PAGE EIGHT THE PADUCAH SUN-DEMOCRAT MARCH 2, 1943 Tilghman And Heath Rated Favorites In Fifth District Tournament Western's Hilltoppers Cop Title In KIAC Again 42 88 51 39 96 21 State Teachers College copped Conference championship night by defeating Morehead will go to New York to tournament in Madison Square Garden on March 18. Shown above are members of Dee Gibson, Charles Embry, John hart, Odicia Spears, Charlie Ruter, "Buck" Sydnor. Bandana, Barlow, Butler Win First Round Tilts; Two Titles To Be Decided In Tonight's Bill By HALL ALLEN Sun-Democrat Sports Editor Favorites moved forward in district basketball tournaments in Western Kentucky last night as Bandana. Barlow and Butler of Princeton copped opening round games in two early meets. Bandana scored the largest margin of the night, running a 44-14 win over Kevil in the first game of the Fourth district meet.
In the nightcap Barlow, one of the favorites of the tournament, copped a 31-23 decision over LaCenter. The Butler Tigers removed their most dangerous opponent from the District 11 affair, when they topped Farmersville 35-24. The Farmersville quint had defeated Princeton last week. The Bandana games and at Barlow Barlow into the pushed semifinals, and the same held true for the Tigers at Princeton. The Barlow meet will be finished tomorrow night and Princeton will wind up its affairs tonight.
With one tournament closing tonight, another will open-the Second district at Clinton-where only one game will be required to determine the championship. Central of Clinton Fulgham to decide the title. Tomorrow night's lineup for Western Kentucky district tournaments will find firing on the Mayfield and Murray fronts, and Thursday night will bring still more action when meets at Cayce, Paducah, Benton and Smithland will get under way. The schedules: Tonight's Games Fourth at Barlow-Blandville vs. Bandana; Barlow VS.
Wickliffe. (Semi-finals). Eleventh at Princeton--Finals. First at Cayce-Central of Clinton vs. Fulgham.
(Finals.) Tomorrow Night Fourth at Barlow-Finals. Sixth at Mayfield-Symsonia vs. Sedalia; Mayfield vs. Melber. (First round).
Eighth at Murray--New Concord vs. Hazel; Almo vs. Murray Training. (First round). Thursday Night First at Cayce- vs.
Hickman; Cayce vs. Western. (First round). Fifth at Paducah-Heath vs. St.
Mary's. (First round). at Mayfield-Farmington vs. Cuba; Lowes vs. Wingo.
(First round). Seventh at Benton Sharpe VS. Calvert City. (First round). Eighth at Murray--Lynn Grove VS.
Kirksey: Murray VS. Faxon. (First round). Tenth at Smithland-Salem VS. Smithland.
(First round). FOURTH DISTRICT BARLOW, March 2-(Special) -Bandana rolled over Kevil, 44 to 14, and the Barlow Purple Flash defeated LaCenter, 31 to 23, Bowling In the Major League, Monday night, Gravy Gardner with 593 paced the league with Joe Morey close behind with 592. Gardner led his Seven Up team to a two game victory over I. S. whose leader was Voris Record with 520.
Joe Morey of Claussner's with 592 helped his team win the odd game from I. C. R. whose high man was Dillard May with 565. Huggs, with Walter Farrar leading with 558, won one game from U.
S. Engineers whose leader was Larry Moutray with 518. Ed McCreary led the Pladium team to a two game victory over H. whose leader was Harry Reaves with 533. Standings: Won Lost I.
