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s Lose Top Rating
Series Of Team Upsets
By NORMAM MILLER
NEW YORK, Feb. 16 —UP—Re-
• percussions of the upset earth-
quake which shook college basket-
's ball last weekend shot undefeated
Duquesne to the top of the United
Press ratings Tuesday and lifted
Iowa, Louisiana State and Kansas
among the first 10 teams.
Indiana, which had taken over
the No. 1 rating last week from
Kentucky, was a leading victim of
a succession of upheavals.
Oklahoma A. & M., Minneso-
ta, California and LaSallc also
were beaten.
Coach Dudey Moore's tall, talent-
ed Dukes, unbeaten in their first
19 games, received 16 first-place
votes from the 35-man United
Press rating board. Kentucky, with
a strine of 18 straight victories, at-
tracted 12 first-place votes as it
moved up one notch to second,
while Indiana was the first choice
of six coaches. Notre Dame, ranked
eighth this week, received the oth-
er top vote.
Games Through Saturday
The coaches based their ratings
on games played through Satur-
day night. Feb. 13.
Duquesne did not receive a vote
lower than fifth-place as it
amassed a total of 315 points, com-
pared to 291 for Kentucky and 279
for Indiana. In addition to their 16
firsts, the Dukes had 14 for sec-
ond-place. two for third and one
each for foflrth and fifth.
This was the third straight week
that a different team topped the
United Press ratings. Indiana had
taken over the lead last week from
Kentucky, which had led for six
weeks in a row. The Hoosiers had
been ranked tops for the first two
weeks of this season.
Duquesne, whom the coaches had
picked third in their pre-season
forecast of the national race, held
the No. 3 rating for the first eight
weeks before moving up to second
place last week,
Oklahoma A&M (20-21 reta iled
fourth place for the seventh
straight week, but the other upset
victims of last weekend i Minneso-
ta, California and LaSallei all
dropped out of the top 10.
Rankings Reshuffled
The rankings from tifth to 10th
inclusive were vastly reshuffled
from last week. Western Kentucky
(23-li moved up one place to fifth;
Holy Cross (17-1 climbed two
notches to sixth place; Iowa < 14-3>
I vaulted all the way from 14th place
to seventh after upsetting Minneso-
ta; Notre Dame 113-2 > retained
eighth place; LSU <15-2) advanced
three places to ninth, and Kansas
111-4) jumped one notch to 10th.
In points. Oklahoma A&M had
189. Western Kentucky 121. Holy
Cross 103, Iowa 100. Notre Dame
96. LSU 62 and Kansas 54.
LaSalle 110th last week) headed
the second 10 group: Minnesota
(fifth last weeki was ranked 12th
this week, while California
(seventh last week) dropped to a
tie for 13th place with Duke.
Rounding out this week's second
10 teams in order were George
Washington, Seattle, UCLA, Colo-
rado A&M, Wichita and North Car-
olina State.
Other teams among the 32 which
received votes in this week's rat-
ings; Maryland, Rice, Dayton,
ville, Foriiiiam, Niagara, Colorado,
Navy. Illinois and St. Louis.
Sweetwater Reporter, Texas, Tuesday, February 16, 1954
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Monday's College Basketball
EAST
Providence 80. Bates <>8.
MIT 75. Bowdoin 58.
Holy Cross 87. Vale 57.
Maryland 74. Wake Forest 53.
Seton Hall 72. Loyola < 111.1 60.
West Chester 67. Washington
College 52.
Lovola iMd.) 63. Baltimore U.
59.
Fairfield 88. Quonset Nas 79.
Steubenville 89. St. Vincents 50.
SOUTH
Alabama 85. Florida 58. •
Auburn 80. Georgia 61.
Tulane 59. Georgia Tech 57.
Western Ky. St 81. Kentucky
Wesleyan 65.
Kentucky 81, Mississippi St. 49.
Mississippi 93. Tennessee 73.
Murray St. 86. Morehead (Ky.)
76.
Centenary 67. Spring Hill 58.
Louisiana Tech 78. Middle Tenn
St. 71. .
Tenn Tech 7M^t>Udjllir Tenn St.
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MIDWEST
Louisville 96, Bradley 90.
Notre Dame 86. De Paul 71.
Detroit 66, Drake 61.
Duquesne 87. Wayne 56.
Franklin 67, Wabash 61.
Illinois Normal 80. Southern Ill-
inois 77.
Indiana 86. Purdue 50.
Ohio St. 77. Iowa 69.
Marquette 87, St. Norberts 58.
Marshall 90. Western Michigan
88.
