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]Ann Curtis Named Year’s Outstanding Woman Athlete
SPORTS TRAIL
| By WHITNEY MARTIN
NEW 'iORK, Dec. 18—(/P)—The highest scoring team
isn't meeting the best defensive team and the two highest
scoring teams aren t meeting each other, but on the whole
the sponsors, of the four major football games January 1
have done a first-class job of lining up attractions.
The idea probably wasn’t to book a scoring orgy or to
pit an irresistable force against an immovable object in the
:"rst place, but was to line up teams that appeared fairly evenly
matched and ttlat would provide an entertaining game. It isn’t much
jun to watch jwo fine defensive teams stage a tug-of-war in the
middle of the held, and when two teams score practically at will it
,e!f rather monotonous also.
r Had the twi high scoring teams of the eight involved in the Bowl
jmes been mBtched you would find Alabama, with an average of
about 31 points for eight games, meeting Tulsa’s Golden Hurricane
which average approximately 38 points for nine games. You might
expect a score of something like 72V2 to 66 in a meeting of that kind
If you wanted to see a bulldog affair between fine defensive teams
you'd "match Tennessee, which has allowed its eight opponents an
average Of only six points, against Alabama, whose eight foes aver
ted slightly /less than seven points.
Naturally these figures have no more meaning than double talk
hen comparing the strength of the Bowl rivals, as each team has
been meetingldifferent opposition, and even if they had met the same
‘earns the figjes would mean little, comparative scores being as tricky
-s th.e\ are. ffut for theme who like to look at the figures and draw’ some
•ind of concisions, here they are:
ROSE BOWL
G. Pts. O. P. Ave. Opp. Ave.
G. S. C. i- 9 215 73 24 plus 8 plus
Tennessee - 8 173 48 21 plus 6
SUGAR BOWL
Alabama - 8 246 54 30 plus 6 plus
n■ ,;e ,-i- 9 201 92 22 plus 10 plus
ORANGE BOWL
Georgia fech - 10 241 75 24 plus 7 plus
T-'ij .i- 9 347 116 38 plus 12 plus
COTTON BOWL
T. C l', —- 10 134 75 13 plus 7 plus
Oklahoma Aggies - 8 194 103 24 plus 12 plus
Xo-.f if you can dope out the probable winners by just looking at
• ,,e (Eure’s you rate as slightly wonderful. You might form some
kind offconclusion by taking the record of each team, game by game,
snd rjing the strength of the opposition, but even at that you’d prob
ably jje wrong as football teams have a habit of playing over their
hc.-’d? in one game and back on their heels the next.
LADY WRESTLERS !
TO APPEAR HERE
* For the first time in several
jrf.sthi. lady wrestlers will fea
ture the weekly grappling show
'/] the holiday presentation by
'Promoter Bert Causey in the
Italian hall arena Friday night.
The feminine grapplers will be
Nan Stewart from Memphis. Term.,
two for 'he past several months
has been a formidable contender
for the crown now held by Mil
dred Burke of Dallas, Texas.
Opposed to -Stewart will be Mae
Young, from Sand Springs, Ala.,
v. ho has been bowling them over
on the southern circuit. Mae dis
p :es both the Burke and Stewart
- a.ms to the championship,
k Tree Tag Team matches have
I . the vogue for the past three
V vs, Promoter Causey has again
| :hed Johnny Long and Jack
I , Brie.n against .Jack De Vault
I rod Johnny Tu.ver.
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COWBOY MENTOR
STEERS AGGIES
Bv DON LOOPER
STTLL WATER, Okla.. Dec. 18 —
(JP)—When Coacn Jim Lookabaugh
herds his klahoma Aggies into the
Cotton Bowl agains Texas Chris
tian on New Year's day. he'll prob
ably be as wide-eyed as the green
est 17-year-old on his all-civilian
squad.
For the lean cowboy mentor
finds himself in the football big
time in his sixth year of collegiate
coaching. A native Oklahoman, he
came to A. and M. from a high
school tu oring job and has steered
the Aggies from the bottom of a
gridiron depression to a bowl bid
—first in the school's history.
