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m^ortsomeagerJeep an the or a omi*ng the d toldIt will ng ca-tt was a line Frisch looked ed:rears. andSalablehim, ravecele-club thfc star-did.shiftedecomethird t is a m that v Bob-ott to, or a?. For Giantsclutch;y sent ickage ^es for iciden-.nkle the big tt is onal 1,000 t. In ome has usia.l 913 ,var-is al- Polo ; field, ensate?ducedwould“asons*s will their a was)f the e will r date ot yetwking i Sun-Willie Mays MayGet Draft ReviewMONTGOMERY, Ala*, April 10 (IP)—Star outfielder Willis Mays of the 3tew\ York Giants has forfeited the rijfcht to appeal hi* 1-A draft classification but mav win a review if he can present “a very strong case” to state selective service director J. T. John* son.Johnson made that disclosure Thursday as he awaited a♦»call from Mays at his officehere.Johnson said that Mays lost his riprht to appeal his 1-A rating when he failed to file an appeal within 10 days after being classified. The only way in which Mays can have his case re-opened now would be if Johnson ordered his local board in Fairfield, Ala., to reconsider.Raiders Hold Rugged DrillAn hour-long scrimmage session under the eyes of the assistant Red Haider coaches closed the second week of spring football training at Texas Tech yesterday afternoon.Head Coach DeWitt Weaver will return today from Jacksonville, Fla., where he attended the funeral of his wife’s father, C. V. Sheffield;Wednesday closed drills for this week and students took off on the Faster holidays from Tech today; Football players will start again Tuesday and continue through the April 25 squad game.Scrimmage Session Held The workout yesterday opened with calisthenics and loosening up exercises and after 30 minutes of offense and defensive work, the Raiders went right into the scrimmage session.The squad was divided into six teqms, and three teams—two on offense and one defensive unit— .went to each end of the field with three coaches. The offensive outfit took the ball on the 20 and crossed the goal or lost .the ball on downs or by fumble, as in a regular game. Then the other offensive team tried its hand.Freshmen BattlingFreshmen are battling to fill the vacancies in the bail-toting starting lineup.Jerry Johnson of Hale Center is quarterbacking in place of the graduating Junior Arterburn, Paul Barrington of Chippewa Falls, Wise., has moved into the tackle slot occupied by Jerrell Price of Brownfield and Bill Whitted of Hot Springs, Ark., is being tried in the guard spot left by Jack Cockburn of Denison.All three of these second-year men lettered for the 1951 Border Conference champs, as did Center Don Funk of Chickasha, Okla. Funic is fighting R. B. Hodge of Blythe-ville, Ark., for the place Red Phillips of Fort Worth held last season. Hodge is a transfer from the Uni' versity of Kentucky.Arterburn, Price and Phillips are assisting the Tech coaches to round the ’52 club into shape in the spring drills.Hill Gail Leader In Handicap RaceLEXINGTON, Ky., April 10 (IB— Kill Gail, the colt which may give Calumet Farm and jockey Eddie Arcaro their fifth Kentucky Derby triumphs, takes on another three-year-old and nine older rivals'in Thursday's $10,000 Phoenix Handicap as Keeneland opens the Kentucky racing season.Hill Gail, making his first start since winning the Santa Anita Derby, has been training well and will be ridden by Arcaro. The veteran jockey flew here from New York to handle Calumet’s dark bay colt in the six-furlong dash.Hill Gail and his stablemate, Top Blend, are the only three-year-olds in the field but the presence of Calumet!s top derby hope and the.promise of good weather is expected to draw more than 10,-000 fans to the 99th renewal of the Phoenix.Loop Openers SlatecTexas League Hopes Boosted(B? The United Press)Texas 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.Cold Front PassesLUBBOCK XVSNIHG JOURNALSPRTSPAGE EIGHT, LUBBOCK, TEX. THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 195*5PEEDY ODESSA TEAM FAVOREDWesterners EnterBig Sandie RelaysLubbock High School will be one of 27 schools after the miniature gold track shoes to be awarded those breaking records at the third A stormy cold front which! annual Sandie Relays at Amarillo‘ Stadium Friday.threatened 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 Saiur- _ day, 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.League Is OptimisticThe Texas League was optimistic