The Wylie News (Wylie, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 23, 1956 Page: 1 of 8
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See The Playoffs!
Back The Pirates
All The Way!
THE WYLIE NEWS
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Serving Collin County's Fastest Growing City
VOL. S
WYLIE, COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1956
See The Playoffs!
Back The Pirates
All The Way!
NUMBER 44
Boys Win Bi-District Title
Girls Defeat Allen
Two Straight To Win
District Championship
Coach R. C. Dodd's Wylie High
School girls' basketball sextette
fumbled and fizzled for two quar-
ters Saturday night against Allen,
but found themselves in the last
half and went on to score a vic-
tory by the score of 54-49.
The game was the first in the
playoff series between the two
teams. Wylie captured the East
Zone crown in the county, while
Allen was victor in the West Zone.
Allen got off to a good start on
their home court and led at the
end of the first quarter by a 9-8
score. By halftime they had built
their lead to 24-14 and were ap-
parently headed for an easy vic-
tory over the local lassies, who
could not get going. Wylie's shots
were hitting the rim and bouncing
out; their passing was never more
erratic and they were not taking
proper time on their shots at the
basket.
However, after the midway rest,
the girls came fighting back and
put on one of the best exhibitions
seen all year in the district. By
the end of the third quarter they
had erased the 10-point lead and
were ahead by 36-35. Gail Demp-
sey and Margie Cross began hit-
ting with consistency and all the
girls were giving the Allen girls
a bad time with their rugged ball
hustling.
Allen fans began to sense de-
feat as the Wylie girls kept pour-
ing in the points and the Allen
girls began to get rattled, making
errors of their own and getting
off wild shots at the basket.
The final score was 54-49, with
the locals racking up 40 points
in the second half.
Gail Dempsey took scoring hon-
ors for the night with 30 points
to lead the Pirates. Margie Cross
followed for the locals with 22.
Dugger was high scorer for Allen
with 25 tallies.
The Allen Gym was filled to
overflowing as hundreds of Collin
County fans were on hand to wit-
ness this exciting playoff between
these two fine teams.
Winner of the series will repre-
sent the Collin County district in
the bi-district game against the
Grayson County winner.
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The Wylie Girls made it two in
•a row Monday night.
Not only was it their second
win over Allen, by a top-heavy
score of 55-34, but it was the sec-
ond year in a row for them to
win the Collin County Class B
championship.
Now they will meet the winners
of the Grayson County district in
p bi-district playoff to determine
who will represent the area in
the regional meet.
Monday night's game, actually
was an easy one for the local
lassies. They started off with a
bang and wound up the first
stanza with an 11-point advantage.
This dropped to nine points by
the half, which found them ahead
by a score of 29-20.
However, in the third quarter,
•the girls began to really find the
range and built up a 45-28 ad-
vantage by the close of the period.
They dropped in 10 points in
the final quarter, while holding
the visitors to a meagre 6, to wind
up the night on the long end of
a 55-34 score, as the crowd went
wild with enthusiasm.
Margie Cross, rangy Wylie for-
ward, won scoring honors by drop-
ping 25 points through the hoop.
Gail Dempsey hit for 15 tallies,
followed by Kathryn Eubanks with
11. Barbara Goen, reserve forward,
connected for a pair of field goals
to round the Pirates' scoring.
Dugger, dependable Allen for-
ward, connected for 22 points to
lead her team.
The Monday night crowd topped
last week's Wylie-Celina crowd by
approximately 200 people, thus
setting a new attendance record
for Birmingham Gym.
Justiss and Justiss were offi-
cials for the girls' playoff tilts.
Bake Sale, Feb. 25th
The Altar Society of St. An-
thony's Catholic Church will hold
their monthly Bake Sale on Feb.
25th at the Wylie Insurance Agen-
cy, it was announced this week.
