Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 136, Ed. 1 Monday, February 4, 1957 Page: 5 of 8
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After Decatur Tourney
37-B brawls, while Sacred Heart
of Muenster plays host to the
rugged Laneri high Micks of
Fort Worth in a Southwest Aca-
demic league brawl.
Era, Sanger and Laneri rank
as easy favorites to trim their
Tuesday night rivals and every
game on the area slate will be
preceded by 7 o’clock girls
their initial four starts of the
conference campaign. The set-
backs shocked the locals from
the first place perch they had
owned since the offset of the
1957 grind.
club in the circuit, while Paris
received the favorite’s role in
everyone’s book. Things
changed in a hurry, however,
as the Lomenick c ached crew
battled mightily to surprise
everyone with their four
straight triumphs. Then the tide
changed again and the Leop-
ards started their backward
ward for the Black Cats, came
out on top of the scoring heap
with 16 ringers, followed by
Freddie Eustace with 14 marks
to his credit
The Panthers got an early
start Jeading the Decatur team
32-25 at the half. Their lead
slowly dwindled to 45-43 at the
third period buzzer. The Eagles
swooped down and clawed their
way to victory in the fourth
quarter, scoring 15 tallies to
win first place in the title tilt.
High point honors for the
tussle went to Elliot, Eagle for-
ward, with a top total of 30
tingers. Cohort Shaw turned in
15 scores and the two made up
most of the team’s tallies.
The Paradise Panthers
slipped past the Gainesville
eighth grade Kittens in an early
Saturday morning battle, 30-27,
which sent the Little Cats to
the runoff for the third place
trophy.
Derrell Powell whipped out
with 14 tallies to top his team
scoring and was followed by
Ronnie Beall and Terry Schnei-
der with six each. The only re-
maining point was free tossed
in by Jimmy Boyles.
McBride of the Panthers
scored 15 ringers to lead* the
mark-making of the tilt.
The Kitlens went on to
smash the Lewisville Farmers,
31-18 in the runoff game Satur-
day night. '
Center Beall, sacked up
seven field goals for 14 points
and was high scorer of the tro-
phy tilt. Powell followed with
six points. |
The Kittens rallied for 22
ringers in the second half after
a slow start and held the farm
boys scoreless in the fourth
period.
High tally tosser for the
Farmers was Crawford with
seven.
The two Gainesville teams
will face the North Texas State
college Lab Lions from Denton
tonight on the junior high
court in a conference tilt set for
7 p.m.
Although the average Ameri-
can eats less than six pounds
of rice a year, the average
Louisianan eats 100 pounds.
boro plays host to Lewisville.
Era goes to Valley View and
Sanger invades the lair of the
Saint Jo Panthers in other area
trimmed Azle 50-42, while
Sacred Heart lost a 56-32 go to
Buckner Home of Dallas.
cery store of $222, an armed
bandit returned 10 days later,
greeted clerk Fred Whittington,
27, with "Hi! It’s me again”
and escaped with $70 more.
Sinclair
Supply .
Exes ...
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Casper withstood all manner
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League pacesetters from in the Gainesville area, the, Al
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SAL play and the Tigers are ex-
pected to be easy pickin’s for
Laneri. The Bengals have won
but one ball game all season.
Last week Whitesboro
Heart strings twanged from
bitter disappointment last Fri-
day when the Leopar’s dropped
their nerve-shattering overtime
battle to Mt. Pleasant, but the
locals hope to rebound in Mc-
Kinney Friday night as they
endeavor to keep alive their
hair-slim hopes for at least a
District 3A-6 title tie.
TALL BILL TIMBERLAKE STRETCHES out to his full length while going
high for a shot against Mt. Pleasant Friday night. The tall Leopard center hit
10 points during the game, but the Leopards lost to the Tigers. That’s Dick Cald-
well of the Tigers guarding Timberlake. (Staff photo)
games.
Whitesboro is currently dead-
locked with Northwest for first
place in 2A-10 and the two
league leaders are due to meet
in Northwest Friday night in
the showdown battle of the sea-
Friday’s Results
Saint Jo 42. Muenster 39.
Sanger 81. Era 70.
Valley View 50, Callisburg 32.
