The Stamford Leader (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 23, Ed. 1 Monday, February 12, 1951 Page: 4 of 6
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TUB STAMFORD LEADER
fer4. Texas, Monday, February 12, 1951
Leader Sports
—
Stamford, Haskell Boxers
Lose in Abilene GG Meet
very unpopular decision In
the championship finals to Max
Arrell of Abilene High School.
A tremendous amount of boo-
ing and demonstration followed
the announcing of the Whlte-
Arrell decision, all in favor of
atone decision to Calvin the Haskell boy. White captured
Abilene in the finals the Novice Welterweight title at
of his division. White who Is Breckenridge several weeks ago.
managed by Lon McMillan, 1938 The loss to Arrell was White's
Abilene welterweight king, won first in five bouts,
his opening bout in high school He was quarterback for the
welterweight class but lost a I Haskell Indians last fall.
Johnny Taylor, Stamford, and
Jimmy White Haskell, were de
rtotnnrfl In their respective di-
visions in the Regional Golden
Gloves meet at Abilene the past
week-end.
Taylor novice featherweight |
tont a ■
*" *M.
..m. wW
Gordon Wood Elected New
Stamford Hi Head Coach
AV (K’A BASKETBALL TEAM—Here’s the outaUndin* Avoc» squad that has tacked
up a record of 25 wins in 28 games thia season. Front row, left to right: Maurice Work-
man, manager: Tommy Lindsay, T«d Seay, Johnny Childress, Bobby Petty, G. W.
Cockrell, Donald Turner, manager. Standing, Coach Granville E. Hastings; J. T. Whit-
worth, Billy John Easterling, Don Taylor, Roy Akin, J. C. Williams, Fred Shelton. Jim-
my Seay. Tallest member of the team is A kin at feet 4 inches. All of the first fiv#
are above six feet in height. (Photo by Blackatock studio.)
Hazel Walker
Heads BasketbaD
Attraction Here
The star attraction and man-
ager of the Arkansas Travelers,
a professional girls' basketball
team, which is scheduled to ap-
ear in Stamford March 1 .under
auspices of the Stamford Jaycees,
is Hazel Walker.
Miss Walker is known in
sports circles as “Miss Basket-
ball.” She was selected on the
All-American team 10 times—a
record which stands—during her
14 years in amateur basketball.
She played on five national
championship teams and runner-
up three years. She won the
national three throw champion-
ship six years. International
championship two years and has
rver been beaten in national
tournament history.
During the past season Hazel
and her Travelers played more
than 300 games throughout 42
states plus a tour of Mexico
while traveling over 34,000 miles.
The girls hold their own against
the best of male opponents.
Vitamin T. Smith To Appear
Before Local Club Monday .
Announcement
(Babe) Wood as the new Stam-
ford High School head coach
was made Wednesday by Supt.
L. W. Johnson.
Wood, now head coach at
School, was In
Stamford Saturday Tfimoume
his aasitants and make plans
for football spring training.
He succeeds Carl Cook who
resigned Feb. 1 is hii second
year at Stamford. Wood went to
Gordon Sum.ions University wnere he
played football. Other coaching
posts included those at Rosroe,
Rule and Spur. •
At Winter*. Wood took over a
squad that only won one game
the season before and turned out
District 20B Cage Playoffs in Abilene
To Be Battle Between Avoca and Hawley
Studies 6,000
Quail Wings
division. Avoca’* Mustang* and
sHF^gers To Play
at Seminole. Stamford will be
hi* sixth coaching assignment
since graduation from Hard in
His team won ta. lost 4. His as- !
slatant. at Winter* were Otis \
Holladay and Howard
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Cook's assistant * who are still
at Stamford indude Ralph Katdy
and Front! Myatt.
In Haskell Feb. 14
Anson, Throckmorton Win
From Munday, Stamford
“Hand me an aapim. please *
First night play in the District
•A basketball tournament In the
Stamford High School gymnae
him left some 790 fans limp
from excitement cheering as An-
son's Tiger* and Throckmorton's
Grey bonds battled their way to
Uw Baals with wins over Munday
and BUatMN respectively
In the curtain raiser Anson
tipped Munday. i 36413 The
Moguls made a game during, the
first quarter and led 11-10 at the
end of the first period The Tig
drew up a tight sune defen
slowly drew away from
lagtsls Jim Thornp-
f points to put An
IS-13. at the midpoint
During tbs second half. Anson
maintained Us margin with
Gary Retry, C-4" stalwart, turn-
ing ki a tremendous Job on fr-
aud ttptngs Anson
into the final quarter, lead
ig »1A
High point man of the Anson
-Munday Hash was Herbert Ford
of Munday with IS point*, five
more than Anaon’s top
M thrilling game in the l»
ymnssium all season was
on Nm for the capacity
the Stamford Thrork
The world famous bewhisker
ed and bearded House of David
j basket hull team will make art
appearance in Haskell Wadnes-
i day night, February 14. at the
, High school gymnasium under
the auspices of the American
j legion post.
