Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, February 10, 1950 Page: 2 of 8
eight pages : ill. ; page 21 x 17 in.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
m
Finale
Play Brownwood
Saturday Night
Saturday night at Howard Payne gym in Brownwood,
t]he Sweetwater Mustangs get the chance of their lifetime.
At that time the Sweetwater High School basketball team,
leaders in District 5-AA, are up against their final foe in the
district race—The Brownwood Lions.
A basketball championship
looms for Sweetwater if the Mus-
tangs come out victorious. The
Lions are out of the race for the
title, hut the Brownwood pres-
tige can be highly elevated with
a win over the Ponies.
Brownwood has the shortest
team (in heighti of District 5-
AA. But they have played the
other schools to the wire while
winning oniy one game and los-
ing five in conference play.
.Tames Blake. Wayne Dean and
Don Low are the big three in
the Lion line-up. Blake is the
fourth highest scorer in district
play.
The Mustang starting fi\e is the
best club produced at Sweetwa-
ter in manv years. The last
time a Newman High School bas-
ketball team won the district title
was back in 1940.
Riley Cross, Carl Nunn. Doyle
Brunson, D. C. Andrews and Ron-
ald Hraley are the Pony start-
ers—and they usually play the
whole game. Brunson anil N'unn
are one-two in scoring in the 1
district,
Capable Mustang reserves are i
John Ohlenbusch, Clyde Rollings-'
worth, Boh Game), Shorty Hag j
gerton and Meiade DeGaish.
The Mustangs had to strike |
like lightning in the second half
to beat Brownwood in the first,
round of play here. The score
was tied up, 19-19, in the third |
period. That's when Andrews j
started hitting for the Mustangs i
and Sweetwater came out the
winner, 44 to 25.
SPORT A
PURTO
By Bud Worn ham
Gypsum, Divide Win
Independent Games
Here Thursday Nigbl
District 5-AA
Team
Sweetwater .
San Angelo
Abilene
Big Spring
Brownwood
standings:
W
5
4
3
WORLD RECORD — Mrs.
Grace H.Tauck of South Orange,
N.J., proudly poses with the
12-pound 14'j-ounce bonefish
- that represents a new world
record for women. It also is a
new world mark on line testing
under 20 pounds, a United States
Coastal high and the top catch
in the Metropolitan Miami
Tournament. It was Mrs. Tauck's
first angling since breaking an
ankle 15 months ago. She bag-
ged the big one on her first cast
-■'fter a 20-minute struggle.
H
Old Fashioned
Barbecued
Pork Ribs
Cooked Only As
Underwood's Can Cook It.
With Free Gravy
Fresh Daily
Underwoods
1105 East Broadway
PYREX
• Coffee Makers
• 2 Qt. Sauce Pan
• 8 Inch Cake Pans
• 8 Inch Pie Plates
• Custard Cups
• 7 Inch Skillets
A. B. C. Supply Co.
Since 1940 Your
Westtaghouse Dealer
Ur- -W U. I
U. S. Gypsum's high-powered
basketball team defeated High-
land, 38 to 14, last night at Mus- Spring,
tang gym.
In the second game of the
Sweetwater Basketball League
schedule Thursday night. Divide
surprised the Pigglv Wiglv team,
34 to 17.
LeRoy Kinchloe dropped in 15
points in leading gypsum over
Highland. Campbell sank seven
points for the losers.
Mouzon Brown's 12 points
were high for Divide, while
Lightfoot's four points led the
Piggly Wiggly scorers.
Next Monday night's schedule
in the independent league—Hart-
graves Bros, versus Roscoe Cos-
den and National Guard versus
Merkel.
The standings—
Team W
Roscoe 7
[ U. S. Gypsum 8
| Hartgraves Bros 6
Merkel 4
Kcuiaiuing
FRIDAY—San
lene.
SATURDAY —
Brownwood; Big
lene.
TUESDAY —
Schedule
Angelo at
Alii-
Sweetwater at
Spring at Abi
Brownwood at
Abilene; San Angelo at Big
ltu>ki'lliall Hiiuncl-l'|i
One side of the heated District
5-AA cage race will lie decided
tonight when the San Angelo
Bobcats and the Abilene Eagles
tangle at Abilene.
If Abilene wins, the Eagles
must come back on Saturday
night and beat Big Spring and
then win over Brownwood on
Tuesday night. Both of these
games will be played in Abilene.
If San Angelo wins, the'Bob-
j cats must play their final game
j next Tuesday at Big Spring.
