The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 92, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 18, 1951 Page: 7 of 8
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BILL BOGART
Sport* Editor
ALONG THE
Sports Front
By BILL BOGART
News-Telegram Sport* Editor
Spring football training haa come and departed, the
climax coming last night with an intra-squad game under
the arcs before a disappointing crowd which may have
numbered a couple hundred. The figure includes the
band and students, as well as the players.
Evaluation of the true itrength of the 1951 edition
of the Wildcats is, of course, next to impossible in such a
contest. A true evaluation, that is. But it was possible
to get a general conception of what to expect next season.
j^irst, Sulphur Springs fans will see a team which will
depend largely upon a ground game for its yardage. Sec-
ond, the reserve strength is much, much better than in re-
cent years, and consequently some of the i^gulars can be
spelled during games.
A more diversified running attack will characterize
the Wildcats’ play next season. This is possible because
cf at least tw’o things—a better rounded backfield and
deception of the Y formation.
Mack Pogue looked nothing short of great in the game.
Bill Gideon and Billy Dan Sapaugh can lug the mail, and
so can Bobby Cromer from wingback. Sapaugh, depriv-
ed of the benefits of play last year, made several obvious
mistakes in judgment, one of which saw him tackled near
the goal when he should have scored with ease.
This type of mistake—which saw him slow to a trot
with the nearest tackier some 15 yards away only to have
the man catch and down him—would be unforgiveable in
an actual game.
y It was obvious that more strength is needed at the
terminal posts. Wayne Brumfield, who was unable to
participate in spring drills because of an appendectomy,
will strengthen one of the end posts next fall.
line play looked good in spots, but the varsity
linljf/found it more than a little difficult to stop the
valM^macks when the No; 1 backfield was put behind
the No. 2 line.
This, however, could be a credit to the backfield play
rather than signify a weakness in the forward wall. At
times, the varsity line looked almost impregnable. Other
times, the linemen appeared listless.
Coach Lendon (Skinny) Davis was not available for
comment Wednesday, but we understand he wasn’t too
pleased with the play execution of his charges.
Houston Dispute
Highlights Action
In Texas League
(By Aumeiatrd Prtn)
Houston, April 18—The Texts
League season’s first big argu-
ment over an umpire’s decision
proved—that’s right—the umpire
was right.
The row came in the tenth in-
ning of San Antonio’s. 3 to 3 tie
with Houston last right. Houston
players were involved, but the tie
didn’t change the Buffs’ standing
at the top of the league.
In other games, Beaumont
beat Shreveport, 4 to 2; Dallas
downed Fort Worth, 3 to 1, and
Oklahoma City went ten innings
to shade Tulsa, 8 to 7.
The dispute at Houston came
with one out, runners on first and
second. Pinch hitter Van Harring
hit a short fly into right field that
got away from second baseman
Jim Dyck.
Omer Tolson picked up the ball
and threw to third base, where
umpire Richard Nash, after calling
pinch runner Fred McGaha safe,
reversed his decision and called
him out. George Hausman threw
to second to double Lou Ciola,
who had started hack to first.
Buff manager A1 Hollingsworth
and Billy Costa yowled loudest
over the ump’s decision.
Walt Lanfranconi set Fort
Worth down on five hits and Jim
Fridley hit a homer as Dallas won.
Bill Henry held Beaumont to
four hits, but three of them—two
singles and Art Mazmanian’s trip-
le—in the fifth inning, plus two
walks, gave the Roughnecks ail
their runs.
’ Three runs in the ninth inning
tied up the game for Oklahoma
City, and John Creel’s triple scor-
ed the winning runs.
The Houston-San Antonio game
was halted to enable both teams
to catch a train.
# Houston went to Shreveport,
where it plays tonight; San An-
tonio to Beaumont. Other games
tonight put Dallas at Oklahoma
City and Fort Worth at Tulsa.
FAMILY FLING—John Van Cuyk, left, and brother Chris are
together again as members of the left-handed division of the Brook-
lyn pitching staff. John, 29. was brought back from the Montreal
farm. Chris is 24. (NEA)
Game Climax
Drills; Irogue
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Cold Weather
Cuts Attendance
In Big Leapes
Jackie Jensen
Shines as Yanks
Defeat Boston
HERE and THERE: Eagle baseball officials are keep-
ing their fingers crossed on tomorrow night’s game here
witlU Greenville. They want some pretty weather so the
game won’t lose money. They took a financial beating
Sunday when extremely cold weather kept the crowds
away from the ball park. . . . Murl Furney, ex-Wildcat
star and now head coach at Mineola, was in the stands
last night to watch the intra-squad game. His teams play
the Wildcats in the season opener this fall. Furney be-
gan spring workouts Monday. He stated he has nine let-
termen back and that his team will be relatively small
this fall. . . . Coach Johnny Hammer of Commerce was
forced to cancel spring football workouts because only
about a dozen boys reported for practice. The others are
busy playing baseball and competing in other spring
sports. ... In mentioning Ken Williams’ hit against the
Horned Frogs, we forgot to say that it was a home-run.
