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District Golden Gloves
Bouts Are Assured Again
It’s Abilene vs Sweetwater--
Aur — - a A Irish Trample
ONE GAME CARDED IN 3-AA Middies, 3346
CLEVELAND, Oct. 30—(P)—Notre
trict heap with 3 wins snd no loss-
es.
Abilene’s Eagles and the Sweet-loss to Midland Friday.
water Mustangs have all the atten- | For Sweetwater it will be another
lion of District T AA turned on story, for the Mustangs have a per-
them Friday night for the two fect season thus far, including dis-
teams come together in the lone trict wins over Lamesa and Mid-
game engaged in by any conference 1 land.
teams. | Last week’s results—San Angelo
Conference Standings:
The Reporter-News’ District Gol-
den Gloves boxing tournament—
the city’s No. 1 winter sports at-
traction- will go on again in 1944.
Preliminary plans for the seventh
anmual fisticuffing show here were
completed yesterday and even three
months before the boys actually
start swinging for keeps every in-
dication pointed to a record break- j
ing affair in the number and class 1
of fighters and in attendance. I
The three-night tournament ;
is tentatively booked for the
last week in January or the
first week in February and the |
scene likely, will be shifted to
the Fair Park Supper Club
building.
Last year's tourney, which shat-
tered all previous attendance rec-
ords. was held at the Abilene high
school gymnasium . The gym will
seat only 1,500 to 1,600 persons,
while the Supper Club building
can be made to accommodate twice
that number, possibly more with
the installation of portable bleach-
ers.
San Angelo
Sweetwater
Odessa
Midland
There'll be little at stake far Abi-I 13, Odessa 2; Sweetwater 53. La
lene in the game as far as district mesa 12: Midland 26, Abilene, 21
chances • are concerned, for theBig Spring
flock was definitely put out of any and Big Spring 33, Tahoka 7—left
championship picture with a 26-31 the Bobcats at the top of the dis- I
Abilene
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Dame's mighty Irish took a long
stride toward the national cham-
pionship and their first perfect sea-
L son since 1930 as they smothered
0 hitherto unbeaten-untied Navy 33
1 to 6 today before 82,000 fans in
3 Clevelands jammed lake-front sta-
2 dium.
4 The victory belonged to Notre
- Dame, but the story belongs to “Ac-
SPORTSTUFF
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By BETSY ROSS
Success of the tournament, at this
early date, was assured through the
close cooperation of Army units
based near Abilene.
Already lining up talent far
the shew are the Medical Re-
placement Training Center,
which furnished a large num-
ber of entrants and practically
all of the champions In last
winter’s meet, the Military Po-
lice Training Center (Avn.),
778th Tank Battalion, all of
Camp Barkeley, and the Abi-
J. R. CALLAHAN
Callahan Leads
DANKS of Abilene former high school or college athletes who won’t
I be coming back from this war has been swelled by the addition of
T-Sgt. Frank C. Ferrel, an aerial engineer on a Liberator.
Ferrel, a native of Roby, played a lot of basketball at McMurry, where.
he was a student from 1932 to 1936, and in his final year was named an some n ater, and there.
al-Texas conference basketeer. He coached football and basketball at possibility that a civilian team will
lene Army Air Base.
Other Army teams are expected
Texas
Win
Lueders for two years, then at
Cross Plains. 3 *
Ferrel went overseas, to England.
In April 1943 and was sent to the
Middle East late in June. He took
path in raids over Rome and Ger- *
many and one he didn't return
from—over the Ploesti oil fields
A letter from the commanding
general of the Sth bomber com-
mander to Ferrel’s wife, Mrs. Mau-
rese J. Ferrel of Lueders, reads: "I
wist you to know of his- (Sgt. Fer-
rell gallantry, devotion to duty and
steadfastness of purpose in accom-
plishing the most difficult mission
ever assigned to our air force.
T-Sgt. Ferrel is one of the great
heroes of this war, his name has
been indelibly written in our coun-
try’s history . I am the proudest
commander in the world for no
commander has had a braver force
be entered from the local colleges
and the high school.
