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Johnny McKoy, Former N ew Hanover High Basket
ball Star Says Amateur Ruling That Prevents His
Playing On Two Cage Teams Will Result In His
Bowing Out Of The Church Basketball League
Here. Page Two Sports Section.
Veterans Cooperate To B uild Indoor Arena In Town
Of 9,000 Population. Same Proposal Suggested
Here. See “Operation Gymnasium.” Page I Two
Sport Section.
Irish Juggernaut Rolls Over So. California, 38-7
104,953 Fans Watch
Notre Dame Offensive
Score Easy Victory
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6.—(/P)—The mighty Irish of
Notre Dame subdued and then thrashed Southern Cali
fornia 38 to 7 today, winding up a perfect 1947 grid cam
paign and staking a commanding claim as the top college
football team in the nation.
STATISTICS
Notre Dame CSC
_ — 14 10
vds gained'rushing -397 118
Jm passes attempted 9 29
raid passe completed - 6 8
vhc forvard passe? - 64 5o |
forwards intercepted by— 2 1
Yds sained run back inter
ceptions -
Vd< a' r kfcks' returned 52 151
- »l, io
Palmer Tied
For Orlando
Golf Lead
ORLANDO, Fla,, Dec. 6 — (fl)
-Johnny Paimer, of Badin, N.
C„ and’Herman Keiser of Ak
ron, 0 , sneaked up on Jimmy
Demaret, the debonair Califor
nian, today to share with him
the 54-hole lead of the $10,000
Orlando Open golf tournament
with scores of 205.
Palmer and Keiser, both two
strokes behind Demaret at the
36-hole mark shot three-under
par 68's over 0,454-yard Dubs
dread Country Club course to
^Demaret was one under with
"0.
Three players had rounds of
67, best for today. Claude Har
mon of Mamaroneck, N. Y.,
sliot one of them to go with a
previous 139 for a total of 206,
one stroke behind the three top
men.
Henry Ransom of Ravinia,
111., and Skip Alexander of Lex
ington, N. C., follow Harmon at
the three-quarter mark with j
207 s. Alexander had 68 and j
Ransom 69 today.
Eight players are bunched at
208. They are Ed Furgol of De
troit, Clayton Heafner of Char
lotte, Dave Douglas of Wilming
ton, Del., George Bolesta of
Tampa. Toney Penna of Cincin
nati, George Fazio of I os An
geles, Terl Johnson of Norris
town. Pa., and Fete Cooper of
Ponte Vedra Beach.
Frank Stranahan, Toledo
amateur who was only one
stroke off the pace yesterday,
went three over par for 74 to
day and a total of 210 to pace
the amateurs.
The fin^l round to determine
the winner is scheduled for to
morrow.
BASKETBALL RESULTS
Brigham 54; Niagara 53.
N'YU 54; Si. Francis 52.
Columbia 60; Champlain 31.
Cornell 58. Bucknell 34.
Washington and Lee 80 Danville (Va.)
Masters 44.
Georgia 81; Erskine 37.
Bradley 76; Mardin Simmons 25.
Bennselaer Poly 50; New York State
Maritime Academy 45.
Hofstra 67; Queens 43.
k'd'.ana 59; DePauw 43.
Aavier (Cincinnati! 44; Purdue 43.
.'a!e 67• Hiitgers 46.
.. niv Georgia 81; Erskine College
v G 51'• Guilford 30.
v o’ 'i3- V€es 42 Guilford Yayvees 21.
r. , *r- BO; Ncwsport High School 15.
Carr,;;na Teachers 44; Goldsboro
A.-Stars 33.
Djvidson 58; McCrary Eagles 50.
e 55; Kannapolis YMCA
3j'1 Jo^Pb's College (Philadelphia) 59;
lr:v, nf Denver 41.
Columbia 60; Champlain 31.
5 gha™ Y°ung 54 Niagara 53.
e bl: Hanes Hosiery 55.
C!'A„Katham Blanketeers (Ind.) 52;
‘•awba 4 (overtime).
