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gs Lose Semi-Final
Tilt To Brownwood 60-43
COLEMAN, Jan. S-The Sweet-
water Mustangs met Comanche
- Saturdayi night at 7:30 o’clock in
a battle for third place in the Cole-
. man Invitation tournament after
bowing to Brownwood in the semi-
final game during the afternoon.
Brownwood’s Lions throttled the
title hopes of the Mustangs with a
MM3 decision in the semi-final
classic to move into the title game
played at 9 o'clock. The Mustangs
had defeated Anson 60-24 Saturday
morning and drawn a bye Friday
to reach the meeting with the Lions
The Brownwood quint lead ill
of the way to throttle the Mus-
tangs. holding a 17-9 lead at the
end of the first quarter and a half-
time margin of 33-20.
Anderson High Man
Carl Anderson, almost sure of an
all-tournament berth for the third
straight time this season, poured
25 points through the nets to set
the scoring pace. But he got little
help from the rest of ’he crew
as six other performers accounted
for only 18 points among them.
Leon art us Fry, Brownwood's
great all-round athlete, counted 1C
points as did Hal Earp to lead the
Lions. Six other Lions got into the
scoring act to offset the shooting
of the Mustang star.
Mangrum In Load
At Halfway Mark
In Open Tourney
In the Saturday morning encoun-
ter Anderson was again high scor-
National Golfers
Day Set May 23
er as the Mustangs took an early
lead and won going .tway. He
counted 21 points for his lowest out-
put of the tourney. Harold Green
gave him a good assist with 14
points, more than the top Anson
shooter, Bill Owens, who had 11.
The Mustangs took a 33-2 first
quarter lead against outclassed An-
son and built it to a 31-10 halftime
margin.
In the opener Stephenville—the
team paired with the Mustangs—
forfeited because of an outbreak
of mumps among the squad, giv-
ing the Ponies a pass into the
quarter-final round. To fill in the
time, the Mustangs met Ranger in
Mize Wins Award
As Series Hero
a practice game, winning 53-43.
Anderson chipped in 32 [mints in
NEW YORK, Jan, 3—UP-
Johnny Mize, who started the clas-
sic on the bench, was selected the
outstanding performer in the 195
World Scries and winner of the
Babe Ruth Memorial Trophy Sat-
urday by the Baseball Writer’s As-
sociation of America
The 39-year old first baseman of
the victorious New York Yankees
won the award over teammates
NEW YORK. .) an 3—UP—Na-
tional Golf Day, when any duffer
in the nation can compete against
a national star on payment of $1,
will be held next May 23, it was an-
nounced Saturday.
A year ago more than 0,000 duff-
ers "competed” against Ben Ho-
gan U. S. Open champion. The duff-
ers used club or allotted handicaps
while attempting to match Hogan’s
score from scratch on the North-
wood Club course In Dallas.
The golfer, who will play against
the field this year, will be an-
nounced in the near future.
over
Mickey Mantle and Allie Reynolds
and Brooklyn Dodger outfielder
Duke Snider. He was Ihe fourth
! consecutive Yankee to win the
award, following Joe Page, Gerry
Coleman and Phil Rizzuto
After sitting out the first two
games, Mize made his Scries debut
with a home run as a pinch-hitter
in the third contest. He took over
at first base in the fourth game
and hammered a double and a
home run, hit his third homer in
as many games the next day and
produced two hits and drove in a
run in the seventh and deciding
game. His series average was .400.
Mize had planned to retire after
the series but, taking heart from
his great showing, is now expected
to continue for another season.
Sweetwater Reporter
Walter Roach Is
Assistant at TCU
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FORT WORTH. Jan. 3—UP—
! Walter Roach, freshman football
; coach at Texas Christian Univer-
i sity since 1937 and a one-time TCU
star, moved up Saturday to the job
of assistant coach on the recom-
mendation of athletic director L. R.
(Dutchi Meyer.
Roach will serve under Abe Mar-
tin. who became head TCU coach
when Meyer announced his retire-
ment at tlie end of the 1953 season.