A team championship will be of-
fered for the first time and the
elght individual winners will get. In
- addition to valuable prizes, expense
paid trip to Fort Worth for parti-
| cipation in the state Golden Gloves
. tournament in mid-February, Fort
Worth winners will be given ex-
pense paid trip to the National
Golden Gloves in Chicago.
• • •
Net proceeds from the district
tournament in Abilene will be di-
vided equally between Army Emer-
gency Relief, City Parks and Re
creation board (money to be spent
on developing the city’s athletic
BY HAROLD V. RATLIFF
DALLAS, Oct. 30 — (P—Mighty
Texas didn’t allow Southern Metho-
dist the solace of even a first down
today in rolling over the Mustangs
20 to 0 in a Southwest Conference
football game.
The Longhorn machine sputtered
at times but mostly it was driving
deep into Methodist territory and
using the terrific running of Ralph
Ellsworth and J. R. Callahan to
batter the gallant Mustangs for
touchdowns in the first, second and
fourth periods.
The first touchdown was on a
42-yard march after fleet Ralph
Park had brought back a long
punt from the toe of Lloyd
Parker. Ellsworth and Park
took turns at smashing for two
then Ellsworth
SGT. FERREL
than the one which bombed the Rumanian oil refineries to August.”
• • •
H*j> GET the record straight, Abilene didn't play any ineligible men in
I the Midland game, contrary to facts that appeared in this paper.
The Midland correspondent who covered the game Friday night
reported Neal Bradshaw and Paul Frost in the starting line-up.
Jake Bentley had Friday morning announced the duo scholastically
ineligible.
Bradshaw and Frost did not play, Bentley said Saturday. The boys
mDe the trip to Midland but didn't even have their suits along and
there was never any thought of playing them. Their being listed as
starters was purely and simply an error.
Gene Spires, who played a mighty game from start to finish, turned
in that 66-yard touchdown run Jim Harrison was credited with. Bentley
further corrects. The little Eagle quarter responsible for a layge share
of the power the Eagle offense has had on the occasions this season when
it has moved, not only played a hangup running game but his passing
was to the outstanding classification, a definite improvement over pre-
vious starts.
* * *
Dorothy Kielty, a Minneapolis miss who learned her golfing with and
under Patty Berg starting back in 1938. played Abilene's Country club
course last week, shooting an 80 on her first round in several months.
"Miss Kielty, runnerup in the 1943 Southern California tournament, a
competitor in past Western “Amateur and other top-notch meets, is at
Avenger field. Sweetwater, busy becoming a WASP. Playing with her
was Jan Hatch, also a WASP trainee at Avenger
In addition to being some shakes as a golfer, Miss Kielty cuts quite a
figure in the realm of ice skating 1-----------------a —---------------
ar was formerly national speed 11 .... ,
skating champion. . Rice Hits Winning
The forthcoming session Satur- 1 _ — .
day night between the air base and Srido Downc Tech
778th tank battalion at Camp JII U, LUWID IULI
Barkeley promises to be as hard-
fo ght a game as the air base-41st HOUSTON, Oct. 30 —(Ah— The |
recon game two weeks ago. with I Rice Owls passed and ran their way
considerably more pre-game rivalry
already flourishing.
to their first victory of the season
facilities for Army and civilian
teams at the Fair Park) and thefirst downs,
passed to Joe Magliolo who fell
on the one-foot line. Callahan
Golden Gloves fund for promotion
of amateur boxing in the city.
The ticket price scale will be
the same as in the past—$1.10
for ringside seats, 55 cents for
general admission and 30 cents
for soldiers in uniform.
The general tournament commit-
tee, for the seventh straight year,
will include Director "Hal Sayles
and Ray Crowell. Others on the
general committee will include a
representative from each team en-
tering the meet.
Other committees working with
the show are to be announced lat-
er.
FOOTBALL
! SCORES
EAST
Dartmouth 20. Yale 6
— Army 13. Pennsylvania 13
Pittsburgh 45, Carnegie Tech 6
Penn State 32, West Virginia 7
Cornell 33, Columbus *
Holy Cross 14, Colgate 7
Rutgers 26, Lehigh 6
Bucknell 19. Muhlenberg 0
Camp Kilmer 13. CCNY 12
Worcester Tech 21. Camp Edward 6
Rochester 39. Case 6
Brown 28. Princeton 20
Army Pitbee 32. Seton Hall 0
Dickinson Teachers 14, Concordia (Moor-
head) 27
DeKalb 13, Wheaton 20
Franklin S. Fartham 18
West Virginia Tech 6. Rio Grande 12
MID-WEST
"We’re going to finish up the
job the 41st started," says Lt.