Northwestern 84, Michigan 73.
Minnesota 78, Wisconsin 68.
St. Louis 70, Tulsa 69.
William Jewell 84. Drury 81.
Baker 69, Bethel 59.
St. Marys (Minn.) 64. Gustavus
College 61.
SOUTHWEST
North Texas St. 83, Mississippi
Southern 60.
Oklahoma 76, Nebraska 68.
WEST
Colorado 70. Iowa St. 50.
Montana 86.. Gonifciga 82. <
Uxas Tourney
Opens Thursday
SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 16 — UP—
Touring professional golfers were
in action Tuesday on two San An-
tonio golf courses, preparing for
the 812,500 Texas Open tournament
which will begin Thursday.
The lesser known pros, who were
not automatically in the field, were
trying for 50 open places in a quali-
fying round over the Brackenridge
Park course where the tourney will
be played.
Most of the "name" golfers,
meanwhile, were participating in a
$4,000 invitational pro - amateur
tournament.
Chuck Klein, a San Antonio pro-
fessional. posted the best indivi-
dual score of the day with a seven-
under par 64. His team was one of
the two shooting 60 s, with the oth-
er members being Billy Phillips,
Lefty Williams and Ed Zimmer-
man. all of San Antonio.
The other low-scoring quarter
included Dick Turner, Earl (Rose
and Country Sandau. all of San
Antonio, and Warren Hurst of New
Braunfels, Tex.
A1 Broseh of Garden City, N.Y.,
j took runner-up individual honors
behind Klein with a 65. Other low
shooters included Wally Hardin of
El Paso, and Leland Gibson, Kan-
sas City, each at 66. and Tod Mene-
fee. San Antonio; Elroy Marti,
Houston, Bill Trombley, Dallas,
and Fred Wampler. Indianapolis,
with 67's.
OBLE VIEW
By HARRY NOBLE
Sports Editor
Well plans have finally been
made for the annual Sweetwater
golf tournament.
The tourney will be held on April
23, 24 and 25 and members are
expecting over 100 entrants.
This tourney will open the West
Texas Circuit for the coming sea-
son.
We have heard no more on the
baseball situation either in the pro
team or the high school league.
We would like to see either of
these teams get underway soon
and would prefer to see both going.
This high school has enough ex-
perienced players that they could
give anyone a hard time on the
diamond and the interest among
the students seems to be on the
upward trend.
If a team has the desire to play
they will come out with a good
club whether they win their dis-
trict or not.
Even the experience will be val-
uable and any new team is going
to be inexperienced when it starts
so we say why not start now and
begin getting that experience.
Coach Pat Gerald has returned
from a meeting in Dallas where
plans were laid for the coaching
school and all-stai' game this sum-
mer.
Pat is president of the Texas
Coaches association.
Tonights basketball game will be
broadcast over radio station KXOX
and the game will start at 8 p.m.
Russians Anxious
To Start Sports
FAULN, Sweden, Feb. 16 —UP
j —The Soviet Union is "ready" to
| invite outstanding teams in "all
1 sports'' to visit and compete in
1 Russia, according to a statement
i by Romanov Kiselev. a sports of-
; ficial attached to the Soviet minis-
try of foreign affairs.
I It was the second recent indiea-
| tion that the Russians are anxious
I to take a greater part in interna-
tional' sports. Only a few days ago,
Soviet officials indicated they
would like to send 15 or 20 track
athletes to compete in the United
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Rookie Camp Opens
Red Sox Training
By UNITED PRESS
Manager Lou Boudreau paid par-
ticular attention to the young pitch-
ers in the Red Sox "rookie school"
Tuesday, hoping to discover one
who could take the place of south-
paw Mickey McDermott.
Among the nine pitching hope-
fuls present when Boudreau form-
ally opened the rookie school at
Sarasota Fla., Monday, were two
or three the Boston manager
thought had a chance to make the
Red Sox varsity.
The Red Sox need for another
standout left-hander arose when
McDermott was traded to Wash-
ington this winter in exchange for
outfielder .Jackie Jensen. Three
veterans—pitcher Joe Dobson, out-
fielder Hoot Evers and catcher Gus
Niarhos—also reported earlier than
scheduled to take advantage of
Boudreau's "rookie" school.
While some of the Red Sox play-
ers already were working out un-
der the hot Florida sun, the other
clubs still were busy signing their
players. ^
Pitcher Bob Friend, who at Sf is
the oldest player in point of service
with Pittsburgh, signed his 1954
j Pirate contract as did utility in-
fielder George Freese. Their signa-
tures gave the Pirates a total of 36
players under contract.