at the brink of its new playing season, the 57th in the 65 years ’‘since John J. McCloskey started up as the long, fine road we have travelled, President J. Alvin Gardner said at Dallas Thursday.Some 227 trackmen, including twice-defending champion Odessa’s squad, will be entered in the two-session meet. Coach Lee Taylor's team will be heavily favored to (ake the team title back to Odessa.The Broncs' top competition is expected to come from the well-balanced Amarillo team,Besides these two rivals, the Westerners will face Phillips, Dumas, Abernathy, Panhandle, Canadian, Petersburg, Tucumcari, Floy-dada, White Deer, Dimmitt, Shamrock, O'Donnell, Muleshoe, Lock-ney, Farwell, Canyon, Pampa, Childress, Olton, Guymon and Tipton. Okla.An 18-hole medal-play golf tournament with 13 schools entered will also be held and eight schools are entered in a tennis tournament.Amarillo Junior Chamber ofny-t v j» ij * 11 iliu jliiliui vnciniut.r vjiLTvniLP £ Commerce and the high school are break even expected to j cc,.sp0nsors 0f y,e meet. Eck Cur-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 previoustis, Texas Christian University backfield coach will serve as referee.Queen To Be NamedThe Sandie Relay Queen will be selected and announced at the retop Tulsa opening day attendance Lubbockwas 4,718 in 1048. But the Oilersnever have won the President’s Cup since it was 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 all eight gates. But Dallas accounted for 53,578 of those by staging a mammoth exhibition 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 righthanded hurler, sent down by the Eagles’ parent Cleveland Indians.pretty Helen Benton,Finals in the relays will be held Friday afternoon, with preliminaries set in the morning.Odessa, with such stars as Joe Childress. Weldon Holley. Walter Cooley and a stellar relay foursome in both the mile and the 440-yard relays, figure to crack some of the records,Childress holds the marks in the 100—at a fast 9.5—and the 220. The Broncs1 440-yard relay team will be after a record set by it in 1950 and Amarilo’s mile relay quartet established the present mark in that event.Cooley has bettered the shot mark and Holley has bested both the broad jump and the high hurdle time,„ , - , tt- rtllf Another mark may be broken bya 5n- fn Ra' BUr™S of Can-VOn’ in dis’cus.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 on a Texas League' mound. The Eagles tied the Sox, 1 to 1.Tuesday night he worked seven innings of an exhibition game against Fort Worth, allowing five hits and striking out seven.Lubbock EntriesEntries from Lubock and the event entered include:100-yard dash — Charles Hodge, John Blocker, Charles Northington.220-yard dash — Billy Ray Smith, James Greer, Pat Hartsfield. 440-yard dash — Smith, Greerand Mike Brady.S30-yard run — Kyle Stanley.Mile relay — Hodge, Brad Greer and Smith.440-yard relay — Hodge, Block* Hartsfield and Northington,Low hurdles—Red Noland, Edc Brown, Billy Foster.Pole vault — Jerry Davis.Broad jump — Northingtc Hodge. Hartsfield.High jump — Noland, J. 1 Hutchinson.Shot — Charley Moore.Discus — Moore, Robert We and Jerry Norman.Webb and Brady came out 1 track a week ago, just before t district meet at Odessa.The Westerners made their blt; showing of the season there, finii ing third behind Odessa and M land with 17 points, and qualifyi four men for the regional meet be held here April 19.Coach Freddie Brown will ta his cindermen to Amarillo Thu day afternoon and return after t meet Friday night.Reese AFB Softball Team Cards TusslesReese Air Force Base’s softb team, under the direction of S; O. K. McReynolds, will get exhibition schedule underway 8 p.m. Friday when the Airm battle Teague-Bailev Chevrolet Brownfield at the Reese diamorSaturday night the Reese tea will plav host to Murrell Furnitu of Plainview. Game time will 8:30,GOOD FfSHlVG - NEW CABOTS BOATS - MOTORS - GROCERIES - tClPOSSUM HOLLOW CAMPWest Side Postam Klrtfdom Ltkt lfl Mile* From Gr*himCALL BUNGER, TEXAS PORRESERVATIONSbill BOLDIN FormerlyOwn*rFftrrifta Lod*DR. C. M. NEELOPTOMETRISTVISUAL TRAINING1620 BroadwayPhoha S-715lt;+m* FREEMM xwtii» rooT«ui otjueciitro^KivBill Jennings, infielder for the St. Louis Browns, attended both Washington University and Illinois.
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Evening Journal
Lubbock, Texas, US
Thu, Apr 10, 1952
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