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FAN FARE By Ditzen FACE QUITMAN TODAY East Lamar Lions Notch 42-31 Win In Region Opener KILGOHE Elysian Fields led day afternoon, but well-condhlioiied East Lamnr pulled away in the third quarter to lick them, 42-31, in the first game of the Region Four Tournament. Next for East Lamar will bo QuUrnnn, one of the tournament's favorites. They were to play nt 3:45 this afternoon In the quarterfinals. Quilman edged Savoy, the NEXT! EAST LAMAH (-12) FG FT PF TP Temple, 5 4 5 Anderson, 1 2 3 4 Woodnll 2 0 0 -1 Fletcher, 5 5 1 15 Ballnrd. 0 0 1 Harvey, 2 0 0 4 Totals 15 12 0 42 EI.YSIAN FIELDS (32) FG FT PF TP Studcliird, 3 25 Monday, 4 0 2 8 Lawless, 3 0 3 (1 Tiety, 1 1 3 3 Mnxey, 1 4 fi Vnnderpool, 0 0 3 0 Totals 12 7 31 11ALFTIME Fields If); East Lamar 14.

nnnin County chamji, 46-44, In vertlme Thursday. Wayne Fletcher and John Tem- ilc led East Lamar, the lounty Class champs, in the coring column. Fletcher had 15 points, Temple, 14, Temple fouled uut in fading minutes of lha ame. Klysian Fields lost Joe Stud- lard in the third quarter and Ed 1'iety in the fourth via the foul onto. Elysian Fields, big and rangy, ed at 18-14.

But Joe 3laekhurn's Lions stepped out ront midway in the third quarter and won going away. Should East Lamar beat Quitman this afternoon, they'll remain Kiljjore tonight and play in the icmi-finals Saturday morning at 0:30. THIS WEEK FKIDAY West Lnmnr Tournament. Girls Cage Tournament (PJC). East Lamar vs.

Qultman SATURDAY West Lamnr Finals. SUNDAY Travelers vs. Red Heads (Delmar) Girls Cage Finals (PJC). East Paris Enters Boxelder Tourney 'Esat Paris Dragons, runners tip In the Ward School Conference basketball race here, are entered in the Boxelder Grade School in Red River County Oils week-end. Paris, East Lamar, Avery, Boxelder, Detroit, Maple, Annona and Cuthand are entered.

Detroit and Maple were to play at 2:45 this afternoon, An- nona and Cuthand meet at 'i o'clock tonight, East Paris and Avery play at 8, and East Larnar tangles with Boxelder nt 9. Should East Paris win tonight, they'd play the East Lamar-Boxelder winner at 11 a. m. Saturday. Consolation championship game will be at 7:30 Saturday night with the championship game at 8:30.

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W. Phone 1021 Scots Nip Sherman For Playoff Spot SHERMAN Highland Park earned a trip to the Class A A state play-offs to be held nex week at Austin with a tlnglinj 45-to-43 win over Sherman here a Hughey Memorial Gymnasium Thursday night. It was the second consectiv win over the Bearcats In bidistric play. Tuesday t'ne Scots won, 4 to 54, at Highland Park. game wns tied eight time and lead changed hands nin times before the Scots' lanky Ed Bernet pushed in rebound with one minute and twenty seconds to play in the final quarter.

made the score, 44 to 43, in favor invaders. Tracy Tucker. Sherman guard, had a chance to knot the score at ten seconds later when he was awarded a free throw, but he missed it and the Scots took the rebound. They successfully stalled the remainder of the way. Charles a Sherman's rangy pivot star, tallied the game's high of 14 of which cami? on long fnll-nwav shots HIGHLAND PARK (45) Paris Champs To Appear In E-Tex Mitt Meet Tonight Another big boxing show for area fight fans Is scheduled to.

night in Commerce. A 12-bout card, featuring the best amateur fighters available, wil.l start at 8 p. m. East Texas State's big new 'ield house. Representing East Texas will be Flyweight Arthur- Tidwell, Welterweight Kenneth 1 Lyday, Middleweights LaVon yoyette and Johnny White, Light-Heavy Bryant Olark, and Heavyweight Cotton Vlartin.