Dr. M. E. Sadfer. TCU presi-
dent, said that Fred Taylor, l'oot-
j hall coach at Victoria high school,
, would take over Roach’s old job.
i Sadler said that Meyer recom-
mended the appointments of both
Roach and Taylor.
that one.
Sweetwater
FG
FT PF TP
Anderson .........
. 9
3
0
21
Greer ...........
. 3
3
2
9
Green ............
. 6
2
1
14
Davidson ........
. 1
5
4
7
Wharton ..........
. 2
0
0
4
Lawrence ........
. 2
0
0
4
Amos ............
. «
1
1
1
—
. —
—
—
Totals ........
23
14
8
60
Anson
Owens ............
. 5
1
1
11
Helms ............
. 1
0
3
2
Castleberry .......
. 0
1
2
1
Hollunis ..........
. 1
0
5
2
Bumpus ..........
. 0
2
0
2
Nix ...............
. 1
0
2
2
Wyatt ...........
. 0
1
2
1
Simms ...........
. 1
1
1
3
—
—
—
Totals ........
. 9
c
16
24
Score by quarters
Sweetwater ......
13
31
48
60
Anson ............
. 2
10
16
24
Sweetwater
FG
FT
PF
TP
Anderson ........
. 8
9
1
25
Shackelford ......
. 2
1
1
5
Greer ...........
.. 2
0
2
4
Montgomery ......
.. 0
1
3
1
Dorsey ..........
.. 0
1
4
1
Green ............
.. 2
2
2
6
Davidson ......
. 0
1
1
1
—
—
- —
—
Totals ........
14
15
It
43
Brownwood
FG FT PF
TP
Fry ..........
. 7
2
0
16
Masters ..........
.. 0
3
4
3
Earp ............
.. 6
4
0
16
Evans ..........
.. 3
3
2
9
Piper ............
.. 1
4
5
6
Dawson .........
.. 2
0
3
4
Ellis ..............
.. 1
2
l
4
White ...........
.. 1
0
n
2
—
. —
—
—
Totals ......
. 21
IS
17
60
Score by quarters:
Sweetwater ......... 9
2,1
31
43
Brownwood ......
.17
33
47
60
LOS ANGELES. Jan. 3—UP—
Texas-born Lloyd Mangrum ma-
| leuvere I over the fairways toward
his third win in the $20,000 Los An-
geles Open Golf Tournament Satur-
day after leading the field in the
link classic's opening round with a
two-under-par 69.
The 38-year-old pro, who has won
more money in tournament purses
since World War II than any other
golfer, calmly blasted his way to
three birdies, onj bogey and 14
pars Friday for a 33-36 one-stroke
margin over his nearest rival.
Mangrum* who started his golf
career as a Los Angeles caddy,
topped off the five-mile course at
Riviera Country Club by shooting a
par on the 18th hole even though it
was invisible in the closing dark-
ness when he teed off.
Burke Close Behind
Close behind Mangrum in the 70
bracket were PGA tournament vet-
erans Jackie Burke of Houston; the
golfing dentist from Memphis,
Tenn., Dr. Cary Middlecoff, and
two comparatively unknown cam-
paigners, 24-year-old Leo Btagetti
of Baltimore, Md., and Art Wall of
Pacona Manor, Pa.
Burke recovered from a slow
start to sink three birdies and a
seven-foot putt for a 36-34. Middle-
coff. a high favorite for the purse,
carded 36-34 by carving out a 15-
foot birdie putt on the 18th. Biaget-
ti, on his first West Coast outing,
shot 36-34. He has been in the
money his last four tournaments.
His longest of three birdie putts
was eight feet. Wall, who has an ac-
credited 31 holes-in-one, punched
out a 33-37.
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Sweetwater Reporter, Texet, Sunday, January 4, 1953
Leagues For Boys Studied
At Meeting Here Friday;
Little League Session Set
Plans for the formation of a
Pony baseball league for boys 13-
15 years of age an dthe reorgani-
zation of the Little League were
discussed at a meeting of Inter-
ested persons held Friday night at
the Blue Bonnet Hotel. Mel Harp,
president of the Little League, pre-
sided at the meeting.
