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TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1941
THE J-TAC
PAGE THREE
Plowboys Break Even With Lee Blue Devils
Strictly Sports
By DAVE TIPTON
DISSA AND DATA ABOUT
THE STATE JAYCEE PLAY-
OFFS. . . From the information
we can garner and conclusion
drawn therefrom, Lee's win over
f
Tyler in first game of state elimin-
ations on March 4 was distinctly a
fluke. Tyler's season record shows
that the Apaches beat the Blue
Devils twice before the champion-
ship round began, and not by any
close margins. In the first game be-
tween the two Tyler won 37-20,
* and took another later in the sea-
" son by 42-32. . . . That good look-
ing, six-foot-one iorward you saw
playing for the Apaches last night
was'1 young Mr. "Buck" Overall,
- the same being the guy who piled
• up a lofty tqtal of 499 points this
season, an average of 18.48 points
per game, last night's affair not
counted. Out of the Apaches' total
of 1637 points, Buck's compiled
499, which is just 32% of the ag-
gregate. He comes from Cushing, a
town of around 1500 inhabitants in
Nacogdoches County . . . The
young gent you may have per-
ceived in an Apache uniform with
so much altitude between feet and
head was Winifred (Lanky) Wil-
liams, center and loftiest member
of Coach William R. Ward's east
zone champs. Williams measures 6
feet, six and one-half inches and
is the lone freshman of the start-
ing five. He hails from Castral
Heights and is second only to Ov-
erall in individual scoring, having
a total of 310 points. . . . Others
members of the beginning Apache
quintet are Bernard Clayton, 6-2
forward from Bailey, with total of
209 points; A'eie Cannady, 6-1 guard
ffom Mount Vernon, co-captain with
■ Owerall and only player not eli-
gible for another year of jaycee
play, 298 points; Foster Bullock,
6-10 guard from Livingston, full-
blood'Indian, an expert ball-hand-
ler, and an all-state selection while
playing with the state champion
Livingston quaint in 1939. He has
scored 108 points. . . Those twenty-
two points Hiram Walker counted
against the Lee Blue Devils in the
first of the PIpwboys' elimination
contests were, the most he's scor-
ed in one game all this season . ...
Evidently the Farmers had anoth-
er one of their off nights in the
second game with the Satans. That
brings to three their total, for the
season. The first was in the first
game with Decatur, which they
lost 35-32. The second came in San
Angelo against the Rams, where
they were nosed out 38-37. The loss
by six points (38-32) was, inciden-
tally, the widest margin by which
they've gone down to defeat this
season. . , Had the Farmhands
beaten Lee the second game of their
two game series, and then knock-
ed over Tyler last night, the play-
offs would have been over for all
intents and purposes, for the Pur-
ple could not have sustained but
one loss and both other teams
would have already had two . . .
Lee's defeat of Tyler (56-54) in
the first round of the eliminations
wrote finis to a winning streak of
twenty-six consecutive gaines.
Far be it from us to be partial
to an athletic team wearing the
Purple and White spangles of John
Tarleton College, but in releasing
the J-Tac's mythical All-West Zone
basketball team this week, we're
placing four Plowboys on that
dreamed up quintet. If we seem h
shade prejudiced to you, just let it
go at that, but in actual combat
we think these four are the class
of this zone. There are other good
players in the zone, granted, and
particularly did we dislike to leave
off Decatur Baptist's brilliant cen-
ter, Ivey Miller. The team was
picked according to position, how-
ever, and wq think Hiram Wal-
ker of the Plowboys has an edge
over Miller. Our selection for the
all-zone quintet: Leland Huffman.
Tarleton, and Herman Gerrick, Tar-
leton forwards; Hiram Walker,
Tarleton center; J. W. Craft, Tar-
leton, and Clayton (Red) Johnson,
San Angelo, guards. There it is
take it or leave it. We've observ-
ed all these boys in actual combat
on the hardwood, and they can go
for our money. Look elsewhere on
this page for a box of the team.
