The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, March 13, 1953 Page: 4 of 4
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THE REDBIRD
Friday, March 13, 1953
Final Statistics in LSC
Baseball Team
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Dominated by Etex Lions
The East Texas Lions, 1953
champions of the Lone Star Con-
ference, completely dominated the
final statistics on conference and
season play.
Records show that the Lions
were outstanding in both defen-
sive work and the ability to score
consistently. They allowed 24 op-
ponents only 54.9 points per
game.
East Texas hit an impressive
.375 per cent of its field efforts
and an even better .669 percent
of its gratis efforts.
In NAIA This Week
The Lions are now represent-
ing the conference in the NAIA
tournament this week. They ad-
vanced to this tournament with
an easy playoff decision over
Cherokees Win
Title in W R A
WRA Basketball Intramurals
were completed last week with
Helen McCutcheon’s team the
Cherokees emerging as the un-
disputed winners. The Navajos
chiefed by Glenda Wheeler came
in second place with Betty Ma-
dole’s Navajos in third place and
the Tejas tribe under the super-
vision of Pat DeCoux took the
celler position.
To wind up the tournament the
club has decided to have a Pow-
Wow this afternoon. The event
will begin at 5 o’clock at Tyrrell
Park and the tribes will each be
required to perform a stunt as
their part of the program. The
Cherokees will act as honored
guests since they are the win-
ners of the tournament. Each
club will have a specific dress dis-
tinguishing their tribe from the
others. A menu has been planned
which will include steaks cooked
over the open fire.
The club’s sponsors will attend
this celebration as guests of the
various tribes. Sponsors are Mrs.
Bess Gentry and Miss Dianne
Martin.
Faculty Members
Being Invited to
Participate by PEP
The PEP club of Lamar have
come through with an idea for
entertainment for this Monday
night. The event will be a teach-
er-pupil badminton tournament.
The members of the club have
been requested to choose a part-
ner, the boys must choose women
faculty members and the girls
must choose a male faculty mem-
ber to play as a team.
Some of the teams on hand
now are, Lewis Hilley and Glen-
da Wheeler; Helen McCutcheon
and J. B. Higgins; Peggy Cox and
Jack Martin; Jo Anne Sarver and
George Parks; Smitty Hill and
Dianne Martin; Bob Frederick
and Bess Gentry.
Any member of the PEP club
can enter by getting a partner
and signing their names to the
list at either side of the gym.
All entries will be accepted until
playing time Monday, March 16.
Cardinal Cindermen
Report for Training
Approximately 20 boys report-
ed last Monday when Coach Jack
Martin started training for the
Tech Cindermen.
Coach Martin t hopes to field a
better team than the one which
finished in the celler last year.
The first meet which Tech will
enter will be in April. This al-
lows plenty of time for the boys
to get in first-class condition by
the time the meet rolls around.
Work-outs are being held daily
at 2 p.m. at the South Park track.
Coach Martin said that the squad
was still open and that all boys
who are interested can still come
out.
empty hands
Lamar Tech entries in the
‘IAB meet in Austin last week
ailed to bring back any trophies,
ietty Madole, Jo Anne Sarver,
lillie Barrow and Peggy Cox
*ere the entries from Tech.
Texas Wesleyan last week.
Southwest Texas, last year’s
champs, furnished the conference
with a new team scoring record
and a new individual scoring rec-
ord.
The Bobcats tallied 1868 points,
an average of 77.8, five points
better than the record set bv last
year’s team. Lewis Gilcrpase
poured through 592 points, an
average of 24.7, more than 200
points better than the old record.
The champion Lions and the
dethroned Bobcats both finished
the season with identical 21-3
records, blit East Texas suffered
only one setback in their title
march which Southwest Texas
received two loses.
