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News eatures lorence Morning News THE LORENCE MORNING NEWS LORENCE pack in County Tourney Enters Semi inals Sports THURSDAY MORNING DECEMBER 18 1952 In 15 Rounder 1 GIRLS Lake City and Boncfrie boys fight for an elusive basket up os playing his first game him: 0 22 2 2 19 Missouri at Columbia Challenger Gets Unanimous Nod 0 3 2 3 Lenoir Bears tonight before a crowd pf 3 3 2 4 0 21 bowl of a post 5 1 3 4 a 61 3 1 1 3 0 9 2 0 0 0 0 23 5 3 2 0 0 0 is 3 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 2 5 1 2 11 0 0 0 0 12 15 6 0 11 6 2014 2 0 4 0 2 0 0 3 2 0 2 0 9 3 13 14 3 2 2 0 0 9 5 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 Pf 1 2 0 4 2 2 3 2 2 19 9 6 0 0 11 2 7 Wofford Terriers Crush Lenoir Rhyne 84 48 26 Washington and Lee at Park Julius Boros Named Golf Money Champion 3 24 2 0 2 0 0 4 Tp 10 13 0 20 3 10 0 IS 6 82 Tp 3 10 10 8 2 3 43 Mis two Coward Mi lea Wincsett McGee McKay Total Totals Dewitt Stanley Altman t' Jones Browder TMala Guards: Coward Hannah Coward Boys Given avorite Roles freethrow record Georgia Teachers when he sank 17 of 5 8 22 8 7 11 0 0 0 5 I 1 7 Quick Justice GARYVILLE La Dec 17 Game rangers found Justice of the Peace Anicet Klibert hunting rabbit with an illegal 'floodlight The rangers confiscated his shot gun and asked him to appear in court which is in Klibcrt's home He charged himself pleaded nuilty and fined himself $1250 There were ho court costs Tar Heels Honor Giant's Wilhelm RALEIGH Dec 17 Hoyt Wil helm Charlotte and the New York Giants is the 1952 winner of the Raleigh Hot Stove League's award for being the North Carolin ian who made the biggest contribu tion to baseball during the year The announcement was made to night at a buffet supper which Wilhelm attended at the home of Willie Duke leader of the Hot Stove League The selection was made by the North Carolina Members of the Southern Conference Sports Writers Association It came after one of the closest contents In the three year history of the award Previous winners were Billy Goodman util ity star of the Boston Red Sox and Whitey Lockman first baseman of the New York Cdants Wilhelm 28 year old relief pitch er led the National League in wa ning percentage and earned run averages while keeping the Giants in the pennant race until the final week of the season He was named on 19 ballots Enos Slaughter vet eran outfielder with the St Louis Cards votes Wolfpack Gridders Charged In Theft RALEIGH Dec 17 UH Two North Carolina State College foot ball players were charged with larceny today in the theft of $7750 worth of clothing from three Hal eight stores Police identified the pair as Don ald Ray Langston 19 of Lexington Ky a star fullback and Percy Harper Rlden 20 of Lewistown Pa 200 pound tackle They were released under $200 bonds signed by head coach Horace Hendrick son Police said they are charged with stealing four shirts 12 pairs of socks and two sweaters The sweaters were valued at $25 each 3 0 0 13 33 2 2 17 3 2 1 8 2 2 0 0 0 1 fl tfl 9 fl 17 18 21 31 12 14 73 Lake City White King I Whitlock Matthews Hutchinson Turner Daniels loyd Huggins Jordan Totals Bonaire Myers Knight Morris Rotan Lawrence Vause Vause Hatchell Langston Munn Totals Hebron Romps In Twin Win HEDRON Dec 17 Both and girl's teams of Hebron High School ran wild here last night to twice humble St Stephens The local girls clobbered St Stephens 68 13 while the Hebron boys were only slightly less Im pressive in chalking up a 68 19 verdict or the Hebron girls it was the 17th straight win for the boys the 16th win in 17 games Linda Adams led the local girls with 23 points Abbie Lee eagin and Lillian Adams each got' 15 while Juanita Miles tossed in 14 Tony Thomas had seven for St Stephens Hebron led 41 6 at the half Thirteen Hebron boys