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ieorge Trautman To Be Guest At
Swatter-Colt Game Here Tonight
President George M. Traut-
man of the National Association
of Minor League Baseball will be
an honored guest at Sportsman
Pack tonight when the Sweetwa-
ter Swatters tackle the San An-
gelo Colts in the three-game op-
ener.
President Trautman will make
a brief talk to Sweetwater fans
and will witness the Colt-Swat-
ter clash.
* * *
The Swatters have won their
last six games and will attempt
to replace San Angelo as the
number four team in the Long-
horn League this week. Sweet-
water pushed the Roswell Rock-
ets into the cellar Sunday night,
sweeping ihe two-game series 8
to 4.
Saturday night, the Swatters
crushed the Rockets 4 to 2 with
Rollie Merrill copping the vic-
tory. Sunday right, Bob Sch-
wartz came in with some fine
relief hurling to down Roswell,
8 to 4.
Saturday's contest was a
rocky one for Merrill all the way.
The Rockets got the men on
base, but couldn't send the run-
ners across home plate. After
all, it's the runs that count.
In the eighth, things looked
bad for the Swatters. Manager
Kermit Lewis began to use stra-
tegy. He pulled Merrill and in-
serted Dick Mordido. Mordido
faced four batters—retired two
and walked two. With the bases
jammed, Lewis sent Bob Spence
ART CUITTI
. . . Sweetwater slugger hit
two for four Saturday and
two for three Sunday.
Swatter
Schedule
" Mon'fthy, A tig. <22—SaA Angelo
at Sweetwater. '
Tuesday, Aug. 23—San Angelo
at Sweetwater.
Wednesday, Aug. 24—San An-
gelo at. Sweetwater.
Thursday, Aug. 25—Sweet-
water at Ballinger.
Friday, Aug. 26—Sweetwater
at Ballinger.
Saturday, Aug. 27—Sweetwater
at. Roswell.
Sunday. Aug. 28—Sweetwater
at Roswell.
Monday, Aug. 29—Odessa at
Sweetwater.
Tuesday, Aug. 30—Odessa at
Sweetwater.
Wednesday, Aug. 31—Odessa
at Sweetwater.
Lamesa Takes Over
Second Place As
Abilene Drops Out
By United Press
The Lamesa Loboes moved in-
to second place in the West-Tex-
as-New Mexico League today
after scoring a convincing 10-0
victory over their predecessors
in the spot, the Abilene Blue
Sox.
Jack Guitierrez pitched the
shutout, holding the Blue Sox
to five hits while his team-
mates were banging 13.
Albuquerque held its six-
game lead by rapping Clovis, 9
to 7, on Tony Barnise's nine-hit
tossing.
Lubbock edged Pampa, 7 to 6,
in an 11-inning affair and Ama-
rillo sDlit a doubleheader with
Borger elsewhere in the circuit.
Amarillo took the opener. 11 to
3, but the Gassers came back
to win the second game, 9 to 6.
to the mound—a southpaw
against a left-handed batter.
Spence made Buzz Jackson,
the batsman, ground out and
that ended Roswell's scoring
threat.
Sunday (the first Sabbath
night game in Sportsman Park)
Marv Christensen started on the
mound for Sweetwater but gave
way to Bob Schwartz.
With the score deadlocked at
4-all, Schwartz set the Rockets
down with only three hits in
five and two-thirds innings.
The Swatters made three
runs in the second on a single by
Bob Dahn and three Roswell er-
rors. A double by Bill Hassey
and a single by Art Cuitti scored
another rur.. in the third.
In the fifth, Pitcher Dean
Franks of Roswell walked two
Swatters. Hassey came up with
another double, after Bill Peel-
er hit into a double play. Cuitti
again singled in Hassey.
The Rockets outhit Sweetwa-
ter Sunday, 12 to 7.
The Rockets used two of their
top pitchers in trying to stop
the fast-climbing Swatters. Vic
Michalec failed Saturday for
Roswell and Franks was the
loser Sunday.
