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A SIX LINCOLN SUNDAY JOURNAL AND STAR, FEBRUARY 14, 1937 Prep Cage Battles This Week Will Tighten State Tournament Race o- TOO MUCH VAULTING HANDICAPS SAM FRANCIS Wilson's Dog Wins Dempsey Cup. BEGIN ANNUAL TREK Cy $hettnarv Ti Lincoln Hopes to Beat Tech; Giants Off to Havana and Mitchell and Norfolk Card Easy Games. A's Battery Men to Mexico This Week. i II hp" c7rj Vvjt -tnl I kTNEES REFUSED TO BEWD- Wf 4 THE RESULTOf TOO -LJ X-Ar MUCH P0LE-VAULTIN6 tlmSmL ifw HE LSD THE fV HI I Uk Vim fT -Kansas It I I IK 1 tiFr- tV A CONFERENCE ft lf- lit a 1 11 STILL HOLDOUT TROUBLE CIRCUIT TOURNEYS CLOSE EVERY m9n in public life likes to know that he is popular with his public; that his "line of goods," whatever it hap- LT R'ENDS CARRIED HIM HOME Jj I IN ONE 6AME HE RAM FOR TWO TOUCHDOWNS -ONE FOR 75 YARDS AND ANOTHER Iy' HtSK SCHOO' I NT vi-rTur his punts averaged y'Al WST" 45 YARDS In ONE playing first base on a Junior league baseball team, but, heeding the call of the filthy lucre, allowed himself to be prosyleted by a local drug store. "A fellow can't play much baseball jerking sodas all day and evening," says Sam.

Two of Sam's most brilliant achievements were made in football and basketball games against Goodland, Kaa. In a football game at Goodland in Sam's junior year, a badly disorganized and Court Jester, one of Art Wilson's stable of whippets, Is shown SAM'S LIFE STORY. Another milestone In the meteoric athletic career of Harrison "Sam" Franors la presented and his same feverish desire to seals the heights Is apparent all thru it. Would you practice vaulting until your knees were so sore you couldn't walk? Sam did. This Is not prescribed, however, ss the way to make good but It Is an Indication of Sam's Insistence upon sticking to a thing until accomplished, or bust something.

You'll want to read more of Sam Francis' athletic memoirs and another chapter will appear In Next Sunday's Journal and Star. here with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dempsey, after the former Lincoln man's dog had won the cup offered by the one time heavyweight champion at Miami, Fla. Art Wilson is the son or jailer unariey His stable is now valued at more in it He keeps a breeding farm BY GREGG McBRIDE.

Pre-tournament lines will be closely drawn this week as Ne braska high school quintets swing into the home stretch before the state championship competition Among the leaders confronted with stiff assignments are Om aha Hastings and Jackson of Lincoln. The Jackson-Hastings engage ment Friday tops the program and the game at Hastings is cer tain to play to a packed gym a i m. Comparative scores against Lincoln high would indi cate the Hastings Tigers are due to avenge a '36 defeat After the Friday tussle, Hastings will en tertain Kearney while Jackson is host to Havelock. South Meets Prep. Omaha South, third member of the pace-making trio, can sew up Missouri Valley honors by win ning a Tuesday game from Abraham Lincoln of Council Bluffs.

The Packers also have an import ant game with Creighton Prep on the Saturday books. The undefeated Norfolk team has it a bit easier with Pierce and Columbus. The Discoverers, a rapidly improving outfit, promise the most trouble. In the west Mitchell should stretch its victory string at the expense of Minatare and Gering. Nebraska Deaf has two games with the fast Decatur five.

Decatus has a firm hold on Cornhusker league honors and is unbeaten in Nebraska. Lincoln steamed up over its showing of the past two weeks, is at Omaha hopeful of squaring matters with Omaha Tech. The Maroons rudely upset the Beech-ner tribe earlier in the year. Long Tournament List. The curtain drops on county and conference tournaments this week.

Among the carnivals listed are: Loup Valley conference at Loup City, Custer county at Arnold, South Platte Valley A tourney at Ogallala, South Platte Valley tourney at Madrid, Frenchman Valley at Stratton, Tri-Valley at Gibbon, Tri-County at McGrew, Pawnee county at Pawnee City, Fillmore county at Geneva. Franklin county at Upland, Saline county at Wilber, Webster county at Red Cloud, Clay county Fairfield, High-Line conference at Eustis, Adams county at Kene-saw, Seward county at Beaver Crossing, Northwest Conference at Crawford, Harlan county, Cass county, Wood River Valley at Eddyville, North Central Conference at Ainsworth, Niobrara Valley at Butte. Games this week: Mender, Feb. 15. at Summer-.

