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The Town Talki
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ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN TALK. ALEXANDRIA, MONDAY. JUNE 26, 1953 PAGE SEVENTim Nibbles and Pot Shots Scpffy Bramo Defeats Dennis Cook to Take A6CC 1950 Golf Crown By Air as LaBotit Loser Seamon. Lehlff and Broussard. 2:05.

New Iberia AB TO A Bossenberry, lb 3 1 1 10 0 1 Bartholomew, 2b 4 1 0 2 4 1 Millard, ss 4 0 1 1 3 1 Drake, If 3 0 1 1 0 0 LeBlanc, cf 3 112 10 Delay, rf 4 0 0 3 0 0 Stringer, 3b .4 0 2 3 2 1 McElroy, 4 01 2 0 0 Mclntyre, ....3 0 0 0 2 0 aGibson 1 0 0 0 0 0 -u -i if war rn water moccasin. Their SPOBTt MIKBOB By T1i Anoclat Prm Today a yr Bobby Htfff 4-fi-atni Dnnaid Budfe at Forait Hffla, N. for tha national pro tanal tttla. Fiv )-mt agn Th Rot'nn Had So gave a contract and bnntia aremant Tni GiOTttw. widely aougM 11-jtaasv old high whool nUr.

Tn ynr ac Pitcher Johnny Vaster Meer was lent to Indianapolis on optWs hy the Cincinnati Fedf Fifteen year ago Henry Cettoa aj paced tha British op" toil flaM with a four under par i We Trade rhompson-Slattta Motors. Your Studebaker Dealer ttt Thomassie, Skinner 2, Murff, Culberson 2, Radulovich. 28 Bossenberry, Murff. Skinner, LeBlanc, Culberson. 3B Drake.

SB LeBlanc, Culberson, Thomassie. Radulovich, Murff. DP Stringer to Bartholomew to Bossenberry; Millard to aBrtholomew to Bossenberry; Walker to Skinner to Radulovich. Left New Iberia 8, Baton Rouge 8. BOB off.

Mclntyre 2. Murff 5. SO by Murff 9. WP Murff 2. PB McElroy.

Melyon and Mueller. Time, 2:17. Dairy Queen" is tops. tfd jrf I'1 rntral Louisiana has gotten just too big for Comfort or to cases, take the incident of "thre stfl vesterday. The three Frenchmen Lee Lafayette Leads Loop by Two-Point Margin (By The Associated Press) The Lafayette Bulla could only break even with the Houma Indians in their doubleheader last night and came within two percentage points of losing their Evangeline League lead when Baton Rouge trounced New Iberia 9-3.

Totals 33 3 7 24 12 4 a Grounded out for Mclntyre in 9th 0fiSuing from a boat in Grand Bayou. r' Lot swimming toward the boat apparently know. A Baton Rouge AB PO WATCH FOR OPENING FARDEECY'S had a few fish. They were so brazen that on tM we had to commit murder as the reptiles .5 .5 .5 .3 The Bulls lost their first game to the Indians 5-8 but won the sec climb into the boat. to -it ef a sudden a cram and wild ond in a 2-0 shutout.

2 2 0 10 3 0 9 1 0 2 0 0 0 5 0 1 3 3 Jones, ss Thomassie, If Culberson, cf Radulovich, lb Skinner, 2b Gayle. rf DiBartolo, Walker, 3b Murff, Will Optn Soon Will Open Soon iitctyvti inside the boat jutt laying itill ftit. Ha been there to long he was dry. Gimler, Adams, Bowles. 3B Sprentall.

Zunno, Sanner, Iov-ko. DP Loyko to Adams to Sanner. LOB Abbeville 9, Thibodaux 11. BOB off Vice 3. Seamon 6, Ocoine 6.

SO by Vice 1, Seamon 1, Ocoine 7. off Vice 5 in 3 2-3 innings with 4 runs, Seamon 4 in 3 2-3 with 3. Irizarry 0 in 2-3 wit.i 0. PB Graffeo. Winner Ocoine.

