Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 71, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 25, 1951 Page: 2 of 24
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Sweetwater, Texas, Sunday, March 25, 1951
Troining Comp Briefs
Ramsdell Looms As
Reds Ace Stopper
SARASOTA, Fla., March 24 (UP)—Right-hander Wil-
lard Ramsdell, who was just another pitcher while toiling
for the Brooklyn Dodgers, may wind up as a good “stop-
per” on the Cincinnati Reds’ staff.
Ramsdell, traded by the Dodgers to the Reds last year,
completely baffled the Bos-
Spurt $
Worsham __j
P
V ti Red Sox Friday with his
fluttering knuckle-ball. The
33-year-old hurler shut out
the mighty Sox batters with
five hits in seven innings as
the Reds triumphed, 7 to 0.
I \KKLAND, Fla.. March 24—
(UP) -Vic Wertz, slugging out-
fielder of the Detroit Tigers, is
a cinch to hit 35 home runs this
season, Manager Red Rolfe said
today.
“Vic is stepping into the hall ®
the way we’ve been trying to Up-
make him.’' Rolfe said. “If he | 5-
. -I pnep on nulling the ball, he
I- •” home runs easily.”
BRADENTON. Fla.. March 24
(UP)—A trade may be brewing
between the New York Yankees
and the Philadelphia Athletics.
Assistant General Manager
Roy Harney of the Yankees ar-
rived here Friday as the A’s
opened a three-game weekend
series with the Boston Braves.
The Yankee:- reportedly are in-
terested in Pitchers Alex Kellner
and Lou Brissie.
More Trouble
MIAMI. Fla., March 24 (UP)
More trouble greeted Manager
Charlie Dressen of the Brooklyn
Dodgers today as ho rejoined
the team after a three-week
siege of the fine and blood pois-
oning. .
Don Newcombe, the Dodgers’
giant Negro pitcher, has com-
plained his arm “felt stiff.”
OAKLAND, Calif., March 24 —
(UP)—There was good news to-
day for the New York Yankees
— Star Pitcher Allie Reynolds
definitely does not have hone
chips in his throwing arm.
’ X-rays taken here yesterday
dislosed Reynolds had an inflam-
ed elbow, but there was no sign of
bone chips. Tire affliction was de-
scribed as the -ante one that
bothered the veteran righ-nanil-
- i f last voar but it is not expect-
ed to interfere with his pitch-
ing.
Red Sox Plan To Crash Through
With Padded Pitching, Reserves
KK.lIM — While .tiicn t.eurl
may not have I wo bails in his
hand, this is expected (o be a
familiar sight in the National
League hull pens this year.
The Giants are counting upon
the veteran right-hander as a
relief worker. He won 23 while
losing 7 for the Oakland Coast-
ers last trip, mostly as a re-
plaeement. after having lit.....
out until May 2k.
Kleiner's Korner
By DICK KLEINER
Come now, fellows, you can
do better than that. Just burn-
ing his tights isn't spectacular
enough. If the loser was actual-
ly inside the tights when they
By Bud Worsham
Odessa Catcher
Spec Gammon reports from
Hondo, training camp of the
Odessa Oilers (Longhorn )-Coh-
pus Christ! Aces (Gulf Coast )-Abi-
lent Blue Sox (West Texas-New
Mexico), that the Oilers are in
need of pitchers.
Manager Jackie Sullivan be-
lieves his squad is pretty well
set except in the hurling depart-
ment.
Gammon had high praise for
a rookie catcher with the Oilers
-17-year-old Richard Todar of
Waco.
“He lias one of the finest
throwing arms of any catcher his
age”, said the Odessa writer.
Mgr. Sullivan said Todar al-
most killed a couple of pitchers
while pegging the hall to second
in a practice session last week.
“He throws low. fast and ac-
curate,” Sullivan commented.
Todar graduated from Waco
High School last June. He
caught for Waco High two years
and was fullback on the football
team in 1948-49. The 5-10, 100-
pound youth bats and throws
right handed.
—SS—
Big Spring Football
Tommy Hart, Big Spring
scribe, continues lo put out the
“Beware” ; ign for future grid
opponents of the Big Spring
High School Steers.
