Sundown Golden Gloves Tourney Opens Thursday
Sundown’s annual Golden Gloves event starts Thursday at Texas Tech gym and runs three days. Sundown and Union Dawson county teams defend titles against Littlefield Bula Whiteface and others. sixteen teams enter with trophies and gold basketballs for all top honors. Max Arrants of Slaton serves as referee as opening round features Sundown girls vs Smyer and Sundown boys vs Whiteface among early matchups.
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G. L. Detrixhe
Sundown Independent
Littlefield
Ropes
Bula
Smyer
Union
Dawson
Union Girls
Dawson County
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Max Arrants
Slaton
Whiteface
Bulaz
Emula
Leield
Frenship
Frenship-Smyer
Lubbock
Texas Tech
Meadow High girls basketball holds strong tradition in town
A Meadow High school feature notes the girls team as a long standing local power with a trophy filled gym and pennants. It praises the guards as hard workers supporting the stars and hints at a potential matchup with top rival teams.
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Avalanche-Journal
Meadow
Supt
Hamilton
Meadow High School
T Teir
Guas
A To Ha
Meadow Ball Club
Bat
Lubbock
Abe Martin Joins TCU Coaching Staff
Abe Martin, long time high school coach with district titles at Paschal El Paso and Lufkin, is hired by TCU as assistant to Leo R. Meyer. He returns to his alma mater joining a small staff amid postwar expansion and may start Feb. last year he led Paschal to a district championship and worked with the Frogs on prep for the Cotton Bowl.
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Fort Worth
Abe Martin
Leo R. Meyer
Dan D
Rogers
Martin
Paschal High School
Panthers
el Paso
Lufkin
TCU
Jack County
Meyer
Hub McQuinlan
Armed Services
Mike Brumbhelow
Howard Grubbs
Walter Roach
Mack Clark
Dutch
Paschal
O. D. Wyatt
Six Gloves Tourneys To Open This Week
Six of the remaining 14 Golden Gloves centers in Texas will start their district tournaments this week with the state championship set for Fort Worth February 14 to 19. Civilians lead off January 31 in El Paso and February 1 in Dallas Lubbock and Brownwood, with Fort Worth and Abilene starting February 2. Six privates from Sheppard Field are named probable entrants for the Fort Worth meet.
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Fort Worth
Golden Gloves
Texas
el Paso
Dallas
Lubbock
Brownwood
Abilene
Beaumont
Harlingen
San Antonio
Camp Hood
Waco
Camp Wolters
Camp Howze
Sheppard Field
Bryan Army Airfield
Corpus Christi
Amarillo
Houston
Camp Maxey
Sheppard
C. A. Garcia
Merle Tibbetts
Wallace Halpica
Robert Ross
Dell Zesinger
James M. Murphy
Levelland Lobos Capture Sudan Cage Tourney Title
Levelland Lobos beat Morton 38 14 to win the Sudan invitation tournament final. Spade and Littlefield battled in the consolation bracket with overtime upsets, while Jack West led scorers with 30 points. Russell, Lynch, Wood, Hammonds earned tournament honors.
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Levelland Lobos
Cage Power
Morton Club
Levelland
Morton
Spade
Littlefield
Seaiours
Anton
Amherst
Jack West
Jack Russell
Jess Clairdy
Billy Pearcy
Lloyd Lynch
Billy Wood
Harvey Hammonds
Former Tennis Champion Receives Air Medal
Lt. Col. Wilmer L. Allison formerly national tennis champion in Dallas earned the Air Medal for leading a January Arctic flight. His plane was the only one of three to reach the destination while he commanded the Army Airways communications wing.
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Wilmer L. Allison
Arctic
Allison
Are Army Airways
Byron Nelson Leads Texas Open At Halfway Mark
Byron Nelson shot 66 to reach nine under 133 and take the Texas Open lead at 36 holes in San Antonio. Sammy Byrd matched 65 to sit one behind, while Raymond Gafford dropped to a tie for fourth after a 70.
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Tex
Byron Nelson
Toledo
Sammy Byrd
Detroit
Raymond Gafford
Fort Worth
Byrd
New York Yankees
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Harold
Jug) McSpaden
Sanford
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McSpaden
Gafford
Tex Consolver
Wichita
Kans
Leonard Dodson
San Francisco
Leland Gibson
Randolph
Claude Harmon
Grosse Point
Mich
LAAF Cage Teams Seek Competition in Lubbock Area
Lubbock Army Airfield basketball squads seek outside games to boost competition. Section C Hangar, leaders, beat Lubboe Westerners then lost to Levelland. Section A lost to Sudan. Section I shows strong pace. other Section C players posted mixed results. WAC team seeks intrastate games. New Deal beat WACs last week. two games remain in first half. Managers urged to contact the Physical Training department for scheduling.
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Lubbock
Lubboe High School Westerners
Levelland
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Sudan
Ralls
Laaf Lassies
Section I
France
Hangar Five
Teama
Lobos Face District 5-A Tests This Week
Levelland Lobo basketball team schedules district 5 A conference games this week. They host Morton Tuesday and Sudan Friday after a 34 to 18 win over Muleshoe. Levelland stands 4 0 in conference play.
