Johnson City Press from Johnson City, Tennessee • 17

yr i- i By jimmy SMytfi' Sports Editor Tipton May Get Grid Post- Lipscomb Out For Revenge- IZri Regional Tourney- Set JJ KERMIT TIPTON will probably be named head football coach at Science Hill High School when the Johnson City Board of Education meets Monday night at 7:30 in the office of Superintendent of Schools John-H Arrants at Science Hill Tipton is known to be the choice of the athletic committee of the Board of Eductation and the Junior High mentor eems to In line tot the position Of course appointment to Jhe position vacated by Jack Green be official until the fulj board agrees on and pretty well known that the Board members are prone to disagree on numerous occasions However Tipton bas been eminently successful with the Junior High program and the long-standing belief that he could serve the athletic program best in that capacity seems to be crumbling And also generally known that Tipton has wanted the head football coaching job since last year and it might be assumed that the popular young Junior High coach would consider leaving the system if he get the head grid post at Science Hill not to say that Tipton is wielding any kind of an axe but every young coach aspires to climb in the profession and Tipton probably feels the time is ripe for moving up provided the Board of Education agrees with him Right or wrong the activity on the athletic front at Science Hill lately be dubbed indifferent Hilitoppers Bow 89-71 In Tourney Training School is 'tho champion of District I high school baskets ball Coach Bob Junior Bucs throttled the Johnson City Hilitoppers 89 to 71 before a wildly-cheering throng of fans last night at Memorial Building to win tho district crown first time in history that Training School has captured the title Lamar won the consolation game 60 to 56 over the Jonesboro Tigers Training cheering see-tion conveiged un Paynter and his Game Here Will Decide NAIA Entry- East Tennessee State College will be host to David Lipscomb College of Nashville here tomorrow night in the championship game of District 27 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics The basketball encounter will de termine Tennessee District entry in the NAIA tournament starting March 12 in Kansas City The game will be played at'-'S at Memorial Building on the ETSC campus Lipscomb won its way to the dis trict finals by beating Belmont off w-1 Press-Chronicle-WETB trophy) Coach Bob Paynter Manager Dickie Howell (holding TSSAA championship trophy) Ray Stock-ard Richard Lewis Harold Huffine Johnny Whitehead and Doug Zimmerman THE CHAMPIONS Training District Two high school basketball champions are shown above with their trophies Left to right are John Edmisten George Langford Jim Leonard Joe McCormick Sam Crowe Johnny Brooks (holding i 'J Nashville 73-66 hnd Austin Peay of Clarksville 74-73 VSAC Champion ETSC is both the regular season champion and the tournament champign of the Volunteer State Athletic Conference The Bucs boast a record of 19 wins against only six losses and number among their victims Tennessee Tech Florida State Spring Hill Ala Springfield Mass and VMI The District 27 NAIA title game will be a re-play of the VSAC championship contest in Nashville where East Tennessee nosed the Lipscomb Bisons 65-63 The Bucs defeated the Bisons two other times during the regular sea son 72-58 and 70-63 Probable Starters East probable starters tomorrow night will be Herb Weaver of Roanoke Va and Leo Cooper of Knoxville forwards Herb Edmonds of Asheville center and Jim Fleenor of Jonesboro and Jerry Wilhoit of Chuckey at guards starters likely will be Gayle Napier of Owensboro Ky and Phil Hargis of Nashville forwards Ken Donaldson of Paducah Ky at center and Gary Colson of Valdosta Ga and Archie Crenshaw of Jackson at guards Center Edmonds is currently the top scorer for ETSC with 346 points followed by Forward Weaver with 328 The Bucs as a team have averaged 722 points a game on 1815 points Coach Madison charges have held their opposition to 1643 points or 657 per contest ETSC scoring in 25 games: quintet after the 'contest which saw the Junior Bucs roll from behind an early deficit and keep rolling to post an impressive triumph Both Teams Hot Both teams were hotter than firecrackers in the first half hitting better than 50 per cent of their shots from the floor Training School 16 of 31 and Science Hill 17 of 33 Science Hill ran up a 12-4 score on the Junior Bucs early in