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Tahoka Girds For Big Upset Tomorrow
SPORTS
Borger, Texas
Wednesday, October 8, 1941
Page 4
Yank Scout Picks Russo,
Bonham As Series Heroes
BY GAYLE TALBOT
NKW \ OKK, Oct. 8 —(AP)— Joo Gordon, the Yan-
kees’ great second-baseman, was having his right arm
pumped practically off at the champions' victory celebra-
f inn thn v»irwlL4 .-.-C t U„ f.'fiL .«
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tion the night of the fifth
and deciding world series
game.
Paul Krichnell, chief scout of
the Yankees, the man who passes
final judgment on promising play-
ers dug up from a thousand dia-
monds over the country, was brac-
ed solidly out on the floor, sipping
the rewards of victory and accept-
ing a few congratulations, him-
self.
The writer chose a lull in the
happy conversation to assume that
Paul agreed with everybody else
that Gordon had been the bright
shining star of the play-offs.
"No. he said decisively, "I
don t. Gordon only did what we
expected him to do. We knew he
was a great player. The real her-
oes of tile series were two pitch-
ers — Ernie Bonham and Mar-
ius Russo.”
What did Russo and Bonham
do?” he asked, patiently not ex-
pecting an answer. “Here were a
couple fellows we didn’t know
what they would do. Russo had
n bad stomach and Ernie had
bad back Neither had been in a
world series before. And ail they
did was pitch a couple four-hit-
ters and win games we had to
have.”
Looking back on the five-game
senes, there was a lot in what
KrichelJ said. Gordon with his
SPORTS
ROUNDUP
Camilli Flies Out
* # #
Dimag Heir Soon
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Fcnske Through
By Hugh S. Fullerton, jr.
NEW YORK, Oct. 8 —(The Spe-
cial News Service' — Catching
up on the news. Ted Broadribb
'vrite- Nat Fleischer, editor of the
l ing Magazine, that he's serious
bout getting Red Cochran over
ti London to tangle with Arthur
Lanahar, the British Empire
champ but he doesn't explain
what he proposes to do bout
getting Red's dough over here . . .
Dolph Camilli made the fastest
getaway of any of the world ser-
ies players He's piloting his own
plane out to his California ranch
. . . the Joe DiMaggio heir is ex-
pected in about a month and Mar-
ius Russo will welcome another
southpaw in December . . . DiMag
was worried more about the com-
ing event than his batting aver-
age during the series and was ask-
ing married puls whether it’s
poppa or mama who has to get
up when Junior sounds off at
2:30 a. m.
Today's Guest Star
Dick Boyle, Portland iMe) Eve-
iflng Express: Straightest line be-
tween two points on a football
field is a forward puss i unless
they're pitching curvesi ... if
the two points in question are
proficient enough, the air lane is
the easiest, least time-consuming
route along the touchdown trails.
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.500 batting average, his seven
walks, his slick fielding and his
homerun that paired the Dodgers
at the outset of the classic, un-
doubtedly supplied the Yankees'
sustained punch.
When Russo, the slim, nervous
lefthander, went to the hill in the
third game at Ebbets Field, the
series was deadlocked at one vic-
tory apiece and the Dodgers were
loaded with confidence.
Well, most of the millions of
words written about that crucial
contest told of the tough luck that
befell Freddie Fitzsimmons, the
Dodger hurler. An injury forced
him to leave after he hud stopped
the Yankees dead for seven inn-
ings.
But it remains that Russo for
seven frames had hamstrung the
Dodgers even more effectively
than Fitz had haltered the Yanks.
The score that went into the book
was “Russo 2, Brooklyn 1.
As for Bonham, he was Joe Mc-
Carthy's fifth choice as a starting
pitcher. He might even have been
considered a sort of sacrifice, as
the Yanks had been beaten by
Whitlow Wyatt in the second bout
of the series and knew he was a
tough proposition. Red Ruffing
was not ready to start again. Bon-
ham, a strapping 210-pounder,
was about the only man McCar-
thy had left, barring the faded
Vernon Gomez.
And so it was under those cir-
cumstances that he lumbered out
to the mound and gave perhaps
the outstanding pitcher perfor-
mance of the series, throttled the
Dodgers and blasted their last
hope of getting back in the runn-
ing.
