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SPORTS
808 OLIVER, SPORTS EDITOR
Hogan Sure Of Return
To Tournament Grind
FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 22, — (AP) — Wee Ben
Hogan is pretty confident he will return someday to the
professional golf tournament circuit.
But the great linksman, whose
glittering career was halted al
most a year ago in a bus-automo
bile crash, said today he didn’t
think he ever would be able to
xlay in a tournament that had 36
oles in a single day.
“I don't think I'll ever be able
to go two rounds in one day in
tournament competition,”. said
Ben as he reiaxed at Colonial
Country Club here. “But there
aren’'t many tournaments that
have 38 holes in one day anyway.”
Hogan was pleased that he now
is able to play nine to eighteen
holes a day. He did his first 18-
hole rounds Dec. 10 and 11 but
travelled the course in a scooter.
He registered 71 and 72 over the
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tough par 70 Colonial course,
Tuesday he walked around 18
holes and again shot under 80.
“I get awfully tired and some
times my legs swell on me,” he
said. “But, you xnow” — and he
grinned at this — “I have to get
my weight down.”
i Hogan always was known as the
ilittle man of sport —the little
giant of the fairways they called
him. If he had weighed 140 pounds
he would have figured he was
busting at the seams.
Today he weighs over 155
pounds and admitted he looked
something like a baby blimp. “Me
trying to tak. off weight is some
thing to joke about,” he said.
Sugar Bowi
Week Bills
Six Sports
NEW ORLEANS, Dec, 22—(AP)
—To many sports fans the words
“Sugar Bowl” mean only a foot
ball classic but actuaily the big
game is only the climax of a week
of events in the Midwinter Sports
Festival that opens here Monday
with yacht races.
Boxing matches are to be held
Wednesday, the same day 8 three
day invitational tennis tourney be
gins.
On Thursday of that week the
two-day basketball doublehead
ers begin.
The invitational track meet will
be held Sunday, Jan. 1 with the
football game closing the festival
on Jan. 2.
Spectators will find six old time
Sugar Bowlers among the eight
teams participating.
Of the eight teams participating
in the various events, Louisiana
State University furnishes two and
Syracuse, KXentucky, Villanova,
Bradley, Tulane and Oklahoma
one each. .
The LSU football team, victor
over - three conference winners,
will meet Oklahoma in the big
event.
Gators Get
Top G i
op Georgia,
Florid
orida Stars
GAINESVILLE, Fla,, Dec. 22—
(AP)—A goodly crop of top-notch
Florida and Georgia high school
graduate football players have
signed scholarships with the Uni
versity of Florida and will enter
school in September.
The list includes seven backs
and 13 linemen. Each was an out
standing performer for his squad
during the past football season
and several were named on All-
Southern or All-Conference teams.
The backs include Hillman Huey
Rhodes, Glynn Academy, Bruns
wick, Ga., six-foot, 205-pound
halfback, named Georgia All-
State; Thomas Owen, Moultrie,
Ga., 205, six-foot, one-inch half
back; and Charlie Maddox, At
| lanta Bass High, six-foot, 185-
pound haifback.
The linemen include Eddie Mec-
Clain, Glynn Academy, Bruns
wick, Ga., 172 pound six-foot end,
All-State.
Centers: Jack Annis, Atlanta
Grady High, 216 pounds six feet,
three inches.
All tackles are Florida players.
Several other high school starg
have been and are being sought by
university officials, and more
names will be announced after the
Christmas holidays.
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Yesterday's Sports
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' In Brief
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[ By The Associated Press
- PASADENA, Calif. — Coach
Wes Fesler of Ohio State said he
was “weighing” a private business
offer but he does not intend to
’ma‘l_:‘e any decision on his future
untii afier the DBuckeyes’ gaine
with California in the Rose Bowl.
MANHATTAN, Kas. — Kansas
announced plans to go all out in
Big Seven football competition
next year with a program that
will put inducements to athletes
right out in the open.
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NAME PLAYER-—Gearge Mikan is six feet 10 inches tall, but the
Minneapolis Lakers’ center needs a ladder to reach the name he’s
made for himself as a professional. For the first time the Madison
Square Garden marquee carries the name of an individual featured
against a team. The game is billed as “Geo. Mikan vs, Knicks” (New
York Knickerbockers.) And George is making it shine.