saw action in the nightcap and all but one of them contributed to the scoring Chich Springs led the scorers with 13 points while Ebbie McElveen picked up 12 Lavern Driggers had eight Charles Rick led St Steph ens with five The games were the last for Hebron before the Christmas holi days Winners of the recent Hebron Invitational tourney they enter the Williamsburg County Torunament the week of January 12 1 10 83 0 10 9 23 0 0 14 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 13 59 Marines Beat Shaw SUMTER Dec 17 The touring Cherry Point Manne liers cage squad defeated the host Shaw Air orce Base team hero tonight with practically no effort 77 59 The Marines jumped off to a 23 11 first quarter lead Increased it to 44 28 by halftime and then coasted the rest of the way The Cherry Point reserves played most Of the list two periods Ted Jones of Cherry Point led the scoring parade with 21 points Lucas was high man for Shaw with 13 8 2 3 1 0 0 0 8 28 Wake6resf Mauls Pro's: i ASHEVILLE Dec 17 CD Wake orest's Demon Deacons easily rolled up an 88 62 victory over the Dixie League Enka Rayonites here tonight Enka with three former Wake orst basketball captains in the lineup was expected to give the Deacons a stern test But with Jack Williams 22 points leading the way Wake brcst had no trou ble ormer Deacon leaders facing the Southern Conference team were Dcran Walters who hit 20 points to pace the Rayonites Will Kaylor who got 15 and Tunney Brooks last year's captain Walters showed the way for Enka by hitting his 20 points and holding Wake's Dickie Hemric high scoring center to 13 points However not all the credit should go to Walters since the Wake orest offensive pattern of the night did not feature feeding of the ball to Hemric The collegians jumped to a 9 3 lead in the first five minutes and extended the margin from there on 1 2 1 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 10 28 Bulletin SAN RANCISCO Dec 17 avored Vic Selxas of Philadelphia trailed Italy's austo Gardini 1 2t the end of three of the Davis Cup Interzone finals at Syd ney Radio Australia reported to day The broadcast was monitored in San rancisco by the Associated Press (See 8EIXA8 on Pile 2 B) 30 2 4 3 3 2 7 2 73 COLLEGE PARK Md Dec 17 The University of Maryland re turns to the Southern Conference fold in football next year and a 10 game schedule announced today includes five Conference opponents James' Tatum director of athletics and head coach at Mary land said the Terrapins will play Washington and Lee Clemson North Carolina South Carolina and George Washington all Conference foes Maryland and Clemson were bar red from Conference competition in 1952 because they played games Jan 1 in violation Conference rule prohibiting season football competition Also on the 1953 card are sissippi and Alabama the clubs whose unexectcd victories over the Terps in 1952 toppled Maryland from the ranks of the top ten teams in the Associated Press weekly poll The 1952 opponents not on the 1953 schedule are Auburn Boston University Navy and Louisiana State The 1953 Maryland schedule: Sept Mo Sept College Oct 3 Clemson at Clemson SC Oct 10 Georgia at College Park Oct 17 North Carolina at Chapel Hill Oct 23 (riday night) Miami at Miami la Oct 31 South Carolina at Col lege Park Nov 7 George Washington in Washington Nov Park Nov Park By MURRAY ROSE ST LOUIS Dee 17 Grim faced determined Archie Moor made up for yean of bitter frus tration tonight by battering light heavyweight champion Joey Maxim into a bleeding hulk to' win the 175 pound title by unanimous de cision Ignored by one champion after another fo'r over five years the'uncrowned made offi cial tonight by blasting the steel chinned 30 ycar old Clevelander with a blistering barrage of punches from beginning to end A roaring crowd of 12610 in