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Denton Record-Chronicle from Denton, Texas • Page 6

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SPORTSCOPE pupU gained more faith ia the or took tudden the of track in 1SS1, far ajmoct all of the net taraeki shoved a boom in attendance and wagering Thi fcasasan. tank, sacat markets aid also operated through aiaradiae of raftattonary but the tracks missed by ttty of oqnaltaf the record take" enjoyed in 1945 during the dreaded of war New York's season alone would bave twofht i Wit of hay. la fact there waa probably more oqe dollar tails realned through nee tracks from this Mate of big-wheel thorough- bredn than bales of hay tied in Texas lart spring and summer Approximately puuad through the pari-mutoel windows at New York's major tracks. Racing Boom Year as eigsd per cent increase or $38,783,467 more than taken ia ISM. Attendance totaled almost million for New York tracks afene.

dairy handle here was almost one and throe-quarter nflttOB dollars Thoroaghbred Racing Association say million wandered through the country's track turnstiles dgrisjj the year. The betting was 11 per cent higher than in 1956 and 85 per cent above the 1941 figure Horsemen believe the was created by the Kefanrer committee and the strict law enforcement fat various sections which forced bookmakers to cover and sent to the race tracks those persons with an urge to gamble Which proves exactly nettling that was not already known. That is, people are going 'to gamble if everything is locked up except rain drops Inching down window panes. Tracks Shotoed Anyway Hoflywood Park California showed a 19 per cent increase as its So-day meebng averaged a million and a half daily in wagers. For a 31-day meeting Chicago's Washington Park the handle shot 2S per cent above the 1050 figure In Florida, all tracks, especially Flamingorfilled Waleah, also experienced, an upward trend All business popped valves in 1951 but few showed winntrs to the fast- public as frequently as the race trarfe.

The Philosophical Crutch Maybe this is the real reason why the tracks had a Doom year For the "weekly-paid" workers, knowing that winners DO still exist to important. Haying a $2 bet on a longshot that comes in, is nice- bat the realization that somebody wins each even raore vital to the individual's drive in this topsy-turvy Dre ai I fcl trilT on monev Personally, around some weekly pay checks could win in this battle of "bills." 7.. who is operating on the lower or medium "take-home" be socially" accepted, must have a vision of hope a fantasy of better times to come Otherwise, he is simply a cynic, turned cold by his own blundering, jo keen away from him. So smile, little buddy DENTON 0 I BRONCS POINT FOR GRAHAM WIN HERE DentonVhUh ichool Lart nfeht Coach Ray io the firtt half wUl be shootmg for their second youngster, were not to be were never home reverul tomorrow evening denied they clipped Paschal Dtc" against Graham when the two Panthen here, 52 to 43 to even man Moore quints coffid. in Bronco gym for the SMI aerie, 'with the oT two gam.

St John's Blushes After Kentucky 8140 LEXINGTON, Dec. 18. You wouldn't expect ft to happen to the nation's No. 1 basketball dub but a stinging 81-40 defeat embarrassed St John's today as it stepped out in front in the collegiate basketball race. Second place Kentucky threw a tight ring around both backboards to rout the coid, bewildered Brooklyn Redmen here Monday.

St John's found it had nothing to cope with the distance shooting IIS S. Loctnt Phone 1069 BOWLING RcMrrarian For An Evening of, Fun Bowl InrraerioiM PwrtUc I-Oow 4-DMr IMI Poott.c 4-Door Priced Mack Massey Motor 416 S. Elm 520 of little Bob Watson and the deft, under-the-boards work of Cliff Hagan and was out of the running before thfc first quarter ended. The country's sports writers had elevated St. John's into first place over the week-end ahead of Kentucky, upset victim of Minnesota by four points Thursday.

The AP poll vote, tabulated before the game, wis released today. About 12,000 fans saw Hagan and Watson hit for 25 points apiece to drive St. John's into submission. Fourth ranked St. Louis and Kansas State also saw action MfaSjky.

Kansas State, beaten by Kentucky in the NCAA finals last spring, whipped Hamline, 92 to 73. In winning their 14th straight home game, the Wildcats roared to a 277 lead and never were threatened thereafter. St Louis Invaded Madison and were tumbled by Wisconsin, 55 to W. Paul Morrow, Wisconsin center, dropped in the winning free toss with 69 seconds to go. It was the first defeat for St.

Louis after three wins. Notre Dame rallied to down Chicago Loyola, 77 to 57; Butler, paced by Orvis Bursall's 29 points, tripped Michigan, 63 to 53; and undefeated Iowa turned back Washington University of SI. Louis 60 to 53. HOOVER J. fH.

Here is one of the best of all gifts because of the fine work it does in general housecleaning, its excellent quality and its reasonable cost an attractive gift that saves a world of time ond hard work; freshens up- things ond makes them lost longer. Wildcats Foul Poll NEW YORK, Dec. 18. John's University of Brooklyn was rated the No. 1 college basketball team today in the weekly Associated Press poll, but you can't convince the University of Kentucky.

