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PONIES FEAR
er cage teams of this day and —
age (even though they defeated I TillP H I* A T
Southwest Conference quintets) f I Vw I I fl I
There are experts who do not Ite I If (J UIlL^l I
lieve the Southwest furnishes th<
best football pla.V In the nation I flA DA Ol/O
and there are skeptics «li<> even I Illi— Mill If V
yet say that Henderson had a UwU IwflOIXO
successful football season.
But there is one thing above
all others--that I am certan.
I may be no sports writer, as
I some of the critics charge, and I
may not have the gift of gab in a
column, but I know human beings
his coach, and
little lady on my left."
Oil Belt Boxing Meet
Begins Kilgore Tonite
So aa the dark shades of even-
ing were fast creeping up on old
Mother Earth, we left the dust-
fWled air of Overton High, bld
‘‘adisu’’ to the boys until Friday
night when they go into the big-
gest battle of their lives—facing
Crockett, a team that Andy An-
drews says is the toughest-opposi-
tion hs ha* met this year.
I ( HOCKETT REGULAR
I GUARD OUT FRIDAY
. — .Seeking the
championship of Region No. 6,
the Crickett High Bulldogs plung-
ed Into serious training for tile
.fracas with the Overton Mustangs,
a game to be played in the Rusk
County City Friday night.
=__The hard-fought victory over |
N.Y.-Cub Deal Starts House-cleanin
The three-day Oil Belt champ-
ionship boxing tournament will
get underway at Kilgore'* new
Sportatorium tonight with 40 or
mor* entrants in the amateur
shows, promoted and eponaored by,
D. E. Newland of Kilgore College.
Several fighter* from thia area,
Gladewater, Kilgore. Longview.
Gilmer. Big Bandy, Arp, Overton,
Lindale and Tyler have entered,
Newland said today.
The Kilgore College band will
play at The beutha. Newland ex-"
pecte attendance from all part* of
Eaat Texaa.
Winners in each of the eight di-
vision* will be preeented with
beautiful leather jackets with the
Oil Belt championship insignia. An
all-expen** trip to Dallas to moot
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TEACHERS DRUB ADA
DENTON. Tex. (UP) — North
Texas State Teacher* College held
its second basketball victory of
the *es*on today. The Texaa Col-
lege defeated the East Central
Oklahoma Teachers of Ada for the
second consecutive time last night
by a score of 43 to 31.
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T. C. U 10
Baylor 7
8. M. U 6
A. A M 4
Rice 4
Arkansas 2
Texas 1
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We were deeply engrosoed k>
football talk, with football boys
working around us, when aodden
tv Andy said:
"See that play! Thofs Hie play
that beat Kilgore.”
Tbov’re still proud of their vic-
tory ovoTTRe Eli gore High School
eleven over Overton-way, and
’ Justly so. KMgore inarched what
Andrews said looked like Notre
Dame out on the field that even-
ing, but hie boy* went In flght-
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Overton Faces Toughest
Opposition Friday Eve
-----------By Elton L. Miller--------.
WERE MIGHT be a doubt in«.Hornets.
’ the old. gray-headed master's
«d as he schemes and plans the
Ight of the blue-jersied Tylei
igh Lions this week-end and
ere could possibly come some
hools of thought who believe
at the Texas Christiana are not
th* No. 1 team of the nation.
NEW ORLEANS. (L'P).—The
37th annual meeting of the Na-
tional Association of professional
baseball players opened today
wit* most of the informal talk
revolving around the six-player
deal between the Chicago Cubs
and New York Giants--* trade
generally considered as a two-
way house-eleaning.
Many delegates and observers
—owners, managers and players
"Mule" Haas to Manage
Shreveport Sports Club
; THREE GIANTS ”
PLACED ON U. P,
ALL-PRO TEAM
The parade to the post would
be longer than the combined pa-
rades of the American Legion,
th* Shriners, the Elks, and Ring-
ling Brothers.
The Supreme Court would have
to be brought from Washington
map makers hired to take
picture of the finish.
It would be devastating.
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immensely colossal.
It would, in short, be Holly-
wood.
STATION. Tex.
