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THE ABILENE, TEXAS, REPOKTER-NEWS
Page 4 Wednesday Evening, January 8, 1947
Abilene Plays
At Ballinger
The undefeated Abilene Eagles
play the dangerous Ballinger Bear-
cats at Ballinger tonight.
Abilene has won from Ballinger
twice previously but encountered
difficulty in both previous victor-
ies. In addition to the main event,
the respective “B” teams play in
a semi-windup and North Junior
and Ballinger Junior highs clash
in a preliminary.
The Eagles last night notched
another victory in their drive for
the District 3AA championship
They whipped Sweetwater. 40-18,
in a game played at Sweetwater.
High scoring Duane Hendley led
the point making with 18.
Abilene was off to slow start,
leading 10-6, at the end of the first
period, but by halftime had in-
creased the margin to 20-7, and at
the close of the third quarter to
36-12.
The “B" team trimmed Sweet-
water’s Colts. 41-19. with J. D.
Hinton leading the way.
Also in District 3AA last night
Big Spring grabbed a 40-39 thrill-
en from Midland. Horace Rankin,
who had been held in check for
most of the game by the scrapping
Bulldogs, fired the final two bas-
kets which brought the Big Spring
victory Ed Houser topped the
Steers in the nip-and-tuck battle
with 14 points while Bobby Cole
was high for Bulldogs with ten.
Big Spring led at halftime, 20-19.
The "B" teams also engaged in
a hot scrap with Big Spring win-
ning. 25-24. _
The San Angelo Bobcats failed
to come through against Class
Lake View The Chiefs trimmed
the 3AA quintet, 34-27, with Bald-
win making 12 points Modgling
was high for Angelo with nine.
The Bobcat “B" team was able
to squeeze by the Lake View B
team. 18-17.
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Sports FBI
Is Proposed
NEW YORK, Jan 8—(P)— A
recommendation that all sports,
amsteur and professional, cooper-
ate in the formation of an "FBI”
agency to police athletics in an
effort to curb gambling went be-
fore the national collegiate ath-
letic association today.
Another proposal suggesta the
NCAA seek more stringent state
and federal statutes on gambling
and specifically recommends that
congress be asked to enact a law
making attempted bribery of a
player a federal offense.
The postwar betting mania
brought warnings from two speak-
ers at yesterday’s sessions.
Dr. J. L. Morrill, president of
the University of Minnesota, told
the delegates to the 21st annual
convention that "intercollegiate
football is ripe for the kill." Later,
Pony Cager Hurt 4
DALLAS, Jan. 8. — (P) — The
Southern Methodist university
Mustangs, who open their South-
west conference basketball! sched-
ule here Saturday night against
Texas A. & M, will be without the
services of Grady Martin, veteran
forward. Coach Whitey Baccus has
revealed.
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North Side, tackle; Herman Foster, Odessa, guard; Nick Ka-
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S’water to Work
ALL STATE HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM-This is
the 1946 All-State High School football team for Texas, se-
lected by the Texas Sports Writers Association and Texas
High School Coaches Association, with approximately 250 uen **y, Jucssa, -—, ------------------------------,
persons, making recommendation. The team: Robert (Sonny) Vernon Glass, Corpus Christi, back, Byron Townsend, Odessa,
Payne, Thomas Jefferson, end; Billy Moorman, Odessa, Aid; back.
With Shreveport By
SWEETWATER, Jan. 8. —The agreements with the Texas league 1
Cats Edged Paris Trial Opens,
Sweetwater club of the Class D
Longhorn league will be affiliated
with the Shreveport Sports of the
Texas league in the 1947 season.
Announcement of the working
agreement between the two clubs
was made today by Pete Starnes,
president of the Sweetwater club.
Hub Northern, chief scout of the
Sports, was in Sweetwater yester-
day to complete details for the tie-
up.