If the Farmers won over Tyler
last night in their play-off fracas,
that game coming up in Tyler Sat-
urday night, March 15, should be
worth a long journey to look upon.
We know of at least one individual
that will make the trek, and suspect
there'll be several here.
El Paso High School carted off
the state schoolboy basketball
crown the past week-end, elimin-
ating the Abilene High School
Eagles in the wind-up tilt, 27-20. It
was the first title since 1921 for the
lads from El Paso, although they
have been frequent visitors to the
state tournament in Austin.
We heard about a crack just the
other night that one of the offi-
J-TAC
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PAGE THREE
TUESDAY, MARCH ll, 1941
Tyler Apache Team Which Opposed Plowboys Last Nite
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Here are the five boys who have made up the starting lineup for Tyler Junior College's Apaches this season, winners of twenty-six of their
last twenty-seven games. In the picture are (left to rgiht) Co-Captaii Acie Cannady, guard; Buck• Overall, co-captain and sensational high-scor-
ing forward; Winifred (Lanky) Williams, 6-61/2. freshman center; Bernard Clayton, steady soph forward; Foster Bullock, full-blood Indian
guard.
cials in the recent Tarleton-San
Angelo contest pulled. It seem3
that one of the West Texans got
his quota of fouls, and, as he was
leaving the court, he remarked,
"You guys are the sorriest offi-
cials I ever saw." That didn't both-
er the official, for he came bad
with, "We don't have to be good
to work with guys like youj1
PITCHING BIG
PROBLEM FOR
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Austin, March 8.—A half-proven
pitching staff shaped up as the an-
swer to Texas TJ.'s baseball cham-
pion questions as the Steers-clos-
ed down their first week of 1941
practice.
Headed by Mel Deutsch, one of
the greatest of all Longhorn hurl-
ers, the remainder of the four-man
team of pitchers is the weak link
o^.the chain. Wild Bill Dumke, the
Wisconsin flash, is still bothered
with the bad knee that kept him
from stardom last year after a bril-
liant freshman debut.
Then, there is Udell Moore, just
completing his basketball work, who
may or may not be good for nine-
innings play this season. Moore is
an excellent relief hurler, as was
his famous father, Wiley, and may
turn into a starter this year.
The fourth possibility is Beefus
Bryan, who turned from baseball
three years ago to become a 14-
foot pole vaulter. Bryan, who fin-
ished with a fine track career-, is
back now for another fling under
Billy Disch and Bibb Falk.
If the best pitching staff in the
Southwest Conference can be de-
veloped from that list, then the
Steers may successfully defend
their title. But it will take that
pitching to plug the holes of six
departed men who batted over .350.
Otherwise, the '41 Longhorns
look able, if not brilliant. Poundin'
Pete Layden and Jack Stone will
join Deutsch, giving three all-Con-
ference men for a nucleus. Prom-
ising sophs and holdovers will plug
the rest of the gaps.
The Longhorns will open their
year in fast company, meeting the
Boston Bees of the National Lea-
gue here in Clark Field on March
18.
J-TAC All-West Zone Basketball Team
Player—
Position
Height
School
Home
Iceland Huffman
F
0-11
Tarleton
Carlton
Herman Gerrick..
r
6-2
Tarleton
Cameron
Hiram Walker.
_ c
6*21/2
Tarleton
Dallas
Clayton Johnson.
— G
5-11
San Angelo
1 Veribest
J. W, Craft..!
O
5-11
Tarleton
Peacock
University of Minnesota employ-
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NYA students in campus employ-
ment.
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WASHINGTON STATE, N. Y. U.
POT ON '41 AGGIE GRID CARD
College Station, March 14.—Nearing the end of winter
football training- finds Head Coach Homer Norton about
set on the changes he plans in his Texas Aggie squad
and time also has given some of the lesser bamed boys
a chance to show their wares.
