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Harnett Teams Play Only
fliree Games This Week
There were only three games
plane! in the Harnett Conference
this week because of the Christ
mas holidays- In an average week,
there hre from seven to ten games
played between the county teams.
On Tuesday of this week, Lil
lington split a twin-bill with An
gler as the home team Lillington
girls took the opener and the An
gler hoys won the second game.
The Buies Creek teams went to
iAFWyette and dropped a couple
to the county’s top teams. Erwin
and Behaven traded wins at the
Benhaven gym with the home girls
and the visiting boys claiming vic
tories.
According to the records so far,
It looks like the conference is split
down the middle with four win
ning girls’ teams and five winning
boys’, teams, and a like number on
the'losing side. With the game re
sults so far, as far as wins and
and losses are concerned, it would
seem that the girl teams of La-
Fayette, Lillington. Benhaven and
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Boone Trail will do the winning,
and the boys teams of LaFayette,
Dunn, Angier, Buies Creek, and
Erwin will be the victorious teams.
But It may not be that simple.
BETTER LOOK BEHIND
The Erwin and Dunn girls have
teams in the lower half of the
standings, but both of these groups
have swell ball clubs and will win
a lot of games. As soon as the Er
win guards get tough to get past
and as soon as the Dunn forwards
start hitting the baskets with their
shots, these two teams will begin
to rise.
The Benhaven and Boone Trail
boys are two good boys’ teams in
the lower division that will likely
move up as the season moves on.
But these two teams will have to
play top bail to replace any of
the first five clubs.
In taking a 43-37 win over sec
ond-place Buies Creek, the LaFa
yette boys established themselves as
heavy favorites to repeat as coun
ty champions. The champs hold
TODAY'S SPORT PARADE
, By Oscar Fraley
(Unite* Prim Sports Writer)
NEW YORK lift Boxing is coming down to the end of a year
studded with sensational bouts but looking ahead today it can be
prophesied that' 1862 should be even bigger within the. squared circle.
Interest in the sport was needled by television, and this increased
attention Was repaid with such frantic fights as the Rocky Marciano-
Joe Louis, Ray Robinson-Randy Turpin and Joey Maxim-Bob Murphy
brawls.
Now, the five top divisions are loaded with talent and potential
thrillers.
The fight fan can look forward to this probable and promising
schedule in 1953:
HEAVYWEIGHT: Joe Walcott vs. Esxard Charles; Rocky Mar
ciano vs. the Charles-Walcott winner, both title fights; and Clar
ence Henry vs. Bob Satterfield.
LIGHT HEAVY Joey Maxim vs. Harry Matthews for the title; un
beaten Westbury Bascom vs. Cesar Brion, and a lot of other action.
WELTERWEIGHT: Kid OavUan vs. Oil Turner and Gavilan vs.
QU Turner and Gavilan vs. Europen champion Charles Humez for
the title; undefeated Johnny Saxton vs. Turner or Gavilan.
LIGHTWEIGHT: Jimmy Carter vs. Paddy Demarco and Carter vs.
George Araujo, both title expeditions.
Action will be limited in the featherweight, bantamweight and
flyweight divisions. Since champfcn Sandy Saddler licked Willie
Pep, the featherweight division is out of contenders. The boys are
just getting too many vitamins these days.
But your action is going to be frenzied ip all the five upper class
es. Among the heavies, Walcott's defense against Charles has gained
interest because of old Jersey Joe’s success saga. Marciano win be
waiting avidly for a crack at the winner.
Among the light heavies, Matthews is the Marciano of the di
vision. He sits in the commanding challenger’s spot and gets his shot
unless he decides to try his luck among the big boys.
Robinson faces a rough year, if they can get him to work, against
the wild-swinging Graziano, the terrific Turpin, Gene Hairston and
even welterweight champion Gavilan.
The Cuban keed, unless he gets his crack at Robinson, will have
plenty of work bossing his own division. Turner, the PhiladeY.hia
threat with a record of 26 in a row and 22 by kayoes, looms as
the best bet to dethrone Gavilan.
Carter, the lightweight king, may prove that he is better than the
public believes.
So it’s touch gloves and come out fighting. The public’s ready
and so, finally, is boxing.
Clemson Tigers Will Be At Full
Strength For Gator Bowl Battle
By TOM PRICE
(11. P. Sports Writer)
CLEMSON, S. C. W—Clemson s
Tigers, in the Southern Conferen
ce doghouse for accepting a bowl
bid, have made a habit of barely
squeaking through New Year’s
Day classics.
This year, they aim to beat Mi
ami \n the Gator Bowl at Jackson
ville, Fla., by a decisive margin.
The Gator Bowl venture repre
sents Clemson’s fourth bowl trip
since 1940. The Tigers are unbeat
en In three New Year’s Day con
tests, but their margin of victory
in those contests totals only five
points.
Last year, Clemson came from
behind in the last three minutes of
the Orange Bowl game te *dge the
same Miami team It to 14, an the
mnrgin of a safety.
In the 1949 Gator Bowl. Coach
Frank Howard’s "country gentle
men” from the hills of South Car
olina* edged Missouri 24 to 21, on
the strength of a fourth-period
field goal.
