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THE JACKSON SUN: JACKSON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1952 WANT ADS 7-3333 PAGE SIX The Jackson Generals To Field Kitty League Team In '52 3 Spain Hears Record On Murray Court As Union Bows Tex Riley Asks For Another Match With Red Roberts tramlines Sportlight Lambuth Eagles Off vV, GRANTLAND RICE art! golf. The British Isles have knowa no Crulckshank since. Back to Jim Thorpe In the last half century what athlete did England turn out even close to Jim Thorpe? Jim could win an Olympic' decathlon and pentathlon. He could run and Jump, vault and hurdle. Jim was a foot ball star and a baseball big leaguer.

He could have handled the British Empire alone. Since then a long, long list of double and triple stars in various sports, outside of Thorpe, have ap. peared on the scene. One of the greatest was Neil Snow of Michigan, 1901. Snow was a great defensive end and offensive fullback.

He was brilliant at both jobs, as Stanford will recall. Snow was a .420 hitter on Michigan's baseball team. He was offered big-league jobs all over the map. Snow was a star track-and-field entry shotput, high Jump and several other events. This country has been packed with athletes who were never specialists.

I'll admit that modern football is developing the specialist with its double-platoon system. One big-time coach told me recently, "I've got two fine ball carriers who can tackle Just as well. But they refuse to tackle, or play their share of defense. They want to be at their best to run against opposition." This isn't true of all football players now. But it soon will be, if things continue the way they have been going.

So far as the all-around entries go. how about "Babe" Didriksen now Mrs. Babe Zaharias who, back in 1932. starred in nine or ten sports? The Babe could run, jump, throw the javelin, pass and kick a football as well as many male stars. She was good at golf, tennis, baseball, swimming, diving and basketball.

For Just what does Mr. Iddon ask? Eggs, honey and dried prunes are featured in plentiful supply for February, announces the Produc tion and Marketing Administration, USDA. By Ail-Around Athletes BEVERLY HnXS, Feb. 5 Don Iddon of the London Daily Mail insists that American athletes are single-track specialists. They don't even play out one game, he insists.

Well, it must be admitted our nlatoon system in football isn't much for stamina and fibre. It is merely better for the coach and the less ambitious player. But on the all-around stuff, Mr. Iddon is largely listening to funny noises in his dome. The U.

S. is packed with athletes who have starred in more than one sport. For example, what about Mickey Cochrane, all-time catching great for the Athletics? Cochran at Boston U. was a great football player. He was a fine passer, runner, kicker and blocker.

He was undoubtedly All-America as far as playing worth goes, a fine ballplayer, an excellent boxer, and a first-class golfer. That's four sports. How many sports does one have to star in? How many combined golf and tennis players, able to star at both games, has England? None, that anyone ever heard of. How about Ellisworth Vines, better than the best of the English at either sport? What about a kid known as Mathias, of Stanford, who won the Olympic all-around championship and then came on to star at fullback? What about Dark of the Giants, Merriman of the Reds, Stirnweiss of the Yankees and Browns, Robinson of the Dodgers, Kluszewski of the Reds, Chapman of the Indians and many others in baseball who also have been stars at football? Competition has become so lately with so many more contestants that it is difficult to become a star in more than one sport. Yet the U.

S. has turned this trick stars in two or three sports far oftener than any other country. Norman Brookes, good at both tennis and golf, was one of the few athletes of the empire to play both games well. Bobby Cruick-shank, first of Scotland, now of the S. was a star a fine boxer, star at hocky, cricket and MURRAY, Feb.

5 Murray's Thoroughbreds took it easy and walked away with a bas ketball victory over Union Univer sity of Jackson, 92-70 here last night. It was Murray's 17th victory of the season to five losses; Union's record is 12-5. Despite the lopsided. character ol of the game, heavily weighted toward Murray, It was Union's Homer Spain who made the high score of the evening. His 37 points was one short of a floor record here.

