Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 9, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 13, 1952 Page: 2 of 22
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Mustangs Thump
Ballinger 56-48
By BUD WORSHAM
Reporter Sports Editor
The two teams with the best non-conference records—
Sweetwater and Vernon—will clash Friday night at Ver-
non in one of the opening title games in District 3A-1.
Plainview plays at Lamesa and Big Spring journeys to
Midland in other conference curtain-raisers.
Sweetwater’s Mustangs gained their 12th victory in 20
practice games last Friday night, clipping the Ballinger
Bearcats, 50 to 48, at Ballinger. _
Coach Ken Newton’s Ton
i?s will play their final non-
title match here Tuesday
night against Abilene Chris-
tian High School. After that.
fourth quarter.
Sparked by the 27-point scoring
performance of Elroy Payne, the
Bearcats tallied 18 points in the
final chapter while holding the
it'll he all play-for-keeps for j Ponies to seven.
the Mustangs as they bid for] Bm /^Teuo^gh'‘^overtake
a district championship. the Mustangs, who had built
Ballinger put on a spirited rally up a 49-30 margin at the end of
a unst the Mustangs Friday night, the third quarter,
almost erasing a 19-point advan- Carl Anderson sacked 23 points
1 i.'c owned by Sweetwater in the 1 for Sweetwater, raising hts point-
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[ total for the season to 391 in 20
: games. That's 19.5 points per ton-
| flict, one of the best marks in
' Texas high school basketball play.
Three other Mustangs—Charles
Wilson. Joe Smith and Harold ,
Green—took some of the scoring- j
pressure off Anderson in the Bal-
1 linger game.
i Wilson, deadly on his long shots, i
' made 12 points, Smith added 10
and Green collected nine.
Sweetwater led 14-7 at the end
of the first period and 26-17 at
: halftime.
Ponies Stretch Lead
The Mustangs broke loose tor 23
points in the third quarter and it
looked like reserves would take
over in the fourth stanza to keep
the count down
But Mr. Elroy Payne began find-
ing the range in the final quarter
to make it a one-man show lor the
Bearcats. The Mustangs scored on- I
ly two points during the first five
minutes as Payne narrowed the
margin to 51-41.
Despite Payne's seven-point scor-
ing spree in the last two minutes,
j the Mustangs were able to slip in
five points and maintain a safe j
lead.
Pony B" Wins
The Mustang “B" team made it
eight victories in 10 outings Fri-
day night, beating the Ballinger
reserves. 46 to 29.
Jackie Lawrence. R. L. Mont-
gomery and Dell Greer—with 15,
13 and 12 points, respectively —
made it easy sailing for the Ponies.
After trailing by seven points
early in the game, the Ballinger
boys tied the score at 12-12 at
completion of fhe first quarter.
But tiie Ponies began clicking again
j in the second period and grabbed a
22-14 halftime lead.
Roberts paced the Beared "B”
squad with 13 points. Other Pony-
players were Theron Dorsey, Bust- !
i er Davidson, John Lee, Billy Stone.
| Clifford Wilson. Jimmy Jones and
John Paul (Bent Goal* Cain.
The box score:
SWKKTWATKK -V"
Smith
Sweetwater Reporter, Texas. Sunday, January
700 Book Tickets
Pledged; Deadline
Near For Decision
* Time is grow ing short for Sweetwater citizens to decide
t whether they want professional baseball in 1952 and future
| years.
The advance ticket subscription campaign was lagging
Saturday even though everyone agreed that “this is the
| only solution to Sweetwater's baseball problem.”
Up to Saturday at noon, 100 book tickets 170 games priced
at 851.80) had been pledged by fans who are eager to keep
Crosby Tourney
{Halted By Rains
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif.. Jan.
—UP—The Bing Crosby S10.000 na-
tional pro-amateur golt tournament
was called off Saturday when rains
turned the Monterey peninsula
i country club course into a lake.
If the weather Improves play will
he resumed Sunday at Pebble
Beach and the tournament will be
j reduced to a 36-hole affair. Eight-
i een holes were played Friday in
some of the worst weather ever
recorded on a golf eluti in this area.
Dapper Jimmy Demaret was the
■ first clay's leader with a twoover-
par 74. Demaret was playing with
j the exhuberant Bob Hope who pro-
duced some of the most brilliant
shots of the day.
j Jordan
Anderson
Wilson . .