M'VPott" Plne Thayer B'oomflehi. Htldreth at upland. Beatrice mt. v.v... a.

Mary's (Grand Island) at Bt. Cecilia'. (Hastings) cn Sunday. aienvil at Cairo at Alda, Greenwood at Wav- 8t- rrne' (Humphrey). Chester at Deshler, Eagle at Ashland.

Tuesday, Feb. 1. Nebraska Deaf at Lincoln at Omaha Rnnth Thomas Jefferson, Mllford at Cathedral 1 noraviue. 'airbury, Wlsner at rilger. Holy Trinity at Bloomfleld.

Dewltt at Dorchester. Holbrook at Wllsonville, Sterling at Burchard. Beemer at nnirn wahoo at Gretna v.n. m.La Claries at Shelby, Llsco at Oshkosh. Ponca at South Bloux City.

Elwood at Atlanta Exeter at Hebron. rbminVt.n nt Johnson at Elkereek. Tekamah at Deca-tur Valparalao at Raymond. Bennlneton at Kennard. Nelson at Oulde Rock.

Allen at Macy, Ravenna at Gibbon. Sunol at Lodgepole. ortn Platta at Gothenburg. Syracuse at Otoe. York at Cniumhm mvmaM Martel.

Stockham at Marquette. Ft. Calhoun at Herman. Wood Lake at Newport. Page at Orchard.

Eagle at Ashland. Mer-rlman at Crookston. Madiunn mt iih Clearwater at Osmond. Winnebago at Wayne. Alexandria at Hardy.

Hallam at nova, narnson ai urawiora. xndlanola at Bartley, Kllgore at Valentine. Shubert at Stella. Butta at un- Bruntng at Ohlowa. Rokeby at Denton! ttersney at Brule, Cedar Bluffs at Luther (Wahoo).

Arapahoe at Cambridge. Oxford at Loomla. Lextnvtnn at rnaH u-- drld at Elsie. West Point at Blair. Grant at Imperial.

Petersbura- at Snaldlna Academy, Holy Trinity at BloomfleldT McOook at Lebanon. Wakefield at Wayne Prep. Odell at Humhnlrit at Dawson. Mitchell at Minatare. Wlnnetnon at 1 Verdlgre, Plalnvtew at Nellgh.

Albion at Fullerton, Red Willow at Mascot. Clay Center at Bladen, Lynch at Niobrara, Nemaha at Rulo. Glltner at Rarvarrl Bristow at Spencer, Indlanola at Bartley. 'i oprings at ugauaia. Bteinauer at Burr.

Walton at Ceresco, Pllley at Liberty Dewltt at Dorchester. Norfolk at Pierce, Chappel at Bldney, Waterbury at Concord. Orleans at Beav er City, West Point at Blair. Adama at oennei. Hoidrege at Mlnden.

Cowles at Rlverton, Norman at Inland, Grant at i Chapter II. The driving force which paced Harrison "Sam" Francis to athletic heights caused him to carry his self training process too far the summer before he entered high school. This time be was bitten by the pole vaulting bug. No sooner had he been infected by the idea than he was down at a local furniture store In seach of a rug pole to use in vaulting. Successful in his quest he dashed home, erected standards and a crossbar, dug a slot for the pole and, without bothering to fix a pit of soft dirt or sawdust for easier landing, began vaulting.

He vaulted and vaulted. Hour after hour and day after day, Sam could be seen in his back yard tearing toward the standards, Jab-bine his converted rug pole into the slot, swinging up over the bar and coming down ker-plop on the hard packed earth. The more he vaulted the higher he could go, and the higher he went the more strain long falls placed upon immature knees. Those knees began to swell and hurt. Bony growths appeared below the kneecaps.

But Imperial, Page at Orchard, Wlnslde at Laurel, Oxford at Loomis, Oakdale at Loomis, Oakdale at Norfolk reserves. Bt. Edward at Oenoa, Polk at Hordvllle. Concordia at Seward, Reynolds at Belvldere, Cody at Clinton, Wallace at Dickens. Swing at Creighton.

