Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 199, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 22, 1950 Page: 2 of 8
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N, M.—A terrific sandstorm halted the
1 game here last night in the first in-
had scored two runs in the top of the
_ /but the sandstorm halted festivities as Roswell
i bat in the bottom of the inning,
will be
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Qualifying for the annual City
lou Tournament at the Lake
Sweetwater course will be open
from now until Sept. 4, accord-
ing to Paul Hill, president of
the Sweetwater Golf Associa-
tion.
The Calcutta Pool will be
held Monday evening, Sept. 4.
starting at 7 o’clock back of the
dam.
Hill announced that there will
be a meeting of the Sweetwater
(Soli Association at the BCD of-
fice Thursday night, Aug. 21.
All members are urged to be
present
Longhorn League
Baseball Slate
Following is the Longhorn
League baseball schedule for
the coming week—
TUESDAY — Sweetwater at Roswell.
Ballinger at Big Spring, Midland at San
Angelo, Vernon at Odessa.
WEDNESDAY—Roswell at Sweetwater.
Ballinger at Big Spring. Odessa at
Vernon. San Angelo at Midland.
THURSDAY--Roswell at Sweetwater.
Ballinger at Big Spring. Odessa at Ver-
non, San Angelo at Midland.
FRIDAY—Roswell at Sweetwater, Big
Spring at Ballinger. San Angelo at Mid-
land. Odessa at Vernon.
SATURDAY—Odessa at Sweetwater,
Roswell at Midland. Big Spring at San-
Angelo, Ballinger at Vernon. #
SUNDAY—Odessa at. Sweetwater, Ros-
well, at Midland. Rig Spring at San An-
gelo, Ballinger at Vernon.
Swatters and Rockets. Lou
Lockhart and Sam Morris
will probably be Sweet*
water’s pitching choices.
A double victory tonight
would put the Swatters in sixth
place in the Longhorn League
standings. Sweetwater is only
a half-game from the Midland
Indians, who occupy that posi-
tion at present.
* * *
When the Swatters return to
Sweetwater Wednesday night,
it will be “Father And Son
Night” at Sportsman’s Park.
Every boy in town, 12 years
of age or under, will be admit-
ted to Wednesday’s game free
if accompanied by their fathe-
rs.
The Sweetwater Baseball As-
sociation is sponsoring the Fa-
ther-Son Night.
Some 100 Cub Scouts of Sweet-
water, Divide and Roscoe will
be special guests at the game.
The young Scouts will present a
flag-raising ceremony preced-
ing the contest.
Glenn Bailey, activities chair-
man of the t ub Scouts, urges
everyone to lie at the park by
7:45 p. ni. Wednesday in order
to witness the Scout ceremony.
The Cubs and their dads will
camp at the city park Wednes-
day night following the game.
The Swatters will tie open-
ing a seven-day home stand.
The Roswell Rockets play here
Wednesday, Thursday and Fri-
day night. The Odessa Oilers
then come to Sweetwater for a
pair of games Saturday night
and Sunday afternoon. Two
games with the San Angelo Colts
on Monday and Tuesday will
complete the long home stand of
the Swatters,
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By tratt*4 Prta
MOKBAY'S RESULTS
Lonfftioni LraiM
Sweetwater at Kuawell, ppd., Miliforw
Big Spring 6. Ballinger 3.
Odessa 9. Vernon 4.
San Angelo 4, Midland 2.
Texas League
Tulsa 2. Dallas 0.
Houston 12. San Antonio 5.
Beaumont 3. Shreveport 1.
Fort Worth 6. Oklahoma City 4.
West Texan-New Mexico Lea«w«
Borger at Clovis, ppd.. high winds.
Albuquerque 12, Amarillo 3.
Lubbock 5, Abilene 2.
i’anipa 7. Lametta 2
Kio Grande Valley League
Laredo 4. Harlingen 3.
McAllen 9. Brownsville 4.
Corpus Christi 5-7, Del Rio 6-1.
