Kingsport Times-News from Kingsport, Tennessee • 17

SECTI SPORTS and CLASSIFIED SCinnaport SimeB-SJruiB Feb Indians Finish Fast To DefeatfChattanooga 47-35 Plans Made For 15th District Mee Three Share Point Lead For Winners By BOY ELKINS With Skip Wilbom Jack Overbey and Cece Maddux a final five-minute it netted 15 "points Dobvns Bennett High lart downed Chattanooga 47-35 before a small gi to write a KHS Quint 2nd-Seelel Bucs Third America Captures Secon Place In Olympic Action St Moritz Switzerland (AP) Arguments and failed to stop the Americans Saturday as they pulled second place in the winter Olympic games with a chamtf ship in the four-man bobsled race It was the United No 2 team piloted by Fr Tyler of Lake Placid that streaked four times the mile of sheer ice in the rouple of rapid Until that SPORTS! PARAD1 By BOY ELKINS 1 bare the at of the after the forced be 18-17 at the third a manner which Oawfsrd la oaB hr ve rapid in a to the rally that in a time of five minutes 201 seconds to add more gold medals and points to the American Aggregate Only Friday night Tyler threatened to withdraw Officials had ruled that all second runs were not to be counted because some of the tams had not been able to compete when water main burst and flooded the tunnel of ice He still was angry Saturday morning The No 1 team guided by James Bickford of Saranac Lake was third Hockey Restored Biggest feat of the day however waa the somersault taken by the International Olympic Committee which restored hockey to the Olympic program but added the Amateur Hockey Association team would not be awarded diplomas of competition The Swiss had in' sisted all along that hockey was a part of the Olympics even though the 19C ruled it out in the squabble over representation In addition to champion ship other titles decided were: Figure skating by pairs won by Mclheline Lannoy and Pierre Baugniet of Belgium Yvonne Sherman and Robert Swenning of New York were fourth and the Kennedy children Karol and Peter of Seattle Wash were sixth Ski jumping won by peter Hug-sted of Norway Gordon Wren of Winter Park Colo took fifth place the first time an American male ever scored a point in an Olympic ski event Swedes Head Standings With only the hockey championship to be settled Czechoslovakia is the leader followed by Canada Switzerland and the United States Associated Press scoreboard based on basis of 10-5-4-3-2-1 for the six places shows: Sweden 79 points United States 73 Switzerland 73 Norway 69 Austria 51 Finland 49 France 39 Italy 25 Belgium 18 Canada 14 Great Britain 13 Hungary 10 Hoi land 6 Czechoslovakia 5 Only 14 of the 28 competing nations I scored in the competition that ends tomorrow The victory in the bobsledding gave the American team its third Olympic championships Dick Button of Englewood won one in figure skating and Mrs Gretchen Frase of Vancouver Wash triumphed1 in the ski slalom ravrford turned STATE FOOTBALL The Litkenhouse state football championship trophy above finally is on display at Dobyns-Bennett High DBHS won the plaque the past season by going unbeaten and unscored on in regular season play Dr Litkenhous presented the trophy to Coach Ed Shockey the past week (Staff Photo by Ellis Binkley) BLACKSBURG VA Turning into one of the best ig Bristol (AP) Tennessee unbeaten Vikings of Bristol currently riding a 15-game winning streak were given the No 1 seeded spot as representatives of Upper East 15th District schools completed plans here Saturday morning for the annual district' tournament which will be held in Virginia High big new gymnasium on Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday February 25 26 27 and 28 Kingsport High Indians defending district champions drew the No 2 seeded spot ahead of Sullivan although the Tribesmen have been defeated by the Pirates in jregular season competition Sullivan was voted the No 3 spot with Bluff City the fourth seeded team Bristol and Sullivan are grouped in the upper bracket with Bluff City and Kingsport placed in the lower bracket KHS Vs Blountville Pairings for the round games are as follows: Wednesday Feb 25 Tennessee High vs Holston Institute 7:45 pm Sullivan vs Holston Valley 8 pm Thursday Feb Kingsport vs Blountville 7:45 pm Bluff City vs Mary Hughes High of Piney Flats 9 pm Upper bracket winners will meet at 7:45 pm and lower bracket survivors at 9 pm in Friday semi- finals The championship game will be played at 8:15 pm Saturday There will be no consolation game The TSSAA trophy will go to the -tournament champion with the runner-up receiving