Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 228, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 11, 1939 Page: 2 of 6
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On Friday
Muataags Look Better;
N«ct Opponent Beaten
Br Abilene Five 25-10
Showing much improvement
since their opening game in
Colorado, Coach Adrian Clark's
Sweetwater high school basket-
ball team defeated Trent there
last night by a score of 24-16.
Using his original starting
1 lineup until the last fifty-sec-
onds of the Trent game, Coach
; Clark watched every member
S of his team score at least once
: from the field. In the Colorado
™ game, the Sweetwat)er cagers
' counted for only three field
goals in 25 shots at the basket.
The Mustangs lead 7-3 at the
end of the first quarter and 13
to 10 at the half. They were in
the lead from the opening
whistle.
Elrod and Lynn, Sweetwater
forwards, scored 3 field goals,
while Voss, center, and Head-
rick, guard, scored 2 each with
Gill, the other guard, scoring
one. Voss and Headrick each
counted with a free throw.
The Mustangs open their
home season here Friday when
they play San Angelo. The An-
gelo team was defeated last
night at Abilene by a score
of 25 to 10.
Only one game is on tap next
week, with the Mustangs meet-
ing Hamlin, here, on Friday,
Jan. 20.
Maxie Baer Will
Lou Nova
SIX 6-FOOTERS FROM
5 COLLEGES ON MINER 5
Fight
NEW YORK — (UP) — Ne-
gotiations were nearing comple-
tion tonight for a heavyweight
contenders' battle between Max-
ie Baer and young Lou Nova at
Yankee stadium op May
Baer and Manager Ancil Hoff-
man arrived in New York and
conferred with Promoter Mike
Jacobs. The match is expeclci
to be announced this week.
Selection of May 25 for an
outdoor show involving both
of the most likely opponents for
champion Joe Louis' next big
gate title fight indicates that
Louis will not make an outdoor
crown defense in June, but
probably will wait until Sep-
tember.
Hoffman said he preferred
Nova, of Alameda, Calif., as
Maxie's next opponent because
he regarded young Lou as the
greatest drawing card in the
game, outside of Louis and
Baer. Moreover, he rated Nova
capable of giving Maxie a tough
fight. And Maxie will need at
least one tough fight under his
belt before climbing into the
ring again with Louis.
"If Maxie can't beat Nova,
there's no use of his tackling
Louis," Hoffman said.
Hoffman rates Nova greater
gate attraction than Tony Gal-
ento, the widely-publicized
Orange, N. J., saloon-keeper. He
I said Nova's victories over Gun-
. nar Barlund and Tommy Farr
had put him right up at the
top.
Meanwhile Maxie loftily as-
serted that he didn't care whe-
ther he fought Nova or Galen-
to. ''I'll murder either
thc.n", he explained modestly.
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Five colleges, Oklahoma A.
& M., Kansas City, Texas Tech,
University of Illinois and San
Bernardino, are represented on
the U. S. Gypsum Company
squad which opens its season
in the city recreation basketball
league Monday night against
the Athletic Club in junior
high gymnasium.
Jim LaRue, a familiar figure
in men's athletics in Sweetwat-
er, is coach and manager of the
miners' club. In addition to the
five former college hoopsters,
LaRue has three former New-
man high school players and an
independent player from Long-
worth. LaRue is a former Syl-
vester high school player and
has played considerable inde-
pendent basketball in different
parts of Texas.
Members of the U. S. Gyp-
sum squad, six of whom are ov-
er six feet in height, include
Bob Hartford, Jim LaRue, Al-
vis Munday, Dub Owens, Joe
Guthrie, Neil Haggart, B. F.
VVeems, Bob Glass, Gerald Witt
and George Hunt.
Hialeah Racing
Season Opens
MIAMI, Fla.—(UP)—Winter
thoroughbred racing starts a 40-
day stand today in the swank
setting of Hialeah Park and a
fashionable crowd of 20,000
thronged this tropical showplace for the Kid's Knothole club and
1 for the opening. j was the perpetrator as well as
It Was Vines'
Turn Last Night!
CINCINNATI. O. — (UP) —
Ellsworth Vines, world's pro-
fessional tennis champion, even-
ed his barnstorming series with
Donald Budge, world's amateur
titleholder, scoring a 7-5, 2-6, 64
victory before 3,500 fans. Each
has won three matches.
Budge's backhand worked
faultlessly in the first set, but
his service failed him as he dou-
ble-faulted in the 12th game.
He outplayed Vines at the net
and pounded several service
aces to win the second set
handily. Vines erred repeated-
ly as he tried to pass Don.
