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fotaM-prf Spovt Miners Rated Chance In Joe Williams Arizona Game Next Week Philippines Have Turned Out Some Of the Toughest Scrappers In The History of Beak-Busting Team Free OiThreeTectms Move Up in Army Cage League NEW YORK Jan Those dAmatic pulsating communiques from our beleaguered Pacific outpost never fail to stress the bravery and gallantry of the American and the Filipino forces Not just one force but both Of course nobody ever had to tell us that the Yankee Doodle dandies could fight Perhaps they didn't have to tell us about the Filipinos Three outfits 79th Coast Artillery Station Hospital and Special Weapons forged ahead in the Fort Bliss Basketball League play by virtue of wins over their opponents Tuesday at the Recreation Center Gym The 79th smacked down the Medical Detachment and Ordnance outfit 53 to 21 Station Hospital nosed out William Beaumont 44 to 42 and Special Weapons defeated 12th Cavalry 42 to 30 Games scheduled tonight at the Army YMCA include the 8th Engineers vs 16th Quartermasters at 6:30 Quartermaster Corps vs Division Artillery at 7:45 and 691st Tank Corps vs 130th Observation Squadron at 9 On tap Thursday night at the Reception Center are the following games: 5th Cavalry vs 7th Cavalry at 6:30 Medical and Ordnance vs William Beaumont at 7:45 and 79th Coast Artillery vs Station Hospital at 9 Leading 24 to 10 at the half the 79th put on a burst of speed in the final period to blast the Medical Detachment Townsend led the scoring parade for the 79th with Ber-nation each tallying eight points Station Hospital maintained a 4Z x8y RC3 xftx International League Ready For Season Boston Baseball Players To Get Awards Tonight Bp Attociated Prete BOSTON Jan After waiting in modest silence for 47 years Hugh Duffy the peppery veteran who set all-time high bat ting mark of 438 will be publicly acclaimed when the Boston Baseball Writers award trophies to such modern sluggers as Champion Ted Williams of the Red Sox and Joe DiMaggio of the Yankees tonight while dining with 800 of their read ers Williams who expects to be inducted into the Army within a few days has been ordered to stay close to his Minneapolis draft board As a result he has delegated Eddie Collins his general manager to accept the Jacob Morse Memorial a trophy awarded annually to outstanding player in his behalf Di Maggio however has promised to be on hand to receive the Paul Shannon Memorial Trophy which commemorates his astounding feat of hitting safely in 56 consecutive games for the current world champions The other regulation award for outstanding rookie has been voted to Dick Newsome who pitched the Red Sox to 19 victories Mere verbal praise' however will not sufficie for Duffy for his press box admirers also have prepared a surprise for him Tempe State Moves Into Third Place Ma Bernie Bierman famous Minnesota football coach reports at Quantico Va base for active duty with United States Marine Corps slight lead throughout its entire game with William Beaumont advancing to a 14 point lead during the second half Led by Hatton and Howell who scored 13 and 12 points respectively the William Beaumont crew whittled this lead down in the last four minutes of play but failed to make up the difference Meade scored 22 points for the winners Special Weapons lead 21 to 10 at the half in their game with 12th Cavalry and continued their scoring spree to win 42 to 30 Howie of Weapons and Patterson of the 12th tied for scoring honors with 12 points each New Attendance Mark May Be Set By Bp United Prett NEW YORK Jan A new Eastern attendance record for basketball is expected tonight when West Texas State College advertised as the tallest team in the world meets Long Island in an inter-sectional contest at Madison Square Garden Ned Irish manager of Garden basketball said the towering Texans who average six feet six inches probably would draw a' ca pacity crowd of 19000 The Eastern mark of 18377 was established at the National Invitation Tournament here a year ago West Texas a strong contender for the mythical national title has lost only one of 18 games this season and has scored 1214 points averaging 67 a game In their last tune-up appearance West Texas defeated Buffalo State 105-41 Long Island has won 15 of 17 games losing two contests by a slim margin of four points New Mexico May Enter New Loop International New Service DENVER Jan 23 New Mexico University a member of the Border Conference entered the Rocky Mountain athletic picture today with reports it would be open for any invitation to join the Big Seven Conference and fill the gap being opened by the withdrawal of Denver University A member of the athletic department of the Border school Was quoted at Albuquerque today as saying: open for an invitation but it will have to initiate with the Big Seven The Albuquerque college has been mentioned in some circles as a logical successor to Denver University in the circuit's lineup Addition of the school would bring to four the number of state universities which are members The others are Universities of Utah Colorado and Wyoming either The chances are we just stopped to give it a