Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 84, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 9, 1950 Page: 3 of 24
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Opens Tuesday
The fourth Longhorn League baseball season begins
Tuesday night, April 11, with opening games at Vernon,
Midland, Ballinger and Roswell. These contests will kick-
off a 154-game schedule.
All eight clubs have veteran managers with many years
of baseball experience behind them. The Longhorn League
is expected to have its toughest pennant grind in 1050, as
each club will be allowed an extra veteran player.
In Tuesday's opening games, Sweetwater plays at
Vernon; Bin Spring goes to Mid-
land; San Angelo opens in Bal-
linger; and Odessa travels to Ros-
well.
All of the above except San
Angelo and Ballinger will play
two games at the first sight and
then move to the other team's
park for a t wo-day series. In the
Angelo-Ballinger ease, the two
clubs switch playing sites each
night during the first four
games.
A trophy will again be award-
ed the league town that has the
largest turn-out at its opening
game, according to loop Presi-
dent Hay Sayles. Last year San
Angelo, with a crowd of 3,500,
copped the attendance trophy.
The opening day results last
year and where they played—
Sweetwater (2) at Odessa (6).
Ballinger (2) at San Angelo
(6).
Vernon (0) at Big Spring ((>).
Midland ( I) at Roswell (5).
* * *
Only three of the 194!) Long-
horn Leagues clubs have retain-
ed their managers for another
year's service. Odessa will again
have Alex Monchak, a veteran
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second baseman: Midland will
be piloted again by the funny
round-man, Harold Webb, who
doesn't play himself; and Big
Spring has Outfielder Pat Stasev
back.
Monchak led the loop in 1949
in home runs with 35, total runs
with I 17, total bases with 329
and stolen bases with 30. In ad-
dition, he was the top fielder at
the second base post and partici-
pated in more double plays than
any other player in the circuit.
He batted .335.
Stasey, manager and co-owner
of the champion Broncs, has led
the league in hitting the last two
seasons. He finished the 1949
campaign with a lusty average
jf .376, batting in 109 runs in
collecting 160 hits.
Webb is one of the most color-
ful managers in the league and
is a crowd-pleaser with his many
unties in the dugout and coach-
ing box.
* * *
New .Managers
The other five Longhorn clubs
will be headed by new man-
agers. They include:
SWEETWATER—Johnny Bot-
tarini, 38, a catcher, who started
his professional baseball career
in 1933, going direct from semi-
pro to the Pacific Coast League.
With Seattle in '34 and '35, he hit
.343. The following year he bat-
ted .340 at Los Angeles. Bottarini
was with the Chicago Cubs two
seasons. After Army service, he
played at Albuquerque and was
manager at Clovis in 1948. bat-
tina .350. For the last two months
of '49 season he was manager at
Temple.
ROSWELL—Tom Jordan, who
was out on the West Coast last
week looking for pitchers, will
be valuable to the Rockets in
both the managing and catching
roles. The former Texas Leaguer
is a long ball hitter and poled .297
in his last TL season.
VERNON—".littery Joe" Ber-
ry brings a wealth of experience
to the Dusters. In addition to
his duties as manager of the
Dusters. Berry will act as relief
pitcher for the Vernon club. Ber-
ry has been called the greatest
relief pitcher the Philadelphia
Athletics ever had.
SAN ANGELO— James C.
(Jimmy) McClure, a pitcher with
:i fine change of pace, heads the
Colts. McClure piloted the El
Dorado, Ark. team in the Class
C Cotton State League last year,
i He is a southpaw pitcher and
I won 21, lost seven games in '49.
B ALU N C E R — Arnold C
(Dutch) Eunderburk, 33-year-old
I native of San Saba, will be play-
jer-manager of the Cats. He is a
| veteran catcher. He played with
| Temple in the Big State League
last year. Eunderburk played
'with Greenville of the same cir-
| c-nit in 19-17 and 19-18. He has
been in organized ball since 1938,
j spending most of the time in the
'3t. Louis Browns system.
Newsomc
By SliKKTKB NHWSOME
Former major It-ague .shortstop
managing Wilmington of the
Inter'Btate League
(MCA Special Series)
My biggest skull in baseball?
It was by own skull, the way it
felt when I was beaned twice
within eight months.
I was a young shortstop with
the Athletics — struggling for
base hits — in
August of 1937,
when we went
to Bridgetown.
N. J., to play an
exhibition game
i g a i n s t semi-
professional all-
-itars.
A pitcher by
the name of Jim
Duffy, who is
something of a
legend around
Phil a d e lphia
sand lots, beaned
me, and I was
out six weeks.
I had no bad after-effects, and
you couldn't even call me plate-
shy after that because the way
I hit, it must have looked as
though I were plate-shy all the
time.
But in the spring of 1938,
when the A's were in Norfolk
for an on-the-vvay-horne exhibi-
tion game with the Piedmont
Leaguers, 1 got it again—but
good.
