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SPORT COVERAGE OF BORGER, PHILLIPS
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fwfBulldog iCaÉÉJfound lüsligible
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ineligibility ill Iwm regula I
players, disclose ilo «i'i'k owl
loft tin Rorjici Mu 1Idogs Iltiu
from tlic lilt blow
.luck Itrlgg loi «.ml i ml
"UllHty - KllSSC."' < i llll'l WI'IV
con ii I Ml huí al lh> ••tul ol ill is
HOIrtfltei lIll'OMKli -ihnlasti illlli
cullies. removing iniir> (In ha*
ki'lliiill leant two luii styinRors
Hi i 11 developing last and hard Ml
replace They V.1II hi' mil Ic>i I In■
IWI Of I III' SCIlHOtl
Briggs ospooially had mail'
himself u valuable ntembei of ih"
team, crashing hi way onto the
first string because ol Ills sirouit
point making ability Mr wus o lo'
of tin- IdbiD'k lop scorers.
Though sometime lurking In
drive, Russell performed valiant
ly ami like nil lit*' others on tIn-
cluli was improving ¡IcadHy
Coach "Cntflsh" Smith. natui
ally Hist '«nek l>y tIn blow mourn"
Od. "It's ho lute in rebuild "
Tlic Bulldogs and Gftncb Lung-
fords Redblids arc scheduled hp
piny ill*' Spearman hoys ami girls
at Spunrman tomorrow night.
Cincinnati Fans
Want Ernie, 40-1
CINCINNATI Jan 28 lAPi
If the Cincinnati ll<-(1m' front of-
fice hnsn't made Up Its mind
about Ernie Loin hard i. this 40 lo
1 shout from Vox Pop (hay help
Lou Smith. cinrlnnntl Enquir-
er baseball Writer, ban been con-
ducting hie. own poll of opinion
on the question of keeping the
big catcher or trading him
Smith announced these fig-
ure . with the mall still coming
in on the man who won't sign
his 1H4o contract until a $6,000
salary misunderstanding is clear-
ed up:
"To keep hig Schnnr. 946.
"To Made him 28."
Pro Golfers Hail
The Texas Tornado
Civic Bowlers In
4 Tilts Tonight
Civic Club League bowlers will
make up for their layoff of. last
week with four matches tonight
ut Mac's Alleys each team play-
ing two matches.
Lions and Phillips, and Jay-
coes and Rotary bowl at 7 p. in.
Lions meet J ay cees and Phillips
the Rotary team ut !• p. m.
v,1.
Ill III *> M A\ MM>
SAN Fit A St' I Si'(} Inn 22
i/pi Prof, "iou.il golfers hik-
ing along lie wInfrr tournament
circuit iiiiliie i bell s\UtiantK to a
itew leadii today .limmy Ue-
mai'ii. from Houston
Wbt n the Texas tornado, and
no other npi'i'llailull morí' lltly
describes the way lie blmv through
(to toni nvitneiit iinfca-ei* Willie
tíngalo, local crack shoi yester-
day to win the íá.iMin San Frun-
cían mulch play open rliamploit-
hhip. he wrote i bree new head-
lines i'oi goli thus far hi l! 4o
'I'le J aiid I victory In the Hli
holt.. fintilK but Iiemaret in the
forefront ol the current year's
money geiiers
He iiiptured tile Oakland medal
play open At the peak of hie
game, iivuly as clock work, and
pacing iIn field, he'll be the one
to heal iroin now until the boy*
hung out their shots In the I'.
S open and the P.O.A. ehamplon-
«blps
Along with earnings
$7S in the LOs Angeles open. $ I
20(1 In the Oakland and $1.100
In the Svin Francisco event - De-
maret became the first player
in the Leti year history of the local
ii.iirmiinenl to Win it twice. He
was top man here In litilS.
Demaret's drive to leadership
of the parade was accomplished
In sensational fashion. After fin-
Ishitlji In a tie for 1 tUb at Los
Amueles he won the Oakland tour-
nament b\ coming from behind
in the lust nine of the 72-hole
event.
He qualified in second place
in the Sen Francisco tournament
then won five match play rounds
without once itffihij down to an
opponent.
lie shot sur-par «olí over (he
Lake Merced course to take (log
gin's measure In the Htl-hole fin-
als For :ifi holes played he wus
four under standard figures. Hog-
gin finished two under.
Deadly Iron shois to the green
In the face of biting wind and an
uncanny putting touch that curled
the ball in from all angles and
distances on the greens made the
Texan master of the match from
the seventh hole on.
