Bristol Herald Courier from Bristol, Tennessee • 21

Section Bearcats Rally To Beat Johnson City 54 48 Hutton And Worley Spark Notre Dame King Drops Comeback Drive As Virginia Beats SMU to be KINGSPORT Dec 4 If The Jessee 15 Vikings Conquer 0 72 Blountville 53 46 3 of op 5 have won Douglass in 1952 Last year Appa City attack and except for inac $166205 JT" i 51 if Battle Royal Slated Here Eighth Graders Start Basketball Tennessee State Defeated 19 To 6 7 2 6 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 8 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 23 Slater Wolves Capture Title In Conference TP 6 11 6 20 7 0 3 0 0 16 Kingsport Tops Sullivan High Houston Tops' I Detroit 19 7 Breeding Stallard Mumnower ond quarter Stan (The Man' Johnson led the scoring with 21 points followed by Jim Taylor with 14 Larry Hixson and rank Shanks led the Pirates with nine and eight points re spectively KINGSPORT Taylor 4 Wilder 1 0 0 3 4 10 12 3 4 6 8 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 event featuring the cham of the CIAA against the Tennessee eleven chani theMfidwostern Athletic 6 2 2 0 1 0 Katie Key Leads Harness Racers TP 3 7 inishing behind the Kentucky Derby winner were Tordito and 23 41 21 I 5 8 2 4 0 1 0 0 6 9 1 4 0 1 0 0 14 27 13 12 11 16 quarter began but Johnson managed to tav ahead and was inj front 21 8 at halftime mare BRISTOL VIRGINIA TENNESSEE SUNDAY DECEMBER 5 1954 Virginia Bristol schools will institute an eighth grade basket ball program this week under the direction of (Moe) Curcio The first practice ses sion is scheduled tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 in the High land View gym "The program is open io all of the city's eighth graders" Curcio said last night "WeTl concentrate on fundamentals and no boy will be cut from the squad because of lack of ability' Any boy who wants to play will be given an opportunity io learn Later in the season we hope to play a few games with other schools in the area" Curcio the football line coach at Virginia High formerly tu tored several high school bas Coach itzhough Slater High Wolves yesterday were de clared champions of the tough Tri State Conference at a meeting of officials in Kingsport inal tabulation of the confer ence's complicated point system gave Slater a total of 160 points while Coach Steve Douglass Demons were second with 120 It marked the third year a Bris tol team has won the title during the four year history of the con be battle Bristol wrestling fans will treated to an unusual royal involving five topnotch heavyweight grapplers Thurs day night at Rebels Retreat arena Members of the cast and their weights are Karl Kowalski (235) Walter Sirois (233 Red Roberts (212) Charro Axtec (237) and Joe Pazeneak (225) Uunder rules of the event all five participants climb into the ring together io begin the fes tivities The first and second men out wrestle each other in a one fall preliminary and the third and fourth men out fol low suit The two winners then tangle with the two losers in a best of three falls 60 minute time limit tag team affair Winner of the battle royal is excused from further competi tion 3 2 10 6 3 0 0 2 28 GREENSBORO Dec 41 The North Carolina College Eagles defeated the Tennessee State University Tigers of Nash ville here today in an annual foot ball classic 19 6 The pions strong Dions Conference drew a crowd of 2500 chilled fans Tne Eagles ground out a 19 0 halflime 1 4 2 5 0 0 0 0 Sports Classified Ads 2 3 1 6 2 4 10 16 5 6 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 2 0 2 I 5 8 4 9 3 4 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 18 28 I 0 1 1 3 8 17 1 4 2 3 0 0 2 2 0 0 14 30 5 14 6 17 and (Bristol Newspapers Studio Photo) (21) Virginia High guard goes high to drop in a layup basket 15 0 3 18 I 13 Greever a Keen Jtu in mt uisi i tin juaiMHuj rjAotre Dame IO the ball and ambling 19 yards for southern Methodist scoring: Hail the score (Touchdowns Roach Marshall Con 1 LAKE