A. A M. student*
prelim bout between
yhief Little Beaver and
1 near
COLLEGE
(UP)—Yoxaa
today sang "There Shall Be No
Regrets” because they had lost
the right to king their famous
“war hymn.”
The peppy Aggie war song
with the line, "Good-bye to
Texas University ...” had to
he abandoned after a New York
' publishing house notified school
official* It had purchased copy-
right* to It from Pinky Wilson,
Florence. Tex., rancher who
composed the song while he waa
a student here.
Aggie students adopted “There
shall he no regrets", composed
by Col. R. J. Dunn, A. A M.
bandmaster, as their temporary
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It's almost unbelievable, but here's Billy Burke with
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mouth iiv.trnd of the cigtir which heretofore has been us nuich of
ns equipment as his niblick. to complete lire n 'unorphosis,
(is dog. Jerry, also comes pp with a br.at stuck b-lwoen his
teeth as the former National Open champion nukes the wui.jr
goU circuit in Dixie.
Coming Games
T. C. U. vs. Carnegie Tech,
Sugar Bowl. New Orleans, Jan. 2.
1980.
_ Loading Conference Scorer*
predicted he eventually would be-
come manager.
He said today that he was con- I the skull injury
sidering "four or five offers’* from ; suited in a h:::i
major league clubs but declined tn
name them. change of
said. "A job calling for playing I days in which to file an applica-
soiely. without being tied up with 1 lion for now trial. sw
There ar* those who do not be-
Neve that Jack Dempsey was the
I greatest boxer of all times and it
..’f lu quite likely that you’ll find
sportsmen who will argue con-
eering the passing ahilitiea of Lil'
Davey O’Brien and Slingin’ Sam-
my Baugh
One sports writer will tell you
♦hat TCU. influenced or not by
Anson G. Carter, should have
stayed at home in the Cotton
Bowl, and there are others who
say they ehose correctly. Some
orlMc* may say thst Athens High
ST. LOUIS. (UP) Tony Gal-
ento, roly-poly New Jersey heavy-
weight, continues his comeback
tonight in a 12-round fight against
Otie Thomas, negro battler. Gal-
ento. who was stricken with
j pneumonia earlier this year, was
j a heavy favorite.
Humber to Wins Over Slippery I
Sol Slagle in Straight Falls
toi^staling the show. It was rough,
' and tumble from the opening bell
Aggie* Seek New
t Sdng to Replace
Lost “War Hymn”
BATTERY -
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SAVE YOUR LIFE
I out that he will lone about |
len some of ■ whom played ■
their first footbkil this season-
and heard the coach talk, just !
before battle. They all moan, will j
tell you they don't have a chance,
but we found Andrews in a se.ri-1
ous mood yesterday.
It seems that the Pony nientoi
taught five years In the tough
Frederlckaburg elass B district
where five times he went to the
regional finals. Thr ■ times hir
team tied for first place In thr
region. Onee the coin was RIiiimm
to decide the winner, hut Fat<
was smiling in the other direction
Twice hFlost on the field of bat
tie by a narrow margin.
1 ne nard-rougnt victory over
Silsbee was costly to the Crockett
eleven last week because the senior
guard, Roy Gardner, suffered a I
broken leg and is out for the title
game this week. In his place will
be either Bill Field or Brent Ben-
nett.
The Crockett boys' Monday were
told of the [tower and strength of
Overton, scouted in their affray
with Center for the bi-diatrict .
championship last week.
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OYERTON, ■ Two of the finest
j backs they have seen this season
will perform against the Overton |
Mustangs Jn the regional champ-
I ionship game with Crockett Bull-
well enough to know that there’. ?‘«ht* 9^" 8";
no one in the United States who s,!*tant c',ftch;' Lceu Simpson, said I
wants to -.in a football game a.;1 a'ter the Houston County
much as does Andv Andrews, the cleAven “Uon last week,
affable Overton Mustang tutoi ,A ^‘^tjle and Uicky running .
who is getting ready for Friday. illtu, k *n,lde Lne ‘"vaders a dan- |
night's frav with the CrockettT?*rou* team Coach Simpson said.
