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FINAL SIX' MEET DUE HERE ON MARCH 31 Swan song for the Big Six Conference, the spring meet, has been officially set for Paris on March 31. Ernest Hawkins, head coach at Paris Junior College, announced the spring date Tuesday. Track, tennis and golf competition will be held here with Tyler, Kilgore and Paris competing. Paris will defend the Big Six track and field title they won here last year. Events will be held at Noyes Stadium on the PJC campus.

Tennis matches are scheduled on the PJC courts March 31 and the golf events will be held at one of the two Paris courses. No definite arrangements have been announced for the golf site. All three schools agreed on the mid-week March 31 date because of conflicting events on all weekends. Unbeaten Athletics Head Spring Teams By BEN OLAN Associated Press Sports Writer Rookie Manager Eddie Joost, who played under two of baseball's most brilliant tacticians, Connie Mack and Casey Stengel, had his surprising Philadelphia Athletics on top of the exhibition standings today. The Athletics, rumored to be in 'a bad way financially, have won six straight games without a toss.

The Baltimore Orioles have the next best record, 8-2, followed by the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5-2, the Brooklyn Dodgers, 6-3, and the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-3. Texas League's Secretary Irked By Dismissal FORT WORTH WT-The Texas League office has started retrenchment before the season even opens. Miss Gay Griffin, who was appointed secretary Feb. 14.

was dismissed yesterday with the explanation that a consolidation of offices was necessary. Miss Griffin, while agreeing that this was logical, said she was irked at the way it was done. She said league president John Reeves left a letter to be given to her telling her she was dismissed. Reeves had gone to Florida to see the Texas League clubs in spring training. She said he told her before he left that "everything is O.K.

and the dismissal came as a complete surprise to me." Miss Griffin declared that she gave up a job paying her more to accept the position and now she was out of work. C. R. (Choc) Hutcheson. vice- president of the league, presumably will take over Miss Griffin's duties, too.

"There" really isn't enough work for more than one person," she said, "but 1 certainly didn't like the way they went about it." She said she had no plans for the future but she was going to take a vacation before seeking another job anyway. PARIS fj NEWS SPORTS MEETING THE PUBLIC Louisiana State center Bob Pettit takes a flying leap after the ball but lands in the crowd instead. His energy was wasted though. LSU lost the NCAA regional opener at Iowa City, to Penn State, 72-68. (AP Wirephoto).

LAST POLL Unbeaten Kentucky Voted As Nation's Finest Team "Our new men will have to come through If we're to make a good showing," is Joost's analysis of his team's chances in the regular season. Three of the new men, Don Bollweg, obtained from New York Yankees, and rookies Tommy Giordano and Lou Limrner slammed home runs yesterday as the Athletics defeated the Boston Red Sox 10-7. Veterans Gus Zernial and Ray Murray also homered. Nevertheless, the new skipper has his work cut out for him. His club, which finished in seventh place in 1953, games behind the Yankees, played before only 362,113 drop of more than 250,000 from the previous year.

The Orioles suffered their second setback when they bowed to the New York Giants 13-8. Ray Katt, Davey Williams, Monte Irvin and Willie Mays hit homers for the Giants while Chuck Diering, former Giant, connected for Baltimore. Don Thompson's scratch single; with the bases loaded in the ninth drove in two runs to give the Dodgers a 2-1 victory over the Washington Senators. Big Don Newcombe pitched the last inning and received credit for the triumph. Homers by Stan Musial, Ray Joblonsky and Wally Moon topped a 19-hit attack by the Cardinals as they swamped the Chicago Cubs 16-7.

A sacrifice fly to Jim Greengrass In the ninth brought in the run that gave the Cincinnati Red- legs a 4-3 victory over the New York Yankees. Allie Reynolds, making his first start of the year, gave up five hits and two runs in four innings. The Milwaukee Braves clubbed three Detroit pitchers for 11 hits as they whipped the Tigers 7-1. Jim Pendleton homered for the Bravts, who received six-hit pitching from a trio of young right- handers, Joe Jay, Ben Johnson and Dave Jolly. The Philadelphia Phillies scored six runs in the eighth and three in the ninth to edge the Chicago White Sox 12-11.

The Sox tallied eight runs off Robin Roberts in the five frames he worked. The Phillies team walloped the Cincinnati scrubs 21-8. Three more players were added to the Injured list. Redleg southpaw Ken Raffensberger sprained his right ankle when he stepped on a rolling ball. Dave Koslo, Giants' southpaw, suffered a badly bruised left wrist when he was hit by a ground ball, and Red Sox outfielder Jim Piersall came away with a bruised hip when he crashed into a wall while chasing a long drive.

