San Angelo Standard-Times from San Angelo, Texas • 14

jtfMM Son Angelo Standard-Times Sun Oct 14 1956 6B Washington Wins 20-7 TOP 0' MORN TCU Whips Alabama 23-6 Odessa's Wineburg Shines By BLONDY CROSS ber that drew more cash consumers on the old fields than have Question Of Sen Move Up Friday WASHINGTON The question of whether the Washington Senators will be moved to another city this year may come to a head next Friday when the club's directors hold their next regular meeting Calvin Griffith president of the American League club sai last night that "if I have a concrete proposition I will submit it to the board at that time" "As yet" Griffith said "we have had no offers in writing" The Senators have received feelers from Los Angeles San Francisco and Louisville been drawn in per contest so far in the BIG stadium What could be the answer? San Angelo hasi much more population now it has two undefeated teams the Bobcats and the Rams It has a grand SOMETHING MUST have gone wrong Friday night in Mason George Johnson scored only two touchdowns and Sonora edged out the Mason Cowpunchers 13 to 6 That was a moral victory for Bill Hart of this newspaper's staff Sonora lauches it District 8-A campaign next Friday night in Sonora with the Ozona Lions furnishing the opposition Ozona best-pH thp Sanderson Eagles 42 to 13 SEATTLE Oct 13 itft-Big Dick Day 240-pound tackle bailed the University of Washington out of trouble with three fumble recoveries today as the Huskies whipped Oregon 20-7 in a Pacific Coast Conference football game Washington rolled to a 13-0 advantage in the first half then lost momentum when quarterback Al Ferguson left the field with a dislocated shoulder Oregon was knocking at the goal line completing a 73-yard march when Ferguson was shelved and the visiting Wehfoots left the field at halftime trailing by only 13-7 Oregon stopped Washington cold all through the third period but fumbled away opportunities The Webfoots also suffered from injury CLYDE JOHNSON The old pro Twice the Tide let scoring opportunities go by on fumbles George Salem second string halfback dropped the ball once on tha 12 and again on the 5 Dick Finney recovered one for TCU John Nikkei the other PENALTIES HURT Penalties held TCU back Tha Frogs were set back 128 yards to 'Bama's 45 It was a 32-yard pass interference penalty that started the Tide's lone scoring drive Alabama ran better than it has in its two previous games this season racking up 21 first downs while holding the Texans to 15 TCU had the edge in rushing 287 yards to 245 and a bare advantage in passing 79 yards to 72 TCP 7 0-M Alabama TCU scoring: Wineburg 1 (46 run and 41 run) Duke (11 run) Field goal Hallbeck (2) Hallbeck Swink Alabama icoring: Loftin (10 run) bama's 16th consecutive defeat The Tide hasn't won a game since it beat Tennessee in 1954 'Bama scoreless until the fourth quarter threatened three times earlier in the game but lost the ball on fumbles twice and on downs once Halfback Jim Loftin finally made it with a 10-yard run climaxing a 64-yard drive The Texans intercepted six Alabama passes two of them leading to touchdowns INTERCEPTION Halfback Jim Shofner grabbed 'Bama quarterback Clay Walls' pass on the TCU 1 late in the opening period and returned to the 25 The Frogs drove 75 yards to score Charlie Nelson the Tide's starting quarterback tossed the ball into Wineburg's arms on the Alabama 49 in the third quarter and the 'Bama line and into the open for 41 yards and a score the same night Sonora was shading Mason THE BALLINGKR Bearcats mother area favorite nudged out I Rotan 26 to 25 in Rotan Friday Ry REX THOMAS A Press Starts KUff TUSCALOOSA Ala Oct 13 10-Halfback Ken Wineburg of Odessa shining in the reflected glory of ail-American Jim Swink led powerful Texas Christian to a 23-6 gridiron victory over feeble Alabama today The Texans were expected to win and did but they didn't ever exert themselves limiting their running attack to the same few plays over and over again Wineburg who went into the game with 233 yards rushing in TCU's first two appearances of the season showed the 20000 fans his powerful ground-gaining ability early in the game with a 46-yard touchdown sprint in the first quarter He got loose for 41 yards again in the third period for another score DIKE SCORES Fullback Buddy Dike ran 11 yards for the other TCU touchdown in the second quarter Halfback Vernon Hallbeck booted a 22- 100-Lap Title Car Race Here Today OREGON WASHINGTON 17 First Downa 13 16S Rushing Yds tS2 94 Passing Yds 23 7-11 Passes 2-6 tt Passes Intercepted br 0 T-360 Punts T-347 5 Fumbles Lost 2 31 Yds Penalized 61 The sportsman class auto race! UIJUIU Ballinger begins its District 7-AA dtiva next Friday in Cisco YOU ENGAGE and see a lot of Items as a spectator in the grandstand that you don't connect with up there in the press box as a sports writer or down on the sidelines as a sports reporter We were a grandstander the other iight without a worry of work on our soul while the Bobcats of San Angelo High School let down gently the Harlandale Indians of San Antonio 54 to 13 in the Bobcats fifth football win of the Tl'SCALOOSA Ala Oct 13 Statistics of the TCU-Alabama game: TCU Alabama