Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 69, Ed. 1 Friday, August 15, 1941 Page: 2 of 8
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llm Competition
50 and 50 entries in
Sweetwater regatta
pHpHored by the Sweetwater
fcitor Chamber of Commerce
jcpected by the deadline
flay noon.
. boat races will start at
n. Sunday under the rules
illations of the West Tex-
at circuit which limits the
1 to service type boats.
eVen races are planned. The
it is for 16 h.p. boats and two
ts of five miles each will be
, -Second, 22 h.p. boats, two
„ts, five miles; third, 33 h.p.
jats, two heats, five miles; and
iirth, a free for all race, 10
es in length.
xty per cent of the total
_■ receipts up to $30 per race
) to the winning drivers. First
ze is $15, second prize, $10,
third prize, $5.
f$tteoes will be run with as lit-
tle delay between heats as pos-
sible, officials declared.
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Abilene Eagles
Enter Training
ABILENE—The Abilene Ea-
gles plan to leave Sunday for
a boys’ camp near Kerrville to
harden themselves for football
this fall.
Coach Vernon Hilliard hopes
to have every 1941 prospect on
the trip. No football practice is
planned.
boston’s Martin
Misses No - Hitter
By United Press
A brief glimpse of daylight
and the San Antonio Missions
were back in the Texas League
cellar Friday.
The man who put them there,
almost single-handedly, was
pitcher Fred Martin of the
league-leading Houston Buffs.
While his team mates relaxed,
making five errors, Martin last
night barely missed baseball’s
hall of fame. He blanked the
Missions, 8-0, but relinquished
one hit, a single in the third
inning.
Beaumont’s Exporters replac-
ed the Missions in seventh place
by splitting a doubleheader with
Shreveport. The Sports took the
opener, 5-1, ringing up 12 hits
to nine for Beaumont. The Ex-
porters made three hits count
for a 1-0 victory in the second
game.
At Fort Worth, the D|allas
Rebels took a 10-0 shellacking,
one of thier worst of the year.
It was the first Fort '.Vorth
victory over Dallas since early
season.
Oklahoma City’s Indians sal-
vaged the second game of a twin
bill with Tulsa, 3-2, after losing
the opener, 10-4. The Oilers were
charged with four bobbles in the
first game but outhit Oklahoma
City 13-10. Coming from behind
in the nightcap, the Indians tied
the score in the fifth inning and
won in the last half of the sev-
enth.
Friday’s schedule: Dallas at
Fort Worth, Tulsa at Oklahoma
City, Houston at Shreveport,
Beaumont at San Antonio.
Thursday’s results:
(First game)
Shrveport Oil 000 030— 5 12 .0
Beaumont 000 100 000— 1 9 1
Grove and Friar; Gann and
Unser. i.ijig;
(Second game)
Shreveport .000 000 0— 0 5 0
Beaumont ... 000 010 x— 1 3 1
Thomas and Jordan; Easton
and Unser.
(First game)
Tulsa ... .300 003 211—10 13 4
Okla. City 100 030 000— 4 10 1
Tubb, Wyse (5) and Hernan-
dez; Lopat, Fisher (6), Jones (S
Marleau (9) and Gillespie.
(Second game)
Tulsa ......200 000 0— 2 6 4
Okla. City . 001 010 1— 3 7 1
Davis and Zydowsky; Touch-
stone and Gillespite.
Dallas ... .000 000 000— 0 6 2
Ft. Worth 022 010 23x—10 14 0
Humphrey, Beasley (8) and
DDews; Caldwell and Easter-
wood.
San Tone 000 000 000— 0 1 2
Houston . .310 211 OOx— 8 9 5
Scott, McManus (6) and Gru-
be; Martin and Burmeister.
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BASEBALL
By UNITED PRESS
Chicago (Mooty 5-5) at Cin-
cinnati (Riddle 12-2).
New York (Carpenter 7-4) at
Philadelphia (Johnson 4-7) —
Night.
St. Louis (White 14-3) at
Pittsburgh (Heintzelman 7-8).