the St Louis Arena and millions more along the const to coast television benrn watched the powerful 36 ycar old Negro score his one sided triumph Thus Moore became the oldest light heavyweight king since Ruby Bob itzsimmons grabbed the crown at the age of 41 Maxim's defeat came in his third defense of the crown he won nearly three years ago The challenger fired up for his moment rocked the champion in the very first round staggered him often afterwards but couldn't bring the game Maxim down At the finish Maxim was bleed ing from cuts under both eyes from a gash on his left cheek bout and from the nose There was nq doubt as to what the decision was going to be Judge Howard Hess scored it 82 88: Judge red Connell had it 87 63 whi'c Referee Harry Kessler who kept up a running fire of chatter throughout the fight had it sur prisingly close 76 74 The Associated Press had Moore the winner 87 63 giving Moore 12 rounds Maxim two and calling one even One of the rounds the fourth went to Joey because of a low blow Moore who was out weighed 174 to 172 was the 8 to 5 favorite when the bout got under way But after the seventh round you could have gotten a 100 to 1 op the battered champion The challenger who has lost only une fight in nearly three and a half vears poured on the pace in a relentless fashion ighting out of a crouch he whaled Maxim's body with devastating body punches that took the spring out of Maxim legs cut his face to ribbons and rocked him in almost every round after the seventh When Maxim held on for dear life Moore snarled at Maxim just held All that Maxim could offer were his occasional left jabs and short left hooks plus: a few rights that just brought a smile to Moore face The crowd which contributed to a record St Louis gate of $89487 at times roared for Moore to "put him away" and to Maxim to "hold A scowl on his face Archie gave an indication of what was to come in the very first round when he smashed a terrific right to jaw The champion shook all over and then held Maxim cameiback in the second round to earn it by a slight edge with his jabs and hooks at the ag gressive incoming Moore The third was almost similar out Moore scored with his body'barrages Moore shook up Joey again in the fpurth with a right to the chin that was heard all the way to the rear of the arena He followed up with vicious left hooks that hurt rom there on it was no contest Ono of Moore's blows was low and Referee Kessler ordered the fourth round taken away from Moore Moore was warned twice in the sixth round to "keep them but that didn't keep liim from aim ing his searing bombs to the body He whacked the champion's mid scction and sides until they were red CHICAGO Dec 17 (B Julius Boros golf's Cinderella Man today officially was crowned 1952 money winning champion And sharp sboot ing Jack Burke Jr was certified as Vnrdon Trophy winner for the best average per 'round inal PGA tabulation of cash collecting along the tourney trail credited Buros with $37032 against a paltry $4697 In 1951 when he finished 34th money winner in his first full year of pro tourney play Boros the silent sweet swingcr from Mid Pines finished some $6100 ahead of runner up Cary Middlecoff who earned $30 884 Burke whose 7054 stroke aver age for 78 rounds won the oeveted Vardon Award was third in money winning with $21003 The hand some pro from Houston Tex also leads in Ryder Cup points as of Dec 15 with 519 7 12 about 17 ahead of Sammy Snead's 502 2 3 Snead was fourth in earnings with $19908 In all 14 players won $10000 or more also including Ted Kroll $17500 Jim errier $15811: Dave Douglas $15173 Doug ord $14 566 Lloyd Mangrum the 1951 mon ey winning champion with $26088 who earned $13422 this year Ed Oliver $13359 Jim Turnesa $13 356 Tommy Bolt $11914 Johnny Johnny Siegel former end for the