American League
Detroit 7. St. Louis 1.
(Only game scheduled)
National League
Philadelphia r. New York 0.
Brooklyn 3. Pittsburgh 2.
St. Louis 9, Boston 2.
(Only Games Scheduled)
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ANGLER
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Does fishing go to your j ashore without a fish show-
Apparently it does to|jng That’s small scale lar-
ceny. Most sportsmen will
some of Maine’s Penobscot
County anglers, because the
rules that are
P. C. call for
the fisher-
men to tip
their hats to
wardens. And
courtesy has
nothing to do
in effect hi
with it. Too
feel that the-Maine Wile is a
good one. A fisherman who
can’t use his head for any-
thing but a parking space for
under-sized fish is ruining
good sport for everyone. Our
hat's off to Penobscot Coun-
jty. Coops, where’d that fish
! come from ?
! You’ll take off your hat
many rod and reel rogues
have been catching fish un-1 reluctantly when it’s a sharp
der the legal size and hiding ly styled,' top-quality Stet-
them under their bonnets.; son. the classic in men’s
When a warden sees several head-gear. Come in to the
fins hanging down over a M. & M. MEN’S STORE, 200
bald headed man’s ears, he E. Broadway, today, and
knows something is fishy. A outfit yourself for the Fall
couple of wardens claim to'with a Hammunton Park suit
have watched one man tuck topped by a handsome .Stet-
1.5 four-inch trout under his son. Phone 4727 ... the only
homburg and then wade exclusive men's shop in town.
Team
Odessa
Roswell . .
Vernon
Big Spring
San Angelo
Midland
Sweetwater
LONGHORN
LEAGUE
W L Pet.
84 49 .632
. . 77 54 .588
72 58 .554
. 72 60 .545
65 64 .504
. . 59 73 .447
58 73 .443
Ballinger ............ 36 92 .281
6
10 Vi
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17
24 Va
33
45 V*
WEST TEXAS-NEW MEXICO
Team W L Pet.
Pampa ............ 75 49 .605
Lamesa 71 53 .573
Lubbock ......... 69 53 .566
Albuquerque 69 54 .561
Borger 62 57 .521
Amarillo .......... 54 56 .454
Abilene......... 46 79 .368
Clovis . . . 44 80 .355
4
5
5 Vi
10
18 Va
29 Vi
31
KIO GRANDE LEAGUE
Team W L Pet.
Harlingen .............. 76 56 .576
Laredo 75 56 .573
Corpus Christi ... 73 56 .566
Brownsville ...... 71 61 .538
Del Rio 69 62 .527
McAllen......... 38 90 .297
TEXAS LEAGUE
Team
Fort Worth ...
Beaumont......
Dallas .......
Tulsa ......
San Antonio
Oklahoma City
Shreveport
Houston
W L Pet.
80 52 .606
78 55 .586
76 66 .535
69 63 .523
65 67 .492
61 70 .466
55 78 .414
54 78 .409
IPs#’*
VACATION WORK—Pictured above are Charles Wyatt of
Sweetwater and Dr. Sherman T. Coleman of Dallas (who at-
tended Sweetwater schools) displaying their sailfish catches
of Aug. IS while vacationing at Acapulco, Mexico. One of the
fish weighed 100 pounds, the other 90 pounds.
Bit CARL LCMDQCIfT
NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (UP) -
It 8 time to be thinking about
those most valuable player
awards and a good place to look
is to the right—right field, that
is—where Del Ennis of the Phil-
lies and Vic Wertx, of the Tigers
are super special candidates.
These slugging stars of the re-
spective National and American
League pace-setters, consistently
have been the men to deliver the
key hits in key ball games Wertz,
for example, blasted a three
run homer :n the very first in-
ning yesterday as Detroit down-
ed the Browns, 7 to 1 and left
home for Yankee Stadium a com-
fortable 3H games in front of
second place New York.
That gave the congenial Wertz
a total of 109 runs batted in for
the year, putting him second
only to Walt Dropo of the Red
Sox. It was his 25th home run
of the year, making him fourth
in that department.