High School eleven. ' He ad(led that the Mustang for-
1 ward wall would have to charge
rx. , , J . f-r» JI r>1 . . t rrx hard to keep the Crockett crew
Stopped to talk Shop atOHS tromfico^
Ail prophecies contained in the^>found
early writings in Bible times may >12 -i
eome true tomorrow, but witha’ I
standing on the sideline* will be
red-headed Andy wi.hing he had
another day in which to complete I
hi* important ta.k of defeating I
Crockett for the regional cham-1
pionship nf Region No. 6.
Yesterday afternoon we ambled '
out to Mustang Field, Just as the
sun waa sinking In the far oft
golden West. Long shadows were
blind-folding the frost-bitten turi
almost to the far eastern goal
post* when we walked out to fln<
Alfred Mann and hi* mate* toss- j
Ing, punting, tackling, running. ~
We talked shop with Andrews <
i FateUnfairto Andy Andrews'
-* • Although the guiding hand of tying from the very beginning to
R , Fate . some people call it that . .
c, has not been so fair with Andrews
4 a* he goes into his sixth regional
’ championship in six years, there
is one in this fair land of ours
I who as a stronger desire for vic-
, tory. Andrew* has a most re-
’ markable record behind him as a
tutor of football, materia) and it I*
flporta Mill*’ guess that when the
Mustang battlefield Is cleared
Friday evening, the second con-
secutive regional bunting win be
knitted for the flagpole
AUGUSTA. Ga. (UP) — Two
’ teams tied with a low ball of 71
each in the four-ball event held on
the eve of the second annual aen-
ion professional golfer*’ associa-
tion tournament which started to-
day.
Fred Miley. Cincinnati, and Dave
Little. Cleveland, shared the four-
ball honor with Jim West. New
York, and Tom Clark, Knasa*
City.
The senior tournament wa* re-
duced from 54 holea to a 36-hole
affair at a meeting of the senior
PGA yesterday. Tom Sargent of
Atlenta, waa elected new presi-
dent.
with hit? men thundering down
upon him, and fling 19 touch-
down passes this season; how he
htd been able to spark-nlu" the
1 ‘‘Horned Frogs’’ to victory in ev-
ery game—and on to the Sugar
. Bowl contest with Carnegie Tech.
The chipner little gray-haired
woman in the purple evening
gown adorned with an orchid
cor.-’age was an ultra-modern
mother but she . gave off old-
fashioned sentiment, there be-
fore th» "mike.”
She said, “at first I was afraid
! that Davey might be hurt, because I
! he is so small, compared to the
WMV
to realise that defeat hurt
1 prise the Tournament
No. 1 list and have “priority” 1
I rights—■! 3,000.
4. To participants in the lavish
tournament parade-*-!,500.
5. To the press, radio, Confer-
ence colleges, coaches and others
—6,000.
6. To Duke—5,000.
7. To the Tournament of Roses
Association—3,500.
The “public” wag left out in
the cold again, in *k“
same freeze-out that brought loud
squawks from potential custom-
erg when Alabama met California
in the last game. At that time
the situation was slightly worse
because California hag more
alumni than any other Confer-
ence member and each alumnus
was entitled to six tickets.
Special police squads were
sent out today to keep order
among the thousands who lined
up for the end zone seats. Indi-
vidual customers can buy no
more than four seats each.
final hell stopped
each won a fall.
Little Reaver featured his
usual rough-shod tactics hut
found Hagen would mix it
with him all the way. The form-
er Marine champ took all the
rough Redskin had to offer and
dashed out about as much as
Beaver could handle. After a
series of slugging and choking,
Reaver won the first fall in 21
minutes with. a chinlock. Hagen
I cam* back and copped the second
| fall in eight minutes with his
Marine Hitcn and from then oh
it was nip-and-tuck with neither
able to gain a fall.
In a special Jo-minute feature
bout, Lion Bob Cummings lost to
Harold Donnell, the Kiwanis
Killer, who copped the only fall
of the match. Although not fin-
ished grapplerg this P«ir gav« the
f»ns a good bit of action but the
Lions wer* * heart-broken bunch
after their ace had lost th* de-
cision. 1
that Davey might be hurt, because >
he is so small, tvnn»««»cu *•«
other players. But gradually I [
my boy more than any physical
injury. After that I concentrated
on'the score. And the scores have
been fine this season. I know
how grand they are because I
played every minute with Davey,
and everything has turned out
just perfect for my little boy."