• . Father Byron Williams and Bill, Ken’s brother, were
stands last week when Baylor met Southern Meth-
Dallas Eagle fans came out of hiding this morn-
ing after their team finally defeated the Ft. Worth Cats
in their four-game series. It was the Dallas club’s first
/victory. . . . Well, the major league teams are at long last
m full swing; and baseball fans can once again follow the
fortunes of their favorites.
Ping-Pong Play
Copped by Local
Students at ET
Two East Texas State students
from -Sulphur Spring* have won
ping-pong tournaments at the col-
j|ge, according to a release from
Wwnmerce.
Miss.Juanita Wofford, a fresh-
man business student, won the
girls tournament, while Jerry
Blount, business administration
major, copped the men’s tourna-
ment.
Promotion of sportsmanship and
increasing the^students’ ping-pong
skill are the reasons for the tour-
naments.
Rice Selects
Tri-Captains
(By Anoeiatyd Prtu)
Houston, April 18—Tri-captains
of the 1951 Rice football team
were named here last night at a
dinner ending spring practice.
They are Bill Howton, end from
Plainview; Billy Burkhalter, half-
back from Bandera, and Glenn
Walls, tackle from Dallas.
Sports Laugh
(By Auueiittd Prtu)
During the finals of the N-C-A-
A basketball tournament in Minne-
apolis last month, a high school
coach and one of h,is players—a
six-foot nine boy—approched assis-
tant coach Harry Lancaster of
Kentucky for tickets.
Lancaster asked head coach
Adolph Rupp for two ducats.
Rupp protested: "But, Horry,
we've already given away ail our
tickets."
Harry gently but firmly inform-
ed Rupp: "Coach, for a six-foot-
nine kid we’ve got tickets.”
Gustavus Heinrich Schmelz,
manager of the Cincinnati Reds in
the 1880’s, was the only big lea-
gue manager in the history of
baseball who ever woi% a full
beard. ,
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Baseball Calendar
TEXAS LEAGUE
Team—
W.
L.
Pet.
Houston --------
-- 6
2
.750
San Antonio ....
.. 5
3
.625
Fort Worth_____
.. 5
3
.625
Oklahoma City .
... 5
3
.625
Dallas ..........
.. 3
4
.429
Shreveport------
.. 3
6
.333
Tulsa ..........
.. 2
R
.286
Beaumont —---
.. 3
6
.333
Tunday Result*
Dallas 3, Fort Worth 1, -
Beaumont 4, Shreveport 2.
Oklahoma City 8, Tulsa 7.
Houston 3, San Antonio 3.
Game called end tenth inning to
allow teams to catch train.
Where They Play Wednesday
Dallas at Oklahoma City.
Fort Worth at Tulsa.
Houston at Shreveport.
San Antonio at Beaumont.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Team—
W.
L.
Pet.
Pittsburgh
...... 2
0
1.000
New York .
0
1.000
Philadelphia
...... t
0
1.000
Chicago —
_______ 1
0
1.000
St. Louis
________ 0
1
.000
Boston ____
____ 0
1
.000
Brooklyn ..
........ 0
1
.000
Cincinnati .
....... 0
2
.000
Tuesday Result*
New York 4, Boston 0.
Philadelphia 5, Brooklyn 2.
Pittsburgh 6, St. Louis 4.
Chicago 8, Cincinnati 3.
Where They Play Wednesday
New York at Boston.
Philadelphia at Brooklyn.
Only games scheduled.
(try Ammiated Fretm)
New York, April 18—Trying to
outtalk Yankee Manager Casey
Stengel is like trying to talk a
hungry girl out of ordering a juicy
steak — it’s pretty hard to do.
But Casey was outtalked last
spring and by a rookie, no less.
As it turns out, Casey is pretty
happy that a brash youngster
from the West, Jackie Jensen, did
a better and more convincing job
of tongue wagging. The dispute
was simple. Jackie was an out-
standing pitcher at the University
of California, but he reported to
the Yankee training camp at
Phoenix in 1950 as an outfielder.
That didn’t mean much to old
Case. He lost no time in telling
Jackie that he was going to be a
pitcher—that he could throw hard-
er than any Yankee pffeher with
the possible exception of Allie
Reynolds.
Jackie Jensen wasn’t impressed
—he still wanted the outfield. In
fact, he was quite stubborn about
it. So was Casey.
Jensen finally was talked into
warming up a few times. Casey
and pitching coach Jim Turner
would stand within earshot and
sound off with enthusiastic com-
ment aboSt Jackie’s blinding speed
-—his skillful mastery of the curve.