Gavid J. Wolper, special serv-
ice officer of the 778th, and
Coach (lt) Gus Steiner, o short
affable blond who hails from
Brooklyn, X. Y., but doesn’t talk
like it, grins and nods.
today, defeating Texas Tech’s Red
Raiders 13-0.
The five-times losers outplayed
Tech all the way except for two
brief flurries when Rice second-
stringers were in the game, and it
Wooster 21, Patterson field 3
Simpson 13, Cornell (Iowa) 0
Indiana State vs. Wabash (cancelled)
Ohio Wesleyan O. DePauw 34
Michigan 42, Illinois 6
Indiana 20, Ohio State 14
Northwestern 42, Minnesota 6
Purdue 32, Wisconsin 0
Notre Dame 33, Navy 6
Great Lakes 32, Western Michigan 6
| was the second half before the Iowa Navy 19, Fort Riley 2
Raiders could get mast midfield Bowling Green 24.. Alma 0
A crowd of 5.000 watched the Owls
What does the air base think 1 three time drive within the Tech
about that? Here’s one opinion. -
"I get the idea from reading
your paper you don’t think
much about our ball club—why
don’t you come out and watch
as practice? Well change your
nd,” threatens M.-Sgt. George
R. Young, combination guard
and tackle of the base team,
utilizing that wonderful Inven-
tion of Mr. Bell i.
"My bubbv thinks the same thing
ten-yard line
before they could
score.
For Tech, Buster Melton. 175-
pound back, did a fine job defen-
sively. and Bob Brewer and Fred-
die Brown were constant threats
offensively.
Rice made 13 first downs to 9 for
Tech, gained 203 yards rushing to
123 and 100 yards through the air
to 50.
He a St. Marya boy and he’s go-T LI fl'll
ingto push the tankers around amnerc \tl|
Saturday night - I\ QI 11 UI UI J J 1111
"My buddy" turned out to be Sgt
Dennis Murphy, a recent addition _ —
to the base team. ane DA-SA AA
Those mean words don’t seem to 0DS DAdI V
sce the tankers much. "Just as IVPOr LOOT N. 1 1.
long as we can keep on working out
the same boys for an hour or two SAN ANTONIO, Oct 30—(Ah —
every day as we are now thanks The Randolph field Ramblers, un-
beaten- soldier eleven, had little
trouble with the University of Mex-
ico here tonight, winning 34 to 0 in
Alamo Stadium before a crowd of
12,000.
to Col Frank J Spettel, were not
worried about the air base or any-
body else we can get to play us."
saw Lieutenant Wolper.
I Mrs. R B Leavitt, one of the
1 better Abilene golfers, turned in a
sizzling 89, hottest played- in some
time by any woman at the country
the in Friday’s handicap tourna-
ment matches Mrs. Leavitt had a
39 on the front nine, first time she
has broken 40 in her five years of
1 golfing.
Texas League Play
Asked by Gardner
The Ramblers were content to
feel things out for most of the
first half with Glenn Dobbs. Tulsa
All-American on the bench They I
roared back in the third period with
three touchdowns, after leading 7
to 0 at the half, and added to this
margin In the fourth period.
Clinton White bounced over from
the two-yard line in the second
period, after three previous Ramb-
ler attempts bogged down Walter
West kicked the point
Tex Aulds got the next score from
the seven, and Glenn Dobbs inter-
DALLAS, Oct. 30 —(Pr— Serious cepted * pass in midfield and ran
consideration, to resumption offor another in the third period.
