Corsicana Daily Sun from Corsicana, Texas • Page 13

90 nn fROM I L. TO "'But "te "wt i Ks man. untn AND ANOTHER CHAMPION SITS DOWN RATHER ABRUPTLY! SHORTS THE CORSICANA DAILY SUN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1928. SPORTS SOY IS ONE OF REGULARS TEXAS AGGIE FIVE AGGIE CAGERS" WILL PLAY NON-CONFERENCE GAMES THIS WEEK Special to the Sun. College Station, Texas, Jan.

Coach Chuck Bassett has reduced hia Texas Aggie basket ball squad to twelve men as an additional Btep in developing a system of work for Aggie cagers in Pjjfihe Southwest Conference race. The Aggie dribblers arc fast, rounding Into shape for the. coming con- 'fllcts. With Captain Siki Sikes, star guard and center of last o'car quintet, back at the and ready for duty, the Aggie team has been strengthened to a great ex tent, fed it was at the guard position that the Aggies showed the greatest weakness in their preseason games. The lineup used against the lUoe Owls, with Sikes at guard, proved far more effective than any which had been used in preceding contests.

The victory over the Owls in their first conference game gavo the Aggies a percentage of 1,000 in the conference race. At forward the Aggies have Rod Petty, letterman, who hails from Decatur and who has been one of tho Aggie mainstays in nil the games this season; Davis, Stepb- enville bov, who was one of the scintillating stars of last quintet; Keeton, member of the freshman team in 1925, and one of the best prospects produced this year; Lockett, Lockhart boy whose speed and fight won hitn a numer nl on the freshman team Iasi year mid who is putting in a strong bid for a varsity berth this year. At center, Bassett has a wealth of Darby and Blount from Houston and Gainesville, respectively. have borne the hrutu of the attack at this position These men, with Joe Brown. Alvord bov, were all recruited from The freshman team last year, and In addition Bassett has Captain SAMMY BAKER TO TRY COMEBACK IN EFFOBT AT TITLE By Associated Press, Los Angeles, Jan.

back to the ring after several months lay-off. Sammy Baker, New York welterweight contender, tonight will attempt another step along the trail leading to a match with Champion Joe Dundee. The former Mitchell Fteld noncom will take on Charley Long negro middleweight from Omaha who recently squelched tltlo hopes of Dert Colima, Whittier, Mexican The Same cost goods will I Fred Mitchell's. at a whale of a picture taken during the bout between Tommy Loughran of Philadelphia, light heavyweight champion, and Leo Lomski of Aberdeen, at Madison Square Garden, N. Y.

Photo shows Loughran in a rather Tunneyesque posture during the first round, in which the titlist wa3 knocked down twice, but emerged a victor at the end, but only by a narrow margin. (IttUramUowU CALENDAR OF SPORTS. Racing. Continuation of meetings at New Orleans. Havana and Tijuaua.

Cycling. Second day of international six- day race in Chicago. Billiards. National amateur 18.1 balkline championship opens in New York Field Trials. United States Association trials begin at Grand Junction, Tonn.

Golf. Mid-winter January tournament at Pluehurat, N. C. OUT of GOLF BAG Diplomacy Before The Camera 4 who fits in as well at center he does at his regular position of guard. Thus far in the season Webster, letterman and star on last team, whose home is in Texarkana; Captain Sikes of Leonard: Varnell, Barry boy, who played with Corsicana High school; Broiles.

Fort Worth bov and captain of the Aggie baseball team and Taylor, who bails from Burleson, have shared honors at the guard positions. Sikes, away for Jjp vyhtlo with the West football team, has played in only one gome, the one with the Rice Owls, in lie proved that he has lost of his old ability ns a carter. By B. KEELER Ambassador Hougton, our representative at the Court of St, James, can make a corking good speech at a golf event, but I do wish to say that ho must be more diplomatic with the diplomats than he is with persons presenting cameras at him. Anyway, he was Noah not so diplomatic with me.

at the Wentworth Golf Club, in Surrey, England, along in June of 192G, when the first of the Ryder Cup international ryjatclies was playt ed, between teams of professional golfers representing the United States and Great Britain. Mr. Houghton was there to award the Is, the cup and the gold medals of victory. And he had perforce to award them to the mem- bers of the British team, who, uu- der tho ample Leadership of the gigantic Ted Ray, gave our boys us sound a drubbing as our boys administered to the British summer at Wor-j WALL PAPER. We are prepared to render you a highly intelligent service in thf matter of proper selection of wat papers.

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centers, who Mr. Houghton did it very grace- also perform creditably at guard. with a whimsical reference The next opponents of the Amrio'to ths added distinction to these lintel will bo the Huntsville British golfers of receiving eachers, who come to College Station for two games January 12 and 12. The Agtrles met and defeated thte fast otn'n-tet in two games just before the Christmas recess. Both games resulted in close scores after long, hard fteht and the two coming promise to be.

of more than usual tn-tcreRf, for the Teaebers will be out for revenge and the Aggies will be fighting equally hard to keen their record clear as far as the Sam Houston team is concerned tho the Kerr Spends 22 Years On Court the laurel front the hands of a man who occupied an unique position. may have received trophies, in the said he, you doubtless will receive trophies in the future. But this Is the onjy one! you will receive, my friends, from the worst, golfer in the world i Now, that was a-very pretty and thing to say, and 1 thought! Houghton made an extremely 1 'graceful little speech, and a very one, with his reference to competitions between )United States and Great Britain. He said just enough, and did not. I make the usual mistake of heaping jit up.