V-u wjth 22-incn wm narr Known. the ap- COR. 3RD JOHNSTON STS. SHOES THAT FIT YOUR FEET 51 only bright spot the cloudy picture was fitis Newton of Marksville and his wife 1113 i Totals 37 9 16 27 14 Score by innings: New Iberia 200 000 010 3 i Baton Rouge 004 001 13x 9. Summary: RBI Drake 2, We if1 boat when he pulled alongside ours and fought the 'from there.

Newton finally gave it the coup de grace (It wis funny 'afterward thinking of the excitement; Lrt was nothing funny for the first 60 seconds after discovered. invnu. riCMING REPORT lers wh0 didn't do so well over the weekend blamed uiL.i.war if ua thar rcu ilrl ho klamerl -fil-iinw a Thibodaux defeated Abbeville 7-4 and went to the top of the second division, replacing the Hammond Berries who fell before Alexandria 18-10 in a slugfest. Lafayette starter Nat Love was credited with the loss of the first game after giving up seven runs in the first five frames. In the nightcap Bill Thomas limited Houma to four hits to record his ninth win of the season.

Houma Third Baseman Chicle Sweeney was evicted from the game in the fourth innings for protesting too vigorously a called third strike. Murff Wins At Baton Rouge Rookie Hurler John Murff scattered seven hits while his teammatea banged out 16 off Bill Mclntyre. It was Murffs sixth win of the season. Marshall Ocoine was the man of the night for Thibodaux. He struck out his 103rd man of the season to record his 11th victory.

Ocoine held Abbeville to seven scattered hits while his teammates got to three Abbeville pitchers for nine. They were led by Sprentall who had a triple and a single. There were 39 hits in the Alexandria Hammond game with Alexandria getting 22 of them. Each side used three pitchers. The big inning for the Aces was the fifth when they scored five runs, three of them on Bobby Green's homer.

First Game yvndicvci 6 i Mm friar ni fieri ure raiidhr' nn trie rnn. came home with fair strings. But com- with the banner fishing of the last two or three weeks, 051 meaiocre Perch of all kinds were still biting at a slower rate gid River, Grand Bay, and the other standby streams. Blackwell of Tioga says Horseshoe Lake near Jones es excellent for white perch. A few bass were caught inured sections, but the big question among anglers re- Ld- "Where are the bass?" V.CUAK LAKt Five cards and letters in last week's mail were all along CS (L0W Sbv! EQUIP YOUR CAR WITH Vsame lines: When are we going to dam Cedar Lake? .1 IJ I I A Houma AB PO wen, ir inouiun do long.

did dv Kep. Gtorft lowdon re appropriating $100,000 for the dim hat been passed by the House. And the department ot public works plant to advertise for lidi on the project this week, thereby tying up the money appropriated in 1948. Several property owners are still balking, but I'm told Laumann, ss 5 1 Piper, rf 6 1 Cargill, 2b 4 1 Harper, lb 3 1 Sljioit Game Vfins for New Clump in Finals Seated D'nnis Cook in the 38 holt finals to ca ifture the Alexandria Golf and (rountry Club 1950 champ-ionshi yesterday. In the morning round Brame fired a 75 to Cook's 77 to go two-uiv Both golfers shot par 36' on tho first nine of the afternoon round in the hotly contested match.

Bra rne took the 16th hole to end tl ie match 3-2. He was one over fir on the final seven holes and Ci ok was two over. Thnew champion relied on his she rrt game to take the match. Cook was in fine form off the tee, consistently out-driving his opponent. But he tightened up on an around the greens to lose advantage.

Brar defeated Ed Kennedy Z-l to ytvance to the finals while Cook laminated Bill Furlow the defend trig champion, 3-2 in the semi-fi hals. Other Results In he second flight finals John Vinson won over Joe Foret 4-2. Dr. Iffarry Gahagan defeated Dr. C.

Herrinston one up to take th 1e fourth flight. Fifth flight honors went to Dr. Mac iivis who defeated Dr. Ben Findlerf two-up. In a extra-hole match Paul Guepet 1 won over Wally Pearson one upr in 19 holes to win the sixth fl fcht.

A. C.j Gravel took the seventh flight t(r defeating J. M. Mc Le-more tie up. Fina'l matches in the first and third flights will be played week.

