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BANNER - HERALD
SPORTS
808 OLIVER, SPORTS EDITOR
W.Kentucky, Dukes
Seem “In” For NIT
BY TED MEIER
NEW YORK, Feb. 17— (AP) —Looks as if Duquesne
and Western Kentucky are just about “in” for the Nat
iomal Invitation College Basketball Tournament next
month — Niagara, too, maybe.
Once-beaten Duquesne, ranked
seventh in this week’s Associated
Press national poll, smashed sixth
ranked Long Island, 60-53, in
Madison Square Garden last night.
This was considered a must game
for the Debonair Dukes.
Western Kentucky, ranked
ninth, chalked up its 13th
straight victory, by overwhelm
ing Miami (Fla.) 83-47.
Niagara upset City College of
New York, 68-61, in the first game
of the Garden doubleheader be
fore 18,000. This strengthened
Niagara’s hopes for a bid to N, I
T., but the selection committee un
officially is reported at this time
to be leaning towards Canisius as
the better of the two Buffalo (NY)
area quintets.
Underdog Duquesne took a
34-20 halftime lead, increased
this to 36-20 at the start of the
second half, then wilted under
Lemng Island’s great rally that
pulled the Blackbirds to within
53-51 with 3 1-2 minutes left.
At this point Chuck Cooper, who
did yeoman work for the Dukes,
sank a one-handed push shot, and
a free throw to haul the Dukes out
of danger. It was Duquesne’s 20th
win against one defeat—that at
the hands of Louisville at Louis
ville.
Held To 3 In First
Sherman White, Long Island
star, was held to three points in
the first half, but got loose for 18
in the second half,
Niagara, an 11-point under
deg. duplicated Duquesne’s feat
in epening 2 big lead and then
withstanding CCNY'’s late rally.
Led by little Zeke Sinicola the
Purple Eagles took a 15-4 lead
at the start and led all the way.
Bob Lavoy, 6:07, sparked West
ern Kentucky’s to its 21st triumph
in 25 games as the boys from the
blue grass country swamped Mi
ami. Lavoy tallied 38 points, 28
coming in the second half.
Murray (KY) State, on an
eastern tour, came from be
hind a 14-2 deficit to beat the
New Britain (Conn.) Teachers,
62-58. Chicago Loyola also came
from behind to sink Western
Michigan, 85-71.
Vanderbilt, ranked 20th, clung
to first place in the Southeastern
conference by swamping Mississip
pi, 80-47, William and Mary, held
on even terms 25-25 during the
first half, spurted in the last 20
minutes to sink Washington and
Lee, 70-57, in the Southern Con
ference. Chet Giermak got 23
points for Willlam and Mary, most
in the second half.
St. Michaels of Vermont won
its first Vermont conference
championship in ten years by
whipping Norwich, 63-30. West
Texas trimmed New Mexico, 70-
61, in the Border conference.
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known as the “boneshaker” be=
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according to the Encyclopedia
Britannica.
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Wid C. Matthews (above) of
Hattiesburg, Miss., has been
signed by the Chicago Cubs as
director of playing personnel.
'Tis reported his salary will be
$20,000 a year. He succeeds
Charlie Grimm who resigned to
manage Dallas in the- Texas
League.—~(AP Photo.)
Peanut Wins
Argument In
Seals™ Park
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 17—
~—(AP)~—Shelled from all sides,
the head man of the San Fran
cisco Seals conceded defeat and
reopened the club’s baseball
park to the powerful peanut.
Public opinion and the rough
jacketed little goober so dear to
the fans’ collective palate were
too much for President Paul I.
Fagan of the Pacific Coast League
team.
It was a brave, but short-lived
edict: No more peanuts in Seals
Stadium; costs too much ($20,000
a season) to clean up.
Hardly had the ink dried yes
ferday on this pronouncement
when Fagan’s phone started do
ing a fandango. Irate fans were
making runs on peanut ven
dors—evidently intending to
mail the portly Seal prexy a
hatful of shells,
Several applied for city licenses
to operate portable peanut stands
outside the ball park.
“I give up,” Fagan said. He
frantically telephoned sports writ
ers to spread the word.
