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DA THE ABILENE REPORTER NEWS
e Abilene, Texas, Saturday Morning, Feb. 13, 1954
Merkel Shades Throck 1
To Win 8-A Cage Title |
THROCKMORTON, Feb. 12 —
Merkel's Badgers captured the Dis-
trict 8-A basketball championship
here Friday night, nipping the
Throckmorton Greyhounds, 47-45,
to a spine-tingling double - over- EarUer, Pursley had dropped to
time encounter, a free tote Ht . E------a-
Phillip Pursley, reserve sopho-
more forward, meshed two charity
tosses to the second overtime to
give Merkel a berth to the region-
al playoffs.
Pampa Rolls
By Lubbock
In Win No. 12
DISTRICT STANDINGS
Team
Pampa .....
Amarillo ....
Borger ......
Lubbock ....
San Angelo ..
Odessa. .....
ABILENE ..,
Midland......
Won Loot Pct.
.. 12 0 1.000
... 11 1 .916
... 9 3 750
... 7 5 .583
.... 4 9 .307
... 3 9 .250
... 3 10 .230
....0 12 .000
a free toss with only 15 seconds
remaining to the first overtime to
tie the game at 45-45 and send it
into the second extra period.
The regulation game had ended.
44-44, thanks to a field goal with
only 10 seconds to play by Throck-
morton's Jimmy Mathews.
The victory was Merkel's 10th
district win against only one loss.
The Badgers still have Haskell to
play to loop competition, but have
the title neatly tucked away.
Center Jerry Cunningham paced
Coach Tommy Ellis’ attack with
14 points while freshman forward
Robert McLeod dunked 11. How-
ever, Throckmorton's Mathews cap-
lured high honors to the struggle
with 23 points while Bobby Joe
David hit 11 for the losers.
In a warmup game the Throck-
morton girls tripped Merkel, 55-52,
with Peggy Ingram pacing the vic-
tors’ attack with 34 points. De-
Lois Black led Merkel with 22.
Score By Quarters:
Merkel 8-20-31-44-45-47
Throckmorton: 16-15-26-44-45-45
1 □
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20
LEAPING LENA—Abilene Christian College’s Tommy Morris executes another of his
leaping maneuvers which delighted the crowd at Bennett Gym Friday night as ACC de-
feated Texas A&I, 90-63. Here, in the third quarter, Morris attempts a shot but is fouled by
the Javelinas’ Rod Beamguard (12). Morris drew two free tosses and sunk both to give
ACC a 55-29 lead. The other A&I player is Marvin Leggett. (Staff Photo by Bob Gulley)
Wildcats Rip A&I
In 1st TC Defeat
By JACK HOLDEN
Reporter-News Sports Editor
The Javelinas came, they saw.
but they didn’t conquer, not by a
long shot.
Abilene Christian College's bas-
ketball team made the proverbial
depot stove look like an iceberg
to contrast Friday night as they
clawed their way to a 90-63 vic-
tory over Texas A&I, handing the
Hogs their first conference loss of
the season.
From the opening buzzer, the
Wildcats were like s pack of loosed
tigers, fighting for every point,
and it wss 6:35 minutes into the
initial quarter before A&I ever hit
a field goal.
It was almost as though Coach
A. B. (Bugs) Morris had covered
his own basket with a washtub as
the Javelinas meshed only three
floor shots in the first quarter.
Morris' men found no such trou-
ble as they rolled up a 20-9 lead.
James Ed Brown, ACCs crack
JAVELINAS HERE
AGAIN TONIGHT
The second game of Abilene
Christian College's eventful
two-game series here with Tex-
as A&I will be played Saturday
night at Bennett Gymnasium.
Game time is 8 p. m.
floor man, agve notice from the
beginning that he was going to be
a pain to the neck for A&I. In
the first quarter he scored nine
points, then went on from there
to outstrip anything on the court
with 27 for the night
The Wildcats held A&I’s leading
scorer, Marvin Leggett, to one
free loss in the first quarter and
five points to the second. It wasn't
until the third quarter that Leggett
was able to open up and make 11
points. He wound up as the night's
runnerup for scoring honors with
21.
Until he was jerked out to the
third quarter, ACC's Tommy Mor-
ris was one of the big stumbling
blocks for A&I. Morris covered the
Bennett Gymnasium floor like the
dew covers Dixie, and his leaping
scoop shots brought the house
down. In the end Morris was sec-
ond high scorer for ACC with seven
goals and two charity shots for
16 points.
