Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 9

i A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS 7 AfcHeae Texas Batarday ManMg Match 16 1607 i POKES COMMIT 8 ERRORS 7-7 Southwestern Stops EldOy Nips Hardin-Simmons 7-5 By LARRY DAUGITRET i Bill Voss brought Jones home boy Operating on nine hits eight With Groom on third and Voss oat Dunlap Jones Groom nnd Hill Cowboy erroro and dash of fint 11 A nin- lh Pirates nil collected two hits for tho I error uHi oi Pokel Dunlap's double and uck a smooth of My UAL ELLIOTT apart a Writer It took a brilliant relief Job by lefty George Nichols and aome clutch hitting by third baseman John Harrison first baseman Butch Adams and pinchhitter Jerry Dehlinger but the Abilene Eagles finally broke even with Fort Worth Paschal 7-7 in a hectic nine-inning affair here Friday afternoon In Blue Sox stadium It was the first of a three-game series for the two dubs who will pick up again at 1 pm Saturday in a doubleheader Righthander Kenny Schmidt will be on the mound tor Abilene in the first game facing the Panthers' act southpaw Bert Griffin The Eagles who trailed by as many as six runs in the fifth Inning Pridajr had continuously whittled away at the Paschal lead and were threatening to turn the tables when the game was called for darkness Righthander Roger Mac Evans had control troubles at the start and the Eagles didn't get their bats warmed up until the bottom of the fifth when they found themselves trailing 7-1 But Nichols relieved Evans with one out in the third and went the rest of the way giving up only the hat Lusk pitched all but the final twe outs for Southwestern giving up 12 hits and walking only one while striking out oix of tho Cow Piarca's triple were the only ooes for extra bases Probably starter for Coach John Steber'a Cowboys in the Saturday tilt will be Carlos Berry Hawks Meet Lakers Today In Playoff By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The St Louis Hawks and Minzo-apolis Lakers the surprise teams of the National Basketball Assn' meet in a one-game playoff for lint plan in the Western Division today The winner will draw a bye in the first round of the post-season playoffs while the losing team will ploy Fort Wayne in a beot-of-three series The Hawks runners-up most of th season climaxed their pursuit of Fort Wayne by beating the Pistons 115-103 Thursday to clinch second place The St Louis comeback wsi made without the ftdl services of Bob Pettit who played with his fractured left arm in a cast during the last three weeks of the campaign Minneapolis also came on strong the final month to deadlock Fort Wayne and St Louis for the lead at the end of the regular 72-game schedule Meanwhile playoffs In tho Eastern Division get underway at Philadelphia tonight with tho second-place Syracuse Nationals taking on the injury-hampered Warriors Tho Nats finished with a 7-5 regu Inr season edge over third-place Philadelphia which will take the court with both big guns Paul Arizin and Neil Johnston nobbled---- by pulled leg muscles This Is baseman dropped a pop-up best-of-three series I la the second pitcher Deal Lusk Whatever Arizin'a performance went to first through the courtesy crew Southwestern University Pirates seized a 7-6 victory from Hardin-Simmons Friday afternoon in Teen-Ago Park Coming Into tho bottom of the ninth trailing by a 7-2 score the Cowboys caught fire and blasted out five hits for three runs before a double play broke up the game The twe teams dash In their second game of the season Saturday afternoon at 2:30 in Teen-Age Park Southpaw Dub Pierce went all the way on the mound for din Simmons and allowed only three earned runs but couldn't' get enough support in the field Pierce also added a triple for the best Cowboy hit of the afternoon' The Piratei got on the boat early scoring lone runs in the first bur: innings then wrapping It up with a three-run spree In the seventh Left fielder Sammy Weavar' raced home with two oute in the first as the Hardin-Simmons first JERRY DEHLINGER i game-tying single THE ABILENE BARBER ASSOCIATION SOLICITS YOUR BUSINESS DAYS A WEEK The Day Week will neMo yew barker te effer a better service te yeu! ST