Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 100, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 1948 Page: 7 of 32
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7—-Gainesville (Tex.) Daily Register Thurs., Dec. 23, 1948
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BEARS START EASING
BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 23 (A)
California’s high spirited Bears
held the last of their two-a-day
practices today with their running
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ever. May yours be a holiday overflowing with happiness
Hank Borowy Happy
He’s With the Phils
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. (7P) —
Hank Browy let it be known to-
day that he’s mighty happy he
was evicted from the Chicago
Cubs’ doghouse to became a ten-
ant in the Philadelphia Phillies
pitching box.
Hank was part of the four-play-
er swap that brought Eddie Wait-
kus to the Phils and sent Dutch
Leonard and Walt Dubiel to the
Cubs this month.
TO MIX OFFENSES
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23 (A)
Football fans lucky enough to get
tickets for the East-West Shrine
game should get a look at prac-
tically all the football systems
ever invented. Caches of both
squads planned today to mix up
their attacks in the New Year’s
day classic.
Vince Boryla Is Top
Basketball Scorer
NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (AP) —
Vince Boryla, of Denver, is the
nation’s top major collegiate in-
dividual basketball scorer.
The former Notre Dame star
has compiled an average of 25.8
for the four games he has played
through Dec. 18 to lead Ernie
Vandeweghe, of Colgate. Vande-
weghe is credited with an average
of 24.3 fo rthree games.
Says Indians Boast
Best Pitching Staff
CLEVELAND, Dec. 23 (AP) —
A fellow who should know says
the world champion Cleveland In-
dians have the greatest depth in
pitching he has ever seen.
Herold (Muddy) Ruel, former
bullpen coach who now is a mem-
ber of the Tribe’s farm organiza-
tion, maintains that no team he
can recall possessed the potential
pitching strength the Indians have
with Bob Feller, Bob Lemon,
Gene Bearden, Early Wynn, Steve
Gromek, Sam Zoldak, Frank Pip-
ish and Satchel Paige.
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Smith of “Moon Over the Moun-
tain” fame, is wanting to try her
hand in professional baseball. Re-
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WHICH REMINDS US that a
fellow from Denison said to us
recently, “Say, you and that Clift
boy are working up quite a feud,
aren’t you?”
After assuring him it was all
in fun anyway, he replied, “Yeah,
, I’m sure of that, but it is creating
a lot of interest here in Denison.”
We didn’t mention Paul Tool-
ey’s name, but we could have re-
, minded him that Tooley and the
writer staged a nasty fight for
several years—on paper. Fans, at
least over there, weren’t so sure
at the time that we were kiddin’.
They showed that when we
walked into the Denison press box
one night, when the Leopards
were to play the Jackets, and
Browns.
Guess Katie doesn’t want Bing
Crosby and Bob Hope tg get
ahead of her in the sports world.
Bing owns a hunk of the Pitts-
burgh Pirates and Bob has an in-
terest in the Cleveland Indians.
Time was when Kate was spon-
sor of an outstanding profession-
al basketball squad. Don’t know
whether she has withdrawn her
support of that outfit or not'.
FODDER — The South’s line
that faces the North in the annual
Blue-Gray classic will average
218 .pounds. It shouldn’t be
shoved around by the Yankees,
to say the least of it . . . We’re
just wondering if there’ll be a
very large crowd at Saturday’s
high school football final in Fort
Worth. Christmas Day isn’t a very
good time to stage a football game
we fear, and $2.50 per seat is
pretty stiff for a high school con-
test . . . SMU gridders disbanded
after yesterday’s practice until
Monday, Coach Matty Bell giving
his boys opportunity to be in their
homes for Christmas . . . Connie
Mack is 86 years old today. Start-
ing back in 1931 when his Athlet-
ics won a pennant, Mr. Mack has
been wanting to win just one
more before retiring, but he has
failed to do that so far . . . South-
ern Methodist loses but one back-
field star after this season. Paul
Page, the elusive, hard working
halfback, winds up his college
gridiron career in the game with
Oregon in the Cotton Bowl. He’s
been a real hand for the Ponies
throughout his four years there.
He was a sensation during his
freshman year . . . Hardin-Sim-
mons Cowboys play their third
bowl game of the season Decem-
ber 30 when they face Wichita in
the Camellia Bowl in Lafayette,
La. Where on earth is Wichita? ■
. . . Maybe we better wind up our
Christmas shopping. We usually
wait until Christmas eve. Santa is .
not so busy then.________________ •
Search for New
Talent Results
In All-Star Show
NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (A) —
Harry Markson’s search for new
talent to bolster sickly fight gates
at Madison Square Garden has
resulted in an all-star show for
Jan. 14 featuring three brilliant
newcomers—Vince Foster of Om-
aha, Roland La Starza of New
York and Lil Arthur King of To-
ronto.
