Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 10

1ft A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS 1 AbUrue Thm Tuesday May II 193S HUGHES IN TULIA HOSPITAL Pennsylvania Governor May Close Down Boxing in State Injury-Riddled Sox Host Clovis at 8 if he had been i far his bold and forthright manner will dose' the sport down long Gambling Involved enough for the people of Pennsyt- John Driscoll to gain have confiden in was to ascertain if gam- those who participate in it" PHILADELPHIA (ft Govi George Leader of Pennsylvania drugged today enters the investigation of Harold sudden collapse in a nationally televised fight reportedly ready to shut down boxing in the state if a satisfactory explanation is not found Leader summoned the state athletic commission to meet with him in the state capitol at Harrisburg to discuss last Friday's fight here In which Johnson the No 1 light-heavyweight contender was unable to answer the bell for the third round of his encounter with heavyweight Julio Mederos Meanwhile medical tests continued on Johnson and an orange he ate prior to entering the ring Inspector the probe biers Driscoll yet if the last told the Monday Johnson fight Donolow of several state Leader elected last November promised during his campaign ta investigate the state athletic scene His only action until today was to appoint a new athletic commission headed by Jim Crowley one of Notre Dame football's famed Four Horsemen and later a Ford-ham and professional football coach Easy Deris in Johnson who had easily deri-sioned Mederos in a previous bout passed a physical examination 16 hours before fight However ringsiders said he stumbled entering the ring Untold numbers 0 television viewers saw him start -to wobble at the end of the first round And in the second round Johnson foil to the can- might have been involved in collapse said he did not know the odds had fluctuated at minute But Senator Ben-amin Donolow of Philadelphia state Senate in Harrisburg that 6-1 odds favoring had dropped to 2-1 by time to renewing a demand months for an investigation of boxing asserted that the fight game is by hoodlums and The report that Leader might possibly halt Pennsylvania boxing was given Monday by State -Senator John Dent after he conferred with the governor Leader Silent his eve and was badly bruised but returned to Abilene Monday The accident caused postpon-ment of Monday night's game scheduled against the Plainview Ponies Haney said that the lineup tonight would probably include regular third baseman Curtis Tate at shortstop with Smith subbing at second for Westfall and Howard Bierman moving in at third base Hughes is expected to be out of uniform for at least 10 days West-fall said Elsewhere around the West Tex-las New Mexico League the Al- ibuquerque Dukes not scheduled I were aided by an El Paso defeat mil I of Pampa to stretch their league 9 lead to two full games Pampa in undisputed second I place before the game bowed to the Texans S-S and dropped into 1 a tie with Abilene and Lubbock By HAROLD RATLIFF land it's most worrisome to falter-1 for nmner'uP lot-The Associated Press I ing San Antonio clinging desper-1 The Pampa El Paso game was Houston was tile people's choice I ately to first place I the only one played Albuquerque to win the Texas League pennant Houston won its eighth straight I AmariUo were not scheduled The Abilene Blue Sox take on the Clovis Pioneers haere tonight at o'clock with shortstop Scooter Hughes still confined to County Hospital at Tulia as the result of Sunday night's automobile wreck which also injured General Manager Jay Haney and Field Manager Bobby Westfall Westfall said this morning that he would leave the hospital and would drive in with Bob Smith today but that Hughes would be kept in the hospital until Wednesday for observation may be on the field tonight' OLYMPIC FLAME LIGHTED A nation-wide drive to raise $2000000 for sending a full United States team to the 1956 Olympic games opened in Philadelphia as Public School superintendent Dr Louis Hoyer left and the Rev Frederick Stevenson assistant superintendent of the Philadelphia Parochial schools light an Olympic flame While Leader remained silent vas without being hit By the end other than to Issue the call for I of the round he was unable to sit today's meeting Dent told the or stand without aid Since the fight the 26-year-old If it (the explanation for the! Philadelphian has been hospital-outcome of the fight) does not ap- ized under police guard peal to the governor as being an1 up-and-up answer to this incident 1 I am sure that the governor Kid Gavilan Set For Movie of Life HAVANA May 10 (ft Former welterweight champion Kid Gavilan is scheduled to go to Argentina this month to appear in a film on his life his manager said today He also has an offer to fight Vince Martina in Madison Square Garden Manager Yamil Chade confirmed reports that Gavilan had agreed to appear in the film for producer Jose Avos He said the date of the proposed Martina fight was not set and he did not know whether it would conflict with the Kid's departure for Buenos Aires Chade said Gavilan is training on his farm near Havana and his injured right hand is in good shape Erskine Donovan Have lop Earned Run Marks in Majors before the season started but the I game Monday night and if San Buffs were mighty slow about I Antonio hadn't had Stan Hollmig realizing their potentiaL would be ready to moving now however seat Hollmig who hasn't been play- ing much lately- got in as a pinch-I hitter and hit his first home run push and the Abilene Plainview tilt was called off because of the Lubbock postponed because of wet grounds Tonight the clubs switch around Plainview is at Amarillo El Paso at Lubbock Clovis at Abilene and oppor-1 Albuquerque at Pampa NEW YORK Brooklyn's Carl Erskine the veteran righthander with 94 major league victories to Charlie Lehrmann picked up his hia credit and Dick Donovan of fourth victory of the season at El the Chicago White