Sunday's box score:
Roswell ab
Wilcox, ss 5
Neuendorff, 3b . . 5
Jackson. If 4
Browns Get Out Of
Cellar, Nameplate
Finally Moved Up
Hill, rf . .
Crues, lb
Bell, cf . .
McKay, 2b
Dilldir.e, c
Franks, p .
Faccio, p
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Peeler, lb ...
Jarech, rf . . .
Hassey, cf . . .
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ST. LOUIS, Aug. 22 (UP) — ! Bartolomei, c
The St. Louis Browns were out j Butcher, If .. .
of last place in the American j Roach, 2b . ..
League today, even on the stand- j Dahn, ss ....
ings board at their own Sports- christensen, p
Totals 38
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man Park.
The Brownie management
planned a grandstand gesure yes-
terday, dispatching a grounds
crew out to move the club up a
notch on the big board after the
Washington Se/iatars blew their
11th straight as the Browns spit
with Detroit.
But the crew ran into unex-
pected trouble. The Browns'
nameplate had reposed in eighth
place for so long it was escurely
rusted into position.
They had to hammer it out.
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Legai Directory
P. EDW. PONDER
Lawyer
Texas Bank Building
Sweetwater, Tex.
HIRAM CHILDRESS
A ttorney-at-Law
215 Levy Blrlg., Sweetwatear
BEALL & YONGE
Attorneys-at-Law
Doscher Bldg., Sweetwater
MAYS & PERKINS
Attorneys-at-Law
522-25 Levy Bldg.
Sweetwater, Texas
Angelo Falls Again
To Big Spring, 5-3
By United Press
The Big Spring Broncs today
needed to win eight more games
to clinch the 1949 Longhorn
League flag.
Perhaps four victories would
settle the issue.
The Broncs edged San Ange-
lo's Colts, 5 to 3, yesterday to
lengthen its lead to 17 % games
over the Vernon Dusters, who
lost to Ballinger, 3 to 2.
Big Spring moved over to
Ballinger to open a three-game
series, today.
In other Longhorn games yes-
terday, Sweetwater beat Ros-
well, 8 to 4. and Midland scotch-
ed Odessa, 12 to
Other series openers tonight
put San Angelo at Sweetwater,
Midland at Vernon and Roswell
at Odessa.
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SWEETWATER, TEXAS
THE ARM—Veteran Sid Luck-
man leaves his Chicago auto-
mobile agency and television
distributing company to put in
another season with the pro-
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New
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Venetian Blinds—Now as low
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Clear Varnish 5.75 gal.
Sun Beam Rain King
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GOOD RACKET —Baseball will never be topped as Japan's lead-
ing sport, and tennis holds a firm second place. Nippon expects to
export 125,000 rackets this year, with 4000 persons employed in the
business. Here a native of Tokyo and his daughter assemble frames.
Mustangs Will Meet Exes
Friday Night In Practice
Sweetwater Mustang foot-
ballers will begin camp at the
high school gymnasium today
and workouts will continue on
the practice field. The Ponies
will play the Ex-Mustangs in the
annual practice scrimmage Fri-
day night at the Mustang Bowl.
Head Coach Pat Gerald has
stated that the boys are coming
along fine and should be in great
shape for the first clash of the
season, Sept. 9 here against Ver-
non.
The Mustangs are being drill-
ed, drilled and drilled by Coach-
es Gerald, Ken Newton, Mel
Grigg and Glen Beard.
Billy Hooper is captain of the
'49 team with Riley Cross and
Wesley (Red) Rushing as co-
captains.
The Ponies have only two re-
turning regulars of last year's
IMGS
squad—Hooper and Cross.
However, Coach Gerald will
have six other lettermen back—
Charles Curry, D. C. Andrews,
Ronald Fraley, Bill Sommerville,
Charles Thompson and Red
Rushing.