-r e Bame 66; Indiana State 49.
n,._™ k Mary 63; The Citadel 41.
~ _'f" Marines 42; Richmond 37.
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Amazing a packed crowd of
104,953, the largest attendance
at a college game this year, the
Irish got off to an early 10-point
lead. In the second quarter
Notre Dame yielded a touch
down to the surprisingly stub
born Trojans, and then made a
rout of this 19th game in the
series.
Emil Sitko, a squatty, 175
pound halfback from Fort
Wayne, Ind., broke the Trojan
back with a 76-yard touchdown
run, and his running mate, Bob
Livingstone, from Hammond,
Ind., really dashed the Troys’
hopes with a 92-yard sprint.
Running the team with the
mastery of his All America
status was quarterback Johnny
Lujack, and knocking down a
stout but outmanned Trojan
line, was Frank Leahy’s
beefier, heavier line.
Registering their ninth;
straight victory of the year, and
running their unbeaten streak—
dating from the tail end of the
1945 season—to 18 victories, the
awesome Irish hit the score
board with five touchdowns and
one field goal.
Place kicking specialist Fred|
Earley started the Irish scoring
five minutes after the game be-j
gan with a field goal from the
13 yard line, and went on to
convert after each touchdown
for a perfect score.
The margin of the triumph
was the largest in the history
of the series, begun in 1926 du
ring the days of Knute Rockne
and Howard Jones. The nearest J
to today’s rout was when Bucky i
O’Connor ran wild and the Irish
blanked Troy 27-0 in 1930.
The day, after heavy rain yes-1
terday, turned out to be perfect!
and the turf was heavy but not j
slippery as the Green and the
Cardinal squared off.
Southern California took the
kickoff and Notre Dame got the
first break. Fullback Verl Lilly
white fumbled and the Irish
came up with the ball on the
SC 33. Then the fearsome four
some of the Irish went to work
— Lujack, Sitko, John Panelli
and Livingstone. They drove
over the fighting Trojans to the
seven, and, with five to go for
first down, gave Earley his field
goal opportunity.
Late in the first quarter, tak
ing over on their own 12, the
same foursome marched slowly
but decisively 88 yards in 16
plays. In the march Livingstone
went for 16, Lujack passed to
his backs for 15, for 12, for 19,
and with the ball on the one just
as the second quarter began,
Sitko rammed over the Trojan
left guard for the score. That
gave the Irish a 10-point lead.
The Trojans got the next
break. Second string quarter
back Jim Powers swiped one of
Lujack’s passes on the Irish 44.
Sophomore Jimmy and Gordon
Gray combined to get to the
eight as the stands went wild.
On fourth down, four to go, Jack
Kirby, another second string
back, took a flat pass from
Powers, stepped high and hard
over his right flankers and
crossed the goal line. The con
version was good and the half
ended with Notre Dame nursing
a 10-7 lead.
The Irish took the kick off
back to the 24 as the second half
opened and on the first play
from scrimmage this dynamic
man Sitko virtually broke up the
ball game. He raced 76 yards,
with his lineman, big George
Connor, executing the final
block on what appeared to be
the only Trojan left standing on
the field.
Before the third period anoth
er marker was up. Lujack, re
turning the favor, stopped one
of Powers’ passes in midfield
and the Irish charged 53 yards
ir eight plays, Panelli gouging
the middle of the line for the
final five yards.
The next scoring play was
even more disheartening to
USC. The Troys had gone from
their own 47 to the Irish eight
before Leahy got his big regu
lars back in the game and halt
ed the threat. On the first play
after taking over, Livingstone
went off his left end, and down
the side stripes 92 yards — and
Notre Dame had a 31-7 lead. Not
until then did Leahy relieve his
regulars and start emptying the
bench.
Score by quarters:
Notre Dame - 3 7 14 14—38
USC _ 0 7 0 0— 71
Scoring: Notre Dame. Touch
downs—Sitko 2; Panelli, Living-1
stone, Zmijewski (Czarobski).
Points after touchdowns, E~ ley
(Sitko). Place kicks. Field goal!
