The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 10, 1955 Page: 5 of 10
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, m
iWS-TBLEGRAM, SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS v
Section One
THE Di
Slate Meeting
To Name Officers
Pirates Friday
By Gurley Sanders
The Sulphur Springs Wildcats
ring down the curtain on their
1954-55 basketball season tomor-
row night in the local gym when
they host the Pittsburg Pirates
in a conference clash,
The. contest, which begins at
8 o’clock, is rated a toss-up. A
curtain raiser at 6:30 pits the
two B teams against one another.
Mt. Vernon’s high flying Ti-
gers close out their district sched-
ule tomorrow night in a melee
with Bonham. The. game is to be
played in Mt. Vernon, In the only
other district game Friday night,
Winnsboro -journeys to Cbm
merce. In tonight's game, Bon-
ham goes to Gilmer, Commerce
plays at Pittsburg and Mount
Vernon invades Winnsboro.
urn, Sulphur Springs hunters, loosed nine foxhounds onto
a timber wolf caught in a steel trap. With one foot held
tight m that steel vise, the wolf, snarling defiance, »not
only survived the mass attack but administered slash for
vSLa®L1?Jth® ”01®y.battle.- F>nally a merciful bullet sent the
no steel traps are pro-
Cage Title Goes
To Lamar Quint
besieged animal to a place where
duced.
* The W0,f was trapped by Pete Dixon in the New Hope
community about five miles southwest of Sulphur Springs.
His weight was estimated at between 35 and 40 pounds.
Athletic seasons are rushing past with a speed com-
parable to the manner irvyvhich the years get away from
folks past the age of 30.
It seems that basketball season started only a few
day8m£°’ yat her* we are at trail’s end in Sulphur Springs.
The Wildcats have only one more game remaining on
their schedule, their loop clash with Pittsburg Friday night
in the local gym. The Lassies have three more games book-
ed“—one here tonight with Winnsboro, a second next Mon-
day night with the same aggregation, and the last one
Feb. 24.
Then, too, the ward school schedule has been com-
pleted; and now sports fans are turning to thoughts of
track, golf arid baseball. And within a feu* short days, as
things go, railbirds will be gathering at Wildcat Stadium
to watch fall football practice.
Dallas, Feb. 10 CP—Southern
Methodist University has snap-
ped an historic basketball! jinx.
And is still in the cunning to thb
Southwest Conference crown. The
Mustangs beat Texas Christian4^
basketball the first time in 6 years
last night on the SMU Court.
The seori* was 84 to 70. The vic-
tory gives SMU a virtual tie for
the conference lead, pushing the
Methodist to within one-half
game of front-running TCU.
SMU’s lanky center, Jim Krebs,
led the Methodists to their first
victory over the Horned Grogs
since 1949. Krebs scored 25 points
himself and held TCU mainspring
Dick O’Neal tt> his lowest score in
any game this season—15 points.
The only Southwest Conference
team in action tonight is A and M,
which journeys to the Sooner
state to play Oklahoma City Uni-
versity.
Coach Jerry Levine’s Lamar dates for the job of Kagte field
Kittens captured the local ward manager. .Carl Randolph, present
school basketball championship business manager, said it was urt-
Wednesdny afternoon by dumping likely that' any definite action
Austin’s Mustangs, 11-3. The title would be taken at this time on
was nailed down solidly when the the srivrtrort of the fn-td managed.
Travis Tigers awarded the Kittens ----- -— r--
their one remaining game on a fjr . . T-,.. —
foi;feit , Houston 1 ourney
Lamar finished league play , - *
with a 5-1 record. Throughout the
entire season they compiled an A lvJNLvl OtHBi
impressive achievement of 12 vie- m PAA AAA
tones against one less. Their one Npai* \fl|
defeat was at the hands of Hou- i?JU,UUU
ston’s Cubs, who took second . _ , .. , ,
place in league standings with a Houston, Feb. 10 (P Advanc-
4 2 reeord ~ cd ticket shies for the Houston
Austin, ‘ 3-3, finished third, open golf tournament hgve reach-
while Travis, 0-6, reclined in the almost $30,000. Officials say
cellar position. T ?
