Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 126, Ed. 1 Monday, December 15, 1952 Page: 6 of 6
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Lubbock, Breckenridge To
Defend Tides This Week
By ED FITE
United Press Sports Writer
The games Texas schoolboy foot-
ball fans have been waiting all sea-
son to see—Lubbock vs Baytown
and Breckenridge vs Temple—of-
fer a delectable dish this week for
grid enthusiasts.
The games which will determine
whether Lubbock and Brecken-
ridge can defend their hard-won
1951 Class AAAA and AAA cham-
pionships will be an exact replica
of last year’s finals in which Lub-
gock squeezed by Baytown 14 to
12 and Breckenridge upended
Temple 20 to 14.
The setting—the Cotton Bowl
in Dallas—will even be the same ! this:
the other way without being class-
ified as upsets.
While these two main courses
are being served at Dallas and Wa-
co, there'll be some side dishes
scattered around for fans in other
parts of the state in the form of
semifinals games in Class AA and
A.
These two smaller school divi-
sions, because of their bulky fields,
will not be able to finish their
races until after Christmas since
it takes five weeks to pare the
52 district champions down to the
finals.
The four survivors in each of
these classes are paired off like
for the Lubbock-Baytown explo-
sion, but Breckenridge and Tem-
ple will play at Baylor Stadium
in Waco instead of the 1951 site,
Abilene.
Lubbock and Breckenridge will
be the ever-so-slight favorites to
repeat, but the games could go
Class AA:
Stamford vs Terrell at Abilene,
Saturday, 2 p.m.
Huntsville vs Yoakum at Bren-
ham, Friday, 8 p.m.
Class A:
Cedar Bayou vs Deer Park at
Baytown, Friday 7:30 p.m.
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The Stamford-Terrell game is
rated as a toss-up, but Yoakum
probably will rate a slight edge
over Huntsville; Wink will be fav-
ored over Van and Cedar Bayou
should rate a wide edge over Deer
Park, which it beat 13 to 0 early
in the season.
Neither of the defending champs
in these divisions—Arlington in
AA and Giddings in A—were able
to get outside their own district
this season.
Only one of the six games on the
week’s program matches unbeaten
untied teams. That is the Stam-
ford-Terrell contest.
Lubbock, Temple, and Hunts-
ville also boast perfect records,
while Cedar Bayou has only a tie
against Class AA LaPorte to mar
its record.
Four Games On
Tap Tuesday Night
In 52-B Openers
With four games on Tuesday
nights schedule, the District 52-
B basketball teams begin a scram-
ble for the championship that pro-
mises to be one of the closest rac-
es in history of the conference.
Coach J. T. (Red) Russell’s Sa-
bine Cardinals, who are favored
to repeat this year as champions
get the season underway by travel-
ing to northeast Upshur County
to tangle with Coach Pat Wallace’s
Harmony Eagles. The Eagles have
a good club returning from last
season and will not be any push-
overs for the defending champi-
ons. Burnard Ray Smith was their
only loss from the starting five.
Besides the Eagles will have the
home court advantage.
Coach Roland Drake's Union
Grove Lions who are rated as
contenders for the crown will
journey to New Diana to tussle
with Coach Harley Jones’ Eagles.
The Lions will rate the edge in
this game since they have their
starters from last year while the
birds lost such stalwarts as Tom
McCullough, Dorane Stokeley and
Franklin Swamer. However, the
New Diana boys are no newcom-
ers to the game of basketball and
always give anyone a run for their
money on their home court.
Coach Milton Musick's Big San-
dy Wildcats will open the district
campaign with Coaeh Fred Gray’s
Spring Hill Panthers at Spring
Hill in a game that should be a
thriller from start to finish. Big
Sandy received a severe Jolt ear-
lier this season when Dickie Nes-
bitt quit school but have been
showing up very strong, losing by
only four points to a strong Wino-
na team. Dickie Nesbitt was the
leading scorer in the district last
year.
District play will resume Jan-
uary 6 after the holidays.
Page
six
Monday, December 15, 1952
Bears Take Consolation Trophy;
Play First Heme Game Thursday
Sabine Rated Favorites
To Take 52-B Cage Race
The Gladewatcr Bears took the
eonsolation trophy Saturday night
with a 31 to 25 victory over Lane-
ville in the Nacogdoches Invita-
tional Basketball tournament over
the week end.
Neal Williams bit the basket
for 10 points to pace the Bears to
the win. He accounted for 21 points
in the Mt Enterprise and Wood-
en game. Freddie Smitherman took
high scoring honors in the Bron- |
son game.
Big Sandy won the tournament I
defeating Lamar of Houston Sat- j
urday night.
The Bears advanced to the semi- |
finals of the tourney in the eon- i
solution bracket by defeating the j
Douglas quintet Saturday morn- (
ing.
The Bears will play their first j
home game of the season here|
Thursday night when they tangle i
with a strong Chickasha quintet !
| from Oklahoma. The *‘B” game
will start at 630 p.m. with the!
) "A” game to follow.
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Gladewatcr has entered the Kil- j
gore Basketball tournament which !
begins Thursday and will last i
through Saturday.