LUBBOCK, Feb. 12 — (RNS) —
The Lubbock Westerners' gave
the mighty Pampa Harvesters a
score for one quarter here Friday
stages to go down, 72-53, to a Dis-
trict 1-A AAA encounter.
The victory was the 12th straight
in district play for the Harvesters
while Lubbock now has a 7-5 loop
mark.
Lubbock, with big Lyle Harger
hitting three quick buckets, jump-
ed off to a 17-14 first quarter lead
over the invaders but Pampa
methodically went to work to the
second, hitting17 points while
holding Lubbock to nine to move
out front at the half, 31-26. At the
end of the third period the Har-
vesters led, 51-43.
Big Jimmy Bond of Pampa had
a field night in the scoring depart-
ment, hitting 29 points to pace the
Harvesters. Gary Griffin was se-
cond with 22 and E. J. Mcfivato
third in the Pampa order with
Wade Wolfe was tops for Lub-
bock with 15, followed by Dale
Ball with 12 and Chuck Key and
Lyle Harger with 11 each.
Pampa hit 51 percent of its shots
from the floor for the night while
the Westerners hit 35 percent
Get 1-AAAA Agate Standings.
It was a record-breaking night
for the Purple and White. Their
32 field goals was the most for
the year, their 90 points outstrip-
ped anything this far, and Brown’s
individual total of 27 bettered hia
previous mark for the season by
one.
Weatherford Teams
To Face Comanche
In 9-AA Cage Finals
Plainview Edges Sweetwater
To Cinch 1-AAA Title Tie
Two Javelinas gave their lead-
er. Leggett, some solid assistance
with Rod Beamguard meshing 13
pointe and Wally Mayer 12. Both
men were effective with their crip
shots and short push shots, netting
five field goals each.
PLAINVIEW, Feb. 12 (RNS) —
Plainview sacked up its tenth
straight District 1-AAA basketball
game here Friday night, nosing
out Sweetwater, 61-52, to the fourth
quarter.
The win cinched a tie for Plain-
view for the district title.
While Plainview led through the
first three quarters, the Mustangs
moved to within one point of
Plainview to the first minute of
Papooses Clip
Cisco JC Five
CISCO, Feb 12 — The McMurry
Papooses rolled over the Cisco Jun-
tor College Wranglers, 67-58, here
Friday night.
Carl Anderson end Bill Pierce
paced the Papoose, to the win with
1g and 16 point., respectively, al
though high point honor. In the
game went to Cisco • Murphy with
22. Steven, added 18 to the Wrang.
ler cause.
the final period. 47-46. But the Bull
dogs pulled away until they led. SO-
SO. with seven minutes gone to the
final quarter.
Plainview’s Stewart Webb netted
nine straight free throws to the
second half to keep Plainview out
front.
The Bulldogs' star ecorer. Rex
Jordan, fouled out to the first min-
ute of the fourth period after scor-
ing 12 points.
Sweetwater now has an 8-2 rec-
ord and is second to the district.
Both must plsy two more games.
One more victory for the Bulldogs
bonds them the crown.
Sweetwater stayed consistently on
Plainview's trail throughout the
game. Plainview led, 16-12, after
the first quarter and 31-25 at the
half. The Bulldogs made this 46-40
going into the final chapter.
Hugh Bob Pilson paced the Plain-
view scorers with 17 points while
Sweetwater’s Dale McKeehan
meshed 15 for runnerup honors.
In the B game, Plainview walk-
ed off with a 77-42 victory.
Billy Wall of Plainview hit 23
pointe while two Sweetwater boys
tied for honors with 11 each—Joe
Blsnn and Dickie Amos.
The Wildcats never let up in
their efforts on offensive except
in the fading minutes of the fourth
quarter when A&I successfully con-
trolled the ball and began to close
the gap slightly. At one point,
midway in the fourth, ACC held
an 85-45 lead. But A&I whittled
it to 27 points as the game ended.
ACC was never seriously threat-
ened at any time, and it moved
the score to 7-0 before Bob Brandt
hit a free shot to crack the ice
for A&I, 2:50 minutes into the
game.
A poor eye for free shots hurt
A&I badly. It missed 22 of the
gratis opportunities. The Wildcats
muffed only eight chances for an
average of around 70 per cent
On field goals ACC averaged 40
per cent for the game, compared
to 29 per cent for the Javelinas.
STEPHENVILLE, Feb. 12 (RNS)
The Weatherford and Comanche
boys and girls teams gained the
finals of the District 9-AA playoff
tournament here Friday night
Weatherford’s boys edged the
Cisco Loboes, 48-42, to gain the
finals against Comanche, which
had beaten round robin champion
Stephenville Thursday night, 40-31
Charles Pearson hit 17 for Weath-
erford while George Callarman
scored 15 for Cisco.