¢‘He (Mr. Peanut) wirs. It's the
first time in my life I've been
beaten, and it had to be by a pea
nut!”
“By the wide dissemination of
my decision to outlaw the pea
nut, I have found out the pub
lic wants peanuts. Peanuts the
public shall have, and good ones
—large, fresh roasted ones.”
Not only did Fagan have to cope
with an indignant public, but he
was squirming ‘under an array of
sports page editorial fingers—all
pointing with shame rt one who
would dare shove a peanut around.
And, Fagan added:
“When I decided to bar pea
nuts, I didn’t think of all the
peanut pickers it would throw
out of work in the Virginia,
Carolina and Georgia peanut
plantations,
“Those people have a right to
earn a living.”
The janitors think so, too. Rep
resented by the building service
employes union, the Seals Stadium
broom wielders announced they
would demand $1.50 an hour for
sweeping up peanut shells. That’s
15 cents an hour more than they
got last season.
That, at Fagan’s estimate, will
add $2,000 to the $20,000 it al
ready costs to clean out the sta
dium,
The official uniform of the Boy
Scouts of America is protected by
a special Act of Congress.
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Bulldogs Face
Bears Saturday
Georgia’s quintet, unbeaten in nine home games this
season, take on dangerous Mércer in Macon Saturday
night in its next to last game of the regular season. '
The Bulldogs beat the Bears in
Athens last month, 63-57, but
Coach Jim Whatley is duly alarm
ed about Saturday night’s outcome
on the Bears’ home court. Mercer
is led by the boy whom Coach
Whatley ranks as Georgia’s best
opponent to date, forward, Glenn
Wilkes of Eatonton, Ga., a 6-3
shotmaker,
284 Total
Slim Schloss’ 21 points as Geor
gia beat Tech, 73-72, in overtime
here Wednesday gives him a sea
sonal total of 284 in 19 games-—an
average of 14.9 per game. Captain
Bob Healey is Georgia’s second
high scorer with 219 points—an
average of 11.5. ¥
Athletic Director Wallace Butts
has appointed Johnny Ranch,
Georgia’s all-America T-quarter
back in 1948, to coach Georgia’s
freshman baseball team.
Rauch, who sparked the Bull
dogs’ to the Southeastern Confer
ence grid title in 1948 and also
was a regular on the Bulldogs’
SEC champions of 1946, was a
home-run hitting third baseman
with the Georgia nine.
Rauch currently is helping coach
the T-quarterbacks in Georgia’s
spring practice. He is the profes
sional football property of the New
York Bulldogs, with whom he
plans to play next fall.
Porter Payne, Georgia football
captain last fall and all-SEC
tackle in 1948 when Georgia won
the SEC championship, is turning
down a chance to play pro foot
ball with the New York Giants to
accept a position. with a well
known tomato company in Atlanta.
Payne, who is married and has
two children, will graduate from
Georgia in March with a B. S.
degree in Education.
Georgia’s strong swimming team
has three more dual meets before
the annual SEC meet in Atlanta
March 9-11. The Bulldogs swim
Emory university here Tuesday
afternoon at 4 p. m., Georgia Tech
in Atlanta Saturday at 3 p. m. and
the University of Miami here Wed
nesday, March 1, at 4 p. m.
The Bulldogs trounced Clemson
college, 65-10, here Wednesday
with Bill Volk, of Brunswick, set
ting a new school record of 2:38.9
in the 200-yard breaststroke, bare
ly touching out teammate Harold
Morris of Athens, the old record
holder at 2:39.4.
All-Age Stakes
In 58th Running
HERNANDO, Miss., Feb. 17.—
(AP)—The 58th running of the
United States Club’s Open All-
Age Stake vsent into the stretch
here today with 28 pointers from
a starting field of 65, still to
show.
It was the fourth day’s running
of this classic and 12 dogs were
on tap. After the all-age will
come the Derby with a record
field of 37 entrants. Y
The highlight of yesterday’s
events was the all-around per
formance of Sub Deb, a pointer
bitch owned by Dan Gilchrist of
Courtland. Ala.
