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FACT SIX (ARK.) COUNTER NEWS TUESDAY, JULY 1951 Juniors Blank Tomato on Childress No Hitter Team to District Tourney After Brilliant 2-0 Win Bod (Red) Cliildrcss, regular first baseman of the Blytheville Y's junior baseball team, turned pitcher yesterday and pitched himself a neat no-hitter. The bis righthander abandoned his first base chores and took the mound against the Tomato teenagers and shut out the Tomato nine '2-0 without allowing a single hit. Childress weavcd his pitching gem behind the near perfect fielding of his team males to nllow the Juniors to linns up their 11th win of the season against six losses. Childress never faced more tlinn three baiters in any one inning despite the fact (hat lie walked two and hit one batter. Only font runners reached base and all but one were erased on the base nnlhs.

The Juniors backed up Childress 1 effort wtlh a six-hit attach on Dunham, who went the route for Tomato, And Childress aided his own cause by colleclinR one of those six hits and scoring one of Blytheville's two runs. The game was a tltjhl pitching duel between Childress and Dunham. Dunham held Blythcville scoreless until the fourth when Childress tripled to open the inning and then scored on nn infield out. The Juniors' other run came in the fifth when Charles Ray Hall was on a fielder's choice and Ralph Long doubled him home. Shortstop Bobby Lee Hill paced Blythevillc's six hit attack with single ami a double in three times at bat.

Charles Garner and Jackie Hnlslend got other two nils. The Juniors arc not scheduled i piny today but tomorrow enter the District 11! American' Junior baseball tournament at Walnut Ridge. They befiin tournament ptay at 11 a.m. tomorrow against tin? itronfj Pigtail team. Coach Jimmy I'sher said that his team is scheduled to leave for Walnut Rtdfje at 8 a.in.

tomorrow, Hox AMI-IICICAN lilylhcvllle Long 2b Mosley c( Garner rf Childless Whlsenhunt 3b Hill ss Hays If Italstead Hall 11) West Ib Totals Tomato Myrick s.s Corkran Woods If McAtloo 3b Drown 2b Dingier cf Dunham Corman It) Hopper rt Totals All 3 new Voile Boslon Washington Cleveland Philadelphia St. I.ouiM I.KAOUI: vi Pet 51 34 33 OB a 40 48 43 39 42 so 59 5 .563 .557 .551 .527 .481 .385 .322 NATIONAL I.KAC.VK I'd. GB Brooklyn 63 New York 53 31 .031 HI. Louis SI 3D Chicago 45 42 .517 17 Philadelphia 43 45 .489 llosloii 31 50 .425 25 Cincinnati 3fi 53 .404 27 Pittsburgh 25 67 .272 SOUTIIKHN ASSOCIATION 23 3 3 2 1 2 1 Allnnt.i Chattanooga New Orleans Mobile Na.sln'ille Birmingham Memphis Little Koi'k Barons Outlast 'Nooga 2-1; Chicks Triumph Pel .571 .5415 55 54 50 41 40 40 65.455 43 54 .443 No Lea ics sciuicJulcd By The Associated I'rcss Pennant-hungry Chattanooga Is another halt (-nine off the puce today because Birmingham's John McCall, slnnnncd the door on the mits 3-1 last night. The former Boston Red Sox rookie limited Chattanooga to live hil.s and struck out.

six batcis. The loss dropped the Lookouts games behind the Southern Association lender. Atlanta. The Cnickprs find Nashville were idle. Birmingham scored its winning run In the eighth when Manager Heil Matlils blasted a double near the centerficld scorevjoard, scoring Ken Aspromonte.

Mobile, on 1-wny ronrj thnt leads to the second division, dropped its ninth straight, bowing to So til firm Association '2, Chattanooga 1 New Orlcims Houk 2 Memphis 13, Mobile 7 (only garner -scheduled) TODAY'S GAMKS Nullrmul League St. Louis at New York rnighl) ChkuKO ut Boslon Cincinnati nt llrooklyn Pittsburgh, tit Philadelphia Fish Commission Shelves Fish-Farming Regulation LI'i'FLE ROCK Arkansas Game and pish Commission review the controversial fish-farming regulation at Its next meeting Aug. 18. The refutation shelved ye.stet'dny'.s nice ting of the Com- nlsslon on the request of Charles A. Walls an attorney representing a Kroup of Lcnoke County hi Walls, in citing differences between the Commission and fish producers on several points of the proposed regulation, asked that "no action ho tnken on Ihe regulation utSl we work this Ihlng out," Walls said that commercial fish prodwors did nut desire to raise Sumo fish but said they would abide by any (tcci.sion (he Commission would innke.

