The Mexia Daily News from Mexia, Texas • Page 8

HM Mnda Dally Mnda. T.x. Towdiy, May IMB-I Watchin the Toss Streetman Shutout by Cafe Nine, 8-0 With Moss John Moss, Sports Editor, Mexia Daily News The young loll of Sunday tuo IIIIH'I for the ex 1 with the final i.ule-ulne of On- I'-niie. played al thi Inn ina 4-1. M'-xiu B.iM-liall uam.

The pitcher wr.s K. Stroth- vi. In slum-i the winning t'vrn ali tht-ir runs with ihi-e wen hits, one walk and Mai-berry pitched two iniunss in which allowed f.vo scattered hits. Softball has always taken scat in sports activity Mexia High School but Saturday both the girls and the boys proved that they are capable oi playing a great game. Of the four teams taken to Waco, three emerged with first place honors.

Much of the praise ior their success should go to their coaches Mrs. H. A. Burleson- Ty Bain and A. B.

McBay. A story on the softball meet it today. May Day and hot weather hand in hand this year and the people of area took full fit of thr facilities at Fort Parker Stale Park to escape the burning rays of thr sun. Quite a lew local sports enthusiasts cool cd off by taking motor boat rides while many others went for swims. Except for the water being slightly muddy the swimming was fine.

Gent Wafted." student of High, will hare bwy day this coining Saturday. On Saturday morning. a member of (he Mexia High School Black Cat Band. IM will participate in the Annual Spring Band contact at Waco. On Saturday afternoon he will oo to Austin to compete in the Numbers Sanaa event of the meet Ha placed second in event in the Regional meat at Dallas last week-end.

Two other Mexia representatives at thi- State meet will be Smith and Belle Jean They are Senior girls' I tennis team and advanced to the finals after capturing the Ki Hion.il finals lust week. AUTO GLASS Instolled While You Wait LATEST EQUIPMENT ENABLES PROPER CUTTING AND POLISHING LEE BROS. MOTOR £0. Dealer 501 E. Commcre Phone 708 Aubrey Moore Hurls One-Hit Game for Locals Aubrey Moore, hurling one of his best of the year, sent ten batters down swing- i ing Monday night as he pitched the Cafe to an 8-0 shutout over the visiting Streetman nine.

i The Streetman team con-: nected for only one hit during the game, that being a single' over second base in the first. stanza. Two Streetman bat-' ters reached first after being hit by pitched balls, one by a walk and one on an error for a local player. For the first two frames tho gam 1 was a very close affair but in the third the locals scored six runs with two singles by John Shipp and Sonny Grooms and "our miscues by the visiting team. The Cafe nine increased heir lead in the fifth with a single by Aubrey Moore, dou- jlr by John Shipp and two errors jy Streetman.

Livingston was the losing pitcher UK he was hurling when the locals made six' runs. Two were made during an inning bc- ng pitched by McNabh. Streetman made a total of six errors in the game against one for the- locals. Mexia's error came in the first frame when the catcher failed to hold on to a third strike. The catcher picked up the hall and in an attempt to heal the runner to first he hit the runner with the ball.

Tonight's contest will be a reg- i Mexia Ladies Halted By Streetman, 15-11 The fishing was great at Fort Parker State Park lake when this trio of Mexiaites had their picture taken by a Mexia News photoarapner. From left to are Horace Turner. Reginald Shipp and Jack Vaughn. Turner holds a twenty-three pound drum while the drum shown by Vaughn" lipped the scales at five pounds. ular affair, mulching tin wmlcfc VFW and Cotton Millers.

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Mexia caplunil lui) III.MUIS in tlu tmrl. Tin- Sen ii'- Kirls tiirm-d back then fnxj opp'ineiil. LaVeKa. 21 17. In th" IiMi.l ii4111(1 they defeated 11-IK.

Ill extra ill- ninfi tontest. Tin haltcry ior Ihi locjil Kills vv.i.-, lii-lly Hob Manning, pitcher, and Emma Lee HaiiiDiill. catchi i. Drauiiiu it in the round of play tin- Mexia junior reaper' ill the honors iiv lovviiinu Wist. 11-5.

in tlu finals. Joy Phillips did th" pitching while Lois Vlarit Hill and Auslitu- Mackey share.) calchinj; duties. LaVeKa fell before the Junior in the and then West went down, 21-12 in 'in- final round. The Junior Imy.s hurled to the by LaHue Heaid, Joe Cannon and Eddie Cannon. Kayinnml Peters Eddie Can- nun did the catching.

LaVeiia the hopes of the Mexia Senior boys by downing tin local 10-0. in two in- nincs play. The Mexia Rills' are coachi-d by Mrs. H. A.

Burle.son. Tin Junior are i-iacheil A. McH.iy while the Senior are coached by Ty Haiti. To Probe Rimann Murder KANSAS CITY. A i-iiunty grand jury will be 'called early in the May term of I court.

Judge Allen ('. Southern I said and it will be in- sti in tid "siH'cifirallv" to investi- gate the murder of Wolf C. lli- niann. Country Club manager who was shot to death last I 24. Visiting Miner Connects for Two Homers in Contest The Modern Cleaners, Mexia ladies' Softball team, fell before a determined Streetman attack here Monday evening.

11-15. The was a mixed up affair. In one inning both clubs would play heads-up ball while in the very next inning they would be scored with three or more errors each. As a result during a of the innings it was three up and three down while in others one team could hardly retire their op- i ponents. Stnetnian took the lead in the first of thr fust stanza when two MIDS scored on two one single.

Four pa.v.-cd tu the catcher aided the Sin x-tinan nine. Modern Cleaners tied the score 2-all in Die bottom of the third makmc two tallies with three well ph.cid hits by Nolan Anderson and Kelly and one Stitetinan error. The fourth was Streetman's During this inning, in which the Mexia girls couldn't hoid onto the ball, the visitors sent sex-en runners across home plate to make the scoreboard read, Streetman, 9. Mexia. Slrectman scored five more runs in tin- iiflli and one in the seventh for their fifteen counters.

The local ladies made four in the fourth, two in the fifth and three in the seventh. Lawicncc Ingram made the game more interesting when he offered a dollar to the first player on either side that hit a home tun. This prize was captured by Street man's O. Sawyer who sont out a fiiur-lKigKcr with loaded bases in the fourth. She also hit a homer in the fifth and was awarded prize of $1.60 by the Streetman men players.

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