Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 36, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 3, 1939 Page: 4 of 6
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PAliE FOI H
TT'RSDAY. JAN
THE BORGER (TEXAS) DATI.Y IIERAT.P
sport coverage OF BORGER, PHILLIPS
LATEST <AP>— SPORT NFVVj.
TCU, Tennessee Jointly Hold National Title
Reserve's Passing Is
Downfall Of Duke
I'ASADKXA. Calif Jail It i/|-
The shadows all hut swiil
lowed tin- Hose Bowl,
For 5# minutes u Kieut ! uk«-
fooltu.ll leu 111 hull kepi II* kouI
li'Ue uncrossed iik it IiikI done
nil scuson. Southern California
was on the verge of Ith lit-I «!<•-
fciit in four Himc tames
Then, out ot the shadow* rac-
ed a slender youth, itoyle NuvV.
who hailu't enough playing tlm •
in two seuso.is with Troy to win
his let lor.
Ntive wan eniriiiiK in ami lIi<-
wuri' :i to n iiftu'UBt liiin Ki'oni
the 4n-y«ril line lloyie rifled the
lull I to Al KfUKl'l. KI It • -lillKi'li'il
• 11(1 The hall I'lMiehcd the 2li To
Al lie fired another and tile hall
WHS ot: the IX
Once more he threw, a.id the
hi|{ farm I oy fioin Lancaster.
Calif . who developed KiroilK
hands in 11 kIiik rows, cuukIh the
hall for no khIii. Korty-five sec-
onds remained and the dunk wax
deep.
Nave faded far hack to his r..
Trojan hlooKeiB knocked down
the Unke rushers. liny I e dood
ihnre and watted Suddenly Krtie
iter I'roke to the letl. over the
«ii iI line. He was alone uinotlit
Ml.(ion witnei^es Doyle fired the
hall Al look it and the mime
wan won, 7 to :t, with Phil (iuspi
lioplilln t lie eouveialou.
Duke v'ululy tried to come
) iu"k In the (lying seconds, hut
the die wan cant ami noon that
record Howe Howl crowd swept
on the Held. curryiiiK 177-pound
Nave off on its shoulders
splintering tile goal posts Into
match sticks.
H jsky Brothe<
LIONS DEFEAT
WESTERFIELDS
' BY 69-46 SCORE
Pnecd hy fhe iniiiiituhle one
and' truly "Cattish" .Smith, the
Hurler Lions settled down to
serious basket making in the
second half after a luekudftltticul |
first two periods und crushed the >
V.'esterfleld Truckers. fltf-16, here
In u rough game In the
hi|4li school gym Now Year's af-
ternoon.
The lithe llultdoK coach, niar-
t'lililliug a strictly local 1/ion fiv<
of Couch Victor Sha wgo on I li• ■
floor, flipped In the hall for a
high 22 pulutH. scoring I I of
them In the second half
The Woaterfleld* of Muting! i
Coach Oilio (ilveir slarted oui
(ton rag' ously at I In outset and
had their more experienced rivals
on the i-ii■ i early in the game hut
sil re II III lied lo tin last ami fuk
i)lg pUSsillg of the Mtilli; ill I lie
second l.alf
The Truckers, in their filel
major dehtil, with husky <)'i-
W iggins. i \-itliioihai k fn.mli cu
ger lending the way to^lii hoop
with lo poluih, jiimped lllto an
early lead of X-2, before He
I,ions realized they were really
trailing *
The end of I lie first quai'tci
round the sees.:wing score In la
vor of the Truckers ll-lh, ami
at the half the Lions hud man-
aged to lurge ahead only 2<!-L';'. j
Smith, "Lefty" Newman and j
K W. Jones draped the hull in
right regularly every few sec-1
mills ill the third for u 4 7-J1 lead
it the end of that period, and
ft was the same three, with J. (
Knowles chiming in too, that ran
up their margin further in the!
fourth
Big Newman, lent to the Lioin,
fro in the Truckers to finish out
their quintet, whs one of the de
ddlng factors of the game.
Newman and Jones tied for
second high with IK points each.
"Buddy" B'irron. former Bulldog
nil-district renter home for the
holiday* from T C I' where he
Is working with the freshman
cage squad, aud J. C Knowles
tied for third with 11 points
Apiece.
John Shaw, another ex-Bull-
dog, scored # for the Truckers.
ron Alexander 8. Buck Dunaway
Holder «. Ben Stone 2. Carl
l)a vies 4. «tld <• Mt 1
Coach Shawgo announced that
le had hooked gamea with n Kan
Self ti, Okla,. Iitdapende.it unit
fair Jan. 14. ««d another with Ft
fill. Okie.. J n. 16-. f«";
elgn courU. A full ■treofth squad
till mane th« ro«d trip, the
,r the Lion* tfclt •oubob
fluid
The «• « with Pt Mil will be
a return on garment. the
having opened their aeaaon here
last monik by downing the «r-
illler/men, 44-40. d 41-4f.
first
h.
