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BANNER - HERALD
SPORTS
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U.S. Runnerup To
Norway In Olympics
OSLO, Feb. 25. — (AP) — Oslo wrapped up the 1952
Winter Olympics games today but there was a lot of trou
b'e getting the final knot tied. i e
The United States played Can
ada to a 3-3 draw and picked up
second place to the Canadian’s
championship in the Hockey
Tournament last night for run
nerup honors to Norway in the
final standings for the 10 days of
competition.
The hockey game was supposed
tu have been the final competition
in the games.
Colorful Closing
Today was reserved for the col
orful closing and the awarding
of medals.
But the Organizing Committee
found ftself with two hockey games
to be played. They will affect
third, fourth and sixth places in
the teurnament stindings.
Poland tackles Norway and can
take sixth place by winning.
Czechoslovakia and Sweden were
ordered to play off their third
place tie only two hours before
the closing ceremonies are sche
duled to start.
To top it off the Czechs don’t
want to play. They claim since
they beat the Swedes 4-0 last
night the game is unnecessary.
The Interaational Ice Hockey
Federation said it was necessary
under a rule passed last week,
The rule requires playoffs when
two teams are tied for one of the
first three places n the European,
world and Olympic chamgionships.
The present tournament counts for
Pirates’ Manager
l.ooks Ahead To 53
(This & another in the series of articles by major league managers
of their club prospects for 1952.)
BY BILLY MEYER
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Feb. 25. — (AP) — Billy
Meyer, popular manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, does
not expect too much this season but is looking ahead to
1953.
“We've got a long way to go to
the top,” said Meyer, “so we don’t
figure to make a run for the pen
nant before 1953. But, watch out
for us & year *rom now—if the
armed gervices don’t don't nab
too many of the kids. \
"Member Merson |
“You remember Jack Merson
from last fall? He hit .360 for us'
in 18 games after being called up
from Indianapeclis. He was also a
solid hitter in the American Asso
ciation, and should be our regu
lar second baseman.
“Dale Googan is back for an
other try at first base, and he may
make it this time, Dick Smith im
pressed me at third late last year,
after we brought him wup from
Charleston. We drafted a kid
named Clem Koshorek from Tole
do. He is not a big hitter but our
scouts and Branch Rickey thinks
he's & top-notch tielder who may
give George Strickland a fight for
the regular shortstop berth.
“W 3 were hurt when they called
outfielder Frank Thomas and
pitcher Vernon Law into service.
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both the world and European
titles.
A goal by Jimmy Sedin of St.
Paul, Minn., with less than three
minutes to play, saved the Amer
licans from being involved in the
rhubarb, The draw gave them one
| point.
That meant silver medals and
raised the United States final
lover-all point total to 89 1-2—
their best for any winter Olym
| pics in Europe.
| The second place hockey finish
, also equalled the best that Amer
icans ever have done.
The host Norwegians, far and
away the biggest point scorers,
won their customary first and sec
ond places in the ski jumping
. yesterday,
Easy Second
Yhe United States was an easy
sacond in the point department,
followed by Finland with 72 and
Austria with 60.
Uncle Sam’s sons and daughters
won four first-place gold medals
and produced their first double
ski winner—Andrea Mead Law
rence, victorious in the Women’s
Slalom and giant Slalom:.
The other American winners
were Ken Henry of Chicago in
the 500-meter speed skating and
Dick Button of Englewood, N. J,,
in the men’s figure skating. But
ton was the only 1948 Olympic
lchampion to repeat. I'ive others
tried.
Thomas leoked like the answer to
my centerfield problem last year,
but Tom Saffell is back. He hit .320
for Indianapolis after we sent him
back there, You know, of course,
that Law is one of the better young
pitchers in the league.
‘“We have a dozen young pitch
ers in training camp and may come
up with a replacement for Law,
Right now, Don Carlsen appears to
have the best chance, He won two
good games for us after Rickey
brought him up from New Orleans.
He's only 24, but has had some
good experience. Len Yochim, a
left-hander who won 11 and lost
only one for Charleston last year,
is another fine prospect. I put him
in a game against the Braves last
September and he didn’t do badly.
'Member lott
“You remember Hooks lott, who
was with the Giants a few years
back? We're going to give him a
look, too. He had a big year with
St. Petersburg. And then, Paul
Pettit may show us something
for that SIOO,OOO we paid him. He
had a sore arm last year.
Athens Teams Play In Regional
Finals Tonight At Gainesville
BY MERRITT POUND, JR.
~ Banner-Herald Sports Editor
~ In a befitting anti-climax
to fine seasons, the Athens
High Trojans and Trojan
ettes enter the finals of the
Region 2-A boys’ and girls’
high school basketball tour
‘nament tonight in Gaines
ville.