-Earley (Sitko).
USC: Touchdown—Kirby (Me-’
Cardie). Point after touchdown.
Walker (Murphy). Place kick. I
Walcott’s Boss To Claim Title On Points
Tulane Holds
LSU To Tie
In Thriller
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 6.—(fP)—
Cheered by the biggest crowd
ever to watch a regular season
football game in the South, Tu
la n e ’ s surprising Greenies
fought a favored Louisiana State
University eleven to a 6 to 6
deadlock here today.
The throng (officially es
timated at 67,000 to top the 65,
841 mark set in the Tulane-Notre
I Dame game of 1945) saw 60 min
utes of spine-tingling play.
Trailing 6 to C at half time,
Tulane came back early in the
third period to tie up the score,
then beat off Louisiana’s frantic
offensive efforts.
The hoary “sleeper play’’ set
up the Tulane touchdown. On the
first play after the second-period
kickoff, Fd Heider hid out on
the sidelines.
Bennie Ellender hit him with
a pass and Heider ran to the
25 for a 54-yard gain. An inter
ception stopped Tulane, but the
Greenies made LSU punt, then
stormed 54 yards.
Ellender completed four pass
es during the parade, then Rich
ard Hoot barged the final six
yards on a fake pass. Heider’s
placement went wide, and cost
Tulane a victory—just as Walter
“Piggy” Barnes missed place
kick kept L.S.U. from triumph-!
ing.
Y. A. Tittle's eighth touch
down pass against Tulane in
four years came on the last play
of the first half after his aerials
had carried the Tigers 80 yards i
to the one.
The snapback came just as
the clock ticked off the final sec
ond—and most of .the spectators
didn’t believe LSU had time to
run another play.
But Tittle — the quarterback
in the T-formation — snatched
the ball from the center just in
time, and fired to Ray Bullock
in the end zone.
During the successful drive,
Tittle first hit Ray Coates on a
pass good for 41 yards, chunked
once to Joe Leach for 15, and
then found Bullock with a 13-1
yard effort to the one.
LSU - 0 6 0 0—61
Tulane _ 0 0 6 0—6
Louisiana State scoring: .
touchdowns, Bullock (for Wim
berly). Tulane scoring: touch
down, Hoot (for Svoboda).
Blue Devils Score
Win Over Hanes, 61-55
WINSTON-SALEM, Dec. 6.—
W—Duke University, rolling up
a 34-22 lead in the first half,
fought off a late Hanes Hosiery
rally to open the basketball
campaign with a 61-55 victory
here tonight.
Collins’ crip put Duke ahead,
14-13, after 12 minutes of play
and the Blue Devils raced ahead
until half time.
Hilliard Nance, Hosiery set
shot artist, put on a brilliant
exhibition in the second half,
scoring 17 points to run his total
to 22 for the night and led the
rallies that cut sharply into the
Duke lead.
Collins, Hughes and Asbon
were outstanding in the Blue
Devils play.
The lineups:
DUKE (61) G FG PF TP
Poplin, F - 3 0 3 6
Ausbon, F -- 12 0 4
Collins, C _ 8 1 3 17 i
GoGrdon, G- 1 0 2 2j
Hughes, G - 3 1 4 7 j
Ycumans, F - 3 3 3 19
Shibstead, F_——- 0 0 0 0
Armour, F -- 0 0 0 0
Lyons, C - 0 0 0 0
Sapp, G _ 0 0 0 0
Stark, G _ 0 0 10
Martin, G - 0 C 0 0
Godfrey, G - 3 0 2 6
TOTALS _ 27 7 18 61
HANES HOSIERY (55) Q FG PF TP
Cockerham, F — - 3 2 3 8
Anderson, F - 2 1 2 5
Greer, C - 2 2 16
Loft is, G _ 4 119
Nance, G - 9 4 4 22
Sheek, F _ 4 4 0 4
Tatum, F _ 0 0 2 0
Cagle, C _ 0 0 10
Nelson, C _— 0 10 1
Smith, G_ 0 0 2 0
TOTALS_j_ 20 15 16 55
Score at half: Duke 34, Hanes Hosiery
22.