* *
I THE MUSTANGS of Sweet-
j water play their final district
| battle Saturday night at the
j Howard Payne gym in Brown-
| wood against the Lions. A vic-
| tory for the Ponies will assure
I them of at least a tie for the dis-
trict championship. A playoff,
] game will then be needed to de- !
! tide the 5-AA representative. !
* * *
Tournament Here Tonight
The District 21-B basketball j
; tournament begins tonight at
j Mustang gym in Sweetwater.
| Teams entered are Hermleigh,
| Divide, Westbrook and McCaul-
| ley.
The two winners will clash
j Saturday night for the eham-
j pionship, while the losers will
tussle for the consolation prize.
A
X
Sweetwater, Texas, Friday, February 10, 11)50
$100,000 DELIVERY All dressed up in a Pirate uniform, Paul
; Pettit demonstrates the delivery and grip which enabled him to
pitch six no-hit games for his high school team. The Pittsburgh
club paid the 18-year-old Lomita, Calif , left-hander $100,000 to
sign through an agent.
District Scores
Abilene 37. Sweetwater 2S.
San Angelo 35. Abilene 32.
Brownwood 40, Big Spring 30
San Angelo 40, Brownwood 21
Sweetwater 40. San Angelo 29
Big Spring 44, Abilene 32.
Sweetwater 45, Big Spring 20
Abilene 44, Brownwood 33.
Sweetwater 44, Brownwood 25
San Angelo 40, Big Spring
Abilene 4S, Sweetwater 39.
Sweetwater 43, San Angelo
Rif Spring 36, Brownwood
Sweetwater 52. Big Spring
San Angelo 60. Brownwood
Ol
Divide 4
Piggly Wiggly 4
Highland 1
National Guard 1
Next Week's Schedule
MONDAY— Hartgraves versus
Roscoe, National Guard versus
Merkel.
THURSDAY— Merkel versus
Divide, Roscoe versus Highland.
Many Major League
Players Holding Out
For Bigger Salaries
•loh n Billy ( laybrook
One Sweetwater boy, John
! Billy Claybrook, is entered in
(George Sehepps' baseball train-
j ing school at Corpus Chrlsti
j this month.
John said in a letter to his
! parents recently that ho is learn-
ing a great deal about baseball
at the training camp through the
extensive course offered.
Claybrook is a pitcher by
| trade. He hurled for the Sweet-
r l water High School Mustangs a
couple of years ago and won
several games for the Ponies.
There's a chance that John
Billy might get a pitching job
with the Sweetwater club this
season. Swatter officials looked
him over last year and hinted
they might sign him to pitch
this season.
i
Blue Goose Skeet \
Club Will Hold \
Shoot Here Sunday
Members of the Blue Goose
Skeet Club of Sweetwater will
hold a shoot at the Blue Goose
range Sunday afternoon at 2 p.
m., weather permitting.
Phil Sparkman, secretary of
skeet club, made the announce-
ment today.
"The public is invited to come
out and witness the shooting."
said Sparkman.
The Blue Goose range is locat-
ed at the end of East Avenue B.
Earl Webb Hooks
Five Large Bass Here
If you want to contact a real
Sweetwater ffeherman, go see
Earl Webb at 1101 Josephine. If
Webb can't catch em, nobody
can.
Thursday afternoon at Sweet-
water Lake.' Webb caught five
bass that averaged 18 inches in
length.
• Stetson Mats • Arrow Shirts • Marlboro Sports Wear
(O
2
u
/ By To-O-Mart
They're Here—
. . . New spring suits in
gabardines, and flan-
nels. Styles are the lat-
est, single and double
breasted, patch pockets,
three-button 'coat. Dort't
forget our vjeterans 5%
courtesy di Mount, to
holders of J insurance
checks or vol
H
o
•a
o
t
g
to
3
CO
s.
5T
P
NEW YORK, Feb. 10 (UP)—
Baseball's holdout hierarchy
stubbornly held the line today.
The two toughest customers
appeared to be Joe Page, the Yan-
kees' southpaw relief ace. and
Cass Michaels, the capable White
Sox second baseman. But they
composed only a small part of
: the dissatisfied list.
There are many other impor-
| tant holdouts like—Bob Dillin-
j ger, Lou BrLssie and Sam Chap-
l man of the Athletics; Howie Pol-
I let of the Cardinals; Ray Scar-
borough of the Senators; Re.x
Barney of Brooklyn: Bob Lemon,
Joe Gordon and Mickey Vernon
of the Indians: Ken Heintzelman
and Robin Roberts of the Phil-
lies: \j!c Raschi, Yogi Berra, Bob-
by Brown, Gerry Coleman and
Dick Wakefield of the Yankees;
Ellis Kinder, Jack Kramer and
Charlie Schanz of the Red Sox;
A1 Widmar of the Browns and
Eddie Malone of the White Sox
among others.