the game but the champions to-be thundered back and trailed only 24-22 at the first stop The score was knotted at 24-24 26-26 28-28 and 30-30 before Hal Huffine dropped in two free throws to put Training School ahead 32-30 The Junior Bucs went on to post a 50-43 halftime margin in the free-scoring contest but the Hilitoppers came back to take a 51-50 lead within the first two minutes of the third quarter Jr Bucs Take Command After a 52-52 ti Training School took command and splurged to a 72 to 59 lead over the Hilitoppers as the third period closed With a comfortable margin Training School elected to slow the action in the fourth quarter and" the handwriting was on the wall as Hilltopper Gerald Hyder followed teammates Worley Hunter and Jerry Vance out of the game by the foul route Both coaches subbed Sid Smallwood of necessity and Paynter because the Junior Buc lead had gained insurmountable proportions Brooks Fouls Out Center Johnny Brooks fouled out for the Junior Bucs with six minutes remaining in the game Hunter went out for the Hilltopper! shortly after the third period started Vance fouled out late in the third quarter and Hyder left with three minutes nd 10 seconds on the clock The Junior Bucs presented a well-balanced scoring attack headed by Johnny 20 points 17 each by Brooks and Huffine 16 by Jim Leonard and 12 by Ray Stockard Hyder sank 20 points to pace the Hilitoppers Vance followed with 14 Jonesboro led 12-10 and 25-24 at the-first two stops in the consolation but Lamar pulled into a 43-36 lead after three quarters The lead swapped hands eight (Continued On Page 2-C Col 4) Championship Csns Traln'f (89) Tot John ton City Tt Leonnrd IS Hunter Whitehead 20 Ntdlffer Brooks IT- Vance 14 Hufilne 17 Bryant 8 Stockard 12 Hyder 2 Subs: Training School: Edmlnsten Zlm-merman 3 Langford Lewis 4 McCormick il 1) GARY COLSON Bison Meets Bucs Takes ACC Tourney RALEIGH March 3lfl Fiery guard Vic Molodet sent 12 of his first 13 -shots whistling through the nets tonight as he scored 32 points to lead North Carolina State to a 76-64 victory over Wake Forest and give the Wolfpack its third successive Atlantic Coast Confer ence basketball championship The triumph qualified State for a berth in the NCAA tournament in New York against Canisius March 12 Wake Forest beaten by State in three earlier meetings this season scored 10 points in a row after Molodet had opened the game with his first basket but Coach Everett State club with Molodet on fire fought back to move ahead at 25-24 with 5:30 to play in the half The second of three quick hoops by Capt Phil DiNardo put the Wolfpack ahead and they never again lost the lead Molodet hero in overtime victory over Wake Forest a week ago which earned the-Wolfpack top seed in the tournament and fifth place in the national rankings put on amazing display He had the 12400 fans bugeyed and Wake Forest shaken with his deadly shooting mostly from well outside The 5-11 senior from East Chicago Ind missed only one of his 10 shots in the first half to stake his club to a 38-32 lead He- wound up with 79 points for three tournament games a new record Huffine and Jim Leonard of Training School The Junior Bucs defeated the Hill-toppers 89 to 71 for the title Thesituatlon has beerT some time and the addition of Sidney Smallwood as overall athletic director of the system ahd the forthcoming appointment of a "new head football coach are steps in the right direction if the overall plan is effectively pursued I understand there are other applicants for the post in addition to Tipton but at this time the athletic committee and possibly the Board too feel that a man already within the system might better be able to pursue the task at hand The chances are that appointment of a new head basketball coach may wait until a later date perhaps not at all if determined that Sidney Smallwood who has been highly successful with Hilitoppers basketball teams will be able to ach basketball in addition to his overall duties THE DAVID LIPSCOMB College Bisons invade Johnson City Monday night to battle the East Tennessee College Buccaneers and a crowd of 5000 fans is expected to pour into' Memorial Building to see the championship game of District 27 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Fans like a title game and this is it The winner goes to Kansas City to represent Tennessee's District 27 in the NAIA national tournament The Bucs if they can beat David Lipscomb for the fourth time this season would be making