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Sweetwater Reporter, Sweetwater, Texas
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Sunday, Sept. 19,1948
lucky Plowboys Pulverized
By Ballinger Bearcats 13-0
The Gobs At A Glance:
Ballinger
First Downs 15
86 Yards Rushing 250
14 Yards Lost Rushing 9
0 Yds. Gained Passing 10
0 Passes int. by 1
5 for 25 i enaities 3 for 15
0 Fumbles 3
1 Fumbles 2
Hill and the Ballinger Bear-
cats defeated the fighting Ros-
coe Plowboys Friday night 13-0.
From the starting gun, Wal-
ter Hill, 185 pound Bearcat back
teamed with resting spell runs
by' Bell and Reese sparked the
visiting sqiiad as they punched
at the :line in the first quarter
for fifty yards to put the ball
within the eight and scoring dis-
tance. v
Early in the second period
Hill powerhoused the ball into
the end zone after the third Bal-
linger try had put the ball on
the two yard line. Hill's try for
extra point was no good.
Ballinger's second touchdown
came in the fourth quarter after
a Roscoe, Morris to Hainmack
pass was puiled in b.v Vansil on
the nineteen. Hill carried for
seven, dependable Bell romped
between lett guard and end for
twelve yards and the final score.
Hill split the uprights with an
Endicott held hall to make the
score 13-0 Ballinger.
Roscoe's valient hard fighting
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Plowboys were on the defensive
throughout the contest. Out-
standing defensive games were
turned in by guard J. B. Gulp,
end Cecil McEntire, and cen-
ter Kenneth Plunkett.
Proving to be the spark plug
from the "man under" position,
Jimmy Morris crowded the Bal-
lingerites with clear headed
thinking and swivel-hipped ball
manipulating, excelling in line
plunges and head on runs was
the Plowboy fullback, J. C. Chap-
man.
Showing much promise with-
in the tight playing was light-
weight left half Malcolm Ham-
mack.
In the Ballinger backfield Hill
carried the ball 29 times for a
gain of 140 yards. Bells total
after eight trys was 60 yards.
The Bearcats gained a total of
250 yards rushing and twelve
yards through the air. Roscoe
gained 86 yards rushing.
Seven of Roscoe's eight passes
fell incomplete while the other
was intercepted.
Friday night's game was the
jinx game for the Roscoe Plow-
hoys with no wins from the
Ballinger Bearcats since they
started play three seasons ago.
The .Starling Lineups:
Roscoe Pos. Ballinger
Wilkins LE Davenport
McEntire l/T Fulcher
Hendricks L" Vancil, J.
Plunkett (' Middleton
Culp RG Read
Clark RT Buchanan
McEntire RE Parrish
Morris QR Endicott
Hainmack LH Reese
Ratliff Rll ' Bell. S.
Chapman FB Hill
Braves Use Cardinal
Trick To Pull Away
From NL Competition
NEW YORK, Sept. 18—(UP)—
Borrowing a trick from an old
St. Louis Card deck, manager
Billy Southworth of the Boston
Braves was pulling away from
other National League contend-
ers wiih the greatest one-two
pitching punch ^iiice Dizzy and
Paul Dean wire in their prime.
Southworth, an old Cardinal
himself, is using Johnny Sain
and Warren Spahn on virtually
an ever.y other game basis and
if their arms don't drop off, lie
probably wil pitch them about
'the same way in the World Se-
ries.
Yesterday with Sain holding
second place Pittsburgh to eight
hits, striking out five batters,
and walking nobody, the Braves
scored a G to 2 victory. Today
it will be Spahn's turn to go
against the Pirates.
The Cards moved into a second
place tie with Pittsburgh by de-
feating the Dodgers, 1 to 2, at
Brooklyn as Stan Musial made
three spectacular catches and
Enos Slaughter anil Erv Dusak
also turned in fielding gems to
back Howie Pollet up brilliantly.
Pollet won his 13th game.
Johnny Vandermeer of the
Reds won his 15th game for one
of his best season records, beat-
ing the Giants 5 to 3 on seven-
hit pitching.
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Clyde Smackover Scott can do
, just about anything. Last year
the University of Arkansas All-
, America kicked only twice but
i averaged 47.5 yards per try. A
' speedy triple-threat, Scott
showed the world he can also
I scamper on the cinders. This
summer he placed second in the
I 110-meter hurdles in the Lon-
don Olympic Games, holds the
I school javelin record. Scott
makes the Razorbacks excep-
• tionally dangerous this fall.
