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y Team Rated as Favoriterting at 8:30 O'Clockthose Coca Cola Red Shirts will headId. and the glamour that goes with nament. Tonight in the finals of the merican Softball association the localps the greatest team they have ever iberty Pipelmers of Kilgore, winner this season. The game starts at 8:30. ?d among the best clubs in the state hat matter, and this evening s meleeh on»fui EXPERTS sayfromtpeti- Great Team torchedRepresent Stateexaco aid of! AH-At Chicago Meetfinal 5 per- ! i Salon bvBv now \R11 CiKI I VThat Texas will be aoheld bv thehom-i. the ►m a. 1 -©oun-iime u* atpoo*i and hough wild e side g theg twoj farrkmgh thefcrbeli a yirtend atroughis inn igti *e Red ice of to I t wasntind-ehmd •g ofa nead ? andtd.team t two -finalr to overettrutted ng of iead ayflying15* tOight“eldednorn -in all either■Tingreatest team ever to go from this section to the national tournament of the American So'tball association, no matter who wins the final tonight. is the consensus of the expert attending the state meet here. I aM year the TOP Oiler* of (iladewater went to Chi fromthis state with a pitcher no faster than T. Ha' of (oherC.rocery from Wichita Kails. He was Kcd Minrns* possessor of a baffling figure eightManros* won twothe Windy City get-Iwind-up game* at together.ShouldAmerican Liberty of Kilgore win tonight and they'll be the slight but by no means the decided favorite to do so the Pipelines undoubtedly will exhibit two of the greatest twirlers in the game to the Chi fans Ike Arnold is one of them and us a spm-ballar of first water. This summer he has had phenomenal luck in getting out the best in Texas But from this observer s perch in the press box it appears that his teammate Nolan Corbell. is the better of the two The lanky No-: lan throws a burning fast one, spins an upshoot. and wind-mills like*nobody else can.The cause of the local.- is nothopelessly lost by any means.They have five hitters, who are capable to at anytime, hit the best pitob of any hurler in the eountry. Moreover the remainder of the rlubberx are just as dangerous should the opposing underhander weaken the slightest.In Carl Harder Fleming has perhaps the greatest softball player in Texas He s the most dangerous man in the batting order, the go gettingest outfielder we ve ever seen, and a good base runner Furthermore Harder stacks up as one of the outstanding pitchers to work in the tournament. And until somebody proves otherwise his pitching performance registered againstthe Dallas Cokes Thursday night,stand as the outstanding hurl-job turned in during the en-tournament.Vow that the season is said and done as far as West Texas I tilities is concerned, T. J. Bailey would like to say » word for Curley Haya, his bir firstbaseman-pitcher, who bv theway is next to tops in our book*.pawlt;\FwillingtireQnnfj» R»i!pvPnra .rniinRDASambut s iesrightleadeiton Eing tlky lt;xif ;troubmayfailstering ha.' a the 5has tJus ed fo; rage
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Abilene Reporter News
Abilene, Texas, US
Mon, Sep 05, 1938
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