Texas league operations next year | Still in the third, Aulds broke away
will be urged by J. Alvin Gardner. I for a 75-yard gallop after taking
president, when representatives of Dobbs’ pass, and In the fourth
his eight-member clubs assemble period this same Aulds rode high
here at his call Nov. 13 for their and handsome on a gallop of 96
first official meeting
Kenyon 38, Otterbein 0
Missouri 54, Nebraska 20
Kansas 25: Kansas State 2
Baldwin-Wallace 53. Xavier 6
SOI TH
Wake Forest 41, Clemson 12
North Carolina 27, North Carolina State
13
Camp LeJeune 14. Camp Darla 0
Fort Monroe 18, Richmond Air base 13
Curtis Bay Coast Guard 7, Camp Lee 6
Duke 14. Georgia Tech 7
Georgia Pre-Flight 14. Tulane 11
Virginia 34. Virginia Military 0
Arkansas A&M 35, Miami 0
Camp Pickett 0, Johnson C. Smith Uni-
versity 6
Maryland 43. Greenville Army Air base 11
Virginia State college 33. Camp Butner o
BOUTHWEST
Burdiff Scores As Aggies
Down Razorbacks, 13-0
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. Oct. 30-
(P) — The beardless Texas Aggies
went completely pass-happy here
today to wallop the Arkansas Raz-
orbacks 13 to 0.
Babe Hallmark and Earl Beesley
tossed 20 passes, completing 15 of
them for 201 yards while suffering
two interceptions. Passes accounted
for both Aggie touchdowns.
After a listless first quarter of
punt swapping, the Aggies opened
up with their aerials. They began
their first touchdown drive on the
Arkansas 33 Hallmark tossed to
ripped tackle for the score and
Park added the point.
The, next touchdown followed a
punt return by Ellsworth to the
Mustang 33. It took just three
plays, Andy Robinson passing to
Joe Parker for 14. Callahan crunch-
ing over right tackle for 17 and
then rapping guard for the score.
Callahan added the point.
A 35-yard dash through guard by
Callahan brought Texas from deep
in its territory, where Parker’s fine
punt had put the Longhorns and
Texas got its final score to a hurry.
From the 44 Ellsworth ripped right
tackle for a first down and in two
more tries tore down to the SMU
31. On the first play of the fourth
Marion Flanagan for 26 yards and
on the next play Hallmark connect-
ed with Jesse Burditt. subbing for
Bob Butchofsky. In the flat for four
yards and Burditt dived over for
the score Stan Turner converted
from placement.
The Texans hit pay dirt again
midway of the last period when
center Dick Wright took to an Ark-
ansas pass on the Porker 40 and
moved up to the 34. After two fu-
tile tries at the line. Hallmark
breezed around his own right end
for 24 yards to the 10-yard stripe.
One pass, missed fire but the next
one. to Flanagan, was good for the
RED BURDITT
touchdown. Turner's try for con-
version from placement was
blocked
Army, Penn Tie; Perdue, Mich,
Northwestern, Duke Are Victors
NEW YORK, Oct. 30— (PP——The 13-13 deadlock when the Quakers
Navy and Marine football players completed a 71-yard i_________
who leave the college campuses
within the next few days turned
in outstanding performances today
as Notre Dame continued to set a
fast pace in the national gridiron
parade
While the Irish were rolling to
their sixth successive triumph, un-
defeated Army and Pennsylvania
quarter Ellsworth passed to George
McCall who took the ball out of ------......
the hands of two Mustangs and ran failed to reach a decision in the
eight for the touchdown. Park rata and mud of Philadelphia’s
missed the goal.
Shut Out Wins
Pimlico Special..
BALTIMORE. Oct 30 — P — Mrs
Payne Whitney's Shut Out won the
seventh running of the Pimlico Spe-
Franklin field. They ended up to a
Tigers Trounce
Frogs by 14-0
BATON ROUGE, La., Oct. 30 —
cial today, racing to a nose decision (P)— Big Steve Van Buren moved
over Slide Rule after the two had Louisiana State a notch nearer a
thrilled 17,595 persons at Pimlico post season Bowl bid here tonight
race course with a head and head by pacing the Tigers to a 14 to 0
duel down the stretch, win over Texas Christian’s Horned
The four-year-old son of Equi-Frogs before 18,000 fans
poise earned the $25,000 winner- The two Tiger touchdowns were
take-all purse, a blanket of Chry: the first ever scored in Texas Chris-
santhemums, the Maryland Jockey
Club gold cup, and for his trainer.