their third trip to Kansas City and would possibly stand one of their better chance of winning in the national meet ETSC dealth Lipscomb a 72-58 defeat then a 74-63 loss and during the Volunteer State Conference tourney the Bucs shaded the Improved Bisons 65-63 in the title game Monday encounter between the two possesses a trem-' or of excitement which will be felt by the fans as well as the teams themselves Lipscomb is reported all hepped up about the contest and the Bison rooting section is slated to be a big one In Gary Colson and Archie Crenshaw area fans will see two fine small college basketball performers And needless to say in East Tennessee State's sparkling Buccaneers area fans will see a finely coached quintet that has rolled along to a 19-6 record the regular season championship and the tournament championship of its conference The Madison Brooks coached team has behind it victories over such teams as Spring Hill Ala Florida-State VMX Springfield and Tennessee Tech The ETSC Lipscomb contest promises some fast action and the fact that State bas defeated Lipscomb three times already this season means little In this one big effort by both outfits a rivalry fraught encounter and the Middle Tennessee team would like nothing better than to cart back to Nashville a win over the Bucs Lipscomb and other teams in the VASC are conscious' of the fact that smooth aggregation has no seniors on it and that domination of VSAC honors may extend even further than this year when the Bucs invaded the capital and brought back all the marbles THE REGION ONE high school basketball tournament will probably be played here at ETSC Memorial Building Thursday Friday and Saturday The eight teams which will compete have already been decided since the finalists in the four district tourneys are eligible for the regional meet That means that Johnson City High School and Training School will represent District Two: Elizabethton and Blountville will represent District One Bulls Gap and Rogersville will represent District Three and Rush Strong and Sevierville will represent District Four Drawings have already been set up by TSSAA but the way placed in the bracket depended on the outcome of last finals But here is the way it works: Winner No 2 plays Second Place No 1 Winner No 4 plays Second Place No 3 Winner No 1 plays Second Place No 2 Winner No 3 plays Second Place No 4 WRESTLING WILL take a holiday this week at the Recreation Building 1 The 12th annua East Tennessee Championship Gold Medal tournament will be in progress and there will beno wrestling this week Promoter Jamup announced THE SOUTH LANDED three men on the 1955-56 Look Magazine All-America basketball team with Ron Shavlik of North Carolina Bob Burrow of Kentucky and Joe Holup of George Washington making the outfit Joining the three southerners on the squad are Robin Freeman Ohio State Sihugo Green Duquesne Tom Heinsohn Holy Cross Jones San Francisco Willie Naulls UCLA BiU Russell San Francisco and Bill Uhl Dayton ALSO UPCOMING in Look is a demand from Bob Feller that more be done to help ballplayers who are retired either because of injuries or old age Feller says: ballplayers are strictly one-string violins If they play ball they do anything that brings a comparable income When finished with baseball most of them are finished period" made a lot of money out of the Cleveland pitcher says a matter of public record that I made more than $80000 a year for two seasons from my contract with the Indians not counting my outside business interests Nevertheless I leave baseball tomorrow and retire tax structure let you keep Feller suggests a special curricula be set up in three universities in East Midwest and West Coast for former ballplayers and an employment and guidance bureau for ballplayers in every city in which big league teams play Mountaineers Win Southern Kuenn Agrees To Tiger Pact DETROIT March 3 Shortstop Harvey Kuenn one of the last two Detroit Tiger holdouts came to contract terms today General Manager Hefold (Muddy) RueJ announced the agreement after a telephone conversation with Kuenn who already is in spring training camp at Lakeland Fla Ruel said Tiger President Walter (Spike) Briggs Jr conferred with Kuenn earlier in the day Kuenn reportedly was asking a salary raise to about $20000 some $2000 more than he was paid last year Chosen Valuable Tournament Although Hampton by Kingsport in game the Smith last night was most valuable player I conference tournament a list of 