The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 233, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 1954 Page: 12 of 24
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: ABILENE REGIONAL OPEN CHAMPS—These eight boys,
; some of them still showing the effects of their bouts in
Monday night’s Golden Gloves finals, will represent this
region in the state Golden Gloves tournament in Fort Worth
1 February 17-22. The champions are (left to right) Fly-
weight Charles Hilburn of Abilene; Welterweight J. T. Sego
of ACC; Bantamweight Jimmy Mullins of Haskell; Middle-
weight James Adams of Abilene; Featherweight V. R. Rob-
erts of Knox City; Light-Heavy Gene Tone of H-SU; Light-
weight Bobby Wedeking of Anson and H-SU; Heavyweight
Lacy Boles, Abilene. (Staff Photo)
Indians to Seek 6th Win
Against Wayland Tonight
By HARLESS WADE
i Reporter-News Sports Writer
.« Coach Edgar Payne's McMurry
: College Indians, fresh from a vie-
1 tory over Wolters Air Force Base,
'will be gunning for their sixth vic-
I tory of the season Thursday night
when they play host to the potent
| Wayland College Pioneers at 8 p.
m.
While the Tribe will be out to
improve its 5-11 record, the Pio-
SO O'NEILL SAYS
Roberts Won't Hurl
Every 3rd Day in '54
neers will be shooting for their
14th win in 17 outings.
The battle will be—the second
meeting between the two quin-
tets this year with Wayland de-
feating the Indians in their open-
ing contest 68-53.
Since that opening tilt the In-
dians have defeated Sui Ross
twice, powerful Southwest Texas
State, Wolters and Abilene Chris-
PUNTING WRONG
PAYS OFF LATER
AP Newsfeatures
LINCOLN. Neb.—When Full-
back Ray Novak of the Neb-
raska football team was in
high school, his coach spotted
him kicking the ball backward
over his head. The coach
asked why.
Novak said, “Some day I’m
going to get a bad pass from
center that I'll have to chase
and I might have to kick this
way."
Novak waited a long time,
but in his senior year at Ne-
braska the occasion arose in a
game with Oklahoma.
Ray did get that bad pass,
he did chase it into the end
zone, and he did kick it over
his head—out to the nine-yard
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 3 — rotation, barring injuries and
Robin Roberts, strong right hander emergencies,
of the Philadelphia Phillies, isn’t
going to work every third day in
1954.
Manager Steve O’Neill, in town
for a conference with boss-man
Bob Carpenter, said today he has
decided upon a definite pitching
Rule Tourney
Opens Today
RULE. Feb. 3 IRNS) — Lued-
Roberts pitches better with
three full days of rest," O'Neill
said.
I Last year, Roberts pitched a
league - leading 347 innings. Some
said the great young ace was over-
| worked and lost his effectiveness
after midseason. Roberts denied
this. He claimed bed rather work
every third day and that his effec-
tiveness wasn’t any more or less.
Roberts won 23 and lost 16. On
July 8, day of the All-Star Game,
he had a 13-6 mark, which means
he won 10 and lost 10 from there
to the end of the season, a poor
performance for the pitcher gener-
ally considered the best in the busi-
ers and Rule B sextets will blast ness. He lost 7 of his last 9 games,
the cap off the Rule High School O’Neill said that be thought Curt
Girls' Invitational basketball tour- Simmons, the fireballing southpaw;
nament here Thursday afternoon at Bob Miller •lean right bander, and
3 o'clock with eight other teams Steve Ridzik, a 9-game winner last
slated to see action on opening year, can use the full three day
day. \ • rest between assignments.
O’Neill said that he thought Curt
The Rule varsity sextet will take. The manager said he hadn't de-
on Hamlin in the feature attrac- cided on any schedule for Murry
tion and nightcap contest Thurs- Dickson, 37.
day at 8 o'clock. In the first night --------------------------------—
: battle. Rochester B takes on
Throckmorton at 7 o’clock.
Other first round games pit Old
Glory against Knox City at 4
o'clock and Munday against Paint
Creek at 5.
: The tourney is scheduled to be
■ continued Friday with the finals
to be played Saturday.
Spring Grid Drills
: Open for Longhorns
AUSTIN. Feb. 3 on Spring foot-
hall practice started today for the
University of Texas.