Other clubs holding working
team are Texarkana of the Class
B Lone Star loop, Kilgore of the
Class C East Texas league and
Alexandria of the Class D Evange-
line circuit.
An announcement is expected
shortly on the appointment of a
manager for the Sweetwater team.
“We have several good men in
mind." Starnes said, “but it prob-
ably will be two or three weeks
before we are ready to take ac-
tion.”
ACC Teams
Bag Twin Bill
The Abilene Christian reserves
took their second straight from the
McMurry reserves last night, win-
ning 46-43, at Bennett gymnasium.
Close all the way, the game fea-
tured Frank Ackers, McMurry
guard, who scored 14 points to
pace the scoring, and L. G. Wilson,
who led the Wildcats with nine.
Halftime count was 22-20, ACC.
The Abilene Christian high
school, 31-22, in .a preliminary. Gil-
lis led ACHS with 15 points while
Baldwin was tops for Winters with
Resurging Buffs
Play Flagstaff
CANYON, Jan 7 —— A re-
surging West Texas State cage
team returns to the Border confer-
ence race Wednesday and Thurs-
day nights in Burton gym deter-
mined to continue their winning
WEATHERFORD, Okla . Jan 8
—(PP)—The Southwestern Tech
Bulldogs last night edged Abilene |
Christian college of Abilene, Tex.,
42 to 41, in a rough-and-tumble
basketball game.
Tech held the lead virtually all
the way with a 20-19 edge at half-
time. The game was marked by
fouls and almost half of the points
scored were on free throws. Tech
made 22 free tosses while Abilene
collected 17 points on charities.
High scorer was Tech's Harold
Stinton who hit two field goals and
five free throws for nine points.
Bill Grounds led the losers with
seven points.
The box score:
ACC is fp of •»«
Smith 10 141
Youree 1 1 S SC
-----Palmer
Totals 12 17 28 41 Pierce
th
Totals
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NEW YORK, Jan 8—(PP)— The Giants who played with the Uni-
trial of Alvin J. Paris, charged
with attempting to ”fix” the Dec.
15 championship professional foot-
ball game between the Chicago
Bears and the New York Giants,
entered its third day today with
the defense scheduled to begin
ersity of Indiana in his college
its case
The state completed its case
yesterday after Paris’ purported
confession had been admitted in
evidence and Merle Hapes and
Frank Filchock, Giants backfield
players to whom Paris allegedly
tp offered bribes, testified.
1 Assistant district attorney George
s P. Monaghan read the 25-page
J statement to the jury of two wo-
10 22 23 42
streak that netted them the crown . ,
of the Emporia, Kas, Invitational Ruth satisfactory
college tournament.
Playing host to the Lumberjacks 1
of Arizona State of Flagstaff and
the Sun Devils of Arizona State of
I Tempe on successive nights, the
Buffs will be shooting for their
first conference wins of the sea-
son. Early in December Gus Mil-
ler’s cagers dropped three confer-
ence games to the Arizona members
of the Cactus loop. The ill-luck
that haunted the Buffs in early
season apparently has been given
the “deep six" — they have found
themselves and from here on out
they will be hard to cope with on
the hardwoods.
Miller is using two-team combi-
nations in practice drills that will
make his starting selection depend
somewhat on the opposition Miller
has grouped his "height" on one
team and his speed" on another.
His big team averages slightly over
6 feet 4 inches, whereas the small-
er. faster group boasta only one
tall boy Clark (Deacon) Johnson,
who stands 6 feet 4 indies.
NEW YORK. Jan 8.—<*•—The
condition of Babe Ruth who under-
went a serious two-hour neck op-
eration Monday "for the relief of
intractable (uncontrollable) pain."
was repotred "satisfactory" early
men and 10 men
Hapes and Filchock testified
about a round of parties at Paris’
apartment and night clubs which
they said preceded the bribery at-
tempts. Several of the city's lead-
ing nightclubs, including Copaca-
bana. Martinique and Carnival,
were among the places visited,
I Mapes said. He said Paris first
mentioned the alleged "fix” at
today.
