Coleman Daily Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 112, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 23, 1949 Page: 4 of 6
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• AGE FOl'R THE DAILY DEMOCRAT-VOICE, COLEMAN, TEX. r
§uod§...^s Sees ‘Bright Prospects’
For 1949 Bluecat Grid Season
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1949
_★ THE SCOREBOARD ★
Braves Pin Flag Hopes
4 ,10n Vitalized Pete Reiser
BT HARRY GRAYSON
NEA Sports Editor
TJRADENTON, Fla—(NEA)—Apparently as sound as the Chase
National Bank, Pete Reiser is the early rave in the Braves' camp
here.
in the right frame of mind, the fleet Reiser,
center fielder, a potential batting champion
She game today who can beat the othe,r side
v-'ho
AH io
only 29,
and the
at any ti
of the B:
Branch
Pete to t
dUU
jne
ms
lace on the field Only Jackie Robinson
is a daring base-runner,
n ram calling the deal that sent Pistol
or Mike McCormick a dangerous one.
iwners their first pennant in 34 years
ev peddled Eddie Slanky. who steadied
ark. And not a few close observers
•alt Braver Field another in Reiser.
1 Bright prospects for another
district championship Bluecat
j grid team were seen today by
I Coach Bob Russ in a preview of
I next fall's squad, that will carry
nin' Ictlermen fi:m the’ 1948
Bluecat team and a deep re- pointed cut.
serve cf "B" team and junior -our. football picture for
higKschool lettermen. j iall j as promising sv~ if has been
In addition io letiermen from for several years," he adds. He also
’ the three 1948 squads, Russ has |. Pointed out that next year . the
.darters last year. Around this nuc- . Hagler and Joe Lynch.
U us"lie will build the strong group JUNIOR LETTER TACKLES »
Eugene Barker. ' i ■
the tackle and e. u positions i "B" LETTER ENDS Mack Mr-
' Crea, Mack Hambright. Guy Greer,
Hv-n
tar like him for $250,000.’
W
That
tend t!
possibi:
All £
seated
is perh
, - .1 : the Dodger- military reservation
: h, sa' that the only hitters he ever saw
) were Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth.
- Speaker "Spoke’s strength was low,"
> A it-, m League outfleldei "So they
Mosi other schqp^d baseball men con-
’ . i itter year inland yeaY out can't
-. t at watching Branch Rickey
ring :'.ter«. you realize that he
und his conclusions,
with a Hide rule what always
impressive new malarial in ihe 1
cne lighi position — tackle —
from an expsiience slandpoini.
In an evaluation of 40 pot-
ential varsity squadmen, Russ
sees the payoff on a schtol- j
wide program that permits a j
player inter-scholastic compel- j
ition on tha junicr high and
"R ’ learn Leu re he reaches Ihe
"A" squad.
‘/By working this system, we can
next year - look into the strongest
group jef reserve? wc have ever had
In r.il po -: f i n w<- Jujre men
will move up frein the juniw nr
B flu,tb t make place lor of \arsity newcomers.
UHnVelve; la the top. 25 who will. Hi
tc maned the varsity'sqtiad," Russ [ Rws wlll be without varsity letter-
i men but on end ha., eight “B ", and | BtU Griffin, Johny West, Jim Har-
next three juni r-high lettermen to pro- I risen, Johnny Sartain and Perry
| vide a wide choice,
At tackle, two above 200-pound-
i ers, Eugene Barker and Lonnie
. .. A i n, even the scales along witli
two “B" lettermen who looked
i last fall.
j . Barker was a junior letlerman
. n 1 Jackson will be playing his
f.r year. Big Leroy Elkins, a line
! k Herman last year, has been m Ved
i to fullback pa it ion. jture. Russ has 12 senior for next
i Here's the experience lineup year’s tentative lineup, 17 juniors
• B ilETTEP. GUAhDS Slier- : al;Kl n sophomores. Bright as the
till Hazelwood and Rhodes Morris. ,j next year's outl ok is, there's an
even brighter one for11lie year fol-
Eirdy name, that for two reason",
has followed the Ballinger match
and has jinxed the Bluecats, will
be played before Bailnifter ■ i No-
uml« r 4. followed Ballin'-eh on
November 11
Letteiinen from tne /A" squad
last fall, wtl will be back are:
Johnny Hunter, renter; Jerry Mr e-
•ey : n'l Hurry Wrijht, •oiaciinud
lack- Leroy Elki: Eugeni Hurst
Uttucr Onrv. Bill Baker. Perry
C,rca,:. and J O. Goodwin
Hurst and Carr were regular
and
Hector.
