The Waco News-Tribune from Waco, Texas • Page 10

9hr ion Wednesday, July 21, 1954 ON SECOND THOUGHT By DATE CAMPBELL Editor SPORT NOTES: The next five promise to be hard ones for the Big State League. Tyler, which has had a contender all season, is the latest club to encounter difficulties, with owner J. C. Stroud now threatening to take the team elsewhere to finish the season. A pathetic turnout of 154 paid admissions to a game last week was the final in case Several of the leading dubs in the league now want to end regular season plav in mid-August and begin day night, the plavotfs.

Waco officials are distinctly cool to the idea, and since such a maneuver requires mous approval, its chances of Pirates Smash Clippers, 10-5 Mejias Runs Streak To 44 Straight CORPUS CHRISTI, potent the Pirates a 10-to-5 victory over Jack Falls, Roberto and Bill Phillips all homered for Waco, and Pirate rightfielder Ramon Me- adoption are remote Adding to town. It will be to run his consecutive hitting Fort Worth tal RiCkpy" 44 games. two oi tuu- Bob Suba. who was on hand one Pittsburgh chain to be on hand Waco hits were stogies. nijjht and among the missing the observe his Pirates in action HofXman 1 1 1 nod an and give his impressions to the fitter next fans Fred who four defeats.

the way in Big State League at-! ager last week, has taken over tendance, with 2,595 turning out third basing duties for Galveston, for the Monday night doublehead- Best race left in the Big State, er. It will be interesting to see if, incidentally, involves the Galves- Waco can match that figure Fri -1 ton-Austin fight for a berth in the day night when the Clippers come playoff Size Up Oklahoma Sooners in Hurry the Clippers a good one by hitting four for five. ist. Bigham was sold Tuesday to Atlanta of the Southern Association for $4,500. He will leave Wednes- day for Quebec, Canada where he Cleveland has been assigned on option.

Just as predicted long ago, Texas A. and M. has reinstated the footballers who earlier this year were suspended because of activity in a secret society. However, insiders doubt Paul Bryant will benefit much from the presence of Billy Huddleston unless that halfback has improved tremendously on defense Waco, Temple and Mexia now are being boomed as the strongest schoolboy elevens in their respective classes in this area With a flock of lettermen back, Port Neches appears the team to beat in Gass 3-A The University of Alabama again will be the guest team in the Southwest Conference basketball tournament at Houston this December won the consolation title last year The football fan will get to size up Bud 1954 Sooners in a hurry. The Oklahoma- Califcmia game of Sept.

18 will be the first nationally televised game for fans this fall be surprised if Baylor shifts Jim Taylor, last starting center, to tackle this fall bid for a major league franchise apparently has broken down into a Baltimore Philadelphia ah a 5 0 5 0 Hoffman was effective with men netroit on base, leaving 12 Clippers strand- wSiiiaton series of bitter statements from All the hits off him were sin- Eagle owner Dick Burnett and Sles except for a double and triple league president John Reeves by Bigham. More and more the impression The Pirate now move to Har- grows that St. Eddie Stanky for two games before re- is just another Leo Durocher but turning home night without talent A note from Corsicana Sun Sports Editor Boone a Paul Moore reminds fans that the Meuavrf famed of the be- Gmwaid.i tween Waco and Corsicana football teams is less than two months Babcock.2 away. The teams open their sea- jHoifmn sons at Municipal Stadium on the night of Sept. 10 35 9 27 10 Totals 38 11 27 4 Chico Salgado.

ex Pirate 011-10 moundsman, won his first two chiisu 111111111.. ooo 310 for Hutrhinson Don 2. Boone S. Kails 2. Phillips sians ior nuicmnson Babcock.

Wilkinson. Goldstein. Bigham Dahlke of Denver became the first 2, Bowen, Boone 2. wiikin- PirntP farmhand to Bowers. 3.

Falls 4. Me- riraie iarmnana IO nail 2 BiKham, Bowers. Jones 2. match Ramon Mejias hitting rec- sims 2 Mejias. Bigham nrrl this vpar when he connected Phillips.