No definite action was taken at
the Friday meeting in connection
with either league but plans were
proposed and discussed that would
give this ity a program for boys
that would be on a par with any
in the state.
The board of directors of the
Little League will meet at the
Waffle Shop at 3 o’clock Sunday
afternoon to elect officers for the
coming year and to name team
managers. All interested in man-
aging teams or in the league as a
whole, are invited to attend.
At the Friday night session, pro-
posals were advanced for the use
of Sportsman’s Park for the Pony
League In the event no profession-
al baseball is available. Seats and
lights for the Little League park
also are planned.
Officials said that the Little
League would soon launch a drive
to secure seats and lights and that
suggestions for providing them
would be welcome.
Those attending the Friday nieet-
Little League program already
ing were enthusiastic about the
well established here and were
sure that a pony league for older
boys would be as successful when
launched. Leaders will be needed
for this league also, it was pointed
out,
The even par bracket of 71 in-
cluded ex-Louisianian Jay Hebert,
36-35; National Open champ Julius
Boros. 35-36: Shelley Mayfield of
iCedarhurst, Long Island, N. Y’., 36-
135; Fox Hills, Calif., pro Harry
! Bassler, 33-38, and Riverside,
Calif.’s, Ralph Evans, 37-34.
Aggie Jumper Honored By
Texas Sports Writers
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As tlie district 1-AAA basketball race nears its opening there
I is much speculation locally as to the probable finish of the six clubs.
\ Sweetwater fans are particularly interested since pre-district action
j has stamped the Mustangs as one of the stronger contenders.
In fact, oil the basis of comparative scores, and that is i very
! poor basis on which to establish a favorite in basketball where a team
can slaughter another one night then take a drubbing from the same
team the next, local fans have a right to be optimistic for the Mustang.,
have finished in front of every club in the district in tournament play
except Vernon.
Vernon has not entered a single tournament in which the Mus-
tangs have competed. Each of the other four have, three being in the
Odessa tourney where the Mustangs went into overtime before losing
the championship game, and Snyder at Brownwood where both clubs
fell in second round plav.
This would indicate that Ihe Mustangs will be favored against
at least four of the five clubs—but is that a true indication of the way
they have performed? -----
DALLAS, Jan. 3-UP—Walter
(Buddyi Davis, Olympic high jump
champion from Nederland and Tex-
as A&M College, Saturday was an-
nounced as winner of both the
Southwesterner of the Year and
Athlete of the Y'ear awards pre-
sented by the Texas Sports Writers
Association.
Davis was the top winner among
four athletic figures honored by the
association for achievements in the
field of sports during 1952.
The others were Ed Price, coach
of the Southwest Conference and
Cotton Bowl champion University
of Texas football team, as Texas
College Coach of the Year: Johnnie
Frankie, coach of Wharton Junior
College, as Texas Junior College
Coach of the Year, and J. W.
Blaine, an assistant coach now at
Sundown high school, but honored
as Texas High School Coach of the
Year, tor his work at Demmitt high
school.
uavis, who now is playing semi-
pro basketball for the Ada Oilers
Houston and who only this week
the tall former Texas Aggie cap-
tured 28 votes to eight for Texas
Christian’s Coach Dutch Meyer and
received 8 votes for athlete of the
year compared to 11 for Skippy
Browning, the Olympic diving
champ from the University of Tex-
as.
Price’s job in making a cham-
pionship team out of the Longhorns
in spite of key losses by gradua-
tion and the team's comeback after
successive losses to Notre Dame
and Oklahoma, won him the coach-
ing honor over Milton Jowers,
whose Southwest Texas State bas-
ketball team lost only one game
last year in taking third place in
the NA1B tournament as well as
the Lone Star Conference title.
Jowers goi 16 votes, Price 23.
