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Giants Boast National's
Top Pitchers, Fielders
By CARL LUNDQUIST
JIEW YORK, May 6 W-Leo Du-
iWher Is directing another ‘‘opera-
tion miracle" with his jaunty Gi-
ants, who ought (o be charged
with arson the way they're burning
up the western end of the National
League.
These sure-fingered, strong-
throwing, timely hitting guys have
won seven straight games behind
the most brilliant pitching in the
majors. In 16 games this year, the
infield which Duroeher said makes
this “my kind of a team” has
(Gnmitted only two errors. The
Gilbreth Guides
Apaches To Win
Clean-up hitter and pitcher Billy
Gilbreth paced Manager Ocie
Witt’s Apaches to a ,r>-2 victory over
Caffey Welch’s Cats Monday after-
noon in the first Little League con-
l£t of the season.
^jiibroth limited the Cats to four
hits in the six-inning tilt, struck
out seven batters and banged a
home run, double and single to
help his own cause, scoring three
of his team’s five runs.
Peter Loeb also hammered a
home run for the Apaches.
Doubles by Moser and Dugger
and a single by Herron netted the
Cats their two runs.
The line-ups: Apaches—Feagan,
'•■ond base; Loeb shortstop;
Spradlin, catcher; Gilbreth, pitch-
er; Scott, center field; Maddox,
third base; Bishop, left field; Ger-
ald, right field; and Witt, first
base.
Cats—Gesin, catcher; Moser,
pitcher; Dugger, left field; Clark,
third base; Frankling, right field;
Herron, second base; Barnes, first
base; Aldridge, shortstop; and
Henson, center field.
The Cats’ pitcher, Moser, struck
jwt nine batters.
“ruesday afternoon's schedule:
Cubs i Manager Roy DeBuskl vs.
Giants (Mgr. Sherman Durham).
Wednesday: Tigers (Clyde Bonner)
vs. Rebels (Goldie Boyer).
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club has made only six errors in
all, the other four having been
committed by pitchers and catch-
ers.
In their all-victorious sweep
through the West, including a bit-
terly-contested 3 to 2 decision from
the Cubs Monday, the only error
committed was by Bill Rigney, a
substitute shortstop, filling in at a
game in Pittsburgh in the late in-
nings.
The contrast is all the more
striking when it is noted that the
Braves, the shakiest team defen-
sively, have committed 39 errors
thus far.
Four Hits Were Enough
Monday's victory was a typical
one. The Giants made only four
hits off lefty Paul Minner. but it
was all they needed behind perfect
play and the standout relief pitch-
ing of Montia Kennedy, the almost
forgotten southpaw. Kennedy took
over for Jim Hearn and pitched
one-hit ball for H 1-3 innings, hold-
ing the Cubs hitless for the final
five. Wes Westrum hit a homer
after Alvin Dark singled for two
runs and the winning tally came
when Minner erred on a bunt by
Lockman, after which Bobby
Thomson tripled.
In the limited Monday activity,
the aroused Senators made it three
straight over the Browns, pummel-
ling them to the count of 13 to 1.
while the Indians made it two in
a row over the Rod Sox at Boston,
winning 4 to 2 in 10 innings.
In the only other National League
action, the Dodgers breezed to a
5 to 1 decision over the Pirates in
a rain-shortened, eight-inning
game.
Senators Collected 15 Hits
The brigade of ex-Yankees per-
forming for the Senators came
through for them in a 15-hit thump-
ing. Spec Shea pitched four-hit ball
for seven innings and Archie Wil-
son and Jackie Jensen were big
men at the plate. Wilson batted
in five runs on a double and two
singles while Jensen banged a dou-
ble and single. Ned Garver, 20-
game winner for the Browns, was
batted out of the box for the third
straight time.
Ralph Branca pitched four-hit
ball and struck out seven as the
Dodgers sent the Pirates to their
fifth straight defeat and the 15th in
the last Hi games. Andy Palko hit
his seventh homer and Gil Hodges
got his first.
The Indians put over three runs
in the 10th on a homer by Bobby
Avila, successive triples by Ai Ros-
en and Ray Boone and a single by
Dale Mitchell. Ellis Kinder, pitch-
ing in relief after Rosen tripled
off Mel Parnell, pulled a side
muscle and may be out of action
for some time. The Red Sox tried
vainly to tie it up in their half of
the 10th with four pinch-hitters.
Clyde Vollmer hit a homer and
Dom DiMaggio doubled, but Early
Wynn bore down and struck out
Don Lenhardt and Walt Dropo,
gaining his fourth victory in relief
for Bob Lemon.
Monday's Star
Montia Kennedy, who pitched 6
1-3 innings of scoreless ball, allow-
ing one hit as the Giants won their
seventh straight, 3 to 2 from the
Cubs.
Sweetwater Reporter, Texas, Tuesday, May 6, 1952
Umpire Robb Quits
CINCINNATI, May G UP'—Umpire
Scotty Robb, who was fined two
weeks ago for allegedly pushing
Manager Eddie Stanky of the St.
Louis Cardinals, turned in his blue
uniform to National League Presi-
dent Warren Giles Tuesday.
Giles, in announcing the resig-
nation, said Robb had been asked
to continue on the National
League’s staff "if he felt he could
work efficiently.”
“Since he feels there is an ex-
isting situation which prevents
this, we accepted his resignation,"
Giles said. “Anything further on
this matter must come from Robb.
It is a closed matter with the
league office.”
Robb's one-sentence letter of res-
ignation to Giles read, “Please ac-
cept this as my resignation from
your umpire staff as of today.”