John M. Gaver, $2,500 and a trophy.
tian-Louisiana State football game
The Frogs won two of the three pre-
vious games, 3 to 3 and 3 to 0. and
one game was a 3—3 tie.
completed a 71-yard
Joe Michaels to Bob Odell to the
ulsa, S western
Deadlocked, 6-6
ABILENE COLLEGE
GRIDDERS MAKING
GRADE ELSEWHERE
curate Angelo" Berteli, the 171
- pound quarterback and passer de-
luxe. who sang his collegiate swan
I song, for the duration at least,
loud enough for the world to hear.
"Accurate Angelo" passed eight
times Five of them were com-
pleted, three for touchdowns—and
they were the first three markers,
which put the game on ice and
Almost a dozen boys who last brought his scoring pitches for the
season were cavorting on Abilene season to 11. He got the final
gridirons are performing on foot- touchdown himself, and between his
ball fields in Texas, Oklahoma, passing and plunging he found time
Kansas and Maryland, and doing to kick three extra points from
right well, thank you, placement
Lifted from their home campuse. The Middies wound up with %
and transplanted at such widely
separated points as Austin, Tex,
and Annapolis, Md., the boys didn't
have any trouble getting their feet
on solid football ground.
Five of the group, Bert Brew-
er of Abilene Christian, Ray
Cook, Dave Ryan, Jimmy Jones
and Jimmy Graham, are at
Pittsburg, Kas., constituting a
major share of the team at that
school. Pittaburg has not been
defeated thus far and Wednes-
net loss of seven yards via rushing.
They had eight first downs, all but
one through the air, as Hal Ham-
berg, aided occasionally by a mate,
completed eight of 39 tosses for 188
yards.
Hamberg connected on three of
four passes for the lone Middle
touchdown He threw a seven-
yarder to sub back Bill Barron, a
14-yarder to Hillis Hume, and pick-
ed Barron out of a mass of Notre
Dame detenders and hit him for
day won a 26-7 decision overthe touchdown. .
The last marker came late to the
Washburn.
Eddie Sprinkle went from Har-
din-Simmons to the Naval academy
and has won a starting tackles
job on the Middle team: Joe Cole-
man, third string end on the Cow-
boy team, is a starting end for
Coach Dana X. Bible’s
contest. Bertelli plunging over from
the two.
was missed.
In the final period Russell and
Orlo Best led a march that brought
Texas the telling touchdown Russell’s
Steers: Billy Shaw, a team-mate, end-around run carried to the Ag-
| is currently starting at left guard gie 16 and Best knifed through the
| for Coach Jimmy Stewart s SMU line to the three. Best went over
Mustangs on the next play and kicked the
Royal James, an Abilene Chris goal.
tian team-mate of Brewers is a ----------------------------------------------
substitute halfback at Texas Chri-
tian and due to step into a starting
job next week when shift of Naval
trainees sends four TCU regulars 1
to a new school.
Camp Wilson, lone member of
the group not in the reserves, is
last period.
While this was going on Pur-
due’s Norfolk bound sailor Tony
Butkovich paced the Boilermak
ers to their seventh straight
victory, whipping Wisconsin 32
to 8. Bill Daley wound up his
playing days for Michigan with
two touchdowns and long gains
that set up two others in a 42-6
rout of Illinois. Don Buffmire
and Herman Frickey were out-
standing to Northwestern’s 42-6
whipping of Minnesota’s Go-
phers.
Down in the south, Duke nosed
out Georgia Tech 14 to 7 with al
last period touchdown Tulane put
up a great stand against .Georgia
Pre-Flight but the passing of Steve
Filipowicz, once of Fordham, and
export place kicking of Pat Harder,
formerly of Wisconsin, gave the I
Skycrackers the decision, 14-13
Southern California retained its
position at the top of the South-1
ern division of the Pacific Coast
league by beating California for the
second time thia year, 13-0. Wash-
ington remained undefeated, beat-
ing the Second Air Force 41-7.
There were a few mild upsets
such as Holy Cross’ 14-7 licking of
doing his fullbacking for Tulsa’s:
Golden Hurricane, effective two
aerial from i weeks ago. Wilson has been given
a medical discharge from the Army.