Texas Wallops LSU;
Villanova Crush Aggies
Two out of four Texas teams
brought home the game ball for
their state and alma mater Sat-
urday with the other two losing
to higher class elevens as pre-
dicted.
The two squads in the win
column was Texas University's
Longhorns 33 to !) victory over
Louisiana State, and Texas Chris-
tians 14-13 chill-raising win from
Kansas.
Abilene Christian College bow-
ed to the highly touted Arkan-
sas aggregation. The Texas Ag-
gies lost their seven point lead
in the second quarter and ran
in the wake of the revenging Vil-
lanova 34-14.
Texas U. sent their Longhorns
SVvt,
STANDINGS
FRIDAY'S RESU<S
Longhorn League Playoff
Off-night.
Texas League Playoffs
Houston 7, Tulsa 6 (Tulsa
leads series, to 1).
Shreveport 7, Fort Worth 1
(series tied, 2-all).
Lone Star Playoff
Kilgore 9, Henderson 2, (Kil-
gorc wins series. 4-3, and will
meet Longview in the final play-
off).
Big Stale League Playoff
Off-night.
WT-NM Playoff
Off-night.
National League
Cincinnati 5, New York 3.
St. Louis 4, Brooklyn 2.
Philadelphia 6, Chicago 3.
Boston 6, Pittsburgh 2.
American League
New York 13, Detroit 5.
Cleveland 4, Washington 1.
Boston 9, St. Louis 3.
Philadelphia 9, Chicago 6
< night).
into first season battle against
held the edge from the start as
the Louisiana State Tigers and
Quarter Paul Campbell led his
boys to decisive win to give
Texas U. a string stand in the
race for the Southwestern Con-
ference champiot'ship.
The TCU Horned Frogs pulled
the game out of the fire in a
brand of football that is all their
own. Playing harder in a tight
the Frogs took all that the Kan-
sas eleven could offer and throw
them back by one point.
Proving that pre-season pre-
dictions weic true the Villanova
Troupe met the Texas Aggies,
spotted them seven points in the
first quarter and came back
strong to score touchdowns for
four extra points, Coach Harry
Stiteler made bis debut as Ag-
gie Coach at Franklin Field in
Philadelphia.
Abilene Christian College trail-
ed Arkansas 32 to 14.
Tony Zale Reports
No Good News For
Challenger Cerdan
NEW YORK, Sept. 18— (UP)—
They're saying again that Tony
Zale looks bad as he trains for
his middleweight title defense
against France's Marcel Cerdan
at Jersey City on Tuesday night,
but the can't sell that to tough
Tony.
"1 am confident that I am in
better shape now than I have
been at any time since before
the war," Zale said with a grin.
"I feel even better than I did be-
fore my two wins over Rocky
Grabiano. I'm always in fairly
good shape but, now I'm right
again—so let 'em talk."
Tony is 3-1 but that's right
confident chatter from the usual-
ly quiet gent with the ripping
l ight hand. 11 sound like bad
news for the flailing Frenchman.
Outdoor Texas
By LLOYD LARRABEE
By O. B. LLOYD
U.P. Staff Correspondent
With the open season on
pronghorn antelopes less Ijian
three weeks away, the Texas
Game, Fish and Oyster Com-
mission has come up with a few
facts about the fleet-footed ani-
mal.
For instance, not too many
years ago it was generally be-
lieved the antelope Was related
to the wild goal. Not so.
Actually, say the game biolo-
gists, the pronghorn isn't phy-
sically related to the deer, the
wild goal or the giraffe. Yet he
has characteristics common to
each.
The antelope has two hoofs on
each foot. So has the giraffe.
The pronghorn is similar lo a
goal in tlial it has musk glands
in its gall bladder.
It has forked horns as do the
deer. But the horns of the an-
lleopo are made of agglutinated
hair. Instead of shedding them
entirely as a deer does, the
pronghorn simply casts off I he
outer shell, leaving a honey-like
core on which a new shell grows.
Also, both sexes of the prong-
horns have horns.
To top it all, hunters who will
hold an antelope permit, won't
lie hunting antelope al all. The
true antelope is a native of
Africa. This particular beast
has been here all the time.
According to some biologists,
he's simply the American ver-
sion of the African McCoy.