Murray's Madison Stanford made 38 points in one game two years ago. Benny Purcell, with 28, was high for Murray and he, too, set 8 record, for tonight's points gave him a season total of 412, a new record for Murray. UNION PF, TP Parks, ...1 4 4 6 Askew, 0 0 Spain, 15 7 Morris, 2 0 0 0 4 37 1 4 Hawkins, 1 Haws, 3 Carlock, 3 Mayo, 1 Hooper, 1 Totals 27 16 22 70 MURRAY Beshear, 10 3 4 23 Mikez, 4 0 18 Gipe, 0 0 0 0 Gott. 3 14 7 Deweese, 4 2 5 10 Jeffrey, 2 0 2 4 Purcell, 12 4 128 Lampley, 5 2 1 12 Totals ,40 12 18 92 UNION 17 17 17 1970 MURRAY 29 12 28 2392 Free Throws Missed: UNION Spain 5, Haws, Mayo, Hawkins. Murray Beshear, Jeffrey, Purcell 6, Gott 3, Lampley 3.

Creel Limits Lifted At Reelfoot Lake NASHVILLE, Feb. 5 The creel limits at Reelfoot Lake on crappie bluegill and yellow bass were removed yesterday when the Tennessee Game and Fish Com' mission held its bi-monthly meet, ing. The commission approved the plan to put pole and line fishermen on a more equal plane with the commercial at the only body of wa ter in the state where game fish may be netted and sold legally. The lake will be closed to commercial fishermen during April and May to protect the fish during spawning season. High School Basketball By The Associated Press Rossville (Ga) 57, Chatttanooga Central High 42 Darlington 74, TMI 35 City High 49, Soddy-Daisy 39 Camden 60, Big Sandy 42 Selmer 104-, Bethel Springs 24 JIMMY HAMLIN hair-raising thing.

But they done it there, 72-33 During the 50-51 season, we lost there 56-46 but made it a fight of here, though losing, 66-65. Our other triumph happened in the finals of the consolation tournament in the Lipscomb gym in the 1950-51 season, 59-57 How is it then that everybody else licks Austin Peay there but Union? TJnion has had three different coaches since the 1946-47 season, so it wouldn't be that the Governors have solved Union's pattern of play. And, too, Union has had a good turn-over, of players' since back then, as has Peay. Year in and year out David Lipscomb comes up with better teams than Austh. Peay, and Union has enjoyed fine success at the expense of the Bisons It could be that our side is aware that Lipscomb is usually tough, and go up there with the idea in mind of shooting the works And again, it could be a jinx that Peay manages to handle us.

Whatever it is, we wish it'd stop A bunch of the boys were comparing Union's hard-way-to-go with Bethel here before winning 83-78, while Lambuth eased past the same team here 105-68 A Unionite's explanation for this ran something like this: "Bethel hasn't forgotten Union's 81-0 football trouncing back in 1949. She'll shoot everything she has at Union for the next 200 years. Could be. The Bulldogs won by two points at McKenzie after seven of the Bethel players had fouled out And a Lambuthite was of the opinion "we've just got the better team. We won by 37 here.

We'll win by that much or more when we go there Could be the Missouri Valley. Detroit edged Oklahoma 44-42, on Jim Cleeson's field goal in the last ten seconds and St. Louis nipped Drake, 59-57, on Captain Ray Son-nenberg's two-pointer in the last minute of play. Clyde Lovellette, Kansas' one-man gang, dumped in 34 points to lead the Jawhawks to a 73-68 Big Seven triumph over Colorado. In other important games Holy Cross staged a last-period rally to whip Syracuse, 80-75.

Pittsburgh traveled to Raleigh, N. and bowed to North Carolina State, 62-54, Vanderbilt downed Mississippi 59 51 and Alabama defeated Florida, 67-59. Hardeman And 173rd Win League Games Hardeman's defeated Nathan's, 25-23, and the 173rd scored an 85-53 victory over Holland's in Com mercial Basketball League games last night on the Jackson High court. Nancy Mitchell paced the win ning girls with 21 points, while Frieda Deaton was potting 16 for the losers. Leo Leathers sparked 173rd with 43 points.

