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UNDERDOGS TROUBLESOME Situation Is Normal in Both Major Leagues After Opening By FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer The "new look" 1958 season is only 48 hours old but the situation is normal in both leagues: the underdogs arc kicking up a fuss in the National and the Yankees are off and running in (he American. That's the sum-up of big league baseball's first day of coast-to- coast activity a day on which: Gomez stole the big show in San Francisco by pitching the Giants to an 8-0 victory over ihe Los Angeles Dodgers. I rookie pitchers scored victories on splendid relief efforts and seven other rookies figured in the headlines. world champion Milwaukee Braves lost the longest opener the National League had seen in 35 years. Stan Musial tied Mel Ott's National League record of 5,041 total bases for his career.

But most of all it was a day on which upstart National League teams upset "contenders" and the mighty Yankees got off to a typical start by winning while two of Todays Sport Partide Regional Events Draw Brown County Athletes All sports point to regional. That's about the shape of things In Brown County this week as all of the tracksters, linksmen, and racket swingers prepare for all-important clashes in regional events at Brownwood and Stephenville. District 31-B, including Bangs, Early, Blanket, and May, will join all other Region II teams on the Brownwood oval Saturday. The cinder carnival is to'be under the direction of Howard Payne Athletic Director Bennie Williams. HPC coach Glen Whitis will Major Leagrue Standings By UNITED PRESS American League W.

L. Pet. GB New York 1 0 1.000 Detroit 1 0 1.000 Baltimore 1 0 1.000 Kansas City 1 0 1.000 Washington 1 1 .500 Chicago 0 1 .000 1 Cleveland 0 1 .000 1 Tuesday's Results New York 3 Boston 0 Baltimore 6 Washington 1 Detroit 4 Chicago 3 Kansas Sity 5 Cleveland 0 Wednesday's Probable Pitchers (1957 records In parentheses) New York at (16-6) vs Sisler (7-8). Detroit at Chicago (1116) vs Donovan (16-6). Kansas City at Cleveland (5-12) vs Narleski (11-5).

(Only games scheduled.) Games Thursday Kansas City at Cleveland New York at Boston Detroit at Chicago Washington at Baltimore (night) National League W. L. Pet. GB Philadelphia 1 0 1.000 Pittsburgh 1 0 1.0 00 Pittsburgh 1 0 1.000 San Francisco 1 0 1.000 Chicago 1 0 1.000 St. Louis 0 1 .000 1 Cincinnati 0 1 .000 1 Los Angeles 0 1 .000 1 Milwaukee 0 1 .000 1 Tuesday's Results Philadelphia 5 Cincinnati 4 Pittsburgh 4 Milwaukee 3 (14 inn) San Francisco 8 Los Angeles 0 Chicago 3 St.

Louis 0, night Wednesday's Probable Pitchers (1957 records in parentheses) Los Angeles at San Francisco (night) (12-9) vs Mon- rant (3-2). (Only game scheduled.) Games Thursday Pittsburgh at Milwaukee Philadelphia at Cincinnati Los Angeles at San Francisco Chicago at St. Louis (night) Leaders Up Lead in SWC Baseball Race By UNITED PRESS The rich got richer and the poor got poorer in the Southwest Conference baseball race Tuesday as front leading Texas, Southern Methodist and Texas won easily in their games with Rice, Texas Christian and Baylor respectively. Texas mauled the Owls 12-6 with a 17-hit attack to run its conference record to 7-2. The heavy hitting of Ralph Plumlee and Dick Patterson accounted for seven runs as their team smashed Baylor H-4 to give a 5-3 record, good for third place.

Second place SMU scored an 8-2 victory over TCU as southpaw Marvin King, working in relief, limited TCU to three hits in the final eight innings. The win gave the Mustangs a 6-2 conference ratio so far for the season. Saturday Texas plays TCU at Fort Worth, which should be an easy Longhorn victory. and SMU will tangle at College Station, where anything could happen. Rice and Baylor will clash at Houston.

In the Texas-Rice game Tuesday, the Longhorns made the most of their 17 hits off the Owl's star moundsman, Jerry Abernathy. Outfielders Roy Menge and Wayne McDonald collected seven between them to lead the attack that drove Abernathy to the and brought two relief- ers. Menge poled a two-run homer and have charge of all of the golf matches in the 36-hole regional play, and Payne physical education instructor Mrs. Jo Ann Hamilton is to be in charge of tennis. Mrs.

Hamilton will be running tennis off on Brownwood courts Friday and Saturday. Whitis will have his golf tournament completed Friday. Coach R. A. (Gus) Snodgrass will have a station wagon full of eight boys on the regional trip, with entries in the group qualifying for the hurdles, pole vault, open 440, mile and sprint relays.

