The Lawton Constitution from Lawton, Oklahoma • 12

Bragan's Bounding Bucs Crash irst Division I xU R1 but hr turned IT Shawnee Here Ooty A Again Tonight ric hi'lka "Od Eau Claire Harvey Is Strict Trainer Ito iwx them well and you kit leader by only three irw larnt pwtrto Top THS Athh tc Haney Coombs as Cage Star Honor Graduate and ItaM'ball Mainstav Coombs Named Top Athletefa Read At LHS He's Team Player! A Backward Look liaseball Always Ills irl Love ft w1 a Our Store df Tony By Passed College ootball Pui OUT The Box Score ft 6 a JUiH ttrilUUH ft also will be sidelined lor several days with a smashed big toe 'j an 3 PARTS OR MACHINE 0 $am 3 WORK! 33 3 jl ROUTH ENGINEERING Baseball Time ffiALPINi'L OR YOUR I PITTSBURGH PAINTS IT hen his saddle taken to Cooper 3 1 3 0 0 6 lb t1 0 3 0 2 AM nothing like better than to continue down memory lane with a few paragraphs on the other Llfo staluarts But the awful truth is that time has a had habit of moving right along 3 0 9 3 3 6 fl 1 0 ft 3 2 The award was front and this this wtn Your Name and ame or Your irm's Noma Uw Down Payment Convenient Tenn 1 itfwf IH9 Wi ht I 3 wne xh 2 0 3 tiling rtt Jiri AM 0 2 1 1 0 Crankshaft Grinding Cylinder Boring Head Surfacing Motor Rebuilding 3 39 ab 9 Ctr tvr 1 YOUR SATISACTION IS GUARANTEED! arlt4 Bill Rxhfrd allowed an earned year Bulmer's Auto Ports 17 Phone 41546 GRANT PISTON RINGS Mb" 91 Coombs Is irst Son ootballer To Cain IJIS Top Jtldctic Honor 0 0 rirte l(Wn Rt We can only say that Lawton high's athletic future will be bright Indeed if the Vance Lenzs Roy Kennedy's Earl Jones Wendell Sul livans Tony Sumpters Jack Jones ranklin Spruiells Leroy Mont gomery Lenzs Jakie Hesters Smokey Torberts Delpheus Win kelmans Derail Hankins Jackie Dees Ray Hobbs Don Wheattoys Dorwm Porters Ronnie Jones and Haney Coombs keep coming along nr 1SEE ARMERS LUMBER COMPANY 206 Avenue Phone 3294 MR MECHANIC: CALL BURCH OR AUTO ttreww ENJOY COOL COMORT AT LOW COST! WITH AN As a member of this he joins group of stellar dia mond men viral of whom have fashioned starts on impreawve college or pro careers As a basketballer Coomb was a team man and court general He had a deadly left long range jump shot ieh was very effective in Law ton's list ol victories In basketball this year as Coombs went so went the Wol verines 1 ate in the season he strained some side and stomach type kid you hope your Modest Humble A strict tra and a Vance Iuoi i Roy cmxtl Pari Jon's tftlt cnUril Sullivan 1313 luuy Sumpter Jack lone 1 ranklin Spruiell Ix roy Montgomery Al Ix sir Jakie Heat 191K Smokey Tortwrt lifpheo Winkelman Dentil Hankina last Jackie Dee Kay Hobto 1953 ln Wheatley Duruin Porter Ronnie Jones a fine fixvtball plaver riunn? junior high an mjurv wmeh might for Jc per man day woven on your men's uniforms Nat Adv brands ree per fect fitting a'let deliv ery Best work or pay" Just call and we'll be there i fl Professional South Block South Hankins Drive In oy Rravis fr between 15 and 20 t' mes thu scantin 1 late in spring dr Jis by the ret c( a shoulder injury that put I out of seisin tn August Of 195 The injury was ltpvwd inflamed leodon in the 2ear urler rignf shoutder miunr in lorida for trcatmei by a specialist and only yest dav returned to Milwaukie management told to stav only long enough to his family settled eture head East inaugurated tn 1939 and it wasn until Harvey center during an assembly program this morning One game doesn't make a sca son but Stocky outiieidcr Chuck Holtsee is off io a flying start in his second season with the Lawton Braves Hoiisi's bancod out a pair of singles and started a double play I after puihng in a line drive as Manager Travis Jackson's Braves knocked Shawnee out ol the Soon er Mato league lead here last night with a sharp 3 1 decision It was HoHsejr" first game with the Braves He was optioned here bv Class earlier in the week after riding the bench most of the spring is and poled 13 homers on pennant winning power last year Braves vaulted from siMh Io a tie for fourth tn the Sooner State race bv virtue victory The loss BURCH MACHINE AND AUTO PARTS 0 Avw Phone 1921 bxiuqur'K hern