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WPAY. PIIRUAIV 10, 1W4
Deweyville, Orangefield To Collide in 'Sudden Death' Playoff Game Tonight
Port Arthur Muffs Chance To Cinch T^'pVay Fannefr/o^oow?"’6 Youth teadin9 E,oyd renuca Ste?' Tl?und!r
rAiirtvt
Tie; Freeport .Tips Orange 'tigers ^uscon Ow
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Port 'Arthur* Yellow Jackets
muffed a chance to cinch at least
a share of the District 8-4A bas-
ketball championship last night
by dropping a 41-46 thriller to
the Gapders of Baytown.
Beaumont's defending champi-
on Royal Purples stayed within
striking distance of the le^rfng
Pirates lock horns im a
-_____________________ In the fourth 8-4A game ol.yed, “<u2^h_d“t*^ P^« 8*^ here today at 7:30 p.m.
Jackets by taking a sizling 50-49 Pasadena punched out a 64-39 de-
decision from Galena Park. -* j cision over Galveston.
- The Orange Tigers dropped With these games
deeper into the geilar spot, losing
to Freeport's Exporters in Lutcher
Stark High School gymnasium) by
75-68 last night.
The pair, oi; high-geared quintets finished the regular
season playoff tied for first
the 8-4A place ewith identical 1-5 rec-
<>"*• losing only to each
Dragons To Play Baytown Tonight
Seeking Win To Cinch Cage Title
The Emma H. Wallace Dragons. The defending champion Drag-
who weren’t figured to get past ons will journey to Baytown for
first base in
Baseball
Tidbits
By BEN OLA.V
..... _— ... the District 8-AA | this vital outing, playing the Pan-, j *ow'n ..t0.,w,m' The Jackets won t j
basketball battle, find themselves i thers in a contest that will cinch! l’*! *Sy .,to *.hov* ®,,u" '
in a mighty good spot today: them a berth in the colorful statjg;mOnt out of the title picture, how- ■
Shooting for the victory that will tournament,
give them full claim to'The con- This will not be the Dragons
ference crown. ! last chance to sew up the crown,
j however. They will entertain
1-a Marque next Saturday (Feb.
18) in another contest that rould
lead them to the state tourney.
Coach W. R. Smith’s Dragons,
though, are favored to make a
dean sweep in these last two out-
witb both Baytown and Beau-
moot back in the running j *
Port Arthur notv must Vin at! Deweyville, the pre-season
j least one more of its two remain- I choice to win the crown, gained
j ing games just to gain a share of ] undisputed possession of first place vriD„ v
| the crown and take, both to cinch f in the torrid, campaign last we#k | m I\“w *U*)K (AP> “ There »| Harris
| the crown. Jut there's one thing j when eking out a nippy W-48 j. nether good/reason beside the won a
| resting in favor of Port Arthur: decision over the Bobcats. opyrnus one why Mickey McDer- j played
I Neither Beaumont or Baytown :
| can afford another loss*
And with four games scheduled
i tomorrow night, all Port At - \
thur has to do is eliminate Bay
The A*—elated fmi Floyd, defending national
an’s Darrell Floyd.-- who ing champ and one-two with Ohio
takes a. back seat in scor- State’s Robin Freeman this sea-
just another guy with a son, packed away 32 points, but
TUCSON. A,i,
was in command today as the Joe Holup and NYU's little Tom to a 100-88 upset.
... . j ----
Two Share Lead isS;
ajR.*4
That defeat. Incidentally, was
the first in eenferenee play for
the Itotxsl* In four seasons.
Orangefield ha* won the dis-
trict crown for three straight
years.
