THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 21, 1952
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Dunn Girls Upset Unbeaten Newton Grove
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w Favorites Take Win In County j
Tourney Games At Lillington
BUIES CREEK 51, ANDERSON
CREEBi M (BOYS)
SEVENTH GAME
\ Second-choice favorite to win the
boys division crown, Buie’s Creek,
won the opening game last night,
and seventh of the tourney, in the
>5 . Harnett cage event at Lillington
as the Anderson Creek boys fell be
fore a 51-38 final score.
Anderson Creek, had pulled an up
set on the first night of play on
Monday by downing Lillington, but
the Creekers couldn’t handle second
place Buies Creek. The A. C. boys
hadn’t won a game all season un
til the opening round of the tour
ney.
Guard Jimmy Campbell and for
ward Travis Ross led the B. C. boys
O to the win as Campbell had a hot
' night oit set shots and Ross was
hitting with a Jump shot. Jimmy
made an astounding 8 of 16 shots
and one free throw in two tries
for 17 points and a shooting aver
age of .80. Travis was only one
point behind in the total scoring,
but his aim wasn’t as good as the
red hot Campbell's aim. Ross made
8 op 23 for a .35 mark. Guard
Woody Upchurch hit 2 of 3 efforts
from the floor for the second high
percentage of .66. The team aver
” Rge was .38.
WEAKEST SHOOTING
The A. C. boys had 10 less chan
ces than the winner to hit the
hoops and hit o% a weak percent
age of thpse chances at 21 which
is the lowest accuracy mark so far
in the tournament. The Angier'gtrls
had the nest lowest mark with .24,
and they lost their game also.
Bobby Darden led the losers with
15 points and the best shooting
a average at a respectable 36. Charles
» Williams played another good game
for A. C. and scored 7 points.
Campbell’s 17 points for Buie’s
Creek put him in third place for
an individual high for the boys.
George Eamshaw erf Erwin- is first
with 23 points and Jimmy Matthews
is second with .18. Campbell, along
with Bill Henshaw, and Travis Roes,
led the defensive play.
BUIES CREEK F AS FT TP
Campbell O 2 8 1 17
A Leggett G 4 0 0 0
w Henshaw C 5 3 2 8
Waddell F 3 0 2 2
Ross F 2 8 0 16
B. Upchurch 10 2 2
W. Upchurch 3 2 0 4
Howard '.2 0 0 0
.Harman - 0 10 2
Taylor 0, 0 0 0
totals 22 22 7 51
ANDERSON CK F AS FT TP
Hickman a 2 1 £...4
West X. 8
Darden f*
# Carr F 1 „ V, 2~4
Williams' F" *> t; % 7
Black f 0 .0 0
„ Totals 12 10 18 38
BUIES CREEK 11 14 14 12—51
ANDERSON CK. 7 14 16 7-66
BENHAVEN 46. BOONE TRAIL 28
(GIRLS)
EIGHTH GAME
Little, sharp - shooting Eloise
Thomas of Benhaven was slow get
ting warmed up lagt night, but she
got hot in the final quarter tp_ hand
a her Benhaven team a 40-28 victory
over a poor-shootinfl Boone Trail
team. Eloise had made ,only two
goals to the first period and two
more in the third period, but she
hit six action shots and two free
throws in the final ouarter while
missing only two attempts from
action. Eloise wound up the game
. with a 25-point total and second
place to Jerry Matthews of Erwin,
who pas 30 points, for the tourney
scoring leadership. . - -
M - Each team scored 6 points in a
■ slow first quarter, Benhaven took
an 18-16 lead at halftime, Boone
Trail tied it up at 22 up at the
end of the third, and then Miss
Thomas took over to hand her team
* ”-S2K<jS& COrtLY
Joyce McKinney had the best
shooting average for the winners as
she made 4 of 6 attempts for a .66
mark and 2 of 4 free throws for
the runnerup total of 11 points.
• Catherine Godwin and Ruth Strlck
w land tod the defense for Benhaven.
Benhaven made 36 percent of its
action shots. .
The Boone Tran girls hit only 34
percent of their chances from the
floor, which tied the Angler girls
for a low in Shooting for girls In
- the tourney, and, the Trailers made
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V “ game In the second quarter and
missea nvc attempß in s row, dui
she ended the game with the high
est shooting percentage of any B.
- T. player with
BENHAVEN F AS FT TP.
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110 2]
Jean Stewart 1 16 2 141
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BOONE TRAIL 6 I# 4 6—28
LAFAYETTE BthfBENHAYEN 37
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. LAFAYETTE HIGH SCORERS Forwards Gardner Barbour and
Ronald Baker have led the Undefeated LaFayette High beys in
scertng through the season and are spear-heading their drive for
the Harnett County Tournament Championship. Each bey scored
12 potato In the Laffy win over Benhaven last night. (Daily Record
photo by T. M. Stewart).
