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SIX THE CORSICANA. (TEXAS) DAILY SUN. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1955 Corsicana Tigers Lose District Contest To Bryan Broncos, Bengals Unable Popular Pick by Pap' Cardinals Hope I SPORT NOTES Spooner Is Not JH MHajBMft I 1W A A IJnH Bengals Unable To Hold Lead In Second Session Third Period Rally Turned Game Decision Corslcana's Tigers lost their end conference outing of the current basketball season to the Bryan Broncos Tuesday night in Bryan, 72-65. After fighting on even terms in the first half, with Corsicana ing by a 33-30 margin at the midpoint, Bryan turned in a hot (coring performance in the third quarter to recapture the lead. It was a lead they never lost, for both teams scored 18 points in the fourth quarter.

Long Shots In the crucial third quarter, Bryan began to hit from outside the circle on its long shots, ac- cumultaing 24 points to Corsiea- na's 14, lowest of any of the four periods for the Bengals. The Bryan team made It ft clean Bryan sweep, beating Cor- gicana 69-55. The Tigers and team arc at home Friday night for their next outing of the week, meeting Palestine teams here. The box scores: TIGERS FG FT PF TP Osbornc 11 2 2 24 Boswell 0 0 1 0 Gray 8 3 4 19 Baker 1 1 4 3 Dempscy 4 2 4 10 Carpenter 2 5 2 9 BRYAN Jarrott Martin Peters' Pcurifoy Scale Neville 26 13 17 65 Grid Rules Committee Could Help Game By Ending Or Modifying PAT 18 15 11 20 8 0 I Score by Bryan 19 Coreicana 16 25 22 Quarters 11 24 17 14 17 72 CHS F(7 Green 1 FT PF TP Ray Fore McMullan Reynolds English Bodenhamor BRYAN Dwyor Selvy 1 Falco 1 Neville 4 Neidcraur 2 Thompason Bontlng Dansby 1 Cartwright 0 2 2 3 1 li 5 21 22 25 24 Jackson Bears Defeat Hearne Jackson High School Bear cag- ers copped a couple of District 5- AA contests over the Hearne team at the Bpar Stadium Tuesday afternoon and night. These wins give the bears two wins on one loss In conference Play.

The Bears copped the 3 p. m. tussle, 40-21, with Thurman Btultt leading scorer with 12 points while Washington and Wilkes were second with eight each. Hearne gave the Bears a run for the money in the 8 p. m.

en- gogemcnt before succumbing 45-40. Wilbert Wilkes led the scoring with 15 points, pressed by Bluitt with a dozen points. By TAT ROBINSON NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (INS) The football coaches rules committee has been mulling over a more liberal substitution rule, stronger measures against the "sucker" shift and greater safety mensurcs. All very commendable and necessary.

But what about that silly and obnoxious point after touchdown? If the coaches want to keep the PAT, why not at least insist that it be made by a player who was in the last play that" brought the touchdown and not by a water-boy who never gets into the game except to kick the extra point? Should Add Excitement If that PAT must be kept, why not the- suggested two points after a touchdown for a running or pass play which scores? Such a rule would put some excitement into th.e now drab PAT. It also could pay off for the more daring team. One objection offered is that if two teams of equal strength are playing, the team which scores first wouldn't gamble but would kick for the Then, it is said, when the other team scored, it would not dare take a chance on muffing a tie by missing any point through a running or pass play. Somi' Always Gamble We can't see that because we always will have daring youngsters who will gamble on winning rather than on tying a game. That was the way the late John McGraw used to play baseball.

He always said that he always played to win, not to tic, and ac- cordingly would always shoot the works. You may remember that early in the Army-Navy game, George Welsh, the brilliant Navy quarterback, hocked the ultra-conservative old moss backs by running in his own territory on fourth down and a yard to go. That was the first big break of the game. Navy made the needed yardage and was on its way to victory. Can you imagine that young man playing for a tie on a PAT if he had a chance to win with a running or pass play? We feel sure he would go for all the marbles.