German Gunther Waschenbach, the Paris regional champ 'rom Ml. Vernon, will fight either Boyctte or White. Some of the fighters who'll oppose the East Texans are Flyweight Jack Sharpe, Heavyweight Ed Lleberum, and Lightweight Wilam Uowaid from Sam "louston State Teachers College at Hunts ville. Roy Harris, a middleweight, will come down from Cut and Shoot, Texas. Novice bouts will round ou 'the card.

East Texas novice fighters who'll see action will be Welterweight Ed Waters, Light Heavy Moe Litton and Pleavyweight Buster Johnson, all novice division champs in the Paris Regional olden Gloves Tournament. Tonight's fights are under the sponsorship of East Texas's Association. Admission will be 50 cents. Clark Holds Early Houston Open Lead By MAX B. SKELTON HOUSTON A young Cali- Cats in "MUSCLE Gilliland, six-foot for- for Olson's Ail-American Red ward for Olson's All-American Red Heads, will start against the Paris Travelers in their exbition game Sunday afternoon at the Delmar High Gym.

Game time is 3 p. m. Miss Gilliland. pictured above, was named by Sport Life magazine as the world's cleverest female basketball player. You can write off' the District 7-AA basketball campaign for 1051.

Put Paris- In second place, just back of unbeaten Sherman. Wildcats cinched the runner-up spot here Thursday night with a rousing 44-32 win over Greenville Lions. To start things off right, Wildcat cagers trimmed Greenville Cubs, 48-43, in a curtain-raiser. Two Wildcat starters, Bill Dawson and Bill Alexander, were brilliant In their final 7-AA game Both are seniors. But a tall sophomore, Jim Sweeney, stole the show.

Sweeney tossed Ui 14 points for the game's 'ligh honors and teamed with Alexander to give Paris a lion's share of the rebounds. LIONS SCRAP Greenville put up a game fight LIKE THE BOYS 46-B Girls to PlayDelmarin All-Star Game You can't outdo these District 4G-B girls. Just like the boys, they're going to play an All-Star basketball game. Delmar Eaglcttes, champs of the 4G-B girls bracket, will meet a hand-picked team of 4G-B All- Stars in a game at Delmar's gym Monday night. Game time will be 8 o'clock.

Coaches for the All-Star team will be selected by drawing from a hat. Members of the All-Star team will probably be announced Saturday. Lleo Dodd and Mrs. L. W.

Hendley are coaches of the Delmar champs. An all-district team for 46-B girls will be selected by coaches of all schools at the All-Star game and will be announced In next Tuesday's Paris News. or three quarters. Jerry Bell and V. A.

Van Dyke kept the Lions the game with their point-mak- ng. Van Dyke had 11 points and "ell, 10. Greenville's ace, Haley rreen, had four points before he ouled out In the third quarter. Fouls were fast and free in the eason's finale. Greenville drew 21, was guilty of 18.

Barney and Jack Maddox had to usy night with the whistles but ept things under control. Lions scored first on a free irow by Robert Sanders. Paris Dawson fired a long field goal to FINE FINISH WILDCATS (44) FG FT PF TP weeney, 6 2 0 lark, i 3 rawford, 0 0 eed, i lexander, 1 4 3 4 aucett, 0 awson, 2 1 aulkner, tailings, 2 0 hrlstian, 0 0 0 Totals 16 12 18 44 GREENVILLE FG FT PF TP oster, 0 1 1 1 'Pry. i 0 0 1 0 anders, 1 1 1 3 c. 2 0 5 4 olllngsworth, 1 0 0 2 3 4 4 10 lark, 0 0 0 0 an Dyke, g.

3 5 5 11 formaii, 0 1 3 1 Totals 10 12 21 32 HALFTIME 22. Green- ille 17. Maddox. 3arney Bray. CLOSE ONE PARIS (48) FGFTPFTP SPEAKING OF SPORTS SIDE LINE fornia golf pro was confident today he could live up to his surprising job of setting the second round pace for the $10,000 Hous ton Open.

JImmie Clark, Laguna Beach shot 64 Thursday to take the first round lead by one stroke from another delative unknown, Jim Deal, former golf instructor at West Point. Immediately after posting an early 65 Deal had tournament officials change his hometown from New York City to Houston. He has been a member of the New York City PGA two years but attended Houston's Rice Institute where he was a Southwest Conference shot put champion. The two unexpected leaders and 1G2 other golfers began today's second round without a defending champion to chase. WITH BILL THOMPSON Two bus loads of fans and students kept East Lamar's Lions from feeling lonesome at the Kilgore Regional Tournament Thursday.

