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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1949
Page
8
Ohio University basketball struggles continue as fouls and miscues cost a Muskingum defeat. Center Bill Ruby led Muskingum with 20 points while Ohio battles a skid toward a sub .500 finish under coach Dutch Trautwein.
Finishing, led by Frank Calvin’s 522 set and 2602 game, swept Office to move into second place. The Finishers’ three successive victories leapfrogged Machine Shop and Composing as Offset defeated the Planners. Howard Mills led Machine Shop with a 560 series and 207 game.
West Point announces Murray Warmath of Knoxville Tennessee will join Army as line coach replacing Sid Gillman who leaves to lead Cincinnati. Warmath previously headed Tennessee’s line from 1946 and earlier coached at Tennessee and Mississippi State. He served in the Navy 1943 to 1945.
Central Ohio amateur boxers enter the seventh annual Golden Gloves tourney starting Monday January 17 at Memorial Hall. Promoted by the Zooligans, the event features three round bouts with eight weight classes awarding an all expense paid trip to the finals for class winners. Entries are sought by the Columbus Dispatch. entrants must be 16 or older with no professional background.
A noon intra mural league of ten teams starts play at Nelsonville High with about 80 boys. Each squad is coached by a varsity player. Games run daily until March 4, followed by a double elimination tournament.
The Mid-American Conference opens a four day stretch with Cincinnati leading the chase and Western Michigan Miami Butler Western Reserve Ohio U in pursuit. Cincinnati and Butler meet once before an Indianapolis showdown while Miami and Ohio U. seek to reverse slumps. Bobcats host Western Michigan while Miami visits Butler in a key early season spread. Cincinnati has five straight wins and remains the league’s only undefeated quint, with Ohio and Reserve compiling sub par marks.
Georgetown visits William Mary and Georgia meets Mississippi. Texas faces SMU while VMI plays Richmond. Saturday features St Josephs versus Can-y and Loyola Chicago against St. Johns at Madison Square Garden among many cross conference games.
The Plains Independent beat Chauncey Wanderers 60 to 47 as a 24 point burst in the third quarter turned a close game. Buddy Earich held to 13 points, the Wanderers cut the gap to nine in the final stretch but could not overcome the surge.
Texas will host five major golf events in 1949 with a total purse of $56,500. The year begins February 10 with the Texas Open in San Antonio offering $10,000, followed by a Houston event February 17 to 20, and the Rio Grande Valley Open at Harlingen February 25 to 27. May 28 brings the Texas PGA open in Dallas with $11,500, then a late May Colonial Country Club event in Fort Worth offering $15,000.
Scores from high school to pro games include Akron South 49 West 35 and Otterbein 57 Defiance 56. College results show Canisius 59 Syracuse 52 and New York U. 72 North Carolina 48. Pro action features Baltimore 98 Philadelphia 83 and Chicago 89 Providence 178.
Vince Boryla of Denver tops the major college scoring chart with a 21.9 average after eight games through last Saturday, totaling 169 points. Ernie Vandeweghe drops to fifth as Dick Schnittker Ohio State moves to second with 21.7. Ralph Richter Cincinnati sits at 21.6 and Rik Ryona Virginia at 21.2.
In hockey action the Bruins edged the Red Wings 3 to 2 while the Canadiens routed the Black Hawks 7 to 2. In minor league baseball the New Haven Nighthawks lost 5 to 8 to Providence. Louisville defeated Muncie 9 to 3 in the IL.
Newark fighter Charlie Fusart of Irvington outpointed Frank Palermo of New York. Philadelphia fighter Honeychile Johnson knocked out Eddie Goodman of Philadelphia. New York based Eddie Richardson defeated Gene Carconte from Paterson, N. J., in a 5 round bout.
Western All Stars proved faster on the back fields as they beat the East 24 to 19 in the first of two college all star games in Honolulu. A crowd of about 12 000 watched the Westerners open an 18 point halftime lead and hold off a late East rally.
Holy Cross coach describes a fast break system built on three men versus two. Stars Joe Mullaney Bob Cousy and George Kaftan execute a sequence where big men post up and runners cut, with passing and screens to free a set shot.
Lou Moore the California designer and car owner enters three cars for the 33rd International Classic at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 30 with Mauri Rose and Bill Holland listed as drivers of two front drive 270 cubic inch cars and a third rear drive car with a 220 or larger engine yet to have a driver named. He also brings a spare 270 cubic inch engine as backup against mechanical trouble.
Italians Angelo De bacco and Cesare Moretti moved into the lead in the International six day bike race at Public Hall in Cleveland. They surged past Fernando Grillo and Stanley Bransgrove to gain a one lap margin after Grillo Bransgrove had held a one lap lead for over 21 hours. Four teams trailed by two laps. Yates Diggelman and Bransgrove were injured in a spill, with the race resumed after a 25 minute delay.
Windsor High of Stockport overcame a one to fifteen point third period lead to defeat the local Blue Devils 43 31 Tuesday night. James led Windsor with 23 points while Ike Staley added seven as Chauncey pressed in the later stages but could not close the gap.
Lucky Pilot, a famed racing dog from Miami, earned about $50,000 over two and a half years, highlighting a notable canine racing run.
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