When Mother O’Brien said this,
some of the men from Texas, in
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Baltimore, I tered and may take a flier with blubbering because they knew
'! how the little woman from Dal-
1 hope all 107 do start. 1 miss- las. >” the pince’-nez spectacles,
ed the California gold rush of U"J ~'“J‘
’49 and would like to see one in
’39. If Santa Anita wants to do
something in the real Hollywood,
super-terrific style, it should see
that the 107 do start.
What a race that would be!
Newspaper* would have to send
ten writers instead of one.
The radio would need scores of
| announcers,
i Maj. Bob Neyland will coach Uni^l
Maj. Bob Neyland will coach Uni- | One bugler woudn't be enough
verSIty of Tennessee football teams po call the horse* to the poet, so
for the next seven years. , 'he United States Marine Band
He signed a five-year contract 'v<B(Jd play J’Bootspnd Saddles.”
yesterday to become effective at ‘
the expiration of his present one
which has two more years to run
at a salary of $12,000 annually.
His present team, unbeaten and
untied in ten games, plays Okla-
home in the Miami Orange Bowl
on Jan. 2.
Today's Sport Parade
-------- By Henry McLemore ---------
LOS ANGELES, Cal. (UP).— that there are plenty of owners
I ooay, as I wrapped up my who aren’t afraid of the old
grandmother’* Christina* present Truvelin’ .Man.
(a rug I hooked for her from Come to think of it, what would1
a large department store), word happen if all of Seabiacuit’s ri-
mber of 1 vnls showed up. on March 4 to
-3- ,7,-— ------r- — -* a "hack at him? All the
the next, and fifth running of owners have to do to make a 107
the $100,000 Santa Anita handi- : horse race of it is t0 deposit
c8!‘; <, ‘ iW^Ctiiore o« M^rch 3, a>wi $750
The lUt, at $100 per «iA>y, f*’e day of the race. Such a thing
includes almost alt of the worth-*'* improbable, but it isn’t im-j
while. Runner* in training save ’ possible. Very few of th* own-;
War Admiral and Lawrin, and «r* would mis* the $1100, because
is headed by the ubiquitous Sea- you don’t operate a stable if i
biscuit, that four-legged miser $1100 upset* your budget,
who seem* determined to beg all Take an owner like Louis B.
the gold in racing. Now only Mayer, for, example, who 1* now
$35,000 shy of the all-time mon-1 buying horse* not only left and
ey^wtrnriijif—record. Seabiscuit’s eight, but south by southeast,
victory in the March 4th race and north by northeast. He named
would place the former catt-off seven for the-handicap, and be-
a fortune out in front, and com-1 ing a Hollywood picture man
plete a rags-to-riche* saga that might very well decide to see his
would require a horsey Horatio I silk* seven times in the race, in-
stead of once. W. E. Goeing, the
win 1 airplane man, ha* six horse* en-
Juan Humberto continued t_
. “rule” local wrestling circle* to-
1 day after a straight fall victory
over Popular Sol Slagle in the
feature event of the Lions-Ki-
• wanis-sponaored mat card at Fair
I’ark auditorium last night. A
large crowd saw the bout and net
proceeds were contributed to the
('amp Eire GMs' building fund.
Single gave the Mexican “jump-
ing bean” a world of trouble for
hnlf an hour but finally fell into
a trap set by the cagey Juan and
Humberto snapped on a reverse
back-breaker io win the fall in
35 minute*. Sol wa* injured but
hobbled hack into the fing for 1
the second fall and wa* easy prey
for the Mexican'* treacherous leg
holds, losing in two minutes.
Slagle a* usual, gave the fan*
a show with hi* trick* of con-
tortion and made it tough for
th* Mexican to execute a hold
but when it came down to real
wrestling and mixing it up, Slip-
pery Sol couldn’t match Hum-
berto.
The
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, Manne George Hagen came
1 rag*-to-riche«
require a t—J
Alger to tell.
Rated off hi* smashing
over War Admiral at Belt:'.
Seabiscuit would seem to have 1 aH_ »>x.