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LIBERTY CITY; With District
52-B Basketball play opening this
Tuesday, Dec. 16 and with pros-
pects of one of the tightest races
in the history of the district, there
has been a lot of speculation on
who would wind up with the dis-
trict crown.
To get the opinion of those who
are most closely connected with
the outcome of the race, I sent out
questionnaires to each of the 8
district Coaches and asked for
their prediction on the race and
what their team will look like.
Of the eight, Joe Floyd of Jud-
son, Harley Jones of New Diana,
Milton Musick of Big Sandy, Fred
Gray of Spring Hill and J. T.
Russell of Sabine answered.
Based on a total of 10 points
for a first place vote, 8 for second
and 6 for third, Sabine assumed
the favorites role by taking 4 first
place votes and 1 third to easily
out-distance the field with 46
points. The third place vote came
from Russell himself who has
doubts of repeating in view of the
long football season.
In second place was Union
Grove with 36 points on 1 first, 2
seconds and a third. Third place
was landed by Big Sandy with 28
points on 2 seconds and 2 thirds.
Spring Hill was fourth with 8
points and New Diana fifth with
6. Judson, Union Hill and Har-
mony, each receiving no votes, tied
for sixth.
All the coaches, excepting Rus-
sell, apparently voted for Sabine
on the time honored principal that
it doesn’t pay to bet against the
champ.
Not only do the Redbirds have
their entire team back which car-
ried them through 12 straight con-
ference victories last season and
on to one victory in the regional
tourney, but they have two more
very capable boys who are out to
gain a berth on the team. For-
wards Jerry Brown and Dickie
Trich, Center Louie Jordan and
Guards Bo Camp and Conley Har-
mon are all suited out again this
year. Jack Dyess and Johnny Ba-
singer are making things hot for
the regulars already. Dyess was
ineligible last year and but for
that fact may have landed a steady
job with the starters. Basinger
was just gettingover a broken foot
which he got playing football and
saw but little action all year.
Russell says his hardest job at
this time is to decide who of the
7 will be his starters.
Union Grove ran a tight second
and could very easily run away
with the title if they get the
breaks. Roland Drake has last
years starters in tha fold for an-
other years work. Forwards Hugh
Reeves and Eugene McCluney,
Center Dec Mackey and Guards
Jimmy Palmer and Monte Scnko
have returned and the Lions will
have plenty of bench strength in
Randell Morgan, Carl Allen and
Bo Johnston.
Union Grove also has an ally In
the schedule, for the first half at
least. They have Sabine at home
for the second game of the district
schedule on Dec. 18 and Sabine
may not be hitting their stride by
that time as Union Grove and the
rest of the District has a 2 week
training advantage on Sabine.
Although Big Sandy has been
hard hit with the dropping out of
school of one of their better play-
ers, they still rated 3rd In the
poll. With a nucleus of Robert
Tucker and H. K. Baird as guards,
Sonny Letsingcr as center and
Dan Holloway at guard, Musick
will have a well balanced, aggres-
sive unit that can not be tiken
lightly.
Spring Hill has three lettermen
returning and Coach Gray says he
expects to use Don Whitten and
Vernon Wilkinson at guard, Paul
French or Billy Ray Sullivan at
Center and Weldon Hunt and Mel-
vin Yarbrough at Forward. A Gray
coached team is always a smooth
working unit and will deal plenty
of trouble to the unprepared.
New Diana has *. young teem
which will not be.glie to (Hake
their bid until late Mil the season,
so says Coach Jones. His team
will look like tMs-#flowkins and
Jones at Guard, Whatley at Cen-
ter and Arnold and Aaron at For-
wards. Jones is the only Senior
on the team, the rest being but
Soph's.
Coach Floyd has taken over the
reins at Judson for this year and
is trying to give his boys the same
magic touch he instilled in his boys
at Avinger two years ago when he
won a district title with them. Mil-
ton Cobb and Alfred Foote will
handle the guard assignments.
Bobby Meadows is the center unci
Morris Cobb and Frank Thurman
will be at forwards. When David
Gore recovers from a broken collar
bone he received during football
season, he will be a welcome addi-
tion to the team.
Pat Wauace nas 4 regulars back
at Harmony and will play an im-
proved brand of ball. Two of the
coaches branded the Eagles as the
dark horse in the race and they
will get a chance to show their
possibilities as they open the sea-
son against the favorite* wh^n Sa-
bine goes up there on Dec. 16.
Union Hill Is a member of the
district for the first time and
nothing is known of their poten-
tial, but any school who devotes
the Hons share of their sports pro-
gram to basketball is always going
to have a good team.
Last years predictions by the
sports writer* did not entirely pan
out the way they were planned.
We have but to wait to see if the
coaches can do any better.
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quiet. At that, we have things finished
pretty early this year.
Best tree we’ve ever had. The presents
look good. Grace makes pretty packages.
Wish we could afford a bike for Tommy.
Maybe next year. I guess a father always
wants to give his kids more than he can.
A lot of things look different when you
have a child. Like what the school board
does. What happens In Washington. And
the UN.
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or at war? Will he bo really free - or like
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"Liberty is every American's birthright."
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