Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 192, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 15, 1953 Page: 3 of 6
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Paris will compete in basket-
ball and spring sports in the Big
Six Conference and then if not
accepted into the Texas Junior
College Conference will compete
athletic independently next year,
Dr. McLemore said.
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and had trailed as much as 21
points.
Gene Schwinger led the Rice
scoring with 19 points while his
teammate, Don Lance, scored 11
points. Terry Telligman, another
Rice forward, had 9 points.
Undefeated LSU built up a 44-
34 halftime lead to dispose of
the Texas Aggies handily. The
Tigers were never headed after-
their 6-foot, 9-inch center, Bob
Pettit, raced for a field goal just
eight seconds after playe started.
The Aggies drew within five
points of the Tigers in the second
period after trailing 18-30 at the
end of the first quarter.
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efforts for the
period, when the Frog defense
fell apart.
It was the second straight loss
for the Frogs, who fell Saturday
to Brigham Young, 71-61.
Rice surged to a 33-17 halftime
lead and fought off a desperate
Green Wave rally to defeat Tu-
lane. The Greenies had made only
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Conf. Statistics
lost their opening home game
Monday night to the Van Vandals
by a score of 52 to 41.
The Vandals, coached by Herb
Richardson, the local Tigers coach
during the 1952-53 season, jump-
ed to an early lead and held a 16
to 6 margin at the end of the first
quarter. This lead was never
headed by the local quintet.
Hightower, Carter and Farmer
margin of 28 to 13.
Despite the Tigers last quarter
scoring spree, which cut V an s
margin from 16 to 11 points, they
were unable to head the Vandals.
The local "B" team cages won
their game With the Vardals "B”
team with the final score being
31 to 24.
The Tigers will meet the At-
lanta Rabbits tonight at the local
gym.
to his credit and Bennie Sande-
fur and Charles Wright had 9
each to round out the top scorers. I burg and Mt. Pleasant met Friday
The visitors held a half time in Mt. Vernon and the following
Mt. Vernon, Commerce, Pitts-
TIGERS TO PLAY FOREST
OF DALLAS IN 1954
Tigers add Forest of Dallas to
their nondistrict football sched-
ule for 1954. The game will be at
Mt. Pleasant on Sept. 17. Only
one match remains unfilled for
the 1954 fotball season stated
Coach Jerry Wilson.
Vandals to stack up 38 points be-
tween them. Hightower scored 17
points to take high point honors
for the game. Carter added 11
and Farmer 10.
Charles Sinclair led the Tigers
scoring efforts with 11 points
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Elroy Payne of McMurry was'
the outstanding individual in Tex-
as Conference football during the
past year, final statistics an-
nounced today revealed.
The McMurry back led in total
offense w.th 1,281 yards on 183
plays and this also was tops in
ball-carrying. He did not pass
any.
Jim Self of Austin College was
second in ball-carrying with 899
yards on 156 runs and was second
in total offense with 1,049 yards
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Southwest Conference basket-
ball teams could do no better
than break even Monday night
in four games against intersec-
tional foes.
Louisiana State whipped Texas
A&M 77-56 at Baton Rouge, La.
Rice decisioned Tulane 56-49 at
New Orleans. Utah walloped Tex-
as Christian 72-55 at Salt Lake
City. And Southern Methodist
edged Memphis State 66-63 at
Memphis. Tenn.
Tuesday night’s only scheduled
game was a Baylor-Texas Tech
tussle set for Waco.
Southern Methodist racked up 1
22 of 26 free throws while Mem- I
phis State was missing 13 out of
40 charities for the margin of
defeat and victory in memphis.
SMU forward Derrell Murphy,
with 20 points, sparked the Pony
offense. But it was Soph. Joel
Krog's quick points in the fading
minutes that won after SMU had
blown a king-size lead.
Utah rallied brilliantly against
the Horned Frogs of TCU in the
final period to win. Utah reserves
bombarded the hoops with 25
points in the last quarter while
the Frogs were making 10.
TCU had led 10-9 at the first 1
quarter, 31-29 at the half, and
had widened the margin to 37-33
early in the third. .But the Utah
five came to life then, tied the
cunt at 39-39 and held on for a
| Paris JC Applies
For Entrance
Texas JC Conf.
PARIS, Tex. IR — Paris Junior
College has applied to the Texas
Junior College Conference for
membership and hopes to enter
that league in the spring, Dr. J.
R. McLemore, president of the
college, said today.
