Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 84, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 9, 1950 Page: 2 of 24
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ig Spring, 20-16
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The Sweetwater Swatters play their final exhibition
me at Ballinger this afternoon against Manager Arnold
iutch) Funderburk's Cats. The Swatters do not play Mon-
day night. They open the Longhorn League season at
Vernon Tuesday night.
* * *
BIG SPRING—Friday night the Big Spring Broncs,
champions of the Longhorn League, looked like everything
but champs when they faced the Sweetwater Swatters.
Johnny Bottarini and his
Sweetwater club blasted Big
Spring, 20 to 16, in one of the
wildest exhibition slugfests
of the season.
The Swatters banged out
20 hits—including six home
runs—in beating Pat Stasey's
Cubans.
One of the circuit clouts was
by the Sweetwater relief pitcher,
Jerry Jones, who poled one over
the fence in the eighth with the
bases loaded.
Thomas Guinn, the Swatter
left fielder, slammed two over
the walls; Right Fielder Edward
Machado sent one to the high
heavens; Center Fielder Boh Sal-
asky got a four-bagger a n d
Catcher Matt Schulick put one
out of the park.
Lee Gatewood started on the
mound for Sweetwater and was
credited with the win. The Swat-
ters were never behind in the
ball game.
Fred Haller. the deluxe Swat-
ter shortstop, led the hitting pa-
rade with four hits in seven
trips. Ray Bauers, Sweetwater
first baseman, connected for two
-for-three, and Larry Roach,
third baseman, got two-for-two.
It was a rough night—as well
as a good night—for the batters,
too. Four players were hit by
pitched balls.
* * *
The Sweetwater exhibition
record: (Not including Saturday
night's Swatter-Ballinger game):
Albuquerque 19, Sweetwater 4.
Sweetwater 9, Roswell 8.
Sweetwater 20, Big Spring 16,
How Big Is Sweetwater?
Prizes totaling $100.00 will be awarded by the Ocie
Hunt Insurance Agency for the four estimates of Sweet-
water's population that are closest to the U. S. Census
Bureau's announcement expected about May 1.
First prize $50.00; second S2a.00; third $15.00; fourth $10.00.
In case of ties, duplicate awards will be made. Only one entry
to the person, but each member of the family may enter. No
restrictions as to territory, race or color. No one connected
with Ocie Hunt Agency or census takers may participate.
My estimate of the population within the limits of
the City of Sweetwater is
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midnight, April 17.
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Friday night's Swatter-Bronc
box score:
Sweetwater (20) AB R H PO A E
Haller, ss 7 3 4 5 4 2
Bart, 2b 6 2 2 6 1 0
Guinn, If 6 3 2 1 0 0
Machado, rf 6 2 2 0 0 0
Bauers, lb 3 2 2 3 0 1
Salasky, cf 5 2 1 3 0 0
Roach. 3b 2 1 2 4 0 0
Olari, 3b 1 1 1 4 0 3
Schulick, c 1 1 1 0 0 0
Finley, c 3 1 1 0 0 0
Clatewood, p 3 1 1 0 0 0
lones, p 2 1 1 1 0 0
Totals
45 20 20 27 5 4
Biff Spring (16) AB R
Gomez, cf 8 2
DeCardenas, If 5 2
B. Gonzales, rf 6 2
Pascual, 3b-p 5 3
Lopez, 2b-3b 6 2
Castenada, ss 3 0
Baez, lb 5 1
Doe, c 3 1
Reyes, c 1 1
Piloto, p 0 0
L. Gonzales, p 2 1
HPOAR
Vega, p
Sampere. p
v-Bravo
1 1
0 0
6 0
I 0 0 0
10 0 0
Totals 44 16 15 27 20 2
k—Struck for Vega in 8th.
Sweetwater
Big Spring
243 213 140—20
011 523 004—16
To Roswell
The big boys of the West Tex-
as-New Mexico League—the Al-
buquerque Dukes—were beaten
by their New Mexico neighbors,
the Roswell Rockets of the Long-
horn League, 9 to 3, Friday night
at Sweetwater in an exhibition
game.
Roswell lost a game Thursday
night by the identical to the
Sweetwater Swatters.
A triple by Shortstop Russell
Mayes in the ninth inning with
two men out drove in the
winning run for Roswell against
Albuquerque.
John Jakubob—who gave up
only six hits and three runs in
six innings — and Bob Spence
pitched for the Dukes. Spence
got the loss. Bill Knoke and Bill
Guthrie hurled for Roswell,
with Guthrie the winning pitch-
er.