They were to return to Kilgore with the Lions for their second game today. Home folks in the stands make a lot of difference. Six Paris High Wildcats wound up their schoolboy basketball careers against Greenville Thursday night. They may play another game of two but conference action is finished. Wildcat seniors who won't be back next season are Bill Dawson, Bill Alexander, J.

E. Christian, Ray Bob Reed, Dick. Crawford, and Franklin Kyle. Others on the varsity squad are Junior Clark and Sophomores Jimmy Sweeney, Bebcs Stallings, Bob White, Harold Faulkner and John Faucett. Hugo High School fighters brought home one championship from the Oklahoma State Golden Gloves Tournament.

Joe Waugh, 118-pounder, won the state novice title in his division. Two others, Tom Farmer, 125, and Charles Mclntyre, 175. lost in the state novice finals. And Tommy Barren, ex-Denison and Sherman Golden Glover, lost in the Open Class middleweight finals. Backs Mack Pogue and Bobby Cromer and Tackle Forrest Gregg have been elected tri-captains of the 1951 Sulphur Springs Wildcat football team.

Sulphur Springs appears on the Paris High grid schedule next season. Barnes, 2 Anderson, 5 Bernot, c. 2 Jones, g. 2 Cnrrcll, g. 3 Fraser, 2 Holland, Morton, Totals 18 SHERMAN Sinclair, 1 Bnrnett, 3 Howard, c.

5 Elliott, 3 Hall, 5 Tucker, 0 Gattls, 0 FG FTPFTP 0 fl 21 IS FG FT PF TP 1234 Cage Scandal Spreads to All NY Teams Who Used 'Garden' By RAY KOHN NEW YORK Wl The college basketball "fix" probe has spread to all New York teams which played games last year in Madison Square Garden. The current sports scandal reached back into last season when, newspapers reported, police had wiretap recordings of a last- year fix. The newspapers said the evidence involving all local teams PJC Fern Tourney Underway Tonight Totals 17 9 14 43 HALFTIME Park 27; Sherman 22. TWO SHOWS NIGHTLY SHOWING INDEPENDENT i. SHOWING AT 271 SATURDAY ONLY! "A WAR OF WILDCATS" JOHN WAYNE MARTHA SCOTT COMING TO 271 SUNDAY MONDAY IRENE DUNNE FRED MacMURRAY KfVEXA PiU Shapely sharpshooters from eight area high schools face first round opponents this afternoon and night in the Paris Junior College Basketball Tournament.

Four games were scheduled today and tonight. Avery and Pecan Gap were to start things at 4 p. m. today with Ploney Grove and Savoy playing at 5. Dodd City and Yantis mix at 7 p.

m. and Windom takes on Detroit at 8. Winners of today's games move into the tournament's semi-finals Saturday afternoon. Losers drop to the consolation semi-finals Saturday morning. Trophies are to be awarded to the champ, runner- up, and to the consolation winner.

Avery-Pecan Gap loser meets the Honey Grove-Savoy loser at 9:30 a. m. Saturday with the Dodd City-Yantis loser facing the Win- dom-DetroIt loser at 10:30 Saturday morning. Then the Avery- Buy Your Car Today! BANK AGENT AUTO LOANS! Harold Insurance 112 South Main 7M Members County Chiropractic Society Alfred M. Llndsey.

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m. Saturday with the championship finals nt 8. Trophies will be awarded immediately after the championship game by Tournament Director Cliffo Davis. PJC's Dragonettes, girls basketball team, sponsor the tournament annually, and take care of all arrangements. Fans who wish to see the games will have five sessions, one Friday afternoon, one Friday night, one Saturday morning, one Saturday afternoon and the final one Saturday night.

Two games are included in each session. Gibbons Quint At State Tournament Gibbons Gophers, champs of Negro District 2-AA, are off to the state tournament at Prairie View University. They left Thursday. Basketball Coach L. D.

