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Wednesday. December 23, 19S9Kitigsp*rl Timtt 9Eagles Upset Sullivan To WinTourney; Baileyton Third PlaceBy JACK HELMSROGERS VILI.E — Big James'Marcum led ihf SurgoJiisville'Eagles la a 45-43. comeback victory river the Sullivan Pirates here Tuesday night lor the Rogersviliu Invitational Basketball Touma-mcm championship.Bailey ion defeated KogcrsviJle,; 66-60. iJi the consolation game. ;Marcum scored 15 points, and pulled down 10 of ihe Eagles 3fi rebounds. KarlHn Rymgton and.Jack Lyiton tallied 12 and 10: pouus respectively, Paul Chap-' man was the leading scorer for; Sullivan with 12 points, and Joe’Slaughter added 11 points. jwith only rive minutes remain-1 in# in the game, Surgoinaville whs! i railing by ten paints, but. at. this point the Eagles began a determined rally. ;Surgoinsvillf’s Siavr Lyiton was' fouled, and dropped in hath shots. Then By mg Lon took a rebound, andpushed the ball back, in the basket to cut Llie Pirates lead to six points.Gurgoin.iville went into a full court pre.vs, stole the ball twice, and Jack Lyiton hit three straight jump allots to tie the game before anyone had time to think what had happened.Marcum hit a lay up. Jim Cox tossed in a free throw. Jack Lyiton added two free throws, and Bying-ton two free throws u put tie(1Eagles ahead, A5-3B.Surgoinsville used three minutes to score 17 points, and during’ this three minutes didn't allow the Pirates a single poini.With one minute and 56 seconds. w remaining, Sullivan's Bob Roten-I berry hit a foul shot, and immedUjil fliely the Pirnes* Wayne Smith was fouled. He dropped in both shots to pull Sullivan within four points of Uie fired-up Eagles.!flt;9-;nisBrown. Only Unanimous SelectionFor Both All-Pro Football TeamsThe AP TeamS.oly.OJh:By JOE REICHLi-RNEW YORE (APi -- Jarrlu' Jiirimy Brown was the* onlv un-Georgia Tech,flnimous select ion in Ihe Baltimore and New York-dominated 1959 all-pro football team picked for The Associated Press by nfl wi iters today.The explosive fullback of the Cleveland Browns, who led ihe league In rushing for the third successive season, was named to ;he first team on all 37 ballots. Ray Berry. Baltimore's brilliant end, and Sam Huff. New York's redoubtable linebacker, missed out on one ballot.The Colts and Giants, who meet for the f'TPL championship in Baltimore Sunday, cap lured 12 of thp 22 pusilions on the offensive and defensive squads. Baltimore landed seven benhs and New York five. Cleveland. San Francisco and the Chicago Bears took two each and Los Angeles, Green Bay, Detroit and Pittsburgh one apiece.Browr.’s back field mates included Johnny Unitas, the peerless passer: Lenme Moore, his Balii-niore teammate, and Frank Gifford, the Giants superlative triple threat.Del Shofnor of Los Angeles, who vied with Berry for league pass catching honors, won the other end berth on the offensive squad. Jim Porker, the 2?n-pomd Colt tackle, headed a devastating line that included Ror^y Brown of the Giants in the oilier tackle pos:-lion. Green Bay's Jim Ringo a( renter, and guard. Sian Jones Of :he Bears and Jim Rav SmithKentucky Back On Win TrailThe UPI TeamUnited Pits* InternationalGeorgia Tech and Kentucky both got back ou the victory trail Tuesday- night with close wins over lough opponent!-:.The Yellow Jackets won a sizzling 63-60 squeaker over Texas Tpch to break even in ?. two-gamestay in the Lone Star Si ate, and I lie Wildcats were forced to turn buck a late rally by Temple University before winning. 