The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 17, 1953 Page: 2 of 24
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2—-ROCKDALF. (T*x.) REPORTER
December 17, 1953
/><»«/ Pottsville .”)!?- I<f
RHS Girls Win
Lampasas Meet
The Rockdale Kil ls went all the | via wins over Hamilton, the team
way in the Lampasas Invitation I that edged Rockdale in the region
Basketball I’ .01 f irvi-iit I’lliv 111: i !.i ! > ".u 1 over Holland
Pottsville 52-49 in ttv.* champion-!., tourney favorite. Though re-
ship tilt Saturday night The tour- gardcd a: one of the best girl
Tigers Take
Second Place in
Taylor Tourney
Brock, Pearson
Take 8-Point
Bucks This Week
Coach Charles Martin’s Rockdale
Tigers climbed the brackets
Tigers Bounce
Hutto "B" 53-29.
of i
Tvvc dear were reported taken
during the t ost week by Rockdale]
hunters, both killed in the section
east of Hcarno.
Collier Pearson backed an 8 .
Independents
Blast Giddings
Play Friday 7 p.m. Gagers 67 37
NINE RHS BAND MEMBERS
PARTICIPATE IN WACO CLINIC
, Nine members of the RHS Hand
i participated in the Region III Band
■ (Clinic at Waco over the week end,
The RHS Tiger* took their first | The Rockdale Independents' five ,,f the group were auditioned
win in the Hutto Invitational | smashed the Independent bosket- j for places in the All Region Band.
| tlk.* Taylor Invitational Basketball I point buck on :« Moss lease near j Basketball Tournament this morn-1 nailer1 of Giddiiu. 67-37 her. • Qf group Niel Grant was select -
I ......’ : i»t week foi a crack j Hearne while huntin in a party j . (Thur tei rigor , . u rnembei ot the Region ill
at the Hutto Hippo# but bowed to|"dh Alex McLc-'d, \\ 1. Pearson, team 53-29. , cage star Lynn aiei.uue leading t ehosen Hand
the two-time champs in the tourney, **r • Frank Hydct It was the Sajn Kains spurked the Tiger (the wav with a game total of 37 Trv-outs tor the sill-region oi-
fmuls. Hutto clipped the local Mkh by the party nUack scoring 29 points in the points. I ganiration were Johnny Harris,
i a ers .>4-34 to dominate the meetj" u 1 'll,‘ *'■ ..unt.iv. J rather slow game which placed j McGuire and teammates. Hub ] saxophone; Niel Grant, John
a match with Scott, Red Jackson, BIU Boyd, Jim
nament trophy was their second
major one of the season.
Coach Charles Martin had two
of his squad named to the all
teams in the state they failed to
match the pace of the locul squad.
Rockdale led 16-13 at the end of
the first quarter but Goerdel, Hayes
tournament team and was also; and Roberts clicked for 20 points
presented a table lump for coach- j in the second period to give Hous-
ing the champions. Named to thcjvilic a 33-28 halftime margin. Af-
All-Star Team were Forward Bar- j tei trailing 43-41 at the .nd of the
baru Young and Guard Martha (third quarter the Tver hnopsters
Cardwell. j came back with 11 points, 8 by
In the tourney finals Saturday
Llano edged Mason for the Conso-
lation prize and Hamilton lv.it
Killeen for the third place trophy.
Opening against Gatcsville the
Tiger sextet rolled un a 47-27 final
behind the sharp shooting of
Barbara Young which counted for
22 lxjints in the one sided tilt. Vir-
ginia Davenport rattled the rafters
with 29 points in the second game
to ramrod the Tigers over Killeen
58-50 and into the finalist berth
against the high stepping Potts-
ville.
In the final game both Young
and Davenport hit a stride to score
21 and 20 points respectively
against the Ccn-Tex powerhouse
Davenport, to win.
Young had a tournament total
of 82 i>oints, Davenport had in.
Barbara Tyler scored 27 points mI the night with 23 points
tor their third straight year. It was ‘ John Brock took an 8-pointer j (he RHS team
Rockdale’s f.rst loss of the season .Saturday while hunting on the, HtlugerviUe Friday at i p.
the i Kmcst Marsh place at Wheelock .... , , ,
1,11, , , . „ i I he Tigers had little trouble dis-
tei «* rs*
team and led 21-5 at the half. Al-
at 7 p. in.