a trophy from tnfc district Dr Eyler superintendent of Bristol Tenn schools arid a member of the legislative council of the TSSAA is tournament chairman Other members of the tournament committee are Tom Lacy principal of Holston Institute and Spencer Taylor principal of Mary Hughes High of Piney Flats Frye Mellons Referees -Sherman Frye and Bill Mellons will referee the games with Gene Thompson sports editor of the Bristol Herald Courier and Charlie Stelling Kingsport sports writer the official scorers Forrest (Buck) Zeigler a registered official will be the tournament timer School representatives at the meeting held at Virginia High School site of the tournament were: Dr Eyler Coaches Steve Boretsky and Pierce Kenneth Pitts principal Coach Guy Crawford: Paul Anderson principal Coach Frye Holston Tom Lacy principal Coach Sullins Cartwright Bluff Coach Charlie Fleming Sullivan Coach Jeter Barker Holston Valley Coach Harmon Peters Mary Hughes Spencer Taylpr principal Superintendent Joseph Van Pelt of Bristol Va and Coaches Countiss and Louis Kovach of the Virginia High staff welcomed the district representatives and took them on a tour of gymnasium facilities following the meeting a pair of CUy to the fensive prospects in Virginia Ivan Cole who captained state championship five in 1945 is seeing plenty of action in Virginia march toward the Old Dominion cage title Cole has seen action in practically every game since the first of the year and has been used consistently in the close contests In as Cttar Snead Leads In Texas Tourney San Antonio JP Slammin Sammy Snead the reticent man from West Virginia ripped Brackenridge soggy three-plus miles for a six-under-par 65 Saturday to grab the lead by a stroke at the halfway mark of- the $10000 Texas open The Slammer romped in for a 36-hole total of 131 as the field was cut to the low 60 scorers and ties for 36-hole finals Snead staved of a great round by Dick Metz the ex-Texan now Trihe Game With Vikings Tops Cage Action This writer has seen the new Dobyns-Bennett dligh nasium and while sounding a approval believes the grou sponsible for the blueprints have designed an arena to modate something like 300 3500 fans The new gymnasium will 2001 persons 253 on one en 874 on each side The other for a stage The new arena would be so dtoch better than the present one fat difficult to critlze the planjf The present Indian gym accommodate only about 600 sons the reason the is forced to play as many tests as possible at the torium i Even at the Auditorium seating situation is acute 8e games featuring the Indians Sullivan have filled that more than its capacity The doubleheader Friday Sljit further proves that no local argVt can take care of the fans 9 Basketball is growing rapidV in popularity much of the indpvlgse coming in the past three year -j Back during the 1944-45 se on when Stu Aitken won the ttptq cage title the Indians played i eir games at DBHS and Virile cramped managed to make dut Now a team not nearly so stjng is being forced to play at the Auditorium in order to take care increased attendance Thus it is not difficult to seirthat as big as it is to be the new Inuan home will still be too small a jfj The new gym will be -steel coi And it will be a lulu I 1 The playing floor for inst to will be 60 by 100 feet And first rowm jof seats will be and a half feet higher thus suring a floor free of The ceiling will be app: mately 40 feet high Even Treadway hit that his long ones Dressing rooms- wfll be under the stands away spectator interference And speaking of gymnast) is Sullivan High has a unique oe The floor is corrugated Jeter Barker tells me all the inage has occured since the star of I the season apparently as a ryilt slow of the damp weather 1 IffT up In several places the floorvstas buckled and swollen resulting In ridges several feet long In pBea the ridges are six to eight iajhes high and something like 10 Incites across The Pirates have been forq play their late home game' at DBHS and the Auditorium but Barker assures me the situh ion will be corrected this ffej In CAGER USES HEAD this against interest tanooga 69-39 the The minutes Wah) first 2-2 goal front these Three Champs Knox Tourney Cage Results Knoxville by the Kentucky Tops Washington 69-39 Game Memphis JP The high-flying crowd of 2000 Three defending down to defeat while only two re Walther Stars As Yols Beat Georgia 69-60 Knoxville JP Forward Paul Walther scored 22 points to lead the Tennessee Volunteers to a 69-60 basketball victory over the Georgia Bulldogs before 3000 fans