Service Dept
The Camp Croft <S. C.) football
team has four ex-captains of Col-
lege teams — Joe Manzo of Bos-
ton College, Tony Cabello of Laf-
ayette, Mouse Bessel of Bucknell
and George Wood of American In-
ternational — and Jack Schwartz,
who wuc captain-elect at W’. and
J. . . . Corp. Chuck Fenske has
been taking on weight in the army
and, since the training period has
been extended, has decided not to
try a foot-racing comeback . . .
private Johnny “Pug" Mitchell,
who became a Kentucky Colonel
while playing for Murray 'K.v>
Teachers in 1938, had to start at
the bottom again as recreation di-
rector at Sheppard Field (Tex.i . .
Pon Jones, ex-San Francisco and
Kansas City sports writer, tips
that the Fort Riley (Kans.) team
is one to watch if they ever get
around to deciding the army grid
title.
Bulldogs Ready
To Smash Foe s
Invasion Plans
TAHOKA, Oct. 8 (Spe-
einlj Tahoka’* foot hid I
warriors, disregarding the
prediction of experts, today
1 were thoughtfully playing
with the idea of upsetting
the Horger Bulldogs when
they meet at Borger Thurs-
day night.
In the first place the local crew
can't figure why Borger should be
rated a favorite other than the
fact that they are in one of the
fastest high school football confer-
ences in the state.
On the basis of games won and
lost, the Tahoka lads have an
edge, if anything. Not only have
they won two games by over-
; whelming scores, but also their
one loss was by a margin thinner
- than the thickness of a cigarette
| paper — and to a team that is
pretty salty, the Lamesa outfit.
With this, Borger can show for
comparison only two ties and one
victory that was gained against
one of the weaker teams in the
state. Of course, preformances on
paper and out on the field of play
are two different things.
Tahoka will show a potent of-
fensive centered around Cecil
Curry, 170-pound fullback, who
can do just about everything with
the ball, and especially run with
it.
Scat backs comprise the rest of
the backfield in the persons of
James Roberts, 118-pound signal
caller, Duane McClintock, 150-
pound halfback, and James Wells,
140-pound halfback.
In the line. Horace West, who
anchors the left end, tips the scal-
es a 185 pounds and is a good
man on defense.
The two tackles, Werner Sheff-
ner and J. D. Davis, 155 and 160
pounds, respectively, form the
main bulwark on defense and of-
fense.
Bill Barham, 140-pound left
guard, Robert Harvick, 155-pound
center, W. C. Harvick, 140-pound
right guard, and Jim Curry, 155-
pounds right end, probably will
complete the starting lineup.
Williamson Beals Top 0 Texas Annually Produces
Earl Lanningham Topflight Grid Teams Of Stale
Uclim Know
Stanford Tougl
Phillip* Golf Tourney
In Third Round Now
Eai I Lanningham, one of the fat
urites in the championship flight
Of the hPillips Country club fall
golf tourney, was put out oi com-
petition in the second round by
Cecil Williamson, dark horse who
more and more looks like the man
! to beat for the title.
Third round of the event mint
bu played by Sunday night it was
i disclosed today.
Complete results of the second
j rounds:
Championship Flight
Williamson over Lanningham:
Rogers over Tindall: Hill over
Ibach.
Flight A-l
Cubbage over Rives: Lloyd ovc'
Sorrells: Barnes over Edwards;
Stewart over Royal.
Flight 2-A
Chappell over Sweeney; Fuzz
Richerson over Johnson: Ray
Sweeney over Fowler; Stoops
over Hudson.
Flight B-l
Sandefur over C. S. Johnson;
Lyons over Ralston; Eris Stewart
over Brown; Goodall over Nye.
Flight B-2
Maxey over Tabor; Lipscomb
over Stiles; Criss over Staekstill;
(Continued on Page SIX)
BY BILL FRFEMON
Amarillo Globe News Sports Writer
'Written For The Associated Pressi
AMARILLO. Tex., Oct. 8 (AP)— Maybe
■dncfly cricket, but up here in the Panhandle the
D o lie on stale anil conference football championship tro-
phies.