Sanchez, ora mis Wien ne SH -Sanchez. Mejias safely in 22 straight games before DP-Boone. Babcock. Grunuald; Capps. stODDPd Don Dansleis Goldsteia 5.

Corpus Christi Demg sioppea uon BB Hoffman 5. Sims 3. Ramirez 3 LKAOl LTct.GB 616 41 51 48 .515 214 49 50 .495 58.414*24 66 .327 40 68.31341% Pci.GB 49.563 51 .532 52 .527 4 55 .509 6 57.486 52 55 486 ..47 61 .435 14 I.KACIE WL re 1.GB 61 30 .670 54 375937 4745.511 46 44.51114% 4343 .500 4346 .48317 35 52.402 24 29 61.322 I.KAGl'R Pot. GB 6128 .685 6 'J 29 .681 57 34 .626 5 39 49 .443 50 .425 23 36 50 .419 32 58 .356 3056.34929% Rivas Hurls Caps Past Tyler, 8-4 HARLINGEN, July Ralph Rivas scattered nine Tyler hits Tuesday night to give the Harlingen Capitols an 8 to 4 victory over the Tigers. TTie Capitols picked up one run in the second inning on a single by Bill Anderson and double by Bob Skelton.

In the fourth they added four runs on four hits. The Tigers scored their first tally in the fifth on a bases-empty home run by Jack Conine, and added two in the sixth when Bob Cullins poled out a two-run homer. Their final score came in the ninth as a result of two hits and an error. In the fourth Harlingen added two more runs on three hits, and in the sixth Rivas led off the inning with a four-bagger. ah a lipo 4 112 Senties.cf 3 12 2 Capps.3 5 2 2 0 Wilkinsn.s 6 2 10 Stafford.

If 3 1 10 1 Goldstn.l 5 0 4 0 BiKhm.rf 4 2 3 1 Bowers.c 3 0 4 2 Jones.2 3 0 0 2 Slms.p Ramirz.p a Lcknbh Price.p 3 1 I 1 2 1 0 6 0 2 0 6 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 recently won his tenth in a by shutting out Reading in POW 4. Sims 2. Ramirez 3. the Sima 5 in 4 1-3: Ramirez 2 in 3 2-3. i Eastem League, 9-0.

Dangleis was 8) Lee. DeLeonardis. t-2 25. ace last year Buc -------------------farmhand Felipe Montemayor last Grid Coach (hiits; week staged an impressive power show for New Orleans, slugging School Seeks Successor three homers in one game against Birmingham, then coming back the niext night to hit two more Vandy Heavy on Gridders Last winter the Phillv and! concentrating on the books in 1933 the New York Yanks pulled what also Says Bill Roeder, special was billed as a stupendous trade NEA sports correspondent: involving the brightest of stars. By wouldn't be hard to convert the latest statistics.

New Harry majors three eight-team Byrd, acquired in that trade, had i won four and lost five, and first Including the A ou baseman Eddie Robinson was hit- have 15 going franchises. Add ting .228. For Philadelphia, Vic Minneapolis. Los Angeles. San Power was hitting .234, Don Boll- Francisco, Toronto and Montreal, weg .188, Jim Robertson .154 and and all need would be four FROST.

July 20 Curtis Jones, high school football coach at Frost, resigned his position last week, and the school now is seeking a replacement. Jones resigned to accept a position with the Corsicana school I system. TUESDAY'S RESULTS Bia State league Waco IA. Corpus Christi 5. Harlingen 8.

Tyler 4 Austin 8. Bryan 2 Galveston 6. Temple 4. Texas l-eatue -San Antonio 4. Fort Worth 3.

Tulsa 8. Shreveport 5. Dallas 5. Houston 3. Oklahoma City 8.

Beaumont S. National Chicago 3. Brooklyn 2 innings). New York 2. Cincinnati 1 innings).

St. Louis 4. Philadelphia 2. (Only games American Detroit 12-3. Philadelphia 0-3.

Washington 9. Baltimore 1. New York 4, Chicago 1. Boston 5. Cleveland 5 (16 innings.

tie). Tyler Perez. 2 Brwing.cf Davis.3 a Foster. 3 I Santmro.l i Cullins.lf I Mitchell.c Conine.rf Chenards Chavez, 1 Spieth.p WHKRE THEY PUY TODAY Big State Warn at Harlingen. Tyler at Corpus Christi.