Said Hart: “Local football
fans may not see an all-winning
brand of high school ball here
in 1951, hut they will be treated
to the sight of an aggressive
bunch of lads who won’t accept
defeat without making the oppo-
sition pay a price. The local
youngsters will be tough as shoo
leather.
“By 1952 the Steers are going
to bo among the saltiest clubs in
this section of the state. The
freshmen and sonhomores on the
club should really begin to flex
their muscles by next year . .
We’re glad to hear that foot-
ball is on the up-swing at Big
Spring. However, it’ll mean more
Worries for the Sweetwater
coaches, since the Steers will bo
on the Mustang conference
schedule next season.
The Ponies expect to have n
pretty salty outfit in 1952, too.
This fall’s team will he dominated
by juniors. Coach Pat Gerald
says if he doesn't have the state
champion in '52. he’ll quit ihe
coaching racket.
Big Spring and Sweetwater
may have an interesting time
on the gridiron the next two
seasons. I
,v —ss—
Swatter Notes
Hal Bart of Grand Rapids,
| Mich., who will try out for the |
! Swatter second base job, will be
i accompanied to Sweetwater by I
| bis bride-of-five-months.
The bespectacled Bart is eag-|
er for the baseball season to
start, his letters to Business
Manager Joe Bratcher indicate.
The young man plans to remain
in Sweetwater for the entire
By HARRY GRAYSON
NBA Sports Editor
SARASOTA, Fla. — The most
noticeable change in the Red
Sox is the Joe McCarthy’s cele-
brated thin line lias gone out of
the window.
A year ago down here, Man-
ager McCarthy had four infield-
w ters, three out-
v fielders, and
barely enough
pitching to go
around.
M a r s e Joe
didn't even have
Billy Goodman
for all - round
duty. The one-
man ball club
was at first base,
for Walloping
Walter Dropo
S' had been assign-
' eil to (ho l.ouis-
Scarborough villc club.
McCarthy had the old-fashion-
ed notion that a ball player
should hit both types of pitch-
ing and play every inning from
Ihe start of the exhibition games
up to and through the World
Series.
It is quite posssible that this
antiquated view cost the Boston
Americans the last three pen-
nants.
Where it was utterly impos-
sible to cram another hired hand
into the Yankee dugout near the
finish the past two autumns, (lie
Bo,-,ox had no more bench than
a disqualified judge.
Thi result of McCarthy’ par-
simony in personnel was the loss
\
V/-
pounds lighter and free of man-
agerial worry, could be the car-
buretor, especially with Good-
man going hack to right field.
In the catching department,
the Red Sox have numbers rath-
er than quality. With Biridie
Tebbets, an accomplished work-
man in the books of a lot of base-
men, vetoed by Manager O’Neill
and age, the Back Bay Million-
aires are left with Matt Batts
and the veterans El Evans, pur-
chased from the Senators;
Mickey Guerra, obtained from
the Athletics, and Buddy Rosar.
There is a tremendous differ-
ence there, when you think of
the Yankees with Yogi Berra,
and the accomplished receiving
given the Indians by Jim Heg-
an.
But this trip Sieve O’Neill at
lea-t won’t have to look around
for an usher when someone gets
hurl or a pitcher is crying for
help.
iFridft's Basketball
By V sited Prfei
NTAA Western Regional Remi-FInnl*
ut Ka»us City
Kansas State 64 Brigham Young 54.
Oklahoma A&M 61, Washington 57.
Women's National AAU Toarnament
At Dallas, Texas
State Board of Health (Jackson. Miss.)
41, Tlntoreria Coahuila (Me- *o f.y) 35
(Consolation flight).
Cook's tioldhlume? (Nashville, Tenn.)
39, American Institute of Business (Des
Moines, Iowa) *3 (third place).
Hanes Hosiery (Winston Salem, N. C.)
50. Queens Wo.vland College (Piainview.
Tex,) 34 (Championship).
NEA Staff Correspondent
An advertisement from a
wrestling match in Houston.
Terf.. read like thie:
DIZZY DAVIS vs.
DANNY SAVICH.....
Loser Burns His Tights In
the Ring and Leaves Texas!