It was good stuff, But I continue to think he was a bit squiffy toward the one man with crust than ofessional. And I did not hesitate to inform Mr. Houghtoif that I should like to take his picture SICK ROOM NEEDS Hot Water Bottles, Fountain Syringes, Atomizers, Rubber Gloves. First aid medicines of all if you need a doctor, leave your prescription at our store, it will be compounded just as he writes it. McPherson Drug Company PRESCRIPTIONS ACCURATELY FILLED Motorcycle Delivery Phones 219 North Boston street.

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Dayoi I presented myself as unobtru- Tverr. guard on the Cleveland Ro-isivcly as possible, not particularly eenblooms of the American Basket-' abashed I had photographed a ball League, has been playing the king or two in my and any- game for 22 years, which is about way an amateur photographer is as long as Vic Hanson, one of- his, supposed to have more mates, has lived. Kerr's ca-ia and that of another veteran Marty Friedman, have been paral lei much of the way, Kerr started playing basketball while in grammar school, and in1 1910, '11 and his high school i team won the scholastic champion- ship of Philadelphia, largely through his efforts. He began his protes- I sional career in 1915 with Reading In the Eastern League, in with Friedman, his present captain and team mate, Kerr help- ed the Jasper team win the chain-j plonship of the Eastern League. Entering the army in 1917.

Kerr went to France as a member of the signal corps. After the war Friedman, who was Assistant athletic of- fleer in charge of American troops. hroJ Kerr join him at Tours. Hare they played together on a basketball team that won the A. E.

title. Later his team copped the championship of ali tho armies in the Interallied contests at Paris- When Kerr returned America he joined he Camden Eastern League team, which won the league title. The following year he shifted to Fort Wavne, and that team won more than fifty games. The next three seasons found playing independentbaskeihhll)in Philadelphia During two of these years he was also with in the Penn State League, and both years that club won the league championship It That brings him down to 1925, be rejoined His old buddy, Marty Fried man, as a. member of the Cleveland team, "Well.

1 see how I can prevent said Mr. Houghton Actually, there were a numuber of methods, if he really wished to prevent. it. Ho might have simply asked mo not to, which would have been perfectly effective. As it was.

I made the picture BJSKETS AND BACKBOARDS Championship Futures in Basketball By DR. FORREST C. ALLEN even splendid purpos vided nter- gonuuu swings into ac- Forrest C- Alien tlon, and with it the indoor season of basket ball the spot light Champions and celiar-champions alike are suprred on by a personal optimism that tho new year will tuid them in the vanguard In tho basketball championship hunt. to the kiss of hope, there I is an inspired confidence in the 1 breast of every Amort- Kerr was a vai gam though he gcorr great host men at In the A cm rd about as much ward opposing last year mly 55 iyer and material with six- foot-plus centers, forwards and guards will figure in the final reckoning. Achievement will come only after the drudgery is done.

This drudgery incorporates weary hours of on fundamentals. Pivoting, passing, re- tainment for its! versing, free throwing, dribbling, followers of shooting and constant heavy-guard- sports on grid-! lag against outnumbering oppo- tron, court, dla-inents must bo the Ardor of the day round, for every practice scrimmage for and field. Tliej the full season Winning baskot- burdens are now cannot tolerate any drones or shifted to date-hounds. younger should- When the Greeks grow fonder of ers. A new your! their banquets and their baths flian of their work tho day of their achievements began to wane Severe self-denial for the successful athlete is tho twin brother of hfird work.

purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's meet." This same high purpose must Imbue the athlete, He must develop a human machine that will not fail him for a moment in the severest of competition. Many of the most successful coaches admonish their players to the hearts of their opponents promptly and without further parley 1 I like Mr. Houghton. And he made an admirable speech, (o the golfing teams and the assembled Maybe he was thinking about the speech when 1 asked him about the picture. ligue, failure for a team well versed in fundamentals, but poorly conditioned.

For instance, the sorties of tho Pittsburgh Panthers undoubtedly iell a beautiful story of physical fitness. Running rampant through the Western Conference and dangling the scalps of Michigan, tho present big ten conference champion, Iowa, Chicago and Northwestern from their belts In five playing nights was a feat that only a super-machine could accomplish. In addition to this winning sally in the Western Conference, these same Bathers returned to their land and defeated Dartmouth University, Eastern Intercollegiate Conference qham pious, by whelming This early Impressive showing Pitt as a leader for tho season's national honors- Other outstanding teams that have gone through i heir early preseason fundamental game-dri havtj chosen inter-sectional opponents with a view to acquiring different methods and new ideas. Such newly acquired talents will come in good stead for these visiting In their drives down their sectional championship roadways. Two big ton teams have ju repulsed in Inter-sectional the first Victor Record of these two vaudeville headliners, Jans and Whalen.

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