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SPORTS
THE ABILENE REPORTER NEWS
Tune In On KRBO
4 Tuesday Evening, January 2, 1940
Norton Toys With Idea of Pitting A gs Against U
A
Big Jawn Has
Field Day in
Sugar Bowl
By FELIX R. McKNIGHT
NEW ORLEANS, Jan 2.-P -
Rulers of college football after its
bold- Sugar bowl triumph over Tu-
lane. mighty Texas A. and M today
pondered the thought of playing
Southern California. Rose bowl
kings. In a post-season game for
the Finnish relief fund.
Over a banquet table celebration
of the 14-13 defeat of Tulane's
McFADDEN STARS AS CLEMSON TOPS BOSTON GRIDDERS
Trojan Power
loo Much for
Speaking of Sports
Tall Tales
BOWL
Green Wave. Coach Homer Norton,
a mild man threatened only a sea-
son ago with dismissal in the mid-
dle of a disappointing year, shook
off the back slaps, admitted he had
heard talk of a post-season game
with the Rose bowl winners and
, commented:
What do we think of it? Well, we
love to play football!"
Officials of A. and M., members
of the athletic council and others
were sounded out and all concurred
to the belief that such a game was
a rather remote possibility, but in-
dicated that it would be consider-
ed. .:
Reports to this football mad city
were that the game would be play-
ed to Los Angeles "about Jan 15."
with an expected million dollar
gate to go to Finland for relief pur-
poses.
To Norton, however, the most im-
portant-thing was a meeting with
■ the athletic council of Texas A. &
M scheduled in a few days Then
the man who was destined for the
junk heap only a few months back
is expected to demand a five-year
contract with certain changes in the
athletic setup.
It’s no secret that Norton riding
a boom year, has been approached
by several major colleges including
Stanford university.
Yesterday the Aggies’ great full-
back John Alec Kimbrough . 210-
— stormed the Sugar bowl with a
classic running exhibition before
73,000 fans—largest sports crowd
m the history of the southland—to
crush a great Tulane team that
Banks McFadden (66), All-
American back, is shown mak-
ing a ten .yard run for Clem-
son against Boston college in
the Cotton bowl at Dallas yes-
terday Guard Charles Tisdale
. (57), is running interference
while Dick Harrison (23) is be-
/
ing blocked. (Associated Press
Photo.)
couldn’t hold the Haskell, Texas
hurricane
Twice he scored and all after-
noon he thundered up and down
Eagles Cage
Slate Is Set
Clemson Cleans Farmer Jones
Volunteers
By RUSSELL NEWLAND
PASADENA, Calif., Jan 2—
Football’s gibraltar was a, mass of
crumbled ruins today — the team
that couldn't be beaten' met up yes-
terday with the team that wouldn’t
be beaten.
Southern California was the toast
of the Rose bowl; Tennessee a new
member of the losing team brigade
and shorn of distinction that be-
gan accumulating back in the sea-
son of 1937.
The 14 to 0 score deciding the 25th
Rose bowl classic, witnessed by a
jammed-in crowd of 92,000, was the
most conclusive since Pittsburgh won
from Washington here to 1937, 31 to
0.
Tennessee staked one of the na-
tion's greatest gridiron reputations
in the game. Defeat called a halt to
a consecutive victory record of 23
hooked together through two full
seasons and part of a third. Until
the Southern California Trojan
power machine rolled to touchdown
to the second period, Tennessee's
goal line had not been crossed to 15
encounters—10 last year and five in
1933.
The best backfield man to the
Tennessee string played parts of the
game handicapped by a knee In-
jury Whether or not a George "Bad
News" Cafego to top physical condi-
tion would have staved off the Tro-
jan yard-gaining landslide was a
matter of debate among grandstand
master-minds.
No Doubt Now
From start to finish Southern Cal-
ifornia left little doubt as to which
side was superior. It outdowned and
outgained Tennessee, on the ground
and when checked there took to the
air.
Ambrose Schindler sparked the two
,—Cagers Need Height Nowadays
- __L By HAL SAYLES
TF you happened to be among those present st last night’s basketball
I game between the University of Arizona and Hardin-Simmons, you’ll
likely agree that the cagers who stand under six feet are now the "freaks"
of the game instead of the fellows who have to stoop to keep from bump-
ing the rafters. •
- Out of the two starting lineups only one player fell below the six-
feet mark. The new edition of towering athletes practically have taken
over the sport.