: Johnnie Tatum, last season’s
starting center, is due to miss all
’ the workouts. He had an operation
last week to remove a torn cart-
: liage on his right knee.
The rest of the team was in top
condition with Billy Quinn, Texas
: right half, fully recovered from an
arm injury that sidelined him half
of last season. Some 87 candidates
reported.
Wade Walker Takes
Mississippi State’s
Line Coaching Job
| LUBBOCK, Feb. 3 in — Wade
Walker, Texas Tech line coach
since 1951. resigned here today to
take the line coach’s position with
Mississippi State College.
Walker was an All-America tac-
kle for Oklahoma University in the
late ‘40s.
walker leaves Tosh to join an
old teammate, Darrell Royal, at
Mississippi State. Royal was named
earlier this week to the top football
coaching spot at Mississippi State
after Murray Warmath announced
he was leaving State to become
head coach at the University of
Minnesota
Texas Tech Coach DeWitt Weav-
er said be hopes to be able to
name a man to take Walker’s
place within a week.
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Thursday Morning, Feb. 4, 1154
Wildcats, Yellow Jackets
Clash in TC Tilt Tonight
The defending Texas Conference
champion Abilene Christian Wild-
cats will attempt to climb out of
the cellar Thursday night at 8
o'clock when they invade the home
court of the Howard Payne Yellow
Jackets at Brownwood, the quin-
tet voted most likely to succeed
them on the throne.
The game, the conference open-
er for Coach Bill Hinton's Yellow
Jackets, was originally scheduled
to be played at Brownwood Fri-
day night but was moved up to
- Thursday night to avoid conflict
with the Brownwood Regional
Golden Gloves tournament.
The Yellow Jackets are the only
tern la the Texes Conference with
s 500 or better season average
and their 8-8 record is good for
just that.
In comparison. Coach A. B.
(Bugs) Morris’ Wildcats have won
only two games in 16 starts—an
upset over the Midwestern Indians
and a victory over Eastern New
Mexico in the consolation brack-
et of the Sunshine Tournament at
Portales, N. M. K
Included among their 14 losses
was a 67-52 conference loss to the
McMurry Indians, the lone TC tilt
the Wildcats have played thus far.
The veteran Yellow Jackets,
playing on their home court, will
. be overwhelming favorites to start
their flag-play with a victory.
Going into the week’s play. How-
ard Payne owned the loop’s sec-
ond highest scorer in Dan Owen,
a 6-3 three-letter winner forward
from Burkburnett
Owen has scored 296 points,
more than anyone else in the con-
ference, but his 18:5 average is
topped by Marvin Leggett of Tex-
as A&I, who has a 21.3 average
for 13 games. Owen has played
16.
Two more three-letter perform-
ers join Owen in the starting Jack-
et lineup, 6-6 center Damon Miller
of Brownwood and 5-9 guard Mel-
vin White of Coleman.
Miller and White have each con-
tributed 223 points to the Jacket
points.
With these three in the starting
lineup will be Harold Woosley
and James Cobb.
The Wildcats, usually out-man-
bed in height, will average an
inch taller than the Yellow Jack-
ets. who will level off at 6 feet
and one-inch aa compared to
ACCs 6 feet 2 inches.
Coach Morris will take a 14-man
squad to Brownwood Thursday
night. It will include the five atart-
ers and Virgil Bennett, Gordon
Cockerham, Don Bowen, Don Scott,
Bobby McMillan, Jimmy DeAr-
mond, Leon Morgan, Mel Wolf and
George Spurgin.
Coach Hinton’s first line"reserves
are Charlie Meadows, Sam Tay-
lor, Kenneth Miller and Marlin
Dodd.
Dodd, a 6-7 junior, was expected
to be lost to the Jackets this year
but was ruled too tall by the arm-
ed forces for induction.
OPENS FEBRUARY 1 STH
Stamford Named Site
Of 20-B Cage Meet
Special to the Reporter-News
HAWLEY, Feb. 3 — The Dis-
trict 20-B playoffs to determine a
regional tournament berth and loop
champion will be played at Stam-
ford on the nights of February 11-
12. coaches representing the teams
decided here today.
