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At Joe Kuhel
Three-Year-Old Bouler
Will Compete at St. Paul
He's No Man o'War,
But He Eats Oranges
MeCarthy’s Reason For
Junking Dahlgren Is
New High in Silliness
Setter May lie
A W inner in
National Trials
highschool students behind to provide
a quorum. The class C Claypool squad
running.
Strongest setter bid so far was that
Hassett of Philadelphia Thursday
night in a scheduled 15-round bout
Jockey Taylor Returns
MIAMI, March 6.—(A—Walter Lee
about ready at mid-week to have a look at his baseball squad and
see what he had for pitching. When Henry allows baseball to enter
his thoughts, that means his Oklahoma Aggie eagers are about to
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world
Wednesday he finished In the money
for the forty-first consecutive time,
an almost unbelievable and certainly
Cardinal Rookies Will
Be Tossed to the Yanks
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla , March 6,
—(UP)—Manager Billy Southworth
Thursday said eight pitchers, seven of
them rookies, would see action in the
St. Louis Cardinals three-game series
would pitch the opener; Henry No-
vak. Max Lanier and Max Surkout
Saturday, and Harry Breechen, John
Pintar and Sam Nahem Sunday.
I believes the Blue will best Kansas
later for a chance to enter the west-
GRAND JUNCTION, Tenn.. March
6—(P)—Although outnumbered six to
one. setter entries have better than
College Swimming
Texas 57, Oklahoma A. and M. 18.
is a very definite and vibrant part
of the tradition of golf.
from the kennels of L. M. Bobbitt of
Winston-Salem, N. C.
Anyway, the Gypsies of golf arc on
their way again but around here they
are still talking about Hogan and Sar-
azen and their victory in the fourball
matches
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er against the St. Louis Browns Sat-
urday.
by one whiner He was astride Day
Dress in the first and Dr. South in
the sixth race but both finished out
of the money.
Yours,
ART EDSON
j home one of the flossy flagons, but only four will add these pieces
to their silverware sets.
Basket beagles were to slip the leash at 1 p m . with Central and Classen
each wheeling out eight games in whirlwind stats.
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Oklahoma City Times
By BILL STOCKWEL.L
Trophy eases, displaying four gleaming basketball cups, at-
tracted exactly 320 window shoppers Thursday as buglers sounded
the charge for first round combats in the state tournament at
Classen and Central.
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(girls).
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SHRINE
March 14th, 1 5th
on the Chicago Cubs of 1941.
In looking over the notes I gath-
ered on the Cubs before leaving Cat-'
alina island for Florida. I find that
In the league. They have Dean to
start with and it will come as a com-
fort to those who love the dizzv one s
antics, to know that the ol’ cotton-
senior, bounces on the scales for a
Marlow is a Dark Horse
Marlow, one of the dark horses in
class B of the state tournament, has
me completely fooled—and a million
other people, too, including him team-
mates, who swore by him as the best •
firstbaseman they had ever seen and
several veteran ball players of the
vintage of Chase and Sisler, who said
I firmly that Dahlgren could do any-
thing the immortals could do, if not
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Taylor returned to the saddle at Trop-
ical park Wednesday for the first
time since he fell from Town Miss
at Hialeah December 31 and lost the
Wrestling Last Night
AT THE COLISEUM—LeRoy Mc-
Guirk d. George Dusette, The Great
Mephisto d Sergt. Bob Kenaston,
Elmer Snodgrass d. Jimmy Hefner,
Gil Knutson d. Bob Montgomery.
brought down throws that the Green-
bergs. Yorks, Mizes and Foxxes would
simply have waived at. He made put-
outs on plays where even the good
firstbasemen, like Kuhel and McCor-
mick and McQuinn and Young, would
be satisfied to knock down the ball
throwing last year to break a green-1
house roof from five spaces, and each
Tulsa left the door wide open for •
Creighton in the Missouri Valley flag
w. . .. . . I chase Of course, there remained the
was to tee off against Mason at Cen- possibility that Creighton would lose
to Washburn Friday night and throw
Kansas Will Go Down
Iba is counting Creighton "In" and
glimmer of hope m the Valley and to
cinch a tie for second place in the
conference.
Second place is rather small spuds
for the Cowboys who haven’t been out
of the title picture since 1035, but
the Aggies will go after that as solace
for a season that never quite leveled
out.