The French hospital switchboard
has been swamped with telephone
calls inquiring about the former
slugger’s condition. Only two visit-
ors. his wife and an unidentified
"close friend" were permitted to
visit the former Sultan of Swat. 1
Copacabana.
Highlight of yesterday’s devel
opments was the testimony of Pa-
trolman Joseph I. Jove, who told
of upping Paris’ telephone begin-
ning Dec 3 in connection with a
gambling investigation.
Jove testified there were many
references in the conversations to
Paris’ talks with the Giants’ play-
ers.
Filchock, passing star of the
IT'S LIKE THIS
team this season that played in the
national intercollegiate tournament
in Kansas City last year, losing sn
overtime game to the champions.
Loyola of New Orleans, after winn-
I ing their first game.
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Babe Ruth Owes Success
To Good Catholic Brothers
By HOWARD GREEN
The special on Babe Ruth in the current SPORT ia unex-
pectedly timely, in view of his illness , __■
The writer, Jack Sher, paints one of the most vivid word
portraits of the one time Bambino, telling inside anecdotes which
we had not previously read. u ,
As most of us know, Ruth was a matchless friend of the
kids. Sher relates that of all the stories about thingi he did for
kids, perhaps the most wonderful concerns the trip he made to
New Jersey one day to see a 13-year-old named Johnny Sylvester.
The boy had undergone a serious operation and had failed to
improve. He needed something to hold him together, to make him
want to fight for life. „ .
The boy’s hero was Babe Ruth Some say it was the doctor,
others a newspaperman, still others the boy’s father who called
Ruth and told him the story. It doesn’t matter who called. The
next morning the door of the hospital ward opened and in walked
Babe Ruth. __.
Paul Gallico, describing the scene, wrote, it was God him-
self who walked into the room, straight from His glit :5s throne,
God dressed in a camel’s hair polo coat and flat came $ hair cap,
God with a flat nose and little piggy eyes and a big grin, and a fat,
black cigar sticking out the side of it"__, „
Ruth sat on the edge of the bed and talked to the boy as long
1 as the doctors would allow. He talked about baseball, scrawled his
name on a ball and handed it to the boy Then he leaned down
and told Johnny that he was going to hit a home run that after-
noon, especially for him. Ruth could always call his shots when
they were great enough he did hit that homer for Johnny. And
the boy lived.
Sher also reveals that Ruth was picked' up off the streets of
Baltimore by the good brothers of St Marys Industrial home, a
Catholic institution.' __. ...
Ruth was s pushed around nobody as s youngster He began
life as a battered pushed around waif, scratching for food, strug-
gling to stay alive, unwanted by anyone. '
Babe's earliest recollections were of the traffic-congested
streets along the Baltimore waterfront. He recalled the curses of
the truck drivers, the way they would slash at kid’s legs with
their whips. He remembered the hatred for coppers,” as he called
them, and fist fights, and being shagged and living on the crummy
borderline of crime
At St Marv's Ruth was truculent and hard to manage At
first, he missed the roving toughs of the street gang, but the good
Catholic brothers stood by. got him interested in athletics and
he got the swing of things on one of the 43 different ball clubs at
St. Mary's. ...
Babe Ruth became the biggest name in the history of sport
because of the charity of a group of individuals, who wanted to
help a down-and-out kid, about to enter on a career of usefulness
and possibly lawlessness.
Babe s mother had died when he was very young and his
father was a rough, brawling man, who occasionally made his living
as s butcher and was killed, if the oft-repeated story is true, in
a street fight.
days, admitted in cross examina-
tion that he concealed from May-
or William O’Dwyer that Paris
had offered him money to lie down
in the game.
