Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 127, Ed. 1 Monday, January 25, 1954 Page: 4 of 8
eight pages : ill. ; page 21 x 16 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
7 -
--
I
Mon., Jan. 25, 1954
Leopards Try Loop Leaders Tuesday, Friday
BiL2a RNNG.
Sherman Here Tomorrow Panthers Test
f
»
“€
Hackler,
$
Classified Ads Bring Results.
s
NID
a
the
Aggies passed
ually worked t
the ball in to the bucket.
Pierce
I
Gerald
i
points
action
SIX
V-8
Test Drive
to get
i
a FORD
JUNIOR HIGH LEAGUE
13
3:3
1
Fate of Owls
IP
I
drive it home
I
Will Irie Gainesville Owls op-
3
the Sooner State league
• > ? •
39
fans ha
-a
=9,85
cago Ci b baseball officials.
and wonder will cease
Worry
ers and
I ,
house. The 7:30 p. m.
ty court
discussit n is due to hit upon the
that
I
•3
: 8
5393
1
A
*3.00
Your fun really begins when you own a Ford
*335
Reg. $4.50.
'54 FORD
•C-A,
I
HILBURN MOTOR CO.
fi"
/
th
214 North Dixon
"Your Friendly Ford Dealer"
Phone 191 or 966
i
V
And McKinney Invades
Leopardville on Friday
130-h.p.
W • block
Tell your merchant you saw his
advertisement in The Register.
League Games
Cage Quintets in Area
Have Tuesday Contests
questior
hair to
G
4
4
6
6
6
4
4
4
4
4
TP
88
77
72
65
63
61
57
46
43
43
erate in
in 1954?
I
s
•resident of
several
enthusiasm
r
Team
Prairie Valley
Muenster ....
Forestburg ..
Callisburg ...
Saint Jo .....
Look at your beautiful surroundings.
You’ll see why Ford interiors for ’54 set a new high
. in beauty. For here is a matchless blending of fabric,
color and styling. Every detail says "fine car” quality
from the new upholstery and trim to the unique new
Astra-Dial Control Panel. And you’ll find there’s
all the "lving room” you’ll ever want or need.
= i
I
I
2
Pet.
.800
.800
.600
.400
.400
.400
.000
Pet.
1.000
.750
.500
.250
.000
Pet.
1.000
.600
.600
.250
.000
Pet.
1.000
.750
.500
.500
.400
.250
.000
and others will be out for a sec-
ond decision on Tuesday.
Here are the leading scorers in the
local area:
ef.e
|..
League Standings
DISTRICT 3A-3
WE KEEP INFORMED
THROUGH
Visibility, the easier action of suspended clutch and
brake pedals and the convenience of Center-Fill
Fueling . . , advances which make your Ford more
fun to drive. And only Ford in the low-price field
brings them to you. Why not join the swing to Ford!
: 33839835 3889888585
in -,
.1 1 t
and Fr mkie Biggs of McKinney
are nex t in line with 84 and 81
w.
... 5
si
. 0
.Mi
ME 11(1
Deluxe Cleaners
31 3 E. California
PHONE 72
IM
Team
Greenville .....
Denton ........
Gainesville .....
Sulphur Springs
No. Tex. Lab. .
Denison .......
Sherman .......
li
E
E B
♦Al extra cost.
L.
0
1
2
2
3
3
4
Buckingham, C laude Wilson,
Richard
months । ago
4—Gainesville (Texes) Daily Register
—------------------
‘o.)4
$
*
)
)
Of course, you can’t fully appreciate tke many, many
“worth more” advantages that are yours in a ’54 Ford
until you actually own one. You’ll find that your Ford
provides the careful craftsmanship of a hull-tight
Crestmnark Body, the added safety of Full-Circle
Jackie Holt
- _—wd8
-
2
*
1
— M8---EEBWW3E390P
Feel how Ford's new Bo 11-Joi nt Front
Suspension cushions the bumps.
You’ll find a new kind of ride . . . level and smooth
•... even on rough, rutted roads. And, because Ford’s
new ball-joint front suspension is simpler than the
conventional type . .. with 12 points of wear elimi-
nated . . . that “new car” feel lasts longer.
into nothing. Not enough mem-
bers would turn out for board
meetings to constitute a major-
ity so that the necessary pre-
season items could be accom-
plished, so Dr. Locke decided to
call this meeting of stockholders
and fans.
New Directors?
The Hooter prexy declared
that either the stockholders will
elect a new board of directors
to run the club for ’54, or else
he would drop the whole thing
and the Owls would be marked
off the SSL roster.
So, it would seem that the
fate of baseball for Gainesville
in 1954 rests squarely on the
shoulders of the citizens of the
city. Their decision will be made
tomorrow night.
