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' qUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1952,
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RANNER - HERALD
SPORTS
MERRITE POUNBL IR | Spohe Efitors
11lini Takes Second
'n Poll; Cats In Lead
B i O 9
BY WILL GRIMSLEY
VW YORK, Feb. 26.—(AP)—The national champion
ootucky Wildeats kept a firm hold on first place in the
\..ociated Press weekly basketball standings today, but if
v looked over their shoulder they'd recognize a new
P ‘ which just about clinch- | —m—m——m—m——m——————
; [llinois, which just about clinch
ed the Big Ten title by upending
Jowa 78-62 Saturday, leaped from
{ifth to the runnerup spot in the
latest ratings by the nation’s sport
wiiters and broadcasters.
Kansas State and Duquesne, who
had enjoyed the honor of breath
ing down the wildcats’ necks, lost
little prestige, however, from their
unset defeats over the week-end.
“'The Kansas Staters, surprised by
Colorado 67-517, fell only a notch,
from second to third and at the
saome time shoved Duquesne, its
19-game winning streak broken by
villanova, from third to fourth.
There was only a mild shakeup
in the top ten considering the
wave of recent upsets that have
«wept through college basketball.
St, Louis, with a 20-5 record and
an eye on bath the NCAA and Na
tional Invitation Championships,
moved from ninth to fifth place
.4 Towa dropped from fourth to}
coventh. West Virginia, winner of
)1 of its 23 games, wrenched the
No. 10 spot from St. Bonaventure,
2 67-63 victim of Canisius. St.
ponnie droupped to 12th.
Otherwise, the changes weren’t
anything to get excited about.
Washington held the sixth posi
tion despite a 55-45 loss to Wyora
ing.
Kansas and St. John’s each fell
a rung for no apparent reason, oc
cupying eighth and ninth in the
newest rundown.
Four of the first ten saw action
last night and two of them came
through with victories. St. John’s
lost to 17th-ranked Holy Cross,
75-70, while Towa whipped Michi
can State, 64-52, Kansas downed
Missouri 65-54 and Duquesne
turned back Arkon 69-51.
Training Camp
News Briefs
ews Brief
VERO BEACH, Fla., Feb. 26.—
(AP)=That lost art, sliding, has
made an appearance at the Brook
lvn Dodgers training camp.
Manager Chuck Dressen put his
pitchers through a sliding drilg
vesterday and the Hurlers seeme
to like it.
Preacher Roe, probably the
worst hitter in the ganre, com
mented, “They must be expecting
me to get on base a lot this year.”
PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 26.—(AP)
—The New York Giants are only
four players short of their full
roster of 35. Outfielders Monte
Irvin and Willie Mays and infield
ers Bill Rigney and Henry Thomp
son checked in yesterday.
Still due are pitchers Sal Mag
lie and Hoyt Wilhelm, catcher Ray
Noble and first baseman Marvin
Blaylock.
TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 26.—(AP)
—Cash, not baseball, was Cleve
land Manager Hank Freenberg’s
pressing problem today. ;
Greenberg has landed Larry
Doby for around $20,000 (pay cut
estimate: $5,000), but still has to
contend with major holdouts Mike
Garcia and Bob Avila. They think
they should make $20,000, too.
Outfielder Sam Chapman is
muttering about quitting, and in
wirie; George Stirnweiss hasn’t
signeq,
LAKELAND, Fla., Feb. 26—
(AP)—Don't be surprised if heav
ier hitting and sharper play re
sults from lighter paychecks
@mong the Detroit Tigers. .
Charley Gehringer, Detroit
manager, decided that pay cuts
were in order this year for most
members of the team that finish
ed fifth in the American League
in 1951,
S 0 he sliced the salaries all
down the line. Now the Tigers
seem determined to do better this
season, Many arrived in Florida a
month early to get into shape.
EL CENTRO, Calif., Feb. 26.—
(AU)—Everything is progressing
S planned at the Chicago White
SOX fraining camp, says Manager
I Richards.
When we get to Pasadena this
Week-end all 14 of our pitchers
! be ready to throw to our hit
-Irs,” Richards said. “Our hitters
[ answer roll call for the first
ime Saturday,”
_MESA, Ariz., Feb. 2. .~—(AP)—
"0y Smalley, Chicago Cubs short-
P, 1s showing no evidence of an
“ile fracture in workouts.