JUNIOR ENDS Lester Carr, Gits
Teinplin, Danny White.
■B" LETTER BACKS—George
Coleman. Prank Griffin, J. W.
Stag:;?,’Tommy Leman, B. B. Nun-
ley.
JUNIOR LETTER BACKS—Jay
Jack Bock, footer Marrs, Glenn
1 la l ine?, Garhmd Clemons,
To complete the experience pii-
Interested Onlooker
JUNIOR LETTER GUARDS
Lee Vaughn and Marvin Field.
"IT LETTER TACKLES Jimnv
lowing.
Oklahoma
In ’Dream
Ajrsries-kentuckv
Game’, NCAA Title
:tie Miksis aie managing Brooklyn
Barney Shotton’s way of making
• ao nnplished Rec.-e to take
i Superbas lacked when Muggsy
Ca i.y Stengel predicts that big
the Yar r - That would be
’ ■. iv Allen > turbulent career a
flag undei a bulls snoot . So
kee and Indian right-hander, will
aia :,u.i th;; tiling . Now we’ve
Rv NORMAN MILLER
Flitted Press Sports Writer
NEW.. YORK. March . 23~iU.fi>-
College basketball's 1949 "dream
game"’ might well be the season
finale between mighty Kentucky
and flawless Oklahoma A & M for
forced it: admit that against Illi-
nois it was as fine as he ever has
seen it.
.After trailing as a result of Ha-
wns' opening basket in ihe first few
mimitcs of the game, the Wildcats
Coleman Boy
Admitted To
Scottish Rite Hospital
Max Ray Mi ana. -itveil- i:
Mm :i.
Hospital
i -n Wedr.es7
Rite Hospital, which
individual contri-
■ the . best possible
d attention to Tex-
-
tnient. ■
the NCAA championship at Seattle, caught lip in the. third minute on
Washington, Saturday night . Cliff Barker's field goal, and went
Coach Adolph Rupp's
reache,
lUumit Gige
Team Guests
\l Banquet
hTe Lhiccat cagers and their
coache were honored guests last
night when more than TOO Coleman
j fan; gathered in the annual vtct-1
I ury banquet, highlight of which j
talk by "Tonto” Colenftirt,"
before
15.126
Ahd
Operation Cowlift
WINS K
n air fo
:TE CONTEST—Pcinling to a kite which has
8 Lours oyer Columbus, Ohio, Mrs. Harry
- -s children tha; see has iust set a record
• r-mrance cdnlest. The children, left to right:
Dvu.,.1- 12 and Margaret Ellen, 3, are ap-
fcy ihtir mother's fete. NEA Telephotoi
Wildcats j ahead to stay a few seconds later was n taHt by
peak in their hearlded on one of Jim .Lane’s pet left-hand , v, fwheiming 63 to 38 advantage
brilliant. in murdemg Illinois Big pitches shortly after the mid-point of the
Ni-.r champions. ~fi to 47, last night: Pace^^. Alps1 Oroza, their six- final half.
viii the Eastern Regional Title Tnot-s'eyen^dy^AlJ .AmeJ-ican. cen- | By that time, the,, crowd had be-
an awe-stricken crowd of, ter. who ■ was the game's high sccr- ‘gun, a mass exodus to the. gates as
'' 'bini'Tn Square Garden, y wjth 57 points, Kentucky pulled the Southerner.- toyed with the
with the possible exception |;-.way to. a 39 to 22 lead at. half time,. Uhni "as if they were a' pi a ground
oi San FrancisrpNational In- 1 Then, never relinqcishing the pre— tram The victory was Kentucky's
vstation tournament champions, | sure, the Wildcats amassed an ; 31st in 33 gome-- this season.