I the handicap at hi* mercy, after'
losing it in photo finishes to
Rosemont and Stagehand. How-
ever, the presence of 106 other
horse* in the entry list indicates
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had made thing* turn out right,
after the estrangement from her
husband year* ago, how her cour-
age and energy had ke^it her and
her Davey marching downfield,
how her determination and in-
telligence had made a success of
her private school of public
speaking down in Dallas.
Other speaker* on the presen-
tation program included Amon
Carter, publisher of the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram: Lieutenant
Governor Walter Woodul of
Texas; E. M. Waits, president of
-Texas Christian University; L.
R. (Dutch) Meyer, the T.C.U.
coach; Jim Farley, postmaster
general: Capt. Bill Wood, Army
coach; Walter P. Holcombe, pres-
ident of the Downtown A. C., and
several nationally known sports
writer*.
Little Davey O’Brien spoke al-
so. The lad with the hazel-nut ,lvle
hair, close set eyes, straight nose a aingt the Green Bay Packers,
and large mouth, seemed even \yegtern division winners.
„Rai" a?A a wet field forced the
faced the "mike.’ He thanked Gjantg indoor* yesterday an^
the sportswriters, his teammates, th held g j blackboard drill,
his, coach, and “most , of all the (foach Steve Owen admitted
his greatest worry was over-con-
fidence. He felt the Giants might
suffer a let-down because they
beat Green Bay 15-8 in a regu-
lar league game on Nov. 20, and
then swamped the Washington
Redskin* 36-0 last Sunday.
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Sully Woodland Is
E-Tex Grid President
MARSHALL. Tex. (UP) —Sully
Woodland of Tyler today waa new
president of the East Texas coach-
es and officials association. Frank
Hadlock of Marshall wa* vice
president, and Troy Stell* of
Tyler was vice preaident and sec-
retary.
They were elected it the asso-
ciation'* annual meeting here last
night. Principal speaker wa* Matty
Bell, Southern Methodist Univer-
sity football coach.
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GIANTS SELL CI88ELL
---------- NKW YORK. (UP) — The New
tn""'JL0rir-2VOrth^Xi^ t,anl Tork Olant" today announced vet-
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■old outright to the Hollywood
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SEGUIN. Texa*. (UP).-Rev
R. O. Ekrut, 32-yGnr.o|d former
Baptist church pastor st Nixon,
today had a life sentence verdict
for an attack on an 11-year-old
girl.
The verdict wa« returned last
n jury which’had heard
, on Ekrut’* sanity. The
girl, frequently sobbing, told of
the attack at the minister’s home.
Dr. W. J. Johnson of South-
western State Insane Hospital at
San Antonio testified that Ekrut
in hi* opinion is sane and capable
of knowing right from wrong.
Dr. Hugh Davi* of Seguin, for |
the defense, exhibited X-ray j
that Ekrut
a ,broken_ collar bone and a
SHE SAYS SON ' -expressed but “little surprise at j
ALWAYS WAS
ALL-AMERICA
Another shift in the Pony line-
‘ ’ t made lor the final
titular game. With S. L. Mitchell i
j definitely out of the scrap with a
leg injury. Coach Andy Andrews
has moved Bill Hartline from
tackle to the wing A rangy
i freshman reserve. Keeling, i* bc-
I ing groomed to start in the for-'
I ward line.
Reserve seats are going rapidly,
L. D. Todd, principal of the Over-
ton High Schoo' announced this .
morning. Three hundred seats '
have been placed on reserve sale
between the 40 yard markers.
Coaches will send, the Mustang* I
through a practice! ■ under the
I lights tonight, after t>o days of
1 scrimmage. The squad will take
a stiff signal drill tonight and
1 will taper off Thursday, the eve
I of the game.
NEW YORK. (UP>.—The New
York Giants returned to the
Polo Grounds today to prepare
for their National Professional
Football League championship
play-off game here Sunday
MILLBRAE. Cal. (UP) Tony
Lazzeri, former Yankee player
and more recently with the Chi-
cago Cubs, predicted today that
he’d be hack in the Major leagues
next Reason a* a ^regular player.