In girls play, Weatherford wal-
loped Cisco, 45-25, and Comanche
beat Stephenville, 41-35.
Eloise Peoples and Anita Har-
well hit 20 and 16 pototo, respec-
tively, for Weatherford while Kitty
Pippin hit U for Cisco.
Mary Jean Andress paced Co-
manche past Stephenville with 28
pototo with Eloise Hall hitting 19
for the losers Comanche won the
round robin title. In winning the
unbeaten Comanche sextet hit
only three field goals for the night
gaining the other 35 points via the
foul route as a total of 52 personals
were called on Stephenville.
San Diego Amateur
Leader at St. Pete
Virgil Bennett held down the cen-
ter job for ACC until the third
period when the regular starter,
James Cobb came to. Until Cobb
went in. 5:45 deep to the third.
Coach Morris hadn't substituted a
man. Eventually 13 men saw ac-
tion for the Wildcats.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 12 UB-
Ama teur Mickey Wright of San
Diego shot a 6 under par 68 today
to take a one-stroke lead in the first
round of the 54-hole St Peters-
burg Women's Open Golf Tourna-
ment
MeMURRP B (67)
Easterling .......
C Anderson .......
Pierce ...........
Hayworth ........
McClure ..........
Sylestine •. .........
Corley ............
Wells . .............
Young ...........
Totals ...........
cisco JC <M)
Lloyd ...............
Carmen .........•
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Stevens. ..........
Murphy ...........
Farmer . -..-.0*.
Pringle ...........
Scroggins .........
Totals .......
Score by quarters:
MeMurry B
Cisee
FG FT
PF TP
4 12
3 18
3 16
Vernon Lions Drop
Big Spring, 57-52
COWBOYS TOP DISTRICT 8-AA CAGE CHAMPIONS—Coach Glen Whitis and his Coleman High Bluecats,
e the pride and joy of Coleman County basketball fans, strike a championship pose prior to
TEMPE, 85-78 capturing the District 8-AA title Friday night. Members of the team which racked up a
vis P highly impressive record of 27 wins and three losses in regular season play Are
BULLETIN to right: BACK ROW—Milton McMillan, center; Bill Powell, center: Charles Clary for-
TEMPE, Feb. 12 — The Har- ward; Charles Breedlove, forward and Coa ch Whitis. MIDDLE ROW-Mike Lowell
der ent-mcoypu nes: FCNKenneth Cleveland, guard; Bill Johnigan, guard; and Bob Byerly," forward.
Friday night, copping . sur- 5 RunCharles Bridwell, guard; Jerry Cosson, guard; Jack Baucum, forward;
prise 85-78 verdict over the and Max McCulloch, forward. (Staff Photo by David Barros)
Arizona State of Tempe Sun • _ —
3^^^ Coleman Takao
from Abilene. The Pokes pre-WIEEECEE
viously defeated Texas West-■ easAU
ern and New Mexico AAM and
lost four Border Conference a •
-9--8-AA Cage Title
the Arizona Wildcats who up-W AW A o C19W EICEL
set the league-leading West %
Texas State Buffs Friday By MILTON AUTREY
I Reporter-News Correspondent
COLEMAN, Feb. 12 — After be-
ing scared for three quarters, the
mighty Coleman Bluecats romped
back to the final stanza to lam-
bast the Ballinger Bearcats, 61-46.
and capture the District 8-AA bas-
Arizona
COLEMAN, ALPINE
MEET IN REGIONAL
• • ketball championship here Friday
I night.
ADATS The victory was Coleman's 27 th
suit in 30 outings for the season and
■ automatically sent it into the first
w - round of the regional playoffs
P A 1 against the Alpine Bucks, District
7-AA champions.
E l I Coleman jumped off to an early
30 lead in the initial quarter on
TUCSON, Feb. 12 (The Uni- eeveldngald charity Kenneth
versity of Arizona opened the Bor-BoD ByeR and a charity toss by
der Conference basketball race to- Ballinger’s Jerry
mient by handing West Texas State Bearcats back in the game with
first league defeat the season, a field goal
Texas : -
6-1 record. Arizona is in third place at the end d the cold rantag
behind Texas Tech with s 5.2 mark. “ The Bearcats enmedr-ceeman
Jim Scott of West Texas led scor- I
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ehfirizona moved abend late in the Ballinger go ahead once again. 24-
third quarter and stayed there. 23, late in the quarter. However,
second ^rter^^’^^ recovered to take •
the scoring punch. Arisons retain-1 - lead at halftime,
ed a slim 27-26 lead at the half.
