Bristol Herald Courier from Bristol, Tennessee • 15

I 1 'b SECTION SUNDAY MARCH 30 1958 BrISTOLHeRAIDCoURIER LOCAL AND NATIONAL SPORTS Bristolvirginia Tennessean coach ol VMI and guest speaker Dow insterwald Captures Lead In Azalea Golf Meet Sigma lota Downs Marion Baseball Week In Gold Medal Tournament Looking At a Sports With Gene Thompson the ol MONROE LAKE 1958 All Rookie Appalachian League Schedule 5 1 Contest Sunday ws Watauga Holston Boone of the second annual Coaching Clinic spon the Knoxville News at the the the (UP)their falter practically but the turning come on the par approach his ball 14 out day leader at 66 saw his distance gaAe fall apart on the first nine holes today and slumped to a 73 good enough only for a second place tie with Bill dasper Jr of Apple Valley Calif at 139 Casp er added a steady 70 to his first round 69 Right On Heels Right on their heels were Jay Hebert of Sanford la with a 140 and Art Wall Jr of Pocono Manor Pa 141 Behind them were George Bay er of San Gabriel Calif and a pair of comparative unknowns Tony Lerna of Napa Calif and Midnight Sunday Rise Rise Rise suffered an arm injury blocking back Tommy may have fractured hi Special To The Herald Courier MARION Va March 29 Sigma Iota captured the Marion Gold Medal Tournament championship here tonight by defeating the Marion Independ ents 97 85 Marion jumped off to a slim 23 21 advantage at the first stop but Sigma Iota rallied to take a 47 41 advantage at halftime The 'Emory outfit tossed in 49 points to 44 for Marion in the second half to rack up the deci sion ranklin Lewis and Jimmy Raines led the winning attack with 22 and 20 points respec tively Ray Moore Tommy Dav idson and Paul Delaplane chip By Alvin Webb Jr WILMINGTON March 29 (UP) Steady stylish Dow insterwald surviving an early lapse in his putting carved out his second straight sub par round today to take a two stroke lead at the halfway mark in the 72 hole Azalea Open golf tournament The Tequesta lorida ace with the reputation of always finishing second best will cany a 36 hole total of 137 seven under par in to the final two 18 hole rounds over the rolling 6651 yard Cape ear Country Club course He posted a two under par 70 today Defending champion Arnold Palmer of Latrobe Pa the first 'Cats Vikings Set or Busy Virginia Bearcats will open their baseball season Tues day afternoon by entertaining the Marion Scarlet Hurricanes in the first of two games this week Tennessee Vikings who defeated Holston Valley in their opener 9 0 Thursday will open a four game card this week by meeting Morristown in a double bill Tuesday afternoon The opener for Virginia High will open a 15 game schedule under new coach Bob Statzer Wednesday afternoon Ten nessee High travels to Blount ville to meet Coach Bernie Tigers before return ing home for a' city series con test with the Virginia High Beaercats on Thursday 1 The Vikings defeated Virginia nigh twice last season for the city championship and both teams will have several return ing letterman from that squad when they meet Thursday Virginia High will also open its track schedule Wednesday afternoon by traveling to John son City to tangle with the Hill toppers TAZEWELL Nash 30 Kiser 14 Hawks 4 Miller 4 Angles lb 21 21 12 20 71 Smith 1 1 Bill Lh 785 OGDEN Utah March 29 (UP) sports promoter Maxie Kosof said today he has offered Sugar Ray Robinson $100000 with a 40 per cent option of the gate and radio television and movie proceeds to defend his middleweight title against Gene ullmer Kosof promoter of an nual Kosof Endurance Bowling Classic said he made the offer to George Gars ford one of Sugar managers in a telegram sent to New York ullmer of nearby West Jor dan once held the title but' Jost it back to Robinson 'last May Robinson recaptured tlie crown for an unprecedented fifth time from Carmen Basilio The proposal suggested that the title bout be held July 30 at Og den or Salt Lake' City The bout would be held in conjunction with the endurance bowling classic scheduled for the same time Ogden had previously staged the Rex Layne Ezzard Charles and Joey Maxim Archie Mooro bouts Kosof said a $40 to $50 price tag for ringside seats would be suggested Vires said yesterday A meeting of Pony League of ficers and managersJs scheduled at Bakery at 7:30 pm Monday Officers in addition to Vires are Landon Hagy vice president Mrs Helen Wolfe secretary and Paul Harmon treasurer Lauds VMI Spirit One of his great moments as a coach came he recalled when the VMI corps turned out to meet the Keydet squad in cold biting weather when it returned at mid night from winning its first game against Citadel in 1955 to this time we won a McKenna said 90 per cent of the corps was there at Arch to welcome us with as much enthusiasm as if just won the Sugar Bowl or the Rose Bowl Pointing out that General Doug las MacArthur while superintend ent at West Point had