97-92.In the only other game involving a Southeastern Conference team Tuesday nigh'. Jack Waters sank r 20-fooLcr in the. Iasi second of play to give Mississippi a 37-36 win over Tennessee Tech m theconsolation gamp of i.he third annual Watauga. Invitational tournament.Tech Captain Roger Kaiser poured in 23 points to lead ihe Jackets to their solid win over Texas Tech before 4.LHKJ holiday fans at Lubbock. Tex.The Jackets, who dropped their first game in seven starts Monday night- to Southern Methodisi, weni inio a semi-freeze late in the game and held off the Raiders' last bid 16 pull the game out of the fire.Tech's Da\?c Drntnn caughl fire in the second half, scoring 12 of his 57 points for die night, and put the Jackets out iri front lofiy EARL WEIGHTnew YORK t UPI i — Raymond Berry of the Baltimore Colts. Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns and Sam Huff of the New York Giants loci ay led Ihe votinc for United Press Interna-:ionai*s 1959 National Football League All-star leam.Ber:\ and Brown were unanimous choices. They were named on each of 31 ballots cast by sports writers who covered the campaign in the 11 league cities. Huff was just one vole shy of being a unanimous choice, appearing on 30 ballots. Berry and Brown were the first men ever named on every ballot in the annual UPr poll.Baltimore, the Western Division champion, place.d six men on the mythical two-platoon team. New York, die Eastern Division champion which meets Baltimore Sunday in the championship game, filled five berths. The San Francisco Forty * Niners filled three while Cleveland and the Pittsburgh Steele rs each won Lwo berths. The Los Angeles Rams. Green Bay PRCkers, Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears each placed one player on the team.The Philadelphia Engles, Chicago Card i-i a Is and Washington Redskins failed to win a first-team berth.Del -Shofner of Los Angeles won the offensive end berth opposite Berry. The remainder of ;he offensive liiip was composed of Roosevelt Brown of New York and Jim Parker of Baltimore at the tackles, Art Spinnev of Bki-wUPLtbSullivan's Joe Slaughter added ah'* jump shot lo cut the deficit to on)v|c: two points.The Pirates stole the ball and wcic running out the clock Trying for one last shot. Miller attempted the shot with about three seconds remaining, but the ball hit the rim and bounced away.Some 200 Smgoinsville fans seemed lo almost raise ihe roof with their yelling and screaming, but the happiest man of all. Coach Willis Kimbro, Ju3i had a big'wide grin on his face.Surgoinsville won the game at the free ihrnw line as the Engles' lilt. 17 a( 24 charity tosses. nr.d the • Pi rales hit. five of 14 a 1 tempts, j Sullivan led In the field goal d*-; panmcnt with 19 compared lo 14! for Surgninsville. 1Cow Marcum, and Jack Lyiton received the championship trophy' for the Engles. iSlaughter and Don Miller accept-: ed Ihe runner-up trophy lor the. Pirates. iA 10 man All-Tournament leant' was selected by Lite coaches.Jack. LyLlun and Jim Cux of Sur-gouisville, Grover Malone and Franklin Weems of Railcytoii, Dan Brooks and Ronald Barnette of Rogersvllle, Joe Slaughter and Don Miller of Sullivan, Scotty Sandidge or Church Hill, and Larry 'Whaley of Sevierville were the choices.In the consolation game, Franklin Weems paced Bailey ton's win o\er the Warriors with a 23-point scoring spree.Ronald Brooks and Dalns Wilder each tallied 17 points, and GJen RicliRrdson added 11 points for the Warriors.Grover Malone and Leonard McClain tallied 14 ar.d 16 points re-spec lively for the Dragons.Baileyton hit 45 per cent of Its floor shots, and 80 per cent at the, free throw line.The Warriors hit 38 per cent from ] the floor, and 57 per cent from Uie! free throw line. iRopterviHe has entered the! MaryvilLe-Alcoa Invitational Bas-jife:siahdhtltjcltltfwh:tcClhClOlkelbRll Tournament said Coach Joe Davis. The tournament begins Dc-:^1 Cumber 31 si.championshipScorf By Rfl.T 7V K VQuarter-! a.:
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