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MARSHALL NlWS MESSENCEl buvdaJAUViI IMS IDA 33v SeilShbt Mavsiikk 44 Competition In Gloves Tourney To Be Sharper Defense Program Step-Up Helps Ring Aspirants lead Wdh Iieirs Tiiiesciaiv Sihranahao raos L.adl In Crosby knot the count, but Womack raced Coach Russell Murphy's Marshall Mavericks get a shot at the District S-AA basketbaU lead Tuesday night when they: take on the unbeaten and, so far, unthreateo-ed Texarkana Tigers. The Mavs moved into a tie with Kilgore for second place in the district Friday when they overcame a second quarter lapse to whip the Tyler Lions, 44-33, in an afternoon game. It was the second straight District S-AA victory for the Mavs against one loss. Starting off almost exactly as they did in upsetting Henderson earlier in the week, the Mavericks HONOR TO WINGMAN Whether Stranahan will be at the end of Sunday's third by Invitational Coif Tournament. The millionaire-apparent from Toledo, who plays as much competitive golf as any la the country, shot a second round 66 to wrest the lead from the national champion himself, Ben Hogaa.

Stranahan, six under par for the Monterey Peninsula Country Gub course, had a 36-hoIe total of 137. iiogan. UVS. Open and P. A.

titleholder as wel as a stout favorite to win here, bad moved to the front of the pack earlier in the day. Iiogan also had a 66 that gave him a too-round score of 138. ler's first two points on a looper from the side after 3 minutes and 30 seconds of playing time had elapaed. The Mavs led. 12-7, at the end of the first but then the Lions went: on a scoring spree that netted them 12 points in the first four minutes of the second quarter while the Mavs failed to scratch.

The Lions stinted Into a 17-12 I lead before Dick Woraack took a pass from Gahlen Dlnkle and scored on the front end of a fast break after five minutes of the second period, i LEAD Two free throws by Gist and Collins' field goal on a stolen ball offset a field goal and free throw In the fading minutes of 'he second quarter by Guard Kenneth Bennett, Tyler's top scoring threat, to narrow the Lion lead to 20-18 at th half, i 1- Bennett, who shared scoring honors for the game with Gist at 14 points, connected from the aide in the opening minute of the seeond half to boost the Tyler lead to 22-18. Then James Duncan! dropped in two lay-ups. and Woraack got another to put the Mavs in the lead. 24-22 after three minutes. Bennett scored again one minute later to i I Garner Named Top Schoolboy Gridder Shorthorns' Streak 3.

Ended by Beckville and final round of the 54-hole links party staged annually by Crooner Crosby, was anybody's guess. In any event, being strictly amatuer. be won't threaten the pros in their quest for the 110,000 in cash prizes. 'f But the men who play for pay dislike having a simon pure out-score- them.1 Stranahan incidentally, has done this before be woo the Miami open last December from the country's leading professionals. on a lay-up by Guard Joe Crouch, the best floor man on the court.

Three minutes later. Woods meshed a jump shot to tie the score at 9-9, but Forward Homer Eubanks put the Shorthorns back ahead with a rebound shot. Then. J. L.

Yarborough made a free throw and Griffin Loftin sank a lay-up a split second before the horn sounded to give Beckville a 12-11 halftime lead. Forward Vernice Wright "put' the Shorthorns ahead with a field goal and free throw to start the second half and the third quarter was a see-saw battle, ending 17-17. Beckville pulled away in the final period by field goals by Randy Walden, Yarborough, and -Woods and a free throw by Griffin Loftln while holding the Shorthorns scoreless, i tiete's a Ptetsmr surprise A four-game winning streak for Coach Charlie Flowers hustling Marshall Shorthorns came to an end at Maverick Gym Friday night when they lost to the 'Beckville Bearcats, 23-17. Beckville stymied the Shorthorns offense with a tight tone defense, the first the Shorthorns have encountered this year, and Forward Frank Woods and Guard Griffin Loftln found the scoring range to spark the Bearcat victory. Woods was high-point man with eight, closely followed by Loftln with seven.

Forward I Wright was top scorer for the Shorthorns with seveu. The game was knotted at 4-4 at the end. of a slow first period but th- Shorthorns went ahead in the first minute of the second quarter FREE Legislature May Pass vith any nadc PEBBLE Cilif. Muscular young amateur Frank Stranahaa tossed a. par-chattering bombshell into the solid ranks of the big professionals Saturday to pop Into the lead of the Ding Cros- PAID licafe Buys Eagle PHILADELPHIA Wl A snydl- cate of 100 Philadelphia business men bought the Philadelphia Eagles for.