insisted that each cadet take part in a competitive sport McKenna de clared that the strength endur ance and courage of our athletes have won battles and helped to make our nation great McKenna was introduced by Superintendent Joseph Van Pelt who presided as mastcr of ceremonies Curcio Reviews 'Program (Moe) Curcio athletic director and former head foot ball coach gave a resume of the athletic program and thank id various organizations for their support He presented trophies to Gor don Littleford as the outstand ing football player and to Bill Stallard as the outstanding bas ketball performer Littleford and Stallard were selected by vote of the Monogram ciub vv! Short talks were made by Tammy arnsworth head foot ball coach Ova Stapleton head track coach and backfield as sistant in football and Bob Coleman head basketball coach Guard Brett Thackston and center Gary Robinette wore pre sented as the co captains for next basketball team Coleman awarded letters to Thackston Robinette rank Jones Bill Burris Bill Nave Bill Troy Dwight Arrowood Jimmy Geiger Bill Stallard and Jim Saul Geiger and Stallard last co captains and Saul are the only seniors on the squad ootball letters previously had been awarded and this track and baseball seasons have not been launched Gifts or Coaches Gifts were to the by David Crockett to arnsworth and Stapleton in behalf of the football squad by Stallard to Coleman in behalf of the basketball squad and by cheerleader Anna Sevier to Curcio in behalf of her group Mrs Henry Ellis tributed the Jot down the named Bob Harris for future reference He could play a lot of football for Virginia Gobblers mainly because of the faith and confidence of a pair of coaches One of them is Richard Hager his high school coach at Ga lax The other is Alf Satterfield Virginia big capable line mentor The story really belongs to Satterfield dropped by Galax last year to see Satterfield re He's got a big gangling boy he wants me to see Hie boy is about six feet three and weighs around 190 not too impressed but Hager is persistent "He tells me: this boy is going to grow By the time a sophomore weigh 220 and he'll make you a ball had so much faith in the boy that I told him: take him and see what Howie Johnson of Glenwoodie Ill at 142 The field drops off steeply from there the result of soaring scores t6day or the final 36 holes the field was cut to the low 60 pros and ties and low 19 amateurs and ties Vl insterwald who has finished ip second place 14 times in the past years could chalk up one of his few major tournament if his putting and chipping game holds up It almost failed him to day when early in the round his putter turned as cold as the bit ter 'wind which whipped the course throughout the day Palmer saw his usually reliable distance game from the start point may have 3 No 5 On his fell into a divot one inch from the green He three putted for bogey MARION Shanks 18 Stout Mellinger 38 erguson 6 Harkins II) A 22 27 A 18 ATHENS Ga March 29 Auburn Tigers took second straight Southeastern Con ference Baseball game from Geor gia 5 to 3 in 10 innings today The Tigers pushed across two unearned runs in the 10th frame on a walk an error and a sac rifice fly Georgia jumped off to a 3 0 lead in the fourth inning but Au burn tied the score with two runs in the fifth and one in the sev enth The winning pitcher was right hander Quinneth Roberts who en tered the ball game in relief in the fourth inning Roberts also collected two of the eight hits Losing pitcher was Bill Hearn who came on in the seventh in ning The Tigers pre season favorites to win the East division title now have a conference record of 2 2 Georgia stands 0 2 in SEC playAuburn 000 201000 8 1 Georgia 000 300 000 6 1 Dumas Roberts (4th) Duke Payne Hearn (7) Gladin i KNOXVILLE Tenn March 29 (UP) Vols ran a 90 minute' scrimmage today to top off the of the spring football work outs think this was our best Coach Bowden Wyatt said gotten to see a lot cf young boys but still got a lot of work to do before we have the new players in th positions they should be in The Vols plagued by cold and rain since the start of the drills still have 14 practice sessions and must hold them before April 24 Several Vols suffered slight in juries today Tailback Billy Ma jors strained a knee center Ray Moss and Choc! hand Deacons Trip Delaware In ped in with 15 11 and 11 re spectively Arnold Mellinger took high scoring honors for the night in pacing Marion with 38 points' John Shanks Harold Stout and Charlie Harkins added 18 10 and 10 respectively In the consolation contest Monroe of Bristol rolled past Tazewell 96 72 Monroe took an early lead and steadily increased the margin frr the victory Billy Smith set a blistering 33 point pace for the winners with Glen Johnson Joe Ashley and ob Statzer chipping in with 19" 13 and 11 respectively Glen Nash topped the Taze well scoring with 