Green
! Montgomery
Totals
! N M.LINGI’R A
! Payne .
» Gnu hie
Ha •
{ Bruso
! MerrifleUl
| Totals . . .
Score
i SWEETWATER
I BALLINGER
fg It 1>I U»
8 4 2 10
0 0 1 0
12 1 8 25
. f> n l 12
. 4 1 IP
0 0 0 0
25 0 11 56
IS* tR ft pt tp
12 3 8 27
1113
5 0 3 30
.20-1 1
12 14
21 6 12 48
Quarters
14 12 28 7—50
7 10 18 IS—48
,, , _ — ----- — Chuck Dressen, right, receives the New
York Press Photographers Association's first annual award after
Jf ccyd the most courteous and cooperative sports figure in
1J51. Handing the Brooklyn manager the plaque is Bobby Thom-
son. the Giant slugger who knocked the Dodgers out of the pennant
w’lth that story-book home run, while President Jack Downev of
the Association looks on. (NEA)
Sweetwater.
12 already owned by the club
If the deal goes through. Sam
Harshauey will probably he hired |
as the Swatter manager. And ev -
eryone knows that Harshanev is
one of the best minor league man-
agers in the state.
Pledges lint have been receiv-!
SpuTtS
By Bod Worsham
Athletic Group
Meets Monday,
Banquet Thursday
Free throw*- missed: Sweetwater —-
1 Anderson 8, Wilson 2, Green 1. Ballin*
] ger P.ivnr 8, Cauble 2. Hart 1. Met-
I rifleld 1
i “B" Game Result -• Sweetwater lfi.
I Ballinger 28.
' Officials: Beasley and Isbell.
3.V1 I'KACTK K STANDINGS
t Not Thru Friday's Games'
The Sweetwater Athletic Assoeia-
! tion will hold its first meeting of
11952 Monday night at the Central
-■' Fire Station at 7:36.
in llu President Arnold Ford urges all
! members to attend this first month-
. , ly meeting. Those are the cold facts f
After tailing to win early sea- : ' Th,, uj|j ilca,. a i,ro**re«s , Sweetwater’s baseball future.
" 11 "‘''-"""—I,.- gioup Local fans aren’t being called up
the national pastime sport in
The advance ticket goal is
715 book tickets, ft must be
reached by Wednesday, since
the Swatter club officials
will have to report to the
Longhorn League Thursday
on Sweetwater’s baseball in-
tentions for 1952.
As stated above, it everyone be-jed
lieves the advance ticket idea is a !
sound one . . and the only way ,
Sweetwater can retain baseball—
vou mav ask: “Why haven't more
Ians called in their pledges'.’"
It requires two answers lor that
; question
(1* Tlie majority is waiting to
: see what “the other fellow" does
! first: and
<2* Many will buy their tickets in
advance only il it is absolutely lie- porter' Charles Paxton. G. W
cessary that is. it 714 books are | Foust Davis Clark. M. .1. Swee-
| soId and only one more "sale" Idem Don Smith, Smith Yellow Cab.
| needed to make the drive a sue- j o. o. Hollingsworth, W. F. iDiili-
Five Books
Otic Hunt and Lee Ballew
Four Books
.1 C. Pace.
Three Books
M. C 1 Red' Alston and the Clark
Agency.
Two Books
O II. Berry, II. G. Pitts. Wayne
Smith. George Willis, N. \V. Ali-
sher. Dalton Hill, Sweetwater Re-
Basketball Results
By Olit'il Pro?!*
i: \ST
Princeton 50, Darimouth I*.
HOI TH
Furman 78. South Carolina 01.
Grow Washington 06. Washington &
Leo 60.
Virginia 75. Richmond 04.
HOtlHWKHT
Texas A & M 55, Rice 11
T. t r 75. Baylor 57
To Xus Western 68, Texas Tech 58.
Texas Baptist K2. Daniel Baker 52.
Samuel Houston 58, Bishop 42.
North Texas 51. Oklahoma City Unlv.
49.
S F. Austin State til 1..un.tr Toch 19.
Hardin Simmons 75. Sheppard AKB 63.
<)kl.iln*ni,i A A- M 71. Houston II.
Tempo Slate 76. Flagstaff State 56.
New Mexico Western 50, Panhandle
\ A \! 11.
New Mexico Highlands <6. Adams
Slate 57.
Tex t: Werlevnn 63, Southwestern 87.
