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li®"s Win Fourteen
trict Games Without Single Loss
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seautivo tilt without a low over
the second-place Spring Milt Pnn-
thera, 85-48, in the •■egular season
finale at Spring Hill.
The 1954 Lions, who have made
a record that will live long in the
annals of Unoin Grove, put on a
full court press at the outset of the
game' and never let up until the
final uuarter.
The pressing defense completely
baffled the Panthers and kept
them off balance all night. The
last time the two teams met, Un-
ion Grove used a 8-2 zone defense.
The Spring Hillers had worked on
this defense all week and were
greatly surprised when the Lions
picked them up ail over the court
at the very beginning.
The alert Lions made many in-
terceptions immediately after the
•tartuig whistle and racked up 10
Rookie Outfielder
Wins Minor League
Batting Crown
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 12. (U.R)
—The National Association of Pro-
(SpecUl to The Mirror) .points before the Panthers were
sch Roland Drake’s deter- [ able to score,
mined Union Grove Liorts made n l Union Grove scored 16 points
clean Sweep" of the district last in the first quarter and an amaz-
night^tjy winning their 14th con- j ing 32 points in the second period.
They tallied 18 in the third and
finished with 19.
Spring Hill had 24 points In each
half; nine in the first quarter, 15
in the second, 10 in the third and
14 in the final quarter. f
Dee Mackey, Union Grove’s
sensational center, led the scoring
with 29 points. Bo Johnston was
second with 22.
Weldon Hunt led for the home
team with 18 points while Billy
Don Thomas ranked second with
15.
A team composed of Dee Mac-
key, Monte Scnko, Bo Johnston,
Carl Allen and Randal Morgan
started the game for the Lions and
played two quarters before they
were replaced by Darwin Smith,
George Smith, Earl Gage and Bob
Ehl. Mackey was allowed to re-
main.
These two teams appMed the
heat by guarding all over the
court and it wasn't until the final
quarter that the Lions went into
a zone and slowed the game up
somewhat. , >
Union Grove's B team also went
through the season undefeated as
they trimmed the Spring Hifl B’s
38-24. Denny Arrington was high
point man with 11, while Troy
Briggs ranked second with 10.
The Lions' next game will be
with Chandler on Saturday night.
This will be a warmup game be-
fore the regional tournament in
Kilgore week after next. Chandler
was the winner in their district
also.
Union Grove (IS)
Snyder, rookie outfielder of the
McARsler club in the Clan D
fesafounl Bascbull Leagues an-
no*, neap Friday that Russell H.
“Tjder.
(hits
Sooner State League, had won the
1953 minor leagues batting champ-
ionship with an official average of
.482.
Runnerup wag Leo C. Shoals,
player-manager of the Kingsport
club'of the Mountain States Lea-
gue, whose average was .427.
Snyder, who hits left and throws
right, will be awarded the Hiller-
ich St Bradsby silver bat, which
goes annually to the batting king,
and rtso wifl receive the Spalding
Tfoph.v as the outstanding rookie
hitter.
The 1953 season was Snyder’s
first ia. professional baseball. Pre-
the 19-year»qld outfielder
three years(of American
and one year of semi-pro ball.
Snyder's batting average ts the
highest mark since 1949 when
Prank Saucier,of Wichita Falls in
the Big State League was the min-
ors leader with .446.
In compiling the .432 figure and
succeed Donald L. Stafford, who
took the 1952 crown with a mark
of ,.408 while playing with Salia-
bert of the North Carolina State
* —, Snyder played in 138
, He appeared at bet 556
made 240 hits,* scored 137
had 84 RBI*. He ac-
l'or a total of 310 base*.
32 doubles, 16 three-
and two home runs He
74 bases and struck out 48
Player—
Fg. ft.
Pf.
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Morgan ..................
1
4
2
6
Johnston ..........
10
2
2
22
Mackey .................
12
5
4
29
Scnko ......................
4
2
3
10
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smith, D................
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Gage .......................
2
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4
Totals ...........•.......
35
15
20
85
Spring Hill (48)
Player—
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Keasler ..................