The eclimax of the cage
wars will come for the local
teams if they are able to by
pass Winder’s lassies and
Elberton’s laddies and sweep
into the state meet at Doug
las as regional titleholders.
Athens and Winder girls clash
in the regional finals tonight at 8
in the Gainesville High gym. The
Trojans and the Elberton Blue
Devils follow in the Omega tour
‘ney game, the rubber match of a
ithree game series between the
two schools. The Trojans stopped
the Elberton crew at Athens, 55
to 53, but succumbed 66 to 61, in
a return meeting in the Granite
City.
Two-Time Winners
The 'Trojanettes, meanwhile,
have beaten the Winder girls
twice in regular season play: 45
to 43 in the second game of the
Athens season, and 38 to 34 on
the Winder court.
Winder, however, is considered
much improved since last met by
Coach Marion Norris’ sextet. Both
the Winder and thes Athens girls
breezed through early tourney op=
position,
The Trojans had considerable
trouble in ousting host team
Gainesville from the first round
of the boys’ tournament. Coach
Arnold DeLaPerrierre’'s boys had
less difficulty in eliminating Toc
coa in the quarters and Hartwell
in the semi-finals.
Elberton coasted into the semi
finals and then mildly upset de
fending regional and state Class
A champ, Canton, 43 so 39.
The Blue Devils. are le2 by
Chester Webb, a pivot man cap
able and extremely adept at push
ing basketballs through hoops.
Jean Fulcher, Marian Hopkins,
Joan Alewine, Pat Messer, An
nelle Williams, Sue Winfrey et al
will lead the defending regional
champion Trojanettes in to the
final {fracas.
The Trojans, last year’s runner
ups to Canton, will take the floor
as follows: Bobby Wallace and
William Webb, forwards; Sonny
Suddath, center; and Bobby Dun
can and Larry Jones, guards.
Quick relief . work can be ex
pected from Jimmy Williams and
Allan Barber.
Tournament
Committees
1 ;
Hunt Around
By ORLO ROBERTSON
NEW YORK, Feb. 25 — (AP) —
Committees assigned the task of
selecting teams for the National
Collegiate and National Invita
tion Baskeball Tournaments will
have to do some scouring around to
find quintets worthy of the post
season competition. |
The NCAA tournament calls for
16 teams. Ten of these will go
into the competition automatically
‘'as winners of their conferences.
The other six teams will be select
ed “at large.”
12 Teams
The NIT, oppening March 8 at
Madison Square Garden, calls for
12 teams. Seven have been picked.
They are St. John's, St. Bonaven
ture, Dayton, St. Jouis, Seton Hall,
Holy Cross and Duquesne.
St. Louis, champion of the Miss
ouri Valley, already has qualified
for the NCAA and will try for a
double—a feat accomplished only
by CCNY in 1950. Kentucky, per=-
ennial titleholder in the South
eastern Conference, already has
quailfied for the NCAA.
But both of the NCAA and Nit
committees face problems in find=
ing other teams. The NIT has such
possibilities as western Kentucky
(23-4), LaSalle (18-5), Penn State
(17-4), Villanova (16-7), NYU
(16-4), West Virginia (21-2) and
possibly Lawrence Tech (22-2),
and Seattle (27-7).
The NCAA also may draw from
the same field for its six at large
teams—four from the Eastern part
of the country and two from the
‘Wcst.
West Virginia and Duke may not
]be available for the NIT since
the Southern Conference tourney
at Raleigh ends the day the tour
nament starts.
Teams already selected for tour
naments fared none too well over
the week end. Duquesne, No. 8
{ nationally after rolling up 18
straight, . fell before Villanova’s
Ilate rally, 64-62. St. Bonaventure,
No. 10, bowed to Canisiu, 65-63.
Seton Hall was uvended by Loyola
of Chicago, 76-73.
Top Teams Topped
Five of the top ranking teams
in the Associated Press poll also
were defeated. In addition to Du=
quesne and St. Bonaventure, the
setbacks were handed to Kansas
State (No. 2) by Colorado; lowa
(No. 7) by Illinois (No. 5), and
Washingten (No. 6) by Wyoming.
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Bulldogs, Vandy; Tech,
Ky. Tournament Foes
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In Y’s Cu
League
The Bearcats of tha blue divi
sion in the Cub League beat the
Strata-Jets, 44-26, with Tommy
Wilkins taking top scoring honors I
by virtue of his 28 points bucketed.
Strata-Jet scorers were George
Brown with 12 and Don Rhodes
with 10 points. The Cinco-Hom-~ |
bres lost their fray with the Bull
dogs with an 8 point margin as
Jere Huggins scored 12 points for
the Cinco-Hambres and Marvin
Jones and Larry Lewis shared|
honors with 18 and 12 points, re
spectively.