Season tickets for the five
Sweetwater home garnet vill go
on sale Aug. 29 and 30. Place
of the sale has not been deter-
mined as yet. The tickets will
sell for $G.
The Mustang schedule:
Sept.. 9—Vernon here.
Sept. 16—Odessa there.
Sept. 23—Electra here.
Sept. 30—Carter Riverside of
Fort Worth there.
Oct. 7—El Paso High here.
Oct. 14—Midland there.
Oct. 21—Open.
Oct. 28—Abilene here.
Nov. 4—Open.
Nov. 11—San Angelo there.
Nov. 18—Brownwood here.
Nov. 24—Big Spring there.
The first six games in the
I Sweetwater schedule are non-
conference tilts. The Mustangs
are in District 5-AA this year
with Abilene, San Angelo,
Brownwood and Big Spring.
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YESTERDAY'S LEAGUE
Longhorn League
Big Spring 5, San Angelo 3.
Midland 12, Odessa 6.
Ballinger 3, Vernon 2.
Sweetwater 8, Roswell 4.
Texas l.eague
San Antonio 11, Dallas (>.
Fort Worth 2, Houston 0.
Tulsa 5, Beaumont 4.
Oklahoma City 4. Shreveport
1.
West Texas-New .Mexico League
Lamesa 10, Abilene 0.
Albuquerque 9, Clovis 7.
Lubbock 7. Pampa 6.
Amarillo 11-6, Borger 3-9.
American League
Philadelphia 8. New York 7.
Chicago 5-4. Cleveland -4-7.
Boston 4. Washington 0.
St. Louis 4-7, Detroit 2-8.
National League
Boston 5, Brooklyn 0.
Philadelphia 4-0, New York 0-
9 (2nd game forfeited to New
York).
St. Louis 1-0. Pittsburgh 2-8.
Chicago 5-1, Cincinnati 4-4.
STANDINGS
Longhorn League
Team— W L Pet.
Big Spring 81 37 .086
Vernon 62 53 .539
Midland 60 56 .517
San Angelo 57 58 .496
Ballinger 53 64 .453
Odessa 51 64 .443
Sweetwater .">1 67 .432
Roswell 49 65 .414
West Texas-New Mexico League
Team— W L Pet.
Albuquerque 71 51 .582
Lamesa 65 57 .533
Abilene 65 58 .528
Amarillo 62 59 .512
Pampa 62 62 .500
Lubbock 62 62 .500
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Clovis ^ „ .. 47 74 .388
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TODAi r> (.AMES
Longhorn League
Big Spring at Ballinger.
Midland at Vernon.
Roswell at Odessa.
San Angelo at Sweetwater.
Texas League
Houston at Fort Worth.
Beaumont at Tulsa.
Shreveport at Oklahoma City.
San Antonio at Dallas.
West Texas-New Mexico League
Albuquerque at Clovis.
Lamesa at Abilene.
Pampa at Lubbock.
Amarillo at Borger.
American League
No games scheduled.
National League
Brooklyn at Boston.
Only game scheduled.
GRAND CATCH —L. E. Lewis
of Bozeman exhibits the four-
pound, nine-ounce Loch Leven
which won him a $1000 first
prize in the Livingston. Mont.,
National Trout Derby, held on
the Yellowstone River. Nearly
2000 competed.
Maxwell Wins Lubbock
Tourney Second Time
LUBBOCK, Aug. 22 (UP) —
Billy Maxwell of Odessa today
tucked away the Lubbock invita-
tion Golf championship for the
second straight year.
He won the trophy yesterday
by beating .loe Conrad of San
Antonio, 6 to 5.
Maxwell had a 1-up lead at the
end of the 36-hole finals and the
morning's 18. He finished strong
on the last 18 holes, four under
par.
By Bud Worsham
LET'S BACK SWATTERS
If never before this baseball
season, the Sweetwater Swatters
need the backing of you Sweet-
water fans this week.