thought But those of us who follow the prize rings know about the little brown islanders: they can fight all right There was Pancho Villa He was one of the first professionals the islands developed and probably the best That wasn't his name His square tag was Francisco Guilledo HE WAS A CHAMP Pancho was a world champion and a worthy one too He never weighed more than 110 pounds That made him a flyweight and it was in this division that he won his title He beat Johnny Buff by a kayo in 11 rounds here in New York He died with the crown still on his head died after dropping a 10-rounder to Jimmy McLamin on the Coast An infected tooth led to blood poisoning and brought his death The ring had many good flyweights You can name them on one hand Pancho Buff Frankie Genaro Frankie Mason and Jimmy Wilde Of the group Pancho and Wilde were the best They met once and the Filipino knocked the midget from Wales out in seven rounds This was scarcely a fair test Wilde who had been fighting since 1913 was a well laundered veteran by that time Pancho was at his peak What would have happened if the two had been able to come together in their prime can only be guessed at The Philippine Islands are pretty old They were picked up in 1521 or just about the time Cy Young was breaking into basebalL But our interest in them and for the most part our knowledge of them goes no farther back than 1893 when your Uncle Samuel took them over In view of these facts it is not surprising to learn that the Filipinos weren't exposed to the manly art of beak busting until 1910 or thereabouts FIGHTING SEED PLANTED An American by the name of Frank Churchill was the Marquis of Queensberry of the Islands He was a government clerk assigned to Manila and he started promoting prize fights as a side-line A local millionaire bank rolled him At first he recruited his talent from the fighting ships in the harbor The American colony filled most of the seats but there was a cheap section for the natives and they responded enthusiastically to this new and startling revelation of culture and civilization Thus the seed was planted from which Pancho Villa and his like grew Rating the Filipino fighters in the order of their relative abilities requires the skill of a shrewder analyst than your sentinel They were all fairly good Fellows like Elino Flores Sarmiento Clever Sencio Speedy Dado Small Montana Ceferino Garcia and of course Pancho Garcia was a champion too You may have been on hand the night he stiffened Fred Apostoli in seven rounds to win the middleweight championship 1if Seeing Eye Dog to Help Ailments For First Time FACING a game with the strong University of Arizona club next Tuesday Marshall Pennington's College of Mines cagcrs today found themselves free of minor injuries for the first time this season With but one exception the Min ers are in top shape no colds no bad bruises and no charley horses or sprained ankles The exception is Freddie Salem member of the traveling squad who collided with Skippy Broaddus last week and cut himself severely the first time this season the rest of the boys are in fine shape' Pennington said today DATE CHANGED The war and its subsequent rub' ber shortage caused a change in dates on the game The tilt was originally scheduled for Monday night and the Arizonians had planned to make the trip in the school bus They were unable to get tires for the vehicle however so the best they could do was to arrive here the following day Coach Pennington was optimistic about the Miners' chances today despite Arizona's higher rating At present Arizona occupies second spot in the Border loop and the Miners are down in fourth place think it's a the coach said The game is to be played at the Austin High School gymnasium at 8 The change Is being made to accommodate the fans who asked larger seating capacity School officials said if the gate receipts showed an increase in the crowd at next week's games all the rest of the Mines engagements would be played at Austin Otherwise the team will move back to Holliday HalL Two most improved members of the Mines delegation this week are Billy Johnston forward and Bob Rice guard Both may get a start ing berth in the Arizona game Sports Roundup By HUGH FULLERTON World Wide Sports Writer NEW YORK Jan If you see a stray hockey puck flying around downtown Boston return it to George Owen the old Harvard-Bruins player He keeps a stick in his office so he can get the of it in preparation for the all-star game Feb 6 and his neighbors accuse him of trying shots at the hall windows The American Football Statistical Bureau is moving from Seattle to Chicago so it will be in the center of American football Lou Diamond manager of Gus Lesnevich claims life' is a lot easier now that both of his sons are in the Army He can grab any tie or pair of socks in the house without an argument GUEST STAR Gibbs Baltimore Sun: declaiming that New York University expected to kick out football yesterday were slightly misleading What 'really happened was that had football kicked out of it last MR OTT COMES TO TOWN Sample of what goes on at a baseball press conference Scene Giants office Original subject Weight of Johnny Mize