The College Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 1, 1928 Page: 3 of 4
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I
DENTON EAGLES TO
INVADE LOCAL COURT
THIS WEEK END
“Feathered Covey” to Play Bob-
cats Here Friday and
Saturday.
This coming Friday and Saturday
nights, the Denton Eagles will in-
vade the lair of the Bobcats in what
promises to be the feature games of
the season on the local court. When-
ever the Bobcats and the Eagles
tangle up in anything from marbles
to basketball, the fur and feathers
are sure to fly, for these two teams
always put up a battle worth going
miles tp see. The battles Friday and
BOBCATS SPLIT
WITH McMURRAY
Bobcats Victors in First Game By 25-19 Score But
Lose Second Encounter By 32-29 Count.
As the second part of their invasion of Abilene, the Bobcats
encountered the McMurray Indians Monday and Tuesday nights
and the result was a split series; the Bobcats winning the first
night while the Indians evened things up the second night. The
following articles are taken from thei*
Abilene Reporter and gives both
games in detail.
FIRST GAME
McMurry College bid the T.I.A.A.
basketball championship, whatever
part of it might ever have been in
Saturday nights promise to be no ex- this city of Abilene, a sad adieu last
ception to the rule, and therefore a
record crowd is expected at both of
these games.
The Eagles this year are minus the
services of their three stars of last
year, Hays, Myracle, and Jones; but
in their places, they have several men
who give promise of being even bet-
ter than they were. The Eagles this
year will come with blood in their
eyes, preparing to avenge the 38-0
drubbing the Bobcats administered
this season on the local gridiron, when
the sport engaged in was football in-
stead of the indoor court game. Al-
though they were soundly drubbed in
football, the tables may be reversed
this time, as you can always count
on the “Feathered Covey” having a
corking good basketball team. From
all reports, the indoor court game is
played the year round at Denton, and
all other sports are subordinated to
this one sport, and from the way they
have the habit of turning out win-
ning teams, we won’t dispute the
charge.
A glance backward into the history
of athletic relations with the Eagles
in basketball reveals the fact that the
Bobcats have not beaten the Eagles
since 1924. For the last three years,
the Eagles have always taken the
measure of the Cats, but this year the
teams are more equally matched than
in any previous years, with probably
the margin slightly in favor of the
Eagles; but the fact that the Cats will
be playing on their home court will
probably even the count. So, all in
all, the two teams are on about equal
terms. In Captain Brock, York, and
'Cowley, the Eagles have three of the
best players in the T.I.A.A. Each is
capable of hitting the basket from
any angle, and any one of the three
named is likely to be high-point man
in any game. Victory for the Bob-
cats lies in the ability of the Cat
guards to cover these three men. So
far this season, the Eagles have three
victories to their credit, against one
defeat. On their road tour, which
ended last week, the Eagles were able
to split even with Huntsville, and they
annexed both games from the Nacog-
doches Lumberjacks. Since then they
'have played Commerce one game and
Canyon two games but the results of
these three struggles are not obtain-
able at the present time. The Bob-
cats will enter the game with their
strongest lineup in the action, and the
Eagles can count on no walk-away.
Let’s down the “Feathered Covey” at
their favorite game, basketball!
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LOGOS LOSE FAST
GAME TO DUMMIES
Hughes, c ...
........................1
0
1
2
Park, g .......
........................2
3
2
7
Hale, g .......
........................0
1
1
1
Tharp, c .....
........................0
0
0
0
Taylor, f.....
........................0
0
1
0
Totals .........
........................6
7
8
19
SECOND GAME
McMurry
College defeated
the
night
The Indians were defeated by the
Southwest Texas Teachers, 25 to 19,
thereby furnishing the wise heads of
the circuit about as much to sprout
gray hairs over as the McMurry vic-
tory against Daniel Baker just last
Thursday night did.
West Park Rally.
iSan Marcos could not see the way
very clear in the first half. The
Bobcats grabbed the lead early,
started on a runaway with the long
end of the count, but stopped short
again when Herb West and Slim
Park of the Medley tribe unlimbered
their basket artillery with enough
goals to pass up the Teachers.
The padagogues were just able to
pass the domestics at the end of the
period, leaving a score of 13 to 12,
and a sufficiently interesting topic
of conversation for those in attend-
ance bewteen halves.