Six Straight Now e
Unbeaten Slate Would
Help Syracuse Mentor
BY TED MEIER
NEW YORK, Dec. 22. — (AP) — It would be nice if
Syracuse’s basketball team went through its 25-game
schedulé undefeated this season.
It would be a nice going away
present for Lew Andrea who plans
to step down as Syracuse basket
ball coach after this campaign.
Lew, who started coaching the
Orange quintet 25 years ago, will
continue ot Syracuse as director
of athletics. . v
It probably is too much to ex
pect the Orange to go unbeaten,
but so far they have played and
won six games and there’s no law
against hoping.
Syracuse first dumped Toron=
to, 79-45, then the Quantico (Va)
Marines, 94-48, and followed by
whipping Columbia, 60-48, Rut
gers, 72-53, Princeon, 80-48, and
last night, Pennsylvania, 91-65.
While Syracuse continued in the
undefeated ranks Minnesota, of
the Big Ten, fell out of the se
lect group by losing to Washing
ton, 53-46, in an intersectional
game on the Pacific coast. Minne
sota had beaten Washington in the
first of a two-game series Tues
day night. .
Kentucky, the defending NCAA
champions bounced back from its
defeat at the hands of St. Johns
(Bkn) recently, to nose out De
paul 49-47. A free throw in the
closing seconds by sophomore
Skippy Whitaker of Sarasota, Fla.
Provided the winning margin al
though Garland Townes added an
other free throw a few seconds
later. .
Once-beaten Bradley, regarded
as one of the nation’s top teams,
chalked up its sixth triumph in
seven start: by whipping Wash
ington State, 67-59.
Oregon, beaten by Stanford on
Tuesday night, turned the tables
on the Indians with a 58-51 tri
umph.
In other games West Virginia
beatTempie, 57-46; Tampe upend
ed Tennessee, 66-63; Miami (Fla)
trounced Mississippi, 82-67; Tole=
do took Denver, 52-50; Purdue
whipped Westminster (Pa) 61.54.
Drake humbled Idaho, 57-53; Col
orado Walloped Rice, 83-52; Xav=
ier of Cin¢; nati walked over San
ta Clara, 76-41; and Seton Hall
vhipped Westminister (Pa) 81-54.
Basketball
S.SR A VR R R AT RIS
LAST NIGHT'S COLLEGE
BASKETBALL
By The Associated Press
EAST
Syracuse 91, Pennsylvania 65,
West Virginia 57, Temple 46.
Army 45, Ithaca 41.
SOUTH
Kentucky 49, DePaul 47.
Tampa 66, Tennessee 83.
Spring Hill 45, New Orleans
Loyola 42.
Cedarville 51, Berea (Ky.) 44.
American Univ, 65, Ohio Wes
leyan 47.
Miami (Fla.) 82, Mississippi 87.
SOUTHWEST
Texas Tech 69, Austin 59.
MIDWEST
Toledo 52, Denver 50,
41K:.'lvier (Ohio) 76, Santa Clara
Purdue 75, Western Reéserve b 54.
Southwest Missouri 79, Florida
State 34,
FAR WEST
Oregon 58, Stanford 81.
Washington 58, Minnesota 486.
BY HUGH FULLERTON, JR.
NEW YORK, Dec. 22—(AP)—
The Chicgo White Sox, who prob
ably have fewer farm clubs than
any other major league outfit, fig
they can get more material out of
eight clubs than, say 22. ... “If
you get two players a year out of
your farms — two that have a
chance to stick — that’s all you
can expect,” says General Mana
ger Frank Lane. . . . “Maybe it’s
all right to operate 22 clubs to get
those prospects if your minor
league teams make money, but
most of them don’t. . . . So we
concentrate on quality instead of
quantity. . . . You start with say
15 good prospects on a Class D
club; the next year in Class C
they’re reduced to seven. A really
good player, one who is going to
be a siar; stands out €ven in those
classes and I've seen plenty who
were good enough to jump from
Class B right into the majors. . . .
