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school ever attracted any at-
ition in basketball.
FrairieView had beaten Jackson
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ipians at home.
Top Texas High School Cage
Teams Start Playoffs Today
By The Associated Press
AUSTIN—The 24 best teams of
1,000 hopefuls in Texas Interscho
lastic League basketball begins the
final championship weeding-out
process at Gregory Gymnasium
here Thursday.
Of the 24 regional titlists in the
five classes only one comes to
the 41st annual Interscholastic
League Tournament with an un
beaten season record. That is Buna
in Class AA, coached by M. N.
Cotton Robinson.
Buna rolled over 41 opponents
including a dozen Class AAAA
squads. If Buna—the tournament’s
only really outstanding favorite of
any classification—wins the title
this year it will make its third
championship in five years.
Buna makes its first tourna
ment appearance at 7:30 p. m.
Thursday in the opening Class
AAA game against New Boston
which has a 28-3 season record.
Many teams and busloads of
backers arrived in Austin Wednes
day afternoon and the schoolboys
got in their first workouts at
Gregory Gym to accustom them
selves to the unfamiliar court.
The tourney’s first game begins
at 8:45 a. m. Thursday with Asper-
mont 32-2 taking on Mertzon.
Mertzon 26-3 in Class B. Games
in this bracket continue through
out the morning and afternoon,
matching Hutto 27-7 with Blan
ket 28-5 at 10:10 a. m.; Franks-
ton 38-3 versus Santa Rosa 21-8
at 11:35 a. m.; Mauriceville 31-4
versus Forestburg 34-2 at 1:45 p.
m.
Play in Class A begins in mid
afternoon, matching Brownsboro
34-2 and Louise 25-6. Class AA
play begins with the Buna—New
Boston game; Classes AAA and
AAAA begin their elimination Fri
day afternoon and night.
The Class AAAA division—top
class—will have Denton, Amarillo
Palo Duro, Houston Austin and
Austin, with Austin the only re
turnee. Houston Austin, with a 32-
5 record, will be favored for the
championship won by Beaumont
South Park last year.
The Class AAAA teams do not
swing into /action until Friday
night when Austin of Houston
clashes with Austin and Denton
takes on Palo Duro.
Class AAA has only one 1960
team returning—South San An
tonio. But Clear Creek, with a
35-1 record, is the favorite. Class
AAA starts Friday afternoon with
Clear Creek meeting Dumas and
Nacogdoches playing South San
Antonio.
Class AA has one team back—
Dimmitt, which has a 30-5 record.
Buna, which comes to the tourna
ment with its great unbeaten rec
ord, plays New Boston in the
opening round Thursday night.
Dimmitt tackles Needville.
Class A has all new teams—
White Deer, James Bowie, Browns
boro and Louise. This class starts
play Thursday afternoon with
Brownsboro meeting Louise and
James Bowie engaging White
Deer. The latter, with a 31-2 rec
ord, is the championship favorite.
! Intramurals]
Intramural sports continued in
high style yesterday as 12 games
were played.
In the three games played in
Class A Volleyball, A-l edged D-2,
2-1; G-3 blanked B-2, 2-0; and
F-2 shutout H-2, 2-0.
In Class C Tennis, Hart Hall
won over Mitchell by forfeit, and
Milner defeated Puryear, 2-1. '
In Class B Rifle, D-2 out-shot
K-2, 432-332; C-2 beat D-l, 436-
347; F-2 shot past C-l, 451-448;
A-l halted B-2, 380-348; F-l blas
ted A-2, 422-338; H-l banged past
B-l for a 461-408 victory; and
G-3 won over C-2, 474-417.
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Page 5
Broussard All-America
Honorable Mention
Carroll Broussard, A&M’s prolif
ic pointmaking forward, yestei'day
was named an All-America Honor
able Mention performer by The
Associated Press.
Two other Southwest Conference
cage standouts, Del Ray Mounts
and Harold Hudgens of Texas
Tech, were named to the Honor
able Mention list of the mythical
team.
Below is an account of the per
formers that were selected by The
Associated Press as America’s
elite on the hardwoods.
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK—Jerry Lucas of
Ohio State and Tom Stith of St.
Bonaventure, regarded as college
basketball’s greatest players this
season, top the 1961 college bas
ketball All-Apierica announced
Wednesday by The Associated
Press. •
Named to the first team with
these two standouts were Terry
Dischinger of Purdue, Roger Kai
ser of Georgia Tech and Chet Wal
ker of Bradley.
