Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 63, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 1943 Page: 4 of 6
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Bulldog Cagers Battle
Sandies Tomorrow Night
Megeri Returns
To Starting 5
After t h re <* strenuous
workouts this week, the Bor
vrer Bulldogs will taper off
this afternoon for their
prame t o m o r r o w niprht
against the Golden Sand-
storm at Amraillo.
The tipolf is set for 8:30 pm
in the high school armory with
Cain doing the whistle-tooting.
Russ Megert, who has been out
of practice for several days, re-
turned to drill yesterday, and
Coach Tex Hanna expects to
start him at his old guard posi-
tion. With Megert hack in the
White Sox Manager
Out Of Hnsrnta!
Change of Scenery
SPORTS
ROUNDUP
Novy Athletics
# # »
Double Check
* * *
WAAC Cagers
Sandie Cagers Hold Rough Workouts
Preparing For Bulldogs Tomorrow
HOLLYWOOD, Feb.
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Dykes can w t
o work on
1 h< >se
cigars again.
The
Chicag White
S«ix man- |
.tger
w*is discharged
yesterday ,
from .
hospital where
he undei
went
m operation fot
gallstones j
a fortt
ight ago. His pin
•sician -aid
Dykes
has reenv ererl
but needs
rest before pitching into elans for
tils clut)’s spring training.
Dykes said the hardest part of
hospitalization {was foregoing
Cigars.
STARTING LINEUP
Borger
Briggs
Webber
Cypher
Hughes
Megert
Amarillo
Lynch i
Deal
Ratcliff j
Tomberlin ;
Palmer (
starting five went through a long
practice yesterday. Capt. Jack
Briggs and Bill Webber, forwards,
were definitely “on" with their
shots, and the entire quintet look-
ed in top shape for tomorrow's
tilt.
The Bulldogs will run through
a light drill today and leave to-
morrow at 5:30 p.m.
Texas Slate
Sport Shorts
Top Golf Pros To
Play At Houston
HOUSTON, Feb. 4. — f/P)—By-
ron Nelson, Jimmy Demaret and
Harold 'Jug' McSpaden, three of
the nation’s top professional golf-
ers. will play a benefit match here
Feb. 14 at River Oaks Country
club.
Jack Burke, noted Houston pro-
fessional was to have appeared
with Nelson, Demaret and Mc-
Spaden but died early Tuesday, a
few hours aftt.* he had been se-
lected to play.
Branch Rickey
Optimistic Over
Baseball Future
By JUDSON BAILEY
NEW YORK. Feb. 4. —(/P>—
One* voice of optimism has sound-
ed a rallying cry for baseball
since Ihe war manpower commis-
sion issued its list of non-essential
jobs.
It came last night from Branch
Rickey, president ol the Brooklyn
Dodger-:, who defended the \ :d::e
of baseball for morale and said
“if is certainly to be assumed that
the government did not leave out
ihe job classification of baseball
players by oversight.”
Taking Issue with the pessimis-
tic reactions of other major league
owners, Rickey asserted in a
statement that if the assumption
were correct that omission of
baseball as non-essential was no
oversight, “then the manpower
commission must have believed
that certain professional activi-
ties in the field of recreations
should be continued and that
these activities properly related
are worthwhile agents in the
maintenance d the fighting mor-
ale, not only of our home folk
but of our armed forces in Amer-
ica and throughout the world.
We think thal whatever keeps up
the spirit of our people is a good
thing.”
From officials of other clubs
came this comment:
Warren Giles, Cincinnati Reds
GoMIN^td Boston
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NEW YORK. Feb. 4. —(Ah—
I Judging from the lists of ex-ath-
i letc and coaches who have been
1 assigned to the navy's new flight
i pi eparatorv scho o 1 s recently,
'hi re’ll bi- plenty of athletic activ-
ity at some colleges as soon as
i the.' get things organized . . . So
i it you see “Wahoo Prep" among
I the football scores next fall, don’t
I iuinp at the conclusion that it's
I just a high school game. It may
j be a better team than Minnesota
But we also see that the ar-
I my air forces technical command,
I which turned thumbs down on
football last fall, still is “agin”
any real competitive spflrts. Maj.
Gen. Jacob E. Fickel recently
took some pretty good boxers out
of Texas amateur tournaments
and wiped out a couple of bas-
ketball teams by ordering that
“no enlisted man in this district
By JAMES COONTZ
Amarillo Sports Writer
AMARILLO. Feb 4 Am a
rilin' Gntdun Sandies, are not
taking the possibility of n Bor
ger upset lightly, and still et a
rapid pace in some <>f their rough
i >f i rk(ntb nf the season pro
paring for th< return match with
the ruttirings here in tnc mgn
school armory Friday night.