It’s an
to reach up
By Th* Associated Press
NFW YORK A vein ugiifi
■ pi ning developed in the l|
New York University footlt!
. hi dull and the Violet play*
• 'quested that Texui A A ...
then the rage of college footing
be ., ntacted That is why the tv*
teams' collide in Yankee Stadiui
Saturday.
it isn’t
babies
annual altair for the schoolboy title dopesters
i to the Top o Texas for a crown contender, |
KIRKSVILLE. Mo. — If Bo
Mills, Kirksville Teachers guard
begins to fan himself between
plays, don't take that as a sign of
weakness Mil\ merely carries the
breeze-producer to keep his spec-
Yeah, Bui Wail
Until They Lose
By Harold Claassen
NEW YORK, Oct. 8 —-i^')_One
swallow seldom makes a head-
ache and one or two games don’t
make a football season, but a sur-
vey shows that a majority of the
football coaches in new jobs this
season got started with the right !
(‘mount of touchdowns.
Tops among them at this early j
point are Paul Brown, the ex- j
high school mentor, now tutoring 1
Ohio State; Tom Stidham, Mar- !
quette’s boss, Emerson W. (Spike) 1
Nelson of Yale, and Frank Leahy
at Notre Dame.
Brown, who arrived on the
Buckeye campus just as the foot-
ball talent was supposed to have
and this year they’re pulling j tavles f'"m Asking over,
for Amarillo’s Golden Sand-j T„ .„„ a. , .
stoim to repeat as champs. p| , tl footbaliers
Schoolboy districts in the last I , V' f
■ , , , , , uf the University of California
year or so have tended to expand . .
... , ' . • at Los Angeles. Not only were the
District 1 is sated to take ill . .. . . - .
........ . .. , UCLANS trimmed, 33 to 0, but
1 ips r[ * ! thev have these injuries to prove
year since both are j the Indians. robustness:
Halfback Howard Hunt, two
broken ribs .
End Ed Breeding, cracked leg
Center Gene Alder, says he’s
still groggy from the blow that
knocked him unconscious.
class A schools and enrollment is
nearing the 500 mark.
West Texas State College at
Canyon entered the Border con-
ference this season. The Panhan-
dles favorite. Canyon enjoys cap-
acity crowds of 4.500 at practical-
ly every home game.
The largest high school stadium
is at Amarillo, where 16,000 per-
' sons have been known to squeeze
| past its gates. Opening game at-
i tendance set a record this year
| when 5.500 fans watched the San-
! dies defeat Childress.
Attendance at Borger, Pampa
i and Plainview usually hits the
4,000 mark in important games.
PROVIDENCE, R. I. — Brown
plays only its third game Sat-
urday and already Bruce Remick,
sophomore 155-pound fullback,
has worn out a pair of shoulder
pads.
rr — | —-- ■■ ••• naiii (niiiin. o
run out. took the meager supply j Class A games draw from 1,000 to
(Continued on Page SIX) 1 ’ “““ 'm..... "J *■ - - ....
Here's Way For County To Gel
New Golf Champ—Slorie Defaults
3,000. Thus it’d be a safe bet to
say at least 175,000 persons will
witness Panhandle games this
year.
As for the players themselves,
just look at the record.
Connie Sparks. Panhandle, was
all-Southwestern conference full-
back for TCU in ’38. Moose Hart-
lt now is certain that Hutchinson county will have a man’ Pampa, made all-Southwest-
new champion golfer as Dale Storie, defending ch-imm.m ern for Rite last -vear.
defaulted to Jack Knight in the firstround of nl- Sec’ , °n University <)f Texas
ond round and consolation matches must he nl ived^ bv* 1 h™1". th«“ year,a"e ih[eS ex-San-
Sunday night K p,dyed by | starters, including Mike Swee-
Tlu. fitrbi* ti, t , ne-v' Vern°n Martin and Stanley
liit tight I oi the coveted Howard W. Price memorial .....
trophy and (he honor of being county champion should be
close as play goes into the —----—_
Civic Keglers
Open League
Play started in the Civic league
at the Borger Bowling Lanes last
night with two shutouts being
scored by the Jaycees and the
Lion Tamers over Rotary and
Phillips Oranges, respectively.
