The Amarillo Globe-Times from Amarillo, Texas • Page 13

MONDAY, ID. 1948 1'xiji AIviAKlLLO, BROWNIES SPEAK TO EACH OTHER NOW AND TRY St. Louis Received $500,000 and Team Spirit For 1947's Eighth-Place American League Stars TAYLOR Muckcrman By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor NEW YORK Dick Muckerman chuckled as. the Browns opened their first eastern swing at Yankee Stadium a gnat's i eyelash ahead lot New York club. Because -the I i a strengthened by acquiring supposed stars of the Amerl- a League's poor relations, Dan Topping of the Bombers a fall complained to President Will Harridge.

doesn't hope to keen on laughing, but this early it is evident that the ice man got $500,003 and team spirit in exchange for eight athletes who helped the St. Louis club finish dead last. Without Junior Stephens, Kramer, Kinder, Heath, Muncrief, Judnich, Berardino and Hitchcock, the Little Brownies of this season are at least speaking to each other. Muddy Ruel -wasn't the only lawyer with the Browns of 1947, which was not the least reason why they probably were the best club ever to finish in the cellar, certainly the most formidable to wind up 38 games off the pace. Last year's array managed itself.

The players were out of condition and out of hand. In addition to the badly-needed cash, the Browns acquired 17 hired hands, all of them pleased to play baseball, even on the American League side of the Big Muddy. A photograph of the new Brpwns, when the club returned to St. Louis, included 19 faces. "We really fixed the scorecard sellers up," beams Zack Taylor, out of a job when Billy Herman blew sky high in Pittsburgh and happy to tackle what was considered a hopeless assignment.

"The tans really can't tell this collection of Browns without a scorecard. We spent considerable time this spring just introducing the fellows to one another. The Browns swung east with three members of the cast batting more than .400, and in the American Leagues Big Five. They are, left to right, Chuck Stevens. Bob Pillhiger.

.405. and Al Zarillo, .441. "It's much too to have any sort of a line on the clubs, but this one. has done everything asked.of it to date, and against the best pitching that of Feller, Newhouser, Trout, Trucks, Hutchinson, Hayncs and Grove. "This Is a young club, perhaps the youngest in the league with the exception of Washington.

"The players are easy to keep in condition. They don't tire. They snap back after a doubleheader. "We've played good steady ball. "We have no stars, but we may be developing some, and meanwhile we are hustling and playing grand team ball.

"We have some fellows, who can run Bob Dlllinger, for example, who stretches singles into doubles and doubles into triples, and who led both leagues in 1947 with 34 stolen bases." Eddie Fellagrini and Gerry Friddy had engineered 14 double plays in nine engagements as the club swung east and the infield is backed up on the left side by Sammy Dente and on the right by, Andy Anderson, a product of the farm system. And who can recall a squad of Browns hitting the Atlantic seaboards boasting three players batting better than .400 and in the league's Big Five Al Zarilla with .441. Chuck Stevens with .412 and the fleet Dillinger with Pete Laydcn will play center field when soreness is rubbed out of his arm. The former Texas fullback spent last season in New Orleans and Louisville. The club was further handicapped when Paul Lchner broke his shoulder blade.

Yet the mil fielding of Whitney Plait, back from Toledo, Zarilla and Ray Coleman has been considerably more than adequate. Johnny Moss did not fall off in his hitting until last year, and Ray Partec is around and about to assist him with i.he catching. The Browns have a dozen pitchers headed by Potter, Sanford, Zoldak, towering Bryan Stephens and Fannin. the changes, the supposedly de-emphasized Browns have that uncluttered look. McFarland Sets Golf Pace at CC C.

McParland is the leader with a 77 among the early qualifiers In the annual Amariilo Country Club Golf Tournament. Total of 28 entrants qualified for the match play event, which is restricted to members of the organization, over the week end. J. L. Carter is next in line with a 79, Other scores included Fred Fyfa 87, T.