Running in the 17th brace with
Sunshine Nellie, owned by George
Shuttle .of Newport News, Va.,
Sub Deb scored six bevy finds in
the hour test—four of them in
43 minutes. ]
Yesterday’s Sports
In Brief
By The Associated Press
BASEBALL
NEW YORK — The Baseball
Writers Association cast their an
nual ballots for nominees to the
Hall of Fame but no player re
ceived the necessary 75 per cent;
Mel Ott came closest with 115
votes, 11 short.
SKIING
ASPEN, Colo.—Georges Schnei
der won the slalom race to give
Switzerland the World Ski Title,
FOOTBALL
EAST LANSING — Michigan
State named Lowell (Red) Daw
son, former head coach at Tulane
and Buffalo Bills, as backfield
mentor.
YACHTING
NASSAU, Bahamas -— Blitzen,
owned by Ernest Grates and Mur
ray Kanpp of Detroit, won 12th
Annual Miami to Nassau sailing
race.
RACING
MIAMI — Bug Juice ($12.40)
won the Palmetto Purse at Hia
leah.
NEW ORLEANS—My Diamond
($9.60) won the Krewe of Momus
purse at the Fair Grounds.
ARCADIA — M’Dearsy ($5.10)
won the San Marino purse at San
ta Anita.
Fights Last Nite
By The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA - Honeychile
Johnson, 1471, Philadelphia, out
pointed Charley Salas, 149%,
Phoenix, Ariz. 8.
NEW YORK (Sunnyside Gar
den) — Claude Hammond, 146,
West New York, N. J. stopped Joey
Carkido, 14134, Youngstown, 3.
PITTSBURGH — Floyd Morris,
160, Pittsburgh, knocked out Kid
McCoy, 162, Indianapolis, 1.
BROOKLYN (Broadway Arena)
— Billy Neri, 132, Bridgeport,
Conn. outpointed Al Pennino, 129,
Brooklyn, 8.
FALL RIVER, Mass. — Dave
“Sunny” Shade, 134, Fall River,
toutpointe‘d Young Junior, 187,
Springfield, Mass. 10. ;
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
BY DAN MAGILL, JR.
Jimmy Dudley
Wins Tourney
In Fort Meyers
Jimmy Dudley of this city re
cently won the Gladiolus-Page
ant Golf Tournament in Fort
Meyers, Fla., in a field of forty
two participants.
Dudley, former University of
Georgia golfing star and one of
Athens’s top linksmen, fired a
74 to capture top honors in the
one-day tourney. He was pre
sented a trophy for his achieve
ment.
Local Y’ Fives
Face Moultrie
Here Saturday
Two basketball battles between
Athens and Moultrie YMCA’s will
be staged here in the local “Y”
gymnacium tomorrow morning.
The older and more experienced
Moultrie fives are favored. Ath
ens Midgets will face Moultrie at
9 a. m. while the Intermediates
will take on the visitors at 10 a. m.
Tonight several intra-squad Prep
tilts will be held with the first
starting at 7 o’clock.
i Midgets Win ;
Last night the Midgets whipped
the Preps, 61-44, in an intra-“Y”
affair. The older Midgets were led
to victory by Bryson Tanner and
Winston Wiggins with 16 points
apiece. Lou Lanard and “Sandy”
Butler were next for the winners
with eight tallies-each. -
The game’s high man was Ches
ter Leathers, of the Preps, with
19 points followed by teammate
Leon Farmer with ten tallies, A
big factor in the Preps outstand
ing showing against the older team
was the passing of Squeaky Simp
son.
Because of the games with
Moultrie tomorrow the Prep Class
will meet at 11 o’clock instead of
9:15 a. m. and the Cubs will gath
er at 2 o'clock instead of their
regular 10:15 class meeting. @
Records of the varoius “Y”
sqauds with out-of-town teams are
(listed as to class, ages, and
record); Cubs (ages 10-11-12),4-0;
Preps (ages 12 and 13), 6-0; Mid
gets (age 14), 10-3; Intermediates
(ages 14-15-16), 3-4.
Ott Misses ‘Fame’
Bv Eleven Votes
NEW YORK, Feb. 17—(AP)—
Mel Ott, former New York Giants
Slugger failed by 11 votes to make
baseball’s hall of fame.
