The Brownsville Herald from Brownsville, Texas • Page 13

NEW YORK, May 9 UP--Slugging Stan Musial, hitting a cool 327. insists lie's "not in the groove Sporting a blue wool turtleneck under his Cardinal uniform to ward off the chill in the ale, Mti- sinl said It "will take some time" before he hits his stride at the plate. "My average might be all right," le shrugged, "but I haven't been hitting: too much. My timing is still off somewhat. That's because of all the off days we've had on account of bad weather.

"Nothing to worry about, a backbej 1 shoulder Pope, Jr, Marine Corps officer, on water skis at Cypress Boss Player Never Knows Exactly What He's Doing NEW TORK (NEA) The; afternoon was dull and bleak, but 60,851 bet $3,668,685 on eight Jamaica races. The next Saturday afternoon saw 47,219 wagering at the Long Island open air gambling casino, which has been nicknamed Eyesore Downs. Yonkers Raceway opened with the trots on a. rather chilly night, but 30,476 jam-packed the old Empire City plant and set a new world record for standard bred feeding of the Iron men, The case history of this malady In New York shows conclusively that it doesn't go away until Nov. IS.

It has a varied effect, but In all cases the victim is easily identified. He wears a baggy suit, Is run down at the heels and has holts in the soles of his shoes. Near Illiterates spend more money for phoney literature appertaining to the business than a Rhodes scholar. Guys who flunked arithmetic In grammar school spend half the night and most of the with paper, pencil and Rodeo Entries Close May 15 ALICE--Boys ard girls Inter ta entering the Alice Cham' pJonship Youth. Rodeo have until May 15 to submit entries.

The books will bs closed midnight May 15. Guy Scale, cattleman of Alice general chairman of the Youth Rodeo. He has announced over a hundred entries have already been filed for the three day event Contestants will be competing for worth, of prize: which Include saddles, boots, hats and other rodeo paraphernalia. To date Junior entries, which Include youngsters in the up to 9 years of age group and from to 12 years of age group, havi been lagging. The youngsters will be judged on their riding ability and their genera lappearance.

Entries in the Queen's contest are limited at the present time Entry is open to any young lady who would like Queen's contest. to be in the. Mike Michalske Coaches At AM COLLEGE STATION, May 9 UP--Texas AtM College hireei Mike Michalske, former professional football player and line coach at Baylor, as the new AM line coach last week. Barlow Irvin. director of AM athletics, said Michalske will replace Paul McMurty.

McMurty resigned last fall to return to his farm near Rio Hondo. Michalske resigned about the same time from Baylor. He is a native of Clereland, Ohio, and a former professional football player with the New York Yankees and the Green Bay Packers. He played in 1927-28 with the Yankees and 1D29-37 with the Packers. Michalske plnyed college football at Penn Slate.

His coaching ca recr started in 1938 at Lafayette College, where he stayed two years. He assistant coach of the Packers in 1940. head coach at foiva State fro mlfMl In WR slstant coach of the Baltimore Colls in 1D1S and 1019. and line coach at Baylor for the 1950, 1S51 1952 seasons. Swimming Classes Set At Brownsville Club Swimming classes for beginners, intermediate swimmers and advanced swimmers, will bepin lune 1 at the Brownsville Golf Club pool under the direction of fay Shoemaker.

The courses will last six weeks, Included in the advanced course be instructions in fancy Jiving. further information cnn bo )btnlncd fixim Shoemaker at tho Brownsville Golf CUib. A blar begins to be created nrpcly by accident, when intcr- itcllai- gases in a rlond are roughl together unevenly. Xcxt Jic embryo star grows rapidly, idding lo its mass by picicing up ithcr gases as it makes its way trough, the cloud, agate form charts, working out intricate formulas that would send Einstein looking for a iob digging ditches. The hoss player is immune to the weather.

Like the mailman, rain, hail, sleet or snow docs not prevent him from making his ap pointed rounds. All hoss players must die broke, but, judging by their numbers, it must be a pleasant way to go. And of them live to a ripe old age. If they do not get hit b) a taxicab while crossing the street reading a scratch sheet, it is practically guaranteed they will live until they dry up and are blown away by the wind over well, let us say, Jamaica or Aqueduct! or better yet, Beautiful Belmont. Hoss players have no money, so have no worries.

They can't afford to over-eat or indulge in strong drink too often. They are out in the open every day, get their exercbe elbowing their way to the mutuel windows, rooting their horses out of the money, and booing Eddie Arcaro. "Throw away all those health ads," testifies Dumb Dan Morgan the venerable fight manager. "The secret formula for longevity is Plenty fresh air and something to keep your blood circulating There's nothing quite like that last sixteenth to a photo finish Hoss players never known exactly what they're doing, but they are in there trying. They remain in a state of complete bewilderment, check their brains at the track gate and their at the seller's window.