son faces a hustling field including Wayne Niedecken of Abilene who is the West Texas high point scorer so far this season in modified stock car and sportsman class car scrambling Other than the regular program preliminary to the 100-lapper Lucky Woods is to stage a stunt exhibition LBcky Woods five years with the Joe Chitwood internationally famous automobile stunt caravan has for years been a car crash Hollywood stunt daredevil There naturally are to be the famous trophy dash three regular heat races and possibly another race or so before the 100-lap slambang Barbara Davis is the trophy girl IS 21 car championship is to be decided this afternoon at 3 in a 100-lap finale on the Raceway Park course There is a $100 purse for the winner Drivers from over much of the territory are to compete including the great Jimmy Russell of the Odessa-Monahans-Midland entourage Of course Clyde Johnson the old pro from Tuscola is to be in action Johnson is the most veteran racer of the crop in long events including the Pan-America suicide lengthy competition This afternoon's 100 laps on the quarter-mile track may not mean too much to Johnson the old pro of long races as well as short events But John First downs Hushing yardage Passing yardage Passes intercepted Punts tumbles lost Yards penalized 245 72 6 3-333 2 45 287 79 I 6-2(12 2 128 when halfback Jim Shanley was knocked unconscious early in the third quarter and had to sit out the rest of the game A recovery by Day late in the last period at the Oregon 47 finally cranked up Washington's split-T machine for a touchdown tour Plunging the last yard Bobby Herring bobbled the ball but recovered behind the Oregon goal The Webfoots outfumbled the Huskies 7 to 5 and lost the ball five times to Washington's two Washington cruised 59 yards in 7 plays for its first counter sending elusive Luther Carr on a 27-yard payoff canter current campaign For instance in came Alan Pike with father Bill Bill lives hereJ yard field goal in the same period when stubborn 'Bama' opposition blocked a Horned Frog drive Pass interceptions and fumbles cost the Crimson Tide dearly and contributed substantially to Ala stadium Where are the fans? THEN OFF down the line-squared with the goal came Gerald Elliott the basketball player He wanted to know why we were at that spot Then came a wonderful discussion about efficiency of game arbiters deciding correctly if a player came up with a touchback which scores zero or a safety which tabs two points for the other team You meet a lot of guys around and in the grandstand FRED REED'S Bluebonnet Belle Relays fund jug jugged up $729 this weekend The money taken in goes toward paying for medals and other expense? involved in waging the twelfth annual running of this Texas high school girls track and field tourney here MAYBE JO Sanger the Coca-Cola baroness should make some sort of cash contribution to the Bluebonnet Belle Relays for the upcoming publicity Maybe the chamber of commerce should kick in too It's an old game looking at the bottoms of Coca-Cola bottles Fred Reed and Top 0' Mom revived it somewhat on our own the other night Fred was getting ready to refill his refrigerated soft drink machine He was sticking empty bottles into various wood cases then going to work on the refrigerator From the chamber of commerce slant it seems a lot of travelers arrive in and go through San Angelo We're judging by those Coca-Cola and their bottoms Fred incidentally pays us three cents a bottle and tags it into the Bluebonnet Belle Relays expense fund This department inspected the bottoms of bottles (Coca-Cola remember that Jo) and Fred filled up a 24-bottle case But only three of the bottles had San Angelo on the bottom Later juggling around we came up with empties that had Sheridan Wyo on the bottom Salida Colo on the bottom and then Dallas Tex of ALL places Of course we had some more bottles with San Angelo on the bottoms The first case of Coca-Cola empties rendered us quite a travelogue Let us start it gently There were Kansas City Mo Salina Kan Lake Charles La Lawton Okla Muskogee Okla Carlsbad then a string of Texas towns: Abilene (that's a bad word) Wichita Falls Coleman Monahans Longview Big Spring Del Rio Houston Graham Temple Uvalde Austin San Antonio and El Paso We picked up two or three other Texas bottoms but I don't remember them Quite a game and quite a travel WHAT ARE names anvhow? Alan is located in Midland For newcomers Alan Pike was a great San Angelo High School football guard back in the 1930s It was his first time in the new San Angelo High School stadium He said he was going back to Midland nd brag about it Up showed Blacky Reese another turbulent San Angelo High School football lineman in the 1930s Blacky had seen the stadium so he didn't come to see it again He came to look over the Bobcats themselves and thought about bitter battles with Abilene in years gone by Abilene at this time is rated to retain its state championship San Angelo is ranked second San Angelo and Abilene are in the same district So if the dopesters are correct the winner of the San Angelo-Abilene game Nov 22 is to become the 1956 state schoolboy football champion A COUPLE old baseball players and