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?nGLADFage SixThursday, April 10, 1952Texas League Gets Set For Opening Game Of '52 Season SaturdayBy UNITED PRESSTexas League baseball clubs dusted off home plate, shook out their uniforms and appealed jointly to the weatherman Thursday for fair skies in final preparations for Saturday’s opening of the 1952 season.They may be in luck weather-wise. The Fort Worth Cats travel to Oklahoma City, Dallas hosts the Tulsa Oilers, the Shreveport Sports entertain Beaumont’s Roughnecks and the Missions of San Antonio take on the champion Houston Buffs for the beginning of this year’s campaign.A stormy cold front whichthreatened tornadoes and produced thunderstorms, rain and mud in the Southwest is moving eastward. Skies were clearing and the area apparently was due for a weekend warming up.Another handsome President’s Cup trophy awaits the Texas League club which can coax the most paying customers into the stands for opening games Saturday, or on Monday, when the remaining openers will be run off before home fans at Fort Worth, Houston, Tulsa and Beaumont. Houston won it last year.The Texas League was optimistic at the brink of its new playingseason, the 57th In the 65 years“since John .1. McCloskey started up as the long, fine road we havetravelled,” President J. AlvinGardner said at Dallas Thursday.“Everybody can’t win the pennant, but all clubs expected to break even.”Tulsa and Oklahoma City pushed hardest Thursday toward opening day records, weather permitting. More than 4,000 tickets already had been sold for the Oiler debut next Monday. The previous top Tulsa opening day attendance was 4,718 in 1948. But the Oilers never have won the President’s Cup since it wa. put in competition in 1922. Neither has Oklahoma City or San Antonio.The highest opening day attendance for all clubs was 1950, when 85,218 persons paid the price at alleight gates. But Dallas accounted for 53,578 of those by staging a mammoth exhibition at the Cotton Bowl, for their 10th President’s Cup.The 1952 Texas League season will have at least one “first”— the presence on its playing roster of the first Negro player to be signed by any club in the circuit. He’s Dave Hoskins, a Dallas right-handed hurler, sent down by theEagles’ parent Cleveland Indians.'■ ■Hoskins struck out Dorn DiMag-gio and pitched a two-hitter in four innings of a rain-abbreviated exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox last week in his debut ona Texas League mound. The Faglefl tied the Sox, I to 1.Tm\sda\ night lie worked seven innings of an exhibition gameagainst Fort Worth, allowing five hits and striking out seven.6.3.1.1.Baseball ResultsBy UNITED PRESSBoston (A1 ti, Springfield tint.' 1. Cincinnati lt;N* 3, Washington lt;A»St. Louis lt;N 8, Philadelphia (NDetroit lt;A 9, Chattanooga (SA)Cleveland lt;A 2, New' York lt;NNew York lt;A 10, Norfolk (Pied)Philadelphia lt;A 15, Danville(Carolina) 3.Baltimore lt;Int 4, Brooklyn (N)1.Memphis lt;SA* 3, Pittsburgh lt;N)2Chicago lt;A 8, Atlanta ‘SA' 7.Chicago lt;N) vs St. Louis lt;A at Wichita, Kansas, cancelled, wetgrounds.-ap- ^DEACON STUBS TOEMARIETTA, Ga. (U.R»— A Negro “rum-runner” said he didn’t mindpaying the $200 fine for transporting whiskey illegally but he didn't want his name to get in the newspaper. “I’m a Deacon in the church and if the preacher found out about this he’d kick me out,” he explained.
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Gladewater Daily Mirror
Gladewater, Texas, US
Thu, Apr 10, 1952
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