I Opposing the famous cage wtx
morion tilt. With L. A. Nole* tne ards will be Oiln King's Haskell
only hope that Throckmorton had All Star*, the same group that
for a victory in top form the was defeated by the Dallas Van-
Greyhounds nipped the Bulldogs dergrlff All-Stars twice three
in a rough-and tumble affair. 94-
51. Notes flipped In 23 points In-
cluding 10 gratis pitches, but was
paced by Stanford's Tommy
Alexander for Rune scoring hon-
ors with 23 points.
Stamford lost lour first-string
players vis the personal foul
route- as 32 Infractions of t
weeks ago. Proceeds of the
game will go to a fund purchas-
ing new basketball uniforms for
the Haskell High School squad.
half. Stamford went ouf front
by four points on two quick
fielders by I>owe. 30-36. for their
last lead of the game. Throck-
cy.'
rule* was called against the home morion caught up quickly with
team by referee* a Gibbs and! Note* doing the see
Red Cleveland. Fouled not were burly youngster tied the fame
Royce Fuqua. Da\kl Haahfortt up-94 A4 withes free^pitch which
K<Whhh L^TT’d^n, Tt ^ 'he^g-^ ^BwiTfml forth
straight two pointer*. Stamford the two * luha hs^lcd u Ith the
Jumped into a B4 lead early In •?"* 40-10 at tlw beginning of
the game The Bulldog, stivtrh
ed the lend to 15-10 at the end of' With second stringer* In the
the first prrtod but was never lineup. Stamford couldn't match
to actually slip away from the the Throckmorton scoring ms
smooth Greyhounds late in the chl»»e late in the final minutes
second quarter, Notes flipped of play. Alexander popped In
In a two pointer to tie the count several beauties to keep the Bull
1717. and second! later addl'd *»og* within striking distance but
two from the free line to put Mr. Nolen was the difference
as hr time and time again drove
Racing neck-and-necfc down, to
Club Chairman A~aka
Foreign Letter
The executive Secretary of
the Ganye, Fish and Oyster Com-
mission announced that 6.000
quail wings were sent into the
Department*'. offlce_ In Austin w
by sportsmen crrfrRR Abe it ■as. »li
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One 6f professional football’s
most-colorful figures will appear
in the Stamford High School aud-
itorium Monday night at 7:30 In
the form of Vitamin T. Smith,
famous halfback of the Los Angc-
let Rams In the National Leagje. j
Smith who crested a sensa-
tion two years ago when he
joined the Rams as a rookie
halfbeck with a great small col-
lege record ia In Abilene at the
present time completing work
for a Master’s degree at Hardin-
Simmons University.
As a Little All-America half-
back in 1948 at Abilene Christ-
ian College, he stole some of the
nation’s newspaper headlines on
tin s|H>it.s page with lua giidiion
feats. He once returned three
kickoffs in sucession for touch-
downs, returned a punt for 75
yards and t. d. against the Un-
iversity of Arkansas, and turned
in s time of 9.6 sconds for the
100-yard dash.
’ Smith earned All-Texas Confer-
ence first team honors three
straight years and was voted
the Moat Valuable Player award
his senior year. Southwest con-
ference coaches were amazed by
his speed and uncanny ability to
return punts and kickoffs. Pro-
fessional teams are now exper-
iencing the same ordeal as
Smith’s opponents in college did.
Last season against the Sen
Fraqciaco 49*rs Smith rambled
94 yard* for a touchdown on a
Speaking ..
