Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 308, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 24, 1938 Page: 2 of 8
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Good Mark
Realm
Jenkins Visits
Fefcner Trainer Ahd
Praises Amateurs
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Letfc' Jonkins, "Sweetwater
8watteih" who has been making
a success of a series of profes-
sional lightweight bouts in Dal-
las visited his former home here
Tuesday and Wednesday, but
hurried oack to Dallas to get
into training for his bout April
1 with Jack Sharkey.
Sharkey is from Minneapolis,
and rated amon^ the first ten
lightweights of the nation. It is
a real test for the young Texan,
and he wants to be in top con-
dition for the match.
Sweeps Six Bouts
Jenkins has won his six pro-
fessional bouts by the knockout
route, packing a terrific wal-
lop and with lots of stamina.
H6 can dish it out, and he can
take it, is tough as a hoot. In
his last fight lie kaycred Hay
Sarana in the second round. His
longest fight was with Louis
Ariola of Florida, whom he flat-
tened in the fifth stanza.
Lew started out in Sweetwater
three years ago, when Bobby
Clark taught him the rudiments
of the art of self-defense in
the backyard of Clark's home.
He boxed in carnivals for a
period, and then the professional
promoters took him in hand.
See BOXER Page 4
TOMMY'S CHOICE
Tommy Farr, British heavyweight, and his lovely bride-to-be.
Eileen Wenzel, former member of the Zicgfeld Follies, are shown
above at Chicago airport, en route from New York to Los Angeles.
The coople have announced they probably will be married within
tlie next few months.
POLITICAL
Registered
Optometrists
s Expert exami-
nation and
glasses correctly fitted. Re-
pairing and broken lenses
duplicated.
J. P. MAJORS, J. B. MAJORS
License—Bills
can borrow 4Ik; money
yow need today in 15 minutes.
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Over Wool worth's
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Please those who are Careful
of their Appearance.
Hand Made Boots
BRANTLEY'S SHOE SHOP
LADIES !
Learn to bowl—it's excel-
lent exercise and you'll
enjoy every game.
Sweetwater Bowling Alley
Room and Meals
Home Cooked Meals
(V ibson Inn
;IH 10. Broadway
I ICIOII'S PLACE
110 Oak
IW <;<>orl Steaks,
Chops, Plate Lunch
Short Orders
Sandwiches Cold Beer
Protection audi
preservation oM
precious vision
"Glasses Fitted ONLY
When Necessary."
OR. P. T. Ql AST, O. D.
The Reporter is authorized to
announce the following candi-
dates for office, subject to ac-
tion of the Democratic pri-
mary, July 23. 193S:
For District Attorney:
ZOLLIE C. STEAKLEY
GEORGE W. OUTLAW
TRUETT BARBER
For District Clerk:
MYRTLE ROBERTSON
For County Attorney:
E. L. DUNCAN
For Sheriff: * !
TOM WADE T
JESS LAMBERT
JACK YARBROUGII
D. II. ALSUP
For County Treasurer
MRS. G. W. COCHRAN
MRS. S. N. LEACH
MRS. A. J. PARKER
County Judge
CHAS. W. LEWIS
For County Clerk:
E. K. WILLIS
MARSHALL MORGAN
J,. W. (Dock) SCOTT
For Tax Assessor-Collector:
JOHN HALL
RAYMOND BISHOP
For Supt. of Schools:
JIM WEATIIERBY
ED. F. NEINAST
R. W. (BOB) BOYD
MRS. S. II. STANFIELD
For Commissioner:
Precinct 1:
MELVEN THOMPSON
('HAS. U. COLE
C. W. (Charley) HOPKINS
CHARLIE IIAGGERTON
J. C. (.lake) GRAY
PAT MAYES
J. M. (Jim) 11 HATCHER
LEWIS KERBY
EARL DUVALL
ROBERT L WAS1I
H. P. HA I IK INS
Precinct 2:
H. r,. WITT
LEROY JOHNSON
It. L. SHAFFER
TOM II. MAYFIELD, JR.
W. R. (Buck) JOHNSON
Precinct II:
J. R. (JIM) PAYNE
O. S. MOORE
For Constable:
Precinct, I:
N. D. REEVES
For Justice of the Peace;
Precinct I:
S. H. SHOOK
!Gophers Arrive
{For Texas Relays
AUSTIN—The earliest arriv-
i als on record for the Texas
'l relays are Minnesota's Golden
Gophers from Minneapolis, Min-
nesota, who took their first
workout at Memorial Stadium
Tuesday in preparation for the
11th Relays April 2.
Coach Jim Kelly and eight
t racksters h a v e established
themselves in a local hotel and
will take daily workouts on the
cinders where, in little more
than a week, the greatest South-
western and Midwestern stars
will cavort.
Spring vacation at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota afforded the
Gophers this chance to spend
10 days in Austin prior to then-
first outdoor appearance of the
season.
Riflemen To
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Stage Hidden
Treasure Match
Outdoor Range For
Club Shoots Acquired
With National Guard
A hidden treasure match will
be the main event of the regu-
lar session of the Sweetwater
Rifle and Pistol club tonight on
the National Guard Armory
range. Visitors as well as mem-
bers may enter this match.
