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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Tune In on KRBC
PAGE THREE
g. April 4, 194
Friday Evening, April 4, 1941
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: SPORTS
PARADE
By HENRY McLEMORE
United Press Staff Correspondent
AUGUSTA, Ga., April 4.-<UP)—
There la a very good chance that
Chief Weakness for
SQUAD TAKING SHAPE FOR Conn to Battle
being logical, even
t an ardent angler.
example, such as -
Finn Tinker Bell.
mer Trout Devil
e. Mouse Devil Bug,
Swimmer, Weedless
unk. Winged Dare-
s. Hell Cat Jerry,
Hloomy Oll Minnow.
Salt, and American
* this story you are reading now
will eventually rank as one of the
- most-novel ever written by a sports
writer.
I say this because it deals with
Craig Wood, golfer, and yet no-
where In it will there be a reference
to his hard luck in finishing second
in so many important champion-
Season Starts April 28 or Moy 5— - ’ -
6-CLUB LOOPS FOR SUMMER SOFTBALL
d Dr. W. R. White
rable* short lecture
arkable for the sub-
pressed and implied,
thin the limits of
in minutes. But I’d
that he would be
ed to explain some
s given above.
you magazine deal-
copy of Collier's of
supply is exhausted
or one You will en-
the picture on the
t advertisement that
e to come for the
ices of all your life,
the way to experl-
ent you turn to the
s pages of pictures
ve. You will find
you read either to
und doctrine or to
eer bunk; something
zing variety of size,
or: something, to
nd hope for as you
he season soon to
ig. finally, to wage
f you wish—debates -
glers as to the re-
of various lures, or
i members of your
w much you are en-
fo. new lures.
“ships. There won’t be a tear-jerk-
ing paragraph in the entire busi-
. ness, and there won't be a mention
of how Craig s pretty wife, Jackie,
has had her heart all but broken
fifteen times by rival golfers exe-
cuting some miraculous shot on the
last hole to beat out her man for
the title. '
No where will there be a
mention of how Craig lost this
title by missing a pull no wid-
er than an eel’s forehead, or
how he lost that one just .be-
cause a thoughtless robin chose
that exact moment when Craig
was making a vital shot to
chirp the first four bars of the
Grand March from Aida. a
To write a story about Craig
without pulling out all the stops in
the heart-throb department re-
. quire.4 1 certain amount of charac-
ter. The same sort of character.
In fact, that a fellow would need
to write about Connie Mack without
+ a- ever referring to him as the - tall
tactician." or about Ty Cobb with-
out. labelling him as the "peerless
: V > Georgian." or about Willie Heston
^ without once using the word im-
mortal .
Wood, himself, was the one who
- suggested that I do a story about
’ ’. him without touching the runner-
1941T. C. GRID SLATE
- Lack of manpower has Worked a serious handicap on the
McMurry Indians this spring as they went-about their “off
season” drills.
At times a sufficient number has not been present for
the old fashioned rough and rowdy scrimmage. At best few
reserves have taken their places on the sidelines when the
squad was partaking of rough stuff.
Nevertheless the gang that will, bear the brunt of activity
next fall has at last begun to take shape.
Expected to be lined up at ends are Bill Ellington and
Gerald Anderson. Ellington was a reserve last season, and
was shifted to the line this spring. Porter Willis, angular
basketball star, may divide time with him. Anderson is a
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“I’d appreciate a story of another
sort." Craig said as we talked af-
ter his brilliant 66 in the opening
round,of the Masters' invitation
tournament yesterday. I get so sick
of reading sob-sisterish stuff about
myself that I don't know what to
do I sometimes wonder what the
gofling public thinks about me.
They must picture me as
poor, benighted old cuss, staggering
. aronpd the courses of the country
with a forlorn look and a broken
heart As a matter of fact, I’m a
pretty lucky golfer. I have won
more than my share of good cham-
pionships, and you can't kick
about finishing second in such
things as the U. S. Open, the Brit-
ish Open, and the Masters "
On Craig’s suggestion I look-.
ed into his past performances,
and what he said was true-
fixture. He developed tre-
mendously during the 1940
campaign, being one of the
Texas conference’s better de-
fensive wingmen.