Jack, Dick, and Bob Voclkcr,
from top to bottom, form one of
the more unusual brother acts
in collegiate basketball. They
perform for the University of
Washington. Dick and Bob
stund six feet three inches, Jack
an inch taller.
Budge Tit Begin
His Pro Career
NliW YORK Jan :i </l'i
Tills is the night liiat lionald
Budge comes of tenuis age and
learns that there is a powerful
lot of difference between the
amuletirs lie has been slapping
aimiiid for the last iw. years
und Kltswini.li \ ines who for
tour seasons lias ruled llm
world V professionals.
liudc.e and Vines meet iu Mttd
ison Square Cardeu before what
threatens in lie a capacity audi-
ence ol I 7.Olio spectators, and it
Mh on Id lie a blistering match,
with N ines i he prohahh winner
I'm a v.iriety of reasons. The
most important it' Uiuii Mils,
worth. when "right" Is just
about , he greatest tenuis player
who ever lived
Km Budge, the match Inaugu-
rates a professional career that
will pay hItit a flat $7".000 his
llrst winter on the hoards.
West All-Stars
Beat East, 14-0
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan.
A heavy \V( stern I nam with an
impregnable forward wall and
an effective passing attack g'ave
It' alt-star Kasieru opponent a
14 to o drubbing on the 14th an-
nual Shrilie charily toothall
game here yesterday.
Both scoring plays were nwi-
nipulaleil by Hill Patterson ol
Hayior I'niverslly and Jim Couah-
iiin of Santa Clara Patterson did
the pitching and Cottghluu the
catching.
Girls Plav At
Booker Tonight
Couch Kaye Uuigford's Red-
birds will lesiilue their hoop-
inakhig ability tonight when they
travel to Booker to engage the
girls teum there.
The game is achedulcd lo get
under way at 7:30 o'clock.
Whale*
mammals.
tire tile largest of all
O'Brien Proves
His Greatness
I By the Associated Press
Texas Christian nd Tenuutsco
i, nt throwing holds on the nut ton
III tootiiMll championship and
I Hi If dream- of football em-
I plre faded iu the bleak i>tinie~-
Inhere of tin Arroyo Si* o as the
football S4MHOII ended yi*terday
oil a note of violence and hi«li
hysteria,
only ii howl game to end all
how I unities can settle the my
ihlcal title chase now. Texas
Christian effectively drubbed
Carnegie Tech, 15 to 7. iu New
i Orleans' Sugar Howl yesterday
while Tennessee rolled steadily
! to a 17-n win over Oklahoma
'hitherto inviolate, In Hie Orange
Howl ill \l ill in I lo preserve I lie
cat-oil's two most enviable i ei
I ol ds
ifut If the Horned Frogs mid
the Volunteers gained the great
' est glory, twloe-beaten Southern
iillforiiln provided the drama
Willi a little over a minute to
play aud Duke protecting u .1.0
'lead. Doyle Nave, fourth string
| quarterbaek. threw four com-
plete passes to accomplish a 7-.'!
j triumph for the Trojans Iu the
! itose Bowl as ill.iioo, the day's
| biggest crowd looked on.
This defeat ended a season iu
which tin Dukes from Durham.
N C. had marched through their
•chcdulc undefeated, untied uiiil
an scored upon, lone major aggre-
gation to accomplish the feat
NKW OKLKANS. La . Jan
(.•Pi Little Davey O'Brien, the
all-America mite of y quarter- |
back, has proven to the satisfuc-
tinn of the football world that t
he Is one of the greatest passers j
of all time.
Lending the Horned Frogs of |
| Texas Christian lo a 1 r> to 7 tii-
! umph over C.irnaglc Tec.li yes- i
ierday in the fifth Sugar Howl |
game, the 1 i,2-|iouud aerial ar-
tist threw a total of 28 passes,
completing 17 of them for 225
yards.
Not one ot hi tosses was in-
tercepted Tli" Christians gullied
a lotul of 17 yards to 18X for
Tech ii ii «' made 17 fiist downs to
10 for the Bklhos
The first period was scoreless
but III the next quarter TCU
started from Its I* and. on pass-
er and nice runs by Johnny Hall
and Connie Sparks, worked to
the one yard Hue ami Sparks
drove over for the score. O'ltricn
missed the Hick from placement
A few minutes later Muhu ssit!i-
ered iu Moroz's 50-yard pass to
lli the score. MiiIiii'k plttcemeul
was good for llie extra point and
tin half ended with Tech leading.