Chance-Taking Builds America was built by men who were willing to tako a chance for a big gain. For our part, we detest the play-it-safe hombrcs. And speaking of safety, we hope something can be done to cut down the number of fatalities in football. Equipment la being steadily improved and that, is all to the 'good. But since football is a hard contact game, it seems the most important step would be more rigid physical examinations, with the examining doctors given power to ban anyone not up to standard from playing at all.

One other danger, more prevalent in high school than in college, is difference in weight. When a lad weighing 190 or' 200 hits another scaling only 120 or 130 somebody is likely to get hurt and it almost invariably is the lighter boy. High school coaches should keep those little fellows, no matter how gifted, from playing against heavyweights. DID YOU KNOW? That the Bible was the only creed In the time of apostles ami for the first 300 years of the Christian era? Why have another nowT Westaide Church of Christ wmm 1347 North Beaton Street PHONE 4-6132 Houston U. Lists Football Honors HOUSTON George Hynes, Sulphur, and Jim Baughman, Vicksburg, shared awards presented at the annual University of Houston football banquet.

Hynes, an end, was named the Cougars' outstanding lineman, Baughman, a halfback, the outstanding back. I Baughman also received the I most dependable player award. Other awards winners Tuesday night were guard Vcrle Cray, Edinburg, most improved player, and I guard Jack Barnes, Freedom, most spirited player. Harry Fouke, athletic director, announced 33 Cougar lettermen. Fouke said one gome remains to be confirmed for completion of a 10-game 1955 schedule.

Harold V. Ratliff, Texas sports editor for tho Associated Preas, was the principal speaker. Fouke has indicated the new coach may be selected late this week. Fitzsimmons Gets Double Honors NEW YORK, Jan. Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, dean of American trainers, has been accorded double honors in the annual poll the New York Turf Writers Association.

The 80-year-old veteran ot 60 years of racing Tuesday night was named top trainer for 1954 and was cited for a special award "for outstanding contributions to racing over a period of years." Willie Shoemaker was named leading jockey for the second straight year and the late William Woodward was honored for breeding activities. Before You Take Any Other Picture Deal As A Special After Holiday Picture Offer We Are THREE 5x7 PORTRAITS For Only $5.00 A Regular $9. 00 Value! Make Your Appointment Now Call Or Come By "WEE SHOPPEE 'O THE UIIBAN. 200 3 4 South 1 8th St. Phone 4-4143 Allen Academy 72, Navarro 70.

SMU 93, Texas Aggies 69. TCU 79, Texas 64. Mississippi Southern 67, Centenary 65. Southeastern Louisiana 74, Southwestern Louisiana 60. Arkansas College 86, Arkansas Teachers 83.

Oklahoma Aggies 69, Wichita 53. Hardin-Slmmons 58, Texas Western 56. Waylaml College 109, Eastern New Mexico 92. Arkansas Aggies 77, Henderson 7-1. Southwestern Memphis 82, Arkansas State 78.

107 Loulsiana 57 New Oreans Xavler 68, DillSrd PITCHERS TRADED ST. LOUIS, Jan. 12 (INS) Ine St. Louis Cardinals traded fi n-l nd en Wade to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Paul La Palme, a left-hander, in a straight player deal. Wade had a 1-1 record while pitching in 36 games last year while La Palme appeared in 33 games, winning four and losing 10.

Cardinals Hope Screen Removal To Hike Homers Bv JOE OPPENHEIMEB ST. LOUIS, Jan. The pennant-hungry St. Louis Cardi- nnls, whoso sixth-place finish last sciison was their worst in 17 years, arc going to remove the right field screen at Busch Stadium before the 1955 season starts. The Red Birds are taking the action, International News Service learned, to benefit their predominantly left-handed hitting lineup.

The club, it is understood, conducted a survey during its home season which indicated that the Cardinals hit 35 balls to the screen to only 18 for their National League opponents. The St. Louis club won only 33 and lost 44 home Follow Other Clubs' The screen made It necessary for matters to loft a ball on the pavi- ion roof, 36 feet and eight Inches ilgh and 310 feet from home plate, for a home run. Its removal lowers the barriers to less than 12 feet. The screen runs 156 feet from the foul line towards center fiel the distance from the plat over 400 feet.