CITY AND SCHOOL
ELECTIONS TAKE
APRIL SPOTLIGHT
Elections in the City of Wylie
and in the Wylie Independent
School District will take the spot-
light during the early part of
April as qualified voters will go
to the polls to choose a mayor,
two couneilmen, a city secretary
and three members of the school
board.
The city election will be held on
Tuesday, April 3. Candidates for
the city posts must file by mid-
night, March 2, to get on the bal-
j lot. Terms expiring this year in
the city are those of Mayor John
Edgington, and Couricilmen Roddy
Groves and Manley F. Allen, and
City Secretary W. W. House-
wright.
The school voting will take
| place on Saturday, April 7, and
j candidates must file ten days be-
fore the date of the election.
School board members whose
terms of office expire this year
are Jack Parr, M. M. Martin, and
| Virgil Deal.
No announcement has been
made as to whether present in-
cumbents either in the city or
school will seek re-election.
Both elections will be held at
the City Hall, according to re-
ports.
NOTICE
The Wylie Boys will meet
Krum in the first game of
the regional playoffs at SMU
at 3 p.m., Friday.
The championship game of
this tourney will be held on
Saturday afternoon at 3:30,
The News learned today.
The Wylie Girls will meet
the Grayson County champs
early next week at a site to'
be determined later this week.
Mrs. J. H. Riffe was a visitor in
Stephenville and Fort Worth the
past week.
Charmette Shop
Has Gala Opening
Last Thursday
Wylie's newest business had its
formal opening last Thursday
when the Charmette Shop played
host to a large crowd of well
wishers.
The new business is located on
Ballard Avenue in the location
formerly occupied by the Salmon
Dress Shop.
Miss Janita Ann Summers won
the $35.00 permanent wave given
as an opening day award, and
John L. Bostic received a mani-
cure as the shop's first customer.
The owners and operators, Mrs.
Betty Dawson and Dora Belew
this week expressed appreciation
for the large crowd who attended
and also for the numerous pot
plants sent by local people on the
opening occasion.
Defeat Howe 38-30 For
Right To Enter Region Play
Wylie's "dream team," the 1956
basketball quintet, at the start of
the season given no chance to win
their zone, not only have a dis-
trict championship tucked under
their belts, but Tuesday night,
thoroughly trounced the Howe
Bulldogs for the Bi-District Title.
The score was 38-30 in the
thrill-packed playoff unreeled at
the Caldwell Gym in McKinney.
The win gave the Pirates the right
to enter the Class-B regional play-
offs, beginning Thursday at SMU
in Dallas.
Hustle, hard play and smart
headwork was the difference in
Tuesday's game. The local lads-
started off with a 7-6 first quar-
ter lead, but the Howe boys ral-
lied their forces in the second
stanza and held an 18-14 halftime
margin.
However, Coach Dodd's boys
came hustling back with a clever
and confusing passing attack, plus
the stoutest zone defense of the
year, to hold the Bulldogs to four
points in the third quarter and
to take the lead by 26-22.
After that they were never
headed. The Pirates began to play
a deliberate style of ball, stalling
here and there and cashing in on
(he fouls and miscues of a des-
perate Buldog team, destined for
| defeat.
The victory was a well-deserved
one for Wylie. It was a team vic-
| tory with all the lads working
| beautifully together with clock-
like precision. Steady Russell
Clcmmons hit for 15 points to
| take scoring honors. Jerry Cooper
! followed with 13; Hickman 5;
j McEuen 3; and Montoya 2. Benny
I Blakey played well defensively
1 while in the melee.
Two Wins Over Celina
Let Boys Take District
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ABOVE: H. I). Mouzon, sports
editor of KMAE in McKinney, is
shown presenting the district tro-
phy to Co-Capt. John Hickman of
the Wylie Pirates, following the
locals' victory over Celina last
Friday nitjht. Wylie defeated the
Bobcats two out of three for the
championship.
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AT I,EFT: A fast bit of action
is shown in the final game of the
Wylie-Celina series which deter-
mined the district winner. Three
unidentified players are scrapping
for the ball under the Wylie bas-
ket in the final quarter.