C. R. R. .53 25 Seven Up. .46 32 Huggs .43 35 U.
S. Engineers 42 36 Claussner 39 39 Pladium 37 41 I. S. Co. 34 44 H.
W. 18 60 OLD Kentucky's Best Bourbon BOTTLED IN BOND 100 PROOF Kentucky Straight. Bourbon Whiskey STITZEL WELLER, DISTILLERY, SHIVELY, KENTUCKT the tournament squad, left to right: Oldham, Dero Downing, Charlie LabDon Ray, Oran McKinney and Salem Is Favored Over Centralia In Illinois Meet By United Press Sixty regional high school basketball tournaments to establish a 1943 state champion get underway tonight with 480 teams competing for the 60 starting posts in next week's sectionals. Present title holder is Centralia, picked by dopesters to be eliminated by Salem at the Centralia regional, Most regional winners, however, are expected to run true to season form, and probably will include names like Paris, Champaign, Dixon, Decatur, Morton (Cicero), Moline, Canton, Taylorville, West Frankfort, Belleville, Somonauk, Hebron, and a host. others.
The regional winners will play four each in 15 sectionals next week, and then go to Champaign for the big event March 18, 19 and 20. A 16th entry in the state tournament be the Chicago city winner which might be Lindbloom, winner of seven out of eight city contest games this season. PETERMAN'S PICKS SPRINGFIELD, March -Winners in 30 of 60 Illinois high school basketball regionals. picked by Mark Peterman, Springfield coach and. one of the state's top prep cage experts, are as follows: At -Aledo; at Aurora -East Aurora high; at Belleville Belleville; at Canton-Canton; at Carbondale Murphysboro; at Centralia Salem; at ChampaignChampaign; at.
Decatur Decatur; at Dekalb Shabbona; at East Peoria. Peoria, Eldorado -Marion; at Fairfield -Mount Vernon; at GalesburgGalesburg: at Gibson City--Gibson City; at Greenville Greenville; at Hillsboro Hillsboro; at JerseyvilleJerseyville; at Kankakee at Lawrenceville-Palestine. At Mattoon- Arthur; at Mendon -Quincy; at Pinckneyville-Pinckneyville; at Rochelle Rochelle; at Roseville Monmouth; at Rushville -Beardstown; at Sterling--Dixon; at Stockton--Freeport; -Vandalia; Riverton; and at West Frankfort West Frankfort. At Rochelle-it's Rochelle, Polo, Oregon and Leaf River in the first round with Rochelle and Oregon winning the semi-finals. But it's Rochelle over Oregon in the final.
At -Anna: at CarthageDallas City; at at at gym tiac; at Effingham-Watson; at Elgin-Elgin; at Elmhurst-Morton; at Flora-Clay City; at Jacksonville -Ashland. At Joliet -Calumet City; at Ke. wanee Kewanee; at Lexington- Rejection Of Lippy Brings Flatbush Joy By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, March 2 There's joy in Flatbush today- because Lippy Leo Durocher is going to do his fighting for the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Lip, arch-enemy of "empires" and the two-fisted pride of Ebbets Field, was rejected yesterday for military service because of 8 perforated ear drum. It made no difference to the Army doctors that Durocher had a dandy left jab and the hardest right in baseball: They put him through his paces at the Central Palace induction headquarters and then, after 8 checkup, threw him out of the year's biggest game.
As on the playing field, Durocher protested. And he made just about as much headway as he does with the umpires. Maj. Guidotti, chief medical officer, told Durocher that he could not be inducted since a gas mask furnished no protection for a person with a perforated eardrum. He said the only recourse was an appeal to.
Washington--but Durocher has. had too many of those fall through before Judge Landis. Durocher, under contract as player-manager reported $25,000 salary, immediately began conferences with Rickey on the Dodgers' plans. Rickey had delayed considering another manager or making plans until Durocher's status was cleared. "LONGIES" DECREED FOR CARDINAL PLAYERS By GEORGET J.
KIENZLE COLUMBUS, March 2-(P)- The trainer of the World Champion St. Louis Cardinals has a new plan for wrapping up the National League pennant long underwear for players in chilly spring and sweltering summer, too. Dr. Harrison J. (Doc) Weaver said today he had bought 144 union suits for the Cards and "if they'll only listen to reason and wear them winter and summer, they'll win the pennant in' a walk." Doc, for two decades a devotee of longies the year round, says "union suits will do the players a lot more good" than those vitamin pills Club Owner Sam Breadon feeds the boys to sharpen their eyesight for night games.
