Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-13
'PORTERS WIN
OUT In NINTH
Fifth Game Of Series To
Be Played Today Al
Beaumont
BY BILL PARKER
Associated Press Sports Writer.

The tradition that a man may be
down but never out holds true for
baseball clubs. Until last night the
Beaumont Exporters were two down
and almost out TO the Houston
Buffaloes in their battle for the first
half pennant. Today, the Exporters
are only n down and very much
on the up and coming as a result
OF their 2 TO 0 victory in the fourth
game Of the series. And Just to make
II sweeter. the Exporters regained
their pennant feet by sweeping aside
Jerome Dizzy" Dean, the Young fell
low who has o % Texas League
games this season and leads the
league In strikeouts with Dos. The
fifth game Of the series will be
played tonight in Beaumont. If the
Exporters win. the series will stand
at two-all with a sixth game neces-
saTy. The second game Of the series
was a 15-inning 4 10 4 tie.
Wyatt In Form.
The good right arm OF Whitlow
John Wyatt turned aside the Hous-
ton offense last night. Wyatt. sent
TO the Exporters by Detroit a month
ago 10 get his arm in condition. prov
ed that his salary wing is in fair
working order by stopping the Buff
faloes cold. Until Wyatt stopped
Houston, the Buffaloes had won 20
OF their last % games, and the 2 to
0 defeat last night terminated their
consecutive winning streak at II.
The game was runless until the
first OF the ninth. With two out
Tommy Hughes beat out an infield
hit down the first base line. He rae
ed TO second when Stury tossed wild
20 Dean on the play, the pitcher COW
ering first. Paul pound EN-" Eas-
terling strolled up there and wallop-
ed Deans first pitch into the right
center field crowd for a double, scor-
ing Tommy Hughes. Ray Fritz fol-
lowed with a double into the right
fiel dcrowd. scoring E~asterling.
Wyatt had a superb night against
the second half league leaders. He
limited them 10 four hits and struck
out 9. il was a spectacular mound
duel. however. for the estimated
crowd OF 1925 saw Dean stcike
out II and pitch a game that wo-lc
have won under most any Ordinary
conditions. 1t was Wyatt's 9th VIC
tory in 7 starts.
The Forth Worth Cats psked ur
q full no No IN Ahl 5000 .~T.~s
Dallas Steers with a 13-inning de.
cision over Wichita Falls. 5 70 4
Dick Whitworth and Bob Cooney
tied up in a mound duel in which
both allowed plenty Of hits bu'
managed TO keep them from com,
ing in the pinches.
Whitworth Shines.
Whitworth was a double hero. HI
mound performance kept Wichita
Falls from scoring after the sixth
inning. and in the 18th frame. 4
was Whitworth who slid across hone
plate with the winning run o.
Jimmy Wal-ymple's double TO cen.
ter. Two were out when WhitwOrtl
scored the winning run. 1t was Whit.
worth's "A tn victory this season.
The Dallas Steers lost valuable
second place ground when the1
dropped the opening series game *
Shreveport. 5 to 4. Shreveport com.
mitted 8 errors in the first five
innings TO give Dallas a 4 TO l lead
but after this. the Sports settled
down and rallied enough TO triumph
A three-run stampede in the seventh
SPOILED Dallas chance for victory
The Sports outhit their opponents
9 To 3.