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Takes Senior Track Honors In Hidalgo County Meet 'Cox Is High Point Maker For Indians ien cc Donna Redskins exed the Hidaigo countv intcr- league championship i boys' track and field here Satay night, scoring 584 points, or nore than the Weslaco Panthers, nearest competitors. Panthers barely the sion Eagles for second place, the lei coming up with 36 points in position, well ahead of fourth- Mercedes with 11 points, Ed-: scored 94 points, and i failed to STAk-MONITOR HERALD Rowe And Gehringer Look Over Tiger Hopefuls Sunday, March 22, 1942 GEORGE WRIGHT, Sports Editor Page 15 a the 194 the ov Point iky L. J. Cox of the Redskins he individual pace for the scoring first places in both es and the discus, and adding ond in the shot and a leg 440 relay team to total points. sipnied races of the night in the 220.

which Brown of won in a close fuush over of Donna, and the mile relay, lich Hit Weslaco team nipped pcond-place Donna quartet summaries: Bambino Takes Movie Job Seriously i oteers Win Honors in Fat Stock Show Meet high hur nah Ward Mission) Weslaco Brown ties: Cox Finch i Donna), Time 16 3. Centtirv 100-yard dash: Brown (Mission), Brobst Tims Guess (Weslaco), Time 10.6, 440-vard dash: Powell jBurbois Chandler slaco). Time 55 9. hurdles: Cox ion). Finch 30 Time 24.5 Donna Frase.

IS Ml ard Wi low ird ('Misi I (Wttli ard i 200 VocU 440 Roberson and Tims), Mission, MBiaco. Mercedes. Time 46.8, 880-yard run: Milliken Mehis (Mission), DeBerry Elsa), Garcia Time 2:20. 220-yard dash: Brown f'ams Brobst Roberson (Donna). Time 24.1, dl Weslaco Wins Miler Mile rap: Ryan (Weslaco).

Turner Bonner low ay (Edcouch-Elsa), Time 5:10. Mile relay: Weslaco (Guess, Rogers. Chandler and Sooter). Time 3:51, Pole vault: Parkliill (Donna), Curbo (Weslaco), two tied for third: Flores and Jarrett eouch-Elsa). Height 10 feet.

High jump: Wade and Landry (Mission), tied for first, gfcFrirzeil and Adams tied for third. Height 5 feet, 6 Inches. Broad Jump: Frizzell (Weslaco), Ward (Mission), Finch Tims l5istance 19 feet, 3 inches. Shot put: Roberson (Donna), Cox (Donna), Frase Landry (Mission), Distance 38 feet, inches. Discus: Cox (Donna), Roberson (Donna), Landry Archer (Weslaco).

Distance 125 feet, 4 winches By HAROLl) V. RATLIFF FORT versity of Texas won a closely- fought battle for honors in the twentieth annual Southwest Exposition track and field meet Satui day but lanky, bespectacled Pete Owens stoic the show. The thin man from Howard Payne won four events and vthilc so doing twice set meet records I tn his specialty, the 120-yard high hurdles. First he won the college division hurdles in 14.2. shaving a tenth of a second under thr mark set by Boyce Gatewood of Texas in 1939 Then, in a special event, he rolled in ith a time of 14 1.

Next Owens won the college 100- Track Summary This is the scene in which Babe Ruth, playing himself in a movie based on Lou Gehrig's life, got too energetic and suffered a cut rist when his arm plunged through a window, At top Babe (in conductor's cap) and other players celebrate a World Series pennant victory in a pullman ear "rough Center, Ruth pulls a fellow player's straw hat over his ears. Below, the former home run king registers pain. Denver Legion Beats Phillips For Title Denver Legion Phillips Oilers 45-32 to win the National AAU basketball title Saturday night and Oakland Golden State upset Hollywood Twentieth Century 45 to 43 in a dramatic overtime battle for Nationaly AAU bas- tournament's conso 1 a i third place. Yale Treats Its Coaching List To Thorough Housecleaning White Sox Take Lead Over Cubs In Series LOS ANGELES- Chicago White Sox pitchers held the Chicago Cubs to five hits Saturday as the American Leaguers won the third game in the exhibition series the teams, 6 to 2. Sox now hold a 2 to 1 advantage in the intra-city battles.