The good doctor said that his favorite kinds of underwear would reduce "sliders," those strawberry red bruises players often come up with after hitting the dirt. WOMEN BOWLERS BUY $100,000 BOMBER SYRACUSE, N. March: 2- (U.P) -The Women's International Bowling Congress announced today that it had raised $100,000 to buy a bomber to be known as "Miss W. I. B.
The plane will be presented to Maj. Stanford Chester March 28 at Kansas City, where the W. I. B. C.
had been scheduled to hold its tournament. The event was cancelled cooperate with the war effort. Nornal Community; at Lincoln- coln; at Marseilles- Somonauk; at Metropolis Brookport; at Moline Moline; at Mount Carmel- Carmi. At Mount Carroll- Hanover: at Pekin-Pekin; at Pittsfield -Pittsfield; at Princeton La Salle-Peru; at Rockford -Belvidere. At Taylorville- Taylorville; at Hoopeston; gan--New Trier; at Wenona--Minonk; at Westville Allerton; and at Wood River- -Collinsville.
Down Sports Avenue By Hall Allen He May Be Deaf, But EO (The Durocher, who flunked Army physical yesLip). terday because of a perforated eardrum, said he had known about it all along, but hadn't thought it was serious. Of course he had known. It was the ear was thrown out of the park on many times. bs) It hadn't been bothering him much for the last 20 years, he said, except "a temporary ringing when batting." That, he evidently thought, was from what the umpire thinking about him.
washe Lip may be too deaf for Army regulations, but nobody has ever accused him of being mute. Philosophy Philosophy Bucky Harris took his sentence to to the Phillies philosophically: "It's a living." Tournament Deal Tournament Deal The "rumor" first reported in this column last week that Murray would get an invitation to the National Invitational at New York if the Thoroughbreds beat Western in the was more than a rumor. It was a definite promise which came from New Irish, acting president of Madison Square Garden. The invitation worked both. ways, however.
bid was team winning the game. Western won, and of course will get their second chance in the big time. The invitation to play in a tournament of that kind doesn't always go to a team with the best record. While the promoters definitely are interested in a team that can stand up under big time competition, they also want a team with -one that can pack in the crowds. For Madison Square Garden can't play to peanuts keep operating.
Ed Diddle. Western coach, supandy plies the color for his team. The Western uniforms. too, leave no one in doubt about which team is which. The warmup jackets of the Hilltoppers have collars as as sign boards with red letters white "Western Kentucky." Murray has been more interested in building good basketball teams than it has in creating color But the color angle should be cultivated now that the Thoroughbreds are getting up in the money every year.
A couple of years ago when Murray made its first appearance in the Kansas City meet, the team was listed by sports writers as "Kentucky State." The public relations department at Murray should start now creating the color for next season's out- fit The -waving stunt at the Western game got them plenty of publicity. although I understand it didn't go well with fans in the Bowling Green sector. But if you think Ed Diddle was insulted by the you are mistaken. When arrived on the flag campus and saw Murray students armed with towels, I knew something was up. So I kept an eye on Diddle to see what happened.
He came on the floor lugging his own famous towel and was greeted by a sea of bath rags in the hands of Murray supporters. Ed ignored it. But every time he got off the bench the waving started all over again. When he finally had to recognize the stunt, he grinned broadly. No, Ed wasn't insulted.
And I'm sure that Western fans wouldn't have raised so much fuss about it if Murray hadn't won the game. That's what hurt -not the towel waving. But of course Diddle's team got revenge when it bumped Murray out of the running in the KIAC tournament last week. Ariel Retains National Field Championship GRAND JUNCTION. March 2-(P)-Ariel, white and liver pointer of A.
G. C. Sage of New York. is the new National Field Trials champion -for the second time. The 1941 winner stepped off a classy one -hour second series heat yesterday to win again for Sage and his handler, Clyde Morton of Alberta, Ala.
