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Sooner Ags Cop NCAA Crown;
Iba Rates Team Above '45 Club
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Wednesday Evening. March 27. 1940
Wednesday Ev
Indians Study Scout Notes on UI
Gl’s
To A
NEW YORK, March 27 — 7 — . —--——
Hank Iba 42 year-old coach of the » 6 4* AAAI
only school to win the NCAA PET MmAFAAG
o straight G MinOT nanges
years, believes his present Okla •
homa A andM aggregation is even _ a
better than his dream five of D A __ A
wan N For Cage Code
for the National championship. •
In vanctishing a strong North « at
caronna quintet 434 at Madison NEW YORK Maren 27— /— sion was ready to take its place
Square Garden last night before The basketball rule prohibiting The modification of the four-
18.479 fans the Aggies scored their re-entry of any player in the last minute rule was one of four minor -
15th consecutive * quest ar ur minutes of a game—a coach’s changes made in the cage sports M
de 630 with a record of headache during its one season in legislation by the national basket-
31 itories- 33 damies the book—w ent out the window ball committee of the Lnited • M
Seven foot Bob Kurland prov Hed today and a more liberalized ver- States and Canada which closed-its 9
a majority of the points The red---annual two-day rules-making ses- 9
ship.
hs red giant center hoo
ra se his season re rd-t
points. His 72 p ■ tot
Nt XA clashes not ■
Abilene Has Best Tribe Enters
Layne Due to
Hurl One Till
• McMurry’s —Indians yesterday
studied scout reports of the Texas
Longhorns and played a snappy
intra squad game
The Longhorns have been only
so-so this season. Coach Bibb
Falks charges lost two games to
Oklahoma last week: but yester-
day came back on the wings of
Bobby Layne’s pitching.
The All-conference halfback and
section’s premier passer showed
the Southwestern Pirates his
fancy curve ball at its best in
winning a no-hitter, the first pitch-
ed in the Southwest this season
Layne is due to pitch one of the
games against McMurry, most like-
ly the second.
The Indians and Longhorns meet
440 Relay Mark
By the Associated Press
Domination of Texas schoolboy
track and field by San Antonio
appears definitely at an end after
a couple of great years in which
the title rested in the southern
city.
Adamson and Woodrow Wilson
of Dallas, Paschal of Fort Worth.
Corpus Christi and Austin have
pushed forward as leaders of the
1946 campaign.
No individual star runner has
shown to compare with Charley
Parker of 1944 or Perry Samuels
of 1945 while Thomas Jefferson of
WASHINGTON,
—Ex-GI’s whose
eluded what they
ficer "caste" got
to tell the Army
should be done at
A six-man boar
Gen. James H. Do
Here to get an ear
list of witnesses
way up to general
The latter wen
but among those
ranks are cartoon
and author Manor
lampooned militar
before and after t
uniforms.
A spokesman 1
would decide aftei
ing with Secreta
Person today whet
are to be open oi
tle himself was n
voring closed hear
elusive to plain t
Patterson name
week to explore
tionship betweei
and enlisted ranks
of "building a citi;
best type possible
Shortly thereat
gartment decreet
forms for officers
beginning June 30
The Doolittle bi
hold its hearings
commercial office
any suspicion of o
Except for Dool
on terminal leave
Forces but active
Nine in Meet
McMurry college will enter a
nine-man team in the quadrangular
track and field meet here Thurs-
day afternoon with Texas Tech.
Hardin - Simmons and Abilene
Christian
Coach Vernon Hilliard’s entries
are
100 yard dash—Douglas Cox and
Floren Hoeffer.
220 yard dash—Cox and Hoeffer.
440 yard dash—Charles Brough-
ton and E. C. Barry. 4
880 yard run—James Carver.
Mile run—Bill Jones and Clinton
San Antonio was winning the
championship one year and finish-
ing second to Brackenridge the
next. But there’s a star of the
field out in the South Plains who
bids fair to equal Parker and
Samuels as a point-getter. He’s
Randall Clay, the all-around ath-
lete of Pampa.
The other day Clay pitched the |
19th Hole
Chatter...
sion here yesterday
Under the new rules, one re-
Eagles Enter
entry per player will be allowed
during the last four minutes of a
game and the clock will be stepped
automatically throughout that pe-
riod whenever the ball is dead ...............