Coach T. G Hull is still swap-
ping all three of, his starting line-
ups trying to find the best pos-
sible working combination. Fif-
teen itovs are igoing at top speed
this week trying to break into
Hull’s starting 'fiver
Las: weekV 52 to 38 decision
over the Bulldogs saw all three
of the teams in action Only in
the third quarter did the Bulldogs
climb on top in scoring, hi the
j fourth period, when the third
J team played, the Sandies out
! scored the Borger squad 14 to 11
to prove that selecting five play
I ers to start is one of Hull’s top
} problems.
I Sammy Deni, sharp- s hooting |
j forward, Buddy Ratcliff, six-foot
I three-inch center. Jack Tomber-
1 lin, hustling guard, and Jack Pal-
i mer, Tomberlin’s running mate,
can compete in athletics off the , have figured to start each of the
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SPORTS
post.”
The Mississippi college board
which last year rejected a plan
to suspend intercollegiate athlet-
ics at state institutions for the
duration, is considering it again
and has told athletic directors not
to make any new contracts until
after the March meeting.
Amateur Hour
Jack Lavelle, unofficial biog-
rapher of Greg Rice, likes to tell
about the time Rice went from
Notre Dame to an eastern track
meet. Upon his arrival, Greg was
handed his expense money in
cash, but when he got back to
South Bend a check for “expens-
es" arrived . . . Rice promptly
penned a note saying there must
have been a mistake and mailed
It. back . . . Well, wasn’t it Knute
Rockne who defined an amateur
as “a guy who won’t accept a
check?”
Sandstorm's I'hrst five contests.
The other forward slot has been
switched between Alvis Veazey,
Sanford Kdquist and Billy Lynch
In addition to these seven play-
ers Hull could also start Wes
Elliott, Edmond Starkey, Dick
Wiggins, Norman Higgins, Robert
Hooks and several other squad-
tnen with considerable ease.
The Sandies have piled up a 42
point average in their five
straight victories, slightly over
two points above the Bulldog fig-
ures. The Sandies also hold a
slight defensive edge.
A victory in Friday night’s
game, for the Sandies, would all
but eliminate the Bulldogs in the
northern half of the district race.
Basketball Fans
Boo Wrong Guvs,
Says Noted Ref
nncAun Feb i uVi Nick
Kearns, the veteran midwest bas-
ketball official, tossed down his
font, rolled up his sleeves and
prepared to take on an imaginary
adversary.
"Basket boll fan> are booing the
wrong guvs," Kearns proclaimed.
“They’re pouring it on the offi-
cials when they ought to be let-
ting the coaches have it.
“Here 1 am with the ball and
you’re on my team. 1 go to pass
to you, and Charley is standing
over there. I give you the ball
and cut ever and barge into Char-
ley That’s blocking, plain and
simple. The crowd lots out n
yell when the whistle blows and
the ci ach. the guy who's been ;
teaching, his team that very tac-
tic for three months, jumps up
and begins to scream.
"It's the coaches they ought to ;
boo, not the referee."
Kearns said that screening, the !
practice of cutting in front of a j
defensive player and stopping
there to keep him cut of the play, j
is just as predominant as block- |
ing in rules violations, but con- j
tended it’s another practice taught ,
by " too many coaches nowa- j
days.’
Stinnett Hast
To District IB
Stratford Cagers Rate
Favored Position
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Borger, Texas.
Thursday, February 4, 1943
Page 4
I — “We never have claimed to be
—- 1 essential.”
TRACK PROSPECTS LOST I Clark Griffith, Washington Sen-
C'OLLEGE STATION, Feb. 4. a tor.'. “I hope some means can
—</P)—The Texas A. and M. track i be found to continue the sport.”
team, one of the favorites to win j Alva Bradley, Cleveland In-
the Southwest conference cham- dians — “I believe baseball should
Choynski-Corbett Lifelong Rivalry
Started Just As Quickly As Boxers
Could Put Up Fists, Start Punching
pionship this spring, has lost two
fine prospects.
One is Kenneth Kinsey, one-
man team from A. and M. Con-
solidated. Another was Larry
Wolfe. Dallas sprinter, who has
entered the armed services.
BOXER WINS TITLE
LUBBOCK. Feb. 4. —f/P)—Pri-
vate George Nutter, 30, of the
South Plains Army Flying School,
spent half his life boxing and
training boxers at Great Falls,
Montana. Several of his proteges
won state championships and bet-
ter.
But it had been five years since
he entered a tournament himself.
■George said he didn’t much like
to tackle his own pupils, mostly
featherweights like himself Too
much faith in his own coaching,
he joked.
But he got a chance to practice
uninhibited his own preachments
when he won the district Golden
Gloves title here and earned a
crack at the state championship
AGGIES OPEN TRAINING
COLLEGE STATION, Feb. 4.—
l/P*— Spring football training
opens full blast here today after
being postponed a day because of
the weather.