Other topics dSscus.sed nt yesterday's meeting Included: (1) $80 monthly pay raise for gntne wardens, A proposed open season In the sprints for the shooting of garfish with a small caliber rifle. (3) Use of nylon nets by commercial fishermen. (4) Abolishment of the closed season on certain waters for taking minnow. (5) Restoration of the minimum- slze rcguhiLion on bass. (0) Enforcement of a reciprocal aKi'ecmeiH between Arkansas and neighboring states in regard to resident and noti-rcsideiu fishing licenses.

Also that raise its license fee to meet other standards. Fox, Keene Win Wrestle Bout Two Move Up In Nel Tourney Dougherty, Stanely Advance to Midget Division Semifinals Dean Dougherty and Kenneth Stanley yesterday became the firs' players to be advanced Into the semi-finals of the midget division of the BlythevSlle Y's annual city tennis tournament. Dougherty moved Into the scml final round by defeating Dick Pos ter 7-9, 6-4 and G-l in a secont round match and Stanley moved up by downing Larry Baker 6-2, 6-3. Both matches were played on the Walker Park Courts yesterday. By virtue of his win 'Aill play the winner of the Prci Hodges-Jimmy Casselberry match which is scheduled to be todny.

Hodges and Casselberry piny ed one set yesterday with Casselber winning six-love. Stanley will meet the winner the quarter-final match betwee Marvin Zellner and Jack Thomp son, Zellner and Thompson playe one set yesterday with Zellner win ning 1 by a 6-4 score. Play in the men's and junior division of the tournament, Is sched uled to get underway this week. Play in these two divisions has been held up due to more entries being received. 1 EAST MEETS WEST There was wide speculation as to how Russian Olympic Games athletes would react to their contact with representatives of the Western World, but everything was cordial when United States and Soviet sweep-swingers met at (lag-raising ceremonies in Helsinki.

Talking things over were, left to right, Henry Proctor of Navy's eight-oared crew, the Reds' SchuravUv, Midshipman Jim Dunbar and the USSR's Volkov. (KEA) Discus Throwers in Olympic Finals; Oarsman Eliminated Lifers Beat Moose Lodge In Action The American United Life In- BiirAncc Compnny's liiturs defeated the Moose Lodge 17-4 nt Little Park yesterday afternoon hut the win goes in the Bay Window Lengue record books as forfeit. The Moose Lodge was forced to forfeit to the league lending Lifers when it failed to field the required noumber of players. But the Moose Lodge picked tip enough players and played the Lifers nh exhibition game. J.

P. Garrolt pitched for (he victors and Oveiton worked for tiie losers. This Philadelphia at St. Louis (nighti UosLon at Chicago Washington al Detroit New York at Cleveland Koullicrn Association Ctuitfanonyit at Birmingham New Orlcittis at Little Koik Mobile at Memphis Atlanta at Nashville ilings got a bit roii2h in the match feature of the American Legion's wrestling et i Memorial Auditorium with Chief Fox and Ha! Keene out raining u-Ievif-ep. touuhies Sugy Haymsfea and Frtvs Schnabel.

The bou; started on note and cained 3-? it prcgres-ed. Ani er.ie-i a free for a 13 Memphis 1-13. New Orleans' Frank broke up pitchers' duel seventh Inning with 2-run homer nnd (lie Peh wont on (n tfc-feM Little Hock 8-2. George O'DonncU, who gftve up seven hits, was the loser. Little Rock's Hal Simpson ROl his 16th homer of the Thomas' round tripper was his Blytheville Sets New nfternoon, Mead's ftdicdulcd to play Gl Implement Company In another league game.