However, Texas hunters will
have it better than the hunters
of some other states. Specifical-
ly, Colorado, New Mexico and
Utah. Were they hunting their
I antelope in those states, they
j have one shot-—period.
If they bagged their animal,
line. Bui if they didn't, Ihe cur-
tain still comes down. In Tex-
as, the law still says fire away.
The hag is strictly limited, but
Ihe gunpowder isn't.
Of the 743 permits to be is-
sued this year, 20 per cent of
them will go to ranch owners
on whose land the antelopes
will he hunted.
In all, that accounts for 147
of the permits.
From last year's batch of
hunters, I H I wanted to come
back for another try. But the
(;;imo, Fish and Oyster Com-
mission gives a first priority
to those who have never hunt-
ed a pronghorn before.
That left 70 permits to be di-
vided among Ihe Ifil applicants.
The decision as to who would
get what, was settled on a draw-
ing downe by three reporters of
the Capitol press corps.
The drawing went off smooth-
ly ami efficiently, except for a
slight note of confusion injected
by one melon-minded newsman.
lie claimed to have misunder-
stood his invitation.
lie thought he was drawing
cantaloupes rather than ante-
lopes.
Meantime, the salt water fish-
ing was holding its own. Re-
ports indicated catches of Span-
ish mackerel off Port Isabel.
Red fish and flounder were be-
ing taken off Port . Aransas.
Flounder was getting a play.
However, most of the catch
was befng taken in the bays.
The winds were still a little high
on the gulf itself.
Dutch Neatherlin
San Angelo roared out of
the depths of a first week de-
feat to down the Lubbock West-
erners 21 to 13. Lubbock after
their opening game 7-7 deadlock
with Odessa had moved from
ninth spot to the fourth position.
They will have to either move
the Odessa and Lubbock aggre-
gation down or make a place in
there for San Angelo. Because
it looks like they belong.
* *
The second running Kerrville
eleven lost face last night as the
Brownwood Lions picked up a
12-0 win.
The Lions, it seems, have a
powerhouse this year. They
racked up 10 first downs to six
for Kerrville, gained 227 yds.
rushing to 100 yds. for the losers.
Sweetwater plays Brownwood
next week-end. That will be the
first real test for the darkhorse
Ponies.
+ * *
Abilene's Fagles got their
wings clipped in Brackenridge
Friday 2t!-7. Still they looked
good and are not to he counted
out.
* * *
Monahans turned their slight
edge prediction into a 20-7 win
over the Rotan Yellowhammers.
* * *
Odessa has one win and one
tie to their credit as they romp-
ed over the North Side eleven
20-7. Odessa gained 406 yds.
rushing.
* * *
Roscoe just couldn't get start-
ed against the Ballinger Bearcats.
They lost 13-7. There was a big
crowd out.
* * *
Tomorrow night in the Ros-
coe High'School Stadium there
will be a Donkey Baseball game
with team members made up of
the Farm Bureaus of Roscoe
and Sweetwater. Umpires will
be W. C. Cleckler and M. T. Point-
er. Western records will add
proper atmosphere to the game.
Admission is (10 and 30 cents.
That is all.
SMU And Texas On Top
Of Choice SWC Squads
DALLAS, Texas., (UP) — De-
fending champion Southern
Methodist and parennial con-
tender Texas are the favorites
for the 1948 Southwest Confer-
ence grid title, but their backers
ers warily eyed three other po-
tent teams.
With the bulk of their
bowl squads bach, the Mus-
tangs and Longhorns loomed
as the class of the seven-
nieniber loop that furnished
tour bowl teams last. New
Year's Day.
But, experience also runs deep
in the camps at Rice, Arkansas
and Texas Christian and any one
of the five could emerge with
the crown without causing too
much of a furore.
The hex that's never per-
mitted a peacetime Southwest
champions to repeat dogs the
SMU Mustngs, despite the pres-
ence of Ail-American Doak Wal-
ker, "clutch" star of last year's
great Pony eleven which played
in the Cotton Bowl. Question
marks exist at blocking back, both
ends and at center with reserve
material too thin for comfort all
along the line.
Offensively, the Mustangs look
great with Walker. Wingback
Paul Page, Fullback Dick McKis-
sack and Pin-Point Passer Gil
Johnson returning. Then, there's
Sophomore Kyle Rote, the Texas
schoolboy sensation who report-
edly can do everything with a
football.