Chicago Bears in the NL is now practicing dentistry in Ply mouth Pa 14 Mississippi at College 21 Alabama at College 3o 43 202 I 3 22 (t3 3733 012I 3 0 1 0 17 2 3 0 0 41 13 7 2 2 10 0 19 5 1 0 0 0 ight Weigh In Almost Placed Scrap Second By MURRAY ROSE ST LOUIS Dec 17 IB A threat by challenger Archie Moore's Manager "to call the fight off" a double weigh in for cham pion Joey Maxim a faulty 'scale and lots of screaming enlivened the weigh in today for 15 round light heavyweight title scrap at the Arena About one hour and 40 minutes after the weighing ceremony was to have taken place at noon (CST) it was announced officially that the weights of the glad iators were 174 for Maxim and 172 for Moore After oncei threatening to call the fight offi Charley Johnston manager calmed down and declared "The fight's on After all we're shooting for the title ain't One observer who watched the entire rhubarb from beginning to end said "If the fight's as good as the weigh in it ought to be a The confusion started when John ston noticed that the scales were not sealed and insisted that he would not permit his 36 year old challenger to weigh in unless the scales were tested and approved by the weights and meas ures experts The weight men were summoned but when they didn't arrive by 12:58 Jack (Doc) Kearns manager of the champ insisted that Maxim be weighed immedia tely Commissioner Chaley Plan of the Missouri Athletic Commission agreed' Maxim then tipped the beam at exactly 175 the division limit Johnston however declared that Moore would not weigh in until the scales were checked and that Maxim would have to weigh once more Kearns turned to Pian and weight is offi cial Pian said yes Kearns ordered Maxim to dress At 1:15 Hayo Roy Stumpf and John Mann the city's weight men arrived and started checking the scales After much tinkering they said the scales were a half pound light and that Maxim's actual weight was 175 Later it turned out they meant the opposite that the scales were half pound heavy When Maxim weighed 175 it ac tually meant he weighed 174 said Hayo When Moore was weighed in at 172 Johnston vehemently insist ed that Maxim be weighed again The champ already had started to dress and had swallowed some beef tea Kearns on edge all the way said that Maxim would not weigh again the screamed Johnston He and Plan engaged a shouting match inally Kearns permitted Maxim to step on the scales again and he weighed 174 pounds KtACn All hands ao up a I ball during a county tournament game at Coward last night left to right ar Ernnt Turner of Lak ICtiy Ronald Knight of Bonair George Vause of Bonaire Jimmy Huggins and Kn King of Lak City Lak City won th clash' 56 26 (Staff Photo by Weirich) COWARD Dec 17 8 teams of Coward and Like City nnd teams from Johnsonville and Bonaire advanced to the semi finals of the fourth annual lor cnee County Basketball tourna ment as first round pairings were completed here tonight The hometown Coward boys bat tered Johnsonville 59 41 But th Johnsonville girls spoiled local hopes for two finals team by bat tling to a 37 33 win over Coward Lake team ruled as co favorit in that division with Hannah to cop the tourney title by humbling Bonaire 58 26 But it wasn't all Lake City Just to keep the evening completely split th Bonaire girls nosed out Lake City 26 22 The Bonaire and Timmonsvlll Kiri teams will meet in the semi finals opener at 6 ovlnrir (in ana rimpuco ciasn at 7:15 in a lxys game At 8:30 girls fromHannah and Johnsonville meet while Hannah and Coward boys Play at 9:45 Th thriller of the evening was wCittake game Neither team could do much scor ing i th the lid apparently on th basket the first quarter That per l0? le8din 2 1 At the half it was 9 9 At th end of the third period it was 15 15 Then finally it the last chapter ith Velma Matthewi