Aspermont, aecond place winner
in the North Zone, will battle eith-
er Hawley or Lawn, one of which
will be the South Zone winner, in
the first game of the playoffs at
7 o'clock Thursday. The second
game will get underway imme-
diately following the first game
with Avoca, North Zone winner,
meeting either Hawley or Lawn.
Friday night the two losers will
battle for third place honors while
the two opening round winners will
meet in the nightcap In the first
of a best of three-game series to
determine the champion.
The second game of the cham-
pionship series will be unreeled
Monday night. February 15. Should
a third game become necessary.
It will be played the following
night, Tuesday, February 16.
Coach G. E. Hastings' Avoca
Mustangs have already sewed up
the North Zone title with six con-
secutive victories against no de-
feats. Over the full season the
Mustangs have a 28-1 record, los-
ing only to powerful Coleman of
8-AA. 7
Coach C. E. Womack’s Hawley
Bearcats have already cinched a
tie for the South Zone title with
five wins and no losses. However,
Coach E. E. Durham’s Lawn Long-
horns could tie Hawley by defeat-
ing them Tuesday night, otherwise
the Bearcats are the victor.
♦
Braves, Thomson 1
Agree on Contract 1
MILWAUKEE. Feb. 3 UB-Gut-
fielder Bobby Thomson, obtained
in a trade with the New York
Giants two days a go, agreed to
terms today with Milwaukee. The
best guess was that Thomson
would receive close to $35,000,
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Asks Waivers
On Cooper
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 3 in— Mil-
waukee asked waivers today on
aging catcher Walker Cooper, a 13-
year veteran of major league base-
ball.
General Manager John Quinn
said this was done to give “Cooper
his unconditional’ release." The
waivers expire Feb. 9, at which
time Cooper, the Braves’ field cap-
tain last summer, will become a
free agent unless he has been
claimed by one of the other 15
major league clubs.
Cooper, 39. appeared in 53 games
last summer, either as a pinch hit-
ter or catcher, hitting .219 in 137
ern Oklahoma,
Two of Wayland's victories were
also over ACC while one was at 1
the exepnse of Texas Wesleyan,
a team that downed McMurry, 69-
61
Captain Jerry English, playing
from a guard slot, will enter
the melee with the top scoring |
mark for the Indians, having
dunked 85 field goals and 62 free
losses for 232 points. English's
average of 14.5 is fourth best in
the Texas Conference.
Lanky freshman ace Bob Har-
ris. who ripped the nets for 24
points against Wolters Tuesday
night, is McMurry’s No. 2 scorer
with 198 points via 56 field goals
and 86 charity thorws for a 12.4
average.
Letterman Fred Shelton of Avo-
ca has tallied 184 points on 67
field goals and 50 foul shots to
give Payne a three-way scoring
combination.
Payne also has two other fine
scorers in lettermen Don Taylor
and Jim Jewell to round out his
starting lineup. Taylor is the No. 4
Indian scorer while Jowell is the
cause.
Joining this veteran trio on the
starting quintet will be 5-8 George
Moore, a junior guard from Bur-
leson who is a terrific dribbler,
and 6-0 Bill Boyd, a sophomore
junior college transfer.
James Ed Brown. All - Texas
Conference guard, is the leading
Wildcat scorer with 229 points, fol-
lowed by Jack McCall, stellar
freshman forward from Temple,
with 182 points. Tommy Morris,
spitfire guard, is third with 169
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this week a second-string catcher.
Sam Calderone, in a trade with
the New York Giants.
No. 5 pointmaker.
With these five lads in the line-
up, Payne fields a starting com-
bination that averages 6-3 in
height. , ucegue a AUBL curus vaueres as
Wayland depends heavily on | the St. Louis 'Cardinals won three
scoring giants Cecil Davis, 6-3. and successive pennants in 1942-43-44.
Max Newman, 6-7, to provide the Cooper later played with the
Pioneers with fine rebounding Giants and Cincinnati before join-
power. ing the Braves at Boston in 1950.
Wismer Says Leahy
Will Coach Bears
In 1955 Pro Season
CHICAGO. Feb. 3 V—A report
that Frank Leahy, resigned Notre
Dame football coach, might be
hired as head coach of the falter-
ing Chicago Bears, was described
today as "just a rumor, as far as
I know" by owner-coach George
Halas of the Bears.