Vines' third set tiyumph was
due largely to luck. His back-
hand faltered often, but on two
critical points the ball touch-
ed the tape of the net and roll-
ed over it. He caught Budge
flat-footed several times as
both men elected to use hard-
driving back-court tactics.
Natie Mann Wins
Over Art Lasky
NEW HAVEN, Conn. —(UP)
—Nathan Mann. 105, New Hav-
en, won on a technical knock-
out in the third round of a
scheduled 10-round fight over
Art Lasky, 198, Hollywood. Cal.,
before 4,GOO fans in New Haven
arena.
The bout was halted with Las-
ky helpless against the ropes
after Mann hud floored the
Californian for a count of nine. I trading the biggest names
Lasky held his own in the first | sports and society.
and second rounds, but wilted Hopes for the meeting were
under a barrage of lefts to the optimistic, although it was not
chin as the third round start-j 0XPected to surpass last year's
Detroit Calls
Second 'Dizzy'
Back To Fold
New Basketball Offense Upsets
Zone And Man-For-Man Defense
Boastful And Colorful,
Good Baseball Player
Is Paul Trout Of Texas
NEW YORK — (UP) —Trot
out the ear muffs', baseball fans,
for next season Paul Trout, silv-
er-tongued, self-styled "Dizzy
Dean of the minors" is coming
up to the Detroit Tigers for his
second major league trial and
this time is determined to stick.
The loquacious rookie pitcher
from Beaumont, whose career
reads like a press-agent's
dream, was chosen the most
valuable player in the Texas
League last season.
Schoolboy Rowe, former Tig-
er star, had a better won and
lost percentage and Max Tho-
mas, Tulsa, set the pace in earn-
ed runs, but nevertheless sports
writers making the choice, lean-
ed toward Trout because of his
undisputed value as a team
man.
Ladies' Day Hero
Dizzy Trout was a howling fa-
vorite with Texas fans espec-
ially the Ladies' Day contingent.
Like the Dizzy Dean of a cou-
ple of years ago, he had more
eccentricities than a dictionary
has definitions and the turn-
stiles clicked rapidly when he
was announced as the day's pit-
cher.
gra,ph, saved old bats and balls
Although racing started here the butt of all the practical
20 days ago at Tropical Park, jokes in the book. He was a
it is the Hialeah meeting that one-man show on the mound or
carries the Florida resort sea- on the bases. He thought
son to its peak each winter, at- nothing of often holding up a
of
ed.
record attendance and wagering
figures—when 514,395 persons
stormed the pari mutuel win-
dows to bet $22,076,213.
The first part of Tropical
"'ark's meeting which ended to-
Many New Semi-Pro
Loops Being Formed
ST. LOUIS—(UP)—More than day, showed a"slight de~creafk
100.000 semi-pro baseball players 0
will compete in 1,000 new leagues
now uno-er organization by the Allto Union In
national semi-pro baseball con
gress, Commissioner George H.
Sisler said today.
Sisler, outlining plans for
governing the leagues, said each
circuit would be comprised of
six or eight teams and that
the leagues will be organized
to begin play at the opening of
the 1939 season under one na-
tional association.
Each league will operate un-
der its own constitution and by-
laws, Sisler $aid, with all play-
ers signed under the national
contract system which is design-
ed to prevent players from
transferring to other leagues or
clubs without a proper release.
National finals will be held at
Wichita, Kans., Aug. 11-23 inclu-
sive.
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FDR Son Named
Bank Director
FORT WORTH — (UP) —
: Charles F. Roeser, president of
the Independent Petroleum as-
sociation was re-cleeted chair-
man of the board of the Con-
tinental National Bank of Fort
Worth today. Harry W. Wilking-
son was re-elected president, and
Elliott Roosevelt, owner of the
Texas State Network, and J.
Mac Thompson, insurance man,
were named directors.
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The cooling system of an au-
tomobile will not operate effi-
ciently unless the fan belt,
which is apt to become loose af-
ter a long period of operation,
ib kept tight.
Diz Boasts; He May
Face Game Charges
OTTAWA, 111. — (UP) —
Hunting rabbits in the closed
season is against the' law, but
game wardens didn't think
of they would prosecute Dizzy
Dean—even if the Chicago Cubs
hurler was telling the truth
when he said that he and Pitch-
er Si Johnson of the St. Louis
Cardinals bagged 10 rabbits
with nothing for weapons but
baseballs.
If the wardens did decide to
prosecute, however, they would
have 1000 witnesses. That many
people heard Diz tell this story
over a public address system
in an interview:
"Me and Si were hunting
rabbits in the woods near Si's
home. All we had was a pocket-
full of baseballs, but we got 10
out of 12 rabbits."
