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SWEETWATER REPORTER, SWEETWATER, TEXAS__
SUNDAY, JAN. 3, 1937.
ustang Cagers Defeat Roscoe In Pair Of Games, 28-18,14-9
TCU BEATS MARQUETTE, 16-6; COWBOYS WHIP MINERS, 34-6; BRONCS UPSET LSI
Fitzgerald And Parks Vie
For Scoring Honors; Two
‘Boners’ In 2nd Go
| dual scoring duri between O. C. |
Farits, Roscoe forward, and Sharp-1
Shooting Glenn Fitzgerald of the I
| Mustangs. Parks emerged with a
point advantage when he scored six
; gcals from the floor, one from the
charity line, for 13 tallies. Fitzgerald
| hit the hoop five times from the
! iloor. once from the tree-throw line
! for l] points.
Blackwell Gills |
Beat Bronte, 67-7
Set Scoring: Record. Banging i
Basket For Average Of
2 Points A Minute
W. R. Owen muffed an opportun-
ity to lead in scoring by missing1
- frequently under the hoop. He drop-
The Sweetwater Mustang cagers I peel four field goals through for 8
.on a pair of games Friday night points to run second to hfs mate,
from Roscoe. the "A" team annex-, Fitzgerald.
hi3, 28-19, in the curtain raiser and Koscoe “B" Gets Field Goal
,e "B" team emerging with a 14-9 1 The Mustang "B" team limited
,'iunt in tile final. the Roscoe second string to a sin-
The second game was lacking in ; gie field goal during the bout, a iow-
olor. but a pair of "boners" by
nher team and the officials pro-
ided an unusual situation. The
: antes and officials pulled a “Roy
'.eigels" in the first half when Hor-
,e Young was steered to the free-
throw line of the Plowboys for a
harity toss, which trickled through
.lie hoop, and according to rules,
i unted one point for the enemy.
Soon after the start of the sec-
id half, the Plowboys more than;
raid the "courtesy" when Bobby
•elansky. Roscoe guard, became !
nfused and dribbled under the ;
t iiiy goal for a perfect :.wo-pointer.
" itli Horace Young doing ills best
, prevent the shot.
In the opening joust between the
i rst teams, the Mustangs dropped ]
I a a pair of buckets to take the
id. which they did not relinquish j
t. iring the 32 minutes of play
Sweetwater's standard bearers j
•.Used numerous shots at the goal. ;
i:. did the Plowboys. But the Ponies !
v re decidedly off—Glenn Fitzger-
. :1 fumbling frequently and miss- j
g close-in heaves. The rest of the
, layers were visibly nervous—how- i
• . er they showed an improved de- j
nse which prevented Roscoe from
tting many "crip’' shots.
Parks Leads Scoring
The game was largely an indid-
slung shot in the second stanza by
“Cherry" Risinger.
Elrod set the scoring pace when
lie bagged a field goal and three
charity tosses for five of the Ponies
total.
The Box Scores
First Game
Mustangs—
F. Ft. P. Tp.
Fitzgerald, f
5 10 11
Free, f
2 0 14
Owen, c
4 0 18
Webster, g .
113 3
Bonner, g .,
0 111
Mayfield, g
0 12 1
Totals
12 4 8 28
Flowboys—
F. Ft. P. Tp.
Parks, f .........
6 1 1 13
1’oone. f......
0 13 1
Wilkins, c .
10 2 2
Absher, g......
112 3
Norris, g
0 0 0 0
Totals .........
8 3 8 19
Officials: Aycock
and Head.
Second Game
Ponies—
F. Ft. Pf. Tp.
Dodson, t
.0111
Elrod, f
13 0 5
McDonald, f
0 0 0 0
Young, c
2,! 1**2 5
Wetzel, g
O
O
K
-S' c
BLACKWELL —A basket Dali high
scoring record is believed to have
been set in the lot il gymnasium
last Wednesday right when the
girl's basketball team trampled the
Bronte sextet 67 to 7.
Tlie local trio of forwards, Rus-
sell, Roper and Alsup. hit tl.e bas-
ket fnm all angles to average two
points per minute during the play-
ing period. Miss Audrey Carey is
coach.