East I. \a- BaptiA M2. Daniel Baker
52.
Southwe-'iern Oklahoma 06. Oklahoma
Baptist 10.
U FST
Brigham Young 55. Denver 51.
Stanford SI. California 74.
Washington 16. Oregon State 87.
Wyoming 85. New Mexico 62.
l’/M \ ■ r. i il..,.,, f'•ilifncni'i Is
UCLA 55. Southern California
IIP.II SCHOOL
Sweetwater 56. Ballinger 48
Abilene 5S, Bor.ger 55.
Pampa 51. San Angelo 13
Winter 70. Coleman 50
\nson 35. Rohy 30.
Hot an 20. Snyder “B" 26.
Munday 50. Albany 82.
Cisco 31, Comanche 25
WACKY HAPPENINGS
world of sport:
"hold out" in that fashion, is il
little wonder why no more than 100
pledges have been received'.’
Those are the cold facts facing
Sweetwater Reporter
j Team
\\
I,
IVl.
! Vernon
. ... 7
8
.700
! Sweetwatei
. 11
S
.579
1 Plainview
6
s
.429
I Dig Spring
6
!♦
.400
Lamesa
4
S
.833
Midland
....... 3
t;
.333
To Control Video
CINCINNATI. O., Jan. 12—ilPi—
The nation's college football fans
face another season of restricted
television for 1952 under the con-
trol of the National Collegiate Ath-
I letic Association.
in the face of oposition led by
; Athletic Director Fran Murray of
j Pennsylvania, the N. C. A. A. vot-
I ed 163 lo 8 Friday to continue its
j control over live television of foot-
i ball games. Murray, however.
| warned that a quick court test
i might put the restriction out
! business.
? f p iT tauthwestern ; t bv the Sweetwater High
Tern.* Colleges 14 hoopders re-, ^ , |)1Kkelba„ coach, Ken Ncw.
, g ^ ton His Mustang cagers have be-
m ^ 1 ” m' W°re wastitng come favorites in District 3A-1 as a
r„ “ "nt!l a new mentcr result of their rapid improvement
uas named " ■ ‘in practice games.
When he could no longer bear I Final plans for the annual toot-
tbe spectators’ vociferous criti- j ball banquet will also be made,
eism, an aroused Harvard assist- j The all-school banquet is planned
ant manager grabbed the PA rate- i for Thursday night, Jan. 17. at the
rophone and announced: ; high school. Coach L. R. Dutch*
"Everyone please cease and de- j Meyer of Texas Christian will be
si.st from orally castigating the of- the speaker.
ficials and from making uncompli- ____________________
mentary and derogatory innuen- , , . r p.,
docs concerning the represents- j Iflf rP SrlfTl r iRfK
ss- ■ Reeves, G. J. Catching, Ike Levy, j
No Donations ; Charles Nunn, Luther Watson, Pan!
w hen between 400 and 500 fans: s. Brown. Earl V'andervoort Jr..
and Bryan Buck. Published each afternoon (except Bat-
One Book unlay > also Sunday morning by the
C S. Boyles. Maynard Bisllkin, i S*Cr rifw matter at
Jack Lewis, Charles Watson, J. E. 'post office in Sweetwater, Texas, under
McCoy. .1, I). Holbrook. Alfred act of March a. 1879
Smith. Buck Wet sol. W. B. Wetsel, ! By carrkr tn PSweetSatlr and aur
Horace Curlee. Cecil Gent, t. L. rounding area, 25 cents per week; (13.00
- Nolan and adjoin-
on to donate another penny to the
Swatter baseball cause
Harp. Jack Greer, .1 A. Younger, i per •'oaL1?y i"aAL
baseball entertainment awaiting i Jack Perry. Irving Loeh.
Elsewhere
on on ....................* —"-v* .by mail S7.95 per year.
toi -pul.oU. there are 70 games ol * Pace, Ross Covey. Carl Mayfield. Any erroneous reflection upon the
Aloe character, standing or reputation of any
you this summer *Or 35 games, if | Reich. Cliff Boswell? YVarden iios- Lpp^r
i»ar*h nierht i m — i- ... ........... i.,. ,.t..
t he boo- j
No Further Calls
i lives of the opposition
| mg stopped ... >
At a basketball game between
iwo Tennessee high schools, a man
became so incensed with the way j WASHINGTON. Jan. 12 *>* '-.lo-
an official was refereeing that be|jor League officials breathed a
actually dashed onto the tloor, | collective sigh of relief today upon
grabbed the whistle rooter and, in 1 learning both the Navy and Air
Ihc scuffle, removed his pants. : Force plan no further calls of in-
Being in shorts already, the op- I active reservists with prior service,
posing players saw nothing wrong I The Defense Department cau-
j you take your wife each night
Most of the town's businessmen
who have called in ticket pledges
have offered lo buy two or more
books. Therefore, it will require
only about 500 fans to put the drive
over.
