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o A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
- A / Abilene. Texas, Saturday Evening, December * 1855
Castoffs Help
DYER IS MASTER OF COIN TOSSES
_ whe Stamford Games Usually Near
Wesleyan Home, Thanks to Principal
* Abfiene s Fair Park Monday after-I in the 1952 quarterfinals, the only
noon coin toss Dyer has ever missed.
Hillsboro wanted Waco’s Baylor But in 1952 he was the man that
Stadium; Stamford wanted Abi-gave Stamford the bi-district game
lene. with Tahoka and the one who got
Earlier this year Dyer narrowed the semifinals with Terrell in Abi-
his eyes, thought a second and lene.
called the coin toss that gave Dyer, an affable gentleman
Stamford the site of the bi-district whose wrinkles are caused ' by
game with Burkburnett | smiles, not unruly pupils, can be
In 1953 Childress automatically heard at each borne Bulldog game,
had to come to Stamford since keeping the folks posted on th
I Stamford had played at Childress public address system
i Cage Record
By RYLE VANCE
ow ENSBORO, Ky. .Kentucky
Wesleyan College is winning bas-
ketball games with the wont tor-
mula in the world
STAMFORD. Dec. 24 — Most of
the time is the Male football play-
offs the Stamford Bulldogs have
been very agreeable, establishing
the sites and times by mutual
agreement.
But when the necks became
- bowed and the legs become braced
It is picking up its players from and it is necessary to flip a coin,
castoffs from other schools. Stemford cals upon Join Dyer,
But the Wesleyan express pulled principal of its high school
into holiday season today with a ii was Dyer who correctly called
Christmas stocking bulging with the turn of the coin that brought
eight straight wins. Je 1955 state Class AA finals to
Five of the victims are "major"
in status. Six wins were registered
on opponents’ floors.
| Wesleyan is averaging 80 points
a game and holding the foe to 63
I Not bad for a little school with
just 500 students—especially when
you consider that three starters
were “given" to Wesleyan by oth-
er schools.
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Browns Arrive in L. A., Set
To Capture Third Pro Title
Deer Park
Wins Title,
By BOB MYERS
The Rams will field such explo-
The University of Kentucky, has
been a real Santa Claus. Two LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24 F—The sive backs as rookie Ron Waller,
starters—and another who would : defending champion Cleveland Skeet Quinton and Dan Towler, and
be starting except for an injury- | Browns arrive on the battle scene the passing game features Var
left the big state university for one today, very definitely set on de-
feating the Los Angeles Rams and
capturing the National Football
League crown for the third time
for their coach, Paul (The Master’
reason or another
When Linville Puckett and Logan
Brocklin, Fears, Elroy Hirsch and
WHAT'S THE ANSWER?—Two of Stamford’s linebackers, T. C. Rice (left) and Royce
West have their own formula for stopping the Hillsboro Eagles Monday at Fair Park
Stadium in the Class AA state finals Bulldog faithful hope they come up with the
right answer. (Staff Photo by Bob Gulley) _____________________________
San Francisco Eyes 39-Game
Victory Mark, Wins No. 33
By BEN OLAN
The Associated Press
The San Francisco Dons beaded
for New York today with their 33-
game victory string intact and with
designs on the college basketball
record for consecutive triumphs
San Francisco, the nation's top- feet the Done—in Dec. 1954.
ranked team, easily rolled over
Loyola of New Orleans, 51-43, last
night to make it seven straight
this season and S3 over a two-year
span. The all-time mark is 39.
Next stop for the well-balanced
Dons is Madison Square Garden
w here they tangle with L." Salle
Monday afternoon in the second
game of the ECAC Holiday Festi-
Preseau spearheading the attack
I val Tournament. 1-
Holy C as faces Syracuse in the Russell, the brilliant 6-10 Negro
opener while UCLA meets St. center scored 20 points before
Johns of Broolkyn and Duquesze leaving the game with eight min-
goes up against Fordham in a utes left to play.
night doubleheader. UCLA, in- / Although San Francisco used
cidentally was the last team to de- five Negro players there was no
repetition of Tuesday night's inci-
Mark Set By LI dent when Loyola fans jeered L ad-
The existing mark for consecu- ley's Negro forward Shellie MeMil-
five viet wries was set by Long Is- Ion for allegedly sticking out his
land University from 1935 to 1937 tongue after fouling out of the
and was later equalled by Seton game.
