Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 134, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 27, 1943 Page: 2 of 6
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fAM TWO
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27,
IROWNWOOO (Tmm)
WeUow Jackets Sfdge ACC
Wildcats In TC Clash, 41-40
Cllnduiei And Odell Lend HR
Sconrs With 12 Points Each
Southwest Championship May Be
Decided In Qames Played Tonight
Breckenridge Loses To
Waco In Cage Bi-District
PORTS FRONT
AUSTIN. Feb. 37—»UP)—Austin
High Sehssl which captured the
Itau football trophy for Tnu
school. last fall. reached the final
tournament of the state high school
Ray (Sugar) Robinson
Wins 10-Round Bout
From Jake La Motta
AjBILENE, Feb. 27—The Howard Payne Yellow Jackets
a second place berth in the fipal standings of.the
"nm* Conference title chase here Friday night by downing
dbtXbilene Christian Wildcats, 42-40.
Z Paced by Max Hefley, Wildcat guard, the ACC team took
an early lead and held a 15-13 margin at halftime But tha
jfellow Jackets, not to be outdone, vaulted into the lead short-
ly after the intermission and at one time garnered an eight
G*‘nt margin whoa thoy ran tho - 'j1
Rickey Still Not
iptfes-a Considering New
SSRfirfS Yankee Manager
bRtkttball raoo by defeating Robs-
town there last aight 14 te 30.
Whether Lukfln or Kilgore will
go Into th« play-off tourney hero
next weekend depend! da their
mme tonight at Nacogdoches. Each
it defeated the other by the seme
icore of 27 to 21*
D«lies Tech sad Highland Park
wort tho tarty birds to win s piece
la tha stale tourney and Coach
& 0. Hayes alrtsdy has registered
in the running for at least a share
of the title with Rise and Teas
sdll having Chinese to win out^
right postearton of tho crown Rice
halved with Arkansas last year.
Texas meats -Baylor in Austin
tonight, while Rlec invades College
Station for a tilt with tho Texas
Aggies sad Arkansas remains in
Fort Worth for the final game of
the mason against Texas Christian
University.
Gregory gymnasium at the Uni-
varsity af Tanas where tho chant-
pionship will la decided next
Tfcarsdsy, Friday and Saturday.
la bi-di*trict games leading to
tha finals hare Vernon defeated
Amarillo M to 11: Jeff Davit of
Houston won 43 to M from Port
Arthur. Abilene defeated Bowie of
El Paao SC to 14. and Waco took
Breckenridge IT to IS.
Rodney JTKIdd. director of ath-
letics ftr the laterschoUstlc Lea-
MO. announced that Southwest
Conference official* will call the
games in the tourney here. They
are ziygv Bears. Dusty Srrgcsa.
Abb Curtis and Mike Williamson'
John Hargis, high-scoring star of
tho University of Ttxal team, will
be timer and Wetdoo Hart well
known aporte writer will be scorer.
Texes win. the Longhorns than
could win the title by beating the
Texas Aggies next Wednesday
for sn tight count Sugar Ray
fought back fiercely the rest of
the way te win a close but unan-
imous decision last night over the
free-swinging middleweight
For Robinson it was ratalistion
against tho man who handed him
hu only defeat in lit amateur and
proftMional fights. The slender
negro, who enters the Army as a
buck private next weak, doeislon-
ed La Motts in New York last Oc-
tober but the Bronx bsttler out-
pointed Robinson here three weeks
A crowd of 18.149 spectators,
who paid 180 700 to see tho bout,
watched Sugar Ray pile up «n
early lead principally on a stab-
bing left >
Many of the fans booed the de-
cision. Referee Sam Hennessey
gave RobiiKon the first, second,
fourth, fifth and. ninth rounds,
calling the third snd eight even.
'Robinson, a I to I favorite,
weighed 140 pounds against La
Motto's isos Both fighters re-
ceived 30 per cent of the gate.
night at Austin, or tio lies far the
crown by losing to tho Agates. The
tie also could be gatnedby Togas
losing tonight snd winning next
week tf Rice should loco, or by
Rico winning tonight snd Texas
winning both games,
Rico can win outright possession
by winn in z tonight white Texas te
losing to both Baylor and tho Ag-
gtes.