Five of the long-haired hunters are
entered in the ancient stake here, and
three already have made their bids—
with varying success—for the No. 1
bird dog title of the year.
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years he has been one of the topliners j charged hospital patients
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so many of them are recently dis-
Seattle Team Qualifies
SEATTLE, March 6.— (ZH—Seattle’s
Savidges, semifinalists in last year’s
national A A. U. basketball tourna-
ment. qualified for the Denver trip
again Wednesday night by defeating
Raymond, 46 to 30. All but one of
the Savidges are former University of
Washington players.
Iou Novikoff, the Mad Russian,
will be on hond, and he likes noth-
ing better than to play the accor-
dion while waiting his turn to bat.
He also sings.
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won 23 games, lost only one, while
scoring 956 points to opponents’ 831.
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WASHINGTON, March 6.— (UP—
Pittsburgh’s Billy Conn, slated for a
crack at Heavyweight Champion Joe | jockey championship to Earl
Louis’ title next June, meets Danny ’
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of Bobbitt’s Peerless Pride, son of the
great 1939 national champion. He is
Sixteen Games Highlight Opening Dav As
the bulk over his six feet, two inches. Fly-
weight_of the troupe is Kimmel Col- foo tht Notre Dame will drop foot-
| lins, 95 pounds.
Coaching the Marines is Worth , ’ —
Dickey, who used to shoot baskets for ,
STILLWATER, March 6.—(Special.)—Coach Hank Iba
rnO start with, there are the mys-
l terious arms of Dizzy Dean and
three successive holes he belted long
irons to the green that covered the
flag all the way.
And that’s the funny thine about
this little Texas Irishman who was
born. incredibly as it may sound, in
Thirty-two squads of 10 members each anticipated taking
Quit Aching
No Hurts, No Pains—
It Doesn’t Seem Right
become an obsession with him. and
is reminiscent of the days of Chick
Evans and Bob MacDonald, two great
players who started to shiver the mo-
ment they got their hands on a
putter.
a "look-in" chance to win the 1941
Yankees. The
the game. And Sarazen said after Clay Bryant
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Bill Lee, who had been holding out
on the strength of 17 defeats last sea-
son. has been operated on from knee-
cap to ear lobes. This is just a be-
ginning of the list of recently ailing
! Cubs. Len Merullo, rookie infielder, is
getting over a sore throwing arm.
an unprecedented record for
sistency.
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national field trials
Dublin, Texas. He
265-pound reading, spreading this
THE amateur, to whom $4,500 was
1 practically hay, didn’t realize at
the moment what his indifference
meant in dollars to the young profes-
sional.
Later he became very morose about
the incident and tried to make Little
accept a check for the same amount
There is no finer sportsman in sports
than Little, so you can just imagine
how he handled the situation.
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ST PAUL, March 6.—(P— John
Edward Zager may not win any prize
money in the American Bowling Con-
gress tournament which opens March
13, but he certainly holds the record
as the youngest entrant in the 41-year
history of the competition.
John Edward, 6nly a bit taller than
a regulation size ten-pin, Is just 3
years old. Young Zager uses a duck
pin ball, especially drilled for a thumb
and two fingers of his tiny hand, and
he gets all of his 35 pounds into his
heave. John's best effort thus far Is
27 pins in 10 frames.
Bears Begin Grid Drills
ST. LOUIS, March 6.—(A)—A squad
of 32, including lettermen for every
position except center, reported Wed-
nesday for the opening of spring foot-
ball practice at Washington univer-
sity.
A year ago Little might have won
if his amateur partner hadn't care-
lessly back-handed a putt at a crit-
ical moment. It was figured out
later that this cost Little Sl.500.
Neither did enough
NTOW for another angle on the
IN Cubs: They are certain to give
the Brooklyn Dodgers a first class
battle for the title of '’screwiest” chib
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THE various competing teams are
1 auctioned otf. Say Lawson Little,
the National open champion, is paired
with Joe Doakes, a 12-handicap play-
er at his home club. How much will
you bid for the pair? In other words
how much will you bet they win?
All the pairs are similarly auctioned.
The result is the aforementioned pool
It has reached fantastic figures, at
least fantastic for golf. Before play
started Thursday it had reached $65.-
000. The precise details are not avail-
able for public presentation. All that
is known is that a certain percentage I
of the total pool goes to the win-
ning pro
with the New York
series starts Friday.