It isn’t necessary to have a lot of
farms to . develop that kind of
boys.” . ... P. S.: Only an unkind
observer would add that it isn’t
a very big jump to where the Sox
were in the majors last season.
SPORTS BEFORE YOUR EYES
After watching Notre Dame’s
Leon Hart Hart against S. M. U,
Dutch Meyer of Texas Christian
concluded that Leon 1s vulnerable
tc outside plays because his size
slows him in changing direction.
. . .« Sam Barry, whose Southern
California basketballers had a
miserable night in the Garden,
warns: “Watch out for my sopho
mores; we don’t be back for two
years, but they’ll be ready then.”
. .. To which Honey Russell coun
ters that Seton Hill’s freshmen are
so hot they can beat his varsity
by 30 points every day. .. . The
roller Derby skaters drew 798,~
178 paid admission in the metro
politan New York area in 1949—
which is uite an ad for television.
END OF THE LINE
George Weiss maintains the
Yankees are cashing in on the
“platoon” system Casey Stengel
used last summer by trading off
the players the other clubs got to
see because of it. . Before the
Tulane-Loulstana State football
game, a bunch of LSU kids were
caught smearing paint around Tu
lane. . . . Apparently they were
just brushing up on their selec
tions because they hit the exact
score—2l-0.
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Fights Last Nite
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK — George Kaplan,
187 1-2, Brooklyn, outpointed
Duilio Spagnolo, 185 §-4, Italy, 8.
Solan, 148, Phoets. Tetoeiied
'y » n
llznbe Herman, 140, im Angeles,
Wildcat Squad
Given "“Rest”;
One Daily Drill
TOUCOUA, Fia., Ueec. 2% — (AT)
-—Kentucky’s Wildeats, working
out here for their Jan. 2 date
with Santa Clara in Miami's
Orange Bowl, cut their training
schedule to single sessions to
day.
Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant
announced he may hold the first
full - scale scrimmage session
since the team arrived Sunday.
The Wildcats’ T formation di
rector said the team will prac
tice only in the afternoons and
wi'l forego the customary work
out, ; "
The team “still looked awfully
slow” after yesterday’s workout,
Bryant said. He added he hoped
it was “the result of the two a
day practices.”
He said one of the principal
reasons for cutting down on the
training hours is to rest the
players and give them more
spring in their legs.
Oglethorpe
Takes Pair
From Royston
Oglethorpe County High School
teams swept a basketpall double
header from Royston in Lexing
ton last Friday night, with O. C.
H. S. girls winning 49-21 and the
boys taking their game, 24-14.
Adkins, with 22 points,was high
scorer for the girls’ game, and
Sanders paced the O. C. H. S. boys
with 10. Belt, with 10 for the girls,
and Jordan, with nine for the
boys, were high among the Roys
ton scorers. .
Summary: :
GIRLS
O.C.H. 8. (4%) Royston (21)
F—Adkins (22) ...... Carey (9)
F—Vaughn (8) ......, Hart (1)
F—Hansford (10) .... Belt (10)
S—PRU .. .. ... ves e Bowers
G—Scarborough .......... Ware
CG-oßmine- 1. via o i Powler
Substitutions: O. C. H. S.—Gra
ham (4), McWhorter (1), La-
Count (4), Jackson, Harrison,
Wallace. Royston — Mize, Roach,
Haley, Casey (1), Snipes.
BOYS
O.C.HSB (29) Royston (14}
F—Morgan (4) .... Phillli:Ps (1)
F—SANDERS (10) ..... Fortson
C—Settle (5) ........ Jordan (9)
G=Nall .v, i s e
G—Matthews (1) .. Dickson (2)
Substitutions: O. C.H. S. —Huff,
Hayes, McWhorter (4), Hogan,
MacFarland, Maxwell, Royston—
Carey (2) Adams, Boy.
NO NEW TRIAL
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 22 —
(AP)—Judge Edwin O. Lewis has
overruled a motion for a new trial
sought by Gus Dorazio, former
heavyweight boxer who once
fought Joe Louis for the heavy=-
weight title. Dorazio was con
victed of second degree murder
last January in the death of a
fellow brewery worker.
