The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 185, Ed. 2 Friday, December 18, 1953 Page: 11 of 30
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Abilene, Texas, Friday Evening, Dec. 18, 1953 HA
Yankee and Blues Stadium
Sold in Real Estate Deal
NEW YORK Mn — The world
champion New York Yankees will
play ball next season la a stadium
owned by a Chicago real estate
firm located on land owned by the
Knights of Columbus but it will
still be the “House That Ruth
Built.’
Ruth
Del Webb snd Dsn Topping, co-
owners of tbs baseball club, sold
Yankee Stadium and Blues Sta-
dium in Kansas City yesterday for
6% million dollars.
They sold to the Arnold John-
son Corp. of Chicago, headed by
Arnold Johnson. Johnson then sold
the land under Yankee Stadium
and the adjacent parking lots-
about four acres of ground—to the
Knights of Columbus for 2% mil-
lion dollars.
Next, Johnson rented back the
land from the K. of C. and then
leased the whole works back to
the Yankees. Johnson kept the Kan-
sas City park.
Everybody seemed happy about
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the tremendous and complicated
deal.
Webb and Toppipng, along with
Larry MePhail, paid only $2,800,-
000 in 1945 for both ball parks,
the Yankee ball club its players
and all equipment, the Kansas City
ball club and its players and the
Newark ball club. In 1347 Webb
and Topping bought out McPhail
for two million dollars.
U.S. Davis Cup
Team Wins Tilt
By WILL GRIMSLEY
BRISBANE, Australia — Unit-
ed States Davis Cup Captain Billy
Talbert gambled and won today
when he teamed with his young
protege, Tony Trabert, and carv-
ed out a 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 9-7 victory
over Belgium's Philippe Washer
and Jerques Brichant in the dou-
bles match of the Davis Cup Inter-
zone finals.
Talbert, old “long pants” of the
prewar days, substituted himself
for Vic Seixas, his slumping star,
and he certainly made the right
decision. The 35-year-old veteran,
who has been playing little com-
petitive tennis, was superb for
two sets, then held on for the last
two when the pace began to get
him.
The victory was a must for the
American team. Now they need
only to split tomorrow's final two
singles matches to gain the Chal-
lenge Round against Australia at
the end of the month.
. .Woodson Rams.
WADING AROUND Seek AA Title •
By Harless Wode
Al Corsicana
CORSICANA, Dec 18 — The Car
ter Woodson Rams of Abilene and
FROM VILLAIN TO HERO in 11 short weeks makes the Jackson Fish Bears of Core
Ballinger Coach Doug Cox the center of Texas’ greatest school-
boy football comeback of the year.
Only 11 weeks ago today, Coach Cox became about the
• most unpopular man in Ballinger when the Stamford Bull-
dogs humiliated his Bearcats, 42-0. ed here this
- Today, the genial Bearcat mentor is the toast of Runnels ing Abilene 8.30 this mortint
County, the man who could without any doubt be named the- : moriun*.
most popular man in Ballinger.
VICTORY with s capital V has----------------—-
made the change. For since that, * a
dark night. Cox baa been the guld- VanIA auarae
ing light for a group of boys who! TOUTO ToVOEO
have shown Central Weat Texas ■ VesrS ■ W » VI VM
sports fane what determination and
fighting team spirit can do.
Aa thla column is rolling across
the press this afternoon. Cox and
his Bearcats will be playing in
the Class AA semifinals — a feat
that 11 weeks ago few fans, if any,
would have even dreamed about.
It’s quite possible that by the
time you read this the Bellinger
eleven will be victorious again,
moving Into the finals of the state
championship. This of course, rid-
ing on the outcome of today's
game with Comanche in Coleman.
cans meet at 7:30 here Friday
night with the Class AA Negro
high school tootbaR championship
resting on the outcome
The Woodson club, accompanied
by Coach Donald E. Grace, arriv-
ed here this afternoon after leav-
—C ***** ***** 4**4
On the trip are the regular 18-
man squad plus three eighth grade
gridders. The band will be on hand
to cheer on the Rams who gained
the finals with a hard-fought 13-
6 verdict over Gladewater last
week
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boasting one of the top offensive
units in the state, scored MB points
and held the combined opposition
to only 46.
Over Graham
By MURRAY ROSE
Leading the Abilene assault is
Charles (Tank) Gulley, who has
personally accounted for 10 touch-
downs and passed for eight more.
For the season he's gained a net
of 882 yards on 103 attempts for
aa average of slightly over eight
yards a try. Aiding ia the Wood-
son backfield corps are Halfbacks
Louis Kelley who has garnered six
touchdowns and Theatlas Reagor
with two and Quarterback Robert
Kelley Kelley has two tallies
and his alternate Willie Boyd one.
The Jackson team waltzed
through U games to date with only
a 13-13 deadlock with Class AAA
Coles of Corpus Christi keeping it
from boasting a perfect record.
Abilene lost to Moore of Waco.
13-0, 7-0 to San Angelo and knotted
AAA San Antonio in a 0-0 tilt.
Woodson has scored 203 points
for the year against 72 for the
combined opposition. Corsicana,
Hall Made Liar
Of Fortune Teller
JEFFERSON CrrY. Mo., Dee.
18 WP—Carl Austin Hall was in a
joval mood Thursday though his
execution with Mrs. Bonnie Brown
Heady for the kidnap-killing of
Bobby Greenlease was only a few 1
hours away.
