Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, July 18, 1941 Page: 2 of 8
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Gulf Oilers again forged
ahead in the Sweetwat-
er softball league by defeating
me Sparkplugs Thursday night,
12-5.
All of the Sparkplugs’ five
runs came in the fourth inning.
Glass hit a homer and drove in
three runs.
, Gulf also had a home run
night with Durham, Bibb and
Hudgins circling the bases.
The victory gave the Oilers a
percentage of .769 for the sea-
son, while their nearest competi-
tors U. S. Gyp, hold .727.
Batteries were Fitts, Walker
apd Green for Gulf; Wilson Ma-
thena, and Ammons.
Dr. Dann’s Health Homers
nosed out the Abilene All-Stars,
4-3, in the opening game. Delano
of Abilene hit a homer in the
sixtn and drove in two scores
to account for the All-Star’s
runs.
Batteries were May and Jones,
Snodgrass and Belcher.
Friday night’s games feature
the Sparkplugs and U. S. Gyp-
sum, and a fray between the
Jaycees and Camp Barkeley.
KANSAS CITY, Kans. —(UP)
-A horse race information ser-
vice which police said serviced
bookies throughout the west was
closed Friday and four of its
alleged operators were under
arrest
Joseph H. McDowell, Wyan-
dotte county attorney, led the
raid late Thursday on the ser-
vice’s headquarters in a down-
town hotel. He confiscated tele-
type, telephone, telegraph and
radio equipment which he said
was used to relay horse race re-
sults to bookies in six states—
“from Duluth, Minn., to Tulsa,
Okla.’’
“I also believe service from
these middle western headquar-
ters was relayed to California,”
McDowell said.
He did not identify the service
by name but said he understood
it received its reports from na-
tional headquarters in Cleve-
land, O.
Western Union Telegraph
company and Southwestern Bell
Telephone company were en-
joined by a district court order
signed shortly after the raid
from furnishing facilities for
any similar service in Wyan-
dotte county.
Those arrested were: Simon
Partnoy, Alen Ernstein, Leo
Schultz and James Smith. They
were released on $1,000 bond
each.
Rebs For Fourth
Place Standing
Indians, Buffs
Win Their Games;
Dallas Splits
PEAFNESS
Over 30% of all hearing aids
sold annually are Sonotones!
SONOTONE HEARING
SERVICE
810 Mims Blilg., Abilene
Produce
FORT WORTH — (UP) —
Produce:
Poultry—Frvers
13-17; turkeys 7-15.
Eggs—No. 1 candled 6.60-7.20
per case.
Butterfat 34-39.
16-13:
By United Press
Beaumont was crowding Dal-
las for fourth place Friday, with
Oklahoma City holding its own
in sixth place, still two games
out of position to challenge for
a snot in the upper bracket.
Dallas split a doubleheader
with third place Shreveport,
yielding the first game, 5 to 1,
to Max Thomas eight-hit pitch-
ing. Clyde Humphrey and Sal
Gliatto scattered 10 hits as the
Rebels won the nightcap, 6-5,
with five runs in the fourth inn-
ing and one in the seventh.
Dallas squeezed out with the
nightcap on Orval Grove’s
fourth inning wildness. The
Sports were off to an early lead
on Tom Jordan’s first inning
homerun with one on base and
Murrel Jones’ circuit clout in the
second. Shreveport worked its
way back to knot the score
with a sixth inning run, but
Dallas scored the winning tally
in the seventh.
Beaumont pulled to within a
half game of the Rebels with a
5-4 victory over Fort Worth in
a 10-inning game. Bob Hardy
was credited with the game
when he relieved Charlie Med-
lar in the ninth after Beaumont
had tied the score with three
runs in the preceding inning.
I Medlar relieved Lefty Bumpers
in the eighth as Fort Worth took
! the lead with a pair of tallies.
Pens Oklahoma City heat San An-
tonio 5-1 behind Clyde Mallory's
four-hit hurling, the Missions
used three hurlers to hold the
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GALVESTON — (UP) —With
five players sharing medalist ho-
nors, Texas golf stars paired off
Friday for the first round of
play in the sixth annual Gal-
veston country club invitation-
al tournament.
The tournament promises to
be the biggest in the history of
the event.
Qualifiers who traveled the
course in par 71 ’s Thursday to
to tie for medalist tionors were
Bill Roden, It. T. sophomore
from Dallas; Earl Stewart Jr,
Louisiana state’s national inter-
collegiate champion, from Dal-
las; Spis Berg, former Houston
city champion: Hpppy Lenz,
Galveston city champ, and Dr.