30 points All Tournament The firstteam all tourriey was as follows: Jimmy Raines Em ory Arnold Mellinger Marion Bob Statzer Monroe Charlie rye Galax Jack Nichols Grundy Second Charlie and Shanks Marion Harold Lambert Emory Bill' Smith Monroe and Ray Buc hanan Rich Valley Mellinger was voted the out standing player in the tourney followed by Nichols and Statzer Statzer won the sportsmanship with Glen Johnson being award ed for the most outstanding shot Bill Smith was the leading scorer with 108 points SJIi ji flk is ji Lambert 4 Txwis 22 Davidson 11 Raines 20 Moore 15 Sigma lota Kf a rlnn Sigma Delaplane' 11 Ear ley 10 Hammond 4 Marion Earp WINSTON SALEM March 29 i Righthander Ben Tench of Wake orest held Dela ware to five safeties today in leading the Deacons to a 5 1 win their third straight for the season A wild pitch by loser red Walters with the bases loaded in the first inning gave the Deacons their first run A single by Bill Barr John double and a walk by Tench loaded the bases and set up a three run second innning Two sacrifice flys and a single sent in the three runners After loading the bases in the ninth with two walks and a single Tench gave way to lefty Jimmy Harrell on the mound A sacrifice fly by Jim Smith scored Lee Elia for Delaware's only tally The ninth inning saw the first Delaware runners reach second base Delaware 600 000 5 1 Wake orest 130 000 5 9 2 Walters and Holder Alger (6) Tench Harrell (9) and Tyner spirit and loyalty of the cheer leaders and presented next sea group Invocation opening the ban quet was given by Bill Troy Guests included Co Captains Sam Woolwine and Lou armer of VMI the mother and fiance of Woolwine Bill Wilkins head basketball coach of Johnson City High School a former member of' the Bearcat staff Bob Wool wine a brother of Sam orrest (Buck) Zeiger commissioner of the Holston Officials Association ami Mrs Zeieer: members of the city council and school board team physicians and members of press radio and tele vision Bearcat Athletes Hear McKenna Virginia Whips Alumni 26 To 7 CHARLOTTESVILLE Va March 29 (UP) Quarterback Reece Whitley scored two touch? downs today to lead the Univer sily of Virginia varsity to a 26 7 spring practice romp over the alumni Whitley directing the Cava 1 new winger offense for the fir time in a game dai zled th alumni defender with roll out option play Pony League tryouts 'will be held April 11 and 12 Elmer Vires league president announced yes terday Tryouts for riday April 11 arc scheduled for 4pmT and those for Saturday April 12 at 9 am In event the tryouts should be rained out they will be held at 4 pm on Monday April 14 Vires blcltUU Both the 13 ycar old and year old groups will be tried at the same time Pet Dairy is coming into circuit this year to expand league to six clubs This creates an additional demand for 14 year old players since the new club will need a complete roster of 17 boys Vires pointed out The Pony League season is scheduled to open on May 12 Holdover clubs will be Monroe Valleydale Bak ery and oremost Dairies Extensive improv iments are being made at the Pony League diamond on Randolph ield Bleachers were constructed on the third base line last season and new bleachers are being erected on the first base side this spring Concession stands are being built and a press box and public address system will be insatlled so that the field will conform with Pony League' regulations Improvements in the parking lot also are being made The Pony League field is light ed for night baseball hope to get the Pony League tournament in Bristol this ELEVATIONS 7 am Saturday 19340 16995 13724 Hager Was Right do you know what Satterfield continued boy picked up a good 40 pounds in one year at Tech He played freshmen ball for Dick Redding and this spring weighing 230 And he's as fast as any lineman we have from tackle to tackle going to have to bet that he plays a lot of And if Bob Harris should land a starting job with the Gob blers Richard Hager be overly surprised Bob needed was a chance' and Alf Satterfield gave it to says Hager was only 17 when he graduated from high school here at Hager continued he through growing He played tackle for me both on offense and defense I never had a more conscientious hard working dependable player I told Satterfield I was sure Bob was a college prospect He was young for college football but he had big shoulders and a bigolid frame I know he got bigger and stronger as he Harris who is majoring in business administration and phy sical education at Virginia Tech started some games for Red freshmen last season including the contest with the West Virginia frosh at Gary An injury had him on the Bench part of the time This spring listed as one of the guards to whom Alf Satterfield is going to give a lot of attention during bruis ing workouts Hager who is in his fourth season at Galax is well known in the District