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Trojans Meet Strong Cage
Rival In Watkinsville Five
BY CURTIS DRISKELL
! The unbeaten Athens High 'Trojans got down to the
rious business of getting ready for another tough cage
,penent this week, with anticipation of hard drills
thhroug Wednesday night.
,“Watkinsville, tabbed as the
fost powerful quintet of their
Jass in this region, will furnish
{ tition for the Trojans
‘hursday night in the eighth
BANNER-HERALD
SPORTS
808 OLIVER, SPORTS EDITOR
NO RUNBACKS EXPECTED
Who'll Kick To Fancy
S | Steppers?
ugar Bowl Steppers!
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 28.— (AP) —The Sugar Bowl
football game will present the country’s most spectacular
punt returners. But whether there will be any spectacu
lar punt returns is another matter.
. Before anyone can run a Kkick
back through an open field (as
thousands cheer) somebody has to
boot the ball to him.
And who's going to kick to
those fancy steppers in the Sugar
Bowl when he can safely send the
ball out of bounds?
Take Oklahoma’s double safety
combination of Jack Mitchell and
Darrell Royal. They give their
team the country’s highest aver
age in yardage of returns during
the past season,
Mitchell ran back 22 punts for
517 yards, an average of 23.1, and
went for three touchdowns. The
team as a whole returned punts
963 yards, more than it gained in
forward passing.
Justice Back There :
And on the other side will be
North Carolina All-America tdil
back Charlie Justice. About 60
‘per cent of the time he has wing
back John Clements back there
with him for a double safety com
bination like Oklahoma’s.
Charlie ran 19 punts back for
326 yards, an average of 17. He
carried one 84 yards to a touch
down against Georgia, and anoth
gr 50 yards to score -on Virginia.
+ It’s a cinch Oklahoma isn’t go
fing to kick to Justice. Royal, who
oes most of the Sooner puuting,
ims for fif sidelines. Once he
. sent three kicks out of bounds
within an opfonent‘s four yard
line in a sin&e game.
* Justice, with the country’s best
collegiate punting average of 44
yards, linkes to kick down the
sniddle. But he indulges in many
quick kicks, which means there’s
fiobody in the middle when the
ball gets there,
And he has a habit of booting
over the safety man’s head. Once
he applied his instep while sand
ing about on his five-yard line.
The ball didn’'t stop till it had
rolled across the Maryland goal
stripe.
. When such a tandem as Royal
and Mitchell is out there to lug
the ball back, Charlie will prob
ably be a bit careful about where
he sends that skinful of air,
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ing of the two squads will take
place on the Watkinsville court,
a factor that wlil probably affect
lthe potency of the local five.
GERNCE..
Oregon Coach
Fears SMU’s
Gil Johnson
DALLAS, Dec. 28 — (AP)—Gil
Johnson, Southern Methodist’s
mighty bomber, is one of the ma
jor concerns of Coach Jim Aiken
of Oregon as he prepares his Web
foots for Saturday’s Cotton Bowl
game. But Gil says he hopes he
does better against that Pacific
Coast team than the last one he
faced.
Southern Methodist beat Santa
Clara 33-0 but tnrough no help of
Gimlet Gil, who had the worst
’day in his passing career. Gil
\threw five passes, had two inter
cepted, failed to connect on two
and completed one for a loss of
eight yards. Coach Matty Bell told
him after the game: “Well, you did
pretty well for Santa Clara—you
Ithr,¢’aw' two for them and one for
us. .
- But the rest of Johnson's two
year record at SMU reads well.
Even including the Santa Clara
debacle, he has hurled 206 passes
and completed 123 for 1,591 yards
;and 14 touchdowns. This by a fel
low who has averaged about eight
minutes per game.
Last year he didn’t actually play
enough to letter. This season he
got in 86 minutes. Of course, Gil
usually made those minutes count.