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Next For Troi
Next For lrojans
BY CURTIS DRISKELL
Athens High’s Trojan basketball team is back in At}.
ens today, and with an ‘‘impossible” task successfully
completed and behind them in the Trojans’ three
swing through the regions of South Georgia.
His 87th
Birthd
irthday
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 22 —
(AP)—Cornelius J. McGillicuddy
celebrates his 87th. birthday today
but whether baseball’s Connie
Mack was born Dec. 22 or 23, 1862,
is still an open question.
“I have been told I arrived in
the middie of the night,” said the
manager of the Philadelphia Ath
letics. “Some say it was the 22nd
others the 23rd.”
No big celebration is planned.
The grand old man of baseball
planned only to hold his annual
birthday news conference and be
the honored guest at a luncheon
attended only by relatives and
close friends.
Although Connie has been a
part of the baseball picture for 66
years—49 as manager of the Ath
letics—he prefers to think of the
future rather than the past.
And most of all Connie likes to
think of things to ecome in 1950—
the year he hopes will bring an
other world series championship
in celebration of his golden an
niversary as head of the A’s.
Not since 1931 has the American
League pennant or championship
flag flown above Shibe Park, But
Connie has high hopes for next
season. .
Here’s how Connie figures his
team since laying out SIOO,OOO re
cently for new talent:
Bob Dillinger — purchased with
outfielder Paul Lehner from the
St. Louis Browns for SIOO,OOO plus
four players—with strengthen the
A’s infield.
Lehner can bolster the outfield
and Joe Astroth together with Joe
Tipton figure io hold down the
catching end of the game.
Connie likes his pitching staff
and will be even more kindly dis
posed toward the mound contin=
gent if: Joe Coleman reports at
playing weight, Phil Marchildon
overcomes his physical troubles of
last season, and Alex Kellner ean
repeat his 1949 performance.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1949,
i With wins over two of South
Georgia’s toughest ball clubs on
successive nights, the Trojune
made quite an impression in the
lower boundaries of the styic
Montezuma, the tougher of ihe
two quintets they faced, e+
down before the Trojan fast breui
66-54, and Cuthbert, also 17109
"high on the list of Soutnern Ger -
gia’s cage powers, folded in * »
face of a terrific onslaught, 52-°
When the Trojans had :d.-2
' Cuthbert to their list, there were
cries of “Stay over one more nioh:
|and play Perry.” Tt seems that
! Perry, too, has come up with ar
|other dynamo, and several Scuih
Georgia teams were anxious to
see them meet the Troians,
. _ Defense Shines
Defense, always an important
phase of basketball in these days
of high-scoring games, was aoyt
!the brightest spot along the v:ov
for Trojan coach Arnold Del.s-
Perriere. Defense against 1o
Cuthbert five was somethinoe -
see, DeLaPerriere agreed, afte
the Trojans had limited their 1o«
to a 13-point halftime score.
- Guards Warren Thurmond, Di
kie Carteaux, and Charlie Pario:-
were big cogs in the tight Tro
defensive set-up, and Ted Shor .
Bill Compton, and Frederick
i Leathers played stellar defense in
| the pair of wins. Carteaux per-
Iformed one of the best jobs in
holding Carl Peaster, star Moy ic<
zuma forward, to six points in the
first half, while Short did another
good job in limiting Thad Aycock
of Cuthbert to & mere 12 point:
the full game.
The Trojans are :Isoking
Marietta now. Marietta brine:
one of the top teams from over A-.
lanta way here on December 2
for the next Athens home tilt. T
attraction will be a two-game -
fair, starting at 7:30 with the <"
team fracas, and the varsity o«
should be underway about o 3
The Marietta five promises Atlic: -
one of its toughest tests of the <n
iire season.
His new coaches—Mickey Coch
rane and Bing Miller - ghould
more than carry thelr snd of the
load. These two with Coash Jim
m{ Dykes were members of the
A’s last pennant-winning seam.
“Otf course,” reflects Connie.
“we could stand some hitting. Bui
then who couldn’t?”
That'’s a good question.