The Index-Journal from Greenwood, South Carolina • Page 7

Monday. Dec. 24, 1951 THE INDEX-IOURNAL. CREENWOOD. S.

C. Page Seven Sugar Bowl Week Paradise For Sportsmen NEW ORLEANS Uh Thousands of sports fans will begin filling this UCLA Could Be Basketball Villain Of Week NEW YORK W-The villain In this week's colleore basketball m.ln. Dick Groat Tops Conference Cage Scorers Qiok Oroat, the nlgh-scorlng aparkplug of Duke University's twice-defeated basketball team, today climbed out front In the Southern Conference powt-maklngrace. Oroat's 26.6-polnt average for five conference games elevated him to the top. He's scored 60 field baskets, 29 free throw for a total drama could be UCLA.

The stage is all set. Ever since the atari nf thm Clemson. USC Scorers Gt Big Chance This Week Clemson and the University of South Carolina Individual scorera may make a better showing In state college basketball circles this week than at any time so far In the new season. Teams of each are In Invitational tournaments that should give them plenty of scoring chances. Clemson's players have the best opportunity, being In the three-day Oator Bowl tourney opening Thurs-dsy.

South Carolina Is In an Invitational meeting for two iliva and The Citadel lost three on the road made only one change In tht list of top scorers. It expanded the list to 10 players by adding The Citadel's guard Bob Fisher with; 7 points. That brought him In: at fifth place. Furman forward guard Frank Selvy's leading position With 158 points wasn't even remotely threatened. Other leading scorers at end- of the fourth week of the season were: Nell Gordon, Furman 125 points.

Dwlfrtit Groninfrer, Presbyterian 106, Ellerbe Neal, Wofford, 82, Bob Fisher. The CHad 74, Bud Granger, Furmsn. 67. Dwane Morrison, South Carolina, 66, Lew Hawk bus. Presbyterian.

64, John 8nee, Clei son. 63 snd Arthur Klelnberg. Newberry, 62. old olty Wednesday on the eve of I Sugar Bowl Week, a sportsman's 1 dresm that Includes everything I from yachting to football. Bowl activities officially get un-1 derway In this area when Maryland, the nation's third ranking col Lot Angeles Rams Win Passing Battle For Pro Grid Title LOS ANGELES -Pro football's three master passers met In Me-mortal Coliseum Sunday, but two of them ganged up on the third.

As a result, the Los Angelas Rams are the new champions of the National Footall League." was Just about a standoff between Otto Graham of Cleveland's Browns and Bob Wetarfleld of the Rama. Between them, they had fashioned a 17-17 tie In th waning minutes of a great ball game. The young Norman Van Brock-lln, the Flying Dutchman from Oregon, took over from Waterfleld. And on one great toss, gathered In by Tommy Fears for ft net gain of 73 yards, the Rams busted a longstanding Jinx wide open and whipped the Browns, 34-17. It was the Rams' first victory over Cleveland In five tries, and their first championship since 1945 although they have been In the lege team In the final Associated Press poll, arrives In Biloxl, on Dec.

36 to begin final workouts. Tennessee, the national champions after getting the top spot In the AP's flnsl poll, arrives later In the day at Baton Rouge, and will work out at Louisiana State By The Associated Fresa St John's (Bkn) 69, Vanderbllt 64. NYU 78. Oklahoma 69. Fordham 60, Temple 43.

Pitt 63, William and Mary 48 VllUnova 60, Iono (NY) 57. Akron 84, Washington and Lre 88. Notre Dame 63. Pennsylvania 78. Kansas 76, Southern California 55.

Indlsna 60, Kansas State 75. Illlnola 70, Depaul 61. Michigan 58, Colorado 55. Washington 66, Minnesota 51. Marquette 61, Wisconsin 47.

Bradley 79, North Carolina 66. St. Louis 65, Army 50. Toledo 69, Eastern Kentucky 60. Cornell 68, Tulane 48.

West Virginia 95, Duke 74. Rice 64. Tennessee 60. Clemson 70. Pelser Mills 68.

West Va. Tech. 93. High Point 80. Murray (Ky.) 73, Baylor 65.

Utah 61, Ohio State 48 Wyoming 78, Oregon 71. Stanford 74, Los Angeles Loyola 67. UCLA 60, Denver 61. California 65, Oregon State 53. Memphis State 67, Eastern Washington 63.

Ferris Fain Leads American League Hitting CHICAGO Wl Ftrt Beesman Ferris Fain of the Philadelphia Athletics, who has been ottered as. trade bait by Manager Jimmy Dykes, Is the official i6l American League batting champion with .144. The Athletics, who finished sixth last season, also had the league's home-run and runs-batted-ln king, Gus Zernlal. Zernial was landed by Philadelphia after the campaign was two weeks old In part of a three-club swap that moved Orestes Mlnoso to the Chicago White 80s. Big Ous, who left much to be desired when he was with the Pale Hose, caught fire under Dykes and banged out 33 homers and drove in 129 runs.

