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Mustangs, Lions Grid Banquet
Play At Vernon Here Tonight
By BUD WORSHAM
Reporter Sports Editor
Sammy Baugh. Sweetwater’s gift
to the football world, will meet his |
old collegiate coach tonight at the
District play opens Friday night for Coach Ken Newton's annuai Sweetwater football ba»-
Sweetwater Mustangs, who have won 13, lost eight intquet.
practice sessions this season. I-. R
The Mustangs will journey to Vernon for the conference Texas Christian University Horned
curtain raiser of District 3A-1 Other openers will pit Plain- i^™Rsof "Meyer.s p^fe^VtpiiV''at
view at Lamesa and Big Spring at Midland.
Sweetwater’s first - round i--
opponent, Vernon, has notch- Hamlin itwice'. Snyder. Kerrvillc. iBaugh
Dutch' Meyer, coach of the
TCO during the 1934-36 seasons was
a tall youth by the name of Sam
ed a 7-4 won-lost record
non-conference play.
Ramon Towry, who was
one of the district’s
football players during 1951,
Fort Worth Tech. Merkel. Coman- Baugh, who ranches near Rolan
c'.ie. Winters. Abilene Christian has indicated that he will attend
High i twice <. Mustang losses were the Sweetwater banquet
to Levelland, Big Spring. Snyder
better San Angel° 'twice',
twice' and Pampa.
The Mustangs’ composite
i? also the top performer for score for the 21 practice games:
the Lion basketball team
ed of Forwards Towry and I-cster
D ( : Guards James Tull and Gor-
don Harvey: Center Jerry Thoin-
has copped victories over Electra
(twice', Quanah. Odell. Crowell.
Lockett and Childress, this season,
while losing to Wichita Falls, Quan-
ah Olnev and Childress.
PLAYER
G
FC.
FT
PF
TP
Carl Anderson
20
155
fit
32
391
Jo<? Smith
21
50
54
52
154
H.,rold (ireen
2D
16
12
35
104
Charles Wilson
19
47
7
34
101
Buster Davidson
10
19
3
24
41
Dalvin Jonirn
. 10
14
10
11
3K
Jerry Shackleford
13
13
U
5
37
Dell Greer
13
15
6
14
30
Theron Dorsey
17
12
9
31
33
Doric Rudd
J1
6
5
22
17
R L Montgomery .
12
4
3
r,
11
Garver $25,000
Mover will present a movie of
Coleman ' "ne of his Southwest Conference
j champion’s games during thf 1931
box■season.
Barbecue Feed
The Chuck Wagon Gang will pre-
pare a banquet feed for an expect-
ed 300 football players and fans, j
The banquet will be held at the
Sweetwater High School cafeteria.
The program will he presented in
the high school auditorium.
Young gridders of the three grade
schools will begin eating at 6 p.m.
Junior High and High School grid-
men will follow about 6:30.
Fans who have not purchased
tickets can obtain them at the high
school.
’Skins Say Baugh
Will Play In ’52
By OSCAR FRALEY
NEW YORK. Jan 17—IP'—One of
the oft-asked questions at the cur-
rent pro football meetings is whe-
ther “Slingin’ Sammy” Baugh will
be hack next year and the W ash-
ington Redskins happily announced
today that they're counting on the
! grandpapp.v
i1952.
of the gridiron for
Pros After
T" Callers
Sammy, the wire and whipcord
Texan who has thrown a football
roughly from here to the moon,
currently holds the record for pro
football longevity along with Mel
Hein and Johnny Blood. All three
nlaved 15 years. Baueh moves into
the 16-year class all by himself
i next season
That is. he is expected to. For
I they've been predicting each sea
I son would he his last since 1017
J and Sammy gives them no help.
I Come time for first practice, Sam
shows up and drawls:
“Maybe last year was my last
season."
fn other words. Sam is waiting
jiist like anybodv else In see whe-
ther lie can creak and groan alone.
And when a mail makes ill the
rather exclusive neighborhood of
S25 non a veer tossing a chunk of
wind-filled leather you can't
hane'iig
Browns To Pay
Vernon Heights - '
Heights of the Lion starters
Towry, 5-9: Dye. 6-0: Tull. 5-11
Harvey. 5-9. and Thomas, 6-1 wu- vnuv , _ „„ .