FALLING INTO BOX—Bobby Thomson landed smack in the laps of box seat spectators trying vainly
to snare a foul ball off the bat of the Braves’ Sid Gordon at the Polo Grounds. Right on top of the
nlay was Umpire Augie Gugliclmo. The New York Giants’ thud baseman dropped the ball. (NEA)
Temple Nips Paris
By UNITED PRESS
Tyler’s bid for the Big State
League championship suffered a
serious setback Monday night when
the East Texans’ leading hitter,
catcher Hank Robinson, suffered a
broken hand in the seventh off a
swung bat by Roy Sander. Texar-
| kana won the game 5 to 4.
Robinson had hit safely in his
14th consecutive game before San-
ders’ bat put the big hitter out of
the game for at least two weeks.
In other Big Stale games Mon-
day night, Austin pounded second
place Wichita Falls 4 to 2. Long-
view downed Waco 10 to 3 and
Temple outseored Paris in 10 in-
nings 7 to 6.
The Paris-Temple game at Tem-
ple went into an extra inning when
the Eagles scored two runs in the
ninth. Eagle Pitcher John Moreno,
W’ho relieved Francis in the ninth,
loaded the bases in the 10th. Tony
Estrella then took the mound and
threw four straight balls to Bob
Moyer to force Bill Turk in with
the winning run foi Temple.
Local Linksmen
Win Over Snyder
Sweetwater golfers defeated Sny-
der linksmen in 18 of 24 matches
here Sunday afternoon in the first
1952 competition of the "Triangle
Golf Association,” which is refer-
red to by some as the “Sand Belt
Golf League.”
Other cities in the summer golf
league are Colorado City and Big
Spring. Players of those two towns
met at Colorado City Sunday.
The remaining schedule:
June 8—Sweetwater at Snyder;
Colorado City at Big Spring.
June 22—Big Spring at Sweet-
water; Snyder at Colorado City.
July 6—Sweetwater at Big
Spring; Colorado City at Snyder.
Aug. 17—Colorado City at Sweet-
water; Big Spring at Snyder.
Sept. 7—Sweetwater at Colorado
City; Snyder at Big Spring.
The winning club will be guest
at a big barbecue at Big Spring on
Sept. 14.
Sunday’s results in the Sweetwa-
ter-Snyder match (players from
Sweetwater listed first)—
j Pat Gerald over Cole 4-3; George
Thompson over Seaton. 4-2. Roy
Prim over Kaizer, 4-3; Elwood
Hartgraves over Bryce. 4-3; Ike
Lee lost to Hammett. 5-3; Ralph
Neal lost to Don Scott, 2-1; tied Al-
ston over F Smith, 6-5: Jack Pat-
ton over Horton. 5-4; R O. Peters
!over Kish, 3-2; Ed Patton lost to J.
Palmer, 2-1; Salty Barton over
Dow. 6-5; Bill Kennedy lost to Da-
v.is 1-up on 19; W. O. Shultz over
Randal, 3-2; Gary Alston over Hall,
5-3; F L. Shaw over Cloud, 5-4;
Cecil Bruner over J Boren. 6-5; J.
L. Draper over Mlchie, 6-5; Pitt-
man over Nelson. 2-up; Roy Duck-
ett lost to Davis. 2-up; Tom Kass-
ner lost to Howser, 2-up; Charles
Ambrose over Sears, 6-5; Kelton
Green over Galbert, 5-3; Paul Cain
over Fryman, 8-up; Hap Greer ov-
er Davis, 1-up.
r**.*.,.*'
SIX MEN IN A TUB—Japanese Olympic swimmers crowd into the
same tub in Tokyo to relax their muscles after an arduous workout
in preparation for the upcoming Summer events in Finland. Shiro
Hashizume^ third from right, and Hironoshin Furuhashi, right, are
Japan’s long-distance stars. (NEA>T
AGGIE MOTHER’S DAY
COLLEGE STATION — Visitors
to the Texas A and M. College
campus during the Mother’s Day
weekend, May 10-11, will find a
full schedule of entertainment
waiting, to be climaxed by the pre-
sentation of the year’s awards dur-
ing a review of the cadet corps.
SCRAMBLED LEGS—Light-Heavyweights Bob Foster and Ted
Wakeling became so tangled up they tumbled through the ropes
during an amateur boxing tournament at London. But that didn’t
stop them. They w'ent right on fighting on the way down. (NEA)
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Magnolia, Roscoe
Cop Softball Wins
Stroking three home runs in the
first inning, the Magnolia Rough-
necks battled their way to win the
opening Senior League softball
game Monday night at Southside
Park, beating the Lamar Baptists,
9-8.
In the sixth inning the score was
tied 8-8. Although the game was
scheduled to end at 9 o’clock, an
extra inning was agreed on.
Scoring 10 runs in the second in-
ning, the Roscoe Boys Club outlast-
ed the West Side Baptists in the
second game, 17-10.
Opening games in the Junior
League will be played tonight: De-
Molay vs. Boys Club and West Side
Baptists vs. Methodists.
Thursday’s schedule: (Senior)
Roscoe Independents vs. Gypsum:
(Junior) West Side vs. Boys Club.
SWITCH PITCHERS
/ ST. LOUIS, May 6 (IPi—San An-
tonio Mission pitcher Bob Maho-
|ney headed tor the parent St.
j Louis Browns bail park Tuesday,
I and Brownie righthander Vernon
(Pete* Taylor moved to Texas.
Mahoney, a righthander with a
2-2 record thus far this year with
the Texas League club, was re-
called Monday as the Brownies op-
tioned Taylor to San Antonio on
24-hour recall, optioned a second
pitcher to Toronto of the Interna-
tional League and sold a third hurl-
er to Toronto outright.
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Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 107, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 6, 1952, newspaper, May 6, 1952; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth748865/m1/3/: 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.