Lucas and Stith were far out in
front in the voting by .395 sports
writers and broadcasters from all
parts of the country. On the basis
of five points for a first team
vote and two points for a second
team votes, Lucas polled 392 first
team votes and a total of 1,962 of
a possible 1,975 points. Stith got
358 first team votes and 1,845
points.
Dischinger, who last Saturday
set a Big Ten single game scoring
record of 52 points against Michi
gan State, polled 1,540 points in
cluding 280 first team votes.
Kaiser got 138 fifst team votes
and 894 points, Walker 109 first
team votes and 807 points. The
top five were the only, players to
receive more than 100 first team
votes.
Walt Bellamy of Indiana heads
a second team that includes Tony
Jackson of St. John’s (NY), Frank
Burgess of Gonzaga, Billy McGill
of Utah and Doug Moe of North
Carolina. Bellamy got 703 points,
Jackson 445, Burgess 405, McGill
385 and Moe 367.
Art Heyman, Duke’s star sopho
more, received 352 points to top
a third team which also includes
York Larese of North Carolina,
John Rudometkin of Southern Cal
ifornia, and John Havlicek and
Larry Siegried, both of Ohio
State. Larese got 331 points, Rud
ometkin 316, Havlicek 295 and
Siegfried 269.
Dave Debusschere of Detroit,
with 237 points, tops an honorable
mention group of 45. Len Chap
pell of Wake Forest, with 205
points, is second on the honorable
mention list followed by Wayne
Hightower of Kansas, 155, Rod
Thorn of West Virginia, 153, Tom
Chilton of East Tennessee State,
149, Don Nelson of Iowa, 128,
Jerry Graves of Mississippi State,
89, and Tom Meschery of St.
Mary’s (Calif.), 88.
Lucas, a junior, is the only re
peater from the 1960 All America.
Dischinger, also a junior and with
Lucas a member of the 1960 U.S.
Olympic team, moved up\from the
second team as did Stith, Kaiser
and Walker.
Stith and Kaiser are seniors,
Walker and junior. Jackson, who
made last year’s first team, drop
ped down to the second quintet.
These six, along with the other-
players on the first three teams,
will receive certificates from The
Associated Press.
Lucas, a 6-8 whiz, led the Buck
eyes to the national collegiate
(NCAA) championship a year ago.
This year the Bucks expanded
their winning streak to 27 in a
row, through last Saturday, with
Lucas again the leader.
Stith is the “kind of hoy who
spoils a coach,” said Coach Eddie
Donovan of St. Bonaventure, a
team ranked second to Ohio State
in The Associated Press weekly
poll.
“He does everything so easily
and so gracefully that you’re
scarcely aware of how hard he’s
working. But he- always turns up
in the right place at the right
time and he can put that up there
with every imaginable kind of
shot.”
Others winning honorable men
tion were:
John Turner, Louisville; Fred
Crawford, St. Bonaventure; Jeff
Cohen, William and Mary; Chris
Smith, Virginia Tech; Don Kojis,
Marquette; Larry Comley, Kan
sas State; Gary Phillips, Houston;
Carroll Broussard, Texas A&M;
Whitey Martin, St. Bonaventure;.
Cedric Price, Kansas State; Paul
Hogue, Cincinnati; Jack Foley,
Holy Cross; Mel Nowell, Ohio
State; John Egan, Providence.
Jim Gus Guydon, Drake; Charlie
Warren, Oregon; Howie Carl, De-
Paul; Bill Bridges, Kansas; Dick
Hickox, Miami (Fla).; Billy Lick-
ert, Kentucky; Bill Green, Colo
rado State Univ.; John Tidwell,
Michigan; Jack Egan, St. Joseph’s
(Pa.); Henry Whitney, Iowa State;
Bill McClintock, California; Bruce
Drysdale, Temple; Dave Fedor,
Florida State; Jim Hadnot, Provi
dence; Bill Depp, Vanderbilt; Del
Ray Mounts, Texas Tech; Al But
ler, Niagara; Lou Merchant, Flor
ida; Charles Henke, Missouri;
George Nattin, Louisiana State;
Harold Hudgens, Texas Tech; Bob
Wiesenhahn, Cincinnati; Ron Hel
ler, Wichita.
Top Rated Texas
Freshman Gridder
Gives Up Football
By The Associated Press
AUSTIN—The top rated fresh
man lineman in the Southwest
Conference has given up football
for the shot put.
Robert Young, 250-pound tackle
from Brownwood, had been tabbed
as one of the best tackles to conn
to Texas in years. He decided this
week to concentrate on the shot
and discus.
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