$10,000 Tucson Open Golf Tour-
nament" went into the second 1 / •. f Ai a g
round Vital SWC
Duel Booked
major tourney but thev • ;
men ,>..Ti;:,£S™L,SS £«««»*
he was told the New York Van- with 32-31—83* for the 6,434- ketda1’ *5a™s take-'giMtai .hard'- V Richmond, which last Saturday
*?e* hS,d aCqUlred him from yardl oar-70 El Rio course. upset former Southern Conference
Washington. ■ Don January bf Abilene. Tex., Th* * - -leader West Virginia, was in the
lean left-handed pitcher carded 13*42-84, one stroke be- v!v £ will be ns>tfig gan1e until shortly before the half.
"A ...Holup. a good steady man for
{the Colonials, broke; out for 47
points, a team record, as GW
shellacked Richmond 103-84 and
took over first place in the South-
ern Conference. ~r_
Floyd, under guajd first by Bill •
got
The
Vidor Books
Vital Game
VIDOR (Spl) — Vidor’s Pirates
shoot tor the win today that will
ever.
The Purples face Orange and
| Freeport in their remaining two
{games and are heavy favorites to
win both, while the Jackets must
! play Pasadena and Galveston, a
| pair of toughies that could easily
upset their apple cart.
lasted only over
When the second
round robin playoff was unreeled
in Orangefield gym last Tuesday
night, the Bobcats glided to an
easv 72-41 victory.
That netted the Bobcats a ti-
for the crown and another shot
at the crown, which will be de- leaguers from the'"United states
t , , ..... r v uru uiv t/iic snuitc ur- tu«jr v. a . • 4. - ** UM‘*‘ u* uriurc hw nfu,
If_s7cess *g«msrthe hind the leaders. This is only fee i Then the Colonials poppedtn eight
of the
---- . me icaucia. uus is uniy me > t i nni me unmuais poppro m el
But Deweyville’s ride to the too Bombers, _ winning on 1 y four second pro event in which he has [ **. ' y ,, y P1**’ tde Rlc* 0w,s fast baskets for a 48-43 edge
-• ip the stellar loop game ‘ — - • - - *
the weekend. | games and dropping 16, Last
game in the season he did not beat them
played.
The three
unheralded
*
former
week at Houston.
Elsewhere, Duke, the nanotes
can League. Mickey's
mark is 61-43
lifetime over par pn a single hole TNev
! placed the best tournament golf
— of their careers as pros
Latin-American The winter circuit seldom^ See's
keen them within striking distance
of the undefeated Nederland Bull-
tournament of the season. It was
in Lake Charles and before they
with a perfect record
The Dragons have lost- only one
. . , game in 17 outings this season
dogs in the District 28-AA basket- Thr , defcat camc in their first
ball race.
The Hues, with a 5-1 conference
record, will match talents with
port Acres in Port Acres today, A
pair of games are carded, starting
with a B squad game at 6:30 p.m.
The varsity duel will follow at 8.
Vidor's only chance of tying
Nederland for the crown hinges on
the outcome of tonight's game The
rrown automatically goe:
Beaumont will entertain Orange;
„ .• . ,, ... Pasadena goes to Port Arthur.
' ' off Jbe carripajgn Galveston goes to Freeport and
In the games tomorrow^ night, (cided tonight. . will see action in the Caribbean
Tonight's winner will play Fan- championship series opening in
The cream of
baseball, including-^many major such an assault on par aMMtoing
on here. Yesterdav 52 pros and
Baytown entertains Galena Park.
The season will come to a close
next Tuesday night. Orange will
journey to Baytown on that night,
while Port Arthur faces Galves-
ton, Beaumont meets Freeport
TheVhwere beatenIn^the ?iiialsf*' and’. Galena Park and Pa-»dfl‘a
As ( oseh Smith put it: -"We j The Orahge Tigars settled deepr
er into the cellar last night in
to Ned-
crland if Port Acres topples Vidor,
hut regardless, Nederland has a
tie cinched.
The forthcoming game between
Vidor and Nederland, which is ex-
pected to settle the issue, will be
unreeled in Pirate gymnasium
next Tuesday night
Nederland, incidentally, drew a
bye from conference play today,
it's 7-0 record out of danger until
next Tuesday.
