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BRENHAM BANNER-PRESS, BRENHAM, TEXAS
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24,1954
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led the scoring with 18 points. An throws this season to 327 - five short
night.
The Lon Morris-Tyler winner will
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Lamar
Officials:
Bob King.
15 teams being considered for the
two remaining eastern "at large"
berths are Penn State, Cine ‘nnati,
Loyole of the South, Mississippi
Southern, St. Franeis of Loretto,
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Brenham (34)
Rost, f
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resume their series at Fort Worth
Wednesday night,
In Classes AA and A, the 32 dis-
trict champions in each stage sud-
den death playoff bi-district games
to determine contestants in region-
al tournaments this weekend.
Bowie, the defending AA champ,
won its bi-district game from Dal-
las Hillcrest Monday night. Tues-
day night, several others also mov-
ed up to the regionals. Birdville
beat Stephenville 65 to 43, Taylor
would keep Francis from playing
in the NAIB tournament next week
in Cleveland
Frank Selvy of Furman scored
455; Han
—361; E,
of 15 eligibles.
The five-man selection commit-
in double figures,
The Texas attack was led by
Billy Powell’s 20 points, but Fred
Saunders, normally a bigger gun.
Fred Kessel Leads
O’Shea Drue Team
To 3.1 Victory
Totals
Lamar (35).
Schmidt, f
Reed, f
Drenner, e,
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Atkins’ Sh ot Erases
Brenham Cubs, 35-34
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Marty Doherty controlled both 58 points in a 117 to 73 win over
l and ran his total of free
KENTUCKY BLENDED
WHISKEY
633
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Wednesday to pick their last two
I eastern independents from a flela
basketball tournament next week.
Meanwhile, Class A state champion White Oak was
eliminated by Quitman 45 to 42.
Dempsey, 150-134-178
— 462; Pan Alsdbrook, 161-171-
Bryan Miller scored 21 points in he leaned from a moving train. | Francis suffered a badly-sprained Invitatlon Tournament, swept to
Tyler’s victory over the Dragons, Salter had to take another train muscle in his left foot in the final its eighth straight win, 80 to 45
while Bob Burrows led Lon Morris back to the station to recover his quarter after tallying 54 points to over Erockprt, N. Y., State Teach-
with 27. I false teeth. lead Rio Grande to a 121 to 81 era.
and with some 1,000 persons key-
ed to the hit, grabbed a 33-32
advantage on Atkins* bucket with
1:31 left. Successive free throws
by Jimmie Hahn at 1:18 and
Jimmy Niebuhr at 0:44 put Bren-
ham back out front, 34 33. before
Atkns took the ball and looped
it in with 14 second left.
‘and only one sentor, into the next
round of the state cage playoff,
while it was the last high school
game for all ten members of the
Brenham squad.
I Lockett Store
ijlips, 150-165-142 —
Kiecke, 123-90-109 —
nipped San Marcos 49 to 48. South
San Antonio beat Refugio 54 to 46.
Mercedes downed Freer 53 to 46,
Mt. Vernon stopped Van 45 to 38.
In Class A, Burleson downed
Plano 52 to 39, Burnet whipped
Eagle Lake 52 to 49, Benavides
downed Rio Hondo 56 to 41, Rock-
dale downed Fairfield 39 to 34 and
Quitman took care of White Oak.
to theReglonar playoff at Victoria
this Saturday.
Atkins’ harrasing of Brenham
ball handlers was apparent from
the start, and it took a quarter
ibefore the Cuba found themselves
- -- A Battle, For A Rebound
Brenham’s William Henze (21) and Lamar Consolidated’s
G. L. Drenner (43) fight for a rebound in action at Wharton
Tuesday night. Looking on are Lamar’s Ernie Schmidt (42)
and the Cub’s Henry Rost (18). Henze got the rebound,
but the Mustangs went on to defeat the District 25AA en-
try, 35-34, and advance intotk Regional meet' at Victoria
Saturday. (Staff photo). '
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Houston Milby, San Antonio Jefferson, Galena Park,
gore and Plainview joined Dallas Tech Wednesday in
ing a big stride toward a berth in the state school-boy
goal from outside with just four-
teen seconds remaining to afford
the Mtstangs the " BF district
ctempionship -35-34, over Bren-
ham.
Corpus Christi 55. St. Edwanda ,
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NCAA berth does not go with the of the all-time major-college single-
I regular-season title that's rre- season mark of 332 held by Johnny
i served for the winner of the O’Brien of Seattle. -
। league’s post-season tourney which | In other leading games. George
Riee, which trailed throughout
the first three quarters at Waco,
came from behind with a 24-point
fourth period effort to tie Baylor.
The Owls could have won on a
layup shot by Charles Christensen
with five seconds to play, but the
ball rolled off, not through the
hoop.