But the second half—well, if one, „ ,
were a McMurrian there would notlwere found very proficient last night,
narrowed it down to the final stand-
,Southwest Texas Teachers Tuesday
evening, 32 to 29, and so doing those
wild young Braves of R. M. Medley
gave their squaws (or perhaps maids
would be the better term) and feeb-
ler of the men folk something to
whoop about for quite a spell.
Traipsing along in the dust of
Shands’ Bobcats by ten points with
approximately, that many minutes
left to play, the Indians suddenly got
an idea that two straight defeats
from the same team was not the prop-
er thing to have occur on the same
court.
Wild, Wild Fans.
Accordingly they busied themselves
at the art of goal making and to the
accompaniment of several tons of lung
pressure, sprinted to the fore of their
visitors. They even got ahead by
five notches one time but a couple
of free shots, at which the Teachers
standing back to .500 in the T.I.A.A.,
and sent the Bobcats home with a
standing of .250.
McMurry (32)
FG FP PF TP
Ledbetter, f .................
.......1
0
1
2
West, (c), f .................
.......3
1
2
7
Hughes, c-g .................
.......2
1
3
5
Park, g .........................
.......2
3
3
7
Hale, g .........................
.......1
1
0
3
Taylor, f .......................
.......4
0
2
8
Tharp, c .......................
.......0
0
2
0
Isaacs, g .......|..............
.......0
0
0
0
Totals ..........................
.....13
6
13
32
Southwest
(29)
FG FP PF TP
Vance, f ..............................2 4 3 8
Vest, f ................................4 1
Brandt, c ..........................1 6
Blackman, g........................2 0
Wright (c), g ..................0 1
Dixon, f ..............................0 0
Ward, c ..............................0 0
Smith, f................................0 0
ing.
be a lot to talk about for that per-
iod. Herb West let the ball slip out
of his hands somewhere about the With so many figures racing around
ring that the centers jump from and the scene of action that it made even
it went swishing through the meshes, the spectators dizzy, it is hard to spot
That was the single goal from scrim-1 the winners’ hero of the torrid af-
mage that his team registered after'fray. There were a lot of victors’
the intermission. | wreaths to be handed out when it was
A team that gets a single field goal over, but it looks as if Taylor,
in any half is due for a licking and; Medley’s substitute forward who prov-
McMurry got it. Any two teams that i ed so instrumental in beating Daniel
don’t run up a higher score than 25 j Baker last week, ran off with the big-
to 19 are missing a lot of shots and! gest halo of glory again this week,
this was another case where there j He fired the field goal that put the
was no exception to general rule. j Indians ahead in their grand spurt for
In fact, it looks as if there were victory, 28 to 27. It was a nice long
something spooky about those bas-! one that fell almost as though he
kets on the backboards out at Me-, had pitched it from up among the
Murry. Scores have a habit of run-, skylights. Right after that he ran
ning low out at the McMurry gym-1 under the basket and dropped in an-
nasium. This may be due to the other that would have sewed the
efficiency of the guards or to some- match up without additional points
thing else. The question will be left from his mates. Aside from those
to individual opinion until some ex-; two, he started his club off in that
pert comes along and tells you dif- j half with a pair more of field tosses
ferent. j when tribe was worse off for points
For their remaining five points in; than it was at any other time during
the final session, the tribe utilized, the afternoon,
free tosses, making five out of seven,' His eight points constituted high-
a pretty good average. If they had est personal honors for the winning
done that well on floor pitches, a | side although Joe Vance, San Mar-
cos’ colossal forward, outdid him to
Austin
Team Victorious By
Score of 35-29.
Friday afternoon, on a local Austin
court, the Deaf and Dumb Institute
defeated the Lobos by the close score
of 35-29. The game was fast through-
out, and there were never more than
seven points between the teams.
For the locals, Davidson, with nine
units, was the high-point man, and his
goal shooting was the shining light
of the local offense. Brandt, Lobo
center, closely followed Davidson in
the matter of points made, as his
eight points was the second high scor-
ing spree for the Lobos. On the de-
fense, Marshall, Kemple, and Dwig-
gins showed up well, and the fast
offense of the “Dummies” was more
than once stopped by the close guard-
ing of these three men. For the
“Dummies”, La Rur was the shining
light, as his speed and endurance
were responsible for more than half
of the scores made by the Austin
team.
