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The Sweetwater Reporter, Sweetwater, Texas
Two Regional Fighters
Get State fbal Nod
The Hauling Huihliej. — Tom
Adams and Bill Burkhart, from
Hardin- Simmons University,
are the only fighters represent-
ing the Abilene region in the
finals of the 1949 Golden (lloves
Tournament, being held in Fort
Worth’s Will Boyers Coliseum
tonight.
Torn Adams will lie out for
his third crown in tin: light-
heavyweight division tonight as
he vies with David Carter of
San Antonio in the finals. Bill
Burkhart is matched against
Fete Gil of Austin.
Ill’ ItKH A HT « ONTINI KH
Dill Burkhart advanced into
the Dual night of competitnon
after a hotly contested battle
with Adolfo Marline/ of El Faso
that ended in a TKO by Burk
hart tit 1.2!> of the second round.
ADAMS KAVOKKD-
Adtims’ Saturday night
with John Willingham
IM 111 t
from
Old Fighters Making News
In Boxing World Contests
NEW YORK. Feb. 11 (UP)—
The old saw about “youth will
out” was taking a nine count in
the boxing business today for
it was the “old man” of the ring
who were making the news, and
plenty of it.
To run it once over lightly,
tin1 developments were these:
1. Anc ient Tony /.ale, the melt-
ed “man of steel” whose own
hoard of strategy didn’t want
him to fight anymore, announc-
ed he would hold Marcel Cerdan
to his contract for a chance to
regain the middleweight title.
2. Newspapers in Sydnes, Alls
crown off young Sandy Saddler's
kinky head.
I. Battling I,evinsky, former
light heavy king was buried.
And .just a few weeks after his
old manager. Dumb Dan Morgan,
at a frisky 7(1 stole the play away
fro mthe young orators at New
York's big boxing dinner.
5. Over ill England, Thomas
(lVdler) l’almer. 715, last of Brit-
ain’s bare knuckle fighters, also
died.
I>. Ami “Old Mail Joe” l.oiiis
was dickering with 20th Century
officials over a June challenger.
Brownwood developed, in the
first round, to lie a show of box-
ing skill with no crowding or
slugging coming out of the in-
itial stanza.
In the second period after the
fancy dart Adams eyed ids op
KjSST swc Leac*0pen
After Trinity Game In Final Stretch
By I idled Press
Stephen F. Austin’s Lumber-
jacks. a fixture tit the top of the
I,one Star Conference stand-
ings, mused over its good for-
tunes Monday.
All Austin had to do Was trip
Trinity ah-II in the ’.links only
ponent for the kill and advsuit ed game 'of tly week, and then
with a flurry of lefts and rights
that dropped the Brownwood
youth I or the count of eight.
A few seconds later the lights
went out for Willingham and
his assistants assisted him from
the ring.
Burkhart in winning Satur-
day qualified to meet Austin's
Fete Gil who had preceded
Burkhart Saturday night with
a TKO over Ray Cruz of San An-
gelo.
Oil opened n cut over
Cruz's left eye in the third
round and die light was
slopped ,ih seconds later.
watch other threatening teams
slip away from the lead by
heating each other.
Fast Texas, Sam Houston
and the University of Hous-
ton had been in position to
challenge the Lumberjacks,
lint their chances started
fading early in the week.
Sam Houston knocked off the
University of Houston, 55-51,
and then look an 88-15 whipping
from the University of Houston,
hut snapped back with a Cl-78
win over Fast Texas.
Hast Texas, in turn, also tri|>-
ped the University of Houston,
By United Press ;the Texas Longhorns 54-50 at
The University of Arkansas's j Fayetteville, breaking up a
Razorbacks became the top team | three-way tie the Razorbacks
in the Southwest Conference j had shared with Rice and Bay-
basketball derby Monday, hut
their leadership may he short-
lived.
Arkansas jumped into I lie
lead .Saturday night fry dumping
Don Thompson, Odessa heavy- t;(i.(io. The University of lions
weight, has advanced into the [ion saved face by downing
tournament finals through IwniXorth Texas 75-59.
knockouts and a close decision.
f 1 is contested decision came
Saturday night in his bout with
(ienc James of Lubbock.
( Hit ADO INVITE—
Should Burkhart lose out in
the finals tonight lie will still
make the trip to Chicago with
the Texas representatives, lie
was invited w in or lose to fight,
for Texas in the Chicago tourn-
ament.