Among those offered pay cuts
were Scarborough, Barney. Wra-
mer and Wakefield. Scarborough
won 13 while losing 11 for the
last-place Senators last year. Des-
pite that accomplishment, owner
Clark Griffith said right-hander
Ray "wasn't a good pitcher last
year."
Lemon is said to be asking for
S30.000: Gordon is seeking a
slight increase over last year's
wage and Vernon wants a bigger
raise than the Indians have offer-
ed.
Like Page. Rashi, a 20-game
winner in 1949, has his eye on the
higher brackets, possibly as
much as $30,000. Berra, Brown
and Coleman all were offered
raises but seek larger ones.
Kinder, who won 23 games for
the Red Sox, isn't happy over
the club's offer which is less than
$20,000. t
The Cardinals' classy left-hand-
er, Pollet, enjoyed a banner year
in 194.9 winning 20 games, and is
reported to be more than $5,000
at variance with what St. Louis
owner Fred Saigh, Jr., offered.
Plowboys
Win 41-38
Over C. C.
The Roscoe ."'lowboys are one-
: up on the Colorado City Wolves
j today after one of the hardest
i fought battles of the season at
! Colorado City Thursday night.
The Plowboys and the Wolves
(are in a two-out-of-three playoff
series to determine second place
| in the District 0-A West basket-
i ball race. The winner will be
able to enter the district tourna-
ment for the grand champion-
I ship next week.
Coach Moe Hedrick's squad
| eked past the Wolves last night,
j 41 to 38. The second game of the
_ ! playoff is scheduled at Roscoe to-
be on the Sweetwater Chamber 1 night. If a third game is needed,
of Commerce program on Feb, J it 'will be played at Colorado City
24. Saturday night.
Clark (no relation to Sweet-1 The Merkel Badgers, who have
water's R. I.. 'Bobby' Clark) Already clinched first place in
plans to bring his tennis team
over to Sweetwater on that dfhe1
to play Coach Jesse Overton's
Mustang squad.
A. C. Bishop, Sweetwater
BCD manager, says that Clark
is one of the best magicians he
has ever seen. That's Odessa for
you—no wonder the Bronchos
pull so many tricks in high
school athletics each year.
Odessa Coach
Bob Clark, Odessa High School
coach who teaches everything
from wrestling to canasta, will
3
I
The Schipperke poodle dog is
the only breed of canines which
is born tailless.
. ■, (W
Plenty of new model
Servel Gas Refrigera-
tors and Magic Chef
Ranges. Trade Ins Ac-
cepted.
$10 Dawn,, 36 Mo.
I«*
Haas And Palmer
Lead Texas Open
In Second Round
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Feb. 10
(UP)—Slim Freddie Haas, Jr.,
and Chunky Johnny Palmer led
motley field of "name" golf-
ers and sharpshooting unknowns
into the second round of the $10,-
000 Texas Open golf tournament
today.
Haas, fifth-ranking money win-
ner from . .ew Orleans, and Pal-
mer jumped into a one-stroke
lead yesterday at the end of the
first 18 holes of scoring three-utt-
der-par OS's.
Palmer sang three birdies in
the final four holes for a 33-35—
68 while Haas carded three bir-
dies going out. Haas and Pal-
mer, along with most of the big
name golfers, payed the first
round over the Fort Sam Hous-
ton course. They will transfer
today to Brackenridge Park
course, which- also has a par 71.
One stroke behind the leaders
were seven others, including
two hopeful San Antonio ama-
teurs, with G9's. Eleven more
finished the first round with a
one-under-par 70, with 14 equal-
ling par.
Jimmy Demaret, a Texan who
plays out of Ojal, Calif., was
among the group posting 69's.
Sharing honors with him were
A1 Brosch of Garden City, N. Y„
and Lew Worsham of Oakmont,
Calif., and a trio of amateurs
from South Texas.
National Open Champ Cary
Middlecoff of Memphis, Tenn.;
Bob Hamilton of Landover, Md„
and Toney Penna, the Cincinnati
veteran, were in with 70's.
Defending Champion Dave
Douglas got off to a bad start
and came in with a five-over-par
76.
the district, play the Snyder
*JSigers at Snyder tonight in the
filial regular conference game.