Vernon has scored at a 37-point NK" 'UliK Jan M-W-Urry,
per game clip this season, while Uob> claimed to be the first hold-
allowing their opponents an aver- out of baseball’s hot-stove season
age of 34 tallies per contest. today, but his Cleveland Indian
It was not known this morning', ,, it . .
whether Carl Anderson will be able U0sses SdlU 11 "as a11 a JoKt' , .
to play for the Mustangs in the Just after Ned Garver signed for 1 TLMPL, Anz
conference opener. S25.000 to become the highest-paid I second Arizona State College var-
Anderson has been ill with the;St. Louis Brown in history, and the;sity football player to be found in-
fill this week and will not he up to . government unfroze Stan Musial’s ! eligible for last season’s team must
par even if he does see action. The $35,000 pay raise, an indignant Do-i face a faculty committee to deter-
Another Arizona
Player Ineligible
MUSTANG “A" BASKETBALL TEAM—The Sweetwater Mustangs open District
.’>A-1 basketball play at Vernon Friday night. Pictured above are the "A” team boys
who will attempt to gain the title for Sweetwater. Left to right, bottom row: Dalvin
.Iordan. Joe Smith, R. L. Montgomery. Theron Dorsey, Derle Rudd and Charles Wil-
son. Top row: Clifford Wilson, Billy Stone, Carl Anderson, Harold Green. Dell
Greer and Buster Davidson. Not pictured is Jerry Shackleford who has been ill.
(Photo by Mays Studioi
NEW YORK. Jail 17 -all* -Seven
T-fonnation quarterbacks were the
! chief prizes as the National Fool-
ibaK League began drafting college
| players today.
The seven are Bab*’ I’arilli of
I Kentucky. Harry Agganis of Bos- blame him lor hane'iig on
ton University, l-arry Isbell of Busv Life
Baylor. Bill Wade of Vanderbilt. And at a mueh-hattcred 3S. Sam
Ed Brown of San Francisco. Don j still is doing a hit better than all
Klosterman of Loyola and Al Dor-! right. Last season, for instance, he
ow of Michigan State. Agganis j came on to the kirkoff still re-
still has eligibility left at Boston, euneratlng from a knee injury,
but actually he may be the biggest Said iniury is typical of Baugh’s
prize of ail because he has com-; busy life.
pleted his military service. Raised in a city and never on a
As the draft started at 10 a m horse until he hil Ihe football ja< k-
(ESTi. seven teams drew out of a po| the Texan who didn’t own a
hat for the right to make first
choice—the "bonus" choice They
were the New York Yanks. Los
pair of cowbov hoots until he sign-
ed with the Redskins Vas in lured
in a rodeo. A popular outdoor horse
Jan. 17—'O’—The
6-6 junior—who has played in 20
games, missing only Tuesday
night's match with ACC High—is
the top point-getter in the district
and probably state.
391 Points
The 200-pound Anderson has scor-
Volley Ball Game
Nighl Here Friday
Friday night will be “Volley Ball
by popped up on the radio at Dal-1 mine his future status as a student. I Game Night" at the Sweetwater
las. Tex. He had just turned down The school announced yesterday i \ . ov_na.i,ir,
his contract, he said, because the that second-string defense Guard - " ’
George Schuljak was ineligible for: Miss Paula Jean Terry,
the 1951 Sun Devil team because physical education
he played for Wayne University ofSweetwater High, has arranged for i
Detroit during the 1950 season. 1 the special sports entertainment
College President Grady Gam-1 and invites^everyone^ to attend |
mage said he wanted to "make it,
emphatic that such irregular con-
be tolerated by tihs
Indians wanted him to take a pay
cut.
But in Cleveland the Indians said
____ it was all a joke that Doby appar-
ed 391 points—an average of 19.5 | enllv misunderstood Club Gener-
per game. al Manager Hank Greenberg did
Sweetwater's number two cen- mention a pay-cut to Doby a few
ter, Jerry Shackleford, has also | weeks ago when they were chatting 1 duct will not
been weakened by the flu-bug and I in Chicago, a spokesman said, but j institution.”
