Pounding Home: Leeds top Graham Hoeme in AAU playoffs
Bob Leeds defeats Graham Hoeme 66 to 52 as J W Malone scores 26 and Rufus Graves 22 in a key AAU playoff game at the college gym. Leed's 10-4 start turns into a late rally while Malone dominates the second half to seal the win.
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Graves
Butch Royter
Bob Seeds
Dyer Slams Baker Signalling Pitch In Spring Training
Eddie Dyer, St. Louis Cardinals manager, criticized Del Baker and the Boston Red Sox for signaling pitches in Florida spring training games. He warned the practice risks batter safety and undermines players, noting only a strong season would justify such tactics.
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United Press
ST. Petersburg
Fla
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St. Louis Cardinals
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Boston Red Sox
Baker
Chuck Dressen
New York Yankees
Red Sox
Dyer
Ted Willams
Winlobe News
Joe McCarthy
Marie Joe
McCarthy
Florida
Longhorn Center Fielder Ferguson Signs With Borger Gassers
Borger reports center fielder Robert Ferguson of the University of Texas Longhorns has signed with the Borger Gassers of the West Texas-New Mexico Baseball League. He did not play for UT this season though he remained eligible.
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Robert Ferguson
University of Texas Longhorns
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Sandie Baseballers Idle This Week End
Sandie school team the Amarillo Sandies plan no game this weekend as coaches seek a practice opponent. Coach Rudy Gamblin expects a game arranged for next week with the opening District 1-AA clash scheduled for April 20 at Borger against the Bulldogs.
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Golden Sandies
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Bulldogs
East One Game On in Series
In a 58 to 47 East victory at Madison Square Garden, Lionel Malamed of City College of New York led a stiff East defense to a two to one series lead over the West. Malamed scored 19 and shut down Murray Wier, while Odis Spears, Bill Gabor, and Adolph Schayes earned praise for the East’s overall play. West standouts included Arnold Ferrin and A L Bennett. Andy Wolfe sat out with a sprained ankle as the Olympic tryouts begin tomorrow at the Garden.
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College Aces
Madison Square Garden
Lionel Mal‘amed
City College of New York
Malamed
Murray Wier
Iowa
Gene Berce
Marquette
Wier
Odis Spears
Western Kentucky
Bill Gabor
Syracuse
Adolph Schayes
New York University
West
Arnold Ferrin
Utah
A. L. Bennett
Oklahoma
A&m
Andy Wolfe
California
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Zaslofsky Wins Pro Cane Scor in a Crown
Brooklyn born guard Eddie Zaslofsky, 21, tops the Basketball Association of America scoring with 1,007 points for the Chicago Stags in the regular season. Joe Parks previously led last year but finishes behind the new champion as final stats are released.
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Brooklyn
Joe Parks
Basketball Association of America
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St. John’s University
Chicago Stags
Purks
Amarillo High to open seasons with mixed prospects
Amarillo High School readies for track and baseball seasons. Sandies face a tougher baseball slate, while football drills at Baylor begin spring work April 2 with about 65 candidates. Nearby notes include Jinx Tucker’s Southwestern Conference picks and Kansas Relays entries featuring Harrison Dillard.
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Joel Hunt
Joe Routt
Texas
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Ox Emerson
Baylor
Billy Patterson
Botehey Koch
Tucker
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Albert Lard
Moose Hartman
Borger
Milton Price
J. N. Trotter
Plainview
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Bill Howton
Morris White
Bob Crawford
Amarillo
Burl Bufkin
Mike Montgomery
Brownfield
Deverrle Lewis
Harold Dalton
KO Lubbock High School
Texas Tech
Kansas
Lawrence
Kan
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Haldwin-Wallace College
Berea
Ohio
Notre Dame
Waco
Baylor University
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Sandie Tracksters Travel to Odessa Relays Tomorrow
Seventeen Amarillo High School athletes will compete in the Odessa Sand Hills Relays. The squad departed today and will arrive tonight. Events include sprints relays and field events with runners and jumpers led by coach John Whinne.
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Galen Fowler
Claude Fox
Jimmy Clifton
Sherman Stockton
James Garner
Charles Sieber
Jimmy Hamilton
J. R. Vaughan
College Cage Rules Undergo Face lifting
The college basketball rule book is being revised to streamline and clarify. New regulations approved include bench coaching during timeouts, allowing referees to recognize players by sight, a foul-justice hand raise by the charged player, and jump balls at the nearest six foot circle to prevent side-line scrambling.
Texas Baseball Bosses Rotate in 1948 Manager Changes
The Associated Press reports a major turnover in Texas baseball as 26 of 34 clubs across five leagues begin 1948 with new managers. Big State League leads with seven of eight teams under new pilots, Texas League mostly reshuffled, and several ex-Big State bosses taking posts in Lone Star and West Texas-New Mexico leagues. Multiple relocations and replacements are noted among clubs in Dallas, San Antonio, Tulsa, Beaumont, Henderson, Greenville, Paris, Amarillo, Vernon, and other cities.
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T. K. Hardy
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Denison
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Vernon
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John Andrews
Billy Joe Russell
Amarillo Firerves
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Idalou
Walter Eddington
Odessa
J. L. Gulley
Quanah
Frank Ottmers
Fredericksburg
Eddington
Elbert Johnson
Temple
Rod Martin
West Columbia
W. H. Riley
Grand Prairie
Bill Lyman
Littlefield
Ernest Hawkins
Lamesa
Ray Crenshaw
Bud Conley
J. W. ‘Thompson
Bart Jackson
Phillips
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Roscoe
Zac Henderson
Texas
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Lonehorn
Gus Mancuso
Henderson
Harry Davis
Marshall
Greenville
Davis
Texarkana
Wichita Fale
Wichita Falls
Mark Carolla
San Antonio
Bill Atwood
Sherman-Nenison
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