The committee also decided to:j Friday and Saturday in a two-game
, SW INGS BIG STICK- Day id series
Shemer the San ANEelo InVItation track backboards optional transpar Williams. McMurry outfield, doe Twskocwill startethe SRAHCE
had a year ago and field meet to be held Satur- 2 Make it mandatory to call a er. was the Indians leading with Sam Smith-and de
"jump ball: six feet in from the hitter in the Baylor series and brook ready for the Saturday after-
the award as the outstanding F A a a a 1
er in the tournament, but enabled Angon Moot
him pass Ein ' AlOCIO ICCI
of Nea M 3
Warren Cantrell, former pro-
tion s top collegiate score:
This team a
than the cagers 1 han a year ago. and field meet to be held Satur-
Iba. just concluding his 19th year day - J-,......- .................„..„, an ue .,.,,„., ^„„..„ noon tilt
as a court ment : added it 1s The Eagles, w inners of the Big boundary w henev er • he - Des he is expected to carry a good Smith, who was display ing more
m re so id e my 194 Spring Re ay • last wee k by a wide out after having bec to ached by share of the offensive load sooman mound savvy than ever
Thenluere non : -- 5000 PrOTE will be rated as so APR? the Pinerais cantcraeite against the University o Tex- injured his throw mine arm in the
Also this is a bette r cuten tean , . her te mis . re 4 in the meet w ho touched it last or if their as Longhorns here Friday and first inning of the series finale
will get those points when the are sweerwater Christoval. Bardy. vision was blocked and they don t Saturday afternoons. (Repor-with Baylor and had to retired as
chips are down Eldorad Big Spring Sonora. Del know who touched it last ter-News photo by Don Dutch. He has been throwing ashardas
s years personr K I Ste; he ’ Anson Ballinger -. 3. Amend the running rule so eson). H ever in practice this week If BOP
land Weldon Kerr Blake Williams Kerryitte. Lake View Reeagan coun- that a player who comes to a legal ° form, he’s capable of troubling
and J. L. Parks were on last y r’s ty and San Angelo " stop with feet parallel can use
array, but the ad ition of Sam Track preliminaries will start at either foot as his pivot foot
Aubrey, Joe Bradley and the re 10 a m and the .• nals at 1:30 p. m
turn of J L Bennett after three A tennis tournament will be held
years in the Army gave the Aggies in connection with the meet The AITDOTS TO GET
stronger reserves th in 1 year tennis drawings are-set for 9am ’
Higher Frequency
Communications
Ab lene high school has entered
manager at the Abilene country
club made a hole-in-one Saturday |
at the Big Spring country club
Cantrell, now a Big Spring busi-
ness man, sank his ace on the par
three 172 yard third hole at the
club.
discus 152 feet 2 inches—just 3 Dewitt.
feet and 5 inches under the state Sprint relay — Cox, Hoeffer,
record— bread jumped 21 feet Broughton and Carver.
2 1-2 inches and high jumped 5 Mile relay _ Barry, Hoeffer,
feet 6 inches In the latter event Broughton and Carver
he could have gone higher but Broad jump—Billy Schultz and
that’s all he needed to win. Hoeffer.
A number of athletes over the pole vault — Hoeffer and Bill
state are already nearing the best shield.
marks of last year Raymond Pea- Discus throw—Shield and Mog-is
cock of Carlisle has bettered the Patterson
high jump standard. He leaped 6 shot put—Carver and Patterson,
feet 1 34 inches at the southwest-| High jump _ Schultz and Don
It was Cantrell’s second hole-in- . _ . w.Ak. ".o
ern exposition meet at Fort Worth Loyd.
... land that’s an inch and three
Well Heeled 1- u
CHICAGO. March 2'— , _ Lions Club to Have
Frank Barone 71 year old shoe-r A
maker was telling his mers Farmers AC Guecc
about the $1.10€ p rof bes he lUIIDUIj 03 UUVJIJ
__I the Longhorns plenty.
FIT I aa 1 Middlebrook was impressive in
-An -AuC Mat yesterday s three inning intrasquad
LUU 1 UUljr I’lGI game He isn’t fast but has an as-
‘ 1 sortment of stuff.
A McMurry has the better season
LAti orfar record The Indians broke even in
two. games while Texas has two
decisions against three setbacks.
Jack Carter, the Aukland. New _ .
Zealand junior heavyweight cham- Box or reserve seat tickets, for
tion kept his local recta the Texas-McMurry series went on
The Ranger country club invita-
tion will be back on the West Tex
as tournament circuit this summer
The tourney, according to E L.
Norris club president, will be held
around Labor Day Last Ranger
tournament was held in 1941 and
drew a field of some 200 golfers.
"By the time of our tournament."
Norirs said, "I believe our greens
and fairways will be in good shape
e s e
Dennis Lavender, who got his
golfing start in Abilene as a young-
ster. is the new assistant at the
Stevens Park course in, Dallas He
formerly was assistant pro at Wal-
nut Hill in Dallas.