Including in the 13-hit Rocket
attack were two doubles, three
triples and a home run. Knoke
hit the homer. The Dukes did
not collect an extra base knock.
The line score:
Roswell .... 000 210 321-9-13-5
Alb'que .... 100 311 020-8- 8-5
Knoke, Guthrie and Martinez.
Jakubob, Spence and Bartolomei.
Runs batted in: Haller, Bart, Guinn 5,
Machado, Salasky 2, Roach 2, Olari,
Schulick 3, Jones 4: Lopez 6. Baez,
Reyes, Vega, Sampere. Three-base hits:
Pascual, Reyes, Vega. Home runs: Guinn
2, Machado, Salasky, Schulick, Jones;
Lopez 2. Hit by pitcher, by Gonzales
(Roach). Vega (Finley). Gatewood (Cas-
tenada. DeCardenas). Winning pitcher: I
Gatewood. Losing pitcher: Piloto.
Barbecue
For Players
And Fans
A big get-acquainted barbe-
cue honoring the .Sweetwater
Swatter baseball players will be
held at Sportsman's Park Mon-
day night at 7 o'clock.
Tickets to the barbecue sell
for 75 cents each. No tickets will
be sold after 11 a. m. Monday,
it was reported. Men, women
and children are invited.
A large crowd is expected to
"eat out" with the Swatters at
this barbecue and become bet-
ter acquainted with them. The
Longhorn League season opens
Tuesday night. Sweetwater plays
at Vernon on that night.
Tickets to the barbecue can
be purchased at Armor's Drug,
No. 1, Bowen Drug, Catching
Drug, Blue Bonnet Drug, Dar-
nell's, and Ella and Irene's
Cafe.
Rifle, Pistol Club
Wll Hold First
Shoot On April 23
At a regular meeting last
Thursday night, the Sweetwater
Rifle and Pistol Club decided to
hold a shoot on the fourth Sun-
day of each month this year.
Both rifle and pistol shooters
will cooperate.
The first shoot is scheduled for
Sunday, April 23, according to
Club President L. T. Weathers
Ir. The shooting gets under way
at 2 p. m. at the rifle range back
of the airport.
Weathers said that :z2 rifles at
50 and 100 yards and any caliber
pistols at 25 yards will be used
in the monthly shoots.
There are now 30 members in
the Sweetwater Rifle and Pistol
Club. Five new members who
joined last week—Jesse R. Reed,
T. T. Brady, Bryant Taylor,
lohn B. Darnell Jr. and E. B.
Herndon of Trent. Reed and
Brady will be pistol instructors.
Both are of the state highway
patrol department.
Regular meeting nights of the
marksmen will be on the first
Thursday of each month.
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Swatter Line-Cp
With the opening of the Long-
horn League only two days
away, Sweetwater fans are won-
dering who will make up the
starting Swatter line-up for 1950.
As a whole, the Swatters have
looked much more impressive in
the exhibition series than they
did at mid-season of 1949. Of
course, there's a couple of gaps
to be filled, but these should be
worked out shortly after the
campaign is under way.
Business Manager Frank
Meeks reported Saturday that
the opening Swatter list will be
released Monday.
The Albuquerque Duke squad
left Sweetwater following Fri-
day night's Duke-Roswell game.
* * *
THK QUESTION in the minds
of many Sweetwater fans is:
"Can the Swatters get a better
start than they did in 1949?"
The Sweetwater team lost 15
of the first 17 contests last sea-
son.
The Swatters had fine play-
ing material last year. Some of
the '49 Sweetwater players will
lead Albuquerque to another
West Texas-New Mexico pen-
nant.
As most everyone knows, the
whole trouble last season was
the lack of a capable manager to
handle the young ball players.
There was dissension in the
club and by the time it was
straightened out, the Swatters
were too deep in the cellar to do
anything about it.
* * *
THIS V'KAR Sweetwater has
a manager of proven ability.
Johnny Bottaraini is a fine ball
'player and gets along swell With
his players.
Those Swatters who are re-
turning here this season are
confident that Sweetwater will
be fighting in the first division
this summer. Of course, those
boys who are "new" to Sweet-
water will be playing at their
very best in order to advance
in organized baseball.
* * *
THIS ARTICLE is not meant
to "soften up" the Sweetwater
fans or make some of them
change their opinions of the
Swatter ball club.
If the fans don't give a hang
about the Sweetwater team,
then how will the players feel
about Sweetwater?