Silsbec and Lilwrly will get to-
gether in the other 28-AA game
hocked tonight in Liberty
DISTRICT STANDINGS
issued uniforms, boarded the
bus and took oil for our first
tournament. We got beat, and
I wasn't surprised, but, I am
surpriaed that my hti+* return
nett's Falcons for clear rights to
the 71 -B title. The Falcons won
the south zone title with a perfect
6-0 record. The best two-of-three
playoffs will start next week.
It was reported that if Orange-
field wins the vital game tonight,
the playoff will begin in Orange-
field next Monday night, but if
Deweyville wins the north zone
crown, the opening playoff game
with Fannett will be unreeled next
uin 16 straight hall
ed io
Sanirs.’’
will not be a pushover.
"The first time we beat Buvtown
this season." Smith added,'"they ; sp”^aUhes'wilT foUotv
(Baytown) hadn t had a chance to
| losing to seventh place Frrte- j TuesdayTn'beweyCllTe'." ......■ Spencer, incidentals’, is being
port. The Bongals must now win : second game in the serieM4Suted aS 8 top seco“d baseman
both of their remaining games to nt „.,n piuv,.H m yan. by Herman Franks, former Giants
nett^
tie the Exporters for that spbt
and that's hardly expected.
Two games will be played on
all fronts tomorrow, starting with
B squad games at 6:30 p.m. Vaf-
at 8
.... ...... ............Tu. r * i eighth - ranked team, obtained a
Against the rest of the Ameri- national collegiate stars didn’t go ference^record w., 1 * of”' ri,tle more breathing room atop
n r.paffnp Miri.,..-. ..... - -.. — — . i—\^ ^ ^ corn out a loss to Rice, the Atlantic Coast Conferpni-H
now with a 5-2 mark, would tie standmgs wth a 74-59 dSn
the two squads up for the second over Virginia. Brigham Young,
’ tLoLu. - . , with Terry Tebbs canning 24.
he W > two conference losses gained similar padding in the Skv-
have been to the Hogs and the line by drubbing Utah State 92-82.
Southern Methodist, Mustangs The Houston defeated Bradlev 82-70
Hogs sole loss was to the Mqs- and m0Vcd within half a game of
tangs leading the loop with a 7-° the Missouri Valley Conference
record. The Mustangs are idle this ieaders. St Louis, whom the Coti-
e.u ' .u , gars meet tomorrow night.
Of the other four teams seeing Columbia was knocked off its
action Saturday night the Texas linbeaten Jw League high horse,
Aggies will be the only one who but not out 0* the lead, in a 71-70
won t be fighting to get out of the defeat bv Dartmouth,
conference cellar The Cadets hat e And Manhattan made a kit <Wp
managed to break even so far with toward the NIT with an 83-81 vic-
* , ... , tory oveF' St. JoHB's of Brooklyn
Journeys to Waco for a tilt on a drjving layup by Jack Powers
wih the Baylor Bears while Texas with just 7 seconds left in the
is host to Texas Christian at Aus-
V, , _ , i Duke rode past Virginia with
Bailor. Texas and 111 are. now., ca;w „ Don me Mater .scared"
Puerto Rico tomorrow night.
Among the major leaguers ai«
Pedro Ramos of Washington.
Sandy Consucgra of the Chicago
White -Sox, Ed Bailey of Cincin-
nati. Hector Lopez gLKansas City,
1 Humberto RobipsOn of Milwau-
kee. Ron Mrorinski of Philadel-
i phra and Daryl Spencer of the
New York, Giants
three amateurs battered par An-
other" 11 of the field of 139
equaled it. Excellent greens are
expected to keep today's, scores
almost as low.
Ted Krol! of. Fort Lauderdale,
Fla. and Dave Douglas of Newark.
Del., start out today two strokes
off the pace w itn 65s along with
voung Gerry Keeslenng of Toron-
to, Ont.. and Bob Duden, Port-
land, Ore.
