The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 104, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 3, 1959 Page: 5 of 12
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Battle With Bats
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BY JIM BRANNAN
' Earl Black replaced Merle Black as the Wild-
cat’s top hitter for the season and three other shifts
occurred in the team’s top ten batters as a result of
the two district games played during the week.
Earl collected three hits in five trips at the plate
in the two tilts to bring his average to .412 and earn
him the number one slot. Merle registered one hit in
two times at bat and now rests in the second position
with a .400 average.
Don Phillips moved up to the fifth position by
petting two hits* in four trips and raising his average
to .303. Charles Cromer went hitless in four trips to
drop him down to the sixth position with an average
of .273.
Alan Payne replaced Howard Payne in the sev-
enth slot. Alan collected one hit in four trips to bring
his average to .233. Howard dropped to the eighth po-
sition by going hitless in five trips and slumping his
average to .229.
Gerald Froneberger registered one hit in three
times up to bring his average to .176 and replace
Kenneth Milsap as the ninth position hitter. Milsap
dropped to .150 by going hitless in two trips. He now
is the number ten batter. ...
Harlon Harred stayed in the third position as he
blasted out three hits in five times at bat. His season
average is now .289.
Kenneth Beck stayed in fourth place as he con-
nected for ont hit in six trips to the plate. His season
average is now .318.
* * *
Congradulations are due the friendly folks over
at East Texas State College who made the Thursday
night All-Sports Banquet possible. There was enough
food to feed an army and it was deliciously prepared,
and Cayce Moore proved to be one of the best after
dinner speakers we’ve heard in many a day.
We made the jaunt to Lionland with Coaches
Paul Jones, Larry Hennessey and Bob Turner and ath-
letes Jerry Moss and Terry Nance.
Moss and Nance were recognized as two of the
most outstanding high school athletes in Northeast
Texas.
* * *
Biggest surprise of the week was when last place
McKinney upset high riding Mt. Pleasant 6-5 in a
district contest Tuesday.
McKinney’s win practically snuffs out Mt. Pleas-
antJs -chance for a share of the championship a» the
Tigers now have lost two conference outings. It also
gave Paris, who currently is undefeated in district
play, almost a sure cinch of their ninth consecutive
league championship.
Hurler Ken Pruitt was the Lion who pulled the
string on Mt, Pleasant. Pruitt allowed only four Tiger
hits as McKinney blasted out seven .hits in gaining the
win,
* * *
With only three more conference games remain-
ing before the Wildcats of Sulphur Springs High
School hang up tHi#p^peball uniforms for the sea-
son,-the local crew will hftve to win from here on out
to come out even in the conference won-loss stand-
ings.
Sulphur Springs, who currently owns a 2-5 con-
ference standing, is slated to play Greenville Tuesday,
McKinney Friday and Greenville in a make-up con-
test in a game which has not been scheduled yet.
Tuesday’s Greenville game and Ftftfay’sMeKff^-
ney tilt are both scheduled to be played in Sulphur
Springs. The make-up battle with Greenville will be
played at Greenville.
Sports Department
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★ GRAYSON'S SCOREBOARD *
Steady On; England Gives
Yankee-Style Bowling a Try
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BY HARRY GRAYSON
NEA Sport* Editor
Brian London
Lasts Eleven
Before Kayo
Indianapolis, May 2 iM —
Floyd Patterson is still the
heavyweight champion of the
world. He retained his crown
last night by knocking out
Brian London of England in
51 seconds of the eleventh
round. The scheduled 15-round-
er was held in Indianapolis.
The big surprise was the
length of time London warded
off the knockout punch.
Patterson threw his heaviest
guns at the invader but could
not floor London until the 10th.
Then, a whistling right to the
head sent London to the can-
vas for a count of 5 with the
bell coming to his rescue at
that point But Patterson mov-
ed in for the kill when the bell
sounded for the eleventh and it
was quickly over. The last wal
lop was a left hook to the head.
Patterson said the
bout with London shoul
him all the sharper when he
fights again. That will be in
New York on June 25th when
his opponent will be Ingemar
Johansson of Sweden.
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jpl^tip
la make
Pinch-Hitter
Gels Dividends
Cleveland, May 2 Wl— When
Cleveland pinch-h i 11 e r Tito
Francona slammed a 3-run
homer in the 10th inning to
beat the New York Yankees
4-2 last night, it was worth
S250 to his infant son.
That was the amount of the
check signed by Frank Lane,
the happy general manager of
the Indians. It will be sent to
London (NEA) — American
style bowling is making its de-
but in Britain for the first
time, but the game isn’t what
Sir Francis Drake had a mind.