San Angelo, fourth-place Long-
horn League clubs, opens a three-
game series at Sportsman Park
tonight.
The Swatters are trying des-
perately to over-take the Colts
and get into the playoffs. Sweet-
water has won six in a row.
One of baseball's highest dig-
nitaries will be at Sportsman
Park tonight. George M. Traut-
man, president of all the minor
baseball leagues, will be an hon-
ored guest at the crucial Angelo-
Sweetwater series opener.
Along with President Traut-
man will be Longhorn prexy Hal
Sayles of Abilene. H. G. (Cy)
Fausett, Swatter club owner, will
probably be here too.
President Trautman will look
over Sweetwater's new baseball
park as well as witness the con-
test. He is expected to make a
brief talk.
* * *
STORY OF THE BLACK BAT
During the warm-up practice
Saturday night preceding the
Sweetwater-Roswell game, Busi-
ness Manager Frank Meeks did a
little bat-swapping with Bob
Crues of the Rockets.
Meeks traded one of Dick But-
cher's bats for one of Crues'.
The first time Butcher came
to the plate with Crues' black
stick, he poled one over the
fence.
* * *
HORSE RACING
Although horse racing in West
Texas is as remote as polo play-
ing in the Ozarks, we pass along
the following—penned by Dick
Kleiner, NEA staff correspond-
ent:
Have you ever had a particu-
larly bad day at the track?
The most annoying thing, one
horse player says, is that the an-
nouncer keeps conspiring against
him.
"Everything that bum says,"
this plunger reports, "is designed
to confuse me. You know the
way they call. Well:
" 'They're off and running,' he
says. Mine are always off and
walking.
" At the turn,' is another fav-
orite. When my horses come to
a turn, they stoy to signal.
" 'At the quarter." Mine never
have a quarter They're got to
change a buck.
" 'On the back stretch,' he'll
say. When mine gets to the back
stretch, he's on his back.
" 'Coming down the far
stretch." he announces. The
hayburner I'm on decides it's too
far. so he stretches.
" 'At the wire," is the last call.
By that time, that's what you'd
have to do to get in touch with
my horse—wire."
* * *
SATURDAY'S RESULTS
As far as Sweetwater is con-
cerned, the "right" teams were
victorious Saturday night in
Longhorn League games.
Vernon defeated Ballinger, 5-
10, with the great Monty Strat-
j ton pitching for the Dusters. The
fabulous player of ex-White Sox
fame drew a record crowd of 4,-
000 fans in Vernon.
Stratton, barnstorming Texas
j in a pitching tour, was technical-
ly made a member of the Ver-
non club on a five-day look. He
is not expected to stay with the
j club.
Stratton is the hero of a recent
hit movie, "The Stratton Story."
San Angelo sent Lefty Shelton
! against Big Spring again Satur-
I day. But this time Shelton
wasn't so lucky. The Broncs
won, 2-1. Ernie Nelson won his
13th games for Midland by beat-
ing Odessa, 11-3.
it's Simply T Jones
For Childress Boy
CHILDRESS, Aug. 22 (UP) —
T Jones is the name, please, and
it doesn't stand for Ted, Tee,
Theodore, Tom or Texas.
It could stand for terrific and
tenacious when it comes to foot-
ball.
But it's plain T Jones, without
any period.
The heralded Childress high
school back who starred in the
recent All-Star game at Beau
mont would like it be known
that "T" is a nickname.
A brother tagged it on a few
years back when he couldn't pro-
nounce "James Carroll—his real
name. It stuck.
It will be T Jones at Texas
University this fall where he will
be the bright hope to lead the T
formation Longhorns to great
heights in a year or two.
YESTERDAY'S STAR
Ferris Fain of the A's, who
helped celebrate Connie Mack
Day with six runs batted in on
a double and a homer for an 8
7 conquest of the Yankees.