Tommy Bolt. Chattanooga.
Tenn., last year's winner is one of
half a dozen with 4-under-par
66s.
practice but for only one’ week
Baytown players had been engaged
in the state football playoffs and
just hadn't turned their attention
to basketball.
“Bm now they are ready for us
. . . and I’m expecting a rugged
fight . . especially since* th»
game wi.il be played in Baytown.
Standings
Teams—
W
L
Pet.
, Pot t Arthur
lu
2
.833
Beaumont
.... 9
3
.750
Baytown
. X
4
.667
Pasadena
7
a
>83
.417
Galena Pflik
'7"' 5
Galveston-
.. 5
7^
.417
Freeport ,
. A
- 9
.25(1
Orange ^
/l
11
083
Orangefield'* girls. Who won
the north sone erown without
laking a spill, will play Ham-
shire. south zone chumps, in the
series for the 71-B erown. The
first game in the series will be
played next Tuesday in Ham-
shire.
/Orangefield'* girls made a clean
coach and a manager in the Puer-
i to Rican circuit this winter.
Tn New York yesterday, Franks
said, "Spencer can do a good job
■ at second. The kid played there
| for Caguas and not only did he
j hit. but he fielded like crazy.
"Bill Rignev may change his
mind about using Foster Castle-
rnan or Wayne ferwilliger there
when he sees the way Spencer
Logart Fights
Fuentes Tonight
,S2MK.TO,n Z
same lusterliss 1 - 6 conference 27 haiftime edge.
record. \ " _i
Teams—
Nederland
Vidor
I. i berty
Port Acres
Stlsbye
I.
0
1
4
4
Pit
1 (H»0
,8,73
333
373
110(1
^sweep through the circuit, win
ning six straight games to claim handles the position
the north zone crown. --
The Orangefield girls, however. Could be the Chicago Cubs are
.suffered a heavy loss last Tuts- banking on a brother double ptav Cuban wav be a future tlfile op-
day nieht when Barbara Ousley combination in the next few vea'rs. ponent.
itjtireci hm- knee in a game against Bcn ganks a second baseman.
signed a Cub contract yesterday
NEW YORK CAP)—It might be
smart for Carmen Basilio to
watch Isaac Logan tonight in bis
10-round match at Madison
Square Garden with Ramon
Fuentes because the slashing little
Schoolboys Are
Near Playoffs
B» ASSOCIATED PRESS
A total of 176 district cl an>
pions will be determined within
the next nine days a« the Texas
schoolboy basketball campaign
lolls through its fiis! stage for :ho
-'ate playoffs
\ half-dozen di- trie* titles '-
m aciy have been decided anu o!n-
er« arc coming W ith each vla• Ti c
'•adline is Feb 18
There .atre 1.098 schools r
kcH'ah this season m five d'-
vyubns. (Masses AAA.V AAA AA
Ynd A will each send four teams
•o the state tournament at Austin
March 1 2. 3, Class ft wall send
eight.
Classes A AAA and AAA decide
•'•rir state tournament teams with
in-district games since there are
eight districts in each class. Class-
es A A and A will have an elimi-
nation round to iiend eight teams
to regional tournaments.
Regional championships must be
'determined bv Fob. 25
Prospects arc that the Class
A A A A. defending state champions
won't be back. This is Crozier
off sc lied tile with the west zone
champs for the district crown.
The Carrbovs won their eighth
Women's Tourney
Hits Semifinals
. PALM BEACH. Fla. . \i
An Fi’gh-h tv ichcr o'a'v a o.uiacr
softball pitcher and the i.mnei-
up in la?t year's Nat ona! Wom-
• i» p.ii1 s Amateur golf tiiamomushm
n ect- the Iowa womenN cham-
pion in scmifmils of the wTcuev.'s
championship of Palm Beach to-
day .
Be. Ciainniou, seventh grade
teacher in Mound. Minn . played
par golf yesterday to defeat Mary
Ann Downey of Baltimore. .7 and
2. after eliminating Sheila Moss
of San Bernardino, Calif., 4 and
3, in a morning round.