Southworth said
Ernie White and
Wednesday’s matches he is the best
long iron player he ever saw. On
MIAMI, March 8.—o?)—Topee,
1V1 a thoroughbred that has
distinguished himself as a racer,
is becoming better known at
Tropical park tor his appetite
for oranges. It is a peculiar diet
for a horse, but nothing pleases
Toper better than a whole, peeled
orange, which he chews lustily
and noisily, then ejects the seeds
one by one with all the precision
and marksmanship of an experi-
enced tobacco ehewer.
ern N, C A A regional in Kansas
City. That four-team meet will have
Arkansas. Wyoming. Creighton or
Kansas and Stanford or Washington
Herschel Lyons.
John Grodzicki
HOGAN isn't that bad, but he's
I bad enough You’ll have to take
our word for it but he actually sleeps
with a putter in his bed. This is his
strange way of trying to overcome a
weakness which he fears will keep
him from ever winning the national
open, the goal, of course, of all
golfers.
But for two years he has always
ton Cementers are going to have a
baseball team this summer? ... So
far nothing has been said, and Nick
Urban, manager of the internation-
al semipro champions, the Enid
biggest piece of
the camp of the
tober And as for Augie Galan, he
broke his kneecap and his career
seemed at an end when he left Chi-
cago last season.
TUST gossiping: Isn't it time for a
J definite statement out of Dun-
can as to whether the Hallibur-
(Class C).
5 P.M.—Cherokee vs. Friend-
ship (Class B>.
7 P. M.—Marlow vs. Well-
ston (Class B>.
S P.M.—Pawnee vs. Savan-
na (Class B).
9 P.M.—Yukon vs. Bokchito
(Class B).
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ANTONIO. March 6.
A foot injury probably eliminated
Peerless Par. The little setter turned
in a good race but his range was
short. He is owned by R. E. Rooke ,
of Woodsboro, Texas.
"Old Rocking Chair" got a rush from Helen Cox, 16-year-
old basketball player with Leflore, when the team dropped
anchor here Wednesday. Miss Cox weighs 100 pounds and
stands four feet, nine inches. Leflore makes its debut in the
state tournament at Classen Thursday, battling Midway at
There are 31 pointers in
THE Yanks are rebuilding from
1 scratch. To go with their young
outfield of Keller, DiMaggio and
Holmes they have drawn up sketches
for a young infield, featuring Priddy
and Rizzuto at secondbase and short-
stop. Gordon, still young and fast,
fits into this scenario somewhere.
Thirdbase would seem the more
logical spot for him—a .280 hitter, a
righthanded thrower, a gifted scram-
bler for ground balls. But it's not a
question of logic, or of whether Mr.
McCarthy is right or wrong It's a
question of whether Mr. McCarthy
has made up his mind, with the bless-
ing of his boss, Cousin Egbert Bar-
row.
If he has. you can write in Mr.
Gordon at firstbase.
In all this hasty remodeling and re-
building of what was, only a short 18
months ago, the world's greatest
baseball team the thing that sticks in
your craw is the Injustice done to one
of the finest fielding artists of this
I or any other generation.
By JOE WILLIAMS
CORAL GABLES, Fla , March 6.
• —A youngster and a veteran,
meaning Ben Hogan and Gene
Sarazen, were reading their press
clippings and counting their
dough, as the winter golf carni-
val moved on from here Thurs-
day.
Hogan and Sarazen had just
won the Miami-Biltmore four-
ball tournament, one of the bet-
ter events of the annual cham-
ber of commerce tour and they,
along with the rest of the troup-
ers, were headed down the road
to compete in a one-day pro-am-
ateur affair at the aristocratic
Seminole club.
This is the one flag stop the more
mercenary pros look to with tingling
excitement. Enough money to pay a
year's expenses rides on the result. It
is not impossible for the winner to
get himself $3,000 for playing 18
holes. From the standpoint of quick,
immediate financial returns there is
nothing in golf that approaches it.
For obvious reasons the Seminole
sportsmen would much prefer that
the gaudy financial picture be com-
pletely ignored. What happens is this’
They get together and form a pool.