7.6.
The Ti vans ihreateued often
in the third, finally starting from
the TCP 20 to march for a touch
down. O'Hrion tossed one to Karl
Clark on llie TCI 17 and lie run
lo the Tech II A few plays later
I in i wood Horner look an aerial
mi I lie HO and raced for si score.
Again O'Hrien's placement try
for the extra point failed. His toe
wa- more accurate iu tin fourth,
however, as he booted a field
goal from t In* in for three
points
"We were heal en by a greal
team," said Skipper Hill Kern
o! Cnrneglc Tech after the game.
"That TCI' team Is greater than
any we had previously met aud
undoubtedly is the finest colleg"
eleven of this and tunny ollic
seasons.
"As for O'P len, he is the fin-
est puHsers I have ever seen, und
lie certainly proved thai he has
not been over.rated "
It was O'Biien's final game for
Texas Christian and more than
50,000 persons saw him end Ills
college football career In a blaze
of glory.
MIAMI, Fin., Jan 3—{ffiy—
The University of Tennessee foot-
ball lenin. 17 to n victor over
Oklahoma In yesterday's Orange
Bowl game here, relaxed today
and received praise as a team
that made no mistakes
Many of the 32,181 persons
who saw the unbeaten mill un-
tied Volunteers crush the Big
St champion that had won 14
consecutive games spoke of the
speed, power nnd Judgment tlmt
made the triumph possible.
Outweighed 12 pounds to the
man In the Hue, the Volunteers
completely throttled Oklahoma's
land maneuvers and gave way
only slightly late In the game to
the sooncrs' aerial bombs.
Bob Foxx scored the first
touchdown in the opening period
and Capt. Bowden Wjratt added
a field goul In the second us <hc
Vols made the most of their op-
portunities. Babe Wood In the
filial quarter sparked a glorious
73-ynrd mnrcti to another touch-
down.
These Tough Guys Didn't Make
Any New Year's Resolutions
He Didn't Bust This Racket
awn*
Arch-foe of racketeers, J. Edgar Hoover, No. 1 U-mon,
racket himself, when, as pictured above, he exercised or.
Beach tennis court during his winter vacate ...
DAI.LAS. Ian :i i/P)- Okla-
homa University cagers deflat-
ed ilie Southern Methodist I'nl-
verslty Mustangs 4!•-:*. 1 lust night
to even the series. S. .\1. U.. won
the opener Saturday night, 4!t-H.
Corhl'.i paced tile Soono.ls with
111 points.
The Mustangs, who open the
Southwest Conference rare Fri-
day night with Aikansus. won ->i\
and lost four games iu their prac-
tice schedule.
Mu-t people resolve on New
Year's they will do their best
lo helluva IhatiiiUit us for the
next 165 days
Messrs. Hill Caxstell a u d
Ktunkie Hill don't even :frumc
such resolutions, most of w>ilch
will lie quickly forgotten They
don't (lahbb iu sucli hy)in«i .i«>.
They're ii.e..n hoys because
wrc'lllnu Is their profession,
and It there is any occnpatlou
that can get along without liny
i saintly conduct in the rlu
it's the ear twisting, limb lev-
( rage gallic.
Wild Hill, the Amarillo bouncer
| Who used to toss out lite more
rowdy with no imire ado than ii
neat drop kick. tonight tack-
les Kansas ( ily's Prnukic Hill
i Iu Hit t ii ii i u e\i .it on Promoter
, Otis Holier.son's wrestling
fiesta The first preliminary I
starts at S p. in.
Hubert Mm has announced that
■ for the next several weeks he
will leaiure grupplers of the
i light heavyweight class or there-
at outs Hill aud Caszell are an !
j excellent pair to kIiii i off up this
I Venture. |
Hut Ii have pleased the funs 111
i I heir previous performances here j
and the Kausan and the TeMin
, will lurnisit some leal firewotks
to start off the new year on the
mat iu rough fashion
The seinl-flunl presents that
brainy strut, gist of the ling, hard
muscled Joe Biitiuskl. former
light heavy champ, and Wildcat
: McKwIug, tlie Montauu scourge
The opi ier sends into u whirl
.VI ii I esh oe's pride. KiikscII Jtlley.
. plumb full of pluck, and Krnte
i Peterson, the Frisco flush and
the second of the tieweoniers.
McKwiug being the oilier first-!
uighter.
Kingslde seats are Oil cents, j
general admission for men 40 ,
(cents, and Indus aud children |
26 ceuts.