The Pampered Panda On Bamboo NEW baby pandas at the Bronx Zoo are happy now for their appetite has been whetted with their favorite food, pseudosasa That is the botanist's £vord fo. a kind of bamboo on which pandas thrive The bamboo was found quite by accident grow ing in the back yard of Miss Mary Bell. Bayside, who is an amateur horticulturist. She nlanted the original clump about wiftcen years ago and it has since grown to a to feed the pandas for many weeks. Income Tax Still Big Puzzle To Him ENGLEWOOD.

N. His accent was heavy and he obviously was a stranger to the ays of the; income tax. so a deputy collector; stationed here explained to him ifit he could pay a quarter, a half or all of it at this time. le man nodded, stuck in his ket a return that called for pay-s it of several hundred dollars, and walked out. A few minutes later he returned ith a money order for 25 cents.

Kansas Defeats Owls NSAS- inie. K. ug: icnt i N. A. Saturday nd 30-24 at it its way out tiip-and-tuc lie by a score bird place in A.

basketball light. Defeat Cats TYLER Indians nipped Saturday, 7 to 1 hibition me £oth cluot -The Oklahoma City Fort Cats NEW HAVEN, Yale parted company with pusky Dr. Emerson Nelson, former Big Ten tackle and her head football coach for one disastrous season, the University started what seems destined to be the most thor- Golf Finals SetyToday ST. AUGUSTINE, defending champion team of Sam Snead. Hot Springs.

and Wilford Wehrle, Racine, advanced to the finals of the National Amateur-Professional Golf Championship Saturday when they defeated Chandler Harper, Portsmouth. and Sam Bates, Virginia Beach, one up. In the other semi-final bracket Bill Nary, Rancho Santa Fe, and his amateur partner, Freddie Haas. New Orleans, defeated the medalist team of Ai Brosch, Farmingdale. N.

and Harry Offutt, St. Petersburg, Fla. Nary and Haas won one up in a match that carried 37 holes. Snead and Wehrle led two up at the end of the 18-hole morning round, while Nary and Haas were even with their opponents at the turn. The finals of 36 holes will be played Sunday.

Baylor Bears Even Series With Cadets WACO iJP The Baylor Bears' baseball team cut off a ninth inning rally Saturday to defeat the Tex at. Aggies 1-3 and gain an even break in the two-game Southwest Conference series. Manoel Garcia, Baylor pitcher, worked seven and two-thirds innings. Limiting the Aggies to six i hits, but weakened in the eighth and Ben Lucas finished. Carden, Henderson and Shuford hurled for the Cadets and allowed the Bears eight hits.

Louis Is Impressive In Boxing Workouts FORT DIX. J. Joe i Louis, preparing for The defense of his heavyweight boxing crown gainst Abe Simon in the Arm; Emergency Relief show Friday, was most impressive in his workout Saturday. The speed he exhibited and the manner in which he slapped his spar mates around brought plenty 1 of applause from some 500 soldiers. ough athletic housecleaning ever undertaken by a major school.

It's a new belt tightening program. a frankly announced plan to scale down expenses for the duration nnd to utilize coaches caoablc of directing two or more sports on that basis as well as to direct a large, if net major, portion of its activities to an all around program of compulsory athletics for all undergraduates. departure was more of less of an athletic natural. His team equalled Yale's all-time with seven defeats against one victory, and that one triumph wasn't against traditional rival. It was a one-point margin over Virginia.