and Bill McGee Reporter: you going to Hot Springs too Ott: Reporter: thought I saw signs of a double Ott (fumbling around his collar): I have put on a Reporter: southern fried Ott: no but crayfish are in Another reporter: you sign your contract yet Ott (turning to Prexy Horace Stoneham): will we sign a contract Stoneham: 20 minutes if you City Cage League Opens Second Half The second round of the City Basketball League opens tonight at the Community Center Cotera Bros are leading the loop after winning first half honors Smeltertown will meet El Paso Tech in the first game at 7:30 and Phelps-Dodge takes over against Post Exchange at 8:30 ALMOST ANY DAY now Dick Griffin will be strolling down Dallas and Fort Worth streets chattering with old friends and visiting prize fight haunts Griffin is still blind His eyesight is permanently gone But the little ex-bantamweight who fought many of his biggest fights in El Paso has borrowed the good eyes of a companion a Seeing Eye dog to help him get about Bill Parker of the New Yorkn ns Daily Mirror wrote this article re- CUTtlCC 811 UTSf 0T cently about Griffin: day back Bp Attociated Preen TEMPE Ariz Jan 28 Arizona State of Tempe earned undisputed third-place position in the Border Conference basketball campaign edging out Arizona University 42 to 41 last night It was the Wildcats second straight loss to their Arizona cousins and came on the heels of a 44 to 36 upset administered by Arizona State of Flagstaff Monday night The Wildcats slipped from a tie for third place to a- tie with Har- din-Simmons Cowboys in the loweiJ division just one step out of the cellar Arizona University meets New Mexico University at Albuquerque Saturday night In another conference game Tempe plays host to the Flagstaff Lumberjacks Friday night OSs: gawmqi Mtymtn Promoter Dick Griffin ACK CURTICE stood before a group of 100 business men the other night and outlined the new athletic and physical education program at the Texas College of Mines He talked In glowing words Right there Coach Curtice scored a touchdown with the Mines supporters as an orator and entertaining public speaker A few months from now Coach Curtice will be delivering dressing room speeches to Texas Mines football players If his locker room orations are as effective as his talk the other night Coach Curtice should have no trouble arousing his players to go out and do some enthusiastic playing All-Year Training BORDER CONFERENCE rules restrict football practice to so many days before the opening of the season They limit spring workouts to so many practices There is nothing in the Conference rules however that prevent football players and other athletes as well from keeping physically fit the year-around Coach Curtice plans to hold gymnasium classes for Mines athletes and to introduce other body-building sports to them to keep them in shape during the off-seasons An athlete with hardened muscles and good wind will get into the swing of things in football more readily than a player who is soft from lack of physical training Seek Golfers For Chicago Tourney International Newt Service CHICAGO Jan 28 Thomas McMahon president of the Chicago District Golf Assn was en route today to Rancho Santa Fe Cal to line up the top-flight professional golfers for participation in the Hale America Open Tournament at Ridgemoor Club June 18-21 The Hale America Open will be the substitute this year for the annual National Open cancelled by the United States Golf Assn because of -the war Proceeds will go for Army relief purposes Teachers Favored In Tilt Bp Attociated Prett SILVER CITY Jan The New Mexico Teachers are favored to strengthen their lead in the New Mexico Conference basketball campaign Friday night when they play host to the hapless Eastern New Mexico College quintet The teachers went into a tie with Highlands University for the leadership last night by defeating Adams State of Alamosa Colo 43 to 32 Eastern New Mexico College beaten by all their opponents including Adams State is expected to give the Teachers little trouble The Poe Motor Co team has dropped out going to have the fastest and best semi-pro league in the Southwest this Delgado promised El Paso baseball fans Tentative arrangements call for a double header at Dudley Field each Sunday Games will also be played in Juarez Another meeting of league officials is to be held early in February to further outline playing plans Cards To Play Service Teams International News Service ST LOUIS Jan 28 Men in the United States armed forces may have an opportunity to see the SL Louis Cardinals in action this season Sam Breadon president of the Cardinals announced today that the club will seek to schedule games with Army and Navy teams on open dates during the National League season instead of the usual practice of booking exhibition con tests with minor league teams 70 Aggies Turn Out For Training International News Service COLLEGE STATION Jan Spring round up of would-be football players began at A Tuesday with 70 huskies signing up for a thirty day spring training period Leftover starters were Henderson end Sibley center Webster and Zapalac backs Fifteen lettermen and 25 squadmen turned