Lavender recently returned from
A development and improve- record clean last night when his sale at the Mack > ° at noon
ment program to change all air- foe Gus Edd was disqualified in day, . . ,
The boxes are $1 20. tax includ-
ed I service in the Navy. He was on a
General admission tickets which submarine six months and on a
will be sold at the box office at
Javelin throw—Shield.
Hilliard lost a contestant when
quarters higher than the winning
mark at the 1945state meet. David Williams, who has been look-
Clay is well ahead of his win- ing good in the broad jump, came
ning throw in the discus of 136 up with a charley horse.
feet 3 inches and J—R. Tucker.The meet will be held on the
Adamson’s versatile star, is just 3 Abilene Christian track.
1-2 inches back of the victorious
broad jump. Tucker has hit 21
feet 9 inches.
Other top marks over the state
Sooners Beat Bears
6
BUY
repaired
The shoe" weren’t w rth $1,100 .Farmers and livestock men of ways communications in the Unit-the final match at the Supper club
Barone explained That ■ 5 the A bi ere s tra de area’u be guests ed States to very high frequency for failing to break at the direc-
amount of money he found hidden of the Lions club here Thursday has already been started and tion of Referee Egghead Perry ,.,
in one of the shoes eft n hisshop noon a’ its weekly luncheon in the should be completed within the Edd had squared the match will be sold at the box office at minesweeper in the Mediterranean
for repairs by an unidentified cuss Windsor hotel . next two years according to in- with Carter' by taking the second the ball park will be 75 cents, tax three years
tomer C B Spencer, agreditural di- -formation recentved by the Civil fall after the latter had gained the included student ducats are 501 He is still pretty sharp at golf.
When Barone returned the mon- rector of the Texas Cottonseed Aeronautics Authority office here first fall edge over the New Or. cents, tax included.
ev with the shoes, the cust mer Crushers ass cation Dallas, is to The higher frequencies were leans heavyweight e u
who did not identify him : - ve -re ak His sub ect is expected to utilized for aircraft bv the armed in the other half of Matchmaker Grid Star S No-Hit
Y 5.0o' - Ct have * during neariondpre Dean Deiron: mainesen LAST Game Thrills Fans
.dV -invited ed highly super r the lower Schaffer came from behind to beat
• rmin and ranchers of this trade fresmeneaeronowien senerallmse for the clever Tarzan Lopez on back AUSTIN. March 27. —tp) -
-. - •as the - cuests civilian pilots, the C A A said . benders Lopez had won the • pen They H be talking for a long time
- . of am was planned by Among the advan aces expected ing fall with , hammerlock about the mound job Bobby Layne
the agriculture commiteenot the tromaitheinem proeramitre creates Pete Bartu won the opening turned ,n for the University of amateur Bob Wolf and Buddy
■ composed of H w Wear confmunicat ong inttimeA match pinning the Laredo Cyclone Texas against Southwestern univer- Schultz of Wichita Falls and L E..
E. L. Th rnton and bad weather con tons an - im- 1- minutes with a leg stamp won the . Giants Buy Rookie
Elmo V Cook . proved flying aids such as ap .. -Layne, whose ability to throw a monthly Wes Trxas pro-amateur
Tigers Blank Red Sox i him among the na-association best ball golf tourna- MIAN March 27.—P —
eon. and Cook will introduce the ing and airwa tion's leading college grid stars ment here yesterday with a 10-un- Convinced that Monty Kenedy, 23-
- ests The program now being put into LAKELAND Fla March 27 — last season turned to baseball yes. der par score of 62. year old southpaw hurler, has
---effect was worked out by the ( 4A P— Detroit» World Champion terday to pitch a no-hit no-run Four teams captained by Frank great possibilities despite his wild-
The f r-t bicycle was a wooden experimental station at Indian Tigers are beginning to get top- game He struck out 16 of the ur- Baker of Pampa Raymond Gaftord ness the New York GianU have
ehicle invented by a Frenchman, apolis. and will not require any notch hurling from 'heir pitching ates and allowed only tive men to of Fort Worth Gene Root oi Ama- bought him for $25,000 from the
M de Sivrac in 1690. sudden change in private aircraft staff Stubby Overmore and Virgil reach base, four on walks and one rillo and Shorty Hornbuckle of Richmond Colts,
radio equipment because both Fire: Trucks faced only 30 bat-on an error
types of freq 1€ ncy will be operat. tlers and allowed just three s ngles tayne, who was a sensationa
ed simultane s for considera. between them in blanking the Bos- high school pitcher several years
ble time, ton Red Sox 4-0 yesterday. Iago at Highland Park had a bit
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IF the sale of box seats is an indication. Abilene’s West Texas-
1 Ne . Mexico league season will be a se
The advance sale was completed this morning The 72 re-
served seats are sold for the entire home campaign of 70 games.