Sox who never Paso in beating Pampa Bill Pinch-1 had won a big league game until Italian Nailer Nips Pally in Rome Meet ROME May 10 UB-Giant-killing Giuseppe Merlo scored a stunning 6-0 8-6 8-6 victory over top-seeded Budge Patty of Los Angela and Paris today to advance to the finals of the Rome International Tennis Tournament The tiny soft-hitting Italian will meet his fellow countryman Fausto Gardini in the final tomorrow ard ini No 1 player routed big Enrique Mores of Argentina 6-4 6-4 6-3 in the other semi-final It was Mores who eliminated Art Larsen of San Leandro Calif yesterday Merlo's victory assured an Italian winner of the Rome touma1 ment for the first time since 1934 ard slammed a two run homer in the fifth to break up a 3-3 tie and tend die Texans on the road to victory Lehrmann gave up seven hits to edge loser Tom Pollett who allowed only five was first loss after four straight wins Big Spring Edges Angelo By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Hobbs Sports floymiering all season with inadequate pitching came up with a four-hit job Monday night to trim Roswell's margin to one game in the Long-born League Rookie Ramon Romero (truck out 12 and hurled best game of the season in beating Roswell 3-2 Midland at Odessa was washed to Hbitana out by a deluge that flooded parts I pitching victory of the of the season It was most tune It gave San Antonio a victory over Shreveport only the second decision for the Missions! in the last seven games Houston thus stayed game back of San Antonio The Buffs best Beaumont 4-3 on Alan Gran-colas' single in the eighth that! drove in Russ Rac Relief Pitcher Harry Hoitsma halted an Exporter rally in Beaumont's half of the eighth with the score tied nobody out and two runners on base to set up the Houston payoff Rac singled went to second on Hal Smith's sacrifice and ton of the National League in 1950 1951 and 1952 and for Detroit in 1954 However he did not win his initial major league game until last April 29 when he shut out Boston 7-0 Overall he has a 3-1 record this year Antonelli Runarr-l'p Johnny Antonelli of the New York Giants the National League's leader in 1954 is runner-up to Erskine with 169 Sandy Consuegra of the White Sox who finished second to Cleveland's Mike Garcia the American League leader last year is in the same position this season He trails Donovan with a 129 mark on five earned runs in 35 innings ainurs NS-Always twin mcausi AIWAVS Hff non oo this season led the major leagues in earned run averages today Erskine who has contributed five victories to the phenomenal surge has given up only eight earned runs in 50 innings for an earned run mark of 144 to lead the National League He has yet to lose Donovan also a righthander has permitted four earned runs in 29 frames for a 124 ERA the best American League mark according to Associated Press figures today Donovan pitched briefly for Bos Orioles Sign Nail To Baseball Pact BIRMINGHAM Ala May 10 (ft Nail Jr Mississippi State's All-Southeastern Conference catcher has signed with the Baltimore Orioles of the American League Nail from Birmingham will join the York Pa club of the Piedmont League after graduation in a few weeks according to Johnny Harris Oriole scout Ftosst pipe amok of you KfotiiMi Memo Rptnoifti below atom line No NO STEM GOO TO FILTER Falcon weigh les EAGLES S'WATER INPRACTICETILT SWEETWATER May 10 The District 4-AA champion battle Semi-Pros here Blackburn's 16-3-1 record the awaiting a best 3-AA the bidistrict campaign Grancola drove in two I runs the first with a homer Beaumont dropped its 12th I straight game and also plunked into the cellar Oklahoma City I moved out of it by whipping Dallas 5-0 on A1 Papai's fine pitching Hollmig went in to bat for catch-1 er Marty Tabacheck with two men I out His game-winning blow ruined I of the city Big Spring clipped San Angelo S4 and Artesia and Carlsbad split a twin-bill Artesia taking the first 6-5 and Carlsbad the second 1-7 Hobbs rallied for a pair in the eighth to overcome Roswell and hand veteran George Payte his first loss of the season Mike Rainey was the big man for Big Spring Rainey whol spaced seven hits over the distance in picking up his first victory in I Knoblauch Sports Each four starts this season singled in the winning run himself in a three-1 I Soeeial Dtliverv run raUyio the top of the ninth Cato PIOI UdlVry 1 2-1 It moved Vie Oilers within two 1 games of fifth place Fort Worth Dolan Nichols went the distance for Tulsa giving 19 five hits Abilene High Eagles will the Sweetwater to a practice contest Tuesday night at I o'clock Coach Blacky Eagles who have a for the year are using game as a fill-in while the opening game of of three series with champion Midland for title Saturday San Angelo had led 4-2 gong into the inning Artesia got the benefit of some wild Carlsbad pitching to win the NIAGARA TAILS woman passenger on screamed suddenly that We Didn't make our April quota 142 Fords Musft Go On May Oklahoma cur ms 1 1 1 Dalta MS SSS-S 7 Papal sad Tomkhnsa: Fowler Pi Ttfcrm i 1 Maacricf (S) ul Mor-rajr Jackfoe S) (ft-A tho bus her baby was not breathing Driver Albert Mezhir 30 glanced at the baby turned off his route and drove several blocks to fire headquarters The 5-month-old boy was revived with oxygen A hospital reported later that Addison Reeder son of Mrs Hilda Reeder had suffered a convulsion but was all nght now I sal MS Ml Faaovich Kacblaoch aai Tabuhack SSS SSI I Clark (S) aad O'Neal (II aad Smkh Ktoacdr Ml sas ms-0 sas aas I i McDtvkl Warn Taha Part War Nirhob (II aad Pisaatana COLLEGE SCORES Champion Moore Pleads Innocent baseball Backed i Dataware 1 BraUowalar I Xaadslah-Macoa Sank Carol tax Scale Wake Farm Duka 4 Mary load toward 17 Wilma TaacktnS Mbaoort IS Kaaaaa Suit I Suatart i Calitoraia 4 batata) Oragoa Idaho Georgia Tack i Tamraaea I Norik Caraiiaa William ft Mary High Paktf 7 Adaatte Ctetotiaa Wcotm Mickifaa Mkftigw (tote WHAT YOU WILL PAY DOWN! 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