and Dorothy Bacote showing the way jumped to the lead and the win Betty Rhinehart of Bonaire and Gladys Moore of Lake City each collected 11 lead the scorers The Lake City boys had a run ery sart in their clash with Bonaire They jumped to a 29 10 lead by the end of the aiid Vstitutes finished up Citians' even with scrubs tn the lineup managed to outscore Bonaire 27 16 in the last half Russell White with five field goals 1 ouls for 12 Points led City Ken King picked up 10 Vause had 11 for Bonaire Ine Coward girls tossed a real scareinto Johnsonville before bow ing The Johnsonville lassies had Jumped to a 10 5 lead at the end of the first quarter and 19 10 by th end of the half Coward bounded back to close the gap to 25 23 by the start of the finale But a 12 point burst by Johnsonville in the last periot did trick SvbH Dewitt ran wild to score 22 points for Johnsonville rances Wine sett got 15 and Jerry Miles 12 for Coward A big second quarter helped the Coward boys in their romp over Johnsonville Johnsonville had bat tled Coward almost on an even keel for the first period with the latter leading 12 11 at the start of tho second That next period did it Coward scored 26 joints whil Johnsonville was held to nine Marvin Pate was big gun for Coward with 19 markers on nin field goals and a foul Dalton Me Kay and Buck Coker each got 11 Hcrcil Hatchell emt ville Trophies will be awarded win ners and runners up following chamnionshin eamn Uli rhe tournament is sponsored an nually by the lorence County Rec reation Department ort Bragg Boxers Whip Cherry Point CHERRY POINT Dec IT The Bragg boxing team took a 5 to 3 decision over th Cherry Point Marine team her tonight The Roscoe Elliot 163 pounds scored the only knockout of the night when he registered a 'over Stan Wysoknowski of the Marines Wysoknowski was down at the end of the first round and again at the end of the second when the fight was Cherry Rudy Gwinn de cis oned Julius Reed in a welter weight match in what was probab ly the outstanding bout of the evening Jacket Jayvees Slaughter Mullins MULLINS Dec 17 The Junior Varsity basketball team of lor McClcnaghan High School showing improvement as the even ing wore on defeated the Mullins Jayvees here 42 14 Laurie Snnsbury led the Jacket juniors in their one sided win with six field goals and four foul for 16 points Carlisle Grimsley got eight Pecminter was high for Mullins with five The lorence and Mullins vars ity squsds held a lengthy practice session today Coach Jim Wall of lorence had asked the scrim mage to give his charge a cfaanc to work on a big floor The lorence teams travel to Orangeburg riday night Twenty new traps were Installed at Northwood for the Open championship Yardage on the par 70 course is 6779 Native Dancer is the 14th un beaten two year old champion since annual records were first kept in 1870 4 22 5 0 0 9 37 Guards: Coward Swan Mat thews illyaw Cooke Elmore McGee McAlister Tedder Miles Carroway Johnsonville Matthews Poston Dewitt Eaddy A 'T' 'T' T' Archie Moore Wins Light Heavyweight Boxing Crown Chapman' Altman Strickland Keefe BOl'S Johnsonville Prosser Stone Altman Avant Browder Stone" Hatchell Bennett Poston Stone Donohue Totals Coward Coker Wiggins Robinson Miles McKay Cain Pate ilyaw Wise Young Parrott Rogers Totals Palmer $11095 and Al Bessclink $10004 Although Boros reached his ar tistic height of the year with his Open triumph he struck his real pot of gold in George May's "world championship of golf" at Chicago by winning a plny off from Middlecoff for the $25000 first prize Although there were strong re ports Doros and Middlecoff split the combined first and second mon ey totalling $37500 prior to the world playoff the PGA figures are based on $2i000 for Boros and $12500 for Middlecoff Besides Boros five others miss ing