Foster, La S t a r z*a and King
scored terrific hits in semi-finals
on the last three Garden shows.
Markson rewarded all three by
moving them into an all-star
show.
Foster, a good-looking kid with
a sock, impressed fans recently
by battering Tony Mistovich of
Youngstown, Ohio. Now he meets
tough Tony Pellone of New York
in the 10-round star bout.
La Starza, unbeaten in 28 pro
fights, “arrived” Dec. 10 when
he got up off the floor twice to
stop Gene Gosney, Seminole, Ok-
lahoma heavyweight.
Markson has paired 21-year-old
La Starza with Jimmy Evans of
Brooklyn in an eight-rounder. La
Starza defeated Evans in a six-
rounder at the Garden late in
1947.
King, only 22, is the best look-
ing prospect to show here in many
a year. He polished off Tony La
Bua of Ozone Park, N. Y., with a
third round knockout recently.
King has been matched with
Willie Beltram, a toughie from
Brooklyn, in another fight on the
Jan. 14 show.
and a lady passed us on the steps as we came down.
As it turned out, she was the gal friend of Putt Powell, the Ama-
rillo Globe-News sports writer, Johnny Clift says Powell, excited _______________________ _____
over that first-quarter scoring the Sandies did, popped the question ger Ted Collins, have made a ges-
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We’re setons this Yuletide •.. We’re
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climbing to the belfry and ringing those
New Braunfels and
Waco Are Favorites
By The Associated Press
if Waco and New Braunfels do
not win the state schoolboy Class
AA and Class A championships
respectively Saturday a flock of
sports writers will absorb plenty
of razzing.
They were quite positive today
when polled that Waco would lick
Amarillo at Fort Worth and New
Braunfels would whip Monahans
at Odessa.
Waco was given the widest
margin with 21 writers casting
their ballots for the Tigers and
only five for Amarillo. New
Braunfels was the pick of 20 writ-
ers and Monahans five.
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vJT took place in the Denison Press box at the half in Amarillo-Jack-
et contest
Came half time and we rushed out to hunt a hot cup of coffee
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J. J. NICHOLS
VALLEY VIEW, TEXAS
BLUE-GRAY GAME ALL SET
MIAMI, Fla. Dec. 23 (A)— North
and South teams are all set for
their intersectional gridiron battle
in the Orange bowl Christmas
night. The south unanimously
elected Mississippi’s great Barney
Poole to captain them in the Mahi
Shrine set-to.
Pro Scouts Contact
Sul Ross Grid Stars
ALPINE, Tex., Dec. 23 (P) —
Since 12 members of the Sui Ross
State football squad will graduate
next spring, several of them have
been approached by professional
football scouts.
Sui Ross was undefeated and
untied during the past season and
plays Murray State in the Tan-
gerine Bowl at Orlando, Fla., Jan.
1.
Among professional clubs con-
tacting the Sul Ross seniors are:
the New York Giants, Pittsburgh
Steelers, Los Angeles Rams,
Philadelphia Eagles and Detroit
Lions.
Men of the squad who have
been mentioned are John C. Wal-
drum, Frank Barton, J. L. Dodd
and John O. Parks. To date,
however, none of the boys have
signed contracts.
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Birthday
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23 (P)
Connie Mack, the grand old gen-
tleman of baseball, observed his
86th birthday today.
And the nicest present anyone
could offer him would be an out-
fielder who could swat the ball
like a couple of gents Connie had
on his clubs in the past.
“But you don’t get anything
for nothing,” Mr. Mack observed
with the assurance of a man who
has been trying to get something
and give up little for 48 years.
Lacking the present he wants
most, Connie is making his birth-
day celebration a quiet one with
little fanfare. His family and club
associates were with him to
whoop it up in a small way, but
baseball as usual.
Almost any other man would
have quit many years ago the ac-
tive life of coaching ball players,
handling financial transactions,
directing strategy from the dug-
out and staying up until all
hours at night games.
But not Connie Mack. He loves
baseball.
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Cleburne and Gainesville.
Cleburne is evidently taking
the place of the Denton team,
which fought here in the initial
show.
Since this first one, the local
boxers have learned a great
deal and, too, there’ll be some
new faces seen through the
ropes.
The program will feature 15
bouts between boys matched
according to weight and ability.
Better plan to be on hand for
the fun and see the flying fists.
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some 1,500 fans (looked like that
many) rose in a body and glared.