Adams a definite favorite to
tralia. were carrying the word ! pee savold rather than young
who was expected to he creeping repeat also is assured a berth
Kzzard Charle:
Most of this news was disour-
aging.
on the Chicago special.
OTIIFit TITLE I It.MTS:
Featherweights Billy Dick-
erson of Brownwood vs. Yalen-
jtino Luna of Austin.
that 1 l-ycar-old Slapsie Maxie
Rosenbloom was engaged to wed
ill-year-old Jill Harrison, a night
club photographer. , , ,, , ......
:i. Willie Pep, "old and washed , T'V)v 'v sa,u /.ale stiffened Middleweights— Herbert May
up." belabored the featherweight j >>' M.nrrl t erdan at the Jersey ,,f Houston vs. Robert Walke of
1 ______________________ | C tty ball park last September corpus Chi isti.
j were glad that Tony had decid- Heavyweights — James Hoff
I ed on another shot. Particular- of Houston v.s. Don Thompson
ly those who saw him in his | nf Odessa.
dressing room, almost an hour--------
Austin will meet the Univer-
sity of Houston at Nacogdoches
Monday. North Texas at Nacog-
doches Wednesday and East
Texas at Commerce Saturday.
In other conference games
I his week, Sam Houston
will meet Southwest Tex-
as at Huntsville Saturday
anil Trinity will play the
University of Houston
Saturday.
Two 11011-conference affairs
will put Trinity against St.
Mary’s at San Antonio Tuesday,
and 'East Texas against Texas
Wesleyan at Dallas Tuesday.
Truitt Ingram. East Texas’
lanky center, remained atop
the individual scoring standings
with 27b points in season play
and 111 in conference compe-
tition. His free throw percentage
of 63 out of 78 for .808 also top-
ped all others.
Hoop Teams Fight
For Place In
Post Season Play
NEW YORK. Eel). II. (UP) —
The basketball power of the
midwest, and particularly the
Missouri Valley Conference, was
the most striking fact today in
a survey of teams angling for a
post-season tournament invita-
tion.
CENTRAL 1. S. —
Among outfits that have lost
only a handful of games, more
come from the central section
|of the United States than from
any other part.
The Missouri Valley takes
the cake. Of the six teams in
the circuit three—St. Louis i Ki-
ll. Oklahoma A. and M. (15-,’li.
and Bradley (22-11— are rated
among the most certain to get
a tourney bid. Fifty percent rep-
resentation would he an un-
paralleled record.
In conference games, the Ag-
gies lead with a 5-0 mark and
thus will have a shot for the
district 5 hid to the NCAA tour-
ney if they are still ahead at
season's end. St. Louis and
Bradley then would have excel
Rice and Baylor will tear into
each other Tuesday night at
Houston, and ihe winner will get
at least part ownership of the
lead, ff Rice defeats Baylor and
topples weak Texas Christian at
Fort Worth Saturday night.
I hen the Owls could push Arkan-
sas off the ledge.
Even if this happened, Arkan-
sas could go into a deadlock with
Rice by beating Southern Meth-
odist Saturday night at Fayette-
ville.
In taking the lead. Arkansas
stumped the experts who gave
the Razorbacks only an outside
chance as a contender when pre-
season ratings were being print-
ed.
But the Porkers started up-
setting the dopesters last week
by smothering lough Texas
twice, 60-54 Monday at Austin
and the 54-50 affair Saturday.
The dual setbacks pushed
Texas from first place to third.
Rice, trying an iron man st unt
of playing three games in four
nights, lost to SMU 47-46 Mon-
day night, hut got its second
wind to heat TCU 66-59 Wednes-
day and SMU 62-50 Thursday.
Baylor took things easy
during the week.
In other conference games,
SMU beat Texas A&M -19-95
Wednesday and the Aggies de-
feated TCU 39-37 Thursday.
Slater Martin eontirued to
Poo*
SSUftST “! U— .h. individual acorerv
; New Y ol k.
later, with the glassy look still [
in his eyes. Tony spent four
veal s in service and they make
him even older than the 35 to
which he admits, barring three
short months.