Set Thursday
This is showdown week in
City Basketball league play and
the loop will tome to a blazing
finish Friday night after five
nights of activity.
In an effort to wind up the
league this week, all of the re-
maining games have been sched-
uled and action should be plen-
tiful both on the local court and
in Walnut Bend.
The unbeaten Pirates and
hard-pressing Gainesville col-
lege Lions are battling furious-
ly for the title and their clash
Tuesday night may decide the
issue. The Lions have lost but
one game this season.
Here is the entire week’s
schedule, with playing site and
time in parenthesis.
Monday—National Supply vs.
Exes (Here at 7:30 p.m.)
Tuesday—Sinclair vs. Nation-
al Supply (Walnut Bend at
7:30 p.m.) Pirates vs. Exes
(Here at 6:30 p.m.)
Wednesday—Lions vs. Nation-
al Supply (Here at 6:30 p.m.)
Sinclair vs. Exes (Here at 8
til April 22nd , .
Patty Berg lied one of her own many records in the golf
world Sunday when she shot a 210 to win the 54-hole Havana
Biltmore Women's Invitational. She had set the women’s 54-
hole record of 210 in 1952 and tied her own mark yesterday . . . the call were Teparded
This marks the final full week of basketball play for the season the locals were regarded
Leopards and another season is about to go down as history in no better than the fourth best
the record books. It seems like the roundball sport opened only
yesterday and here it is almost over.
Prior to Friday’s torrid action
in District 3A-6, Mt. Pleasant’s
Center Gary Reddin was the
loop’s leading point-maker. The
top Tiger star “fouled out" of
competition Friday, however,
thanks to a losing tussle with
his school books, and his lead
fell by the wayside.
Billy Don Mitchell, McKinney
ace whose injured shoulder is
braced by a leather harness,
scored 38 points in his team’s
win over Greenville and the (ef-
fort shoved him 'past Reddin in
the scoring duel.
Mitchell currently owns 174
points, compared to Reddin's
165,
Another McKinney player,
J. W. Mitchell, scored 27 in the
rout over Greenville and has
------------—, claimed third in circuit scoring
After robbing an all-night gro- with 123 points. R. E. Dodson
" and James Stansell of Mt.
Alvord, which virtually has
sacked up the 37-B champion-
ship, is heavily favored to re-
tain its unbeaten slate with
triumph No. 10 at the expense
of the lowly, cellar-dwelling
Callisburg Wildcats and Whites-
boro is favored to nip Lewisville
in Tuesday night headliners.
Callisburg visits the Alvord
court for that battle and Whites-
Pleasant rank fourth and fifth
with 121 and 120, respectively,
while Jack Culpepper of Sul-
phur Springs and Olen Jordan
of Paris are deadlocked for
sixth with 114 points apiece.
Billy Bob Latham of the
Leopards holds down seventh
with 110 points and Frank
Jackson and Billy Hooten of
Greenville round out the top 10
3A-6 scorers ’with 97 and 92
points, respectively. •
tumble. .
The locals hope to check that
slide Tuesday night when they
invade the lair of the McKinney
clock duel. The B teams of the
two schools will stage a pre-
liminary game at 6:15 o’clock.
BiUy Don Mitchell and J. W.
Stewart are the top boys on a
McKinney team that lost a 44-
31 encounter to the Leopards
on the local court earlier in the
. By JERRY SMITH
Register Sports Staff
Gainesville’s junior high Pan
thers, coached by Horace Mc-
Cain, and -the Kittens, under the
direction of Coach Bert Gibbs,
brought back a pair of trophies
for their efforts in the tourna-
ment at Decatur.
The Panthers were edged
58-54, by the Decatur Eagles
Saturday night and came in
second in the four day tourney.
Big Bobby Barrett, fast for-
J. Paul Morgan
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Currently pressed into a
third place position in circuit
standings, the Leopards stiU
own a mathematical chance for
a title tie, but hopes are indeed
remote since the league leading
Sulphur Springs Wildcats are
favored to win their final two
games without too much diffi-
culty. »
The Wildcats play host to the
cellar dwelling Greenville Lions
in their next-to-the-last 3A-6 go
Tuesday, while Paris goes to
Mt. Pleasant in another highly
important meeting. Paris and
Mt. Pleasant are currently tied
for second place in the stand-
ings.
