The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 328, Ed. 2 Tuesday, May 11, 1954 Page: 9 of 24
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MONDAY GAMES RAINED OUT
Clovis Opens Series
Here With Blue Sox
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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Tuesday Evening, May 11, 1954
DOUBLE TAKE
on Whips
By the Associated Press
Unseasonal weather torpedoed
all West Texas-New Mexico League
baseball games last night as a
stormy cold front moved through
the Texas-New Mexico border area.
Clovis and Amarillo had to post-
pone a doubleheader at Amarillo
as intermittent rains left wet
grounds. Lubbock at Abilene was
in ths same fix with cold and rain
postponing their doubleheader
Single games scheduled between
Albuquerque and Borger at Bor-
ger and Pampa and Plainview at
Plainview were postponed because
of rain, cold and wet grounds.
Albuquerque is at Pampa today
and Clovis at Abilene. Borger jour-
neys to Plainview and Amarillo to
Lubbock.
Abilene Manager Jay Haney has
nominated Andy Alonso (3-1) to
take the mound against the Pi-
neers tonight.
President Hal Sayles of the
West Texas-New Mexico League
will award Abilene the league’s
opening day attendance award.
The Blue Sox drew the largest
crowd of 2,404 on opening night.
Also, tonight is Knot Hole Night
and both Knot Hole clubs will be
admitted on membership cards
and T-shirts.
Joe Ellison will move in at sec-
ond base tonight. Haney has placed
himself on the inactive list to
make way for veteran pitcher Oli-
vero Ortiz, who is returning to the
Sox from Roswell with four tri-
umphs under his belt.
Ortiz worked out in spring train-
ing with the Sox, then was sent to
Roswell. The Rockets had to cut
him loose because they have too
many veterans.
The Pioneers are currently in a
tie for second place with the Albu-
querque Dukes while Abilene is in
seventh, a game and a half back
of sixth-place Lubbock.
By Fred Sanner
LAST FALL WHEN THREE OF THE FOUR Texas high
school football championships went East of the 98th
meridian to Lamar of Houston, Port Neches and Hunts-
ville, East Texas crowed while West Texas hung its head.
Saturday at Austin, the shoe was on the other foot as
Abilene, Andrews and Bangs brought all three state track
and field championships back to West Texas.
Region II Didn’t Leave Much for Rest
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Former Alabama
Coach Thomas Dies
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. un—Frank
Thomas, the stocky, soft-spoken
man who coached Alabama to one
of football's most spectacular rec-
ords, died last night.
Death resulted from a heart ail-
ment which forced him to give up
coaching in 1947 and to surrender
his duties as athletic director in
early 1952.
He had reentered a Tuscaloosa
hospital 10 days ago.
Thomas believed that football
games were won on the playing
field and not in dressing rooms.
He refused to try to pop up his
teams with emotional appeals dur-
ing halftime, but was a stickler
for detail and hard work in prac-
tices and for all-out effort during
a game.
His policy paid off. During his
15 years as boss of the Crimson
Tide, Thomas saw his teams win
115 games, lose 24 and tie T.
He carried teems to three Rose
Bowl games and to Cotton. Orange
and Sugar Bowl appearances. His
bowl record was 4-2.”......-------
Perhaps his most famous team
was that of 1934, one of his four
undefeated squads. This power-
house, featuring the passing com-
bination of Dixie Howell to Don
Hutson, whipped Stanford and its
crushing ground attack 29-13 on
Jan. 1, 1935.
Thomas, who was M, often said
that victory was his greatest foot-
ball thrill, as a coach or player.
No one envied Thomas when he
came to Alabama in 1931 to suc-
ceed Wallace Wade, who already
had carried three Alabama teams
to the Rose Bowl.
The man destined to become one
of the nation's great footban fig-
ures then was comparatively un-
known in bigtime coaching ranks.
He quickly convinced an doubt-
ers. The Tide lost only four games
his first three seasons, then came
his 1934 Rose Bowl eleven.
Born in Muacte, Ind., Thomas
prepared for his ‘Bama career by
playing at Western State Normal
College, Kalamazoo, Mich., and at
Notre Dame, where he was quar-
terback under the immortal Knute
Rockne in 1920-22.
He left Notre Dame with a law
degree in his mind. But football
was in his blood.
So, with Rockne's blessings, he
went to Georgia as backfield coach
in 1923. Two years later he became
head coach at Chattanooga, return-
ed to Georgia in 1929 and remained
there until 1931 when he took over
at Alabama.
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1. Two of the three state cham-
pions — Abilene and Bangs—came
from Region II.
2. Two of the three high point
individuals — James Segrest of
Bangs with 34 points in Class B
and Hollis Gainey of Colorado City
with 39 1-4 points in Class A —
came from Region II.
3. One of the three overall state
records - Abilene's 440-yard re-
lay time of 42.5—was set by a Re-
gion II member.
4. Five of the 12 divisional rec-
ords broken were bettered by Re-
gion □ performers. Abilene's 440-
yard relay time and Bobby Moss-
hart’s 1:17.7 in the 880-yard run
broke Class AA marks; Granbury’s
mite relay time of 3:244 lowered
a Class A record; and the 4.19.1
mile ran turned in by Jimmy
Reeves of Weinert and the 50 sec-
onds flat in the 440-yard dash by
Segrest lowered Class B marks.