The boxing game lost quite a
figure in Lewinsky, long known
as the “Iron man," who once
fought three 10-round bouts in
one day. The battler, who died
Saturday at 57. won the light
heavy title in 1916 and lost it to
Georges Carpentier in 1920. Two
Douglas Shades Field
In Texas Open Battle
RAN ANTONIO, Tex., Feb. 1 I
(UP) — A lanky, iron-nerved
Johnny come lately among the
nation's touring golf brigade was
the toast of the winter links eir-
years later he lost a 12-round [onit today after a 10-under-pai
decision to Gene Ttinney for the f performance that won him the
heavyweight crown and. among 82,000 top money in the Texas
many others, fought Jack Damp- open which closed yesterday,
sey and I larry (Ireb.
His three lights in one day
were on Jan. 1. 1910, when he
went against Soldier Kearns at
10 a.
p. til.
1). m.
m.: Bartley Madden at I
, and Gunboat Smith at 10
The Louis negotiations for a
He was (Ml-year-ohl David
Douglas, who is registered
from Itoekmanoi Golf ( lull,
a nine-hole public course in
Wilmington. Del.
Douglas, who has been a pro
fessiona! for 10 years but who
hit- on May tepmtr dl> |,|-,,.()Uffh against a finepar-shat-
wa- (hekcruig (o nict l.ee ‘ ’ ! tering field with a Tour-round
old. •l-.-yeai -old \ ‘‘let an w ho ha - , i,ital of 2liK for the second mu ior
been tin and down more ollen
Norway's Sverrc Farstad equal-
led the world record winning
the 500 meters, missed another
by one-tenth of a second taking
than a ervo elevator. Getting
the quick In n Ji, apparently, was
25 vear-old Ezzard Charles, a
lotal ol 2(iK for the second major
title lie's cut won.
The other was at Orlando, Fla.,
in 19-17 when he defeated Jimmy
Dcmaret and Herman Kciser in a
Snead picked up a $1,400 check t|,a) gtqs st
boosting his scoring load to 292
I i- \m\ <. sol'\OS_ points, but Rices Bill Tom. cn-
And here'are some of the j joying the full schedule, moved
[other midwest teams running into second place with -88
: near the head of the pack points. Four points behind Tom
[Hairline (17-11, Illinois (16-2). i is Jack Brown. SMU s sharp-
I Minnesota (15-2). Michigan (13- shootirg sophomore.
13i, Loyola of Chicago (ll-li. Other top marksmen were
i I hitler (15-31. Cincinnati (13-5). Tom Hamilton of Texas with
and Akron (13-2). 255. Rob Prewitt of SMU and
Incidentally, tne tuurnameni , JuHus (Dafldy) Dolnics of TCU.
A 320-pound Jewfish. six-feet
eight-inehc long and 72 inche
around, catches the eye of little
Billv Brown Probably the first
and largest Jewish ever brought
in so fa' north, it was taken in
a net off Cape Hatteras bv a
trawler out of Vandemere, N.C.
Caras-Hoppe Take
Billiard Titles
CHIC \GO. Feh. 1 I (UP) -The
world billiards championships
rested in veteran hands today
as Willie Hoppe. White Plains.
N. Y.. retained his 3-cushion title
without the loss of a game and
Jimmy Caras, Upper Darby. Pa.,
won his third pocket billiards
crown in 12 years.
Hoppe, now 61 years young,
was still the “boy wonder” of the
billiard world as he rallied last
night to defeat Joe C'hamaco.
Mexico City, 51 to (3 in 54 in-
nings. Chamaco. who entered
the match with a 1 to 1 record
was the only man with a chance
to tie the White Plains wizard.
Troynor Soys
Indians And GMb
Will Meet In INI
World Series Play
PITTSBURGH. Felt 14. <UP>
Fie Traynor dispatched Valen-
tine- to the New York Giants
and the Cleveland Indians today «
with ilia prediction they wdll
meet in the 1919 World Series.
The former Pittsburgh Pirates
manager said the Giants and
Indians have similar strong
points: Superior pitching, strong
outfields and air-tight infields.
In liis I94K Spring pre-
dictions. Fie correctly pick-
ed the Boston Braves as the
N’ulionnJ l«eagnr Flag win-
ners. Tlie Boston Kedsox,
liis American League favo-
rite. barely lost when they
I towed to the Indians in a
pennant playoff.
The Braves will finish num-
i her two in the National League,
according to Fie’s book, with
i Brooklvn. Pittsburgh. St. Louis,
Chicago. Philadelphia and Cin-
Icinnati winding up in that or-
| der.