Wannic Sanchez of Baton j
Rouge, la . - a former softball
pitcher who took tip golf serious-
ly tw o years ago, defeated .Ruth
.Tessen of Seattle. Wash.. 3 and 2,
after a morning-round victory
Tech of Dallas, which now is-an-T<>ver Marjorie Lindsay of Decatur,
gager! in a plavoff with North HI., 3 and 2,
Titles in Junior High League
Carr Junior High School's re/dmight games in bo’h dni-.n-
defeajed Tornadoes ;<nd Gnjrtcn, aeam.-t Bridge City The Tens
Huericanrs last nigh; CtipTurcd blasted the Bricige Citv eighth,
both championships in tjj/ea-'ern I grau- rs bv ,7'.-13 m the first game,
zone of the SwtijMst , Texas * then the Hurricane, drove t0 a 66-
.1 uni or High School Athletic 44 triumph against the ninth grade
League basketbqJTcamoatgn They/ unit in the finale
arc now awaiting word on a play
Dallas, Dallas Sunset and Dallas
Woodrow Wilson Sunset and
North Dallas won first round
games. North Dallas is favored.
Victoria is defending state
champion of Class AAA, Seminole
Class AA Runa Class A and Avo-
ya Class B.
Miss Gammon, who calls St.
Paul, Minn., home, plays Miss
Sanchez in one semifinal match
while Mrs. Los Johnstone of Ma-
son City. Iowa, plays Jane Nelson
of Indianapolis, runner-up in last Raymond Flitch’with"7.
year's National Women’s Ama-
teur.
The Carr teams cinched the, two
titles last Monday night. At 'that,
time, all other contenders had lost
two or more games
West Orange finished in second
oiace in both divisions, with
Bridge City third
('i: Coach Ri'i Huffman said
'he should learn today how
the west /line finished. He expects
the ttlay.ff for the conference
crown to be scheduled next week.
Hoffman added, however, ’hat
both division's n the west ron*
bad teams tied »*»i lust place, and
if each bracket finches that way.
a playoff will be held before the
west zone champs are declared.
Tn the games last night. Bridge
City's eighth graders gave the Tor-
nadoes a terrific fight for two
quarters, but in the second half
Bridge City was held to only three
counters and Carr stormed ahead.
The Tors held a close 11-10 Toad
at the half, then returned to win
by 31-13,
Carr's Hurricanes commanded
the situation from start to finish,
winning by a 22-point margin.
Speedster Wayne McClelland
paced the Hurricane attack, loop-
ing tjie bucket for 18 counters.
Jerry Goodyear was second with
16 and Brooks Hill was third with
12
Jimmy Bray was high fur the
Tornadoes with 13 counters, fol-1
lowed by Tate Harwell with 9 and i
Deweyville and will be benched
for the season. She had.set the
pace for nearly every Orangefield
win, averaging"over 30 points a
game
In oaring Orangefield to the
Hams hire tournament basketball
title last week for instance, she
scored a totalftof 160 points in four
games
Orange!ie!d> Bobcats and the
Pirates ab‘o have almost- identic!
conference records in offensive
and defensive clay In the six
district games, the Buts scored a
total of 349 points for an average
of 58.2 points per game, while
Orangef/cL-was close behind,
scoring 335 points for a 55 8 av-
c:fife :
Cfi’aneoffe'd. on the other Timid,
has a slightly better record uti cie-
fonsc.. giving no a total of 264
pcirHs for 44 point average, while
DeweV\iHe gavo-cm 2ifi points, aft
average of 46 each game.
MauricevTle's Panthers finish-
ed third in the district war. win-
ning two of six games, while
China's 1 tons finished last, losing
six straight.
and was assigned to the Lafayette,
La., team in the Evangeline
League.
Rrother Ernie, of course. Is the
solid man in the Cubs' infield at
shortstop.