The two centers, for instance, measured 6 feet 7 inches and 6 feet 8%
inches, respectively. Arizona’s George Jordan, built on a 215 pound frame,
holding the slight height advantage over Grady Osborne of Hardin-Sim-
mons. .
City
Pasadena, Call
New Orleans. 1
Ban Francisco
Miami, Fla.’
* Dallas, Tex.
El Paso, Tex,
Abilene high school’s basketball-
ers jump into their 1940 schedule
Wednesday night at the local gym-
nasium with Tuscola furnishing the
field to 60 minutes of the greatest
one-man show ever staged in this
part of the country. On 36 carries
he crashed through for 152 yards. | Edwards, annually produces one of
or a 5.7 yard average the strongest teams to the county
Deep in the fourth period after j and usually gives the Eagles a tough
run for the money.
first opposition
Tuscola, coached by Supt. Ted
Tulane had hurried across two rap-
id touchdowns that put the Aggies
The season opener will start at
7 30 o'clock.
Coach Howard Miller tentatively
Boston
Eagles
By STEVE SNIDER
United Press Staff Correspondent.............—_
DALLAS, Jan. 2—(UP)—J. Curtis Sanford, the Tyler, Tex-
as. tycoon, bowed out today as promoter of the Cotton bowl
football classic after an artistic success and financial flop in his
On Mat Card
Farmer Jones and his two pigs
will come to town tonight.
The bushy-haired hill billy will
participate in the Sportatorium
arena's battle roysl which also has
attracted such top hands among the
light heavyweights as Soldier
Thomas, Count Antonio Marino, Joe
Bauer, Frankie Hill and Clyde
Wood.
behind. 13-7, Kimbrough got his
tiring mates together and put
across the winning score on the set his starting lineup with Weldon
seventh play of a dramatic, 70-yard | Cosper and J E Smith at the for-
wards Gene Dalton- at center, Dick
drive.
Walemon (Cotton) prize, Aggie
extra |
quarterback, booted both
points, blocked to astounding fash-
ion, shared in Kimbrough’s running
sprees and passed the Tulanians
silly. On the honor roll also was
little Herbie Smith, 160-pound end.
who blocked the Tulane try for
point that would have tied the
game.
Denied once after reaching the
last venture with Clemson and Boston college.
The colorful country gentlemen from Clemson, S. C., whipped
Boston's rugged Eagles yesterday, 6 to 3, in a bruising battle
of two great lines, desperate rallies and goal-line stands
Each team, however, reportedly was guaranteed $15,000 and
the estimated 15,000 fans who dotted the Cotton bowl probably mat show was not explained by
------------.-----------*-------1 contributed considerably less
Stovall, only letterman from last j
year s regional championship team,
and Freeman Holly at the guards
Slim Patton at center, and Dub
Humber, guard, are pushing others
for, a place in the starting lineup
t and will see much service in the
Tuscola bout.
The schedule
- Jan 3—Tuscola at Abilene
SPORTS
ROUNDUP
| than promotion expenses. It
was Sanford’s second' ‘loss in
four years.
TAKES BOW
As soon as all the checks are
What part the pigs play in the
one foot line, the Aggies scored in
the first period from the Tulane 32
on four plays
Not until the third period did Tu-
lane come out from under a thor-
ough beating the Aggies were hand-
ing out Kellogg took a quick kick
on his own 25 and sprinted 75 yards
down the sidelines for s touchdown
behind marvelous blocking
Soon after. Tulane recovered an
Aggie fumble and moved right on
toe touchdown. -------- -
The Aggies took the kickoff and.
led by Kimbrough, surged back for
the winning score. ----*
Kimbrough is
'Underrated’
NEW ORLEANSJan 2-P
Tulane university s. football players
think John Kimbrough, the full-
back who led the Texas Aggies to
a 14-13 triumph in the Sugar bowl
game, is a badly underrated All-
American. .
“Kimbrough,” said Ralph Wenzel,
Jan 5—open
Jan 9—open
Jan 12-13—Colorado City tourn-
ament
| Jan. 19—open. -
j Jan 23—Sweetwater at Abilene.’