A novel manner of conducting
this hidden treasure match has
been worked out, wherein the
novice has as good opportunity
as the experienced marksman.
First prize will be ten boxes
of long rifles shells donated by
J. II. Tubhs, with a retail value
ol' $3.50. Second prize is $1 cash.
Entrance fee is 50 cents, to
boost the pale club treasury.
Itange Acquired
An outdoor range on the With-
ers farm has been leased by
Captain W. C. Scales of the Na-
tional Guard unit, of which ren-
tal the rifle club pays half for
the privilege of holding outdoor
matches.
It is reported that the Sweet-
water club is one of the better
organized in the state, and
plans to contribute heavily to
Sweetwater as the "Recreation
Center of West Texas" through
matches with other clubs in the
area. A membership drive is in
progress with the aim set for at
I least 50 members in the near
j future.
Sport Shots
By WALT
Don't forget that tonight open
house will be observed at the
amateur training quarters in the
Sam Glass building, over the J.
C. Penney store. Bobby Clark,
trainer, Invites the fans to drop
in during the evening and in-
spect the new equipment just
purchased, as well as the facili-
ties previously provided through
support of Sweetwater fans.
Bayl(
Lew Jenkins, "Sweetwat-
er Swatter" who has been
boxing in Dallas and visited
his former home this week,
gives promise of rising in
the lightweight ranks. He
is fighting about each two
weeks, and it may be that
be is fighting plenty. It has
been observed that good
young boxers often are rush-
too much. Two stiff fights
a month is plenty for any
man, no matter how good.
I A merica's Greatest!
Sweetwater's Own!
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Slarl iny
SAT.
MARCH 26
SWEETWATER
Auspices Musician's Post
American Legion
T. .1. \
TIDWELL
SHOWS
and
Ornival
or Awards
Basket Letters
WACO — (UP) — Basketball
letters were awarded today to
eight Baylor University players
and to nine members of the
freshmen team.
Lettermen were: Hubert Kirk-
patrick, Mart: Wilson White,
Axtell: Clarence (Bubba) Gern-
and, Beaumont: Buck Avey, Ala-
mo, Tenn.: Sherman Barnes,
Galveston: Charles Boswell. Wa-
co: Lacy Creasey, Waco: and
James Salman. Whitehouse.
Freshmen — Frank Bryski,
Chicago: Arthur Bronstad, Clif-
ton: Trasker Havnes, Waco: Wal-
ter Gernand, Beaumont: Jack
Lummus. Ennis; Orville Mor-
rison. Fort Worth: Robert Nel-
son, Bryan: Joe Terry, White-
house, and Jerry Walters, Can-
ton.
'Peddlers' Fined
In Roscoe Court
ROSCOE — Seven itinerant
peddlers, women selling a type
of surgical bandage, were taken
into Roscoe city court to face a
charge of selling from house to
house in the city limits.
One of the women was fined
Si 1.50 and all given their liber-
ty with the admonition to leave
without further peddling.
Action ol' the city was based
on an ordinance of the* City of
Roscoe, designed lo protect the
regular established businesses
of Roscoe from such competi-
tion and housewives from an-
noyance.
Nutritional Check
At Junior llif/h
A nutritional check-up for
ilie entire John II. Reagau jun-
ior high school is being conduct-
ed Thursday under the. direc-
tion of Miss Ernestine Frazier
of tlie Nolan County Health
Unit.
Uahc Hunt, promising Oklaho-
ma heavyweight, dropped into
oblivion when a iiiaiiaKcr who
had liini tinder contract for a
year, matched him to death iu
tlu; effort to cash in on the eon-
tract to the fullest, extent. It
is doubtful is Italic ever would
have reach to|* ranks, for lie
was a had trainer aild a mean
hoiubre outside the ring, in-
clined to match himself outside
the ring at the least provoca-
tion. Yet too many bouts in a
short period did not help him.
It. takes patience to make a top-
notch boxer.
Spring practice, in its third
week at Newman field, is show-
ing the Mustang coaches what
they have to do in order to put
a good team on the field next
fall. Right now it looks like
the Mustangs will have to take
to the air. for their lack of j
running plays and light, inex-
perienced line preclude a strong
ground attack, the coaches de-
clare. So the boys are being dril-
led in passes, with the hope
that they can pull another
"Sammy Baugh" out of the air.
For Your HEALTH
A Complete Drugless Health Service /
Chiropractic — Massage — Electric Treatment
Colonic Irrigations—Vapor Baths—X-ray
Rooms for Patients
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E. A. Dann, D. C.
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p|JteK>r to Sweetwater Reporter.
"Let Us Prove It"
WAIT
AND
WATCH
FOE THE
GRAND OPENING
SAIED DEPT. STORE
Coach A. A. Autrey is
holding his junior high
school squad out of spring
practice until the county and
district track and field
meets are concluded, the
first this week and the lat-
ter April 8-9. Reagan hopes
to cop a good portion of
events to be contested, and
the gridiron spring session
is being delayed in defer-
ence to the trackmen.
lid Lancaster and bis commit-
tee on prizes for the annual golf
tournament April I -1-17, made
progress with their work in a
meeting Tuesday nijihl. Other
groups are working, ami it looks
fine for the tourney . . . And
may we remind you Dial the
Friday sports round-table will
he held at the Itankhead rale
tomorrow between I and
o'clock. Kvery sports enthusiast
is invited for this informal dis-
cussion. YOl" and VOl' are cor-
dially Invited.