fortunate but Urn too youns frllciw a you don't Lav? to prod tnvrh TT the aH round vhlcte at cut of lx LMruthvr To Go Again MTLWAVKTE Crtb the tovrt trg are righthander the Mtlwnukce Brave adt uted to join the team New Ya aw today after declarvng I pose completely recovered le the tendon "1 dm want to Msi xf too hr Mini I hows brltrvr I'm all wt to go again Conley counted on trav(s ir ta'tween muscle losing some of Im rf And so dal the Uol veruxa Coombs wi named ihls year In tlw Brsinirr ConbTener sjorts wilet foe man allks cage team along "Uh th standouts at Nut man's Dennis Pre El Waiter and Ch ckasha Garye lai evi ls and Duncan Phil Leonard I Harvey cnrtrtbuted a 2 2 itch ing performance to I aw ton's out standing lecoed of 16 wins and st3 los'cs In oawhatl this year and led in tultmg th a average He lunged th lll at a wat 12 cnnsAtenev in Anurican le gion tall last year to become the third ranking hitter on tin' All Star 1i am Being named Lawton's Best A1 Around athlete places Comnlxs in anntner select givup Of the LHS gm's who have iweem live award since it was instigated in 1939 all but a handful Mve born named to flat All State teams Scott Brown All State guard in lootball was close be hind Coombs Brown was also a mainstay on the com ferrnee ronner up in baseball as a catcher lack Peece trackster and hon or studi'tit rt'ceived the athletic scholarship award Coombs is also an honor student it is a btiirg af fhe er tlrp Coombs was for the coveted award made anmtally by dun Ijiwton high le'tennan's organization for he has done the proud during the during an assembly that a non gridder won me honor Actuallv voting Coombs could have been but he ueeided that baseball was his game davs and football for far of suMaming Cepnve him of a shot fn professional baseball Harve quarterbacke I an unbeaten junio' i i on high tt ye high grid squad here and it might be hard for snnc o' the gtdron enthusiasts to until stand how a boy count forget footnall to concentrate on bascbML Jtj MU EIJKH (stall SMrii Wiinr) 'T I'D the word' Io express what I tnmk of him he one of the imest moiv iduals I've ever had the pinik fic of coaching Bob Ilhams Lawton high sehoo taski'llial! coach was speaking of Harviy Coombs who was named LHS Best All Around Athle te this morning on the sen ior awards assembly Coombs a thr yi ar let'crman In basetiall and basketball was captain of burn learns Dus year and is of LH' bngntcsi an didates for All State in the dia mond sport Baseball Poach Orville Bow man said "He's a fine boy to coach He has worlds of ability You couldn find a belter boy to take instructions and put out He givis you tus b't ili'rt xth in practice and on Hie field He's a fine Ihis year Coombs showed scouts he had Die spied the arm and the hitting to become a pro fessional! liasi bailer Hi is ing considered now fin a procon nationally televised battle tomor row night at ttriglev ield set to go at 7 pm NBC will do the television and radio "The next lime we fight fur the International Boxing Club ex claimed Robinson's co manager Ernie Braca will have wnl kn into the contract how many tickets we will get We certainly don like this treatment Robin son is the Otherwise all was fairiv calm on the eve of tins fourth fight between tie now 25 ycar old Sugar Ray from New YorK and tlie soon to bc 28 Olson of San rancisco Officials of the Hollywood Amer ican legion Stadium which is pro moting the show conjunction with the IBC said the match will Igo on rain or shine While no rain is forecast a canvas canopy will be stretched over the Just in case There was some concern See SUGAR Page 13 past tmw years It is also Interesting to mite that Harvey lhe first lad Io leap t'n histiest Hs athletic honor who did nol play loolliall fur the sinn si ii Dunn sr Mute 30 Arehaner Zb s'eiwr Lembo McGee Arnold Sts nek Tolat IAHT0X 31 Anderson ss Ganue Sb Cole cl Smith lb Avwk rt S'aniec 9b IHS K1 i Becknwn ovki ndBlt roc Only last week Die southpaw pitcher outfielder was nanu to 15 man all time All Star American lu'gion baseball team 415 bo 4th Phone 2181 'Sugar' rets 1 itirocwr cv er twi issue wlh Haixey right to the