Luxora Defeats Manila Lions LUXORA The Luxora Tigers posted Iheir tenth win of the season here Sunday, nnd at the same lime evened a five uame series with the Manila Lions at two games each. What started ns a hoi pitching duel matching the intensity of mid-July heat, and holding for six innings, runs poured across the plate with the speed ot Arknnsas's political candidates in the seventh and eighth frames, Tigers emerging on top in the spree, 7-3, A l-l tie was broken in the seventh when Hugh Wright, Luxorn first sacker, banged two runs across. Harris evened the count for the Linns in Ihcir eighth with a mighty two run homer. The Tigers came back in their half and pushed four more tallies across after two were out. Timney Quails, ivho relieved starter Frank Ellis In the sixlh, was credited the win.

Taylor. lanky Manila" righthander, went the route for the losers. Water for Tehran Area To Be Proyidcd Under Point 4 Official Work It jemorgsd SchnibeJ a-d 22 K.r.-:^ 1 ire of FOX. TS TEHRAN capital's one million, residents will soon be getting pure drinking water under on agreement signed by Point Pour nnd Iranian govern in cut officials. Under the agreement Point Fmi il provide $1.700.000 for (lie construction of a municipal chlorine water treatment plant.

The money will be used to finance foreign ox- chnngc costs of machinery, equipment nnd supplies which cannot be purchased locally. The program, officials said, will be helpful to nearly 500,000 residents tn the southern section of Tehran whore unsanitary health conditions nre widespread. Most Tehrnn residents get their drinking wnter from conduits leading down from Hie snowcapped 3 mountains outside the city. Tens i of thousands of citizens, however, merely use the filthy water flowing In the gutters or "jnbcs," in the streets for all purposes. Ralph John-son, Blythtrville office equipuictU nnd sporting goods denlcr ti -6cit national Class Bi hydroplnnr speed record at the: outboard motor races in Tonnes- sen Chute at Memphis Sunday.

Johnson, usint; a Mercury out-' board rK won the Class service hydroplane race with the record- average of 57.5 miles per hour. His record was established on two-way run over the measured mile course. Ami Mr. Johnson also had a pnrt in the 1 setting of a new world's rec- oi'd in the Class A Service hydro- plane rucc. Bill Buehler of Clrecn-i ville, smashed the world's 1 Judo blows arlQ record in this event with an average of 51.13 miles per hour and the motor he used was built by Mr.

Johnson in his shop here. The ruces were sponsored bv the Rebel Outboard Motor Club of Memphis ami was sanctioned by 1 the Naliomil Outboard Bankers Juveniles 5-4 In CSL Play Fa risers Bank's Money Changers debated the Planters Hardwire Juvf niles 5--I in a Commercial Soft- tall Leasrue game at Maloney Park. Caldwell was the winning goinz all the way for the Ttorors. Jce Whisenhunt was the Tte victory was the seventh of "Jic for the Money Changers 5v -hem i -KO record. The loss The of the seaman for the the Courier News were scheduled to play Bell In an- game.

a rnaka and imu overpowerea jD Ul in a iG eQ Maloney Nine "rtjS Tops Division Street Team HELSINKI Three American discus throwers pitched their way into the final of the Olympic championship test today, but America's finest oarsman failed in his second bid for a place in the single sculls final. Fortune Gordicn of MicncajjoIJs, world record holder in the discus, needed three throws to achieve the required distance in this morning's qualifying round, but he finally made it with a heave of 1C5 feet, 1.94 inches. That left him some five feet behind Adolfo Consolmi, Italy's defending champion, but it topped the best efforts of the other two Americans, both of whom qualified with their first throws and didn't try any more. Sim In ess of the University of Southern California did 160 feet, 5.23 inches nnd Jim Dillon of Alabama Polytechnic Institute and Upper Sandusky, pitched 157 feet, 2.65 inches. These marks were comfortably beyond the minimum distance "of 150 feet, 11.6 inches required to qualify for this afternoon's final.

Jack Kelly of Philadelphia nnd the U.S. Navy gave rowing fans one of their moat thrilling spectacles in his "repechage" or second-trial heat in the single sculls, but the finish photos showed he was beaten by Theodor Kocera oC Poland. This eliminated him. One In Finals The United States gained one spot the rowing finals when Chuck Logg son of the Rutgers University coach, and Tom Price, another Rutgers student from En N.J., won their repechage heat in the even for pairs without coxswain. The American pair with coxswain, James Fifcr nnd Duvall Hech, both members of the Stanford crew, was eliminated in a close race Germany.

