The Mexia Daily News from Mexia, Texas • Page 6

MEXIA DAILY HEWS, MEXIA. TEXAS. THURSDAY. SEPT. 22, 1949 A new preparation that is.

said I to make any material watci proof has been marketed. LIBERTY Double Feature "Deep In The Heart of Texas" TEX HITTER JOHNNY MACK BROWN "Unexpected Guest" WILLIAM BOYD Cartoon Mexia Team To Play Coolidge Yellowjackets New York Yankees' Hundreds See ev in number 8 won first, Johnny I AUSTIN Sixty-five team will take the licit! the Coolidgc Yel- lowiack'-ts tonight at 8:00 o'clock in in that may prove to be one of their toughest of i he when Mexia outstanding team the was one of two clubs to the locals, winning by one point in a hard-fought contest. G'-neraily a team rests on the Jim Brady Cleaners Phone 78 Attends EIGHTEENTH dA. ANNUAL RESER RVED SEATS $2.00 Tax Included WRITE OR WIRE FOR CHOICE SEATS TODAY Fun-Entertainment Dancing Nightly JACK REAMS and His Band Every Wednesday Night Featuring The Hammond Organ "THE BEST BANDS PLAY HERE' Brady's STAR Club A Tip for Hunters THAT BIRDS' SITTING ON A TELEPHONE CALL SHOOTING THIS" MAY MEAN AN IMPORTANT TELEPHONE CALL 19 INTERRUPTED rd THAT9 WHY WE SAY: ASE DO NOT SHOOT AT BIRDS' ON TELEPHONE WIRES 08 POLES THANK YOU COMPLETE PAINT and BODY SERVtCE Compare Our Prices and Our Work Factory Trninod Mechanics Factory Trained Body Men Day and Night Encrqsncy Wrcr.kor Glasses Cut and Installed On All Makes Cars or Trucks Jack Vaughn. Service Manager DICK SCOTT SALES SERVICE day before a game but Coach Parker didn't give his charges much rest yesterday.

They worked hard until after p.m. with the most of the time being spent in a scrimmage session. Coach Parker's boys arc looking much better on defense. In their two previous games they were very weak in this department. On The Defense On his defensive team Coach Parker was working Sam Jackson and LaRue Beard at ends, R.

M. Webb and Don Frank at tackles, Alton Gilliam and Eddie Henderson, guards; Randall Bryan and Dick Edwards, half backs; James Morton and Bobby Hollaway, line backers, and Billy Gene Miller, safety. If the Mexia team receives Coach Parker will probably send in the following team: Billy Duncan, and Jackson, ends; Joe Thornton and Webb, tackles; Dick Edwards and Eddie Henderson, guards; James Morton, center; Don Sawyer, QB: Gilliam, FB; Holloway, LH. and Miller, RH. The local team, although the underdog, will go' into this game a much improved ball club over last week.

Lead Whittled As Red Sox Win, 10-9 Auto Racing At Riverside Stock car cnvers from i Corsicana, and Gatcsville Waco. drove madly around the half-mile dirt track at Riverside last night to give the hundreds of racing fans NEW YORK, (UP) Not in 24 years as a manager did Casey I Stcngel ever have a club blow a seven run lead, and he swore that his Yankees would be i "made enough to win our next two games and then let the Red Sox try and catch us." i Stengel was bristling a little i lining the safety fence plenty of i himself as he talked about yes- thrills. I terday's 10 to 9 nightmare defeat Eight cars were entered in the to the Chicago White Sox which Sweepstakes event and it was the i occurred while Boston was win- closest race of the evening. Gor- ning an uphill 9 to 6 decision from i don Wooley, Waco, in number 8, Cleveland that cut the Yankee took the lead, with Billy Ford, lead to two full games. Corsicana, in number 70, Billy In the National League St.

Williams, Corsicana, in 44. Louis and Brooklyn split a dou- i The drivers continued the Groesbeck Proves Too Tough, Dunbor Dragons Lose, 14-7 The Bkickshcar Bears of Groos- beck last night defeated the Dun- bar Dragons in a grid game at the Black Cat 14-7. It was a hard fought battle but the Groesbeck team proved to be in much better physical condition i than the Dragons. This was very i evident after the first gruelling was over. Both teams were weak on offensive work but Groesbeck found the Dragons weak on pass dc- fense which proved in two Bear touchdowns.

Lefthalf Lewis Gillcspie and. righthalf N. B. Rogers showed unusual talent for the Dragons although the line proved to be weak. i The Dragons, coached by V.

E. Hicks, will begin their district play on Oct. 4. Baseball Standings Team I orl Wr TICXAS irlll AMERICAN LEAGUE 1. Pet l.llllll I Pet ii-auii .531 i Pet .107 .305 -Hi i NATIONAL LEAGUE Ti-nm St.