In the City Class C league, Sixth
Street Service, City Drug and
White’s Grocery all scored shut-
outs over their opponents.
C. S. Goldsmith, Rotary kegler,
led all comers in the race for high
series last night by scoring 543.
Vein Underhill, Tailtwister bow-
ler was second high with a 526
Confusion Corner
A golf tournament at the Mea-
dow Brook club the other day was
won by ex-Polo player Lieutenant
John R. Fell of the Navy and ex-
ball player Sammy Byrd . . . .
runners-up were P. Hal Sims the
Bridge expert, and Don Grant, a
racquet specialist.
New Tax Added
To Grid Ducats
MISS BASEBALL THERE
NEW YORK — Miss Baseball
of Michigan was part and parcel
of the worlil series. Winifred
Slack ot Grand Rapids was'
awarded the title by the Michigan
Baseball league.
The new amusement tax rates
on football games and the like will
make itself felt when fans buy
tickets for the Tahoka game in
Bulldog stadium tomorrow night.
District 1 Class AA schools have
added three cents to the student
admission tickets, five cents to
the general admission tickets and
eight cents to the reserved seats
and admission tickets. The tickets
will be 28 cents, 55 cents, and 83
cents, respectively.
In addition, the Borger Schools
through the grade school princi-
pals are selling to grade school
students only a nine cent ticket
good at the Coble street gate at
the south side of the stadium.
No tickets will be sold at the
North gate of the stadium, how-
ever, a ticket booth at the south-
east corner of the field will be
open for sales one hour before
game time.
Yesterday's workout for the
Bulldogs completed their heavy
sessions for the game in Bulldog
stadium tomorrow night. Light
signal drill, punting and passing
practice will feature today's last
tuneup.
A long, passing session yester-
day indicated that the Bulldogs
may take heavily to the air lanes
in an effort to smash the Tahoka
invasion. However, the fine run-
ning game of the Bulldogs will
not be forgotten.
Vance Burson and Jack Briggs
did most of the passing and also
got a good workout on punting,
especially quick kicking.
Two full teams, with the “first”
string” working alongside reserv-
es on both groups, went through
signal drills and defensive work
most of the afternoon as Coaches
Winfield Nieklaus and Devere
Walker sought to bolster their re- I
serve strength.
Howard Bulla, Herman Nobles,
Joe Dale Greer. J. R. Newman,
Charlie Hyder, Dan Priest and
other reserve dependables were
getting good workouts and may
see a lot of action.
Another heartening factor was
the return of Rufus Bradford who
was running along with the oth-
ers in signal drill. It still is doubt-
ful, however, if he will be allowed
to start tomorrow night.
as
second round.
Results of the first round match-
es:
Championship Flight
Knight over Storie by default;
Berkley advanced by bye; For-
ney beat Robertson 5 and 4: L.
Cox beat Berrien 2 and 1; Wil-
liamson beat Utt 4 and 3; J. Chap-
pell won over Horton by default;
Mauney beat Nuttall 4 and 2;
Lanningham won over Briscoe by
default.
A Flight
D, Stewart over Elmore 1 up;
McDonald over M. Chappell by
default; Lippman defeated Baker
by coin flip; Nunneley over Sa-
bourin 1 up; H. Stewart won over
Dees 3 and 2: Harnagel defeated
Lister 1 up; Peeples over Sparks
4 and 3; Blackburn won over
Dodge 3 and 2.
B Flight
C. Johnson defeated Bryan 7
and 6; Huffman defeated Spurrier
5 and 4; V. Barnes won over
Nichols 7 and 5; Turner won over
Welch 4 and 3; Keith over Bar* I
nes 4 and 2; Conley over Burch
4 and 3; Kent over David 2 up,
C Flight
Merritt defeated Blair 2 and 1; |
Cummings won over Holiings- j
worth 5 and 4; Katsh over Cabbell
3 and 2; Price over Seeger by flip |
of coin; Kegley over Haley 1 up;
Moxon over Malone 3 and 2;
Davis over Morison coin flip;
Garrett over Summers, 3 and 1.