Finally, and at long last, Jen-
sen worked his way out into the
outfield. He was spectacular—his
hitting improved, and he banged
the white sphere to every field.
You’ve probably guessed why
Casey Stengel no doubt is glad
that Jackie Jensen outtalked him
during that spring training ses-
sion. Jackie was the batting hero
of the Bombers opening victory
over the Boston Red Sox yester-
day at the Yankee Stadium.
expectations, but action was brisk,
Waco 'had the biggest crowd,
3,000, while the defending cham-
pions, fexarkana, had the light-
est attendance, 1,495.
Tyler, making its debut in the
league and generally picked for
the cellar, showed surprising
strength in swamping the Waco
Pirates, 11 to 3. The Sherman-
Denison Twins defeated the Tex-
arkana Bears, 6 to 3. Wichita
Falls trimmed Gainesville, 7 to
2, and Temple beat Austin, 8 to 4.
fry a Want Ad for Resultal
(By A rrnriatrd Prm)
“ New York, April 18—Major
league baseball’s first full sched-
ule of games was ushered in yes-
terday and cold and wind resulted
in a huge dent in attendance.
Watching yesterday’s eight games
were only 163,393 fans. That com-
pares with 252,000 in 1950.
The Washington Senators clip-
ped the Philadelphia Athletics, 6
(o.l, in the first night opener in
the history of the American Lea-
gue. Mickey Grasso’s three-run
homer gave pitcher Connie Mar-
rero all the working margin he
needed. That was the only night
game and drew only 8,285.
The world champion New York
Yankees blanked the American
League favored Boston Red Sox,
6 to 0, on the six hit pitching of
Vic Raschi; the Cleveland Indians
edged the Detroit Tigers 2 to 1,
on the two-hit hurlieg of durable
Bob Lemon and the Chicago White
Sox ripped the St. Louis Brownies,
17 to 3, as the Sox got 19 hits and
14 walks. .
In the National League, the
defending champion Phillies used
holders by Del Ennis and Mike Go-
liat to beat the pennant favored
Dodgers, 5 to 2; the Pittsburgh
Pirates heat the St. Louis Cardi-
nals, 5 to 4, for their second
Mack Pogue came close to stag-
ing a one-man- performance Tues-
day night as the Reds outlasted
the Whites,- 26-25, in an intra-
squad game which closed out the
Wildcats’ 30-day spring grid drills.
The backfield ace scored five
touchdowns on jaunts of 8, 16,
60, 70 and 77 yards. He scored
three touchdowns in the first half
to help put the Whites, represent-
ing the varsity, into a 25-0 lead
at the intermission.
Then Pogue and his backfield
,
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Kell Sideline!
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10 More Days
/Its
(By Auoriattd Prnt)
Detroit, April 19 — The star
third baseman of the Detroit Ti-
gers—George Kell—will be out of
the lineup for ten more days with
an injured finger. The finger was
spiked In a game on March 26th
and kept George out of yesterday’s
opener.
Kell is having a splint put on the
finger today. If it does not heal
properly now, a club spokesman
says tht George may have to un-
dergo surgery and will be lost for
three additional weeks.
straight victory; Larry Jansen’s
five-hit pitching gave the New
York Giants a 4 to 0 victory over
the Boston Braves and the Chicago
Cubs defeated the Cincinnati Red*
8 to 8. t
the other
tackle slant.
The Whites. No. 1
Coaches Lendon
and Doug McDonald,
in the first quarter a
times in the second
The backfields were
in the second half, and 1
with Pogue, Sapaugh, “
Bobby Cromer operat
backfield, raced to two t
in each of the third and
periods. The Whites were
to score jn the last half.
The second team
sisted of Paul Buchanan,
(Little Turk) Morgan, Jackie .
nied and Billy Tolson. All fo„
performed creditably.
Buchanan’s punting and
highlighted action in tbe I
backfield.
Stars in the line were
ous on
Gregg, varsity tackle,
standing, along with
Doc) Groves, varsity
men Joe Sharber,
Jackie Shrode and '!
Bramblett also starred.
PM
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By Tyler Niue
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Team—
W.
L.
Pet.
Cleveland--------
1
0
1.000
Chicago__________
1
0
1.000
New York........
l
0
1.000
Washington ______
1
0
1.000
Boston __________
0
1
.000
Detroit_________
0
I
.000
St. Louis _________
0
1
.000
Philadelphia......
0
1
.000
Tuesday Rwulti
1
New York 5, Boston
0,
Cleveland 2, Detroit 1.
Chicago 17, St. Louis 3.
Washington 6, Philadelphia 1.
Where They Pley Wednesday
Boston at New York.
Washington at Philadelphia.
Chicago at St. Louis.
Cleveland at Detroit.
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of games. The crowds fell below
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