Ennis made three hits yester-
day to pace the Phillies as Lefty
Curt Simmons gave up only four
hits, all singles, for a 4 to 0 vic-
tory over the Giants ,his lHth
against seven defeats.
The victory for the left-armed
Simmons, who soon will be arm-
ed with a rifle and on his way to
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Sweetwater, Texas, Tuesday, August 22, 1950
Pressure On Whiz Kids
Mounts, Ploy Nears Bnd
Korea,
'was made secure when
A PORT A
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By Bud Worsham
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Ted in W L Pet.
Detroit ................. 73 39 .652
New York............ 72 44 .617
Cleveland .............. 71 46 .607
Bosom ................ 69 48 .590
W ashington 50 61 150
Chicago 46 71 .393
St. Louis 39 73 .348
Philadelphia 40 77 .342
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Team
Philadelphia
Brooklyn . . .
St. Louis . . .
Boston
‘Xew York
Chicago
Cincinnati ..
Pittsburgh . ,
W L Pet.
70 45 .609
61 47 .565
62 51 .549
v60 §1 541
. 47 ST .514
Match For Thomas
George Thomas, the Long-
horn League umpire who wrest-
les in the winter and officiates
at professional baseball games
in the summer, will display his
wares outside the baseball dia-
mond on Sept. 12 at Midland.
A wrestling match has been
lined up for Thomas at Indian
Park in Midland two days after
the baseball season is over. His
opponent will be Rod Fenton
veteran grunt and groan artist
who specializes in mangling
his foes in the ring.
Thomas and Fento both weigh
in the 200-pound plus class. The
two have never met before—in-
side or outside the ring.
Fans who attend the match
will have to watch their langu-
age—instead of yelling “Kill the
Umpire,” they must change it
to “Kill the Wrestler.”
* * *
Odessa Football
The August football experts
are picking Odessa to be the
state high school favorites
SO 63 .442
47 64 .423
41 73 .360
TI K81IAV8 SCHEDULE
Longhorn League
Sweetwater at Roswell (2).
Vernon at Odessa.
Midland at San Angelo.
Ballinger at Big Spring.
West Texas-New Mexico
Amarillo at Albuquerque.
Borger at Clovis.
Lamesa at Pampa.
Abilene at Lubbock.
Texas League
Fort Worth at Dallas.
Tulsa at Okla. City.
Houston at San Antonio.
Beaumont at Shreveport.
American League
Detroit at New York.
Cleveland at Washington <n>.
Chicago at Philadelphia (n>.
St. Louis at Boston <n).
National League
Brooklyn at Pittsburgh (n>.
New York at Chicago.
Philadelphia at Cincinnati (n).
Boston at St. Louis (n).
Bridegrooms Pace
Cats To Victory
By United Preas
Fort Worth’s matrimonial-
minded Cats whistled “here
comes the bride” today as they
got set for a game with the Dal-
las Eagles.
The Cats celebrated the mar-
riages of pitcher John Ruther-
ford and infielriers Don Hoak.
Joe Torpey, and Russ Rose last
night by thumping the Okla-
homa City Indians, <S to 4.
Rutherford didn’t see action,
but the trio of infielders played
errorless ball in the field. They
were married in pre-game cere-
monies at home plate before
more than 9.000 respectful fans.
Beaumont’s Roughnecks kept
the ’distance separating them
from the league-leading Cats to
two and one-half games last
night by nicking the Shreveport
Sports, 3 to 1. Art Delduca pit-
ched classy three-hit ball for
Beaumont in whipping the Loui-
sianians.
The third-place Tulsa Oilers
shut out the Dallas Eagles, 2 to
0, for the fourth time in five
games last night with Jim Av-
rea doing the honors. Avrea set
the fourth-place Eagles down,
2 to 0.
In a slugfest. at San Antonio,
when action starts on the grid Ulie Houston Buffs mauled the
Mi
iron next month
However, Joe Coleman, the
Odessa coach, isn’t so optimis-
tic.