Try the or the.I.. You’ll thrill to Ford’s greater responsiveness the first time
you take a Test Drive. And you'll discover that this new “Go” is jours through the full
range of driving speeds! Both of Ford’s new engines have an extra-deep block extending
well below the crankshaft, giving the V-8 a “Y” shape, the Six an i shape—and you
a more rigid, smoother,'quieter engine. Both are short-stroke engines, too, which means
less internal friction, more usable energy, greater gas savings and long engine life.
We cordially invite you-to Test Drive a
A " *
V
‘•V#
atan Clothiers
□ M. KUEHN
re Your Assurance of Quality
■ ■
talks cease and the meeting is
history.
more people came into the build- "
ing until the folding seats At each
end of the gym had to be set up
to accomodate the fans.
Most were glad they turned out
for they got a glimpse of the No.
5 ranked basketball team in the .
Krause Says Irish
Not to Participate
In Sugar Bowl Tilt
ATLANTA, Jan. 25 (P_A re-
port that Notre Dame was “lean-
ing toward acceptance” of a bid
to become a long-term Sugar
Bowl participant has been brand-
ed as false at both ends.
Furman Bisher, sports editor
of the Atlanta Constitution, said
yesterday the Irish had been of-
fered a five-to-ten-year contract
to appear in New Orleans each
Jan. 1.
“There is absolutely nothing to
it.” declared Ed Krause, Notre
Dame athletic director.
Similar comment came from
the Sugar Bowl’s executive com-
mittee in New Orleans.
dribbling,
racy and
and i
sI
..........e+=e
shaa-. -
Most of the cage quintets in
the surrounding area had to
postpone hardboard activity the
latter part of last week because
of the icy weather conditions, but
with improved weather on tap
for Tuesday night, Callisburg,
probably have all they can han-
dle. too, in the Muenster six.
Muenster has compiled a 3-2 rec-
ord and, with Rita Cain at the
helm, they have been hard to
stop.
szasuasem"
.n
p 4
panded to 10 members which
would permit both Sweetwater
and Big Spring to join. Both
the local club before
and you’ll
want to
fate of
Entire Stock
leading the District 3A-3 scoring
race w th 107 points. Jim Kirby
of Pari; is second with 91, while
Blankenship of Sherman
Sherman Quintet
There Tonight
Horace McCain’s junior high
school Panthers will be out to im-'
prove their .500 record in league
play tonight when they invade
the sanctuary of the winless Sher-
man juniors. •
The locals boast a record of two
wins and a like number of losses
in conference competition, while
the Sherman crew has four
straight setbacks chalked up on
their slate.
The eighth graders of both
schools are due to open action in
a 7 p. m. battle, with the varsity
tilt following on the Sherman
court. . . ’
Coach McCain is due to start
Tom Erwin, James McCrory,
Sonny Gilmore, Billy Bob Latham
and Darwin Holt in tonight’s
fray, while Bert Gibbs, coach of
the eighth grade five, will depend
largely upon Freddie Marlar,
Bobby West and Gene Talley.
Reg. $3.95...
To Be Decided
...... - • - - • among the current board of di-
rectors of the club had dwindled
- V
Reg. $5.00.
Player
Richey. Muenster _____
Wilson. Callisburg ...
Long. Whitesboro ....
Sapp. Whitesboro . ...
Arterburn, Whitesboro
Lewis. Era ...........
Turner. Valley View .
Erwin. Junior High .
Hays, Gainesville .....
Barnes. Gainesville ...
Gainesville’s Leopard eagers have their work cut out for them
this week. The twin leaders of District 3A-3 will invade the home
town gymnasium, Sherman coming to town Tuesday and McKinney
Friday, for a brace of league conflicts with the winless cohorts of
Coach Garland Collett. ----------------------------‘----
PATTERN SHIRTS
REDUCED
W. L.
: 3 2
. 3 2
. 1 3
. 0 4
Spotty Reception
OKLAHOMA CITY (UP)—The
five-year-old daughter of a re-
turning air force lieutenant broke
up his reception by breaking out
with measles. Lt. Robert Hull
spotted the spots as he got off
the plane bringing him back
from the Philippines. The 20 rela-
tives gathered for a homecoming
party scattered, and the daugh-
ter, Brooke, went home to bed.
Bearcat quintet is due to in-
clude, Blankenship and Robert
Landolt at guards, Pierce and
Jerry Taylor at forwards and
Jimmy Sexton at center.
Coach Collett is expected to
start Ray Barnes and Jerry
Murphy at forwards, Jimmy,
Hammer at center and Roddy
Osborne and Spencer Hays at
the guard positions.
Coach Jimmy Eaves’ Leopard
B team Cubs hold one victory
out of four tries and Glenn
Don Budge Still
Winless in Pro
Tennis Comeback
CHICAGO, Jan. 25 (P—Big
Don Budge, one of the greatest
tennis stars in the history of the
game, still is grimly trying to
"break the ice” on his profession-
al comeback.