Jan 26—San Angelo at Abilene
Jan.' 30—Abilene at Brownwood.
Feb. 2—open
Feb 6—Brownwood at Abilene.
Feb. 9—Abilene at Sweetwater.
Feb 13—Abilene at San Angelo.
Feb 16—open
Feb 23-24—District tournament
at Sweetwater.
TTARRY GRAYSON, speaking along the same lines in an article for
• NEA service, says:
"In the past most young men who stood higher than 6 feet 3 inches
were dismissed by coaches as freaks who were too clumsy and who couldn’t
get around fast enough to get warm. Drillmasters had it in their heads •
that all the agility to the sport was confined to the smaller fellows.
“But the physical advantages of the lads of great altitude stead-
Ry made themselves felt until today the top teams of the country
make it plain that height is might in basketball.
“The answer is simple. The taller the player the shorter the distance
he has to shoot.
"The player with the most elevation gets the rebound off the back-
board. . .*
"He has s distinct margin on the one-handed shots being stressed
today. .
"Naturally, height gives the athlete having it a pull in jumping in the
air for a free ball.
"It increases the effectiveness of passing generally.”
HAT the game is really getting up in the world is best exemplified by
1 the West Texas State Teachers. Al Baggett's Canyon cagers, who play
all three of the local colleges this season, averages 6 feet 6 inches. A *
foot 2 inch player is a pygmy on the West Texas squad which includes
such skyscrapers as Earl Halbert, 6 foot 10 inch center, and Lother Steph-
enson, 6 foot 7 inch forward. >
Nearly every major club in the country has at least one player
standing 6 feet 5 inches or higher. Arkansas has John Freiberger, a 6-8
center. Oregon, one of the country's greatest teams last winter, has a
couple of centers brushing the celling at 6-7—Henry Anderson and
Archie Marshik.
Nebraska in the Big Six claims one of the tallest combinations in the
nation. At center is Al Randall, 6-7. Then there are Leonard Dunker at
6-5. Bob Therien at 6-4% and Don Fitz and Sid Held at 6-4.
A mere six footer hasn't a chance these days.
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Headman Jones is not renowned for
lavishness in this respect.
Twice in the thrust, line battering
or skirting failed. Schindler turned
to the air. The second such sortie
brought the second score. The ball
scoring drives, late in the second brought the second score. The ball
quarter and again toward’ the taU Was on the one-yard line. Tennessee
end of the fourth.
Promoter Tip Dalton, but the rural
wave of destruction puts on a side-
show in the ring with the trained
| pets.
I The battle royal will follow the
usual rules. First and second out
of the ring are to wrestle one fall
or 20 minutes. The third and fourth
The first touchdown march open-
ed on the Tennessee 47-yard line.
Schindler had returned a punt 10
yards to set the stage He carried
the ball to five of the six ground
plays and tossed an 11-yard pass to
a teammate to one of the other two
gainers. He finally went over from
the one-foot line.
The last-period touchdown gave
the assembled thousands a true pic-
ture of Trojan power. The team
passed and smashed 85 yards after
recovering a Tennessee fumble. Fred
Newman, Volunteers' fullback, had
dropped the ball and U. S. C.’s
sub halfback. Joe Engle had snaked
it into his own arms on his 15.
Schindler was in the role of field
marshall. He directed an attack that
brought ready praise for his coach.
players tightened for another
plunge. Schindler passed over the
goal line to his left to Al Krueger,
sub left end. The Volunteers were
caught. flat-footed. ,
When Tennessee's Newman fum-
bled it ended the only scoring bid
of the team from the old south-
the only time it had been able to ad-
vance the ova) past mid-field.
Whichcee Triumphs
In Santa Anita Go
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2.—The
12 pounds that Kayak II gave away
to Whichcee gave over s mile route
yesterday was too much.
In a stunning upset, Charles 8
Howard's South American star
trailed Major Austin C. Taylors
Amateur Tuneup
Fights Carded
%
Tuneup round for the district
Golden Gloves tournament to be
staged here in February will be held
at the Sportatorium January 11,
Thursday night.