Harry Wismer, mutual sports
commentator, asserted last night
Leahy will accept a 1955 offer to
direct the Bears after taking off
from football a year to regain his
health and supervise his business.
"Yes, we'd like to have Leahy
as our coach. But. how could you
expect a man who is “not well
enough to coach Notre Dame to
coach the Bears,” said Halas.
Both Davis and Newman have
Cooper teamed with his brother,
Mort, to form one of the major
league’s most colorful batteries as
ing the Braves at Boston in 1950.
averaged close to 20 points per
tin in Wayland's 16 outings to date.
Davis doubles in baseball, serv-
ing as a pitcher for the Plainview
Ponies of the West Texas - New
Mexico league in the summer.
Last year the lanky hurler racked
up a 15-9 record for the Ponies.
Other probable starters for the
Pioneers are Smith Markham, 5-11,
Aubrey Wilson, 6-1, and Roy
Young, 6-3.
In overall height the Pioneers
are expected to field a starting
combination that averages 6-2%.,
Other than' the starting lineup,
Payne has several veteran re-
Girard Coach
Resigns Post
Spacial to the Reporter-News
GIRARD. Feb. 3. - Van P. Mor-
rison. Jr., head coach and princi-
pal at Girard High School for the
past year, has resigned his posi-
tion. effective June 1, to accept
employment with the Texas and
CAGE SCORES
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Navy 108, Pisburgh 13
Colgate s0. Army 72
Yale 14, Brown 66
St. Francis 51, Siena 47
Sampson sra 84, Colgate 71
Northwest La., 75, Southwest La. ■
Richmond 97. Hampden Sydney 85
Virginia 78, VMI 76
Rochester 17. Williams M
Columbia 64, Rutgers 58
Harvard 56, Amherst 51
Muhlenberg 90. Mexico n .
Tulsa es. Bradley a
West Virginia 111. VPI 68
Ferdham 70, Connecticut 63
Notre Dame M. Butler 58
Leuisville 104, John Carroll 57
Penn State 64, Gettysburg 51
Seaten Hall TS, Albright 61
St. Thomas 63, Del Mar JC M
Wagner 59, St. John’s (Brooklyn) 51
Arkansas State se, Henderson 64
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serves to booster his squad. Among
those slated to see some action
are Bill Easterling, Boyd Slestine,
Carl Anderson, Bill Pearce, Bob
Hayworth and David. McClure.
Pacific Coal and Oil Company of
Breckenridge.
Prior to taking over school du-
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INDIANS ON PARADE — Coach Edgar Payne’s McMurry College Indians form a height
parade in getting together for a squad picture. Tallest man on the team, Freshman Bob
Harris (far left) stands 6-7 while the shortest man, Charles Caraway (extreme right), stands
only 5-6. From left to right are Harris, Carl Anderson, 6-5; Don Taylor, 6-4; Bill Easter-
ling, 6-2; Jim Jowell, 6-2; Boyd Sylestine, 6-1; Hut Hudson, 6-1; Fred Shelton, 6-1; Captain
Jerry English, 6-0; Bill Anderson, 5-10; and Caraway. The average height of the team, one
of the tallest in McMurry’s history, is better than 6-1 for the 11 players making up the var-
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School.
Coach Morrison’s basketball
quintet, with only one senior on
the starting lineup, has captured
consolation honors in the McAdoo
and Dickena tournaments thla year
and is currently to third place in
District 8-B
M. H. Galbreath, superintendent
of schools, said the Girard School
Board will welcome applications
for the coaching job being created
by Morrison's resignation.
Mangrum Tops List
Entered in Open
Tourney at Phoenix
PHOENIX, Feb. 3 in—The Phoe-
nix Open Golf Tournament starts
tomorrow with Lloyd Mangrum
out to snag his third consecutive
championship.
A field of 130 to 140 is expected.
Mangrum has been In a slump
and is hopeful of snapping his toe-
ing streak.
Among top contenders are Jim-
my Demaret, Lew Worsham. Cary
MiddleCoff, Doug Ford, Walter
Burkemo, Ed Oliver. Julius Boros,
Jim Ferrier and Dave Douglas.
Also expected in the field are
Fred Haas and Bo Wininger, win-
ner and co-runner-up, in the last
week’s Palm Spring’s tournament.
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