Men work seven days week so they can play the horses. They know" they are suckers, but can't help it, claim betting on the horses is their pleasure. Gee, I hope I break even today. I need the money. The hoss player is a sucker for a tout Stan Musial, Hitting .327, Says He's Not In 'Groove' "Nothing wrong at nil with leading the league in hitting again," he laughed.

"You might say that was one of my ambitious for this year. A fellow never can do himself any harm by winning a batting title." Manager Eddie Stanky and the other Cardinal players take it virtually for granted that Muslal's hitting will improve as soon as It warms up. But none of them are he added, flashing his usual smtle. "I'm generally a slow starter and I don't da my best until the weather gets warmer." considerably younger nan his actual 32 years, Musial, vho won hig sixth National League batting title with a .336 mark last -cur, scoffed at the idea that he might be slipping somewhat. "I'm as good a hitter today as was five years ago," he said mat- ter-of-factly.

Antf just for the record, Musial led the league with 376 average five years ago! Some big leaguers might be more than satisfied with winning six batting championships, but Musial grinnfngly admitted he isn't allergic to capturing another complaining about the manner in which Stan Is slugging the ball Of all the young hitters he has seen since the start of the season, Musial labs team-mate Ray Jablonski as the best of the newcom- rs, "Jablonskl has all the tar-marks of a fine bitter," Musial pointed out. "I liked his looks from the first moment I saw him swing a Oddly, were it not for the fact that he bals right-handed, Jablon- skt, the Cards' rookie third baseman, would look like a carbon copy of Musial at the plate. He crouches cocks his knee and even swings at a pitch the same way Stan the man does. Jablonskl hardly could pick a finer hitter to pattern himself after. Joe Louis, Still Headliner NEW YORK, May 9 --UP-There was a knock on Jot Louis' dressing room door and from outside someone said, "Ten more minutes, 1 Joe got off the bed and looked around for his stage costume.

The master of at Harlem's Apollo theater was starting the introduction. Joe buttoned his jacket and walked out toward the wings. A burst of applause greeted the Brovm Bomber as he shuffled onto the stage. He seemed self-conscious, a little bored and somewhat weary of the routine. But he valiantly went through with his light comic patter and when the MC asked, "why did you ever get into show business for?" Joe in on cue and deadpanned, "For money, what else?" The audience out front howled and ate it up.

It gave him a big hand when Joe, all 230 pounds of him, went into what passed for a soft shoe dance routine. Back in the dressing room. Louis tiirno'l on tho TV set ajain bu; did riot Lother to watch It. "Did you mean that, back there on the stage, when you said you're in this business only for the money" someone asked him. 'Aw, that's just one of the gags," Joe explained.

"Show business is a lotta' fun but, of course, the money you get counts, too. "Naw," he said In answer to a question, "I never think about retiring. I'll be 39 next week and I just wanna live comfortably and easy from now on." Outside the theater, it looked like fight night at one of Joe's bouts. People milled around the box office and on the marquee, in foot-high letters, It said: "Joa Louis." Just like the old days--he was the headline attraction. Card Playing Players Gamble With Trouble NEW YORK (NBA)-- There can be no challenging the good sense of the swift kick Commissioner Ford Frick aimed at gambling in the major leagues.

Mr. Frick apparently, was shooting hardest at gambling among the players, but intimated that certain members of certain teams have been loitering with for the beginning of trouble. A man who is owed money frequently is inclined to grow more Irritated at the as the days go by and no attempt is made to settle up. Soon a gam bling club will have a dugout fur of players wishing either to avoid each other or burning because Joe or Pete or Bill doesn't come ttie profes-1 around and pay off. The menace of is reported game is something far more greets his passengers with 0 have acted to forestall the This should be.

and no latest from the feed box, and OSEibi i af another Black is, the chief objective of a tip. The way the ulslae whispered word gets around slon VV8 Eenng. elevator man! The commissioner inexplicable. The FAST MAN--Dnplte the early season of Bill Bniton, Giant ntUl claim that Bobby Thornton, the Flylnjf Scot, is the fastest man on the basepaths in tho major leagues today. Thomson, who with Monte Irwln holds the key lo the Giant's nuccets, Is also ono of the top aluggers.