B. Carlson 88, Dr. Stuart Browning 86, J. A. Killough 90, J.

L. McCormick 93, Sim Kelly 88, J. E. Davis 83, Don McCulIough 38, Alfred Griggs 87, L. S.

Pearce 91, Wade Holman 88, Charles Young 84, Charles Reid 84, Gus Roberts 90. Jim Pearson 90, J. M. McCausland 92, James Rittenberry 93. Mike Quigley 87, Alfred Glenn 93, Dr.

Woolworth Russell 100, Thornton Blanchard 88, Dude Gentry 83, Tom LeMond. 88, Tom LeMond, 82, Scott Mills 90, and Johnson Satterstrom 104. Qualifying will be open through Sunday. All members are urged to enter. Entry fee is $1.

Skys Seek Revenge Tonighf Againsl Detroit Senators The Birmingham Skys will attempt to even their two-game series with the Detroit Senators Monday night when the Negro clubs clash at Gold Sox Park. Gametime is 8:15 o'clock. Sunday afternoon the Senators pounded out 13 hits including a homer by Stillwood, while drubbing Birmingham 6-1. News-Globe Want Ads Get Results Bowling Meet Ends Tonight DALLAS, May 10 roll the last frame Monday night In the woman's international bowling congress, then 8,418 cash awards will be passed out. That is, they'll finish the tournament except far a roll-off between two doubles teams provided some team in this last day of bowling doesn't take over the leadership.

Monday the combinations ol Edna Harrold arid Marge Slogar ol Cleveland and Margaret Cass and Merle Matthews of Beverly Hills are tied for first place with 1,188 pins. Mrs. Emma Phaler Columbus, WIBB secretary, said the roll-off would be completed this week, probably in Dallas, unless some other team finished with a larger total. When the last- pin is battered down at approximately 7 o'clock, a total of 52,382 games will have been rolled. Bowling actually has con sumed 29 of the 33 days and night of the tournament.

Prize money totaling $52,386 wil be distributed all the way from $350 down to $3.00. Mrs. Phaler says some two-third of the 7,500 cotnestauts in the tour nament will receive money. Ther will be cash for 661 regular teams 58 high team games, 124 booste teams, 237 tournament city teams 1683 doubles teams, 124 high team prizes, 3,061 singles, 180 singles an 290 all-events. Kathryn Creme Pact of Chicag won the regular team championshii and got $350 and medals.

Seconc place went to Gears by enterprise Detroit which also received $350 In the booster division first plac went Blue Bennett Florist Port Arthur which received $80.00. Before we go into an account of the games played last Friday and lot reported, and those played Sunday, this column wants to apologize all kids and coaches who got balled up over the erroneous schedule lUblished in Sunday's paper. This morning's News carried the corrected schedule. I- could say, "It happened this way and go on to make some plausible tif not good) excuse. But let's take my knocks along with the ats the back that a lot of your generous people have given me.

I ust made a big boner and I'm sorry. Last Friday there were supposed to be some and Western Junior League games played games that had been postponed or that had been re-scheduled earlier in the week. The only one reported was that between Jack Grant's McKinley Bobcats and the North Side B-29's. The Bobcats won it. 10-1.

on the six-hit pitching of Charley Ott. Charley not only had a good day on the mound, yielding six hits and walking but one while he whiffed five, but he also had a perfect 'day' at the plate, where he got a homer, a double, a single, and a walk in three official times at bat. KIDS, INCORPORATED Thompson In Last SWC Bow This Week End AUSTIN, May 10 the gathering shadows of the Southwest Conference meet at Houston Saturday IltUe Jerry Thompson will sing his swan song- with a rhythm of flashing feet. The greatest track man the University of Texas ever has known and in Coach Clyde Littlefield's opinion the finest in Southwestern history, will be closing his career as a collegian. No one ever did what this mighty mite of the cinders was able to do.

