Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 156, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 2, 1950 Page: 2 of 30
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area who like basehall will have a
Iky treat. !
Mtwater Swatters will be playing here Sunday
---- -Jonday night and Tuesday night.
The **big’* d^y, of course, will be Tuesday. The annual
jr:Tne\^ s .
JUarania Fourth of July
, ^ubilefe’’ #iii be held in con-
nection with the double-
hiader baseball game.
I Entertainment galore is
Scheduled for Tuesday even-
ing with the first baseball
game between the Swatters
and the San Angelo Cats
slated to get underway at
6:30 p. m. Included in the Ki-
wanis “Jubilee” entertain-
ment will be a 30-minute fire-
works display between
games.
Admission to the giant affair
will be the same as for a regu-
lar scheduled game—74 cents for
adults and 25 cents for children
under 12. The ball park office
will be open all day Monday for
the purpose of taking reserva-
tions for box seats—which sell
at 35 cents each.
Tuesday night’s crowd is ex-
pected to break all attendance
records for a baseball game in
Sweetwater.
This afternoon at Sportsman s
Park, the Swatters clash with
Recapping
Vulcanizing
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Phone 2552
the Midland Indiana in the final
contest of a two-game series
with the Tribe., The game will
begin at 3 o’clock.
Monday nighffc tigt with San
Angelo starts at 8:15.
* * *
SAN ANGELO—The San An-
gelo Colts blasted the Sweet-
water Swatters fur the second
straight time Friday night as
they pounded three Swatter
pitchers for 15 hits! and a 14 to
5 victory.
Lefty Jimmy Price, who is
rapidly becoming one of the top
hurlers in the Longhorn League,
gave up seven hits ,to the Swat-
ters in registering his seventh
win against no losses.
Price struck out eight Swat-
ters and had ground support
from his teammates, t
The Colts started their stam-
pede in the first inning off Jim-
my Shupe with three runs. A cir-
cuit smash by Arturo Caballero
in the second put San Angelo in-
to a 4-1 lead and from then on
the Swatters were merely at-
tempting to hang on.
The Swatters scored twice in
the fifth inning to pull up to 3-7.
The Colts came right back in
that stanza with three more
runs.
John Bottarini doubled in the
sixth frame and scored on Dale
Sprout's fly-out to make the
score 10-4.
In the seventh, Johnny Tay-
oan led off with a four-bagger.
Following Bob Crues’ ground-
out. Wayne Wallace walked and
Steve Follett singled. Jess Ser-
rano then tripled in both run-
ners. A single by Caballero scor-
ed Serrano with the 14th run of
the night for Angelo.
Warren Sliter led off the
center fielder, threw wild
to third base.
Horn Chiola, Swatter second
sacker when tie is playing, was
chaked from the playing field by
Umpire Sykes early in the game.
. The box score:
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Finley, rf-lb ......... t 0 2 2 1 0
Ferry, cf ............ 4 0 1 0 0 0
Sliter. lb ............ 2 I 0 IS 0 0
Chiola, 2b ............ l o 0 1 1 0
Jonee. rf ............ 3 0 1 0 0 0
Bottarini, c .......... 2 2 1 1 0 0
Miller, c ............. 1 0 0 0 0 0
Zebner, If ........... 4 0 0 1 0 0
Sproul. 3b ........... 4 1 2 1 3 0
Haller, ea ............ 3 1 0 3 7 2
Shupe. p ............. 1 0 0 0 1 0
Schober, p ........... 1 0 0 0 1 0
Shaw, p ............. 1 0 0 0 1 0
X—Hassey ........... 1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals ........ 32 5 7 24 15 2
X—Grounded out for Shaw In 9th.