A BHOWNgVlLU! May lUt-TAOt It Majors Top Hitters Slump NEW YORK. May 9-1)P-Some of tho finest hitters In buseball cnn be found congregated dejectedly near tom of the barrel" today. Yogi Borra of the Yankees Is a typical example with tils anemic .205 batting average through hit first IB (fumes, but lie has plenty of company among the "big names." Slugging Ski Gordon of Milwaukee showed a weak murk and wallowing along beside hlsn with an identical figure is Ki-nnk Bumnliollz of the Cubs, whose percentage was sec- only only to Stan Muslal'n mark In the National League last season. Larry Dohy, the Cleveland strong boy, isn't finding anything to Bhout about with his .211 average while Chfco Car- rasquel of the White Sox Isn't exactly cheering either on the strength of his .208 figure. The White Sox were counting heavily on a comeback by Vern Stephens but his .151 average, with only two extra base hits is 39 trips to the plate, gives little indication of It.

Of course, (lie season (s a few less than a month old and all these hltterg eta boost their batting marks anywhere from 20 to 30 points with, a pal rof "good days," Willie the long-ball specialist is nursing a slump-Infected ,214 percentage wlillc Adcock of the Braves is batting only .212. Even lower In the sale are Solly Hemiia of the Cardinals Clint Courtney of the Browns, .183, Billy Martin of the Yankees, 1.82 and Wes West rum of the Giants, .176. Lorraine WUliams Newest Light On Tennis Horizon knock a longshot down'to odds-! scandal But il must be remem- on. Francis Albertani, the long time boxing publicist, once given gas while having a tooth out. When Albertanti came out of it, the nurse told him that while he was under the anesthetic ho ar- wilh a bookmaker and gave her a tip.

The reault was that a pig went to the post the choice Tyrus Raymond Cobb will die never understanding why, with a man stealing second base, the bat- bered that the Sox turned traitors not because of any Intra- club card playing or betting of any nature but because they were wilting- to deal with characters on the outside. It seemed somewhat strange, that the commissioner put out today, were the commissioner's oction. BasebaH was frightened out of its wits by the defection of the Chicago club in 1919. Piibiic Girl Caddies To Compete Against Boros Most of America's future cad dies may be using powder puffs and lipstick if tho trend at the Edgewood Valley Country Club in La Grange, Illinois, is any portent of things to come. This suburban Chicago club has 100 girl caddies as compared to 25 boys--and most of the members find the young ladies superior caddies.

Not only that, the girls follow the playing tradition of the male caddies who produced the Gene Sarazens, Walter Hagcns, Ben Hogans and Julius Boroses of golf. Most of the damsels at Edgewood Valley will compete against U. S. Open champion Boros on National Golf Dy, Saturday, May 23. That's the day when America's golfers, using locl handicaps, compare their score: with the scratch effort which Boros achieves over the Oakmont, Pa.

course, scene of the 3953 Open. Regular golfers pay 51, which goes to the U. S. O. and the National Golf Fund, Caddies will be allowed to contest for twenty- five cents and they will be permitted to play their round early in the week.

The girls will have an extra advantage against Boros as women entrails this year will be granted their full handicaps, plus seven strokes. "Many of the girls will 'defeat' Boros, just as they did Ben Hogan last year," predicts Vic Soitz, Edgewood Valley pro. Soitz adds, "not only that, but two of our girls are competing for college scholarships as provided by the Evans Scholars Foundation of the Western Golf Association, and I think they'll make it." National Golf Day, in cidentally, helps the Foundation. Edgewood Valley enlisted girl CHICAGO, May 9-UP-Lorralnel Williams wan little more than a rog, a bone Riid a hank of hair vhen she started playing tennis wilh a piece of plywood, a siring end a water-soaked ball sevtn years ago. Today, al 14, the plgtailed Negro southpaw has her eye on the championship trail blazed ijy Maureen Connolly.

She just may fill the fool- rleps of Lltlle Mo, who won the National Girls' title at 14, the Women's crown at 16 and the Wimbledon Singles championship at 17. "We expect to win the new 15- year-old division al Philadelphia Ihis year," Lorraine's benefactor Dr. Willis G. Ewell said. "And I'd say she has a good chance to upset the juniors division:" vaulted to national nt- (enflon last summer when went to Ihe Ihlril round In the IT.

s. Girls' i-avvn Tennis Singles championship at Philadelphia. She was Ihe first Nfgro girl ever to compete lor thi title. It was a big step for the four- foot. 7-Inch, 85-pound lassie from a southside Chicago lamlly of seven brothers and sisters and a widowed mother.

Lorraine's mother, Mrs. Marcella Williams, could 111 alford racket and balls for the litlle girl who became, slai-ry-evcd watching through the'lence ot the Prairie Tennis club. She hiked to a nearby cabinet ihop and proudly came home with confidence plummeted. The club caddies for tno first time in (owners' investments, which there was a wartime short(millions then and much higher a of to Girls from nearby his ukase against gambling in game hustled this package form. When teamamtes play for high stakes, it doesn't necessarily siig- threatened.

