Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 187, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 26, 1952 Page: 6 of 6
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Bears Battle At
Paris Tonight
Tonight at 8:00
p.m. in the ■ opens in Austin next week.
Paris High school gym. the Glade- Champions will be crowned in
water Bears meet the Paris Wild- live divisions — Classes AAAA,
eats in the first game of a best AAA, AA, A und B.
two-out-of-three bi-district play-1 The field will be narrowed to
w'\" winner entering the | the required twenty-four schools
StaU> Championship tournament at , this week, as the 171 teams com-
Austin. I pete in play-off games for the
Gladcwuter is not favored to cop coveted places in the Austin tour-
thc opening contest. However, the
records of the two teams, offen-
sively and defensively are near
equal. The advantage of playing
on the home court hus given the
nod to the Paris quint in the tilt
tonight.
For the past week, the
have been drilled by Coach Waters
on defensive play. Paris has one
of the few balanced scoring punch
teams. Six men in the Wildcat
lineup have topped 100 points in
their 12 district games. Most op-
(Kinents that faced Gladewater
this season have presented a scor-
ing ace that had to be stopped.
Toby Davis will be back in uni-
form for tonight’s important bat-
tle.
A total of 171 Texas high school
teams remains to battle it out for
the twenty-four places in the
state basketball tournament which
nument.
In Class AAAA, bidistrict series
will be played this week
as fol-
lows:
Borger vs. Bowie < El Paso), Poly
TCll Frogs Grab
Conference Title
With 68-56 Win
Sabine Plays At
Kilgore Friday
The Sabine Cardinals of J. T.
, “Red” Russell will represent Dis-
trict 54-B in the Region IV-B Bas
j ketball tournament to be held in
Kiluorr
FORT WORTH. Feb. 26. <U.fi>—
Center George McLeod scored 31
points tonight, the most totaled by
one player in a conference game
Kentucky Paces Top Ten In Cage
Race For Fourth Week In Row
NEW YORK. Feb. 26 (U.R)—Ken-
tucky, which closed out its regular
season with 24 victories in 26
games, led the United Press col-
lege basketball ratings for the
| fourth week in a row Monday in
its quest for a second straight na-
tional championship.
Lamesa vs. Brownwood, Paris and put him in front of Walter | . two ?,K>re-.}v1cT*<^ ra*'
vs. Gladewater, Bryan vs. Galena 1 Davis of Texas A(U.R)M who had ,nRS com,nK UP> t,le Wildcats up-
Park. Alma Heights (San Antonio) j been leading with 170 points.
vc Sun Ilunitn 1 ___ _ . ....
'Fort Worth* vs. Sunset 'Dallas', I this season, to lead Texas Chris-
, Waco vs. Austin, Sam Houston ; tian university to a 68-56 victory
Bears | (Houston) vs. Port Arthur. Borger | over Arkansas and a clear cut
and Sunset are rated the top teams
of this class.
In Class AAA, bidistrict series
will be played as follows:
claim to the Southwest conference .
championship.
McLeod’s tally brought his total
points in conference play to 195
LEAP YEAR
Midnight Show
FRIDAY 11:30 P. M.
C'mon Girls Make
Your Date
vs. San Benito.
In Class AA the following re-
gional tournaments will be held:
At Lubbock — Phillips, Canyon,
Childress, Quanah, Snyder, Taho-
ka, Levelland and Kermit.
At Denton—Winters, Comanche,
Birdville 'Fort Worth', Bowie,
Pleasant Grove 'Dallas), Van,
Mount Pleasant and Atlanta.
At College Station — Jackson-
ville, K i r b y v i 11 e, Waxahachie,
Madisonville, Waco Tech, Hamil-
ton, Cameron and San Marcos.
At Victoria -- Brenham, Lamar touched. Second place Texas, with
'Rosenberg', La rorte, French a
'Beaumont', Del Rio, Refugio, J
Aransas Pass and Weslaco.
In Class A the following re-
gional tournaments will be held:
At Lubbock—White Deer, Dim-
peared a cinch for the mythical
The cellar Razorbacks kicked the j extern ‘conference1'' t.mrn^mel’it
first field goal, but it was the only championShip this week,
time they had the lead. The game .. . . .
was tied once. 3-3, in the first two **y attracting28 first place votes
mirtutes. From that point the « total of 333 out of a possible
Horned Frogs led all the way. The ! 350 P°intsu from l*c 33 ‘Te,ad ^
score at halftime was 31-15. coaches who comprise the Uni ed
^ ^ T . . ! Press board, Kentucky made the
Flo-'’d Sagely and Gene Lambert secorKj best showing of the season
were high poin* men for Arkansas J jn the wcekly rnlin,,s.