Said Coleman: “We’ll have two
regular linemen hack from last
year’s club which lost three and led tor the Missions
tied one. I don’t know how1
they figure we should lie among
the favorites.”
The Bronchos have 13 letter
issions.- 12 to 5. Charlie Kress
led Houston’s assault with a
pair of homers anil Johnny Blat-
nik helped the Buffs with a two-
run roundt ripper. Rocco Ip-
polito and Danny Raich homer-
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Willie/Jones hit a fourth inning
homer, his 25th.
The Dodgers stayed 5 Vi games
behind the Phillies by winning
a 3 to 3 decision at Pittsburgh
when Jim Russell came home
with the deciding run on the
business end of a double steal
with Duke Snider.
The St. Louis Cards took third
place away from the Boston
Braves by beating them in a
night game. 9 to 2. Harry
Brecheen yielded single runs in
the first and second innings, then
gave only four hits the rest of
the way for his seventh win.
Two home runs by Tom Glav-
iano and one by Del Rice led the
Cards’ eight-hit production as
Johnny Sain suffered his 10th
loss.
There were no other games
scheduled.
Yesterday's star — Strong-arm-
ed Curt Simmons of the Phillies,
who pitched four-hit, 4 to 0 shut-
out over the Giants for his Kith
victory of the year.
Line Scores
Following are Monday night’s
Longhorn League line scores:
Midland 000 Oil 000—2 7 1
San Angelo 200 001 Olx—4 5 0
Patton and Jones: Beltran and
Lopez.
: men returning—six
;and seven backs.
linemen
Ex-Swatter Besana
Get a Studebaker and get
"mare truck"fbr the money!
His ace-in-the-hole will he Joe
Childress, the state's fastest
man in last spring’s track meet.
If he can tote the pigskin like
Wins 11th For Dukes
By United I’ress
Pampa's Oilers widened their
West Texas-New Mexico League
lead to four games today after
he runs the cinders, the Bron-1 taking the opener of a “crucial”
fling mierht havp nnnthpr Knn- .....:*i, *u.. ...____,,,i t o
chos might have another San-
tone Townsend.
* * *
Fishing Is Good
Charles Griff ice. local
man, has just returned
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Port Aransas, and he reports the
fishing is “very good” there.
Mackerel, tarpon, sailfish and
kingfish are plentiful at Texas
coast cities.
Griffice said that the average
half-day fisherman would re-
turn with 100 pounds of fish.
* * *
Swatters, Itimi Chiola
The Sweetwater Swatters may
not be able to make the Long-
horn playoffs, but they are
causing the upper teams a few
pains as the season draws to a
close.
Since Horn Chiola took over n-
manager of the team, the Swat-
ters have won seven of 11 games.
The boys have more hustle
than ever before under Chiola
and the pitchers are coming
through with nine-inning per-
formances.
Some of the other teams are
glad they have only a few gam-
es left with Sweetwater.
If the Swatters could miracu-
lously make the pennant play-
offs, the other three teams
would find a battle-royal await-
ing them from Sweetwater.
series with the second-place La-
mesa Lobos.
The Oilers silenced the howl-
ing Lobos, 7 to 2, as Roy Park-
fisher- ; er pitched four-hit ball. Pampa
from g0t 0ff to a fast start, scoring
Vernon ... 900 200 110—1 0 2
Odessa’ 001 000 80x—9 8 3
Russell. Tross and Hayes; Mil-
ler and Hernandez.
* * *
Ballinger . 000 101 000—3 6 0
Big Spring 210 010 020-fi 11 I
Wallendorf and Garcia, Jim-
inez and Calvino.
* * *
Sweetwater at Roswell, post-
poned. sandstorm.
By Oscar Fraley
NEW YORK, Aug. 22, (UP)—
The ever-present pressure on
the League leader was beginning
to tell todav on the Philadelphia
Phillies arid while the “whiz
kids” still were proving whiz-
zies they weren’t looking much
like kids any more.
