Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 303, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 26, 1950 Page: 2 of 8
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nderdog Wharton Beats
Cermit For Title, 13-9
Defensive Halfback Runs Pass_I
Interception Back 85 Yards
An unheralded defensive halfback and a line that re-
fused to be dismayed by the reputation of its opponent got
most of the credit today for Wharton’s 13 to 9 victory over
Kermit yesterday in the State Class A schoolboy champion-
ship game before 8,000 fans at Sweetwater Mustang Bowl.
The Wharton line allowed the Yellowjackets a few mo-
ments oi glory early in the game, then settled down to
tattle it out or better than even terms for the rest of the
hnie.
The defensive back was
son, who grabbed a wobbly
pass seven minutes deep in
the third quarter then outran
three Kermit players for 85
yards to chalk up the win-
ning touchdown.
Wharton’s victory meant
the first time the champion-
ship title found a home out-
side of West Texas.
The Jackets, who went into
the game two touchdown favo-
rites. started as expected — ex-
plosively. Hard - running Rick-
Spinks picked up the opening
kickoff and returned it 68
yards for a touchdown. He made
it 7 to 0 on the conversion.
Cline Scores
The Tigers came right back,
however. Four minutes deep in
the first quarter they climax-
ed a 70-yard march witli a 38-
yard payoff run by Fullback
Bill Cline through center. Trel-
don Cutbirth missed the extra
point.
Then, with only two minutes
to play in the first period,
Spinks punted 51 yards to Mar-
vin Felder who fumbled on the
four and was tackled in the
end zone by B. W. Pendleton for
two mure Kermit points.
Though Wharton dominated
play through the second quarter,
it, couldn't score. Neither could
Kermit which controlled the
ball most of the third period.
Then came the pass, a flat
one from Quarterback Sammy
Woods intended for Spinks who
was standing on the goal line.
The ball was far wide of its
mark and the speedy Thompson
needed no second invitation to
nab it and start his dash up the
sidelines.
Once, on the Kermit 40-yard
line, Thompson appeared to be
trapped by three Jacket players.
But with a brief suprt of speed
A!io ptnjlpd jtiwa.f- and wept the
Remaining distance unbothered.
Wharton thus ended the sea-
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Southwest Cagers
In Tourney Ploy
By United Press
Southwest Conference basket-
ball squads practice on their
home courts today in prepara-
tion for a busy schedule of tour-
nament play that clears the decks
for what is expected to be a regu-
lar dogfight within the confer-
ence.
No squad in the loop has em-
erged an overwhelming favorite
as the result of early season play
against outside and regional
competition in which conference
fives won 27 games and lost 31.
Baylor, Texas and Arkansas
will try to give the section’s pres-
tige a boost in the three-day
Oklahoma City invitation tourna-
ment beginning tomorrow night.
Other teams in the tourney in-
clude Hank lba's Oklahoma
A&M Cowboys, Oklahoma City
University, Tulsa, Vanderbilt,
Alabama, in first round games,
Baylor meets Oklahoma A&M,
Arkansas plays Tulsa and Texas
engages Vanderbilt.
The Cotton Bowl cage tourna-
ment gets underway at Dallas
Thursday night, with pace-set-
ting Texas Christian playing
Texas Tech, and runner-up
Southern Methodist trading
shots with North Texas State.
SMII and TCU trade opponents
in the tourney Friday night.
In other games this week, Rice
invades Nacogdoches for a
Thursday night contest with S.
F. Austin, Texas A&M takes on
Trinity at Sar. Antonio Friday
night and Rice entertains S. F.
Austin at Houston Saturday
night.
Conference play begins next
week.
small, elusive Jackie Thomp-
son with a record of fourteen
victories and one scoreless tie
with New Braunfels, early in
the year. It was Hermit’s first
loss in 15 games this year.
Spinks was the leading ball
carrier, grinding out 82 yards in
27 carries. Kermit picked up 181
yards rushing to 130 for Whar-
ton, but gained only six yards
passing to 30 for the Tigers.
Kermit Drive Falters
Kermit knocked on Wharton’s
goal a couple of times, but its
last attempt — in the third —
backfired with Woods’ pass.