AB R H PO A B
EFFICIENCY plus APPRECIATION equal
SATISFACTORY SERVICE
Tom Mayfield
Candidate For County Commissioner Pre. *1
Experienced—Qualified
NASI ANGELO
Guerrero, ss ......... 3
Tayoan. 2b .......... 5
Crues, cf ........... 2
Wallace, lb ......... 4
Follett, rf ........... 5
Serrano, If .......... 5
Cabullero. 3b ....... 5
Schneegold, c ........ 5
Price, p ............. 5
Totals.......39 14 15 27 13 1
• • •
Sweetwater....... 010 021 010— 5
San Angelo...... 313 030 40x—14
* • *
Pitchers IP. B. h. SO. BB.
Price (Winner) B 5 7 8 5
Shupe (Loser) . . 2 1*3 6 8 0 2
Schober 24304
Shaw 3 2-3 4 4 1 2
• • *
Huns balled In: Sproul 2, Sliter. Perry
Serrano 3. Foiled 3. Caballero 3. Tay-
oan 2. Wallace. Two base hits: Bottarini
Guerrero, Price. Three base hits: Set-
ratio Home runs: Tayoan. Caballero
Stolen bases: Serrano. Caballero. Sac
riflces: Tayoan. Crues. Double plays
Guerrero to Tayoan to W'allace; Tayoan
to Guerrero. Left on bases: Sweetwater
5, San Angelo 11. Wild pitches: Schober
2, Price 1. Cased balls: Schneegold 2
Umpires: Hammond and Sykes. Time
2:14.
By Bod Worsham
Welpers, McGaha
Join Swatters;
Perry Recalled
Ed Welpers, right-handed
rookie pitcher from Stockton,
Calif., has been signed by the
Sweetwater Swatters and Dur-
ward McGaha, outfielder, has re-
joined the Swatters.
Dale Perry, outfielder with
Sweetwater since early season
has been recalled by Albuquerque
and will be optioned to Lufkin.
The Swatter officials are mak-
ing a vain attempt for pitching
help, but every dub they con-
tact is also out searching for
capable hurlers.
FIGHT RESULTS I
LONG BEACH, N, Y. CUP)_
Sandy Saddler, 131. New York
stopped Leroy Willis, 134-1, De-
troit. (2).
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Second Division “A11M"
Why do some clubs in the
Longhorn League—or any other
league for that matter — field
better teams than their contem-
poraries? Why are the players so
far superior in the top division
over those in the bottom half of
the standings?
We mave studied these two
questions for the past few weeks.
Our interest in them was brought
about, as most of you might
guess, by the oft-beaten Sweet-
water Swatters.
We find two answers—the up-
per dubs can afford to pav their
players more, thus getting the
best, performers; and the players
with winning clubs do not have
a defeatist attitude.
* * *
THE SWATTERS have lost
their hustle and winning spirit.
Most of them realize that they
don’t have a chance to make the
first division, without a miracle.
And if miracles do happen,
they would have happened many
days ago when the pitchers
couldn’t find the plate, the hit-
ters failed to hit safely and the
fielders hobbled easy chances.
The Satters still play an in-
teresting ball game, as a rule,
although it’s apparent that some-
mg is missing.
’he boys do their best. But
wh can the hitters do when
then ttellers are racked time aft-
er tin and what can the pitch-
its, do when their teammates
can t hit the opposing pitchers?
* * *
MODERN BASEBALL man
agers have done away with the
sacrifices and the squeeze plays
in the early innings, on the
theory of waiting for the "big”
inning.
We suggest that Swatter Man-
ager John Bottarini start letting
his boys sacrifice in the very
first stanza because the Swatters
never^ get a big inning. At
least that’s been t.he case in
the majority of the games.
When the Swatters get behind
by three runs, they seldom ever
catch up. They see another de-
feat staring them in the face
and the illusion takes all the hus-
tle and fighting spirit from them.
* * *
Thomas O’Bar
The Abilene High School star
pitcher the past season, Tom
O’Bar, has signed a professional
baseball contract with the St
Louis Cardinals of the National
League. The amount of the “nice
bonus” was not revealed.
We saw O’Bar pitch on several
occasions, hut never thought the
lanky righthander could be cap-
able of jumping into the pro
game without first a hitch in col-
lege.
* * *
Dukes Going Up
The Albuquerque Dukes —
who have taken thpir lumps this
season—are now making another
di’ive for the first division.