Bt. Patrick's at Brady. Wednesday, Feb. 17. Crawford at Hot Springs, Mason City at Merna, Erlcson at Belgrade, Btroms-burg at Aurora, Rising City at Schuyler, McLean at Brunswick, Plattsmouth at Nebraska City, Beemer at Oakland.

Tbarsday, Feb. IS. St. Bonaventure at Guardian rii (Fremontl. Adams at Panama.

Bradshaw at Henderson, Reynolds at Hebron re serves. Yutan at Aashland Mullen at Al. llance, Phillips at Stockham, Harrisburg at Melbeta. Friday, Feb. 19.

Lincoln at Omaha Tech. Decatur at Nebraska Deaf, Jackson at Hastings, Thomas Jefferson at Fremont, Havelock at Bethany, Omaha North at Benson, Abraham Lincoln at Omaha Central, Lincoln reserves at Ceresco, Creighton Prep at St. Francis. Bt. Marys at Cathedral.

North Platte at Hoidrege. Bushnell at Lodgepole, Nemaha at Honey Creek, Superior at Fairfield, Hardy at Ruskln, Dunning at Halsey, Ft. Calhoun at Bennington, Orchard at Ewini. Wann at Morse Bluffs, Crookston at Cody. Howells at Maaison, Osmond at Page.

Daykln at Brunlng, Whitman at Bingham, Merri-man at Assnmptlon, Oakland at Lvona. Roca at Rallam Oresham at Rising City, Syracuse at Shubert, Genoa at Silver Creek, Verdl gre at Wausa. McLean at Concord O'Neill at Butte. Malcolm at Denton, Kennard at Cedar Bluffs, Stapleton at Bradv. Ash-ton at Elba.

Goodview at Broadwater, Valley at 8crlbner. Elgin at Meadow Orove, Waterloo at Elkhorn. Crookston at Cody, Filley at arneston. uering at Mitchell, creighton at Clear water. Hickman at Cortland, Uehllna- at Hooper, Gretna at Bellevue.

Herman at Craig, Scatia at Cedar Rapids, North Bend at Arlington, Chambers at Papilllon at Springfield, Broken Bow reserves at Gandy. Surprise at Oc-tavla. Bushnell at Lodgepole, Dal ton at Potter. Bt. Patrick's at Sunol.

Wayne at Wakefield. Ulysses at Bhelbv. Belgrade at Spaldlijg, St. Paul at Grand Island. Belvldere at Alexandria.

Schuyler at Seward. Wlnslde at Wlsner, Bridgeport at Morrill, Dlller at Falrbury res erves. Meadow Orove at Oakdale. Osh. kosh at Paxton.

Elk Creek at Burr. Wahoo at Prague, Bt. Cecilia at St. Patrick's (North Platte). Farwell at Boelus.

St. Joseph Central at Beatrice. Wvnot at Coleridge. Center at Wlnnetoon. Hy- annla at Thedford.

Indlanola at Wllsonville, Verdlgre at Wann. Elwood at Hoi- DrooK. Palmer at Alda. Connor at Prim rose. Newcastle at Ponca.

South Bloux City at West Point. Deshler at Nelson, Martel at Rokeby. Otoe at Walton. Axtell at Atlanta. Marquette at Hordvllle.

Columbus at Norfolk. Oresham at Spalding. Grafton at Octavia. Belden at Allen. Dawson at Verdon, Saered Heart at Battle Creek.

Auburn at Falls City, Plattsmouth at Blair. Hallam at Clatonla, Ravenna at Lexington, Humboldt at Brat-ton Union, Superior at Fairfield. Cambridge at McCook. Dixon at Magnet Indlanola at Wllsonville, Talmaga at Douglas Gothenburg at Curtis. Lvman at Mor rill.

Nebraska City at Tecumseh. Elwood at Holbrook, Bldney at Alliance. York at Crete. Saturday, Feb. M.

Omaha South at Creighton Prep. Kear ney at Hastings. Wymore at Cathedral, Seneca at Lakeside, Elba at Grand Island reserves, Scotia at North Loup. Havelock at Jackson, Bt Joseph Central at Lincoln, Liberty at Lincoln reserves, Bethany at College View. I to be, finds a brisk sale to eager buyers.