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Mar. - * *
24 (UP)—Clint Hartung of the
New Giants, trying hard to make
good in his switch from pitch-
er's mound to the outfield, still
has a lot to learn about base-run-
” The big Texan’s base-running j burned, you’d have a pretty fair j ^i^TnTsummer “this to™
shortcomings W ere evident 111 | show. It.nKt vppr he was rplpnsprl nftpr
day as the Giants- dropped a 1 * * *
to 0 game to the Washington! ^nfj t]la( business of the los-
Senators, collecting only six er having to leave Texas isn't
Pus ofl Boh Kuzava and A1 Sima. g0jnSr to cause too much unem-
YYith Steve Pawlick on first: piovment
to 1hcH oSddr°ton tried m ! In the "’resiling game, things
stretch it into a three-bagger.; <*" change. The loser can go
forcing Pavlick to make a futile across the border into Louisi-
try for home. j ana, grow a mustache, call him-
__—-- jself The Muscled Mustafa, and
he hack in Texas in two weeks.
* * *
The only trouble with the
By united i‘e.-.s ! whole idea is what’ll he do
!for an encore?
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G. 8. Morris Takes
Highland Park Job
DALLAS, March 24 (UP) —
G. B. Morris, line coach of Tex-
as Tech since 1947. has been
head football coach at Highland
Park High School where he once
served as an a - islanl.
Morris replaces Floyd High-
tower, who asked to he relieved
of a pennant in a play-off. an-j0f his gridiron duties to devote
other on the last day of the cam-1 tjme t0 his “increasing duties”
paign and a third by four games,' ;1s rotC commandant and track
when the mighty Ted Williams' ,.o;K.h. He was serving as head
went out with a broken left el-• C(1i,ch under a one-year contract.
k°lv- , , ,, . “Two assistants, James O.
General Manager Joe C ronin, |r|.ynhi|n and Ernest Kenedy,
padded the pitching in acquir- , , , football
mg Ray Scarborough and Bill1 1 '-
Wight from the White Sox, but
but this meant the loss of Joe
Dodson and Outfielder A1 Zar-
illa.
Harry Taylor, an cx-Dodger
brought up from St. Paul in time
to turn in two great perform-
ances last fall, could be the. star
of the staff If he has finally
shaken the arm trouble that has
plagued him for several years.
If Scarborough and Wight
demonstrate they can win with
a winner, Steve O’Neill should
fashion plenty of pitching out
of a staff which also include
Parnell, Willard Nixon, Master-
son, Stobbs and McDermott, with
Old Grandad Kinder on relief.
Playing anywhere near his
1948 form, Lou Boudreau, 20
coaches, but will
baseball coaches.
as
remain
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Washington (A) 1, New York (N) 0.
Boston (N) 16, Philadelphia (A) 8.
Cincinnati <N) 7. Boston (A) 0.
Philadelphia (N) I. St. Louis (N). 0 |
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Chicago (A) 15, St. Louis (A) 0.
Pitt.sl.urgh (N) 6. Chicago (N) 2.
Detroit (A'-Philadelphia (A), cancelled.
St. I.ouis <Ni Brooklyn C\’>, Cancelled.
Cleveland <\i 7, Oakland (PCLt 1
(Night).
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Masterful Prophets
NEW YORK. March 24 —
The 35-man United Press
Board of Coaches proved
masterful prophets as far as
the NCAA basketball tourna-
ment is concerned.
Tlie coaches rated Ken-
tucky, Oklahoma A&M, Kan-
sas State and Illinois 1 -2-3-4
in their final regular season
listings.
Kentucky and Illinois were
in the eastern finalists and
Oklahoma A&M and Kansas
State were the western fin-
alists.
Last year he was released after
the first few weeks. Not every-
one was in favor of liis depart-
ure.
Thomas Guinn, power-hitting
outfielder with the 1950 Swat-
ters, has accepted contract
terms with the Sweetwater club
and will arrive here Wednesday
from his Arkansas home.
Bratcher informs us that one
pi ospectivc Swatter player re-
lumed his contract unsigned
with the statement that he was
getting more “meal money” on
his present job than Sweetwater
j could offer in salary.
Said he is making 8000 a
I month.
Bratcher said he’d hot he | j
I could send him a contract call- j j
! ing for 8300 and the player would j ;
i ac cept it so fast it’d “make his j i
1 head swim."
“But I ain’t,”, commented Joe.
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Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 71, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 25, 1951, newspaper, March 25, 1951; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth748812/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: 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.