Coach Blair Cherry has only
major gap to fill at Texas, but
one major gap to fil at Texas, but
much of anyone to fill in where
Blond Bobby Layne stood for
four big years.
Slender Paul Campbell,
Layne's understudy last year
and a veteran scholar of the
"T" school, has been nomi-
nated and the Ijonghom's
fate will ride on how well he
can accept that responsibil-
ity.
Almost the same group that
opened the 1947 campaign ;ws
heavy favorites was hack under
Jess Neely's guidance at Rice this
fall, and, with the pr essttre off
this season, the Owls should be
in the thick of things. They^
get four conference foes in their
own humid climate and that of-
ten is worth a touchdown for
the Owls.
At Arkansas, Clyde (Smack-
over) Scott paces a brilliant
group of 19 lettermen as he
starts his sixth year of varsity
play (two of them with Navy)
and if Coach John Barnhill can
uncover a couple of good tackles
from the biggest squad in the
look, the Razorbacks definitely^
will he contenders.
Fast-closing TSIJ, too, has most
of last year's surprising team on
hand and if Coach Leo (Dutch)
Meyer can come up with a passer
and a tackle or two, there's no
reason why the Horned Frogs
can't have a lot to say about the
December crowning.
Only Baylor and Texas A. & M.
are being counted out of the
title running at this stage of they,
campaign, but if conference cus-"
torn holds up they will throw
a scarce or two into the favorites
before the fall is over. Lettermen
are plentiful at both schools, but
Coaches Boh Woodruff at Baylor
and Henry Stiteler of Aggieland
haven't tiie caliber material to
go against the rest of the league.
National Women's <•
Golf Meet Finals
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif., Sept.
Grace Lenczyk of Newington,
Conn., and Helen Sigel of Phila-
delphia, two golfing gals who
slug the ball farther than nearly
all the men stars, faced each
other today in the 36-hole final
round of the Women's National
Amateur Golf Championship. V
Miss Lenczyk, a husky Junior
at Statson College, Deland, Fla.,
was favored over the tiny Miss
Sigel, 28-year-old veteran.
Notre Dame On Way To
National Grid Crown
NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (UP)—
Weep no more, by Leahy, he-
cause ynur Notre Dame team
appears headed for the National
Football championship this year.
As lovingly as Coach
Frank Leahy clutches his
ever-damp crying towel with
plaintive pleas for more
strength at tackle, it's well
nigh impossible to estab-
lish any olher team as fav-
orite lor the mythical
crown Ihe Irish shared with
Michigan last year.
True, there are other pos-
sibilities. Minnesota has one
of those pre-war murder, inc.,
lines that battered down every-
thing but the depression in the
'30's. There are rumblings of
new-found power from Califor-
nia and Oregon. Talented Penn
State rules the east, and below
the Mason-Dixon there's flash
and fire in North Carolina, Geor-
gia Tech, Texas and Southern
Methodist.
But in that football inecca
of South Bend, Ind., Leahy's
losses from the 1947 team
are more than compensated
by the talent scattered
among the 24 returning let-
termen.
Minnesota, rebuilding long
and hard after a war-time col-
lapse has the line to shoot the
works, hut ihe whole future is
up to the hacks. Michigan,
Shorne of many of the stars
who made Rose Bowl history
last season, will he a threat
nevertheless.
The west coast, strictly sec-
ond division in the National
picture since the war, has re-
covered, too, the Pacific pundits
would have you believe. Cali-
fornia and Oregon are the top
dogs, shooting for a Rose Bowl
berth and a showdown with the
swashbuckling confidence of
the Big Nine.
The Southwest well could
produce top contenders for
the national title in Texas
smd Southern Methodist,
the same pair which fought,
it out for the conference
crown last year. The trou-
ble with that league, how-
ever, is that it's always so
topsy-turvy there's seldom
a standout.
North Carolina has Choo-Choo
Charley Justice, who is to a
football team what Carter is lo
liver pills. Georgia Tech has s>>
much talent even Coach Bobby
Earl Wood
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big year.
Penn State doubtlessly will
run roughshod over the opposi-
tion, but the schedule is a kind
one with only two opponents of
nearly national stature and
without a single first-ten team.
Kansas and Missouri figure to
battle it out in the Midlands,
and the victor in that dog-fight
surely will he bowl bound. But
again you have a case of good
teams, although not good
enough to pull a David on the
Goliaths.
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