“2? m‘ss Friday’s contest. ! Greenberg wasn't serious. He’ll He ordered Schuljak to appear
The Mustangs will have a decid- talk real money to Doby when Lar-jbetore the college administrations
ed edge in height if Anderson gets ry comes north in February. I committee for a heading on his
to pley Sweetwater s height chart: Veeck had no trouble getting futurc status as a student.
Forwards Charles Wilson. 6-0, and close with Garver in a one-minute j Sehuljak’s ineligibility was dis-
miom Green. 0-1. Guards Joe salary conference. Garver said covered less than two weeks alter
Smith 5-10, and Dalvin Jordan. 5-; 825,000. And that's all there was to ; college officials learned that Tem-
nCenter Anderson. 6-6. it for the man who won 20 (and ,>e’s All-Border Conference tackle,
-.nin!e °n,ers have scored at a 46- lost 12 on a cellar club. joe Matesic, formerly had played
£2?,, n■*i8am.u C ip thl- season- Not *v‘‘n old-time Brownie stars at thc University of Indiana. Ma-
vhile limiting the opposition to 39. such as Urban Shocker. George tosic was playing at Temp" under
mweRMrter viM°r-ies havc boenlSisler and Kenny Williams drew as the name of his brother, Andrew.
nui Ballinger (twice'. Coleman, I much as Garver will get for 1951.
girls
teacher at
Games will begin at 7 p.m. Fri-
day.
Among the contests already lined
up: the fourth period tennis class
versus the volley ball "B" team;
the F. F. A. boys vs. the "A” team;
the Jaycees vs. the Faculty
2 Sweetwater Reporter. Texas. Thursday, January 17, 1952
NCAA Adopts Several
Football Rule Changes
Angeles Rams. San Francisco For- 0|)t,ra performer, Sam limped in-
| ty-Niners, Cleveland Browns. Chi-1 )o camp and saw voung Harry Gil-
eago Cardinals. Green Bay Pack- mer s(;n-t ol,| with a lock on the
ers and Pittsburgh Steelers. The J qUarterback’s chores,
others couldn’t draw because they The Redskins lost the first three
;had won the bonus pick in previous 1 gaIlles And when the third went
! years. ! up the flue by a 45 to 0 count, irate
Greatest Needs ~ " ’ ”
A survey of the learns’ greatest
; needs revealed that thc Browns.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.
Ya Jan. 17—'IP'—A new football
rule was put in the books today as
e jaycees \s, me r acuity. |a result of the slugging of Johnny
All boys and girls in high school Bri h, Drake University star who
who are interested in Playmg vo>-1 sullered a broken jaw in a game
ley ball will be eligible to compete , jth Oklahoma A&M last season,
in a game by registering at the Thfi XCAA rules committee, at
door. Miss ferry repoi ted. the windup of its annual three-dav
Admissionwill be 25 a . ’ ’ | meeting here yesterday, passed
Proceeds will be used to p1 unanimously a rule that would
trophies for the volley hall tourna-
ment scheduled for 1 cb. 29 and
March 1.
found guilty of striking another
player with the "forearm, elbow
or locked hand."
Drake severed relations with Ok-
lahoma A&M as a result of the
Bright incident, and since then
Eagles. Redskins. Packers and
Lions will he searching for T quar-
terbacks. The Yanks need linemen
for both offense and defense. The
Forty-Niners need line backers and
defensive backs and the Bears need
defensive linemen and backs.
The league’s rules committee met
for several hours last night, and the
result seems to be this: The extra
owner George Preston Marshall.
Washington's wet wash wizard,
summoned Slingin’ Sam into ac-
tion
So Sommv stepped into the old
slot and led the Redskins to vic-
tory over the rough Chicago Cardi-
nals.
Young Air. Gilmer again became
a seldom used sub.
Grange Praises Baugh
For after taking over again. Sam
handled every play al offensive
point will remain in pro football, quarterback the rest of the season
and the league probably will adopt i wjti, t|u, exception of 12 nlays
a sudden-death overtime period for agajnst )be Bears and five plays
tie championship games. | against Pittsburgh. Which means
that in nine games he was the
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K-Cross, SI. Louis
Take (age Spotlight.
NEW YORK. Jan. 17 UP: — Holy
Cross, which was surprised when
its 1951 football team was over-
looked by the New Year’s Day
j howl promoters, gets a shot at
; national basketball recognition to-
night when it plays the fifth-rank-
ed St. Louis Billikens at Boston 1 ing'
J Garden.