Roundup Club Rodeo in May At Honey Grove Ptrit Service HONEY GROVE Honey Grove Round Up Club's annual three-day rodeo will be held May 13-15, at the club arena, two miles north of town. Raymond McMillan of Hugo, will furnish stock for the show, says Gus L. Manuel here, president of the club. An opening day parade at 4 p. May 13, is planned, and Honey Grove's mounted quadrille team will take part in each night's snow.

Other riding clubs in this area will also participate. Miss Suzanne Hindman is this year's rodeo queen. The customary five main events each night will be bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, Brahma bull riding, calf roping and bulldogglng. Club officers besides Mr. Manuel are Alvtat Fuller, vice-president, and James Martin, secretary treasurer, with Theo A very and Bryan Pierce as directors.

CAT BASEBALL DRILLS OPEN ON MARCH 24 Baseball workouts will officially open for Paris High's Wildcats on Wednesd a March 24. Coach Tommy Duncan set the date this week. It's the day after spring football drills end. Many of Duncan's top Wildcat baseball prospects are now participating in spring grid workouts. Thus, the late starting dates.

Workouts will be held at City Park and arrangements are underway to schedule all games there. Opening District 9-AA game for Paris will be with Greenville High here on March 30. Mustangs Win Again HUNTSVUXZ If) Southern Methodist used seven hits and as many Bearkat errors here last night to whip Sam Houston State 104 in a non-conference baseball game. THI PARIS NIWS, TUESDAY, MARCH 1C 1H4 Southwest Track Teams Off on Busy Schedule By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The most ambitious track schedule of all has been mapped by the Southwest Conference. It includes the participation of six schools in the Drake Relays, four the Kansas Relays, all seven the Texas Relays, five in the Texas Relays.

At Dallas May 1 Texas, Texas and Southern Methodist clash with national champion Southern California. Next weekend finds Baylor, Southern Methodist and Texas Chrisian competing in the Southwestern Recreation Meet in Eort Worth while Rice, Texas and Louisiana State hold a triangular meet in Houston and Texas engages Abilene Christian and Howard Payne in a triangular meet in Austin. The West Texas Relays are Choctow Quarter Horses To Run Again in April Paris News Service HUGO, Okla. So popular was the reception to horse races run Sunday afternoon at Marshall Tullus' track west of Hugo on Highway 70 that announcement was made of races to be run at the same place Sunday, April 4. Sunday's crowd was estimated at 1,000 persons, from Southeast Oklahoma -and Northeast Texas.

Elva Bias singame, Clayton brought his top rac ing steeds for matches. In order to accommodate him the feature race of the day between Ray Hanna's Whistle Snip and J. B. Casey's Bonnie Reed Casey was called off and the course stretched in two new races. Whistle Snip and Blassingame's Honey Dew were matched for 250 yards, with Honey Dew emerging winner.

Blassingame's Pet jumped over the finish line at 300 yards to switch her tail against Bonnie Reed Casey's shoulder after a nip and nip and tuck and tuck race. Little Brother, owned by "Fat" Bostic took Todd Whatley's Little Darling by a length in the 220- yard race, and Frank Wfflburn's foe won the 330-yard race, longest on the card, by the same measure. Joe raced Casey's June Sunday. King, owned by Walter Lee 'Spec" Andrews, came in first in another 220-yard race, defeating Hanna's Doodlebug. NEW YORK undefeated basketball team, which passed up tournament play, wai voted the best college team in the nation today by sports writers and sporlscasten participating in the Oext-to-last Associated Press weekly poll.

The Wildcats, who closed their season by boating Louisiana Stale for the Southeastern Conference title were given the No. 1 spot on 47 of the 70 ballots. Kentucky finished with a 25-0 record, the first perfect mark since Army's in 1944. Indiana held second place despite an upset loss to Notre Dame, with 420 points to Kentucky's 574 on a basis of 10 for first, nine for second, and so forth. Following in order were Holy Cross, Notre Dame, Duquesne, La Salic, George Washington, Western Kentucky, Penn State and Oklahoma Below the top two.

however, the standings received a thorough juggling as the voters considered the results of the National Collegiate Championships and the National Invitation Tournament. which won the NIT and Louisiana State and North Holy Cross, by upsetting first Western tucky and then Duquesne, vaulted six places into the No. 3 position. La Salle. the current choice to grab the NCAA championship also climbed six places, to the No.

6 spot, although its tournament victories were hardly upsets. But the big surprise in the poll was Penn State, which had not gotten as many as 10 points all season. The Blttany Lions jumped right into the top 10, taking over ninth place after startling victories over Louisiana State and Notre Dame. Southern California and Bradley, the other NCAA semifiMlists with La Salic and Penn State. landed just outside the top 10 with the Trojans llth and Bradley 12th.

Both teams previously had lost among the also-rans. Compensating for these leaps and bounds, Oklahoma plunged five places to 10th after Its its Bradley loss; Duquesne dropped two places to No. Western Kentucky slipped four to No. BILLBOARD By BILL THOMPSON SOPHOMORE-TO-BE Bebes Stallings, whose freshman end play won him All-Southwest Conference Frosh honors, is apparently making the grade with the varsity. When Bear Bryant called his prospective Texas Aggies together for spring football, enough talent for seven teams turned up.