On that ba sis, I predict Major "Biff Jones, due in Lincoln day to get on his new job as athletic direc tor-head football coach at aska will be able to decide right Iff JONES speedily that he made no mistake when he lined up with the Cornhuskers. I'll go beyond that prediction by proclaiming that an unexpected 'thrill is in store for the former army officer, as he Is destined to be accorded a hearty welcome by a Nebraska public which already I. has proved its affection for the gridiron sport by assimilating seat reservations for the 1937 games at a pace that surpasses all previous records in Cornhusker annals. From an authentic source, the same being Business Man- ager John K. Selleck, comes the 1 information that the season book sale to date, with the month of February only half gone, exceeds the total at Ne- braika for the entire campaign of 1936.

BUT that's only a part of Manager Selleck's story. So brisk has been the movement of season book reservations that the Nebraska manager, who, in truth, is a conservative sort of person, now predicts that the stadium will be completely sold out not later than June for the important joust with the Minnesota Gophers, on the schedule for Saturday, Oct. 3. The Selleck brand of conserva- tism probably would forbid addi-l tional forecasting, but that does i not bar me from indulging in the prophecy that every home contest of the 1937 slate, which lists five games, will produce a sell-out of the stadium proper. I Manager Selleck, of course, wouldn't admit it.

but I suspect he it entertaining a similar hunch, as the Information comes from hi office that new and larger end seat bleachers ar.e to be installed next fall, to the end that the total capacity of the Husker grid arena will number not less than 36,000 seats. All of which seems to verify my previous suggestion that Major "Biff is coming to the right place one that rates second to none in its apprecia-a tion and patronage of the grid-! iron game. 1 "HITS OF THIS AND THAT: A Texas 'writer, perhaps, a trifle cocky over the success of the Longhorns in enticing Dana Bible to shift the scene of his activities to Austin, suggests that D. X. "is just about the top- salaried man of the nation's I coaches" The Texas scribe may not have guessed badly, still 3 it's only a guess Bible's known annual stipend is $19,000, to which should be added a bonus I of unknown dimensions Here-J tofore, the one and only Pop Warner has been credited with i pulling the top salary in coaching circles Pop's annual pay at I Temple U.

is reputed to be 000 My own guess is that Slip Madigan of St Mary's college (California) has the fattest drag an admitted salary of $7,000 should be added a per centage iof the gate receipts which has been averaging about $14,000... Leslie Mann, former Uncolnite I and present secretary of the In- turnntinnal Baseball Consress. an organization supervising the diamond activities of the amateurs, has just issued a bulletin at his Miami, Fla, headquarters warning the simon-pures they must not compete in semi-pro or com. Imercially sponsored tournaments penalty for violation will take the form of a declaration of I ineligibility for the Olympic baseball tournament at Tokyo in 1940. U.

S. WINS 3 TITLES IN I ENGLISH TABLE TENNIS NEW YORK. VP). Three cham- ipionahipa were taken by United States players as the English table tennis tournament ended. I Ruth Hughes Aarons of New iTork' won the women's singles and teamed with Bud Blattner of St Louis, to take the mixed dou-l bles.

The New York combination 1 of Sol Schiff and Abe Berenbaum I won In the men's doubles. Miss Aarons and Blattner took ithe mixed doubles title by defeating another American pair, Mrs. TVvlnraa Pmnert Kuena or at. Louis, and Jimmy McClure of In- I aianapoiis, 21-10. 21-17.

21-12. LINCOLN MAT TEAM HOST OMAHA MONDAY The Lincoln Y. M. A. wrest-.

ling team seeks its first victory of the season Monday night in a dual i meet with the Omaha Y. grapplen at Lincoln. Lincoln has lost two matches to the Hamburg, Ia team I (DIM I JMf 'Vl NEW YORK. (UP). This week will mark the beginning of baseball's annual parade to the spring training camps.

The first -de partures will be made by the New York Giants, who leave tor vana Wednesday and the Phila delphia Athletics' battery men who will entrain for Mexico City Friday. The other clubs will join the regular southern and western parades and by March 1 most major leagues will be at their conditioning groundc. Only two other clubs have new camps the St. Louis Browns move from West Palm Beach, to San Antonio, and the St. Louis Cards, who drop Bradenton for Daytona Beach, Fla.