In four years he won or tied four
games with his pitching in the
final two minutes.
| BUSY BYWAY
. If we succeed in getting rocket
ships into the upper atmosphere,
the pilots will not find the flyways
empty. There are millions of me
\teorites plunging into the earth’s
‘atmosphere every day, and a col
ilieion with one would be fatal to
‘;the ,ship.
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t+ The Oconee county lads have
only one blemish on a rugged
slate of games already completed.
Their lone setback came at the
hands of a classy Winterville five,
whom the Trojans dispatched in
a thriller last 'Tuesday night,
49-43, Watkingville succumbed to
the Winterville attack by a 12-
:p:;int' margin in the first of two
‘meetings, but blasted the Winter
ville crew by 20 points in a re
turn bout.
Seven in a Row
Coach Arnold DeLaPerriere’s
high-scoring aggregation has met
only three teams thus far that
showed active resistance and
have annexed seven straight vic
tories in as many games. Hart
well came close to slowing the
Trojan offensive, but lost by
eleven points in the final eount.
O’Keefe displayed power, but
fell by a substantial 15 points,
and Winterville came closest of
all opponents before succumbing
by a six-point margin. ‘
The Athens-Watkingville scrap |
!promises to produce one of the
top basketball battles of the high
school schedule for this week.
The two teams have always fur
nished- keen competition and the
annual meetings of the two
schools have grown into a tradi
tional cage rivalry.
Athens copped three decisions
from the Watkingville five last
year, two wins coming in regu
lar season play and the third in
competition for the district. title.
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Charles Seeks
.
Louis Match
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 —(AP)—
Like Joe Louis, Ezzard Charles
has changed his mind. The negro
contender from Cincinnati now is
anxious to fight the Brown Bom
ber for the heavyweight title in
June. .
So said Jake Mintz, manager of
Charles, when he arrived in town
to consult with Harry Markson,
managing director of the 20th
Century Sporting Club.
' Shortly after he stopped Joe
IBaksi here Dec. 10, Charles evin
ced no desire to take on the
champ. But Mintz says that Ez
‘zard is eager now to get in there
with Louis. 5 -
RTR Y O B oA A
BY HUGH FULLERTON, JR.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28—(AP)—
One peculiarity of the “non-con
tact” game of basketball seems to
be that the players who can get
away with the most score the of
tenest. . . . That’s what a handful
of visiting coaches were. discuss
ing indirectly over Gene Leone’s
steaks yesterday. . . . First it was
Yale's Howard Hobson pointing
out that a wider foul lane or some
other method of loosening up play
mmdar tha basket would improve
basketball. , . “I’'m especially con
scious ot this because we just
played Stanford,” said Hobby.
“They have about four six-foot
four boys and the gave us a beat
ing on the offensive boards. That
'was their offense — to go down
the middle and play for the re
ibounds.” .. .. Nat Holman of
CCNY agreed: “The big man has
made it a different game — not a
better one.” . .. Solemn-faced
Vadal Peterson of Utah then of
fered a suggestion that officials
change ends of the court oftener
during games. “No two officials
officiate exactly the same type of
ball and the team that gets the
less strict official behind it has a
great advantage,” Peterson main
tained,
RUPP DEAL
Blue Foster of Miami (Ohio)
supplied a lighter note in the pro
ceedings with this one on Ken
tucky’s Adolph Rupp. . . When
Rupp took his team to Notre
Dame (Where he had absorbed
several lickings) last season he
noticed a grey-haired gent prac
ticing shots in the gym. ... It
was explained that the shooter
was a former high school coach
whose mind had weakened under
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® . of the English forwards (left). The English won, 6-0.
Rose Bowl
Coaches Pray
For Sunshine
PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 28—
(AP)—The two Rose Bowl coach
es are going to be unhappy if the
tournament of roses sunshine luck
runs out New Year's Day.
A long range forecast has not
been issuedas yet, but amateur
predicters, watching the rain belt
Southern California yesterday be
gan to worry that the California
-INorthwestem contest may be a
battle of the mud.
