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between you'n'meTexas Western Miners Dig But They Go Up, Not DownBy 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 !n 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 botmee-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 U takes for a minnow to swim a water dipper.“At Texas Western, coach Don Haskins has been busier than a beaver in a toothpick factory since his arrival at the El Paso school fire years ago.“Haskins wired together a 25 3 record two years ago when Jim (Bad News) Barnes kept the opponents as nervous as a flv near a DDT factors'. 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 whisperto the 10-point circle. Spearheaded by Harry Flournoy, a 6*5senior 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, €-1 senior, leave opponents trfppmg over their tongues.“David Lattin, a 6*7, 240-ponnd sophomore strongboy from Houston, has given the Miners more muscle than a Charles Atlas ad this season.“This is an opportunity to make np for the 1963-64 season in which the Miners were felled by Kansas State, 64-60, in the Midwest Regional NCAA playoffs.“Haskins* recruiting lasso is wide. Worsley, a 3*6 sophomore who can dunk it. Willie Cager, a 6-5 handyman, and Shed are from New York, Artis is from Gary, Ind. (like Flournov). Bobby Joe Hill, a 5*10 guard with enough speed to count the ribs of a jack rabbit, is from Detroit.“Haskins will be the first to admit there are no miracle men when It comes to building a team but that perfect record proves they aren’t doing it with mirrors. Their empire appears to be in like Flynn and there like Teddy Bear ”The effort left Eddie Mullens as pooped as, well, a columnist after he has made his deadline.J*
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Western Kansas Press
Great Bend, Kansas, US
Thu, Mar 10, 1966
Page 6
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