Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 11, 1947 Page: 4 of 8
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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
Thursday, December 11, 1947
One Shark Is Down
News to a lot of sports about
town is of the operation on the
arm of Ellis Jensen Jr.
Ellis hurt his arm in a post-s ar-
son football irame last year anil
'ins had plenty of trouble with it.
One operation followed another.
Lust Friday Ellis was taken to the
John Sealy hospital in tiulveston
where a bone specialist was to
perform an operation on his arm.
On Tuesday of this week a portion
of the hip bone was to be removed
and placed in the arm. At press
time wo have been unable to learn
much of the operation but we all
hope is is a success.
Ellis was quarterback of last
year’s football team, a game lad,
fighting in every minute of each;
game, and was indeed a leader of
his boys. lie was well liked by the i
entire squad and fans as well, hnv-!
ing played a clean game. His hos-
pital bill will run into many dollars,'
and it has been suggested by the
coach, at the lime of the accident,
that maybe a few would aid the boy
with a donation. If you feel free
to offer a little assistance notify
EatToll On imps.
Home Demonstration!
Club Women Hold
Party Wednesday
The Christmas party for home
demonstration club women will be
held at the Service Center in Bay
City at 2 o’clock Wednesday after-
noon. A cordial invitation is extend-
ed to all home demonstration club
women in Matagorda County.
Each person who attends is ask-
ed to bring a gift which cost from
75 cents to $1. Those who have at-
tended the Christmas party in the
past are looking forward to this as
being the nicest party held during
the year.
The Christmas story will be told
by Mrs. W. W. Rugeley. She has
been telling the Christmas story for
a number of years and the women
are certainly looking forward to
healing her this year.
E. R. Wurmli, of Minneapolis,
Minn., a long time reader of the
Beacon, renew his subscription
for another year and said he had
just returned from a trip to Eu-
rope.
/ Palacios Sharks
Open Basketball
With Loss And Win
What good is money if it’s never
used? Money must be kept in circu-
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services, to be of value. Your local
banks or savings and loan associa-
tions put money to work to build
homes and stores, to provide cap-
ital for industry, to tide over the
farmer until harvest time.
Just as your banker conserves and
gives value to money, so there are
others who conserve the things we
hold dear in Texas—our lives, our
land, our freedoip to think and live
as we please.
Natural gas is a lot like money. It has
little value until it is made available
for use. Not until it is taken to mar-
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of mankind does it acquire value.
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increasing number of Texas cities
and towns, is making available for
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WE WILL I1E CLOSED ON CHRISTMAS DAY
Your Magnolia Dealer
The Palacios “Sharks” have be-
gun their basketball route for the
year. First with a loss to the Bless-
ing school. This game came after
only five hours of practice by the
locals, who were held up due to the
delayed football game that was
cancelled.
Tuesday night they hit the win-
ning stride by taking two games
from Markham with both the “A”
and “B” teams winning.
Tuesday night the Sharks will
meet the St. Joseph team of Vic-
toria on the local courts and the ad-
mission is 10 and 25 cents. Coach
Holst will send his charges against
a very good ball club in the boys
fielded by Coach Bache.
Bobby Taylor, Pat Richman and
Milam Simons promise to be the
real punch of the Sharks. The en-
tire team showed speed and spirit
in their first two games and the
Coach says they will be hitting on
all “five” for the St. Joseph game.
/* Members of the squad are Vernon
Hunt, Pat Richman, Milam Simons,
Bobby Taylor, and Homer McClary
on the starting line-up; Jack Har-
ris, Jack Partain, Jimmie Clay-
bourn, LeRoy Cole, Douglas Gayle,
a.nd Paul Gerhard.
Those visiting in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Thompson
last week-end were their son, G. E.
and wife and little daughter, Susie,
Mr. and Mrs. Joe R. Parkes, Mrs.
E. H. Hamlin and boys, Mr. and
Mrs. M. W. Brown, Mr. and Mrs.
J. S.'Thompson and Mrs. Thomp-
son’ sister, Mrs. Jim Pearson, Mr.
and Mrs. Weston Morgan and
baby of Houston, Texas.
i-------------------------------
What We Can Expect In Football . .
Games This Week, Jackets Later, Class “A”
What can we expect in football? First we can expect
the Port Lavaca Sandcrabs to take regional honors from the
Pearsall Mavericks Thursday night at Victoria. Then, the
El Campo Iticebirds to take the Lockhart Bobcats in their
regional battle Friday night in El Campo.
But, with all this, what can be do for football locally?