2
0
0
4
Hunt .......................
7
2
1
16
Yarbrough _______,...
1
1
5
3
Connell ..................
1
0
2
2
Brown ....................
l
0
5
2
Fountain ................
0
1
0
1
Majors ..................
1
3
1
5
Thomas .................
3
9
4
15
Totals ....................
16
16
18
48
SXa-T: feMpj Tit,es
Ate At Stake Tonight
Score by quarters:
Union Grove ...... 16 32 18 19—85
Spring Hill ........ 9 15 10 14—48
OR
NEW YORK, Feb. |2. IU.»—
Clarence UMVof Jr y a rt c l s, tuo
Grand* Collage’s high-scoring
giant who thia week cracked tt»e
all-time collegiate season scoring
record, ia leaving the rest **f the
field lar behind in the national
basketball scoring race, official
NCAA small college figures dis-
closed Friday.
The fabulous Bevo had a total of
929 in 19A games through last Sat-
urday, an average of 48.9 points a
game, for a huge lead over run-
ner-up Vince Leta of Lycoming,
with 345 potpt* In 11 games for a
31.5 averagg.
Since Saturday, Bevo has added
a 59-point performance against
Anderson College and thdt shoved
his tout up to 98 and his average
up to 49.4 points. That total of 988
eclipsed the small-college season
record of 970 set by little Johnny
O'Brien of Seattle in 1952.
With that Anderson game and
his Fpb. 2 game against Hillsdale,
In which he scored a record 113
points, added, this week's average
for Bevo was up about five points
over last week's.
Meanwhile, six-foot, three-inch
Paul Lauritzen of Augusta (111.)
College is setting a record pace as
far as field goal shooting is con-
cerned. In 13 games. Lauritzen has
taken 171 shots and sunk 108 arid
for an average of 63.2 per cent.
A splurge this week, in which he
sank 28 of 46 shots, moved him
ahead of the existing record of
80.6 per cent set by Bub Buis of
Carleton last season.
Bill Theiben of Hofstra College
also is pressing a record, that for
average number of rebounds per
game. Theiben has nabbed 437 in
17 games, for an average of 25.7
per game. This record is 26.5 per
game, set by Jim Neal of Wofford
last season.
Showing the trend to high scor-
ing in the cage sport, 25 teams
are scoring 80 or more points per
game with Arkansas Tech out in
front with 95.9 and Rio Grande
second with 93.5.
Five
Since 1900. the United States
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By JOHN GRIFFIN
NEW YORK, Feb. 12. (U.R)—
First place in four blazing confer-
ence races will be squarely on the
line Friday night as college bas-
ketball heads into one of its most
fateful week ends of the season.
With the last-minute rush to nail
down league titles and tournament
berths gathering speed, California
risks its lead in the Southern Di-
vision of the Pacific Coast Confer-
ence; deadlocked Oregon and Ore-
gon -State shoot for the top in jthe
Northern Division; the Colorado
Aggies defend the lead in the sky-
line Conference and George Wash*
ing ton in the Southern.
Reynolds Defends
Golf Title
MIAkll. Fla., Feb. 12. (U.R)—De-
fending champion Allie Reynolds,
New York Yankee World Series
pitching hero, headed a lineup of
the nation’s baseball stars teeing
off Friday in the 15th annual Na-
tional ~ Baseball Players golf
championship.
Some-73 diamond aces were as-
sembled for the three-day tourna-
ment at the Miami Springs course.
Alvin Dark, New York Giants’
shortstop, stacked up as Reynolds’
top challenger. Dark won the 1952
tournament, but bowed to Rey-
nolds in the 1953 finals.
Major league tournament en-
trants Included Phil Rizzuto, Yan-
kee shortstop; Lou Kretlow, Chi-
cago White Sox pitcher, tourna-
ment driving champ; Early Wynn,
Cleveland Indian pitcher; Hal
Newhouser, Detroit Tiger twirler,
and Yankee catcher Yogi Berra.
Altogether, 27 competing in the
tournament are active major
league players, 15 are minor league
talent, 14 inactive major leaguers,
and 17 press, radio and television
personalities round out the roster.