O’Dwyer and police officials
questioned Filchock and Hapes
the night before the game. Hapes
was not allowed to play but Fil-
chock was permitted to play,
throwing the passes leading to his
Hunting Laws
Are Studied
FREDERICKSBURG, Jan. 8.—
(PP)—State legislative approval of a
universial hunting and fishing li-
cense law and legalizatoin of kill-
ing of does on a ranch by-ranch
basis have been asked by landown-
ers and sportsmen of twenty coun-
ties of the Texas Hill country.
At a meeting here, yesterday to
study proposed game legislation,
approximately 300 landowners
from the areas centuring in the
heart of Texas’ turkey and deer
country also urged adoption of a
tag system for bucks to conserve
the number and prevent road hunt-
Earl Yeomans of Temple univer-
sity tackled the subject by advo-
cating the "FBI" setup to which
he gave the label "clean sports
foundation."
Under Yeomans’ plan, the foun-
dation would include all sports
governing bodies in the country
with the President of the United
States or J. Edgar Hoover as hon-
orary president. The anti-gamb-
ling proposals, offered at the “big
college" forum, go before the gen-
eral NCAA convention today
The foundation would consist of
the NCAA, the amsteur athletic
union, organized baseball, the pro-
fessional leagues in football,
hockey and basketball, the boy
scouts and the American sports
institute, according to the Yeo-
mans proposal.
Dr. Morrill warned of “the pos-
sibility of a devastating betting
scandal" which he said "hovers
like a black harpy over the big-
time intercollegiate scene "
"Intercollegiate football is ripe
for the kill," he continued. “If it
comes, it will shake the big sta-
diums to their foundations; and
the true friends of the colleges
who are a mighty, although large-
ly inarticulate, Army will close in
for a house-cleaning.”
It took some 50,000 Chinese lab-
orers six months to replace 1.000
miles of the Canton-Hankow rail-
road damaged by war.
ing, an increase in the number of
the sUte game commission mem-
bership from six to nine, and em-
powering the commission to secure
sites for fishing and hunting pre-
serves.
team's only scores.
Filchock, the second person to
take the stand, told the jury that
Paris saw him on Dec 10 arid ask-
ed him if a game could be thrown.
"I told him I had heard of it:
but I would never do it and didn't ed legalization of sale of raw and
know how to go about it," Filchock cured deer hids, prohibition of kill,
testified “He talked of the win-ing spike bucks and hunting deer
ner’s share of the purse and oth-and turkey with 22 caliber rifles
er things and then said he want-adoption of heavier fines for road
to make a bet" and headlight hunting, and restora-
He said that at one point Paris tion to game wardens of powers to
asked him arrest persons for trespassing on
Think you can see that the unauthorized property, . ,
Bears win’" I The group favored the shooting
I wouldn't do a damn thing of does on * ranch-by -ranch basis
that ” Filchock said he re- with the consent of the landowners
like that Filchock said ne re- the game commission, with
pled._____-____:1a tag system to- prevent slaughter
of does where no overabundance
Basketball Scores exists. Landowners and hunters re-
commended that ranchers set aside
East Texas State 79. Stephen F Aur- tracts of land as wildlife sanctuar-
"s.ihwestern (Okla > Tech 42, Abilene ies for wild turkeys and also that
(Tex) Christian 41 .....
Boston College €1, Brown M
Drake 41 Iowa State 38 ..
Loras (Iowa) 77. University of New
Louisiana Tech M Sam Houston (Tex-
N.M. Dame 86, BuNer M
Mercer 56, North Georgia College 4 |
Arkansas State College 85, Southeast
Missouri State 51
Georgia 27, Alabama 48
St. John’s 46, CCNT 41
Georgetown 65. Transylvania DN
Holy Cross 64, r of Toledo 86
Long Island U. 56, Utah State 38
Duke M Davidson 47
Missouri 39, Kansas 34.
Other proposals adopted includ-
counties establish game protective
associations where none now exist.
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