Weary of his Inactive utility role
with the Cubs, ^Tony requested and
received his unconditional release
from owner Phil K. Wrigley yes-
terday.
vur xK-ituiNv, vxnii
When Lazzeri, after getting his photograph* showing
release from the Yankees, signed '
with the Cuba this spring, it was skull injury. These were received
HELPINSTILL AUTO
AWOCMT. SUPPLY
• E. W. Butler. Owner
to the Fort Worth’school with' Stoneman, of the Giant*. Today Philadelphia Eagle*.
hi* entourage. they were the only~ silent base- Two freshman rookie* landed
That 12th player—Little Da-
vey’s mother—stole the show
completely Inst night at t...
Downtown Athletic Club during j
the ceremonial presentation of
the Heisman Memorial Trophy to
her diminutive son, who had been
cho.;en the Nation’s outstanding
college grifi performer for 1938. Marcuin.
More than 700 spectators .
jammed into the club's bunting- lyn sl®’2ed
festooned
that old feeling in their throats
and a bit of dew in their eyes
a* Mr*. Ella Mae Keith O’Brien
thanked the snorts writers of TJOOF DAIAII TH T
America for discovering at lastiK||2\r f]'| JV| | || I
a truth she had long known. She J»WI» MVWlfc I I
“To his mother, Davey has al Tl^lfCTQ PI APFH
wavs been an ATl-America boy.” || I IwflUL. J
As she talked, those who had
come to honor the great passer, Ak| All F TOR AV
carrier and field general, found Ini X fl I F I ill 1’1 1
themselves paying tribute to V**e- - I VU' 1 I
Davey's inspiration. They realized ' ~
then why the “Little Giant”— ,
who weighs only 150 pounds ahd ; J icketg for the Rose Bowl foot-
'■tretches to make five feet seven ball game go on sale today but
-had rocketed ’to fame ih the as far as the beneral public 1*
most bruising game where beef concerned the contest already is
and brawn oflon count more than * sell-out.
brain*. And whv the “Sling Shot” Respite promise* of changes six
kid had been able to fad* back. "?<>"«’« *»y the Pacific Coast
Conference and the Tournament
of Rose* committee, the only (
seats available to John Q. Fan
for the Duke-Southern California
classic are behind the goal posts.
The huge bowl seats 91,500,
and of that total only 15,000
ticket* will be available at the
ticket mart*. These are in the
end zones and retail for $3.30
and $4.40 each. All the rest are
ear-marked as follows:
1. To U.S.C. alumni, to whgm
“preferred” application* for four
ticket* each already have been
mailed"' students, 'Trojan club
member* and season ticket hold-
ers - 44,000.
2. To U.S.C. rooters- 3.500.
3. Tq the_ patrician* who com-
of Roses |
*■■11 ■■"■■* wr,Y Ki
carry home the deanert* of the
evening.
“There’* one thing about my; ’
cluh,” the coach modestly admit- l"“
ted, "they s*em to bear down
hardest when the going get*
roughest. When they are crowd-
ed, they fight harder And deliver
the good*.” They had to beat
Carlisle’* potent Indians twice to
eop the title, but London slipped
up on them. Every team must
have at leant one good game, you
know.
1 “I want to win that game,” An-
drew* said, “more than anything
I’ve ever done.”
—---0----
SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE
GRID CHART
Final Conference Standings
TeAm— W. L. T. Pct.
T. C. U 6 0 0 1.000
s. M. U .. 4
Baylor 3
Rice 3
A. & M 2
Arkansas 1
Texas j
Sea»on’s Standing*
'• * 0
1
0
1
0
1
0
Ia*t Week’s Result*
’ Rice 25, 8. M. U. 14, at Hous-
ton.
NEW YORK. (UP).-The best
, .r-r- — al«v«n players in the fastest foot-
I the deal, which sent Cub Short- ball league In the country were
! stop Billy Jurges, Catcher Ken selected today on the United
O’Dea and Outfielder Frank I Press All-American professional
Demaree to the Giants for Short- team. •
stop Dick Bartell, Catcher Gus The' New York Giants, Eastern 1
Maneuso and Outfielder Hank division champion* and th* best
Leiber. They cansidered the defensive team in the National,
trade one involving players who League, -placed the most players
had shaken the confidence of1 on the first team with three. Th*
their managers, ft presaged, they; Green Bay Packers, Western di-
NEW YORK. (UP).—All New > believed, future large-scale vision champions and the leading
York was talking about Texas trading. offensive combination, placed two
.Christian Univers y's “12th play-' The deal was consummated men as did the Chicago Bears and
er” today as Quartebaek Di.vey yesterday by Gabby Hartnett, the Pittsburgh Pirates. Completing
O’Brien, professor of football’s' Cub manager, and Manager Bill the team were one player each
most coveted award, flew back | Terry and President Horace, [torn the Brooklyn Dodgers and
to the Fort Worth «nhnnl u ith 11Stoneman, of the Giants, Today; Philadelphia Eagle*.