The Dukes are getting hotter
pitching, hitting and fielding as
he second half of the season
looms. The defending champs
have looked like their old selves
for the past week.
11. G Fausett, Duke owner
n\had*,2uite a feu' additions
V1 the Albuquerque dub since
he season opened. He mav
have a West Texas-New Mexico
winner again this season if the
leading preKent power isn’t mis-
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STARTER — Steve O’Neill,
new Red Sox manager, ponders
future moves in St. Louis after
taking over the Boston Amer-
icans in place of the retired
Joe McCarthy. The Bosox re-
bounded under O'Neill, took
four straight from the Browns. I
Jordan Takes Bat
Lead As Stasey
Drops 38 Points
Roswell Manager Tom Jordan
took over the batting honors in
the Longhorn League through
the season’s mid-way mark last
week by adding six percentage
points to his previous week's
average while Pat Stasey of
Big Spring, last week’s leader,
dropped 3S points to sixtli place.
(Stasey collected only four
hits in 20 times-at-bat against
Sweetwater right-hand pitching
in a six-game series last week I.
Jordan's top individual mark
is an even .100, getting 120 hits
in 300 trips. Jordan boosted his
base-hit leadership to 12 over
Bill C’earley of Odessa who has
collected 108 safeties in 307
times at bat.
The Roswell skipper retain-
ed his lead in home runs, get-
ting three the past week to run
his season’s total to 19. Rob
Crues of San Angelo with 17 is
a close second in circuit smash-
Other individual department
leaders are Wayne Batson of
Odessa in doubles, (31); Steve
Follett of San Angelo in trip-
les. ill); and Jordan in runs-
batted-in, (102).
Roswell leads both the club
batting and fielding at the half-
way stage. The Rocket’s team
batting average is .315 and
their fielding is .956. Sweet-
water is fourth in fielding and
last in club batting.
Durwood Cox of San Ange-
lo tops the pitchers in games
won with 13. Cox has dropped
six decisions. Although he is
still inactive due to an injury,
Raymond Drake of Roswell has
a 7-0 record to lead the loop.
Skeet Club Meets
Members of the Blue Goose
Skeet Club will hold a regular
shoot at the Blue Goose range
Sunday’ afternoon.
The skeet members will meet
promptly at 2 p. m. to elect a
new secretary-treasurer and at-
tend to other business, it was
reported. The shooting will be-
gin shortly afterwards.
THE
SPORT3
ANGLER?^
“Dish”
What’s a feller going to do?
“Rapid Robert” Feller, the
ex-fireball hurler has been
having another of those sea-
sons that make baseball pit-
chers wake up in the night
screaming. His fast hall
limps and his-
curves are,
con fusing^
very f e w.|
This is a dis-
mal change
from 1946,!,
when he set
an all-time record by strik-
ing out 349 batters. He prob-
ably has fond memories of
that day in 1938 when he sent
18 Detroit sluggers back to
the bench after allowing them
a quick glimpse fo the usual
3 strikes. When a pitcher's
wing goes back on him he's
Zil
practically out of business,
unless he happens to be a
hurler who can also hit . . .
like Babe Ruth. Sometimes
a pitcher has a bad season
and the next year he comes
back strong and steady again.
But. there’s no law that says
it has to be so. Anyway, this
certainly seems to be a season
when it looks as though a
Feller needs a friend.
When a feller needs a new
suit, hat, trousers . . . any-
thing ... he can always
count on the best buy here.
Drop in to see us. And by the
wav . . . have a happy Fourth
of July. If you're going any-
where . . . drive carefully. We
value all our friends and cus-
tomers. MAM MEN’S
STORE, 200 E. Broadway,
Sweetwater. Phone: 4727.
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Roswell 10-8. BolUMcr 1-4.
Big Spring IT, Odsssn 8.
Midland 2, Vernon 0.
Snn Angelo 14, Sweetwater
fern* Ibubh
Dalian 8. Oklahoma City 7 <1 finning!).