SPORTS
INVENTIVE GENIUS
HORIZONTAL
1,6 Great
inventor
pictured here.
11 Browned
bread.
12 Tam-o'-
shanter.
14 Spar crane.
16 Formerly.
17 He invented
elcctric light
Answer to Previous Pntnle
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10 Plateau.
20 To drink dog-
fashion.
21 To dine.
22 To mock.
24 Nothing.
25 One that
immigrates.
28 Rubber tree.
20 Mail.
30 Church title.
32 TO rescind.
Bashan.
42 Fowl disease.
44 Those who
unipc.
46 Flock.
48 To rub out,
49 Lubricant.
51 Social insect.
53 Faculties of
sensation.
35 He minted a 58Cha0f>.
'kfir 57 He was an,
machine. by
37 Measure of training.
VERTICAL
1 Precept.
8 Yarn spindle.
covering.
3 Hops kiln.
4 Mountain.
6 Very dull of
mind,
6 To go aboard
a vessel,
7 Idant.
b To- soften
leather.
ftKiln.
10 Unless.
11 As a youth he 52 Pistol,
was a —— 53 Southeast
operator. 54 Ell.
13 Dye. 55 Senior.
15 He invented 56 North
the America.
phonograph or
— machine
17 Vagabond.
18 Mineral
spring.
21 Daubs.
23 Enriches,
25 Virginia
willow.
26 Aperture
27 Children.
28 Above.
31 Musical note
33 Gi eat lake.
34 Row.
35 Greater
amount.
36 Yellow bird.
30 Italian coin,
40 Waistcoat.
43 Prostrate.
45 Overpowering
fright.
47 Flat circular
plate.
BO To rent
iiv K mi: HHiirry,
NKW YORK. Ian Vi ■ {/¡Pi
111m money in Texas says either
I ley lor or Southern Me'hodisi will
bump oil the high-riding Aggies
next season Miss líenle mid
('o . grossed íülíi.OOe In the Oai
deu lust week and broke lie
joint's record for telephone calls
more than H5.000 No use to
rub It In. hut the Yanks were
sei io go the limit for Paul Trout
until Ills honor got wise to that
#25.000 miscue and returned Paul
to the Timers.
Jersey City seems to lie the
east's lust hope for (he tialeuto-
Haer fight for the poor Finns.
The baseball rules committee bud-
dies with Judge Landis at Hell-
pair, Flu.. Feb 12 . Mike
Jacobs planned to send Conn vs.
Lesnovlch to Detroit to take the
edge off Rurmen vs Pastor but
was denied ilutes.
Today's Hucst Htur
Upward Hrlckey. Wichita Falls
• Tex i Times: "All that Is need-
ed lo cap the Detroit baseball sit-
uation Is for Dr. Robert Hut chins
to drop ovor from Chicago und
deliver his well-known lecture on
de-eiuphasis and reform."
Hero's a new angle on ihe Lan-
dis crack down . . . Hurt Whitmufi.
w< ll-informiitl sports editor ol the
RosLou Herald, say: Charley Col-
bert, the old (Ti fiel tier, was I lie
underlying cause . . . Charley went
lo Detroit's farm with the under-
standing he'd get shot as man-
ager if a slilfl came . . . that
shift came when Fred llaney mov-
ed up to Ihe Brown , but Char-
ley was passed up. . . He went to
Landis and the judge began In-
vestigating.
Vince Ought To
Forget About Joe,
Play For Himself
J\NtINVILLUS, Tenn . Jan. ¡¿2
t/Pi There l>, something lu a
name, alter all. and in Vincent
DIMaggin'p case. It's his biggest
handicap.
So says Hilly Meyer, inauugcr
of the Kansas City Hlues who
peddled the eidesl of the bull-
pluylng DIMaggios to die Cin-
cinnati lleds last summer for a
reported $40.000
"Vincent Iihs un inferiority
complex." explained Meyer.
"He thinks that Joe this New
York Yankee hull-busting broth-
er) Is the big stuff of the fam-
ily. and don'" push himself for-
ward as much as be could.
"If be would forget Joe und
play the game according to his
(>*',, ability. 1 believe he would
be just as valuable to the Reds as
Joe Is lo the Yankees."