PETERSBURG I Hir-j i Three-Under-Par a Puts Burke on Top two runs on four hits walking only two and whiffing seven WUh two away in the fifth Eagle leftfl elder Jimmy Carpenter plajp lag his first game of the season after tuning an ankle and Adams singled and came home on a booming double to left center field by Harrison Harrison scored on a shot to left field by shortstop Robert arothen and the Warbirds were back In the ball game There were still three runs to make up but Adams took care of Uiat in the next inning with a two-run double to right center Right fielder Charles Bradshaw had walked and pitcher Nichols had singled before Carpenter popped up to short Than with two away Adams belted one right center ani both base runners scored before he was tagged out trying to stretch it into a triple In the seventh Harrison got on by an error and went to second on a wild pitch Center fielder Glynn Gregory popped to third base and Carothers fanned when Eagle Coach' Blacky Blackburn sent in Dehlinger to pinchhit He banged a 1-2 delivery into shallow right field to knot the count at 7-7 It looked as if Abilene might sew it up right then Paschal hurler Gene Carter walked second baseman Harold (Hayseed) Stephens and Bradshaw took a full count before striking out Nichols who appeared to grow stronger as the game wen: set them down three is a row in the twe extra innings and Carter walked only one man while retiring six as neither team threatened to score until darkness came on The game was dotted with some spectacular fielding plas by Car-others and Paschal left fielder Tom Crowder but a soft infield caused several errors on both teams GtntRRl IRSURRRCE MBS DM OB S-7I1I ittM ST PETERSBURG Fla March 11 XL-Jackie Burke Jr a friendly little Texan fired a three-un-der-par 61 today and Jumped out front by one stroke at the midway mark of the fit Petersburg Open Golf Tournament -Just behind Burke who registers from Klamesha Lake were veterans Cary Middlecoff of Dallas and Pete Cooper of Lakeland Fla Burke who won the Masters and PGA titles last year had a 36-hole total of 13S He was in a three-way tie for third after the first round Middlecoff shot a brilliant 30 on the back nine for a 66 and 136 Cooper had a pair of 68s The first-round leaders Gene Littler of Singing Hills Calif and Bill Chsper Jr of Bonita Calif BUTCH ADAMS twe-m double MEET YOUR NEWSPAPERBOY! fell off their biasing first-round pace Littler took a par 71 and was in a five-way tie for fourth at 137 Casper shot a 73 and was knotted st 136 with three others Psr for the 6215-yard Pass-dens Club course is The bulky field was trimmed to the SO low pros plus ties and 11 amateurs for the final 36 holes The cutoff figure for the pros was 145 Hod with Littler at 137 were Pensacola Open champ Art Wall Jr of Pocono Manor Pa who had a 68 Doug FOrd of Mahopac 61 Fred Hawkina El Paso Tex 61 and Paul Harney of Bolton Mass 68 With Casper at 138 were AI Balding of Toronto Canada 66 Bill Tromblyo Dallas 68 and Arnold Palmer Latrohe Pa 66 Burke's best finish in five tournaments this winter was third place at Los Angeles He was in the money in all of them until he hurt his hand at Houston when he banged club into a tree root Tlw iMdtrt: tefc-K? Sit! lUtolf i as iSwum' i Rieder Foley Win Slalom in the playoffs it cannot detract from his regular-season showing Final ilatistics released today revealed the former VUlanova star captured the circuit's individual coring championship for the second time Arizin wound up with 1517 points and a 256 points a game average He was followed by Pettit with 1755 points Dolph Schayes of Syracuse with 1517 Johnston with 1575 and George Yardley of Fort Wejne with 1547 This marks the sixth time in 11 yean a Philadelphia player has led the scorers Joe Fulks did It in 1647 Arizin in 1651 and Johnston in faarkal 71 SjA-V On lb rMUnoui a lrartar Total Mina (77 of the Cowboy third aacker traveled to second on a wild pitch and came in on a single by Jimmy Armstrong and an error on the left fielder Shortstop Charlie Chance drove high liner into deep left field for a triple in the third and raced home as the left fielder momentarily hobbled the ball With two out in the