Weighing 125 pounds dripping wet --a slender, lonely figure--Thompson often has won all the distance races of track in a single afternoon. Last year he captured the half- mile, mile and two-mile in the conference meet, setting a new conference record in the mile. Saturday he will run the mile and two-mile. In the latter he'll oe turned loose to break the oldest record in the books--the 9:32.4 Sandi Esquivel of Texas hung up 23 years ago. "I owe it to him.

Littlefield said. "He's going after that record." This means that for once Texas isn't going to worry about the team championship half as much as its parting.gesture of glory to the little man who always has worked for the team but never has been able to run on a championship outfit. During his a at Texas Thompson has done the mile in 4:11.5, the half-mile in 1:52.8 and the two-mile in 9:17.1. He could have beaten those marks had lie concentrated on the events one at a time. While he will be making his last appearance before the home folks it won't be good-bye to track for Wee Jerry.

There's the national collegiate in June and the Olympic try-outs at Evanston in July. With the Southwest Conference campaign out of the way. Thompson will start work on the 5,000 meters which he hopes to run for America at London in the Olympic Games. Thompson also has another year at Texas to flni-tti work on his degree in business administration anc engineering. However, he will have no more athletic eligibility.

Seven hundred twenty eight million acres of range land in 17 western states support for a part of each year about 75 per cent of this country's sheep. Bedichek Plans To Retire June 30 From Interscholastic League Post By BOB FOIGHT By HAROLD V. RATLIFF AUSTIN; May 10 Tart- ongued Roy the "orce of the Texas Interscholastic league, retires to private life June 30. He will leave the greatest organization of its kind in the world as a monument to more than 30 years of effort. The name Roy Bedichek has been associated with scholastic activities so long he always got the credit or the blame for everything done by this far-flung coalition of schools.

Most times that was correct but on some occasions, such as enforcing the amateur rule which was written Into the books by the state executive committee, he was the "fall guy." But that mattered little to the straight-talking Bedichek who down the years has been burned effigy, hailed into court and threatened with bodily harm because of the iron-clad rulings he returned. However, nothing could shake the foundations of the Texas Interscholastic League which today numbers 400,008 boys and girls among its contestants in the'field of literature, music, debate, athletics, public speaking and what have you. Some four years after the league was organized, Bedichek became associated with it. That was in 1914 when he did publicity work. He returned to the league in 1937 as athletic director and in 1920 became director of the whole show.

Bedichek will be 70 years old June 27. Under the comnufsory retirement rule at the University of Texas, which operates the Interscholastic League, he automatically goes on modified service. Thus Texas scholastic contests will lose one of the most colorful personalities of them all. Dean T. Shelby of the University of Texas, chairman of the Interscholastic League Executive Committee, was chuckling over some of the doings of Roy Bedichek the other day discussing the retirement of the energetic, quick-talking man who has guided the destinies of the league for 23 years.

"Beddy," said Dean -Shelby, "always could write the most vitriolic letters of anybody. He would write one and show it to me. I'd say, 'now, you better go home and sleep on He's take my advice and the next day he'd throw away that vitriolic outbrust and write one without the sting." Bedichek once worked In a West Virginia coal mine but wns fired because he complained about the dangerous cable by which men were pulled up to the mouth of the mine. After a stint as a stenographer for a Boston clergyman, he came to Texas and rode a bicycle from Eddy (McLennan County) to Doming, NM, where he became secretary of the chamber of commerce and editor of the local paper until he became involved in a prohibition campaign. "The town then had a population of 4,000, who were served by 16 saloons, and my efforts were not appreciated either by the principal advertisers or the men who held the mortgage on the plant," he explained.

