Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 98, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 23, 1944 Page: 2 of 10
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PACi TWO
BROWNWOOD (T.x.i) BULLETIN, SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 1944
Southwest Conference Football Teams Eye 1944 Season
RICE OPENS
INFORMAL
PRACTICE *
Million Baiketbal!
Campaign Financtd From
Scrap Pa par Collaction
MISSON, Jan. 22—(AP>—
Sport* financial note;
Coach A. V. 1 ab« 11 of Mission,
high Bchool taya the baekatball
campaign will be financed from
funda reoaivad in tba aerap pa-
per collection.
All the work was done by the
public achools.
By THE AMOCIATLU PRKftS
One Southwest Conference
'choel already has begun football
practice but it's of the informal
variety.
Spring training will net open |
full Mast at most of the schools i
until March.
Fifty-nma candidate* have re
ported to Coach Jean Neely at Rice
Included are all the boys on the |
'quad at the close of the 1843 sea
•on. Unless semester examinations
taka a toll. Neely expects no de
factions before Nov. 1.
formal spring training starU
after the new semester March 1
By that time, Neely expects to
have several 17-year-old freshmen
and a few more V-12 prospects.
-Texas A. and M
NEW YORK. Jan 22—'AP>—
William Malcolm Dickey* the
kanglin Arkansas who has been
gangling Arkansan who has been
catcher for 15 years, today was
selected as the player of the year
by the New York chapter of the
Baseball Writer’s Association.
He will receive the award at the
annual dinner of the chapter in
New York's Hotel Commodore on
Bundry. Feb. 8.
Dickey, fourteenth recipient of
the trophy which last yeai went
to Ted Williams of the Boston Red
Sox, is the first catcher to make
the grade.
Thirty-seven years old and a
father. Dickey will report to man-
ager Joe McCarthy of the Yanks
in March for hia seventeenth cam-
paign with the Bronx bombers.
During the long career he es-
tablished u major league mark for
catching 100 or more games in
13 consecutive season! and In ad-
dition holds numerous field and
batting marks.
Last season he was third in the
American League's batting roster
with an average of .351. And haa
established such marks as clout-
ing three homers in a single game.
July 28. 1939 and bashing homer*
with the bate* loaded in consecu-
tive games at the expenae of the
Chicago White Sox on Aug. 3 and
4, 1937.
He caught 123 games in 1931
without a vested ball, is co-holder
of the major league mark of mak-
ing three assists in an inning and
authored an unassister double
CAMP BOWIE, Jan. 22—Three
hard-hitting Axmoraldcrs, two of
them veterans of former Golden
Gloves tournam#ntg, have been
added today by CpL A1 Hostak
13th Armored Division boxing
coach and ek-middlewelght king
to the list of battlers he la lend-
ing into action in the Brownwood
district tourney.
The three arc Pvt Johnny Pa-
dilla, bantamweight; Cpl. George
(Chip) Volimer, lightweight, and
Cpl. Jim Mello, middleweight, all
of them youthful veteran! of plen-
ty of ring melees, and all guar-
anteed by Hostak to give a good
account of themselves in tbe llmon
pure classic at Brownwood Me-
morial Hall January 31 and Feb-
ruary 1 and 2.
Padilla, who comes from San
Diego, Calif., is in the mcdicll de-
tachment of the 59th Armored
Infantry Battalion. Johnny has
tucked more than 30 flghta under
his belt, has lost the decision in
only four of them, and has won
more thah half of his engagements
via the kayo route. He fought in
the finals of the Ban Francisco
Golden Gloves tournament two
years ago.
Yollmer hails from St. Leuil and
is a tank driver with tbe 93rd Cav-
alry Reconnaissance Squadron
Mechanized. He is a St. Louis Gol-
den Gloves semi-finalist. At Cen-
tral High School. St. Louis, be was
a star basketball player and was
scouted by talent hunter* of lead-
ing mldwestem universities befo:
war called him to more serious
business.
"Chip'' started boxing in ama-
teur clubs in his home town and
has come along nicely under Hos-
tak'* expert tutelage. As a Black
Cat, he haa won eight out of nine
bouts. He is rated as one of the
moat willing young athletes In the
division, and is a worthy team-
mat e of hia fellow cavalryman,
Sgt. Damon Franklin of Louisville,
Ky„ the division lightweight cham-
pion.