After Cleveland he selected
. Boston. New York. Detroit,
Philadelphia. Washington. Chi-
cago and St. Louis to round out
[ (he junior circuit.
Now a -port- director I'm a
Pittsburgh radio station, Tray
nor made his predictions in a
cries of broadcasts in which
he analyzed each team.
He aid despite the great play
of Stan Musial and Harry Bree-
heen. the St. Louis Cardinals
“aren't much of a hall club and
are hound to go to pieces.”
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money of StMKI each at 270.
Dcmaret had the day's top
round, a seven-under 61 that
could have been lower with a
little luck in liis favor, to wind
up in a tie with E. J. (Dutch)
Harrison of Little Rock, Ark., at
the
Louis is also like-
273 and $650 each—a sum that,
put Dcmaret hack in first place [and 10-2 in the SE(
among the money winners. 'NCAA shot.
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'cats (19-1). The Cats are report- ‘ _[_
led hungering for revenge on j
ihe Bills for that one-basket
J loss in the Sugar Bowl Tour-
jncy, and may wait to see w here [
‘the Bills go‘before they spring.
Right now. Kentucky leads
the Southeastern Conference
with an 8-0 mark and thus could
get the district 3 NCAA bid. If
the Wildcats wind up in the in-
vitational, that might dear the
way for Tulane, 19-2 overall
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match simply tended to
prove the gamene— of these
old time fighters.
And of all these headlines be-
ing hammered out by the old
punchers, the only encouraging
one was Pep's.
1 .idle Willie is only 26 hut Ihe
erilies had been saying that he
was through. An airplane crash
and a year’s inactivity had cost
him much of his brilliant speed.
And when Saddler knocked
him out. Pep had: been chalked
off. Up until last Friday night,
that is. when lie came hack with
all his old skill and showed that
the 22-year-old Saddler shouldn't
have been sent on a man's er-
rand.
Now. where: are the rest of
the youngsters?
Edwards Chosen To
Lead Vanderbilt
Grid Fortunes
Bill Edwards, line coach for
the Cleveland Browns, was chos-
en as head football coach and
director of intercollegiate activi-
ties at Vanderbilt University it
was announced recently.
Edwards is stepping into the
shoes of Henry (Red) Sanders
who left Vanderbilt recently for
a head coaching position at
UCLA.
Vanderbilt Vice Chancellor, C.
M. Sarrat, said the contract is
for three years and allows Ed-
wards to choose his own staff.
The size of the new coaches
salary was not disclosed in ac-
cordance with Vanderbilt policy,
Sarrat said.
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$3,500 on tone last season—
“a little better than ex-
penses," a- lie described it—
but when tlie chance came
yesterday before a gallery of
7,000 link- Ians who were
nulling for him a- the “un-
derdog" he Imre up under the
terrific pressure,
lie was playing in the final
threesome of the day along with
defending champion Sam Snead,
the White Sulphur Springs, \Y.
Va., star with whom he had been |
bracketed in a four-way tie for:
the 51-hole load at 203 with Dick
Metz of Virginia Beach. Va.. and
John Palmer, Badin, N..C.
He got off to a bad start with
a bogey 5 on the first hole, hut
rallied to splatter five birdies
on the score board by the turn
in to the back nine and then add-
ed two more coming home.
Snead really put the pressure
on him on the final hole as the
slammer's drive on the 155-yard
hole trickled to within 10 inches
of being an ace. It was a sure
birdie for Snead and forced
Douglas to he sure of. a two-putt
par or tie for the title. He did
just that, with no outward show
of concern.
Five Men Up For
Head Hoop Coach
At Hardin School
WICHITA FALLS, Feh. II,
(UP)— Five men will be inter-
viewed today for the head
basketball coaching job at Har-
din College.
Dr. James II. Boren, president
of Hardin College, said the in-
t ,'i'views were scheduled after
the hoard of directors decided
not to retain Herman D. (Red)
Rutledge, athletic director, has
ketball coach and assistant foot-
ball coach.
Ho said Rutledge hail asked
to be relieved of his football
duties but his request had beet)
turned down by the board.
Boren said three of the five
prospects were Charley Turner,
basketball coach at Paschal
High, Fort Worth: \Y K. Weath-
ers, who resigned recently as
coach tit Kiectra, and Paul
Brotherton. Wichita Falls first
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