Jn the first flight C. M. WaterfL meets Bill Daught-ery an f( Carl Carstens and Richard Crbfwell will vie for third flight hlqnori. 4 Huffman Motors Defeats Cottonport The Huffman Motors softball team (merged victorious in their first fit-of-town encounter defeating Cottonport Sunday night by a rore of 6-3. The game was played on the Cottonport school diamoi id.

The Huffman boys drew their first lrn in the first inning when Sonny Mayeux, center fielder, drew walk, was bunted to second, s'iole third, and scored on an infi (j'd grounder. The Cottonport txiys knotted the score in the sec rnd with a walk and one hit, a riple by R. G. Willis, second In th third inning the Huff-manite scored 3 runs oji a com-binatio of hits, past balls, and port lajrfs scored one run in the fourth finning to make the score 4-2, fa loring Huffman. The locals scored 2 more in the sixth on a double Zachary and triple by Spencer.

The Cottonport Pirates pushed across one run in the bottom i half of the sixth and the sevent; inning went scoreless to make "the final score 6-2 with Huffm Bii out in front. These two teams probably meet again Thursday in a return contest. Waltfh" Hilborn pitched excellent ba IU for the Huffmanites giving up only three hits, issued 2 walks iand secured a single to aid the I cause. Ralph Lane was the Huffman offensive star with 3 hits 4 trips. Cicardo and Zacharr' each secured 2 hits.

Neil Cottonport Pitcher, struck out fl men, issued 10 hits, aind walked one man. R.G. Willis csecured the only extra base hi for the Pirates, a down-the-linei triple, Tourney Site COL tlMBUS, June (UP)--The professional golfers association announced today that its 1951; annual tournament would be hetH at the Oakmont golf rouryp at Pittsburgh, Pa. June 28-Ju't- 4. The fleet of Columbus was worth tmly $300(1.

Ahrend, If 4 2 3 1 1 1 3 0 1 2 0 2 Washburn, If attorney general has ruled that property can be expro- iitedasi last resort the dam will have some value flood control project. RODEO The Louisiana fishing rodeo season starts on July 20. .1.1 JiaX f.l I. 8 14 27 12 PO A 1,12 0 trie aare ser Tor me opening ot tne annual tarpon an it Grand Isle. Only the name is misleading.

Virtual- every kind of deep-sea fish can qualify its conqueror for Sweeney, 3b Hendricks, Tate, cf Owen, Totals Lafayette Galati. If Barrett, lb Baron, ss Briner, Turk, cf Moore, 2b Hebert, 3b Tomski, rf Loce, Martin, aBoyd bJay he of I long list of prizes. fortnight after the tarpon rodeo, the third annual .40 AB ..5 ..5 ..5 ,.5 .4 ,.4 ,.4 .4 .2 ,.1 ..1 ,.0 pnational Garfish Rodeo will open in Alexandria (Aug. 6). meeting of the garfish rodeo association probably will be lied this week to discuss plans for that event.

ODDS AND ENDS ftorida will hold a mass burial today for two million They died on Lake Apopka when weekend storms churn- up mud in the lake and it filled their gills. The funeral cost $5,000, the economic loss to the area is placed at million dollars The state legislature has Dassed a lift PRorecroR SflFEYVTBQES slashing the non-resident hunting license to $5 for a 'K-day period, obviously to encourage tourist-hunters Ats in the South are reported dying by the thousands from infectious canker-like growth in the mouth and throat. fish and wildlife service says Alabama is hardest hit a good bass bait? See H. J. Kelone for the tarantula he caught in his garden at Ball Charles Totals 40 5 14 27 9 1 a Singled for Martin in ninth Scored for Boyd in ninth Score by innings: Houma 202 031 0008 Lafayette 000 030 0025 Summary: RBI Cargill, Harper, Hedrick 3, Owen 2, Barrett, Baron 4, Ahrend, 2BH Ahrend, Owen, Love, Baron 2, Briner Tom-ski, Barrett.

Sweeney. DP Martin, Moore and Barrett. LOB Houma 12, Lafayette 8. BOB off Love 3, Owen 0. Martin 3.

SO by Love 5, Owen 4, Martin 1. HO Love 10 in 5 innings, 7 runs, Martin 4 in 4 innings, 1 run. Winner-Owen. LoserLove. Crueilla and Oser.