' Both coaches, Bob Voigts of
Northwestern and Lynn Waldorf
of the California Bears, are on
record as praying for clear skies
and a fast field.
“This is a 'big game, and rain
and mud will simply ruin it for
the players and the spectators. It
will just be tough luck if it does
come up bad weather,” said
Voights.
~ The same sentiments came from
Pappy Waldorf. 'lt was recalled
that in the one really muddy game
‘the Golden Bears played, against
Washington at Seattle, star full
‘back Jackie Jensen had a com
paratively poor day.
~ Voigts, incidentally, was well
aware of California’s = sunshine
claims, but he didn’t forget to
bring along the squad’s mud
cleats.
the strain of ‘losing too many
games. . . . Adolph. watched a
few more sinots, then sighed: “If
we lose to Notre Dame again to
morrow, I'll be out there guard
ing him.”
SHORTS AXD SHELLS
Earl Brown, üburn football
coach, hasn’t been seen in Au
burn, Ala., since his team took a
55-0 licking from Alabama Dec.
4, But it isnt’ a case of the alumni
telling him to get lost. Earl and
his aides have sent back word
from the thoroughly beaten bush
es that there’ll be a strong fresh
man squad next year. ... Ted
Schroeder, the nation’s No. 2 ama
teur tennis player, paid his own
way to Bob Stranahan’s recent
sports dinner in Toledo to make
sure his amateur status wasn’t in
‘danger. Then he hinted that he’ll
turn pro if he wins the national
‘singles title in 1949.
SIDE SPLITTER
Ex-Jockey Clifton Powers won
$9,020 on a radio quiz show last
week. He promptly invested $4,-
000 in a house, then spent $5,000
‘more on a race horse, which he
named “Break the Bank” after the
program. . . . The radio folks, who
‘are always asking questions any
way, want to know if they’ll have
to change the name of their show
after the nag starts a couple of
times, or will Clifton have to re
name the horse “Break Powers.”
| AUTOMOTIVE HINT
During the winter, water some
times enters the door lock of an
automobile and freezes, making it
difficult to open the door. This
can easily be remedied by insert
ing the key and holding the flame
of a match beneath it, causing the
ice to melt.
“Y” Cub Class
Basketball
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Tilts Tonight
Members of the Cub Class at
the local Y. M. C. A. will engage
in several iniracicss Wbasketball
games tonight at the local “Y”
gym with the first game starting
at 7 o’clock. :
~ All Cubs reporting to the “¥Y” in
ltime for court action will get to
play. The public is invited to at
tend the games but is asked to sit
in the stands not not go onto the
court.
Physical Director Cobern Kelley
has announced that Cub and Prep
games have been scheduled with
two Statham school teams for Fri
day night. The games will be
played in Statham with the first
tilt beginning at 7 o’clock. The
Cub battle will feature players 11
years old and under and the Prep
game will be played by boys 13
years of age and younger.
A full week of basketball activi
ty is scheduled at the “Y” for this
week with the Preps meeting Bras
elton Junior High Midgets tomor
row night in the “Y” glm at 7
o’clock. The Athens Junior High
will play the Braselton big Junior
High tea immediately following
| the “Y” game.
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Fights Last Nite
Brooklyn — Artie Levine, 165,
Brogklyn, knocked out Tony De
Miecco, 169, Brooklyn (8).
Baltimore — Archie Moore, 165,
St. Louis, knockea out Charlie
Williams, 175, Rahway, N. J. (7).
Chicago — Luther Rawlings,
139, Chicago, outpointed Tim Dal
ton, 139, Chicago (10).
Boston — Roy Andrews, 134,
Lowell, Mass., stopped Cabey
Lewis, 128, Brooklyn (5).
Newark, N. J. — Charley Will
iams, 149, Newark, outpointed
Buster Tyler, 145, Newark (10).