uf the plain silken guv tnat utton those famous Pi BURt ill refahtnan Manager Bobby Bragan of the Pwirth Pitsburgh says no limit tn where we Bragan was enthusiasm itwlf as the pirates clubbed Cincinnati grt vcsti'rdav to move past the Reds into the first a some what rariheri aimofanherr lor a club which seemed to have found a home National Leag dial To the amazement of most tans the Pi it used nni iren the lust fiw they've gotten away wiin that an season But Hragan wasn't around for the entire game He was thumbed roe tine Iius dson tor arguing with the umpires Uioh Dan iy Murtaugh iwndh the team the final seven innings a niidi m'istf a ihange in the rn up an 4 1H Jtjc 1g hs plovers and getting pot i'v H'S pinch hrt its have ha and ms pm ng changes have rtfCKen! i in jvro smut imw st as Murtaugh vpMrrday adding nn th mound at lb start i gi wrong in hrvun tru nt Tu burrvw an aeries cirw b''15 ib ill mto An hunur adcl A Incor rntt not a poor loser SOLD OUT IN 21 HO! RS WASHINGTON This year's major league All Star game I is all sold out and what's mote I it took only 21 hours to aefiom sx' lie er rei rtJv bv tcir the WoNerine sw bill team mbittmg a ni dorrime rmservers mcluouig a 14 of maM league scouts with clutch pitching as he left nine i liravcs stranded Lawton committ ed only one error the miscue com i mg in the seventh inning when i catcher Ron Eason was charged wth interference to force across the Hawks' only inn i Lawion was nursing a 10 lead at that time after breaking the scor ing ice in the fourth uming Bini CJe playing Centerfield the new outfield op med with a single and moved on to second when rightfieldcr Jim McGee mis played the ball Cole spooled on third as rightfieldcr hen Aycock oubegged a bunt for a base hit and counted on Dan Stamcc acr ficc fly to deep center Beckman who had fired one hit bail through the first six innings suddenly lost his "stuff the sev enth Willia Arellanes apened the seventh with a single to left for the Hawks and leftfielder Tom Sleeper followed with a single through the middle Beckman got himself deep er in the hole by walking first base man Twv Lemho to load the bases See BRAVES Page 13 POWER HIT TWO WEIKS KAV AS QTY Kansas Citv fust baseman Vic Power who injured an ankle against the Ntw York Yankos on May 5 will be out of th lineup for two or three wieks Dr John Dillings I A's physician said Power lias a nulled tendon B'g Gus Zeralal ALTHOUGH he never played a day of college football Tony played alongside All Americans and captained the El Toro Marines during World War II and later played pro football with the now de funct Chicago Rockets Jack Jones Denzil Hankins (19501 and Dorwin Porter 0954 1 rank high among the most versa' Je "modern athletes to play at Law ton high and we doubt if any LHS line buster ever commanded more respect from opposing linemen than Wendell Sullivan fullback on lhe great Wolverine team of and a graduate in the class of '42 BOSTON Rlair lxwtwr lb tf e4 the wrtd fr hammer Jhhiw wnh 211 jnrhe tori vvef Uw ld mark TAPTtL Gimaur rance 1 01 round maeh the Pih 3 Tournament CAMDEN NJ Summer vvn ie 2Yv0 SU Deni 4X' iamOthlL RALTIMOHE Md Sxl'er Rab n0 W' drove on rite outside to capture Ute feature at PimUeO fEW Goulash $60 Md on i gameiv in funouA slreUth 4m the UempMead runs at Brimwr Pane IjOVHVIL LE Ey Sweet Jww puUed out erf a ahWh duet with Mary tn row by a length in iht Cold at ream Purse at ChurchiU INGLEWgOD Tr Itn khuok off the hart drtvinf Coun I Club to take the leature at jiutbwuud PHnJTOS jnijon BareU $4 i covered tlie 6 in to top th Cowmal PuTKe at SuttvJit Downs i CHK At lJouoiedop dare B4w Pd a ion Park AIR CONDITIONING SALES INSTALLATIONS RERIGERATION SERVICE Phone 497 121': Ave Lawton As Lawton best all around athlete ot 1956 I oomhs joins an elite circle ot athletic flesh It gives us a warm glow to glance down the list of past LHS greats Vance Lenz was the first receiptient of this award in 1939 Vance finished high school a year before we took up residence in Lawton but we've heard of his outstanding feats with a football many times He was a triple threater on the gridiron and also picked