Iron Horse of '52
Refurni to Action
NEW YORK. Jan. 3-UP-Aicrt-
ed, (be "iron horse” of 1952, swings
back into action after a brief vaca-
tkm when he meets a field of cap-
able racers Saturday in the 125,000
Robert E. Lee handicap at Tropical
Park.
The five-year-old son of Bull Lea
was assigned 128 pounds for the
mile-and-a-sixteenlh event, which
is the richest in the 21-year history
of the Florida course and has been
scheduled as a prep for the $50,000
Tropical handicap Jan. 15.
Alerted engaged in 33 races dur-
ing 1952, winning eight times and
finishing in the money on 14 other
occasions. The Hampton Stable
horse has been inactive since Dec.
6 when he won the President’s
Plate at Bowie.
As the hlghweight in Saturday s
race, Alerted will be asked to con-
cede nine pounds to Reginald N.
Webster’s Crystal Boot, and 11
pounds to the equally-dangerous
Delegate. Crystal Boot has been the
star of the meeting thus far with
three victories in three starts.
Poor Officiating
In Sugar Bowl Is
Claim of Govtrnora
JACKSON, Miss., Jan. 3—UP—
Gov. Hugh White of Miaalaslppl has
appealed to Southeastern Confer-
ence officials over what he termed
“the worst officiating I have ever
seen” at Thursday's Mississippi-
Georgia Tech Sugar Bowl game.
“In my judgment I witnessed the
worst officiating that I have ever
seen. . . at the Sugar Bowl game,”
White telegraphed to Bernie Moore,
commissioner of the SoUtheasternM
Conference. “I am surprised that ^
the Southeastern Conference toler-
ates such officiating.”
White rebuked a fair catch deci-
sion, in which Mississippi was pen-
alized for hitting a Tech player who
made a fair catch signal, and also
pointed out a first period play in
which officials ruled that Wilson
Dillard had been stopped on Tech’s
four-inch line.
“If we are going to have clean
sports,” White said, “the colleges^
are going to have to wake up to
what’s going on."
Top Jockey Flies
To Video Program
CORAL GABLES, Fla., Jan. 3—
UP—Vacationing Tony Despirito
will fly to New York Saturday for
a round of television appearances
and to celebrate his national jockey
championship.
The New England youngster, who
closed out his 1952 campaign with
a record of 390 winners, cancelled
all his mounts at Tropical Park
Friday and decided to take a rest.
Despirito said he probably will re-
sume riding within a week.
Bank Chief Dies
FORT WORTH, Jan. 3—UP—R.
Mayo Bowen. 58, vice president of
the Fort Worth National Bank since
4936. died Thursday in a Fort
Worth hospital alter suffering a
heart seizure Wednesday. Bowen
had been with the bank since 1910.
Randy (lay Signs
Pro-Grid Contract
NEW Y’ORK. Jan. 3—UP—Randy
Clav, former University of Texas
halfback now in the Army, has*
signed a 1953 contract with the New
York Giants of the National Foot
ball League, Ihe club announced
Saturday.
The club said that Clay, a star
as a rookie i.i 1950, expects to be
discharged next May and "could
not wait to put
dotted line.”
his name on the
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high jumped six feet, eight indies
in the Sugar Bowl track meet at
Sew Orleans, won both his'honors
by wide margins.
As Southwesterner of the Year,
MELFOllT, Sask., Jan. 3—UP—
Frank, an 18-year-old chestnut
gelding, was relegated to a life of
leisure Saturday by the Canadian
National Express Co.
The company said Frank, the last
of its horses, had covered 40,000
miles in local trips, carried 10,000
tons of cargo, wore out three wag-
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Mustangs Have Weaknesses
The question we ask doesn’t in-
j dieate that we have lost faith in
the local quintet or that we be-
lieve they will be slaughtered in
district play—but we believe that
the club lias weaknesses that "ill
have to be corrected before they
become a top flight club.
This may sound tike a rash state-
ment in view of their performance
to date but it is made after a long
study of the records and on.- un-
derstanding of the game. We be-
lieve tlial a similar analysis of the
I club will disclose the weaknesses
j to others.
