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ready underdogs,
be crippled j for x
Bill Batgy, si
recovered 7 from jbn lattack
flu but will be Hjamneredi bJ
cold tonighjt. Mi*e warcii, ii
member of the starting quii
: s also g victim of ip cqld. |
’ Doc Hay|es’ Sputllibrn iMithpdlst
- five, still smarting;(froii a i 4\}|51
setback jfttLthe jhatiKps <
cagers two| weeks dgo, [is it fiill
strength.
The .Methodisljs difopped 4 10 t4*r
close one Tuesday nlijght. T1 ip ti ne
it was Baylor, Iwhol cbiral'e;! ihe
long end pf ajj51i4b jcoi<. The
Bears won,; b6tl|i( games wi h' lbd
Ponies this yeaiii an| haie. Miuii ed
a total of 3} moije [juintii linn he
tall Mustangs, i ’ ;
Fifth phijee in ||he totifcirein e rice.
wiill liiobablj' be at
stake) tonsght [1 he
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Saturday Night
Coach Johnnie Frankie’s Fish-
Bee Team,will be biting off qc
si n “ h i m “‘
here tomorrow’ iat
Tyler has (
nior College t .,
voted to take the Aggies. ,
The Fish have been playidglpff-
and-on ball all season, but have
improved considerably in the last
tew games. , ) ' | !
They boast a Starting dinpup
which averages over six feet in
..height. Coach Frankie has been
alternating his starters to find the
right combination of speed knd
height, add has changed his start-
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Bernie Syfan flashes his victory smile for the cam
eraman after winning the 220|>yard Free Style race
against TU last Wednesday, Bernie also won the 100-
yard Individual Medley Relay event a few minutes later.
3 Ex-SWC Champs Texas Leading
On T.U. Golf Team
tartitii* AUSTIN, Feb. 20 Three
‘Mlormer Southwest Conference golf
y c jTcnai'npio,ns are among the field of
.. ciindidates for the PJ48 Texas
^J 1 ! T ijorighorn golf team
erm
Mkii
ing lineup several times.
Jewel McDowell,, a mid-teini ad
dition to the squad, has increased
the Fish’s scoring punch, add cen
ter John* DeWitt Has been hitting
the basket with more tip-in shots
lately. . ] i, ) ] j
Guy Wallace, at .V-9" k>. the
smallest man on the; squall, hut
he has turned in some good play
ing lately.. . [ IJ- !' {M..
Couch Karow was happy about
McDowell’s good shooting ih prac
tice yesterday. McDowell was. hit
ting over half of his long shots,
and DeWitt and Martin w^re fol
lowing up what-shots he missed.
Tyler JC is one Of the teams en
tered in the tournament to be held
here next month, and has taken
all lot two of its conferencd; gambs
this season.
Jose Palafox is the higheJPspor-
er on thp Tyler Apache tea,jn with
an average of 10 points a giiniiev
Fred Anderson, a mid-term Ag
gie, has been working out \«it ! h the
Fish team and may break ijitio the
starting lineup tomorrow ifight.
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admittance to the game tomor
row night between the, Fish-Bees
and Tyler Junior Collegia The
game will start at 7:30 pjjm.;
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They are Ed Hopkins,! Dallas^
last year!s winner, 1940 champion,’
Hugh Da hi berg, and. the 1945 till-'
ist, Joe Ruby, both of San Antonio.
Other returnees are Bob Watson,
Wichita Falls, top-seeded man on
thd 194ti and 1947 teams,- and Mar-/
ion Pfluger and Morris Williams
Jr hofh of Austin :j 1^ just says, T
The Longhorns, defending chains| the; ' boy.” W’eiiilell Davis? The
Asik Erich Pohl, head man of
AAjlf track and field, in Texas, his
.besti piospect for the Olympics.
; No; it won’t hti Charley Parker,
Pciitty | Samuels on Jerry Thompson
of ! the X’niversity of Texas; , it
won't be Bill Martineson,
fla-lhed for Baylor last year,
tyd just says, ‘(Wehdell Davis is
Bo McMillin Goes
To Pro Football ”
DETROIT, Feb. 20
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le begin i
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spring football practice^ The first
practice session is slated ttt gi>t under waj at 4 :00 p. m. this
lope:
that
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Jettermen i
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m pijactice.
Nineteen
pected back from last) jieanji
gregation which ended up
tie w th Arkansas for fijfth
in conference standinjgp.
include two men, Jinitiy
ion and Bobby Goff, *|ho w
injured early last season
saw ho action in chnfer
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of Free|H>rt and Bob IlMividsoi
Port Arthur.