Hall of South Orange, N.J., 1939-
Mark Set By LI
1941.
The Dons drew to a 24-8 lead in
the 15th minute of the game with
Bill Russell, K. C. Jones and Mike
The Loyola band, which broke
into “Dixie " during the Bradley
incident, confined its selection Mo
the Loyola fight song and the Na-
Gipe transferred to Wesleyan.
Coach Robert < Bullet) Wilson
slowed down his fast break attack. Brown.
Because of their ball handling tac-
tics. he now uses many set plays
Billy Bibb, the other transfer
from Kentucky, suffered a knee in-
jury that may keep him out all
season
The pride of the castoff kids is
Mason Cope, who was named
“Mr. Basketball’' after the 1M9
North-South game at Murray State
College. That game brings to-
gether some of the finest high
school seniors in the nation.
Cope attended Murray two years
and then went into service He
chose Wesleyan when his hitch
was up, and how he's averaging
21.5 points per game. Gipe and
Puckett are averaging 17 and 15
points, respectively.
Bob Boyd.
Cleveland has Raj Renfro.
Curley Morrison, Ed Modzelewski
and Graham, among its running
FOR WINTER CAMPAIGN
Nashua to Arrive
At Hialeah Today
ti.nal Anthem.
Undefeated Vandy Upset
Vanderbilt was the only other
team among the first 10 to see
action and the eighth-ranked Com-
modores were knocked off by Iowa
State 87-76. in the unset of the
night. It was Vandy’s first setback
after six triumphs.
Gary Thompson scored « points'
for State, which shot into a 47-39
Of course Wesleyan has a good
collection of stars recruited in the
normal manner. They include the
two biggest boys on a compara-
tively small squad-5 foot 5 Lewis
Snowden and 64% Joe Roop
With victories in the bag over
Tennessee, Texas Christian. Cen-
tre, Hardin-Simmons, Berea, New
Mexico, New Mexico A&M and
Midwestern. Wesleyan figures a
pretty strong favorite for its own
tournament opening next Wednes-
day
The castoff kids will be host to
Florida. Pittsburgh, Utah State.
Washington & Lee. Evansville.
Hardin-Simmons and College of
The experts say the Browns will
succeed in the nationally televised
game in Memorial Coliseum Mon
day. The feat, if achieved, will
serve as a handsome Christmas
present for the coach and a fitting
going-away gift for the top field
general in professional football,
quarterback Otto Graham.
Ram fans could look back to
1951, however, when this same
Graham, who will be playing his
last game, and such grid gladia-
tors as Lou Groza, the kicking
specialist: Dante Lavelli, Len Ford
Abe Gibron and other Cleveland
veterans, came here favored to
lasso the Rams for the champion-
ship
They failed. The Ram field
marshal, Norman Van Brocklin.
and his left end, Tommy Fears,
crushed their hopes with a 73-yard
touchdown pass play that won the
game in the final quarter, 24-17.
This was a joy to the Rams,
who the bitter winter before at
Cleveland saw their title hopes
blasted in the final 28 seconds on
a Groza field goal.
Offensively and defensively, this
renewal of hostilities could well be
another exciting contest.
threats, and LavelJi. Darrell Brew-
ster and others for aerial fire-
works.
Defensively, the game offers
some of the greatest in pro bell— |
Ford and Carleton Massey, Abe |
Gibron, Frank Gatski, Bob Gain SAaL P.u
and Don Colo of the Browns and SUT I ONIPST
Les Richer, Bud McFadin, Andy PVIII WIIIVJI
Robustelli and Larry Morris for. - .
Los Angeles BORGER F—Deer Park, win-
1 Fair weather was forecast for ningest foot ball team in Texas, had
Monday and if it is 60,000 or its second consecutive Class A
more will attend NBC will tele- schoolboy championship today.
vise the affair, with Los Angeles The Deer surged 70 yards for a
excluded touchdown in the third period of
Game time: 1 p.m. PST tight defensive battle with Stinnett
last night and won 8-0 to go
| through their 30th straight game
without defeat.