ELEVATIONS Watauga 18213 HoKton 16193 Boone Henry Cherokee 9973 4 2 5 4 5 3 1 0 24 tut early in the fcurlh period when 13 4 2 3 6 5 6 1 0 0 20 16 12 Arnold Garni Pot 2 HU HUll I Heizer Thompson Briscoe TOTALS CARSON NEWMAN Ayers Payne Mellinger Julian Daniels Beeler Dagley Maddux Ladd TOTALS 24 22 29 19 King 41 Carson Newman 39 King led 56 48 midway of last half Posf quarters: Basketball Scores high school Virginia 54 Johnson City 48 Tennessee 53 Blountville 46 Kingsport 57 Sullivan 31 COLLEGE Carson Newman 72 King 66 1 Appalachian 82 Miliigap 9 Tennessee 82 66 Presbyterian 84 Erskine 83 NC State 70 Temple 65 North Carolina 99 Clemson 66 Richmond 115 Belmont 73 Maryland 60 Georgetown 43 1 Kentucky 74 LSU 58 Catawba 70 West Carolina 63 McCreaw 84 Elon 78 WAM 103 urman 101 Ohio State 98 Butler 80 Davton 88 Memphis State 69 Illinois 77 Missouri 49 Depaul 94 Minnesota 93 (overtime) Howard 86 Southwestern 64 Penn State 81 Dickinson 63 Xavier 83 Miss Southern 50 Havy 81 Vale 69 Penn 69 Purdue 68 HOUSTON Tex Dec 4 The University of Houston broke a three game losing streak on a pitch out a pass interception and a 56 yard broken field sprint today and closed art even 500 season with a 19 to 7 win over Detroit in a Mis souri Valley Conference game About 7500 smallest crowd of the saw Houston squelch third and fourth period De troit scoring threats twice on pass interceptions But Houston prevent a JO yard Detroit touch down pass with 48 seconds left in the game Detroit quarterback Jim Lobko vich tossed his only tally to end Bob Chendes in the end zone Houston scored in the first period and twice in the final period icing the game when quarterback Jim my Dickey intercepted a Lobkovich pass and the Houston Cougars drove 53 yards in six plays for their second touchdown Dickey broke loose with his a6 ard sprint on an option play in the final six seconds of the game fak ing a pitchout and then zig zagging all over the field to score Houston 0 7 0 Detroit 0 0 0 7 7 Houston scoring: Touchdowns Hargrove Baughman Dickey Con versions Cray Detroit scoring: Touchdown Chendes Confersion Belluso JOHNSON CITV Vance Mackley Hunter Dingus Bryant Hyder Roberts Hundley Totals VIRGINIA Rhvmer Hensley Hut ton Worley Jessee Williams Halg Parrih Totals Johnson City Virginia High Gene Crouse Johnson City Crowe 19 Dunham 9 McKamey 4 Hurl 5 Johnson City 9 10 42 Virginia High 15 10 19 Substitutes Johnson Wilson 4 Evans 2 Arnett Reed Holt Virginia High Carter 12 Saul 4 Counts 1 Ware 2 Greever Crouse and Gene Arnold SULLIVAN Tolliver Hood 4 Lawson 5 Hixson 9 Shanks 810 23 11 Blazer 1 Ross Britts Warren Dnrity 7'2 Lionberger 3 Sullivan: Birdwell Bish in the early stages of the third! quarter but Bristol finally caught up at 27 27 A free throw by Gene Hensley followed by re 1 bounder put the Bearcats in front al 30 27 but the HilltopperSf eaught up a'gain to deadlock the County Cage Champions Clade Springs girls and the Cleveland High boys von excit ing victories riday night in the finals of the Washington County basketball tournament Members of Glade's championship girls team are Heft to right) front Peggy McNeal Regina Gill Evelyn Williams Janet ore Dorothy Tuggle Dot Williams back Eva Owens Ann' ore' Betty ore Nancy Hancock Ann Craig In the Cleveland boys' picture are (left to right) front row Donald Hagy Preston Brown Shirley Price Gene Garrett Dean Roberts Lee Garrett back David Jones Kyle Thajer reddie Atkins Robert Gray Gene Garrett poured in 37 points in pacing Cleveland to its 59 51 finals victory over Greendale The team captain Garrett was the man who set the pace throughout the tourney Evelyn Williams set the pace for Glade's girls Dumping in 40 points she led the way in a thrilling 62 55 triumph over Wal lace Greendale High School won the sportsmanship trophy pre sented by the Washington County National Bank of Abingdon Alumni Meet Today Gene elty head football coach of Bristol's Tennessee High Vikings and a former tackle has asked