The Boston Red Sox already are
touting three p’ayers as top can-
didates for American League
rookie-of-the-ycar honors in 1956.
The trio is Frank Malzone, a third
baseman: Marty Keoueh. an out-
fielder. and Don Buddin, a short-
s', on-second baseman.
Buctttin. an ail-state high school
football player in South Caro-
lina. is getting a tryout at second
has-
"I know on*' thing about him."
sa.ci Boston Manage: Pit-ky Hig-
gins 'he won'! mind it much
w hen they take him out w h 'e he's
pivoting on a double play "
Logart's manager Eddie Mafuz
already is making plans for Isaac 13113
One Veteran Among Vjn Buren Kj|
Fort Worth Players Nlm(d E ,, Pj|0„
mDT xti’onnr u rAt>\ ____
PHILADELPHIA (AP)—Stevt
Navy Wins
City Match
Mack Rites
Set Today
PHILADELPHIA (AP. -Men
who rule baseball and men who
have given it lustre on the field
gather sorrowfullv in Philadel-
phia today for the funeral of Con-
nie Mack.
Mourning with them are n il-
lions. of all ages, whose deep af-
fection for "Mr. Baseball-’ is ex-
pressed ip a multitude of touch-
ing ways.
To all. Connie Mack's death
Wednesday at 93 was a shock, for '
they had grown to think of him
as kn indestructible national in- '
stitutlon.
“Connie was a good guy," said j
one man whose sentiments were
overheard in a railroad terminal.
"I’m pretty cynical, and there
aren't, many of these big wheels j
I trust. But Connie was okay 1
Duke Sprinter Runs
50 Yard Dash in 5.2
DURHAM. NT (AP)—Dave
Sime,^ Duke University's star
sprinter vvas-clocked in 5 2 sec-
onds here last night for an indoor
30-vard dash exitibtiiop.
The unofficial time equalled the
woi Id's record for the distance.
to box the winner of the March
14 match between welterweight
champion Rasilio and ex-champ
Johnny Saxton.
NobOciv knew much about Lo-
gart a rear ago. except that he
had worked with Kid Gavilan as
a sparring partner.
Gavilan used to watch the
clock,- opening with a flurn- and
then catching the officials' vote
with another spurt ig the last 30
seconds. Not Logart. He usually
sets a killing pace and keeps it up
all night, slamming to the body
with his left hook.
_ Fuentes. rated No 3 to Logart s
No 5 in the latest Ring rankings,
is a 2-1 underdog against his
voungef opponent. Fuentes has a
35-6-1 record.
Isaac, o:i]v 22. started fighting
at an enrlv age and has compiled
a 40-1-5 record for 50 starts. He
u seven years younger than Fu-
entes
NBC will broadcast and telecast
at 9 p.m. (Orange time'.
Browm suffered a head injury,
The bog was not allowed to play
football last fall because he had
suffered an injury to his head in
junior high school the year before.
Loj Creekmur, Detroit Lions
tackle, hasn't missed a game —
league, championship or exibifion
— since lie joined the team in
1950
Shreveport Has 20
Players in Contract
SHREVEPORT. La (AP)-Tfre
Shreveport Sports of the Texas
l.eague have 20 players on tils
dotted line for the 1956 season.