Of Sports...
his quintet ahead. 13UI
Just before the halftime
whist l* sounded. Stamfords
Lowe meshed a king one-hander
to give the Bulldogs a 36-25 half
time lead. Early In the
as he tune and tune again drove
for the basket making his guards
foul and then drop In free pitch-
es at a result
■ Lowe was second high man for
j Stamford with 15
points
Lowe,
Talk about your
of the year”, take a look at the
Stamford High School basket hell
corps at the first of the year
many t bought they would be
lucky if they won a single
game . Not only -did they cap
lure four wins, but managed
to edge into the District play
offs by dropping Haskell Tues-
day night
This weekend, the Bulldog*
were hosts to the team from
Munday’. Throckmorton and An
eoa in the playoff Boys like
Royce Fuqua who bucketed 13
nts against Haskell. Kenneth
David Bash ford. Wayne
Wash, and Tammy AMnender,
and Keith Miles deserve a round
of applause for putting Stem
ford in the win column.
Just a word here and a note
of sympathy for Jimmy
Haskell gridrterboxer, who
ped a close decision to an Abilene
youth In a championship
at Ike Abilene Golden Glove
meet. You were Involved In a
very Hose bout and
the win as far I ran
in my mind. The Judges, how
ever, gave the nod to the AM-
ienetan and started chain re-
action of disagreement.
Lon McMillan. White's mana-
ger. displayed terrific iMasppnint-
men* from the squared arena
upon announcement ot the win-
ner. Policemen moved Into the
are* Just tn case the situation
got out of hand, but still the de-
cision stuck.
Year after year Abilene box-
ing officials clamor for out-of-
town entries. Such a display as
given In the disputed 4
against the Hsshell entry shows
the difficulty that boxing Judge*
have. Or for that matter any <>(-
Hal* of any *port People are
getting inhuman about the** of
fW taU-aomebody has to do
there would be no contest
Instead of abusing officials and
their decisions, what about a
little praise. For a Job w*Q
d«a* tat any field, praise aH
gratitude means much m«rf
money as for as human nature
Is concerned U you think o<-
flailing is easy, try some phase
of It sometime*. See for your
•HI * The iRfls— n Is we|
worth tha effort
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Mrs. A. L McKay underwent
"djor wirgery St the Stamford
Sanitarium fast
U.. pro- mg
Mrs. Roy M. Craig. Internation-
al relations chairman of the
Pierian Club, is asking for re-
ports from all members of the
tatters which they have writtan
to women in foreign countries
whose names they were assign
earlier In the year.
Hawley's quintet will be favored .
to reach the championship reun* Writer*’ Report
in the playoffs at AbUsne, Feb-
ruary W-rf. —•— —-----
The four-team tournament will
be reeled off in Bennett Gym*
nasium on the campus of Abilene
Christian College Friday and Sat-
urday nights Representing the
southern division of the dtotriot
will be Trent and Noodle.
First round games Frtd*v
night Include the Hawley-Nbdti*
ie Hash at 7:30. Following that
game around 8:30 will be the Av*
oca Trent game. Winer* will play
for the championship Saturday
night and looser* for the third
position.
Official* for the two-night
tournament will be Curly Hay—
and Shorty Lawson, two of Wat
Texas' top flight wrh 1* tie-blow-
er*.
Hunters had been re-
quested to aid in this study of
quail poulationa in the various
net inns of the state**, _______
Wildlife btotogrsu from six
regions* in the state were called
Into Austin last week for the
purpose of examining tlieee
wings
In classifying the wings they
are broken down according to
the sex of the bird. By studying
the shSpe, coloration, sad growth
along with
Which have been received, be
given at the next meeting, which
will be on February 22.
8he has ashed that this report, l stages of the wing. It Is possible
to distinguish the adult bird
from the young of the year.
Normally 75 to 85* of the
birds killed by hunters are lees
than one year old. Biologists con-
sider a quail population to be
In good condition when it la made
up of a high percentage of young
Thrrr are 667,129 adults serv-
ing in the Bey Scouts of America
as volunteer leaders.
r the Rams«»e of thlFf
Davis to give the
deadliest one-two punches in the
plsy-for-pay ranks
AIL Stamford, fool bail fans,
young and old. are. cordially jfh
vlted (o see and hear Smith as
guests of the Stamford Athletic
Club Monday night.
V. T. SMITH
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The extended drought has
reached the reserve food supply
that pasture plants normally
store In their crown and root sys-
tems. Since new spring growth
Is dependent upon this stored !
food, proper management of pas-
lure* In the spring Is very Im- ;
portent. Little or no grazing
should he allowed until the plants
have made good growth.
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