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PAGE SIX
Today's
Sports Parade
By OSCAR FRALEY
United Press Sports Writer
NFiW YORK 'IP' The spot in which the baseball Bos
wells bury the hatchet will determine this week whether
Bill Terry, Bill Dickey and Joe DiMaggio win their way
into the Hall of Fame this year.
Thpre can be small doubt that each of them belongs
in the diamond shrine. But, up to now, for varied reasons
the voters have preferred to bury the hatchet in the car
cass.
As “far as Terry and Dickey were concerned, the ax
ing was of a purely personal reason. Too many guys didn’t
like thgm personally. In DiMaggio’s case, it was the old
East vs, West split among the baseball writers.
As an old country bey who still refuses to accept the
label “typical New Yorker,” I get a kick out of the peren
nial ba£tle between the lads from the Big City and those
from the other big cities.
Neither element can believe that anyone is independ
ent of Either faction. You either vote like a New Yorker or
you vote like the anti-New Yorkers, they believe.
Thus, last year when the New York writers were an
nouncing calmly beforehand that DiMaggio would make
it, the outside writers put their backs up and made dog
goned certain that DiMaggio didn't make it. Silly, sure,
but human nature.
In the cases of Terry and Dickey, the writers agreed
to disagree. Both came close to winning their niche in the
Hall of Fame but enough of the old die-hards in each of
the voting camps hung on to ancient feuds to make the
two Bills miss.
Who can deny that they belong?
Terry is the only man in the last quarter of a centurj
to hit .400 in the National League. He made it with .401
in 1930 and nobody has nudged it since. But Terry, an
irascible man, made too many enemies during his tenure
as manager of the New York Giants. He was contemptu
ous of newspapermen and. while he could be charming, he
didn't very often take the trouble.
Dickey is cut much in the same pattern. You may say
that Ihis chances are even less than Terry’s, whose foibles
have;been dimmed by the years. For Dickey- still is much
in evidence on the baseball scene as a Yankee coach
and as one who can be gruff, cjiurlish and downright rude.
But, if-you face facts as a voter, Dickey was one of the
greatest catchers of all time, if not the greatest, and the
balloting is supposed to be done from that angle.
DiMaggio needs no buildup, naturally. His feats were
of such recent note that every baseball fan remembers
them. His batting championships, 56 - game hitting streak
and value to the Yankees are legends of the sport. My
most-poignant memory of him concerns the last game of
the 1949 World Series. Joe had been out half the season
with a heel spur but came back to spark the Yanks home.
But in the Series he was exhausted by a virus and was a
shadow of his old self. Then, in the last game, he hit a
home run.
“Daddy,” his little son, Joe, said worriedlv in the
clamor of the rejoicing locker room, “I lost a bail today.”
“That’s all right, son,” Jce said, hugging him. “I lost
one, too!”
It-would be nice, this week, if the writers could lose
their prejudices. These guys all fteiong.
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Spruill On Sports
By Frank Spruill
Some sort of record may have
been set in Olivia Tuesday night
when three classy Benhaven for- j
wards went on a scoring rampage |
and scored ninteen points before
the Greenwaves finally managed to
sink a shot.
The Benhaven scored ten more
while Dunn was getting four to add
to it's total to make the score at
the end of the first quarter a very
humiliating, 29-6.
It's doubtful if the Greenwaves
could have stayed with Benhaven
if they had hit on all of their shots
in that first period, because tier
girls that go to school in Olivi r
missed only two tries during the
entire period—and then they got
both rebounds and ended up with
the points anyway.
Dunn's shooting percentage in
the first quarter was not as bad
as it has been in some of the other
games this season; they just couldn't
hold on to the ball long enough
to shoot.
The Waves got the ball after
every Benhaven try at the basket—
in the center circle, but about
half of the time some Benhaven
guard would snatch the bail and
get it to the Benhaven forwards
for another two points and the
other half of the time Dunn for
wards would fumble it away.
After the first quarter the Dunn
lassies settled down and played
some creditable ball, but a twenty
three point lead was just too much
to overcome.
It’s possible now that the fact
that the bus pulled into the school
yard a scant ten minutes before
gametime had something to do with
the way the first quarter came off
but it shouldn't have had twenty
three points worth to do with it.
The main thing that hurt the
Greenwaves was that they had to
play with out the services of two of
the best guards because of sickness.
Kack Butt, a regular first-string
er and Jean Strickland, one of the
too reserves, didn't even make the
trip: and the girls knew that they
would be in a fine pickle if some
body fouled out.
And then, to top it all, when the
Benhaven team opened up so
quickly, it discouraged the DunA
ranks a little—to say the least.
When Benhaven scored the, first
few points the Dunn forwards got
tense trying to get them back quick
ly. and, consequently, they tightened
up so much that they started fum
bling. and that only made the
situation worse for Dunn.
And Benhaven made the most of
it to run up the highest score made
against a Dunn team this season.
Anyway, the Greenwaves wifi
have a chance to avenge that rout
February 9 when Benhaven wii!
come here for a contest.
The defeat toppled Dunn from
first place in the standing to a
tie for second (With Benhaven.)
Coats moved back into first place
with a victory over Lillington.
The big games left on the sched
ule appear to be when these three
teams meet each other—but then,
all that is at stake is a choice bertn
in the tournament.
The last game played at Ben
haven Tuesday went to the other
extreme.
It was the Dunn boys who be
wildered their opponents with a
blistering pace that enabled the
Waves to run up their largest vic
tory margin of the season, thirty
two points.