In the second quarter, the
Yellow Jackets had moved to
the Tigers’ 11-yard line when
Kenneth Ives recovered Lloyd
Shoppa’s fumble on thp Whar-
ton 34-yard to start the march.
The Tigers stopped the Jack-
ets for a three-yard loss from
the 11 and on fourth down
Spinks tried a field goal from
the 21. The kick was wide.
Wharton’s first half drives
were less spectacular, but they
ate up more yardage — 110
yards to Hermit’s 68 and eight
first downs to four.
Fullback Wayne Culvahouse
gained 78 yards in 21 carries for
Kermit, with Center Don Kaye
Brown, Guard Benny Carr and
Ives line stars.
The bruising Wharton line
was paced by Guard Carl Shan-
non, Tackle Lawrence Kalmus,
Center Charles Davis and End
Milburn Rust. Cline, Felder,
Shoppa and George Allen bore
the brunt of the Tiger offense.
GAME AT A GLANCE
Kermit Wharton
First downs .............. 13 10
Net yards rushing........181 130
Net yards passing........ 6 30
Passes attempted ........ 7 0
Passes Completed ........ 1 3
Passes intercepted by ... . 1 1
Number of punts ........ 3 3
Punting average ........38.6 32
Ball lost on fumbles .... 2 2
Yards lost on penalties . . . 65 13
• • *
KERMIT LINEUP
Ends—Beebe, Smith, Batchelor.
Tackles—Ives, Clark, Williams.
Guards—Carr, Gore, Pendleton.
Centers—Brown, Bolf.
Backs—Spinks, Culvahouse, Hay good,
Woods, Handlin, Mitchell, Burkhart,.
WHARTON LINKUP
Ends—Jones, Rust, Reynolds.
Tackles—Miska, Kalmus, Janik.
Guards—Shannon, Sorrell, Black.
Centers—Davis.
Backs—Felder, Allen, Shoppa, Cline,
Cutbirth. Thompson, Ramsower.
Scoring Summary:
Kermit ................. 0 0 0 0— 0
Wharton ............. 6 0 7 0—13
Kermit scoring: Touchdown, Spinks;
conversion, Spinks; safety, Pendleton.
Wharton scoring: Touchdowns, Cline,
Thompson; conversion, Cutbirth.
NUMBER 33 will now go into the annals of Abilene Chris-
tian College football along with those worn by half a dozen
other all-time great Wildeat stars.
Alton Green, son of Mrs. Lillie M. Green of Roseoe,
wore that number through ACC’s phenomenal 1950 sea-
son—ami it was “Al” who was the team’s chief offensive wea-
pon. He earned his fourth football letter, was co-captain of
the team, was named offensive fullbaek on the Texas Confer
enee all-star team and received honorable mention (lie sec-
ond year on the Associated Press Little All-America squad.
Sweetwater, Texas, Tuesday, December 20. 1950
Wichita, Austin Vie
At Dallas Saturday
By United Press
The football season wasn’t
over for two Texas schoolboy
elevens today.
In fact, they feel as if it has
just, begun and that the whole
season may he crammed into the
short week of practice lying
ahead before the state Class AA
championship game in Dal-Hi
stadium at Dallas Saturday at 2
P. M.
The Wichita Falls Coyotes, de-
fending champions, and Austin
Maroons. 14-13 losers in last
year’s finals to the Coyotes,
shook off the lethargy of Christ
mas turkey and hit the drill
fields today.
They are the first clubs in 27
years to turn in repeat visits to
the state finals—the last time
being in 1922-23 when Waco and
Abilene turned the trick.
Both clubs got there by the
skin of their teeth.
Wichita Falls scored on 1he
last play of the game to nip
Highland Park 34-27 at Dallas,
while Austin nipped Baytown
7-6 at Houston.
Tickets for the finals clash—
the first in Dallas in five years—
will go on sale lute tomorrow.
Reserved and general admission
tickets will be $2.50 each, but no
general admission tickets will be
sold until the day of the game.
DR. C. H. ELLIOTT
Naturopathic Physician
207 Pecan Street
Phone 3291
Student tickets will sell for 50
cents.