Marshall K. Hoag of Pleasanton,
Hoag quoted Hall as saying. -1
told me I was going to live to
85 years old.”
The 34-year-old killer will m
that by 51 years.
Kan., Hall’s hometown, said toe
kidnap-killer jokingly told him he
knew a fortune teller whose repu-
tation he could ruin.
"About 10 years ago she told my
fortune when 1 was in Honolulu.” H
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Texas Western 11
Cited for ‘Spirit’
EL PASO (—Mississippi South-
ern would be well advised to bring
a spiritualistic medium along for
its Sun Bowl football engagement
with Texas Western Jan. 1.
The host Miners boast the sev-
enth strongest defense in the na-
tion snd Coach Mike Brumbelow
says it's all spirit.
“When you have a high rating
in anything, there's usually a rea-
son," he said. “The only one I can
think of for our Miners is spirit.
“The spirit of this Miner team
le just se good as any I've seen
in 25 years of coaching."
The Miners wound up their pre-
Christmas drills today and will re-
turn to action Dec. 26. Brumbelow
promised heavy stress on defense
after the holiday.
The coach declined to single out
sny individual players ss the rocks
of the defense which yielded only
sn average of 198.6 yards per game
during the regular season.
Western allowed its nine oppo-
nents only 130 points while scoring
220 snd compiling s record of sev-
en victories and two defeats.
He noted that the Miners, aver-
aging about 137 pounds along the
line and around 170 in the back-
field. will be giving away weight
to the favored Mississippi Southern
crew.
NOW
SERVING BREAKFAST
6:30 a. m. te 9:30 •. m.
WIN, LOSE OR DRAW against
Comanche today, Cox has turn-
ed in one of the finest high school
coaching chores this writer has
had the pleasure of seeing in the
dozen years he has been connect-
ed with the gsme either ss s play-
er, coach, or sports writer.
Without a doubt in our mind, the
Bearcats have made one of the
greatest comebacks in Texas grid
history. They have fought back
from two straight defeats st the
hands of Stamford and Comanche,
the firt a humiliating one, to waltz
into the semifinals.
Cox amply described the Stam-
ford loss when be told us Wednes-
day, “It was a nightmare."
NEITHER COX nor hia assistant
coach, Bill Scoggins, claim to be
extra superstitious when it comes
to wearing a good luck charm or
such things as putting one sock on
the same foot first each morning.1
' However, both laughingly admit-
ted that they haven't worn any-
thing but the same suit of clothes
since whipping undefeated Ban
Saba after losing those two straight
to Stamford and Comanche.
“And you can bet on one thing
for sure," Cox quipped, "we may
not beat Comanche, but Scoggins
and I will have on those same suits
Friday."
ABILENE SPORTS fans re-
member Cox from his college
ploying days. After quarterbacking
Ballinger High School in the late
‘30s, he moved to McMurry and
played one year before entering
the service in 1943.
Later Cox returned to McMurry
and saw a lot of action in the In-
dian backfield in the 1946-47 sea-
son. After spending one year at
Colorado City as a coach, he went
to Ballinger as an assistant and
took over the head job in 1950.
In the five years he has guided
the Bearcats, they have chalked up
a record of 31 victortea. 11 losses
and one tie for a highly respect-
able .738 average. A record that
anyone, would be proud to bold.
Scoggins is also a home-grown
Ballinger boy, who was a stellar
center in the ‘40s, later moving
over for action at Howard Payne
in Brownwood.
NEW YORK u - Paddy Young
ia a 7-5 favorite to spoil welter-
weight contender Billy Graham's
bid for middleweight laurels in
Madison Square Garden tonight.
Graham, 31, boasting a victory
over third-ranking middleweight
contender Joey Giardello and a
draw with second-ranking Rocky
Castellani, has decided to aim
for Bobo Olson's 160-pound crown.
A veteran of 120 pro bouts in
13 years of fighting for cash, Gra-
ham is spotting his fellow New
Yorker 10 pounds and six years in
the 10-rounder. Billy will weigh
about 150 to Paddy's 160
The question mark in thia fight
is just how much zip Graham has
left in his legs. Billy needs plenty
of spring for his left-jabbing, coun-
terpunching style of boxing. If
he's lost it, he’ll be a target for the
25-year-old Paddy's smashing left
hooks and body assault.
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SPEAKING OF FORMER Bal-
linger High grid greats, one of the
Bearcats' most avid fans this year.
I as in past years, Is Frank Part-
' ridge of Talpa.
Back in 1929 Frank quarterback-
ed Ballinger through an undefeat-
ed, untied, and unscored on season
as the Bearcats captured the re-
gional championship—as far as a
me team could go in those days in a
school the size of Ballinger.
Disaster struck Partridge in 1341
when he was crippled for life as
the result of sn automobile wreck
in the Runnels County Seat. But
this hasn't stopped Frank from
loving football or following the
Bearcats.
Since disaster struck, Frank has,
taken it In stride snd is today. un- =
less major catastrophe has pre-
vented it rooting the Bearcats on
against Comanche from a wheel-
chair near the playing field — a
chore he has done for years
Joe Forrester, Ballinger High
principal, said of Frank. "He's a
great fellow — a real Bearcat from
A to ism.”
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