FFree throws missed: Cockerham 3,
Sheek 2, Greer 2, LoLftis 1. Nelson 1,
Nance 1, Poplin 2, AAusbon 4, Collins 1.
Hughes 3 Stark 1.
MAY PLAY NEY YEAR’S
BALTIMORE, Dec. 6.—OT—
Joe Drach, first-string Univer
sity of Maryland tackle, ap
parently was staging a fast re
covery from an appendictics at
tack today and physicians said
ne’ll probably be able to play
when the Terps meet the Uni
versity of Georgia in the Gator
bowl football game at Jackson
ville, Fla., New Year’s Day.I
The Champ Down In The Fourh Round
NBA Official Cites
Need For New Rules
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. —Iff)—
Col. Harvey L. Miller, executive'
secretary of the National Box-1
ing Association, said tonight the
“Walcott-Louis bout proves once
again the need for national co
ordination in boxing and unifor
mity of scoring.”
‘The antiquated system of
scoring by rounds, as used in
New York, with a barely won
round counting on a parity with
one won by the proverbial mile,
invites trouble and criticism,”
he said in a statement.
‘ The system most generally
used is the ‘must 10’ system
where the winner of a round is
marked 10’ and the loser from
T to 9’ in proportion.
“On rounuds punctuated by
knockdowns the boxer scoring
the knockdown is scored highly,
I.E., TO to 3,’ TO to 4,’ depend
ing upon how good the loser of
a round shows. The only way
to really even up such a round
is to have knockdowns scored by
both participants.
‘Under the 10 point must sy
stem, Walcott would have won.”
Cage Tourney Slated
For Elkin This Year
SALISBURY, N. C., Dec. 6—
(J)—The North State Conference
basketball championship tour
nament will be staged this win
ter at Elkin.
The event, scheduled for the
last week in February, usually
is held in High Point but con
ference officials, meeting in an
nual session here yesterday,
voted to move it to the Elkin
Y.M.C.A. when representa-j
tives of the High Point Junior'
Chamber of Commerce, last
year’s tournament sponsors,
failed to appear.
Dr. C. R. Hinshaw of High
Point college was elected presi
dent to succeed Prof. M. C. i
Yoder of Lenoir Rhyne. '
White Phantoms Down
(imiford Lagers, dl-30
CHAPEL HILL, Dec. 0. —UP)—
Captain Box Paxton racked up
six field goals and five ' gratis
snois iox‘ ci i rpuLn i^iai iii pcic
ing his North Carolina team
mates to a 51-30 basketball tri
umph over Guilford here to
night .
The reliable Paxton displayed
an uncanny eye with his set
shots under the basket and with
his famed one-handed field
goals. He also stood out on de
fense for Coach Tom Scott’s
White Phantoms.
Guilford trailed the Phantoms
by 18-15 at intermission, but the
victors quickly boosted their
margin for keeps.
Little George Rawls, guard for
the Quakers, looked best for the
osing aggregation. He knocked
in three field goals and a brace
of free throws for an eight
point total.
GUILFORD G FT PF TP
Chatham, F _ 0 0 2 0
Mann, F _ 12 2 4
Leonard, F_ 112 3
Hall, F _ 3 0 0 6
Grubb, F _ 0 0 0 0,
Elkins, C_ 14 5 6
Hansford, C _ 0 0 0 0
Dempsey, C _ 0 0 0 0
Coleman, C _ 0 0 0 0
Rawls, G__ 3 2 2 8
Johns, GG__ 0 0 1 0
Ferrell, G _ 1 0 0 2;
Highful, G _ 0 1 0 1 i
*> _ _ _ _
TOTALS _ 10 10 14 30!