here last night The slender senior boosted his season point total to 250 for 18 games Tennessee soon overcame a 1-0 Georgia lead and was never headed The Bulldiogs cut the margin some late in the game against Vol subs The Vols made it four in a row over Georgia and Georgia Tech this season having defeated the Engineers 49-46 Friday night for the second time They dropped Georgia 70-64 recently at Athens Tennessee has seven Southeastern Conference wins against one defeat by Kentucky and has won 15 games in 18 starts this season Bruce Curingtoa football Knoxville Central High who was fighting on the Maryville team retained his with a of getting his mail from Arkansas City Kans who came witfein a stroke of the competitive course record over the -6400-yard lay-out Metz rolled home with a 63 to make his 36-hole total 132 Jimmy De-maret of Ojai Calif set the record at 62 in last Texas open Within shooting distance of the leaders were Jim Ferrier the burly San Francisco pro Cary Middle-coff of Memphis Tenn Bobby Locke the star from Johannesburg South Africa A1 Smith little-known pro from Winston Salem and Norman Von Nida of Sydney Australia Each had 134 Hits Four Birdies Ferrier who was tied with Von Nida Eric Monti of Santa Monica Calif and Ky Lafoon of St Andrews 111 at the end of the first round each with a 65 slipped to a 69 Monti fell out of the top 20 by registering a 73 Laffoon took a 72 to skid to a tie for eighteenth place Snead came to the last hole seven under par His second shot landed in the mud just of the green He pitched within six feet of the cup but two-putted going one over on the hole Metz shot for birdies on all 18 holes connecting on eight of thpm he two-putted ten greens His longest putt was a 15-footer on No 5 The only time he got into trouble was when he landed in a bunker at No nine but he still got his par Tied at 125 were Demaret Lew Worsham of Oakmont Pa Harrison of Little Rock dud Uni- Kingsport's two basketball teams have four week with contest Tuesday night at powerful and unbeaten Tennessee High heading the Four other contests are scheduled Dobyns-Bennett Central on Friday and playing at Bradley County on Saturdwillifotl I band Sullivan playing Holston VaJ- Ca ILLI Ail ley here Wednesday and Invading 'Blountville on Friday Dobyns-Bennett will be a defl-Inite underdog Tuesday Tennessee High won a previous contest from the Indians by a whopping margin I and has had only one close game all season having won by but a single point over Happy Valley night-before-last Tennessee High can cop the Big Wildcats of Kentucky defeated Five Conference title by winning Washington University of St Louis faTne On 91 to cop their 20th triumph of current basketball season Blue Grass boys got off to a start as Washington threw a tight defense In the opening Forward Wallace (Wsh Jones dropped score from the field but Washington's tall Jack Barker followed suit to knot the count at Guard Ralph Beard meshed a to send the Wildcats out in at two minutes and from on the gangling Kentuckians penetrated the Washingtorf defense consistently and scored with ease With virtually all of Adolph regulars hitting the hoop Kentucky built up its lead to 21-6 after ten minutes of play And by intermission the score stood at 40-16 Captain Kenny Rollins and Beard stole the show with their neat ballhandling and shooting from beyond the foul line Each scored 12 points to share individual honors Washington's ace guard Stan London was delayed getting here his plane reaching Memphis Airport twenty minutes before game time London appeared on the floor however to play about half of the first period An official attendance of 4537 broke an 18-year record for basketball games at the auditorium Denver Crmc ford Inks Contract To Play For Yankees New York Denver (Denny) Crawford captain and on the University of football team the past isiue U4 Knoxville Keller of Oak Ridge fourth title to ber when cislon in the from Jack Weaver Jack McKeehan took a close laurels from son of Knoxville Knoxville's Golden Gloves is scheduled to depart at today to participate in the era Golden Gloves Tournament Nashville this West Bristol Beats Hutch-Wallin HIGH SCHOOL Murray (Chatsworth Oa) 41 Stair Tech (Knoxville) 33 Tennessee Military Institute 43 Morristown 36 Kingsport 47 Chattanooga Central 3S COLLEGE Wooster 81 Ashtland 4S New York University 55: Temple 54 Wisconsin Junior Varsity 47: Iowa Junior Varsity 31 North Carolina 46 Duke 43 State 87 Georgetown 46 East Carolina Teachers 57 Duke 44 Washington 40: Providence 1 33 Tennessee 