R. E. Cone of Galveston.
Deraid Lehman of Fort Worth
defending champion, shot a safe
74, although he was not re-
quired to qualify. Lehman will
be matched today with Travis
Bryan of Bryan, who won the
tournament driving-contest with
a 261 yard wallop.
A total of 111 players, mostly
from Dallas, Houston and Gal-
veston. are entered in the meet.
ag
But Yanks win;
Riddle Victor
McCarlhymen Extend
Lead Over Cleveland
To Seven Games
By GEORGE KIRKBEY
United Press Correspondent
NEW YORK — (UP) —They
stopped Joe D1 Maggio but they
couldn’t stop Elmer Riddle.
■■ CNN MM JIT Kura, WtHEM»W»
Gopher Halfback
WT-NM LEAGUE
"It’s the berries!” That’s the
way Floyd “Josh” Billings for-
merly of Sweetwater describes
the U. S. Army Air Corps in
a recent letter from Lowry
Field, Denver, Colo. What makes
it even better is that Billings
finds plenty of time from army
duties for his favorite sport—
golfing.
Texas boys have northern
golfers beat on everything, he
While Southpaw A1 Smith and sa-vs' especially on long drives
’ and short irons.
“My drives go farther up
here, due to atmospheric condi-
tions. They average 285 as com-
pared with 260 in Texas.”
Billings describes a recent
match on the par 72 Berkeley
Case Memorial Course in which
he shot a 69. He had four bird-
ies, one bogey and 15 pars.
Three other members of the
foursome shot a 73, a 75 and a
106, respectively.
Righthander Jim Baghy were
teaming up to end Joe Di Mag-
gie’s hitting streak at 56 straight
games out In Cleveland Thurs-
day night, Elmer Riddle, the
Cincinnati Reds’ comparative
unknown who’s developed into
the pitching sensation of the sea-
son, rode out a storm to defeat
the New York Giants for his
eleventh consecutive victory at
the polo grounds.
Riddle is either lucky or good,
and most dugout observers are
beginning to think that he is
both after Thursday night’s 5-1
triumph over the Giants. Every
conceivable jinx and bad break
was flung at him and yet he
weathered the storm and pro-
tected his perfect record with
victory No. 11.
For example;
An interviewer chewed his ear
off in the dug-out before the
game, asking him how he did it.
how long he thought he could
By UNITED PRESS I keep it up, and if he was born
Thursday's fcsitlts: j under a lucky star and his house
(First game) (down in Columbus, Ga„ was on
(10. innings) j the left hand side of the road
I’ampa . 000 101 000 0—2 10 3 and at the correct angle to catch
Borger 000 000 200 1—3 9 0 ’he moonbeams at certain peri-
Olab, Montgomery and Smith: °ds.
Moore and Rodrigtiez. He had to protect a one-run
W. Falls . 000 111 200—5 8 31 lead through the last five inn-
Lamesa 010 400 lOx—6 6 4 ln8s- in four of which the Giants
Rossi and Rabe, Brown: Tins-!had the tying run on base
MAJOR LEADERS
By United Press
Five leading batters
American League
B. AB. R. H Pci.
Williams (B) 73 243 74 96.395
Di Mag (NY) 85 334 80 124 .371
Travis (W) 77 311 53 115 .370
Heath (Civ) 82 313 52 114 .364
Cullenb <SL) 76 217 45 89 .360
National League
Reiser, (Bk) 71 275 63 97 .353
Mize (SI.) . 64 239 34 80 .335
Etten (Phil) 78 271 38 88 .325
Slaugtr (SL) 83 324 53 105 .321
Cooney (B) 67 252 27 81 .321
The army encourages sports,
Billings wrote, and he plays
four to five times a week and
practices the other days.
He witnessed most of the
PGA matches at the Cherry
Hills course and praised the
playing of Snead, Nelson and
Hogan. He said Nelson was “by
far the best golfer in the finals
against Ghezzi, had rough luck
on the last nine.”
Billings expects to start to
technical school before August
1, “and that’s fine as they will
surely teach you. if you have
any integrity at all.”
He subscribed to the Sweet-
water Reporter, “so 1 can keep
up with happenings in the home
town.”