Removal of the screen construct ed in 1930, follows similar actlo made In recent years by Clevelam Pittsburgh, Washington and Gin clnnati. Stan MusiaJ led the Cardina tmtsmen whose drives were stop ped by the screen in 1954. He hi ien balls which would have bee lome runs without the artificia barrier. Red Schoendieast an Solly Hemus each had five an Wally Moon, the Red Birds' rook ie of the year, had four. Opponents Bobbed Too Among the opposing hitters, Na League home run leader Tec Kluszcwski failed to get a four bagger at Busch Stadiurh althougl he hit the screen on three occa sions.

The Giants' Dusty Rhode and Gran Hamner of Philadelphia each has two blows to the screen. The St. Louis club had a total 110 home runs In the 1954 sixth In the by Musla who hit 35. If his ten "scrceners' had counted as four-baggers, hi would have been close on the heels of National League home run lead ers. Without the screen, the 310-foO' right field home run distance a Busch Stadium next spring will be the fourth shortest in the league Only Pittsburgh (300).

Brooklyn (297) and New York (257) have shorter distances. Chicago has the longest feet. Oldsters Enjoy Slow Cage Game HAMILTON, Ohio UP) Former high school basketball player: whose speed has diminished as the years roll by are playing "slow break" basketball. There's slow-pitch Softball am touch football, thought Ralph Wilson, a used car dealer who devel oped the new rules for aging cage enthusiasts. And so why not slow- break basketball? Under high school and college rules, the team with possession must move the hall into the opponent's half of the floor within 10 seconds.

But in slow-break basketball, a player may not bring the ball down court until 10 seconds have elapsed. Slow-break basketball has caught on so fast that six teams are already organized in a. league in Hamilton. The first games were played last week and action resumes tonight. The players are In the middle and late 20s.

Two of the teams are sponsored by service clubs and a third by a church. The players are clerks, salesmen, industrial workers, lawyers and even a banker. Another league is in the process of being organized. Sun Want Ads Bring Results- Phone your Want Ads to 4-4764. HAUt MUORE Sun Sporti Editor.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY YMCA Men's League. FRIDAY, JANUARY Palestine At Corsicana High. Decatur At Navarro J. C. BOTH CONFERENCE GAMES.

YMCA Women's League A couple of Important basketball games are scheduled here Friday might Involving both Corsicana High and Navarro Junior Both are fine teams and despite a losses are attracting many fans at their games because they display a hustling performance that the fans like to see. Corsfcana Bengals entertain the Palestine Wildcats at the Corsicana High sym court This should he a thriller for the two schools have become great rivals In the few short years they have been in the same Intel-scholastic league district. The Bulldogs entertain catur of the leading teams In Stone 2, winning several engagements in which they were regarded as the underdogs. DeWitt Coulter may return to the New York Oiants, he has stated in Dallas. was with the Giants of the National Professional Football league before going to Canada to play.

entered the home construction business last summer but will probably be in togs when the season He was a great high school and college star. Chagrined Arkansas grid fans at Osceola, Ark have started another Bowden Wyatt "to buy Tennessee license plates for Wyatt's Cadillac" purchased and presented to him by Arkansas fans in appreciation for hfo club winning the Southwest conference football championship. Paul Richards, Waxahachie, new Baltimore general and field manager, let. it be known a few days ago that he has no Intention of becoming a. front office executive and general manager and retiring in a few years from the playing field and manager's The Waxahachian says he will delegate the office duties to an assistant and his plans are to be the field job he has had much success and experience in doing.

Malonc (Bones) Sanders. Corsicana product, is apparently quitting the active baseball circle (professional) since he has been appointed juvenile officer for Galveston county His will not be police work, according to information received here, but will be supervision. Is a product of the sandlots of Corsicana, and played with the Corsicana Cotton Millers for years before turning professional He was machinist and professional baseball skipper, having managed teams at AmaHllo, Bryan, Texas City and other points in the past several years Sanders should do well in his new assignment. Erdelaiz Stops Grid Conjecture With New Pad ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 12 (INS) Apparently settling for security and a team he had built himself, Coach Eddie Erdelatz signed a new contract Tuesday to boss the Navy football team for another five years.