He broke his left ankle last
Abril and never returned to his
‘Vious form.
lanager Phil Cavaretta hopes
°malley recovers his 1950 form
“n he hit 21 homers and drove
I 85 runs,
“~.I?ASOTA, Fla., Feb. 26.—
\P)—There has been a startling
‘ovement in ‘the Boston Red
SOX pitching staff this training
“°onand Manager Lou Boudreau
. ols it to the veteran Bill Me
atinnie,
. nat formep manager of four
,onal League clubs has been
-2 pointers to all of Boud
. 4us flingers, The result is that
1 €xperienced hands as Maury
| L{»'rmmt, Bill Wight, Walt
“asterson angd Willard Nixon
100 k ‘:'m:h better than a Year ago
S Uime,
Florida Moes,
Mercer Lead
Dixie Tourney
MACON, Ga., Feb 26 — (AP) —
Florida Southern’s Mocs and Mer
cer’s Bears took the lead in open
ing games of the Dixie Conference
tournament last night.
FSU, playing Howard College
of Birmingham, pulled away dur
ing the closing minutes to win,
58-53. -
In the second contest, Mercer
ran up its highest score of the
seaon in defeating Mississippi Col
lege 100-64. Millsaps College of
Jackson, Miss.,, drew an opening
round bye.
Tonight’s games pits Mercer
against Millsaps in the first game
of the consolation. FSU drew a
bye for tonight on a toss with
Mercer.
Championship Flight
Tomorrow night the Flordia
squad faces the winner of the
Mercer-Millsaps contest in the
champinship flight. The loser of
the Mercer-Millsaps game plays
the winner of the Howard-Miss~
issippi game.
The FSU-Howard game last
night featured some expert foul
shooting. Howard missed only two
of 15 foul shots while FSU scored
10 free throws in 11 tries.
Fred Lapper, a 1951 All-Dixie
Conference man, paced the Mocs
with 23 points. Al Huff played a
surprisingly strong defensive
game. He stopped Joe Coon, How
ard’s high scoring center, holding
him to 10 points with only three
coming in the last three quarters.
Second best for the Mocs was a
center, Huff, with 15 points. :
FSU and "Joward were tied at
32-all at half-time. By the end
of the third period Florida held
a slim two point lead.
High Scorers g
High individual scorers in the
second contest appeared to be
guided by those of the opening
game. Tommy Mixon led Mercer’s
attack with 23 points, the same
number made by FSU’s Lapper.
Bert Schwartz gave him a close
race by ringing the basket for 22.
For the losers, Kin Dukes of
Mississippi paced Mississippi with
18 points, the same number made
by Howard captain Morris Jacobs
in the opening game.
Mercer held a five point lead
at the end of the first quarter;
by half-time they ran this to 14
points. Mercer led the scoring in
every period.
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Good Night
:..NEW YORK, Feb. 26—(AP)—
College basketball teams headed
for post-season. tournaments. or
high positions in the nation-wide
rankings can look back on last
night’s games with a good deal of
satisfaction.
Four of the nation’s top ten in
this week's Associated Press poll
‘and four of the seven teams in
vited to the national invitation
tournament at Madison Square
Garden saw action. And only one
went down to defeat.
The lone defeat of the mighty
was suffered by St.. John’s of
Brooklyn, ranked No. 9 and an en
try in the NIT. The Brooklyn Red
men were beaten by Holy Cross,
75-70, for their third setback in
23 games Holy Cross, No. 17 and
also an NIT entry, has won 20
and lost two.
Here’s what the other members
of the top ten did:
Duquesne (19-1), No. 4, defeat
ed Akron 69-51.
lowa (18-2), No. 7, whipped
Michigan State 64-52.
Kansas (19-2) No. 8, turned
back Missouri 65-54.
Dugesne will be in the invita
tion tournament along with Seton
Hall (23-2), which downed Louis~
ville in a nip-and-tuck affair, 83-
81 on substitute Larry Brooks’
field goal in the last six seconds.
Kansas’ victory permitted Phog
Allen’s Jayhawks to move into a
half-game lead over Kansas State
in the tight Big Seven race. Each
has lost one game but Kansas has
won one more.
Towa’s where they can challenge
for the Big Ten lead if even pace
setting Tllipois slips.
Tulsa kept alive its hopes of
finishing second back of St. Louis
in the Missouri Valley conference
by swamping Detroit, 62-44, with
a last half spurt. The victory gave
Tulsa a half-game bulge over the
Oklahoma Aggies, who romped
over Bradley 54-34 in a non-con
ference affair.
. Notre Dame and New York Uni
vergity staged one of their usual
tight contests in Madison Square
with the Irish prevailing, 75-74, in
overtime as substitute John Latt
ner dropped in a short one-hander
with nine seconds to go.