Mello. a middleweight, who holda
the Black Cat title in that daas,
also serves with the 93rd cavalry
Reconnaissance -Squadron Mechan-
ized. He calls Turlock, Calif., hia
home. At Turlock High School.
Jim was a star football player alM
all-around athlete.
Raised on a
ride anything
his tearamateJ
division light I
he has been a rodeo performer and
has mastered some of the orneriest
steeds on the West Coast. He
drives *a llth Armored Division
tank and gives that Job the same
zip he used to put Into hit rodeo
appearances.
Jim made hia debut as a boxer
in amateur rlnga at Merced, Calif.
He had offers to turn professional
but was more tntereotod in getting
an agricultural education, figuring
that he'd rather make a career out
of beef cattlo than out of cauli-
flower ears.
These boys, and the other
Black Cats going into ring warfare
in the Golden Gloves claaaic, are,
after 14 months with the 13th Ar-
mored Division, at the peak of
physical perfection, and they’re in
fighting trim mentally as well as
physically. Asked for a statement
on hia charges' chances in the big
bouts, Hostak observed:
t ‘They're rougb—and they re
ready.”
DENISON, Jan. 22—TAP)—Deni-
son has two men on the pitching
staff of the SL Louis Browns for
next season but one of them may
pass up major league baseball.
Newman Shirley recently signed
with the Browns. Shirley, a brake-
man with the Katy railroad here,
finished last season with Spring-
field, Mala., of the Eastern League.
Bob Miunerief pitched for St
Louis la*t year but la not sure of
his plana for this season. He now
Is employed in the shipyards at
Houston.
___... ____.... is one school
» that won't hold spring training in
J the spring. The Aggies wilf be
• called out in late summer or early
fall.
; It was explained that A. and M.
: wasn't going to train players for
• ether conference schools as was
; the case last spring. A number of
bays who worked at Agfieland
• were at other schools when the
grid race opened in the fall, some
! by Navy transfer, othen by change
• of schools.
Arkansas opens spring training
! March 3 and runs to April 1. Texas
i starts practice March 8 and con-
• tinuet for 30 calendar days.
• Texas Christian and Southern
; Methodist have not yet set dates
for spring training.
• Baylor, the other member of the
• conference, was not In football last
! year and la not expected to return
! te the (eld next fell.
Contracts Art Mailod To
33 St. Louis PUyors
ST. LOUIS. Jen. 22V*
Contracts are being
players by the St. I
TWO OF A KIND—George (French)) Gravelle (left) and Leo Maguire (right) are
13th Armored Division battlers entered in the Brownwood district Golden Gloves elim-
inations. Both are primarily fighters, not boxers. Gravelle is the division light heavy-
weight champ, and Maguire wears the Black Cat heavyweight crown. The .man in the
middle is Cpl. At Hostak, division boxing coach and twice middleweight
P>—
to 33
Lgdls Browns,
m\ O. Dewitt
being the dtgb
spring trsir-
iaau. Mo., In
Football District
10-M To Return To
i Round Robin Play
Vice-President Wl
said tonight in anr
had dAided to oi
ing at Cape Gig
March 10.
champion of
the world
CAGE j
RESULTS
Before Pearl
States had 23 t
[arbor the Unfed
[tleahipa.
TEMPLE. Jan. 22—'At»l—Foot-
ball district 10-AA will return to
the old round robin schedule in
1944. abandoning the split district
plan In effect for the past .two
years. Temple school superintend-
ent George Gentry said tonight
The decision was made at a
meeting of the district executive
committee in Waco today.
Participating in the round-robin
plsy will be Ennis, Bryan, Cle-
burne, Hfllsboro. Waxahachie, Cor-
sicana. Waco and Temple
league connection, he has played
in eight World Series and has
represented the American League
hi actual play In seven all-star
games. In addition, he haa been
selected on the Sporting News’
rll-major league team six times.
Proposed Personal
Fou Rule Change
Helps Marquette Win
At Waco. Baylor 38. North Texas
Agricultural College 3.1
At College Station. Rice 63. Tex-
as A AM 33
At Fayettevijle. Arkansas “74,
Southern Methodist 49. *
New Division Is!
Baylor Bears Nose Added To Fat Stock
Out NTAC Quintet . Show Track Meet
I SSSE
: try laat night and his Marquette P*
. team uaed It effectively to help cn n* of *Prb1I training
• upset DePaul 51-49 1 11 be the second cold-weatli*
: The experimental rule Inflicted ordeal fo(| the athletes above
only a three-minute rest period *h® Lastman-Landis line, estab-
•n a player with four personals ll*hed a year ago as means of cur-
rather than complete eviction from travel, and tbe 16 clubs
. tha game have made only three change*
r With iix minutes to play, Bill (rom thc Picked a year ago.