It is suggested that two persons
"pool their resources”—$25.90 each
-and split a book ot tickets, if
they can’t afford the *51.80
Reporter, KXOX
Ticket pledges are being taken
by the Sweetwater Reporter. 4678.
and by Radio Station KXOX. 4655.
O. (). Hollingsworth, w ith the as-
sistance of three other local busi-
ness men. has agreed to operate
the club here during 1952 -vowing
to give Sweetwater the best team
Ray Walker, Mack Fife, Bud-; rations will lie ctmerfulty corrected upon
being brought to the attention of the
well
d.v Rcisenberg. I. C. Muns. O. R-■ „uhM6hPr
Cook. Elmer Wilson, Lestev Tur- j Elmer Wright
ner, Paul Comolli. Tom McCoy, Alien Baker
Bob Faver. Roy Thompson and | |[0,jjer Ilaxtor
John Darnell Jr.
McKinney
'iob Hasor
....... Publisher
Editor
Circulation Mgr
Advertising Mgr.
Mt.chan'cnl Snot
with the arbiter’s appeai'.ince. j tioned members of the inactive re- j possible -if the advance ticket sale
However, school officials investi-| serve not to :>et excited over ihe ! is successful,
gated—the disagreement, tnat sudden recall to active duty ot Ted
—SS- ! Williams of the Boston Red Sox,
of A BELIEVE IT or not basketball j Jerry Coleman of the \ew York
item of last season: i Yankees and Lloyd Merriman of
Murray attempted to force the' Late in a -jame between Ten-! the Cincinnati Reds
| NCAA’s video committee to seek a ties sec Tech and Morehead * I w . Return of those three players of
court test ot its program, before*; when Morehead lost its seventh ! the Marine Air Corps dees not s ip-
| ^oin^ ahead with the expanded but j player on personal fouls. Coach El- ; nal any change in reserve policy,
l still restricted show for this fall. lis Johnson took off his coat and it was announced.
But his effort was voted down in joined his three : <*niainin J men in j Gen. Lemuel C Shepherd. Ma-
'a hurry.
These men will assume the club's
| present $6,400 debt, then launch an
! immediate search for several ex-
cellent ball players to .t,ro with the
POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEW: FOR SPRING
Pure Silk
Patterned
Shantung
Keeping t i in e with
spring — patterned silk
shantung! Imported
Italian fabric in femin-
ine suit lines. Jacket,
with covered buttons,
h a n d Ihmi n H button
holes; the skirt is lined
to present an unwrink-
led composure. Beige or
Bust with Black print,
and Navy with Red
print. By Jack llormell.
Exclusively ours iu
Sweetwater. Sizes 10-1(1.
37
m HAIHELLnf
trying to halt Tech—for a few vine Corps commandant, exPlatned i*,|i1B,hS,,0sw«TOiwSterWteLrtor m""'*'’
moments, anyway that Williams. Coleman and Mer- . nounra their •-i.u.iiUa.-y for <.in» - ,iii
All in all. Tcnn Tech lost five I rirnan were recalled along with ,ri "* Dcimirraiu:
on fouls, there were 77 personals | several hundred other officer res-j ‘ l"r"!l> 11 ‘
called as Tech won. 96-88 ' ervtsts only because (he Marines j por Commissioner, Prec. 3;
After the game, Coach Johnson need experienced airmen
Defense department officials
added there has been no geneva!
change in policy toward athletes
nor in the reserve program as a
whole
The announcement meant that
such players as Ralph Kiner ot Ihe
Kittsburgh Pirates, Bob Hooper ol
the Philadelphia Athletics, Johnny
Sain of the Yankees. Alvin Dark of
the Giants. Frank Saueier of the
St. Louis Browns and others who
are in various branches of the re-
serve are not in danger of being
After accounting for six * omts | called during the immediate lu-
in a City league game
declared lie wanted a reulay
The 12-year old Wizards of Bing-
hampton iN.Y.* failed to live up
to their name as (he Ceni..'le*'v An-
gels buried them 100-0. but what
amazed the winners was nol the
outcome as much as the fact that
they "died" on all six of their op-
| portunities at Ihe free throw
The fastest fast break executed
all season was engineered by Ralph
j Burns, reserve guard on Ihe Walla
' Walla * Wash, i prison team.