up letters in baseball and track Two sets rd brotners have carted off the award Vance brother Al shared the honor with fiery little Jakie Hester in 1917 The Jones bovs Earl and Jack also kept the award in the family two years The durable Earl an All State halfback was selected the outstand ing athlete in the class of and Jack headed the athletic parade in 1944 A third Jones boy Ronnie was selected for the bronze plaque in 1955 but is not related to Jack and Earl No column on outstanding LHS athletes would be complete wirn out a word or two about sturdy Tony Sumpter who won the award by a mile in 1943 Without a doubt Sumpter is the finest high school lineman we've ever seen and a few thosuand other people in this aera share those sentiments Broolts sfflfrd five unearned marker in the fourth to win 5 3 That snarled the flag chase Milwaukee beaten 2 1 at Philadelphia is only 22 percentage points ahead of secmid plaee St Louis and the Cards are just 16 points north of the I lodgers The k'fents left Mitnsolrw with a 54 road rrranl and Nt Units with a 4 i mark tour Brooklyn 6 fs the nnh other clnh a gd Aug Itftni HlUburCh belting Cincinnati 92 to rejdace the Rwjrgs In fourth nlarstfs 7M awiav ferwra CifWV iS 5 TtW York Giants who whackM Chicago 9 3 are away from tlie Ik Amrvririan I Vcwlr Yitnk Hrxt place from Ccveland by beating the Tribe 4 1 behind Tom Moreans 5 2 3 innings of no 111 relief pitching The Chicago White madr it six in a row by heating Washington 4 1 Ne York opened a three game rot at Chicago todav fawton drfi atod DriioMl 4 2 Baltimore outlasted Kansas City I 6 Collegian Betters Hammer Record BOSTON IB Cliff Blair Boston i P'h The ashington Senators Univ ersity senior has become a i host the game this year re man of Olympic proportions toJ 1 Pon about 25000 applications on lowing his 211 foot 3 inch hammer hand Griffith Stadium seats throw which bettered the accepted around 28000 world recora i In tlie short space of a week a this 225 pound 6 3 Hmgham I Mass youth has pushed his effort from a workman like 193 I feet to the 241 3 mark The recognized wwld mark is 211 feet l2 inch set by Russia's 1 1 Mikhail Krivonosov Aug 4 19551 in Warsaw However Krivonosov I has a heave ot 216 feet inch 1 1 jaxo me can for ard nao 111 2 lenslii victory 1 net SimX i WawhUr' Bragan was grinning from ear to ear as he learned the Philadel phia Phillic had beaten Milwaukee 2 1 last night to leave the Pirates only two games out of first place '1 Mid before the season opened we had a chance to finish ahead of Chicago New York and Hragan declared still have that chance played ewiyone now and they know in the league 4 some pennant race In the National Ij Sgve Nobody can win iri the road and the latest sustained drive by a contender has been kept alive by nine unearned runs in two games against another flag SMrwsfatl BrtxMvn hint mg it finally may have started a move for a repeat Giants whaekM Chicago 9 3 cHtramr wlnninc streak on the fire No club in Ground The Cubs aie Mun the road mrtittnit i lawn ar so the NL ha won more in a by rights (he DoGgcrs shoyian I ha vp on that many Thn St Unite Cardinals uho Srt? thrtnhrs a a flag ihrrat ln gut thr job don' for the Brooks in air ol frantic fourth innings Tuisdm night donate fur nir in the fourth and Brooklyn won 7 5 at night the Cards upped She ante and the kc cnargc iV Law ton tnsKenait team wl ich ma a rtre showing in toe tougu Ixsimcr cvmetvncc aiu beitl several of the state better clubs Over Ducats LOS ANGELES It was THE answer to that one is easy Harvey feels as strongly about baseball as the football clan feels about football "I guess baseball has always been my first love When Mr Dees and Mr Wilson (Gene Dees and Paul Wilson' told me i might have a gxi future in baseball I decided to forget football and concentrate on Coombs said softly Apparently his efforts won't go unrewarded No less than a haf dozen big league scouts have approached the boy recently and he's been offered as much as $4000 to affix his signature on a baseball contract when he receives his diploma next week WYRCKIt ROY INJURED CAMDEN Theo 'I dore Hart an exercise