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Levelland
Levelland Lobo
Morton
Sudan
Muleshoe
Acore
Westerners blank Slaton in 42 24 rout on Friday night
Lubbock Westerners opened with a 42 14 victory and rode pressure defense in the second half to defeat Slaton High School 42 24. Werdell Turner and Charles Pressley sparked the late surge while Bob Galey scored 26 points for Slaton B in a separate curtain raiser loss.
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Slaton High School
Westerners
Slaton Five
Margi
Werdell Turner
Charles Pressley
Turner
Pressley
Burnett
Slaton
Bob Galey
Galey
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Hall
Lubbock Fe
Moyers
Ji Elder
Nesbit
Huckaby
Brewer
Hanna
Davis
Balch
Walters
Walter
Haliman
Oj Roberts
Jones
Byler
Tahoka and Cooper Crowned Meadow Tournament Champions
Tahoka boys defeated Meadow 35-25 to win the Meadow High School invitation title while Cooper girls edged Meadow 24-22 in a tight final. Consolation winners were Cooper boys 24-22 over Ropes in overtime and New Home girls 20-17 over Wellman.
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Tahoka Boys
Cooper Girls
Meadow High School
Tahoka
Hines
Barnes
Terry
Meadow Girls
Pat Walker
Webb
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New Home
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Ropes
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Bell
Rice Owls Rally Past Arkansas for SWC Lead
Rice Owls erased a 13 point Arkansas lead to beat the Razorbacks 69 to 56 in Houston. Bill Henry led with 23 points, Dick Wehr added 17, and George Kok and Mike Schumschyk each scored 14 as Rice won their sixth straight conference game.
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Arkansas
Rice Owls
Bill Henry
Dick Wehr
Mike Schumschyk
George Kok
Parkers
Kok
Owls
Wehr
Henry
Rice
Foley
Mendenhall
Red Raiders Open Two Game Set At West Texas
Texas Tech under coach Polke Robison travels to Canyon for a two game series with West Texas State Teachers college Buffalos. The Red Raiders face a strong club despite recent injuries and a pair of losses at New Mexico University.
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Texas Tech Red Raiders
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Raider
Calla
Billy Kelley
Idalou Flash
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Texans
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Kelley
LAAF Five Faces Hobbs AAF in Final Home Tilt
Lubbock Army Airfield prepares for a single Friday night basketball game at the Post gym. The Fliers seek their 14th win of the season after a 37 36 victory at Dalhart AAF and a 63 50 loss to SPAAF in a two game series.
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LAAF
Hobbs
SPAAF
Dalhart Aaf
Dalhart
Winged Commandoes
All Classes Can Enter Annual Meet
The 22nd Southwestern Exposition and Stock Show track meet in Fort Worth March 16 17 will include high school major college and victory divisions with entries from military civilian and small college groups. Events at Farrington field with prelims March 16 and finals March 17. a concurrent one day golf tournament at Meadowbrook club. Entries accepted by the Fort Worth recreation department.
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R. D. Evans
Farrington Field
Meadowbrook Club
Evans
Moguls to Discuss 45 Diamond Outlook in New York
Baseball leaders meet in New York Friday to consider a semi essential classification for the 1945 season. The aim is to keep the game going while wartime needs continue, with players serving in war work during the off season and contributing to morale. The plan could free military personnel from 4F or deferments and allow them to return to baseball when possible.
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New York
Army, Navy and
War Manpower Commission
Propesed
Slaton Cagers Face New Deal In Tuesday Tilt
Slaton High School basketball squad, winners in six of ten games, hosts New Deal Tuesday night in the only game on the week schedule. Slaton has an open date Friday.
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New Deal
Slaton
Slaton High School Cagers
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Mustang Cagers Defeat Baylor 65 33 in Southwest Clash
Southern Methodist University beat Baylor University 65 to 33 in a Southwest Conference basketball game in Waco. Harry Teal led SMU with 27 points, while Baylor’s Marlin Hicks scored 19.
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Baylor
Waco
Southern Methodist University
Baylor University Bears
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Marlin Hicks
Teal
Yankee Owner Backs Frick For Baseball Commissioner
New York January 27 Ford Frick is Col Larry MacPhail personal choice for the baseball commissioner post Ed Barrow would represent the Yankees at the February 23 meetings Barrow has been with the Yankees since 1920 MacPhail will avoid official talks leaving Barrow to handle the matter Frick is one of four candidates named by Barrow committee to draft a new league agreement on the commissioner's powers term and salary for action next Friday
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Ford Frick
Larry MacPhail
New York Yankees
Ed Barrow
Frick
Frogs Edge Texas Longhorns 36 35 In Close SWC Fight
Texas Christian University Horned Frogs beat the Texas Longhorns 36 to 35 in a tight Southwest Conference men's basketball game in Austin. Leroy Pasco sank two late free throws to seal the win as Pasco led TCU with 14 points, Merle Gibson added 9, Ron Pearson 7, while Joe Crowley top-scored for Texas with 10 points.
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Texas Christian University
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TCU
Texas
Leroy Pasco
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Pasco
Merle Gibson
Ron Pearson
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