Dr. McLemore said he was at a
loss to understand reports that
Paris was seeking membership in
the Pioneer Conference, that his
school never had applied and that
the only thing he had done was to
study the constitution and rules
of that conference, finding they
were not acceptable to Paris.
The Pioneer Conference calls
for maximum aid to a total of 36
athletes, Dr. McLemore pointed
out, where Paris wants to split
up its scholarships. This year it
had fewer than 40 whole scholar-
ships and split them up so that
82 athletes received aid.
Another oDjective to entering
the Pioneer Conference is the
question of travel to such far-
away points as Schreiner at
Kerrville and San Angelo, he
said.
Paris did not consider entering
the South Texas Conference be-
cause it allows unlimited athletic
scholarships and there also is a
travel problem. Dr. McLemore
added.
Paris has been in the Big Six
Conference but withdrew and
Tyler and Kilgore, the other
members of that league, have
entered the new Longhorn Confer-
Tigers Lose Home Opener Mon. Jr. High Basketball
To Vandals By 52-41 Margin Dstri
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Christian University burned to
the ground here last night.
Fullback Sammy Morrow,
Horned Frog football star, said
he heard something that sound-
ed like an explosion, looked up
and saw the west wall of the big
wooden structure blow out.
Firemen said a “back draft”
probably caused what several
students thought was an explos-
ion.
Amos Melton, assistant to the
TCU president, said cost of re-
placement would run around $30,-
000. There was no estimate of the
value of equipment destroyed in
the blaze.
The local Junior High basket-
ball team now has a district
schedule for the 1953-54 basket-
ball season with four teams
entered, states Coach O. L.
Colley Jr.
Paeke To Manage
Waco Baseball Club
WACO IP — Jack Paepke will
manage the Waco club in the Big
State League this year. He comes
here from Bruniswick, Ga., where
he was a playing manager last
year and piloted his club to the
pennant.
Paepke played with Fort
Worth of the Texas League in
1946.
Buster Chatham, who managed
the club here last year, has been
named vice-president and general
manager, also chief Texas scout
for Pittsburgh, which owns the
Waco franchise.
district schedule was worked out:
Jan. 7 Mt. Pleasant at Com-
merce; Mt. Vernon at Pittsburg.
Jan. 11 -Commerce at Mt. Ver-
non; Pittsburg at Mt. Pleasant.
Jan. 18—Commerce at Pitts-
burg; Mt. Pleasant at Mt. Vernon.
Jan. 25—Commerce at Mt.
Pleasant; Pittsburg at Mt. Vernon.
Feb. 1 —Mt. Vernon at Com-
merce; Mt. Pleasant at Pittsburg.
Feb. 8—Pittsburg at Commerce;
Mt. Vernon at Mt. Pleasant.
Coach Colley stated that a
match to be played at the local
gym Thursday night will be a-
gainst Chapel Hill with two games
slated. The “B” game will begin
at 6:45 and the “A” game will
follow immediately afterwards.
passing.
Don Watson of Austin College
led in passing with 749 yards on
51 completions in 96 throws.
Leondous Fry of Abilene Chris-
tian was second with 622 yards
on 41 connections in 83 throws.
Von Morgan of Abilene Chris-
tian, the league’s leading scorer
with 78 points, was the No. 1
pass-receiver, taking 29 throws
for 571 yards. Charles Bons of
Austin College was second with
27 catches for 332 yards.
Melvin Lindsey of Howard
Payne led in punting with an
average of 37.2 on 20 kicks. Bill
Atkins of McMurry was second
with 36.7 on 14.
Austin College led in team of-
fense with 371 yards per game
and in team defense, giving up
239.3 yards per game.
Watch for a wonderful surprise!
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(BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
One veteran and three new-
comers to the finals battle Satur-
day for state schoolboy football
championships, with Odessa
meeting Lamar of Houston for the
Class AAAA title and Big Spring
closing with Port Neches for the
Class AAA crown.
Odessa, which took the cham-
pionship in 1946, journeys into
the home of Lamar, a school
that has never won a title.
Big Spring and Port Neches,
both new to the finals, tangle at
Port Neches.
Odes,a, once tied and once de-
feated in 12 games, probably
will be the favorite although
Lamar is undefeated. The brist-
ling Brones, riding with the
mighty passing arm of Carl
Schlemeyer, pushed into the
finals Saturday with a first-
downs decision over Woodrow
Wilson of Dallas. The teams tied
14-14 and penetrations were even,
but Odessa had the edge in the
first downs.