And In their first bowl appear
ance—against Boston College In
the 1940 Cotton Bowl, Clemson won
f to 3. Jess Neely was the Tiger
coach then, but Howard was an
assistant
DEFIED THE RULING
* The Southen conference fathers
have frowned upon bowl games
and forbade members from play
ing in them, effective this season.
Clemson, along with Maryland,
defied the ban to accept bowl bids
and both have - been suspended;
from conference football for one
year.
poward, a former Alabama
guard who likes bis "chaw” of to
bacco. doesn’t talk too much un
less It’s at the banquet table; he
leaves his chew home then. About
the only thing he’ll say about his
wins over the present third, fourth,
and fifth ranking teams, and Dunn
and Boone Trail are the only re
maining teams yet to meet LaFa
vette that could- upset the top club.
The girls have three tough clubs
to face for the first time.
The next game tor a county
team is on January 1 when two
strong Creedmore teams come to
Lillington for a New Year's double
header.
Merry Christinas from The Dally
Record Sports department.
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Tigers’ chances against Miami is
“My hosses oughta get a load of
football down there.”
TIGERS AT FULL STRENGTH
Actually, Clemson should be in
better shape for the Gator Bowl
than the team was for any game
of the 1951 season when it won
seven and dropped two.
First-string end Dreher Gaskins,
who broke a leg in the opening
game against Presbyterian, and
missed the entire season, is ready
to go and will add strength to the
flanks.
Tailback Billy Hair, the "Waiter
boro wizard" of Howard’s single
wing, led the conference in totol
off wise during the regular seaSto
desfete a bad ankle duririg much
of the first half of* the campaign.
Be is as solid as a Hollar now and
Hair’s aerial partner, end Glenn
Smith, topped the conference in
pass receiving with 35 catches.
In the face of the Southern Con
ference ban and the odds-makers
who. have established Miami a
three-point favorite, Howard has'
onlv one reply.
“We’re heading South, sugh,” he
savs, ejecting a golden stream of
tobacco juice for emphasis.
Browns, Rams Will
Play Till Victory
Tomorrow
LOS ANOELBS OP When the
Las Angeles Rams and the Cleve
land Browns clash here tomorrow
for the National Football League
championship only one thing is
certain—the game won't end in' a
tie.
NFL Commissioner Bert Bell
took care of that detail when he
decreed an extra period, a sudden
death affair, If the score is knotted
at the end of regulation play.
An additional flip of the coin will
determine the kickoff and the first
club to score takes the tide and
the winner’s share of the playoff
loot
If the oddsmakers are right, the
game won’t end in that way. They
have made the Browns 3 to 10 point
favorites.
Begiuniag Thursday, December 27,
Four Fiae latersectioaal Teams Battle
"Big 4" in Dixie Classic
RALEIGH, N. 0„ Dec. 32-
Coach Everett Case's N. C. State
Wolfpack, winners of the two
previous Dixie Classic tournament
championships, will once again be
tabbed as the team to beat when,
opening round firing gets under
way on Thursday, Dec. 27 In the
third annual affair.
The Wolfpack, which won the
1949 tournament with a 50-40 vic
tory over Penn ’State, repeated
again last year with an 85-76 vic
tory over Colgate in the finals.
But the road to the 1951 title
is ljkely to be the roughest yet tor
State. The Wolfpack’s first oppon
ent on Thursday afternoon will be
CoacS Ben Camevale’s Navy Mid
shipmen.
LOTS OF COMPETITION
Even if State should get by Navy
the rest of the field is the best
ever to enter the pre-season tour
nament. Three other intersection
al clubs who'll be taking dead-aim
at the Classic crown are Southern
California, Cornell and Columbia
and anyone of this trio is capable
of moving into the finals. Among
Basketball Fans Across Nation
Will Witness Gaines Tonight
By JOHN GRIFFIN
(United Press Sports Writer)
NEW YORK —Oft— The elite of
college basketball seven of the
eight top-ranked teams in the na
tion will be in action tonight in i
a blue-ribbon night tor the court
sport.
Feature of the national program
will be the meetng at Manhattan,
Kans., between Kansas State, rank
ed seventh in the country, and In-t
diana, No. 8. This is the only game
CHARLOTTE TOURNEY
CHARLOTTE —(UV-*- Auburn will
meet Davidson and Georgia Tech
will take on South Carolina in the
opening round of the first Caroll
nas Invitational Basketball Tourna
ment here Dec. 28-29.
The first two games will be
played Friday at 7:30 p. m. and
9 p. m. Two games will be played
Saturday afternoon, with the win
ners of the first round taking on
the losers from opposing brackets.
The finals will be played Satur
day night wih tthe two winners
meeting for the championship aqd
the losers playing a consolation
match.
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PLAYERS OF THE WEEK- >
IN HARNETT
The fourth week winners of the
“Players of the Week” recogni
tion are from two teams that won
their games this week. There were
other fine performances in the
three games played on Tuesday
night, but these two players were
most important in their teamsf
victories. ,
The two winners are from the
Lillington and Erwin teams and
the first winners from these teams.