Deer Park in four years has won
54 games, lost 3. tied 2, been in
the finals three times and the
semi-finals once.
Atlanta Negroes
Cancel Test Round
Pacific.
PRO CAGE
STANDINGS
By The Associated Press
EASTERN DIVISION
Pallsdelphia
Syracuse
WESTERN Dittos
St. Louis 10 1
Rochester 10 t:
Fort Wayne ....... 9 1
Minneapolis 8 17
SATURDAY’S SCHEDULE
NO ETAIDAT F RESULTS
No games scheduled. _
SUNDAY’S SCHEDULE
Rochester at Syracuse
New York at Fort Wayne
Boston at Minneapolis
L Pet.
6 .714
1
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Trabert Triumphs
DENVER IF—Tony Trabert used
his powerful service and a strong
net game to defeat Pancho Gon-
zales, 6-4, 6-3, last night for his
third victory against five losses in
their cross - country professional
tennis tour.
ATLANTA (—Plans for a N'e- Three of four state champion-
gro foursome to play on an At- ships now have been determined,
lanta public golf course today have The final will be decided Monday
been dropped, when Hillsboro meets Stamford at
Dr. H. M Holmes, 71-year-old Abilene for the Class AA crown,
physician, said at his home last . Abilene won Class AAAA last
night that he and three other mem- week, beating Tyler 33-13, Port
bers of a Negro foursome had | Neches downed Garland 20-14 for
postponed indefinitely their plans the Class AAA crown.
to play on the Bobby Jones golf Bubba McLean and Penny
course. >O'Ne«l led the wild drive of the
Holmes did not give any reason Deer that paid off with the touch-
The foursome was the same one down. O-Neal made it with a 1-
that was turned away four years yard smash then ran for the extra
ago. an action which led to a point.
lengthy segreation suit. I Stinnett couldn't handle the pon-
Holmes had intended to start a derous 190-pound Deer line and
round of golf at noon with his Larry Dawson couldn’t connect
sons. Alfred and Oliver, who with his passes.
joined him in the segregation suit. Stinnett almost scored in the
and C. T. Bell, a real estate man second period, advancing to the
The game had been made pos- one. A fourth down pass from
sible by a U.S. District Court de- Dawson to Tony Atherton was
cree Thursday implementing a Su- dropped in the end zone.
preme Court decision against golf Stinnett was playing its first sea-
course segregation, son in Class A.
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Streaks Lengthen
halftime les and., never trailed
thereafter. Bobby Thym was high |
HIALEAH, Fla. @ — A special "yearlings” also were in the car.
Railway Express car b e a ri n g In all, they have won $1,631,544 I for the losers with 28 markers.
Nashua and five other race horses in purses and horsemen estimate
the value of the shipment well in
Railway Express car bearing
sped toward Hialeah Park today
for a winter campaign
The shipment, due to arrive
about 8 a.m. (EST), was attached
to a Florida East Coast passenger
train at Jacksonville last night for
the eight-hour run down the coast
Floyd C. Sager, veterinarian
from A. B. Hancock's Claiborne
Farm, Mid in Jacksonville that
Nashua, the millionaire horse, and
his traveling companions were in
fine shape and were taking the
1,200-mile journey in stride
in the car with Nashua were
such performers as Doubledogdare,
voted the top 2-year-old filly of
1955: Misty Moro, 3-year-old filly
who won $210,650; High Voltage,
regarded by some as the best 3-
year-old filly, with a bankroll of
$347,790; Homeplace, a full brother
of Blue Ruler and second t Tiger
Wonder in the Joliet Stakes, and
Signal HiB, 2-year-old filly Four
excess of two million dollars.
When the tram pulled into the
Jacksonville terminal tor a 2V-
hour stopover, Marvin Fisher, spe-
cial agent for the Railway Express
Agency, climbed aboard to see
that no harm came to Nashua and
his companions
All over the sprawling railroad
yards, and especially near the pas-
senger terminal, police saw to It
that no curiosity seekers wand-
ered over in the vicinity of the
valuable cargo
A few railroad workers clustered
about, peering into the car at the
greet Nashua who only nine days
ago was bought by a Leslie.Combs
II syndicate for $1,251,200—record
price for a thoroughbred.