HOYS' SECOND GAME
Celina's vicious band of Bobcats,
| who defeated Wylie 51-42 in the
opening round of the 42-B dis-
trict playoffs, were as tame as
kittens in Wylie last Thursday
night as Coach R. C. Dodd's mau-
rauding Pirates gave the lads from
West Collin a lesson in hustle
and hard play to take the second
game by a score of 50-41.
Coach Dodd's charges got the
jump on the visitors and before
Celina knew what had suddenly
hit them, the Pirates had built
up a 12-0 lead in the opening
minutes. They went on to take a
first quarter lead of 14-4 and from
there they were never headed.
The locals hit on six of their
first seven field goal attempts.
By half-time the Pirates were
leading 24-13. At the end of the
third stanza they were out in
front by 38-25, and in the final
quarter fought off a full court
press and desperate attempts of
the visitors to take the ball game
and square the series at one-all.
The Pirates started with their
five regulars, Cooper, Hickman,
C'lemmons, McEuen and Montoya,
and Coach Dodd never disturbed
their smooth workings.
Russell Clemmons took scoring
honors for the night with 17
points and played a sterling de-
fensive ball game all the way.
Cooper followed for the Pirates
with 11 tallies. John Hickman hit
for 9, McEuen for 8, and "Chief"
Montoya connected for 5 points,
including two beautiful goals from
way out.
For the Bobcats, "Big Boy" Pin-
ion, a constant threat to the locals,
connected for 15 points to top his
team's scoring. He was followed
by Boren with 13, Whitfield with
6, Norris with 5, and Cave with 2.
The difference between victory
and defeat as these two top teams
collided was the hustle and extra
effort put forth by the Wylie lads.
They out-rebounded Celina con-
stantly, took the tip-offs and were
a ball stealing threat throughout
the game.
The largest crowd ever to wit-
ness a basketball game in Wylie
overflowed the Birmingham Gym
for the Thursday night game.
Prior to the championship game, I
the local "B" team outclassed Ce-
lina 41-26.
BOYS' THIRD GAME
Collin County's District 42-B
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has a new champion this year in
j boys' basketball and for the first
time since 1941 the honor belongs
j to a band of Wylie High School
Pirates, under the tutelage of
Coach R. C. Dodd.
The issue was settled clearly last
Friday night at the Caldwell Gym
| in McKinney when the Pirates
| took the third and deciding game
from the Celina Bobcats by the
I close margin of 44-41.
I Wylie had won the East Zone
j of the county, while Celina was
j the West Zone winner.
Again it was a story of fight
j and hustle all the way as Russell
J Clemmons, playing the best game
of his career both on offense and
; defense, led his teammates to a
I thrilling and well-deserved vic-
tory. Clemmons dropped in 23
points to take top scoring honors,
and time and again stymied the
Celina stars, Pionion and Boren,
by halting their charges in under
the basket.
Other point markers for the
local lads included Jerry Cooper,
8; David McEuen with 3; John
Hickman with 5 and Montoya
with 5.
Boren, one of the best boys to
compete against Wylie all year,
dropped in 20 for Celina, followed
by Pionion with 13, and Norris,
6; and Cave got 2.
Wylie got the jump again the
third game, taking a 12-6 lead by
the end of the first quarter, and
held to a 26-21 margin by half-
time. At the close of the third
quarter they led 34-25, but the
Bobcats came charging back and
with only nine seconds left to
play had whittled the lead to a
mere two points.
Boren was fouled but his free
throw missed its mark and there
was a tie ball. Jerry Cooper took
the tipoff for Wylie and was
fouled as the buzzer sounded and
the ball game was over.
The McKinney Gym was packed
to the rafters for the deciding
tilt, and the huge crowd remained
to see the locals receive the cham-
pionship trophy with the runner-
up award going to Celina.
Wylie entered the playoffs with
a season record of 21 wins against
6 losses, compared to Celina's rec-
ord of 20 wins to 4 losses.
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