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U. S. Olympic Team Moves .Back Into
Second Place On Andrea Mead's Win '
Bob Sledders Take Second;
Dick Button Moves Ahead
By HENIfY THORNBERRY
(United Press Sports Writer)
OSLO. Norway —IIP)—The No. 1
United States team finished second
behind Germany today In the first
heat of the four-man bobsled com
petition of the winter Olympics. A
hot sun threatened to cancel to
morrow’s scheduled windup of the
event
The O. 8. team, steered by Stan
Benham of Lake Placid, N. Y., shot
down the 1300-meter, nearly one
mile, Erognersetem course In one
minute, 17:44 seconds on a rapidly
softening track. The Germans were
timed in a superior 1:1636.
Two heats are scheduled for to
day and the final two for tomorrow.
The two-day bobsled competition
Involving 15 teams from nine na
tions began under a hot sun that
threatened to destroy the Ffbgner
setern course within a few hours.
WMhJemperature at 39 degrees
The U. S. won the Olympic four
man bobsled championship in 1948
and was a strong favorite to repeat
America’s No. 2 sled completed
Its first heat in 1:19.13 and was in
eighth place.
At the completion of the first
heat, the temperature had risen to
43 degrees and officials ordered
obst a team a ball game. Benhaven
had 61 chances to score from the
floor against LaFayette, which was
only 8 less than their conquering
foe achieved, but the losers man
aged to hit only .26 percent of the
scoring opportunities while LaFay
ette was begging 33. It was the
third similar occurancc of the
night’s triplehrader.
Ronald Baker and Tommy Jeff
ries had the best shooting marks
of the game as Ronald grabbed a
share in the scoring lead with 12
points on 6 of 10 chances, which
came in two and a half quarter
at which point he left the -gaute-on
five fouls, for a .60. average', and.
Tommy hit 3 of 6 attempts In the
second half for .60 also and a free
throw for a total of 7 points. Dan
Andrews and Dick Talton played k
good defensive game for the win
ners.
WHAT A SHOT!
Joe Holmes, the fine Benhaven
guard, shared the high scoring
honors with Gardner Barbour and
Baker of LaFayette at 12 points as
he led his team in a losing cause.
Joe hit a beauty from back of cen
terline lust after the halftime buz
zer sounded, but it was a little too
late to count.
The LaFayette boys were a little
off their place in taking last night’s
win and had the Benhaven boys
been hitting their short, they would
| have given the undefeated favorites
la tough time. But Benhaven had
'first and fourth quarters in which
only 2 of 12 and 3 of 20 shots were
Made (by the way, Dan Antoews
was high seefer for LaFayette with
M.)
Coach Fox’s boys go back Into act
ion tonight in a game with the
tough Boone Trail boys. Perhape
LaFayette’s boys will be back on
tjieir shooting game andj£
lIoFATETTE f as ft tt
I Baker T 5 . 6 . t 6 13
n n
,Talton O 2 ; 4 is
{Jeffries 1 3 -1 7 ;
1 te|»H . 11 28 16 96
BEMLAVf N E AS FT TF
BP VtU
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I Totals si v. n gk ’ 5 37
a delay to repair the track and
eliminate excessive hazards.
BUTTON STULL TOPS
Dick Button of Englewood, N. J.,
was favored to win the U. S. its
fourth Olympic Gold Medal to'the
windup of the men’s figure skating
competition later in the day.
Button, 21-year-old Harvard Uni
versity senior, held a commanding
lead at the start of today’s compe
tition «nd 'only a major disaster
could prevent him from success
fully defending the crown that he
won in 1948. '**
The United States, which surged
back into second place yesterday
on the strength of Mrs. Andrea
Mead Lawrence’s slalom victory,
and a fine showing in ladies figure
skating from Jimmy Grogan of
Colorado Springs, Colo., who was
in third place at today’s start, and
Hayes Jenkins of Akron, 0., who
stood ‘filth.
At the start of today’s competi
tion, Norway was in first place
; with 101 points, an apparently un
beatable U. 6. .was
UNSPORTSMANLIKE TACTICS
T&e 0. S. hockey team, unbeaten
in four games but much criticized
because of what Europeans consid
er - “rough” play, expected its
sternest test so far against Swed
en, also unbeaten. Ttye third un
> beaten team, Canada, plays Swit
zerland while Finland meets Czech
oslovakia and Norway .plays Ger
many.