Up to the minute the Naval Academy announced that Erdelatz has signed up, rumors persisted that he would accept a reported offer from the professional Los Angeles Rams for a five-year contract at $30,000 a year. However, the Navy coach decided to stay with the Middies whom he has led through five seasons, four wins over Army, and a 21-0 victory over Mississippi In the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Day, 1935. In Los Angeles, where Erdelatz flew Tuesday to visit his father and interview prospective Annapolis students, the coach said: "I will stay with Navy as long as they want me." His love for Navy, a team with "desire" according to Erdelatz, dates from his service with the Navy during World War IT and from the fact that Annapolis was his first head coaching job. He is not a graduate of the Academy, but received his degree from St. Mary's college in California.

Apparently, the contract would not have been signed this early if Erdelntz had not wanted to enjoy his West Coast visit. He figured that because of the rumors and the chance that he would be questioned incessantly from now on, he decided to get the business of the contract over with before leaving the East for his short vacation. Sun Want Ads Bring Results- Phone your Want Ads to 4-4764. Hotel Navarro Coffee Shop GOODWOOD! Open 6 A. M.

to 10 P. M. Spooner Is Not Only Prospect On Brooklyn Roster By JOE REICHLEB NEW YORK UP) Remember this couplet that became almost a lament In Brooklyn last September? "Just one trouble with Karl Spooner. "They shoulda had him sooner." Spooner Is the young man who astounded the baseball world by striking out 27 Giants and Pirates within five days for two consecutive shutout victories following his promotion from Port Worth to the Dodgers last September. Agree Top Prospect The 23-year-old southpaw will be out to prove he's no flash in the pan when he reports to the Dodgers' Vero Beach, training camp along with 17 other rookies on March 1.

All veteran observers agree that Sp.ooner is a top pitching prospect. One look at the kid's record at Port Worth, let alone his brief stay with the Dodgers, Is enough to prove that Karl has the equipment. Despite a knee injury which sidelined him for a month, Spooner won 21 while losing 9 and struck out 262 batters in 238 innings to easily pace all Texas League pitchers. Had he rjpt suffered the injury, Spooner probably would have threatened Dizzy Dean's 1931 mark of 330 strikeouts. Young Karl is not the only bright rookie prospect on the Dodger roster.

The list Includes nine players who were named to all-star teams in their respective leagues. Good Infield Pair Chico Fernandez, the flashy Montreal shortstop and Charley Neal, the St. Paul second baseman, who may form a Brooklyn keystone combination in the near future, won all-star honors as did Lehman, an 18-game winner at Montreal; Bob Darnell, winner at St. Paul; Bert Hamrlc, outfielder at St. Paul; Norm Larker, .326 hitting first baseman at Mobile; Southpaw Chuck Templeton (9-2) at Union City; Spooner, and Joe Pignatore, Brooklyn-born catcher at Elmira.

The 10 new pitchers are divided evenly among righthanders and southpaws. Ed Roebuck (18-14 at Montreal) appears the best among the righthanders. Darnell (12-9), Ronnie Negray (17-12) and Don Bessent (12-13) of St. Paul, and Glenn Cox (13-1) of Montreal also are real good prospects. The southpaw contingent is headed, of course by Spooner.

Other good ones Tom LaSorda (14-5) and Ken Lehman (18-10) of Montreal, Templeton and Sandy Koufax, the 19- year-old Brooklyn high school boy who was given a $20,000 bonus to sign. He must remain two years with the club. Bolster Catching Recognizing the uncertain status of Roy Campanella because of his injured left hand, the Dodgers have brought up three ne'w The one with the best chance to stick appears to be bespectacled Charlie Thompson, who batted .305 at Montreal. Pignatore hit only .248 at Elmira and Herb Olson .278 at St. Paul.

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