The 42-year-nld Lookabaugh,
ranked fourth lor the annual “’coach
of the year" award, launched the
1944 campaign with a crippled half
back and a prayer. Bob Fenimore.
just made all-America back, had
shown flashes of brilliance as a
freshman the year before but a
leg injury made his value uncer
tain.
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of them veterans of his 1943 “fresh
man varsity”—Lookabaugh open
ed a schedule studded with such
imposing names as Tulsa, Texas.
Oklahoma and Arkansas.
With the uait Lookabaugh fash
ioned an amazing combina.ion of
17-year-olds. 4-F’s and service dis
chargees that rambled through the
season all victorious in collegiate
competition, los'ng only to the
powerful Norman, Okla., Navy
Zoomers.
Operating chiefly off a single
wingback formation, the Cowboys
developed a wide open offensive
game with which they ou'scored
opponents they couldn’t stop.
Blessed with incomparable speed
in the backfiald. they got their
touchdowns spec acularly on pass
es and long runs
Lookabaugh builds teams on the
principle that getting an education
is more important than playing
football. He wul have none of this
scholastic coddling of ath.e.es to
keep them eligible for football. As
a result the coaching staff can
concentrate on teaching football
rather than keeping the team scho
lastically eligible.
Lookabaugh. p graduate of A.
and M., has done all his coaching
in the Sooner state. He lettered in
three sports at Watonga, Okla.,
high school and at A. and M. where
he graduated in 1925.
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MIAMI. Fla.. Dec. 18. — (Jf) -
K. C. Gerard of Durham, a gradu
ate of the 'Jniversity of Illinois,
will be referee for the Orange Bowl
football game New Year’s day be
tween Georgia Tech and Tulsa.
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SWIMMING CHAMP
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Queen Of Girl Swimmers
Reigns With Golfer
Byron Nelson
By HAROLD CLAASSEN
NEW, YORK. Dec. 18.—(fP)— Arm
Curtis, s atuesque San Francisco
miss who holds a national swim
record for each of her 18 years,
was named the woman athlete of
the year today by the country’s
sports editors who were polled by
the Associated Press.
The coast mermaid showed the
same speed in the vote ge.ting that
she displayed tn the national out
door championships when she an
nexed all four free-style titles, the
third time he trick ever has been
done.
At the recent national A. A. U.
convention, Miss Curtis sought ap
proval for U. S. swim records. ;
i’welve were recognized, the ex
maining six being rejected because
they already had been superseded
by Miss Curtis herself.
Seventy-one editors participated
in the poll with the coast beauty
listed first , n 31 George Zaha
rias, nee Mildred (Babe) Didrik
son, was second in the tabulation
because of her golf exploits with
12 first place selections and 80
points, compared to the 105 tallies
tor the winner.
The queen of the girl swimmers
hus reigns beside Byron Nelson,
Toledo, Ohio. Golfer, whom the
voters previously had elected the
male athlete of the year.
Nelson, winner of approximately
$45,000 in war bonds during the
year, averaged a fraction less than
70 for 78 rounds of big-time tour
ney golf in 1944.
Mrs. Zahartas, this year’s run
nerup, was the winner of the top
honor in 1932 after annexing the
hurdle and javelin titles in the
Olympic games for the United
States.
Jrauiiuc dcu., wuy wuu me «a
tional tennis championship for the
.hird straight year, was third in
the poll and was followed by a
trio of golfers—Dorothy Germain,
Patty Berg and Betty Hicks.
Miss Berg was the 1943 queen
and Miss Hicks wore the crown in
1941.
Today s honor climaxes a two
year campaign by Miss Curtis in
which she nas won eight national
titles, set 18 U. S. records and
surpassed the world records for
both the 800 meter and 880 yard
swims.
She has rejected various movie
offers in hopes of carrying the
colors of the Crystal Plunge Swim
Club at San Francisco into Olym
pic competi ion.