boy who I is employed by Garden State track owner Gene Mori was! thrown from a horse and tramp fl fl 1 4 1 I A tea weanesaay worn ms sauuiv sli titled hart was 1 Hospital and is suffering from broken ribs and a puncture wound of the left lung 12 THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION Thurday Moy 17 1956 A New Twist: Pirates Out Of Cellar 3 UntuH tMtfl itoh REI SUmfee ArmM Eason bae HJanus DP Hoffues to Let Shawnee 7 Lawton 8 Sian Betfctnan Kuykendall 1 Sunek 4 Be' 3 Kuyaendall 4 RAH Oif Heckman 1 3 7 WP Sianek Wmnpi Kuykf ntUd 11 1 Shell 4k Wilhvns OG A 470 juur pbunef tX709 Avenue Ptwne 207 Complete Une of Auto Prf Hastings Ring! 1 eders! Mogul Bearing! 0 fiuijiren rrouuvis Victor Gaskets 9 Raybest Uninpt Lockheed Brake Parts Air Conditioner its Regular or Casement Type Windows Controlled ooling All Welded Cabinet Variable Speed Motor MQ QC avT mm 111 "wwBWWre DOWNTOWN APPLIANCE CO 428 Avenue Phon 498S Both ighters Are Confident LOS ANGELES Here are the I before the battle statements Irom tlie principals of the Ray Robin son Carl Olson middleweight title fight: Robinson: have never been in lx tier i condition for a fight in my life 1 I have trained to go 15 rounds if I Ihave to but 1 will try to trick Olson into an opening so I i score an early knockout" Olson: I "'I am confident I will win fight I've trained harder for i one than tor any other sinn ning the title from Randy Turpin I realize Jiobmson has beaten three times but I am sure I win this one I want to win my manager Sid laherty the friends who have always faith in me" fik Open 10 am 10 pm LAWTON GOL PRACTICE RANGE GrasiTee Target Green Miniature Golf I always I DU HARDWARE CO Corner 3rd and Avenue I or Plumbing Pipe Hardware Tools Paint Housewares ine China inest Self Service i Hardware Store The victory was the fifth for riend against two losses He and Ronpic Kline hav been the only pitchers to go (he toll nine innings suwe May 6 a somewhat disturbing thing tor Bragan had ntr club around our he deriarisd lt hs Whai I thought it vrtiid btd 1 Atn sure it te EW to get belter Xuw as for uur hilling it has been better than 1 ex lisle Ijtwur hn ky fust ha mitn I baiHnc thr club trifh a re MiHrwihig JO skcrficr He riw hitlrs in only Ihrcf tarne mra! iww h5 hit wridj in mm twccuihr OutMdor Lee Walls is hitting a lusty X2 and has come up with dutch wfehes have meant the difference in several games Long has driven 16 nn the same number as ouUieidrr rank Thomas who has belted 8 nomers to sx for Jjong Despite many lineup cnnuvs Bra ran sajs not taking any bxiucur'K fortunate but tnen too he got a bunch 4 hit Lauion house The place torrid of test spilled Shawnee from the lead a half game behind Pans 'which chibbod McAlester Lawion and Ardmore are nod for fourth place with identical 11 12 records and trail th games urvebjdl Mho hasn't run in 2X23 imiinc thi uhile forrtnx a 3 0 mord will fare hr innight law ton out a four fxnie home 'land Game time pm at park 17th and Righthander Steve Beckman andeftypim Kuykendall teamed up for a neat three hitler as the Reavrc wnn nirttf tichlK waged encounter with two runs ml highly imtatod Sugar Ray Robin the bottom of the eighth innmg Iron who settled oown hen today Kuykendall got the win with two i to await tlx gong fo tlie 15 round hitless innings of relief pitching defense of his wot Id mnidlew eight hi' third victory against a smgle I championship against the man he defeat I dethroned Carl (Boboi Olson The Braves poked out 11 hits but Robinson was provoked ciuse lefty ritz Stanek stayed in con he was unable to buy additional tention al! the way with some neai choice seats at ringside for the All types of Baseball and Softball Team Equipment Caps 98c Gloves $325 up Official Baseballs 98c Little League Baseball Shoes $450 Little League Headquarters Sporting Goods 415 "Everything for the Sportsman" Phone 1107 Sports In Brief AKMtf inlrt THACH AMI riMIt BOSTON Cliff Rlair of IK NMXitll It) I tor) 1 Alihee G4hn Mrs iance fcfl AtoM eri Mwd A WH rrhsn fa 1 Hmm I 1 "I1 i 5 'i vj 5 i 1 I i I I I 5k mi fa a 1 Drdves Ddllic wkHh Bl 1 pMCr 5 MB ffl fnigii 1 1 ii Wrl I.