University of Tennessee alumni of Bristol Johnson City Kingsport and other neighboring points to meet in the Tennessee High auditori um at 3 today io "discuss and take action in the coaching situation at elty who visited Knoxville yesterday said last night that "I have some interesting facts io discuss with Tennessee alum ni regarding the Vol coaching He added that "since the Ath letic Board is scheduled io meet Monday I think Tennessee alum ni of this area should take ac tion and convey to the board their wishes regarding i coaching Conflicting reports came out of Knoxville yesterday regard ing the rumor that Head Coach Harvev Robinson was on his way out at Tennessee One story said that General Bob Neylard athletic director had told the football squad that Robinson would be replaced Another cuoted Neyland as saving that the report was "completely un true" Reports earlier this week had if that Robinson and at least five of his assistants would be replaced when their contracts exnire Deo 31 Bowden Wvatt a former great nov' head coach at Arkansas has been ru mored as the pooular choice to renlace Robinson should his con tract not be renewed Wyatt denied similar recoils two weeks ago and has refused to comment Arkansas follow ers yesterday oresenied Wyatt with a new Cadillac His Razor backs will in the Cotton Bowl on New Year's Day against Georgia Tech with 23 to ho appeared trapped but he passed to end Paul Matz for 20 yards then on the next play to Morse for a first down Heap Guglielnv Morse and Schaefer moved the ball to the: SMU four and Heap went over SMU took a one point lead with one munute two seconds left in the iirst quarter moving uo jaius ui six plays alter Roach recovered a Heap fumble on the SMU 48 Roach sparked the ement downfield with a 13 yard pass to end Doyle Nix He also made the score oil 10 yard keep play But Notre Dame came back in a 12 play 62 yard drive for the touch down "in the second quarter with Schaefer carrying the ball most of the time and Guglielmi scoring from the thiee Schaefer's conver sion attempt was good After spectacular touchdown Notre Dame did not score again until deep in the third: but again in a spectacular manner with Heap swinging wide around right end and running 89 yards for a touchdown The loss gave SMU a 6 3 1 season record Regular SMU quarterback al Play see sawed back and forth! 1 I 0 53 TP 15 4 2 4 5 1 score as the quarter ended Ji Two foul shots by Dingus had given the visitors a 38 37 lead Irish backfield men ran up 321vcrsions Bcrnct 2 yards rushing compared to 54 for Notle Dame scoring Touch SMU Guglielmi gained 156 yards ownSi Heap 2 Guglielmi Scannell in the air to 49 for SMU in the Conversions Schaefer 2 sixtn meeting oi me two teams The victory closed a successful! first season for 26 ycar old Notre I Dame Coach Tmy Brennan The i Irish fourth ranked in the nation lost only to Purdue in 10 games Young Brennan's first year record thus compared favorably 'with the first seasons of former great Notre Dame coaches Erute Rockne with sttn vimir lavdnn with 6 3 and hank Leahy whom Brennan suc eded with 8 0 1 D'viv irt rnnrc4 irc Tndav four minutes 13 seconds deep into the first quarto' in a touchdown! march covering GO yards in eight plays The drive almost faltered when Guglielmi on second down TP 17 6 22 8 3 4 ft 2 4 66 TP 0 9 32 15 10 4 0 0 2 Bristol Herald Courier Combined Sundays With The BristolVirginia Tennessean Special To Ths Herald Courier (keep their team ahead Each KINGSPORT Tenn Dec thcm hit five times from the floor Sharpshooting Bobby Helton fired i Helton sank 10 of his 16 free in 20 points to pace Ten hrow attempts while Delp made nessee High Vikings to a 53 46 vic only one of his six tory over tne tsioiiniviue ligers tn the" new Ketron High gymnasium here tonight After Blountville had grabbed an early first quarter advantage the Vikings came back to lead 18 10 at the first rest stop and never I were behind after that They led ference Slater won