The Russian track and field team second to the United States in the i unofficial point tabulations, quaU- i two men in the first half nf the field for the discus final. They were OTTO Grigalka, who placed in the shot put yesterday, and Boris Butcnko. In the overall point scoring, Including all Olympic events, Russia is ahead of the United States. Russia Leading By virtue of winning five firsts four seconds and a flock of places in gymnastics finals last night, Russia retained its overall lend with points against T2 for the United States, all scored in track and field, central sport of the games. In combined totals, Switzerland was third with 47, followed by Japan, and Czechoslovakia, The United States' five first-place gold medals out.

of the first eight events is the best the American forces have done since the 1904 Olympic games held in St. Louis. The Americans are expected narrow Russia's edge in this afternoon's track and field finals. in addition to the discus, Axncrl- has three of the top performers the pole vault-Bob Richards, Don jaz and George Mattos. And two including Defending Cham- lion Mai of Columbus in the SflO-meters final City Softball Standings Willis Harris Joins La ngston-Mc Waters It has been nsserted thai some groups of people depend so much on gestures to supplement speech that they caunot carry on conversation in thr dark, but the pcrtion hits boon widely disputed.

2 U.A. Gridders On Squad CHICAGO Lit Two University of Arkansas linemen will be members of Uio CoUpyp All-Star football squrul for (he? me with the Hams in Chicago 15. COMMERCIAL atter.s 10 3 8 -I Dirty Sux Money Ch.infers Planters Leather Pullers pet .769 i .667 .500 .333 Milijnftj Park nine defeated Street, team 17-3 In Hi2h game at Little Trj'erriay afternoon. only the second r-f for the league leading team. Ronnsaval! wa.s the win- r.In? ni'cher and Kenneth Stanle; the Riibert White, Freddie Rounsavall and Jerry Rounsavall collected 1 each for Maloney and Danny Bratcher, Clarence Cum- rr.inifs and David Holt each got two i for tbs losers.

his fine mound work. All of tin hits he gave up were singles. Joe Bratchcr's first inning homi run that accounted for all oC Bly theville's runs, was the big blow the night. Morris was the winning pitcher giving up seven hits. RAY Lifer.s WINDOW Manila Midgets Beat Blytheville Mciui's Plow boy 12 7 'y Fred Williams, a tac- 1 ih Griffm, a ccntrr.

VMCA Freddie Akers pitched three-hit ball here last but .923 his efforts weren't quiet good .600 i enough as the Manila Little Lea- .417 guers hung a 5-3 Toss on a team of Blytheville 13 and 14-year old boys. .2731 fielding by hi.s team mates 222 cost Akers the victory In spite of "Heavy water" molecules ar made of two deuterium atoms com bined with one oxygen alom. KENTUCtf PROOF BOTTLED IN BOND YELLOWSTONE LOUISVILLE, KY M.iny of you know Willis Harris. As his old friends you're invited to sec him at Lanjfslon-McWaters where he is now Service Manager. And to those of you who m.iy not he acquainted with Willis, we extend Hie same invitation to see him here.

You'll appreciate Ihe extra attention, (he fine workmanship hr offers. LanRslon-McWalers Bulck Co. AYalnnl A- Broadway, Your Advertising Doiiar Reaches More! For Less! AM FM Over 2,000,000 Persons Can Hear About BVD Over KLCN Your lest advertising alue every day is efinitely COURIER NEWS Classified Advertising POLITICAL SPEAKING All Mississippi County Candidates Have Been Invited To Speak Beginning at 8:00 p.m. on the Following Schedule: Saturday, July 19 Luxora Monday, July 21 Whitten Tuesday, July 22 Osceola (Court House) Wednesday, July 23 Leachville Thursday, July Friday, July 25 Dyess Saturday, July 26 Blytheville (Court House) Monday, July 28 Joiner COME OUT AND HEAR YOUR CANDIDATES! Sponsored by Citizen) Interested in Better Government When you check car value the DODGE 'SHOW DOWN" WAY BLYTHEVILLE MOTOR COMPANY Walnut Fiist.

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