Dal-Hi stadium, home of the
Dallas city schools, seats 21,377,
but the capacity can be enlarg-
ed to 25,000 and an additional
4,000 taken care of with stand-
ing room* «'
Charles Is Chosen
’Fighter 0! Year’
NEW YORK, Dee. 26 (UP)—
For the second year in a row
heavyweight champion Ezzard
Charles was named “Fighter of
the Year” today by the Ring
Magazine becau e of his decisive
victory over Joe Louis in “the
most vital contest of 1050.”
Only Louis had previously won
the Ring award for two consecu-
tive years. 193$ and ‘39; although
Barney Ross shared the designa-
tion with Tout Canzoncri in ’34,
and win it by himself in ’35.
In addition to beating Louis
Ezzard made two other defenses
in which he stopped Freddie Be-
shore in the I Ith round and
knocked out Nick Barone in the
11th.
Nat Fleisher’s magazine, issu-
ing its annual ratings of boxers
today, did give Robinson some
recognition. , it named him the
“gVeatest all-round fighter, pound
for pound, in tiny division.” It
also rated him top contender for
the middleweight crown.
A POIT A
SpurtS
By Bad Worsham
Speedy GrUlders
Two well - drilled, precision-
timed Class A football teams
provided some 8,000 Christmas
Day fans at Mustang Bowl with
an afternoon crammed with
gridiron excitement.
It was the iiest high school
game we’ve seen this season,
and that includes all the Class
AA football powers we witnes-
sed.
In fact, we believe that either
of the slate finalists — Wharton
and Kermit — could have beat-
en the majority of A A squads
we saw this year.
Those boys didn’t waste any
time when they took to the
turf Monday afternoon. Both
teams ran plays quickly and
the blocking, tackling and run-
ning was as sharp as any club
ever exhibited at Mustang
Bowl.
Only a lack of passing attack
kept Kermit from wrapping up
the state crown. The ground-
gaining Yellow Jackets couldn't
josen up the Wharton defense
and they were eventually stop-
ped on their goal - line drives
liy a vicious charging Tiger
line.
_gg_
WHARTON really earned the
victory. It was no fluke
triumph.
Kermit had as many, if not
more, golden opportunities to
score as the Tigers did. But, the
Jackets were picking up only six
yards passing while the Whar-
ton aerial game accounted for
30. Too, the Jackets had to be
on guard against Little Marvin
Felder’s passing at all times. The
Kermit, defense, therefore,
couldn’t play as tight as Whar-
ton’s.
Although pro - game press
notices indicated that Wharton
had the weakest line, that was
not in evidence when the two
teams met face to face.
The Tiger linemen stopped
Hermit’s vaunted running game
for the most part and the Jack-
et’s phenomenal Rick Spinks
wasn't able to run wild as he
did against some of the lesser
teams his club faced.
_gg_
111 "I S1MNKS let bis presence
be known to Wharton players
and the fan - packed bowl from
the outset. On the opening kick-
off he sped 69 yards for a touch-
down and kicked the extra point
to give Kermit a 7-0 lead after
only 17 seconds of playing time.
NEW YEAR GLITTER_Here’s what Miami’s Orange Bowl looks like on Jan. 1, when a capacity
crowd turns out for pageantry and football. The upcoming game there pits Clemson passer Bay
Mathews, upper left, against Miami’s hard-running Mike Vaccio, top right. Michigan’s Chuck Ort-
maim, second from top left, goes against California sophomore Johnny Olszewski, corresponding right,
in the Pasadena Rose Bowl. Babe Parilli, second from bottom left, lends Kentucky against Leon Heath,
i corresponding right, and Oklahoma in the New Orleans Sugar Bowl. Bert Rechichar, bottom left,
hopes to do a lot of ball-carrying against Byron Townsend and Texas in the Dallas Cotton Bowl.
Browns Win Grid Title
On Groza's Field Goal
By Oscar Fraley
NEW YORK. Dec. 26 (Ul’l —
A $11,000 kick made it three
ill it row for Lou (The Toe)
Groza and five in a row for the
Cleveland Browns today.
Groza’s 16-yard field goal in
the last 20 seconds of play pro-
vided Cleveland’s 30-28 movie
script victory over the Los An-
geles Rams in the National Lea
gue professional football world
championship.