Latest shifts have taken John Abbot, Corpus Christi,
blocking back for two years, from that post to guard
where he has been doing good work; and Oscar Turner,
Ysleta freshman blocking back to a like post/ Norton ex-
plained that he made the changes in the hope,s of streng-
thening the Aggie line where it appears weakest.
For a while the Aggie staff considered shifting Bob
Williams, Eldorado freshman back, to the line but just
as they were about to make the decision, lie ran wild
in practice and the result has been th&t Williams is now
the greatest find of the training season. Wiljie Zapalac,
Bellville back, held out of action in 1940, is making good
all the praises sung about him when he came' to A & M.
It is hard to believe that anyone could hit a line as hard
as John Kimbrough, but Zapalae's efforts bring smiles
to Coach Norton's worried face. In practice games he
has been plunging for those needed first-down yards when
the going is the toughest.
All of the Iettermen are -coming along nicely, how-
ever, the September training period will probably find
them all battling some of the fast-moving sophomores
for their jobs.
DATE OPPONENT PLACE
Sept. 27 - Sam Houston State Teachers -College Station
♦Oct. 4 Texas Arts & Industries San Antonio
Oct. J1 New York University New York City
'♦Oct. 18 Tciaa Christian University Fort Worth
•*Oct. 25..... Baylor University — - .College Station
**Nov. Arkansas University -——. .Little Rock, Ark.
**Nov. 8 Southern Methodist University .College Station
•♦Nov. 15 Rice Institute Ilouston
**Nov. 27 University of Texas , College Station
Dee. 6 Washington State College .. Tucoraa, Wash.
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'Indicates Night game*
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TARLETON RIFLE
TEAM COMPETES
HEARST MATCH
Last week the Tarleton Rifle
Team competed in the William
Randolph Hearst Trophy match.
Two five-man teams competed as
a group for this national contest.
Tarleton's rating with the other
colleges participating will not be
determined for several weeks yet.
The first team was composed of
tbe five men with the best shoot-
ing averages, second team being
composed of those with the next
highest averages. The team score
as a whole, not the individual
score, is the one that was entered
in this contest. The,first team shot
a score of 885, and the second
team shot a score of 857.
The individual scores of the
first team are:
Hubert Meyer 186.
Herbert Maas 180
Weldon Watson 179
W. T. Jones— 177
Ben Cowling 163
The second team scores were:
E. Erwin 179
Bill Fletcher t.178
O. W .Bigby. 173
L, J. Baker .... 164
J. E. Cummins 163
"Why the black .crepe on the
door? Is your roommate dead?"
''That's no crepe; that's my
roommate's towel."—Yellow Jack-
et.
No, McKay, a neckerchief is
not the head of a- sorority house.
—Exchange.
FARMERS TAKE
OPENER 43-29;
LOSE 32-38
Hiram Walker Cans
Twenty-Two Points
In Play-Off Opener
Thumping the Robert E. Lee
Blue Devils 43-29 in their open-
ing tussle of the State jaycee elim-
inations, the Farmers slumped off
Friday night and lost their third
affair of the season to the Blue
Devils on the Goose Creek hard-
wood, 38-32, to break even in their
first two games of the round-robin
schedule for the state jaycee gim-
crack.
The Farmers went like a house
afire in the first game to take the
measure of the Rebels, 43-29. Nev-
er were they in danger of being
passed, and they were in front
20-10 at the half-way mark.
Hiram (Ninety-Proof) Walker,
the Farmers' 6-2!^ pivot from
Dallas, poured eleven field goals
through the loop in the first melee
to total twenty-two points for
high scoring laurels. The twenty-
two points, incidentally, were the
most Walker had scored in one
game the entire season. Huffman
hung up nine digits on a quartet
of goals from the field and one
charity toss to take runner-up
honors for the Farmers.
Croucher, Blue Devil forward,
showed the way for the Goose
Creek quintet with sixteen numer-
als scored on a half-dozen field
goals and four gi£t shots.