Before we fans pass judge-
ment on the Swatters, let's wait
a while and see how they will
do with our support. Then if
they fall, that's the time to be
critical.
And a good onoortunitv to get
acquainted with the players will
be at Monday night's barbecue
at Sportsman's Park. Please buy
your tickets before 11 a. m.
Monday, as none will be sold
at the gate since the Chuck
Wagon Gang must know in ad-
vance how many to feed.
Yes, it should be a great sea-
son. For one thing it will make
or break professional baseball in
Sweetwater.
Horace Stoneham out of his
stand-pat policy.
So the word going the Na-
tional League rounds these days
is that Durocher is going to
have to produce—or else. For
now he has the kind of club he
wants at the Polo Grounds and
in'order to get it he persuaded
Stoneham to give up some play-
ers ■ the Giant owner did not
want to let go.
If the team fails to produce,
Durocher no longer can blame
anyone but himself. Stoneham
went out and got him the play-
ers he wanted, but few baseball
people feel that the Giants are
going to be in the pennant pic-
ture.
They have pitching, catching
and fire base problems. There
have been no indications from
the spring exhibition game re-
sults that Durocher has solved
any of them.
However, there is one de-
partment in which the Giants
undoubtedly have improved and
that is in the middle of the in-
field where Alvin Dark will hold
forth at short arid Eddie Stanky
at second.
A rookie, Jack Ilarshman,
who hit 40 home runs at Min-
neapolis last season, and Henry
Thompson, the Negro who hit
.280 for the Giants after they
brought him up from Jersey
City in mid-season will round
out the infield.
Both are question marks for
Thompson played second base
last season and now is taking
over third. And Ilarshman has
been hot and cold at the plate
and it remains to be seen wheth-
er he will hit major league
pitching.
Two-thirds of the outfield is
set with Bobby Thomson in
center and Whitey Lockman in
left. They are being counted
upon to furnish the team the
batting power it needs.
The third Garden spot prob-
ably will go to Don Mueller,
who in 51 games with the team
in 1949, batted only .232 and
was shipped down to Minneapo
lis where his mark was .311.
Unless Rookie Sam Calderone
comes through, Durocher may
be up against it for catching.
Calderone hit .316 with St. Paul
last year and has been getting
most of the work in exhibition
games. He has looked good.
The pitching thins out after
the "Big Four"—Larry Jansen,
Dave Koslo, Montia Kennedy
and Sheldon Jones. They won 53
games between them last sea-
son, Jansen and Jones coming
through with 15 victories each;
Kennedy with 12 and Koslo, who
led the league in earned run av-
erages, with 11.
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Opening Day Tkkets
On Sale At Catching
Drug Store Here
Opening day tickets for the
Sweetwater Swatter - Vernon
Duster baseball game here
Thursday night are on sale at
Catching's Drug Store.
The standard price through-
out the league for these opening
day ducats—and only the open-
ing day tickets—sell for $1.
Children tickets are 25 cents.
"Miss Baseball of 1950" will
also be announced in a special
ceremony Thursday night at. the
Swatter-Duster game.
Fans can buy their tickets in
advance at Catching's in order
to avoid the rush at the box of-
fice and congestion at the home
opener.
Schwartz Will Return
Bob Schwartz, right-handed
pitcher, will report to the
Sweetwater Swatters this week.
Schwartz joined the Sweet-
water club at the latter part of
the season last year and com-
piled a 2-7 record.
The Swatters purchased him
outright from Seattle, Wash.
jethroe Looks Good
And Bad With Braves
LYNCHBURG, Va., April 8,—
(UP) — Manager Billy South-
worth of the Boston Braves just
can't figure how Jim Jethroe
can look so good and so bad al- .
most simultaneously. 9'
Jethroe reached base his first,
three trips against the Cincin-
nati Reds Friday and came
through with a brilliant run-
ning catch in the outfield. Then
lie circled under a routine fly—
poised himself—and dropped the
ball!
The Braves won, 5 to 4, on
outfielder Willard Marshall's
ninth-inning homer off left-
hander Harry Perkowski. 4-
HKSTBIJil FARMED OUT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April
8, (UP) — The Pittsburgh Pi-
rates sent four players, includ-
ing Dino Restelli, their mid-sea-
son batting sensation in 1949,
to their Indianapolis farm club
in the American Association to-
day.
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Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 84, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 9, 1950, newspaper, April 9, 1950; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth283791/m1/2/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.