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I'NHKATKN IN KHiHT K.ARH
CKLMNt; Ql'tTH SHOW KIN'CJ
DENVER, Jan. :>2 (/P)-
Cnheuten Iti eight years of com-
petition. Senator Crawford. 15-
yeat-old gelding of the Spludle-
top stables, Lexington, Ky.. Is re-
tiring to live out bis duys In a
thousand-acre field of Kentucky
blUCBlHSS.
Senator Young, owned by Mrs.
Youpt of Lexington, made bis
last competitive showing at the
national western horse show
here.
«BTS «Jl.Oító DAMAOFS
LOS ANtiELES .Ian 22 — </P)
Fred C. Jensen found a $2
parlmutiiel ticket ut San fa Anita.
He .'barged In a damage suit a-
galnst the U s Angeles turf club
he was fa-lsely accused of alter-
In,, the ticket, detained two hours
and threatened with imprison-
ment.
A Jury fixed the payoff at
$3,062.
The payoff at track prices a-
lope would have been only $37.-
60.
W hat helps Burger, helps yon.
BM w
Cunningham To
Retire After
This Season
NEW YORK Ian ..p,
The Iron mac ol irack (Menu
( 'iiinin'-ilnuii, planH in i| ii run
iiliiii before his joiniK get rusty
,lusi wlmn ¡íim>||> were hegln-
nIllU lo wonder nhether llie dur-
able Ki> in . ii.i;r tope along
forever, lie disM'loseil In a radio
iNHCi interview last night this
would be hi Inst season
"F( a ion tinie now. I've
posipi ie:i ni.v ret I ronton I front
m i Iv• i ompet ll ion hui it's one
lot tli tbliiííH that (isn't b< pit'
off forever," he said. "This will
be my ¡ si year
"I've continued in competition
thcM past two yearf- mainly Willi
the hop- of iryinj'. for my third
-UccesKive Olympic Iejiin. Now
I'ondltlorn- on the oiiiei side have
made ihe holding of the olym
pic gaines impossible. So why
io on?"
Pampa Bowlers
Beat Travelers
Jones-Everett howlers of Pam-
na yesterday here on Mac's Al-
leys took a match from Travel-
ers oil, two games out of three
and mi totals 2-683 to 2501,
Simmons of the visitors howl
"d 2.'U for high game (' W. Mc-
Nully of 'tiravelers scored 660
for high mrrm.
, .lones-Kverctl
LawBon
Cbltsey
Schlemeier
Simmons
Hcskew
Total
Horry
W. Olllinau
McNulty
H. Ciillinau
pyron
Totals
181
13ti
105
233
.. 170
S91
Travelers oil
145 106
104
IflO
itiu
132
,s20
17?
102
ISO
147
15
H25
III
1 ! S
Kill
ISO
It 57
1 ,s« ,—5 17
211 509
1 75- 540
IXI 501
210 545
¡100 20 S 2
111- 152
157 105
t SI -5 Of)
l:!S 480
I!I7 5 20
s24 2501
Preakness Lists
139 3-Year-CMds
BALTIMORE. Jan. 22 Sev-
enty-five owners have nominated
a record total of 1.39 top three-
year-olds for the Golden Jubilee
running of the Plmllco Preaknes*
May 11. The winner is expected
to gel an $80,000 pot of gold.
Heudeil by Col. 10 R. I trad
ley's 1 ! :¡ü .1 ii ven lie king, tilmo-
lech. Ihe field already lists most
of lasl year's crack youngsters
More ure virtuttlly certain lo
coin" in ns supplementary ele-
gibles for the mile and three
sixteenths classic, among tbom
Hlmelech's chief I wo-yeur-old
fivttl, Anky K.
Kiwanis Observes
25th Anniversary
CH1CAO. Jan 22 (/P) Kl-
wunis dubs throughout the Cull-
ed State* and Canada today oh
served I.he 25th anniversary of
the founding of the community
service ot'Ktinizution.
President. Roosevelt greeted
the membership with a message.
A principal celebration took
place In Detroit, where the first
club was organised «nd granted
its chapter from the state ol
Michigan on Jan i!H5i
The organisation's clubs num-
ber 2,011(1 with a membership of
mo.otto.
ATHENS, reece. Jan. 22 l/P)
Prince Chrlsiopher, 51, uncle
of the Duchess of Kent of Eng-
land and ouu-tlnm husband of
the late Mrs. William R Used ,
widow of the American "tin plate
king." died Inst ntghi.