Cleveland announced the signing
of infielder Bobby Avila and out-
; fielder A1 Smith but the Indians
j still show 17 unsigned players, in-
! eluding the "big three" pitchers,
I Bob Lemon, Early Wynn and Mike
; Garcia.
Outfielders Jim (Dusty) Rhodes
and Harvey Gentry and pitcher
i Harry Nicholas agreed to terms
with the Giants, making a total of
I 30 satisfied players on the club,
i while catcher Mike Sandlock, ob-
I tained principally to handle John-
I ny Lindeli's knucklers, became the
I ninth Phillie player to sign.
First baseman Walt Dropo ac-
! cepted terms with the Tigers while
catcher Joe Astroth did likewise
I with the Athletics.
I The signing of rookie right-hand-
I ed pitcher Vito Valentinetti left
j outfielder Orestes (Minnie) Mino-
j oso as the only unsigned player
I on the 40-man White Sox roster.
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{Texas To Shoot
For Loop Tie
By UNITED PRESS
Texas, season-long leader in the
Southwest Conference basketball
| chase until last week, gets a chance
! Tuesday nighl to move back into
I a tie lor the load as the Longhorns
: play host to their bitter slate ri-
i val. Texas A&M. at Austin.
Rice, in command with a 6-2
record, is host in a non - eonfer-
j cnce game with Lamar Tech at
j Houston, and third-place Baylor
j can close the gap behind Texas
to a single game with a victory
! over Arkansas, always dangerous
*j on its Fayetteville hardwood,
The Aggies, who notchcd their
first conference win in eight tries
last Saturday against Southern
Methodist, lost 49 to 46 to Texas
on Jan. 12 in the teams' previous
meeting this year.
Wednesday night SMU meets
Texas Christian at Fort Worth, and
there was a three-game conference
layout for Saturday night: A&M
at TCU, Arkansas at Rice, and
Baylor at Texas.
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A Two-Birdie Stroke
HUNTINGTON BEACH. Calif..
Feb. 16 —UP—A golfinu Army of-
ficer got two birdies with one ball
Monday. Maj. Thomas Randow of
Andubon. N.J., drove a long ball
off the 14th tee at the Meadowlark
Country Club and later recovered
' it alongside two dead mudhens.
Three Stale Champs
Win Their District
By united press
One 1953 high school basketball
championship team was out of the
running for a second-straight title
Tuesday, but the other four al-
ready had clinched their district
titles.
Feb. 20 is the qualifying dead-
line in the Texas Interschoiastic
league's 174 districts.
Beaumont South Park, Class
AAA winner last year, doesn't
have a chance to repeat because
the Greenies have won fewer than
half of their district games.
But Pampa of Class AAAA, Bow-
ie in AA, White Oak in A and
Cayuga in B all sewed up district
championships last weekend. How-
ever, they were only four of at
least 47 quintets which have clinch-
ed spots in the first round of the
playoffs.
A number of other district titles
could be determined in games to-
night.
Fort Worth Paschal Dallas Tech
and Beaumont are Class AAAA
district winners in addition to
Pampa, and Kilgore and Austin
McCallurn are the only definite
winners this early in AAA.
In Class AA, Bowie is joined by
Alpine, Coleman, Comanche, Bird-
ville, Hillcrest. Van, Waxahachie,
San Marcos, Brenham. Lamar
Consolidated and Beaumont
French.
The Class A qualifiers included
McLean, Sudan, Ralls, Big Lake,
Whitesboro, New Boston, Troup,
Quitman, White Oak, Boerne, Car-
rlzo Springs and Devine. In B.
Cayuga's rivals were Spearman,
Follett, Samnorwood, Lohn, Cal-
vert, Redwater, Chandler, Union
Grove, Pearland, Klein, Troy. Bal-
morhea, Krum. Big Sandy of Dal-
lardsville, Medina and Pettus.
Ponies Vie For Second
Win Over Breckenridge
The Sweetwater Mustangs will
invade the home court of the Brec-
kenridge Buckaroos tonight in a
double header with the first game
getting underway at 6:30 and the
main event taking place at 8 p.m.
This game will be carried by ra-
dio station KXOX and the broad-
cast will begin promptly at 8 p.m.
The Mustangs have one game
left after tonight and although they
have lost out for the district cham-
pionship, they can cinch second
place by winning the two remain-
ing games.
Daryl Spencer Drafted
WICHITA, Kan., Feb. 16 —UP
—Infielder Daryl Spencer of the
New York Giants was among 31
draftees who left here Monday for
induction into the armed services
at Kansas City. Spencer hit 20
homers for the National League
team last season.