Glenn Lippman of Eli Campij)
several other outstanding .! ii| jhj iCentjer
o| stars won’t empll in
Wstart conference play with hamfr isn’t familia* to
at Houston. faijs] ih Texas hift in
most track
_ ... Negro ath-
This year, the conference jteam • ihuir{ circles he ijas won fame >8
jrhampionship will be decided by a sjprihtiftt‘He’s |a national chabi-
piuhljn two events and state cham-
Alvin
il N. (Bo) McMillin, veteran athletic
who I director and football icOach| at In-1
diana University, today wiys lured
| as head coach and general man- |
agi-r' of the Detroit Lionsj; of the j
National Football League. ;
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round-robin match play between
the seven conference teams instead,
of by a single-match play tourna-
| moot. Heretofore, the team with
!■ the. Iqwest four-man total hver the.;
j 72-holo touinamenj, ifmte won
championship.
: , Thefe i§ lots of height op the Freshman team, as
evidenced above by, left to right, Fred Sommers, John
jDeWitt, Kenneth Sutton and Marvin Martin. They are
all centers, but Sommers and Martin alternate at the
forward position. The Fish team will have its next game
tomorrow night. )
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piOpi in the 100 arid 220-yard dashes
a!n(] in the javelijn throw. I Lyle Fife of the. Lions |s| i
The 17 year old, 170 jiound Davis ; in making the announcement joint-
Kejnp High School for Ne-j ly that McMillin’s signir|g with
■ : gi^iejj here. He plays football and [ the Lions was subject to |his fe-
' ; buijkethall while pot blazing down ) lease from the remainder of a long
j thef. hinder path. Davis broke both
tMdtOO and 220-T«r<l dash records
ip /j.thc 1947 national Negro high 11>, run
||Sc!jo|pl rmfet in St. I.ouis, doing the
j cCrittiry in 9.5 seconds and the
furlo’ig iu 21.7. In the 1946 state
mnet he ran 220: yards in 21.1.
this will he hisj third cinder path
season and he hits lost only three
raqejs—finishing second in the 100
ami ;220 in the 1946 national meet
amfl‘second in the l6() in the 1946
j Ktajtf -meet. .. j-' ' .* . j
j His’ coach, C. L. Scurry, first
’ KajHzed he had a champion runner
j wht’p’Davis did j 9.9 in a district
: lne|?l as a sophomore. But Scurry
i eoiijlll scarcely hcliove it when the
hdyliran a 9.0 hiitidred in practice
laktf spripg.
!' i “jHe is easy lo handle,” says
'Bcurry, telling hou Davis read all
the frack infpmihtion he could got
i 'following his;start in track in 1940.
j “I .Started odt in 1947 working on
i bis fetrido an^ his starts. The great j make him ineligible,
s i trouhle in 1940 .was that he ran
A contract believed to Ihe foi l „•* - |jy_. * “ ”" ‘ rx '
Most iTop Jl Players in State
strategist of hoosici foothajl teams * **
for 15 years, into the pro riinks.
Both McMillin and Presi|lent I).
Lyle Fife of the; Lions (specified
Will See Action in Tournament
Out of the top 12 scorers in Junior (Colleges throughout'
the sttite, S are on teams which are entered in the State*-\Vide
J(j! Tournament to by held here March 1, 2, 3.
term contract, at Indiana JJniver- Leading the list is <3(jay Fargle of (’orpus—which ac-
sily, which •still has seveji years Ur . i nvIUtti(m ^ y e8 ter(fly> !
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Bear First Sucller
Declared Eligible
AVACjO, Feb. 2(j. '^i—Toll Chan
dler, star first basenyans of the
Baylor University basebafl team,
has been declared eligible ito play
this year. f
J. D. Bragg, Baylor, representa
tive of the Southwest Conference
faculty committee, annourgeed the
result of a vote of members' yes
terday.
Chandler had previpuafy been
ruled ineligible because he’had ac
cepted expense money whife work
ing out with San AiHonid, of the
Texas League. He returned' the
Kai-gle has an avorage of.; 2flj.5, 3 BlUylBhermim-Victoria-lfe.,
I »o ? nts a game to date and he .nay 4 R q; S imms-Westminister-Ki
b v e !?s. trr *• Ch.*y i SmiA-l«.v« ror -lM
6. Manuel Iguin, 'Lon Morns; 15.3
schoo
u itil the fyll semesteri
Froshmah Coach “Bines” i
won’t) arrive in Aggiieland jjilij
June 1, but the freshmen are)
ejl to receive a lot ibf attcii
diirinr the 30 day period, Dllri
the ti aiding period thui;' wi[l ;(f)o
with the varsity.