CAGE SCORES
Illinois, No. 17, built up a 21-1
lead against Oklahoma and breezed
in. 82-58. The Sooners did not
register their first field goal until
10:38 of the first half Capt. Paul
Judson paced the Illini with 24
points.
Julius McCoy popped in 16
straight points in the last 10 min-
utes as Michigan State whipped
Wyoming, 72-62. McCoy wound up
with 32 points, but he had to give
up scoring honors to Wyoming's
Joe Capra, who netted 34 The vic-
tory was the Spartans' fourth in
as many games Wyoming is 1-6.
Jumped Off To Lead
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Two alarming losing streaks
were lengthened Friday as the
Southwest Conference ended bas-
ketball play for the Christmas
holidays.
TCU suffered its eighth straight
reversal, losing to Oklahoma City
54-54. Baylor took its fifth consecu-
tive loss, tumbling to Oklahoma
Spirit
Wichita Indians
Reach Bravehood
WICHITA, Kan, Dec 24 F -
Wichita’s new baseball entry in the
Triple A American Assn will be
known by the same name as its
parent club Milwaukee—the
Braves.
Lynn Stone, Wichita club gener- |
al manager, said today that name
was picked by Milwaukee club of
ficials.
Wichita’s club in the Class A
Western League in the last and
prior seasons was known as the
Indians.
HIGH SCHOOL
Merkel c. Winters 41
Winters B 32. Merkel B 31
HASKELL TOURNEY
Championship Finals
Haskell SI Throckmorton «
Championship Semifinals
Throekmerten 53, Seymour 50
Haskell 39. Mattson 40
Consolation Finals
Weinert 43. Roby 33
Consolation Semifinals
Weinert 41, Valley View 34
Roby 55, Paint Creek 31
Consolation 1* Round
Weinert 55. Old Glory 33
Valley vie" “Cortvern €
Oklahoma AAM Barker BI
San Francisco 61, Lovela at New
leans 43.
Illinois 82. Oklahoma 58
Oklahoma City 64, TCI 54
Spring Hill 63. Wash. State 6.
St. Francis (Ekn.) r Queens (N.Y.) 63
Iowa State r Vanderbilt 76
St. Louis 55, Cornell 50
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19-point lead on the shooting of
Mack Carter and Mel Wright and
rousted to an easy 70-51 victory
over Baylor The Aggies, who led
37-21 at the half, got 14 points
apiece from Carter and Wright.
Oklahoma City pulled away from
Texas Christian in the final four |
minus s to win, 64-54, and hind
TCU its eighth-straight def-rt. The |
score was deadlocked. 52-52, when |
Hubert Reed tapped in a rebound
for Oklahoma City and Cecil Ma- i
gana followed with two layups that |
found the mark
Washington of St. Louis, trailing
by two points at halftime, rallied
behind the shooting of Bud Cristal
in the second half to nip Cornell
55-50. The Bears led by one with
six minutes left when Cristal came
off the bench to hit on a couple
of push shots.
In other games, Spring Hill, Ala.,
trippedWashingto n State, 63-60 and
St. Francis of Brooklyn beat
Queens, 87-63.
A&M 70-51.
Baylor and TCU will enter the
southwest conference tournament
at Houston next week with 1-7 and
1-8 records. The only team with a
worse record is Arkansas, which
hasn't won a game in five |
Rice is undefeated in 1 games.
SMU has won 7 and lost 2 and
Texas has a 4-3 record.
Swink Makes 18
All-America Teams
FORT WORTH .e—Jim Swink
set all sorts of football records
at TCU this year and one of them
was getting on more All-America
teams than anybody else.
Swink made 18, or 6 more than
Davey O’Brien, the All-America
quarterback of 1935
O’Brien, however, won the Heis-
man Trophy. Swink finished second
for this coveted award O’Brien
was a senior then. Swink has an- i
other season.
brotherly love and
Christian brotherhood.
His life and teachings
give us strength when we
falter, courage when we are afraid,
. and hope when we despair.