Temple at Bryan. Austin at Galveston. Texas leant Dallas at Houston. Fort Worth at San Antonio. Tulsa at Shreveport.

(Only games scheduled 0 0 a Har 3 3 Dnkvch.ef 6 0 Chlokan.s 0 0 Lopez. 3 0 0 Carptr.l 0 Andersn.2 0 Wamer.rf 1 Skelton. If 0 Grzesk.lf 2 1 Rivas. 0 ah 4 3 4 4 4 3 3 1 4 4 1 4 2 2 2 0 1 14 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 3 2 1 National -Erskine Brooklyn at Cincinnati vs. Podbielan Philadelphia at Milwaukee (12-8) vs.

Corley (8-4). Pittsburgh at St. Louis vs. Poholsky New York at (9-4) Rush (6-10). American Baltimore at Washington vs.

Stone Detroit at Philadelphia (4-4. vs Dixnn (2-5). Chicago at New (12-5) vs. Wiesler Cleveland at (9-5) Brewer Bill Renna .254. Apparently the prize of the lot was the least; known at the third baseman named Jim Finigan who made the All-Star squad with his .289 average.

About trades you never know From the tennis front comes word that Tony Trabert now is considering an offer from the pro ranks, which means the United States probably is in for more drouths in Davis Cup play. With most of the best net- ters now playing for cash, sion of the Davis Cup means little anyway. more. You could always dig up four willing towns in Texas. Any four towns in Texas Optimists Down Methodist Home The Optimists kept in the Junior Marlin Tops General Tire in 84 Upset The Waco General Tire Clippers (eighth.

Meanwhile, Marlin were upset victims Tuesday night iected 10 hits off Clipper pitchers Totals 37 9 24 7 Totals 34 11 27 12 a-Singled for Davis in 4th. Tyler 000 012 Harlingen 014 201 Cullins. Conine 2. Dun- knvich 2. Chalokian.

Lopez, Carpenter. Anderson. Rivas 2. Skelton. Chenard.

Chalokian. Anderson. RBI Skelton. Chalokian 2. Warner.

Lopez. Carpenter, Cullins 2. Rivas, Conine. 2B Cullins. Skelton.

Chalokian. Carpenter. Rivas, Lopez. HR -Conine. Cullins.

Rivas. Chalokian, DP Lopez. Chalokian, Carpenter. Tyler 7. Harlingen 6.

2, Rivas 1. 3. Spieth 2. HO -Chaves 6 In 2 2-3 WP -Chavez. W- Rjvas (14-5) (0-1).

Bahr. Austin Clips Bryan, 8-2 BRYAN. Texas, July Righthander Billy Hees scattered four hits effectively to pitch the Austin Pioneers to an 8 to 2 win over the Bryan Indians and a sweep of the three-game series. It was 10th straight defeat. Aus Angelo, cf Mason.2 McAfee.

1 Nettles. If Mays.s Hochsttr.rf Gaspar.c Dellis.3 Hees.p 1 2 1 3 1 13 2 3 1 2 0 2 1 1 0 1 2 0 a Bryan 0 Serpee.cf 4 Parker. If 0 Perez, 0 Cabera 1 3 Konyar.3 0 Karas, Newcomrf 2 1 Davis, ah a 0 2 1 2 1 3 012 2 2 I in the State Colored Semi-Pro I Baseball Tournament, bowing to Marlin. 8 to 4, in the feature game Katy Park. Teen-Age League baseball race eliminated Axtell, 5 to 2.

Two more Olen Mooring and Pic Brown, and General Tire committed eight errors. Lozell Taylor and Eugene oPTf; Wfsts limited Axtell to three hits, 35 9 27 13 Totals 30 4 27 13 Austin 320 000 Bryan 000 000 200-2 3. Mason. Nettles. Gaspar.

Hees 2. Parker. Perez. McAfee. Mays, Perez 2.