--o--
Invitation Ca«:e
Tourney Planned
Divide’s Annual Boys’ Event
To Be Held Jan. 22. 23;
Many Entries In
Divide Splits PITT ROLLS OVER
Double-Header
The
SECOND
GUESS
»y
BOB COOU
Frequently we wonder if football
in really as worthwhile as some of
its supporters claim it Is — what
with all of the agitations which
arise over the snort. We sometimes
get disgusted at the charges of
"commercialism.'' "subsidization."
"over-emphasis," "professionalism,"
and a half-dozen other points of
contention.
* *
But we have only to meet up with
I someone who plays the game for
Entries are already pouring in 11Tie love of it—someone like Virgil
in for the annual Divide boys in- j j0!1gS> "Nob" Hall, Red Sheridan,
vitatior.al basketball tournament to Sammy Baugh and other.s to be re-
i Girls Annex, 20-12, Boys Lose.
17-5, In Double Bill
With Tuscola
DIVIDE.—The two high school
teams broke even in a double-head-
er basketball game at Tuscola Fri-
day night, playing in the new gym-
nasium there. The girls won by a
I score of 20 to 12. while the boys
; dropped a rough and tumble, 17-5
I game.
; Both teams were handicapped in
‘ play through the las* of regular
i players, however, the girls started
clicking, with a make-shift lineup,
in the second half to hang up a
victory. Starters included. Brad-
berry. Hedges and Jones, forwards;
Dunlap. Lewis and Monroe, guards.
East Ekes Out 3-0 Over
West; Duqtiesiie Rallies 1
To Real Miss. State
a crowd of 40.000 in the Sugar Bowl.
Score by quarters:
L. S. U. 0 7 0 7—14
Santa Clara 14 0 7 0—21
Touchdowns: LSU—Tinsley, Reed.
Santa Clara Gomez, Finney, Falas-
chi.
Points after touchdown: LSU—
Crass. Milner; Santa Clara—Pelleg-
rini >2). Smith,
COTTON BOWL. Dallas. <U.R)—
Sammy Baugh and L. D. Meyer,
with superb support from file Texas
Christian line, gave the Horned
Frogs a 16 to 6 victory over Mar-
quette's Golden Avalanche New
Year's Day in the first annual
Cotton Bowl football game.
The passes of All-American
Siingin' Sam" Baugli provided the ,
spectacular part of the Christians' I
attack and Meyer did the scoring, i
o________i He kicked a field gad, caught i
The "starting lineup for the boys passes for u pair of touchdowns amt!
for- completed Ills performance with one
and conversion.
included. Lucas and Rotan.
wards; Ware, center; Jones
McDonald, guards.
converted to the belief that it Is
the greatest game in America, not
excepting baseball, the national
pastime.
that Red Sheridan practically
whipped tlie Aggies single-handed.
"How about Kid the day the Ag-
gies played Texas?" we asked Vir-
gil.
"Red." Jones replied, "was real-
ly 'hot.' against us that day. I was
be held January 22 and 23, accord-
ing to H. D. Norris, school super-
indent. ■ TP
Teams already entering include,
Lawn, Tuscola, Bradshaw, Black-
well. Esko'a. Trent, White Flat, j,0f ;lls(alu,,. Saturday we were
Bronte, Robert Lee, Noodle and mulling over trite matters when we did he make em eat their words
Goodman. More than 20 teams are I coilldcd wilh virg.u Jolles, ,stcUar
expected to enter tire tourney. ! guard 0n lhe Texas A. & M leam,
—— x j wj10 js jlome for a holiday visit..
Bonner, g 112 3; Virgil had hardly completed the us-
—- ual salutation before he made the
Totals . 4 6 7 14 i statement: "Bob, I think Sammy
was responsible for it it
hurt nearly so much."
didn't
WHAT’S
AHEAD
For ’57?
We Know It Will Be
Bright If You Have the
Globe To Clean It.
’ One goal made by Shelansky of j Baugli is tops as a football player.'
Roscoe. I * * *
Shot another free-pitch through 1 Well, what has that (o do with
wrong basket.
Plowboys B—
Geron. f
| Coleman, f
j Risinger, f
| Windham, f
j Lee. c ...
