
Julivs Boros. _ . .
Mid Pies. N.C..........., 71-75146
to find them."
One of the two lost shots he
mentioned came when he put his
drive on 14 into the woods, hit his
second short of the green and then
missed a 12-foot putt. He three-
putted the 15th for a par-5 after
reaching the green in two
On the 11th and 12th holes be
shot a pair of classic birdies. Sam
faded an iron shot over the pond
beside the 11th green to within 30
feet of the cup and sank his long
72-71-141 putt Then he slammed an iron
three feet from the flag on the
......72-12-144
......71-74—145
.....76-70—15
.....13-73-16
.....77-69-14
12-73—145
135-ysrd 12th. Snead got his par-5
on the 470-yard 13th in spile of
hitting into the creek in front of
the green. After lifting out, he al-
most holed his chip shot. Snead
collected his final birdie on the
18th with a fine approach and a 5-
foot putt.
MSYARD ELAT: 1 Hamilton (Elton
Couch, Bobby ‘Davis. Ted Conner Bob
Andrews): 2 Clyde: 3. DeLeom: 4. Ste-
phenville Time: 45.8.
886-TARD RUN: 1 Ronny Salter. Brady:
2. John Marcus. Glen Rose: 3 Velton
Evans Laneri (Fort Worth): 4. Billy
Boswell, Brady, Time 2:03.7
MILE RUN: 1 Jerry Mathews Mos-
helm: 2 Wilburn Meyers, Rochelle: 3.
Marcus Gallegos. Cisco: 4 Roger Groves,
Mineral Wells Time: 4:48.7. .
MILE RELAY: 1 Brady (Eugene Cor
nelins B lly Boswell. Charles Bode Roa-
nie Salter): 1 Tie between Comanche nd
Mineral Wells: 4 Granbury. Time: 3:38.9.
BROAD JUMP 1. Don Mitchell. De-
Leon: 2. Elton Couch. Hamilton: 3 Joe
Noggler, Muenster 4. Ronald McKenzie.
Hico. Distance: 21.2.
DISCUS THROW: 1 Vernon Ryan, Brady
2. Harold Price. Comanche: 3. Bobby
Weise. Bradv: 4 Winston Boeker, Brady.
Distance: 141.2.
POLE VAULT: 1 Floyd Reasoner Min-
eral Wells: 2. Bobby Burris. Mineral Wells:
3 Tie between Wilburn Shurtleff and Les-
lie Fisher, both of Brady Height 1214.
(New record. Old record 11-714 by Don
Willis, Paschal in 1954).
SHOT PUT: Boeker. Brady: 2 Byrd
Tracy, Brady; 3. Fletcher Fields, Brady:
4 Harold Price, Comanche, Distance 48-
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for birdies on the first, sixth, sev- W:
enth. eighth and ninth holes. He
also birdied the 505-yard 15th with
an 8-footer after driving into the
rough
Then with most of the gallery
Byr
Pet
Lion
rings. C#M.
"Texas
trailing him. Middlecoff barely
reacted the front of the 17th green > L
with Mo approach and three-put [
ted from about 75 feet away. That
N
n.....
cost him the record
it was by far the finest perform-
ance Middlecoff ever had shown
in the Masters. He finished sec-
ond te Claude- Harmon to 1948,
Jay
Denny
Ak
x-Bruer
Por
x-Denol
... 74-72—146
... 1-73-15,
......74-73-11
.... 75-72-141
... 15—147
5021—17
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... TITS—144
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