In the extra time, Rice broke on
top but the Bears tied it up and
won fairly easily with forward
Murray Bailey hitting eight of the
12 points they tallied. Don Lanee of
Rice led the scoring with 23 points
and Bailey got 22. Rice’s Gene
Schwinger ran his season total,
already the bigzest in the South-
west Conference’s history, to 488
points with 17 against Baylor.
Texas goes to Fayetteville tor
Arkansas final game Friday right,
while Rice will tackle TCU at Fort-
Worth. Baylor and SMU meet at
Dallas to determine which will be
in or out of the running.
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50 to 150 acres, improved
or unimproved.
Falls 61 to 42.
In Class AAA, Galena Park beat
downed Sherman 58 to 49 a n d
Plainview edged by Pleasant Grove
67 to 63 in first games of their best-
. of-three series.
The other two series in the In-
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of the lead, 19-15, at halftime.
Lamar, with Erie Schmidt and
G. L. Drenner hitting from the
Drug Store
149-159-145 —458;
t, 121-146-393; Mil-
322; H W Rath, 144-121-157 —
422; L Umm. 1314137.137 —
411 Team, 554-513545--1.612. .
sehtider rumiture Company
Otto Althause, 171-146-138 --
KEXTVCKT WHISKEY
NOTRE DAME,Fevag And
NAVY, FORDHAM 1 . AI ,
MAKE NCAA Rice Upset
Free throws missed:
have a chance to share in the
league championship if both Klee
and Texas lose their remaning two
games. ASM went to Houston
Wednesday night to meet, the Uni-
vessity of Houston's Cougars- in
East Texas St. 55. Sui Ross 50.
East Texas, Baptist M Texas
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HowararPayne 75,MeMurry GL
I Southwest Conference lead. and the victory over Ashland College: It
__ . . T-l was not known whether the injury
nmim-_________ STRATFORD, Conn. —UP—A (.e -------- ■ .....— -m, --------------— --------- ----- -
at Huthinson, A baggageman. Kenneth Salter, I will be seeded first in that tourna- to 51, as colonial star Corky Devlin
dropped more than baggage when ment. Niagara, bound for the National
the third QUgxty. and took the'
lead at 21-19. Brenham’s biggestmi
5 15 26 34
13 19 22 35
Hal - Albrecht and
Only Texas AEM, seventh with a 1 . . ...
140 record, mathemanahy,afF
jy a low-rated loop Eoe in a road game.
-- ( Texas, at or hear the top all year, lost its third game in
NEW YORK, Feb 24 -UP , 10 starts to Southern Methodist by a 90 to 63 more. It was
Pncaa basketball tournament offic- the worstdefeat the Longhorns have suffered this year.
I lals, who Tuesday night added No- 1 Rioe, meanwhile, toppled More -------
litre Dame, Navy, and Fordham to, Baylor, 76 to 73 in an, overtime
game. Baylor’s Bruins, first quin-
| tet to whip Texas,n an SWC game
this year, .tallied 12 points in the
' extra play while Rice could get
to roar back from a 13-5 first pe- --------- - —
riod deficit to'within Tour points kins, Niebuhr.
margain was by four points three
minutes and 2 seconds deep in
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"I wenF value
for my automobile dollar!”
the 1 st canto. advance to the National Junior Col-
Then Lamar started to ease up.
the only game scheduled.
Texas scored the first field goal
in the Longhorns' game with SMU
Action on the court Tuesday night , at Dallas, but that jyM the last
saw Duke clinch the first regular | time they led. The Mustangs of-
season championship of the new fense, paced by Derrel Murphy’s
Atlantic Coast Conference, Rice 24 points, was too widely spread
and Texas both blow a chance to tor Texas as four others scared
147 — 460. Team, 587-595-576—1,-
758.
H. F. Habit Company
Leon Thiel, 150 187 174 — 461;
RobergRosenbaum, 139-129-101-
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numerous coasfonammen-t
erally the boy who engmeered
the machine of Bi McClellan in-
0 therIndependents 1 Eice and
For Tournament Southwest Conference basketball champior
Are Due ! after each was upset h
Texas, at or nal
leadership Unchange4,
The two upsets didn't affect Rice
and Texas' co-leadershig, salthough
it sliced their margin to a game
and a half over Arkansas two two
to play. But it did result in a big
snarl among the runner-ups. Ark-
ansas held third place with a 6-5
record, while Texas Christian,
Baylor and Southern Methodist all
had 5-5 marks tor a fourth-plce
tie. -
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Fred Kessel rolled consecutive
games of 191 to take honors for
single game, ennx high series •
of 519 pins and pace the O’Shea
Drug Store team to a 3-1 victory
over Reese Lockett Store in Elk-
horn Bowling League play at Ger-
mania Alleys.
