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Patriots’ Day, Boston’s Own Holiday, Finds
Two Beantown Clubs Leading Major Leagues
SPORTS
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Red Sox Leading
American; Braves
Tied In National
By AUSTIN BEALMEAR
Associated Press Sports Writer
Patriots’ Day in Boston I
took oil added significance |
today, with the Red Sox and
the Braves setting a pace in
the major league baseball
races that would have made
Paul Revere's dash through
Middlesex county look like
a trot
After their successful series
with thi' Yankees, the Red Sox
return to their own stadium to
play Washington in a Patriots’ :
Day doubloheader. They are in
supreme command of the Ameri-
can league and the Braves own-
ed a third interest in the Nation- j
ol league lead.
The Red Sox took over sole j
possession of first place yester-
day by stopping the New York
Yankees, 5-2. their second victory 1
over the w’orld champions in two j
days. The St. Louis Browns, who |
had been deadlocked with the
Red Sox and Yanks, slipped into
second place ahead of the New
Yorkers as they divided a double- j
header with Detroit.
Three Head National
The Braves and Pirates form-
ed a cozy little twosome at the
top of the National loop until
both lost yesterday, allowing the
Brooklyn Dodgers to muscle in on
their party by brushing aside the
Philadelphia Phils.
Despite the postponement of the
Cleveland game between the In-
dians and the White Sox. the
American league with its two
doubleheaders drew 80.798 of the
day’s total of 134,247 customers,
and 51.522 of them were present
at Yankee stadium to see Heber
“Dick" Newsome of the Rod Sox
chalk up his second pitching vic-
tory of the season.
Pitching Duel at St. Louis
At St. Louis, the fans were
treated to a brace of
duels, but both games were won
on home runs. Chet Laabs smash-
ed a two-run homer in the opener
to give the Browns a 2-1 decision
over the Tigers, although the
Winners managed only four hits
off Ai Benton, one less than El-
den Auker yielded in gaining the
verdict.
Rookie Charley Fuchs also toss-
ed a four-hitter at the Brownies
in the nightcap, but Ned Harris
came through with a ninth-inning
homer that produced a 1-0 vic-
tory for Detroit, squaring ac-
counts for the day and spoiling
a six-hit pitching job by Long
John Niggeling
Newsome Wins For Sens
Buck Newsome pitched the
Washington Senators to a 5-4 tri-
umph over the Athletics in the !
second game of a twin bill at
Philadelphia after the A’s had
grabbed the opener, 5-1, behind
the six-hi! elbowing of Phil Mar-
childon.
Although it had nothing to do
with the standings lead, the prize
game of the National league was
a 14-inning affair between the
Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago
Cubs at Chicago. Claude Passeau
went all the way for the Cubs and
gave up seven hits, but the Reds
won, 2-1, after committing eight
errors and going hitless for the
first seven frames.
Dodgers Beat Phils
At Brooklyn, the Dodgers cap-
tured the i ubber game of their
series with the Phils, 6-2. as Dix-
ie Walker drove in four runs and
Curt Davis racked up hi second
pitching victory with a five-hit
job.
John Beasley's four-hitter gave
the St. Louis Cardinals a 3-2 de-
cision over the Pirates at Pitts-
burgh.
At Boston, the Braves suffered
their second straight setback at
the hands of the New York
Giants, who cashed in on a five-
hitter by Cliff "Melton, for a 5-2
triumph.
Rehabilitation of a Golf Ball
.The Baseball
Standings
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Yesterday's Re«ult» —
Philadelphia 3. Brooklyn
SI la ois 3. Pittsburgh 2
New York 5. Boston 2.
Borger, Texas
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Missouri U. Has Obstacle
LourseTo Toughen Soldiers
COLUMBIA, Mo., April 20.—(AP)—-You are con-
sidered tough and lit for she army if you can spend a sea-
son running around lip,' University of Missouri’s new ob-
stacle course without falling flat on your face in a mud
puddle at least twice.
The Missouri toughener, as the track is aptly termed,
was set up by ,!a.'k Matthews of the physical education
department. It is similar to
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Standings Today
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Pit
Boston
4
2
.667
Pittsburgh
4
2
661
Brooklyn
4
2
667
St Louis
3
3
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Chicago
2
3
400
Cincinnati
2
3
.400
Philadelphia
Today's Schedule —
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Mary Gi ipp illustrates step by step rehabilitation of a golf ball in
Chicago. Left to right, cover steamed loose; rubber-wound core be-
fore it is brought to size; after wrapping; new coat of balata ready
for molding, and newly painted ball. Balata is easily obtained from
South America, in contrast to rubber, which is becoming scaice.