COLEMAN, Feb. 12—Coach
Glen Whitis' Coleman Blue-
cate, who won the District 8-
AA title here Friday night by
defeating Ballinger, will meet
the Alpine Bucks, champions
of District 7-AA, to the first
round of the regional play-
offs at Ozona the night of Feb.
22nd or 23rd.
Thei exact date, Whitis said,
would be determined sometime
this week, but it will definite-
ly be played either on Mon-
day or Tuesday night (Feb.
22-23) at Ozona.
Both Coleman and Alpine
captured district champion-
ships without a loss. Coleman
went unbeaten to eight loop
tilts while Alpine won 10
straight district contests.
lineup during the first three per-
iods beesuse of a recent illness,
went into the lineup st the start
of the final frame to give the Cole-
a manites needed rebounding pow-
Coleman managed to bold on to
Went Zeokz Sortlived|@he tm-d 24/40% tea Ta "noum
ad in the first minute - the ---comfortable, 41-38. advantage mov-
tog into the final period.
Center Bill Powell, whom Coach
_ Whitis had held out of the
lead to the first minute of the see-
ond half.
Arizona led by 12 points with five
minutes to play. It stalled its way Glen
through most of the balance of the
game
A total of 43 fouls were called dur-
ing the game.
Highland Shades
Woodson Gains 2nd Nobbs to Earn
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Prior to Powell’s entrance into
the battle, the Bearcats had domi-
nated play off the boards sll night.
With Powell to the lineup, Cole-
man began to round into an offen-
sive and defensive unit tallying
20 points to the last quarter while
holding Ballinger to eight.
Cleveland, Coleman’s all-state
candidate, captured Individual
scoring honors to the tilt with 19
points, running his season scoring
total to 640 points to 30 games.
Forward Charles Clary was next
to line for Coleman with 15 points
while Byerly tallied 11.
Ferguson paced the Ballinger st-
uck with 14 points. Richard Toli-
ver hit 12 for runnerup honors,
and Jerry Ball meshed eight
in after-game activities District
Chairman Joe Forrester of Ballin-
ger presented Coach Whitis and his
Bluecats with the district trophy
before some 1,800 screaming fans
who were paying the new cham-
tons a tribute to a “Bluecat Ap-
preciation Night.”
Score by quarters
Caiman
In 16-B Cage Race 21-B Finals Berth
PUTNAM, Feb. 12 — The Wood- ____
son Cowboys strengthened their HIGHLAND, Feb. 12 — Highland
bid for second piece In District gained • spot in the final-round
16-B here Friday night with a 58 45 of the District 21-B championship
victory over Putnam, playoffs here Friday night, taking
Woodson now has a 7-1 record their second straight victory over
and Putnam a 7-4 mark Hobba, 48-47
Gary Hurford hit 28 for the Cow- Highland will meet the winner of
boys with Hall Green tallying 15 Saturday night's Trent - Hermleigh
for the Putnam five. tilt in a best of three game series
The Woodson girls edged the to determine the loop champion.
Putnam sextet, 29-27, as Betty Ray Pierce meshed 16 noints ta
Whitmire sank 12 for the winners
and Terecis Speegle scored 11 for
Putnam.
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She was a stroke ahead of Babe
Zaharias and Beverly Hanaoo.
The Babe's usually long driving
game was shortened today and she
explained she wss hitting the ball
a little easier to keep from getting
too tired. Her approach shots were
excellent and her recovery shots
from the traps were good.
Ray Pierce meshed 16 points to
pace the victon while Lewis South
led Hobbs with 15.
Score By Quarters:
Highland 16-26-44-48
Hobbs 10-19-43-47
So. 4th a Chestnut Ph. 4-4652
13-28-41-61
9-26-38-46
FG FT PF TP
0 0 00
. 3 a 2 11
6 1 3 13
ACC (90)
Cobb ......
McCall .......
Woosley .....
Brown. ......
Morris ....
Cockerham . ..
Bennett ......
Spurgin ......
DeArmond ...
wor : . :
Scott
McMillan . ....
Totals _____
TEXAS AM (63)
Miksch .....
Schubert .....
Mayer ......
Beamguard
Leggett .......
Brandt.......
Stegall ......
Hunt .:
Clyde has sewed up the boya
crown and Eula the girls in Dis-
trict 16-B.