The Comlskeys' however, were entirely satisfied with the deal by the sensational doings of Rookie Mlnoso. The mercurial Negro from Cuba batted .326, according to official statistics released by league headquarters, to finish second In hitting to the 29-year-old Fain and help the fourth spot White Box take the team swat crown with .270. Mlnoso also led the circuit in belting triples, with 14, and In stolen bases, with 31. The 1950 champion. Boston's Billy Goodman, with .364, hit .297 and failed to make the top ten.

In all. 10 full-time hiltjr tnnruu4 Miami Grid Team Does Practicinor son, the favorites have been falling on all sides. In fact, the No. 1 position in The Associated Press weekly poll has been a Jinx. First It was Kentucky.

The Wildcats promptly got beaten by Minnesota. Then it waa St. John's. The Red-men were dumped by Kentucky. Well, this week UCLA meets both Kentucky, currently riding along In second place behind St.

John's, and Illlnola, No. 3, and the favorite to capture the Big Ten tiUe. The first game Is Wednesday and the Illlnola battle la slated for Friday. If the Ulcans win either or both of these contests, the experts might as well throw their hands up In despair, because the West Coast five la not even rated In the first 20 for the week. St.

John's has two games on top, and the Redmen easily could come a Cropper against either Utah Thursday or Dayton Saturday. Both contests are slated for Madison Square Garden. Frank McOulre's of 129 points. In the total point column, only West Virginia's Mark workman can boast more. Workman has ISO one more than Oroat but an average of only 21.7 for six tilts.

Second place Is held by Vlnce OrlmaWl. North Carolina guard, leader the past two weeks, with 24.1. In third place Is Morrison of South Carolina, with 23. Oroat, a guard, canned 16 points Saturday night as the Dukes suffered 96-74 setback atWeet Vir-glnla'a hands. Workman waa high for the victorious Mountaineers with 19.

The game waa close except for the second quarter when Weat Virginia rallied for 27 points against 11 for Duke. Charlotte, beginning Friday. None of the other teams boasting leading scorers get back in action until after the first of the year, except Presbyterian, which meets Ft. Jackson at Great Falls Saturday night. Last week's slim schedule of games Clemson lost to Tennessee playoff three years running.

The bruising clash left 69,476 spectators limp. University. I The game la the main event among Jan. 1 bowls, the only one matching unbeaten teams. I Two Sugar Bowl events are sched- uled Thursday with L8U trying for Its fourth straight Sugar Bowl Box-1 lng Tour a championship against the University of Wisconsin team.

I The tennis tournament also be-I gins Thursday, with some of the top amateurs Invited to participate. They Include top-seeded Gardner Mulloy of Coral Oables, sec- ond seeded Tom Brown of San In The Afternoon I MIAMI. Fla. (A Coach Andy Oustafson called his University of Miami football squad to the practice field at 2 p. m.

today to get them accustomed to playing al that hour. Most practices have been held later In the afternoon or at night, with nearly all the Hurricanes? games at nlht. so the Miami mcn- tor wants the boys to get used te playing at an earlier hour. Oustafson named a 4Q-mn anilu.4 The great racing mare Peytoaa retired In 1646 with earnings of $66,000 for. victory in six of seven starts.

Bill He Ins, -uotball coach at Colorado College, is 28 years old and a graduate of Illinois where he played on the 1946-47 Rose Bowl team. the Oarden as Its home base. New York University, goes after IU twenfth victory in a row without a defeat against Arizona, the perennial Border Conference champion Thursday In the companion piece to the Ulah-St. John's game. Otherwise action around the country wUl be pretty well limited to the nine major tournaments the Cotton Bowl, Big Seven, All-College, Dixie, Oator Bowl, Boston Arena, Sugar Bowl, Bun Carnival and Hofstra.

cnarges nave beaten Utah by a single point the past two years. They were beaten bv Dnvton. BB-aa be held Friday and Saturday nights. The lineup Includes Ken-t 0 y's perennial powerhouse; Blrgham Young, the National Invitational Tournament champions and St. Louis snd Vlllnnova, a pair of strong teams last year with most of their stars back.

