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!(■ Weilsburg High'!! lettering foot* 1 ball fortum’ lipjcd still lower Kri-day when a high-powered Mounds-ville team rolled to a 32 to 6 victory over the Orange Crushers in the opening game of the season for both teams last night.Roger Holdinsky scored three touchdowns and booted two extralop • sided victory. Holdinsky pre led potent at the time. But Mounds-viously had played end, but was viile evened it up in the s e c o n d converted by Coach Chuck Helin-ski to fill a backftetd gap createdpoints to pace the Trojans to the! to take a 6 • 0 lead which seem-; game, a 77 • yard touchdown galquarter, then blew the game wide open with two touchdowns tn each by the loss of two regulars by! of the following periods, graduation. Holdinsky scampered S, 17 andWeilsburg made its debut und-j30 yards for his three toucher its new coach — Bill Freeman j downs but Wcllsburg's Bill Hears! and scored in the opening period I turned in the longest run of theBlanks Availableiiittilt;iilt;iState Open GoH 7ourneyiIn Charlestonlop with a Moundsville punt with3:63 loft in the first period, i Moundsville started its first touchdown drive from its own 4S following the klckoff. The march 1] ended early in the second quarter ] with Holdinsky going over from|j ithe five. Holdinsky set up his TD smash with a five • yard jabj] lover left tackle. Weilsburg fought 1 I back and threatened to score by 11 driving to the Trojans' 17 beforeHUNTINGTON, W. Va. — (UP) - Entry Wanks aro now! loslng'poisession of the ball when IlM’ing distributed for the annual State Open Golf tournament 1 a fourth down pass picked up only 11 ! which wilt be held at Charlestons Berry Hills Country Oubjone yard. |,Oct. 11 • 13. |--------------—-: The Trojans took the second halfIt. J. Foley, secretary of the {dent. Dr. Gory Hogg of Lewis-{klckoff and promptly ate up M► »u: , vifoini. r. nif burg, which will run the tourney.lt;ynrds to score and go ahead bysponsoring \\es Virginia Golf( commlWM mcrobm are; 12-4. Holdinsky and Roger ClarkI Assn.. said rriday that entries.j.- ^ Thomas Jr.. of Charleston, featured the march with a pair of imust bo returned by Oct. 8. [joe Taylor. Berry HillsJoe Taylor, Berry Hills profes-.1 At the same time. Foley an-isional. Mike Krak of Morgantown. , nounced n seven-man committee j Don Northrup of Parkersburg and ii headed by he nnd association pres-Fred Burns of Huntington.Kgmmianmimyniiiiimai-f‘V7't r-rifBy OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports WriterFOREST HILLS. N.Y. (UP) -The little man bounced over the{court like a rubber ball, a smile of sheer enjoyment on his facennd the fabled touch of 23 years ago still in his racket.Look at him. marveled a bystander. He ought to be In the big tournament.Byron (Bitsy) Grant was. stead, playing in defense of his senior championship during the {{nationals at Forest Hills. But J nearing 46. the five-foot, five-inch Atlanta Atom stilt showed thein) »44class which made him a stonednobodies - highlighting the theory that, in almost any sport you can name today, the super stars of the past have faded practically out of sight.Consider golf, as an example It has had a long line of fabulous fairway performers: Walter Hagen, Gene Saraxen, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan. Sam Snead and Jimmy Demaret. But the likes of Hogan, Snead and Demaret are fast passiig over the horizon and golf has nobody to take their place.Sure, there are young players. But they are cloaked In obscurity. Gene Littler, one of the best,giant-killer in the early 1930s. There were more people watchcan walk down the street andnobody knows him. How many professional golf officials can telling him in the comparative ano- yu, let’s say, how old Ken Ven-nymity of the grandstand court turi is? None of them can. than there were watching the pro football once bad such main tournament in the famed flaming figures as Don Hutson, center court. Sid Luckman and the fabulousFufl Of NobodiesFor this edition of theU.S.Amateur tennis championshipltop pro last year was Frank Gif was stocked with a full supply of ford of the Giants. Unless youare a dyed-in-the-worsted footballQUALITYUSED CARS1957 BUICK Super1955 CHRYSLER New Yorker1955 CHRYSLER Windsor1955 PACKARDPatrician 1955 PACKARD Clipper 1954 PLYMOUTH 2 Dr.Bronko Nagurski. Certainly there are tine players today. But theWeilsburgLE—Hartley LT—Mushetbuff I doubt whether you know he]LG—Camilletti played for Southern California or C—Lees would know him in person if you RG—Durante {fell over him. RT—BillardSad Days For Boxing RE—Work Boxing has come on admittedly Q—McAdamssad days. The champion of them ^~^earst all is Floyd Patterson, who in' —Kendosome distant future may rank with the top ones. But at the moment he is the kind that a Jack Dempsey or a Joe Louis, in their prime, would have eaten for breakfast.Baseball has a couple of potentials in Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays. But this was a game which12-yard end runs. Holdinsky scout ed around right end for 17 yards and the touchdown.Moundsvilie's Joe Manning recovered a Weilsburg fumble on the Trojans' 48 and the Trojans promptly cashed in on the break to pick up another six • pointer Holdinsky reeled off a 41 • yard run to put tho pigskin on the Weilsburg 13 and set up the second TD of the period which catne via Crow's seven • yard scamper around left end.Weilsburg went to the air in the final stanza in an effort to get back into the game but that strategy backfired for Holdinsky bobbed up to intercept quarterback John McAdams' pass at midfield and race to the Weilsburg 30 before being grounded. On the next play the speedy Holdinsky shot a round right end to dash the final 30 yards to paydirt and rack up his third six • pointer of the game.The Trojans bottled up Wells-burg's offensive maneuvers and set up its final touchdown by blocking a punt. MoundsviUe broke through .Weilsburg'* for-ward wall to block Pete K e r r'spunt on the Weilsburg 32. T h e ball rolled b a c k to the Orangemen's two where Bob Leach fell on it for the Trojans. Jack Prct-tyman then scored on a quarterback sneak.Moundsville outdowned Weilsburg by 13-9.I!MoundsvilleMrozckCheonBonarSloanFullerHowardLeachPrettymanHoldinskyCrowClarkFB—Isinghood Score by quarters:Weilsburg ...... 6 0 0 0—6Moundsville —. 0 6 13 13—32 Touchdowns — Weilsburg, Hearst; Moundsville, Holdinsky 3, Prettyman, C* ow.Points after touchdown—Mound* sville, Holdinsky 2 lt;placements).
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Weirton Daily Times
Weirton, West Virginia, US
Sat, Sep 07, 1957
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