AUSTIN, TEXAS (AP) – Dean Stafford, Tyler outfielder, blasted a home run over the left field fence with two mates aboard Friday night to give the South All-Stars a 3-1 victory over the North All-Stars in the first annual Big State League All-Star Game. A crowd of 3,187 turned out despite threatening weather. Stafford’s blow, which found Billy Capps of Tyler and Lon Goldstein of Temple on base, broke up a tight game that saw the North holding a one-run lead when the circuiter came. Pitching dominated the classic as eight hurlers surrendered only 12 base hits for both teams. Fred Smith, Temple righthander, gained credit for the victory although he was touched for three hits and the only run the North All-Stars managed. Jack Bumgarner, Texarkana righthander, was charged with the lost, giving up five hits in his two-inning stint on the mound. The North All-Stars scored their only run in the seventh when Wilcy Moore, Longview left fielder, led off with a single to right, romped to third on Texarkana’s George McAfee’s single into right field and scored after Bob Mainzer, Wichita Falls shortstop, flied to right. A snappy double play kept the North All-Stars from doing any future damamge. With one away in the bottom of the eighth, Capps, who was the South All-Stars manager, slashed a single to right and Goldstein blooped a single to left field to put runners on first and second. Then, Stafford, who has hit only one home run at this field this season, drove a curveball over the left field fence to win the ball game.
(from the July 19, 1952 Tyler Morning Telegraph)
BOX SCORE:
NORTH ALL-STARS AB R H BI PO A
Remy LeBlanc (Wichita Falls) CF 4 0 1 0 3 0
Frank Murray (Wichita Falls) 2B 3 0 1 0 4 0
Harold Haddican (Texarkana) RF 1 0 0 0 2 2
Tex Sanner (Texarkana) RF 3 0 0 0 3 0
Buck Frierson (Paris) RF 1 0 0 0 0 0
Bill Queen (Wichita Falls) 3B 4 0 1 0 1 0
Mike Dooley (Longview) C 2 0 0 0 1 0
Mario Diaz (Paris) C 1 0 0 0 1 0
Wilcy Moore (Longview) LF 4 1 1 0 1 0
George McAfee (Texarkana) 1B 4 0 1 0 7 0
Bob Mainzer (Wichita Falls) SS 3 0 1 1 1 1
Billy Joe Waters (Paris) P 1 0 0 0 0 0
Bob Bauer (Wichita Falls) P 0 0 0 0 0 1
Jack Christie (Longview) PH 1 0 0 0 0 0
Jack Bumgarner (Texarkana) P 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTALS 32 1 6 1 24 4
SOUTH ALL-STARS AB R H BI PO A
Sal Zunno (Temple) RF 1 0 0 0 2 0
Johnny Stone (Tyler) CF 2 0 0 0 1 0
Billy Capps (Tyler) 3B 4 1 1 0 0 2
Lon Goldstein (Temple) 1B 2 1 1 0 9 0
Dean Stafford (Tyler) LF 4 1 1 3 5 0
Tom Jordan (Austin) C 2 0 0 0 2 0
Ken Jones (Temple) C 2 0 0 0 1 0
Ed Wayne (Austin) RF 3 0 1 0 1 0
Gerald Kaires (Temple) 2B 1 0 0 0 3 1
Melvin Nunes (Austin) 2B 3 0 1 0 1 1
Everett Hall (Temple) SS 4 0 0 0 2 3
Gale Pringle (Tyler) P 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dean Franks (Austin) P 1 0 1 0 0 0
John Andre (Temple) P 1 0 0 0 0 1
Fred Smith (Temple) P 1 0 0 0 0 1
Red Murff (Tyler) P 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTALS 31 3 6 3 27 9
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NORTH 000 000 100 - 1
SOUTH 000 000 03x - 3
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E--Queen, Goldsteim, Hall, Andre. LOB--North 7,
South 7. DP--North 1 (Haddican and McAfee), South 2
(Kaires unassisted; Nunes, Hall and Goldstein).
2B--Franks, Wayne, LeBlanc. HR--Stafford. S--Bauer.
SF--Mainzer.
NORTH IP H R ER BB SO
Waters 3 1 0 0 1 0
Bauer 3 0 0 0 3 1
Bumgarner (L) 2 5 3 3 1 1
SOUTH
Pringle 2 2 0 0 1 1
Franks 2 1 0 0 0 0
Andre 2 0 0 0 0 0
Smith (W) 2 3 1 1 0 0
Murff (SV) 1 0 0 0 0 0
Umpires--Odom, Mazur, Mann and B. Smith.
T--1:35
A--3,187