The two top clubs of District
fi-A East are Hamlin and Throck-
morton. These two schools meet
Merkel and the Roscoe-Colorado
City -winner in a double elimina-
tion tourney next week. Site of
the tournament has not been de-
termined.
Hamlin has a season record of
15 wins, five losses and a 10-1
record in the district. Last night,
the Pied Pipers of Hamlin beat
Albany, 33-22, in their final gome.
Hamlin's Asa Goodgame was
high-pointer with 10 tallies.
The Roscoe Plowboy starters—
Malcolm Hammaek, Luke Point-
er, Jimmy Hyde, Archie Hunter
and Phil Haynes.
The Colorado City starting
five—Nathan Corbell, Philip Con-
away. O. C. J a r n i g a n, Robert
House and Wayne Hulme. A. C.
Prather is the Colorado City
coach.
Jake Minlz' Faint
0n& Of Highlights
In Boxing, He Says
Class B Playoff !!
To Start Tonight.
The best Class B high school basketball learns in this
area meet tonight at the Sweetwater Mustang gymnasium
to decide the District 21-H championship.
The Hermleigh Cardinals, champions of the 21-B West
division, are the favorites to cop the title.
First game tonight will start p sg
at 7 o'clock. Hermleigh plays the
McCaullev Eagles, who were
second place winners of 21-H
East in district play.
The second playoff game to-
night starts at S o'clock. The Di-
vide Trojans, east half leaders,
battle the Westbrook Wildcats,
who ran second place in the
west section.
S. L. Smith nf McCaullev is the
tournament director. Admission
will be 25 and .TO cents, he stat-
ed.
The Hermleigh Cardinals are
coached by J. X Williams. The
starting Card five will be Carl
Williams. Bill Voss, Lyndell
I-ockett, Ralph Glass and Rev
Robinson. Reserves include G
E. Chorn, Olen Gulp, D. P. Am-
nions and Jimmy Cooper.
The McCaullev Eagles, who
finished district play with a 3-3
record, are coached by O- F. Hill.
The starting McCaullev lineup:
Billy Carter. Ray Lawlie, Charles
Prather, George Harden and Roy
C'ossart.
Coach R. R. Petly's Divide Tro-
jans are paced by Donald Tyrone,
Morris itartgraves, Raymond
"Modra i. Johnny i'ssery and
Gran I.Cgger. Reserves are John-
I ny Bi< <isoe and Wayne Lister.
; Coach Herman Parson's We i-
brook Wildcat squad-- Allen Clif-
ton, Dwayne Claw.son, Willis
Taylor, Harold Wilkerson, Joe
Florren and Charles Andrews.
Aggies, Baylor
Clash For Lead t
By l ulled Pre*s
The hectic Southwest Confer-
ence basketball race lurches
back iwtu action tonight at
College Station where Texas
IW.V1 plays Baylor for undis-
puted possession of first place.
The Aggies may be operating
under a severe handicap. Their
ace guard. Jewell McDowell,
ma.' not play because of afe
shoulder injury. ™
The winner of the vital game
will emereg a brief step ahead
of five other teams.
Four of the quintets the
Aggies. Baylor, Southern Me-
thodist and Texas — are tied
for the top sj*it. Texas Christ-
ian and Arkansas are only a
half-game behind.
Two games are scheduled to.
morrow night—SMC vs. Texas
at Dallas and TCI! vs. weak C;
tCice at Fort Worth.
A victory by SMU would
move the Mustangs into a tie
with the Baylor Aggie winner.
So closely related are the two
langugages that natives of New
Zealand find it possible to talk
with natives of Hawaii on meet-
ing.
6-A West standings:
Teaiii
Merkel
Roscoe
Colorado City
Snyder
Rotan
Roby
W L
. 9 0
. 8 3
7 1
. 4 5
2 S
. 0 10
Mary Wall Takes
Spotlight With
Three-Under-Par
PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 10,
(UP) — Mary Agnes Wali of
Menominee, Mich., met Alice
Bauer of Midland, Tex., today
in one semi-final of the Palm
Beach women's golf tournament
while sister Marlene Bauer
teed off against Marjorie Lind-
say of Decatur, 111., in the oth-
er.
Miss Wall shoved the Bauer
sister aqt temporarily into the
background yesterday by shoot-
ing a three-under-par 09 to
break the Palm Beach club's
women's record as she eliminat-
ed defending champion Peggy
Kirk of Findlay, O.. 5 and 4.