California, rankad seventh
among the nation'* top teams, op-
en* with two games against UCLA.
If UCLA sweeps both games, the
race will be tied and Southern Cal-
ifornia can share that tie by beat-
ing Stafford twice.
Oregon and Oregon State also
are opening two-game series, Ore-
gon on the road against Idaho and
Oregon State at home against
Washington, and thus Oregon
seemff to-face the tougher job.
Colorado AtM Plays Utah
The Colorado Aggies, with a 7-1
record in the Skyline loop, play
hosts to Utah Friday night whole
second:place Brigham Young (5-H
visits Wyoming. If both top con-
tenders win Friday night, first
place will be the prize when they
clash with each other Saturday
night on the Aggies’ court.
George Washington is unbeaten
in nine league games going into
Friday night’s road game against
Washington and Lee. A slip would
cut the Colonials’ margin over sec-
ond place Furman (4-1) to the van-
ishing point.
Two of the nation’s leading in-
dependent teams, eighth-rdnked
Holy Cross and 19th-ranked Ford-
ham, collide in one of the biggest
games. The Crusaders go into Fri-
day night’s fray with a brilliant
17-1 record, having lost only to
Notre Dame, while Fordham has
a 15-2 record.
Bolvy Oats II Points
Frank Selvy, th* Furman flash,
highlighted a slim cag* program
Thursday night by scoring 51
points to pace a 114-67 rout of
winless Georgia Tech. Th# per-
formance moved the six-foot,
three-inch senior, who has played
about 2V* varsity years, within 57
points of the all-time major-col-
lege career total of 2,154 points,
set by Jim Lacy of Loyola, Md., in
four seasons.
In other leading games, Wake
Forest defended third place in the
Atlantic Coast Conference by beat-
ing North Carolina 76 to 62, lead-
ing all the way to avenge an early
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SPORTS BRIEFS
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the 1954 National Football
season. Felton scored six —
downs in helping Maryland to last
year’s national collage champion-
ship.
SCORPION TO BTUD DUTIEB
LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb. If.
(UR) — Scorpion. Australia’s lead-
ing stallion, Friday headed for hta
new stud duties at the Greenacres
Farm in nearby Chino, Calif. The
ion of Hyperion, purchased re-
cently for $30,000, arrived Thurs-
day aboard a freighter from Ms
native country,
LEBERMAN SIGNS CONTRACT
BALTIMORE, Feb. 12. <U-» —
Bob Leberman, a rookie halfback
from Syracuse University, Friday
signed his 1954 contarct with the
Baltimore Colts. Tne Hamburg,
N. Y., youth was the Colts’ 11th
choice in the recent National Foot-
ball League draft.
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MOM-IN-LAW TAKES SIDES
NEW YORK. Feb. 12. (U.R) —
Coach Muzz Patrick of the New
York Rangers admitted Friday his
mother has refused to take sides
in the Rangers’ battle with brother
Lynn's Boston Bruins for a Na-
tional Hockey League playoff
berth. “But my mother-in-law is
iting for the Rangers,” Muzz
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roo
said, “and
•happy
I hope we keep her
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FRISCO DROPS TENNIS
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 12. (UR)
—Although It has developed such
stars as Art Larsen, Seth Peter-
son and S*an Smith, the Univer-
sity of San Francisco Friday
dropped tennis from its athletic
program because of a lack of
talent*
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GAVILAN-MINELLI BOUT SET
BOSTON, Feb. 12. (UJh—Welter-
weight champion Kid Gavilan will
fight Livio Minelli of Italy in a
10-round, non-title bout at Boston
Garden March 8, it was announced
Thursday night. The fight will be
televised nationally.
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season loss as Dickie Hemric
showed the way with 28 points;
St. John's beat Richmond 62 to 59,
Maryland trounced Washington
and Lee 76 to 43; and Butler
downed Evansville 79 to 67.
Other leading games Friday
night include Brown-Dartmouth in
the Ivy League, Montana-Utab
State in the Skyline, Boston Col-
lege-Tufts, Arizona Tempe State-
Hardin Simmons, Arizona-West
Texas State, and Texas Western-
Texas Tech.