it in 1951 and 31 21 at halftime and 43 37 after 109 net vnar Anna thrnn AHortorc nf nlav i ii iii lit i Lili ujc UdKics kiuwu vui a i j' TT i i i i i i 11 i IaaUIh r'nvit vn 1 i nnu? Hlf) in Hl Pn Of nn 4 tvninn nai no i irnit ni nvt until the last minute of the con iBig Stone Gap) and Lynch Ky test The Tigers after threaning I shared the honor 1 Clntnr finichnd Ihp SPASOn With DP 11 ai UL UU kjjavvi 8U VW 1 HI Ta rtl a i i i nnlnn 3 1 4 recuru wimu si4) conference mark Johnson nnn Laneston High the third 6 13 0 place team was far behind with a i 1 IK rrnintc 4 4 1 main iw ci uno ul io JAU6W three times in pushed over their lone tally sec onds before the gun Tennessee North Carolina Tennessee scoring: Touchdowns Mitchell scoring: Touchdowns Baker Thornton Nayfield Con version Webster Ralph Houk Will ManageDen ver DENVER Dec 4 Ralph Houk a reserve catcher and later a coach! for the New York Yan kees was named manager today cf the Denvep club in the Ameri can Association Denver General Manager Bob Howsam said Houk who is 34 will be playing manager for the Bears Denver champion of the Class A Western League last season was drafted into the Triple A Associa tion last Monday The franchise was moved west after the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League were trans ferred to Kansas City Denver will take over Kansas role as the' Yankees' top farm club COLUMBUS Dec 4 Katie Key veteran trotting owned by Pat Tuccio of Riverhead NY was harness leading money winner in 1954 with $84867 the Trotting Assn announced today The 7 vear old won 1 OO D4 A I 40 ULIS Vt'dl JJUL 1UU1 UL 3 ZlMiB LU Urt UK 4LKVW wins vdiiie in nidjui evvnis ciiy aiiaCK aiiu uxtcpi lul nicu including the $35000 Roosevelt trot curate shooting in the opening as expected at Roosevelt Raceway Ni Katie's lifetime earnings with this year totals hit 1 Taaaa BEARvAT CUUAU rrailK uvasvc 6uatu iM 4V as the Bearcats rallied to defeat the Johnson City Hilltoppers 54 48 here last night Jessee a Bear cat standout along with Wally Hutton and William Worley drives past Gerald Hyder (23 to sink his shot Other plavers caught by the camera are Johnson Roy Mackley (32) and Bill Dingus27) "and Waliy Hutton (24) who prepares to follow if Jessee misses 19 0 Worley banged in his goal that shoved the Beaicats in front to stay Hutton led both teams in scor i ing by racking up 20 pointr with Worlev and Jessee nlaving stand out supporting ball WilMims Bob' keiball learns Hall and Harry Parrish did ex cellent relief jobs Dplprminp Wins Rov Mackley and Bobby Bryant IVcierm I HG I li kept Johnson City on the move Hnllnnrl Hnnrlirnn with their effective ball handling! LJaKlana iianaiCap and shared offensive laurels for! he Hilltonners with Dmcus ALBANY Calif) Dec 4 De nine of her! Virginia High made good use of Ermine Andy Crevolins gray But four of 7one dPfense to slow the today won the SluOOO adaed Oaklana Handicap at Golden Gae three quarters of play Blountville ciosen tne gap toijeton within nnp nnin! parlv in the final Rec period but Helton and Lester Delp continued io pepper me oasKei to Bobby Eaton with 16 and Eddie Rhymer with 15 set a fast pace for Blountville The win was Tennessee second in three starts Coach Ber nie Tigers now six and lost five BRISTOL Hatcher 2 Delp 5 Mikeal 2 i 2 J) Reed I Bridgeman Reed Rexrode TOTALS BLOUNTVILLE Rhymer Harr Nichols Ramsey 2 Eaton 5 Broyles 2 Campbell 0 Anvood 0 TOTALS 36 BRISTOL 18 BLOUNTVILLE 10 Officials: Ralph Stout and Tommy Mil ler Edgar Hollar Spark Tornado Mellinger Sparkles or Special To The Herald Courier MORRISTOWN Tenn Dec VcuMJil lYfWilldll ucuung 41 39 at halftime and 56 48 'mid 1 way of the second half put on al driving' finish to overtake and de 1 feat King College of Bristol 72 66 tonight in the first game of a collegiate double header Lincoln Memorial University met Maryville College in the second game i Arnold Mellinger brilliant sophomore center set a blistering 32 point pace to spark the Eagles to