At that, the left-handed power
hitting outfielder came closest
this year to joining the list of
diamond greats already named to
the shrine at Coopertown, N. Y.
none made the grade.
In the annual voting of the
Baseball Writers Association of
America, Ott drew 115 votes from
the 167 participating. Seventy
five per cent of the total vote—l 26
votes, in this case — —is needed.
Last year Charlie Gehringer, de
troit Tigers second baseman, was
chosen by the writers.
Bill Terry, Ott’s teammate, ran
second among the 125 stars of oth
er years who figured in the vot
ing. The Giant first baseman re
ceived 15 nominations. Each writ~
er voted for 10 players.
Other leaders were Jimmy Foxx,
103; Paul Waner, 95; Al Simmons,
90; Harry Heilmann, 87; Dizzy
Dean, 85; Bill Dickey, 78; Rabbit
Maranville, 66; Hank Greenberg,
64; Gabby Hartnett, 54; Dazzy
Vance, 52; Ted Lyons, 42; Joe
Cronin, 383; Tony Lazzeri,"2l;
Lefty Gomez, 18; Ross Youngs and
Zazk Wheat, 17; Ray Schalk, Ed
die Roush and Hack Wilson, 16.
OPPONENTS SCARCE
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 17.
— (AP) —lt's tough to get good
foes for retired heavyweight
champ Joe-Louis because he's in
such good shape, booking mana=-
ger Harry Mandel commplains.
He said Louis is only 10 pounds
heavier than when he won his
last title fight “and it won't be
hard for him to take that off if
he decides to meet Ezzard
Charles.”
Louis has been running four
and five miles every morning and
working out in the gym regularly,
Mandel said.
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One of the greatest sister acts in the annals of sports
—Marlene and Alice Bauer, currently hold the spot
light in women’s golf. Presently the two are playing in
the Everglades’ Mixed Foursome tournament. That’s
Alice on the left and Marlene (who was 16 yesterday),
is on the right.
BAUER SISTERS MEET
IN MIXED GOLF TODAY
PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 17 —
(AP)—Finals in the 15th Annual
Everglades Club Mixed Foursomes
Gold Tournament will be played
this afternoon, and, of course, the
Bauer sisters will compete.
Marlene Bauer celebrated her
16th° birthday yesterday while
she and her partner, Reginald
Boardman, jr., of Palm Beach,
eliminated Pat Devany of Grosse
Isle, Mich., and Lynn Creason of
Harrisburg, Pa., 5 and 4.
- Defeat Sweeny, Partner
Alice Bauer, who is 22, and her
partner, Clark Hardwick of Bel-
Air, Calif., registered a mild upset
by trimming Mrs. Betty Rush of
Hammond, Ind.,, and her partner,
Robert Sweeny, former British
amateur champion from London, 3
and 2.
Teday’s finals begin at 2:30 p.
m., and will be 18 holes over the
Everglades Country Club course,
which is a 5,973-yard layout with
par 70.
Fazio lLeads
In Ist Round
Of Rio Grande
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
HARLINGEN, Tex., Feb. 17 —
(AP) — The SIO,OOO Rio Grande
Valley Open golf tournament
slashed into its second round today
with jovial George Fazio out fron
by one stroke.
While the galleries followed the
co-favorites, Jimmie Demaret and
Cary Middlecoff, the lightly re
garded Fazio slipped in with a
seven-under-par 64 yesterday to
top the field of crack shots.
Middlecoff, the Ormond Beach,
Fla., dentist-turned-golfer who is
defending champion here, and De
maret, the Ojai, Calif.,, fashion
plate, stayed within striking dis
tance with cards of 66 and 70, re
spectively.
Fazio, a balding professional
from Conshohocken, Pa., who
hasn’t won a tournament in two
years, showed a card of 31-33.
Thirty-two players were in a
range of four strokes at the end of
the first round which saw over
half the field of 151 better or
equal par 71 for the 6095-yard
course.
A stroke back of Fazio were
Ernie Tardiff from Watertown, S.
