The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 3, 1949 Page: 8 of 12
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Thursday, Februti
THE TAFT TRIBUNE
v Hull Leon iril
Ki> ’ scheduls.
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K »n the short
Taft 46—Sintou 28
Exception was taken la.;< we
Sports Slants eb'-ei Viiti
at Taft is rapidly l« corn!
ednmmantly female in popu
ORY—Eighteen teams will
to in two divisions in the
ry Invitation Junior Tour-
it to be held Friday and
lay at the Gregory gym-
Beeville Turns Back Gregory 38-28 In
Finals Of Ingleside Cage Tournament
>• >«itween Tuft,
‘■' tic circle* ^
‘f d contiiS
ousketbal] am,
•Sinton in at
a fine ttnnf
stay on the
the gridiron
It will no longer be
’hies if the rivalry bee
that rooten
I nut that he has three children—
jail boy*. Dempsey Dupree has
I two boy*
In another decade, or so, the
[Greyhounds barkfieUl will prob
I ably read Schmidt. Schmidt,
Dupree and Schmidt. Roving
center Dupree will be ably ass-
isted by Schmidt and Schmidt at
guard with Dupree and Dupree
i holding down the wingback slots,
j That leaves only the two tack-
le spots to be filled. There's
still room h r a Jones or .1 Brown
in the lineup
f Might schools are represented
|y i» (&• high school division which INGLESIDE—Beeville's Troians
f M Opvn only to “B” teams. Rules turned back a *crappy i.and of
j§ Jtaait participants to boys who Gregory Wildcats 38 to 28 in the
4 mt- not seniors in high school, final* here Saturday night to win
| ftaunt? not already been in three the annual Ingleside Invitational
| -tournaments and are not on the Basketball Tournament.
| digit six men on a squad. Ingleside nosed out Corpus
f TW grade school division has Christi College Academy 38 to 37
s M team* competing. to win a thrilling battle for con-
[ Cwpe will be awarded to first, solution honors
c .gneond and third place winners The Trojam; had advanced to
j M each division. the finals with a 39 to 29 con-
*• Derate* Tooth ..................................
vgs-szsrsr Bloomington
| tout is aimed at developing lilVVlUill^liVII
| 3K»*«K players in schools. By ^ - #
fine)* tourney experience, better 11/-^,^ I'AlifAtl
. fttefcetball in South Texas will yilllV IlfllilPfl
.ttwiolt, the Gregory coach report- TI JaliO HJvMAalj'all
quest of Aransas Pass and a 37
to 30 victory over Woodsboro.
Gregory handed Sundeen a 39
to 24 plastering in the opening
round, paced by the 12-point
shooting of Norman Coulter and
Bobby Floerke. The Wildcats
kept the Eagles from scoring un-
til the final five minutes of the
first half.
Woodsboro eliminated College
Academy 30 to 20 and Rockport
trounced Ingleside 41 to 29 in
other first round events.
In spite of a tremendous height
advantage, the Rockport Pirates
found themselves no match for
the red-hot Wildcats. Gregory1
intense
bleachers feel they have^
violent hand in the ^
The determination of m
trounce Sinton and vir*
provides the fans wit* ,
games that are thriller* |
start to finish. Every tebta
a team on their whedi*
they would rather whip tte
other Such is the rase ■#,
Sinton and Taft
This intense desire to j
the other school should set ■
far that it exceed* the ^
of 'tear, M*"rt»manshi* 1
primary object of conpg
sports is to develop *
fair play and teamwork a
RUGGED VOYAGE . . . That's what *eema »n store for Carl Madrid.
44. Chicagoan enroc-te to New Orleans aboard a raft which he msde
himself, and which I* powered with an outboard motor. Madrid w*a
uncertain an to how loot It would lake him to romptete hla Journey,
but said that when he reached New Orleans he plana to live aboard hit
raft and da tome writing.
Hustling Greyhounds Wallop Sinton
46-28 For Second Dis-.rict Victory
"Little Gregory down the
road, ' to quote l ist week s col
umn, may ire small bti* the r.s -
ibre of ball they play ma make
some of these larger towns keep
a wary eye open
The red-hot Wildcats have Inst
only four basketball games this
year while chalking up 14 vict-
ories on the black side of the
ledger. They proved inhospit-
able host* at their own tourna-
ment, walloping everything in
sight to keep the trophy home
In football this fail, the Wild-
cats may prove an armful! for
anybody's ball club. Coach Harry
"Pop" Mohrmaan, canny Greg-
o uses up more
in a season than
• Mattie Bell of SMS'
won't have many reserve? bui
will have a ata-ve-SKil f <U-<ct
Mayfield. six-hiot.
Charles
three-inch center, a leading con-
tender for high point honors, was
sidelined with an injured ankle
Potsy Hunt trailed Mayfield
with 12 points, followed by
Wayne Quarles with eight *nd
Gorman Ritchie with four points.
Pat Humes was high man for
Sinton with eight points. Bob
Joseph and Dyer tied for second
with seven each.
The win over Sinton represents
the second consecutive Grey-
hound victorv over the Pirates, jury mentor wh
Taft had eliminated the Bucs "crying towek" i
from their own tournament the 'gh-omy
previous week with a dose 33 to
32 win.