T'lie greatest weakness as we see
| it is the fact that the club does not
have a single oonsistant point mak-
er with the exception of Carl An-
derson, who probably will be the
top performer in the district.
; Against a smart team this could
| easily he the difference.
“Stop Anderson” may well be-
come the battle cry of every club
I in the district and some oi llicm
| will do it for it is too much to ex-
pect that a school boy performer
can go on and on turning in 25
points and more per game. If he
is stopped in a crucial game it may
prove more costly than the club
! can stand.
Needs To Develop Shooters
A check of the records show that
Anderson has accounted for almost
half the total points scored by the
Mustangs and that lie has counted
four times as many .is any other
boy on tlie squad. That is good
from one standpoint but not so
good from another.
A strong defense designed to
keep him bottled up all night could
cut- his point production to a shad-
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And the variation in scoring lias
not come about by Anderson doing
all of the shooting. Others have
tried their share of shots—and
from all points oil the court-but
have been unable to make them
stay down.
In all fairness, we know that
work, work and more work lias
been devoted to shooting by all
members of the squad. Ill practice
some of them have better than av-
erage records but they appear to
get light in a contest. It is entire-
ly possible that one. two or all
of them will get the nack of relax-
ing as they shoot and when they do
the Mustangs could be the terrors
of the court
ow of his per game average. Such
a defense would of necessity leave
j one or more of the other Mus-
tangs open but so far th>s would
not be (oo expensive for filch per-
centage ol completions lias been
small.
RAMBLIN’ . . . Criticism of bowl
game officiating, particvdarlv in
tile Sugar Bowd. is rampant at this
time . . . The Governor of Missis-
sippi lias been particularly critical,
claiming that bad decisions cost
the Rcbs the ball game Which Ihey
los* to Georgia Tech 24-7 . . And
we hear that Lubbock scribes have
been critical of officiating in the
Odessa tournament whim the
Westerners won by topping the
i Mustangs in an overtime game . . .
; Officiating is a poor profession at
j best and basketball is the worst of
all since the fans are so close to
the action . . . Sweetwater fans,
\\ iio have been unable to follow
' the Mustangs to the tournaments
they have entered recently, will be
| glad to know that they will re-
turn to tiic local gym for i game
next Friday . . . Ballinger will pro-
ride the opposition in the last game
: before the district opens . . .
Fans who saw the Cotton Bowl
game between Texas and Tennes-
see are still talking aboul die tci-
rible beating the Tennessee line
took from the Texas forwards all
afternoon . . . The Longhorn line
las been called one of the strong-
est ever seen in this section--for
that game in particular.
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Condensed Statement
National Bank of Sweetwater
Close of Business December 31, 1952
Sweetwater, Texas
RESOURCES
LIABILITIES
Loans and Discounts . .
Government Securities
Municipal Bonds .....
Federal Reserve Bank Stock
Leasehold Improvements
Furniture and Fixtures
Other Assets ..............
. . $1,410,903.47
Cupital Slock ............
.........$ 125.000.00
1.148.057.,SI
surplus .................
.....•____ 125.1)(10.00
444,929.M0
. .. 1.794,183.44
Undivided Profits........
.....’. . . . 43,352.43
7,500.00
Reserve ............‘...
10,000.00
1.00
30,000.00
Deposits .................
........ 4,538,937.43
112.78
$4,842,289.80
$4,842,289.80
OFFICERS
l>. M. Simmons, rhairman of the lloaid
It. Bryant, Preside lit
K. M. Perkins, Jr., Vice President
J. O. Kirk, fusilier
B. >1. Xelilcff, Assistant Cashier
Morris E. Hinshaw, Assistant Cashier
R. W. Boyd, Assistant Cashier
■On Military Leaye.
IV. II. Bennett
I. O. Kirk
I. A. Loch
Geo. H. Marsh
A. If. Xorred
DIRECTORS
B. f. Pace
K. M. Prekins, Jr.
Glenn llussell
f. It. Simmons
B. M. Simmons
f. II. Bryant
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Member Federal Reserve System
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