Eastern Open May 20-23
BALTIMORE, Feb. 16 —UP—
I The fifth annual Eastern Open
I golf tournament will be held at
) the Mt. Pleasant golf course May
| 20-23, it was announced Tuesday.
Baseball Settlement
To Be Reached Soon
NEW YORK, Feb. 16 —UP—A
long-awaited settlement "to the
satisfaction of all concerned" was
predicted by the five men who will
thrash out the baseball players'
controversial pension plan Tuesday
at a special meeting.
Attending the meeting will be the
club owners' representatives, John
Galbreath of the Pirates and Hank
Greenberg of the Indians, and a
three-man group representing the
players, Allie Reynolds of the
American League, Ralph Kiner of
the National and Attorney J. Nor-
man Lewis.
"There is absolutely no reason
why we can not sit down and
thrash this thing out to the satisfac-
tion of ail concerned." Greenberg
said.
Heartened by Greenberg's state-
ment, Lewis declared he agreed
completely.
The chief issue at Tuesday's ses-
sion was expected to be over what
percentage of the receipts from
World Series' games, All - Star
games and television revenue
should go into the pension plan.
The players are attempting to ob-
tain a permanent allocation from
those receipts.
"We would also like to establish
some form oi permanency to the
organization of the 16 players rep-
resentatives," Lewis explained.
"As it stands now, the player rep-
resentatives from each club have
no definite tenure of office. It has
been suggested that the player
representatives be elected for two-
year periods."
The last game will be played
Thursday night and the Mustangs
will journey to Snyder for the sea-
son closer.
With ten games behind them the
Mustangs have captured eight wins
against two losses. Both of these
were suffered at the hands of pow-
erful Plainview, who will represent
this district in the regional play-
offs.
The Bucks have not fared so well
this season. In their 10 games they
have managed only two victories
and are now tied with Big Spring
for the number six and seven spots
in the district.
To Breckenridge. basketball is
just something to fill in while a-
waiting the return of football but
they are still out to win if they can.
Harold Green is still leading the
district in scoring but his margin
has been cut considerably; tonight
and Thursday night should give
him a chance to build up what he
lost at Plainview last week.
Sophomore center, Dale McKee-
han, is finishing the season with
flying colors for no more experi-
ence than he has, and in his two
remaining years ho should give
other teams in the district a real
headache.
Jerry Shackleford and R. L.
Montgomery are not out of the
scoring picture by any means and
the two remaining games should
give them a chance to better their
average.
The "B" team will be looking
for their first win over the Bucks
for this season and may come
home with their fourth district win
in 10 starts.
The boys that compose the "B"
team have the height and the
speed but just cannot seem to find
the basket and sometimes stall on
the rebound work.
Ed Smith an Alternate
NEW YORK, Feb. 16 —UP—Ed
Smith, former Harvard University
basketball star, Tuesday was
placed on the New York Knicker-
bockers' alternate list. The six-foot-
six forward, who has seen limited
service with the Knicks since
breaking his hand earlier this sea-
son. is expected to be farmed out
to the Philadelphia Spas or (he
Washington Generals.
Green Elected
Golf President
Plans were laid for the annual
Sweetwater golf tournament to
be held In April and new officers
were elected for the next term of m
office, at the meeting held Monday
night.
New officers elected were Hel-
ton Green, president, Morris Har-
ris, vice president, and Waylahd
Cleckler, secretary:treasurer.
The group decided on a three
day tourney this year instead of
the four days that have been held
in the previous years.
Out oi town players may quali-
fy on their home course and send
in their average, after it is certi- (01
fied by their pro, and they will be
placed in the flight according
to the score they post.
There will be 16 players in each
flight and as many flights as need-
ed to handle ail players.
First round of play will open on
Friday, April 23, and will continue
through Sunday when the finals
and semifinals will come off.
Ernie Vosler of Fort Worth is the
defending champion.
Instead of the barbecue feed at (0
the dam this year the association
would like to get the legion hut
and have the feed there and also
have the players invite their ladies
and have dancing and games.
Texas U. Opens
Baseball Drills
AUSTIN, Feb. 16 —UP—"Batter
up" resounded on the University
of Texas campus today as Base-^
ball Coach Bibb Falk began drills
for the Longhorns. perennial South-
west Conference diamond power.
The first practice was held Mon-
day with 35 candidates, including
six lettermen, on hand. Falk and
his assistant, Sam Watson, must
find replacements at catcher,
shortstop, third base and right
field, as well as develop more
pitching strength.
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