The Cincln nati Reds who trained a couple of weeks last year at Puerto Rico, will resume at Tampa, Fla. The other training camps fol low National league; Boston at St. Petersburg, Brooklyn at Clearwater, Chicago at Catalina Island, Philadel phia at Wlnterhaven, Pitts burgh at San Bernardino, Cal. American league: Boston at Sara. sota, Chicago at Pasadena, Cleveland at New Orleans Detroit at Lakeland, Wash ington at Orlando, Fla.

Yanks On Strike. Now, with baseball's off season drawing to a close, the men who own and run the major league clubs, face their greatest difficulty, placating their recalcitrant players and their demands for higher salaries. Foremost amongst the clubs with holdout troubles are the world champion New York Yankees. Colonel Jacob Ruppcrt has had five of his star players, Outfielder Joe DiMaggio, First Baseman Lou Gehrig, Pitchers Red Ruffing and Lefty Gomez and Outfielder Jake Powell, return their contract unsigned. Gomes returned his contract without comment, the other four have asked almost double the salaries tendered.

The most adamant will be Gehrig who wants $50,000 and has been offered $31,000. Other major teams with serious holdouts are the St. Louis Cardinals with the perennial' Dizzy Dean; the Cleveland Indians with Earl Averill, Johnny Allen and Willis Hudlin; the Chicago White Sox with Zeke Bonura; and the Giants with Hank Leiber. GOPHER TRACKMEN TIP IOWA STATE, 54 TO 50 MINNEAPOLIS. UP).

The University of Minnesota track team Saturday defeated Iowa State in the first local indoor meet of the year, 64 to 50. Bobby Hubbard, Winona sopho more, bettered a seven year old field house record in the broad Jump when he beat the mark of Ed Gordon, former Iowa track man and recent Olympic Jumper. Hubbard leaped 22 feet 101-2 inches to beat the former mark of 22 feet 8 Inches established in 1930. Altho first place positions were split between the teams, each get ting six of the events, the Gopher cinder men won enough second and third places to give them the advantage. HENRY SCHULTE MEETS WITH OLYMPIC GROUP Henry Schulte, track coach at Nebraska, will leave Sunday for Chicago where he will attend a Monday meeting of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Olympic committee.

Schulte membership on the committee was announced this week by Big Ten Commissioner John L. Griffith. CAPACITY CROWD MAY ATTEND HUSKER GAME Reserved seats to the Nebraska- Kansas State basketball game will be placed on sale Monday at Latsch Bros. The Monday evening tilt between the Cornhuskers and Jayhawkers is expected to draw a capacity house. Reserved ducats sell at 99 cents.

General admission at 50 cents will be on sale at the coliseum boxofflce Monday night. Open Alleys 7 to 9 Monday Night LINCOLN BOWLING PARLORS 236 No. 12 12- Wilson of the Lincoln police force. than $40,000 with some 60 dogs near Dow City, adding to his BY 20 TO 16 SCORE i.Z. A.

TITLE Ray Shapiro Leads Way as Scores Five Baskets for Victors. SINGER'S FIVE PLUCKY By WALTER E. DOBBIN3. With Ray Shapiro hitting the hoop for five field goals, three of them in the last two periods, Lee Grossman's Omaha quintet staged belated rally to knock off a scrappy Lincoln five, 20r to 16, In the finals of the Cornbelt regional A. Z.

A. basketball championships at the Lincoln Saturday night Omaha found Coach Jack Sing er's bucketeers harder to crack than they anticipated and at half-time were leading by only a single point, 11 to 10. Inability to hit from the free throw line cost Lincoln ita chances of victory, Singer's men blowing lent gift tosses in the opening: half. The metropolis five rallied In the third quarter, scoring five points while holding Lincoln scoreless and then went on to clinch the game in the fourth period when Shapiro and Sherman connected. Shapiro was high point man for the winners with five buckets while H.

Singer led for Lincoln with six tallies, the result of two field goals and a pair of charity tosses. Summary: Omaha fg ft Lhicoln fg 1 0-2 UPolskyf 1 0-3 0 3-5 2 'AD' hems 1 1-8 Garber Adler Soref Shapiro Melchea 0 0-1 i'H. Singers 1 1-6 0-1 41 M. Slng'rg 1 1-1 0 0-0 Lotmsng 0 0-1 weiner 0 3-4 Jiltoa'f'tf o-o Sherman 1 0-0 Kuah'rf 0 0-0 Totals ft. IS 111 Totals 4-14 Score at half: Omaha 11, Lincoln 10.