Louis llriH.klyn '-'a I'hilmlolphm I Knxtiin NHW York Pittsburgh ('incinnatl 1 Chii-iiRo 58 i Yesterday's Results: i 1.T.Ai:i'E I Worth II. TilUw AMERICAN LEAGUE Iliisiim 1 NffW York IVIn.il I. I'hKinlcliihiii I. Hnstnn 7. St.

l.oui- HrnoUyn New York Cinrinnati 1 I'hMucMphiu t-'J. Sports Shorts i NEW YORK. (UP) Veteran, tennis star Frankie Parker today was reported considering an in- 1 vitation to turn professional and lour with U. S. National Amateur champion Richard (Pan, cho) Gonzsles and former champion Jack Cramer.

FORT WORTH (UP) The Texas PGA announced today that the annual Texas PGA open, offering $5,000 purse would be staged at Midland Country Club the firsl week in June in 1950. bleheader. The Cards won first, 1-0, and lost the nightcap, 5-0. This retained the Cards' lead at 1 '-2 games. Tigers Stop A's The Tigers defeated the Athletics.

4 to 1, at Philadelphia on Art Houtteman's four-hitter for his 19th victory. Dick Weik pitched a three-hitter to beat the Browns for the Senators, 7 to 0. Ralph Kiner got two homers, blinking his season total to 52 and putting him only eight from Babe Ruth's all-time record of 60 but the Pirates still lost to the Boston Braves. 9 to 7. The Reds beat the Giants.

5 to 4 in 10 inings, then lost a second game, 5 to 2, while in another split doubleheader the Phils beat the Cubs, 3 to 1, then lost, 9 to 6. Fort Worth Defeats Tulsa Oilers, 11-6 In Playoff Opener FORT WORTH (UP) Preston Ward slammed two home- runs, a double and a single last night as the Fort Worth Cats op- ened the Texas League's final playoff scries with a smashing 11-6 victory over Tulsa. Ward's hitting was the difference between the two teams. His wallops accounted for four runs. The homers, with the sacks cm-; ply.

came in consecutive innings fourth and fifth. The Cats and the Oilers tie up again tonight in the second game of the series and jubilant Fort Worth Manager Bobby Bragan planned to send Eddie Chandler had a 13-9 record in the regular season Frank Smith, who won 17 and lost 11 for Tulsa. KINER HITS 52nd i I PITTSBURGH, (UP) Ralph Kiner must hit a homer per game to beat Babe Ruth's record of 60 for a single season, but he seems an oclds-on bet to erase Hack Wilson's National League record of 56. Kincr, the cloutin' Pirate, hammered his' 51st and 52nd circuit drives last night which bettered his best previous year, 1947, when he hit 51. He has nine more games to play.

I their race in that manner until the 13th lap when number 8 and 70 spun out of the track to give 44 the lead. And Williams never lost that lead and crossed the finish line several lengths ahead of Wooley with Ford coming in third. During that feature race the car of C. Sullivan of Gatc-s- villc lost a wheel on the west turn but the d'ivi kept cnntrol. O.

N. Laird, of Fairfieici, turned over his number 111 on the cast turn but was unhurt. Over The Wall In the first beat Gordon Ethridge, of Corsicana. second, and W. C.

Sullivan, thjrd. Williams won tiVst place honors in the second heat event with Ford and Richard Valentine, of Corsicana, coming in a close second and third. In the third heat event Johnny iSirmon. of Corsicana, won first, beating out Red Henderson, of Corsicana. and Laird.

Richard Valentine drove number 68, the Mexia car. and a flat tire caused him to go over the dirt wall and into the pasture. After the races Billy Ray Cope-1 land gave the spectators a thrill i by driving a battered Chevrolet 1 through a flaming board wall. He 1 then tried to turn the automobile over but finally gave up. i Richard Valentine then took over i and drove the car on an improvised board ramp and it flipped entirely over to land back on its wheels.

The next races will be held Wednesday evening, Sept. 28. Universily of Texas freshmen took the field yesterday in their first football practice of the season. WASHINGTON (UP) Babe Didrikson ZaAarias was favored to retain her title as the women's National Open Golf championship got under way today. Double Feature WARNER BAXTER "The Crime Doctor's Diary' "Angels In Disguise" THE EAST SIDE KIDS News Corn is the valuable crop tucky.

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LifeGuards outwear as many as 3 sets of tubes. HERE'S HOW LIFEGUARD SAFETY TUBES DIFFER FROM ORDINARY TUBES: ORDINARY TUBE BIOWS Instantly both tire and tube go flat, frequently throwing car out control. SAFE ON LIFEGUARDS Reserve of air in strong cord fabric inner chamber supports car long enough for a sale gradual stop. DON'T MISS THIS BARGAINI COME IN! WE'LL ARRANGE CONVENIENT TERMS! Service Phone 84 Store Mexia, Texas V. CHEVROLET SALES and SERVICE Wade Motor Company Phones 787-788 Mexia, Texas PARTS and ACCESSORIES.