So big, good natured Spike went I the way of his immediate ptedeces- sor. Ducky Pond, and currently is doing his bit with the procurement division of the United States Engineers while Yale casts about for a new face. Scarcely, however, had Spske taken his way amicably from the 1 scene of gridiron heartbreak, than I the remainder of his the I notable exception of Ivan (Ivy) Williamson, one time Michigan football the bad news that their contracts weren't being renewed. Last week it was Smoky Joe Wood, idol of the nation baseball fans a generation ago and for the past 20 years Yale diamond coach, who was told that effective on June 30 he would be dropped from the roster. With him went Bill Hmchliff.

tennis mentor, and Ben Thomson, golf instructor. Only Hinehliff salvaged something from wreckage. He'll retire on pen- i sion. FORT WORTH- of the Southwestern Exposition track and field meet Saturday included: University division, 100-yard dash: Won by Hall, Rsce: second. Minoi, Texas; third, Wiern, Texas; fourth, Stallings.

Texas A. and Time: 9 6 (tied meet record set by Leland. Texas Christian, in 1930. and tied by Glass Oklahoma A and in 1931, and Williams, North Texas State, in 1940). 120 -yard high hurdles: Won by Cummins, Rice; second, Bucek, Texas A.

and third, Jaques Texas; fourth. Mitchell, Texas A and M. Time: 14.5. Shot put: Won by Wilson, Baylor, 47 feet 1-2-mch; second. Deal, Rice, 45 feet 10 inches: third.

Blackburn, Rice. 44 feet 4 3-4 inches; fourth, Sheppard Field, 12 feet 9 inches. High jump: Watkins. Texas A. and Mand Stewart, Sheppard Field, tied for first at 6 feet 4 inches; third.

Christopher, Rice, 6 feet 2 inches; McColloch, Texas Tech, and Ricks. Texas A. and Led for fourth at 6 feet. Mile run: Won by Hafernick. Texas; second, McGlothlin, Texas A and third, Zeigler.

Texas and fourth, Vajdos, Texas A. and M. Time: 4:33.5. Discus throw; Won by Palmer. Texas Christian.

134 -Let 7 inches; Deal, Rice, 132 feet 11 inches, third. F. Bucek. Texas A and 132 feet 1 inch; fourth. Ring, Texas, 31 feet.

Javelin throw: Won by Marshall, Sheppard Field, 217 feet 3 inches; second, Cheatham, Texas. 181 feet; third, Webb, Texas Christian, 179 feet; fourth, Watkins, Texas A. and 171 feet 4 inches (new meet record, feet 2 inches, set by Flanagan. Texas, in 1940, and 214 feet 7 inches set by Graham, Texas, in special event in 220-yard dash: Won by Hall, Rice; second, Stallings, Texas A. and third.

Wiern, Texas; fourth. Labus, Texas A. and Time: 22.7. Broad jump: Won by Stewart. Sheppard Field, 22 feet 8 1-2 inches; second, Christopher, Rice, 22 feet 2 1-2 inches; third.

Strow, Tulsa University, 21 feet 8 inches'; fourth. Cummins, Rice, 21 feet 4 inches. 440-yard dash: Won by Umstattd, Texas; second. Caldwell, Texas; third, Heath, Rice; fourth, McClesky, Rice. Time: 51.1.

220-yard low hurdles: Won by Bucek. Texas A. and second, Inor, Texas; third, Jacques. Texas; fourth, Mitchell, Texas A. and M.

Time: 23.9. Pole vault: Tie for first between Ricks, Texas A. and and Small, Texas, 12 feet 6 inches; third, Ouallnc. Texas, 12 feet; tie for fourth between Lay, Rice, and Cummins, Hice, 11 feet 6 inches. 880-yard run: Won by Umstattd, Vajdos.

Texas A. Polhemus, Texas; Texas A. and M. yard dash in 9 7. a tenth of i a second over the meet record.