(Only games scheduled.)
American League
Cleveland (Smith 8-8) at Chi-
cago (Rigney 8-10)—Night.
Detroit (Trout 7-6) at St. Louis
(Moncrief 7-6)—Night.
Boston (Johnson 4-3) at Wash-
ington (Carrasquel 5-0).
Philadelphia (Knott 10-9) at
New York (Peek 4-2).
Fiddler McGee
Wins For Giants
After Drouth
Yankees Pound Nate
Twice In Bargain
BIB; Cubs Win
By GEORGE KIRKSRY
United Press Correspondent
NEW YORK — (UP) — Call
out the band in Batchtown
(Hi.), flash the lights along old
Broadway, shout It from the
heights of Coogan’s Bluff—Fid-
dler Bill McGee of the New York
Giants finally won a ball game
after four long months of de-
feat and despair.
Slugging Against Joe
By HARRY FERGUSON
United Prow Sports Editor
NEW YORK — (UP) — He
threw a green bath rode off his
shoulders, shook hands witb a
couple of sports writers and got
down to business.
“I’m going out slugging,’’ he
said. “If Louis wants to slug
with me, okay. I’ll take one from
him to land one and I’ll keep It
up as long as he wants to play
that way.”
It was Lou Nova talking-
talking in the dingy, hot Pio-
neer Gymnalsum where he had
______________ come to start getting ready for
It may not mean much in the the most Important evening in
general scheme of baseball his life, the evening of Sept. 19
things, but in McGee’s home- when he crawls into a ring in
town of Batchtown, and in the Yankee Stadium and takes his
haunts of Giant fans and to Me- shot at the heavyweight Cham-
Gee himself Thursday’s 4-3 tri- pionship of the world.
------“why don’t you fight him out
of a crouch like Godoy and Ga-
umph over the Braves couldn’t
have been more precious if it —------------- - -
had clinched the flag. McGee lento did?” somebody^ asked,
was just about ready to hang
himself.
“I don’t have to,” Nova said.
“I can take a punch better than
In that strange, mysterious be_can, andUi[_®a,ioha”d
way fate frowns on ball players,
wav fate frowns on ban players, almost 88 h“rdh“ ^
McGee, after winning 16 games t'^'0[1°t *®ticl^”there and knock
Then, as all interviews with
last season, was traded off by
2“ ^'U'Sl'SKS a? «*•=>■! >-«-«
throttle the Braves .with seven
hits.
Oddly enough, the
was sent to the Cards (along
with a bundle of cash) ran into
an unaccountable slump after
a brilliant start. Harry Gum-
bert won five of his first six
games with the Cards, and
pitched a couple of four hit-
See GIANTS Page 7
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“cosmic punch,” his idea that
he has learned to punch with
man who 8ravity instead of against it, his
man wno supreme confidence that no man
who ever lived can hit him hard
enough to send his senses reel-
ing and send him to the canvas.
He talked about his theories
seriously and eagerly, he polite-
ly asked the sports writers not
to ridicule them until he had a
chance to test them in the heat
of battle. And, so help me, as
you listened to the big guy
standing there among the punch-
ing bags and exercise bars you
began to get a hunch that here
might be the one who would
turn the trick at which so many
Four Golfers
Advance In City
Tournament
Three golfers in the cham-
pionship flight and one in the
first, advanced in the annual
city invitation golf tournament
Thursday.
Laurance Priddy defeated Ed
Patton, 3 and 2; Jack Patton eli-
minated Chas. Hodges, 2 and 1;
and Paul Comolli lost to Carl
Pratt, 4 and 3.
In the first flight, Grady Nor-
ris beat Bill Sheridan, 6 and 5.
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Oilers Battle
Sparkplugs In
Softball Tilt
The Gulf Oilers are slated to
play the Sparkplugs at 8 p. m.
Friday in a league softball fray
at the city park diamond.
Thursday night’s softball
games were rained out. Gulf and
Gyp will make up their league
game later and the Snyder Lions
are slated to meet the Sweet-
water Lions club here next
Tuesday night.