College Sahermen
Stage Tournament
COLLEGE STATION - Crack
men and women fencers from
Texas and Louisiana will battle
for top duelling honors Friday
and Saturday, March 2(1-27,
when the Southwestern Fenc-
ing League will have its annual
tournament at Texas A&M Col-
lege. More than 100 are expect-
ed to participate.
Team Capt. A! Goodstein. of
the Texas Aggies, will seek to
capture the Southwest saber
championship for the third
straight year. Joe Leinhart,
Shreveport. La., will be back to
defend the foil and duelling
sword championships he won
the past year.
It isn't always necessary for
a man to be engaged in the
actual competition on the play-
ing field in order to be of great
value to a ball club. Sometimes
there are figures behind the
scenes that play a prominent
part in a team's success.
Take Johnny Gooch, for ex-
ample. That former great cat-
cher does not appear in the
Pirate lineup, yet he is a migh-
ty force on the club and con-
tributes largely to the welfare
of the Buccaneers as bullpen
catcher and coach of the young
pitchers.
Hmooth Handiwork
You can read the smooth and
masterful handiwork of Gooch
in the development of Ituss
Bauers and Jim Tobin into
winning first-string pitchers
last year. Those two rookie
hurlers were comparatively
greeii minor leaguers when
they came to the Pirates in the
spring, but before the season
was over both wer6 winning
regularly, pitching like old-
timers and causing a lot of talk
around the league.
Bauers and Tobin together
won a total of 19 games while
losing only nine, a rare showing
for a couple of green recruits.
In each case, the development
was due mainly to the smart
and patient coaching of Gooch.
He cured tlie kids, of the wrong
way and taught them the right
way. Johnny did an especially
good job in making Tobin for-
sake ineffective side-arm pitch-
ing and perfecting him in the
overhand style which brought
such good results.
22 Years In (■nine
After 22 years in the profes-
sional game since he started
in the Georgia-Alabama League
in 191G, Gooch knows every-
thing that is worth knowing
about baseball. He saw nine
years of catching service in
the National League, seven of
them with the Bucs, and the lat-
ter have not won a pennant
since Johnny helped tiiem cap-
ture the flags of 1925 and 1927.
In each of those years he caught
three games in the World Series.
So he hasn't missed a ' thing.
Pirates Sacker
Lewis Talks Of
Schmelirig flkrtit
CHICAGO — (UP) — Heavy-
weight Champion Joe Louis
walked into the office of the
Illinois Athletic Commission in
a salmon-pink suit striped with
red, blue and tan and the place
began to buzz with talk of Max
Schmeling.
Harry Thomas was little more
than a spectator until he re-
minded the crowd he and Louis
will fight for the title at the
stadium April 1. They went
through a brief review of the
Illinois boxing code, tried on
their new gloves, settled the
bandage question without batt-
ing an eye, and again the talk
shifted to Schmeling.
Every move Louis has made
in training for the Thomas fight
was with one eye on the Ger-
man challenger- who knocked
him out in 1930.
Hill Kulir, first baseman for
the Pittsburgh Pirates, is a
valuable and dependable mem-
ber of the infield. He will be
with the "Smoky City" team
when it plays the Chicago
While Sox In Sweetwater,
April 7.
'Poker-Face' Helen
Prepares Comeback
NEW YORK — (I'l'l Mrs.
Helen Wills Moody'.- reported-
come-back became official to-
day when the United Stales
lawn tennis association announc-
ed that the former queen of
tlie courts had been named to
the W'ightman cup team.
A spokesman for the associa-
tion assured the United Press.
• If Helen can play winning
tennis with the team against
England at Wimbledon in June,
and carry out the rest of her
proposed campaign successful-
ly, her achievement will es-
tablish her unquestionably as
tlie greatest woman tennis play-
er the game ever knew."
Independents
Red Docs took two games of
three from Independents in the
Sweetwater Bowling League
play Wednesday night, spotting
ihe losers 10 pins in each frame.
Meredith was high for single
game with 188, and for total
by
score with
Clary with
Wednesday
ICed Does
Meredith
Lancaster
Peters
('lary
Kinsev . .
Totals
I ndc|irndcnts
B. White. Jr.
Smith
Foster
Wittmer . .
Dowell
I landicap
Totals
185,
183.
Night
followed
Summary
I 12
155
188
485
104
150
157
477
140
147
110
433
134
175
174
483
132
139
135
400
712
772
800
2281
1-10
130
113
395
1 13
1 12
147
432
105
135
150
450
133
139
148
420
105
103
148
470
10
40
40
120
752
715
700 2173
After leaving the majors, John-
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in 1936. A great man on
job.
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 308, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 24, 1938, newspaper, March 24, 1938; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth290318/m1/2/: 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.