RIVAL TEXAS
POST-SEASON
CLASSICS SEEN
DALLAS, Tev , J ill. :i (..pi
ilistiuct possibility of Texas ->t g
lug rival post -eason fuoli.uli
classics next >ear clouded the nvi
tIon's ili •ai.y Jumbled "hosi"
scene today.
Imtnediau .i'ter yesterday's
<'otion Howl game, which drew
kiiiiiii 40.000 'ins. it bccsitic
known that J Curtis Sail ford ill
i i i to.-general of the Cotton
Howl Athleib Assoclntloli, IihiI
f|)llt with his hoard of dircctniH
over questions of policy
Dan ii liogers, I in I In h hankci
ilicnbe: of Texas Chrlstiun lib
i m rsilys board of t rust ties and
I president ol tile Cotton Bowl A«
I Miciallon revculed San ford luiil
' wltlidtawii his affiliuliou sit It
TEXAS TECH'S
FINAL SPLASH
SCARES GAELS
:t
t/Vl
bit III ll
The w estern Itemispliei e now
obtains tints' of its radium from
Canada, from a deposit on the
shoi es of (ireat Hear Lake.
(the association ten days ago.
However.' .laid lingers, 'you
• an definitely say that the
(itiHou's b- ai(I. appointed iiy rep-
re enllltlVes ol the cont'eieii'<
cehools. will work towards held
in* a po.^t .season game for T -v -
next year Mr S infol d lias ii
lease on the Cotton Howl siadl
iiiii that runs two uiQI'e rsurs.
but there tire other stadiums
Dallas will have a fine new high
school stadium and there > tin
possibility i lie game could he
played iu mother city.'"
Sauford. contacted after the
runounct tiient, coniiuenteti
"i will definitely hold atiutltet
Cotton Howl game next yenr
and for years to come
lingers rewaied that Sauford
hold' the charter of the t'ottou
Howl Association h'js copyiiglu
ed Hie name anil did not relin-
quish tin charter to the a-" ria
thin s board when it was e|c led
seveial weeks ago
Sources directly Iu rmitsct
with the sltliiitiou said Satifurd
bad been retained an dlreetor
general at a salary ol SlO.Otui.
but at the same time, continued
te bold the chnriei Some ten
days ago It was leurtted. he ad-
vised the board he Wished to
vei to his former perc ulage
(Contlnuea on page FIV'K)
DALLAS. Tex I'ttr
Powerhouse St. Mary a
of lads who could model ill an
Iron foundry, rolled hack In t-t'"-
furiiia today with a Cotton How
tiluntlili over Texas Tech and
reverence I'm Ihe pass-fllngln
tactics of Ihe southwest
St Marys won the hull gaim
all' right. 20-13. hill it hud Its
doubts along With 40.00.1 Ian*
In the final tell mltltlles when 'lie
Wist Texas plainsmen opened up
with n sky raid.
Out in front. 80-0. with eleven
j minutes to go. St Marys g.iC'
up two touchdowns and slutildet -
led through the possibility of a
' third before the 'I eohs |luall>
gave up.
"Those passe- " sighed Coach
I Slip Madiga'.i after the game "H
j wa- a pleasine le play those ho>
j all right and you can say
we'll have a hell of a guiile out
nt . ail Frum isco next season
Outcbissetl until that filial
spla h. Tech, with dene I Bub
blest I III met I on the business
1-11(1 of the passes, started froill
tlielr own 2n after Jerry Dowd
! great (lael center, had hooted
ov"i their goal ttipe Hitrnetl
heaved 30 yards to tleo.ge Webb,
fidlowcO with two more slloti ones
h. Jodie Marek aud then rifled
s. reen pnss to hlltner lth«-
who dttin «d
a
great I Turbo:*,
yards for n score.
on their 3f> four minutes lat-
er, Tech started again with Bur-
nett heaving He found Tatinn
for 1 3 and Webb for 20 and tlo n
on fourth dow i. gambled and
slut a 32-yerder to end K I
Mi Knight on tile goal stripe
The third try wan the most s<m
mitiniiul. Harnett passing
yards to lieoiK' Webb, the Idg
end Hampering 4f> more yards
before In w«t f inn 11 >• Jerked down
from behind by Jim Hijnii-'-a
Webb bad a seven-yard start o i
littiKiSsa but looked i ack over hi1-
shoulder all 'he way down the
field and finally saw iilmassa
snatch him
The duels itiude a unaway of
it lor three periods, loosing theli
I llell.'aiiopplli I lief let tut\.
Itiiunssa and Mike Klotovb b
oti varied assortments <<f inns and
(Continued on page FIVE)
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