QUICK—PERSONALPRIVAT
CAGE SCORES
— Roscoe Masters
Roby Lions, 72-39
• ROBY, Feb. 12 - Roscoe moved
into a tie for third place to the
district 8-A basketball race Friday
night, downing the Roby Lions, 72-
39, while Throckmorton was bow-
tog. 47-45, to Merkel la Throckmor-
ton.
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Pampa 72, Lubbock 53
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Vernon 51, Big Spring M
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• The Vernon Lions dumped Big
Spring into a cellar tie with Breck-
enridge to District 1-AAA here Fri-
day night, trimming the Steers, 57-
52.
Jack Bolton captured high point
honors to the battle with 16 points
while Charles Clark paced Big
Spring with 13.
In a preliminary game the Ver-
non B team tied Big Spring. 49-49.
when a final check of the score-
book showed that Vernon didn't win
the encounter 49-48. The two teams
were already dressed out after the
game before the official scorer
found out the game was officially
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CARBON, Feb. 12 - Desdemona
romped on Carbon, 38-21, here Fri-
lay night in a final game to Dis-
riet 17-B.
Lee Neighbors scored 10 points
for the winners and Harold Hen-
‘ricks eight for Carbon.
Carbon’s girls won the opener.
17-32, with Janice Richardson hit-
ting 17. Desdemona's Janet Rogers
was top scorer with 25. 1
SCORE BY QUARTERS
Big Spring 14-21 -32-52
Vernon 17-33-43-57
Ex-Frog Shortstop
Nomod Froth Coach
FORT WORTH, Feb. U Un—Don
Carroll, who was TCU shortstop
three years, has been named fresh-
man baseball coach at TCU.
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Totals .....
Score by quarters:
1 T#::
.Free throws missed McCall, Brown 1
Morris 1. Bowen, Wolf, Scott; Miksch
Schubert 4. Beamguard 1. Leggett T, Ste-
gall 2. Hunt.
Officials: Inman and Herring.
Ziske, Colby Meet
In Palm Beach Finals
PALM BEACH. Feb. 12 un—Joyce
Ziske of Milwaukee end Gonnie
Colby of Hollywood. FIs . entered
the finals of the Women's Golf
Championship of Palm Beach to-
day with victories over more ex-
perienced opponents
Miss Ziske, 19, detested Boe Mc-
Wane 5 end 4, equalling men’s
par.
Miss Colby best Mrs. Maurice
Glick l-up on the 19th.
DISTHCT see PLAYOFFS
A-seede Hawley " (Avees leads, 1-0)
"a sa. Aspermont as (third place)
DISTRICT n.n PLATOFFS
Hiehlana sa, Mobbs at
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HARDIN-SIONS to rem,, s.t. 3
MeMURRY a as. Cisee JC ss
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Texas Tech n. Texas Western st
New Merles Western 81, St. Michaels se
New Merlee me. Eastern New Mexico se
Fingsteft State M. New Mexico wink,
lands 71
Dartmouth 68, Brown M
Geerge. Washington IDS, WAL «
Delta n. Birmingham Southern as
South CsMSa. ». The Citadel •
Cenneeticntt 107, New Hampshire as
Southeastern ke, Oklahoma Baptist M
Miss. Southern to Louisiana Tech is
Hely Cross Oh Fordham M
Lamar Tech n Sul Rees %
Arfrest Flagstaff to N.M. Highlands n
cruhwent (Okis.) to Northwest (oris.)
Bradley at. Margeeu. %
Carnegie Tech to Blippery Rock a
Davidses to Charleston se
Panhandle AAM to N.M. Military a
Besten University to Middlebury st
Williams to Bates se
East Texas Baptist to to Margin as
North Texas st, Trinnly se
Duane Robinson with 16 and
Manuel Herrera with 15 potato set
the mark for the Roscoe win.
Roby’s Rondel Gann bucketed 11.
Berbers Head bucketed 22 potato
ae the Roby girls defeated the
Roscoe girls, 57-19. Martha Taylor
of Roscoe had nine points te be
top scorer for her team.
Score By Quarters:
Roscoe: 16-34-56-72
Roby:________________13-17-22.39
Hill Heads Hill Corps
As Frog Drills Open
FORTH WORTH. Feb. U Un-TCU
opens baseball practice Monday
with nine lettermen end the mak-
ing* of a strong pitching staff.
It is the moot promising tesm in
years.
Tommy Hill of Fort Worth, top
flinger of last season, returns as a
junior. He will be joined by Danny
Powell of Archer City, strong-arm-
rd letterman of 1952 who was in-
eligible last season, and Bob Me-
Daniels, big soph from Fort Worth’
North Side High.
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