NORTH CAROLINA G FT PF TP
Paxton, F __ _ 6 5 1 171
Swartsberg. F*___ 0 0 10
Schrolbe, F _ 10 12
Miller, __ __ 2 0 14
Carso, F _ 0 2 0 2
Wagner, F _ 1 10 3
Nearnman, C _ 10 12
Dillon, C _ 2 112
Mitchell, C _ 0 0 0 0
Kohler, G _ 13 2 5
Thorne, G _ 10 0 2
Nathan, G _ 0 0 1 0,
Weinstein, G _ 0 0 0 0 ■
Cole, G _ 3 1 1 7 i
Ryan. G _ 10 0 2
Nyimicz, G _ 0 <f 0 0;
TOTALS __ _ 19 13 10 51,
Half-time score: North Carolina 18.'
Guilford G13. Free tnrows missed: Mann
1, Highful 1: Paxton 2, Swartzberg l,i
Miller 1, Kihler 1. I
ABOVli, Joe Louis looks disbe
lieving as he sprawls on the can
vas after challenger Jersey Joe
Walcott plastered him with a
vicious overhand right in the
fourth round at Madison Square
garden. Left, Walcott keeps an
eye on Louis as the latter sits
awkwardly on the canvas in the
same round. Louis won an un
popular decision over Walcott in
fifteen rounds, but protests have
rolled into the New York State
boxing commission headquarters
and^a meeting is to be held to
morrow concerning the split de
cision. (International)
Lippy Leo
Pilots Bums
For 1948
BROOKLYN, Dec. 6.—(TP)—
Leo Durocher returned to base
ball today as manager of the
Brooklyn Dodgers “without
prejudice” from Commissioner
A. B. Chandler, vyho had sus
pended him for the entire 1947
season.
Gracefully yielding to the in
evitable, Burt Shotton, who won
a pennant as the interim skip
per last season, retired from ac
tive management to accept a
vague but lucrative position
that he termed “A nice, old
man’s job.” The 63-year-old
fatherly gentleman from Bar
tow, Fla., will oversee the work
of the managers in the Dodgers’
26-club farm system.
Branch Rickey, Jr., acting in
I the absence of his father who
is president of the Brooklyn
club, made the brief one
sentence announcement that
read:
“The 1947 contract of Leo
Durocher has been renewed for
1948 by the Brooklyn baseball
club.”
No salary terms were an
nounced but it was believed
the figures will match the $50,
000 reportedly called for last
season. Actually, the contract
has not been signed and may
not be until spring training but
that is a mere formality. It will
be for one year.
While his son was breaking
the not-too-well-kept news at a
press conference in the
Dodgers’ plush offices, Rickey,
Sr., was enroute from a Phila
delphia hospital where he had
visited his daughter. Durocher,
who has said “I want to stay in I
Brooklyn until the day I die,”
wa» driving to the airport to
catch a plane for Los Angeles.
Shortly after the Brooklyn an
nouncement, Chandler followed
with a statement designed to
clarify Durocher’s status. This
was the key to the long-delayed j
decision by Rickey.
Chandler told a Cleveland
press conference “as far as the
commissioner’s office is con
cerned. Leo Durocher returns to
baseball without prejudice and |
will be judged by his conduct'
in the future.”
SEASON OPENS
RALEIGH, Dec. 6.—W—North
Carolina’s waterfowl shooting
season will open at noon Mon
day, and will continue through
January 6.
Little Chance Seen
Of Reversed Decision;
June Fight Indicated
By GAYLE TALBOT
NEW YORK, Dec. G.—(/P)—They refought the Joe Louis
Jersey Joe Walcott encounter-on 10.000 street corners here
tonday, and at the finish the somewhat over-aged Dark De
stroyer still was heavyweight champion of the world.
There will be yet another re-.
vival of last night's 15-round I
thriller at 11 a.m. on Monday, I
when Walcott's manager, Joe
Webster of Camden, N. J„ is
scheduled to beard the New York
State Boxing commission and de
mand that his man be awarded
the title on the “point system.”
The result will be the same,
too. Louis will retain his crown,
and he will again receive the
heavy end of the gate when he
and Jersey Joe play a return
engagement at Yankee Stadium
next summer. Twentieth Cen
tury Sporting club officials were
not sufficiently recovered today
to discuss the next meeting of
the two big Negroes, but it is
inevitable.