„UT with all due respect to the
D stocky little squire from Connecti-
cut wed like to tell you something
about Hogan. In many ways he is
the most remarkable man in golf to-
day. Soaking wet, he wont ever weigh
more than 136 pounds, yet he hits one
of the longest balls off the tee m
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When you talk of the top- a wonder the team didn't select Balti-
i must mention him along 1 more or Rochester. Minnesota, as a
He training site, and engage some go0d,
tactical surgeon as a manager instead
of .Jimmy Wilson.
Mexico Aggies and Texas College of
Mines will clash here Thursday night
for the championship of the South-
western intercollegiate basketball
tournament.
The Aggies Wednesday night
downed Chihuahua State Teachers ot
Mexico, 48-38. while Mines was tak- .
ing out New Mexico Teachers of Sil- |
ver Citv. 51-41. Silver City and Chi-
huahua will play for the consolation
title.
By HENRY M’LEMORE
ALLAS, March 6 (UP) The American Medical Journal, and
— not a newspaper, is the proper place for an article to appear
AT CLASSEN
1 P.M.—Midway vs. LcFlore
(girls).
2 P. M.—Byng vs. Oologah,
i girls).
3 P M.—Enid vs. Bartlesville
(Class A).
4 P. M.—Classen vs. Lawton
(Class A).
If the Cubs better themselves in the
National league race this year, it will
be a high tribute to every surgeon,
general practitioner interne, nurse
and orderly who helped get them in
shape since the close of the 1940 sea-
son.
each of his 17 pitchers go a full nine-
inning stretch before the Bees re-
; turn to Boston.
"Give your pitchers plenty of work
in the spring and they’ll be ready to
carry their share during the regular
season," he explained. He said he
Thursday night’s card at Classen
presents two Class A games and a
girls’ game. Wynnewood girls chal-
lenge Billings at 7 p. m. Shawnee and
Muskogee kickoff nt 8 p. m. and Ada
and Tulsa Will Rogers wind it up.
Ada Wins the Big Foe
Will Rogers is one of the few major
contenders the defending chanipion
Cougars failed to meet during the
season Ada had no intention of loaf-
ing this semester simply because it
headed the pack in 1940.
Ada played two full conference
champion Cincinnati
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trip to t he city, it didn" leave enough Tulsa put the stopper to the A. and M basketeers Tuesday night. Jolting
was mustered from a highschool class
championship of 25.
Claypool, 14 miles east of Waurika.
New Mexico Aggies Play
Texas Miners for Title
EL PASO, March 6.—(P)—New
Seminole Club Gives
The Boys a Chance To
Cash in on 18 Holes
They're afraid to ask. for Pearson
has been known to acquire aches
and pains merely by glancing at a
liniment advertisement But there
seems to be a fair chance that un-
der Manager Bill McKechnie’s
soothing treatment Pearson will be
a different man from the pitcher
whose illnesses—real or imagined—
caused despair to Joe McCarthy's
New York Yankees.
If so, the Reds may make a run-
way race of it. for Pearson's snap-
ping curve makes him as dangerous
as any pitcher in baseball on the
| days when he is right.
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rHE Reds gambled $20,000 and a
1 player that Pearson would re-
spond to the McKechnie magic
when they bought the right hander
from the Yankees And they knew
it was a gamble, but McKechnie has
a long, brilliant record of taking
castoff pitchers and turning them
into winners
Pearson appears tn be In splendid
shape. He is throwing easily and
working with enthusiasm. All he
has to say about his prospect* in
the National league is:
"I wouldn't be down here if I
didn't think I could help Bill Mc-
Kechnie I'm fixed so that I don't
have to play baseball."
Monte is one of the big puzzles
of baseball. He is either awfully
good or awfully bad. In 1938 he
pitched a no-hit game for the
Yankees against Cleveland. He has
pitched in four world series games,
won them all
T MEAN Ellsworth Dahlgren, now
A the firstbaseman of the Boston
Bees, who was junked by the Yankees
as a sentimental reward for being the
only man who pulled his weight in
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When Dahlgren was sold up the
river—possibly because Cousin Egbert
Harrow wanted to make him an ex-
ample for other holdouts—the Yankee
leaders plucked their brains desper-
ately for an explanation for the pub-
lic Mr McCarthy was elected to state
the alibi, and he came up with one
of the silliest hypotheses ever framed,
so silly that I suspect it embarrassed
Mr. McCarthy to enunciate it.
