!Pnge 6 1 ' 'Colleofe Station, Texas
Thursday, August 1.7, 1961
THE BATTALION
Football Magazine
Picks Rice To Win
T>y HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Associated Press Sports Writer
Rice will win the Southwest Con-
ferenae football championship be
cause it’s that fourth year.
Three Baylor players Will make
the all-conference team.
Jim Saxton of Texas is the most
unpredictable but dangerdus runner
of them all.
lance Alworth of Arkansas
doesn’t think he has done much
although acclaimed as a great con
tender for ■ All-America.
Corpus Christi Ray will be the
top team of Texas schoolboy foot
ball.
These are the observations of
Texas Football, a magazine that
has hit the newsstands for the
second year in a row and filled a
big need among the fans.
The magazine is the product of
Dave Campbell, sports editor of
the Waco News-Tribune, with A1
Ward, Mickey Herskowitz, Hollis
Biddle and Jim Montgomery help
ing' him prepare the 100-page tome.
Campbell, in picking Rice to
grab the title, says that.the Owls
have been winning it every fourth
year since 1949 and that 1961 is
the fourth year since they took it
last in 1957. The best material
Jess Neely ever has had while
coaching at Rice for 21 years also
has something to do with Camp
bell’s selection.
The all-conference team in De
cember will be as follows, accord
ing to the magazine: ends Johnny
Burrell, Rice and Bob Lane, Bay
lor; tackles, Bobby Plummer, Texas
Christian, and John Cornett, Rice;
guards, Dean Garrett, Arkansas,
and Ray Schoenke, Southern Meth
odist; center, Jerry Hopkins, Texas
A&M; backs, Bobby Ply and Ron
nie Bull of Baylor, Alworth and
Saxton.
“Only the films know where
Saxton went” is the title of an
article on Texas’ wild-running half
back. Saxton started the legend
back when he was a freshman. He
gained 65 yards on three straight
plays around Don Allen of the
varsity and Mike Dowdle says “I
don’t believe Don knows now where
the guy went.”
Coach Darrell Royal said you
had to study the films of the
games to see just how good Saxton
was. “You look at the Oklahoma
film and it’s like ‘This Is Your
Life, James Saxton’,” Royal said.
Arkansas coach Frank Broyles
says a few years ago a great back
“was a fellow who ran 40 or 50
yards for you. But the defenses
don’t let you get those long- runs
any more. Today, a great back
is the one that makes eight yards
when you need it, where there’s
only blocking for three. He makes
key runs on key downs and keeps
your drive going.”
Broyles obviously was speaking
of Lance Alworth, says “Texas
Football.” Alworth though, doesn’t
think he has done much. “I’d just
like to play the way I feel I’m
capable of playing,” he says.
In recruiting, which has long-
been finished, Texas A&M, Texas,
Texas Tech and Rice were con
sidered to be the leaders. The
Aggies got the most boys—59.
Texas Tech landed more first
team all-starters—six. Texas got
the boy voted outstanding player
in the state—Ernie Koy, Jr., and
Rice got quality throughout.
Texas A&I and Arlington State
are picked as the top small college \
teams in Texas.
Corpus Christi Ray and Wichita
Falls are selected to reach the
finals of Class AAAA schoolboy
football—the same thing they did
in 1959 when Ray won the title.
And if Wichita Falls does make it,
the Coyotes will tie the i-ecord set
by Waco in the twenties—going to
the finals four straight years.
Brownwood is picked to repeat
with the Class AAA championship,
with Brownwood, Port Lavaca
clashing in the finals the second
year in a row.
Terrell is selected to return to
the throne room in Class AA, meet
ing Brady for the title the same
as in 1957.
Albany should again win the
Class A championship^ says the
magazine.
Could It Be
A Fowl Ball
Or A Foul Ball?
Skowron Hopes
Back Will Hold
By BILL SKOWRON
Yankee First Baseman
Written for AP Newsfeatures
I’m just hoping my back holds
up. If it does maybe I can have
a good last two months because it
might help the Yankees retain the
American League pennant.
A number of people have said
that Mickey Mantle and Roger
Maris, who are so hot with their
home run bats, will be getting
many bases on balls from here on
in.
If the pitchers persist in walk
ing them I’d like to start hitting
again so I can drive them home.
What bothered me about my
good year in 1960 was my 95
strikeouts. I never had so many
and right now I should be choking
up on the bat to meet the ball
when the pitchers have two strikes
on me.
DALLAS, Tex.,—Howard Grubbs
read a second time the letter he
had just dictated to his new secre
tary.
“It clearly said, “Fowl balls.”
Mrs. Decherd,” said Grubbs pa
tiently, “F-o-w-1 is a chicken. Base
balls are f-o-u-l. Remember that.”