out along with 30 freshmen who are awaiting a decision which would permit them to qualify for varsity play during their freshman year Hurlers Will Train At Carlsbad Bp Attociated Prett PHILADELPHIA Jan The Athletics coaching staff for 1942 was complete today as Manager Connie Mack filed away the signed contract of Earle Brucker who handles the pitchers There was some uncertainty about return in the face of reports of last season that he might go to the Boston Red Sox Brucker will take the hurling squad to Carlsbad on Feb 12 for preliminary training Sox Heads Refuse To Worry About Lee International Newt Service CHICAGO Jan Officials of the Chicago White Sox today expressed no concern over the statement issued by Thornton Lee in Phoenix Ariz in which the 34-year-old left handed pitching star disclosed that he had returned unsigned the third contract offered him for 1942 by the club just a matter of said Vice-President Harry Grabiner ball players always come through1 May Get Franchise xferNaffoMi! Newt Service DURHAM Jan Possibility that the Orlando and Deland clubs of the Florida State Baseball League may obtain franchises in the Florida East Coast League today prompted Bramham president of the National Association of Minor Professional Leagues to grant an extension until Feb 4 for the two clubs before their disband ment becomes effective Cage Results BY ASSOCIATED Fakisk COLLEGE North Carolina Stata 60 Davidson 43 Wake Forest 36 North Carolina 30 Arkansas Teachers 38 Arkansaa Tech 28 California 53 San Francisco 43 New Mexico Teachers 43 Adams State 32s Arizona Teachers (Tempe) 42 Arizona 41 New Mexico 44 New Mexico Mines 361 HIGH SCHOOLS St Mary's (Albuquerque) 20 Menaul I Albuquerque) 15 Las Cruces 81 Tularosa 43 St Michael's of Santa Fe 50 St Catherine's (Santa Fe) 26 Belcn 37 Albuquerque Indiana 33 Carlsbad 43 Hope 23 Formula Stirs Up Lazy Liver Bile- Right War To Relieve Constipation and Feel In Morning! If liver bOe flow freely every day into your intestines constipation with its headaches and that feeling often result So alir up your liver bile accretion and see how much better you should feci! Just try Dr Edwards Olive Tablets used so successfully for years by Dr Edwards for his patients with constipation and sluggish bile Olive Tablets being purely vegetable ana wonderful! They not only stimulate bin flow to help digest fatty foods but also help elimination Get a box TODAY 15 i 30 1 601 All drugstores Tentative organization of the semi-pro International League for the 1942 season has been completed Secretary Bob Delgado announced today that six teams had been entered so far and that play would start at Dudley Field the last Sun-ay in March Teams entered include last year's defending champions Solis Produce Co and Highway Auto Supply Coca Cola Gantt Jewelers McNutt Oil Co and Juarez Imperial Furniture STRIKES to SPARE CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE The Ft Bliss Civil Service League terminated the first-half rolling during last week with the Finance Sammies being returned the winners over the runner-up with a margin of 10 games The season's high average was taken by Miss Katherine Rea with a 146 mark Lucrctla Saenz topped the field for the high series mark with a 430 while Miss Vella Mae Hendrickson grabbed high single game honors with 192 Official standings of the first-half is as follows: Won Lout Finance Sammiee 33 13 SI NO 1 i 33 33 No 3 19 39 Finance Golds IT 38 The league starts its second half play this coming Friday MILADY LEAGL'E lit 2nd 3rd Total Brokerettes 701 883 1 3 Blue Bonnets 73 730 3 1 Yuccas 704 683 31IS 3 1 Sand Storms 653 707 1 3 Shooters 606 743 1983 1 2 Rancheros 616 646 196S 3 1 Steam Rollers 602 679 3 1 Southemetles 683 653 1 3 High scorers: Southemettes Phyllis Alkire 401 Steam Rollers Nellie FTieJe 438 Ranchenoa Lola Carpenter 486: Sand Storms Thelma White 515: Shooters Gertrude Pontius 379 Yuccas Audrey Hancock 467: Blue Bonnets Grace Barth 521 and El Paso Brokerettes Betty Hill 490 COMMERCIAL LEAGUE 1st 2nd 3rd Total McNutt Oiler 787 753 1 1 A Poe Motor 717 7S1 1 2 Sash Door 809 744 779-3333 1 2 Barnes Painters 728 850 3 1 The Jeffersonians 649 628 1880 1 3 Wells FarffO Co 576 907 3 1 Acme Laundry 718 733 3 Texaco Refiners 719 860 3 0 Five Points Mer 943 749 800-2491 1 Grocery 765 763 819-3347 3 1 High scorers: Grocery Leon White 506 Five Points Merchants Doc Lehman and Forest Sackett 518 Texaco Jack Shelton and Milton Warden 487 Acme Laundry Thorn Oerry 439 Wells Fargo Ed Levy 531 thigh game 234: Jeffersonians Irving Eldridge 486 Barnes Painters Henry Bauder 487 Sash Door Len Bards! ey 516 Poe Motor Co Steve Lasky 503 and McNutt Oilers Paul Robinson 521 Social Loop Cage Play Opens The first game of the Social Basketball League tomorrow night at the Central A brings to gether the Clubmen and the A A Both teams lost their first starts and are out to break into the win column The A A will enter the game as slight favorites They have developed smoother team play than which has the advantage in height These two teams are made up of the youngest teams in the league and a fast game is expected In the second game the Comrades and 20-30 Servicemen