Borger Women's Cily Associaiion
Bowling Tournament Big Success
Action This Week
May Clear Race In
S'west Baseball
By The Associated Press
Eight games this week are ex-
pected greatly to clear the picture
in the Southwest conference base-
pitching | ball race.
Two of the three championship
contenders — Texas A. and M. |
and Texas Christian — [day three j
games each. The other — Texas j
—plays twice.
The Aggies lead only because ;
With approximately 45
entered, the first Borger
Women’s City Bowling as-
sociation tournament came
to a successful end yester-
day. Team play was con-
ducted Saturday night and
doubles and singles competition
was run off yesterday. Officials
were satisfied with all aspects of
the meet.
Top honors went to Murphy of
Six's Pig Stand, Patnpa, when she I -
blasted the maples for a total Hcre's Gootj Way
Pampa Leads 5-2
Over Lamesa As
Rain Halls Fray
PAMPA, April 20— (Special)—
The Pampa Oilers were leading
the Lamesa Dodgers 5-2 when
rain halted their exhibition con-
test in the last half of the sixth
| being played here yesterday. Pro-
ceeds of the game went to Gray
; county’s Navy Relief Fund.
Charles “Red” Hatcher, young
hurler just graduated from Pam-
pa High school last year, set the
i Dodgers down with five bingles.
1 Mohrlock, last year with Big
Spring, allowed the same number
of blows.
Several promising rookies, in-
| eluding McClearinn, outfielder,
j and Martin, shortstop, were un-
; covered by Manager Dick Rat-
liff of the Oilers. Martin slam-
j med a double and single to lead
the Oilers batting while McClear-
inn made a pair of sensational
i catches in the outfield.
Batteries: Lamesa, Mohrlock
i and Haney; Pampa, Hatcher and
. Janick.
obstacle courses used by the
army to train rookies and is
one of the first to be intro-
duced in a college.
Matthews thought up the i
nightmare of water holes, |
log hurdles and sheer walls to :
take the softness from 1,600 lads j
in the university’s gym classes,
“The army wants men who can
take care of themselves under any ,
conditions,” says Matthews.
He's seeing that these condi- j
tinns are the most adverse to be
had.
First Obstacle
The first obstacle is a steel ;
hurdle 4 1-2 feet high, followed |
immediately bv a 10-foot water !
jump. Now, 10 feet isn’t much, !
but there’s only six feet for a
take off after getting over
hurdle — if you get over.
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Monis Siraitons
Lubbock Rubbers
Trounce Amarillo
Marvin Ward Shoots
Eight Blows Under
In Practice Round
Boston at Brooklyn.
Philadelphia at New York.
Chicago at Pittsburgh.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Yesterday's Hesults —
New York 2, Boston 5.
St Louis 2-0, Detroit 1-1.
Philadelphia 5-4, Washington
1-5.
Chicago at Cleveland — pp —
weather.
Standings Today —
Club-
Boston
St. Louis
New York
Detroit
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Washington
Chicago
Today's Schedule —
St. Louis at Cleveland.
Detroit at Chicago.
Washington at Boston
New York at Philadelphia
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Pet.
5
1
.826
5
2
.714
4
2
.667
4
3
.571
2
3
.400
2
5
.286
2
5
.286
1
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AMARILLO, April 20 — (Spe-
cial!—Monte Stratton’s Lubbock
Hubbers hung a 14-8 defeat on
the Amarillo Gold Sox in an ex-
the | hibition game here yesterday. D.
I B. Trees started on the mound
If you haven’t drowned in the j for th" Gold Sox and was touched
water hole — they are thinking for eight hits and seven runs in
of stationing a life guard on the | five frames. Frank Mathews,
edge of it — then you must wrig- [ who relieved Trees, gave up the
gle on your stomach under a log 1 same number of runs and hits in
platform. You get a bump if you j his four innings,
raise up to see where you are Lubbock’s Freese shackled the
going The platform is only a Sex in the four innings he worked
couple of feet high. | and let them have but three safe-
Three Hurdles i ties and no runs. Dillard came
Three hurdles — made out of j in for Froese and the Amarillo-
logs that, stay in place if you ! ans nicked him for four hits and
SPOKANE, Wash., April 20 —
f.l’i—Corporal Marvin Ward shav-
ed eight strokes off par at the
Manito Golf club, the course
where he will defend his Western
Amateur crown if he gets off
from army duties.