According to informed opin
ion, there isn't a chance in the
world that Webster’s appeal to
the commission will alter last
night’s 2-to-l verdict in favor
of Louis. They don’t make re
funds on fight results. As one
well known fistic figure explain
ed it, Chairman Eddie Eagan of
the boxing commission “is just
bein’ courteous to an outsider.”
The “point system” on which
Webster will base his claim
comes into use in this state only
when an official finds that his
card shows two men have fought
a draw on the basis of rounds
won. In that event, he adds up
his points to give the victory to
one or the other. The idea was
thought up by Eagan to avoid
draws. The necessity for com
puting the points didn’t arise last
night, as both judges tagged
Louis the winner of rounds and
referee Ruby Goldstein gave it
to Walcott on the same basis.
Neither gladiator showed up
at the promoter’s office today to
claim his check. Louis remain
ed up in Harlem, having cold
compresses applied to his near-]
ly-closed left eye. Walcott,
whose strange, shifty style al
most scored one of the great up
sets of boxing history, hurried
to his Camden home early to
day after learning that one of
his six children was ill.
Examination showed that
Louis’ right hand, which he hurt
when he banged Walcott’s close
clipped skull in the fifth round,
was not broken, but it still was
swollen and painful. The injury
is high up on the hand, nearly
to the wrist.
The promoters had not yet
figured what each fighter would
draw but it was believed Louis
would receive a check for about;
$70,000, Walcott $24,000.
It was generally agreed today'
NEW YORK. Dec. G— (T) —Her* it
ho\^ the three officials, Referee Ruby
Goldstein, and Judges Marty Monroe and
rank Forbes voted in last night’s title
bout between Champion Joe Louis and
Jersey Joe Walcott. IG—Goldstein; F—
Forbes; M—Monroe*.
1 2 3 4 5 fi 7 G 0 10 11 12 13 15 15
G—
W W L W EL W W E L W W L L L
322302120522222
Rounds Walcott 7. Louts 6; even 2.
Points Walcott 15; Louis 12.
M—
w W W L L L L W L L W W L L
•123111111111J1
Rounds Louis 9; Walcott 6.
Points Louis 11 Walcott 10.
F—
W W L W L L L LW L L W W L L
331311121011121
Rounds Louis 8. Walcott. 6; even 1.
Points Louis 9: Walcott 12.
The Associated Press score card:
1 2 3 4 5 fi 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
3113011111112111
Rounds: Walcott 9; Louis 5 even 1
Points: Walcott 14. Louis 5.
that poor advice from his sec
onds alone prevented Walcott
from dethroning the man who
has been king for more than
10 years. The clever challenger
was ordered by his handlers to
run like a thief in the last two
rounds, and he obeyed orders.
He lost both rounds by wide mar
gins, because of Louis’ aggres
siveness, and when the show
down came this represented the
champion’s margin of victory.
Walcott’s seconds obviously
thought he was so far in front
at that stage that he couldn't
lose, short of being knocked out.
It was a fatal mistake. Walcott
still was fresh and strong enough
to have fought Louis hard in
the concluding rounds.
“Of course,” reflected George
Nicholson, who is close to Louis,
“Walcott might have gotten him
self hit if he had fought in those
two rounds. Remember what
happened to Billy Conn in his
first fight with Joe? He got hit
in the 13th round. You can’t
say for sure that Jersey would
have won if he had fought it
out.”
Nicholson, who was in Louis’
corner, conceded that Walcott's
shift—first to the left, again to
the right—puzzled the champion.
He said Joe never had encount
ered anything quite like it be
fore.
A majority of ringside observ
ers who were interviewed today
thought Walcott earned the deci
sion. In exceptional cases they
gave him up to 10 rounds. This
corner thought Louis won it. The
Associated Press score sheet
agreed exactly with that of
Judge Marty Monroe — nine
rounds for Louis, six for Wal
cott. Obviously, it was the kind
of fight tha£ can be seen either
way.
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