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♦Aattia Hick Hayar Nmni-Littie Star4Ruins ZoneOf Opponents G i v e nillyBy JOHNNY WILLIAMSBaa A*t*il* Nawt •miH WrHarSAN ANTONIO, March 6 — Dr. Salvador Mora, coach of the Cathedral High School Iriah, had the right prescription for the ills brought about by Central Catholic's zone defense.The prescription was a little pill. Armando Herrera, whose floor! game with pot shots crushed the Buttons, 38-3#, yesterday at St. Mary's University Gym as the Irish took the 12th Annual Texas Catholic Interscholastic League championship.Mora's team, on their wav home today, tried to feed its big boys during the early portion of the game, and suddenly were behind the San Antonio team, lT-.i. Centrals zone defense hipped the towering West Texas boys away from the basket and rendered them useless offensively.STARTED FAST BREAKSJy United Prett ,AUSTIN, March C. — Johnny Crouch, Vernon sharpshooter, today lei the balloting as the Class A A all-state tournament basketball team was announced.Besides Crouch, Doyle Brunson of Sweetwater, Ronnie Slaemore of Corpus Chrtotl, L. G. Dupre of Texas City and BUI Word of Austin El Paso were named to tho team.In the conference A bracket, Troy Burrus of Canyon accumulated the moot votes. Other team members chosen were Joe Abbott, also of Canyon, Lloyd Kilpatrick of French of Beaumont, Richard Zamora of South San Antonio and Billy McCurry of Blrdville.Named to the All-Tournament Conference B team were Leslie Cater and Lynn Hart of Gruver, Kelly Jim Duncan of Cayuga* Norman Miksch of Waelder, and James Hatton of Warren. Cator and Duncan were unanimous eholees.Word, Sides to HeadReturning ‘A’ Wearersand Gary Sides will head a group of for another season of competition atWith Tony Specia and Joe Cortezhitting shots while backing away from the bucket, the Buttons had no trouble rolling up the advantage. That was until Herrera went to wprk. He began dribbling though for short shots. His ball hawking took every opening, and started fast breaks that didn't give the Buttons time to get set. Along with some set shots by Richard Juen, and a couple of tip-ins by Pete Canavan, Cathedral finally chugged in front, 34-32, with less than three minutes remaining.Again Herrera went to work, this time stalling the ball. His dribbling forced Central to come out of their zone defense, and the Buttons just weren t adept at man-for-man play. When they couldn't get the ball, the Buttons' cause was lost.Jesuit of Dallas won thud place with a 38-32 victorv over St F,d-I| ward's of Austin. Kirwin ‘Galvcs-|ton won consolation division from j Academy lt;Corpus Chnstp, 56-46.TOURNAMENT MYSTERY| The All-State team included: Joe ; Cortez, Central Catholics centeri| who with 76 points was picked for | the third straight time; Larry Hef-1 ferman, Kirwin, who edged Cortez for scoring with 82 points; Don De-! coster. Price of Amarillo; B»ll jClark, St. Thomas 'Houston); Jake iJuen, Cathedral; George Pappas. (St. Edwards lt;Austin'; and Al Fa-: ber. Jesuit «Dallas l*j How Herrera missed the select group is the mystery of the tourna-j ment.The championship was Cathedral s seventh out of nine trips to San Antonio The Ir.sh have taken the state crow n along with Central Catholic 11 of the 12 times the meetAll-State Man Billy Word basketball players returning Austin High School in 1951.Word, who was named today as a member of the Conference AA all-state basketball team, and Sides, who was one of the stars of the♦ meet at Austin last weekend, will be the nucleus around which Coach Ziggy Zeretxke will try to build | another District 4-AA title team.I SIDES WAS SENSATIONi tj Austin will lose four of its start--Lvnn Mullen, Bobby Sow,JorgensenOnodgerTrade ListBe United Pre*$VERO BEACH. Fla., MarchBrooklyn’s Branch Rickey, whohat been trying to steam up atrade for a pitcher, threwr another log on the fire today with theannouncement that Third Baseman Johnny Jorgensen ia on the trading block.“I don’t want te trade him,** said the Dodger President sadly.He's a fine ’ittle fellow and a real Major Leaguer.“But I am afraid that Jorgensen I surplus on this club with all the good young men we haye,” Rickey said. “I am afraid his arm Isn’t quite right, yet. If his arm were sound, well, I’d pick him for our regular third baseman, but aa things are. I’m afraid he's surplus.’’Jorgensen is 30 years old. while hia Dodger third base rival. Billy Cox. is 30 and Rookie Bobby Morgan Is 24.ers-Rene Rosas and Pete Holguin—; bv graduation. The Panthera also I will lose Fov Boyd and Lawrenco 1 Langley off the squad.Besides Word and Sidoa, theirI1 returnees are: Raymond Matthews,Don Henry, Jim Nuabaum, GeroldGeorge*. Luia Rutera, RichardDickey and Arthur Blanco.Sides was the sensation of theClaw AA meet for Austin, when ha scored 10 field goals and 20 points for the Panthers against HarlingenCardinals in the opening game of that bracket.MULLEN TOP-8CORERMullen, however, won top scoring honors for the Panthers in tha meet with 33 points. Word was second high with 29, and Sides w'as third with 27.The Panthers returned to El Paso yesterday, and the players were tocheck in their suits today. The entire 15-man squad probably will letter.has been held.CATHEDRAL*fftftmPfA Juen ............. . i313Ft Juen . .............3223Canavan .............213Herrera ...............■#n214Portillo ..............3012Chesak ..............00•1Roaalea ...............000,- •15ts)9CENTRAL i3«iteftftmP tLa yen ..............0323Spec,a ...............5i15Corie*411Korn ..............t*23Villa .............00kD» iintrev ............0000C I a r Ic00a010ISi18Scotc bv q.iar'ers:CATHEDRAL ......r 158ISip5s112*00.isto31 1 « a1282n0W. Texas In PlayoffBy imth) rutsCANYON. March 6. ~ WestTexas State, third-place winner in the Border Conference race, and Texas Wesleyan College of Fort Worth, meet here tomorrow in a first round playoff for Texas’ berthin the NAIB tournament at Kan*sas Citv.TWC was picked by the NAIBcommittee over University of Corpus Chnsti from among the state'* independent colleges on the ban* of its record against stronger teams although the Gulf Coast uchool had the best won-loss record.Su OurNew Spring LineNATIONAL TAILORING CO.SUITINGSAt a Xew Low Price$35 ”SUITSMADE-TO-MEASUREAbsolute Fit GuaranteedMILLERTAILORING CO.lt;13 N. SUntoe Dial 3-5422
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