"I was attacked, also, from the inside as my journeyman printers often would get too drunk to get the paper out on time, and in wag- gish moods would spring Hbelous misprints. Once I had to burn, up an entire edition to avoid being thrown into jail on a charge of libelous obscenity." During the early days of World War I he served as assistant city editor and special assignment reporter for the San Antonio Express. His next step was into the-Texas Interscholastic League whirlpool. Now he's stepping out to write another book. He wrote-one in 1946 while on a leave of absence.

It was about birds and he made It so colorful and romantic the -book really sold. The Soil Conservation Service et- timates that only. 62 million of the land now in crops are completely safe from erosion. A A A WEST TEXAS-NEW MEXICO LEAGUE Pet. TEAM-Border Abllerie Pampa Luobock Amariilo Lamesa 8 Albuquerque 7 Clovis 5 AMERICAN LEAGUE TEAM-- Cleveland 10 .12 New York .10 Washington 8 St.

Louis 6 Boston 7 Detroit 8 Chicago 3 NATIONAL LEAGUE TEAM-St. Louis New York Pittsburgh Brooklyn Philadelphia Boston Chicago Cincinnati TEXAS LEAGUE TEAM-- -W Fort Worth 17 Houston 15 San Antonio 14 Beaumont 12 Dallas 12 Oklahoma City ..11 Shreveport 9 Tulsa 19 L0NGHORN LEAGUE TEAM-- Odessa 11 Big Spring 11 Balllnger San Aneelo 9 Sweetwater 8 Vernon 9 i 1 7 8 8 9 10 13 4 5 6 9 7 10 1.2 11 .588 .563 .529 .500 .412 .278 Pot. .714 .708 .625 1 .471 .462 ..412 .400 .214 10 5 11 7 10 7 9 9 10 8 10 7 10 1 13 Pet. G.B. .667 .611 .588 1 Sli .474 .444 .412 .350 8 10 11 13 14 14 14 16 ti 8 7 7 8 8 9 Pet.

OB. .630 2 3 .600 .560 .462 .440 15 .381 7 .385 Pet. G.B .645 .611 Mi .588 1 .529 2 .500 .500 Midland 7 10 .412 4 Del Bio 4 14 .222 SUNDAY'S RESULTS (VEST TEXAS-NEW MEXICO LEAGUE Albuquerque 3.. Pampa 4. Amariilo 1, LuBbock 22.

Borger 5. Lamesa 14. Clovis 4. Abilene 10. AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago 0.

New York g. Cleveland 4-9. Boston 1-5. Detroit 5-3. Philadelphia st Louis 1, Washington 3.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 4. St. Louis 9. Brooklyn 14-8. Pittsburgh 2-10.

New York 0. Chicago 2. Philadelphia Cincinnati 2-0. TEXAS LEAGUE Shreveport 6 Dallas 7, Beaumont 8. Fort Worth 7.

Houston 6. Oklahoma City 7. San Antonio 4. Tulsa 6. r.ONGHOKN LEAGUE Vernon 7.

Sweetwater 5. Ballinger 6. Odessa 9. Big Spring 4. San Anaelo T.

Midland 5. Del Bio 6. MONDAY'S SCHEDULE WEST TEXAS-NEW MEXICO LBAOCZ --Albuquerque at Pampa. Amariilo Lubbock, Borger at Lamesa, Cloyta ftt Abilene. AMERICAN LEAGUE--Chicago at York.

Cleveland at Boston. St. at Washington. (Only lames scheduled). NATIONAL LEAGUE---Boston, Bt.

Louis, Brooklyn at Pittsburgh. New York at Chicago. (Only games TEXAS LEAGOE--Shreveport st Dsl-' las, Beaumont at Port Worth. Houston at Oklahoma city. San Antonio Tulsa.

LONGHOBN LEAGUE-- Balllnger lit Sweetwater, Vernon at Odessa. Midland at San Angelo. Big Spring.at Del Rio. Joe (number 2, or 3) Way, the Bobcats' catcher, did an exceptionally fine job crouching behind the plate, and served notice on all base-stcalers that he's got strong, accurate peg. On the mound for the B-29's was Don Fox, who started off with a good fast ball, lots of control, and a puzzling change of pace that had the Cats baffled for a while.