The Georgetown Eagles won
Consolation round.
The Tigers were definitely C°’ °.n }*» construction of
their stride m the final match, ',‘l 11,1 l>',u I though Raines was the high scorer
but they curbed the high scoring! , ,!m Bartlett, hunting withijoj- Tigers. Wimpy Patterson
Kermit Decker, allowing the shot lhomas Jack- on of Cameron, bug-iscored 12 (K'ints, Clyde I.uetge 10,
maker only 15 points >». -‘‘ oiHi In. k l the season j B|||v Cook. 4 .md Fdward Grubbs
Rockdale led 9-7 on dosing the ‘hls l)>lsl '"vk The 8-pointer was ] j.
lirst quarter but after that portion I Liken near ltuerne in Kendall
County.
Hover and Bill Huelbig have also
tak-.-n .i win from the Buckholts
Independents, 62-29.
Manager for the local net mesh-
ers is John Sonntag who also sees
action on the hardwood. The local
team will participate in the Tern-
League which is scheduled to
commence December 28.
Moore, cornets; Sue Albrecht and
John Traister, trombones Others
taking part in the clinic were
Ginger Harris, flute; Charles Mar-
vin, cornet; Judy Marvin, flute;
John 1 ynn Forbis, cornet.
only a short period of practice. It
was pointed out that most twirl-
«■ s making ths* Division I rating
c< me from the more ex erieneed
participants and that the local
twirlers hau only b'-en working
as a unit .since the fir >t ot the
schoui veal.
The band director explained that
the bands were rated according
to the grading system and stand-
ai i: ot the National Music Edu-
cators A- oeiation and tout they
wire competing tor these ratings
rather than against competition
from other bands.
In the judging each contestant
Howard C-ill band director, ex- veeivc point; on maiching, (>la>-
of the game they were no match
for he experienced Hiplos Hutto
scored 12 points m each the second
and third quarter and closed out
il.V, ■>’,
the meet and ,vas credited with a
major part in Rockdale’s offensive
Other Tiger players seeing ac-
tion were the Just string guards,
Martha Cardwell, Joan Jenkins and
Wilma Davenport: also, Spence,
Stephens, Tumu, F.ilund, Strelsky
and Rutherford.
Individual scoring by Rockdale
players was us follovys:
Against Gatcsville - Tyler 6,
Davenport 12, Young 22, Stephens
5, Rutherford 2 u the Killeen game
Tyler 10, Young 19, Davenport 29.
Finals against I’ottsville - Young
Pottsville entered the playoif- 21, Davenport 20, Tyler ll.
in the
fourth and final frame. Decker
was high for the night with 15
points. Hulmstrom was second best
with 12.
Clyde Luetge sparked the Rock-
dale scoring with 11, Billy Cooke
tossed in 9, Sam Rains 8, Edward
Grubbs 5 and Wimpy Patterson 1.
The local team reached the tour-
ney 1 mals after knocking down
the Taylor Ducks 43-41 and Round
Rock 58-45
Hams scored 12 points in the
Taylor vistor.v, Grubbs 10, Luetgo
8, Cooke 7 and Patterson C. Against
the Dragons it was Luetge with
21, Rains 15, Cooke 4, Grubbs 9,
Patterson H and Yakesch 1.
Tournament totals for the Tigers
were Luetge 40 points, Rains 35,
Grubbs 24. Cooke 20, Patterson 15
and Yakesch 1 Other Tiger basket-
bailers seeing action were Doss,
Davenport, Buotow, and Harwerth.
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Tiger Cagers
Drop Yoemen
33-29,41-40
Clyde Luetgo scored 11 points,
Edward Grubbs 10, to pace the
RHS 'Tigers to their second win
over the Cameron Yoemen this
season. The victory came in the
Voe- Hi Gymnasium Monday night
via a 33-29 count and followed a
Tiger B-game triumph of 41-40.
Rockdale hopped off to an early
start and led the Yoemen through
the entire game. Score hy quar-
ters put the Tiger.', out front 8-7.