$250,000 Saturday to "bring local pro football back to the community. It The National Football i League champions have been owned for eight years by Alexis Thompson New York millionaire. Thompson said he sold the Philadelphia franchise because he fouad it losing proposition even wila a title winning team. Emplopenl Up Af Year's End AUSTIN tT Despite "i a slow down of early Christmas business, non-agricultural employment showed an Increase in Texas during that period. The Texas Employment Com mission said Saturday! non- agricultural employment Increased from 2.316,000 in mid October to 2,329.500 In mid-November.

rRetail trade led ail industries with the addition of 7,100 new em the state total of employment in retail trade to 1 Th Dallas area led the; state in the total number of added work- era, wiln approximately 12,000 in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing. The result was a new aB-Umo employment hlgbi of i Losses, pri marly in construction, wtrt recorded in Beaumont-Port Arthur, and the Longview-Kilgore Gladewater areas. Dates for 12 Baseball Clinics Set in Texas i i AUSTIN UP) Dates fori 12 base-ball clinics to be held In Texas next month have been announced by Rhea II. Williams, athletic director of the Texas Interscholastic League. The clinics will be at: EI Paso, Feb.

13; Sherman. Feb. 14: Lub bock. and Dallas. Feb.

J5; Abilene and Tyler, Feb. 16; Austin and Waco, Feb. Caristi and Beaumont. Feb. 18, and Edinburg and Houston, Feb.

19. Contractors 2'0x6'8" No. 2 White DOORS Svnd Grid Team I I Bottle-Th rowing Law in for two points on a fast break, Rowland meshed a two bander from the corner, and Dlnkle took a long pass from Womack for two more points to 'give the Mavs a lead they never again relinquished. Climbing rtrrrr as MARSHALL 44)1 TO WoBlftck, j. tHtooa, Orsy Coll mi, Dlnkl I Woodfla pcuft i i i ToUll i TYLER (35) I TO IZ rtrrrr 5 i is a i it i Huthta.

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39 FOULS CALLED After that brief opening spurt, the game got rough, and the Mavericks didn't approach the razor-sharp performance they turned In against Henderson. i Officials called 39 fouls In the rough-and-tumble contest, 22 against Tyler, and perhaps as many more went uncalled. Forward Richard Dutkes got Ty- sence was sorely felt. The 17-year-old Garner polled 29 votes of the 73 cast by the Sports Writers Association. Klncannon got 18.

Third was Tom Stolhandske, great fullback of Baytown, with nine. Fourth was Gahlen Dlnkle, Mar shall back, with three votes while tied for fifth were Marvin Vincent, Denison back: Bill Georges, Ar lington Heights (Fort Worth) tackle; Hugh Reeder, Port Arthur center, and Waldo Young, Mona- hans back, each with two votes. Receiving one ballot each were Bob Thomas, Arlington Heights end; Bill Forester, Woodrow Wil son (Dallas) back; Richard Par ma, Waco back) Raymond Haas, Klngsville back; Francis Davidson, uatesvlue back, and Donald Carpenter, Milby (Houston), back. Garner has earned three letters In football as a fullback and end. one in basketball, one In track and one In tennis.

His grade average this semester is 97.2. He was captain of the Sandies last fall. Thirteen of his fifteen touchdowns were on passes be received, one was on an intercepted pass and one on a punt return. R. B.

Norman, principal of Ami rlllo High School who was a col lege athlete and a professional baseball player, said of Garner: "Not only is Jame Garner the best high school end I have seen during these 20 years, but he Is also the best I have seen either in high school or college considering the class of football in which he has been engaged." The dinner, at which Garner will be honored, will be at the Houston Club starting at 7 p. m. Byron Townsend, great Odessa back now at freshman at the Uni versity of Texas, won the award last year the first to be made. Faullless Captures Tropical Handicap MIAMI, Fla. tfl Calumet Farm's Faultless Saturday captured the 110.000 Tropical Handicap, final feature of Tropical Park's 40-day racing season.

Warren Wright's five year old fought a thrilling stretch battle with King Midas to win the mile and a sixteenth race. Jockey 'N. L. Pierson rode Faultless to the winners spot. The two leaders were three lengths ahead of the third horse, Cat Bridge.