In the runoff with Texas Ranger, owned by D. B. McDaniel of Houston. he pointed two bevies while his opponent pointed only one bird. ARMSTRONG VS.
JOYCE LOS ANGELES. March the 16th fight of a comeback, former, triple-crown champion Armstrong was a 3-1 favorite to defeat rugged Willie Joyce. Gary, Negro, in a 10- round bout at Olympic auditorium tonight. McCracken Quints Start Quest Of Cage Title Thurs. By CREED BLACK Tilghman high school's Blue Tornado and the Heath Pirates are rated as co-favorites in the District 5 basketball tournament which will begin here Thursday night.
The two teams seem to be the class of the county's five quintets, but any of the other three teams is capable of springing an upset victory which would find a dark horse in the winner's circle Saturday night when the champion is crowned. Heath and Tilghman nave met twice this year, splitting the two encounters. Heath won the first game on its own floor by a 37-33 margin, but the Tornado sprang an upset here when Heath repaid the visit, coming out on top 40-31. That means that if the two outfits do advance to the championship tilt, they will be playing the rubber game for blood, with not much difference from which to choose. Heath Vs.
St. Mary's Heath and St. Mary's will start the fireworks Thursday night when they meet at 8 o'clock. Although the two teams have not met, comparative scores give the Pirates the advantage over the Kentucky Catholic champs. Heath has split a pair with Lone Oak, who has topped Knights twice, and the Pirates also knocked Reidland thieve twice, while the Greyhounds have divided two with St.
Mary's. In the second night's play, Tilghman will meet Reidland at 7:30 and Lone Oak will take on the Heath -St. Mary's winner at 8:45. In their only previous meeting of the year, Tilghman topped Reidland 34-19. If Heath gets by the Knights, the Pirates are expected to dispose the Purple Flash.
Lone Oak wont by ten points the first time the two squads met, but Heath won by a comfortable 23 point advantage the last time they met. In case the Knights should display the they showed in winning the Catholic tournament and tip the Pirates in the first round, Lone Oak will be favored by virtue of their two regular season triumphs over St. Mary's. Should the Greyhounds represent the upper bracket in the finals, they would be the underdogs against Heath, for the Pirates have defeated them twice by small margins. Lone Oak has topped Reidland once by one point and the Knights have split a pair, with the Greyhounds, losing the last tilt by a ten point deficit.
No Consolation The championship tilt will begin Saturday night at 8 o'clock. The coaches in the district have voted unanimously not to have the usual consolation game which precedes the championship affair. The winning team will be presented with a trophy and the runner-up will receive the ball used in the meet. This is the first year that only the McCracken county teams have comprised a complete district, formerly being paired with Ballard county quintets. That fact is expected to increase the rivalry and interest in the tournament, with large crowds being anticipated for each night's play.
J. Rice Mountjoy, Tilghman athletic director is tournament manager, Randolph Gore and Palmer Hughes will call the games. James Major, member of the Tilghman faculty, will serve as official timekeeper. and Howard Moss, Brazelton junior high coach, is official scorekeeper. HILLTOPPERS of Western Kentucky 11th Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic years at Richmond Saturday in the final game.
The Hilltoppers in the National Invitational Fulton Preps For Hickman Battle; Wildcat Star Out THE their in 12 46-35 compete By MARTHA MOORE FULTON, March 2-(Special) -Coach Joe Gili is making an earnest effort tune up his Fulton Bulldogs for opening of the disfine trict tournament at Cayce Thursday night. In that game the must face the Hickman Wildcats, and the Cats have already taken the measure of the local team twice. However, the Bulldogs have scored readily against Hickman, having dropped the first game 39 to 30 at Hickman and the second 37 to 33 on the Fulton floor. Lack of defense against the tall Hall and Jones of the Hickman team caused both defeats, as in each game these two scored ty points. In the first game Jones registered twenty, and in the second, with Jones out, Hall took up task and also scored twenty points.