C.; Skip Alexander of Knoxville,
Tenn., and John Barnum of Grand
Rapids, Mich. Six were dead
locked at 66: Jack Burke, jr., of
White Plains, N. Y., Jay Hebert of
Great Neck, Long Island, N. Y,
Bob Watson of Wichita Falls, Tex.,
Ralph Blomquist, of Glendale,
Calif., R. E. Barnes of Salina,
Kans.,, and Middlecoff.
There wasn’'t an amateur able
to shoot under 70. Ed Brady, sr.,
of San Benito, Tex., and Mal Gal
letta of St. Albans, Long Island,
N. Y., were the Simon-pures at
that figure.
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AHS Gymmtsz'um
Gets “New Look”
For Tournaments
Athens High’s gymnasium will
be decked cut in fine style for
the series of tournament games
that starts here tonight with the
Region 2-A girls’ finals. "
The gym took on a “new look”
this week by virtue of a new
piant job, installation of a new
electrically operated clock, and
a new coat of floer varnish for
the court.
Color scheme of the renovated
gymnasium floor features a solid
white “three-second lane,” with
a red foul circle, trimmed in
black.
After the regional girls’ finals
tonight, Athens High’s unbeaten
Trojans open the tournament
grind Wednesday night, meeting
Eastanollee here in the local
gym.
Basketball
By The Associated Press
EAST
Duquesné 60, Long Island 53
Niagara 68, CCNY 61.
SOUTH
Vanderbilt 80, Mississippi 47.
Western Kentucky 83, Miami
(Fla,) 47,
William and Mary 70, Washing
ton and Lee 57.
Virginia 71, Virginia Military 64.
Transylvania 60, Centre 57.
Allen Univ. 73, Knoxville 59.
College of Charleston 62, Jack=
sonville Naval Air 55.
Tampa 68, Erskine 58, -
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Region,District
Finals Set Here
BY CURTIS DRISKELL
Banner-Herald Sports Writer
Canton and Elberton girls’ basketball teams will de.i
the supremacy of Region 2-A here tonight when the t\ij.r.
sextets clash in the Athens High gymnasium in the ye..
ional tournament finals. The game gets underw,y -nfi
o’clock. i
The Athens High Trojanettes,
just through a successful season
in which they won 11 games, lost
six, and tied two, will pley Gaines
ville in the preliminary game at
7 o’clock. That curtain-raiser pro
misses to be a contest as hard
fought as the main go between the
Region 2-A finalists, since it pairs
natural rivals.
The Greeénie girls and the Blue
Devilettes earned their way into
the fianls by registering western
and eastern division triumphs
Wednesday night. Canton’s girls
erased Gainesville’s lasses from the
tourney 33-26, and Elberton got by
their last hurdle, Toccoa, 37-23.
Both teams will go to the State
girls’ tournament, ragardless of
the outcome of tonight’s fray,
but the two teams will vie for
the Region 2-A crown, anyway.
Canton’s girls, strong all season
Three - Miler
Not ~Ready
For Big Time
.. By HUGH FULLERTON, JR...
NEW YORK, Feb. 17—(AP)—
One reason why Don McEwen,
Michigan’s sophomore sensation
from Ottawa won’t run in the
A. A. U, three Mile race tomor=
row is that he’s so good he even
has his coach scared . . . after
watching McEwen bring his two
mile time down from 9:21.5 to
9:06.9 in three races, coach Don
Canhan doesn’t want to hurt the
kid’s chances for future greatness
by sending him against Wilt,
Stone, Heino and Co. too soon
After reading a Washington col
‘umnist’s report that he’d like to
be waived from the Braves to
Washington, Tommy Holmes ap
pealed to his newspaper friends:
“Say it ain’t sO.” ... Tommy thinks
he still has a chance to be a Bos
ton regular and he doesn’t think
anybody can hit enough home runs
in Griffith stadium.
SPORTSMENTION
Floyd (Ben) Schwartz Wal
der, Syracuse U. football,
coach, has turned down at least
four offers this year from other
schools, including Pitt and West
Virginia, his home state . . . Bal
timore’s Jake Embry, whe held
the unusual position a year ago of
being president of big league clubs
in two sports—the football Colts
and basketball Bullets—isn’t pre
sident of either now . . . Woody
Coleman nf Roswell, Ga., never
had seen a stock car automobile
race before starting in the recent
Jamboree at Daytona Beach Fla.