It is noisier. Drake, who
bowled to soothe his nerves
while waiting for the Spanish
Armada to approach, would
probably jump straight into
the air at the sound of a 16-
pound ball crashing into ten-
pins.
Bowling was a quiet game
played by gentlefolk on the
village green in Drake’s day.
Bowling today is a recog-
nized sport in America and
Canada, with its own national
congress and leagues. In
Drake’s 16th Century Britain
it was strictly a time-killer.
So far, modern bowling is
confined to United States air
bases in Britain, but Film Mak-
er J. Arthur Rank plans to
turn it into a big-scale indus-
try beginning in September.
Rank is converting two cinema
houses into 16-lane* alleys,
hopes to do the same with 20
more.
What is good for 23 million
Americans cannot be bad for
Britain is the Rank motto.
“We cannot afford to ignore
a game which is expanding in
spite of television,” explains
Ivor Smith, one of the Rank
directors, pointing out that
618 new bowling establish-
ments were opened in tne Unit-
ed States last year.
Until the 19th Century,
bowls, which is the granddad-
dy of bowling, was considered
here as a form of depravity
peculiar"to the lower classes,
mostly because of the dissolute
characters who hung around
it.
It was first outlawed by
Parliament because it compet-
ed with archery practice, which
was important iri battle. Later
it was banned because it led
to seditious gatherings.
As late as 1845 workmen
and servants were forbidden
by law to bowl except on
Christmas Day, and then only
in the prescence of their mas-
ters. Like mahy another obso-
lete *law, this one-was "WstTkiil-
forced.
This did not prevent royalty
.little Terry Francona, born a
little more than a week ago .in
Aberdeen. Said Francona:
“If I can keep this up, my
baby’s gonna be rich.”
Lane also signed a $100
check for the only Francona
child when Tito whacked a 2-
run single against the White
Sox a week ago.
from patronizing the game.
Henry VIII had his own alleys
at Whitehall Palace. Charles I
turned bowling into big-time
gambling, wagering as much as
1,000 .pounds ($2,800 at to-
day’s exchange) at a time.
Charles I was allowed to
bowl while waiting to have his
head lopped off by Cromwell,
according to popular legend.
Bowls, which is still played
in Devon with wooden balls
known as “cheeses,” has about
as much relation to modern,
American-stype bowling as
cricket has to baseball.
Devon is undisturbed by the
juke boxes and snack bars
which J. Arthur Rank plans
to install in his pilot alleys.
Pinboys are out in Britain
due to the labor shortage and
the high cost of insuring them
against injury. Instead, the
Rink organization will use au-
tomatic pinsetting machines,
which-cost $7,500 each, as well
as automatic score projectors.
Many Britons fear that the
high cost of equipment will
make this the most expensive
social craze imported from
America yet. The Rank organ-
ization, they point out, might
find it cheaper to install pop-
corn machines in order to bol-
ster the sagging cinema trade.
So far, popcorn is unknown
here.
DEMON DRAFTEE — Jim
Pisoni is scheduled to alter-
nate with Billy Bruton in
center field for the cham-
pion Milwaukee Braves. He
was drafted from the N. Y.
Yankees’ chain. (NEA).
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Hemus Believes
Cards to Move
St. Louis, May 2 Ufi — Man-
ager Solly Hemus believes his
St. Louis Cardinals are ready
to move in the right direction.
He made this statement last
night after the Redbirds had
beaten the Pittsburg Pirates,
7 to 6. Bob Friend was the los-
ing hurler for the 4th straight
time.
Hemus says the cardinals are
not as bad as they have appear-
ed to be thus far this season.
One thing Hemus made cer-
tain.
He does not plan to bench
Stan Musial, despite the poor
batting performances of the
slugging star. Hemus says it is
just a matter of time until
Musial finds his batting eye.
And when he does, concluded
Hemus, the Cardinals will start
moving upward.
Sporis Laugh
There is a substitute outfield-
er in the major leagues who
shall be nameless but who is a
sharp hitter and terrible field-
er. That’s why he sits on the
bench every day.
His manager will mournfully
tell you, “He reversed all the
rules of the game. He bats .900
and fields .300.”
“IS-ER” IS THIRD
Miami, Fla. M—Before the
running of the Flamingo at
Hialeah Park, Kentuckian John
C. Clark had this to say about
the possbile outcome: “In a
$.10.0,000 race I. idon’t like has
been-ers or gonna, be-ers. I
want an is-er. And First Land-
ing is an is-er.”
First Landing ran third. Tro-
lus won the race.
In the off-season coach Fuz-
zy Levane of New York’s pro-
fessional basketball Knicker-
bockers sells insurance for an
agency headed by Cy Block,
the former Chicago Cubs base-
ball player.