Don yielded 16 hits, after the Bobcats solved him, and was listed as the losing pitcher. He saved face, however, in that tils homer in the second was the only run scored by his team, The Pantex Seals didn't show up for their Sunday game with the Boy's Ranch Commandos, at Boy's Ranch, so the young ranchers were credited with a 9-0 forfeit. San Jacinto Sluggers, of the KIDS, ING. MOTOR SUPPLY AUTOMOTIVE EQUIPMENT a Tools Paints a Supplies. Complete Spring a i -irrvlrc.

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Margaret Wills Parrots at Margaret Wills. an Jacinto Swifts vs. Maverick Redbirds at San Jacinto. Pleasant Valley Owls vs. 3700 Taylor Eagles at Pleas- and Valley.

SOUTHERN MIDGET LEAGXTE North Side Ravens vs. Humphreys Highland Jays at Horace Mann. Mc- Klnley Larks vs. Margaret Wills Soar- rows at 16th Hillcrest. Bivins Magpies vs.

Forest Hil Crows at Forest Hill. Wolflln Pigeons vs. Sanbbrn Flamingos at Sanborn. PANHANDLE PEEWEB IjEAGUE McKinley Pirates vs. Glenwood Ruffians at McKinley.

Guadelupe Hornets vs. San Jacinto Antelopes at San Jacinto. Pleasant Valley Panthers vs. North Side Zebras at 10th N. Pierce.

Blvlns Hams vs. Pierce St. Razorbacks at 20th Pierce. TEXAS JTJNTOB LEAGUE Maverick Calves vs. Forest Hill Bulldogs at Forest Hilt.

North Side B-29's vs. 3700 Taylor Bruins at 7th N. Johnson. San Jacinto Bearcats vs. Amarillo College Coyotes at Amariilo Col.

Margaret Wills Tigers vs. McKinley Bobcats at McKinley. GIRLS' SENIOR LEAGUE North Side Prairie Chicks vs. Belles ot St. Mary's at St.

Mary's. McKinley Ramblers vs. Dwlght Morrow Troubadours at McKluley. Pleasant Valley Chaparrals vs. Forest Hill Holly's at Forest Hill.

Sanborn Wonder Girls vs. Polk St. Amaaons at High School. HIM Princess Wins Feature DEL BIO, May 10 Miss Princess, the King Ranch's Ilashy quarter-horse, took a $7,000 match race Sunday by beating Miss Banks in 22.1 at the closing of the spring quarter horse meet here. The race was judged at 350 and 440 yards.

Miss Princess was ahead at both marks. Miss Banks is owned by V. Land of El Paso. original A i a Intermediate League, also were scheduled to play at Boy's -Ranch, Sunday, against the Polecats. The Sluggers, however, were one of the teams added to the National Intermediate League, making the latter a i2-xeam league so all of them could play, and their schedule was changed.

No win, no loss, no forfeit in fact no game. In the one game actually played at the ranch on Sunday, Father Matthieson's Penguins, from St. Mary's walloped the Hawks, 53-14. The only home run hit was by an unidentified Hawk, who latched on to one of Carl Poirot's offer- Ings and tried to bury it on the Ranch's Boot Hill. He circled the bases while the Penguin outfielders were untangling themselves.

Tommy Jones got two homers for the, Penguins, and Jimmy Ncmechek. peppery little catcher, got one. Tommy, incidentally, was credited with seven hits out of eight official times at bat. Some time this week (no definite date can be set, yet, so don't starl pestering the league coordinator with phone calls) all coaches wlli receive mimeographed copies o) their complete schedules. A- copy of each league's schedule -will also be placed on the bulletin board just inside the Maverick Club door making it possible anc teams to plan campaigns without having to depend upon this paper for the daily schedules.

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