Itself under The the ter can't hit the ball through the gcst crooked baseball. But 'it can'happily there spot vacated by the man covering, have its effect on a pennantjwhispers of Ui' race, nonetheless, in the of lowered morale and friction. Speaker will die never understanding why every ball hit in the air within the park is not caught. A lot of people wilt die never The second baseman understanding hor players die nevei the horses. Who do yuh like in the fifth hoss players.

Hoss couple hundred dollars in a poker sver understanding game, the catcher drops $150 and touches the winner for a loan. wing of a commissioner, told him to be as tough as he wished, hoped al! would be forgotten. Fortunately, it was, and just as have been few conniving form This is first crack- club down. Judge Landis had an occasion or two in which he a swung fists. Happy Chandler touches Ji'ou- we have all the ingredients made a pass or two in the dircc lion of characters he thought schools nsked for the opportunity Border Group Relaxes Barrier ABILENE, May 8--UP-The first major step was taken Friday by the Border Conference Executive Committee to replace Arizona State of Flagstaff, which withdraws from the circuit al the end of the current year.

The committee, which also made several decisions regarding conference rulpj, was holding- Its annual spring meeting here. The committee voted to put on the aijunda at Its winter meeting in El Paso a motion changing the requirements for admission to the loop from a unanimous vote of the committee to a majority vote plus one. Two schools, thought to be Midwestern University of Wichita Falls and North Texas State College of Dc-nton, have hinted that they would like to come into the Border Conference. Alfred Thomas, Arizona State ot Tempe, registrar, Is Uie new president and Dr. E.

J. Knapp, chairman of tho physics department at Texas Western ol El Paso, is vice-president. Reelected secretary-treasurer of the commute was C. Z. Lcsher, Ar izona university's register.

Throiv Eggs at Home FORT WORTH, May 9 Four youths from prominent Fort Worth families Thursday faced sessions before a judge for throwing eggs at the home their English teacher, while the teacher's blind to caddie and soon proved lay critically ill inside. The a few pieces of plywood. Her mother cut out a paddle and nailed on handle. Ixuralne stretched string across the back yard and! started batting the Water-logged rail she had found to volunteers from the Williams clan. At the age of 10 got her first racquet, one which a Prairie club member had Intended to throw away.

The club (ormed a small club, and Lorraine won the small Try championship a short while later. Ewell, a dentW, and w-lft. Dorothy, both former ranking plajera, noticed Lorraine and took her to Unit-entity of Chicago Tennis Coach Chet Murphy. She was a tireless pupil and quickly attained enough pnlse to win several tournaments. Last year she won both the junior girls and Ihe girls under 15 divisions of the Western Indoor Tennis meet, the Metropolitan Area championship, River Forest Open junior crown, the American Tennis Association National Junior title and the Chl- cagoland Open junior meet.

"Thai lillle southpaw loves to play tennis and she plays it well," said veteran pro George O'Connell after the Western tourney. "She's on top of every move nn opponent makes. And she doesn't pat the ball: She whacks it." Now grown to five feet and 103 pounds Lorraine Is working full time for the National qualifying rounds. She "warmed up" by retaining her Western titles the first ol April. "I want to be as jood as Miss onnoily," she said.

"1 want to be "orld's champion." More Winners In Ladies Golf Play continued last week in the first annual Ladles Golf Association championship tournament with winners crowned ta tho first and second flights. Dorothy Cantrcll won over Grace Bown, one-up to take top honors In the first night while Cury Mathers defeated Jennings six-and-four In the finals of the second flight, Jean Kibbee won the nine-hole championship while Blanche Harden look consolation flight honors. Olga Posey svon the champion- ship.flight finals two weeks ago. Finals in the third flight have not yet been plnyed. Army tent camp sites to accommodate 180,000 soldiers now are available to provide a low cost and os.jcdltion means fov housing soldiers during periods of emer- they were just as much at home at a tee for two or four, as at a local dance.

"The girls do a tremendous job," affirn.s pro Soitz, "they never lag behind, are neat, good bail hawks, polite and most liable." Caddies will be very much evidence for National Golf Day' medals and, anyway you look at them, the girl caddies should walk three boys and one girl said they didn't know the critically-ill woman was Inside when they threw rotten eggs, light bulbs, and oil at the home of Mary Louise Zeloskl. DORFMAN'S Jewelry Service 1( Diamond Setting ir Jewelry a a i Jewelry Repairing it Expert a i it Watch a i i if Pearh Restrung Now in New Location WALK-OVER What more can a snan uk for? Smart looki, and cooi comfort. That'll Tropical Mesh for you. Woven light, iupplc, long, lasting Nylon. BOLLACK MEN'S DEPARTMENT Ot'B -5TH YEAR STORE I2M E.

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