Southwest Conference Looks to Television And Its New! Problems DALLAS (A The Southwest Conference will have to consider what to do about television soon, executive Secretary James H. Stewart declared. Stewart said Friday that televi sion is creating a problem for the small colleges in football and that the National Collegiate Athletic As-j sociation is going to have to take; steps to deal with it. There was only one station In; Texas televising last year. Stewart'; said.

But Houston, Dallas and San 1 Inlnnln ir Hun In hv tatlnnc' soon be 'pointed out. Cage Results Arkansas 54. SMU 45 Baylor 46, TCU 39 DALLAS James Garner, remembered as much for bis absence as his presence, Saturday was named outstanding high school football player of Texas for 1948. The Texas Sports Writers Association chose the pass catching, signal-calling I wingman of Amaril- lo's Golden Sandiesj as the top player by a margin of 11 votes over Claude Klncannon. toe pass-pitch ing quarterback, of Waco's champion Tigers.

I Garner, who scored 15 touch downs and carried Amarillo to the finals of the Texas Interscholastic League Class AA race, will be the honor guest i of the annual Uni versity of Houston Ex-Students Association banquet net Wednesday night at Houston. Hr will receive a trophy. When Garner went out of the semi-final game against Denison with an Injured knee, it was gener ally conceded that it lost Amarillo it big chance to win the state title. After Garner left the game Denison came back to outplay Amarillo but could not offset the big lead Amarillo had run up while Garner was playing, in the state final against Waco, Garner's ab- Bonus Clauses In Contracts Yanks NEW YORK UP The baseball Yankees thought that lack of con dltion among; their athletes cost them the American League pen nant last year, and they are -going to do something about it. In announcing that; they were mailing out contracts for tha '49 season, they dropped the comment that "there isn.

a player on the club who can not make more mon ey than he made last This means', a spokesman admit ted, that this year's Yankee con tracts are cluttered up with bonus clauses which will make it worth the while of Manager' Casey Sten gel's charges to get in shape and stay that way. The better they play, the more they will draw at the cashier window. Joe DiMaggio alone of the Yanks will not receive his contract by mail. He is expected to drop in at the Yankee offices here within a week or two and go to the mat with General Manager George Weiss on the subject of "how about a raise?" Max Bumgardner Ai Denison High DENISON (tf) Max Baumgard- ner, star end at the University of Texas In 1947 and later with the Chicago Bears of the National Pro fessional League, will assist Les Cranfill in coaching the Denison High School football learn. Bumgardner re lac Dixie White, who resigned to go to Har din College as line coach.

He will report here immediately. It is his first coaching Job. Beats McKenley SYDNEY. I Australia Ed win Carr, 20-year-old' medical student defeated Herb McKenley of Jamaica by a yard Saturday in an international 440-yard foot race that was clocked In 48 seconds. I FORT WORTH tfl Advance ntolces from over the state Indi cate that there will be more ac tion and keener competition in the State Golden Gloves Amateur Box ing Tournament, which the Star- leiegram wu ouer ai ine wui Rogers Memorial Coliseum Feb.

9-14. than in several years. Why? There are several contributing factors, such as the spread of Golden Gloves participation to dozens of communities where there has been little or no amateur box But probably the greatest single cause for the Increase has been the stepped-up tempo of the national defense program. Army, Navy and Air Force are back to business in Texas in a big way. Camps, bases, and fields I have been reactivated and expanded within the last year.

Thousands of young men have entered the state for training in the services and among them have been scores of youngsters who are handy with their fists. Military installations the length and breadth of the state will have men in the tournaments which will qualify competitors for the state tournament. i San Antonio alone will nave a pool of 15,000 Army recruits to draw from. Corpus Christi wiu benefit from the freh; activity at her naval air bases. Temple and Waco will get fresh material from Camp Hood and Biackland Air Field respectively.

Carswell Air Field is expected to win the team championship in the Fort Worth Regional Wichita Falls, El Paso. HarllngenJ Dallas ana uaessa are among ine ouer regional centers which will be rein forced by military personnel. LONG TERM id Mentor Signs NORMAN. Okla. Ml Bud Wil kinson the University of Okla.

homa's brilliant young football mentor, Saturday signed a new con tract as coach, athletic director and professor of physical education, i Dr. George L. Cross, president of the university, withheld terms on request of Wilkinson, but the contract assured his stay as head coach for at least five years and a longer tenure as athletic director. It has been Indicated that Wilkinson will receive 115,000 a year with a five-year contract as head football coach. Tigers Beaten On Last Play PINEVILLE.

