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PAGE FOUR
Tune in KRBC
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Friday Evening, March 8. 1946
Weldon to Join Eagles
In Tourney Play loday
___________1 Big Red Weldon will leave early |
IT'S LIKE THIS
League Gelling Ready to
Add Baseball to Program
By HOWARD GREEN
D ASEBALL will probably be added to the Interscholastic league
Dprogram by the spring of1947. *
A three-man committee, composed of C. W. Bingham of South
Park, Beaumont, W. T Hares of Cameron and Irby Carruth of
Waco are r ng the state or the reaction of school men
teran sports editor of the Lubbock Avalanche-
rusader for high school and junior baseball.
Journal
comments: •. #
-THERE has been one prime factor used to argue against the
baseball pr gram being added and only one that really
count- Schools say the season is too short to get anything done
in the •„ , i baseball This is especially true in this part of the
state where warm baseball weather is hardly here before school
is out.. _ -
"But there has been a way found to eliminate that. The
Amer can Legion program has branched out into a really big thing
The Sch - can start off the team and when classes shut down for
the summer the American Legion can step in, and carry on _ .
The football minded schools will argue that baseball interferes
with spring football Football is a great sport, bu: 1 have never
yet seen one ounce of good done with a spring football training
Pf-Waco high school has an athletic program that includes base-
ball Yet s x of the starters on the co-champion Waco high football
team played on the baseball team last spring It that comes from'
interference w th the spring football training, I would say give us
more interference.". .
There is :her school in this area that has one of the best
athletic programs of any school we know of. That is Petersburg
high school, just over the line in Hale county—They will play
baseball th - seas n. we have been assured by Supt Sidney Reeves
There are a lot of bigger schools that could well copy the lead
being set by Petersburg
AfIKE HUGHES, former Abilene Christian end is coaching at
•* Putnam
The speedster from Baird was one of the better Texas con-
ference wingmen in the early forties He has another year of
eligibility and Coach Tonto Coleman is hoping for him to return
to school next fall.
| today for Austin to join the Abi
I lene Eagles in their fight for the
1 state high school basketball champ-
ionship. They play Greenville in
the first round at 4 30 o’clock.
Weldon, the Eagles’ high scor-1
ing ace, has been ill with a sinus,
infection but was greatly improv-
ed last night. He isn't expected
to be able to play all of the game'
but should see some action
Billy Murphey, also on the ailing
list, will not make the trip. He
is abed at home
The Eagles took a brief workout
late yesterday afternoon on the
Gregory gym floor with Hubert
Middlebrooks and Gene Landrum
occupying the first string spots
normally held by" Weldon and
Murphey.
Winters and Eula bowed out of I
the tournament yesterday
Winters, competing in the Class
A division, lost to Quitman, 33-49.
after lead ng at halft me. 19-18.
Eula was beaten by Marfa. 33-
27. but Van Retherford of Eula
was individual scoring leader with
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ten points. The Callahan county "T" • • T
team was competing in the Class . u sAIMP m
Crozier Tech Favored Ilallllliu I TUgIGIl
To Take AA Tourney -
WEST BADEN. Ind. March 8— starts his boxing drills
AUSTIN, March 8 — P—Final- P—A four year period away from Louis, arriving tired with
isls in the class A and class S strenuous training for ring war- party of tour alter a 287 mile drive
divisions will be determined today fare ended today for Joe Louis,
in the state schoolboy basketball
hi
from Chicago, found the signs of
The world’s heavyweight box-spring everywhere. Buds were
ing champion launched a 49-day swelling on trees, fat robins chirp-
in the start of the championship tuning up program at this village ed and flowers were poking their
drive in the blue ribbon class— spa in the first phase of his condi- heads up from the rapidly drying
the AA—where a team from Dallas tioning in preparation for the de- soil The temperature hit 64 yes-
—Crezier Tech—continued to pick tense of his title against challenger terday.
up backing as the outfit to beat Billy Conn in New York s Yankee
tor the title. stadium June 19.
tournament but major interest well
Tech rolls against Thomas Jef-
ferson ot San Antonio, a pre-tour- at
nament favorite, in the opening —
TOHNNY HOWELL, who regulared in the Abilene high school
J three seasor s been promoted from corporal to
sergeant at B wman Field Ky He’s chief mail clerk
Howell, who entered the Army Air Forces nearly three years
ago recently reenlisted f r another six months He s due a dis-
charge in mid-summer .