Seven area of Southwest Virginia A former Concord College athlete he coached the Pocahon tM Indians before going to Galax Hager incidentally has another of his Galax boys this time basketball player making good with the Davidson Wildcats This boy is Jim Nuckolls a six feet six 185 pound center played freshman basketball at Davidson the past Hager aays plan to give him a chance at the pivot next expecting great things from both Harris and Nuck Hager aays are a couple of fine Satterfield On Talent Tour Satterfield after another talent hunting tour of the Bristol area the past few days has returned to Tech to get ready for the spring football grind hoping lure Viking quarterback Larry Heninger to Tech where he would join center David Gillespie who already te in the Gobbler fold Among other area players in whom Satterfield is interested are Bill (The Bull) Durham Johnson City Bobby Crabtree hard running Saltville back Carter big strapping full back of the Wise Indians and Kelly Sutherland football and basketball star of the Clintwood Green Wave Satterfield already had landed two of the brightest stars for the Gobblers when he came up with Carroll Dale of Wise and Ken Lingerfelt of Erwin Dale rates as an all time flankman at Tech while Linger felt if he can fend off scholastic difficulties should be one of the toughest defensive ends on the Gobbler squad Alf Satterfield is an earnest persuasive recruiter His honest straight from the ehoulder approach and his sincerity com mands the respect and confidence of young athletes Satterfield has a lot to sell at Virginia Tech He is doing an A4 job at merchandising Kosof Offers Robinson Big Purse or Bout UT Vols Hold 90 Minute Grid Session VMI CO CAPTAINS ARE ullback Sam Woolwine of Abingdon and guard Lou arm er of ries were among the invited guests at Virginia High All Sports lianquet last night Here they are with a group of Bearcat athletes rom left to right: seated Gordon Little ford who received a trophy as the outstanding football player Woolwine Bill Stab honored as the outstanding basketball player armer Jim Saul long ball hit ting baseball catcher Gary Robinette one of the basketball co captains for next season and track captain Eugene Ratliffe 1 2 By Gene Thompson Virginia High All Sports banquet proved another gala affair last night John McKenna a former All American fotball star who is recognized for his sound fundamental gridiron pro gram at VMI brought a down to earth message in his role as guest speaker Bearcat coaches and athletes in football basketball baseball and track were honored and special recognition was given cheerleaders and other groups during the banquet the cafeteria McKenna voted the Southern Conference of the after piloting his undermanned ighting Keydets to 9 0 1 record last season said that coaching constitutes a great challenge Moulding of the bodies minds and characters of young men through a coaching program con stitutes a constructive service that "cannot be measured in vic tories and McKenna de clared i 4' McKenna who won All Amer ican honors as center for Villa undefeated in 1937 recounted interesting exper ience during his career as player and coach Sports Banquet Is Gala Affair Auburn Trips Georgia In 5 3 Contest Erwin Rolls By Young 24 To 12 KNOXVILLE March 29 (A Buster Edwards scored three touchdowns and picked up 161 yards rushing today as Erwin de feated Knoxville Young in a High School scrimmage football game 24 12 The practice contest was the highlight Knoxville sored by Sentinel Some 80 coaches from through out East Tennessee attended session Davis head coach Maryville College led off session with a discussion of sin gle wing defenses and Tennes see trainer Mickey O'Brien fol lowed with pointers on exercises care of injuries and similar sub jects Pony League ryouts Set To Open riday April 11 COACHES GET TOGETHER John McKenna head lootball coach ol VMI and guest speaker for the Virginia High School All Sports banquet huddles with coaches and Superintendent Joseph VanPell in this beforethe banquet shot Left to right seated Athletic Director (Moe) Curcio McKenna Ova Stapleton head track coach standing Bill Wilkins head basketball coach of Johnson City High School who was a former! head baseball and assistant basketball coach at Virginia High Bob Coleman head basketban coach Superintendent Van Pelt Tammy arnsworth head football coach fv nt a 7 I i Ja a I wwr 1 1 Mita If aL 4 Ip Vg 5 Ashley 13 Johnson 19 Smith 33 Harmon 7 Statzer 11 Monroe 31 I Tazewell IS Subs: Allen 11 Crabtree 1 Officials: Greever Crouse and At At At At At Bluefield Johnson City Pulaski Salem Wytheville Bluefield NO' Juy 1'2'21 22 Aug 1041 27 Aug 13 20 21 Sept 2 Aug 6 7 25 Ttilv 5 6 05 June29 30 June 27 23 July 7 8 27 23 Johnson City Jul 5 6 20 26 ALL STAR July 19 20 July 17 13 Au 16 17 30 Aug 14 15 29 Aug 8 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