Fifteen times the 38-year-old
racquet ace has faced one of the
three other big-name profession-
als assembled by Jack Kramer
for his 1954 tournament tour,
and 15 times Budge has lost.
The lanky redhead who in 1938
won all four of the world’s major
tennis crowns admits this is a
miserable record. But he says he
expects to win a fair share of his
matches and professes himself
far from discouraged.
Break the ice
“All I need to do is break the
ice,” he said.
All the same, the other three
players on the tour—Australia’s
Frank Sedgman, Pancho Gon-
zales of Los Angeles and Pancho
Segura of Ecuador — have fre-
quently been hard pressed to
down their older opponent. ‘
Budge gets another chance to
#--
wAWe
Probably some of you local basketba 11 fans made the short trip
to Denton Saturday night to watch the C klahoma Aggies and North
Texas State college quintets in action. I' you did, you’ll know what
we are talking about when we
mention the capacity crowd that
pushed its way into the confines
of the new, swanky gymnasium
on the NTSC campus.
We arrived at the gym a little
late, only 15 minutes before the
game, but happened to be lucky
enough'to find fairly good seats
on the very top row of the huge
gym, which must hold around
four or five thousand. But, soon
after we settled down, more and
Tall Center
Much of the Aggie scoring
was done by 6-11 Bob Mattick.
Oklahoma center who started
slowly, but looked much more
potent in the later stages of the
game. He could shoot with ei-
ther a right or left hand hook
and his height helped him take
command of the backboards on
rebounds.
The Aggies seemed to have
everything in floor man Dale
Roark, 5-10 set-shot artist; Frank
Bigham, 6-1, who shot very lit-
tle. but when he did the ball
swished true; tall man Mattick
and play maker Clayton Carter,
6-4 — the only Texan on the
squad.
Coach Iba is the team. however.
Even from our perch in the
lofty top of the gym, it was
easy to hear the bellowing. boom-
ing of Iba as he goaded his
team on. “Hustle, hustle,” was
the reverberating cry on occa-
sions and a smacking fist into
palm served notice to get in
there and fight.
Dr. W H. Locke, pi
the Owl s, discovered
enter the win column tonight
when the Kramer troup moves
„ . . into St. Louis for a one-night
have been members in the past, stand.
after T aesday night, however,
for a meeting of all stockhold-
* interested Circus town
Muenster, Valley View and
Whitesboro will all get back into
action.
In District 13-A. the undefeated
Whitesboro Bearcats hit the road
Tuesday, going to Roney Grove
for what should be another vic-
tory. The Bearcats (6-0) de-
feated Honey Grove 53-34 in the
opening conference game of the
season for both clubs. The
Whitesboro girls (4-1) also hold
a victory over the ’Grove six. and
they may grab another if Billie
Earl is in top form.
Moving down the ladder to Con-
ference 33-B, only the Valley View
Eagles qf Cooke county, will see
action on Tuesday. The Eagles
are slated to play host to second
place Ponder (3-1), while Era
takes the night off.
Valley View (04) lost to the
Ponder crew 31-42 in an opening
s2a
That s a question that local
e been asking for the
past tw • or three months and a
that has added gray
both Gainesville and Chi-
swapping licks a Em3edhunsddh
hustling, fighting, but outclassed Ehup.a
NTSC Eagle quintet. E Mad
The Aggies, coached by one of Eh 4
the top cage brains in the nation
—Henry (Hank) Iba—displayed Epuhina
the ball-handling and tough de- J ==n ~ - —
fense they are oted for, but the I HENRY IBA
Eagles battled gamely and made
Very respectable showing, before bowing by 66-51,
. Moving in all kinds of intricate patti ms, and doing very little
the Aggies passed the ball with polished speed and accu-
gradually worked the ball in foi layups nearly every time
seldom did they need too, for their 1 assing eventually worked
i nto some baseball league
this yea : . It was announced Sun-
day tht t should the Oil States
old, Paris officials would
Earles Look Good
North Texas’ outfit displayed
plenty of fighting spirit and the
jump shots by Tom Hooper, 6-0,
and Elmer Beard, 6-7, plus the
dazzling and untiring floor ef-
forts of Bob Garner, 6-0, high-
lighted play by the Green and
White.
Early in the game, the hover-
ing Aggie defense covered the
Eagles thoroughly and many
shot efforts were knocked down
by the ball handling visitors, but
in the second and fourth quar-
ters the Eagles fought on al-
most even terms.
We had a good time watching
the proceedings and can now
understand the Aggie rating.