A team trophy will be awarded F«bru*r* 2i4thJ*r°'*h • m
the Umar Kittens at a later date. 140,000, including
Coach Levine’s starting quint *30*000 in Priz<* money-
was composed of Jimmy Clifton ^
and Larry Blount, forwards; xtoolHI** fft I
Charles Car-others, center; and iJUCCIClw Iv A A J
Morris- Collins and Wayne Bled- m . a
soe, guards. KV.WgjgfhQy
Substitutes for the champions •"* M
ry Ishmael, Mike Stubbs, and Ron- Flttab.ur‘fh .?V7AtT *** i f!
nie Culpepper. Randy Jenkins was Nati"nttl Footb“11. I/e“‘fUe
student muiarer. St2± ±T1IS
Tonight’s title preview between
the Sulphur Springs and Winns-
boro sextets marks the final
warm-up game of the season for
the locals before they clash with
thd same team next M'onday night
in Winnsboro for the district
championship.
Starting time for the headliner,
slated in the local gym, is 8
o'clock. The show will open at
6:30 with a contest between the
two B teams.
Although the Wildcat Lassies
defeated the Raiders father hand-
ily in a contest earlier ^hts year,
tonight’s melee is expected to re-
sult in considerable fireworks.
The Raiders have reportedly im-
proved in recent weeks and are
hoping not only to win here to-
night hut also to cop the title
when the two sextets collide again
Monday night.
The Lassies have only one more
game carded following the title go
next week. On the night of Feb.
24 they will meet Quitman irt a
curtain raiser event prior to the
clash between the House of David
and Paris Junior College.
HE’S READY — Charley Nor-
kus is ready to show heavy-
weight opponents he’s the new
James J. Braddock. (NKA
Telephoto).
Austin, Feh. 10 (41—-A Univer-
sity of Tekas basketball player
will be out pf action for th4 rest
of the season with a broken collar
bone suffered Tuesday night at
Houston. He is Mack Burk, 4
sophomore, who also takes part in
baseball as a catcher. Whether he
will miss the baseball season this
year isn’t known yet.
Rice Owl Star
Called Finest
Guard in SWC
RATLIFF RAPS 'SPORT
Prison Camp
Used to Train
Future Pirates
Houston, Feb. ,10 141—.Rice In-
stitute’s basketball coach, Don
Suman, says the Owls have the
most underrated player in the
Southwest Conference. Suman
calls Rice guard Monte Kobi-
cheaux the finest guard he’s seen
in college play, but says he’s not
complaining because other teams
aren’t noticing the 5-foot-10 star.
Defense is the specialty of Rob-
icheanx, hut he can also scort!
well. He hit 18 points against the
University of Texas Tuesday
night.
The American Music Confer-
ence estimates that 19,300,000
Americans play the piano.
Pittsburgh (41 — Many of the
Pittsburgh Pirate farm teams will
take their spring training chores
on the site of a former Prisoner
of War camp — in Texas.
The training site if? at Sam Hou-
ston State Teachers College's
country campus located about
eight utiles northeast of Hunts-
ville.
It covers 887 acres and contains
numerous buildings used for the
vocational training of students.
Originally it Was the first German
prison camp built on American
soil during World War II and at
one time handled 20,000 POWs.
A 16-acre portion of the camp,
once used as a soccer field by the
Germans, has been transformed
into a baseball practice field.
DR. T. H.
McConnell
Announces
His Return
To Limited
Practice
704 Connally Street
Phone 888
A college of Emporia basket-
ball player, Charley Dehlinger,
sank free throws in a game with
Baker College last night. Most
of them came after Dehlinger
started a one-man stall. He was
fouled and immediately sank 2
free throws. When Emporia got
the ball again, Dehlinger renewed
his stall. This time Baker ignor-
ed the player and' he stood mo-
tionless with the hall foir a fqll
five minutes. Jeers from the
crowd finally drove . Baker fhto
action again, but each time Deh-
linger was foured. He kept it
up for molt of the last half ■—
and his team won, 65 to 55.
Cohen Named
To Sports Hall
F.1 Paso, Feb. 10 141—The re-
cently created El Paso athletic
Hall of Fame has named its first
member. He is, the manager of the
New* Orleans Pelicans of the
Southern Association, Andrew
(Andy) Cohen. The former El
Paso high school basketball star
sayS at New Orleans he’s proud
to accept the honor. Cohen plans
to fly to El Paso from spring
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Yoakum Coach
Claimed by Death
a gridiron dinner February 22nd.
Natped for the posthumous El
Paso hall of fame award was N. A.
Ferguson, a tennis great early this
century.
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Detroit (48— Maybe the sight of
his police badge frightens his bow-
ling opponents. Nevertheless, ■ po-
lice inspector Herb Case won the
24th annua! “Old Timers” tourna-
ment here with a »38 series. He
rolled games of 248, 202 and 190.
It was Case’s fourth consecutive
championship. Last year he set
the record of 689.
bull was k'illedl was thist it was
a brutal, sickening sport — in
fact, it wasn’t a sport, because
where one party to a fight always
dibs you couldn’t term it a sport.