“Dahlgren? he said, “was
not as good a firstbaseman as
everybody thought. He looked
good because his arms were
too short.”
has seen enough bonesetters to bore
even a man who loves bonesetters
Jake Mooty, another pitcher, finished
up the season with what the Cub
trainer. Andy Lotshaw, terms a
"chronicle" sore arm and has been
looked at by half the doctors who
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HERE are the pairings for
I first-round games in the
state highschool basketball
tournament opening Thursday
at Central and Classen high-
school gymnasiums:
will head homeward alter Thursday's sessions The 16 winners, four in each
division, will stick around for Friday’s semifinals at Classen. Finals are pro-
grammed for Saturday afternoon and night at Classen.
Coach Paul Alyea of Phillips uni-
versity predicts that the Central
Brones will win the collegiate title.
. . . The unbeaten Centrals still
have two games with twice defeated
East Central, the first of which will
be run off In Ada Thursday night,
and two games with twice trounced
Southeastern. . . . Paul figures the
Brones will split each series to come
home the winner.
And speaking of Phillips, did
you know that Harlan Morris, one
of the Haymakers’ mainstays, is a
preacher? . . . Yep, he has a
pastorate at Nicoma Park.
Phillips has Ipst only four games
in the conference this year, largely
because ot a five-barrel scoring
barrage. . . . Tom Evans has 90
points in conference competition,
Raymond Jones has 78. Morris 67.
Glenn Daniels 64. Ray Johnston
50. Any team with five scoring
threats around is bound to be dan-
Hmr Many, Please
A SEASON ticket, admitting
4 the bearer to all six ses-
sions of the state highschool
basketball tournament, sells
for S2.04 (adults), and $1.02
(students). Adults, paying by
the session, will be assessed 50
cents, students 25 cents.
The first thing that Max Ikler, 17-year-old Dacoma high-
school sharpshooter, did when he came to town was to get a
haircut, so he'll look pretty pert for the state highschool has-
ketball tournament. Comrade Wayne Massie, right, keeps
Max company. The barber who does the grooming is Ed Moore.
Dacoma plays Tushka in a class C game at 1 p. m. in the
Central gym.
State. Iba will be a relaxed specta-
tor.
HARVEY STOREY, bought from
I1 San Francisco spring before last
tor a big sum. broke a leg last June
and is taking his first exercise on it.
Glen Russell, who is counted on to
take care of the firstbase business,
was operated on for appendicitis to-
wards the close of last season, and is
still a trifle wan. Phil Cavaretta has
had another operation on his twice
brokeh ankle, and Hank Leiber, whose
head once took a terrible beating
Obviously Boston Pitchers
II ill Be as Busy as Bees
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CHARLIE GRIMM is back, this
• time as coach of the team he
used to manage. His two years as a
radio announcer only served to make
Charley a trifler giddier.
Also figure out the working of the
Cubs most promising young catcher,
a gink named McCullough, who In-
sists cn catching without, a chest pro-
tector
Take 'em away, doctor.
amovea te a--ri Not That It Matters
lings (girls).
8 P. M.—Shawnee vs. Mus-
kogee (Class A>.
9 P. M —Ada vs. Tulsa Will
Rogers (Class A).
been up there or thereabouts.
game, opponents' 27.4.
Marlow has won the following titles, "Meanwhile, the Aggie basketball
Stephens county. Southern Seven con- team with n bricht record of 17 won.
ference. Southern Twin Seven con- 1 6 lost, has two zames to go.
ference, district and regional tourna- 1 Drake closes the Aggle home season
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By JOHN LARDNER
NEW YORK, March 6.—Joe Me-
IN Carthy, manager of the New
York Yankees, is a stubborn
man, and if his mind is really
set on making a firstbaseman
out of Joe Gordon, as he says,
no objection from the critics will
swerve him—but a rumor has it
that something is cooking in the
nature of an out-of-town deal,
just the same.
Your correspondent’s source,
right or wrong, insists that Joe
Kuhel of the Chicago White Sox
is the athlete the Yankees have
their eye on.
It's true that Kuhel’s hitting is
styled for Yankee stadium. He pulls
the ball long and sharply to right.
Last year, as a visitor, he hit seven
homeruns in tile stadium, as many
as Charlie Keller, for example,
achieved all season as a home player.
It’s also true that Kuhel is slick
and fast defensively. He might help
a Yankee team that needs help, par-
ticularly in the department of punch.