BRALY AT TACKLE /
Arthur Wylie and Ben Braly ap-
pear tothave the tackle slots cinch-
ed A holdover, Wylie looks even
better than he did as one of the
team’s better linemen last fall
Braly is a reformed blocking back,
He Is especially potent on defense
Glynn (Goon) Steadman and
Don Raymond are the guards The
latter has already won three" letters
Lack of heft is his chief handicap.
Steadman is as rough as they come
but needs experience. He did not
play last season.
" If Uncle Sam doesn’t get him.
Stanley Sigman will give the line
a real “holler guy." Sigman is ex-
pected to be the mainspring of the
defense and the fellow who'll keep
up the spirit of the whole squad.
He is a .200 pound transfer from
Texas Tech
Regular center last fall. Bud
Vheeler currently is .convalescing
from an injury suffered toward the
end of the 1940 season. If he is
Walker. Both are capable of filling
in at most any of the positions.
J. E. (Snuffy) Garrett has been
transferred from end to the secon-
dary. Where he’ll operate next sea-
son has not been definitely deter-
mined.
McMurry's 1941 prospects:---
The Indians hardly rate as a first
division contender. Two, possibly
three, victories should catch them.
The hackfield has both speed and
power The line is strong in spots.
On the whole there is a lack of
reserve strength. If the Indians suc--
ceed, they’ll have it*to do as "men
of iron."-----
CHICAGO, April 4.—(P)—Young
Billy Conn goes out tonight to con-
vince everyone but himself that he
is ready for a championship show-
down with Joe Louis in June,
The 23-year-old Pittsburgh boxer
takes on the veteran Gunnar Bar-
lund tonight in a 12-round match
at the stadium, -.
It will be Conn’s first Chicago
bout, his eighth since turning
heavyweight and it may go a long
way toward" deciding Chicago's
prospects of getting the Louis-
Conn title tight, for which it is bid-
ding . ’
Mike Jacobs. New York promoter
who has an Interest in tonight's
affair and conferred this week with
the Illinois boxing commission,
made it plain that the selection of
Chicago for the title bout would
depend a lot on tonight's engage-
ment. 5
Promoter Bill Rand predicted
that the match, in which Conn is
a 7-1 favorite, would draw .16.000
persons and a gate of 937.900.
plained "a number of the boys
hitch-hike to tournaments. It
T By rSID FEDER
NEW YORK, April 4 —P —Two
of the fistic bone-yard's best pro-
ducts, Lou Nova and Max Baer,
battle it out in Madison Square
garden tonight for a chance to take
on Joe Louis for the heavyweight
championship in September.
They’ll start their 12-rounder
about 9 p m (CST) with a crowd
expected to total more than 17,000
looking on. Souale time within the
next hour, the faithful will find out
which of the two is going to be all
wrapped up with pink ribbons end
put back in the files of the "ho,
; hum dept .”
This is expected to be madcap
Maxie Nova is favored at odds of
5 to 7 1-2 to repeat his victory of |
1939 when he stopped the "Great 1
One" in 11 rounds with a cut
mouth This corner strings along |
with Lou to win a decision, but it |
wouldn't surprise us enough to say
"My. my” If Maxie should come
through. He still can pitch like
Feller with that right hand, and
Nova; who is better than a green
hand as a boxer, is just'stubborn
enough to try to slug it out with
the ex-king ol the playboys, there-
by leaving himself open to catch
one of Maxie's specials right on
the "potato," as the boys describe
it around and about.