It is not likely that Jones will be able to play much of the game Thursday night, as his sprained ankle has not healed and Hall will likely bear the burden. the Bulldogs Jack Moore, The chief offensive, threat for who has a season's average of eleven points per game for seventeen games. In the two games against Hickman he scored 28 points and if he can lift his sights in this tournament game and if Coach Gili can weld together a bit of defense which the team has lacked all season the Bulldogs might have a chance of upsetting the taller Wildcats. Hickman remains the favorite by virtue of having won at least two games from the other three teams in the district. Western does not figure to get past Cayce in the second game of the opening night.
It seems almost a certainty that Hickman and Cayce will fight out the finals Friday night. Cayce, although losing to Hickman in the final game of the regular season, 35 to 33, increased its prestige last week by walloping the South Fulton Reds on Fulton's floor 30 to 26. Whether the Reds were off form, or whether Kentucky basketball is tougher than that played in Tennessee, is an open question. The fact remains that Cayce won going away against the Reds, and the latter team came back to win district title from Union City Saturday night. Coach Haynes' team now plays Woodland Mills Thursday night in the West Tennessee tournament.
The Reds have lost only two games this season, one to Martin, and the recent one to Cayce. Phillip Scores 40 Points As Illini Top Chicago By 92-25 CHAMPAIGN, March 2-(AP) -The busiest Illinois whiz kid of all Andy Phillip. And he's not through yet. although the Big Ten season is ended. The two-time champion Illini are looking forward now to the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball to tournament.
They're out to win if they get invited to play--and they think they will. Coach Doug Mills said Saturday night after Illinois' record-breaking 86-44 win over Northwestern that his boys were just reaching their peak. Boom-last night they scored 92 points against Chicago, riddled the hapless Maroons 92-25, and closed their Big Ten season with the title again. And Mr. Whiz-Ol' Andy Phillip -had a mighty parcel of those points-49, to be exact.
That was a good six more Bill Hapac made for Illinois one night in 1940 and Hapac's name is in the 1943 edition of the Conference Record Book. Next year Phillip's name A million smokers all agree, "Marvels are the smoke for me. MARVELS MARVELS QUALITY WORTH CROWING ABOUT STEPHANO BROTHERS, PHILADELPHIA, PA Count Fleet Rated Favorite In 53rd Preakness Stakes 98 in first round games of the Fourth District basketball tournament last night to advance to the semifinals. Bandana took a 12 to 0 lead in the initial frame but Kevil had cut it to 15 to 7 at halftime. At the end of the third period Bandana led 29 to 9.
Bandana meets Blandville Tuesday night. LaCenter played on fairly even terms with the Barlow five during the first three quarters but Barlow pulled away in the final frame to win going away. The Purple Flash held quarter leads of 8-6, 12-11 and 22-16. Barlow meets Wickliffe, who drew a first round bye, in a quarter final game in the lower bracket Tuesday night. Barlow beat Wickliffe, 16-13, and Blandville 23 to 17 to advance to the semi-finals of the second team tourney.
Kevil's reserves won over Bandana's team by a score of 21 to 13 in the other tilt played in the second team meet. Lineups: Bandana 44 Pos. Kevil 14 Holman 16 Gholson Abell Hook 2 Holt 8 Myers 3 Conway 9 Elliott 5 Cooper 4 Tilford 2 Substitutions Bandana; Grief, Freezor, Oliver, Reid 7 and Jeffords; Kevil: Brown Barlow 31 "Pos. LaCenter 23 B. Howle 8 Strange 2 E.
Howle 8 McEyla 6 Wyatt 9 Tucker 14 Stinnett 2 Scott 1 Owens R. Martin Substitutions--Barlow: Frank LaCenter: H. Martin, and Kraps. ELEVENTH DISTRICT PRINCETON, March 2- Butler high school of Princeton ad-. vanced to the semi-finals of the Eleventh District basketball tournament last night with a 35 to 24 win over Farmersville.