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SMASH HIT—Marlene Bauer
was in fine form entering
quarter-finals of the first Na-
tional Girls' Golf Tournament
over the Philadelphia Country
Club's Bala course. The Los
'Angeles miss eliminated Judy
Frank of Alpine, N. J., 8 and 7.
Tulsa, Fori Worth
Keep Up Hoi Chase
in Texas League
Tulsa's Oilers were chasing the
Fort Worth Cats with their ac-
cellerator on the floorboard to-
day.
But Fort Worth warily kept
out of Tulsa's reach and main-
tained its two-and-one-half-game
lead by shutting out the Houston
Buffs, 2 to 0, last night.
Bill Loes of Fort Worth won
a pitching duel with the veteran
Clarence Beers, giving up only
five hits.
Tulsa scored two runs in the
bottom half of the ninth to spill
the Beaumont Exporters, 5 to 4,
with Johnny Bebber going the
full distance for the Oilers.
Oklahoma City chased the de-
pendable Hank Wyse and beat
the Shreveport Sports, 1 to 1. Al
Olsen, pitching for the Indians,
yielded only five hits.
Roy Sanner came off the dis-
abled list after long inactivity to
relieve Al Lamacchia in the
fifth and was charged with his
first loss of the season as San
Antonio beat Dallas, 11 to (i. San-
ner previously had won nine
straight games. Jerry Witte,
Dallas first baseman, hit his 30th
homer of the season.
AL Cellar
NEW YORK, Aug. 22, (UP)—
You couldn't blame the forlorn
Washington baseball fan for his
attitude of "Nats? Nertz!" to-
day as Clark Griffith's groping
Ghouls groaned into the Amer-
ican League cellar.
Here is a team which has made
a fine art of losing, it loses so
much, in fact, that it has be-
come in a left-handed way— a
vital factor in the pennant race. v
The Boston Red Sox have beaten
the Senators 14 games, and have
live more to play against them
this year. Thus the Sox may ride
to the pennant astride this
bumbling beast of burden.
By losing to the Red Sox, 4
to 0 yesterday the Senators drop-
ped their 11th straight, equal-
ling a previous 1949 high of 11
losses but still short of last
year's 18 in a row or the modern ^
major league record of 20. But
don't give up on the Nats. They
may set a record yet.
Since July 4 they have lost 41
of their last 47 games.
Last season, when the Nats
were working on that 18-defeat
string, pitcher Walt Masterson
quipped, "well, no matter how
many we lose, we won't go to
last place. There's always the
Browns."
But yesterday not even the
Browns couid give the Senators
u wisp of hope. They split a
doubleheader with Detroit—
winning the first, 4 to 2, and
losing the second, 8 to 7—to
climb out of the cellar by three
percentage points, making room
for Washington. The Browns
had been down there for 113
straight days.
The Senators bowed yester-
day to the seven-hit pitching of
Jack Kramer. It was his second ^
shutout and fourth victory of
the season.
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Blue Goose Scores
Dirt-Embedded
Results of Sunday's Blue '
Goose Skeet shoot at the local
range: £
General Whitaker 24, Mose j
Newman 24, Bill Sheridan 24, C.
A. Kirtley 24, Phil Sparkman 23,
Ike Gossett 23, John Mclntire 21,
PeeWee Pace 21, Z. Kirkland 20,
T. J. Harvey 20, Paul Turner 20,
Mark Gossett 20, Willis Davis 20,
Smith Adams 20, Don Smith 20.
Also Wade Rayburn 19, Char-
lie Morgan 18, Moe Reich 16, Wal-
ter Davis 13 and Bill Logsdon 8.
The Blue Goose Skeet Club will
hold it's final shoot of the sea- %
son on Thursday, Aug. 25, at 4
p. m.
The 11 children of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Biggs Coxe of Winter-
ville, N. C., all have names be-
ginning with the letter Z, as fol-
lows: Zylphia, Zula, Zaddock,
Zeber, Zazie, Zenobie, Zeronald.
Zesly, Zeolu, Zoara and Zelbert.
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