Turning on the heat here Fri-
day night, the Taft Greyhounds
pounded out a 46 to 28 victory
over the Sinton Pirates.
The Bucs were within an ate
I of catching up in the first half
i with the halftime score 18 to 17
iin favor of the hustling Grey-
| hounds. The Taft quintet pour-
,ed on the coals in the second
half and hooped in 28 points
[while limiting Sinton to 11.
j The Greyhounds boast a clean
slate in District 29-A play with
'two wins—over Freer and Sin-
ton. The Pirates are breaking
even with a victory posted over
Aransas Pass and a loss to their
arch-rivals, Taft.
A packed house saw Tommy
Mayfield drop them in the buck-
et from every angle t<> lead the
Greyhounds to a much-sought- j
after victory. He hooped 22!
points- -high for the squad and
the game.
sSSE-SS Girls Tourney
■amkite. Other Friday games, all 0
■Ha Die grade school category, are. Bloomington won the South
J^^uatte-Wcwdsbcro 4pm.; Zone Golden Girl* Tournament hi
.tOragosy-Clarkwoed, ‘5 p. m.; Odem Saturday night by easily
jitter Bluff, 6 p. m.; Taft- winner defeating the Fremont Cowgirls,
M toglcside-ftstrcnllla game, 7 35 to 24.
jjfc m-; md Fremont-winner of Bloomington and Premont will
‘Stour1 Bluff-Retugio tilt, 8 p. m. represent the South Zone in state
i-i ‘Inals in San Antonio. Peitus
"I* “*** *7* was third and Odern fourth In
The winner of the Taft-Ingle- rating among the 15 teams that
udde-Petronilla scramble will competed.
meet the victor of the Banquette- Unleashing the power the
■Woodsboro fracas at 9 a. m. Sat- Gregory Wildkittens turned on
sasfday. j the steam to edge out Pawnee
The top team in the Flour !24 to 23 in the first round play
JBuff-Refugio-Premont event s [Friday' night. Lola Bonner threw
will face the winner of the Greg- | an over-head basket that gave
«sy*CIarkwoqd tilt at 10 a. m. the Gregory sextette two points.
Saturday- and a one-point victory.
Victorious teams in the semi- The game started out slowly
finals will meet at 8:30 Saturday but warmed up until fans were
Bight in the grade school divi- on their feet from the thrilling
siOR finals. The losers in the [stretch duel to the finish. In the
Mnti-finais Will battle it. out at last quarter the score tied up or
&30 p- m. Saturday for the third changed hand;, eight times,
place trophy. Lola Bonner, tall forward,
The high school division iror j whom it was impossible to guard
“B” teams will get underway at j pitched in 12 points. Elvn Krieg
II a. m. Saturday when Driscoll [sunk five, Elizabeth Sahadi four
and Gregory clash. West Qso land Esthen Corona two to com-
tnkas on Rockport at 12:30 p. m.; plete the Wildkitten scoring.
Prliwalb meet* Premont at 1:30
p. m. and Woodstauc faces Flour Dropped By Premont
Bluff at 2:30 p. si Saturday in In the quarter-finals, the Greg- ;
opening round play. ory sextette ran up against the [
__ powerful Premont Cowgirls who j
Semi-Finals eliminated them in an overtime j
At 3.30 p. m. Saturday, the period 27 to 25.
•tacts of the first two games The Wildkittens were ahead 24 |
dash in the semi-finals, ' The to 22 until Martha Foster heaved :
rictors in the second two games 8 difficult push-shot from the far I
meet at 4:30 p. m- Saturday in side of the court to tie up the i
he second semi-final clash. " game in the last minute of play, j,
The two top teams play at 3:30 In the three-minutes overtime [night
Saturday night for the tourna- period, Eiva Krieg dropped in a; thi
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Robnttt do the same and tie it j coals after the Pirates got out in
up for the Cowgirls. The Robnett front in the third quarter, the
girl ’ ringed the basket again to | Wildcats caught and nosed out
give the Cowgirls a two-point j Rrx-kport in the last minutes of
victory. Splay.
Martha Foster, sharpshooter of j Norman Coulter paced the
|the Premont sextette, was held [Gregory quintet. |o victory with
down thoroughly by guard Betty 13 points- J Morrison was high
[Wilson. Against Calallen, Foster ;for Rockport with 12 points,
rolled up 20 points. In the Greg- 1 The Wildkittens. Gregory girl
[ory fracas she hooped only eight, jeagers. smothered the Rockport
[ Mary Ann Ray and Martha [gifts 26 to 1.
[ Wend land turned in stollar per- j The only Rockport score came
j formances at the guard positions jon a free throw sunk by Nancy
(for the Wildkittens. I Roe. The Wildkittens were a-
... _ [head 14 to 1 at the half.
* regot} , ik j Loin Bonner accounted for all
| Lola Bonner secured high j but four points of the Gregory
.point honors with 12. Elva Krieg :score, sinking 22 points.
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Leonard, Robert W. The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 3, 1949, newspaper, February 3, 1949; Taft, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth749430/m1/8/?rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Taft Public Library.