Then he came through in the college 220-yard low hurdles with a time of 25 seconds. Despite curtailment of travel due to present conditions, eleven colleges high schools in Oklahoma had entries in Saturday's inrel in addition to the usual large list from Texas. Oklahoma Entries Tulsa had an entry in Lie University division; Oklahoma Baptist, Oklahoma City University and Ouachita of Arkansas competed in the College division: Connors State Aggies and the Murray Aggies fought for places in the Junior Coli lege class; Oklahoma Baptist and Oklahoma City University contested in the preparatory and college freshman division, and Hugo. Healdton. Shawnee, Ryan.

Duncan and Walters sent entries to the High School division. The three-way scrap for the title I of the University division was I dog-fight until the final events 1 when Texas ocgan to draw away. The final standing showed Texas again champion with 47 points, the Aggies second with 38 1-4 and Rice third with 38. Denton Wins College Class In the other divisions the results were not close. East Texas State swept through the College class with 42 points while North Texas State and Howard Payne were fighting it out for second place with 33 and 32 points respectively.

Schreiner Institute captured the Junior College division with 59 points, with North Texas Agricultural College finishing second by scoring 30. Texas A. and M. spread-eagled the field in the Preparatory and Freshman division with 76 points. Hie University of Texas was far back in second place with 19.

Sunset repeated with the high school championship, the Dallas school rolling up 30 points. Alamo Heights (San Antonio) was second with 15. Edgewood third with 13 and Highland Park (Dallas) fourth with 10. Eight Records Broken Eight records were shattered and two tied as close to 750 fought time and distance Schoolboy Rowe (19), veteran Detroit hurler. and Charlie Gehringer Tiger coach, look over the 1942 crop of Tiger hopefuls at the Detroit training camp at Lakeland, Fla.

Left to right are Roy Hen- un from Jersey City; Mueller, Beaumont; Harold White, Buffalo, all pitchers; and Dick Wakefield, Winston-Salem outfielder Jimmy Bloodvvorth, inficlder purchased from Washington, and "Little Meyer, shortstop and former Texas Christian athlete recalled from Buffalo. All-America Coaching Staff Goes To Work For Navy; Four Schools Are To Be Staffed Bv PETE ZLRLIXDEN ANNAPOLIS, Md. College coaches and former All-American athletes from the crossroads will throng into the Naval Academy Sunday to begin new careers as reserve naval officers for a muscular Uncle Sam. Headed by Lieut. Comdr.

Tom Hamilton, former Navy football coach and now director of the V-5 physical fitness program, the some 200 sports figures will be quartered in Bancroft Hall, midshipmen's dormitory. Take Special Courses After brushing up in special courses on leadership, naval regulations. service customs and traditions. physical training, infantry drill and tlm of small arms, this unofficial hall of fame will be assigned to the four college puses already selected as basic training centers for future Navy fliers. Hamilton says the program has been organized to "toughen fledgling aviators.

Plans are underway to organize tupllight squads in every sport on the docket and pit them against ranking college teams in regularly scheduled contorts. "We're out to make Navy the best in the Hamilton declares. "With an All-American coaching staff in every training base certainly started off on the right Famed Coaches Answer Call Answering the first roll call Monday will be such gridiron figure? as Sleepy Jim Crowley of Ford ham; Minnesota's i Bitrman: Southern California's Sam Barry, and Rutgers Harvey Harmon. Yale's venerable track coach Charley Hoyt and scores of others recently commissioned by the Navy are listed in the officer-coach brigade. After completing the first of four I such indoctrination courses sched- uled this year, they'll head April 18 for their new posts.

Crowley been appointed athletic director for the Eastern cen: ter at the University of North Carolina. Bierman, (only Marine in the goes to the University of row a and Barry to the Pacific Coast tn direct the program at St. Mary's College. Oakland, Calif. No athletic director for the fourth school at the University of Georgia has been announced.

It reported Texas Techs Pete Caw thorn may get the job, pending official cppointment as a reserve officer. raining Camp Briefs Clark Shaughnessy Leaves Stanford For Maryland Job SARASOTA, Fla. Boston Red Sox whipped the Brooklyn py Dodgers 8-1 Saturday as two rookie pitchers, Yank Terry and Tom Judd throttled the National League champions with three singles. PALO ALTO. Calif.