I Chandler. Jr., aon of the coach. The Philadelphia Phillies, owned
. went to the bench after accumu- this year by Robert M Carpenter,
• latlng his quota of fouls After will train this lime in tbe young
three minutes he returned to the socialite's home town of Wllming-
9 floor where he had much to do ton. Del. The Athletics will ship
i. With controlling the ball as Mar- their belongings i* Frederick. Md.,
queue stalled out the time to sur- and the New#Yofk Yankees have
arrive a last-minute DePaul drive, picked Atlantic City ui preference
j Jack Dean of DePaul also was to Asbury Park. Jj. J.
- ejected on fouls, but only 10 sec- Players from tlree teams in the
- ends remained by the time he was N*t10nal loop and three in the
£. released from the bench. American will sweat off their sur-
m Three DePaul players and two plus weight* id Indiana, the Chi-
- Marquette men went out on fouls cago Cubs and White Sox estab-
. during the game, but only Chan- lishing a combined base of opera-
• die and Dean left soon enough lo tions at French Lick. Cincinnati
£ take advantage of the three-minute returns to Bloomington. Cle-veland
£ test plan. ' to Lafayette. Detroit to Evsnaviii*
fered a number of "positive cures."
A man in Massachusetts wrote
that he had cured a case of chron-
ic nephritis by giving the patient
a pint of buttermilk a day.
Another writer said he had
found a weed that never failed.
He sent the weed
Blackberry juice was earnestly
recommended by a mtd-Wettern
correspondent as being a auft-fire
treatment, while a man in the East
wrote:
’Take him off lollipops and'pie
and he’ll get well.”
MIAMI, Ma.. Jan JJ- 'Al*'- »auu. Jan Jg—(AP>—In a FORT WORTH Jan.’ 22—A new
The fiv*-year-old Mar-Kell. top closely fought basketball game division for servicemen and induv
money winner for thc Calument here tonight, the Baylor University tnaj workers has been added to
farm now thet mighty Whirlaway Bear* , nosed out the North Texas the program of the annual fat stock
ha* been retired, brought home a Agricultural College quintet from «how track and field meet March
$4.090 prize tnd.iv with a smart Arlington. 38 to 35 j —17-18
triumph In Hialeah Parks Evening, Tall Marlin Kicks' offensive and R D Evlns. director of the car-
Handicap before one of the larg- defensive play for the victors was nival, said] today that there had
est crowgs of the winter season outstanding Aggies Jim Batchelor been Inquiries from employe* at
Billy Thompson had thc bay *nd Bob Doyle, with ten and eight war plants land servicemen in thl*
thoroughbred out in front bv a points, respectively, made things area. Servicemen competed in the
length and a half at the finish and hot f«r the Bruins and kept NTAC university division in 1842. the last
was pulling away from the field ahead the first half, but Baylor year that t|ie meet wa* held.
Despite a burden of 126 pounds camc back ,0 buil<1 UP *n eight- The othdr divisions, university
and a relatlvely-aoft track. Mar- Point lead. NTAC turned on the and high school, also will compete
Kell went the seven furlongs in beat few minutes of the i
onemtinute 26 seconds-3 3-5 sec-* h*11 jarne but failed to overtake - ; .
onds off the course record. \ thc Be^rs. M^MV/ I P<32rmOtllC A PP
Mello can
r feet. Like
ly Gravelle.
nght champ.
Jumbo Haml
MOORE k
VIS GRO
£ Moat consumption in German-
7 occupied Holland has declined
- from an average of a pound and
- tkroo-quartsrt a week before the
2 wmr to two and onA-quarte.
Z ounce* a week.
DALLAS. Jan. 22—<AP>— Dr
Charles B Shuey, at tend mg phys
ician to Billy Meert, said today he
had received man$ unusual aug-
gestions for treatment of the four-
year-old victim of chronic nephri-
tis.
The kidney ailnifit^iUy suf-
fers is conaidery^ lncumble, but
thc physician syfi he hay been of-
leave, with pay.
Answering an emergency call
from a woman unable to locale a
doctor, they successfully delivered
a baby girl and (he police commit-
sion recommended the time off a»
a reward for performance "beyond
the regular line of duly.”
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