North Texas Gager
Is Leading Scorer
EMPORIA Kan • - North
B. JACK HAND
Top Lightweight Contender
Apologizes for Sloppy Win
Texas State’s Fred Heins s a NEW YORK , _ Frankie Ryff
bare two points betund the nation’s did little to help himself as a top
leader in high scoring in small flight lightweight contender by his
college basketball circles victory over Baby Vasquez and he
NCAA figures placed Hopkins I knows it.
third yesterday in rankings with
a six-game average of 29 points
even.
Chester Webb of Georgia Teach-
ers College leads the scorers with
a six-game average of 31 points,
followed by Dave Thompson of
Presbyterian College with 29.9,
SMU Aide Interested
In Wake Forest Job
DALLAS in—Bo Hagan, back
field coach of Southern Methodist |
University, said today he was in-
terested la “any head coaching
job” when mentioned as s pros-
pect for the coaching post at Wake
Forest College.
“I’d rather lose and give the
fans a show,” he said last night,
apologizing in his dressing room
at Madison Square Garden The
23-year-old New Yorker knew his
unanimous decision over the squat
Mexican in a 10 round match hadn’t
been a real crowd pleaser
He was sloppy and he made
me sloppy too,” he said "I wanted
to give the fans a fight so I upset
my style. He was a slow cautious,
counter puncher so I decided to
slug when I could.
"When I got down (into a hall
crouch) we were having a wing
ding until I got this.” He pointed
to a deep cut around No right
eye that will sideline him for six
weeks “We banged heads and this
happened Then I switched back
again "
After Ryff was cut in the fourth
round, he became cautious for a
couple of rounds Then he reverted
to form and rushed in with both
fists flying to earn a substantial
edge. Ryff was wild and ineffee
live much of the time but Vasquez
didn't hit hard enough to offset
his persistent drive.
Charlie Black, Ryff’s manager,
said he wanted matches with light
weight champion Bud Smith, ex
champ Jimmy Carter or any oth-
er good fighter Ryff weighed 139
last night. Vasquez 136
Judge Artie Schwartz scored it
8-1-1. Judge Artie Aidala 6-4 and
Referee Ruby Goldstein 5-3-2 all
for‘Ryff The AP card found for
Ryff 7-2-1. The crowd of no more
than 1,500 inn figures were an-
nounced) took the decision in
stride.
As for the loser, his manager
George Parnassus, had an alibi
“He froze up because this was his
first time in the garden " said
George The boxer, through an in
terpreter, mumbled something
about “couldn’t get off”
The few customers who wand-
ered in from office parties and
Christmas shopping for the last
garden show of the year (no fights
next Friday) had more fun than
usual. One over-eager fan tried to
demonstrate on a garden police
man how Ryff should fight Vas
quez. Another solemn-faced young
man in a grey flannel suit visited
Vasquez’ corner between rounds to
shout from ringside “lead the
right Commission officials
shooed him away but it didn’t mat
ter Vasquez didn’t understand the
English
Ryff didn’t really have to apol-
ogize. The sideshows made up for
the sloppy performance in the
main ring
3 THE TIME HAS COME
I when the people of the
Christian world again
will celebrate the Birth of Christ.
His life and teachings
constitute the single most important
event in the history of civilization.
More words have been written and
spoken about Him and His teachings
than any other person who ever lived
upon the earth. .
For nearly two thousand
years, His teachings have touched
and influenced the lives of untold
millions of people the world over...
bringing comfort to the anguished,
hope to the despondent, and faith to
the doubter.
He gave life meaning
and purpose.
His teachings created in
the hearts of man the spirit of
Christian morality and
the spiritual values of life arc
founded upon His teachings.
He taught that "It is
more blessed to give than to receive”
and that we should "Do unto others
as we would that they do unto us.”
Upon His teachings rests
the real hope ... for Peace on Earth
and Good Will toward Men.
All of these things, and
many more, are the real and only
reason for celebrating Christmas.
In the midst of the good
cheer and happiness of the Christmas
season, therefore, let us pause to give
thanks for the life and teachings of
Him whose birth we celebrate.,
May the peace, the joy
and the spirit of Christian brother-
hood abide with our friends and
neighbors throughout Christmas and
the New Year.
W. C. VOLLMER, President
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