69 Georgia 60 Michigan 66: Illinois 57 Nftw Piebes 40: Newport News (Va High School) 38 Indiana University 57 Miami (O) 48 (overtime) Oberlln 63: Karlham Und) 40 Columbia 58 Fordham 46 Alabama 50 Tulane 49 Xavier 45 Lovola of Chicago 43 Nebraska 61 Kansas 57 Missouri 48 Kansas State 46 Colorado 33 Iowa State 33 Wisconsin 68 Northwestern 63 Navy 50 Princeton 34 John Carroll 58 Case Tech 51 Iowa 41 Purdue 33 William and Mary 46 Virginia Tech 43 Eastern Kentucky Teachers 58 Berea College 45 Tulsa 40 Creighton 36 Oklahoma A Sc 85 Drake 39 Kentucky 69 Washington 39 Butler 70 Western Reserve 40 St Norbert 68: St Joseph (Ind) 61 Beloit 63: Rlpon 51 Western Kentucky 59: Murray State 46 De Paul 65 Marquette 49 Toledo 50 Cantslus 34 St Joseph's (Phlla) 70: LaSalle 65 (overtime) Morrls-Harvey 55: Texas Wesleyan 53 Rutgers 86 Rhode Island State 71 Seton Hall 60: Albright 53 Muhlenberg 59: American University 53 Penn State 40: Syracuse 35 Army 59 Harvard 87 (overtime) BENCH MOURNERS Baton Rouge Coaching freshman basketball team are Billy Walters and Charlie Webb starting varsity guards of last season who are ineligible this winter New York IP George trand ex-Wyoming basket! now with the Providence rollers of the Basketball tion of America got credit fftr 27 points against the New Trork Knickerbockers in a recent league game but be only threw in'i of them The other two pointer me on a basket scored when a ball caromed of his head Into tbik oop HICKEY IN COMEBACK Providence Nat Hickey 45 and out nine years has put him- McCreary of Houston the only self on the active list of amateur to crack the top 20 Mc-his professional basketball Provi- Creary had a fine 66 Saturday to dence Steamrollers go with his 69 of Friday welterweight 10 at decision to cop Dr Lit Is Noted Sports Exper Finals Set In Florida Event Kentucky Edges Murray Murrey Western Kentucky State Teachers last sight their 18th basketball victory in starts this season by defeating State Teachers 49-46 western controlled the id cashed in on 19 of XX throws Western led at the Bristol iSpl) of Bristol handed Hutch-Wallin of Kingsport a 54-43 licking in a fast cage game played here last night Hutch-Wallin opened up a fast 15-6 lead but rallied and at the half held a 21-20 margin In the final two periods the locals were in complete command and won going away Pennington scored 16 points to pace Bristol while Gentry Henry and John Conant netted 13 and 12 respectively for the losers Smllin' Hutch-WalUn Hunigan 9 Jrhayr Pennington IS Conant IS Rogers 10 Henry Rogers Saylor Cox Phillips Subs: Smith 1 Combs Shinn 4 Garland Hutch-Wallin Conant Burnsten 3 14 Browns Have Signed Contracts St Louis JP The St Louis Browns broke their silence over player conrtacts Friday and announced that 14 Brownies have come to salary terms From last square are pitchers Nelson Potter Cliff Fannin and John Stivers and catcher Joe Schultz The 10 hew players are Robert Doyle Clem Dreise-werb Robert Raney Raymond Shore Sherwin Swartz and James Wilson all pitchers and Infielders Perry Currin Sam Dente Weslea Hammer and Joseph Lutz Fifth Yankee Player Joins Hockey League Montreal JP The Canadians have added Norman Dussault to their squad bringing to five the number of American players in the National Hockey League Dussault 22 is only five six and weighs but 150 pounds He is a wing He was born in Springfield Mass and was raised in Sherbrooke Que He joins Bill Moe of the New York Rangers Frank Brimsek great goalie of the Boston Bruins Johnny Mariucci captain of the Chicago Black Hawks and Pete Badando also of Boston way and now his ratings' are pub- sional bits of pertinent information His chief assistant is a brother (Freck) Litkenhous of Louisville 4 In reply to questions DrffLit readily admitted his system comes in for considerable criticism About 98 of every 100 lettefriiare he sajd natural If a person agrees nth you he doesn't so readiwin jrite you about He rates Tennessee high a Uool football as the best in the nth now the stat ranks 1 Jng with Mississippi and Louisian or possibly he said )g port for instance two yearv ago was the top team in Dixieland the past season was right up ft re near the head of the r' Ed gift of a machines to arrive averages Litkenhous is a Louisville native and attended Male High Schbol Culver Military Academy and received his degree from the University of Louisville Later he attended the University of Minnesota and received his degree at that Big Nine Conference institution He was active in sports while JMflSl been signed by the New York Yankees of