In addition, J. D. Hanson of
Eastland tied the Class B low
hurdles mark of 114.
5. Of the 42 separate events in
the three divisions, Region II in-
dividuals or teams finisned first in
15, giving this section more than
one-third of the 42 and leaving the
rest to be divided among seven
other regions.
Abilene's sprint relay and Moss-,
hart’s 880-yard triumphs were sup-
plemented by the broad jump vic-
tory of Ronny White of Arlington
Heights of Fort Worth in Clasa
AA.
Gainey’s twin triumphs in the
100-yard and 200-yard dashes, Gran-
bury’s mile relay win and the 12-
foot pole valt by Lee Wood of
Winters accounted for four Class
A blue ribbons.
Segrest’s triple sweep of the 100-
yard, 220-yard and 440-yard
dashes, to our knowledge, has
never been accomplished before.
To these, Region II-B perform-
ers added Reeves' mile run, the
880-yard victory by Rogers Nanny
of Rochester, the high jump tri-
umph of Billy Denton of O'Brien,
the low hurdles by Hanson of
Eastland, and the shot put vic-
tory by DeWayne Henry of Lometa.
And while we’re talking about
Region II, don't forget the record-
breaking 139 Charles Coody of
Stamford shot in the Class A golf
tourney as he led the Bulldogs to
a state title. Also, the Clyde Bun-
dogs furnished the Class B boys
singles winner in Freddie Kniffen.
But don’t go away yet. Let’s
crow some more about West Tex-
Mi
Amarillo, Stamford and Iraan
won the three state golf cham-
pionships. And Pyote won the Class
B boys tennis doubles.
And lest you think the eight teams
that form the 1-AAAA “Little South-
west Conference” to football end
basketball lose their potency in the
springtime, glance at this.
In track, Abilene finished first
with 47 points; Amarillo tied for
third with Brackenridge of San
Antonio with 28 points: Odessa
tied for seventh with North Side
of Fort Worth with 20 points; and
Pampa was ninth with 19 points
Lubbock finished 13th with 12%
points, giving the 1-AAAA schools
five in the top 20.
As mentioned before, Amarillo
woe the AA golf championship.
Coach Bob Groseclose has good
reason to be proud of the way hie
boys have worked all season to-
ward a state championship, taking
in stride the injury of dashman
Ronnie McDearman before the
season was well under way, the
spraining of weightman Hal Me-
Glothlin’s ankle just before the re-
gional meet, the failure to qualify
their mile relay team for the state
meet aad the rough start they got
Friday when Dick Orsini, who was
counted on for at least six or eight
points in the breed jump, failed to
place.
But the letter we reproduce here
ranks high, perhaps highest, among
Track Coach
Abilene High School
Abilene, Texas
Dear Sir:
Last Friday evening I was in
Jordan's Restaurant in Weather-
ford, Texas, while you and your
team were having dinner there.
My wife and two friends were with
me and all of us agreed that your
boys were the most mannerly and
conducted themselves in the high-
est manner of any group of boys
we have ever had the opportunity
to observe.
Since I was graduated from Ahi-
lone High in 1930, it made me
very proud to have once attended
the same school.
Congratulations to you and your
boys for winning the Ft. Worth
track meet and to you in your
fine leadership.
Very Sincerely Yours,
Mac D. King.
Strawn, Texas
In Mat Finale
Cowboy Carlson whipped Tony
Morelli in two straight falls in one
half of the double main event at
Fair Park Arena Monday night.
Dory Funk, his former partner,
had to bounce back after losing
the first fall to Professor Roy
Shire.
Timmy Geohagen trimmed Bob
Cummings in the one-fan special
event with a full Nelson.
Carlson won the first fall from
Morelli on a disqualification, then
polished off the Italian with a bun-
dog bold and body press.
Shire used a series of turn-
buckle slams and a body prom to
subdue Funk in the first fall, but
he wouldn't stay subdued.
Funk took the last two in quick
order, winning the second fan in
nine minutes with a spinning toe
hold and the third in five minutes
Gator Quarterback
Booted From Squad
GAINESVILLE, Fla. un-Coach
Bob Woodruff yesterday kicked
Harry Speers, his No. 1 quarter-
back, off the University of Florida
athletic scholarship roster for
"disciplinary reasons — miscon-
duct.”
He declined to amplify the rea-
sons but Speers, 20-year-old sopho-
more from Knoxville, Tenn., said
he cot into "a little trouble with
the police at a night club Wednes-
day nicht—I talked back to them.”
The action left the Gators, fac-
inc a touch 10-game schedule for
the 1954 football season, with only
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Bannister Is Try
For World Record
In 880-Yard Rot
LONDON, May 11 in-Roger Ban-
nister announced today he win re-
turn to the track May 20—and may
try to add the world half mile rec-
ord to his monumental 3:59.4 mile
mark.
JERIS LANOLIN-ENRICHED HAIR OIL
JERISESALESECOMPANYADIVISIONSOFIAR. WINARICKLINC.
The lanky, 24-year-old medical
student said he would ran the half
mile for London University against
Oxford University at Motspur
Park, Surrey, in an inter-univer-
sities meet.
America’s Mal Whitfield holds
ths present world record of 1:48.6
___.__sat world record of 1:48.6
for the half mile. Track experts
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this sunimer.
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burg, to handle the signal calling.
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