During a re cent weekend pass, Johnny took in the sights of
New York City for the first time
game at 3 15 p. m. Around Greog- , ■ ■
org gym the officials and sports araAre I —
writers were talking mostly about D000eTS
LVugVE EUVA
the coaches of competing teams
.....Good Pitchers
Without exception an onlooker at Mt Murry baseball practice
is Jack Steger talented southpaw first sacker from Wylie Steger,
an all-round athlete will become an Indian come autumn He s
one of the most prom sing baseballers in the city. At 15, he starred
in the city softball circuit last summer.
Cats Potent in Backfield, Center
Of Line: Need Ends and Tackles
If a football team could play
without tackles and ends, Tonto
Coleman would be up in the ozone
over his Abilene Christian Wild-
cats.
He has a great array of backs
and whether he likes to admit it
or not. there’s exactly nothing
wrong with the center of his line.
•But.' points out the always
pessimistic Wildcat mentor, "you
never could win football games
without fair to middlin' ends and
tackles. Next season they'll have
to be great. We might have our
| best team and still not win a game.
"At ACC, we have neither quan
tity or quality. We don't have a
single end who has ever played
football and just one tackle.”
He hastened to add that the rules |
| call for two.
Rather than elaborate on what
I Coleman doesn't have, let's look at is
his backs and the midsection of E
his forward wall. They have never
been better.
In the secondary he could field "
an all-letterman combination com- W
posed of Bert Brewer. Buster Dix- i
on. Bill McClure and J. E. Mullins F
Brewer was the ace climax run- i
ner of the Texas conference in
1942. He’s fast as ever (track work
cuts prove it) and weighs a solid
155 pounds.
Dixon, now tipping the scales at
185, has three years of service
TONTO COLEMAN
I Among first year enrollees are
Mick Mason, 180. one of the In-
terscholastic league's top scorers
at Plainview in 1940; Bill Carter
of Weatherford, who played fresh-
man ball at North Texas State: V. m
T. Smith, 180. Ventura, Calif., a
big rough wing-loot; Floyd Hill.
175, Pleasanton; Charles Morris,
165, Abilene, an exceptional pass-
er. and Barney Moore, 150, Win-
ters,
Another back who may return
is Royal James, a first stringer at
TCU as a naval trainee in 1943
Coleman may solve the end sit-
uation by switching some of his
backs.
Possibilities for the terminals A
are Dub Winkles, 180, and Sam "
Stovall. 200. Their experience is
limited but both may develop.
They should be glue-fingered pass
catchers.
Lone tackle is Gladstone Me-
Lennon of Lueders, 185, who was
i a first stringer in 1942. Willard
I Paine is a possibility but the hus-
Iky Merkel lad may transfer to
Auburn in order to pursue a
course in advanced agriculture. A
Coleman has one of the great
linemen of Abilene Christian his-
tory in Dock Stovall, who previous-
ly has played guard and tackle
He'll center next trip which means
Friday Evening
Madrid
Big-Three
Inciting S
LONDON, Marc
Madrid radio, com
teroffensive again:
co campaign abroa
the United States
ifance today are
civil war in Spain
"These governn
generously express
- Spain may not ag
to the horrors of c
ly incite us to civ
note which craftil
warfare by decep
there is no place
radio, quoting th
paper ABC, said
"It is not we, bu
• x x who raise
barrier against th
of power to the J
whose only meth
and slander."
The note referr
power condemnatic
of Generalissimo
co, who yesterday
in an impromptu s
and commented t
which had been re
il war must disapp
Texan Meet
NEW YORK.
Michael O’Rand,
air forces member
England the day
gave birth to a son
the first time yest
baby and the moth
Trans World airlii
The son. Michae
now five months C
ahose home will
Texas, were marri
.____________ the position is in all conference
Coleman says, when speaking of hands.
Playing behind Dick will be
Well, he looks like he might Marcus Culwell, fourth allstater
I be all right " -from McAllen. Dub Orr of Vernon
Those who know Tonto inter- and John 1. Higdon of Abilene,
pret this to mean: Higdon may ba shifted to a
"He’s whiz. 1 think he'll be a guard.
The Alexander boys. James of
spectacular workman
football behind him. He was among JUICING* sage........-•.......o -
the elite of the Southwest during any of his raft of freshman backs:
his stay at the Lubbock Army Air
Field.