Providence, R. 1. — Dave An
drews, 148, Lowell, Mass,, out
pointed Lucky Jordan, 146, Provi
dence (10).
Salt Lake City — Freddie Her
‘man, 134, Los Angeles, stopped
Ernie Hunick, 135, West Jordan,
EUtah (4).
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A Clarification
| Due to lack of space in the
Christmas Edition of the Banner-
Herald Friday the write-up of the
Athens Y. M. C. A. game with
Braselton Junior High Midgets in
| Braselton was not published until
yesterday.
When it was published the
}words “last night” were used
‘meaning Thursday night, but it
}inferred Sunday night. The “Y”
doesn’t schedule activities other
than religious on Sunday, but all
activities are -carried out on other
days. i
ATLAS IN ATLAS
A book of maps usually is called
an “atlas” because early collec~
tions of maps often contained a
picture of the mythical Atlas hold
ing up the heavens, according to
the Encyclopedia Britannica. 1
The number of U. S. farm houses
with modern bathrooms more than}
doubled from 1940 to 1947. :
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l ATLANTA, "Dees 28«
(AP) — The Southeastern
Conference has a new scor
ing champion this week but
he’s from the same team as
last week’s leader.
Tulane’s six foot four inch cen
ter Jim Riffey not only took over
the scoring lead with 128 points
in nine games but he got the lead
the hard way — against XKen
tucky.
' Riffey’s 22 points against the
defending champion Wildcats was
a feat not often accomplished. He
swept past last week’s " leader,
Warren Perkins, with four points
i to spare.
Healey Second
Perkins’ 123 total put him in a
third place tie with L.'S. U.’s Bob
Meador. Georgia’s Bob Healey is
second with 125. Healey, like.Rif
fey, had a big night against a
toughie — N. Y. U. The big Geor
gia forward scoread 24 points in
Georgia’s last game.
' In per-game averages both
| Healey and Meador lead the Tu
lane pair since they have played
only eight games to the Green
| Wave's nine.
| Kentucky’s Alex Groza has 117
points in only seven games to
rapk fifth in totals but much
higher per outing. Guard Virgil
Risner of Tulane trails Groza with
111 goints.
' QOthers with 50 points or more
and the number of games played
are:
’ Earl Davis, Georgia, 99, eight
games; Jim Nolan, Georgia Tech,
98, six games; Paul Walther, Ten
nessee, 95, seven games; Ralph
'Beard, Kentucky, 95 points, sev
en games; Bob Schloss, Georgia,
'92, eight games; Hugh Jones,
. Tennessee, 91, seven; Dick
{Thompson. LI. S. U, 90, eight.
pikh cvss doddan-Has 88 . ook
i Joe Jordan, Georgia, 88, eight;
‘Mike Sermerheim, Georgia
i Tech, 68, six; Georgia Kelley,
Vanderbilt, 68, four; Harry Ham
[ilton, Florida, 67, five; Art burris,
| Tennessee, 67, seven; Melvin
‘Dold, Tech, 66, six.
E. L. Rainey, Georgia, 65, eight;
Melvin Payton, Aulane, 63, nine;
'Ju]ian Miller, Florida, 63, five;
|Ed Montgomery, Tennessee, 62,
seven; Jack Marshall, Mississippi,
61, three, Wallace (Wah Wah)
Jones, Kentucky, 60, seven.
Hans Taenzler, Florida, 57,
'five; Joe Keener, Tech, 57, six;
i Billy Joe Adcock, Vanderbilt, 57,
four; Willard Daley, Mississippi
State, 56, four; Joe Eldridge,
{ Tennessee, 55, seven; Hal Peck,
Tulane, 53, nine; Colin Anderson,
I Tech, 50, six, and Dale Barnstable,
|Kentucky, 50, seven.