On the losers' side, Eddie Truett sacked 16. Golden Gloves Boys Off To Midsoulh The 16 Golden Gloves champions eight opens and eight novices from the held here last week departed this morning for Memphis where they will compete in the Midsouth tournament. Sixteen more champs, from the AAU ranks, are in St. Louis, fight ing in the Midwest. The three-night tournament here was for the third time sponsored by the Jackson Exchange Club.

By TTninn octia snake bit every time she goes to Clarksville and engages in basketball with Austin reay A Union grad called our attention tn th fact the other day that the Bulldogs have not outscored the Governors at ciarKsvme since the days when the Forked Deer was just a hawg-wallowing haven Our records show that the Bull dogs haven't been much more suc cessful when the Govs came nere After licking a dandy David Lipscomb outfit a few nights earlier at Nashville and taking the Volunteer Conference lead with four league wins and no defeats, the Bulldogs went over to Clarksville last Thursday night to meet a uov-ernor team that hadn't won a game in so long it was ashamed of it self Wot hoppen Union led with less than a min ute to go by a point when a reserve Governor player was fouled and was awaraed a pair of flings on the house. He cashed them both, as you've probably learned by now, and Katie barred the door. This elementary operator opened his first jar of paste at this workbench back during the 1946-47 season, and since has kept (or tried, thereof) all records of the local athletic organizations Scanning 'em, we learned all over again without too much alarm that Union has defeated Austin Peay twice since the 1946-47 season, neither time at Clarksville and only once here. Peay clipped us here in the 1946- 47 campaign, 63-46, and there, 62-42. Our side lost them both the following year 55-48 there and 66-60 here Our win here occurred during the 1948-49 season a squeeking 50-49 Top-Ranked Wildcats Humble Green Wave By Score Of 103-54 NEW YORK, Feb.

5 (JP) DePaul loomed as the best bet today to check the winning streak of Kentucky's mighty Wildcats. Kentucky, top-ranked team in the weekly Associated Press poll, ran its winning streak to 12 games last night by smothering Tulane's Green Wave, 103.54. The Wildcats have six regular. season games left, including five on their home court against weak Conference foes. Baron Adolph Rupp's charges are unbeatable on their home floor, having won 105 straight games there.

Kentucky tangles with tough DePaul late this month in the Chicago stadium. DePaul recently knocked Illinois out of first place in the national rankings and is aiming to avenge an early 98-60 beating at the hands of Kentucky. Sharing the limelight with Kentucky last night were St. Bonaventure and Duquesne, the nation's only two major unbeaten fives. Both kept their records pure.

St. Bonaventure made it 14 straight by turning back John Carroll, 78-66. Duquesne stretched its winning streak to 15 by drubbing LaSalle, 71-60. There were some fireworks out in the Big Ten area, too. St.

John's of Brooklyn, the country's tenth-ranked team, completed its two-game tour of that section by beating Purdue, 64-53. At Evanston, 111., LeRoy Leslie pumped in 20 points to lead Notre Dame to a 75-69 triumph over Northwestern. Minnesota set a Gopher scoring record for a conference game by swamping Ohio State, 84-56. The Gophers previous high was 81 against Purdue in 1947. Iowa, ranked ninth, edged Butler, 58-57.

Two thrillers featured action in The Jackson Baseball Associa- tion yesterday deposited with the National Association of Professional Baseball League the salary guarantee, indicating that Jackson would again be a part of the Class Kitty League. It was decided at the meeting1 that it would require the raising of $10,000 before the season opens to make the operation financially sound and enable the club to pay off its outstanding indebtedness incurred mostly in the first season of operation, Russell Rice said. There has already been pledged to the club for this coming season approximately $6,000 from advance sale of tickets, boxes, fence signs and concessions. "The owners feel however that it would be unfair to accept the money already pledged unless it was reasonably sure that the season would be played," Rice added. Therefore, the public is being asked and will be asked again to pledge the additional $4,000 in advance ticket sales before the season begins.