A large class of freshmen were
slated to report, including all-
staters Bucky Sheffield, Paris
go as far as possible to provide
entertainment and relaxation, but
not at the expense of depriving
industries of needed manpower.”
'Bama Coach Proposes
Movies Of Grid Tilts
BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Feb. 4—
f/P)—Coach Frank Thomas of Ala-
bama proposed today that colleges
should make complete moving pic-
tures of their big footbal games
after the war for millions of fans
who never get to see them.
“As I see it,” said Thomas “the
colleges could do the public a big
favor by allowing the big film
producers to shoot their outstand-
ing games each fall. We of the
south would have an opportunity
to see the big games played in the
east, midwest and far west.
Twins Use Tope To
Confuse Opponents
CHICAGO, Feb. 4. —f/P)— The
Turin twins, John and Louis, jun-
ior basketball stars at Waller
High school, do a little patch work
before game-time to confuse the
opposition.
John, a high scoring forward,
has been closely guarded by op-
ponents who could tell him apart
,, m , . . from his brother, a guard, who
fullback; Goble Bryant, Sunset j - j
(Dallas) tackle, and Earl Cook,
Sunset guard. Freshmen will be
eligible for varsity football in
the Southwest conference next
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you get JAYNE'S VEKMIFUGE!
a mole on his chin.
Now each wears a piece of tape
on his chin and Louis’ mole is
hidden
LIONS BITE LUMBERJACK
COMMERCE. Feb. 4—bPi—Thc
East Texas Lions won a 49-42
victory last night over the Step-
hen F. Auston lumberjacks. It was
the conference season opener for
the East Texas cagers.
Be sure
Second of six articles
By HARRY GRAYSON
NEA Service Sports Editor
No fight ever created over the
years as much pro and con talk
as the still famous scrap between
Joe Choynski and James J. Cor-
bett on a barge off Benecia, Calif.,
June 5, 1889.
Choynski and Jim Corbett were
born and raised within a few
blocks of one another in the
Hayes Valley district of San
Francisco, and the feud destined
to last a lifetime started as quick-
ly as they were big enough to
put up their hands.
The battle on the barge, which
Gentleman Jim Corbett won in 27
rounds, was a genuine feud fight
engendered by several previous
meetings between the pair as
neighborhood amateurs.
The fight, that was to go down
in history, with the quick jump
to fame of Corbett, was a contin-
uance of their swapping punches
a few days previously, when old
demon law stepped in after only
four rounds.
ONLY ONE COUNTED
Keeping the feud alive was
Corbett’s claim o£ more than one$.
victory over Choynski and the
latter pointing out that the fight
on the barge was the only one in
which mere was a referee. Ihe
others, Choynski contended, were
just impromptu bouts, resulting
from neighborhood rivalry.
Referee Patsy Hogan stopped
the battle on the barge to the dis-
gust of both men. and that fur-
ther sharpened their hatred of
each other.
Choynski always said Corbett
refused to give him another real
chance.
Choynski and Corbett were far
above the average in intelligence,
and it is difficult to understand
how they could carry this feud to
their graves. It only proves its
intensity.
BOTH IN JEFFRIES' CAMP
Both were in the camp of James
J. Jeffries when he trained for
his meeting with Jack Johnson in
Reno in 1910, Jim Jeffries was
fond of both. He fought both
Today's Guest Star
George Herrick, San Diego
(Calif.) Tribune-Sun: "The St.
Louis Cardinals are to do their
spring training in Cairo, 111.,
described in a WPA handbook
as being in a state of gentle
decay'. Needless to say, the
Cards hope the same fate does-
n't befall them."
Schoolboy Cage
Changes Made
Wyoming 'Five'
Sinks Phillips
Oilers Twice
DENVER. Feb. 4. —(/Pi— Two
blistering one-point wins for
speedy Wyoming over the veteran
A. A. U. Phillips Oilers give the
Cowboys of the Mountain Five
basketball conference a season’s
record to date of 13 wins and one
bare loss.
The collegians clipped the Bar-
tlesville, Okla.. old timers 37-36
last night and 42-41 Tuesday
in an American Lcgion-
I to the Dis-
et hall tourin', Fri-
day afternoon and evening
quintets Stratford,
Stinnett, Piemens. and Charming
have entered the tournament
In the afternoon Stinnett will
meet (‘banning and Stratford will
h tilt Piemens. The winners will
meet that evening for the title
and the losers will play lor third
plui e
Although being knocked off in
th" Stinnett invitational tourney
twe weeks ag". the Stratford cag-
ers arc the pre-tournament lav-
orite with Stinnett a close second.
Yale Tank Star
Sets New Record
NEW HAVEN. Conn., Feb. 4—
i/P>- When Alan Ford, sensational
Yale freshman, swam the cen-
tury in worlds reccrd time of
50 and seven-tenth seconds Sat-
urday, shattering the last of the
great Johnny Weissmuller’s stan-
dards, he was. Coach Rob Kiphuth
revealed today, “in far from his
bdst phvsical condition.”