Athens High Trojans And Trojanettes Claim
Region Crowns: Begin State Play Marcho
BY ALVA MAYES, JR.
Banner-Herald Sports Editor
GAINESVILLE, Gay, Feb. 26.—A combiantion of deter
mined backboard work and dead-eye shooting was the one
two punch that floored Elberton’s Blue Devils, 54-33, last
night, as the Athens High Trojans won the Region 2-A
basketball championship. ST i o
The Athens High Trojanettes al
so claimed the Region crown, de
feating the Winder Bulldog lass
ies, 37-20, to retain the title for
the second straight season.
Both Athens teams now move to
the state meet in Douglas which
begins the .first round of play
March 5. The Trojanpeties open
with Colquitt, runner up team in
Region 1 and the Trojans vie with
Fitzgerald, runner up in the boys
Region 1 playoffs in the opening
flight,
Slow Start
Coach - Arnold DeLaPerriere’s
Athens boys got off to a slow start
against the powerful Blue Devils
who downed Canton last year’s
state Class A champions, for their
berth in the finals against the
Trojans.
By the end of the first quar
ter, however, the Trojans were
leading by four points and the
second quarter saw them stretch
this lead to a 30-18 count before
the half.
Returning after “intermission
they completely dominated the
last half action, and took the
game in a run away in the last
qudrter when three Elberton start
ers were benched with five per
sonal fouls,
Bobby Duncan paced the Tro
jan efforts with 14 points but was
behind Elberton’s Chester Webb
for high point honors. Webb led
the Blue Devils with 23 points.
For the Trojans it was a com
plete team victory as the Athens
boys played possibly their best
game of the 1952 seascn. Sonny
Suddath,. Athens center, William
Y Picks Teams
For State
Cage Tourney
Representatives to play fur Ath
ens in the 10 and under competi
tion of the Statewide YMCA
tournament beginning here Fri=
day have been chosen at the lo
cal “Y”. Boys have been chosen
to play in the Red and Blue In
dian Leagues.
Red team members will be Jeff
Mills, Ray Danner, Billy Gam
brell, Billy Nunnally, Terry Mel=
ton, Jimmy Gabrielson, Tom Mid
dlebrooks, John Fort, Peier Range,
and Ronnie Fowler.
Blue team memcbers are Tommy
Dover, Jerry Hendon, Chet Tuck=
er, Robert -Honea, Hamold Yar
borough, Tommy Milner, Albert
Pickett, Bob Segrest, Howard
Hunius, and Walter Gienn.
Athletic Director Coburn Kelley
of the YMCA stated today that
the two teams have had very lit
tle practice together as teams but
opined that they had improved in
cooperation and spirit in the past
few days and “should prove to be
still competition”. ;
He stressed the fact that all of
the boys at the “Y” will have an
opportunity to play competitive
pall next week and that none of
them will be left out for lack of
skill in cage play. /
Many of the boys who will rep
resent the local “Y” have been
high scorers and excellent defen
sive players in regular league play
of the past few weeks.
In Monday's prep midget play
the Hoopsters lost to the Torna
does, 21-17; the Bombers dropped
the Rascals, 27-13; and the Tar
heels defeated the Wolfpack, 25-
11. Don Tolbert scored 10 for the
losing Hoopsters while Dallas Tar=-
kenton hit for 12 for the Torna
does,
Tommy Blakely and Billy
Howell shared the points for the
losing Rascals in their fray, get
ting 4 points eaeh. Donald Epps
hit for 17 points for the victorious
Bombers. Bippy Watson got 11
and Bob Townes 8 for the Tar
heels while Hugh Tankersley
scored 7 for the Wolfpack.
In regular Indian play the
Hyenas romped over the Hili
billies, 52-32; and the Panthers
and the Hotshots came te a draw,
16-16. The games were played in
the red division of the Indian lea
gue.
Chet Tucker and Terry Melton,
both of whom have been chosen
to play in the tourney, scored 24
points for the winning Hyenas.
Tom Middlebrooks and John Fort
got 12 and 10 points, respectively.
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Webb, Bobby Wallace and Larry
Jones worked both backboards
with comparative ease and also
turned in outstanding offensive
games,
Team Scoring
Suddath hit for 10 points before
fouling out in the third quarter,
Webb was behind Duncan with
13, Wallace got nine and Jones
accounted for five of the Athens
markers.
It was the first time since Coach
DeLaPerriere has been coach at
Athens High that the*Trojans have
won the Region crown. They have
been runnerups for four years
previous.