^ . . I Only the 33-r point total amass-
TCU still nas one conference > cd b IllinoiSi Jan 22 topped thc
match to play against SMU atDaL Wildcats. showing of this week.
Ins. But their 10-1 record cant ^ Kcntiicky's 28 first place ballots
were high for the season.
7-3 slate, has two games sche-
duled. SMU has a 5-5 record.
| Clyde and Roby tone district
- champion not yet certified).
At Denton—Crowell, Lancaster,
i Plano, James Bowie 'Simms' <fou
district champions not yet eerti-
| tied).
At College Station—Troup, Ccn-
j tral (Joaquin), Lovelady. Buna,
! Mart, Hearne, Burnet, Ltiiing.
At Victoria—Spring Branch
j'Houston', Sweeny, Hondo, Carri-
m Springs, La Jova three district
! champions not yet certified'.
In Class B regional tournaments
I will be held at Canyon, Brown-
! wood, Dallas, Kilgore, Huntsville,
San Marcos, Kingsville and Al-
1 pine.
TCU
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TOTALS ...................
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14 15 68
ARKANSAS
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TOTALS ...................
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8 17 56
Score by periods:
TCU ..................15 16
18
19—68
Arkansas.......... 8 17
9
22—56
The coaches picked Coach
I Adolph Rupp’s men before the
| start of the campaign as the team
! that should go on to thc national
] championship. Kentucky has won
18 straight games,
j Illinois replaced Kansas State in
! the runnerup spot; Kansas, St.
' Louis and St. Jphn’s all moved up,
I and Wyoming gained a place
dropped one notch to seventh place
with one first place vote and 132
points St. John’s 20-2 moved up
one place to eighth with 124 points,
while Iowa 17-2 fell from fifth
to ninth with 117.
Wyoming, the Skyline Confer-
ence leader with a 23-5 record,
moved up one piacc to 10th, chang-
ing places with St. Bonaventure
18-3. Points are awarded on the
basis of 10 for a first place vote,
nine of a second, and so on down
to one for a 10th place vote.
Behind St. Bonaventure among
the second 10 teams came West
Virginia, Scton Hall, Indiana and
Louisville in that order. Western
Kentucky with one first place
vote and Dayton were tied for
16th place, followed by LaSalle.
New York University and Minne-
sota were tied for 19th.
Other teams among the 30 that
received points in this week’s rat-
ing- were: Texas Christian, Vil-
lanova, Holy Cross, North Carolina
State, Duke DePaul, Notre Dame,
UCLA, California and Loyolu of
Chicago.
Kilgore Feb. 28-March 1.
The Redbirds won the district
last week by defeating Union
Grove 35-28 to wrap up their 12th
straight conference game against
no losses. In the course of their
murch to the crown, the Cards hit
the meshes for 549 points and an
average of 45.7 per game and al-
lowed the opposition only 336
points, an average of 28 per game.
Led by rangy Louie Jordan.
6’2” center who scored 168 points
for the season and landed in sec-
ond place among district scorers,
und 5' 10” forward Jerry ’•Bomb-
sight” Brown, with 162 ixiints in
the district und third place in dis-
trict scoring, on the sharpshooting
side and 6’ 1” Dickie Trich, for-
ward, 5’ 10” Bo Camp unit 5’ 4”
Conley Harmon at guards, thc
Cards present a fast, shifty team
that can fast break and hold u
steady defense.
Thc Cards started off in rather
a slow manner but were hitting
their stride in the latter stages of
the conference play.
Their first action of the year
came in the Oil Belt Invitational
tourney at Kilgore where they ad-
vanced to the consulation finals
where their "B” team 'because the
“A” team was playing in the Pine
Tree tourney consulation finals
which were the same time* lost to
New London. They won the Pine
Trent tournament consulation tro-
phy.
Sabine entered the East Texas known quality as they prepared to
State tournament after Christmas , enter* the 54-B hoop chase but
and advanced to thc semi-finals j quickly established themselves us
before bowing to Arp, the team
that hud beaten them at Pine Tree.