The yacht regatta and track meet will be held Sunday. Three other conference teams went down to defeat Saturday night North Carolina couldn't keep up with Bradley University's first half attack and bowed, 79-66. Bradley led at halt time, 44-29. William and Mary lost to Pittsburgh, 63-48, even though guard Joe Agee took scoring honors with 16 points. Washington and Lee's 1 Frsnclsco, former champion Eddie I Moylan of Trenton, N.

and BUI Davis of Knoxvllle, who won the I Southeastern Conference title as a 1 University of Tennessee star last 1 In the National Invitation semi-1 finals last year, and Dayton hasn't I to make the trip to Jacksonville where the Hurricanes will tangle with the Clemson Tigers in a re- neat nerftirmanre nt thm 1011 spring. The basketball tournament will lost any important players this time around. I Another of the teams that uses Oator Bowl game when Clemson eaea out a aecislon. of Chicago and Johnny Pesky of Boston, each with .313: Oil Mc-Dougald of New York. Bobby Avila, Cleveland, OU Co an, Washington, and Elmer Valo, Athletics, .302.

the .300 mark last season while 17 did it in 1950. I Boston's Ted Williams was fourth with .318, followed by Nelson Fox I Oenerals were beaten by Akron University In the consolation finals of the Marshall College Invitation al Tournament, 94-6S. Clemson edged the Pelser Mills Independents, 70-68. The league's 17 teams take time out for the first three nights of this week for the Christmas holt daya. This week's schedule: Thursday Wake Forest, North Carolina, Duke and North Carolina SUM in Dixie Classic at Raliegh; Clemson In Oator Bowl Invitational Tourney at Jacksonville, Fla.

1 tvMerti? State In Dixie Clastic at Raleigh: Clemson In Ostor Bowl Invitational; Davidson and South Carolina in Carolines Invitational Tourney at Charlotte. Saturday Washington and Lee at Toledo; Dixie Classic finals at Raleigh; Clemson In Oator Bowl: Carolines Invitational finals at Charlotte. East-West Teams Set For Fray Saturday Afternoon BAN FRANCISCO Of The East half of the Shrine East-West football game Saturday holds Its first end last all out scrimmage to We wish we could send a special Holiday Greeting to each friend we've made this year. Instead, we take this means to wish you all a Happy Holiday and Fruitful New Tear. Notice Open all day Christmas.

will serve Christmas dinners. Closed all day Wednesday and Thursday, December 26th 4 27th. Red McClain's SOUTH MAIN STBKET day, while a bruised West squad takes It easy. The scrimmage Is expected to key up the striking potential of such Eastern stars as Dick Kas- maler of Princeton, John Petltbon of Notre Dame, Vic Janowlcs of Ohio state. Jim Hammond of Wis consin and BUI Putlch of Michigan.

For the West It's a matter of easing the pressure that has side lined end Frank Simon of Nebras ka and temporarily benched Ban Francisco's Ollie Mstson. Fullback Matson, the latest cas ualty, complained of a stiff leg yesterday. He and linebacker Pat Cannamela of USC, who la hospitalised with a throat Infection, are expected to be recovered In time for the annual classic. Final Light Workouts Scheduled Today By North-South Teams MIAMI. Fla.

1 North and South college All-Stars planned final light workouts today for their TV Spbut Shrine charity football game In the Orange Bowl tomorrow night. A crowd of about 40,600 la expected to watch Yale Coach Herman Hickman's Yankees tangle with Miami Coach Andy Ouslaf-son's Rebels In the fourth annual game sponsored by Mahl Shrine Temple for the Crippled Children's Fund. Hickman has quarterbacks Bob Blalk of Colorado College and John Coat la of Wisconsin to pass snd punt, while Ysle's Jim Ryan, at halfback, also may share the punting duties. B1U Wade. Vanderbtlt's passer.

A and Hal MaxweU. defensive end 1 The goodness ond helpfulness of the Christmas Spirit ore tht things thot hove from Mississippi, were named co-captains of the South squad and Wade la expected to be matrhed against Blalk In passing DueL mm Illinois Team Watches Pro Game PASADENA. Calif. OftThe University of Illinois football learn watched the Loa Angeles Rama whip the Cleveland Browns for the pro title yesterday. Coach Ray Eliot gave his boys the day off.

Today be doubles up. His squsd wss called out for a morning workout, and another drill waa carded for 3 p. m. Later In the day the Illinois officials will stage a Chrtslmaa party for the squad, with presents and whatnot all around. mom 1 kept it olive for two thousand yeors.

The teochings continue to give us the standards on which 0 pin our foith. With such thoughts uppermost in our minds, we wish you a blessed Snead To Make California Winter Golfing Circuit MIAMI. Fla. UK Professions! Oolfers Association champion Sammy Snead plans to spend the winter in Flnrtds snd will not make the Winter Oolf Tour start-1 log next month In Lee Ahgelna, he said yesterday. Snead la building a home In suburban Coral Oables and said he would Join the touring professionals when they return to Florida In the spring." GREENWOOD Wo derive unmatched joy in wishing our ncnds the pleasures of a Merry Yuletide and .1 New Year filled with happiness, good health and peace.

Service Teams In Tampa Cigar Bowl TAMPA. Fla The Brooke' Army Medical Center wjuad annul 60 strong, la due here today for the sixth annual Cigar Mol foot-ball game The Han Antonio, Tex team playa the Camp lifeline Mmlnra from North Carolina in the bowl game Saturday night. Lejeune Is scheduled to errtve Wednesday, Fred Smith Co. THE STORE FOR MEN BOTTLING COMPANY.