Colgate and Indiana’s 20-14 win
Jim Lucas, Pecos. Tex , sophomore
played brilliant ball for the Texans. _______,.. _________.
keeping the Tigers on constant edge pass in the final minute Dartmouth
with both his flashy ball carrying returned
j and long aerials week layoff and whipped Yale 20-8.
The Tigers first touchdown came Cornell bounced back into the vic-
after three minutes of the third tory column with a 33-6 decision
TULSA, Okla, Oct. 30 —(-
Tulsa’s hopes for a second straight
all-victorious season were shattered
over Ohio State wiht Bob Hoern-
schemeyer throwing the winning
to action after a three
quarter. on a five-yard plunge dur- over Columbia
tag which Van Buren bounced twice 1 -----------------..—.—
off a tough Frog line. He and Grif- Propose Randolph,
fith had carried to the five-yard _.. A "
stripe on alternate runs, after Bill Jll Game in Dallas
today by the burly marines of Schroll ran , TCU kick from his
Southwestern university, who bat-
tied the Golden Hurricane to a 6-6
deadlock before 10,000 fans in Skel-
ly stadlum.
Southwestern 6. Tulsa 6 ('Is)
‘ Oklahoma 21, lows State 7
Texas A&M 13, Arkansas s
Texas 20. SMU 0
Rice 13. Texas Tech 0 1 -•
South Plains Army Air, field * Kirt-lead with a 51-yard aerial march.
Tcu v LSU is Clyde LeForce hitting Barney
Lubbock Army air field 13, Normal White with the payoff throw from
(Okla ) Naval 0
University of Mexico 0, Randolph Field
34
The Hurricane forged into
the
20 back to the TCU 37. Van Buren
I converted
The last quarter marker was also
about three minutes after the per-
iod opened with Van Buren out. The
Tigers had caught Lucas back on his
own 15 He kicked to Knight on the
45, and Red ran back to the TCU
Firestone
SCUM
Hermleigh Guns
For Abilene B's
Abilene high school’s B football 1
team, coached by Fred McKinzie, | 1
take on Hermleigh, a team that
may prove their most formidable:
opponent of the season, Thursday -
night at Eagle stadlum in a game
beginning at 8:15 o’clock
Admission for the game is 30
cents, proceeds to be used by the
sophomore class of high school in
its Flashlight queen campaign. Can- 11
didate from the class Is Marjorie
Williams.
A win over Abilene’s B squad al-
ways means a successful season for 1
Hermleigh and McKinzie predicted 1
Saturday his boys would have their 1
hands full. The team has been 1
scrimmaging in recent days with 1
reserves from the varsity and show- 1
Ing up good on defense.
Looking particularly good are E 1
W Keesee, Franz Myat and Elbert 1
Waltrip, backs, Harold Wilson, 1
end, Bobby Riley, center, Hubert 1
Allston, guard. 1
Blackland Upsets
North Texas Ags
FAR WEST
Southern California 13, California 0
San Diego Naval Station 28, UCLA 0
Washington 41, Spokane Second Air
Force 7
Logan Navy Trainees 12. Fart Doug-
las 13
Fourth Air Force (March Field) 7, St.
Mary’s Pre-Flight 6
Denver University •. Marquette 45
HIGH SCHOOL
Lubbock 12, Pampa 0
Stephen Austin (Houston) 13, San Ja-
cinto (Houston) 6
North Dallas 16, Adamson (Dallas) 0
Smith Leads LAFS
To 13-0 Victory
LUBBOCK. Tex . Oct
Rogers Smith scored twice tonight
to lead Lubbock Army Air Field to
a 13-0 victory over the Normal Na-
STOP
TROUBLE
BEFORE
TROUBLE
Specialized
BATTERY
RECHARGE
ONLY
98
the one-yard line But LeForce....
who had connected with 18 out of 22 26 Knight wriggled to the 22. Cor
placement kicks for extra points In gan squirmed to the seven, and
Tulsa's four earlier games, missed Knight showing power resembling
this all-important boot by a narrow Van Buren s, pushed through
margin. . Knight converted
Southwestern got its touchdown
with startling suddenness midway
in the third quarter LeForce had
passed to Nip Goodnight on the
Marine 26-yard line, but mighty
Bubo Barnett, Southwestern tackle,
neatly plucked the ball from his
arms as he was knocked down.