' The game, which features to-
iight's light examination-week pro-
Thc league revealed that a Dal-
las, Tex., promoter—who was not. nUaHerback for all hut 17 plays,
there has been a clamor lor strict-! identified—tried to buy Ihe New jv;ot bad for an old nappy guy
er penalties against unnecessary | York Yanks franchise from Ted: with five children Particularly
roughness. The old penalty was 15 | Collins. The offer was refused and j when vou remember that Red
yards for striking a foe. Collins new has paid up all his j Grange saw him perform against
The committee also placed a | league debts. So he seems set for -he" Bears and complimented'
great deal of the blame on coaches ; at least another season of pro foot- “Sam is the best quarterback
ball.
and officials for "their failure to
j observe and enforce the spirit of
the rules." A resolution was pass-
| ed urging coaches and officials to
see that the rules are obeyed.
The free-substitution rule was
left unchanged from the 1951 ver-
sion with one exception. A time out
will he charged to a team sending
in a player for the purpose of punt-
ing while the clock is running. Be-
fore the penalty was five yards.
Major Changes
Other major changes include:
1. A clipping is now “any block-
from behind.
2 The defensive holding penalty
is 15 yards instead of five. , _ .,
3. The definition of a passer also Snnmons campus Friday
was clarified to give the ball * aj„ ancl V0IK av mgl,s
Many Schoolboy
Boxers To Enter
Golden Gloves
High school boxers, for the lirst
time in history, will dominate-in
I've seen all season.
1 And Grange, who qualifies as an
' expert jndee. had seen such as
I Bob Waterfielri, Otto Graham, et
j al. The Redskins insist, too, that
! Baugh’s faking and hall handling
! were better than ever last season,
! albeit his passing may not have
i had the old sharpness
But put the pumpkin in scoring
position and ask for a touchdown
pass, and just about anybody in
officials ha:
an-
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Sheary’s point - happy Crusaders Bllou 11 more personal protection
against the solid offense and de-
fense devised by Eddie Hickey,
the perfectionist who guides the
Billikens.
Holy Cross, tied for fourth among
the nation’s high - scoring outfits
with a 78 3 average and boasting
a 9 - 1 record, wants this one bad-
ly The Crusaders were ranked
21st by the United Press board of
coaches this week and Sheary ad-
mits “we have to beat St. Louis
or we are just another college bas-
ketball team."
St. Louis, with an 11-3 record,
doesn’t show among the top 30
offensive teams and is 26th in de-
fense but Shearv is preparing for
j trouble because the Billikens have
| played a tougher schedule.
tournament,
nounced.
The tournament is scheduled at
Rose Field House on the Hardin-
Satur-
Fehruary
1, 2 and 4.
I An increased interest in box Jig
: as a part of high school athletic
I programs, as well as on Ihe part
of individual boys themselves, has
The old rule said the passer was the
man who threw the pass, but this
year the passer will remain the
passer while the ball is in flight. , , _ ,,
lie also will be allowed to use his J" ■' »(»ld*’n Gloves entry
hands to ward off would-be tack-
lcrs
4 The fair catch rule was revised
to allow Ihe player making the
catch to move two steps to regain
his balance.
5 Tile field judge now has a whis-
infi ingeinent.
7. A ball may be made of
material mutually agreed on by the
17—IIP contesting teams.
Giant ■ 8. The ball must be perpendicu-
lar to the line of scrimmage and
not tilted more than a 45 degree
angle. This is to keep centers from
tilting the ball almost on end. mak-
ing it difficult for thc lineman lo
detect offside infractions
Army Calls Mays
BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. Jan
—Willie Mays. New York
star voted the National League's
rookie of the year, will go into the
army just about the time his team
begins spring training.