His address is Floyd
Billings, c-o Row “D”,
Detachment Reserve,
Field. Denver, Colo.
“Josh”
Photo-
Lowry
BASEBALL
Leads Balloting
For All-Star Tilt
CHICAGO — (UP) — George
Franck, Minnesota Gopher, led
the nation’s halfback’s Friday
in the balloting to select a col-
lege all-star team to play the
Chicago Bears, professional
champions, here Aug. 28.
Franck with 106-258 votes edg-
ed up from third place to hold
a narrow lead over Tommy Har-
mon. Michigan, and Bill Me-
Gannon, Notre Dame. Ernie
Panned, Texas Aggies, doubled
his vote total to move into sec
ond place in the tackle division
Leaders: Ends, Rankin, Pur
due, 108,116: Rucinski, Indiana
99,.582: McGee, Regis, 81,918
By UNITED PRESS Tackles, Drahos, Cornell, 92,327
National League Panned. 76,103; Koran, St. Bene
Pittsburgh (Heintzelman 5-6 diet’s, 74,491. Guards, I.okanc
and Sewell 9-8) at Boston Northwestern. 95,518; O'Boyle
(Johnson 1-6 and Errirkson 4-9) Tulane, 94,1,36; Lio, Georgetown
-two games. 76,894. Centers. Mucha, Wash
St. Louis (White 6-3) ai ington, 104,778; Hall, Warrens
Brooklyn (Uighe 13-6) burg (Mo) 74,5519; Gladchuk
Only games scheduled. Boston college, 61,264.
American League Quarterbacks, E v ajS.li evsk
Boston (Grove 6-3) at Chica- Michigan, 101,362; Schulte. Rock
go (Rignc.v 7-6). . hurst. 71,146; Paffrath, Minneso
Philadelphia (Knott 7-7) at. la, 62,875. Fullbacks, Picpul
St. Louis (Gatehouse I-!). j Notre Dame, 87,953: Morrow. 11
Washington( Leonard 7-10) at. linois Wesleyan. 68,784; Stand
Detroit (Corsica 5-5). lee, Stanford, 54,329; halfback.;
New York (Russo 8-5) al Cle-j Franck, 106,258: Harmon, 104,
veland (Feller 18-4). I 172; McGannon, 98,356.
ley and Janecki.
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i In the eighth and ninth the
I tying run was on third base.
To make the law of averages
operate tremendously against
him, Bill Terry brought in as a
relief pitcher Fiddler Bill Mc-
Gee, who hasn't won a game for
| the Giants. McGee pitched mas-
I tcrfully while waiting for the
I tying run which was in the of-
i Png but never came across.
Twice Manager Bill McKech
nie had a relief pitched warm up
to relieve Riddle. Another time
I McKechnie went out to the
j mound and conferred with his
pitcher. One more bad pitch and
J Riddle would have been out.
To close out his triumph Rid-
I die showed his heart by strik-
j ing out pinch-hitter Gabby Hart
! nett to end the game with the
i tying run on third base.
Despite the end of Di Mag-
| gio’s streak the Yankees put the
crusher on the Indians again. 4-
13, before 67,468 fans, largest
j throng of the baseball season.
| Johnny Murphy came on to re-
| lieve Lefty Gomez in the ninth
and halt a Cleveland uprising
! one short of a tie. Gomez’s sur-
I prise since and Red Rolfe’s dou-
I ble drove in two Yankee runs
I in the eighth before Jim Bag-
I by forced Di Maggio to hit into
I a double play with the bases
! loaded. The triumph put the
Yanks seven games ahead of the
Indians.
The Red Sox crowded in clos-
er to the Indians by beating the
White Sox, 7-4, as Heber New-
some won his 10th victory. Doni
Di Maggio paced the Red Sox’s
11-hit attack with a two-run hom-
er and a triple. A night crowd
of 27.437 attended.
Hariond Clift’s single with the
bases loaded and one out in
the ninth gave Ihe St. Louis
Browns a 4-3 triumph over the
Philadelphia Athletics in the
night game at St. Louis. The vic-
tory extended the Browns’ win
ning streak to three straight,
tying their longest of the sea-'
son.
In ihe only American League I
day game Dizzy Trout pitched
a four-hitter as the Tigers de-
feated Ihe Senators, 7-1. Cecil1
Travis' 24-game hitting streak'
was stopped in the bargain |
With the score tied 2-2 a) (In-
end of the sixth, the Cubs-Phil-
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