Plenty of season ducats are still available They’re on the
market at the Mackey Co and the Commercial Barber Shop
Incidentally Uncle Bud" Farmer, proprietor of the Com-
mercial and long recognized as the city a No 1 fan. says his shop
will be closed on opening day -
Back in the twenties Uncle Bud offered a dollar bill for
every home run
He hasn’t definitely decided whether to offer the locals that
inducement this season, but says he probably will
Back in 1928 he recalls that one afternoon the old Abilene
Aces rapped seven home runs
I was glad they did, ton - he
ft, worth • dollar any
this season have been: WACO. March 27. —(— The
440-yard dash-A: J. Fritz, Gal University of Oklahoma baseball
veston, 51.2. | team defeated Baylor 6 to I in a
Shot put—John Seiler, Jeffer- seven-inning game here yesterday.
son (San Antonio', 47 feet 10 The visitors collected 11 hits, one
inches.
200-yard low hurdles—23 3 by
Allin Means Brackenridge (San
Antonio) and Robert Hall, Wood-
WACO, March 27. —(P — The
a home run by Dale Mitchell, to
four for the home team.
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The big boy who’ll play first base for the Sox this season is
likely to hit for the circuit many man times Uncle Bud.
| UBBOCK is-building a $70,000 baseball park
L i • e ■ ■ € H ■ 1 € rs • ho
was an overnight visitor in Abilene Satuurday. says it s the best
little park in the land
The layout is concrete and steel It will accommodate 5.000
fans The owner, Sam Rosenthal, expects to enlarge it next year.
Faulkner is optimistic over prospects for a fast league .
Abilene is feared throughout the loop The Blue Sox will fea-
ture youth and speed Oldest man on the roster will not be over 25
The kids will make a lot of mistakes early in the season, but
will be strong down the stretch You can bank on that.
* • %
Branch Rickey. Jr told the writer in Fort Worth Sunday
night that Abilene will have a young, hustling club which will get
tougher as the w eeks come and go.
VERNON HILLIARD scouted the Texas Longhorns in their se-
V rie klahoma
He says Bobby Layne the Texas ace is strictly a curve ball
pitcher Layne throws sidearm, and probably gets his effective-
ness from a sinker.
A sinker ball pitcher puts pressure on the infield because he
usually doesn’t get many strike-outs nor allow a great number of
fly bails They re mostly ground balls to the infielders
Layne pitched a doubles’ game against Southwestern yes-
terday, a 7-0 no-hitter.
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A BILENE (Christian may have one nf the most potent golf teams
A in the Southwest
Dick Stovall, the husks footballer, is terrific off the fee
He’s seldom over par on the country club course and whips the
Old Man frequently
The Cranfill brothers Don and Cullen, along with David
Kennamer are close behind
t The Wildcats are planning to arrange dual meets with North
Texas State and Texas Christian in addition to the conference
meet at Brow nwood in May
Athletic Director A B (Bugs) Morris will announce the 1
golf schedule within a few days. .
row Wilson( Dallas)
Mile run—4 41 8—by Robert Al-
len Reagan (Houston).
440-yard relay—44 3 by Abilene
Pole vault-11 feet 3 inches, by
Chaddy Lipscomb Bryan
carding a 67 at Stevens recently, 880-yard run—2:06.4, by Isaac
Pate. Brownwood
Mile relay—3 35 5. by Adamson
The Class A and Class B schools
will finish up their district meets
this week Class AA schools will
decide district champions by April
PP—A foursome of Herb Schroe- 13 The state meet at Austin is
der, Lubbock professional, and May 2 and 3.
He is still pretty sharp at golf.
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WICHITA FALLS. March 27 —
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Glover R Chapman of Wichita
Falls produced the day s sensation,
i hole-in-one on the 172-yard fourth
hole.
Mayor Locked Out
WAUKEGAN, III. March 27-
P.—Mayor Frank G Wallin, who
was quarantined in his home for
10 days this month while his son
Gerald. 14. had diphtheria, now is
locked out.
Another son Paul. 11. showed
symptoms of the dise ase and Wal-
lin. Gerald and a daughter Fran-
ces. moved to a hotel City health
authorities told the mayor he could
enter the basement of his home—
to tend the furnace.
day with the stick, too His pair of
doubles and a single netted him
batting honors against Southwest-
ern
The victory broke a three game
losing streak for the Steers.
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