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ORANGE BOWL GAME OLD STUFF TC THESE VETERANS — Bowl games are
old stuff to these four seniors on the University of Georgia football team which
plays Texas in the Orange Bowl at Miami, Fia., New Year's Day. Left to right:
Johnny Rauch, Joe Geri, Weyman Sellers and John Donaldson. Sellers, Donaldson
and Rauch played in the 1946 Oil Bowl, the 1947 Sugar Bowl, and the Gator Bow!
last January 1. Geri made the Rose Bowl trip in 1942 but did not play. After war
service, he rejcined the Georgia squad for the Sugar and Gator Bowl games.— (AP
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808 THOMAS SAYS:
Crooner Frankie Laine
Surveys Picture Deals
| HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 28—(AP)—
. Song shouting Frankie Laine, lat
est idol of the Bobbysoxers, looks
| set for a movie splurge.
| Laine, whose rags-to-riches ca
'reer would make a film story in
.itself, makes his screen debut in
“Make Be-lieve Ballroom.” Now
‘he’s being dickered by MGM for
“Duchess of Idaho” and by Para
mount for ‘“The Broadway Story.”
‘He's no romantic figure, but he
could score in films as a singing
i character.
i Meanwhile, Laine’s career con
tinues to zoom. His theater price
has risen to $6,500 a week and he
has been doing one-night stands
l with an orchestra for a take of
s $3,000 or so. . 3
%*taEgcvl»;arél G. Robinson, who used
apks_in films, plays an
Italian banker in “East fi%e Sto
MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 28.— (AP) —Coach Wallace Butts
gent his Georgia Bulldogs out for another hard serimmage
today in the wake of Notre Dame Coach Frank Leahy's
prediction that Georgia would beat Texas in the Oran‘ge
Bowl New Year's Day.
Leahy predicted victory by a
point and maybe a touchdown
during a talk at the second annual
Miami Chamber of Commerce
sponsored Orange Bowl kickoff
dinner last night. *
“The Bulldogs can win,” he
said, ‘“but they’ll have to block
and tackle a little harder than
they’ve had to so far this season.”
Butts apparently felt the same
BASKETBALL ROUNDUP e
B e
e &
Four More Fives Swept
From Ranks Of Unbeaten
BY WILL GRIMSLEY
NEW YORK, Dec. 28.— (AP) —College basketball’s
thinning ranks of unbeaten teams reeled today under the
heaviest single blow of the young campaign.
' Four quintets were: swept from
‘the perfect list—Washington State,
Caniscius, Indiana and Purdue.
This left ony 18 major teams
still without a blemish. Of these,
seven had to survive tough tests
iast night. : 3
h Outfits managing to carry on
without a setback were Bradley,
| Stanford, La Salle. of Philadelphia,
Western Kentucky, = Duquesne,
Lawrence Tech and Alaabma,
Longest String
. The season’s- longest winning
string was snapped when Wash
'ington State, which had scored ten
straight victories, was tripped by
|U. C. L. A, 54-44, in the Pacific
iCoast Confeernce tournament at
'San Francisco.
| Bradley thus became the na
tion’s biggest winner, achieving
No. 10 in a sow at the expense of
'St. Mary’s of California, 69-58.
- Canisius, which had won six,
‘was toppled by Western Kentucky
at Buffalo, N. Y., 65-55, giving the
Blue Grass boys their seventh tri
umph without reversal. |
Indiana bowed to Butler, 64-55,
and Purdue lost to Notre Dame,
51-50, on Leo Barnhorst’s free
throw in the last ten seconds in a
doubleheader at Indianapolis.
Stanford’s Indians won their
ninth straight by humbling Ore
gon, 70-62, in the PCC tourrament
—one of three tournaments that
got into the holiday swing. The
other meets were the Big Seven
at Kansas City and the all-college
event at Oklahoma City.