It was a $14,000 boot, with
that much between the winning
and losing share, or some $12.5
per man.
It was the third game in a row
which Groza’s toe won for the
Browns.
It was Cleveland’s fifth
straight league title, after four
years as top team of the now
defunct All America Conference.
'Model T' Ford
Paces South To
14-9 Victory
Miami, Fla., Dec. 26 (UP) — A
_ -__- , „ | terrific Texan from Hardin-
.IJlfL—I"0 ,!.hL Simmons and a genuine “rebel”
victorious Wharton team was
the pint - sized Tiger quarter-
back, Felder. Fullback Bill Cline
was Wharton’s leading ground-
gainer, but Felder's ball hand-
ling trickery and passing con-
fused the Yellow Jackets no
end.
Most of the 8,000 fans sitting
under the sunlit skies in 70-de-
gree weather were rooting for
Kermit. There was many a sad
soul trudging out the gate when
the fireworks were over and
Wharton was declared the new
state Class A champion.
As far as we were able to
find out, Sweetwater was a per-
fect host to the I wo teams and
their followers. That's a feather
in the city’s hat.
No one could have asked for
better “Chamber of Commerce”
weather on Christmas as Swe-
etwater “ordered” for the game.
Full Schedule For
Cotlon Bow! Week
lij Uni led Press
Cotton Bowl week gets back
into full swing today after a
Christmas weekend holiday.
University of Texas football
players returned to the drill
field at Austin, hoping that the
five tilling players who went
|home for Christmas without
too much practice under their
belts will be ready to go at top
speed. They will not come to
Dallas until Friday morning.
Their opponents, the Univer-
sity of Tennessee Vols, gathered
at Knoxville this morning and
will fly into Dallas this after-
noon—but too late to work out
today.
Meanwhile, a Cotton Bowl
high school invitation tourna-
ment got under way at noon on
two courts in first round games
which will narrow the field front
32 to 16 teams in short order.
Biggest interest in Dallas,
however, was the arrival of the
Vols, 44 strong, at 4:30 P. M.
The 59-man party, including
coaches,, trainers and a news-
paperman, were to be greeted al
Love Field by Dallas civic of-
ficials as well ns Cotton Bowl
authorities.
Following the official greet-
ings, coach Bob Neyland
planned to whisk his club to the
Stoneleigh Hotel, which will he
Tennessee headquarters front
now until after the New Year's
Day Cotton Bowl classic.
Anti it was a payoff on prac-
tice.
When the lumbering Lou
walked out there in the clammy
chill at Cleveland on Sunday, he
\\a.: on a terrific spot. Ilis team
trailed by one point. If he made
it, they won. If he missed, they
lost. After an hour’s struggle
if came down to that — a man's
abiliiy to kick the ball through
the uprights in a matter of sec-
onds.
They didn’t find Groza want-
ing.
Dreamed Of Chance
Back there as a kid in the
steel town of Martin's Ferry,
().. on the banks of the muddy
Ohio, young Lou had dreamed
often of such a chance. He
never pictured himself miss-
ing.
Those were the days when
I Lou idolized an older brother,
I who was a high school kicker,
land he would shag a football by
the hour a his big brother bo-
|oted the ball in practice.
“Pretty soon I was kicking
them hack to him,” Groza ex-
plained. “When 1 got to high
school, I wanted to he a kick-
er. too.”
He was, and a good one. He
also was a fine basketball play-
er tint! the people in Martin’s
Ferry remember “The Chief” as
the young man who led the
local high school quintet to the
Sugar Ray Prepares
For Jake LaMotta
FRANKFORT. Germany, Dec.
26 (UP) Welterweight cham-
pion Ray (Sugar) Robinson, hav-
ing beaten most of the best mid-
dleweight - Europe has to offer,
will sail for home tomorrow to
start training for his 160-pound
title challenge against Jake La-
motta at Chicago Feb. 14.