"I got nine and Si got one,"
Diz modestly admitted.
o
Show-Down Fight
DETROIT — (UP) —Foes of
President Homer Martin of the
United Automobile Workers
forced a showdown in the un-
ion's free-for-all factional fight
and demanded he tell all he
knows about organization of the
Ford Motor Co.
Twenty members of the 24-
man UAW international execu-
tive board signed a call for a
board meeting "for the purpose
of hearing a report from Presi-
dent Martin on the negotiations
which he said he was carrying
on with representatives of the
Ford Motor Co."
o
Austin Judge Gets
Pardon Board Post
AUSTIN — (UP) — Chief Jus-
tice C. M. Cureton of the Texas
supreme court has announced
the appointment of Judge
Stanhope Henry of Austin as a
member of the state board of
pardons and paroles to succeed
Judge Bruce W. Bryant of Has-
kell. Judge Bryant has announc-
ed that he will accept on Feb-
ruary 1 an appointment as assist-
ant attorney general of Texas.
o
Wayne Morris Weds
Tobacco Heiress
HOLLYWOOD — ( UP) —
Wayne Morris, movie actor, and
Bubbles Salmon Schinasi. 18-
year-old heiress to a New York
tobacco fortune, were married.
game to tie his shoes, mop his
brow or take a "chaw of ter-
baccy."
Trout was born on June 29,
1915, in an old mining town
near Terre Haute, Ind., and de-
veloped his "mighty" right arm
with an old rag ball, flinging
rocks at telephone insulators on
poles and killing small game
with green walnuts.
He stands 6 feet 2 inches and
carries over 192 pounds of play-
ing weight. He pitched his first
professional ball with Terre
Haute in 1935, was bought by
Indianapolis at the close of the
season and sold to Detroit the
next year. He was then sent
on option to Toledo in 1937 and
to Beaumont in 193S.
CJood In The Clutches
Despite his antics, Trout has
lots of heart and pitched him-
self out of plenty of "three on
and none out" jams to finish the
season with a record of 22 vic-
tories against 6 defeats. He
climbed into a three-way tie for
second place in the earned run.
column, taking part in 37 games
and 233 innings, fanning 116
and walking 94.
He relies mainly on a fast ball
and a tricky change of pace.
Like the national league's Dizzy
used to do, he catapults his high,
hard one across the plate with
mercury-like speed and then,
just when the batter is all set
to powder the next one, Trotit
springs his change of pace. His
formula is an apparent success
as records attest. His presence,
along with Rowe's, undeniably
was the difference between a
first-division and second-divi-
sion finish for Beaumont.
Dizzy doesn't expect to flash
along, the American League
sky like a meteor. No, not at
all, to hear him tell it, he just
expects to baffle batters for on-
ly the next "20 years or so."
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Many restaurants in Paris pro-
vide separate menus for their
patrons' pet dogs.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. —
(UP)—"Screening," 'a new type
of team co-ordination, makes
blocking as important to a
basketball team as to a foot-
ball team, according to John-
ny Lawther, basketball coach
at Pennsylvania State college.
Upsetting to a great extent the
older "man-for-man" and "zone"
systems of play, the new of-
fense depends netirely on one
offensive man engaging two
defensive players while the free
man cuts for the basket. The
action of drawing two players
to one man is largely psycho-
logical, since physical contact
in the "blocking" is strictly il-
legal.
The system is set into action
when A, an offensive player
deep in enemy territory, cuts
toward a teammate outside the
defense zone, taking his guard,
A-l, with him. B, the other
offensive player, passes to A
coming toward him, skirts in-
side A, while A legally, impedes
B-l. the player assigned to
guard B, from intercepting B
as he takes a return pass from
A and cuts for the basket.
Offering a glossary to aid
new fans who have been drawn
to the floor by the increased
pace of basketball, Lawther says
the new "screening" offense is
supplanting the older "set
play" and "pivot play" offen-
sives. Among the individual
adaptations of the "screening"
offensive are the "weaving,"
"figure-eight" and "criss-cross"
offensives.
Train oil Ice ('ream
Among the most spectacular
! of these styles is the "figure-
eight." system, devised by Coach
"Red" Carlson, of the Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh, who trains
his squad on ice cream and urg-
es his boys on with the slogan,
"a point a minute."
Lawther's glossary includes:
Man-for-man defense: Each
1 player is assigned a specific
\ opponent whom he is to prevent
from scoring.
Zone defense: Players are as-
. igned relative floor areas and
concentrate on the ball instead
j of the. man. Assigning players to
(fixed floor areas is an outmod-
ed type of defense. Rather, the
I defensive men play areas of the
i court in which there is an of-
| fensive threat. These
change as the offensive
changes. This movement
fensive play is usually
the "sliding zone."