fourth Weaver dinked a pop fly down the fint base line and stretched it Into a triple then scared on Chance's liner through stortsfop Shortstop John Jones end center fielder Robert Groom come through with solid singles after two men were out in the bottom of tho filth to drive in James'i Thormahlen and James Hill fori Hardin-Simmons A timely single by Bill Polk in the seventh put two more runs oo tho score board for Hie Pirates then Jimmy Holland stole home for a third Joa Sharp opened the door te the H-SU rally in the ninth is1 he lofted a aiogle ever second base When Hill struck out Dunlap poked a double down the third base linS A single by Jones brought both runners in then another tingle by third basemaa STOWE Vt March IS (R-Jod ro Rieder 135-pound Austrian daredevil and Nonio Foley petite Sun Valley schoolgirl won slalom honors today in Hie American international ski races on slushy Mount Mansfield Rieder a Lermoosa hotalman Who has been skiing in the shadow of tho great Tony Sailor made two dazzling spins through the 1 66-gate course to boat a field of the greatest skierl was timed in 1 minute 63 seconds for the first run and 1:046 for the- second and a combined winning total of 3:111 Mias Foley who finished second to Sally Deaver of Stowe Vt in th6 recent national championships at Aspen Colo was clocked in 463 seconds on her first run and -11! (I 'adult an rf MuitS far taiua T7ti MLlwh'w Injured Skier Is Top Athlete MONTREAL March UR-Peter Reid fourth year com merce student who broke his back last month skiing for McGill University was awarded the Stuart Forbes Trophy as tho university's outstanding alhieto of the year today Reid il still in a neck-to-waist cast since he took a spin at the 486 on her second for a winning I Middlebury College Vt winter time of 1:348 (carnival lfl Qraaa Suiter i JERRY BOB ABBOTT THE BOX Mlkwartan Aimatnina Ik CkurtfelH a UkRtar luarr Jb aa eo a i 1 5 1 1 i Cardinals Trip Yanks 7-4 Mantle Blasts Long Homer Abbott Leads Gulf Coast Golf Tourney GULFPORT Miss March IS (XI Pat Abbott of Memphis Tenn pushed a 60-foot wedge shot for an eagle three today to take the second round lead in the U000 Gulf Coast Invitational golf tournament The graying Abbott host professional at the Memphis Country Club added a four-under-par S7 today to bis first round 06 and moved ono stroke in front of professionals Dick Metx of Pike Road Ala and former Western Open champion Johnny Revolts of nearby Gulf Hills Mias Abbott posted his eagle on 'the 470-yard dogleg 12th hole He set bio tec shot down the middle and his approach left him 60 feet off the green His wedge shot took ono bounce and dropped into the cup Metx who act a record for the Great Southern Country 8001-yard course with a 7161 in Thunder's first round trailed off to par 71 today Revolts tied Abbott for the day'i low round carding a 67 to tie Meta for the runner-up spot at 133 77A' ewr-ia SM itSM" I a-Joha Batin t-Rrour fraar mj i rvlUe White ljf u4 (Mill Sf-gHg Imiar Jeiioi (44 ya SicS 7MS-14 jggS I-DMIIM a arUMUaaaaa laa ST PETERSBURG Fla Marchlance In a game this spring whan ill 1 llinlroif UmiIIa si I Lll 1 sL alulL (XMickey Mantle unloaded SB a PO A 114 1 1141' Mill i i i i (i I 1 ut 14 1 1 I A of i '4 4 9 0 1 i 1 -1 A rS -i! vu' 'fil a 7ii nT SD 'PJ 7 V-J 0 1 4 vn i rs9 )T Jerry Bob Abbott 14 year old son of Mr' and Mrs Abbott of 3065 North 16th St has been a carrier for tho Abilene Reporter-News for tho past I years Ida route is Shelton WrstmoreUnd and Park Ave between North 13th and North 18th Streets -i Jerry ia an student in the 6th grade of North Jr High and attends the South Side Baptist Church He is a member of the National Honor Society President of the 6th grade at North Jr High President of hie Home Room and President of his school choir hobby is motorcycles When asked why he liked being Reporter-News Carrier Jerry replied "It gives mo something te do and keeps me busy It allows mo to have 8 good savings plan buy clothes and the things I want with my earnings" 8 i Vs The Abilene Reporter-News ion and Lou fleeter of Hie Brave pitched in midseason form to boh the Phils to five hits iiMMaftit mialtMla Chisox 17 Tigers 12 Wright Leads Ladies