Mullins as a great kicker, block-
er and all-round back. McClure is
strong defensively despite lack of
heft and a valuable, although not
«
great boy.”
This stimulating spring advance
was refreshing to Louis, discharg-
Three Abilene
The second phase begins May 1 ed last October after serving three
Pompton Lakes. X. J . when he years and nine months in the
------------------------------Army He appeared eager to get
started.
Louis, who will be 32 years old
Teams on Border
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Pioneer and Bob of Pleasanton,
and Charlie Floyd are the top
ranking guards.
James Alexander and Floyd are
lettermen while Bob Alexander is
a transfer from the University of
Arkansas.
AUC prospects are excellent The
backfield material is top-flight and
you 11 never see a Coleman-coached a
team which isn’t strong in the line. S
Lightweight Champ
on KRBC Tonight
on May 13, weights 220 pounds. Twenty-six Abilene tracksters, in the schoolboy division.
13 above his fighting weight. He representing McMurry, Abilene The Abilene team is led by H
plans to melt off this excess by Christian and Abilene high school, D. Terry, muscular sprinter, who
, , walking and jogging over the hilly are in Laredo today for the Bor-placed fourth in the state meet last
No. 1. 0000 Kieners countryside for an hour each der Olympics, first track and field spring.
- s of Lufkin VvOu I IIUIIUI 3 morning engage ingother outdoor festival J * season Both MeMlurry and ACC are trou
DAYTONA BEACH. Fla . March - • • •. meals dam He also will Coach Vernon Hilliard of Me bled by leg injuries. ACC sace John
-J. • TOdA the panthers 8 —-—For all their preliminary play golf and ride horseback He Murry is carrying a ten-man squad Saunders, has ′ orm
--------- * nsu or ent ReEhippins - *~* ~* Foliosmiamtencoi ne CeN SEKCOI OMIRE DILL amothe
the: prepared to meet Jet Davis ,- -2-------J------- His training will be all out-of- have eight apiece. war Wildcat track ace wont even
lower that valiant ring master, Professor doors There will be no gymna- Neither college coach expects to make the trip because ot injuries
- - 'score in the open class, but the The entries:
1 ■ 1 McMurry - Charles Broughton.
Floren Hoeffer. E. C Barry, Doug
Cox, Billy Schultz. Clinton Dewitt
George Dawson. James Carver, Bill
Shie id and Gene Sutton.
Abilene Christian — X T Smith
Saunders. J E Mullins: Bert Brew-
er Mac Bartee. Clay Nicks. Bob
Alexander and Bill Carter
of Houston, another favorite in of three ring circus conducted by
the feature game of the ------- , t
bracket • „, Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn slum work, no boxing The Brov
, . . - ,Dodgers still lack pitching and Bomber will remain here until Eagles may pick up a heavy tally1
atee res first -basing of big league caliber. April 26 and then proceed to -----------------•-----
' Pete Rumneis star for sard. , k If they do better than third place. Pompton Lakes. _ _ ...
: out w - Fred An- in the National league this year I ‘ - s. w ith his retinue, is quar- West Texas Vies
Phillies I hrottle FEU a hard it should call for a congressional tered in a 38-room. two story white WILL cWacterm
Braves in Exhibition k ......' be able to play investigation frame hotel which caters to ne. With Southwestern
rove in - " - - ' . ’ nadotee iiicicreM the new Flatbush baseball em 5 exc-’le'v^fw ma Re CANYON Starch 8
VIA MI BE ACH. Fla March 8 ville at 4 30 p m Brownwood en- pire is, of course, just aborning 1 a block off the Texas State and Southwestern uni
Cat PTumcomoinemimtapman fscAmoos 2 % and Lunu" Rack aal hoc FenaT niel time tnis mam s eet fne Sinker strasele versiycdeiisech here ton en Abilene high school - T<"''
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Bar-taneenetonnam sip Re MX P EXPT RA- en * nd the SNooerpenhp METEML 44 5041 Daulton and Bill Williams
the. Weldon. 6 foot 3 center and the redo oflounsg ball players admaire day yesterday, explaining, “you’ll Texas was awarded two teams in
4 n a Hanthe teams - a scorer, ailing and w n time say those who admire have to stay away until I see Mr this tournament and these places
5 : - loot Finch due to pla mly briefly if at all E. Branch’s methods, he will give Louis. Wait until he gets settled lay between West Texas, the state’s
2Boston ome Pen, went seven in this morning class B semi-fin-Brookdin, apaftsof fireball Play: He may not want to have his pic-leader in the Border conference.