That’s the reason the modest
youngster frdm Balboa. Canal
Zone, and the c< nservntive Kiph-
uth. one of the nation's leading
swim teachers, feel that the 19-
year-oki athlete soon is going to
churn the distance in 50 seconds
or less.
The sandv-haired. trimlv built
Fi.rd smashed the 51-flat figure
for 100 yards that Weissmuller set
in 1927 at Ann Arbor, Mich. And
he did it, said Kiphuth “even
though he trad little sleep and
only the skmpiest pf training for
more than a week before because
<>1 examinations.”
AUSTIN. Feb. 4—i/Pi— With
district play in conference a school
boy basketball ending Feb, 15, the !
University of Texas mterseholas- , sponsored benefit series that net- I
tic league today announced new *r'd more than $10,000 for intan-
cmcrgency regional executive I tile Paralysis funds,
committees Would be set ill) 'A y, mrig ( :n 1 • j
throughout the state to super-
vise regional tournaments.
Regional committees will con-
sist of the superintendent, or prin-
cipal from each cf the four dis- j
t! id winners in the cUtricL R. J.
Kidd, university league athletic
Regional winners will be eligi-
ble to compete In the state basket-
ball tournament here March 4-6.
Service Dept.
The Fort Sheridan, 111., WAAC
basketball team lineup includes
• Ruth Corby of the Prudential j director, disclosed
team of Newark, N. J„ Emogene
Cooper of Rickman. Tenn.. who
was selected for an all-tourna-
ment team in the upper Cumber-
land district, and three gals who
j played in college. Margaret Law-
' rence of Cincinnati U., Glen
Weaver of West Liberty 'W. Va.)
j college, and Sarah Mayes of Ar-
j kansas A. and M. . . . Because so
I ; many service teams are expected
* to enter the national semi-pro
baseball tournament next sum-
mer, service men in uniform not
■ nly will be admitted free but
they'll be given a ration card good
for one bottle of pop, a hot dog
j and a sack of peanuts . . . An
extra service charge to civilian
fans will pay for it.
Unbeaten Robinson
Seeks 130th Win In
Match At Detroit
late picture
who never lost interest in boxing
earth and not of the great beyond,
but those who knew them best
surmise things will be different
in the case of Joe Choynski and
Jim Corbett.
They never got along here and
it is doubtful that they will there.
NEXT: Joe Choynski spots Jim
Jeffries 68 pounds and holds him
to draw.
Armstrong Signs
For Comeback Fight
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4—</P>—
Hammerin’ Henry Armstrong,
! aLing the ccm^bQck route,
and welterweight Jimmy Garrison
have been signed for a 10-round
bout in Oakland, Calif.
Amstrong has just had his ton-
sils out. and date for the match
will depend on his recovery, said
matchmaker Jimmy Murray last
night.
Armstrong then will fight Baby
Breese of Portland before head-
ing east.
DETROIT. Feb. 4. —f/P)— Be-
fore what promoters said would
be the largest indoor fight crowd
in Michigan history, unbeaten
Rav (Sugar* Robinson of New
York goes to the post after his
130th successive victory in a ten-
roynd bout tomorrow night at
Olympia Stadium against a fel-
low townsman, durable Kake La
Motta.
Matchmaker Nick Londes, who
hung up the S R. O. sign 4R
hours before fight time predicted
a gate of S50.000 for the rematch
of the battle last fall at New
York that Robinson won by a de-
cision.
the way in Tuesday night’s over-
time battle, but last night the lead
switched 10 times and the score
w.is tied six times.
And again last night it was for-
ward Kenny Sailors who burrow-
ed through the rugged Oiler de-
fense to set up the Wyoming scor-
ing nlays Sailors scored six field
goals and two free throws for
point-making honors. Six - foot
seven-inch Milo Komenich regis-
tcre i six goals, despite the fact
he v. is tailed most of the game by
Jack McCracken, coach of the
Oiler crew and a veteran of many
an A. A. IT. championship game.
Bud Browning, Phillips for-
ward. holed out three long tosses
ea-ly m the second half to pull
Phillips up into a 24-24 tie. but 1
Sailors broke out a volley of 1
ch sc-in shots that gave Wyoming
the lead it held to the end.
By The Associated Press
Corpus Christi Naval Air Sta-
tion 45, Texas 35. (
Texas Tech 37, New Mexico 31.
Fast Texas State 49. Stephen F.
Austin 42.
N< ■ Mfvii. Teai hers 27 New
Mr- Mini” 22 N. M Coflf.
tourney'.
Abilme Christian 40. Daniel
Baker 20.
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the players belonging to the
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