Norfolk had a fast-ball pitch-
er named Schmidt—never heard
Iof him since then—and he
| knocked me out hitting me right
I above the left ear.
Everyone in the park thought
j 1 was dead, the way I dropped
at the plate, out cold. I didn't get
Iback into uniform until the last
17 games of that season.
Actually, my Biggest Boner in
I Baseball came in 1940. when I
was with Baltimore. We were
playing Rochester.
I came up to bat with big Red
: Howell on first base, sent a slow
hopper to shortstop. I smelled a
I base hit. tore across first base
j without a play being made on
! me.
Bui lo and behold, the pon-
derous Howell was forced at
second on the play, and instead
| af a precious hit. I had nothing
{to my credit but a fielder's
j choice.
I was so mad when 1 pulled tip
I after crossing first base, that I
i took my time coming back, look-
| ing down, kicking the dirt and
I muttering to myself.
The next thing I knew I was
| in the coach's box and Harry
Davis, the Rochester first base-
man. was lagging me out.
Mike Rvba. the pitcher, had
|gotten the ball back from second,
and seeing me wandering
around, had thrown to Davis.
| The umpire ruled that 1 had
taken too long returning to the
bag, that I wasn't anywhere
near it anyhow, and 1 was out.
The Red Sox later drafted me
from Baltimore, and 1 had the
pleasure of being a big leaguer
again for several more years.
They must not have been scout-
ing me that day.
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versa.
Vernon Dusters
Sweetwater, Texas, Sunday, April 9, 1950
ith New Owners
VERNON,' April 9, — ' TRe
Vernon Dusters are starting the
1950 season under new manage-
ment in the front office and on
the field.
The Wilbarger Baseball Asso-
ciation, made up mostly of bus-
iness men in Vernon, bought the
club from the Huntlevs during
the winter.
First move of the new owners
was to bring in "Jittery" Joe
Berry as field pilot. Berry, a
slight lefthanded pitcher, owns
a colorful diamond career that
has taken him to both of the
major leagues.
Berry broke into organized
baseball back in 1927 and later
pitched for the Chicago Cubs
and Philadelphia Athletics. It
was during his stay with the
A's that Joe reached his peak
as a relief hurler. As late as
1918, he had a 4-2 record with
I'llIsa in the Texas League and
this year plans to see plenty of
service in relief roles.
"For a bunch of rookies our
team has been showing up ex-
ceptionally well this spring,"
Berry says. "1 expect to have a
real ' hustling ball club, plenty
of spirit and the will to win. I
hope it stands up."
Berry thinks he has a flock
of promising rookies, but he
lists four as outstanding. They
are Catchers Carl Hayes and Art
Herring, Outfielder James King
and Third Baseman Gene Neal.
The Dusters have been par-
ticularly rough on the opposi-
tion in spring games and only
recently polished off Pampa of
the Class C, West Texas-New
I Mexico loop. 11-5.
Back with the Dusters are two
| of the league's top 1949 hurlers,
Albert Richardson (9-5) and
| Darvin Chrisco (17-8). Richard-
j son's ERA record of 2.02 was
' bettered only by Big Spring's
j Humberto Garcia. The team also
I has Clifford Craig. (7-10) from
| last year.
Only experienced infielder is
I Bill Peeler, first baseman, ob-
! tained from Sweetwater in a
i winter trade.
Luke Easter Can
Hit 'Em All!
OKLAHOMA CITY, April 8.
(UP) — Luke Easter, the Cleve-
land Indians' negro giant, will
start against all types of pitch-
ing. manager Lou Boudreau
said today.
"Easter's been hitting right-
handers and lefties," Boudreau
said. "He leads the club in al-
most every hitting department.
1 was thinking of alternating
entire outl'ield combinations
depending upon the pitching
but Easter has made me change
my mind. I think he's going
to hit lefties as well as eight-
ies."
Easter singled twice against
southpaw Monte Kennedy Fri-
day as the Indians prounded
out a 16 to 12 victory over the
New York Giants. Joe Gordon
knocked in seven Cleveland
runs with two homers and catch-
er Ray Murray also homered
! with the bases filled.
him to pay Corbett $32,000, but
that "there still could be some
hitches in the deal."
Edmondson only recently sold
his franchise at Pampa, where
he had operated since 1942. Cor-
bett took over the El Paso fran-
chise last year after operating
it nearly two seasons for the
Boston Red Sox.
Corbett. then a west coast
scout for the American League
club, interested the Red Sox in
the El Paso franchise in May.
1917. when it appeared the club
miglit fold, and operated it for
them through 1948.
Edmondson. who once played
shortstop for Tyler in the East
Texas League, said that detail-
still needing to be worked out
included transfer of the lease
on Dudley Field, owned by the cuse club of the Interna
city, and on disposition of re- League and served as pr«
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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/m1/3/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.