Taylor and Head Coach Gus Brown accompanied a squad of 10 Gophers to Prairie View where they will compete in the State Class AA Tournament of the Texas Negro Interscholastic League. Gibbons won the District 2-AA championship last week by heating Palestine. Eight teams are entered in the Class AA tournament, the champs and runners-up from each of the state's Class AA Gibbons and Palestine represent 2- AA. First tournament action for the Gophers won't come until Saturday. They are to draw for first round opponents Saturday morning.

was ordered withheld by an un identified high official. Former Police Commissione William P. O'Brien entered a gen eral denial of the reports. Police Commissioner Thomas Murphy, while saying he had n. information that such evidenc existed, has ordered a search police files.

The commissioner sai( the departmental record chec. might take "a couple of District Attorney Frank S. Ho gan, who last Sunday broke th basketball bribe case which rocke the sports world, said he never or heard of suppressed wiretap ev dence. He added that his offic had no wiretaps prior to last Jan 12. Wiretap evidence was used gain confessions "fix" case.

In the presen The newspapers said 40 wireta recordings made during the 1949 1950 season indicated a giant "fix involving all Garden dates kept every Metropolitan area team. Hogan had a long talk Thurs day with Eddie Card, former Lon Island University (Brooklyn) play er accused of offering bribes three LIU stars, and a trio of Oil College of New York team mem bers. Card also is charged wit acting as a go-between for the a legcd brains of the fix, Salvator P. Sollazzo. The district attorney said questioned Card about any other who might have been mixed up i the scandal.

Hogan declined to sa what progress, if any, resulte from the questioning. He adde that the inquiry was "far from complete." As a result of the New York in vestigation some half dozen school throughout the nation have pulle their teams out of further Garde competition. In a radio address Thursda night, Commissioner Murph praised the progress of the tax in qtiiry and assured out-of town teams there would be no relaxatio in police vigilance against futur fix attempts. 4 14 i 1 5 3 4 11 0 0 2 0 2 5 4 make it 2-1. From there, it was tied three times in the first quarter.

Greenville led, 9-7, at the end of the first quarter. Two quick field goals by Sweeney sent Paris out front, 11-9, 20 seconds into the second quarter. Two more field goals by Sweeney, a pair by Bebe Stallings, and Alexander's crip shot 15 seconds before the buzzer sent Paris to a 22-17 halftime lead. EASY FINISH From there on out, the Wildcats coasted. They ran the lead to 3121 at the end of the third quarter.

Greenville went foul-happy trying to catch up in the fourth period and Paris capitalized with seven 'free shots. Three points by serve Ray Bob Reed finished the" game for Paris. I 1 Greenville's team proved surprisingly strong in the curtain- raiser, Jake Coker's Parisian? held a narrow lead all the way but a safe one. Freshman Jini- my Kirby broke up a last-minute spree by Greenville by dropping in a field goal and s. free throw- to cinch tlie Paris win.

Jumping Gerald Jack night's individual star in the game with 15 points and a brilliant game on the backboard. Robert McDaniel ran a close second in scoring with 14 points. Billy McGuffey's 10-point performance was Greenville's best. Finals Set Saturday Night in West Lamar's CageTournament Cent, 1 2 2 Castlebury, 0 0 'rancis, 3 0 House, i 0 0 ack. 6 3 Cirby, 2 3 VIcDaniel, 2 4 6 0 0 6 0 3 1 2 15 3 7 3 14 Totals LION (43) .19 10 16 48 FG FT PF TP UcGuffey, 4 2 5 10 Lake, .....2 1 4 5 1 4 1 McCasland.

1 2 2 2 Allgeier. 1 2 Phillips, 3 i Williams, 3 0 1 Turns, 0 HALFTIME 20, Greenville 17. WildcatsTnd Only To Champ Sherman In 7-AA Standing Paris' two teams in District 7-AA basketball finished as high, or higher, than any previous Paris ligh cage aggregation, final stand- ngs show. With only the two narrow losses to Sherman blotting their record, Paris High's varsity finished in second place with a 5-2 mark. They lost to Sherman by three points one time and four points the second.

Down in the team race Paris finished in a second-place tie with Gainesville wifh a 5-2 record identical to that of the Wildcat varsity. Paris losses were to Gainesville and Sherman, and one win was over Sherman. FINAL 7-AA STANDING W. L. Pet.

Sherman 8 PARIS 5 Greenville 4 Denison 2 0 STANDINGS 1.000 .714 .500 .250 .000 W. L. Pet. Sherman 7 1 -875 PARIS 5 2 .714 Gainesville 5 3 .714 Greenville 2 6 .250 Denison 0 .000 JAPS START COW RACING KOCHI, Japan OW Japanese racing fans have a new sport. It's cow racing.