. The lineup:
LOBOS (29)
Davidson, c, (9)...................... forward
Kemple (1) ................................forward
Marshall (6) ............................ forward
Brandt (8) .................................. center
Howell (3) .................................. center
Cooper .......................................... guard
Dwiggins (2) .............................. guard
“DUMMIES” (35)
La Rur (8) ..................... forward
Grimes......-..... forward
Blanton (5) ................................ center
Wyatt (2) .................................... center
Crocket .......................................... guard
Bendele (14) ............ guard
Dooley (6) .................................... guard
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They find fault with editors,
The stuff we print is rot,
The paper’s about as peppy
As a cemetery lot.
The ads show poor arrangement,
The jokes, they say are stale,
The upperclassmen holler,
The upperclassmen rail,
But when the paper’s printed
And the issue’s on file.
If someone missed his copy,
You can hear him yell a mile.
Totals ..................................9 11 14 29
Referee, Sears.
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DOINGS OF THE T.I.A.A.
(By M. E.)
Well, the doings of the T.I.A.A.
this week will certainly be just plain
“doings”, and what the outcome of
most of it will be is plain guess work.
So nothing wholly authentic will be
published in this issue. There were
seven T.I.A.A. games played this last
week, but on account of the lack of
information concerning three of the
games, it would be impossible to give
out the correct standing of the T.I.A.
A. at the end of the past week. This
lack of information is due to the fact
that the newspapers which arrive in
this section of the country from Dal-
las, Fort Worth and other cities in
Northern Texas, which would in all
probability carry reports of all the
games played in that section of the
state, are sent out too soon for any
of these games to be put in them.
committee of Wentworth and Smith
would still well be busy compiling
the total, in case we remember our
school books as should be.
the extent of one gratis ringer.
Hughes Also Stars.
,Tr1 .. T ,. Another new star that McMurry un-
covered was “Montezuma” Hughes. He
did his part offensively with a pair
of difficult side shots in the last half
plus a free pitch. Park stood out for
the defense of the home team.
For Southwest Texas there was lit-
^ . . ,r ,. , ... , ; tie Blackman, floor guard, stepping
PaS. *th seven each.; o b t other that the
Why Vest did that is easily ex- Indi tried in the first half and
plained. The Bobcats found it dif- breaki to take the ball when
flcult to advance within short range hi raates eould find n0 onc else
of the basket, but once there, they j
found the McMurry defense
their time in this fashion, Vest, tall
forward from down south, was do-
ing himself proud. He scored ten
points the last half and two the first,
his twelve being five more than any-
body else could do, although West,
more
theoretical than actual. He ought to
have had a few more, for the Indians
didn’t get one off their own back-
board all night. He offset those prob-
ably with a couple of ringers from a
good distance out in front.
Vest was a co-star last night with
Blackman, who has not been given
much of a chance heretofore in the
Teachers’ sojourn in Abilene. He
started at guard and Vance shifted
to forward to take the place of Cap-
tain Dixon, who did not appear on
the court. Blackman is a small play-
er but he gave them all a few point-
ers in guarding.
Advantage of height was brought
out by the play of the Southwest Tex-
ans for once. Vance and Brandt and
Wright are all six feet or more and
they kept passing the ball around in
the tall, thin atmosphere out of reach
of all the McMurrians except Park,
who could not keep up with all three
of them.
West and Hale had the best night
of any of the home players. Hughes
and Ledbetter looked a little “off”,
but perhaps they are due to be after
the brand of ball they played in the
Daniel Baker series.
The Indians made things interest-
ing until the middle of the last half,
when the score stood at 18 to 15 for
several minutes. Then the Bobcats
took on a scoring sprint that lasted
long enough to advance the figures
to 25-17, which were not changed
greatly at the last gun.
Tonight the same teams play at
7:30 and after that the town will
have a two nights rest from basket-
ball.
Southwest Texas (25)
FG FP PF TP
Vest, f ..................................5 2 3 12
Vance, f ..............................3 10 7
Brandt, c ............................1 2 14
Blackman, g........................0 0 2 0
Wright (c), g ..................0 0 3 0
Ward, f ..............................1 0 12
Totals..................................10 5 10 25
McMurry (19)
FG FP PF TP
West (c), f ......................3 12 7
Ledbetter, f ........................0 2 12
to whom they could give it.
Likewise Vance and Brandt and
Vest, as did nearly everyone else, gave
a good account of themselves; they
were all up on their toes and it was
the most exciting contest that has
been presented since Daniel Baker left
town.
