Mercury Club Promotes Amateur Boxing and Hi-Toms Plans
The Mercury Athletic club sponsors the Tri-State Golden Gloves in High Point with AAU sanction and medical checks at ringside. The piece notes Boxing potential in North Carolina and calls for more local entrants as the Hi-Toms plan to boost High Point players housing for the coming season and strengthen ties with Thomasville.
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He Mercury Athletic Club
Mercury
High Point National Guard Armory
North Carolina
Hi-Toms
High Point
Austin Brown
Thomasville
Jim Gruzdis
Maroon Club Surprises With Power
High Point high's Black Bison edged Lee Edwards high of Asheville 34 to 28 in a Western Conference clash. Powell led with 16 points while Bryant and O'Kelly added eight and 10 as Moretz and Bocock provided solid frontcourt play. Moretz hit 8 of 10, and Moretz, Yarborough, and O'Kelly fueled the late surge.
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Bill Hackney
Jack Powell
Chub Bryant
Harold O'Kelly
High Point High
Bison
Lee Edwards
Powell
High Point
Bryant
O'Kelly
Asheville
Maroons
Hassell
Frank Hassell
Ken Yarborough
Moretz
Don Moretz
Charlie Smith
Jim Bocock
Ocook
Jerry Paschal
Smith
Greensboro
Yarborough
Conn turns oil fortune in Oklahoma venture
Ex fighter Billy Conn, 32, says oil investments yield a good income and plans 16 new wells near Arcadia Oklahoma City. Partner Robert Jordan, a Harvard graduate and Double R drilling president, notes the risk of dry wells as Conn shifts from boxing to business.
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Bob Sundy
A. P
Pittsburgh
Billy Conn
Billy
Joe Louis
Conn
Easy Street
Onn
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Enterprise
Robert Jordan
Oklahoma City
Double R Drilling Company
Jordan
Harvard Law School
The
Oklahoman
Dan
Arcadia
Bay Window
Louis
High Point College Screens Applicants for New Coach
High Point College plans a March 1 appointment for a new football coach and athletic director to lead the program. Dr. Dennis Cooke, the college president, said more than thirty applications came from twelve states, and the search is moving carefully to ensure a qualified, ambitious leader who can recruit and build the program. Names of candidates are being withheld to avoid bias.
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High Point College
Dennis Cooke
Cooke
Ralph James
Devils
Calumet Twins Run One Two At Arcadia
Calumet's Ponder and Two Lea finished first and second in the Santa Anita feature at Arcadia California on May 28. Jockey Steve Brooks rode Ponder to victory ahead of Two Lea, with Murky Gloom third and Clifford Movers' outsider Moco be trailing.
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Calumet Twins
Arcadia
Calif
P— Calumet
Santa Anita
Ponder
Lea
Steve Brooks
Two Lea
Clifford Movers
Mocobe
Pointers Capture League Win No 7 in Game Here
High Point Purple Panthers beat Atlantic Christian Bulldogs 87 44 to stay atop the North State conference. Leonard Hunt led with 19 points and strong rebounding as Joyce 16 and Sueta 14 paced the scoring. Gray Cartwright returned for HP with 9 points. Attendance neared 900 as HP built a 30 22 halftime lead and pulled away.
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Hunt
Purple Panthers
ACC
Bison
High Point College
Atlantic Christian
Leonard Hunt
Indiana
Enterprise
High Point College Purple Panthers
Atlantic Christian Bulldogs
Panthers
Jesse Joyce
Ed Sueta
Bill Wait
Panther
Don McCurry
Ralph James
Joyce
Waiz
Sueta
Jack Allsbrook
Bobby Stott
Bulldogs
Invaders
Paul Glazer
A.C.C. Crew
High Point
Lenoir-Rhyne Mountain Bears
Gray Cartwright
Glazer
Ldunt
Cartwright
Teen
Pryor
Mobley
Eeeneee
State Wake tilt moved to large Coliseum in Raleigh
The N C State Wake Forest basketball game set for February 2 at Gore gym here will be played in the 12,000 seat City Coliseum male Wake Forest Athletic Director Jim Weaver announced. He cited high ticket demand and Gore gym capacity of around 2,600 compared with the Coliseum capacity.
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Raleigh
N. C. State-Wake Forest
Gore Gymnasium
Wake Forest
Jim Weaver
Weaver
Undefeated Cagers Win Tight City Tilt
In Rochester New York Marshall High School remained undefeated with a 95 to Charlotte High victory. The win marked its 10th win in the city high basketball league and produced the lowest scoring game in league history. Charlotte High remained winless and hoped for a slow, possession oriented pace.
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Rochester
N. Y
Dan
Marshall High School
Charlotte High
Charlotte
Marshall
Demaret Leads Hogan Open With Two Stroke Edge
Jimmy Demaret shot 69 to hold a two stroke lead at 200 after 54 holes in the Ben Hogan Open in Phoenix. Ellsworth Vines surged with a 64 to reach 202, while Sam Snead and Pat Palmer remained near the top. Ed Furgol dropped to 10th after a 74 and Hogan fell back with 73.
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Jimmy Demaret
Phoenix
Jack Stevenson
Ariz
Chicago
Ellsworth Vines
Johnny Palmer
Badin
N. C
Ojai
Calif
Ben Hogan
Hogan
Jack Burke, Jr
White Plains
N. Y
Jack Harden
el Paso
Tex
Henry Ransom
St. Andrews
Ill
Dave Douglas
Newark
Del
Iverson Martin
Graham
Ed Furgol
Royal Oak
Mich
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AAU
Jack Smith
Mercury Boxing
Paul Apple
Maroon Club
Burlington
Mountaineers
Hodge
APC
Withholds
Athlete Council
Fen Meent Exre
By Bill Currie
Cart Wright
Ansel Snow
Tac Heels
Jimmy
Sam Snead
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Pat Palmer
Sammy
Demaret
Snead
Vines
Inblick
Doug Ford
Yonkers
Ford
Fred Hawkins
Furgol
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