Votes of the nation's sports were cast over the weekend. The weekly poll closed Monday afternoon, several hours before Kentucky and St. John's met at Lexington. The Kentucky Wildcats trounced the Redmen, 81 to 40. St.

John's got 36 of the, 103 first place votes to only 15 for Kentucky, ranked No. 1 a week ago. St. John's, which had won five straight fames, was No. 2 last week.

This ime, the Redmen received a to- al of 837 points, while Kentucky got 687. The voting obviously was influenced by Kentucky's upset defeat si-ST. St. Rhode Island State Saturday, 82-62. Illinois, a favorite for the Big Ten crown, St.

Louis University and Kansa the same as last week. Kansas state was bounced out of the undefeated class last week by San Francisco, 55-52. Kansas State trounced Hamline, 92-73, Monday. St. Louis undefeated when the voting closed, was beaten Monday night by Wisconsin, 55-54.

A few other switches were made in the top 10, but the only one to drop out was La Salle, which skidded from ninth a week ago to 12th. Indiana, eleventh last week, moved up to the No. 6, on a thrilling 57-55 triumph over Wyoming. Kansas, a 58-57 winner over SMU, moved up from No. 8 to No.

7. The University of Washington Huskies won a pair from California last week, 60-52 and 65-43, but dropped from No. 6 to No. 8. North Carolina State, defeated by Texas Tech earlier in the week, 63-62, won over Eastern Kentucky Saturday, 70-58, and moved up a notch to No.

9. Seton Hall, No. 7 Saturday, won over lona (N. Saturday, 70-60, but dropped to the No. 10 spot tussle is 7:30 p.m.

A preliminary meeting of the two school's teams will start action at 6 o'clock. Last night the Bronc B-teamers took a solid 25-70 licking from Paschal's second team. Joe Mitchell, that wonderfully- smooth working string of basket prowess, again blazed the way last night as he connected for 23 points for high point honors and generally controlled backboard play. Showing a marked addition of aggressiveness over 1950-'S1, Mitchell so far this campaign has mixed it up frequently, being one of the leading ball hawks on Thurmond's nit. The Broncs got off to an early lead and were never headed as Coach Charley Turner's Panthers missed 50 psr cent of their shots this week.

The top 10: 1. St. John's 837 2. Kentucky 687 3. Illinois 603 4.

St. Louis 471 5. Kansas State 405 6. Indiana 10 sehooL to apparently Felines in Fort Worth earlier this year. They also dropped their 1951 steers But have found the win eombi- nan far the local popped home 10 for game totak straight victories here.

Gane time for the Graham each. me IWO SCUOOl'S B- t-i- cuua- start the evening's 'H 6 nlght stand. Game time has been set at 7 p.m. The Denisou engagement will conclude 1951 activity for the HOSCBS. Following Christmas and New Years, they will open 3-AAA conference play against Paris, Jan.

4 at Paris. DENTON PASCHAL Mitchell 4 25' ff 2 I 4 tP 4' rfarwon 4 a 5 10 Wilson 8 2 3 14 Canipbtll 4351! Scalini; 3 4 5 10 i A a iu NET SERVICE FOOT-FAULT STIRS STORM SYDNEY, Dec. 18. today as though agitation by Harry Hopman over Vic Seixas' foot- vaulting might prove one of the finest boomerangs ever manufactured in Australia. It might cost the Aussies the Davis Cup in next week's challenge round.

Hopman, captain of the Australian team, raised such a ruckus over Vic's aUegediy faulty delivery that Frank Shields, leader of the American forces, to do something about it. For two days he has the Pbiiadelphian siandirg a full foot behind the baseline in practice matches. To his intense pleasure he's discovered Vic's first service Is much more effective when given this additional leeway. "Every since we got out here I've been trying to get Vic to use a medium first service and make sure of getting it in," Shields explained. "His second serve was too short to use against a player like Frank Sedgman "The trouble was too many df his medium "services- were going Just over the line.

Now with this extra foot distance they're going in beautifully Just clipping the corners. as happy about the discovery as I am." Since Ted SchrpSiJer 5s Iy assured one singles berth it's 7. Kansas 324 up io Seixas to convince Shields 8. Washington 309 in the next seven days that he's 9. NC State 237 a better bet than young Tony Seton Hall 228 bert for the other assignment.

NICHOLS EMERGES WITH BEST EARNED-RUN MARK NEW YORK, Dec. 18. big ter Nichols, a slender 20-year-old rookie with the poise of a league veteran, emerged as the uiost effective National League pitcher today with a top earned run percentage 2,88. The Boston Braves southpaw, second first-year man to win the honor and the first since Jim Turner, also of the Braves, turned the trick in 1937, ranked ninth on a won-and-lost basis with 11-8. He finished strong, winning seven of Ins last 11 starts including a dra- malic 4-3 win Sept.