Sehleider Furniture Company
came up with the Mme triumph
over H. F. Hohlt Company.
The teams, their players and
scores;
wuu. ras- -------■ —r , — times and was tied twice — all
id Tuesday El Paso high at Pampa, defending during the final sixteen minutes.
"sn MISSX- ckampir.3, in Glass AAAA end- Me- sarfrarv led -thufhsut - the 2 itt- •
ant 56 to 46 Allen at Alamo Heights in Class ham.
h wihi. AAA. Dallas Tech and Paschal also In comparison, the triumph put
Lamar's young team, composed
of a sophomore, three juniors
. Actually, Atkins did more than
just make the winnng basket He
scored five of his JO pofnts in
the final three minutes to erase
what appeared a comfortable
-Brenham’lead, stole the ball on
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Etee, it was learned, was scheduled ,
to confer by round-robin telephone
Wednesday to make its final picks.
I It was also learned that the NCAA
I berth reserved for the New Eng-
land conference champion will go
i to the winner of Saturday's game
between Holy Cross (20-1) ann
Gonnecticut (19-2).
Notre Dame, (17-21, Navy (6 6),
I and Fordham 11741 all were .select-
ed as easter"members at targ,"
r.. Jaams from
; east of the mnsfssppi 4
It was learned that among the
Carl Kingsbery, _____
ton Gaskamp, 104-164-127 — 395;
Fred Kesset. 137/191-191 — 519.
Team, 511-660-589--1,760.
ton County Junior College gym:
nasium; It was again Atkins who
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The Cubs brought the ball ,
down cgurt but Hahn muffed it-
out of bounds and the Mustangs .2
were Bi-district titlists.
Atkins’ 10 markers were high
for Lamar, while Brenham’s
bright spot was forward
Henry Rost who closed out a four
year career with 12 pointe andv
played well all round.
Neither team was adept at hit-
ting. Lamar connecting on 14 of '
47 field goal attempts for 30 per
cent while Brenham managed 12
of 45 shots for only 27 per cent.
The game was just about as -
close in other phases as the score
indicates. Lamar had 23 rebounds
to Brenham’s 22, with th Mus-
tangs’ Drenner taking eight off
the boards — the same number _______
as Brenham’s Winiam Bosse,
Both quintets appeared tn be
"tight.” arid bad passes and hur-
ried shots was a theme:
The lead changed hands four
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h By TOMMIE BLAKE
2 Bunner-Press Sports Editor
IE WHARTON, Feb. 24.—Members of the Brenham high
A " school basketball squad of 1963-54 will remember the name
K. Bobby Atkins for a long time.
Back on December 1, the fery little guard paced a sec-
k ond half rally to give the Lamar Consolidated Mustangs a
Ke 45-40 victory over the locals. -------- ' •
Ead And here Tuesday nfght be-
Route 1 Telephone 2706
Totals 14 7 11 35
Lon Morris And
sides and under, burst into a 7-0 Fvler in Finals
lead before Henry Rost's free shot
broke the ice foe Brenham The I TYLER, Tex., Feb. 24 -UP- _________________________
winnersiled by 9 points, 1:4With ; H ost Tyler Junior Coll ege and Lon Rost Seores Two I fabulous Clarehce (Bevo) Francis
a minute and five seconds leftin Morris were set to meet Wednes- . Kost 9eores 1 WO | surfered a toot injury,
the first, prior to a rally whieh.. day night as forecast in the finals Henry Rost, a bright star for - • - ‘ -
put their foes them back in theof the Region 14 junior college Brenham even in defeat flips in |
ballgame. - i r .. t, | basketball tournament. a bucket against Lamar
Then it appeared Lou ZastouI Tyler rolled over Paris 77 to 62 ( Consolidated al Wnarton lues __ ______. _______ ________________
pH’s District 25AA winners were Tuesday night and Lon Morris rap-day night. Rost , scored 12 points, backboards for the Dukes and also .Wofford
on their way. They Knotted.thetped Wharton, 89 to 61 Roth win-, hut Brenham lost the Bl district 1 ...... .....• 10 -int- A. ----•
count at 19-19 with 5:39 left inners scored 100-point plus victor-, tussle to ‘he. Mustangs on a
* ।___in__the1 quarter-finals Monday score of 35-34. (Starf photol.
SOUTH
I Duke 89, South Carolina 55.
Furman 117, Wofford 73.
. George Washington 70, Mary-
land 57.
.. MIDWEST
Rio Grande 121, Ashland 81.
_ SOUTHWEST
Avizona 78, Hardin Simmon* 73.
SMU 90, Texas 63. "
Baylor 76, ‘Rice 73.
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