Ray Crowell, district Golden Gloves
director, said he hopes to line up
at least ten fights for the card
next week including several of the
boys who are expected to star in
the sectional program. .
-bay gelding to the $10,000 New
Year's handicap by four lengths .
Heelfly. of the Circle S stable. * 1
was third, with Can't Wait fourth
and Specify, flattening badly, fifth.
Whichcee posting a time of 1:37 €
2-5. paid $13.20, $4.20 and $3.20
| across the board Kayak returned ’
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retire as active promoter and be-out will tug for the best two ««t
come a member of the Cotton Bowl, of three falls or 45 minutes. The
board of directors which hopes to last two in the ring will wrestle, if
obtain the promise of the South- able, two out of three falls, two
west conference to send its champ- hour limit.
ion to future Cotton bowl games . The starting number is slated for
6 o’clock Jim Wakefield co-pro-
moter who now resides in Wichita
with a kidney ailment. . . The bowl i first Cotton bowl score yesterday Falls, will be at the ringside this
aircaste were way over par with old It set the Carolina Tigers back to evening to greet the local wrestling
Red Barber at New Orleans setting I their one-yard line and when Bru patrons,
a wicked pace for the other spielers | Trexler punted out, Boston's Char-
. . Any minute we thought this ley O'Rourke raced 27 yards to
By EDOIE BRIETZ -
NEW YORK. Jan 2—>F—Greet-
ings, ladies and gents, and what's
been going on around here? .. Lou
Nova, who went to Arizona to shake | A clipping penalty on a pass to-
off a cold now ia in a coast hospital terception by Clemson led to the
big guy Kimbrough was going to Clemson’s 13 as, the first period
charge through snd trample the I ended.
spectators in the end sone seats. 1
What a football player!
Clemson held, but on four th down
TODAY’S GUEST STAR
Bob Stedler, Buffalo Evening
News: “Cincinnati is quite apt
Alex Lukachik, Boston end, booted
a 24-yard place-kick straight down
the middle
Basketball Results
Arizona 40, Hardin-Simmons 31,
Rice 65, Bradley 58.
Utah 40. Chicago 39 two over-
time periods).
Michigan State 30. Loyola 22.
Tulane’s all-Southwestern end, “is | to have trouble signing the next
the most underrated all-American
ever.".
Bob (Jitterbug) Kellogg Tulane’s |
165-pound halfback who almost led 1
his team to victory, told of his ex-
periences tackling the Texas jug-
gernaut and said Kimbrough re-
marked to him after one of them
"You’re the cleanest little tackler
I ever-saw.---—------:
Kellog added that he didn't re-
ply because "any guy who tackles
Kimbrough doesn’t feel like talking
for five or 10 minutes ”
ball player.... Frank Me-
Cormick’s contract was Ne.' 12
.... The next to affix his sig-
nature will be No. 13 and well
re how many try to avoid this
jinx number."
Lou Gehrig is getting to be a reg-
ular at the hockey matches
first thing those Colorado basket-
ball players wanted to do when they
•hit town was to go to one of those
whirley, girley burlesque shows.
Lew Jenkins, the Texas lightweight
arfd his tonsils bars parted com-
Sports writers and others almost
unanimously labeled Kimbrough one
of the greatest fullbacks of all-time Still the open season for ■first
pany .
ANOTHER FIRST TEN
McLemore Loses Shirt on Bowl Game
By HENRY McLEMORE
United Frees Staff Correspondence
PASADENA. CaUf. Jan 1.— (UP)
—If I were a strictly honest man.
and didn’t have any Morris Plan
Jones at Southern California, and
says he la a football player, had
better stand six feet one in his
arch supporters, scale 212, naked,
at Liggett's and be able to run
A punt exchange followed' the
subsequent kickoff and Clemson
started a 57-yard touchdown march
led by an obscure sophomore full-
back. Charlie Timmons, who per-1
sonally carried the ball 32 yards in
live plays during the series. He
Cornell 29, Ohio State 28.
Illinois 39. Butler 18.
California 42 Dartmouth 30.
Michigan 44, Pittsburgh 35.
Oregon State 39. Hawaii 6.
DePaul 52 Santa Clara 50.