Lamar knocked Waco out of
the running on a 12-7 decision
with Walt Fondren the key man
in a brilliant offensive. And La-
mar beat Waco at what it was
most noted for—defense. Lamar
repeatedly repulsed Waco drives
that carried to the shadows of the
goal posts.
Comparatively, the teams ap-
pear about as even as could be
expected. Both played Port Ar-
thur to a tie. Odessa lost to Waco
by the margin of a point after
touchdown in early season.
There is no comparison of Big
Spring and Port Neches, but the
Big Spring ground game, one of
the toughest in the league, would
appear to give the Steers an
edge. Each team has lost three
games. Port Neches actually lost
four but had one of those revers-
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Coleman Friday afternoon, Hunts-
ville, highest scoring team in the
state with 529 points, takes on
another undefeated, untied pow-
er—Refugio—at Huntsville Sat-
urday afternoon.
Ballinger, a two-time loser in
the district campaign, pushed into
the semi-finals last week with a
20-7 upset of Phillips. Comanche
beat Henderson 6-0. Huntsville
took out La Vega 6-0 and Refugio
nosed Nederland 13-12.
In Class A, Ranger, which has
romped to 482 points in 13 games,
engages Clifton, which rolled up
419 in an unbeaten, untied march,
at Ranger Friday night. The
same night Luling and Deer Park,
both undefeated and untied, bat-
tle it out at Wharton for the
other finals spot.
Ranger crushed Sundown 47-6
last week v hile Clifton was elim-
inating Whitwright 13-6. Luling
slashed Cedar Zayou 32-12 and
Deer Pork beat Lyford 14-6.
Comanche and Huntsville will
be favored to reach the Class A A
finals with Ranger and Luling
favored in Class A.
Sites and dates of Texas school-
boy football playoff games this
week (team records in paren-
theses ):
Class AAAA Finals
Big Spring (9-3) vs. Port
Neches (8-3) at Port Neches Sat-
urday, 2 p.m.
Class AA Semi-finals
Ballinger (11-2) vs Comanche
(13-0) at Coleman Friday, 2
p.m.
Huntsville (13-0) vs Refugio
(13-0) at Huntsville Saturday, 2
p.m.
Class A Semi-finals
Ranger (12-1) vs Clifton (12-0;
at Ranger Friday, 8 p.m.
Luling (13-0) vs Deer Park
(13-0) at Wharton Friday, 8 p.m.
ed on a forfeit, giving it the
district championship.
Big Spring features the terrif-
fic running of Carlisle Robin-
son. Port Neches' attack is gear-
id to its brilliant quarterback,
Jack Hathorn.
While state championships are
being decided in the top classes,
the other divisions will be deter-
mined finalists for next week’s
showdown.
In Class AA, Ballinger, the su -
prise team of the year, plays un-
defeated, untied Comanche at
Kuenn, Detroit Tiger shortstop
and onetime “bonus baby” who
probably cut his first tooth on. a
baseball bat, is the American
League's Rookie of the Year.
The brilliant but modest young-
ster, a native Milwaukeean,
wasn't so sure he deserved the
honor when told last night he had
been picked by 23 of the 24 mem-
bers of the Most Valuable Play-
ers Committee of the Baseball
Writers Assn.
“I almost thought it was a gag
some of the boys were pulling on
me . . . But I’ll do everything I
can to live up to everyone’s ex-
pectations," he said.
Kuenn, who might consider the
award a belated birthday gift—
he turned 23 a few days ago—has
been pretty good at living up to
expectations ever since Harvey
Sr. put a tiny bat in his hands
when the lad could hardly walk.
Between that day and this
there’s been a long list of sports
accomplishments and records
shattered in baseball, basketball
and football, capped by a sensa-
tional debut with Detroit this
year.
The Tigers were in last place
when they parted with a report-
ed $55,000 bonus to outbid 10
other clubs for the University of
Wisconsin baseball star in June
1952. He went up to Davenport of
the Three-I League and Detroit
brought him up at the end of the
1952 season. His 1953 record in-
cludes:
A fielding percentage of .975
based on only 21 errors in 770
chances.
A batting average of .308, six-
th in the league among players
with 400 or more times at bat.
Being the first player in the
league to hit 200 safeties. His
total of 209 was highest for both
leagues.
Setting an American League
record for times at bat—679.
Hitting 33 doubles, seven triples
and two homers.
Kuenn has been rated higher as
a hitter than a fielder, but he was
second only to the Browns’ Bill
Hunter in total chances. Hunter
had 881 to Kuenn’s 770.
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