But there was a skilled matador
for the second fight and he did
a nice, clean job of art. You had
to. admire the man’s bravery and
ability. The t©ro de lidia (bull
of combat) «4n tear you litnb
from limb if you don’t work the
tape just rigl^t.
A Mexican irt one of the stores
along Juarez’ npin street tried
to“expIain'Io uS why the young
man goes into bullfighting any-
way. “They* fngke dufch small
wages las laborers they get into
the bullfight where they can earn
as much as $8,000 a fight,” he
said. “it’s s'ort of Jike your Amer-
' icin' boxing where so.many men
without education and skill can
use their hands and hearts to earn
big money.”
< He tried .to explain that the
bullfight in Mexico was a ritual
and not on instrument of brutal-
® it'y, an'd actually was not looked
upon as a short. The man is sup-
posed to live by'his bravery, wid
the bull to die. It is a tragic
drams involving the power of
ddath and glory of courage.
Juarez is minor league in bull-
fighting — it corresponds to the
’ Texas League as related to the
big leagugfe jn class. But there
are - some good bullfighters who
appear at Juarez, sort of like Bob
Fjfller on a barnstarmihg tour
after the Big league season had
will bring the track's seating ca-
pacity to 18,000, approximately
double what it was 10 years ago.
The addition will make Gulf-
stream Park’s seating capacity
among the first half dozen in the
nation. The work will be complet-
ed In time for the 42-day meet-
ing starting March 4, according to
President James Donn.
Yoakum, Feb. 10^ (API—The. head
football coach at Yoakum high
school, Tommy Marshall, is dead.
The 37-year-old Marshall died in
8 Houston hospital after a brief
illness. Marshall coached at Dick-
inson, Kenedy and Sinton before
joining the armed services. He
went to Yoakum from an El Paso
coaching job. His tbam went to
the state Class 2-A finals in 1952
before losing to Terrell.
aorta — the artery that- feeds
blood to the heart. He has 15
minutes to complete the kill. If
he can’t do it he Way be humil-
iated by the bull being led put
of the ring and slain by the pla-
za’s butcher.
The three periods of the lidia
are designed as progressive pun-
ishments to the powerful neck
muscles of the bull so that fin-
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During World War 2 there was
a regulation against giving out
weather conditions or forecasts
on a national basis. Dizzy Dean
was broadcasting a baseball game
Female Fan* Get Break
Cleveland (41— Female fans of
-the—Cleveland Indiana will have
plenty of cheer about this year.
The.Tribe has increased its Ladies
Day to 14 games. In previous sea-
sons 11 such days were the most
ever scheduled. Each visting team
can be seen twice by the distaff
rooters.
hookup -from. -S'
ally his majestic head has been
lowered enough for the matador
to go ip over the horns at the
risk of his life to sink a sword
in “the hour of truth.”
Everyone shopid see a bull-
fight just to find out how mixed
his emotions ■ can become. Me? *na r*1" De*“n 10 Ia“ na™*
I’ll take ice hocky. You at least Ne™r at “ loM for wordR’ D,z
are not supposed to kill anybody ®a,®L: ' „ •„ . .
in that sport. - ■ . ‘ *•« 7°* ***t the wea-
___ther is like here, but if you live
in Stt Louis and plan to-hang
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Here’s my sparkling
;t. the beauty spot
of my kitchen
because it stays
-^ao clean.
cloaed. There are pLeftty bf novilr ^
lpros — fellows whp serve sever-
al seasons on trial so they may
finally become known as mata-
dors', the big men of the cor-
rida. '
Novilleros in Juarez gqt from
4,000 to 8,000 pesos per fight.
That’s $320 to |48<Un American
money. The -salary is based on
whether they are flrst br seeond
class fighters: they are so rated
by the Union of Bullfighters. In
Mexico City they range from
|640 to |1,200.
Matadors also are divided into
first and second classes. In Juar-
ez they average $1,600 to $4,000, ''
the former for the second ejass
fellows. In Mexico City the range
is from 12,500 to 18,000. Carlos 1
Arruza was a' 100,000 pesos -V-
$8,000 —mtav but there are only,
a few who command that price
today. ,
Considering that the matador
uapally fights 40 times a year,
you can sea that he’ll soon be a
millionaire. rs
v The season in Mexico for mata-
dors is from October to April.
From April to October they us-
ually are in Spain. Tha novilleros
appear when thje Matadors are
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 10, 1955, newspaper, February 10, 1955; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth827058/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.