Wayne McKelvy were up there in the stand The baseballers and McKelvy were arguing about San Angelo's chances against Abilene and about what had happened in the past McKelvy remembered better about the past than did the baseballers talking football The baseball guys were Red Cowley and Miles Smithhart former San Angelo Colts After much discussion it was agreed as a fact that so far there have been more paid customers on the old cemetery gridiron and in old Bobcat Stadium on the one-game basis than any game in the new and fancy stadium which has much more seating capacity The baseballers and McKelvy decided (with which Top 0' Morn agreed) that Standard-Times sports writers had overestimated grossly in their published accounts the total i I They cnll him "Yankee" He's a guy back in the Standard-Times mailing section His name is Vernon Heller And they tell me he really IS one! mm of paid customers per game so far in the stadium San Angelo High School and San Angelo College certainly retain the paid recording of each game Those recordings can be compared with the paid recordings of attendance in the lesser old football fields here There are several games many of us remem- TEST VOI il FOOTBALL Si ILL mfmti 0T 0c 2o ism Edison Dad's Club Formed Meets Monday 'III Wm WHAT A WEEK! 25 West Texans six of them women showed their football picking skill by gazing into their crystal balls and coming up with the perfect solution to last week's Pick the Winners contest Each of the 25 winners received a check for $500 fcfhW En mm OVV'onsn mm WW 'e0s OCq'o 3 Trfl 't mm i r-u- i a JKbmqvT 'fsm i I't 'nn III Vs' OSyr0cuSj VS' So-Calif Shn9tor ''OlQ Pick The Winners is about the easiest way we know to pick yourself up a little extra pocket money Anybody can play but there's a limit of one entry per person Simply pick the winners on the list in the football at the left You do not have to name scores Pick the winners or call ties If a game ends in a tie and you do not call it as such it will count as an error against you Paste your entry on a postal card and mail to Pick The Winners Box 311 San Angelo Texas Your entry must be postmarked before midnight Thursday to be eligible for this week's contest i aa I Kffi Tha Edison Junior High School Dad's Club formed only last week will hold its regular Monday meeting at 7:30 pm at the school Atwood of 219 Ave was elected president and James Collins of 1315 Luna was named president Hill will serve as secretary The program committee will be composed of William Eilers Truett McClung Gotcher and Wil-burn George Aubrey Haynie and Hill were appointed to the publicity committee The group at its first meeting decided to use the public address ystem at all Edison games to try to promote more interest in the contest About 15 attended the organizational meeting and more are expected at Monday's second session 1 Maa 'Mm 25 WINNERS LAST WEEK! Johnny Harris Abilene Mrs Thos O'Donnell Kermit Ronnie Beach Paint Rock John A New Crane John Pipes Big Spring Fitzhugh Big Spring John Magnuson Brady Henderson Voca George Hester Eldorado 2nd Lt Richard A Langley Big Spring No Name Box 12 Mason Ludy Havlak Miles Alice Stokes Brownwood Bob Duggan San Angelo Wylie Mason San Angelo Herbert Miller San Angelo Bill Lee San Angelo Tom McGuyer San Angelo Avis Lynch San Angelo Dub Pearson San Angelo Mary Schrader San Angelo Chas Huber San Angelo Mrs John Daves San Angelo Eileen Boatright San Angelo I A Bam fef TITO CARREON Newcomer in tag Six-Wrestler Tag Boul On Sfcil wa RULES Tuesday ft A I "i can give you 1 You must pick winners or call ties in all games listed in the official entry Wank If a game ends in a tie score and you have not called a tie it will count against you as a loss 2 Do not try to pick scores Just namn the winners or call ties 3 Your entry must be postmarked no later than Thursday midnight before the games to qualify for the cash award 4 Contestants are limited to one list of selections per persDn But more than one member of the family may compete 5 Make your choices from the list included in this ad Simply mark an in the box in front of the name of the team you think will win If you think a game will end in a tie score indicate your opinion by putting an in front of each team or by leaving both boxes open 6 The Standard-Times will pay $500 cash for each correct entry based on one entry per person 7 Paste your entry on a postal card and mail your selections to "Pick The Winners" Box 311 San Angelo Texas The Community Gym wrestling ring is to be burdened again considerably this week Promoter Vic Weber features a six-man Australian tag team brawl Tuesday night in the Community Gym's weekly benefit mat card Two newcomers to San Angelo figure in the tag riot They are Hajji Baba from Turkey and Tito Carreon from Mexico Baba teams with Jap Great Mitsu and Tommy Phelps of Dallas Carreon is on the opposition side with Big Bob Orton and Young Yaqui Joe There are two special events leading up to lhe tag explosion Baba mixes vith Yaqui Joe in a San Angelo TRIPLE PROTECTION with State Farm insurance Standard -Times lone-fall 15-minute limiter Carreon Km ttJYl Ockn A KENNEMER HI takes the same route with Phelps First bout starts at 8:15.