meet Both clubs are batting 1000 per cent The Comrades will be slight favor ites to come through in a nip and tuck finish due to their advantage in reserve power They each have a starting lineup of experienced play ers but 20-30 docs not have the replacements that are going to be necessary in this game more than 90 per cent of the boys and a large percentage of the girls and plans are under way to expand these efforts so that nearly all of more than 4000 male students will participate Rice An intensification of sports participation Baylor No curtailment Beginning with the spring term all male students will be required to have at least one hour per day of physical education Texas Christian University No change contemplated in the athletic program although a football game with A may be transferred to Texas There is no new program for mass athletics Texas Christian University officials believing their present program (compulsory for all students the first two years) is adequate Texas A and No curtailment No athletes have been called up by the draft because at this military school those with satisfactory grades hold contracts with the War Department calling for them to complete the advance course in military science and tactics which automatically takes them out of the draft Southern Methodist University-No curtailment of the sports program planned with the physical education program to be materially enlarged In 1934 Dick Griffin the Texas fight promoter was guest at a luncheon given by a group of Dallas businessmen for whom he was promoting a benefit show When the luncheon was over and everyone arose to depart Dick clutched his arm and whispered: leave me Dick holding onto her arm Mrs Griffin led the way to the elevator then out of the hotel and back to their office wondering all the while why her husband clung to her so strangely get excited at what I'm going to tell you said Dick I lost my sight at the luncheon Everything is dark to me been dark for Dick ever since But things are beginning to look brighter for him now He has just finished a four weeks course at The Seeing Eye Morristown where blind persons are taught to get around with the help of dogs trained to act as their guides The other- day Dick and his German shepherd dog Gilda passed their final by finding their way through the traffic of Morristown without mishap a few days Dick will be on his way back to Texas to resume his occupation as fight promoter with Gilda to guide him around Dallas Ft Worth Houston and the other Texas towns in which he operates Promoter Griffin is as happy over having found a pair of eyes as if they were his own instead of a Negligence AN infection from rosin dust caused Griffin to lose the sight of his right eye back in 1921 when he fought Marty Collins in Albany in a tuneup for a title match with the bantamweight champion Collins was knocked down during the fight The referee neglected to wipe the rosin off his gloves when he was ready to resume fighting The result was that some of the dust from his gloves go into a cut over eye causing a bad infection An attempt was made to save the eye but in the treatment the retina was punctured Dick wound up blind in that eye and lost his chance to win a boxing title He fought however for several years with only one good eye Hie strain was too great on his left eye and when he lost the sight of it in 1934 he was totally blind Some boxing referees may not think it is important to wipe the rosin off the gloves of a fighter who has been sent to the canvas But I always remember Dick Griffin when I see a ring official neglect to take precautions that may save the eyesight of a boxer Demand Genuine Texo Stucco AdT Nicodeme Palmer Chiropractor 519 Caples Bldg M-2592 McCOY MAY ENTER ARMY International Newt Service GRAND RAPIDS Mich Jan 28 Reclassified into 1-A by his Selective Service Board Benny McCoy second baseman for the Philadelphia Athletics today faced early call into the Army McCoy was placed in class 3-A last year after appealing an original 1-A classification its quality COMPANY RY Conference Schools Will Not Curtail Athletics By HAROLD RATLIFF DALLAS Jan 28 Unless the Government rules otherwise the Southwest Conference will carry its full schedule of competitive sports in 1942 And not only that most of the schools plan to enlarge substantially the physical education program and expand intramural athletics Of course no one knows what curtailment may become necessary but thus far all plans have been made toward continuation of the ambitious program although minor sports may be narrowed in scope The University of Arkansas for instance plans to schedule its contests in track tennis and golf with the nearest schools possible because these teams travel by bus and automobile and want to conserve tires Here are the reports from the member schools of the Southwest Conference: Arkansas No curtailment of schedules Approximately 50 per cent of the male students not competing in varsity and freshman sports are taking part in the intramural program 4000 TO PARTICIPATE Texas No curtailment of schedules Bible director of athletics says the 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