Carl Arnspiger, Brownwood High tennis coach, is slated to send both his district singles champ, Joe Smith, and his doubles titlemen, Frank and Allan Riser, to the Stephenville course for a try at the regional crown: Girls tennis instructor Miss Ruth Gehrke is to enter Carrol Wells and Carolyn Hooper, district doubles winners, in the meet. Coach Marcus Smith, BHS golf coach, will be taking his second place district team to S'ville for the green battle. Making up the team are Allan Pritchard, district medalist. Earnest Davis, Lanny Lowrance, and Ben Lednicky. Snodgrass' hopefuls are Gary Petross, Benny Plummer, Charlie Watkins, Sammy White, Wilbur Sheffield, Paul Arnold, Jodie Hill and James Gordon.

The Brownwood teams will be competing in the AA school bracket with some of the best AAA and AAAA teams in this part of the country. Brownwood will be the site for some hot clubs competition, with such teams as district champions Stamford, Brady, Hamilton and Coleman in Class and champs Fairy, Eastland, Rising Star, Baird, Gorman, Hubbard, Sidney and Bangs in Class B. All of the entries have not been sent in. Other tough A teams will be Seymour, Lampasas, Granbury, Ballinger, Cisco, and Haskell. District 33-B will be sending a tough bunch in Cross Plains Goldthwaite, Llano, Mason, Rising Star and Santa Anna.

Top Stars Advance At River Oaks Meet HOUSTON (UP)- Top stars in the annual River Oaks Country Club tennis tournament advanced into today's play without too much difficulty. Seeded players Dick Savitt, Mc-rvin Rose, Luis Ayala and Barry McKay won their matches Tuesday as expected. One of the best matches of the day saw Bill Quillian of Seattle, lose the first set, 2-6, to Cliff Vickery of the University of Houston, then rebound to sweep the last two sets, 6-2, 6-2. Ayala turned in the most impressive performance by whipping Art Floust of Rice in straight sets, 6-1, 6-2. Top-seeded Savitt of South Orange, N.

J. had a little more trouble than did Ayala but beat Ken Wagstaff of Houston, 6-2, 6-3. Opening-Day Crowd Is Down From 1957 By UNITED PRESS Despite the entry of California Into the major leagues and a record opening night crowd in St. Louis, attendance at National League opening baseball games Tuesday was less than the turnout on inaugural day last season. However, a United Press survey also disclosed that American League attendance increased enough to pull the overall major- league opening day attendance for this year to 259,108 as against 252,763 a year ago.

The Giants-Dodgers' opener at San Francisco accounted for only 23,448 admissions, but, of course, that wasn't the fault of the enthusiastic California fans. The total represented all that could be squeezed into little Seals Stadium. The Cubs-Cardinals game in St. Louis set a new arc-light opener record there, but the total for this also relatively small park was only 26,246. Thus the National League overall total declined from 127,300 to 125,882, a drop of 1.1 per cent.

The American League total increased from 125,473 to 133,226, an increase of 6.2 per cent. The overall major-league increase was 2.1 per cent. The day's biggest crowd was 43,339 at Milwaukee. their chief rivals lost. In the National, four second-division learns of 1957 beat four first-division learns of last season.

In the American, the Yankees "did it themselves," 3-0, over the Red Sox and the Tigers helped out the New Yorkers by beating the White Sox, 4-3. Gomez, a temperamental right- hander from San Turce, P.R., ushered San Francisco into the majors by pitching a six-hitter and contributing two important singles to an 11-hit Giant attack. A crowd of 23,448 at Seals Stadium saw three rookies Jimmy Davenport, Orlando Cepeda an'd Willie Kirkland come up with a total of four hits and drive in a run apiece. Rookie first-baseman R. C.

Stevens and rookie pitcher Ron Blackburn were the heroes as the Pirates beat the Braves, 4-3, in 14 innings. Stevens, who replaced hitless Ted Kluszewski in the nimh, hit two straight singles and the second with two out in the 14th inning drove in Dick Groat with the winning run. Blackburn appearing in his first major league game, limited the world champions to one hit in the last three innings for the victory. Ed Mathews hit two early homers for the Braves who dropped their first opener since going to Milwaukee. Rookie Roman Semproch tossed three innings of one-hit relief to gain credit for the Phillies' 5-4 decision over the Redlegs and rookie Tony Taylor started two rallies as the Cubs defeated the Cardinals, 4-0, on a combined pitching effort of no less than four hurlers.