He fashirned a 31 on the out-
going nine, the best score ever
carded on that route, and blazed
over the other nine in 33. This
compares with a 36-36—72 reg-
ulation.
TEXAS LEAGUE
Results Sunday —
Beaumont 6, Shreveport 9
Dallas at Oklahoma City—
— weather.
Fort Worth at Tulsa — pp
weather.
San Antonio 0. Houston 3.
of 1,570 pins in all events which
made her the winner of the all-
events competition. Murphy roll-
ed 506, 570 and 494 to get her
1,570 total and thi score rioes not
they have been in more games. include her handicap, but is her
Texas Christian has lost no “scratch” score. Her 570 series
more than A. and M. and lexas | was ^e highest kegled in the
but has played only 1hree games ; tourney
due to postponements.
Tuesday, A. and M. opens a
three-game series with Rice. They
play at Houston on that day, then
Friday move to College Station.
Texas Christian plays Baylor
at Waco Tuesday and Texas at
Austin Friday and Saturday.
Baylor meets Southern Metho-
dist at Dallas Friday and Satur-
day.
The Standing:
Team— W L Pet.
Texas A. and M. 6 2 .750
Texas 5 2 .714
Southern Methodist 5 4 .556
Texas Christian 1 2 .333
HI(V ... 2 5 .286
Baylor ______ 2 6 .250
'Satchel' Paige,
Negro Pitcher,
Has Real Record
Paul Dean Reports
To Houston Today
In Comeback Try
HOUSTON. Texas, April 20—
t,Pi—Paul Dean hits the comeback
trail today when he reports to
reports to manager Clay Hopper
By HAROLD V. RALIFF
DALLAS, April 20—<zP>—Hcah
| come a man.
Leroy “Satchel" Paige is going
i to pitch tonight and Dallas’ negro
1 population is all excited. There
| also is much more than casual
i interest among the white folks.
The Satch, once told by John
McGraw he would be worth $50.-
j 000 a year to the New York Giants
i if wasn’t barred from professional
baseball because of his color, is
starting his sixteenth season.
He’s the kind of pitcher mana-
! gers dream about.
Paige can pitch every day. Once
| at Philadelphia he hurled three
j games in one day.
j And it’s a year around propo-
I sition. In the winter he's in Cuba,
■ Puerta Rica, South or Central
i America; in the spring he comes
| home to lead the negro World
| Champion Kansas City Monarchs
of the American league.
Last winter Satchel, for the
first time in ten years, missed his
, Cuba and Puerto Rico engage-
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Team honors went to B. and B.
i cafe as their feminine quintet to-
j taled 2,389 pins. Six's Pig Stand
was just a couple of step behind
; in second as they counted 2,326
j and Paul Potter, Agy, came in
J third with 2.316. Shaw-Holcomb
drew up in fourth place with a |
2,278 total. Eight teams were en- j
tered.
Doubles title went to Murphy I
and Hines of Pampa as they |
combined to post a neat |
i 1,234 score. Second place went
: to the duo of Chewriing-Stone of
j Borger with 1,122 and third to the j
! team of Lewis, Pampa, and Ross, .
I Borger, with 1,119. Fourth
j through eighth, respectively, was
I won by Hcgwcr-Wells, Pampa.
j 1,112; Grahum-MeConahey, 1.102;
j Hopper-Briggs, 1,097: Forney-La-
I cey, 1,095; and Leudders, Pampa, :
I and Beagle, 1,093.
The championship slot in sin-
S gles went to Hart of Borger as she
j swept the lanes for a 629 series,
j Ross was not far behind as she 1
j finished with 615 for the No. 2
; spot. The remaining four places
j were taken Uy Pampa ladies.
i Third went to Voss with 606 and
I Leudders captured fourth kegl-
I ing 601. Firth and sixth places
I were annexed by Walstead and !
i Murphy with 595 and 578, re- !
! spectively.
To Stay Ahead Of
Golf Ball Shortage
KANSAS CITY. April 20.—tfp)
—Pro Duke Gibson knows how
to stay ahead of the golf ball
shortage.
Each golfer entered in a tour-
nament at. his course had to dig
up five old balls for the fee. Gib-
clip them with your shins — fol-
low in quick succession. Then
comes an eight-foot wall to .scale.
On tfie other side is a log, 20 feet
long and three feet of the ground.