La. In' a breathtaking, nip and tuck game the ETBC Tigers were 1 nosed out by one point in the final second by Louisiana College, 50 to 51, Saturday night. i At half-time, ETBC was leading 31 to 28. During the last six minutes of play Louisiana College put on a surprise spurt and came 10 points from behind to mark a 49 to 50 score on the board. In the final second Louisiana's Jimmy Eppin-ette dropped the scoring basket which spelled victory for the team.

Write-in Race Winner's Margin Cut to 73 Votes RIO GRANDE CITY Jose Maria Longoria's write-in victory for the post of commissioner, Precinct 3, Starr County, has been reduced to 73 votes with the disqualification of 17 ballots by Judge Arthur A. Klein. Armando Longorla, a distant cousin of Jose Maria, Is contesting the election. Armando won the party nomination in the primary election but lost ia the general election to write-in votes for Jose Maria.J "T- t' Shim Maione Wins ARCADIA Shim Maione won the 150,000 San Pasqual Handicap at Santa Anita Park Saturday before a turnout of 43.000 fans. The heavily backed On Trust ran second, less than a length behind, the second time in.

a week he has just missed out on a fat purse. Autocrat finished third In the 10-horse field, Wins Decision EL PASO bn Jessy Fonseca of El Paso punched out a close but unanimous decision over Val At-varado of Denver before 2,500 fans here Friday night to open the local 1949 fight season. Old-world peasants believed that goatsuckers wtippoorwills subsisted on milk stolen from their Sooner Gi New Contract STii. -n ii a wto i I 'H II I i i i i ij Buy pny mocJe-to-measure suit, sefe'ctlhg from hundreds of oil wool EXTRA TROUSERS TO FREE. i 1-1 1 IJ Through special arrangement with Grief ond i I i I i- Company, hnokers of English-American! Custom Made Clothes, we are THROUGH FRIDAY JANUARY 21.

AUSTIN Ml Football referees and baseball umpires will be glad to learn that the 51st legislature may outlaw the throwing of pop bottles and cushions at ball games. Sen. Keith Kelly of Fort Worth has a bill ready for introduction which would "make it unlawful for any person in attendance at any football, baseball or other athletic contest or game to throw a bottle, cushion, rock or other mlssle. Kelly said Saturday that he Is presenting the bill at the request of the Intersholastic League. In 1947 there was much talk of such legislation after fans at the Oklahoma-Texas football game In Dallas staged -a pop bottle bar rage in protest of an official's de After the game police escorted the entire officiating staff from the gridiron.

Violation of the proposed law would carry a fine of between $5 and $25. 'The fact that game officials, contestants and spectators at athletic contests and games are frequently endangered by missiles Home Owners Pihe S6.25 (keg lots only) 57.50 thrown by spectators at athletic contests or games, creates an imperative public necessity," reads Kelly' bill. Motion Overruled In Panola Case TEXARKANA, Tex. Un Proceedings in the Court of Civil Appeals for the Sixth Supreme Judicial District of Texas included: "Motions overruled: It. E.

Smith vs Panola County Royalty Owners Association jet al, appellant's motion to certify questions to Supreme Court, Panola. Motions granted: Frank L. Wright vs Ruth Helen Scott Wright, appellant's motion for extension of time to file brief, Gregg. i United Gas Pipeline Co. vs Mrs.

Elizabeth Cordray Smith et al, appellant's motion for completion of the Panola. Case decided: Seab Newman et ux vs Mrs. M. W. (Maude Almond, affirmed, Cherokee.

Four Teams Advance In Walker Cage Play HUNTS VI LLE Wl L- Aldlne. Big Sandy, Hearne and Cayuga reach ed the semi-finals of the Annual Walker County Chamber of Commerce Invitation High School Basketball Tournament Saturday. Aldine beat HuU-Daisetta 42-33. Big Sandy trimmed Kirbyville 45-32, Hearne downed Cleveland 56-26 and Cayuga defeated Lamar of Houston 51-45 in the quarter-finals. The tournament is being played at the Sam! Houston State Gymnasium, i EAST TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION Will Meet Tuesday January 18 7:30 M.

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