1:55. Second Game HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A TIRE BLOWS OUT a Red River fisherman, reported today he caught two Jtish aggregating 100 pounds. One weighed 55 pounds, inner 43 pounds. Wlh Ordinary For Economy tfd Wfft life Profecfoi-s Tubes Houma AB Laumann. ss .3 0 Jncle Sam's Piper, lf-3b ....3 Cargill, 2b 3 Harper, lb 3 i 2C7I PO 2 0 2 5 0 1 0 6 2 0 jquor Store Louisiana Top Man for 'School Net Title CHARLOTTESVILLE, June 28 (P Seventeen-year-old Hamilton Richardson, former national boys champion from Baton Rouge, is top seeded in the national Interscholastir Ipn-nis tourney opening here st the University of Virginia today.

Vablo Eisenberg, of Milburn. J. high school, who won Ihe highest junior recognition in the east this spring, was seeded No. 2 and will head the bracket opposite Richardson. i "Dairy Qneen" is tops.

tfd ind Washburn, rf Sweeney, 3b Ahrend, If Hendrick, Tate, ef Beach, I wil Tin A (L I Cocktail Lounge Dial 2-3181 FREE DELIVERY Ordinary tubes have only ONE air chamber When a blowout occurs with ordinary tubes the tire goes flat luddenly, often causing the car to swerve out of control. Life Protector tubes have TWO air chambers When a blowout occurs with Life Protector Tube the inner safety chamber holds a reserve supply of air you coast to a safe stop. Totals 25 0 4 18 3 1 Lafavette AB PO A Galati. If 3 0 1 1 0 0 Barrett, lb .....3 1 6 0 0 Baron, ss 3 1 2 3 2 0 Turk, pf 3 0 1 2 0 0 Moore, 2b 2 0 0 3 2 2 Briner, 3 0 2 3 1 0 Hebert, 3b 3 0 0 0 2 1 Tomski, rf 2 0.0 1 0 0 Thomas, 2 0 1 0 1 0 raw America 's largest-selling 5 year old astes te age" Totals 21 2 7 21 8 3 Score by innings: Houma 000 000 00 Lafayette 101 000 2 Summary: Beach, Moore 2, RBI Baron, Turk. 2BH Turk, Baron.

SB Briner, Barrett. DP Baron, Barrett; Laumann unassisted; Cargill, Harper. LOB Houma 4, Lafayette 5. BB Bearh 1. SOThomas 5, Beach 4.

-Oser, Crueilla. 1:20. bourbon TRADE YOUR PRESENT TUBES ON A SET OF 4 LIFE PROTECTOR SAFETY TUBES AND WE'LL GIVE YOU A 5- LIFE PROTECTOR AT JJ.chWe over today7 A WEK I LJ-JVfHTIE SET Abbeville AB PO A Bluse, 3b 5 0 0 0 4 0 Theard, ss 3 1 1 0 4 0 Zunno, cf 2 2 1 6 0 0 Vega, 2b 5 0 1 0 0 0 Mijido, lb 4 1 1 11 0 0 Murrav, rf 3 0 1 1 0 0 Oimler, If 4 0 2 2 0 0 Graffeo, 3 0 0 4 0 0 Vice, 2 0 0 0 0 0 Seamon, 1 0 0 0 2 0 Irizarry, 0 0 0 0 nGriffev 1 0 0 0 0 0 Misk ey with fin its flavor! Totals 33 4 7 24 10 0 Thibodaux AB PO A Snrenfall. rf 3 2 2 1 0 0 2 Rledsoe. rf 0 1 0 0 1 1 Sanner, 3h 3 0 Williams.

2b 1 3 2 A 0 Adams, ss .4 1 Saye, 4 1 0 6 1 0 0 0 1 0 Abariie, If 3 4 1 Lyko, rf-rf 3 1 1 1 Rnwles. lb 2 0 1 9 2 0 Ocoine. 4 0 0 0 ti.i. 37 7 fl 27 13 1 a Struck out for Irlzarry in 9th Score by Innings: Abbeville 301 000 0004 ThitwUn 102 100 21 .7 HT.BOUIBON WHISKiV. PiOOf.tHNT.AOE T.

MANkfOAT, KY. Summary; SB Vega, Mijido,.

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