This is the fourth pair of win
ners. selected from the various Har
nett teams for their contributions
for the week.
4th week, Doris Brown, Lilling
ton.
James Falrcloth, Er
win.
Help In the selection of the
player that you think should get
the selection of the top player of
the week.
NEW U. 8. A. F. COACH
SAN FRANCISCO —(W— William
"Bud” Kerr, 36, tutor of the nation's
stingiest line in 1951, was head
football coach of the University of
San Francisco today. i
The Jesuit school chose the for
mer Notre Dame All-American end
to replace Kuharich, who gave
up the job Thursday after coaching
the first undefeated grid team In
the University’s history.
MIAMI COACH FORGETS
Hi ami —OFi— During the height
of a scrimmage, Miami Coach An
dy Gustafson shouted eagerly to his
defensive tea id,' “Now you’re start
ing to hit.”
Then he remembered that he
was, after all, a football coach and
should not engage in such extrav
agances. He added, “but you’re not
looking good yet.”
That seemed to be the situation
as Miami worked for its Gator
Bowl game with Cleinson. The de
fense is below - par. The offense
looks good, especially with renew
ed hope that injured triple-threat
star Frank Smith might be ready
for action by game time.
VACATION FOOTBALL
HONOLULU m— The Univer
sity of Arisons overcame an eight
point halftime deficit with three
touchdowns in the third period and
another in the fourth last night to
detest the University of Hawaii, 33
to 21, before 7,000 Una.
By UNITED —«
St. Bona venture 77 Colgate 68
M. I. T. 66 Worcester Tech 57
Syracuse 84 Loyola La. 6B
Buffalo 93 Case 79
John Carroll 73 Western Reeerve 87
Wayne 71 WbjtenOntario 55
: ' SOUTH
Duke M George Washington 7g
Sewanee 48
1 Detroit 73 BooftflC 54
the other North Carolina teams,
Duke’s Blue Devils are rated as
a leading choice to take down
State's title and both the Univer
sity of North Carolina and Wake
Forest have an outside chance of
upsetting the advance dope.
PHENOMENOL *SO SEASON
The IJons of Columbia Univer
sity, the only team to go through
the 1950-51 season with a perfect
record, will be rated as the best
of the intersectional quints. Co
lumbia has lost only one decision
in four starts this year, a 65-64 loss
to Pittsburgh, and Coach Lou Ros
sini’s current team Is due to be at
Its peak for the Dixie Classic.
Duk|, boasting All-America
Guard Dick Groat, is certain to be
one of the tournament favorites.
In six early season starts the Blue
Devils have stopped Bradley,
Temple, Virginia Military, and
dropped a one-point 74-73 decision
to Furman in a big upset. Coach
Harold Bradley’s team is rated as
“the best Duke team in history"
and the experts are predicting
Duke will be in the Classic finals.
which matches two of the top
touted teams.
At Chicago, Illionis, ranked No.
1, meets DePaul, and that tilt will
be closely watched for a compari-'
son between the Mini and Ken
tucky, ranked No. 3 nationally, by
93-60 on Thursday night and the
Illini will be out to top that.
St. John’s, currently ranked No.
2 but still dazed by that 81-40 drub
bing by Kentucky on Monday,
plays host at Madison Square
Garden to another tough South
eastern Conference school. Vander
bilt. The Commodores who upset
Kentucky, 61-57, In the finals of
last year’s SEC tournament, should
provide a stern rebound test.
NO PLAYER SHORTAGE
Fourth-ranked Kansas and Its
six-foot, nine-inch, center, Clyde
Loveßette, who ranks as the na
tion's top scorer, visit Southern
California. Fifth-ranked Washing
ton collides with Minnesota, con
queror* of Kentucky, in a top
drawer intersectional battle. Sixth
ranked St. Louis - faces Army.
Only third-ranked Kentuck is Idle
dmong the top eight.
£ Them are .several other top in
nersectional games on tap. On tHe
same Garden nrogram with the St.
Louis-Vanderbilt game. New York
University will risk its 10-game
winning streak, longest In the na
tion. against Oklahoma. Pennsyl-'
vania plays host to Notre Dame,
and Oregon visits Wyoming.
Other leading games tonight in
clude: Fordham Temple, Tulsa -
Arksnsas. Murray-Baylor, North
Caolina-Bradley, Oregon State
Colorado - Michu|\n,
Comell-Tulane, Denver - UCLA
Detroit - Houston. lowa St.-Drake,
Duke-West Virginia, Loyola (Cal.)-
Stanford, Wisconsin - Marquette,
Nebraska-Maimi Fla.. Montana -
Washington St., Ohio St. - Utah,
Rice- Tennessee. Scranton-Seton
Hall, VUlanova-lona.
Recent tightening of laws gov
erning the sale of catfish In Texas
has shifted most of the business
for non-fishing Texas catfish con
sumers to Louisiana, Arkansas and
Oklahoma markets.'
STRIPPING THE NETS
Forwards on girls’ basketball
teams come up with very high
scores each year. Elaine Mitchell of
Doves High, which Is ■ located 10
miles east of Kinston, scored 54
points In a game recently. *
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