Barrier Fails to Worry Gordon
New York Pirates have given up on Bergen Gardens, focusing on Gordon to carry much of the Pirates batting load this season. The batter signals confidence in his power hitting and expects others to step up as well.
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1954
Page
2
New York Pirates have given up on Bergen Gardens, focusing on Gordon to carry much of the Pirates batting load this season. The batter signals confidence in his power hitting and expects others to step up as well.
A garbled OCR style record shows numerous college basketball game scores and team names such as Fordham Grove City Bates Dartmouth Slippery Rock New Hampshire Trinity and others with inconsistent formatting. The fragment presents mixed results, teams, and locations including George Washington Wake, South Carolina, The Citadel, Alabama State, and more, but no coherent narrative or single event.
A New York study by NCAA Service Bureau shows 60 players averaging 20 points or more through February. Bevo Franch tops the list with 48.9 in 19 games. Vinet Leta Wyoming 31.5. Clarence Burks St Augustine’s 30. Bu) Wardien North Central 29.7. Ralph Bacote St Paul’s Poly 20.5. Nine players reach 27 or more, up from 28 a year ago when only three did.
A New York sports column argues Ivy League schools are reshaping football by dropping spring practice and prioritizing academics. It envisions a 1954 schedule where each member plays seven peers, reducing tests against outside powers and emphasizing scholarship and amateur balance.
Funeral services for Johnnie Straughter were conducted Friday in the Chapel with burial at Forest Cemetery. Hicks Funeral Home was in charge. The article notes additional church events and services for nearby congregations and mentions fire victims Ruby Lee and Archie Lee Anderson whose funeral services were held in Nashville.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said fishing for the weekend will be good in Bradley County Green’s and Paragould Lakes crappie in Drew County Lake Wallace crappie and bass in Union County Bull Shoals Lake in Miller County Mercer Bayou and Second Old River crappie in Monroe Maddox Bay and lakes crappie in Saline County Saline River and all lakes crappie and bass in White County all lakes and rivers crappie and bass.
The National Invitation Tournament faces competition from the NCAA as the nation's top college basketball bodies. Amid mixed results, Manhattan defeated by 75 to 63, while NYU stood 7-7 and Brooklyn rode a 265-59 earlier win. Frank Servy poured in 51 points as Verrman’s team routed Georgia Tech.
Hope High School defeated Arkadelphia 72 to 42 in the smallest home crowd of the season. Garnie Hatch led with 19 points as 13 Hope players saw action, building a 40 22 halftime lead and expanding it to a 54 31 edge by the third period. Jimmy Brace scored 12 including eight in the fourth quarter to seal the rout for Hope Bobcats.
The Southerners aim to win the W National Collegiate Championships and the Southern Conference tournament from March 4 to 6 to secure an NIT bid if they fail to reach the conference. It is known the Nuc already has a bid.
The eight Eastern colleges approved a round robin football format to begin in 1938, affecting the Ivy League members Brown Columbia Cornell Dartmouth Harvard Pennsylvania Princeton and Yale and prompting questions about new opponents for other East Coast schools. The agreement reaffirms 1945 principles and aims to extend round robin planning to other sports, deepening the league’s cohesion amid talk of a broader conference.
The Australian ladybird beetle was introduced to California to combat pests in orange and lemon groves. It aided in reducing insect damage, supporting the citrus industry's health during wartime.
Shelly, wife of Stephen Carr, confronts Doctor Craig Talboy about work at the Norfolk hospital. Her father in law pressures influence to bring the doctor under hospital control, while Shelly questions hospital politics and the AMA. The tension reveals family ambitions, medical ethics, and Shelly’s desire for independence.
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