Referee: Cliff Cunningham, Nsbraska. I I Service I rJalie Brakes 1 Sam would not be stopped until one afternoon after a particularly long, hard session with the vaulting pole, he tried to leave a matinee movie and found that the knees wouldn't bend. Verdict Proves Blow. Friends carried him out of the theater and to his home. A doctor soon arrived and quickly handed down the awful verdict: "No athletics for you for a long time, young man.

You've got to be quiet." "But I can go out for football this fall, can't Doc," pleaded Sam. "Absolutely not!" came the reply which seemed a major crisis in the life of Harrison Francis. About to enter high school, he was to be deprived of the privilege of playing on the high school team; deprived of entering the organized athletic competition which had been his ambutlon and dream as far back as be could remember. The outlook was pretty black. Sam realizes now that he never could have stood the burising shocks of football that fall.

Those knees were sore as overgrown bolls for weeks, and It took over a year of treatments to bring them back to normal. Thwarted temporaritly In his ambition to go out for football, he began practicing basketball in the high school gym every day. He kept this up all during football season, and when basketball season rolled around, presented himself, already in midseason form, to the coach. Playing In a forward berth, he not only beat out his older brother by two points for Northwest Kansas conference scoring honors that first year, but also won a position on the all conference team. Sam continued this auspicious beginning by leading conference basketball scoring three more captaining three successive all conference teams, and captaining the first all state string his senior year.

At the same time he was adjudged the most valuable high school basketball player in the state of Kansas. He attributes a large measure of his success to the fact that he started playing on grade school basketball teams when in the fourth grade and continued until he entered high school. Plays Three Seasons. Sam went out for football In his sophomore year In high school and played three seasons at fullback and Quarterback, handling the plunging, passing and punting for the Oberlln team. His all high school punting average Is about 43 yards, and In one game on a windswept Kansas gridiron, Sam's 11 punts averaged 65 yards.

He always wanted to play baseball and tennis but never found time. When be was 15 he began downhearted Oberlln eleven shuffled off the field at halftime on the short end of a 10-7 score. In the locker room, as the coach was trying to restore the team's morale, Sam found out that his father, a traveling man at the time, was in the audience. His dad had never before had the op portunity to see him play football, and here he, Sam, was part of a team which was performing raggedly and two touchdowns In the hole. "8trlps" For Action.

Like any normal youth, he wanted to look good in the eyes of his father; who was also quite a football player in his day. Sam mulled this over and the more he thought about it the angrier he became. Finally he slid off his hip pads to allow himself greater freedom of movement and went out on the field mentally and physically "stripped for action." After the first few minutes of play he was called upon to carry the ball thru center in an attempt to gain a first down. Sam thought "First down, my eye!" The ball came back, he smashed thru the line, squirmed and wriggled thru the secondary and wound up over the goal line 70 yards away. He kicked the extra point.

That left the score at 19-14 with Oberlln still trailing. Late in the last quarter Sam intercepted a pass and unmolested romped 60 yards to a touchdown. He again converted, and Oberlln won the ball game, 21-19. "That was a perfect day," he sighed. A basketball game between Oberlln and Goodland for the championship of the Northwest Kansas conference furnishes a mirror to reflect the worth of Sam's early training and his resultant ability to come thru in the pinches.

With the score tied 24-all at the final gun, he played a brilliant overtime game, tossing in two field goals and a free throw before the period ended, to brine Oberlin a 29-24 win. These are just isolated instances. Such achievements bob up time after time, year after year thruout his athletic career, furnishing Indisputable proof that Smilin' Sam had aimed at a goal, fitted himself for the Journey and traveled a true course toward the objectives which eventually he so magnificently attained. To be continued next Sunday. High School Basketball FRIEND WINS SEVENTH FRIEND, Neb.

Avard Mandery'e Friend quintet won Ita aeventh game of the season by taking a 33-12 decision over Western. Conklln and Kable were high scorers for the winners. PAXTON TO DEFEND TITLE OOALLALA, Neb. Paxton la defending champion In the South Platte Valley basketball tourney here next week. Oshkosh la a alight favorite thla year with Chappell, Ogallala and Paxton very much In the runnnig.

Parings: Chappell va Sutherland, Imperial vs. Paxton, Oshkosh va. Big Springe, Grant vs. Ogallala. WINS 10 OF IS BASSETT, Neb.