Not long ago when they were
Uarkhorses of the most sepian
hue, the club celebrated every
victory with vociferous cries of
triumph That was during the
days when the rest of the Na-
tional League considered them
summer wonders who would
fold rapidly when the wire came
in sight.
Then the National League wat-
ery was “stop the Dodgers.”
But now, suddenly, the league
has realized that the Phillies’
aren't going to beat themselves.
And every club in the league
has shifted its sights and put
them on the “whiz kids.”
it has made a distinct change
in the ball club, probably con-
vincing them that they can win
the pennant. So no longer do
they celebrate the victory of
the day with cheers and back
slapping. It’s a long-range plan
now, one which ends brilliant-
ly or miserably when the pen-
nant races come to a screeching
halt on Oct. 1.
Their game with the Giants
yesterday was a case in point.
Curt Simmons, the tall south-
paw, flattened the onrushing
giants with a masterful four
hitter as Brooklyn boat Pitts
burgh. That kept the Phillies'
lead at 5-V4 games over the
Brooks, when a loss would have
reduced the lead to 4-Vi games.
But, in the dressing room af-
terwards, there was no great
jubilation or mass descent on
the calmly - undressing Curt.
Each man relaxed in front of
his locker, the strain lines strong
on every face, and the conver-
sation was low and punctuated
by only a few laughs.
The Phillies are a young club,
truly “kids” among the many
veteran outfits performing in
the postwar major leagues. Of
the regulars against the Giants
only three of them—Andy Sem-
inick. Eddie Waitkus and Dick
Sislor — are 29 years old.
. Two of them are 25. Del En-
nis and Willie Jones, while Mike
Goliat is 21 and Richie Ashburn
and Granny Hamner are 23 and
Simmons is only 21. That's an
average of just over 23 years of
age.
They realize fully by now
that front here on in they will
have to face the best of every
team in the league, and conquer
it if they are to realize their
dream on sundown of Oct. 1.
“Sure, they’re tense and tight,”
admitted manager Eddie Saw-
yer, a fatherly man whose
bland exterior doesn't quite
hide the worry in his brown
eyes. “But I'm sure that the
kids can do it. And I believe
that they, too, are more certain
of it now than they ever have
been.”
•Well he all right.” interrupt-
ed catcher Andy Seminick, who
as the oldest of the eight regu-
lars is known as “Grandpa
Whiz" and who runs the club
afield with an iron hand. “Don’t
worry, we ll make it.”
“1 ’ think we will,” Sawyer
continued, “because we're just
playing them as they come."
Maybe they are. those kids
who are aging faster than their
days. And maybe they’re play-
ing too far in the future. One
thing certain, if they do take
it all. they'll le rough to shave
for a few years to come.
Justice Turns \
Down Pro Offers
CHAPEL, HILL. N. C., Aug.
22, (CP) —Charley iC’hoo Chod)
Justice finally made his “defi-
nite" decision about playing pro-
fessional football today, and
the answer was—“No."
"I love football." said the All-
American halfback who gradu-
ated from North Carolina in
June. "But I have decided defi-
nitely not to play professional
football anywhere."
In turning his back on the
gridiron—to stick with his job
at the North Carolina medical
foundation—Justice nixed an
offer from the Washington Red-
skins of tlie National Football
League and an even more tempt-
ing offer from the Richmond
Rebels.
Richmond reportedly offered
Justice more than $10,000 to
play six home games—no roac}
trips-- and no practice with the
team. ' s
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four runs in the first inning.
Lubbock’s Hubbers. anxious
to remain in third place came
from behind to beat the Abilene
Blue Sox, 5 to 2, on Johnny
Clodfelter’s five-hit pitching.
The Albuquerque Dukes, hold-
ing up the bottom of the first
division shellacked the Amaril-
lo Gold Sox, 12 to 3, to remain
only half a game behind Lub-
bock. Fred Besana won his 11th
game, scattering seven hits.
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