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MAJOR LEADER5
By UNITED PRESS
Five leading batters.
American League
Player, Club G AB R H Pet.
W’ms. Bos. 101 326 97 133 .408
Travis. W. 106 428 71 157 .307
DiMag, N.Y. 118 467 111 169 .326
S’bert, Phil. 100 385 53 132 .343
C’bine, S. L. 106 355 64 121 .341
National League
Hopp, S. L. 90 274 61 91 .332
Reiser, Bk. 94 366 79 120 .328
Etten, Phil. 104 372 55 121 .325
Mize, S. L. 92 352 54 .114 .324
Cooney, Bos. 91 342 38 110 .322
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ALARM CLOCKS
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MILK OF MAGNESIA
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NAPKINS
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WT-NM LEAGUE
By United Press
(First game)
Clovis ......000 000 0— 0 6 1
Borger .....300 HOx— 5 8 1
(Seven innings by agreement)
Hewitt, Wyatt and Warren;
Jennings and Monroe.
(Second game)
Clovis ..... 120 010 2— 6 9 4
Borger .....000 000 0— 0 1 3!
Bond and Warren; Vannoy
and Monroe.
Lubbock 000 000 030— 3 8 0
Bier Soring 021 102 OOx— 6 13 3
Sullivan, Heinz and Castino;
Ramsdell and Ratliff.
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Pampa . 100 030 51x—10 19 4
Crider, Decroo, Thurman and
Decarlo; Glab and Reynolds.
Wicht FIs 000 202 300— 7 7 2
Lamesa . 001 000 030— 4 12 4
Rossi and Brown; Arroyo and
Janecki
others have failed.
You tried to argue yourself
out of it, tried to tell yourself
that any man who went out to
punch with Louis was commit-
ting suicide. A picture of Nova
lying on the canvas with Louis
—dead-panned but alert—stand-
ing over him flashed through
your mind. It is a picture you
have seen so many times in so
many rings.
But always your attention was
brought back to the bronzed
giant who stood there talking
so quietly and so confidently:
“I really think that I’m in
perfect condition for the .first
time In my life. I have been up
in Maine, you know, and I nev-
er had this feeling about my
condition before. I weigh about
210 now, and I think I’ll go into
the ring weighing about 202."
Another heavyweight with
what people called screwy ideas
talked that way one time, and
that would be Gene Tunney just
before he tackled Jack Dempsey
the first time. He said he was
going to walk out when the bell
rang and nail Dempsey on the
Jaw. And he did, and the great
mansssa mauler never recover-
ed from it. Tunney, too, went in-
to the woods and came out
brown, tough and lean.
Don’t get me, wrong. At this
distance and it this time I’m
not saying that Nova is going
to beat Louis. I’m just trying
to get into words the hunch
that arrived and kept coming
back Thursday as Nova talked
and shadow-boxed in the pio-
need.
Lady luck likes these guys
who fear nothing. She likes ’em
to be willing to take a punch >o
land one. And I for one will not
be too surprised if on the eve-
ning of Sept. 19 she takes that
last, long walk from dressing
See NOVA Page 6
Star Houston
Pitcher Sold *
To Cardinals
HOUSTON — (UP) — Howard
Pollet, 20, senational young
southpaw pitcher, leaves the®
Houston baseball club at noon
Friday for j3t. Louis to sign with
the Cardinals who are in a dog-
fight with Brooklyn for the
National league pennant. •
Pollet, who has won 20 games
and lost three this year and has
an earned run average of only
1.09 per nine-inning game, was
sold to the Cardinals for two a
players and cash reported unof-
ficially at $15,000.
The young pitcher has won 40
and lost 10 in two years in the
in the Texas league. He is a
product of New Orleans sandlot, 4
being signed by the Houston
club in 1938. He reported to
Houston in 1939 but spent the
season with New Iberia, La., in
the Evangeline league.
Pollet opened the 1940 season 4
See HOUSTON Page 7_
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 69, Ed. 1 Friday, August 15, 1941, newspaper, August 15, 1941; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth709986/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.