Butler ran into little trouble in overcoming the Farmersville quintet and held a 6 to 8 lead throughout the tilt. Butler meets Fredonia, which drew a first round bye, in a semi-final bout Tuesday afternoon. Lineups: Princeton 35 Pos. Farmersville 24 Lewis 4 Frances 5 Pickens 16 9 Mitchell 6 Goodaker 7 Glass 1 2 Kercheval 4 Brasher Substitutions--Princeton: O'Malley 4 and Stallins; Farmersville: Rolan. By DONALD SANDERS BALTIMORE, March 2-(P- Four sons and several other relatives of former winners of the Preakness stakes were among 49 colts eligible today for the 53rd running of the Pimlico's most famous race, but the likely favoritemissing from list--is the son of a horse which didn't contest, the event.
That one is Count Fleet, holder of the world's record for the mile as run by a two-year-old and winter book favorite for the Kentucky Derby. The Preakness will be run May 8, as usual just a week after the Derby. Although Count Fleet's pappy. Reigh Count, carried the yellow and black silks of Mrs. John Hertz to victory in the 1928 Derby, he did not run in the Preakness.
Won In Futurity After the Count's impressive victory in the Pimlico Futurity last fall, Mrs. Hertz told Maryland Jockey Club officials she would pay the $1,500 fee to make him a supplementary entry for the Preakness and the second leg of racing's triple crown. Another probable supplementary nominee is Mill River Stable's Chop Chop, winner of the Endurance Handicap at Bowie last fall. The sons of former Preakness winners eligible for this year's "street car" renewal of the event are Belair Stud's Oakford, W. E.
Boeing's Oregon, Darby Dan Farm's Darby Donhe, all sons of Omaha; and Foxcatcher Farm's Fairy Manhurst, son of Man O' War. Another eligible is King Ranch's Canto Gallo, half-brother of Alsab, winner of the 1942. Preakness in record time for the stake. Sons Of Seabiscuit Charles S. Howard nominated three sons of Seabiscuit, the gallant old racer who scored one of his most notable wins at Pimlico when he upset War Admiral in the 1938 Pimlico This is the first year the 'Biscuit's sons have been eligible.
Boeing tops the list of 27 nominators with six colts, including Devil's Thumb, the colt which won five straight races at Saratoga last year. and was then retired. Other prominent colts include Calumet Farm's Ocean Wave, Simmons' Blue Swords, Greentree: Stable's Picket, and W. L. Brann's Vincentive.
No fillies were nominated for the race, will have an aggregate value of approximately $70,000. Western Accepts Bid To New York Tourney BOWLING GREEN, March 2 (P) Invited to participate for their second consecutive year, the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers have accepted an invitation to play in the National Collegiate Invitational Basketball Tournament, opening March 18 in Madison Square Garden. The Hilltoppers are champions of the K.I.A.C OSTEOPATH DR. J. W.
LAWRENCE 612 Citizens Bank Bldg. Paducah, Ky. will be there. He'll be credited, too. for the most points Big Ten cager ever -in 12 games or 15.
Phillip and the Illini played only a dozen this -won them allbut in that span Andy eradicated the 242 point high that Wisconsin's Johnny Kotz made last year in 15 games. Andy has 255. Andy last night made more field goals than anyone ever has made before in this rampaging basketball league. Andy made 16, and eight free throws. Lots of guys had made 13 in one game, but never 16.
Andy fired in 111 baskets in his 12 games. Johnny Kotx made 95 in 15 contests last year, and Johnny was the champ until Andy came along. Phillip and the others- -Ken Menke, Jack Smiley, Gene Vance and Art 755 points to beat the 15-game mark by 34. They made 325 field goals, 37 more than ever before. That's not bad going in anyone's league, particularly this tough Big Ten.
SPRING DRILLS DELAYED LEXINGTON, March 2-(P) -The Army has first call and so spring football practice will be delayed until later in the month becanse of impending induction of several athletes, Coach Ab Kirwan of the University of Kentucky said yesterday. Spring drill had originally been set to open yesterday. Induction already has cost the squad eight men and further losses are anticipated. BOWL FOR HEALTH Openings on several league teams for bowlers. Register for league play.
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