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The Kilgore News Herald from Kilgore, Texas • 4

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I4 AGE FOUR KILGORE NEWS HERALD KILGORE TEXAS SUNDAY APRIL BIG STATE LEAGUE 1954SCHEDULE wtywK) weaaiumM i LavUJCatii Better Crops Seed At El 3 F3 a i Li £3 11 33 mS ii FI ic3 Vi ii -4 si Cary MiddleCoff and Tommy Bolt 1 who scored 70 and 72 respectively Middlecoff one of the most consist- ent players on the winter tour hit! a hot stieak on the back nine for a 32 after apparently being out of contention Augusta par of 36 3G which had resisted attacks for two dajs when the pins wote placed difficult locations on the greens took quite a pounding today when they were shifted to mure approachable spots Big Julius Boros who won much since he captured the Open and the Tam OShanter championship in 1952 fired the best round of the tournament 34 for a 223 total Ho said he just played little better golf than usual andVmade some good chip shots In all there were seven under-par rounds today and four even pars -final round was turned into a- duel between the men who have won four -of 'the past five masters tournaments And with a three-stroke bulge it looked virtually impossible for Snead to catch Hogan SIGBE 448 LONGVIEW PHONE 2508 AUGUSTA Ga Apnl 10 Ben Hogan the little man who is feared and respected by every golfing rival took command of the Masters Tournament today with only the equally respected Sam Snead to contend with hm through linal round After two days when upstart amateur Billy Joe Patton was the leader and the talk of the tournament these two seasoned campaigners took over as if to prove that no outsider could mtei fere with their business Hogan shooting his first sub par I ound of the tournament 34-3o 69 with the aid of a pair of trap shots that brought ovations from the huge gallery veftt into a three-stroke lead After 54 holes total was 214 nine sfiokes off his record pace of last year Snead who threatened for -a while to overtake his old rival started the day two strokes back and finished three Uehtitd at Zltr Patton however refused accept the fate predicted for- a pre--sumptious week -pfcnd player who suddenly foUndThfipself among the golfing elite After shooing a 144 total even par for the first two rounds the young North Carolina lumber dealer overcame a bad start to shoot a respectable 75 Billy Joe who had been taking the whole thing as part of an enjoyable vacation apparently began to realize the importance of his feat when he saw the crowds around him today He got off to a wretched start doing four over par on the first six holes Then he settled down and played pretty good golf in spite of occasional errant shots 219 total pul him in a three-way tie with professionals Kobe Lespedeza ICC lbs Sunday Game HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL FOR OTHER 14 CLUBS Old Age Complacency Chief Threats To Dodger Yankee Elopes By JACK HAND I chief threats to the favored Brook-) prepare to open a new baseball I wells forth in 14 other clubs but NEW YORK April 10 (T) Old lyn Dodgers and New York-Yan- season Tuesday the Dodgers and Yanks once again age and complacency appear the'kees as the defending champions! The customary eternal hope I are expected to meet the World Texas Hegari Red Top Cane Ii Atlas Sargo 3 Hoheydrip Cane Arizona Hegari FI Johnson ri Grass ii JJ Dallas I Grass ii Bermuda Grass 4 Sweet Sudan is 7A Brooklyn Dodgers Clip Yankees 3-2 NEW YORK April 10 UP-The Brooklyn Dodgers clinched the spring series with their World Series rivals today nipping the New York Yankees 3-2 A chilled crowd of only 8384 saw the Brooks take the fifth of seven meetings between the clubs There is one contest remaining Mickey Mantle star slugger of the Yankees made his deuhut in center field and got two hits He played six innings and moved without apparent discomfort to his healing right knee He got two of the seven hits gleaned by the champions off three Dodger righthanders Don Newcombe Russ Meyer and Ben Wade each worked three innings with the middle man getting the decision The Brooks broke 2 2 tie with a run in the fifth Tom Morgan pitched seven innings for New York and was thp loser with lefty Bob Kuzava finishing up Both managers used their regular lineups the men who will open the season next Tuesday pitchers excepted The game was loosely played two of the five runs being un earned Each side gave the other a tainted tally FF a il Common Sudan ii ri um ri i i 3 i Ml I Hasting Prolific bi 3 it hi ISeries this fall Baltimore is back in the majors replacing the sad sack St Louis I Browns with hopes of reviving the spirit on the field and matching Milwaukee at the box office Five new if you can call Jimmy Dykes are flex- ing their brains in the dugouts The lineups are studded with rook-1 ies many still rolling under the happy impetus of a season of wm-1 ter ball in Cuba Puerto Rico -or Venezuela President Eisenhower who chose golf over baseball last opening day to stir up a minor crisis has agreed to throw out the first ball at Washington where the Yankees will begin operations against Bucky Senators Nobody beats the gun this year No special opener Washington or Cincinnati A full eight game chart is slated for Tuesday when about 200000 fans are expected The dubs who are away Tuesday open at home Thursday Tuesday's! schedule: American League New York at Washington Baltimore at Detroit Cleveland at Chicago Boston at Philadelphia National League Brooklyn at New York Milwaukee at Cincinnati Philadelphia at Pittsburgh Chicago at St Louis The Baltimore situation will be closely watched as it represents the second change in the big league map in 50 years Because the Orioles replace the Browns 'they must play as a team Actually the American League now is predominantly eastern with five franchises on the Atlantic seaboard Seldom has spring training taken as heavy a toll of players as the exhibition schedule the clubs now are completing pennant boom following the aruval of Bobby Thomson from New York was dulled when Thomson broke an ankle in a slide at St Petersburg Fla Ted Williams never even got to bat for the Boston Red Sox He fractured his collar bone in a fall at Sarasota 18 minutes after the first workout started There has been a wide assortment of broken bones among the lesser lights sidelining mep like Cleveland's Mickey Grasso and Suitcase Simpson and Dick Krvhoski ve? 17 WHY? 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