; Davenport, c
| Sparkman, g
j H. Coleman, g
' Shelansky, g
Totals
Made by Young.
I ■ Made one through
| hoop.
Officials; Catchings and Ward.
; one's opinion as to the virtures of
F. Ft. P, Tp.; the game. Just this—here is Vir-
0 0 0 0 1 gil Jones, a grid star in his own
0 0 2 0; light, paying tribute to a player he
1 2 0 4 J considers the peer of all players.
0 0 0 0 Virgil didn't stop with his first
.0 0 2 0 tribute to Sammy. "He deserves a
It's a guy like that which makes
the game so intriguing to us. When
are entitled to the glory," why
shouldn't one agree that it’s tlie
greatest game in the world?
Ray (Buzz! BuiVid.
hailed a.s
1 Baugh’s equal in forward passing,
failed to come up to
Marquette's
expectations. He tried manfully; 011
the basis of statistics he was slight-
ly belter than Baugli.
and one of
his passes sailed 60 yards through
the air, but most of his long passes
found no receivers and his
short
ones did not gain ground
when
they could have done much good.
I t U ]\Iar.
First downs
16
10
For. passes attempted
20
21
For passes completed
9
10
Yardage gained, passes
151
130
; Passes intercepted by
3
3
Yardage gained rushing
178
95
Yardage lost rushing
130
40
Punts
4
«
Yardage gained, punts
Average length punt
130
236
returns (yards)
50
70
Fumbles
. 1
1
Own fumbles recovered
Penalties
!
5
1
3
; Lardage lost, penalties
35
25
Score by periods:
IT. C. U. 10
6 0
0 16
) Marquette 6
0 0
0- 6
Touchdowns: TCU—
Meyer
,2i.
1 7 13 9
Sports writers, says Coach Jimmy j Marquette—Guepe.
place on tlie all-time. All-America ’ Phelan. Washington, and not tlie Field goal. TCU Mcyei.
tewn>" j Pitt Panthers defeated the Huskies -........—
1 in the Rose Bowl. Tlie newspapers' COWBOYS IN EASY
Talk drifted around to the I ni- ridiculed the Panthers when ihei
versltj cf Texas-Texa A. A: M. j wire picked for the game. That made j
WIN OVER MINERS, 34-6
made ,
EL PASO, (U.R)-Hardin-Simmons
game—a game the Texas Aggies j the Pitt team mad. They^| university won the annual Sun
game here New Year's
sioiii — .i .satni in a>..-.ci.v i * 1 university w
were expected to win with ease. | Jock Sutherland mad. But all .ne> ; gowj f00ti^all
wrong. Sweetwater, of course, knows that; did for me was to stop my bo>s defeating the Texas College
1 on the Longhorn team was Ney (from pointing toward a tough .oot- ^ \^jnr tQ g
“Red" Sheridan, with Virgil on the ball contest
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of Mines. 34 to 6.
Summary : Fust down -Miners. 7;
Hardin-Simmons, 9. Yards gained
from scrimmage—Miners, 80; Hard-
in-Simmons, 421. Forward passes
I completed—Miners 7 for 97 yards;
j Hardin-Simmons C for 76 yards.
1 Passe:, intercepted -by Miners. 3:
by Hardin-Simmon;. 2. Passe.- in-
| complete Miners. 16; Hardin-Shr.-
mons, 8.
; Touchdowns: Miners Arnold
Hardin-Simmons -Addington. Tyler
■2). Cherry. White.
Conversions; Hardin-Simmons
Selfridge i2>; Calloway. Henrichs.
PIT ! OI TPOtVERS
HUSKIES. 21 TO 0
ROSE BOWL, Pasadena. 'U.R ■
I Pittsburgh's Golden Panthers, pour-
| ing on power when they needed it
and fighting off every threat. Friday
i steam - roliered the Washington
j Huskies to defeat in the annual re-
i newal of the Tournament of Roses
j football classic.
Tile score was 2! to 0. marking
] up Pittsburgh's firs'. Rose Bowl
triumph in four trips to California,
j Score b> periods;
| Pittsburgh 7 0 7 7—21
Washington 0 0 0 0 0
Touchdowns: Patrick 2, Daddio.
Points after touchdown: Daddio
3.