Games In Garden
The program was further spiced
by doubleheaders at Magdison
Square Garden in New York, Con
vention Hall in Philadelphia and
Buffalo, N. Y. ,
The PCC tournament also saw‘
California trounce Washington,l
the defending conference cham
ry.” He’s anxious to do a picture
abroad and his submitted a story
with an Italian locale to 20th-Fox,
Eddie has grown a mustache for
his current role. Surveying his
pan, he comments, “Anything
would be an improvement.”
Larry Parks will make his first
air appearance—with his alter ego,
Al Jolson, Jan. 6. Larry was ori
ginally set for Eddie Cantor’s
show, but Jolie put his foot down.
Want to get confused? Then fi
gure this one out. Jolson and
Parks were sitting in a projection
room watching “Jolson Sings
Again” scenes. On the screen was
Jolson, played by Parks, meeting
Larry Parks, also played by Parks.
Wow! : Sy
Year-end news notes . . . James,
Mason continues to add to the cat
population of Beverly Hills. , A
feiine giii from Judy Gariand
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1548,
way. He said he didn’t like the
way the boys tackled yesterday,
“The timing was poor and the
whole business could be in.
proved,” he said.
The Georgia coach said he was
trying to strengthen the teams de
fense and even had the seconq
team practice rushing Johnny
Rauch, the team’s expert forwarg
passer, during the scrimmage,
pions, 73-49, and Southern Cali
fornia upset Oregon State, 60-40.
i La Salle and Lawrence Tech of
Detroit joined Western Kentucky
as teams that now have lined up
seven straight vcitories.
i LaSalle had to overcome a 13-
point deficit to whip Louisville,
76-71, in Philadelphia. Utah won
the first game of this show, beating
St. Joseph’s of Philadelphia, 78-
54,
Lawrence Tech won over Colo
rado State, 45-43. Duquesne took
its fourth by conquering Rutgers.
53-43. ‘
'‘Bama Takes S. M. U.
Alabama, winning No. 5, upset
a favored Southern Methodist
University, 42-39, in the All Col
lege Tournament at Oklahoma
City. :
In other tournament games, the
Oklahoma Aggies opened defense
of their title by overpowering
Texas Tech, 47-26; Baylor toppled
Auburn, 59-44, and Texas turned
back Colorado A. and M., 56-47.
Defending Champion Kansas
State won its first game in the Big
Seven Conference meet, defeating
Nebraska, 48-34. lowa State was
-also a victor, outsing specially in
vited Harvard, 56-54.
Another tournament opens to
day-—the Los Angeles Invitational
—and some more damage will
threaten the undefeated ranks,
North Carolina and Hamline, both
without a setback, are entered in
the eight-team field. °
PARACANINES
Soviet Russia trains dogs as
, parachute jumpers for army serv
ilce. The animals are taken aloft in
a plane, placed in cylindrical
'boxes, with parachutes attached,
and cast overboard.
makes it eight . . . Las Vegas 1
making a strong bid for Holly
wood greenery over the holidays:
Hildegarde, the Ritz Brothers, Car
men Miranda and Ina Ray Hutton
are entertaining at the Casinos.
Esther Williams is planning @
string of gasoline stations. Shes
letting her first one pay for the
next . . . Charles Laughton, Ho
lywood’s sloppiest dresser, ha
been featured in a Paris fashio?
‘magazine. His usual costume
around Paris is a black Hombu's
hat, untucked green sports shi’h
blue suit and red tie. Hope I
doesn’t start a fad over there
Barry Fitzgerald got a bicycle
from Paramount, joining such ¢
clists as Hope and Crosby. Irish
man Barry is puzzled by the cols
—fireman red . . . Melvyn and
Helen Gahagan Douglas are haviné
a belated - election celebratio™
Their three kids are home fro”
school to help them.
Gloria DeHaven gets a chanf
of pace in her career. After th¢
musical “And Baby Makes Threé
she does a straight role in “Scent
of e”_ . ~ Darryl Hickmé®
joins Radioman Norman Corwin !
‘The Glass House,” destined or
ihe Droadway stage.