11 players from the championship club chosen on squad Eddie Rhymer Jimmy 1 1 a Fred Simerly Elizabethton Hitchcock Elizabethton Stewart Kingsport Campbell Blountville Blountville Howard Kingsport Gene Sam Elizabethton PRESENTS TROPHY Carl A Jones Press-Chronicle publisher is shown above presenting the Press Chronicle WETB District Two high school trophy to Harold Finalists Top All-Tourney Training School District II high school basketball champion placed two men on the All-Tournament team and second-place Johnson City also put two of its players on the announced after last finals at Memoli-al Building The Junior Bucs placed Ray Stockard and Johnny Whitehead while Science all-tourney players were Jerry Vance and Bobby Bryant Lamar third-place winner and Jonesboro's fourth-place quintet also had two players Frank Coffie and Howard Painter for Lamar and Richard Teaster and Alen Shelton for Jonesboro Richard Good of Fall Branch and Carroll Buck of Happy Valley rounded the All-Tournament squad Training School received the District Two championship trophy awarded by the TSSAA and also the Press-Chronicle-WETB trophy presented by Carl A Jones Press-Chronicle publisher Smith Most In KINGSPORT was defeated the consolation fiery Benny selected the in the District Smith headed four of them Elizabethton the all-tournament Others were: Blountville Mountain City Billy Eddie Jack Vance Ramsey Johnson and Ron Odom Kentucky Over LEXINGTON Kentucky romped 101-77 Saturday nearly 44 per closing its regular RICHMOND Va March 3 (0-Rod Hundley streaked under the goal witn 43 seconds remaining tonight for a layup basket that gave West Mountaineers a 58-56 victory over Spiders and the Southern Conference basketball championship Hundley who likes to mix a bit of clowning with his basketball stuck strictly to the business at hand tonight Playing it straight Uie Hot Rod proved a little too much for the Spiders who surged from 10 point! behind in the last nine minutes and tied the battle at 56-56 on Walt set shot The clock showed 2:23 remaining The Mountaineers immediately went into a freeze They made their move with less than a minute left Hundley who meshed one jump shot after another from long range all night suddenly raced under the goal grabbed perfect pass and heaved it up and in Santee Wins Fans Cheer NEW YORK March 3 WV-Wes Santee returned to action tonight and with a crowd of 12000 in Madison Square Garden madly cheering his every stride won the Columbian mile in 4:138 The race climaxed a wild day of court action indecision and jock eying by AAU officials attorney and other competitors Santee barred by the AAU for accepting excessive expenses two weeks ago was reinstated last Thursday when his attorney Charles Grimes obtained an injunction nullifying the AAU action The AAU appealed the injunction this morning and was turned down That left Santee still an amateur and the AAU Conceded he was eligible how it stood until the other runners began to pull out one by one Finally he raced only against Ed Kirk of the Air Force and Ed Shea of the Army Vest Romps Tennessee Ky Mar 3 M) over Tennessee night while hitting cene of its shots in basketball J0HHS01I CKSbiPHtsS-CHROlIICLE SUNDAY MARCH 4 1956 SECTION PAGE ONE Elizabethton Beats Blountville 61 to 59 In Overtime To Capture District 1 Title Tusculum Takes Smoky Tourney HARROGATE Ml Tusculum playing possession ball most of the way defeated Lincoln Memorial 55-51 Saturday night to win the Smoky Mountain Conference basketball tournament The teams had tied for the lead in the final conference standings with 7-3 records Forward Bob Bowers and Center Ralph Horne piloted the Pioneers to victory with 14 points apiece Guard Ken Miller was high for Lincoln Memorial with 15 Tusculum ahead 28-24 at halftime had to fight in the second half to gain its victory LMU rallied at the beginning of the stanza to tie it up at 36-36 then went ahea 42-38 midway -the half- Tuseulum OFF College Basketball Snoky MovnUlN Final Tusculum 55 Lincoln Memorial SI Atlantic Coast Conference Tnmey C- State 76 Wake Forest 44 (championship) Iowa Illinois 73 Susquehanna 64 Philadelphia' Textile 61 UCLA 64 California 63 Havy 78 Army 67 Maine 66 Bowdoln 83 Minnesota 66 Mirhijran 71 Ohio 8tate 66 Michigan State Penn 60 Columbia 56 Wooster 65 Ohio Wesleyan 61 Princeton 60 CorneU 76 Purdue 73 Indiana 71 Lafavett Ul Rutgers 66 Florida 82 Oeorgta 66 Dayton 71 Cincinnati 56 a 54-54 tie and sending tha to victory with 17 Hitchcock with 11 by 13 