The gridders will go to win
the Trformation as that, is the)
finishes its present Valley touif.
Second on the list is D. W. Haw
kins of Wayiarid J. C., Pal in view.
Hawkins has am average of f7.0
points a game, but he has playld
only three games for Weyland, and
ho could take over first place with
some high-scoring tilts this week
end. .*
Corpus, unbeaten in league
play, also has another player in
the top bracket. Bryan Taylor
Has made 75 points in 5 games
to rank 7th in the state with
an even 15-point average.
Another team which has mono
polized scoring honors is North
Tt*cais Agricultural College at A;r-
7. Bryan Taylor— li 'Corpus-4-16.0
8. Paul Mitchell—1NTAC—14.5
9. Whit Pate.—'Amarillo—14.0
Hfr. E. E. Harvey—Longview—14.1
11. Patt Babb—’'Amarillo—14.0
12 J. D. White—♦NTAC—fSie
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anjdi.to improve his starts. He has
a little body, leap, and brings his
Loses Allen Lawler
with ad average of 14,5, and J. D.
White of the * same school is .in
12th place with 13.6.
Amarillo has two men on the
AUSTIN, Feb. 20 -<2Pg Alien
Lawler, an outstanding jblympic
prospect on the Univcrsityt of Tcx-
ki.ees up so ajs th bring his thighs
parallel wit! the ground.”
, Diuyis wil run in Texas AAU
Sarij Antonio June ; 25 and Pohl
j Miievibs he wiljl he this state’s i as track team, undenvent an ap-
wptesentative in the sprints at J pendectomv. last night. ■'
, the i national AAU in Milwaukee His doctor would not sajl wheth-
Ui July 3-4. He also will again go | er tht . SI ,rint acc will be? able to
! to fft, Louis for the Negro national, j uornpete this spring.
| “The boy has;done 9.5 Several , ■ ; ' ■ . ‘i I I ;
times,” says Pohl. “He’s another Washington players hit fen Imnic
Jessie Owens.” ' M 1 - -
top 12 high-scoring list. Whit Pate
is 9th. with 14.3, followed closely
by his teammate, Pat Babb, w
an even 14.0.
TOP 12), JC SCORERS
1. Gray Earglb—*Corpus~p20.5
2. Dj W. Hawkins—’"Waylaind
Manuel Iguina (see 6 above), is I
from Porto Rico. Both Ire and I
his brother played for Lon, Morris'
j last year.-They liked the school so
well that they brought hack 15
! more Porto Ricans last fall.
Iguina is a sharp player and has *
| kept, Lon Morris in the running f
! tor'the Southwest District, Title.
TWO MORE ENTRIES . j .
Tiyo other teams! John Tarleton
and Wharton Junior College, have
| accepted their invitations to play
in this tournament.
This brings the total to 12 teams
j definitely entered so fair. The rc-
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Returning* linemen ii|c ude: Utn
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tzenberger, Max Greiner, Her
Turley, and Calvin Dunree; 'injf
iWinkl;r and Marion Settegistl,
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Oscar Pollock, Wray : Vhitt* sep
and Claries Wright,
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Ralph Daniel, Bobby;.: Dew | Bo »
Goode, Stan HolimigJ Pn|ijtoii
Smith, Jimmy Cashionij and Bdbfc ’
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mid-fsemester are: Bat is Ho'
Smitjh of Houston, l)h le Coltons
of .\jmarillo, Clarence-1 .awsoaf ol
»ita Falls, Clovis- Dlsack ol
lAngelo, and Jim) lobby a of
Abilene; Ends (!arl Hji 1 of l|
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Averill Davis, of > ederlajhd
Charles Conner of Dillas; jam
Wilbur McBride of ! Kemji lie]
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li70 entrant^ keeping the scales
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|Uack;this yehr to defend their titles
These pugilijsts are: E. S. Keesc pt
B Cavalry winner of the Class A
149 bound frlass last year.-R. W.
Wheat of (’[Infantry wjho took the
Glass a lip pound title. Robert^ j.
Garlsori froUi B Infantry who was,.
the 421] puqmi Class B Champion
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who w’^nt itito the finals and will
he hard to peat this year as they ••
try to get'in championship row. j ” ,
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from) A Infgntry that wdnt to the
finals in tlje 139 pound ClgBs A
event; iBill Alexander of Bizzell, a ,
1947; finaliift in the Class ^ 179 ’
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