A campaign for this amount will be begun in March. "If this sum is raised the owners promise that baseball will be played here during the 1952 season. Every effort will be made throughout the year to make the season as entertaining and interesting as possible. The best team that can be accumulated will be obtained. The enthusiasm shown by the baseball fans during the last half of last season indicates that the season can be made a fanincial and entertainment success." Rice added that efforts are now being made to obtain a player-manager.

He said contracts will be sent out to former players and to prospects. Spring practice details are being worked out and will probably begin about April 15. "In the final analysis, however. It all depends on public support," Rice said. Rice did not clarify the statement that a player-manager would be signed in the place of Gabby Stewart, who piloted the Generals during the last two years.

Stewart is currently employed with a beer firm in Memphis. The Generals finished fifth last year, arfter being in and out of the first division most of the year. On Trust Be Retired ARCADIA. Feb. 5 On Trust has been declared from the forthcoming Santa Anita Handicap and will be retired from racing for life, his owner, E.

O. Stice, said today. The illustrious California-bred pulled a muscle in his left foreleg and had to be thrown out of training He retired with the distinction of being the leading California money winner of all time, he is sixth on the world's list of moneymakers, with $551,945. Stice will return On Trust to stud. He will stand at a farm in the sn Gabriel Valley.

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30. Tomorrow night's card pits Roy Welch against Moody Palmer and Rex Mobley against Roberts. Palmer and Welch are long-time mat foes. Palmer had bragged to Promoter Langston that he has a new hold, one never seen in these parts before, with which he "is going to beat The promoter says Welch said for Palmer to bring on hi- new tactic. Mobley and Roberts tangled several months ago in a series of explosive matches in which the barred piledriver hold figured.

Both used the hold, Roberts first and Mobley afterwards. Rematches were order ed and disqualifications marked up, but Roberts again used the tactic in their last meeting. Mobley wanted to get the piledriver legalized for tomorrow night's match, but Roberts would not agree. Starting time for the first match tomorrow night, at the Armory, is 8:15. Both matches are tournament events.

Kentucky Again Voted Nation's Number One Basketball Power NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (Kentucky, riding the crest of a 12-game winning streak, enjoys top billing in the Associated Press basketball poll for the second straight week today but Kansas State and Illinois are hard on the Wildcats' heels. The Wildcats remained at the head of the parade on the strength of victories over Vanderbilt, Auburn and Notre Dame within a six-day span. They added another triumph after the polls closed by trouncing Tulane, 103-54, last night. Kentucky, boasting a 18-2 record, accumulated 811 points including 41 first-place votes to nose out the cream of the Mid-West.

Kansas State's Wildcats came home second with 751 points in cluding 23 first-place ballots to hold second place. Illinois retained third place, drawing eight nominations for first place and 705 points. Kansas State has compiled a 13-3 record and ulinois has a 13-1 slate. Trailing the Big Three are the nation's two major unbeaten fives, St. Bonaventure and Duquesne.

The Bonnies tripped John Carroll, 78 66, last night to boost their record to 14-0. ifth ranKed Duquesne stretched its potles3 string to 15 by turning back LaSalle, 71-60. The Bonnies drew 12 firsts, 558 points and leaped from seventh to fifth. Kansas (15-2) dropped from fourth to sixth place. The Jayhawks tamed Colorado, 73-68, last night.

St. Louis (16-4), slipped from sixth to seventh place. The Bull-kens edged Drake, 59-57 last night Washington and Iowa swapped berths. The Huskies (17-3) took over eighth place while Iowa (13-1) fell to' ninth. Iowa turned back Butler, 58-57, last night while St.

John's of Brooklyn, now member of the Top Ten, defeated Purdue, 64-53. St. Johns (16-2) replaced West Virginia in the tenth slot. Top Ten (first place votes in par entheses): Teams and won-loss record Points 1. Kentucky (41) 18-2 881 2.