Tebbetts to Protest Semproch got the run he needed in the eighth inning when rookie Chuck Esscgian walked and ex- Redleg Wally Post and Ted Kazanski followed with singles. Cincinnati manager Birdie Tebbetts announced he will protest the game after a seventh-inning dispute over whether a fan interfered with a double hit by Granny Hamner. The umpires permitted Richie Ashburn to score the Phillies' tying run from first base. Taylor doubled and scored the Cubs' first run in the first inning and then touched off their two-! run third inning rally with a walk in the new season's first night game. Jim Brosnan and Don Elston throttled the Cardinals on six hits with Dolan Nichols and Ed Mayer seeing brief action during a seventh-inning jam.

Musial singled in the seventh inning to tie Ott for the National League total base mark. Don Larsen, the perfect-game pitcher, got the Yankees off to a perfect start with a four-hit shutout of the Ted-Williams-less Red Sox, who dropped their second straight game. Yogi Berra's two- run homer and doubles by Bill Skowron and Andy Carey accounted for all the Yankees' runs against "jinx-pitcher" i 11 a Nixon in the seventh inning. Billy Pierce Outpitchcd Jim Bunning out-pitched Billy Pierce in a battle of the AL's only 20-game winners of 1957 as the Tigers spoiled the White Sox' home getaway. Bunning scored the winning run himself in the seventh inning when he doubled and scored on Billy Martin's single.

An error by Lou Skizas made the White Sox' three third-inning runs unearned. Ned Garver, who won only six games last season, pitched a sev-, en-hitter to spoil Herb Score's! comeback and give the Athletics a 5-0 win over the Indians and Billy O'Dell's four and a third innings of hitless relief ball enabled the Orioles to beat the Senators, 6-1, in other openers. Boh Cerv's two-run double was the big blow for the Athletics as they ran up a three-inning, 3-0 lead on Score, who made his first competitive appearance since his tragic eye injury last May 7. Score struck out six in three innings but walked four and committed a wild pitch. O'Dell faced only 13 batters over the last 4 1-3 innings after taking over in a jam from Connie Johnson.

Gus Triandos knocked in two Baltimore runs with a homer and two singles and Brooks Robinson had a perfect day with a triple and two singles. By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK (UP)-The opening day schedule read: "Dodgers at Giants." But in the bowl under Coogan's Bluff, the Polo Grounds, ancient home of the Giants, dozed forgotten in the sunshine. One car sat forlornly in the huge parking lot and the silence was broken only by the squeaking wheels of a stroller pushed slowly along the sidewalk by a woman airing her child. "Report any change shortages by mail," proclaimed the sign over the gate. Air mall.

For the Giants this day were opening in their new home 3,000 miles away, In San Francisco. And their opponents were the new "Los Angeles" Like the More It was a funeral silence, there on the bangs of the Harlem River. For it was a day which marked the end of an era. Gone was a team which had been a fixture here since the elegant 80's, since the New York of the brownstone house, the gaslit street, the top hat and the hansom cab and such as John L. Sullivan and Diamond Jim Brady.

The yawning subway entrance built to accomodate eager thousands humming "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," echoed hollowly with one man's footsteps. It was a concrete catacomb under the graveyard of a club named one day in 1885 when frock-coated Jim Mutrie, its first manager, leaped to his feet in the frenzied heat of a close game and cried: "My big fellows. My Giants." In those days, goats browsed on the heights of Coogan's Bluff. On this day blank-faced apartment houses stared down in sad farewell. The stroller creaked back up the sidewalk and through the sunshine.

You could hear the muffled tread of a ghostly Mathewson, the "Big Six;" Wee Willie Keeler, who "hit 'em where they ain't;" roaring John McGraw and the serried ranks of such as Rube Marquard, "Iron Man" McGinnity, Roger Bresnahan, Frankie Frisch, Carl Hubbell, Freddie Fitzsimmons, Mel Ott, the stormy Stonehams, raucous Leo Durocher and "the brat" called Eddie Stanky. A Helluva Slide Behind those closed gates, on a day now lost in the baseball ages, a rookie named Mel Ott stretched a single into a head-down double and looked up to see teammate Freddie Lindstrom gazing down at him. "A helluva slide, kid," quoth Lindstrom, "but one of us is out. A flight of pigeons wheeled into the eaves and you saw again the way they scattered that afternoon in 1951 when a man named Bobby Thomson poled a pennant-winning home run which provided "the little miracle of Coogan's Bluff." Then, as you took one last look and walked away down the deserted street, it came to your mind how Bill Terry of these Giants demanded facetiously in 1934: "Brooklyn? Is Brooklyn still in the league?" And you knew that now it was no longer a joke. Brooklyn isn't.