Our Palacios Sharks MUST go to class “A” next year, accord-
ing to all reports, and plans are now to arrange our athletic
facilities to fulfill this advancement in interscholastic league
competition. But before we go too far with next year’s plans
let’s look to the year just past. As far as a profitable year
it was not such, in fact not enough so to purchase jackets
for the team members, but there is a movement now going
on to accomplish this well deserved token. There is a lot of
talk among the sports concerning the organization of a
Quarterback Club—and this, we are wholeheartedly behind.
Houston Press Writer Expresses Our Feelings
In Regard To All-American Selections
Take a case of 7-Up HOME for
the Holidays—$1.00 per case (plus
deposit).
Clark Nealon, Houston Press
Sports editor, has the following to
say in regards to the oversight
handed the Southwest Conference
by Collier’s in listing their All-
American team:
Collier’s All-American football
team for 1047 is on the newsstands
and it promises to set off a howl
from the Southwest that might
even shake the effete East.
Not a Southwest Conference
player on the team, mind you;
only one from the Southeast and
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five—count ’em—from the East.
Four of the players come from the
Midwest, with which there won’t
be too much argument, and one
from the Far West. Swaicki of
Columbia and Cleary of Southern
California are the ends; Davis of
Georgia Tech and Connor of Notre
Dame the tackles; Steffy of Army
and Suhey of Penn State, guards;
Scott of Navy at center, and a
backfield of Lujack of Notre Dame,
Evans of Kansas, Chappius of
Michigan and Minisi of Penn.
Okeh. Doak Walker of SMU, it
says under Grantland Rice’s by-
line, is only a sophomore and hasn’t
had the experience against the
tough competition. Bobby Layne of
Texas, it says, is a specialist, who
did only passing.
How in the name bf pighide and
porkchops could Doak Walker have
been put to any more severe test
than he was the past season, and
how could he have come through
with colors flying higher? We have
no particular differences over the
selection of Lujack and Chappius,
but how Evans and Minisi could
be ranked over these two South-
west leaders is beyond us. The
fourth place club in the South-
west tied Kansas and Evans, and
that same Southwest team TCU,
turned back the Oklahoma team
that tied Kansas for the Big Six
title. Texas also belabored Okla-
homa, and the Sopners had to come
back fast in the last Wf to de-
cision A. and M., sixth in the
SouthVest.
Minisi and the Penn team were
tied by Army, which fell before
Notre Dame, 27-7. Who else did
they play?
Walker, as we have said before,
probably best fits the promise the
late Walter Camp laid down for an
All-American. He was in there all
the time, on offense and defense
alike; he was a leader; he faced
opposition they couldn’t stir up in
the East, and never missed a bet.
We doubt if a player was touched
with the tide-swaying football
“golden touch” that Walket had.
For a man who had as much to do
with SMU’s season as Walker did,
the terms “sophomore” and “ex-
perience” can be disregarded.
Now to Layne, the specialist that
Collier’s would lead you to believe
would have made it if he was out-
standing enough. Layne threw
passes for almost 1000 yards and
nine touchdowns, set up many oth-
ers with his passes and quarter-
backed and handled the ball in All-
American style. The magazine even
notes that if Layne was as out-
standing a specialist as Sammy
Baugh he would have made it. Now
wait a minute. Layne was within
a few yards of Baugh’s collegiate
record, throwing out the more than
half a season he missed in the Mer-.
chant Marine. Layne meant as
much to the Texas offense this
season as Baugh ever did to the
TCU offense. Didn’t Layne mainly,
humiliate North Carolina of file |
Southern Conference? You can’t
score on defense.
The article goes on to say that
the Texas-SMU game was decisive
in the Southwest, yet its stars are
not worthy of All-American.
Although he must be a fine cen-
ter, we can’t get Rick Scott of
Navy on all these All-Americans,
including Collier’s. Navy lost seven
games.
And even if you could forget the
disregard of these two individuals,
how can you forget this disregard
of the Southwest and Southeast.
These two leagues lead the country
in intersectional competition. In be-
half of the Southwest alone, it can
Ve added that the third place team
here, Rice, tied the Pacific Coast
Conference champion and the sixth
place team defeated the champions
of the Southeastern Conference,
Mississippi.
All-Americans often come out of
thin air, to be sure.
The explanations for leaving
Walker and Layne served only to
make disregard of them more hu-
morous.
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Dismukes, Mrs. J. W. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 11, 1947, newspaper, December 11, 1947; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth726233/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.