Golf AUGUSTA Ga March IS Xt-Lanky Mickey Wright a long-driving professional from San Diego Calif shot a steady 75 today to take a one-stroke lead over record field at tho halfway mark of the 72-hole Women's TUleholderi golf championship The 22-year-old West Coast star was in second place with a 73 at the start of the second round Her 36-hole total of 14S put the 5-foot-l blonde one stroke ahead of Wiffi Smith St Clair Mich freshman pro and veteran Patty Berg of St Andrews 111 Miss Berg six times winner of this tournament covered the sun-soaked Augusta Country Club course in 71 strokes one under men's per She had a first-round 71 Miss Smith came in with a women's par 75 to go with a 74 of yesterday The first-round leader 16-year-old Anne Quest of Seattle Wash oared to 76 and was tied with three others for fourth place at 150 The pert amateur a University of Washington student fired an unexpected 72 on tho 1260-yard layout yesterday Othera in the 46-player field with 150s were professionals Betty Jameson of San Antonio Tex Ruth Jeaaen of Seattle and Marlene Bauer Hagge of Delray Beach Fla Miss Jexsen had second-round 71 and the others 76s SIT-Oiaart JmmI Uraan Pa Ik Vaa mil WaavarS! he hit pinch single in th sixth inning today Cincinnati defeated Kansas City of the American League 4-1 The big slugger who has been bothered with a hip injury for a year was replaced immediately by a pinch runner BroOks Lawrence who won if games last season gave up only two hits to Kansas City in five Innings Charley Rabe and Raoul Sanchez finished for Cincinnati Slugging Gut Zernial provided the power for Kansas City His doubt in the sixth drove in a run and his triple in Hie eighth brought in another one Jiaaaa cur Ml Ml 7 aclaaan OM I MclRrmall krtt itRi uwragt Sljjclaaatl fanJt (It ani ackM (ll 15 a 433-foot homer la a losing cause today as the New York Yankees lost to tho St Louis Cardinals 7-4 blast soared over the scoreboard in left center He was batting left-handed against rookie righthander Tom Cheney The triple crown winner's first spring horns run came with a runner aboard and put the Bombers ahead 4-1 in the fifth Inning But Tom Byrne veteran southpaw was hammered for five runs as 10 Cards went to bat In the sixth Toothpick Sam Jones started for St Louis He gave up five hits in tho first two innings tho Yankees scoring twice in the second frame Johnny Kucks pitched the first five innings for the Yankees snd was touched for eight hits three at them by rookie shortstop Eddie Kaskp Cardinals' exhibition record Is 43 Hie champions hove throe victories against four losses aasa jj Barn LAKELAND Fla March II UK Chicago White Sox unleashed a 11-hit attack on four Detroit pitchers today including a pair of home runs by Minnie Minoso and scrambled to a 17-12 xhibitiofl baseball victory homers produced four Chicago runs and big Walt Dropoj who homered with tiro aboard ini the ninth accounted for five in! the riugfest Chicago scored eight times in the fourth against Paul Feytaek one of Detroit's regular starters after aa error by Reno Bertoia at third opened the flood gates Minoso slammed a three-run bloat over the center-field fence during the uprising For the Tigers the only bright pot was young Jim Small the' bonus outfielder who drov is six runs with a homer and a bases-oaded triple 000 'THERE IS NO BARGAIN IN EYE CARE" Ten Teams Enter junior High Meet iiKaInT IS)'' -Bynii Han raaa Kao Vark (A) Ifaatlfc Pirates 5 Nats 1 gyMESi! Bravts 2 Phils 1 BRADENTON Fla March 15 Tb Milwaukee Braves scored run off Robin Roberts in the ninth to brook a tie and beat the Philadelphia Phifiiea 3-1 in a spring training game today Held scoreless by Curt Simmons for five innings the Bravts took the fond at jthe expense of Roberts with an uneamod run in the sixth Catcher Stan Lopala tied It up with a seventti-inqing homer off Lou Slcater la the last of the ninth Chuck Tanner walked but was forced by Jim Pendleton Frank Torre drilled a single to right and Billy Bruton was walked Intentionally filling the bases Pendleton slid home with the winning run on Felix slow grounder te short Chet Nichols Humberto Rubin STAMFORD March 18 Ten towns wiU be represented in