She did. In the 10 years she has
been secretary to the Southwest
Conference’s executive secretary
that is the only time Mrs. Eliza
beth Decherd has fumbled the
terminology of athletics.
Mrs. Decherd, one of the hun
dreds of persons behind the con
ference’ sports scene, came to the
SWC offices equipped poorly. She
majored in music at Southern
Methodist University and wasn’t a
sports fan.
“It was pretty bewildering at
first,” says the 49-year-old widow
and mother of two. “Now it’s pret
ty routine.”
The most embarrassing aspect
of her job comes when the con
ference or some member is in
volved in a controversy.
Conference officials are tight
mouthed about details of such de
bates. But sometimes Mrs. Dec-
herd’s friends don’t understand that
she, too, is duty-bound to keep
quiet.
“I try not to talk about those
things,” she says. “If I have to
talk about them, I just say I don’t
know a thing. Usually I don’t”.
Cupits Went From Sliact
To A New Golf Course
Third baseman Ken Boyer of the
Cardinals began with Lebanon, Pa.,
in the North Atlantic League in
1949 and hit .455 in 16 games. He
had a 5-1 pitching record that year.
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Associated Press Sports Writer
GREGGTON, Tex.—Those Cupit
boys—Jacky and Buster—you see
so often among the money-winners
along the tournament trail these
days are members of Texas’ biggest
golfing family.
How they got to be such fine
players is a good story.
Jacky won the Canadian Open
July 15, pretty good for a guy who
was a collegian only last year. At
one stretch Jacky won money in
four straight tournaments, includ
ing $4,300 first money in the
Canadinan Open. He, racked up
more than $7,000 in three weeks.
Buster Cupit, at the same time,
was also winning money—over
$5,000—although second was his
highest finish. He was runner-up
to another Texan, Don January, in
the St. Paul Open.
It’s not surprising to Texans to
find the Cupits doing well on tour
although both are just making
their start. These fellows have
been playing golf since they were
knee high to Ben Hogan.
There are seven boys in the
family and five are golf profes
sionals. There is Buster, 34, for
12 years a pro, currently at Hard
scrabble Country Club in Fort
Smith, Ark.; Bobby, also a pro at
Hardscrabble; David, 28, pro five
years at Magnolia, Ark.; Jerry, 25,
pro one year at Lions Country
Club, El Dorado, Ark., and Jacky,
23, who plays unattached on the
tour.
Jacky was at the University of
Houston three years and each year
played on the NCAA championship
team.
Some 30 years ago the Cupit
family came here from Shawnee,
Okla., settling in a small shack on
top of a hill. It was a fairly large
family then and was to. grow
larger. The financial burden in
creased.
The golf rise of Jacky and
Buster isn’t unique but the way
they did it certainly is.
Some years after the family
moved into the “shack,” as Mrs.
J. W. Cupit, the mother, calls it,
construction began on a golf
course at the bottom of the hill.
Naturally, the boys were attracted
to it.
A man named Pop Boone, who
built the course, took a liking to
the Cupit boys. They helped him
build the layout and he recipro
cated by teaching them the game
and making the course available to
them.
“They made their own spending
money by caddying,” Mrs. Cupit
recalls. “It took all their fs:
had to keep the family up.
of the men at the course j
them old clubs and the boyski
roam the fields or wade the
to find golf balls. That wa;
didn’t cost them any thing to pi
She said she couldn’t keep;
off the course “long enoupl
change clothes. And they mi
many a meal.” And she h
strong suspicion that they ski;
school to play golf.
“Years later, when Jacky
his first amateur tournament;
sixth grade teacher called hia
told him: T knew you were*
to make a great golfer, Ink
you skipped school to do it’,"
Cupit declares.
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“But I wouldn’t take a mil
dollars for all this. It’s jus:
believable what the game hasi|
for them.”
VA Hospital Groiij
To Attend BU Garni
More than 30 patients and domi-
cilian members of the Veterans Ad
ministration Center, Temple, ’’Tex-
as will be guests of Texas A&M
and the Athletic Department at
the football game October 28th be
tween Baylor University and Tex
as A&M. The patients accom
panied by nurses and Mrs. Mar
garet Wade, trip supervisor, will
arrive shortly before noon and
have lunch in Duncan Dining Hall.
They will be met by P. L. “Pinkie”
Downs Jr., official greeter foil
College, in charge of local am:]
ments.
The guests will be seated]:
the cinder path in box seats
the west side of Kyle Field.!
grams and refreshments will
served the guests and folk
the game they will have thein
ing meal at Duncan Dining M
This will be the sixteenth
the group has been our gi
Downs stated.
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If I had learned to swim earlier
my muscles today might have been
a lot looser than they are. Maybe
I wouldn’t have hurt my back So
many times.
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