With Miss Kirk out of conten-
tion, Miss Wall fniished the re
maining four holes to shave
two strokes off the previous
record held jointly by her op-
ponent and Miss Lindsay.
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 10. (UP)
Sure. Jake Mintz staged a
phony faint the night Ezzard
Charles won the heavyweight J10'|..,in(l
title but he boasted today that j H<,bbs
stunt brought him publicity and
laughs.
Supposedly he passed out
from the excitement, yet—
"AH right, so it wasn't the
McCoy," Jake sputtered. But
look, i get up to make a speech.
Someone hollers: 'Tell us about
the phoney faint.' So 1 tell 'em.
Thev all laugh. And I'm more
popular every day. Anyway,
i nl not monopolous like a lot-
ta speakers.
"1 even pinched myself when
I was lyin' on the canvas. 1
could feel it. Then I knew 1
was fakin.'
"Anyway, there were three
other managers from Cincin-
nati and they were always
pushing me out of the way to
get their pictures in the paper,'
Jake said.
"1 figured this time I'd get
the publicity. So 1 keel over. I
didn't know I was going to get
so much notice. If l had, I'd
have stayed fainted longer.
"That faint of mine will be as
famous as the long count in the
Dempsey-Tunney fight. Just
wait and see."
Then the loquacious lilliput-
iun got off on his favorite
peeve—"them people in New
York." He also talked about his
stomach "ulsters" that he got
from eating good food since
Charles was recognized as heavy-
weight champion—in all states
but New York.
Final standings:
District 21
Team
Hermleigh
Westbrook
West
w
1.
i
(1
ft
?
:i
5
2
T
5
w
1.
.it
!!
.2
Thursday's College
Basketball Results
By United Press
Manhattan <S0, New York Uni-
versity 55.
St. Johns 02. Canisius 50.
Bates 01, Boston Univ. 55.
Holy Cross 7-1, Rhode Island
State 69.
Wake Forest 74, Virginia Mili-
tary 57.
Chattanooga 72, Maryville 57.
Western Kentucky State 103,
Bowling Green 87.
Bradley 77, Univ. of Hawaii
53.
LOANS
To buy, build or re-fluae*
your home. Commercial loam
H. A. WALKER
Texas Rank Building
and FMA loans.
Dry Cleaning
At It's Best
Repairs and Alterations
Hats Cleaned
and Blocked
Boykin Cleaners
Pick Up and Delivery
314 Oak Dial 2842
mmrnm
Swutwater Rtrirtii
kkkssxss
ae.
. . f* dm witfr Mat-
in 9w««tw Ur, TMu*. under let at
■ ■ "■
••v.
1 hr
27 mins.
Ph. 8867
District 21 Kiist
Team
Divide
McCaulley
Highland
Blackweli
Box Seal Holders
Must Renew Boxes
Before Feb. 15
Holders of last year's box
seats at Sportsman Park have
only five more days to renew
their boxes before they go on
finrestricted sale to the public.
The box seats will be fenced
off this year, it was reported.
Frank Meeks, business man-
ager of the Sweetwater Swatters,
is working on the playing field
now in order to get it in s!\;ipe
for spring training which be-
gine on March 15.
Meeks is also taking box seat
renewals. The telephone number
at the park is 5404.
Dr. J. C. Lewis
Optometrist
Phone—2024
Blue Bonnet
Hotel Building
Churchill Wages
Heated Campaign
LONDON, (UP) — Winston
Church il borrowed a campaign
plank from the victorious anti-
socialist coalition ir_' Australia.
He promised that the Conser-
vatives, if elected, would abol-
ish gasoline rationing in Brit-
ain "at the earliest possible
moment."
Stumping the Hinterlands
for votes in the coming general
election Feb. 23, Churchill also
ripped into the- I^abor party's
socialist government for living
orj American dollars and not
even bothering to .say "thank
you" to the United States.
to®
9
SOU
SEAL - MASTER
STUkDt
TF.IAMUNC
K PRACTIC
BCAUT *
S r /. n i) a O
T" A Pf 5 I7.fi
fO I INCMl
WIDt
"Seal-Master" has been designed and bililt to do
and better job than higher priced machines. "S^al Ufawter"
offers features that will eliminate your tape dispensing
problems . . . and the cost is surprisingly low. It was your
needs that prompted the design and manufacture of
"Seal-Master."
/k'
OFFICE SUPPLY C<
811 Oak
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, February 10, 1950, newspaper, February 10, 1950; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth290437/m1/2/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.