Latest % sign are Ray Knob-
luach, a pitcher who is expected
to be the ace of the Sport staff
this Season, and Jack Fitller. who
had a 2J-12 record with Alexan-
dria last season
talked to him once, out at tha
as 2? «Ewt *toS?z5r- •”*:
Tonight the body of Connie
FORT WORTH (AP) — Onlv
ss.1,—dt-Jz' ss-iffss. ^ ^ **
the Texas League, < National Football Lrss-nn team tn I sta*cd in ,he Navy gymnasium, i Funeral Home in Center Citv and
There arc a couple of ,300 hit- ' *°°tba11 team to- j No wj)| bp ,av(,d tQ_ ,arge crowds are expected for th#
ters in the group—infielders Pat- *■' night 'viewing
rick Tmos (.349 at Bakersfield) "*‘adc-:oa'-'|i Hugh Devore thus Piav will resume tomorrow' Tomorrow at 11 a.m, Solemn
and Emil Synge! (.322 at Newport , If®. J/(!|fupl1l of >hls, nifht.' however, with two games j Requiem Mass will be celebrated , wouia sav [10ln,,
N rm.' • „ ,,, , „ : wi; W ' TTb°r I b(K,k<‘d in Carr Junior High School i m St. Bridget Church, with burial j a
.. B° h(T ,he f(°'d: arf catcher Sincc hc was named head j gymnasium. The Roy Have*! i.t Holy Sepulchre Cemetery here. . ®tatementthevha'dbie "brmght I
Kenl Worley, outfielders James coach .m January, Devore has ae- ! Homebuilders of Port Arthur'wilt1 j statement tnex naa Deen orougnt |
Norris Glen Plaster and Don ; looted in addition to Van Buren | coZl wtth the SSirt B othe -
t atchot, mfielder Allen Norris i and Kilroy. Steve Owen, former hood of Orangefield in the 6 45
and Pitchers James Sprankle. Jo/bead coach of the New, York! p.m. opener, and Levingston wHI D„,„ke,ll rAmoknrlr
Giants and Ed Doherty, former, meet the Tcxta Lumberjacks ofiDOSCDall V^OITIGDOCK
He Fired Four Coaches V/ithin 10 Years
Washington U. Athletic Director Resigns Post
SEATTLE (AP)—The man who Referring to his dismissal of, as far as his problem w as con-
fired four University of Washing- Cherberg. which was followed by : cerned , . . 1 find myself m as
ton coaches in 10 years gave him- j much public discussion of univer- j unteneb'e a position as 1 found
self the ax last night in a bid for t sity athletic policies and an inves- J Cherberg to be in "
harmony at the troubled institu- I tigation by a legislative subcom- L Cherberg was fired alter a play-
tion. _ mittee. Cassill said: j er revolt in November followed by
Stepping out as athletic director "Recently, I had a difficult de-j the regents ordering his rehiring
was Harvey Cassdl, center of an cision before me with respect to for the next year in a December
ever-growing storm of protest John Cherberg. Whether it was j meeting When he was let out it
since he gave the boot Jan. 27 to John’sifault or not, the facts clear- was explained Cassdl felt Ghei-
Cowboy Johnny Cherberg. the lv and conclusively indicated that; berg had failed to restore harmony
football coach the situation was beyond recovery ; as he had promised the regents.
Cassill’s departure, accompanied
Noren. Martin. McDougald, Whites
Ford, Tommy Byrne. Turley and
the others. After all, why tear
down a ball club Jhat won a pen-
■ hart and went the full seven
games in the World Series?
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by lengthy expressions of regret
from top university officials, fol- |
lowed by less than a day a closed i
session of the university’s Board j
of Regents.
The regents would say nothing
Texas Is Seeking
Bayno, Joe Mathis, Edward
clue and Lawrence Sherry.
Rit-
, head coach at Arizona State. I Mauriccvillc in the 8 p.m. finale.j
AUSTIN <AP) — The Texas
up to date." Conferring xyith them
were Dr. Henry Schmitz, president
of the university; H. f*. Everest,
vice president; and Nelson Wahl-
strom. comptroller. ' "
> Cassill in turn conferred with
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want mar* than, say, a fifth tnough ar half anawgh !• rebuild
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Many tarqat that fl wauld cast much mara t* raptor*
thalr ham* and furnishings if ihay had a fir*. Many paapla far9.«
lhay may b« suad far perhaps son* of thousands of dollars if
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Longhorns baseball team, beaten | Everest yesterday, leaving the late
! out of the Southwest Conference i afternoon meeting after profer-
! title last year for the first time in j ring his resignation.