. lected .. 5 off tree was x -- -?he was removed als Perrin which yesterday knock- er Plus pennants, until that ture taken Southwestern champion of the
ton pitches scoring twice off Sid -or. - ----- -er removed ed ” in fax rite Mt. Enterprise basebail happy borough is surfeit. Louis will straighten Mr Smith Texas conference, and university of
Hudson in the ........’-'. ------------------.----------29 € -- Marfa. 33-27 vistor ° He has lined up. in all. 17 ball out on this Heshad contact with Houston, champion of the Lone
. off Vern C rt - in the fifth. Dick r Eula ( . while Johns ibs to which he can parcel out photographers before Star conference.
Plainview Course dereated Sweeney 26. future Brooklyn greats, where -----------B. I or a oin. Chiversity of dent of the new organized Veter-
Gen Pro-manogerDodgers Now Gionts =..-==============
All three Washington runs were PLAINVIEW March 8 - > - Sr main a Gilmer meclashes in other words, there will be a NEW YORK. - P—Three for narticinate in the tournament footballer and trackster and hauls
unearne ■ one of them coming in The Plain ew municipal country w th Paredena in today s class A happy day in Brooklyn, but it isn t mer Brookly n Dodgers are mem- , , ,
the first inning and two more in club and golf c rse will be man sem finale , lowing the class B ver. Richey, at the moment, is not bers of the Giants They are fat- playing for the other spot.
the third all off Virgil Trucks., aged by C W Bill Keith form- penultimate round prepared to deliver to his field chers Ernie Lombardi and Ray
Rookie Eddie Ly -. had two of er pr at Amarillo 1 11 crest club. - ----—. manager. Leo Durocher, the ath Berres and Pitcher Van Lingle | The mastiff is the largest and
wash neton h Joe Kuhel rove after Apr West Point was f nded in 1802 lete of whom poems are written Mungo most muscular dog
Champions Open
By Beating Nats
LAKELAND, Fla March 8—P
— The world champion Detroit
T gers opene i their F rida exhi
bition - with a 4 t
3 victory over the AN ashington Sen
ators.
The Tigers using 16 men col-
Cox Heads M Murry
Veterans Club
Vicious punching Tony Pellone
above fast - sing Ne w York welter.
1 pits his ambition and yo ith against
the experienced ring raft of Boh-
eat" Bob Montgomery world light-
we zht champion, at Madison Square
Garden tonizht.
This lightwe ght ten rounder is
e
er. his in another with a single
HEAVY ARTILLERY INEFFECTIVE
19
Douglas Cox was elected presi Montgomery’s first Garden start
1 since returning to civilian life In
a Montgomery . Pellone meet • a fory. 1
off an Kansas City to meeting held Monday Cox is a seasoned for wh ′ 11
participate in the tournament footballer and trackster and hails with rock power-and boxing skill:
West Texas’and Southwestern are from Ballinger The Bobcat" always seems to grow
Other officers elected were Gene stronger as a fight progresses.
Dalton, vice-president. Alton Me Pellone, however is fast-on his
Quill pens were first used in the
sixth century
CHEST COLD
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tight chest muscles - 6 A
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MENTHOLATUM
New York’s Giants Lacking in Pitching, Speed and Balance
By HARRY GRAYSON that pitching is from 75 to 90 per off his curve. Bob Joyce and his ____________________— _
Clesky, secretary treasurer. Buck feet and with his fi-ts He moves in
Francis, reporter and Johnny and out with hewildering speed mix-
Brookshire and Bud Wheeler, exe ing an effective left hook with a
cutive commitee Dean W B Mc I smashing right uppercut.
Dainel is the Veterans club ad- Enjoy the excitement blow-by-
i blow on Gillette: Cay alcade of Sports
over American Broadcasting ( o and
KRBC (1450 on sour dial) at 9 pm
viser.