District Committee Sets
Dates For 10-AA Meets
The rookie, who is single, live*
In Oak. Neb., where he works for
Armour’s In the off-i
SCHGLZ OUTPOI
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The district committee of ath-
letic competition in 10-AA decided
earlier this week the dates of the
district meets in tennis, track and
golf.
The tennis meet will be held in
Gladewater on the recently built
courts. This will be the second
year that the district tennir meet
has been held in Gladewater.
April 2 and 8 will be the dates of
(he meet.
On April 7, the gold meet will
be held in Longview. Several
CUddles are going out for the
1954 golf team and the district
competitors from Gladewater High
School will be selected by the
best scores in a preliminary meet
SNOEK
BERLIN. Germany. Feb 12. (U.R)
—Gustav Scholz, who will leave
Germany next week to campaign
in the United Ntatcs, outpointed
Wim Snoek. tight heavyweight
champion of the Netherlands, in
their 10-round, non-title bout
Thursday night. Scholz weighed
156 pounds; Snoek 169.
, NOW SHOWING 1
ME HAD A MAN SIZES M8 TO^OO!
rane
sometime before the district meet.
The district track meet will be
held in Kilgore as it has for sev-
eral years. The track meet will |
take place on April 10.
After the district meets, the re-
gional track meet will be held in
Nacogdoches April 24. Two weeks
later, the state meet will be held.
Since the Interscholasttc League
did not reorganize any other
sports than football and basket-
ball. the other sports stay in the
same classification they were in
when the ie-classifications took
place.
Team* in 10-AA are Tyfer, Mar-
shall, Texarkana, Kilgore, Nacog-
doches and Gladewater.
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NF.W YORK. Feb. 12. (U.R)—A
young man named John Landy
still is looking for the four-minute
mile and it begins to appear as if
the only way he’ll run it is down-
hill with the wind behind him be-
fore a gallery at muffled, mum-
mies.
A great runner, the young Aus-
tralian unfortunately has prowd
even faster to date when it comes
to second guessing the results re-
corded on the stop watch.
The spiked shoe fanatics were
elated last December when young
John ran the third fastest eight
furlongs on record, a really daz-
zling 4:02.
They predicted that h* would
ba tha man. finally, to run that
mlracla four-minut# mil*.
But something always seems to
happen. You can take it from John
that his failures were not due to
the lack of four-minute muscles
but because it was too hot or too
cold, the track was too hard or too
soft, his feet hurt, the crowd ap-
plauded so loud that ho couldn’t
hear his lap times and thus didn’t
pace himself correctly and now,
after a great 4:05 6 performance,
that the wind was too strong.
“If" — that old familiar word
In disappointed sporting circle*—
the wind hadn’t been so strong
he’d have done it easily. That’s
what Aussie officials claim. They
Insist that the wind cost him "six
or seven seconds," That would
have irennt a 3:56.6 mile.
If Rocky Marciano hadn’t
knocked out Jersey Jo* Walcott,
then old Joe would still be heavy-
weight champ of the world.
If the United States hadn’t
blown its last two matches against
Australia, it would hold the Davis
Cup now.
If Native Dancer had a nose as
long as the one I continually stick
into other people’s business, it
would have won the Kentucky
Derby.
Ergo: If Landy had run a 3:58.6
mile it would have shown on the
stop watch as such—not as 4:05.6.
Young John's excuses have been,
at least, consistent. In 1952, after
running 4:02.1, but subsequently
ran 4:16.2 because “it was too hot
and I wasn’t going to kill myself.”
That, son, is vary nearly what
a fallow Is going to have to do
to run th* four-minut* mil*.
Australian coaches recently sub-
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Landy wasn't receiving adequate
attention from his handlers and
that he was getting thoughtless
treatment from officials who did
not seed him in the pole lane
evrrv time out.
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’ Tunney. The other was Joe Louis,
when he was beaten by Max
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“I forgot to duck, honey,” the
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“He just whipped me. ma,”
Louis said to his mother.
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