And, sadly, neither are those storied Giants. Texas Tech Completes 1959 Football Schedule LUBBOCK, Tex. Texas Tech has completed its 1959 football schedule with the signing of Oregon State to play here on Sept. 26. That season will be the last for Tech before it moves into full Southwest Conference competition and the schedule includes games with five conference foes.

The complete 1959 schedule: Sept. 19 Texas at Dallas; Sept. 26 Oregon State here; Oct. 3 Tulsa here; Oct. 10 Texas Christian here; Oct.

17 Baylor at Waco; Oct. 24 Southern Methodist at Dallas; Oct. at New Orleans; Nov. 7 Arizona at Tucson; Nov. 14 Houston here; Nov.

21 at Fayetteville. LAMAR TECH FRESHMAN SANDOVAL IS SERIOUS THREAT TO NAIA RECORDS By BILL CLARK United Press Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UP)-A smooth-striding Chilean schooling in Texas looms as a serious threat to at least two National Assn. of Intercollegiate Athletics track records, NAIA spokesmen said today. Rnmon Sandoval, a freshman at Lamar Tech at Beaumont, already, owns the fastest mile recorded in the Lone Star State this spring and his most recent performance was only three-tenths of a second off the NAIA mile record of 4:09.4.

NAIA officials believe the 25- year-old Ramon could easily surpass the mile and half mile marks set a year ago hi the National Intercollegiate track event. This year's meet is set for June 6-7 at San Diego, Calif. Sandoval, owner of three South American and Chilean records, is a beautifully proportioned runner five years training. He is un- beaten in U.S. competition this year.

The son of a retired Chilean congressman, Sandoval whipped a fast field to cop the Texas Relays open mile recently and came back in his most recent outing to win a Houston meet in a time of 4:09.7. The mark was a full second better than the Southwest Conference record, Sandoval, who finished sixth in the 1,500 meter race in the 1956 Olympics, holds the South American 800 meter and 1,500 meter records along with the Chilean 3,000 meter high. By June, Sandoval may have two new NAIA records, both held by Occidental College stars. He will be shooting at Larry Wray's half-mile mark of 1:51.9, and then it would take a 4:09.3 to posf'a new high in the mile. S.

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Austin in Austin have signed letters of intent to enroll in the University of Texas, Coach Darrcll Royal announced Tuesday. Both Jester and Overton were Golden Gloves champions, Jester in the heavyweight division and Overton in the light-heavyweight bracket. Jester, 5-foot, 11-inch, 195-pound star, won a spot on the Texas Sportswriters second all- state team mainly on his defensive ability, but Texas End Coacii Mike Campbell, who. signed the pair, described him as a "fine runner." Overtoil is 5-fect, 10-fnchos and weighs 180 pounds, lie an All-District 13-AAAA pick at guard last fall. The university said two other Austin high school stars, quarterback Mike Gotten and halfback Bobby Nunis, have announced they will attend Texas but arc presently playing baseball and can not sign letters of Intent.

OLYMPICS INVESTIGATED DEROIT (UP)- Mayor Louis Miriani is putting his weight behind a move to get the 1964 Olympic games for Detroit. The mayor has asked city attorneys to investigate the possibility of drafting an ordinance creating a seven- member Olympic Stadium Authority to sell bonds for a $15,000,000 stadium. MILWAUKEE, Wis. The immediate military status of versatile Tony Kubek, the New York Yankees' American League "rookie of the year" in 1957, was up to just Tony Kubck today. Maj.

Gerald Mulrlne, commander of the South Side Army Reserve Center here, said the baseball star had firmed up plans last week to be inducted into the He- serve Thursday and leave for six months' active duty May 24. "But until he raises his hand and takes the oath of induction, Kubek can change his mind," the officer said. "He came to us voluntarily last week, passed our physical and written tests and approved of the Induction schedule we set up." Kubek, In New York for treatment of an injury suffered in spring training after his physical, sheds no light on his military plans. His father, Tony continues to tell newsmen in Milwaukee his son "is not going in the Army." Kubek, 22, does not face the draft for at least this month and next month. It Is too late to draft him in April, and a spokesman for the Wisconsin Selective Serv- ice headquarters at Madison, said his local draft board will not Induct any men In May.

"Kubek and a friend came to see us last week, inquiring about our Reserve setup," Mulrine "We talked socially for about 10 minutes about baseball and and then he took our tests and passed." Babe Ruth, Teen-Age Sign-Up Is April 23 Rcgistra tlon for the Babe Ruth and Teenage baseball leagues will get underway Thursday, April 24, at the Brownwood high school administration build- Ing. Boys in the league will be able to sign up between 12 noon and 2 p.m., and again from 3 p.m. until 5 The registration will tnke place either on the campus or In the foyer of the administration building. More than 10 per cent of all electricity sold in the U. S.

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