the two-division eighth and ninth gradn Junior high school trade and field championship Saturday Preliminary events begin nt and finds at 2 pm under direction of Stamford Coach Bil! Anderson TOams scheduled to compete are South Junior of Abilene Ballinger Coleman Cisco Sweetwater Snyder Haskell Vernon Stamford and Graham Backfield Coach Hired by Furman GREENVILLE March 15 (XI Bill Crutchfield for the past three years head football coach at Presbyterian College at Clinton has been named backfield coach at Furman University here Lyles Alley Furman athletic director announced the appoint ment today and aaid it would be effective July 1 WHEN YOUR PRICELESS EYESIGHT IS IN THE BALANCE! UtahMemphis State Fives Open Action in NITToday ORLANDO Fla Mareh 15 UA-Pittsburgh won its sixth decision In seven exhibitions today defeating Washington 5-1 as Ron Kline Bennie Daniels and Luis Aitoyo limited tbs Senators to three hits before 1041 fans Kline and Daniels teamed to hold Washington hitle for five innings Meanwhile Camilo Pas-cual blanked the Pirates for six innings on Area hits Psscual weaksned with two out in the seventh and the Piratei got to him for four runs Walks te Dick Cole and Spook Jacobs Lee pinch single Buddy Pritchard's double nnd Bob single inflicted the damage The Senators scored off Arroyo id the month inning when Pete Runnrij and Roy Salvors walked and Carlos Paula supplied a pinch single The Pirates added a run off Bob Chakales in the eighth when Danny Kravits singled Frank Tbomaa walked Howard Goss sacrificed and Johnny O'Brien hit a sacrifice fly IT TAKES PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE to aeenrately prescribe visual eare or lenses er a eembinatioa IT TAKES TIME From one hour to one heur and a half and in many eases ever 41 tests to aeenrately diagnose your vision i Draaa baLrdU Laa SauU Giants 12 Tribt 7 PHOENIX Ariz March II fv-A pair of three-run homers by veteran Hank Sauer paced the New York Giants to a 13-7 victory over the Cleveland Indiana in warm sunny weather today Sauer's first drive came In the fourth inning off righthander Cal McLish while the next one was delivered off rookie righthander Pete Mesa in the sixth inning: Willie Mays also connected for the Giants coming through with one on in the third inning off Horb Score the Tribe's ace southpaw Score pitching the fint three la nings was tapped for four runs and was tho loser Al Worthington starting lor (he Giants went four Innings gavo up two runs and was the winner One of the Cleveland runs off Worthington was a solo homer by outfielder Dave Pope In Hie fourth inning riafcnlorw CONSULTA MEMBER OF tQJL FORACL YOUR VISUAL NEEDC They start a four-gime first-round program that includes Seton Hall vs Xavier (Ohio) later in the afternoon and in a double-header starting at 7:36 (EST) Dayton vi St Peter's (Jersey City) and Cincinnati vs St Bonaventure The twe seeded teams In the field of 13 go into action Monday and Tuesday Seattle (No 1) pits NEW YORK Mareh 15 (XTwo basketball teams that rely on dazzling speed to offset their lack of height Utah and Memphis State open the 30th National In-vltaHoo Tournament tomorrow aftarnood and may present the Uvslieft fame of the dozen Hint win bo played before tho affair ends a week later -Utah'i talleet combination of regulars averages a little over 6 DUL JOHN 4 ID DtlSSIN DK WADY JOLLY rasA jrtaptTS AiuelatM Fmi DR ID WIN HINNINft JX rava Ikratcs I DL HAMIIICK AhMeae DO 0 STANIIY AMene DO CHARLIS CSOMWILL OMitiiri srtVtts 1 foot la height and Memphis State its 22-2 record and its heralded 6-3 but they're both willing and star Elgin Baylor against the On DR MARSHALL JOLLY lUater DX MIBLI CLLIS Gnats IS IUiub 7 BCHKDCLK -IjtmJ Rlftta ttm cinnnti-St Bonaventure winner and Bradley (No 2) plays the Seton Hall-Xivier winner Manhattan plays Utah or Memphis Monday uid Tample faces Dayton ot SL Peters Tuesday able to run all day In fact when Coach Bob Van Atta formerly of West Point and Bradley took over at Memphis State last fall he waned: "The minute you hoys top nnsbc you're licked" DR T8D MINCIB DL JOSIXH PROVINZA feohowidM Redlegs 4 A's 3 TAMPA Fla Mareh IS iXV-Ttd BuawwiU made Ms first appoar-.