and the Cyclones while Campbell hit 24 for the Blountville team led Kingsport with 14 while Smith paced the Hampton with 17 64 3t goal made it 55-53 with" a minute and a half to play with a lay-up Ramsey Ties It jump shot knotted the score at 55-55 with one minute to play but Billy Hitchcock gave Elizabethton the lead with a two-pointer with 20 seconds togo before Ramsey sent the contest into overtime with a set shot Elizabethton drew first blood in the overtime when Hitchcock drove in a rebound but Rhymer made good a jump shot to knot the score at 57-57 before Sams made good the'winning basket Bulldogs Lead At Half In the consolation contest Hampton and Kingsport battled to a 15-15 deadlock In the first period but the Bulldogs turned on steam to take a 28-27 lead at half- 01 time and were still out front at the-tiwM way mark Johnny Kale -dropped in four free throws in the final minute and breaking Tribe Sams aided 12 paced Hale Benny club Store moMtTllie EltnkeUitea Bub: Hiefln Ellis 11 Street Subs- 2 ent Store The Cyclones held the upper hand during the second quarter and midway the period bad a 29-20 cushion before two goals and a free throw by Jack Campbell and two points by Eddie Rhymer closed the gap to 31-29 at the half way mark Deadlocked Three Times CampbeITs goal at the start of the third period knotted the score at 31-31 and the contest was deadlocked at 33-33 and 35-35 early in the quarter before goal gave the Cyclones a 37-35 margin and they stayed ahead the rest of the period holding a 46-43 margin at the end of the quarter John charges built up a seven-point 54-47 margin with three minutes and 55 seconds remaining on the clock but Campbell narrowed the lead to 54-49 A free throw by Sams upped Elizabeth-vL jVv 55-49 mizv and a half to go Vance Ramsey hit a set shot to make the score read 55-51 and1! half of play in the last quarter ctticiaa: luipa steidand by quarter II I Rewlend (CottteUtWnt (M) Fee II Hearpton Ort Orem Hoi eel 14- Dee TO by outers' KINGSPORT A field goal by Guard Gene Sams with a minute and tea seconds to play in an overtime period gave Elizabethton the Wftrict One championship night in a spine-tingling 61-59 win over Blountville The game went down to the w'ire after the Cyclones had led most of the game only to see the Tigers come back fast in the waaing minutes of regulation play to knot the score Kingsport won third place coming from behind in the final period to capture a 61-54 victory after Hampton had led at halftime and at the' end of the third period Cyclones Start Fast Elizabethton started fast building up an 11-0 lead during the first minutes of play before Jack goal broke the ice for Blountville Midway the period the Cyclones held a 13-4 margin hut Rlount-ijville turned on the steam to nar-rt2'rowthe lead to 17-14 by the end of tCujthe quarter Bowers Kt -lav Hickey Mai nous I Horn Whaley Btallard Marley -D Aunea BelL 6 TeUla 6 6 4 6 3 A 3 6 3 4 IT 6-10 6-0 41 1 li 14 6-6 tl-lf THE BASEBALL SITUATION produce a ripple last week only a few expressed regrets here and there that the pro-game had to fold here in the Appalachian League Of course it spring yet and the fever hit locally for the faithful few hundred who continued to support the game here Here and there is talk of reviving semipro ball in Johnson City had quite a bit of semipro ball in the area for years and likely that some type of baseball program will crop up in the city In the meantime I think a study should be made In the East Tennessee area to decide if professional ball caa ever be revived here There is no reason why professional baseball must slay dead The Idea of a four-club league involving Bluefield Salem Johnson City and Kingsport w'as basically unsound But formation of a league here in East Tennessee could be accomplished with the proper spirit and cooperation among the towns in promoting tlje game'ln their respective cities and build- kg suitable ball parks to make the return of pro ball possible 1 Regional Tourjiey Plans To Be Made Coacbeg of the eight Region One high school basketball teams which will participate in the regional tournament here at Memorial Building this week will meet today at 2:30 at East Tennessee State College to make plans for the event Roberts is tourney director The tourney will be held either Thursday Friday or Satur-day or may start Wednesday night if the coaches so decide StafpeH 8rt 11 Johnson It While 1 tlooberew rilte I Ihreet IinfiMrt lean port rt It IT 6 rJTT 84 Tvsewla LMU 1.