they were the only silent base Two freshman rookie* landed
ball men in New Orleans. And berths on the first team —Byron
,ow the minor league convention had (Whizzer) White, whose brilli-
the drawn most of the major league ance was dulled somewhat by
mogul*. having Io play on a mediocre
Other trade* were: club, and Byron Gentry, a sma*h-
1. Outfielder Tom Carey of, ing 22U-pound guard from
the St. Louis Brown* to the Bos- Southern California. Both Whit*
ton Red Sox for Pitcher Johnny | and Gentry played with the
I Pirates.
2. Kiki Cuyler, former Brook-1 T)u backfield is composed of
as manager I White, who led the “league in
ground , gaining; Edc*Danowski,
the New York Giants’ great all-
round star who excels at pass-
ing; Ace .. Parker, Brooklyn’s
quarterback who comes close to
being the league'* most valuable
player; and Clark Hinkl^, .Green
Bay’* old war horse who ha*
been c*.vortir.g over professional
gridirons for eight season*.
White gained 567 yards uti l 62
attempts, and completed 29 ’’out
| of. 73 "passes. Tnjs record i* re-
1 markable, considering the fact
I that the former (Colorado Whizz
played with a team which lacked
spirit and was at times torn by
dissension.
Again a standout in his eighth
season in the National League,
Mel Hein had one of hi* great-
est years at Center.
The guard position .were prob-
ably the weakest or most evenly
matched in the league. Danny
Portnicnn, Chicago Bears, and
> Byron Gentry, Pittsburgh, were
1 given the berths. "
In his second year in the league
Ed Widseth, New York Giants,
became recognized as the. loop's
greatest tackle. Joe Stydahr, a
240-pound strong boy, was picked
as Widseth’s running mate.
• Don Hutson, Green Bay's nim-
ble-ftngered pass catcher, and Bill
Hetfllt, PhiladelpMa, Yairked b**
most coaches as the- smartest and
hardest wingman to get around,
were named at ends.
STAGEHAND AND
SEABISCUll TOPS ’
IN HANDICAP FIELD
ARCADIA, Cel. (UP) - Stage-
hand and Seabiscuit, who ran one-
lert out in two *n a neck-and-neck finish this
almost the year> topped a record field of 107
• horses named today for the $100.-
000 Santa Anita Handicap to be
run here on March 4.
Virtually every top-ranking
American stake horse wa* enter-
ed for the mile and a quarter N
classic richest race in the world r
—which will have its fifth re-
newal next year.
Other well-known entries were
Dauber, The Chief, Jacola, Pas-
teurized, Marica, Porter’s Mite,
Thanksgiving, Cravat, Esposa,
Magic Hour and War Ministrel.
Two prominent absentees were
Lawrin, Kentucky Derby winner,
and War Admiral, champion three-
year-old of 1937, who were among
entries named yesterday at Miami
for the Widener Handicap, to be
run the same day at Hialeah Park.
Seabiscuit, victor over the Admiral
in a recent match race at Pimlico.
Md„ also was named for the
Florida event.
700
gymnasium. They got °f Chattanooga Lookouts of
flee BASEBALL, Page 6
in an automobile accident while
he wa* at school. Dr. Dnvi* said
. . might have" re-
sidering "four or five offer*" from | suited in a brain tumor.
The trial was held here on a
name them. change of venue from Gonzales
“I want to play baseball,” he I county. 7 he defendant has two,
l/l 41 A izibx nollltin nlairlnrr I fl I _
solely, without being tied up with I tion for new trial,
managerial duties.” ' u
Galento Meets Otis
Thomas at St. Louis
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