Clark Shaughnessy announced Satur- M1AMI BEACH. Fla The Phils trounced the naval base team from nearby Opa Locka, 12-6 for athletes their fifth straight victory Satur- with a day. Eddie Murphy smashed a home Texas; second, and third, fourth, Garrett, Timw 1:58. Mile relay: Won by Rice (Christopher, Neath. Hall second, Texas; Third, Texas A.

and M. Time; 3:27.1, (Only three Mioland Winner In Coro! Gobies New Orleans Beats Houston Buff Nine of the the spelling season ex- for Alaska "hanging glaciers, seen only has many picturesque lakes' carved out by it many of them can be from an airplane. MIAMI. Fla. Charles S.

Mioland, a flop two weeks ago when he tried for the richest racing purse of the winter, hit top form Saturday and collected a 56.165 consolation prize. The big bay simply outclassed a nifty field in the 57.500 mile and an eighth Coral Gables Handicap at Tropical Park, breaking the track record by two fifths of a second. Jockey Leon Haas guided Hr? highly successful stake performer across the finish line in one minute, 49 2-5 lengths ahead of Herbert M. Woolf's Signaler. The long- shot Llanero was third, and the second favored Our Boots wound up fourth.

Mioland paid a surprising $6.50 for a $2 win ticket. The place and show prices were $4.50 and $3 60, Signator returned $10.80 and $6 50, Lianeio $14 19- HOUSTON Two unearned runs in the tenth inning gave New Orleans of the Southern Association a 3-1 victory over the Houston Buffs in an exhibition game Saturday. I Brumbcloe. Kimmel and Yochim for New Orleans and were nicked for six hits. Kleine.

So href. Byerly and Mott ley were Buff and they held the visitors to five blows, three going to Johni ny Morrow, former Texas Aggie star. strong wind hampering most of the runners. The mightiest effort came from Earl Marshall, former University of Georgia football player, who pitched the javelin 217 feet 3 inches. He represented Sheppard Field at Wichita Falls.

This erased all meet marks, the best of which was 214 feet 7 inches set by Gillam Graham of Texas in 1939. Other record-breaking performances: 120-yard high hurdles in the high school division: James Compton. North Dallas, with a time of 15 flat in Friday's preliminaries. This bettered the mark of 15.4 set by Alfonso Vails of Laredo in 1941. Shot put in the high school division: De Wilt Coulter, Masonic Home (Fort Worth), 33 feet 11 1-4 inches, bettering the record of 51 feet 2 inches set by Andros of Central (Oklahoma City) in 1940.

Betters Discus Mark Discus throw in the high school division: Keith Vineyard, Edgewood, 161 feet 4 inches, bettering the record of 147 feet 9 inches set in 1941 by Ralph Nelson of Adamson (Dallas). High school football relay: 47.1 seconds by Arlington Heights (Fort Worth), bettering record of 47.3 set by Arlington Heights in 1941. Preparatory and college freshman division: Jerry Thompson, Texas, with 4:31.6 in the mile, bettering the old mark of 4:36.5 set by Joe Wood of Buckner Orphans Home (Dallas) in 1941. Records tied were: University 100-yard dash: 9.6 seconds by Harold Hall of Rice. This tied the meet record set in 1930 by Cy Leland of Texas Christian and several times since.