OWLS BU) FOR
TITLE IN FOUR
TOUGH GAMES
IIV I i:i.l\ II. McliMUMT
DALLAS. Tex . Jan 22 </P)
Pour gaines lough ones, con-
ironl the Rice Owls Ibis week be-
tón a lout' lliree weeks layoff to
duel iniil term exauiH. and oul of
those gaines may grow Ilo solu
Hull to the tight Southwest coll-
feretlce basket hall race
On Moud'.iy and Tuesday and
Friday and Knturduy down at the
vast Coliseum court lu Houston
the owls make their bid for the
. it U-.
First comes Southern Methodist,
a truly flue club thai has drop pad j
three games to Texas, Rice ulid
the Texas Aggies current l"ud-
( cs by a total of only eight
oolnls Then on the next night
the Aggies, stunned by Rice only
a week ago (¡2 I I. came back
for revenge
The way the Aggies handled
'•oiltill 1 11 .Methodist lust Week. II-
40. definitely indicates they could
do nn aliout-ftici oh Hice Hut
the big test comes Friday and
Saturday nights when Baylor fin-
ally at iis peak, plays a two-game
series.
Only team to beat Texas, the
Arkansas Kuzorhiicks confident-
ly marched Into Waco over the
past weekend for two dates with
Ihe Haylors and left for the Or
arks lute Saturday night with
two defeats. Baylor simply put
a vise-like defense on the tall
Porkers and s othcred them 40-
24 and 47-39.
So the setup for Rice in four
games - the games they want
to win and let the rest of the
field try and catch them makes
tor dranr&tic big business this
week.
Noi until Feb. lit. when they
start a two-game series with Ark
ansas In Houston, will the Owls
stwrl up again.
Meanwhile Tcvas, tied with
Rice for the leadership will' four
wins ami only one loss, sturts
Its mid-term inactivity and won't
return to the court until Feb 10.
The Steers struck another sev-
ere blow in defending their title
by licking lean Texas Christian.
09-88, last Saturday ll begins
to look like T. tv I'., which drop-
ped Its twelve straight in the con-
ference last year without a mur-
mur, may repeat this year and
take over the cellar for the sixth
consecutive season.
The Texas Aggies are hang-
ing on with a three won, and one
lost percentage, doing some of
the most confounding playing in
Ihe league. Despite Virgil Wiker
son's 2n points heaved against
them the Aggie- bad what it
took to stop the hard luck Metbo
dists.
Wllkersou is pacing tile scores
with 50 points while Frank Car
swtdl of Rice Is second Willi 55
and Bob Kinney of Rice third
with 5 1. Johnny Adams' of Ark
ansas held fourth with 49. ".lit.
I debug" Henderson of the Ag
gles and "speed Houpl of Texas
are knoitfid in fifth position with
IS points.
Only four Hice games are sch-
eduled for the week.
In Main Event Tonight
Stripped for action, except tor
the chin Farmer Jones above to.
nighi will •!">' to mow down,
thrash, and sack up fin myster
lolls Red Shadow, his wrcMlinx
opponent in trie main event at
the Bot-ger Arena Show starts at
v p. m. with two preliminaries.
vi i c key Dttrano vs. wildcat Mc
Will,, and Duke Ituppenthal vs.
¡ liilly i loe!i /
Prices are ringside 80 cents
j ci-ntlemen's general 4 0 cents.
I and Indies and children 25 cents.
•WKKK-EM .VI
HLAMKD Hill
•HLETES" ARE
INJI ItV RISK
BOSTON', Jan. 2a f/pi Of-
fice workers who become "Week-
end Ath^tes" are largely respon-
sible for a "mounting Incidence"
of hone and Joint Injuries, Dr.
Russell Sullivan. Boston City
Hospital Orlhopacdic surgeon,
said today
•While many fractures are at-
tributable to automobiles and In-
dustrial accidenta. Sullivan said,
"I believe the increase may be
traced lo Injuries :.mong office
workers who spend their Satur-
days nnd Sundays skiing or play-
ing tennis, despite the fact thnt
they are not physically fit for
such exercise."
Phillips Boys At
Canyon Friday
Only gaines tchednled so far
Ibis week for Phillips Imsketoers
are a pair lor the bey next Fri-
day night.
On that date Tin Blacklmw k-
anil Un- "II team go to Canyon
.No contests lor the I'll Hipp-
etlOs i lie uli'L team. Imv been
arranged yet
Without U. S. Help
Sm ill European
Neutrals Doomer
til1)-
NEW YORK. Jan. J
The Uuiled Simes musí lieip Fin
land if i be Senndlnitvliin conn
trles are to lie saved from con-
iiuesd. European agents id" the
Carnegie endowment for interna-
tional peace assert
Excerpts from a couflmleiitlal
report were made public yester-
day by Dr Nicholas Murray But-
ler. president of the endowment.