McAfee. Nettles 5, Gaspar. Konyar, Karas. 2B Mays. Kon- var HR -Nettles.

Gaspar. 2. Mason, McAfee Mavs, McAfee. 7. Bryan 3.

2. Davis 6 1. Davis 1. (0-1). Lombardi.

Galveston Nips Temple GALVESTON, July 20 UP five-run outburst in the fifth inning proved to be more than enough as Galveston downed Temple 6 to 4 Tuesday night in a Big State League game. The victim of the assault was Mike Gazella. curve-ball pecialist for Temple. Gazella and Galveston righthander Mike Konick both pitched good ball the entire game. Tuesday night by defeating Meth-1 games are scheduled for tonight the an(J fne.third odist Home.

6-2, at Lions Field, Temple Southern Select meet- and Larry Adamik pitched a four- Satin at 6 p. followed by hit hitter and got two of his the Austin Palominos and Geburne seven hits. Two doubles and a Eagles at 8 p. the latter innings. Willie Ledbetter got two triple helped out the Optimist ral- winners' bracket.

lies. Vanderbilt, which plays Baylor: bv he on the gridiron in Nashville next Methodist Home ooo 0-2 4 1 Willie Stricklin didn't allow a hit until the fifth when both Big Bill Smith and Willie Smith got two each for Marlin the feature attraction. Tetn ah a Galabti0 a Hamans 4 2 53 5 2 3 Daehn.cf 5 3 2 0 Gifford. 2 40 1 1 5 0 3 Cearly lf 5 13 0 Moyer.l51 9 0 Little.l 2 091 Liberto.lf4 0 1 0 Lavige rf 3 4 0 3 1 6 0 F.Cmpfol.3 25 Andersn.rf 41 0 0 Robinsn rf3 00 li Carter. 34 0 0 2 Dinlsts.c31 7 0 Gazella 3 1 0 2 Konick.p421 1 37 8 24 10 27 11 Fall, could field a starting team Robert Clayton and Clarence Mor- this season of honor students.

got on by beating out infield I tncklers. The only other hits off the stumpy little righthander were MILWAUKEE, July 20 singles by Odis Bonner in the lettermen could beiThe Milwaukee Braves Tuesday, sovrnfh and ciay jn the r.nrx,“r^vs|Bra-8 Farm 3 term. In the high scholastic start ing lineup, placed in everv position except pitchers Ray Crone, Phil right and left halfback From Paine and Charlie Gorin to their the results of last game, ap- Toledo farm club in the American parently the Commodores were Association. Score by innings Axtell ................................100 100 000- 2 3 3 West 00 031 2 Sanchez and Lopez; Taylor, orthy and Davis, illiams. by innings Martin 200 014 10 6 General Tire 000 000 202-4 4 8 Strickland.

Raynor and Butler; Mooring. Brown and Cannon. Temple 100 Galveston 000 150 OOx 45 R- Hamman 2, Liberto. Jones. Carroll.

Gifford. Ceariey. Little. Dionisotis. Konick.

Dionisotis, Jones. Carter. Liberto. Hamman. Lavigne.

Gazella. Little Lavigne 3. Carroll 2. F. Campbell.

Daehn, Gazella 2. Carroll. Gazella. Daehn. SH Hamman 9.

Galveston 9 2. Gazella 6. Konick fi Gazella 4 DP Campbell. Hamman, Moyer; Hamman, Mover. Konick (8-5).

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Mr. Michael J. Flashing will demonstrate the latest Graf- lex and Graphic Equipment and will gladly answer any questions on your photographic problems. 901 AUSTIN fj SPOI PHONE 2-0 01 GOODS SPORTING Noack Gains First Flight SAN ANTONIO, July Richard Noack of Waco qualified for the first flight in the 28th annual state junior golf tournament with an eight-over par 71 at Brackenridge Park course. He meets Butch Baird.

Galveston. a 79 qualifier, in the first round Wdenesday. Ed Shelby Waco, plays Sam Jenkins Corpus Christi. and Tommy Henderson (92), Waco, faces Segle Fry Tyler, in fourth flight matches. Little League Results NORTHERN LEAGUE Police 10, Amicable Life 8.

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