Preparatory and college freshman division: Pole vault -12 feet 6 inches by John Montgomery of Rice nnd Bob Sheppard of Texas, lying record set by David Small of Texas in 1940. Girls' AAU Cage Tourney Slated for the Phils in the eighth. HOLLYWOOD, Calif. Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Philadelphia A's, 7-2. here Saturday, paced by Pete Coscarart's home run in the fourth with the bases loaded The circuit clout was made off Newman Shirley, Vince Di Maggio connected for a for the Pirates off Luman the fifth.

homer Harris PASADENA, Calif Luke Appling, Chicago White Sox shortstop, Saturday agreed to terms and told club officials he would leave his home at Atlanta immediately for the Sox training base. Figures of the new contract were not announced. day that he was leaving Stanford University to become director of the department of health and physical education and head football coach at the University of Maryland, Simultaneously. the Stanford board of athletic control, meeting in emergency session, reported that Shaughnessy's resignation as chief of the football staff, had been accepted and Jim Lawson, an assistant, had been recommended as his successor. Offers More To Do I Shaughnessy said he was accept- i ing the Maryland position because it would offei him "more to than he has had at Stanford would never leave Stanford just to coach another football he explained.

The master of the formation said his salary at the eastern uni- i versity would be approximately 1 the same as ne has received here He did not disclose what that was. i but other sources set the figure at about 69.000 annually. As physical education director at Maryland. Shaughnessy said he would hold unlimited tenure with the rank of full professor. At Stanford he as under contract as coach only.

Doing Stanford A Favor In further explanation of his df- cision to accept the Maryland offer. Shaughnessy said that he wish to Stanford during these critical and that he felt he would be doing the school a favor by leaving now. Under his contract, he pointed out. he would have been obliged to accept his salary regardless of conditions. There is lil elihood that the university income from football will he sharply reduced next fall because of the disinclination to permit crowds of more than 5.000 to gather anywhere en the Pacific Coast.

BEAR NETTERS SHUT OUT A Durant Teachers College shut out the Baylor University tennis beam, 6 to 0, Saturday, giving up only one set the six matches. DE LAND, Fla. Vernon Stephens, rookie shortstop, tripled with the bases loaded and then scored on an overthrow as the St. Louis Browns rallied with five runs in the sixth inning Saturday to defeat the Boston 5 to 4. in an exhibition game.

Vols Defeat Sports SHREVEPORT, their 1942 debut in organized ball. Nashville's Vols Saturday the Shreveport Sports of the Texas League, 7 to 0. ST. JOSEI-H. (JF, one of those basketball gatherings in whkh a clever hair do attracts about as inei as a spec- here tacular field goal- the 14th annual National A A.

U. Women's tournament. The court coeds begin their romp for the national championship Monday. Losers drop into a consolation bracket. National champ and solation champ are crowned Friday.

The gals will rouge up for duction ceremonies Monday night; Tuesday noon they and officials will be guests at a luncheon, and Tuesday night a ecn of the tournament will be selected to succed Gaily a Smith of Quinlan. Each team will have one entrant ith a junior chamber commerce committee on the spot pick up the inner. LAKELAND, Fla. Torn Ferrick. a castoff from the Philadcl- uhia Athletics, and the veteran Mel Harder held the Detroit Tigris to five hits and an unearned run as the Cleveland Indians won an exhibition game here Saturday.

3 to 1 ST PETERSBURG. Fla. i i Joe DiMaggio hit his first home run of the grapefruit season Saturday and Joe Gordon poled his second as the New York Yankees cashed in on the perfect pitching of Alley Donald to nip the St. Louis Cardinals. 4-3.

homer opened the scoring off Al Juriskieh in the second inning and four- master came in the eighth off Howard Pollctt and scored Charlie Keller, who had singled. MIA MI. Fla. i Edd I yuiis. whose pinch single beat the New York Giants Thursday galloped home with the winning run Saturday as the Washington Senators again tripped the National Leaguers by the same score.

4-3. Batting for Bill Zuber in the ninth. Lyons smacked a double off Ace Adams and scored on Stan Spence's two-bagger. Cowboy Jack Crain Now Navy Ensign DALLAS Jack Walton Crain, halfback of the University of Texas football team the last three years and one of the greatest broken field artists Southwest history, was commissioned an ensign in the United Stales Naval Reserve Saturday. whose home is in Nacona.

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