To say both of these gladiators
came out of the bone yard Is not
taking a thing away from the abil-
ity of either Right now they're as
good a pair of heavyweights as
started way back in ‘29 when John-
ny Goodman practically thumbed
his way to Pebble Beach to lift you'll find in the stable
Bobby Jones’ national amateur But Baer was consigned to the
crown. ■
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IN BACKFIELD
Expected to round out the first
| string backfield are Al Simmons,
j tail back: R L. Wood, wingback;
I and Frazier Damron, fullback. Oth-
1 er backs who’ll see plenty of service
include Jim Baugh and Johnny
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SPOKANE. Wash April 4.——
Hitch-hiking golfers who come to
the National Public Links golf tour-
nament in Spokane this year—July
14-19—needn’t worry about eating
The Spokanes tournament commit-
tee is going to provide lunch and
dinner daily. Dr. George Williams,
chairman of the Spokane tourna-
ment committee and representative
of the U. S. G. A. in Spokane, made
the announcement today and said
By the Associated Press
The top-riding Texas Longhorns
go to Fort Worth today to open a
two-game series with the twice-
beaten Texas Christian Horned
Frogs in the Southwest conference
baseball race.
Texas is the only undefeated team
left in the campaign
Rice journeys to College Station
for a single engagement today with
Texas A and M
Spokane would spend nearly $5,000
in entertainment and caring for
needs of golfers, officials and golf
Teams from Camp Berkeley will | filling out the memberships. No
play en integral part in the Abi-definite action was taken, however
lene softball setup this summer.
Officials of the Sportsman club,
meeting at the Hilton hotel last
night, tentatively decided to admit
four army clubs to the fast league
and two to the slow. * *
Each loop would be a six-team
affair, with clubs from the city
Final plans will be effected at a
gathering April 15.
The sea.son probably will start
either April 28 or May 5 Charley
Ivey, Sportsman prexy, said. He in-
dicated that league play will con-
sume five nights per week, with one
left open for inter-city games.
He said he had been assured that
two strong teams would be entered
from the city. Civic clubs will round
, out the slow league, which will in-
clude two teams made up of 45th
division officers.
National Badminton
Tourney Underway
CLEVELAND, April 4.—UV—Sev-
en of eight seeded players ad-
vanced to the quarter-finals of the
men's singles in the national bad-
minton championships today.
Defending Champion Dave Free-
man of Pasadena, Calif . drew Jerry
Burns of Detroit for his quarter-
final opponent.
ash-heap, special delivery, twice-
first when he blew the heavyweight
championship to old Jim Brad-
dock and again when he let him-
self be counted out on one knee in
front 'of Joe Louis’ dead pan. And
Nova—well a year ago you, wouldn’t
have given one well worn cigar-
five cent ’ variety—for his chances
of ever running around the corner,
much less fighting again He was
months in a hospital after Tony
Galento finished raising lumps on
him But he came back, trained in
a western state prison to build him-
self up again, and now looks
stronger than ever
, Baer returned to within shout -
Baylors unpredictable Bears ing distance of the first division
made a clean sweep of their series by stopping Galento and Pat Com- ,
with Southern Methodist univer- iskey last summer. Nova whipped
sitv yesterday, drubbing the Mus- Comiskey
tangs 3-2 yesterday in a pitchers'
battle between Lefty Golden of the
soundly
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three months
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he has won many a good title. C
To name a few he has won
there are the Los Angeles ’
Open, the Metropolitan Openar
i he got that last year with
the all-time 72 hole tournament
score of 264), the Pasadena
Open (twice), the San Fran-
cisco Match Play Open, the
Augusta Open, the Pine Val-
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the Hawaiian Open, and the
- about his bad luck. Because we
And there are a dozen others.
After I had talked to Craig I
talked to Mrs. Wood
"Honestly, the stories they write
about Craig picture him as a beat-
en. thwarted man," she said. "Ac-
tually, he is one of the happiest
men In the- world. He never has
fretted or turned about losing
championships by a shot or two We
never talk golf after a round Is fin-
ished Even in/ those years of 1935
and 1936 when he played so badly
he couldn’t qualify for anything
he never grumbled or groused He
works on the theory that you can
.get just what you deserve In golf
‘ If you three putt it was your own
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your own skill that brought it
about. ..
, "I will be so happy to read a
* story about ‘him that doesn’t go on
about his had luck Because we
------don’t feelthat he has had hard
luck we feel were awfully lucky "
Thus ends my story for today.
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