Arkansas' plaos la tha picture
would come IT they should defeat
will probably
day whan tfc
to make its
the future pi
the local hig
Ry JACK CUDDY
tailed Frees tuff Cerraepeadcnt
NEW YORK. Feb. 27— <UP>—
Pvt Johnny Greco of tho Canad-
ian army, a new and menacing
contender, occupied a prominent
teat today in the lightweight
throne by virtue of hi* surpniing
victory over "Iron Man" Ctee
Stuns.
The dark-hai rd Montreal Ital-
ian proved the “hard way" tlmt
he Is a dangerous challenger for
Seen Jack's 13.vpound crown
. Newell OdelL Jacket center. Bob
3?liadaatel. Jacket guard, and Max
•Softer. Wildcat guard, tied for
Tllgh scoring honors with 13 points
dock. BUI Grcmnds, ‘Cat forward,
aru runnonip with 10.
• Tho Yellow Jackets move screes
3*wn tonight for a game with the
JgaMuiry Indians that will bring
3he IMS cage aoeeon to an end.
TCU tonight white Rico and Texas
were both losing tonight and Texas
losing again next week.
Arkansas kept alive its hopes of
gaining • piece of. the champion-
ship by trimming TCU last eight,
33-23. in a slow game that saw the.
Porkers move into an early team
and bold it
Clayton Wynne, Porker guard,
paced the Individual scorers with,
14 points.
FLYING CADETS GAIN
HEIGHT AND WEIGHT
IOKA CITY—You deal have
to b* Ms toot tall snd an ex-
foothaO hors to bo the kind of
flyer tho Navy is looking for.
Statistics reveal that ao enter-
ing pre-flight training the av-
erage cadet is 1 feet • inches
tall, weighs 1M pound* and te
quite proud of a »$ toeh chest
and i Hid waist Tho recruit
atouaged IT push-ups aad • 1-3
ctens. had a fitness mark of
•0 JS. When bo leaves to start
flight training, ho is nearly a
half-inch tailor aad hu weight
has WcrciM-d two pounds His
chest has expanded a half-inch
and his waist te slimmer by
three-qsartors of an inch Ho
eon (1o 34 push-ups and 9.73
mdall Cooper fight j Fighting the full 10-round distance
distinction Of be- for the first time in bis career,
outstanding fre*h- 10-year-old Greco won the unanl-
* y* °»* i
margin last night over Shan*, a
tough. exeprienced negro from
Lo« Angelos.
The experts sold It was practi-
cally impossible for Greco to beat
khans if tho bout wont 10 rounds.
Jr.. Kagan* State grad, one-time
National League halfback, and re-
cent hood coach at Hot SpringR.
Camilll bad announced ho j
would remain on his California j
ranch because of transportation*
difficulties and labor shortage?
Walker is a defense plant recrea-
tion director.
Rickey revealed that pitcher
Newt Kimball, winner of two
out Shans la a nearly sound to
win. But tho young Canadian sol-
dier smaxed the fUtic fanciers aad
fid tUN fans in Madison Square I
Garden with his thundering fin-
ish.
•cal Fight IB Garden
Jolting Johnny ha
tho verge of coll
l- Bond ......3 0 1 , S
-d. King ....... 0 2 4 3
Vernon ---- 0 mJL 0 0
•JR Hefley '...3 6 2 12
5 TOTALS ..if 12 13 40
• Score at Halftime: ACC 13, HPC
baseball s first 1*41 holdout. Ho
returned Me contract unsigned. —
Poiatek. Pvt Frank—Mr*. Ka-
tie Polatek. mother. Route 3.
Florasvilte.
Quljano. Pvt Pstrocimo -Simon
Quljano father. Ill N. Pin*
street. Weslaco.
Radley. PTC J. M Jr—Mr*
Ida M. Radley, mother, Bout
Lake.
Banc hex. PTC Juan I. jSacar-
lus R. Sanches, father, 1007 Vcl*
ta Courts. Corpus Chrtetl.
