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Thursday, December 30, 1954 THE BATTALION Pape Moegle’s Interrupted Run In Cotton Bowl Top Oddity By HUGH FULLERTON JR. The Associated Press The sports oddity of the year oc curred on January 1, 1954. That’s an oddity in itself. Usually the unusual happenings of a New Year’s Day are forgotten or burned under the mass of other strange occurrences in sports. This one still stands out in the minds of the writers and broadcasters participating in the Associated Press year-end poll. The scene was the Cotton Bowl at Dallas, where a capacity crowd watched Rice romp over Alabama. Dicky Moegle, elusive Rice half- blek was running wild and appar ently there was no way Alabama could stop his long runs. ‘That is, there was no way until Moegle burst into the clear and started on a 95-yard jaunt toward a touchdown. As he ran near the Alabama bench a fired-up young ster named Tommy Lewis forgot he wasn’t in the game, jumped up and tackled Dick still 42 yards from the goaf line. The officials, of course, gave Moegle and Rice credit for the full distance and the touchdown and Lewis was al most overcome by chargin as Rice won the game, 28-6. But the unpredictable public didn’t cast any blame on Lewis. He was hailed as a “great competi tor”. He was buried under sym pathetic letters and telegrams and deluged with offers to appear on radio and television shows and to make banquet talks. People al most forgot about Moegle in con nection with the incident until Dicky came back during the past season to repeat his running feats and earn All-American honors. Only one other event that came close to that one as an oddity in the opinion of the sportswriters. That was the 1954 World Series. The experts found it hard to be lieve that the Cleveland Indians, who had set an American League record by winning 111 games dur ing the season could collapse com pletely or that the New York Giants were a good enough club to blank Cleveland in the series. There were two ways of looking at it, but *the result still remained the same—Giants in four straight. Several others picked on one as pect of the series—the home run counting of pinch-hitting Dusty Rhodes—as the year’s great od dity. And a couple thought it most strangle that Cleveland’s Bob Fel ler, after waiting six years for such an opportunity, didn’t get to pitch even one ball in the series. Football as usual, drew lot of attention to its brand of goofy hap- Yellow Fever Mosquitoes Known Breeding in Texas AUSTIN, (Spl.)—Yellow fever mosquitoes are known to be breed- %g in Texas, a senior engineer With the State Department of Health says, and “they could make h'ouble for us.” “We haven’t had a recorded case ©f yellow fever in this state siffce 1905,” says Frank Von Zuben, a specialist in insect control. “But with the volumfe of international travel we have today, together with the presence of yellow fever mos quitoes, the situation is potentially dangerous.” Von Zuben, just back from an in ternational conference on yellow fever in Havana, Cuba, sees it like this: Yellow fever has been kept un der tight rein since the Spanish- American War. But the disease, spread exclusively by mosquitoes known scientifically as Aedes ae- gypti, has been perpetuated in jun- f^le monkeys. Thus, United States citizens who travel in jungle coun tries, or natives of those countries ^siting here, are sometimes ex posed to bites of mosquitoes which have previously fed on infected monkeys. When those international travel- Bowling Knows No Age LACROSSE, Wis. CP) — Regular competitors in bowling league play every Nonday night in this city are Mrs. Ella Schneeberger, 75 years old, and her grandniece Lynell Bailey, 13. Mrs. Schneeberger has been bowling for 35 years and has and average of 135. ers pass through Texas port cities or air terminals, they may bring the infection with them. Local yellow fever mosqujtoes might eas ily take the infection from them to spread among others. No species of mosquito other than Aedes aegypti spreads yellow fever in municipal areas. Von Zu ben says. Health officials know the points at which yellow fever mosquitoes are breeding, he indicated. Given working funds, they could be en tirely eliminated in any given area in a year’s time. Aedes aegypti, Von Zuben point ed out, seldom fly beyond 100 feet from their breeding site. In any type of water container they breed prolifically, but; are highly vulner able to DDT. He says the Caribbean island of Trinidad recently suffered an epi demic of yellow fever after being free for yeai-s. Since June of this year, the insland’s import-export trade has taken a loss of S28,000,- 000. Vet Stays On Ice EAST LANSING, Mich. CPI — Charles (Rabbit) McVeigh can't keep away from hockey. He star ted his hockey playing career in 1919 and was a star in the Nation al Hockey League for many years. When he quit playing he became a referee in the American Hockey League. Now, at the age of 57, he officiates ice games of the Michigan State College teams. NO BRAGGING \usf facts! Even Texans might not believe some facts about Texas until they check them in the Texas Almanac* But they arc a!I in there, from details on your county to the overall picture of the state. 'k Order the 1954-55 edition nowl Published by 01|r $)aUa£ fttomiiuj penings, capped by the collapse of the Illinois team that looked so great in 1953 and the fact that Illinois and Michigan State, co champions of the Big Ten last year, finished at the bottom this season. Track also produced some strange happenings. There was the thrilling mile race at the Brit ish Empire Games when Roger Bannister and John Landy, the only runners ever to break the four-minute barrier, both bettered that “impossible” time—and when Landy looked over one shoulder for his rival, Bannister passed him on the other side. It was in the Empire Games, too, that Jim Peters, heading for a victoi’y and a record in the mar athon, collapsed 200 yards from the finish line and never got there. Another marathon runner, Russia’s Ivan Filin, turned the wrong di rection as he entered the stadium to finish in the European cham pionship. 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