•the ratty remaining challenge to ! ——---:—>— ----—_...... •_______r .....___ _
Kentucky's claim as the best in the
college game was Coach Hank Iha’s
. '.Scourges of the Midlands."
The Aggies, whose masterful pos-
session-style basketball has produc-
ed 23 vie; ries in ■„% gnmes . this
season, won the Western title last
Saturday night by .beating Oregon
fSafe 55 to 30 The Beavers and
Illinois will meet for the third place
consolation .priae at Seattle.
Rup the cagy baron of the Blue
(tr , 'ercnallv ranked Oklahoma
A <fc M along with Bowling Green
and Bradley as the best teams in
the country—outside of his own
Wildcats.
Tliat Hank Iba is one of the
greatest coaches of the- game," he
pointed but after last night's
triumph And you know, they've
been scouting us by movies, which
to them."
In completely outclassing a big
fast mini team in the Eastern fi-
nals. the Kentuckians, couldn’t do
anything wrong.
The Wildcat s shooting was dead-
eyed—they hit 31 out of 78 shots :
from the floor for a .352 percent-
age; their relentlte drive and their :
slick passing display left the crowd !
agog, and even Rupp, who com-
plained about their leaky defense j
in the last few previous games, was i
9
i ■—.cr.'-tri—<—Ttr
WILL m GALL US
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Abilene Christian College coach.
Banquet was arranged by the.
Coleman lions club and opened
with a dinner in the highschooi
lunchrocm. Litu president Amon
John ton introduced schools super-
intendent Terrell Graves who act-1
e. i as master of ceremonies,
Coach Harold King was intro.-
duced by Graves, and reviewed the
reason’s success, that amounted to
a dis^ict and reaional champion-. |
ship and 30 wins against 40 starts I
f, r Lie "A ",and "B" squads.
The 13. Bluecats attending were
individually introduced by King.
Bob Russ, Coleman school ath-
letics director, introduced Coleman,
Russ was a former student of the
Abilene coach in highschooi at San
Angelo.
Coleman stressed the value of a
strong athletic program, from a
citizenship standpoint. He empha-
ized to the Bluecats that while, ^>t,puiar breeds Stewardson’s results
[they were winning honors for the s indicate,’ 'says a story in the
school and community in athletic j nationally-circulated farm maga-
Five-year-old Barbara Reese watches father and Brooklyn short-
stop, Pee Wee Reese, have position of feet measured to determine
best swinging stance. Dodgers' Lancaster, Pa., farm club manager,'
A1 Campanis, is wearing new instructor's uniform of navy blue silk
, with white cap in Vero Beach, Fla.
Santa Anna Man
Featured in
‘Capper’s Farmer’
Experience flf Tpm Stewardson,
Santa Ai'na, TeAs, with Jersey
Buff turkeys 5s dteiNpi an article
in the April Issue of CappeK? Fanci-
er. -
"Tlie.se turkeys have advantages
that should make them cne of the
competition they held a strong
duty to both of these to be go:d
citizens and to uphold the prestige
of the team and those they repre-
sent.
zine. “They are somewhat larger
than Beltsville Small Whites, have*
a body conformation much like the
Whites.
"Stewardson says the Buffs do
is extremely high. Poult production
lie believes, is about the same fer
each of these breeds. When ins
Buffs reach good fihlsll; hens
weigh around 12 pounds and toms
20."
For The Best
Presentation of this district and | [i0t lHV qUjta aK mally eggs but shell
regional trophies was made to tne quftlity is anti hatchabllity
Bluecats by Joiniston.
VDRRE YOUR CLO'BES AHR
WELL TREATED
Wallace McKee
700 Commercial
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Hot Shot, a cow belonging to Ray Kaufman, upper light, Halstead,
Kan., farmer, doesn’t care for the mechanical age. While being
milked for the first time with a new milking machine. Hot Shot had
enough of mod pm civilization and hotted upstairs to the hayloft. It
took three men to hobble her and give /the cow her first trip in
the air.
JBeats Rowing
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Reavis, Dick. Coleman Daily Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 112, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 23, 1949, newspaper, March 23, 1949; Coleman, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth746455/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Coleman Public Library.