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between you'n'meTexas Western Miners Dig But They Go Up, Not DownBv MURRAY OLDERMAN Sports Editor Newspaper Enterprise Assn.NEW YORK (NEA)Life used to be placid for Eddie Mullens. As relaxed as a bear holed up for the winter. Outside El Paso, interest m Texas Western didn't raise more howl than a coyote at high noon.Eddie is the publicity man at Texas Western, a career man in the use of the simile and the metaphor. Last fall, the Miners crossed him up by producing a Sun Bowl football team after going winless m 1964. And now m basketball— or bounce-bounce as Eddie calls it—the Miners astounded the country by joining Kentucky as one of the nation's two major undefeated teams.So Eddie had to dip deep in his bag of phrases to produce another report, as he did for NEA last fall, on the athletic fortunes of Texas Western. Here it goes:“Building a basketball empire stronger than Mary’s breath requires more time than it takes for a minnow to swim a water dipper.“At Texas Western, coach Dot* Haskins has been busier than a beaver in a toothpick factory since his arrival at the El Paso school five years ago.“Haskins wired together a 25*3 record two years ago when Jim (Bad News) Barnes kept the opponents as nervous as a fly near a DDT factory. One of the big differences in Haskins' present team which reeled off 19 straight victories, and the one sparked by Bad News, is over-all depth.“The Miners keep the nets waving like Maggie's drawers on a rifle range and four players are scoring in the double digits while two others are closer than a sweetheart’s whisper to the 10-point circle* Spearheaded by Harry Flournoy, a 6-5 senior from Gary. Ind., the Miners also attack the boards like bee tree residents after a visit from Smokey the Bear.•‘Speed has been a big asset to the Miners this season. Such fellows as Bobby Joe Hill, a 5-10 junior, Nevil (The Shadow) Shed, 6*8 junior, Willie Worsley, 5-6 sophomore, Orsten Artis, 6-1 senior, leave opponents tripptog over their tongues.—!J T ^ •*JA MKUitMAPA cfmncrKnv fmm
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Western Kansas Press
Great Bend, Kansas, US
Thu, Mar 10, 1966
Page 6
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