The entire pre-conference rec-
ord shows 6 wins and 4 losses.
Winnipg from Gilmer, Judson,
Hemphill, Overton, Pine Tree and
Linden. Losing to Class AAA Ty-
ler, Class A Arp 4wice und Class
A White Oak.
The Cards were still
mud
n*
contenders by blasting Judson
58-22. Alter 'udson came Har-
mony 58-25. New Diana 45-31. Big
Sundy 42- 2. Union Grove 51-41
and Spring Hill 25-19 to win the
first half of the district race.
The second half got underway
with Sabine meeting Judson at
Sabine after an open date and
managing a 44-23 win.
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this season in other major changes
in this week's ratings.
The coaches based their rank-
ings on games played through Sat-
urday night, Feb. 23.
Illinois 17-2, which topped the
rankings for seven straight weeks
Sitting Bull is buried in Stand-
ing Rock Agency at Fort Yates,
North Dakota.
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STEPHEN McNALLY
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'PIRATES OF HIGH SEAS'
Norway Wins
Olympic Crown
By Robert Mutil
OLSO. Feb. 26 <U.R)—The 1952
Winter Olympics formally ended
Monday night in a blaze of pagean-
try and a chilly snub of the unpop-
i ular United States hockey team.
The Yanks have been maligned
i all through the hockey tournament
at “too rough,” and when they
j mounted the rostrum Monday
night to receive their second-place
medals there was a stony silence
cd from third to second place with
two first place votes and 229
points. Kansas State, which suffer-
: ed its fourth setback in 20 games
, when upset by Colorado, dropped
i back to third place with 215 points,
i Behind thc dukes, five teams
j were bunched closely for the suc-
i ceeding places.
■ Kansas 18-2 was fifth with 153
j points and St. Louis 20-5 was
| sixth with one first place vote and !
Billikens advanced two places
i from last week.
Washington 22-4, top team in
the Pacific Coast Conference,
Football Game
Scheduled For
from the usually cheering crowd flAI_ J_____I____ 4 AC
of 27,000. Then a few “boos” broke! WECMCSQGy# Ot*T J
nut Thf*n snmo rhoorc • "
out. Then some cheers.
The winter games ended with
host Norway the unofficial team
victor and the U. S. second. Orig-
inally no competition was sched-
uled for Monday, but it became
necessary for two hockey games
to be reeled off in the morning.
riaotoiH
Two Featured
Bill Elliott in
"THE LONGHORN"
Johnnio Sheffield
"THE LION HUNTERS"
Comedy — Cartoon
The spring training football
game between the White and the
Orange teams, made up from the
squad members ol the Bear foot-
ball team, will play their oft' post-
poned game Wednesday afternoon.
Tho Spring Training gridiron
battle that highlights the Glade-
I water High schools football train-
ing schedule is suffering from
' "wet field" troubles.
The contest was originally set tor
j lest Friday.
1 Starting time for the game, that
will be played according to regu-
lation rulot. la set for 3:45 p.m.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 26 0J.fi)—'The
T«as Golden Gloves team, with
only one survivor out of four
starters in opening night action,
sends its four heavier contenders
into action Tuesday night in the
Tournament of Champions at
Chicago Stadium.
Flyweight Pat McCarthy was
thc only Texan able to win both
matches Monday night. The little
Amarillo youngster dccisioned
both George Hildebrand of Chi-
cago and Charlit Martinez of Ros-
well, N. M.
Going into action Tuesday night
will be welterweight Cotton Fow-
ler of Abilene, middleweight Roy
Harris of Brownwood, light heavy-
weight Leo Merino of Wichita
Falls and heavyweight Campbell
Woodman, also of Wichita Falls.
Henry Miramontcs, Dallas ban-
tamweight, won his oixniing match
Monday night with a TKO in thc
second round over John Ray Du-
senberry of Oklahoma City, then
was decisioned by James Huirston I
of Kansas City.
Featherweight Ray Riojas of
Fort Worth bowed out in the first
round of his fight against Chester
Martin of St. Louis, losing on a
TKO after being floored three
times. .
Lightweight Pete Perez of Ama-
rillo was outclassed by Reuben
Sentisteven of Denver in his open- i
ing bout.
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