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NEA Sports Editor cent of baseball soft stuff accounted for 31 in the
Miam Fla — NEA — The The Polo Grounders have no pit. Pacific Coast League last season
ed power, ye n be counted on for 15 more than 20 in each of the last 4
with rather dismal prospects victories yet no big league outfit wanted
strik -c - Vlustrate why a major There is not a member of staff the 31-year-old right-hander until
league player must do considerab- who . pitched 15 complete games Mel Ott took him in desperation
y me re than swat the sphere for in a craton Bill Voiselle being the That about wraps up the pitch-
magnificent distances top kick with 14 Ing and it’s hardly a prize package
With all ’heir strength at the So . is feared that the Iron No wonder Mel Ott views the
- . e to pick prospe its with a wry face
aren’t ; nE anywhere in particu shore he left off last trip When Horace Stoneham paid
-ar which * additional evidence wihe , he was rushed to the rescue the ( ardinals $175 000 for Walker
on 65 occasions Cooper he should have gone a
t € * bagzed 21 as a fresh- little farther and lined up some-
man two years ago. hut went to body for the m,n from Missouri
pot last season after, copping set en to catch
straight wound up being fined With no reflection on Cooper,
$500 for failing to follow insific-
in pitching to Johnny Hopp,
the St Louis flychaser broke
game The line was later re-
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scinded
The old pros are Van Lingle
Mungo and Hal Schumacher Mun-
co completed only seven games in
1945 Schumacher captured only
12 in 1942 and did no pitching
in three years in the Navy which
makes his unique among bell play,
answered the country’s
Mike Budnick, six-foot three-in-
who is anything but a trailing ar-
butus. it is a sad commentary on
the Giants speed when you say
that the big backstop, who defi-
nitely will be out of the Navy
April 1. probably will be the fast-
est man in the batting order
The only others who can run
are center fielder Johnny Rucker,
a substitute, and Buddy Kerr, who
for some strange reason has been
ch 200-pound right-hander who
oks like a pitcher is the big hope.
Drafted from Seattle in 1942. he
hook a sacrdllac condition that
relegated- to the second squad des-
pite the fact that he improved at
shortstop the past two campaigns.
Cooper will be backed up by
Schnozzla Lombardi and Clyde
Kluttz, making the catching decid-
edly better than adequate
For the nonce the Giants have
an entire new infield— Johnny
necessitated a brace, developed into
a star at Bainbridge Naval Train- Mize. Bobby Blattner, Bill Rig-
ing Station There he won nine ney and Mickey Witek, too heavy,
in a row and in the Pacific (opted for second but two-baggerish
Back from the armed forces are
bespectacled and lubbery Bob Car-
penter who cant pitch in the
heat and Dave Koslo, a left-hand-
er with a sinker
Harry Feldman invariably winds
up losing one more than he wins.
Ace Adams .. . looks like he’ll do plenty of rescue work. _
bat for Uncle Sam
when discharged by the Marine
WITH TUITION PAID ?
Here’s important news for
young men 17 and over. 1 nder
the GI Bill of Rights, if you
enlist in the U.S. Army for 3
years upon your discharge you
will he entitled to 18 months of
education in the college, trade
or business school of your own
choice. Tuition up to $500 per
ordinary school year will he
paid. And you will receive $65
monthly living allowance—$90
if you are married. Get the
facts at your nearest U.S. Army
Recruiting Station.
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...cu ... ...wu Ju. ...--_...... The bespectacled Rigney, pur Corps in April.
enoush to lock after third. The chased from Oakland and who de The poke represented by Mar
veloped in the service will do at shall, Ott Mize. Cooper, Lombardi
shortstop and then some provid Young and Gordon should account
ed he hits a Nick and the hunch for a lot of runs especially when
is that the angular Californian will, they shoot down the Polo Grounds’
Squatty and muscular Sid Gor- friendly foul lines in 77 games.
don in left field belts a long The Giants lack pitching, speed
ball So does Babe Young in cen-and balance, however, and they
ter but he cant throw Ditto Wil- happen to be highly important in
lard Marihall. who is expected to gredients which render the heavi-
replace Manager Utt in right field eat artillery totally ineffective.
ancient and honorable Dick Bar-
tell is still among those pres-
ent and accounted for. Kerr un-
doubtedly will break into the pic-
ture somewhere, most likely at
second base, for there is some
Rube Fischer did not complete reason to suspect that ‘ good field,
a game ir 1945 Screwballer Jack no hit." will- be a thumbnail des-
Brewer has too many bad pitch- cription of Bud Blattner, obtained
ing habits, one of which is tipping from the Cards before he went to
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