Lillie League
Schedule Opens
OnKay 22nd,
Little League summer base-
ball play will begin Friday, May
22 and run through J u 1 y 13,
Thomas Johnston, president of
the Hopkins County Baseball
Association, announced t h i s
week.
Johnston released the entire
schedule for the eight Little
League teams. It will be pub-
lished in the News Telegram
at a later date.
Little Leaguers will play on
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
and Friday nights with two
games -scheduled each night.
The eight Little League
teams are Jaycees, Kiwanis, Co-
Op, Western, Rotary, Odd-
fellows, Maddox and Lions. 1
Game Warden
Points Out
SaMrBd*
..With squirrel season just
three days old in Hopkins
County, Game Warden John
Jackson emphasized some laws
and pointed out safety mea-
sures everyone should observe
while hunting.
Jackson reminded hunters
that Hopkins County is under a
special bag limit this season.
Hunterg ere allowed only eight
squirrels per day and can have
only eight squirrels in their
possession, Jackson pointed
out.
Everyone from the ages of
17 through 65 is required to
have a hunting license when
they hunt out of the county of
their residence, he added.
Squirrel season runs through
the last day of July and then
starts again the first day of
October and runs through the
lest day of December, Jackson
explained. —— - -- —
Means of taking squirrel in
Hopkins County are unresthict-
ed, but Jackson warns all hunt-
ers to be. extremely careful of
rifles.
“This is a stock county, and
everyone should be cautious of
the stock,” Jackson pointed
out.
“Accidents are recorded ev-
ery year about hunters who fail
to unload their guns when they
get back into their cars fol-
lowing their hunting,” Jackson
related.
*TEveryone should cheek
their guna and be sure they
are unloaded when they finish
hunting,” he added.
Be sure and obtain permis-
sion from the landowner before
hunting on his property, Jack-
son added.
Also, he stated, don’t shoot
from a public road.
“Squirrel hunting within
the county should be fair this
year,” Jackson concluded.
Tigers, Boston
Swap Players
Detroit, May 2 Mt—'The De-
troit Tigers and Boston Red
Sox made a trade today. De-
troit sent Pitcher Billy Hoeft
to the Red Sox in return for
utility infielder Ted Lepico
and right-handed pitcher Dave
Sisler.
Hoeft, a left-hander, is cred-
ited with one of Detroit’s only
2 victories this season. Frank
Lary got the other decision.
The Tigers are 2-14 in the
American League, and Hoeft is
1-1 for the season.
In taking on Lepico and Sis-
ler, the Tigers sent infielder
Ozie Alvarez to their Ameri-
can Association farm club at
Charleston, W. Va., subject to
a 24-hour recall option.
Lepico, although used infre-
qently this season, has a .333
batting average. Sisler has
worked in 3 games, but has reg-
istered no defeats or victories.
Stephens Breaks
Arm in Fall
Chicago, May 2 I* — Boston
outfielder Gene Stephens suf-
fered a fracture of the right
arm last night when he fell
after making a running catch
of a long fly in the 8th inning
of the Red Sox- Chicago White
Sox game.
Al Farmersville
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Taking a breather from lea-
gue competition, the Sulphur
Springs Eagles will play Farm-
ersville in a practice tilt at
Farmersville at 2:30 p.m. Sun-
day.
The Eagles, members of the
Northeast Texas Amateur Lea-
gue, opened conference action
Saturday when they clashed
with Grand Saline.
Player-manager Joe Duffield
announced Saturday that Dar-
win Chapmaipwill probably get
the starting pitching assign-
ment against Farmersville.
Others slated to start Sun-
day are Darby Debord, catcher,
Steve Perkins or Jim Sanders,
first; Duffield, second; Ken
Hinton, shortstop; Gene Bar-
rett, third; ,Max Drummond,
left field; John Caruthers, cen-
ter field; and either Bill Un-
derwood, Gerald Hazelwood or
Ben Dickerson, right field.
Sports Oddity
The one-time great Michigan
halfback, Tommy Harmon, was
certainly a model of consisten-
cy while in college.
Tommy scored 33 touch-
downs for Michigan.
He also kicked 33 extra
points.
X-rays taken at Chicago’s Mer-
cy Hospital.
The Red Sox also lost the
services of first baseman Vic
Wertz for an indefinite period.
Wertz was forced from the
game when he pulled a back
muscle early in the first inning.
X-rays showed no further dam-
age. ^
The Red Sox also lost the
| ball game 1-0 to veteran pitch-
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will be unable to play baseball only one hit.
for 6 weeks. The arm was plac-
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The break was disclosed by
Wynn also blasted the home
run that was the only tally of
the game.
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