Marion Hopkins and Jean Ful
cher, Athens forwards, paced the
Trojanettes to their victory over
the Bulldogs. Hopkins hit for 17
and Fulcher got 16 to top their
games scoring, Healen was high
for Winder with eight points.
The Trojanettes led at the end
of the first quarter 10-4, at the
half 17-10 and at the third quar
ter mark 26-15.
The results:
GIRLS
Athens (37) Winder (20)
Fulcher (16)..F.... Barnett (4)
Hopkins (17)..F.... Healan (8)
Alewine (4)...F... Freeman (3)
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Glowing Reports Hint Bright
Futures For Spring Trainees
NEW YORK, Feb. 26.— (AP) —Spring training officially doesn’t begin until Satur
da{) but already glowing reports are being received about future Dizzy Deans and Ty
Cobbs. ‘
It's the annual custom during
the training season to laud the
newcomers as futures stars, and
Subs: Athens, Richardson, Haley.
Winder, Bondurant (5). Hali
time score: Athens 17, Winder 10.
BOYS
Athens (54) Elberton (33)
Webb (13..... F.... Griffeth (3)
Wallace (9)...F.... LaConte (2)
Suddath (10... C..... Webb (23)
gones: (5).....G. .. v Bond (B)
Duncan (14)..G...... Efird (2)
Subs: Athens, Williams (3),
Barber, Elberton, Johnson, Blan
chard, Bracey, Rucker. Halftime
score; Athens, 30, Elberton, 18,
. .
Fights Last Nite
By The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA -—Gil Turner,
147, Philadelphia, outpointed Del
Flanagan, 145, St. Paul (10).
CHICAGO—George Berry, 135,
Gray, Ind., outpointed Dave Shade,
138, Detroit (8).
BY RALPH RODEN
this year is no exception.
Glowing tales of rookies are
creeping out of the various camps
early this year because most of the
major league teams have held
rookie schools for the past few
weeks.
From Vero Beach, Fla., camp
site of the Brooklyn Dodgers, the
brain trust is singing the praises
of rookie pitchers Joe Black and
John Rutherford.
Black is being hailed as “an
other Don Newcombe.” Ruther
ford is tetmed *“a righthanded
Preacher Roe.”
Black, a powerfully built negro
righthander, toiled for St. Paul
and Montreal last year without
exciting the customers but he
purned up the Cuban winter lea
gue and has a head start on the
other young hopefuls.
Rutherford a little guy, has the
same qualifications of Roe, left
handed ace of the Dodgers—mean
ing excellent control and a sneaky
fast ball.
Recently at Bradenton, Fla.
Boston Brave manager Tommy
Holmes was extolling the virtues
of a new doubleplay combination
of shortstop Jack Cusick and sec
ond baseman Billy Reed.
Cusick spent most of 1951 on
the Chicago bench. Reed played a
bang up game for Milwaukee of
the American Association.
Manager Lou Boudreau of the
Boston Red Sox likes a green key
stone combination-Ted Lepico and
former outfielder Jim Piersall.
New York Yankee officials are
drooling over a flock of rookies
at their Lake Wales, Fla. boot
comp. The top favorite at the mo
ment appears to be pitcher Jim
Russell of Downey, Calif.
Russell won 22, lost nine and
fanned 260 at Twin Falls, Idaho
last year, his first in the game.
Russell, however, is on leave from
the R. O. T. C. at U. 8. C, and has
to return to College.
Manager Paul Richards of the
Chicago White Sox is highly im
pressed with pitcher Terry Loy,
$35,000 bonus freshman form the
University of California
Future stars or morning glories?
Only time will tell.
PAGE EIGHT
Application For
T'ampa Grid Post
YOUNGSTOWN, O. Feb.
26—{AP)— A farmer star Geor
gia end and triple amputee of
World War II wants to coach
College football, because
“That's been my life.”
George Poschner of Youngs
town, gained some experience
last season by helping to teach
fundamentals at his high school
Alma Mater, Youngstown Cha
ney High.
“I applied last week at the
University of Tampa (Fla.) just
as soon as I heard Frank Sink
wich *was leaving,” Poschner
said. Sinkwich, Youngstown’s
All - America halfback, also
played with Georgia,
Poschner, 3 and a Mahoning
County courthouse clerk, lost
both legs and part of his rizht
hand when they were frozen.
A veteran of the battle of the
Bulge in Germany, his left arm
and hand is paralyzed because
of head and shoulder wounds.
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