You must run along it — a kind
of test to see it you possess any
balance after what you've been
over.
Well, that's really all there is
to it. except for a 60-yard sprint
to top it off.
six runs in three frames. Inee
gave up two hits and two runs to
wind up the game.
The fracas was highlighted by
a pair of homers by Anton, short-
stop, and Reynolds, leftfielder, of
the Hubbers.
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EXPENSIVE JAUNT
NEW YORK. April 20—It cost
the Giants $7500 to travel 2000
superfluous miles with Cleveland
on the spring tour. Ai! games
were ppstoponed by inclement
weather.
Clovis Pioneers Beat Gassers 9*6 With
Three Run Rally In Eighth To Break Tie
The Borger Gassers suf-
fered their first exhibition
loss of the season yesterday
in Clovis as the Pioneers
came back in the eighth inn-
ing to push in three tallies
and win 0-6. The Gassers
scored five runs in the sixth to
tie the count at 6-6.
The Gassers got off to a 1-0 lead
in the second, but Wilfred Unfer.
starting Gaser hurler, got a little
wild in the fourth and Clovis
chased in six runs to lead 6-1. The
Gassers came back in the sixth to
add five counters and knott the
score.
Featuring a somewhat changed
lineup, the Gassers clicked for I
nine bingles including one triple j
and two doubles and a pair of
double plays. Chuck Chepetta
scored a triple and a single and
J. K. McClain hit a double and a
single to lead the batting attack
along with a pair of singles by
Gilchrist. Lineup changes saw
not get in the tilt, except in the
eighth when he went in to pinch-
hit. He grounded out.
Two new players reported to the
Gassers today. Ollie Smith. Plain
iew, the same town thnt produced
Bob Crucs, a rooke hurler came
Whrtey Warren catching, Buzz in this morning. He is a left-hander
Ross playing right field and Lefty j and weighs about 175. Slug Hadi-
Riordan back at first base.
Gilchrist to Riordan netted two
twin-killings.
Steiner, outfielder, Seitz, third
base, and Surratt, center fielder,
headed the batting attack of the
Pioneers.
Elorer came in for Unfer in the
sixth inning and gave up three
runs. Hewitt, Dixie and Wyatt,
Clovis’ ace chunker, divided the
mound duty for the Pioneers.
Manager Hugh Willingham did
gan, rookie outfielder, also came
in today. He is a young lad, short
and chunky and hails from Lib- ror.
eral. Kansas.
Due to the weather, the Gassers
did not work out today. If the
weather doesn’t break. Willingham
said they may not drill tomorrow.
The next game is set for Wed-
nesday afternoon here at 5 o'clock
with the Pioneers who will be
back again on Friday for another
tilt.
Two Texas Loop
Tills Weathered
Out; Two Played
By The Associated Press
The Texas league batted .500
on scheduled games yesterday,
Dallas at Oklahoma City and Fort
Worth at Tulsa postponed because
of weather, as Shreveport ham-
mered out a 9-6 victory over
Beaumont and Houston blanked
San Antonio 2-0.
The Shreveport Sports found
the offerings of pitchers Masters
and Langston to their liking in
winning the final of the series
with Beaumont.
J. Benson Brillheart. veteran
southpaw hurler, had the Shippers
at his mercy until he weakened
in the eighth inning and had to
be relieved after giving up five
runs. Floyd Speer took over the
mound job and gave up an un-
earned tally in the last frame.
Jack Creel, belted from the hill
in the series opener Friday night,
came light back yesterday and
turned in a whale of a pitching
performance for the Buffs.
Creel, reformed third sacker,
gave up two hits in the first inn-
ing, one of them a scratch, and
then allowed but two other run-
ners to reach base. One made it
on a walk and the other on an er-
Standings Monday —
Club—
W
L
Pet.
Oklahoma City
■1
2
667
Tulsa
4
2
.667
Shreveport
5
3
.625
Beaumont
5
3
.625
Houston
4
4
.500
San Antonio
1
4
.500
Fort Worth
2
3
.400
Dallas
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5
.286
Schedule Monday —
Dallo- at Oklahoma City —two
night games.
E rt Worth at Tulsa—night.
Shreveport at Houston—night.
Two doubleplays took care of
half the men to reach first, and I
another went out stealing, making
it possible for the righthander to
get by with facing only 28 men. '
The Texas' public school per-
manent fund was established dur-
ing the administration of Elisha
M. Pease, 1853-1857.
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It's an easy-to-learn gam*
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provides just enough exer-
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