the All-America Conference Coach Ray Flaherty announced Saturday The 210-pound six-foot Tennesseean whose home to in Knoxville to the 16th college player and the fifth tackle to he signed by the Yankee eqd of the 1947 season Earlier it had been reported by a Knoxville newspaper and news service that Crawford had signed with the Detroit Lions BERTELLI ICE COACH Springfield Mass JP Bertelli former Notre Dame football star to coaching the Spring-field Rifles members of the Atlantic Hockey League A local resident BertelH is a member of the Chicago RockeU of the All America Football Conference Hollywood The teams of Louise Suggs of Atlanta and Jean Hopkins of Cleveland Ohio and Pat Devany and Marjorie Lindsay of Rollins College wHl clash in the finals of the international four-ball golf tournament here today Misses Suggs and Hopkins entered the finals today by defeating Mary Agnes Wall of Menominee MicK and Oaroi Diringer of Tiffin Ohio 3 and 2 Miss Devany of Grosse De Mich and Miss Lindsay of Decatur I1L trounced two Miamians Mrs George Wilcox and Evelyn Odom 5 and 4 By ROY ELKINS Times-News Sports Editor Chemical engineering particularly smack of sports but one of the outstanding men in that field is also one of the leading authorities on the outcome of athletic events The man is Dr Litkenhous head of the department of chemical engineering at Vanderbilt and originator of the now-famous system of rating football and basketball He is better known for his -grid ratings than his cage averages but nevertheless does an almost uncanny job of predicting results in the hardwood sport In 1945 for instance he picked Kingsport to win the state basketball title by the exact margin Stuart boys rolled up over Chattanooga Central Dr Litkenhous more popularly referred to as made his initial appearance in Kingsport the past Monday as he presented his state football championship trophy to Dobyns-Bennett Coach Ed Shockey at a banquet at the Inn If the good followers expected to meet the usual stiff-collar professor they must have been surprised because the Vandy chemist who only recently developed and patented a new type of smokeless gunpowder turned nut to be a personable everyday guy in college but heavy scholastic duties prevented a fully-rounded sports program He participated in four sports lettering in baseball and track Even then he go out until his senior year He wound up at Vanderbilt in 1941 and since that time his system has steadily grown -in popularity That year he picked his first state football champion Now he names champions in 14 states and plans to expand to other sections beginning next fall His ratings are based on cold hard facts Hundreds of persons throughout the area send him scores of games with occa- shots thev When Murray were in the Western because Murray rebounds lost the ball Odie Spears of Western led the coring with 17 points Murray got off to a good start being in front most of the time during the first half Connecting on six of their first 12 gained a 14-8 lead They held their advantage until six and a half minutes remained to be played in the half and they were tied at 15-15 BROTHER COUSIN Norm McAtee forward doesn't know whether he should call his brother Phil (Red) McAtee Fort Forth goalie or Norm has scored the winning goal against brother PhD la ture of the 1947 DBHS teanriHu a particularly pleasant surpris to the doc hang that iikmy office at he said jhat was a wonderful football team and honored to receive the He favors a limited played for the state high school title wit the two top teams in his ratings 'ieet-ing The net proceeds would-o to either to charity or TSSAA brVjoth He would have the same pis followed to select a champio ufor each state East I $dle and West Tennessee Dr Litkenhous married a Minnesota girl and is the fattmr of two sons one 13 the other ipr BEATS BLOZIS MARK East Lansing Charles Fonville powerful University of Michigan weight star tossed the 16-pound shot 56 feet 6 inches in jcE STATE AGAIN the Michigan State relays here New Itts losses few and roost six inches beyond the Ameri- Pep6nts good college foot-can college record set by George- observers already are hailing Tulsa Ir Litkenhous of 40 years who actually looks ten years younger than that Doc has been rating national collegiate football teams since 1930 and his first releases were carried by the Akron Ohio Times-Press Since that time he has come a long the unbeaten Penn State squad of 1947 as prospective eastern cham pion in A1 Blozis in the 1940 NCAA at Minneapolis mark was 56 feet Inch.