Wyoming 54. Colorado Mines 47
BartlesvillePhillips 28, Denver
negotiated the final 20 yards in Nuggets 24
three plays, scoring from the two-
agents scouting me at every turn,
I wouldn't even take the time to
write a column today
I would be hurrying from
home to home in this vicinity .
paying off by debts, because It
It no secret that Tennessee's
defeat knocked down my pock-
ethook for a count of ten and
then jumped on it to be sure
it was flattened for sure.
the 100 in five seconde flat.
If he doesn’t meet three re-
quirements he stands a chance
t of being thrown in the river
4 along with the first basket ef
kittens that isn’t wanted. Ten-
nessee started to the Rose bowl
with what appeared to be an
all-right squad. The line aver-
aged 190 pounds in heft, and
the backfield not a great deal
less,. To the human eye it look-
I went for the Volunteers like a ed like a group of men who
pointer goes for a quail I thought
they were invincible, and maybe I
was right since they played Citadel
Mercer, Mohler Barber college, and
International Correspondence and
the like But men, what a differ-
' ence there is between such teams
could take cars of itself.
as the one mentioned in the sen-
tence above and Southern Califor-
nia.
They raise them rugged out here
ta. Perhaps nature sees that they do
A in order that they will be able to
withstand earthquakes, unusual
weather, and the taste of the water
that comes out of the tape in this
section. But whatever the reason,
any man that reports to Howard
But how quickly they learned this
was all wrong. Out of the players'
tunnel came USC. Muscles strained
at the seams ofjerseys. Chests
fought to force past the wool num-
bers that bound them Legs and
ankles and thighs chafed at the
canvas that bound them tight.
They were dllnosaurs on the loose,
giants who ached to throw their
strength against the enemy.
For a while Tennessee managed
to hold the Trojans in check But
it was obvious from the start that
It was only a matter of time until
the flood broke. .The thumb can
plug the dyke only so long, and
the reed withstand the gale only,
for a while There must come s
breaking point, and, as a man who
had wagered his chances for a
new watch fob on the Volunteers
winning, it came all too soon
One minute Tennessee was
holding, fighting back the en-
emy. The next Southern Cali-
fornians were running all over
the place. A back who couldn’t
make five yards was given a
demerit, and a lineman who
didn't open a hole wide enough
for, the Dionne quints to walk
through arm in arm, was spok-s
en sharply to and told to do
i better or be sent te the second
table.
There was a lesson to be learn-
ed from the Rose bowl game of
yesterday—a fine lesson And this
was it:
There is no sense to betting on
a team that buys its clothes in the
boys' /department to beat a team
that has to share twice a day and
is fitted for suits in the adult for
grownups" section; also, one is re-
minded to remember that Pickett
led a grand charge, but couldn’t
make it when the opposition started
throwing its weight around. P. 8
The collecting line will form on
the right Don't shove, boys, it’s all
counterfeit. -
yard line.
. Banks McFadden, much-public.
Sized Clemson halfback carried the
ball only four times/ averaging 11
yards per try. He was the threat,
Timmons the ball-carrying hero.
McFadden earned his share of the
glory by batting down two goal-
line passes in the fourth period as
Boston college strove desperately i
to regain the lead.
tens." It seems . . Fight maestro
Mike Jacobs has joined to the fun'
. . Based entirely on box office
values. Mike gives you these first
tenners. With the amount each drew
from him last year: Joe Louis,
$820,000, Tony Galento, $352,000;
Bob Pastor, $348,,000; Billy Conn..
$285,000; Henry Armstrong, $165,-
000; Lou Ambers, 3112,000; Fred
Apostoli, $110,000.
Those smart pro coaches drafted
nine guys off the Oklahoma City
squad, and if any school can beat
that we re willing to learn...,.
Anybody know which girl basket-
ball team has the longest winning
streak? The Biltmore (N.C.) high,
pretties have 52 in a row.
TODAY’S TRUE STORY
Those football-mad Texans
can't be bothered with the
game outside their own red-hot
Southwest Conference ... So.
When the Clemson (S.C.) Tigers
were Melted to the Cotton
bowl, you must excuse the •
chairmen of the welcoming
committee for charting to wire
them at “Crimson, N. C.”
BY THE WAY DEFT.
What happened to the brothers
Knolle
Down Yonder in the Sugar
bowl?
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