in 1951 cracked the top 25 seventh Besselink 14th Dick May i er 17th with $9122 Roberto De i Vicenzo the Buenos Aires whiz I 18th with $9020 and red Haas 1 20th with $8519 or the first time in years gav blade Jimmy Demaret finished out of the top 25 His $5325 for 34 rounds I In grabbing the Vardon Trophv won last year by Mangrum Burke used 5502 strokes over his 78 rounds for the 7054 per round av erage Runner up Ted Kroll re quired 7337 strokes for 104 rounds a 7074 average Palmer was 9th in the Ryder Cup point listing with 173 5 6 Scores By The Associated Press Navy 95 Rutgers 75 Army 67 Ithnca 61 Maryland 54 VMT 37 New Haven Tchrs 60 Albany Tchrs 59 Erskine 73 Appalachian 61 Wake orest 88 Enka 62 Morehead State 106 High Point 71 Cherry Point Marines 88 Shaw AB 59 Grove City 84 Indiana (Pa) Tchrs 63 Dayton 72 Eastern Kentucky 62 Jacksonville (Ala) State 64 Red stone Arsenal 35 State (L) 80 New Mexico 67 La College '94 Spring Hill 79 LSU58 Alabama 45 Delta State 69 Ouachita 56 Iowa 57 Adelphi 47 Georgetown 100 Hampden Sydney 49 Queens 73 Brooklyn 64 West Virginia 101 100 (over time) Princeton 79 Lafayette 47 Wofford 82 Lenoir Rhyne 48 Groat's All Stars 84 Danville In dependents 69 4 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 8 1 0 2 i 16 SPARTANBURG Dec 17 U5 revamped Terriers with forward Doug Guthrie and center Neal leading the Way swampea 84 48 here of 800 Guthrie at forward after lettering as a guard last season pfOhked ln '16 first half points to pull the Terriers' io a 44 25 naif time lead after a 19 19 deadlock early in the second quarter Guthrie scored 18 for the night but teammate Neal took high scoring honors with 20' Barker andOrtmyer topped the Bears with 10 points each The win avenged 82 74 loss to Lenoir Rhyne in Hickory earlier this season WOORD Moody 4 Maxwell Guthrie Burrell 0 iveai Relnartz Mathis Lowry Wallace McMahon Totals lenoir Mnrxe Lutz Barker Ortmyer Hassell Hudson Lojperbeiger Workman Totals LENOIR RHYNE WOORD 19 is jg gg ree tlirowi missed: Lenoir Rhvne Lutz 2 Urtmyct 4 Hudson 2 Workman 2 Wofford Moody Neal Guthrie Mathis Wallace McMahon The Brooklyn Dodgers held un disputed possession of first in the National League race from June 1st until the end of the season Sybil Dewitt Johnsonville appear to He get ing a neat smash on the jaw from June Swan of Coward in his picture' And Mary Matthews also of Coward appears be running up behind to catch the Johnsonville lass It wasn't a fight but a basketball game in the epunty tourney at Coward Johnsonville won' 37 33' (Morning News Carolina Clemson Listed On Maryland Grid Slate Erskine Ace Breaks Own oul Record DUE WESTS Dec 17 (fl Little Bob (Country) Gathers broke his own state' free throw record here tonight by sinking eight out of eight charity tosses as Erskine walloped Appalachian 73 61 Cathers made all his throws in the first half when the Erskine first stringers were benched in favor of second and third team players who played the last half In all Cathers got 14 points to take runnerup scoring honors Cathers set tne state against North here on Dec 9 18 chances APrALACHIAN Trammell Stanley Brown Sheppard Wallace zblackburn Phillipa Campbell Hodges Homealey Halthcock Totals ERSKINE Robinson Storms Moore rothers g' Vermillion Blackburn McCoy Mlnervlnl win Phelps Hilton Totals 27 APPALACHIAN 10 ERSKINE io 9R ree throws mhsed: Appalachian Trammel Hodges Hotmsley 4 Blackburn Hailhrork 2 Ersktn Rohlnson 4 Stormi Blackburn and Hilton 2 GIRLS Lake City Moore Godwin loyd Totals Bonair Matthews Bacote Rhinehart Pigate McKay Middleton Total Guards: Lake City McKenzie Mcadden Leach' Godwin White Bonaire Rhinehart Singletary Singletary Lawrence McLeod BOYS 2 12 10 9 i ciock uomor 1 0') Thursday night Lake City and Pamnlirn tk 0 2 0 8 8 56 tHr IB jy i If Bl 1 Jtf II 1 i 'jf W1 a.