D Flight
Fitch over G. Chappell flip of
coin; Mathews over Allison 3 and
2; Crow over Johnson 6 and 5;
SoRelle over Finger by flip of
coin; Hare over Pralle 2 up; Tay-
lor over Ross flip of coin; Geyer
over Dublin flip of coin.
E Flight
Carley over J. Cox 4 and 3:
O’Neal over Draper 3 and 2;
Stephens over Rentfrow flip of
coin; Baker over Clayton 2 and 1; j
Webster over Fonville by default; !
Cox over Hawks flip of coin;
Washila over Sprague 5 and 4; ;
Lindquist over Hamilton I up. I
Mauldin
Then Amarillo had John Sulli-
van, Cliff Matthews, John Stid- 1 senes-
ger and John Hai R>W on the SMI’ ---—~
Texas Tech Should
the fourth leading scorer in the
nation for West Texas State last
year.
If you don’t know football up
here in the Panhandle, don’t tell
anyone. They'll put you in the
clink for less.
OLD FOOTBALL RIVALRY
NOIRE DAME —- Notre Dame
and Indiana renewed one of the j
oldest football rivalries in the
middle west. The Hoosiers won 1
the first game in 1898.
LEE UNDERRATED
NEW YORK — Art French,
1928 Harvard captain, considers
Franny Lee of the current Crim-
son the most underrated back in
the east.
NEW YORK — This is the first
time in 40 years that the New
York Giants have had three suc-
cessive second division teams.
Breeze Past Loyola
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8 — f/Pt—
Texas Techs’ Red Raiders should
blow through Los Angeles’ Loyola
Lions like a whirlwind, take it
from Billy Byrne, who scouted
them in their 34-0 triumph over
Abilene Christian and 16-6 victory
over Oklahoma Aggies.
Byrne reports Tech has about
Hi backs who “go so fast most
linemen haven’t a chance to tag
them Fullback Charley Dvoracek,
weight 190, hits like a bullet. He’s
almost unstoppable. And Don
Austin, the little right half, will
go by you while you’re blinking
your eyes.”
Not only that. Red Amonett,
offensive star in Tech’s 19 0
triumph over Loyola In 1940, has
been dropped among the reserves.
So Coach Marty Bell is concen-
trating on defense in preparation
for the raiders visit Friday night.
Strong Line To Confront Phillips
Airplane landing wheels can be
held more firmly while stationed
o nthe ground by a C-shaped
chock made of wood. The chock
can be lodged easily against the
wheel and pulled tight, gripping
the front and back of the wheel.
Giant, long-range bombardment
airplanes weighing 100 tons or
more are now in the design stage.
Blackhawks Have
Some Weight Too
Rumor has it that a 200-pound
guard and a 195-pound tackle
grace the line Clarendon brings to
the Phillips camp next Friday.
That's not enough difference
from “Charlie boy” Benson’s 193
pounds or the mass with which
Garland Stevens crowds 180 on the
scale to bring deep furrows to the
brow of Coach “Chesty” Walker,
although he probably will pin vic-
tory hopes on ground attack.
The Clarendon line is evident-
ly big enough, but they have had
trouble holding out the opposition,
while doing some heavy scoring
themselves.
In other words, five touchdowns
have been earned against Claren-
don in three games. But the Phil-
lips’ goal has been descrated only
once this season.
And the Blackhawks have
shown that they can score the
touchdowns when need be against
strong opposition. The first game,
which Phillips lost, was due more
to inexperience than anything
else.
Evidently doping a grid con-
test would soon come down to
the coin-flipping stage if it were
not possible to watch Coaches
Walker and W. V. Hale exercise
the Blackhawks.
Coach Hale, takes in hand the
seven or eight huskies who build
up the Hawk forward wall and
keeps them driving at offensive
and defensive blocking for a part
of nearly every practice session.
He is teaching some pointers on
bodily contact play that will come
in handy Friday night.
Coach Walker had a novelty for
the Hawk backs in yesterday’s
workout. He stretched a rope
about four feet off the ground
and charged the backs full tilt
under it.
This strategem to get ball car-
riers and running blockers to run
low was probably inspired by one
of the reserve backs, who did his
running with the ball standing up
in the Dumas game.
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