20-17, 27-21 and, at the close of
the game, 33 to 29.
l.uetge’s 11 points were made
during the first three quarters of
the tilt before an auidc injury
forced him to leave the game
Grubbs went scoreless the first
period but picked up his game total
in tin remaining time. Others
scoring were Billy Cooke 3, Wimpy
Patterson 2 and Sam Rains 7.
Michalka was high for the losers
with 11 points.
The B-guine proved to be the
thrillei of tlw night. Cameron led
lit > Tigers 40-39 going into the
final minute but Spunky Daven-
port tossed two free throws
through the hoop to push Rock-
dale out front 41-40. Davoii|>ort
racked up II of 9 free throws and
meshed three Held goals for game
high of 14 points.
.Tames Clore added 2 to the
Tiger i game, Yakesch 10, Mc-
Adams 7 and Loe 6.
Heilman led Cameron H with 14.
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Christmas
Rockdale Juniors,
Milano Split
Wednesday Tilts
It was win one and lose one for
Coach Charles Martin reported |
that a numbe ol good gamer TDXT Wnnnrc
w old Tv loved Friik,, and n.vit- J‘r0tL* ™norb
i d local fans to utter l the Tigei J RockdciHcnS At
,'"ullorvilu' " 7 >’ m Christmas Party
plained that the Chosen Band was
the second hand in the selections
and that Grant was named as
cornet ist in this group of high
school musicians. First place se-
lections were placed in the Re-
gion Select Band, he commented
ing, stunts and in an inspection of
equipment and personnel, Gill
said, with the total poults given
lorming the basis of thte division
ratin';. According to this system
ilt/ic
the Junior High Basketball teams the Milano girls 32 to 9.
woh journeyed to Milano Wednes-
day afternoon to engage the Mi-
lano School teams in matched
games.
The Junior High boys won over
their opponents to the tune of
45 to 9 Errol (Bingo) Robinson
leading in the souring honors with
10 points, Johnny Timmerman
scored 12. Jackie Yount 9. Harold
D Stanisluvv 4. Mike Bight 2. and
Two Rockdale- employees of Tex*
Wayne KvV> 2 for a total of 45
points to the opponents 9.
The girls putting up a good bat-
tle failed to fare us good as the j Country Club Tuesday night. They points,
boys in their encounter, losing to j were Walter A. Urban and Miss1'
Florence Dunnington.
as Power A Light Company were Baton Twirling contests Saturday,
honored at the company’s annual j December 5, receiv ing a Division
Christmas Party held at the Taylor , ui rating in marching with 83.7
iill bands could bo rated Division
1, if they met the standards, he
The Waco clinic was the second j added,
contest for the local musicians in ]
the past two weeks. They took
part in the Lockhart Marchie; and
MOORE—
(Continued from Page One)
Rotarians, as he has with other
civic club: and groups where he-
lms spoken in recent years. He told
Members of the baton twirlingi about tiie Big League, in an easy-
, . , . ... . ' ...tint* utvlo kont hlM
Kirby Owens led in scoring with i
all 9 points being credited to her
efforts Other participating in the
game were Joan Cogbill. Charlot-
to Urban. Rebecca Skopek, Kathy
I sqa . 1 also were honored with rat-,toing, modest style, t at kept his
- • -• ■ • • ..............* listeners attentive despite the tact
that the luncheon meeting ran
thirty minute-: overtime.
Asked what he considered his
best year in the majors, Joe said
it was 1939. when he balled .334
Both local TP&L office workers in.;s at Lockhart. In the quart at
were presented 25 year service i Hnd quintet contests they were
awards by W. A. Schrade, district named as Division Ii contestants
manager. ] and in the solo twirling contest.
Miss Dunnington received a ] j0 pva Wenzel, Joyce Turns, Wil-
Tice.’sondra Delaney and Betty i Hamilton wrist watch set with four! ma Tuma and Shirley Williams
St , ' ' diamonds and Urban was present-1 were class'd Division 1, Beth Rich- slammed out til teen hornets.
■ ed a Hamilton-Turner wrist watch. | ardS| Division 11. Gill stated that---
—-....... ...... * the twirlers wore complimented The Smithsonian Institute in
The average depth of the ocean j by Judge N. W. Rursell for their j Washington was established in
below sea Level is 12,450 feet. routines and ability shown w’ithll826.
Charlie Martin, coached the girls
and Dav id McMillan coached the
boys
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