Fort Worth 6, Tulsa 0.
Houston 12, Shreveport 3.
Beaumont 2. Ban Antonio 1.
West Teia»-New Mexico Lea foe
Clovis 4-9. Borger 15-3.
Lubbock 15. Abilene 5 <10 Innings).
Pampa 5, Lametta 3.
Albuquerque 5, Amarillo 2.
Rio Grande Valley Lease*
Corpus Christ! 16. Brownsville 15.
McAllen 11. Del Rio 3.
Laredo 7, Harlingen 2.
American League
New York 9-2. Boston 6-10.
Philadelphia 7-4, Washington 6-2.
Chicago 3. St. I^ouis 2 <13 Innings).
Cleveland 11, Detroit 3.
National League
St. Louts 9, Pittsburgh 4.
Philadelphia 8. Brooklyn 5.
Boston 8. New York 4.
Cincinnati 8, Chicago 5.
LONGHORN LKAUIK
(Through Friday)
Team W L Pet.
Odessa ...................... 52 29 .642
Roswell .................... 47 33 .588
Big Spring .................. 43 34 .558
Vernon ................... 43 36 .544
San Angelo ................. 42 38 .525
Midland ................. 37 43 .463
Sweetwater ................ 3U 49 ..180
Ballinger ............... 23 55 .295
WEST TEXAN-NEW MEXICO
(Through Friday)
Team W L Pet.
Pampa ................ 42 26 .618
Lubbock .................. 42 29 .592
Latnesa .................. 38 31 .551
Borger 37 34 521
Albuquerque ............. 34 37 .479
Amarillo 31 40 .437
Clovis .................. 30 42 417
Abilene ............... 28 42 .400
* • •
AMERICAN LEAGUE
(Through Friday)
Team W L Pet.
Detroit ............... 43 21 .672
New York .............. 41 27 .603
Cleveland 39 27 .591
Boston 40 31 563
Washington ........... 30 37 .448
Chicago 29 37 .439
Philadelphia . 24 44 .353
St. Louis 21 43 .328
NATIONAL LEAGUE
(Through Friday)
Team W L Prt.
Philadelphia 36 26 .581
St. Louis 37 27 .578
Brooklyn 35 26 .574
Boston 35 28 .556
Chicago 31 30 .508
New York 31 31 .500
Pittsburgh 23 40 .365
Cincinnati
21 41 .339
SUNDAYS SCHEDULE
Longhorn League
Midland at Sweetwater.
Roswell at Big Spring.
Ballinger ut Odesa.
Satt Angelo at Vernon.
West Texas-New Mexico
Albuquerque at Borger.
Pampa nt Abilene.
Clovis at Amarillo.
Lubbock at La mesa.
American League
St. Louis at Chicago (2>.
Philadelphia at Washington.
New York at Boston
Detroit at Cleveland (2).
National League
Brooklyn at Philadelphia (2).
Chicago at Cincinnati.
Boston at New York (2t.
Pittsburgh at St. Louis.
Longhorn League
Baseball Slate
Following Is the Longhorn
League baseball schedule for the
coming week—
SUNDAY-— Midland at Sweetwater,
Roswell at Big Spring, Ballinger at Odes-
sa. San Angelo at Vernon.
MONDAY—San Angelo at Sweetwater.
Roswell at Ballinger. Big Spring at
Odessa, Midland at Vernon.
TUESDAY—San Angelo at Sweetwater
12), Roswell at Ballinger (2), Big Spring
at Odessa (2), Mildand at Vernon (2).
WEDNESDAY — Sweetwater at Mid-
land, Big Spring at Roswell. Odessa at
Ballinger. Vernon at San Angelo.
THURSDAY—Sweetwater at Midland.
Big Spring at Roswell, Odessa at Balling-
er, Vernon at San Angelo.
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water Reporter, Inc.
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March 3, 1879.
Elmer Wright................Publisher
Allen Baker .....................Editor
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Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 156, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 2, 1950, newspaper, July 2, 1950; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth748796/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.