Rock County high Mich la among the top ranking teams in this section thie season, having won 10 of 12 conference games. Coach V. A. Clln-berg's Baasett five has scored 230 points to 129 by opponents and includes among Ita victories two over Valentine and one over Atkinson. KEARNEY HOLDS PACE KEARNEY, Neb.

The rejuvenated Kearney five atayed In the running for the Southwest conference cage championship by winning Its second kaiue aame of the week from Gothenburg here, 22-19. John-eon and Finch starred for the winners wnuo MCAferty waa best for the losera. MADRID WHIPPED, SS-SS OGALLALA, Neb. The Ogallala Indiana remained undefeated on their home court by trimming Madrid here, 34-20. Mueller led the winners with IT points while retaraon scored ten lor Madrid.

DESHLU UPSETS CHAMPS. DESHLER. Neb. Desnler pulled a big surprise oy upsetting neinaere, wno last week woa the haver couatr tournament. here, ST-Jl.

Belvldere get off to a to 4 lead early in the gam but Deshler took the lead In the second quarter and waa never neaaea. summary. Desnler fg ft Belvldere fg ft yies'meyei P'n, Wlrtlfrt, Oil Hlebert 0B. Wldler 1 0 I Ohlrieh)! Koerwita Baney V. Fangs 6 SlArnold 4 1 1 Curry 0 0 OlBalley 1 0 SI too ooo Totals 13 1 41 Totals 1 score at hall: Deshler 12, Belvldere string each year.

BILLY, HERMAN SIGNS; EIGHT CUBS STILL OUT CHICAGO. UP). The signed contract of Billy Herman, star second tiaseman, was received by the Chicago Cubs. There was no announcement of his 1937 salary. Herman's signing leaves eight Cubs still ouslde the fold.

The club has not heard from Ken O'Dea, young catcher, and unsigned contracts have been returned by Joe Marty, Bill Jurges, Tuck Stain-back, Tex Carleton, Curt Davis, Frank Demaree and Augie Galsi. 'BIFF' JONES TO GET REAL WELCOME HERE Capacity Crowd Is Expected at Chamber Public Affairs Luncheon. A rousing1 welcome for Biff Jones, new Nebraska athletic director, Is planned at the public affairs luncheon of the chamber of commerce which will be held Wednesday noon. Members of the University of Nebraska coaching staff and members of the athletic board will be guests of honor. Governor Cochran has been Invited to attend.

Archie M. Furr, chamber president, will preside and Major Jones will be Introduced by Coach Bible. Music for the luncheon will be furnished by the university glee club under the direction of W. G. Tempel.

Because of the large number that have signified their desire to attend, early reservations should be made at the cham ber, said Secretary Whltten. A "Biff Jones Welcome Party" will be given over KFAB Tues day at 2:45 p. m. when Coaches Browne, Lyman and Schulte, and retiring Coach Bible greet the new Husker mentor in a hair hour radio broadcast. Sam Francis, Lloyd Cardwell are also scheduled to participate, along with the university R.

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Get our price sN3 rw mi HtRE COMES MELPhfS Lancaster County Class A Basketball Champions Guvq You? Ave Safe ft. A The ice and snow bave melted from the streets and spring will soon bo here. Make sure your car hat safe brakes. Drive in and have our experienced brake men test your brakes and lights for Safety Sticker No. 7.

If your brakes need Kilning Insist on Flret6ne Brake Lining it stops your is car quicker ind lasts S3 i I first MAKE DEC EI CHE'S TOUR HEADQUAR TER8 FOR TIRE, BATTERY AND AUTOMOTIVE NEEDS. "Invite Us to Your Next Blowout" 244-46 Go. 1 1th B-6505 Photo by Hale. Coach Grant Stewart's Waverly cagers, shown here, won the Lancaster county class A baaketba.ll 'title by defeating Bennet 21 to 15, In the county tournament finals. Front row, left to right: Dwayne Kyles, pwight Jewett, Wood row Gordon, Mervin Anderson, Charles Moors and Cecil Martin.

Back row: Coach Stewart, Elton Erickson, Frank Munn, Bob Berry, Orvllle Warner. Byron Grader, trainer, and Vera Olson, student manager. Lincoln lineups: ponndi. Millar; S. Hoserrtt: 108, Col: 115, Bralnani; 155.

Hu(: 1M Ru: 143, Bopi 155, Whitman; 1M, M4-, hu, fcaTywht, ftotertsoa. 1.