Mays was pronounced "adminis-
tratively acceptable” for military
duty yesterday. What thps means,
apparently, is that he failed his Se-
| lective Service aptitude test for the ;
'second time, vet will be inducted! WASHINGTON, Jan. 17— IF>—
anyway because he is physically , Sta" Mwl*1,'* *35.00° pay raise won
.... , , . , . , : unfrozen today in a new salary sta-
tu and a high school graduate. bilization policy announced for
But as thc 20-year-old Negro from baseball players
Fairfield, Ala . prepared to put The government decided that the
down his bat and pickup a rillc the cl,ub s . Pa-" oH- ,10t ,l'e1 individual
Giants already were prepared to I'Lsyer salary--would be the
replace him. ' fn New York dub measming stick hereout. Thus, the
vice-president Charles Xeenev said. Lol.'is cardinals can give Musial
“We got Chuck Diering from thr ' ” n/'”
tie to act as referee on down-field !|,ete in a,,v CoWcn Gloves tourna-
play | ment. Ihe novice class is <or mex-
(l! The practice of offensive teams : j,eric«ced hoys who are not at-
getting the lump on the hall on ■ Liehed to a high school team Ihe
illegal shifts also Will be frowned i ?>,cn clas,s ,s lov ln0l p '’V'cnenccd
on more during the 1952 season. , ’,0XT «M-ire '<• compete in
The rule states that a team must !,h<' la,,er s,ate ,minl('V
come lo a full stop for a full sec-
ond after coming out of the huddle
and lining up. The penalty was in-
creased from five to 15 yards for
Thu'r* p* ieas.‘rn0, j3th r.nm,al pro football'would be glad to hand
Abilene Regional Golden G.o\es )h(i hall to Baugh to thread the
needle As Stout Steve Owen
of the Giants explains
“I d like to see him quit just to
get him out of my hair."
But by that time, they hope in
Washington. Steve won’t have any
hair left'
San Diego Tourney
Hampered By Rains
SAN DIEGO. Calif . Jan 17 HR
"Unusual weather" turned the
beautiful San Diego Country Club
into a quagmire today, hut the con-
troversial $10,000 San Diego Open
Golf Tournament will get under
way. as scheduled rain or shine.
"It will take nothing short of
a near-flood lo stop play in the
opening round,” Horton Smith,
president of the Professional Golf-
ers Association, announced.
Smith was slated lo tee off at
9:27 in company with former
Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis,
who raised the issue ol a PGA ban
'on Negroes; and Leland Smith,
Kansas City, Mo., professional who
is a member of Ihe PGA tourna-
ment committee.
list in which at least 50 per cent
of the contestants are high school
athletes The other half is divided
between the Novice and Open
classes.
Only amateurs, including high
school hoys are eligible to com-
]the latter State tourney al
J Worth
! Teams and individuals from at
I least 17 cities over West Central
Texas have been ruler's! for the
Regional tournament. The entry
v ; list w ill remain open until 10
the S o’clock Friday morning. Feb 1, at
which time physical examinations
and weighing-in ceremonies will
begin at Rose Field House.
Salaries Unfrozen
WALTER BRIGGS DIES
MIAMI BEACH, Fla . Jan 17 'IP
—Walter O. Briggs, owner ol the
Detroit Tigers Baseball club and
wealthy auto parts manufacturer,
died at his winter home here to- j
day. He was 74.
The famed sportsman had been !
in had health for several years
and was stricken with a kidney ail-;
ment Sunday.
Wednesday's College
Basketball Results
i \sl
Army fiJ I.«•!*i^rli .11
Fonilunn 7'J. Prinueloi.
l.iS'ilIf !*‘J. Summon 55
Na\y !V7. Johns Hopkins 58
Penns
I i ’■ U:
Western
Tech 51
• iH. Columbia til
MlltWKsT
>.-*• SI. Dubuque til,
sol 1 11
1. Heoi’ffia 51
Kentucky hi. Tennessee
Cardinals because we knew that
Mays was physically fit. 20 years
old and so likely to into the
army.”
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stick to the new formula.
The new plan permits baseball
clubs to pay out in 1952 as much as
they did in the highest year between
1946 and 1950—plus 10 per cent for
the higher cost of living Under
the old plan, no player could draw
more than thc highest-paid player
of 1950.
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FRNKA TO SHERMAN?
SHERMAN, Jan. 17—(IP—Henry
Frnka. athletic director at Tulane,
visited Sherman Wednesday, giv-
ing now rise to rumors he will ac-
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tin College. Frnka refused com-
ment on the rumors, sayinc “I of-
my college <Tulane)
and Sherman always is a stop on
these trips.”
The coach was being entertained
by Austin College Coach Hay Mor-
rison, Frnka was Morrison’s pu-
pil at Vanderbilt and Temple Uni-
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