Stephenson. Pvt Joseph C —
Mrs. Annie Morin motbg£-K0T
C*ntcrbury street Austin.
Villafano Pvt. GUbert^-Fna-
eteco Villafano. father, Route 3.
Vidor.
Walsh. Pvt Tom P -Mr*. Vila
Walsh, mother, Rout* 1. Magomet
Zohlkr. Pvt. Charlie—Mrs Em-
ma Zuhlke. mother. Route l Jour
danton.
Zion. PTC Allen T—Mfs. UU
Zion, mother. 304 Florida street.
Amarillo.
Zawho. Pvt. Charles J-Jonn
Zawko. father. 231 E. Tlurston
street Elmira.
' ASHING TOM. Fob. 27—<UP»
—T w War Department today
ma c public the namcr of 377
Un ed States soldiers wounded
in ctkrn in the Southwest Pacific
are since early November. 1342
T M Uit Included 'be name* of
sev n from New Mexico snd 29
fre i Texas.
tho verge of collapse in tho ninth
round, and battered him merei-
leasly about tho ring In tho 10th
ending at full steam on* of the
grandest lightweight brawl* stag
sd in the Ga den la many ■
month.
Gr*cO|jL qu iii°n mark fighter
because his pryviou* two Garden
victories wore first-round knock-
outTflwred last night that be has
Every Name Horse
Except Whiriy Will
Run At Orleans
W WPlfWA TV • NEW ORLEANS. Feb 27—<UP)
g*M——i——A field of 11. ineluding every
F UNITED PRESS * “name" hone In training except
Howard Payne 43, Abilene Chris- Caulmet Farm'e Whlrteway. wUl
•a 40. compete for the 323.000 stake of
Texas Wesleyan 47, Southwest- the New Orleans handicap at the
■» 37. fair grounds today, pttauxlng the
LSU 40. Alabama 41. most *ucce**ful »ca*on in tha 70-
Tonneeeci 41, Vanderbilt 31. year history of the track.
Columbia IS. Yato 40. With Whiriy being rested up for
Kanaos 42. Oklahoma S3 a busy spring snd summer emm-
Miastesippi State 40. Georgia palgn. the Valdina Farm entry of
•*h 41. Rounders and Valdina Orphan will
Creighton 81. Washington of St. carry topweights and a largo share
unis 30 of the public s backing over the
Oklahoma A A M. 99. Drake 33 mile snd one-.ixteenth route.
Duke 43. North Carolina 24 The Orphan will pack 129
Corpus Chrtetl Nary 70, Pensa- pounds, his stabiemate 124. and
'teli. If both start they are expected to
Kentucky 30. Georgia 30 bo a solid S-to-3 favorite with a
Southwestern 10. St. Benedicts crowd of about 15 000
'• _^ _ Tho main cootoetion te expected
Montana Bute 09. Montana 39. to come from Texan Ben Whit-
St Louis V 43. Camp Crowder akar • Requested. Sighted «t m
\ . • >__ Mid Louisians Farm's Rivortsnd
Arkansas S3. T. C. Ui 23 pegged at 132. Requeued, a tough
. | , fighter when In form, raced to a
■■■MRBHM three length triumph in hte teat
, rt*rt. has worked well since and
•AFTTY TKAUEL-ALBKAU will be ridden by Johnny Gilbert.
rtr^gtlh'te addition to a stunning
punch-to either flat.
Promoter 'Iike Jecob* said aft-
f-v »rd*t-Til match Greco with
Beau Jack to- the title as soon
m possible." He did not amplify
thi* statement. tYsterdsy Jacobs
ma'rned Beau Jack for s titte de-
fend seainat Bob Montgomery of
Dhil4djlphls for tho Garden. May
The United Press scored rtx
rounds for Greco, thrpe for Shan*
and one even. Each was penalised
a round for low blow* Referee
EddfeJoeeoh'called a foul against
NO. 2
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Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 134, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 27, 1943, newspaper, February 27, 1943; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1044912/m1/2/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Brownwood Public Library.