He finished tenth in a field of 43.
....Curt Kenney, who {fights
Charley Norkus in a garden prelim
tonight, won the Kansas Golden
Gloves title in 1943 with only one
victory . . . there were onl three
light heavies entered . . . . If he
had Chuck Wergeles as his mana
ger, that record might qualify
Curt for a main bout.
Tenn, Tech 48, Chattanooga 44.
MIDWEST
Chicago Loyola 85, Western
Michigan 71.
Alma 53, Detroit Tech 30.
l‘mA'. MUA.Y l:, Lony
long, will probably be rated fay.
orites to take tonight'y tilg, but
Elberton has shown anoyg),
strength to be consideras » big
eontender.
Tomorrow night, tinalists i, the
Tenth District Class “C» .4
Class “B” tournaments i battle
here in Woodvu#f Hall for State
tournament positions. Bogart's
girls will play Tignall's gicls o g
o’clock in the “C” gama, and Wat
kinsville will meet Thomson at ¢
o’clock in the “B” finals
In semi-final games Isst night,
Tignall crushed Crawfordville, 45.
23, in “C” competition, 55 Tignall's
Miss Guin netted 21 points. Thom.
son continued its all-winning v e
by eliminating Hartwell, 46-32 i,
a “B” tilt. ' Mary Brown came
through with 27 poinfs for Thom.
son. Both those games were ;..
ed at Warrenton.
At Watkinsville, Bogart hag
another close squeeze, hut may.
aged to beat Social Circle, 24-21.
in ‘C” play. Miss MocLeroy led
winners with 11 poinis, but Mise
Adams was high with 12 for the
losers. Alice Hillsman fired 29
points to pace Watkinsville t, &
51-33 victory over Comer in the
“B” feature. Miss Kussell scored
26 points in a losing eause for
Comer.
Admission prices for both re.
gional and district tournament picy
are nominal. Admission to region
finals will be only 35 eents and
75 cents, and to the district final
50 cents and 75 cents.
Summaries:
At Watkinsvill=
Class “B”
Waltkinsville (51) Comer (33)
F—Hillsman (29) .. Russell (26)
F—Fowler (8) ........ Epps (2)
F—Turnbull (4) .... T. Fleming
Rt i h... ... Loftis
G—Christopher ......... Hughes
G—8e11........«:....... Strozier
Substitutions: Watkinsville —
O’Kelley (10). Comer—McCon
nell, Rowe, E. Fleming, Powell,
Nelms, Porterfield.
Halftime score—Watlkinsville 22,
Comer 17.. -
Class “C”
Bogart (24) Social Circle (21)
F—McLeroy (11) .... Adams (13)
F—Evans ......... Shepherd (2)
F—Owens (4) ....... Tolbert (3)
G—Porterfield .. E. O'Kelley (3)
G—Dickens ............. Kilgore
G—Oldham ............ Sullivan
Substitutions: Bogart — McCan
non (9). Social Circie—P. O'Kel
ley.
Halftime score—Bogart 18, So
cial Circle 9. :
At Warrenton
Class “B
Thomson (46) Hartwell (32)
F—M. Brown (27) EFowland (13)
F—Ashley (16) .. AMoorehead (12)
F—M. A. Hunt (3) .. Weaver (3)
Cealoes . ... ~. .. J. Brown
G—Abbott ............ Freeman
G-—-Kaney .............. Teasley
Substitutions: Thomson — M
Hunt, Aldred, Russell, Watson
Gilland, McCommons. Fartwell—
Cordell, Osborne, M. Browpy
Schutts, Greenway. :
Halftime score — Thomson 2,
Hartwell 17.
Class *C”
Tignall (45) Crawfordville (23)
®oCuin (81) .5...... Dozier (6)
F—Stribling ........ Hubert (11
F—Evans (14) ........ Gumn ©)
G—Rhodes .....csoooo. Woodruf
Ge-Thornton ............ Rhodes
G—Satterfield ......... Jones
Substitutions: Tignall — Johnscn
(6), S. Echols (4), J. Echols, Bul
ford, Dawkins. Crawfordville —
Nelson, Burton (1), Corry, Taylon
Bailey, Barksdale. .