Dunn scored the first six points
and went on for ten points, 15-5
first quarter lead.
Then in the second quarter they
garnered twenty more while the
host could muster only seven for
a twenty-three point halftime lead.
They let down a little in the
third period, but came back in the
last quarter for what seemed to be
a continuous parade to the Dunn
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basket as they sizzled the cords
for twenty - seven more points.
| Here again, the final score was
not a true evaluation of the merits
of both teams.
The Benhaven boys had a night
like the Dunn girls. They are cap
able of playing much better bad
than they did; any team would
have to win four games in the
Harnett County Conference —maybe
not for three, but certainly for four
Tha; will probably get back inti
the winning group Friday when
they entertain Anderson Creek.
Dunn will be playing the second
in a series of four out of town
engagements, as the Greenwaves
will travel to Boone Trail High
School for the seventh game of the
season.
Tuesday. Dunn will invade Angier,
and Friday week the Greenwaves
wlil meet Anderson Creek in Lil
lington.
After they come back to Dunn
for a game with Buie's Creek.
Harnett County Conference games
this Friday.
Dunn at Boone Trail
Anderson Creek at Benhaven
Angier at Buie’s Creek
LaFayette at Coats
Erwin open
Lillington open
Tuesday’s games
Dunn at Angier
Coats at Erwin
Buie's Creek at LaFayette
Lillington at Benhaven
Boone Trail and Anderson Creek
at Lillington.
The Duke University Blue Devils,
currently holding down the number
eight rating in the latest Associated
Press poll, and Dixie Classic champ
ion, will have a chance to prove
whether or not they deserve that
high rating in the next few weeks.
Saturday night they will take on
North Carolina State in Durham,
and then Tuesday night they will
play Wake Forest.
State is ranked twentieth and
Wake Forest has already beaten
them twice this year.
On down the schedule, on Jan
uary 30, the Blue Devils will go- to
Annapolis to play the team that
they beat for the Dixie Classic
championship, Navy.
Navy is currently ranked eigh
teenth in the poll.
February sixth George Washing
ton, the school holding down the
twelfth spot, will come to Durham
for an engagement.
George Washington's last gams
fas a forty point, 95 - 55, conquest
of Clemson College.
And Clemson is one of the strong
er teams that dropped out of the
old ‘‘Southern Conference” to form
the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Football Deaths
Double In 1953
CINCINNATI (IP) The num
ber of football deaths nearly dou
bled in 1953 but there is ‘‘no evi
dence” that this is due to the re
turn to one-platoon football, a spe
cial football coaches committee re
ported today.
A total of 19 gridiron players lost
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Angier Boys Beat Fuquay
In Overtime Girls Lose
By FRANK SPRUILL, Jr.
The Angier High boys converted
the three points that they scored
in an overtime period against Fu
quay Springs High School into a
one point, 51-50, victory over the
visitors—after the Fuquay girls had
come through with a 48-43 win in
the first game.
To start the evenings’ festivities
off. Arnold of Fuquay poured twen
ty-two points through the nets to
lead her team to the victory.
Owens and Adams led the loser’s
attack with Owens getting seven
teen points and Adams sixteen.
The girls from Wake County
jumped into a three point, 11-8,
lead at the end of the first quarter
and set the pace in every period
except the fourth.
At halftime Fuquay had a 23-
19 lead, which mounted to 39-33 as
the third period ended.
In the last stanza, the Harnett
County girls did manage to cut the
lead by one point.
FUQUAY SPRINGS 4B; Arnold
22, Stephenson 2. Rowland 11. Ash
worth 13, Cotten, Averitte, Smith,
Aiken.
ANGIER 43: Owens 17. Adams
16. Dupree 10. Gilliam, McLeod,
Tavlor, Adams.
The last game of the night prov
ed to be a thriller with an over
time period needed to decide the
victor of the contest.
their lives last season as compared
to only 10 in 1952, said Dr. Floyd
R. Eastwood, chairman of the com
mittee on injuries and fatalities in
a report to the convention of the
American Football Coaches Assn.
However, Dr. Eastwood empha -
sized that the total of 19 was "26
per cent under the average of all
years since 1931 when the first
study was made” and he stated
that “the fatality trend is down
over the years.”
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Angier jumped to a two point
12-10 lead in the first quarter and
pulled away from the Wake Coun
ty boys in the second by eight more
to go ahead at halftime by an ap
parently safe, ten point lead, 27-17.
However the Fuquay boys came
back stronger than ever in the third
quarter and came all the way from
ten points behind to a point in the
lead.
In the last period Angier out
pointed Fuquay by one to throw
the ball game back into a dead
lock as the final whistle sounded,
48-48.
In the overtime period, the boys
from Harnett were again one point
better than their Wake County
neighbors, as they scored three
points while Fuquay could get but
two.
Johnson and Partin led the An
gier scoring. Johnson had twelve
points and Partin was one back
with eleven.
The individual scoring honors for
the game, however, went to one of
the losers.
Honeycut threw twenty-one points
into the baskets, and Stephens hit
for fourteen.
Angler 12 15 6 15 3 5l
Fuquav 10 7 17 14 2 5O
FUQUAY SPRINGS: Honeycut 21,
Jones, Stephenson 14, Ashworth 4,
Dean, Holloway 5, Davis 4, Smith
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ANGIER: Smith 4. Partin 11, Tu
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This was the first game for An
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County team, LaFayette, Friday
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Angier will return to county com
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County Conference game.
Angler's next home game is Tues
day when they entertain Dunn in
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