The Bulldogs occupy top spot in
statistics in the Blue L.eague with
14 games won and 1 lost. The Cin
co-Hombres follow with their ad- |
mirable record of 11 and 4. Tops
in the Bible study, Cinco-Hombres
boast of a total of 106 points. The
Strata-Jets occupy second place
by virtue of their 89 point total.
In white division of the Cub
League the Dribblers beat the
Fireballs, 64-8, and the Chiggers
beat the Phantoms, 30-22. Ray
Danner got 48 points for the Drib~-
blers and Dean Upchurch tallied
16. Fireball scorers were Peter
Range and Harry Stevens with 4
each. LaVonne Brown hit the
hoops for 26 for the Chiggers and
Jimmy Kinney scored 4 pointers.
Bobby Ramsey held score honors
for the vanquished Phantoms with
a total of 18 points.
The Dribblers are at the top of
the white division statistics col
umn for the Cub class by virtue
of their 13 wins and 2 defeats.
The Chiggers are in second place
with 8 wins and 6 losses. In Bible
study the Fireballs are leading
the league with 88 points. follow
ed by close contending Chiggers
with 87 points. The Phantoms and
the Dribblers take third and fourth
places respectively with 66 and
56 points,
In the Red division of the Cub
League the Globetrotters beat the
Cobras 80-18, and the Ringers
walked away with the Fighting
Five to the tune of, 66-30. Globe
trotters’ top scorer was Jack Tol
bert with 44, followed by Jimmy
Allen with a total of 28 points
scored. Tommy Gordon scored 8
for the Cobras and Jimmy Bryant
and Randy Terry made 4 points
each. Doug Ross led scoring for
th.e Ringers, who were victorious
over the Fighting Five, with a
total of 20 points. Ted Ridlehubber
and Skipper Smith scored 18 and
14 points, respectively.
The Cobras are tops in the Red
division by virtue of their rec=
ord of 11 games won and 4 lest
while the Ringers are close con=-
tenders with 10 wins and 5 losses.
In Bible study three teams are
tied for first place with 118 points.
The tied teams are the Globe
trotters, Fighting Five, and Co
| bras. The Ringers follow with 113
i points,
DIXIE CONFERENCE
MACON, Ga., Feb. 25—(AP)—
The Dixie Conference Basketball
Tournament opens in Macon to
night with Mercer facing Miss~
issippi College in the opening
round.
Mercer closed out its season with
an 8-0 record. Mississippi College
has a 2-5 league standing.
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BY STERLING SLAPPEY
- ATLANTA, Feb. 25.—(AP)—Like all things of quality,
Kentucky basketball wars well and long.
This season Kentucky wore down the remainder of the
Southeastern Conference in short order and Thursday the
Wildcats go after their sixth grand slam of conference
basketball—top rank in regular season play and victory in
SEC tournaments.
Kentucky v'on tournaments asl
well as led the conference in
standings in’ 1933, 1947, 1948, 1949
and 1950. :
Kentucky meets Georgia Tech
Thursday in Louisville at 9:15
p. ;. (CST) in the finai first round |
Other first round games are L. S.
U. vs Mississippi State at 1:30‘
p. m., Vanderbilt vs Georgia at
3:15 p. m,, and Alabama vs Au
burn at 7:30 p. m. |
Drawing first round byes are |
Mississippi, Flordia and Tennessee l
and Tulane. 3
Four additional games will be
played Friday, semi-finals are
scheduled for Saturday morning
and the finals are due Saturday‘
night. :
The SEC Championship no long
er ride on the basketball tourna
ment. Championship are decided on
seaion play and Kentucky clinched
that championship two weeks ago.
Presidents of Southeastern Col
leges voted to abolish tournaments
‘after this week’s meeing. The vote
~was taken during the annual meet
ing in New Orleans in December.
- Abolishing the tournament
'would be a hard blow for several
colleges since the meet annually
i‘proves to ba a money maker.
- One regular season SEC game
‘remains—Mississippi meets Miss
(issippi State in Starkville tomor
row night. Results of the ganie
won't affect greatly SEC stand
ings. Should Mississippi lose the
Rebels would slump into a tie with
Florida. Tennessee and Tulane for
'sixth Place. A vievory would leave
Mississippi in fifth.
