Texas Tackles Rice Owls in Houston Clash
Rice leads the Southwest Conference race as Texas and Arkansas chase, with SMU TCU and Baylor fighting for fourth spot. The week shapes a possible crown clincher while Texas A M. has no conference games.
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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1944
Page
8
Rice leads the Southwest Conference race as Texas and Arkansas chase, with SMU TCU and Baylor fighting for fourth spot. The week shapes a possible crown clincher while Texas A M. has no conference games.
Texas A and M ended a four day San Antonio trip with one win in four games. They fell to Randolph 62 to 30 on Thursday night and later beat Brooksfield as Bo Fertiss scored 26 for the Ramblers. The brief stop included mixed results and lineup notes.
Boston council sent a resolution to governor Saltonstall urging a halt to boxing bouts until the state boxing commission appoints competent officials. The action follows last Thursday’s Zannelli Jannaze bout and protests. Commissioner Wadsworth denied corruption claims, saying the decision was tough and that boxing isn’t a racket in Boston.
Chicago February report of a billiards exhibition where Willie Hoppe outpaced Welker Cochran 28 to 37 in a 50 point subevent and later won 50 to 37 in a 42 inning session. The San Francisco player led 59 to 42 but Hoppe revived to reach the 10 point mark as the event continued.
The Cadet Geriternd Brooks leads enlisted men and officers through a brace of Service Basket Ban leagues. Games shift from the usual Tuesday to Wednesday at the renter's field house due to the Golden Gloves event. Remaining games moved to Thursday with Shinon at Randolph and Medical Service at Kelly Field.
A large crowd gathered for the district Garden Gloves eliminations at Municipal Auditorium, with over 3000 attendees Tuesday. Five knockouts lit the card and champion Robert Delgado, 1943 featherweight winner, was outboxed by James Marlow, a Laredo Army field star. The Wednesday program begins at 7 30 PM, with two side doors left open aiding turnout.
Flyweight Armando Delgagio meets Gilbert Arecin while Bantamweight Johnny Sehnautz faces Tom Alvarda. Notable fighters include Raymond Lozano, Jerry Tepcencio, and Roland Smith. Events list numerous light middle and heavyweight showdowns across facilities like Randolph Field and Laredo army air fields.
In a New York Feb 2 report ex middleweight champ Mickey Walker sketches four ringside spectators during a boxing moment. The speculator who thinks all fights are fakes the excitable fan the friend who bet on the loser and the bored gent are the four figures Walker says appear at every fight.
A slew of boxing results from New York and nearby cities. Alle Stolle outpointed Jimmy Pride in Baltimore while Phil Terranova stopped Pat Foley in Worcester. Ted Brown was knocked out by Johnny Seaman in Quincy. Freddy Cabral knocked out in Hartford while Rudy Richardson beat Red Doty in New York. Jackie Graves fought in Minneapolis and Oscar Onde edged Danny Alridge in Newark. Tony Jaairo outpointed Milton Brill in Cleveland.
Allied Headquarters reports a six day North African boxing finals from February 14 to 19 drawing more than 1000 feather pushers including 100 Americans and 260 British with 59 French contenders. Notables Jack Sharkey and Fidel LaBarba will referee the finals amid two months of preliminaries across rings from Haly to Gasablanca.
Chicago February 20. Sid Luckman, Bears quarterback, named most valuable player of the 1943 National Football League season. Luckman led in passing yards and touchdowns, earning 36 points in balloting by 13 sports writers. Don Hutson was close with 33.
Detroit police held Bennie Goldberg a 24 year old professional boxer on armed robbery charges. A bantamweight contender who recently lost to Manuel Ortiz on the West Coast, Goldberg is being questioned by Inspector William B Tresten regarding several tavern holdups.
Chicago scouts add 21 year old John Harvey from St. John New Brunswick to the squad bringing total roster to thirty players for 1971. Harvey is a pitcher and part of the American League club’s 17 pitchers 0 infielders 9 outfielders and 2 catchers in the announced setup.
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