BRONCS GO INTO
AIR TO BEAT TIGERS
TULANtC STADIUM. New Or-
leans. (U.R)—Santa Clara brought a
new brand of football to the South
New Year's Day, lea tiring an aerial
circus on a muddy field, to win
from Louisiana ■Slate. 21-14, before
DI KES RALLY TO
BEAT MISS, STATE
MIAMI. Fla. (U.R)—A 55-yard pass
by Boyd Brumbaugh in a desperate,
back-to-the-wall stand, gave Du-
quesne a 13 to 12 victory over Mis-
sissippi State Friday in the annual
Orange Bowl football game.
Score by periods:
Miss. State 6 6 0 0—12
Duquesne 0 7 0 6—13
Touchdowns: Miss. Stale—Pickle,
Walters. Duquesne—Brumbaugh,
Iieferle. Points after touchdown:
Duquesne— Brumbaugh.
FIELD GOAL WINS
FOR ALL-STAR EASTERNERS
KEZAR STADIUM. San Francis-
co. (U.R)—Tlie sharp-si looting toe ol
of Ken Sandbach of tlie few East
starting stars not rated an All-
America. gave the East a 3-0 vic-
tory over .he Weal all-stars 111 the
12th annual Shrine football game
Friday afternoon.
Score by periods:
East 0 0 3 0—3
West 0 0 0 0—0
Scoring Fild goal. Sandbach.
V1LLANOVA STAGES
LAST PERIOD 1)1; IVI
HAVANA. (U.R: -Villanova's fight-
ing Wildcats put on a sustained
last period drive to come from be-
hind and tie Auburn 7-7 here New
Year’s Day in the Bacardi Bow:
game, climaxing Cuba's nationa
sports festival week.
After the Alabamans had domi-
nated play in tlie first two quarters
the Villanova eleven outplayed the
southerners in every department in
the last half.
Score by periods:
Villanova 0 0 0 0—7
Auburn 7 0 0 0- 7
Touchdowns: Auburn Hitchcock.
Villanova—Kuber. Points after
touchdown -Auburn. Fenton. Villa-
nova—Christopher.
Three-Way Tie
In Taste Loop
Roscoe. Colorado, Roby Tied
For Lead; Sweetwater
Is Second
ROSCOE. ■ Spl.i—The Roscoe
Fiewboys Roby l ion- and Colorado
W< ves ate in a three-way tie for
the lead in the recently organized '
s, .. il- team basketball league, ac-
re! ding to Co^cii Dalton Hill, one j
0; the league directors.
Standing of Teams
Team- W. L. Pet. 1
Roscoe 3 1 ,75C
Colorado 3 1 .750!
Roby ' 3 1 .750
Sweetwater 2 1 .667
Loraine 1 2 .333 :
Merkel 1 3 .250
Snyder 0 4 .000
Schedule This Week
Tuesday night—Snyder at Sweet-
water; Roscoe at Colorado; and
I.oraine at Roby
Thursday night -Sweetwater at
Merkel; Loraine at Snyder; Roby at
Roscoe.
—---o-------- -
\I!-Slar Quint
Of Divide\\ ins
DIVIDE The veteran All-star
basketball combination of Dunlap,
Ilainmond. Oliver. Cook, and K>-
utli. continued to click here Fri-
day night .and the team lung up a
:,!l to 21 victory over tlie Blackwell
aggregation.
Flayers on tlie Blackwell team in-
cluded. Edwin Sweet, (i. K. Lewall-
cn. Ross Reeves, and other former
high school stars.
TUMBLING ACT
AT CAGE GAME
Hardin-Simmons Acrobats To
Be Seen At Divide Gym
Thursday Niffht
LIVID E.—Featuring Thursday
night's scheduled basketball en-
gagement in the local gymnasium
will b? an exhibition ot tr.nbling
given by a team from Hardm-Sim-
1110m University, according to H.
D. Norris, school superintendent.
A small admission is to be charg-
ed for the night’s entertainment,
with proceeds raised going into a
"sweater fund" to be used in buying
sweaters lor those making tlie letter
011 both the boys and girls basket-
vail team.
In addition to the tumbling act.
an interesting duo basketball games
Is promised between two old rivals.
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