27 that broke the back of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Figures released today show that the youngster gave up only 61 runs ings 50 of which were earned in 156 innings. lie of the New York Giants placed second with 2.93 and Warren Spahn, crafty Braves' southpaw, was third with 2.98. Three pitchers were lied for fourth with 3.03. They were Larry Jansen of the Giants, Robin Roberts of the Kiillies Roe.

Maglie also placed second on a won and lost basis. The righthand- er, who took the honors in 1950, compiled 23-6 record to tie teammate Jansen for the most victories, Jansen's 23-11 was fourth best. Third place went to Don Newcombe, Brooklyn righthander, who won 20 and lost nine. Newcombe ranked llth in the earned run rat- Nichols shared the pitching spotlight with Elwin (Preacher) Roe, veteran Brooklyn southpaw, whose spectacular 22-3 mark gave him Che behest won and lost rating at .880. Roc missed a chance to better Fred Fitzsimmons league record percentage of .889 when he was the victhn of Nichols' Sept.

27 win. Three hurlers were under the There were seven 20-game winners, highest total since 1923. The Denton led at hilftime, 29-20 on tabbed 11 Albert White and for offensive guns, counting 14 points Thursday night the Broncs enter Hastings 1 1 4 Kar'geV 0 1 5 "I Moore 1153 White 7 0 4 14 0000 Bronstafl 0010 Houston 0000 1013 Baney Totals 21 10 24 53 ToULs 18 7 22 43 Half-time Score: Denton 29, Pas- Texas Takes First Cage Loss, 55-59 THf ASSOCIATED PRESS Texas dropped from the unbeaten basketball ranks Monday with Louisiana A rangy sophomore, Bob Pettit, much of the credit for LSU's win, towing in 30 points. In the only other Southwest Conference game, Wyoming downed Baylor, 51-45, giving the Bears a 1-6 record. 'fed Price, Longhorn center, scored 19 points to lead the Texans.

The game see-sawed until about two minutes before the final horn when it was tied 51-51. Pettit sank a hook shot to put LSU ahead and another basket was added before the end. Baylor jumped to a 2-0 lead over Wyoming in the opening minute but the Cowboys, hitting on long set shots from far out, took over and were never headed. Wyoming moved into a 11-7 lead at the end of the first period but Baylor pulled up to trail only 25-21 at the half. At the three-quarter mark Baylor was behind two pouits.

In the final period Baylor had the score only 42-41 against them with seven minutes to' play but the Cowboys staged a brief rally to widen the margin. NTS OPENS TWO NIGHTER HERE North Texas State's Eagles tomorrow night open their final pre- Christmas series before skipping to El Paso for a turn in the coior- ful Sun Bowl cage carnival in El Paso, Dec. 29-30. Southeastern Oklahoma will be the two-night stand foe here in Men's gym and from evidence given in a pre-season warm-up Nov. 30, Coach Bloomer Sullivan's Savages may prove hearty challengers to the Flock's home court supremacy.

Last night in Commerce, East Texas evened the season's count on North Texas with a rugged high scoring 76-72 game. It was a game marked by 64 fouls with two players ejected for fighting. Seven players, four for the Eagles and three for the Lions were sidelined by fouls before the game ended. Ralph "Shorty" Sholars, smallest man on either team, took scoring honors for the night with 26 points for the Lions. He was fol lowed closely by Calvin Axtetl of goals and a pair of free throwi for 24 points.

Jimmy Fountain of East Texas was runnerup for winners with 13 points and Bob Fuller was good for 10 points. Pat Kelley counted 12 points for the Eagles before fouling out, and Tom Edwards tallied 10. After the score was tied four times in the initial period the Lions took a 15-14 lead and were never headed. EAST TEXAS Kelley iE.rt.tl.tp. 8 0 311 3 4 410 Smith 4159 Conces 1023 Earl 2226 Woodw'd 2357 Taylor 4058 Aitell 11 a 3 24 Sholars 8 8 428 Cain 3 0 Fountain 53413 Beard 0010 4 2 410 B.Hooper 0 5 1 2014 Lutrlclt 0020 0000 Bands 0 0 0 0000 Lati'ghm 1023 Vand'zee 1 0 I a T.Hoopcr 1013 Puller Stewart Moore Cook Total 30 1824 76 Total 2B 14 40 12 Free Missed.

1, Fountain 2. Taylor 1 Smith 1, Earl 2. Puller 2, Stewart 5, Kelley 2. Ed a wards 4, Woodward 3. Conces I.

Al- 3 00 earned run average. Sal Mag- outs, 164 list included Maglic, Jansen, Roe, Spatin Roberts (21-15) Newcombe -and Murry Dickson, who notched 2006 for the seventh-place Pittsburgh. Spalm, a four-time 20-plus game winner, was the high man with seven shutouts, 26 complete 109 bases on balls and ticrl I Newcombe for the most strike-; Take jur choice Upright or Tank, they both Hoovers, I the very finest of all. Hoover' iricei at low as $19.95 Make this a Hoover Chmtmai we'll help you. Easy terms and no carrying charge.

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