Cunningham and Chicota both boys and girls moved into the semi-finals of the West Lamar Invitational Tournament Thursday. They join the Deport boys and girls, who advanced Wednesday. Blossom and West Lamar girls and boys tangle this afternoon at West Lamar's gym for the vacant semi-final spots. G'uis "ut.v o'clock and the boys at 6. Following today's games, the 18 earns in the Invitational really get down to business.

Semi final games in the championship bracket are scheduled Saturday afternoon, consolation semi-finals Saturday morning, and both consolation and championship games Saturday night. Chicota girls edged Delmar, 2822, in Thursday's first game. Then the Chicota boys nipped Delmar, 34-32. Delmar used Its second- ieam girls to give the first team, winners of the 46-B title, a rest. Lleo Dodd used only his next season's boys for Delmar.

Tolbert scored 16 points to pace Chicota's girls and. Gentry had 15 for Deimar. Frierson's nine points was tops for Chicota in the boys game. Shew of Delmar had 11. Cunningham boys, minus two starters, had a tough time beating Central 33-28, and the Cunningham girls tripped Central, 31-13.

Pynes led the Cunnnigham boys with 17 points and Hanks had nine for Central. Baker was high for Cunningham girls with nine points. Shapher scored fove foi Central. Powderly and Delmar girls start more consolation play tonight at 7. Powderly and Delmar boys clash at 8.

Hoxton and Central girls play consolation at 9 a. m. Saturday and the boys the same two schools meet at 10. Cunningham and the Blossom West Lamar winner open semifinals in the championship bracket Saturday with girls at 11 a. m.

and boys nt 1 p. Depor; I Chicota girls play at 2 p. m. with, boys tangling, at 3. Consolation finals are 7 p.

m. Saturday for the girls and 8 p. m. for the boys. Championship games will be 9 m.

for the girls and 10 p. m. for the boys. Trophies will awarded following the championship games. Steers, Frogs To Make Last Stands For SW Cage Title: By The Associated Press Texas tackles Baylor and Texas Christian meets Southern Methodist tonight in last ditch efforts to stay in the running for the Southwest Conference basketball championship.

Texas A. and M. is out in front and favored to stay there the rest of the waning season. Texas and Texas Christian were dumped from a share of the lead earlier this week by Arkansas and Baylor respectively. Saturday night Rice catches A.

and M. at Houston and if the Owls upset the Aggies and Texas and Texas Christian win tonight race could be tied up again. After this week there's just four conference games left. Louis-Walker Bout Comes Off Tonight SAN FRANCISCO LB Joe Louis, fighting his way along the comeback trail to another crack at the title he held nearly 12 years, squares off tonight against tough Andy Walker in a 10-round bout at the Cow Palace. The fight starts about midnight (CST) Louis, still the greatest fistic attraction of them all, is almost solely responsible for drawing a capacity crowd to the huge pavilion.

More than 17,000 fans will jam the place. Receipts are expected to go over $95,000. WORK PAYS OFF Dragons Kilgore, KILGORE Weeks of work under the watchful eye of young Ernest Hawkins began paying off for Paris Junior College's basketball Dragons Thursday. They surprised highly-regarded Kilgore College, 72-45, in a Big Six Conference game. Everybody scored for the Dragons, who had dropped three previous Big Six games, two of them by narrow margins.

Forward Emmett Dixon and Reserve E. A. Siegler led Dragon scorers with 13 points each. Then came Bobby Turner and Johnny Crouch with 10 each, Charlie Martin with nine, Donnie Allen with seven, and Henry Thevenet with six. Kilgore was tough for the first time.

Halftime score was PJC 37, Kilgore 30. Then the Dragons turned on the steam. They rolled ahead 60-38 in the third quarter, scoring from every angle while Kilgore went without a field goal for 14 minutes. High scorer for the game was Kilgore's Earl Touchstone, with 17 points. Jimmy Stroope added 11 for Kilgore.

Stroope fouled out for Kilgore. Parij drew 24 fouls, and Kilgore, 22. Coach Hawkins sends his Dragons against Kilgore in Paris next Tuesday night and Cameron in Paris on Wednesday night. Dragons are now in the Big Six circuit's third place. "Get Good Gulf And Get Ahead" SAM M.

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