One leather - lunged brother
blared out, “Is that the bird, Tool-
ey?” When Tooley nodded his
head in the affirmative, the gent,
about the size of “Tiny” New-
berry, yelled in a bull-frog voice,
“Well, if he starts anything, just
let us know.” You guessed it. We
were peaceful like all evening.
Mighty Kentucky
Defeats Greenies
NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (A) —
Mighty Kentucky turned back
last night another challenge to
its collegiate basketball suprem-
acy. This time it was previously
unbeaten Tulane which had
pointed nearly a year for its
meeting with the NCAA champs.
The score was Kentucky 51 Tu-
lane 47.
Unbeaten Purdue, Minnesota
and Bradley all kept their records
clean. Purdue trimmed Drake, 54
to 47; Minnesota trampled St.
Mary’s of California, 52-42; and
Bradley whipped Los Angeles
Loyola, 60 to 50.
Iowa nosed out Texas Christian
47-46, in an overtime struggle at
Iowa City, la.
Other scores included:
> Texas Tech 65, Marshall (W.Va)
54.
Texas Aggies 50, Southwestern
Okla. Tech 30.
St. Marys (Tex) 44, Oklahoma
Baptist 43.
Texas Wesleyan 81, Eastern
New Mexico 63.
Oleander Bowl
Sponsors to Stage
Pre-Game Parties
GALVESTON, Tex., Dec. 23
(A)—The first annual Oleander
Bowl classic to be staged here
Dec. 29 will honor more football
teams at the pre-game banquet
and will have more school bands
participating in festivities than
any other bowl attraction in the
nation, according to Homer Nor-
ton, general chairman of the Ole-
ander Bowl.
Four teams, instead of the usual
two, will be feted at the elaborate
banquet on Dec. 28, while at least
ten bands will take part in the
parade the afternoon of the game
and at the event that night.
Officials of the Greater Galves-
ton Beach association decided to
entertain the isle’s two high
schools, Ball and Kirwin, at the
banquet, in addition to the bowl
teams, Wharton and Paris Junior
colleges.
Morris Frank, sports editor of
the Houston Post, has been se-
lected as the banquet’s principal
speaker. Mayor H. Y. Cartwright,
Jr., will be toastmaster. Promi-
nent sports writers and sports an-
nouncers from all over the state
have been invited, Coach Norton
said. An estimated 400 persons
will attend the fete at the Bucca-
neer hotel, to which the general
public is invited.
Beach association officials also
announced that the famous Briga-
diers, Baytown high’s drum and
bugle corps, will be featured in
the parade and during the big
half-hour show at the half. Other
participating bands include:
Wharton Junior college, Paris
Junior college, Paris high, Texas
City high, Dickinson high, Bay-
town high, Alvin high, Ball high,
Kirwin high and Central high.
The first annual Oleander ball
will be held after the game in
the Marine room of Galveston’s
fabulous $2,000,000 pleasure pier.
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New Year’s day.
FOLLOWING THE GAME, SO JOHNNY REPORTS, POWELL
went to the Western Union to file his story and went to his hotel,
where a couple of deputies were waiting with a car to take him to
. Sherman to get his license.
They found no trouble in getting the papers but had to call all
, over creation to find a doctor for a medical certificate. They finally
landed Dr. Tuck, the Sherman baseball official, and the couple got
hitched.
Who was his best man but Coach Howard Lynch of Amarillo,
the very man Powell had attacked through his column in the paper
’ for a couple of years, trying to get the Amarillo coach fired!
Some might have called that returning good for evil, but we
aren’t so sure. Could be Lynch was just gettin’ even.
THIS CLIFT BOY, BY THE WAY, IS DYING PRETTY hard.
He’s still quotin’ statistics to show where the Jackets outplayed the
Sandies, for which we forgive him, lout he adds that the Jackes just
couldn’t whip eleven Sandies and four officials all at the same time.
A couple of decisions called correctly, he opines, would have
changed complexion of the game. .
For shame! We thought a long pass, a longer run and one sus-
f tained drive turned the trick for the visitors.
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Greenville to Stage
Independent Tourney
GREENVILLE, Dec. 23.—Play
in men’s and women’s division
will feature an independent bas-
ketball tournament which will be
held here Dec. 29, 30 and 31 and
Jan. 1.
Teams wishing to enter the
tournament should contact the
Greenville Independent Tourna-
ment committee, route 1, Mari-
etta, in care of the Greenville
high school.
Entry in the tourney must be
postmarked not later than mid-
night, Dec. 26. The entry fee is
$10 per team for each division.
Jackets will oe awarded the win-
ning team in each division.
All games in the tourney will
be played at night.
Teams will be limited to 10
players each and in the men’s
division no players who are mem-
bers of a college team at the pres-
ent time will be eligible to par-
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