Southwest Texas was in front, 17 to
12 at the end of the half and during
the period had enjoyed even a bigger
margin. Then to start the second
round off, they were making still a
greater runaway. Brandt opened up
with a free pitch, and Vest fired from
the middle of the court about the
longest goal that has' ever been turn-
ed out on the McMurry court. Black-
man was next for San Marcos. He
roped the basket with a short one,
and the Bobcats led, 22 to 12.
A Goal for a Goal.
Hughes for McMurry stepped in
with a free pitch, but Vance of the
Teachers scored one like it that kept
the Cats’ advantage at ten points.
Taylor, from a quarter length of the
Well, since I have started to ramb-
ling on this subject, I might as well
continue and tell what little I know
about the action that occurred in the
T.I.A.A. the past week. Here goes
Nothing.
The two most important games
played in the T.I.A.A. the past week
occurred on the court of the Canyon
Buffaloes, with Abilene Christian Col-
lege as the opposition. It will be re-
membered by the one reader of this
column that Canyon won the T.I.A.A.
title last year by defeating Denton
in a play-off series, and this year she
has another corking good team and
looks like a repeater for the T.I.A.A.
unless someone unexpectedly puts a
crimp i,n the sails of her champion-
ship aspirations; but back to the sub-
ject. The Buffaloes defeated the Wild-
cats two consecutive games, by the
scores of 35-29 and 41-24. The Wild-
cats have such stars as Powell and
Hill, and, if the Buffaloes can run
up this large a score on them, then
we pity the next team that runs up
against Canyon. These two games
were the first conference games of
the season for the Buffaloes, but they
tackle the Denton Eagles in the
Eagles’ lair this Monday and Tuesday.
Commerce opened the conference
season by taking the fast traveling
Bearkats of Huntsville into camp by
the decisive score of 35-22. Little has
been heard from the camp of the
Lions this season, but, if scores can
be used as an indicator, then some-
body had better look out for the
“Roaring Lions.” A second game was
also played, but the writer does not
know how it turned out.
Journeying on over to Nacogdoches
on their tour of East Texas, the Bear
kats ran into tough opposition in the
form of Coach Shelton’s Lumber-
jacks, and lost the first game by the
score of 37-24. A second game was
played, but the results are unknown
at the present writing.
Another important game was play-
ed Saturday night between Denton
and Commerce, two of the leaders in
the conference at the present time,
but that score is also a mystery.
In a non-association game, the Mc-
Murry Indians took the Howard
Payne Yellow Jackets int ocamp twice
in succession by the scores of 28-12
and 41-14.
Since I do not have enough inf orma-
gym floor, got a ringer but again San, tion at the present writing, I will not
Marcos came back, Vest ringing a field
goal. The score was 25 to 15.
Vance sunk a free toss, followed
by field goals from Taylor and Park
for McMurry, but still the Indians
did not look dangerous. Vance made
good another gratis try and the score
was 27 to 19.
Then the Indians cut loose. They
had been unfortunate on a lot of good
looking attempts, but their luck chang-
ed all at once ^.nd they came back
with a vengeance. Hughes led the ral-
ly with the first of his side hooks.
Park rang his second field goal of the
night, and was next in the scoring line
with a field goal. Ledbetter got the
spirit of the thing, for over in the
bleachers the people were advertising
his college very lustily. He shot his
only goal of the night. Taylor kept
the basket hot with a bull’s eye from
long range. The Indians were ahead.
He shot another. The score was 30
to 29. Hughes, who started it also
ended it, with another pitch from the
counted 13 points, while the Bobcats
had made many an unsuccessful at-
tempt to repair their offensive by
time outs.
The victory brought McMurry’s
attempt to tabulate a standing of the
T.I.A.A. teams at the present time.
Gold Digger: “Thanks awfully for
this pearl necklace.”
Married Man: “Don’t mention it!
Don’t mention it!”
Ross: “T h e fello who hides
behind a woman’s skirts nowadays is
a coward.”
'Charlie: “Coward nothing;
he’s a magician.”
Adelaid Thurman: “Don’t you think
Frost’s ‘Goodbye’ is thrilling?”
Barbara Collier: “Why, he has
never called on me.”
Co-ed: “Would you care if I mar-
ried a man with a title, father?”
Father: “Not if it were the heavy-
weight title.”
“I understand the bank is looking
for a cashier. I thought they hired
one last week?”
“They did. That’s the one they’re
looking for.”
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