12 seasons, staffs practice Wednes- “fn no other way that I can
day anxious to make amends. j sec,” CassilJ wrote, "can our pro-
Coach Bibb Falk will get his ; gram be straightened out, policy
first look at 35 candidates but on j re-established and the university ,
paper the Longhorns stack uo al- j go ahead.” p
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Youth Fatally Injured ^ Three Chisox
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CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) _ Marion ot ■ the Cbict^
James Brown, 16. was fatally in- white Sox won’t have to come out
lured yesterday when he made a 0f retirement to play shortstop
tackle during spring football after all '
practice at Rav High School. All three of the Sox ahort-
He walked to fhe sidelines, tno- . stop . candidates yesterday re-
tmned to another player to take ' turned'their signed 1956 contract!
his place and collapsed. He died in the same mall delivery at Com-
about 30 minutes later In a hos- f iskey Park.
! Thev are Luis Aparicio, 81, th|,
Asst. Coach Charles Haynes said phenomenon from Venezuela: Jim
Brideweser, 28c former New York
Yankee and B*lt*more Oriole and
Carl Peterson, 30. originally a
Boston Red Sox farmhand with
long experience in the minor*.
Stengel Expects Yanks To Finish
On Top, No Lower Than Second
By CASEY STENGEL ■ plus the speed of their players on
Manager. New York Yankees bases.
GLENDALE. Calif. i/P) — The _ Washington. Kansas City and
Yankees should either win the ®a!tlrylorv ,*?°d m*Bagers
American League pennant again in ! and club officials are enfimsi-
1956 dr finish no worse than sec- asllc alert and no doubt wtll
0[K] I strengthen their clubs befhre the
I beliex e five teams have an ex-, opening of the season by trades or
Calient chance to win the pennant.! PU,cnases.
Thev are Borion, Cleveland. De-1 How we far# in 1956 depend*
trcit snd Chicago besides our own !ipo" our young pitehem lika Bob
team. All h?ve been strengthened Xur e;v* *'°"n Kucks, Bob Grim,
either bv trades or by the develop- UoTn ^arsen and Rip Coleman,
ment of the youth program./ * think our club, as a whola, Is
Boston was the most improved ; ^longer than last year because of
club in the league in 1955 and this ' P‘*topn system We have two
year has a good schedule in Sep-! p'ayers ^°,r every infield, outfield
tember. Cleveland is stronger at! and c*!en,nS position. We ihppld
shortstop with Chico Carrasqucl i davP s0,T,e interesting competition
and has good pitchers as starters shortstop during spring train-
and relievers. Detroit was thfe ln8- will have eight candidates
most improved club next to Boston *hat position including Billy
and needs only to improve at sec- Hunter. Gil McDougald, Billy
ond base and in the outfield to be- Martm. Jerry Coleman, Phil Riz-
come a strong factor. Chicago znto, Tony Kttbek, Jerry Lumpe
gained power in Larry Doby in the and Woody Held,
outfield and don't forget fellows Right now I don t, foresee any
like Nellie Fox and Billv Pierce aa;tp problems. Not when you
........ ...... - have available such outstanding
... .*............1 .......YagL Berra, Mickey
Mantle. Ha ns Bauer. Joe Collins.
Elston Howard. Bill Skovvron, Ire
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A big "if” jn the Texas plans is
the need for a second front-line
pitcher to go with sophomore star
Harry Taylor. Also, there are only ,
six of 16 lettermen returning. |
^ ^Sophomores^and transfers j
r^’"BtttMtw,
strong-armed righthander.
ABKR SIGNS CONTRAC T
DETROIT (API—Southpaw Al
Aber today signad his 1956 con-
tract wdth the Detroit Tigers. He
is the 23hd Tiger to come to terms,
leaving 19 out of the fold.
Whan, Yau Think Ot
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Browning, J. Cullen. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, February 10, 1956, newspaper, February 10, 1956; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth560463/m1/5/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.