STANDINGS
L. G. A. G.
Kéntucky .. .. .14 0 22 2
Louisiana State .. 9 5 .14 6
Vanderbilt ~ .. .. 9 5 198
BIABRIEE 2 o s D D 128
Mississippi vs eo o 7 6 14 10
T e Y 14 8
Tennesshe ~ s os 1 7 12 8
Tl o, s N 13 1
BURDEEN i sh a 8 14 11
Nigs. Bhate .. i ,:i8 9 129
0. 7Foel iAnsa2 18 714
CGOOPRIN .. ... we iR 1% 321
SAWYER STATEMENT
CLEARWATER, Fla.,, Feb. 25—
ApP)—Manager Eddie Sawyer of
‘the Philadelphia Phillies says the
}size of his 1952 mound corps “all
idepends on how good the first
seven or eight are.”
’ Even- with 18 hurlers to pick
from right now, Sawyer is still
looking forward to the month of
May when Curt Simmons may get
out of the Army. Simmons teamed
with Robin Roberts would give
Sawyer a powerful one-two punch
as the basis of his staff.
2 BOSOX DAY GFF
SARASOTA, Fla, Feb. 25—
(AP)—After a brief -clubhouse
| meeting with Manager Lou Bou
' dreau this morning, the Boston
‘Red Sox will have the rest of the
| day for golfing and fishing.
Boudreau has been working his
charges overtime and agrees they
rate a holiday.
Last week’s intensive drills in
dicated that husky Ted Lepcio, a
shortstop with Louisville last sea
son, was the foremost candidate
for retired Bobby Doerr’s second
base berth.
Rice Coaches,
ice gacnes.,
Coaxs Top 1
Track Stars
NEW YORK, Feb. 25—(AP)—
Greg Rice, whose indoor two-mile
record stood for nine years, help
e« Coach Fred Wilt to a new mark
of 8:50.7 and today was planning
to coax Horace Ashenfelter into
an assault on Freddie's effort. ‘
The former Notre Dame star set
his record of 8:51 in 1943, and was
on hand to watch Wilt shatter it.
Now he thinks he can tutor Ashen
felter into a second record in two
weeks.
“My record isn’t safe,” said Wilt
sadly. “Rice is planning Ashen
felter an 8:49 schedule for next
Saturday’s Knights of Columbus
games.”
No matter what Ashenfelter
does in the future, Wilt's effort
was a tremendous one.
“I thought we'd have to pass
the mile and a half in better than
6:40,” said Wilt, “When they call
ed out 6:41.2, I thought I was not
going to be a record. And I didn’t
care. I was tired and just trying
to hang on to Ashenielter's pace.”
Don Gehrmann had to take a
‘back seat, and was so shocked at
being beaten by Reggie Pearman
in a special half mile that he im
mediately signed up for the 880
in the Knights of Columbus meet.
Pearman is one of the fastest
finishers in the business when he
feels like running. In the process
of winning the race, he beat
Gehrmann at his own game—com
ing from behind-—and reeled off
)the fastest 880 ever on an 11-lap
‘frack, 1:51.3.
- Two of the collegians back for
another trv for titles lost the
championships they won last year.
Meredith Gourdine of Cornell was
beaten by Pete McCreary of Dart
mouth in the 60-yard high hurdles
in 74, and Jim Herb of Penn
State, defending champion in the
high jump, was shut out. Jim Webb
of LaSalle took it with a leap of
6 feet 5 1-4 inches.
Two other defenders repeated.
Fred Dwyer of Villanova won the
mile in 4:13, and Dick Shea of
Army took the two-mile in 9:11.
John O’Connell of Manhattan,
which won the team title with
40 1-2 points, turned in the top
individual performance by win
ning the 60-yard dash in 6.2, tieing
the meet record. He aiso had 6.2
clocking in two of his heats.
His teammate, Ver Dixon, won
the 600 in 1:11.5.
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Athens Y Host To Statewide
Cage Teams In Tournament
Over 250 boys will be In Athens
Friday from the various towns
entered in the YMCA Statewide
tournament, Towns entered in
clude: Atlanta, Augusta, Albany,
Moultrie, Anderson, S. C.,, Thom=«
asville, Savannah, Columbus and
Athens.
Out-of-town boys in Athens for
the tournament will be housed at
the local “Y” and Pine Tops Camp
and will be conducted on a tour of
the City and the University Cam
pus while here. @
Pairings for the tournament
have not been announced by local
Athletic Director, Cobern Kelley,
who is managing the tournament
but should be known later this
week. Officials who have been
chosen to aid Kelley in the tour
nament are Richard Saye, Charles
McNair, and Arnold DeLaPerriere
with others to be chosen later.
Boys from the Cub class who
will playin the 12 and under com=~
petition include many of the con
sistent high scorers of the daily
activities of the YMCA. The Boys
in that age group, according to
Kelley, have improved their team
play to a great extent in recent
weeks of cage activities.
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