Coach Sam Lomenick’s Leop-
ards have dropped three league
battles in a row, after winning
it Road
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LOCAL BOXERS
LOSE A PAIR
Greenville boxers continued
their brilliant showing in Sat-
urday night’s second round
action of the Regional Golden
Gloves tournament, racking
up a total of 19 points for two
days of team point-making.
Denison ranks second in
team scoring with seven
points, while the Sherman en-
try in the regional action has
scored five victories. Man-
ager Charles (Rosie) Rosen-
berg's Gainesville Optimist
pugilists are battling under
the spangles of the Sherman
team.
Only two Gainesville scrap-
pers saw action Saturday
night and both were handed
setbacks. Bantamweight
Wayne Clark started fast, but
lost some of his steam and
lost on a third-round TKO to
J. V. Styles of Denison and
Flyweight Sammy Nichols
dropped a close decision to
Wayne Jones of Greenville.
Both tiny local mitmen made
stellar showings before bow-
ing In defeat
Final round championship
bouts are on the agenda for
the Greenville regional show
tonight and several Gaines-
ville boxers are expected to
see action.
Locals Set Spring Training.
BLUE MONDAY SPORT SHORTS from here, there and
D yonder...
Winnipeg, Canada professional football bigwigs are extreme-
ly proud of their signing of TCU Quarterback Chuck Curtis.
Officials from that team reportedly remarked the other day that
Curtis was one of the three best quarterbacks in United States
college circles last season . . .
Chuck, we understand, will be the largest quarterback in the
Canadian circuit when the grid campaign rolls around next
fall ..‘
Local fighters have found the going rocky indeed in the
Greenville Regional Golden Gloves tournament. Tonight’s the
final session in the meet and we expect the local scrappers left
in the running will go all out for honor and glory . ..
It appears now that spring training for the 1957 Leopard
footballers will get underway at Leeper stadium on February
18th. Coach Dub Wooten and his assistants are already begin-
ning to make plans for that opening date, but they’ll be glad
to switch starting times if the Leopard cagers can somehow or
other manage to edge into the District 3A-6 throne room.
Sam Lomenick’s struggling Spotted Cat five still sports an
outside chance for a title tie. However, that chance appears to
TOE MCCARTHY, FORMER New York Yankee manager, and
• Wahoo Sam Crawford, onetime major league slugger, are the
newest members of Baseball’s Hall of Fame . . .
Spring football training started today for four Southwest
conference schools. Texas Christian university, Texas, Baylor
and Rice gridmen hit the practice fields today and SMU opens
its grid grind next week.
Texas A&M won’t open football drills until February 25th and
Arkansas gridmen won’t face the rigors of spring workouts un-
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p.m.)
Thursday — Pirates vs. Exes,
(Here at 6:30 p.m.) Sinclair vs.
Lions (Here at 8 p.m.)
Friday—Sinclair vs. Pirates
(Walnut Bend at 7:30 p.m.)
CITY LEAGUE
Team—
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Lions ..............
Sanger ....
Era ........
Saint Jo ...
Valley View
Muenster .•.
Callisburg .
DISTRICT 37-B STANDINGS
Team— W. L. Pet.
Alvord ....................9 0 1.000
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season.
Billy Bob Latham, Sonny Gil-
more, Bill Timberlake, Steve
Moore, Bill Hocker and Bobby
Langley will carry the brunt of
the playing load for the Leop-
ards Tuesday.
DISTRICT SA-S STANDINGS -
Team— W. L. Pts. Ops.
Sulphur Springs ......6 2 432 406
Mt. Pleasant ..........5 3 539 484
Paris .................5 3 . 452 408
Gainesville ...... 4 3 343 333
McKinney ...........2 6 448 496
GreenviUe ......^.....1 6 385 464
Friday’s Results
Mt. Pleasant 51, Leopards 47 (over-
time).
Sulphur Springs 64. Paris 57.
McKinney85^Greenville 49.
Mitchell Is
New Scoring
Leader 3A-6
5—Gainesville (Texas) Daily Register Mon., Feb. 4, 1957
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