their victory Bill Julian a guard followed' him with 15 while Bob Daniels did a neat job of play making Captain rank Edgar King center paced his club with 22: points with Bobby Hojlar an ag gressive forward scoring 17 main ly on a difficult to guard one handed jump shot Johnny Hall did excellent rebound work with Texas Dick Thompson handling the ball Wfll KING Holier 39 3 4 3 3 4 0 High Cops Opening Game By Gene Thompson Beset by first game jitters untihwell in the third quarter Virginia High's Bearcats settled down and finished strong to defeat Johnson City's invading 54 43 here last night in an opening basketball fray that made up in excite ment and aggressiveness what it lacked in polish and finesse Bob Coleman's Bearcats picked up th? first point on Wally Hutton's free throw but Johnson City immediately took over and the Bearcats did not catch up again until another Hut cats got off on the right foot In 'ton foul toss deadlocked the score the opener by stoppins the Little at 27 27 with 3:53 left in the third Hilltoppers 54 42 Diminutive Bob canto The period closed with the by Carter guided the Bearcat at score tied again at 35 35 and with tack with his floor play anrl ball with 1:45 gone in the final stanza Hirgr and dropped in 12 points A Dorit Breeding Blanken ham Worley put die Bear cats in the lead at 39 38 A ship and Mumpower were othe Williams followed immediately stars for the victors Jack Crowe with a one hander Worley added'set a 19 point pace for Johnson another bucket and Virginia HighjCily was in front to stay at in Johnson City tried vainly to close the gap and although Bill Dingus gunned in six points in( the closing minutes the Bearcats: kept firing away and wouldn't be: overtaken 1 The Hilltoppers defending champions of Big ive Con ference moved out front' early in! the came and had the score doti bled at 16 8 with two minutes leftDobyns Bennett Indians rolled over in the first period Then rank' the winless Sullivan High Pirates Jeee and Bob Pvmer hit succes 57 31 here tonight for the second sive goals to the gap to 6 12 'Indian cage victory in as many as the period ended nights Jessee's 'cne hander narrowed It was the Indians third straight the margin to 16 14 as the second tory this season whde the Pt Mine QiiffprAn fnAir thirn HAfAat in as manv starts Kingsport jumped into a 10 9 first 5 edge and racked up 23 points 12 to eight for the Pirates in the sec 4 ft 48 TP 3 11 14 Taylor 4 5 Wilder 1 I Johnson 21 19 54 1 Greene 4 Score bv KINGSPORT ISULLIVAN Virginia Kingsport: RUnkenship 8 2 White 1 Johnson 2 quarters might have won by a UJUCl 41101141 Wilkins Baby Bear Cobblers Bench By aye Loyd DALLAS Tex Dec 4 (UP) Notre Dame defeated Southern Methodist 26 to 14 today with a great line that All Amer ica quarterback Ralph Guglielmi like a doting mother while he passed opened vide rights of way for halfbacks a Don chaefcr and Jim Morse and stifled bibled SMU passing attempts Mnetnnwq railed hardlv at all on their two fine halfbacks rank Eidom and John Marshall and re plied instead on passing efforts of inexperienced quarterbacks John Roach and Jimmy Haynie the lat ter a sophomore who until today had played a grand total of 13 min utes of college frotball Once when Marshall did get the football he ran 76 yards for second touchdow in the fourth quarter But while the Mustangs held a one point lead briefly in the first period there never was any ques tion about the outcome of the game nationally televised and witnessed in the Cotton Bowl by a capacity crowd of 75504 persons An ni iK fa nditw star nf th a snpC factilar Irish line sophomore top passer Duane Nutt sat out Tk rtf Couth Rand Tnd hkr comn with a hrnL nn rnllarhnilP JJUU ULfllHIWl ml tJUUUl UK gallic 1 gAn Ta vac bCUlUU UUC UL nuuu xainu loot touchdowns by blocking a Roach I Christian game kick with one minutes 22 seconds ur 7 0 0 left in the first half snatching Bl alHM 70 Vwiifig? 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