Three points are awarded for
each first place vote, two for sec
ond and cne for third. The table
lists the outstanding women ath
letes of 1944, with the sports in
which they competed: (First place
votes in parenthesis)
Points
Ann Curtiss, swimming (31) 105
Mildred Didrikson Zaharias,
golf (12) _ 80
Pauline Betz, tennis (10) - 67
Dorothy Germain, golf (2)- 29
Patty Berg, golf (3) -. 18
Be ty Hicks, golf <4) .. 14
Also runs: Stella Walsh (1) 8.
Brenda Helser (1) 5. Esther Wil
liams (1) 5, Mary Agnes Wall (1)
3, Ann Ross (D 3 Nancy Merki (1)
3, Pat Sinclair (1) 3. Jean Cline
(1) 3, Sally Sessions 2, Dorothy
May Bundy 2, Betty Jamison 2,
Lorranie Fischer 2, Connie Wis
niewski 2. Nina Van Camp 2. Geor
gia Tainter 2, Hope Seignious 1,
Louise Brough 1, Jane Dillard 1,
Irene Richards 1, Gretchen Mer
rill 1.
TEN GREMLINS HIT
Al ,-STAR GRIDIRON
CHARLOTTE, Dec. 18.—UP)—'Ten
members of the Third Air Force
Gremlin football team will play
in all-star post season games, the
public relations office announced
today.
The Blue and Gray game in
Montgomery. Ala., Dec 30 will
get nine, wnile Lt. Bob Kennedy,
Washington State fullback, will
play for the wast in the East-West
game at San Francisco Jan. 1.
The Gray, r the southern team,
will have Charley Trippi, all-Am
erican service team back for 1944,
who played at Georgia; End Ted
Cook of Alabama; Guard Earl
Brown and Center Art Brandau of
Tennessee.
The Blues w,ll have tackle Frank
Lopp of Wisconsin; End Jack Kel
leher of Columbia, Back Ernie
Bonelli of Pitt Guard Tony Ros
selli of Youngstown, and Guard
Nick Rodis of New Hampshire.
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Morris neld Cancels
Game With Blue Devils
DURHAM, Dec. 18.—(A*)— Duke
University athletic authorities an
nounced tonight that the game with
Morris Field. Charlotte, schedul
ed for Wednesday night, had been
cancelled at the request of Mor
ris Field officials. Instead, the
Blue Devil basketballers will play
the Laurinburg-Maxton Army Atr
Base quint at 8 o’clock' here
Duke gym Wednesday night. The
game will be free to the general
public.
Shoots For 300 Victories
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This is the only way Ted Atkinson can cool off. With the year’s
jockey championship sewed up, the Toronto-born, Brooklyn reinsman
was aboard first winner when he resumed riding at Gulfstream Park
following a two-week vacation. He’ll crowd his goal of 300 winners.
Eisenberg, Duke Star
Suffers Broken Nose
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As Dukes Chances Are
Jeopardized, Cameron
Takes Offensive
DURHAM, Dec. 18. — f/P)— As
Coach Eddie Cameron shif.ed over
from defense to offense in pre
paring for the Sugar Bowl game
with Alabama on New Year's day,
Husky Lloyd Eisenberg, stalwart
tackle, came up with a broken
nose that brought on more tackle
worries for the Duke football
coach.
Eisenberg. who started several
games when Frank Irwin was out
of the lineup with injuries, suffer
ed the injury in Saturday's scrim
mage, but it was not pronounced
broken until yesterday. He didn’t
take part in today's rough work.
Gene Wilhoite. reserve tackle,
sustained a Broken ankle in last
week's heavy drills and will be lost
for the New Year's day classic.
Coach Cameron, after spending
most of last week on mapping
and devising a defense against
Alabama plays, switched over to
offense today and sought to im
prove the team’s timing and pre
cision on running plays.
Sectional drills in which the
backs, ends and linemen separat
ed for individual work launched
the workout. The squad worked
with the tackle dummy before the
varsity took the ball and ran It
against the White defense. Special
attention was placed on the open
ing holes in the White line for the
varsity backs tc romp.
A star of ‘he workout was Tom
Boyette, one-armed guard from
Winston-Salem, who was a shining
light in the defense thrown up
by the whites.