“• '■.....,i.\ points i called
he disap-1 ture.
| peared, thus marking his alma ma-
ter's first such offense in five years
of "outside" ball. Burns' con-
j science must have bothered him
for a few hours late)' he phoned
from the “Y." apologized and re-
ceived a free ride back to Jail. His
‘‘eligibility'’ was restored the next
morning .
—ss-
JIMMY PARSONS. London araa-
I tear boxer, who was knocked cold
three seconds before the end of a
fight, was carried from the ring
after the bell rang, taken ‘.o a hos-
pital where 48 hours later he re-
Cliff Perry
H. G. Jones
For Justice of Peace. Prec. 1:
M. C. Manroe, re-election.
For County Clerk:
Mary Roy, Re-election
For Constable, Prec. 1:
A C. Cook, Re-election
For County Treasurer:
Mrs. S. N. Leach, Re-election
North Texas Nips OCU
DENTON. Jan. 12—(IP)—North
Texas State staged a
comeback Friday night
haul the Oklahoma
,y
sitv Indians and hand Ihe visitors
a 51-49 setback and snap
For Sheriff, Nolan County;
J. C. 'Call Montgomery, Re-
Election
R. S. (Ted* Lambert
J. S. 'Slim) Staton
last-half I
to over- For District Clerk;
City Univer- j Airs. Myrtle Robertson. Re-elec-
tion
For County Judge:
Lea Boothe. Re-election
VH-y
how about Retitetnent?
nine-
game win streak.
A red-hot third period during |
which they scored 18 points to the --
Chiefs' 10, gave North Texas a 40-.FISHER COUNTY
35 working margin going into the I For Commissioner, Prec. 4:
final quarter and they managed to i j0c Wetsel
stave off the Oklahoma City Invi-1 —.......
gained consciousness, and learned j tation tournament champions the j Cate-Spencer Ambulances
be bad won the bout on points . . . j rest of the way.____________________1______ ______
: Les Wall, Colorado State half- ‘
jbaek. was beaded for a touch-1
down stopped suddenly, dropped
the bail and grabbed his pants in- j
| stead—tile elastic broke
! Casey Stengel, who refused to !
I let his Yankee relief pitcher ride 1
j in Jeeps from the hull pen In the j
mound at Cleveland's \l mietpal
I Stadium, commented: 'They're j
j used to Cadillacs”
] A British boxer. George Nut-j
tall, was forced to in a bout
! because he swallowed bis mouth-
| piece . . .
Billy Smith. Oakland. Calif.,
boxer stopped lighting in is-' bout
with Archie Moore in Portland, i
■ Ore.. Jumped from the ring and
' ran to bis dressing room, where \
he told friends; "I had no batlle 1
strategy I was so confused 1 Just I
quit” .
i Adolph Hupp. University m Ken- j
tucky basketball coach, told New ;
| York writers that no .ambler I
could touch hts boys with a 10 loot \
j pole and when three of his players !
) became involved in the court scan-
dal. the writers sent him an 11-
i foot pole
The time to plan your*
jo. retirement is now j
f nllf You'll have more,
jl'•*. years to save at less j
y COjf per year.*
MM «rl
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CHECKED
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Of Our Good Used Cars That Have
Been Safety Check and Are
Ready To Go
-CHSCK THEM OVER-
1951 Mercury 4-Door
Heater — Grill Guard & Sent Covers
1950 Mercury 2»Door
Radio and I lealer
1950 Studebaker
t-Door — Radio, Heater and New Tires
1949 Studebaker
l-l)oor — Radio. Heater & Overdrive
1949 4-Door Plymouth
Radio, Heater, Seat Covers
1948 Fleetline Chevrolet
2-Door. Heater, White Wall Tires
1947 Fleetline Chevrolet
’i-Door — Radio and Heater
Don't Buy Any Car Until It Has Been
Inspected and Bears The Safety
Checked Sticker
Wayne Smith Motors
Lincoln-Mercury Dealer
306 Pecan
Phone 4697
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