The sleek. 30-year-old cham-
pion from Harlem completed his
victorious five-bout European
tour by knockingout out Hans
Stretz. German middleweight
last night at 10 seconds of the
fifth round in a scheduled 10-
rounder. Robinson weighed
157 a pounds: Stretz 160.
from South Carolina provided
the Southern college all-stars
with a 2 to 1 edge over the North
today in their annual Shrine
football ms ies. . late champion ship. Lou. too,
John (ModeUl) Ford, Hardin- L, , vmil' ,,,lth(,, a iis.
Snumons quarterback, an.Li,,,,, m,h v,„ ,,l:ih)
u-hop Strickland, South ( • , who ploved at
hna ha 11 hack, wee the key Kt„n.(.u jiml J is pm
lignrcs j's he South boat he ,„,,, tn,|ianetpol 1 s
with 42 second’s left to play last | So Um lsn 1 "w
night in the Orange Bowl before
s- i i- . , |among the familv.
With the North leading. 9 to , h(,-n ,.lk„ ha,k ,<%l( t0
8, and tune Heeling, Strickland
unleashed a 39-vard pass to Ceep
Vottman of Duke which put the
ball on the Yankee five yard
line. A few plavs later, Dean j,i‘*'
Davidson of Vanderbilt, plunged .......... 1 1
over with the game-winning
touchdown
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rating second best there
It was Ford, however, who di-
rected the South team master-
ALLEY-OOP!—American bantamweight Jr.icpli lo Pietro rai-e<
100 kilograms in the weight-lifting contest of United State.: ami
German teams in Kaiserslautern. The Yankees won.
no one when it comes to kick-1
ing a football.
I .oil v. a ] a o\ ing 11i:d a an :
Ohio State fre.-Jiman under Paul |
was drafted in-
to the Army and saw three
yeai of service, including l>-i
Day al Leyte and Okinawa. I
When he returned, he felt lie |
v ... iwas too old for college hall and
fully and passed the North dizzy , , ,, ,,, ,, i
in the first hall to help build up , ,
, , ,, i, , , I, who k > v. Kid taken I, i i ilie
an 8 to (I load for I he Rebels. Ill,, , , .,
, .,, , • , it lev el. l III I 11 low 11 .
brilliant play won him two
Shrine trophies, a the most ,
valuable player in tile game and ,‘iVivr v.V.iYtii mum t
al.so the most valuable to the * ( o»llI (LI ) Ioa.is
Southern cause, I Pacific railroad officials got
Ford, the lightest player on j report from a clerk: “Brock j
the field at 160 pounds, set up lock on a car that came in with
the South’s first score with a cattle in it, to put the hay that
seven-yard pass to Bill Stribling j was on fire inside il mil."
of Mississippi and a 12-yard pitch ]
SELLS COP POLICY
EDMOND, Ok la (UP). When
highway patrolman Lee Sardis |
slopped insurance salesman O,
A. Higgs of Tul.-a for pa-sing a
“no passing” zone near here, he I
came out with no better than a
tie. He gave Biggs a ticket but I
before he could get away. Biggs !
sold hint an automobile insur-
ance policy.
to Youmans, enabling John Dot-
tley of Mississippi to plunge
over from the one-yard line after
the first six minutes of play.
Gil Stephenson, Army full-
back. won the most valuable
Northern player trophy. 1 lerb
Hanna. 220-pound Alabama
tackle, was judged the player
displaying the host sportsman-
ship.
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ready to pltvy.
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ond Appliance
115 West 3rd Dial 4733
FRAMED HIS FEET
MEMPHIS (UP) Mrs. J. E.
llessler said it was enough to
make an interior decorator
shudder. The beauty of a cur-
tain-framed window was marred
suddenly when a man stuck his
hare feet up for all to see.
Fores! Snyder To
Take Special Work
ROSCOE Forest Snyder of
Wells-Sn.vder Funeral Home
here has enrolled in the Dallas
School of Mortuary Science for a
special nine months course. I
He plans to leave Feb. 12 to
take the work.
Sweetwater Reporter
Pupllshed each afternoon except Satur
day. Also Sunday morning by the Sweet
water Reporter, Ire
Entered as second class mutter at post
office in Sweetwater, Texas, under act ot
March 3, 1«71),
Elmer Wright .............. Uuhllhhei
Allen Raker ............. Editor
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