Stalling, ns of this week, is running on the second team as an end and shoving toward the first eleven. By early next fall, we figure the Paris High stsr will make the starting lineup. Climax of the Aggie workouts will be an intra-squad scrimmage week from Saturday at College Station. COOPER HIGH'S head coach. Jack Hicks, took on new set ol gold bars ns a second lieutenant in Cooper's National Guard unit Monday night.

Hicks wont before the board of examining officers in and handed the commission. CATFISH SMITH is apparently making quite an impression with his footballers in spring drills at Longvtew High. "The Longview coaching staff." writes Buster Hale, "has revived the gentle but effective art that has too long been missing from modern coaching application of a well-placed boot in the posterior of players now and then as a means of persuasion when ether efforts have been unavailing. AFTER LOOKING over his crop of Texurkana High talent fnr next football season. Coach Watty Myers appears a bit disappointed.

He cast some immediate reflections on their football ability. "Why they can't walk and chew at the same time." Myers groaned. PAUL DEAN, equally famed brother of Dean, is threatening to move his Hot Springs franchise of the Cotton league Texflricunfl if inJprpst doesn't pick up In ihc cily of hot and horsrs. Hot Springs promptly showed new interest in however, and It now appears Hint he'll move to Texarkanii NOT-SO-FAMOUs Kick the former Paris manner, is with J. C.

Strcsd, owner of Tyler (Big othrr hasfball franchises, "Some minor differences of opinion resulted in his resignation." BUI Bogarl. Carolina State fell all the way out of the top 10. Notre Dame went up two notches, to fourth, as the voters apparently figured the Indiana upset more than outweighed the Irish loss to Penn State the following night. George Washington retained the No. 7 notch even though thefr Isbell Will Play With Canada Team WACO Baylor star Larry Isbell will play football next season with in the Western Canadian League.

Isbell, 1951 All-America back at Baylor, made the announcement yesterday. He has been playing professional baseball since his only action since the last poll was, graduation but went on the volun- a loss to North Carolina State. Itary retired list this year. Golo, La Salle Favored In NCAA Semi-Finals KANSAS CITY Wi-Tom Team) Gola, who acted almost as a playing coach for the talented sophomores of LaSalle, takes on an added responsibility here Friday night in the semifinals of the National Collegiate Basketball Championships. It will be up to him to uphold the reputation of the 1954 All America team.

He's the only one left in tournament competition. Despite the wave of of the greatest in the 16-year history of the NCAA the one-in-five average on All Americas is the same as last year. Bob Houbregs of Washington paced his team into the semifinals a season ago. Gola, a 6-7 junior, will be under even more pressure than Houbregs was because his LaSalle team will be the favorite. Washington, third in 1953, never was picked to do better.

With Gola on this year's All America team were Don Schlundt of Indiana and Bob Pettit of Louisiana State, whose clubs were beaten in the Iowa City regional and Frank Selvy of Furman aud Cliff Hagan of Kentucky who did not play in tournament competition. Favorites have been so vulnerable so far in this year's NCAA tournaments that LaSalle ought to be willing to pay somebody to act as a stand-in. WOULD END 'RAT KACC' Cotton, Sugar Bowls Talk Tie-up of Teams DALLAS plan to take the "rat race" out of the Cotton and Sugar Bowls is being talked by the Southwest, and Southeastern Conferences. Cotton Bowl officials conferred with the bowl committee of the Southeastern Conference at Memphis. over the weekend and discussed a plan whereby the bowls would wait until a week after Thanksgiving to contact teams.

In this May, Felix McKnight. president of the Cotton Bowl, the frenzied grabbing of terns by the bowls would be done away SEAT COVERS GUARANTIED TO PIT Uit Lenpr Thty O'DEA'S S. t. and the big games left on the football schedule the first week in December would not be hampered. This is only a suggestion and neither of the groups in the meeting was empowered to make any kind of rule.

440-Yard Relay Added to S-West FORT WORTH high school 440-yard relay has definitely been added to the Southwestern Recreation track program, Director Harry Taylor reported. The meet will be held here "Friday and Saturday. However, since the 440-yard relay was not included on the entry forms mailed out, the event will be listed as "special" and no points will be given toward the team championship trophy. Taylor also reported that semifinals will not be held in the high school 220-yard dash or 180-yard low hurdles. Contestants will run against time in the preliminaries in these events.

High school preliminaries will start Friday at 1 p.m. as listed on the entry form, Taylor said. Evanftlist R. Speaks oa the subject, "Modern Israel's Journey to Htavtnly Cun- aan," located at the Paris Junior College Auditorium tonight at 7:10. Everybody is cordially invited to attend.

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