"It Is felt In Etfrope," said
the report ' that since America is
so fui' away and not immediate
ly concerned in (be dispute be-
tween Ureal Britain. Frunt:e aUd
Oermuny she might help Finland
more effectively than any other
nation, ir A mor leu derddes l o
do nothing, however, than the ex-
pectation -s thai the Scandina-
vian countries will go down one
by otic,"
Shot Fired Across
Bow Of II. S. Ship
JERSEY CITY. N. J . Jan. 22
(Spy Passengers on Hie A inert?
can Presiden! lleer President
Adams returned from a world
'our yesterday to bell of beinit
United by a warning sbol across
'in* ship'H bow by a Brllirih pa
trol bunt at Olbraltar
Captain Gregory Cullc,, said
'lie shot was a blank and the re-
sult ■ 11 a ''onftisioti in signals* ills
ship bad been stopped severat
time:- previous;; ,\n allied block-
ade exainlnationM.
RUTH GIVES UP
HOPE OF GOING
BACK TO GAME
IIV II IISON BAILEY
NEW YORK. Jan 22 l/Pl
Tile greatest figure of basebtlU's
modern age. Babe Ruth, bus giv-
en lip hope of ever reluming to
lile «ame lie glorified for two
decade*
A mellow, bulging fellow liv-
ing decorously ou i he annuities
' e hud the good sense to lay
way with putt of the million
dollars he earned hi baseliali. the
Palie doesn't seem sorry
" Yell. I Aliens I 'tll out of 11"
ItuIII said today I've got a
• (iniforiable home here mil! no
worries I get a few odd job
t« do, but mostly I keep busy
trying to bold down my weight
I play a lot of table tennis an I
ti-lf, go bunting and I've got one
of those elect III horses, loo
i was out hunting ail last
week not a bunch of birds
and a bad cold "
lie';! a differc ui bambino now
i rom the l olllcklng carefree
bariclei who ra ised the record
i«' oks 1.0 be rewitten received
up to $sn (>(iii a year from Ihe
New York Yankees squandered
linssjb-ty a ((UHiter of a million in
luxurioiK living and paid some
<20,000 in has. bill I fines
He weighs 2-lil pounds 15 or
'."i above Ills phiyln : weight and
will be tit yeais old February 7.
'Pottleíale grey it: beginning to
show on his temples Somehow it
wus a meli.nciioly scone as the
Babe lounged in a stnoking jacket
umldst countless trophies and re-
marked :
I don't go (o Hie «amen much
anymore Hverytlme 1 go I ruin a
•'lilt of cUiihes getting through
the crowd Homebody spilled ink
ttP down the buck of my coat the
last time "
Although lie doesn't see much
of it Ruth still (Ikes to talk
about baseball and compare the
• id days with the present He'll
be heading loiith next month
to tak" a place on the faculty of
n baseball school.
Ruth pi al: cd ihe present
Yankees They're ii great hall
club and I think they'll be on
top for a long time. Do you know
who made (his team? Joe (lor-
i don lie came along just at Hie
right time The (lull needed a
-park und he gave It "
Fi.iully we asked the Babe a
'tueslion lie must lut\V heard
hundreds or times ic anybody
going to break his record of 00
home run- in a sec son Looking
up at a big diagram on u wall
"bowing tb" dato, the score, die
team, the pitcher, for everyone
of those homers, he mused:
"I hope not t hope noi1
Net While I'll) alive "
\ MIKITY IIKATN I'AM I.TY
ULOVES AND O, KUSliOKM
IX
LAt'ltEL Neb., Jan. 22 i/P)
The l.uurel high school facul-
ty Is convinced (ho varsity bus
lie!bull team Is pretty good.
The y'ai'sity. wearing the liusk-
lug gloves and four-buckle over-
shoes. bent the touchers, ;t 1 lo "10.
H KII.I.KII IX CRASH
HATaVTA. Nelberltin'ds East
I. 'lei. Ian. 22 t/Pi Five pas
M'ligors llili! tile ct'i-'W of three
were killed today when a (rails-
port Afane ol' the Raltivlu-Aufltta-
llttlt service crushed Into the sea
nftor taking off from the Island
of Ball . ' \ f(
Borger Hernia
gel resulls.
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