Fast break: System of offense
in which the team, recovering
the ball by interception, re-
bound, out of bounds award or
any other means, drives at full
speed toward the basket in an
attempt to score before oppon-
j ents have a chance to form their
defense.
.Advance l>y Strategy
Deliberate offense: The oppo-
site of fast break in which the
offensive team, choosing to
bring I he ball down court sl6w-
ly, works through the defense
systematically by use of some
previously practiced play.
Screen play: Offensive play-
ers assume legal positions on
the floor which interefer with
areas
threat
of de-
called
the movement of the defensive
players and enable an offensive
player with the ball to shoot or
dribble. "Legal" means a sta-
tionary position at least three
feet from the defense player.
Switching: Also called "slid-
ing" and "cross-checking." A de-
fensive maneuver in which de-
fensive men exchange oppon-
ents. It is designed to combat
the screen play.
Set play offense: A pre-ar-
ranged movement pn the part of
the offensive team designed to
free a man for an open or "set"
shot at the basket.
Pivot play offense: Style at-
tack in which one player
stands with his back to his own
basket near the foul line to re-
ceive and return passes and
serve as a screen for his team-
males cutting around him. He
is known as a pivot man. In
the West he is often referred to
as the post man.
(iive-and-Go Play
Pass and cut: This is also cal-
led "give-and-go" and 'Vass-
and-return pass," in which a
player passes to a teammate,
cuts for I he basket and receives
a return pass. In this offensive
maneuver, no screen play is
used.
Continuity plays: Offensive
players follow regular outlined
paths of attack which bring
them to their original positions
ready for a repetition of the
same maneuver if no shot at the
basket results.
Included in this category are:
Weaving offense: An offensive
maneuver in which players con-
tinually cross each other's path
and exchange the ball by short
passes.
Figure-eight: Players rotate in
the form of an "8" so that the
moving players tend to inter-
fere with the movement of the
defensive players and thereby
free an offensive player for an
open shot at the basket.
Criss-cross: Usually a form of
the figure-eight in which play-
ers cut across the court in front
of the basket, traveling first to
one side and then the other.
Three Common Fouls
Hacking, holding and block-
ing (most frequent personal
fouls)—
Hacking is illegal personal
contact made by a striking mo-
tion of the hands. It occurs
most frequently when the de-
fensive player, attempting to
strike the ball, hits the arms of
the offensive player.
Holding is impeding the pro-
gress of an opponent by use of
hands or arms. If this impedi-
ment is accomplished by con-
tact with some other .part of the
body, it is usually called "block-
ing." Blocking is also called
when an offensive player, at-
tempting to "screen" gets near-
er to the defensive player than
the legal distance of three
feet. This is an illegal screen or
"pickoff."
Scissoring: A modern and ef-
fective type of screening occurr-
ing when an offensive man runs
between a team-mate and his de-
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Basketball Results
Albion 31, HilWdaie 25.
St. Ambrose 27, Iowa Wesley-
an 20.
De Pauw 32, Earlham 29.
Manchester 48, Ball State 40.
Kansas 33, Kansas State 29.
Carnegie Tech 55, Pittsburgh
50.
Franklin 45, Wabash 43.
fensive opponent. It often re-
sults in a collision between
two defensive players.
Pot shot or set shot: Shooting
from a still (position.
Sleeper, birdie, or peeper:
Player has been able to take the
opposing team by surprise and
shoot, unguarded, from under
the basket.
Layup shot: A quick, lifting
shot under the basket.
Hook shot: When the ball is
shot with a semi-circular mo-
tion over the head and body
of the shooter with the body
used as a screen.
Kip shot: Player, while jump-
ing in the air, receives a ,pass
with both hands and shoots-
while still in the air.
John Doeg Wins
First Comeback
ORLANDO, Fla. — (UP) —
John Doeg of Orange, N. J.,
national singles titleholder In
1930, today won his first tourna-
ment match in a comeback cam-
paign, defeating Lawrence Kins-
gler, Winter Park, Fla., 6-4,
0-3, in the first round of the
Florida state championships.
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Montgomery-Ward
December Sales Up
CHICAGO — (UP) — Mont-
gomery-Ward reported today
that December sales totaling
$57,084,529 were the largest of
any month in the firm's history.
The sales were $5,724,122 ^bove
those of December, 1937, the
firm reported.
Sales for the 11-month period
ended Dec. 1 were $408,044,950
compared with $110,099,553 for
the same period in the previous
year, the report said.
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