Billings Best
Herb Billings of Southwest
Texas had the best field goal
percentage. He connected with
106 of 185 attempts for an amaz-
ing .573 percentage. Gerald Cecil
of Stephen F. Austin hit 87 of
109 free throws attempted for
a .798 percentage and top honors
in that department.
The Lamar Tech Cardinals pro-
duced two titles during the sea-
son just completed. Claude Gil-
son hauled in an average of 11.9
rebounds per game for tops In
the conference. The Cardinal cag-
Begins Practice
For Conference
The Cardinal Baseball team be-
gan full scale work-outs last Mon-
day for the coming season. Coach
Higgins, after a delayed start due
to Spring training, has begun to
round his boys into condition for
participation irf the first confer-
ence baseball league.
The pitchers and catchers have
been Umbering up their arms
during the last several weeks and
are quickly coming around. Wes-
ley Curtis has charge of the
pitchers and has been giving
them valuable help in the absence
of "Coach Higgins.
This week’s practice started
with running and throwing being
stressed. Early members have
been playing pepper. Team work-
ers were also charged with the
fewest personal fouls, an average
of 16.4 in 23 games.
Other top individual point mak-
ers in addition to Gilcrease were
Tom Sewell of Sam Houston who
averaged 20.7; Glenn Lewellan of
Sul Ross, 18.7; Cecil, 16.8; Clar-
ence Lynch of East Texas, 15.5;
Jimmy O’Banion of Southwest
Texas, 15.4; Lloyd Giles of Step-
hen F. Austin, 14.1 and Ray Wal-
ton and Lloyd Kilpatrick of
Lamar Tech, 13.1 and 12.5 respec-
tively.
Bond Receives Mention
Lamar Tech placed its first
man on the all-conference basket-
ball team when the conference
coaches picked Ray Walton. Wel-
don Bond, who received honor-
able mention, was the only other
Cardinal who received any recog-
nition.
Champion East Texas State
placed two men on the all-Star
quint with Sam Houston State,
outs will be stressed during the
latter days of the week.
A scheduled game tomorrow
will more than likely be canceled
by Coach Higgins due to the de-
layed start in practice. The game
will be made up on a later date
if possible.
Richmond Helps
Earl Richmond, professional
first baseman, wiU also assist
Coach Higgins during the spring
baseball season.
Leftermen Arnold Sherer and
Claude Gilson will form the nu-
cleous of the mound staff. Max
Redman, reserve letterman from
last year, and Billy Stone of South
Park will help on the mound.
Gene Shaw, J. B. Wilson, Wes
Parma and Jesse Sanchez are all
trying to obtain the catching
assignment. All have had prev-
ious experience with the excep-
tion of Parma, who is a letterman
outfielder from last year.
Southwest Texas State and Tech
one man each on the mythical
five.
Two spphomores from the
Champion Lions, Jim Miller and
Clarence Lynch, made the grade.
Miller is a six-foot six inch center
from Hitchita, Okla., and Lynch
is a .guard who hails from Stid-
ham, Okla.
Lewis Gilcrease, six-foot, two-
inch senior from Woodsboro play-
ed for Southwest Texas. For
Sam Houston it was Tom Sewell,
six-foot, two-inch junior from
Houston, only repeater on the all-
conference team.
Named to.- the second team
were Gerald Cecil (3-2), Lloyd
Giles (1-4) and Paul Alford (0-4),
Stephen F. Austin; Jimmy O’Ban-
ion (2-2) of Southwest Texas and
Shelby Metcalf (0-4) of East
Texas. Figures in parenthesis
are first-second team votes.
Besides Tech’s Bond the other
honorable mentions were Bill Col-
lier (0-3) of Sam Houston, Ray-
mond Hall (1-1)- of East Texas,
Bobby Flanagan (0-2) and Jackie
Bond (0-1) of Stephen F. Austin.
Conference coaches submitted
names of their players which
they considered worthy of all-
conference recognition. Balloting
was conducted by secretary Bost
with no coach voting for his own
players.
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