R w MacGruder then heaved a
long pass to R. L Cooper on the
St. Louis Cardinal baseball team.
is to report for induction to the
Army on Nov 8 officials of his
Jackson county draft board said to-
day
four-yard line and on the next
play Cooper plowed down the mid-
dle to acore standing up.
Arkansas Aggies
30-P- Down Miami 35-0
MEMPHIS, Oct. 30-OFr-Unbeat-
en. untied Arkansas A and M. fea-
Showing
ALL THIS WEEK
Tidwell
turing a slashing attack, roared to
val Air station Zoomers of Okiaho its fourth victory of the season to-
_ day, repelling Miami (Ohio) uni
Smith, former Texas Tech star, versity before 3.000 fans at Crump
raced across from 13 yards out, sf- stadium, 35 to 0____
ma
first official meeting since the yards for a score. West added an ter fumbling the ball momentarily.
Shreveport gathering last,February extra point He passed to Aulds for
—---------------------------— another After Dobbs' Interception
A he added another, and missed ex- yards after breaking through the
tra point after the fifth touch- I line for the second touchdown. MEXICO CITY, Oct. 30— (P)-
Smith also kicked one extra point. The defending champion, Spec.
Buster Dixon, former Abilene Goldman of Dallas and a Mexico
Christian College ace, teamed with City hotel manager. Jack Somers,
Smith for ground-gaining honors. I formerly of Greensboro, N. C., set
The only Norman threat came the pace today as 32 players quali-
In the third period when the Zoom- fied for the forty first annual ama-
ers reached the LAAF nine only teur golf championship of Mexico
to bog down. • 1
Tunney, Heeney Have
War-Time Reunion
‘down.
for the first acore and galloped 60
Spec Coleman Tied
In Qualifying Lead
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTH PACIFIC, Sunday,
O0 31—(IP) — Commander Gene
Tunpey to charge of the Navy’s
physical fitness program and Car-
penter’s Mata Torn Heeney of the
Seabees met here in the ring last
night for the first time since the
exschampion knocked out Heeney
inothe eleventh round at the polo
The Mexico team made only two
scoring threats, going to the 23-
yard line once, and to the 30-yard
line to the third period
Shows AND
Carnival
Auspices v.F.W.
90 Big 50
EU Attractions EU
SHOWS and RIDES
Free Parking
grounds in New York in 1928
They exchanged, handshakes and _________________A J
a few playful sparring punches. al-P Cooper Called
though dressed in uniforms, for the I Native , Indians ‘and Eskimos of
large crowd of servicemen attend- Alaska consume 35,000 reindeer an- INDEPENDENCE Mo., Oct 30 —
ing a boxing card. T - I nsully for food and clothing. (P — Walker Cooper atcher on the ,
Camp Barkeley
Road
DALLAS, Oct 30 —(— Marine
Captains Charles J Maisel and An-
drew R Davis today proposed a
football game between the South-
western Louisians Institute eleven,
composed of Marine corps trainees,
snd the Randolph Field Filers,
champion service team of Texas.
The contest, suggested here for
Nov 13. would climax a week’s cele-
bration of the 188th anniversary of
the marine corp*
WACO. Oct 30 — (—Blackland
Army air field upset the North
Texas Aggies today 13 to 7. com-
ing from behind to score the win-
ning touchdown in the fourth
period
The Aggies got a touchdown to
the second quarter when a pass
from Sam Weatherford to Jim
Batchelor carried to the Blackland
five and Weatherford smashed over
on the next play. Weatherford also
added the point
The flrat Blackland counter was
set up with a pass from Marvin
Trost to Jack Russell that put the
ball on the Aggie 15 Trost scored
on a lateral, but the conversion |
THIS WEEK ONL Y—
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The comic opera
on Pasquale
Sung in English by Metropolitan Opera Stars
8:15 p.m., MONDAY
November 1
Hardin-Simmons University
It’s the Season’s Top Entertainment
Tickets on sale at Sloan Drug Store
Hardin-Simmons Business Office
Reserved Seats $1 65 and $1.10
General Admission 55c
INCLUDES:
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Recharging Battery
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 137, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 31, 1943, newspaper, October 31, 1943; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1635900/m1/13/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.