Even though that was a good
show, February 23 will produce
an even better one at the NTSC
gym. The Harlem Globetrotters
will be there on that date for a
pair of tilts. It’ll be easy to say
there will be a capacity crowd
there on that night. 9
This And That
Boy, that proposed Oil States
league has fallen apart in a hur-
ry. Noticed this morning that
Wichita Falls — one of three:
clubs that were financially ready
to play in the new loop — has
joined the Longhorn league . . .
John Lovelace. Sherman Demo-
crat writer, contended recently
Wichita Falls in
Longhorn League
ROSWELL. N. M., Jan. 25 (P)
— Wichita Falls has been ad-
mitted as the eighth member of
the Longhorn Baseball league.
League directors voted by
phone to admit Wichita Falls
after the Arizona-Texas league
refused yesterday to allow the
El Paso Texans to withdraw to
join the Longhorn league.
Harry James, Roswell, presi-
dent of the Longhorn league,
said that directors will meet at
Hobbs, N. M., Tuesday.
He said he will propose that
the Longhorn league be ex-
See how Ford's optional power
assists* make your driving easier.
Unlike other low-priced cars, Ford offers a power-
lift system that operates on all four windows. And
Ford’s power-operated front seat moves upland
down as well as back and forth. Ford also offers
you power brakes, power steering and Fordomatic.
5
/
Falls a id Texarkana . . . Jackie
of Sherman is currently
Tell 3 our merchant you saw his
advertisement in The Register.
Team • W. L.
Sherman .................. 4 1
McKinney ................ 4 1
Paris ...................... 3 2
Greenville ................ 2 3
Denton ................... 2 3
Denison :.................. 2 3
Gainesville .....-.......... 0 4
DISTRICT 33-B
Team W. L.
Krum ..................... 4 0
Ponder ................... 3 1
Sanger .......... 2 2
Era ................... 1 3
Valley View .............. 0 4
DISTRICT 2S-B
points respectively . . Pierce
and Blankenship will be seen in
—-i-- i in the local court against
the Lec pards Tuesday night,
while I iggs will be here Friday
with h s McKinney mates . . .
Paris is bound and determined
may tak ? the Owls’ place, should
talks fi il to generate any en-
thusiast i here tomorrow night.
league
try to get their team a spot in
the Soo ner State league. They
1
3 i
633 3
4% §8888
HE
"nl .MT
dush
m3emd
Gainesville’s forces have fallen
to four straight conference foes,
including a first round brawl
with the McKinney Lions. Den-
ton, Greenville and Paris also
turned the trick and stymied
the Spotted Cats’ efforts to
break into the win column.
Sherman’s Bearcats will en-
deavor to keep the unlucky
Leopard streak going Tuesday
night when they invade the lo-
cal gym for a district battle.
Saturday night, the Bearcats
strengthened their bid for the
3A-3 title when they whammed
the defending champion Paris
Wildcats. Going into that game
Sherman, McKinney and Paris
were all tied up for the league
lead, but the Bearcat win nar-
rowed the leaders to two.
The other leader—McKinney—
will invade the Leopard lair on
Friday, insuring a busy week
for the charges of Coach Collett.
Tuesday’s game between the
Leopards and Sherman is due
to be preceded by a B team
game between the two schools.
That tussle is slated for a 6:30
p. m. beginning and the varsity
struggle will follow.
When Sherman comes to town
tomorrow night, the Leopards
will face two of the most pro-
lific scorers in the district in
Guard Gerald Blankenship and
Forward Jackie Pierce. Those
two combined talents to do most
of the point - making in their
team’s Saturday night triumph
over Paris.
Coach Bill Evans’ starting
E92fg,
22 5
94E2
2,**‘m242
35038 P/d. • ' 5a":
B—a.
season game,, while the Eagle r
gals (0-4) dropped a 32-35 con-
flict to the Ponder six. Both the
Valley View girls and boys will
be favored to drop their fifth
conference games, but Tommy
Turner could help the boys to a
surprising win, while Barbara
Couch could do the same for the
girls.
More Action
Cooke county’s members of Dis-
trict 29-B will both see action on
Tuesday night, for they will play
each other. The Callisburg Wild-
cats (1-4) will play host to the
improving Muenster Hornets
(3-2) in a game that should pro-
duce a real individual duel.
Callisburg’s Billy Wilson and
Muenster’s Richey are two of the
top scorers in the local area and
when the two get together tomor-
row on the Callisburg court, the
bottom of the buckets will be
torn out for sure.
Callisburg’s girls (1-3) will'
r ;
.
I
A
H • a
8 iosigigrea
e-r g
that th • only kind of new league
that would have worked would
have included Sherman, Paris,
Greenv He, Gainesville, Wichita
4
7
fans has been scheduled for the
district • ourt room of the coun-
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 127, Ed. 1 Monday, January 25, 1954, newspaper, January 25, 1954; Gainesville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1579706/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cooke County Library.