Cliff Lewis, substitute tailback,
is taking light work due to a body
bruise suffered in Saturday’s stiff
scrimmage which completed a1
WILDCATS DEFEAT
CARDINALS, 50-13
Winning their second straight vic
tory this season, the New Hanover
High school basketballers took to
the hardwood last night in a non
conference tilt to wallop the visit
ing Jacksonville Cardinals, 50-13.
Bill Mason, Wildcat center, was
last-night’s high scorer, racking
up'12 points, with Bob Fennel, ’Cat
guard, trailing in second place with
a total aggregation of 10 points.
Leading the scorers for the visit
ing birds was Knonce, center, who
displayed a total of four.
The locals took an early lead,
and walked away from the Jack
sonville team w.th a half-time score
of 21-4.
The Cards never once threatened
the ’Cats, and Wilmington had
scored 18 points before the visitors
made their first basket
-_V-—
Basketball Group Given
$2,000 To Study Sport
NEW YOtU<, Dec. 18. — (JP) -
Two checks totalling $1,000 were
given to the National Association
of Basketball Coaches today to
help finance that group’s study and
development of the sport.
One check was donated by the
Metropolitan Intercollegiate Bas
ketball Committee, sponsor of the
annual invitational meet at Madi
son Square Garden. The other was
from Ned Irish, acting president
of the garden
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cheese: hard, soft and processed.
week of work on defensive meas
ures for the Alabama game.
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OF U. S. TOURNEY
Champion Craig Wood Says
Revival Now Would
Be Mockery
By RUSS NEWLAND
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18.—(A>)
—The golfing grapevine carries
rumors the U. S. Golf Association
may revive the national open
championship in 1945—it has been
a war casualty since Pearl Har
bor.
Professionals plying their trade
in the current winter tour, now on
the west coast, have heard the
report the U. S. G. A. executive
committee will discuss revival of
the country’s No. 1 tournament at
the meeting in New York, next
Jan. 13.
While he has no official voice in
the matter, defending champion
Craig Wood of Mamaroneck, N. Y.,
is opposed to reviving the U. S.
open event during war time. Wood
won the open crown at Fort Worth,
Tex., in 1941, the last time the
event was held.
Wood explained:
“I think the U. S. open should
remain suspended until the war is
over. The many good players now
in the armed forces should have
an equal chance at the champion
ship. It would be unfair to revive
the tournament when only those
not in service, plus a handful in
uniform who might be available,
could compete.
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tournament in the world, open to
all who can qualify for it by their
skill. To try to revive it now would
be making a mockery of it. Look
at the marvelous golfers who
would be denied a chance to play
for the title, such as Vic Ghezzi,
with the Army somewhere in Eur
ope, and Marvin “Bud” Ward, na
tional amateur champion who is
a captain in the Air Corps, now
in the Philippines.
“Ed Oliver, one of our finest
players, is in the Army and it is
doubtful he would be available.
Willie Turnesa, the fine little ama
teur, is in uniform. So are Lawson
Little, Johnny Goodman, Ben Hog
an and “Dutch” Harrison. Does
anybody think the war could wait
while these men took time to get
into golfing trim for the national
open?
“The fact I am fortunate enough
to be the duration champion has
not the slightest influence in my
opposition to war time revival of
the tournament. I would feel the
same if anybody else, in or out
of the service, held the title. The
U. S. open is different than all
other championships in this coun
try because it is open to,all. Let’s
wait until all the boys are back
before we revive it.”
Other first flight golfers in the
armed forces, all contenders for
the national open, are Paul Run
yan, Jimmy Demaret, Horton
Smith, Lloyd Mangrum, Chick
Harbert, Jimmy Thomson; former
amateur champion Dick Chapman
and ex-national public links win
ner, Frank Strafaci.
CAROLINA NAVY
LICKS AIRMEN
CHAPEL HILL. Dec. 18. — (JP)—
W. D. Meador’s 19 points led the
way as the TJ. S. Navy Preflight
Cloudbusters defeated Lauri'nburg
Maxton Air Base 64 to 38 here to
night.