On the whole, though. I’m in-
clined to take Mr. McCarthy’s word
for it that there is no deal in the
oven and that Gordon will be his
firstbaseman if he can force the move
through.
Catcher ‘Peck’ Skidgel
Has joined the Marines
James E. "Peck’’ Skidgel, 138
Southeast Twenty-third street, a for-
mer Capitol Hill highschool baseball
player, has joined the United States
marines and Thursday was on his
way to San Diego. Skidgel. a 20-year-
old catcher, played last year with
Hutchinson, Kan, in the Western
association. He is the property of the
Pittsburgh Pirates.
"Peck” follows his brother, Leon,
who enlisted during the winter. Leon
pitched with Hutchinson, Salina and
finally with Fort Smith in the West-
ern association.
Reds is that Monte Pearson,
the leading ache-and-pain
man of baseball, feels okay.
At least the Reds' board of
strategy thinks he feels okay.
more.
Manager Casey Stengel plans to have short
AT CENTRAL
1 P. M.—Dacoma vs.
ka (Class C).
2 P.M.—Claypool vs.
(Class C).
3 P.M.—Sumner vs.
(Class C).
4 P.M.—Boynton vs.
They Get in a Rut
All year found Iba’s boys winning
four, them losing one, with annoying
regularity. Then they won four when
they went to Tulsa and. bingo, right
on schedule, they fanned.
The major incentive in the tail-end
games of the campaign, however, is
not the Drake contest The Cowboys
are looking forward most keenly to
their March 11 invasion of Lawrence.
Kan.
Kansas last here earlier 30-26 and
the Hawks will be eager to wipe out
that sting when they get the Cowboys
in Lawrence next Tuesday. Iba lias
never seen his team win over Dr. F C
Allen in Lawrence, just as Doctor
Allen has never put over a win in
Stillwater. So there will be big do-
ings in Lawrence the night ol
March 11.
A 1
Sport Mirror
(By Tlie Associated Press)
rODAY a Year Ago—Stanley
1 Modzelewski, Rhode Island
State, set new national basketball
record at 495 points for season,
bettering Teammate Chet Jaworski's
1939 mark of 477.
Three Years Ago—Brooklyn
Dodgers bought Firstbaseman Dolf
Camilli from Phillies for $75,000 in
straight cash deal.
Five Years Ago—I. C. 4-A voted
return to yardage system for all
meets in 1937, dropping metric sys-
tem adopted in 1933.
schedules, winning the Big Five and
tying with Holdenville in the Sooner
Star.
Outside competition included Cen-
tral. Capitol Hill, El Reno. Tulsa Cen-
। tral, Shawnee and Enid. The Cougars
I won 28 and lost seven, all the de-
i feats coming on strange courts.
Classen's scuffle with Lawton at 4
p m. stacks up as one of the day's
•
Lawton Loses Four
Lawton. tutored by 26-year-old
I Glenn Dosser, finished nn the short I
side of the score only four times. The I
better men were Shawnee i twice , El '
Reno and Norman The Wolverines
got even with the latter two.
This is Law ton's second trip to the |
state finals under Dosser’s manage- ;
ment. He chaperoned the Wolverines
here in 1939.
To the Ma toy girls, the town’s most
interesting feature was the bus and
streetcar service.
Matoy, in the Durant neighborhood,
is located seven miles from a gravel
road and the girls have had to push
their bus or ride in a wagon to many
of their games.
Cordell Meets Matoy
Despite the transportation problem. I
they won 26 out of 27 starts. Lula |
Mae Good, a freshman, is the scoring
star.
Cordell is Matoy's first foe. Their
clash is set for 5 p. m at Classen
Champlin Refiners. is chewing his
nails. . . . Without that ever-bitter
series with Duncan to keep the
fans and the ticket-taker happy,
Enid's revenues would shrink.
Incidentally, it costs Champlin
something like $12,000 a year to
sponsor a ball club. . . . Last year
the Enid fans chipped in with $3,500
to help carry the load, and their
enthusiasm convinced the Refinery i
bosses the team is worth the full '
$12,000 to them this year.
Oklahoma Collegiate conference
teams wont be around when the na-
tional basketball tournament starts
in Kansas City Monday even though
this is one of their better years. . . .
Their own race wont be settled in
time.
YA
Fir"
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