Kansas State (23) 13-3 751 3. Illinois (8) 13-1 705 4. St. Bonaventure (12) 14-0 558 5. Duquesne (10) 15-0 ......524 6.

Kansas 15-2 .384 7. St. Louis (2) 16-4 .374 8. Washington (5) 17-3 .....362 9. Iowa (1) 13-1 336 10.

St. John's (Brooklyn 16-2 223 Second Ten' 11. Dayton (5) 12. West Virginia (4) 122 13. Louisville (1) 110 14.

Penn State 98 15. Oklahoma City "90 16. Oklahoma A 77 17. Seton 70 18. Indiana 40 19.

LaSalle 35 20. Western Kentucky 33 On Two-Day Trip; Union Travels Scoring at the average rate of 87.7 points per game and 112 per in their last two outings, the Lambuth College Eagles are out to improve on that tonight and tomor row night at the expense of Mill- saps and Northwest Mississippi at Jackson and Senatobia, respectively. The Eagles hit for 119 two games ago against U-T Martin Branch and 105 Saturday night against Bethel, boosting their season's total to 1140 points in 13 games. In addition their two century plus games, the Eagles have passed the 90 mark twice. Only once have they dropped below the 70's.

The Eagles will be shooting for their seventh and eighth wins in a row. Union will be active again tonight, too. The Bulldogs will be meeting Memphis Navy for a second time, this time at Memphis. In the initial encounter, the Bulldogs won, 90-74. Union will be at Memphis State Thursday night to try to atone for her 56-70 loss to the Tigers earlier.

Friday night is a big one among the high schools. Jackson will be at North Side, Medina at Bemis, Malesus at Henderson and Beech Bluff at Decaturville. For the third time of the season, there will be a three-way conflict here Saturday night. Union hosts Austin Peay, Bemis comes to Jackson and Lambuth engages Paducah Junior. Austin Peay snapped Union's all-win record against Volunteer Conference competition last week, and the Bulldogs will be looking forward to this second meeting.

The Golden Bears edged Bemis by a three point margin at Bemis. Lambuth has not met the Indians, but the Eagles will be wanting to build onto their scoring total against the junior college team. Also on Saturday night, Malesus goes to Sardis, the Holy Names girls and the CBC boys will be at Beech Bluff. Kid Gavilan Retains Welterweight Title In Split Decision MIAMI, Feb. 5 Cuban Kid Gavilan, a specialist in split decision rhubarbs, still owns the welter title after a tight squeak with string bean Bobby Dykes of San Antonio.

It was another "Gavilan Special" last night at Miami Stadium where many of the 11,526 who paid 814 booed a divided decision for the sleek Havana hawk. Only four points separated the two fighters on the total of three official cards. Referee Eddie Coachman voted for Dykes, the 22-year-old underdog who has been adopted by Miami as a local favorite. Coachman had the rangy Texan on top 143-140. Both judges found Gavilan the winner but Mark Erwin of Miami had it a near photo finish with the Cuban a nose in front, 142-141.

Ladislad Nodarse, imported from Havana to judge the championship bout, put the Kid over the top with his 145-139 ballot. Miami uses a point scoring system by which the winner of a round receives 10 points and the loser anywhere from nine to six. If it's an round, each gets 10 points. The AP card gave it to Gavilan 144-142. On a round basis, the AP showed Gavilan the winner 7-5 with three even.

The three even rounds could have gone either way without much trouble. It was so close despite an eight-count knockdown scored by Gavilan with a smashing right to the jaw in the second round that a good flurry could have swung the title to handsome Bobby. Jimmy Parks, Dykes' manager, shouldered the blame for assuring his boy he had only to survive the 15th and final round to win the decision. "I had no idea Bobby wasn't a certain winner if he got through the 15th," said Parks. As it turned out, a slow start and that knockdown cost Dykes his big chance -to upset the 4 to 1 odds.

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