The winners moved into a 23 to
11 lead with five minutes remain
ing in the first half with Meador
and Bob Mehl doing most of the
damage. To start the second, the
visitors came within six points of
tying the scire, mostly on points
scored by Benjamin and Sterling
former Duke ace.
Meador, Mehl and Otto Graham
led the scoring for the Cloudbus
>ers. Mehl collected 14 points and
Graham 13. Benjamin, with 12
points, paced the losers, Sterling
had 11.
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Stetler, f _ 2 12 5
Lockabaugh, f_ 3 0 16
Novotny, f _ 0 0 0 0
Sterling, c - 4 3 0 11
Weldo, g .. 0 0 3 0
Benjamin, g- 6 0 1 12
Sapoznick, g_ 12 2 4
Totals 16 6 9 38
Preflight fg ft pf tp
Mehl, f-- 5 4 2 14
Graham, f- 4 5 3 13
Hofer, f _ 0 0 0 0
Brace, f _ 3 0 0 6
Grygelt f .— 0 0 0 0
Gleasner, c _ 4 0 2 8
Meserue, c - 0 0 0 0
Meador, g - 9 1 0 19
Dye, g _ 2 0 1 4
Becker, g _ 0 0 0 0
Gregory, g - 0 0 0 0
Totals 27 10 8 64
Halftime score: Preflight 30;
Laurinburg-Maxton 17.
Free throws missed: Laurinburg
Maxton—Stetler 2, Sterling 2. Pre
flight—Graham 2, Mehl 1.
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University Of Mexico
To Play In Sun Bowl
EL PASO. Tex . Dec. 18. — (£>)—
The University of Mexico has
agreed to meet Southwestern uni
versity of Georgetown. Tex., in the
New Year’s Dav Sun Bowl game
here and the signing of a contract
for the tilt was scheduled today
in Mexico City.
Fernando Castenada and Cristo
bal Garcilizo, of neighboring Juar
ez. Mex., informed Dr. R. B. Ho
man. chairman of the Sun Bowl
selection committee, that the Mexi
can school officials have agreed
to the game.
Castenada was in Mexico City
today with the Sun Bowl contract.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 18 —IJPl— The
National Football League at its
post-playoff meeting today ironed
out a few kinks in its system of
“drafting” college players and set
the stage for its annual meeting
in Chicago, Jan. 10.
The prinicpal action was chang
ing the system of awarding extra
draft choices to the low ranking
clubs. Hereafter, only the clubs
which fail to win four games in a
season will participate in the sec
ond and fourth-round drawings. Un-'
der the old system the low five
clubs in the standing had these
choices.
Crimson Tide Holds
Ligkt Grid Session
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.. Dee. 18.—
W—A wet field and chilling winds
held Alabama's Crimson Tide to
light practice- today as the team
continued its efforts to get in tip
top shape for the Sugar Bowl game
with Duke.
Coach Frank Thomas omitted
scheduled, rough work and ran his
gridders through a session ctnfin
ed largely to practice in passing,
ruining and blocking.
The Tide mentor said today that
Dec. 27 has been set definitely as
the date on which the squad will
leave for Baton Rouge, where it
will drill the remainder of that
w’eek for t'he New Year’s day
clash in New Orleans.
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LET’S BEY ANOTHER BOND
The league also decided that hrst
choice in the draft this winter will
be decided by tossing a coin by
Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and the Chi
cago Cardinals. Pittsburgh Car
dinals combined was automatically
dissolved at the end of the season
with each club retaining its full
draft rights. Similarly, Detroit,
Washington and the Chicago Bears,
which finished on even terms, will
flip for sixth choice.
Bert Bell of the Pittsburgh Sleel
ers announced his club had signed
Eiill Dudley to a Contract calling
for Dudley’s exclusive services as
a football player after termination
of his military service. Dudley
played one year with Pittsburgh in
1942 before entering the Army Air
Force.
President Elmer Layden said
there had been no discussion of
proposed rival Jeagues othern than
a general talk about improving the
National League, “which would
meet real or fancied threats.” The
recent major league baseball ac
tion in closing ball parks to foot
ball until the end of the baseball
season was not brought up since
Layden said it was “just a formal
declaration of what had been an
informl policy.”
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