The Farmers were behind most
of the distance in the second game
of the series, trailing 15-18 at the
intermission.
Peterson was high for the Crick
boys, this time, chunking in six-
teen points on six field goals and
four free throws. Hand took run-
ner-up honors for the Blue Devils
with eight points.
Gerrick and Walker collaborated
to pace the Farmers in the second
game, both ringing up eight:
points. Gerrick scored his on two*
field goals and four free tosses,
and Walker totaled his points on
three field goals and two gratis
shots.
TARLETON (43)
LEE J.
C.
(29)
>
fg.ft.pf.tp.
fe.ft.pf.te.
Huffman
4 12 9
Hopkins
1
0 12
Gerrick
1 1 4 3
Croucher
6
4 016
Savage
0 0 10
Hand)
1
0 12
Mitchell
0 0 0 0
Peterson
0
14 1
Walker
11 0 122
Schlabaeh
0
0 10
Craft
10 2 2
Rochelle
2
0 2 4
Russell
2 8 3 7
Andrus
1
0 0 2
Jones
0 0 10
Taylor
1
0 12
McClel'tt
0 0 0 0
Buckles
0
0 0 0
Maxwell
0 0 0 0
Totals
13 514 43
Totau •
12
5 10 20
Free throws missed—Huffman 4. Ger-
rick, Craft, Russell, Peterson, Schlabacb
2, Rochelle, Taylor.
Half 3core—Tarleton 20, Lee 10.
Officials — Referee, Barfield; umpire,
Chasteen.
TARLETON (32)
LEE J.
C. (38)
fg.ft.pf.tp.
fg.ft.pf.tp.
Huffman
2 10 5
Peterson
6 4 8 1«
Gerrick
2 4 2 8
Croucher
10 4 2
Savage
112 3
Hand
8 2 18
Walker
3 2 3 8
Rochelle
0 14 1
Craft
10 3 2
Taylor
114 3
Russell
0 12 1
Hopkins
12 2 4
Jones
18 4 6
Andrus
2 0 0 4
Schlabaeh
0 0 3 0
Totals
10 12 16 32
Totals
14 10 21 83
Free throws missed—Huffman, Gerrick,
Walker 3, Craft, Jones. Croucher, Hand
2, Rochelle.
Half score—Lee 18, Tarleton 15.
Officials — Referee, Barfield; umpire,
Chasteen.
Kindly clergyman, pinching lit-
tle boy's knee: "and who has nice
chubby pink legs?"
Little Boy: "Betty Grable."—
Old Maid.
Farmer Figures
PLAYER—
a
FG
FT
PF
FTM
TP
AVG
Walker, c
16
85
24
27
22
194
12.1
Huffman, f
16
70
12
10
16
152
9.5
Gerrick,
16
54
24
27
24
132
8.3
Craft, g
16
27
10
35
11
64
4.0
Savage, f
14
27
9
16
13
63
4,0
Kussell, g
. _ 16
23
14
26
11
60
3.8
McClellan, g, . .
9
13
3
4
7
29
3.2
•Tones, g
, 14
12
5
22
5
29
2.0
Mitchell, f
„ 10
8
8
5
1
24
2.4
6
5
4
3
5
14
3.3
McDaniel, e
2
5
O
2
0
10
5.0
Sheldon, g
... 5
5
0
2
2
10
2.0
Lemmer, f.
1
2
1
2
0
6
5.0
Campbell, f.
4
2
0
7
3
4
1.0
Dillon, f . . . „
_ 1
1
0
0
0
2
3.0
Petsick, g_. _ .
1
0
1
0
O
1
1.0
Hendrix, g
1
0
1
3
O
1
1.0
Maxwell, g
_ 2
0
1
1
0
1
0.5
Totals . ..
339
117
201
120
795
EXPLANATION: G, games; FG, field goals; FT, free thrdws;
PF, personal fouls; FTM, free throws missed; TP, total points;
AVG, average points scored by individual per game.
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