The U. S. game against Switzer
land on Tuesday was marked by a
fist fight ,on the ice, booing by
fans, and severe criticism by the
press, and followed by reports that
Switzerland- would “break hockey
relations” with the U. S.
The Canadians also came In for
heavy criticism because they, like
the Americans, use body checking,
which Europeans consider “un
sportsmanlike.”
-Appalachian Takes Lead
In N. State Conference
With Win Over W. C. C.
By UNITED PRESS
Appalachian held the lead in
Noth State Conference basketball
standings today, but Eton can tie
it up again tonight.
Appalachian took ove full lead
ership from a three-way tie by
beating Western Carolina 102 to 58.
That left East Carolina and Elbn
tied for second.
H Elan whips Guilford tonight it
win be back at a tie, this time
leaving East Carolina behind.
The win lastnlght gave Appa
lachia a berth in the NAIB tourn
ament playoff at Bon Monday.
Western Carolina lost, but. Its
pride and Joy, Ronald Rogers, hit
26 points to set a new conference
Storing record of 602 for the sea
son. It was the fist time any play
er in the league has ever topped
600 points.
Atlantic Christian took a non
conference game from Westlnghouse
Apprentice 8? to 63.
Sts Win
Rosaboro
girls’ basket
i lost only one
to Balemburg,
1 recently. The
sdore last Friday night and strong
RPtobWO by a 56-63 final.
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1 Betsy Lee sank Bof 10 free throws
and scored a total of 22 points to
lead the Greenwave to a victory and
revenge over a previously unde
feated Newton Grove ball club which
[ had won 20 staight games. The
local lassies got off to a swell be
ginning by outscorlng the visitors
18-10 in the first quarter and went
on to a 49 to 44 win.
Kack White also did a fine Job
from the free throw line as riie hit
all three of her free throws. She
had a total of O' points. Martha
Butler was second high scorer for
Dunn with 18 points. The Greenie
guards did a good all-around Job in
holding the visitors'to 44 points.
Hudson of Newton Grove had the
top score of the ball game as she
scored 24 points. Others scoring
for N. G. were Dunn with 13, Britt
with 4, and Williams with 3.
SWEET revenge
Coach Barrett’s girls had dropped
a game to Newton Grove at Nt/w
--ton Grt>ve by the humiliating score
of 70-40 a couple of weeks ago.
The next game for the Dunn
girls will be on next Tuesday night
In the armory here with Laurin
burg. The locals lost a 46 to 30
contest at Laurinburg last week and
will be after some more revenge
of the same kind as was delt last
night.
The Dunn High boys go to Tabor
City on Friday night to meet the
strong Red Devils for the second
time this week. Tabor City Is in
the middle of a battle to r the
Eastern AA crown. ... f .'
GREENWAVE 18 9 11 11 49
•NEWTON GR 10 12 13 10 44
Johnny Bratton Gots
Unpopular Decision
Over Cordell On TV
CHICAGO Oft Johnny Brat
ton, a lucky winner over Vic Car
dell, .complained today he believed
his victory was booed because he
didn’t knock out his Hartford,
Conn., opponent.! '
“I’m no knockout artist,” he
said, “I- wanted to go 10 rounds,
and I’m glad T did. Now I’ll be
better off to fight somebody else
later.
“But these fans here, if I don’t
get somebody In trouble right
away and knock them out. -I’m no
good.” j,
Cardeli was a hard fighter to
get in trouble. The Easterner - was
the victim of a surprise decision,
the second In a row here In favor
. of Bratton.
X HOMETOWN WIN?
“It was a close fight,” Cardeli
said,And maybe I didn’t win. I
guess I lost a hometown decision,
though, but that’s the fight game.
I’d sure like a rematch witn him
in New York or Boston.”
The loss, by a spilt decision, did
Gqrdell no harm. Anxious to gain
1 .‘tf? toe, top
BBtOrans and the tele'HHon Ad)-
ence that he merited such a rank,
tag. '
The house booed the decision for
1 Sikora and 52 to 48 by judge Spike
Bratton, 53 to 47 by referee Frank
1 McAdam, and for Cardeli 51 to 49,
by judge Jim McManus, for 40
seconds. And their clamor stopped
only when the organ, at full
strength, drowped them out.
Groat, Hemric Via Again
In Duke-WF' Gama Tonight
RALEIGH l9l Duke will be
gunning for a spot In the Southern
Conference basketball tournament
at Wake Forest tonight, and Dick
Groat will renew' a scoring duel
with Deacon center Dickie Hemric.
Groat and Hemric have one each
on scoring honors. In their last
meeting Hemric edged Groat by one
point, 32-31.
The game won’t help Wake For
est as far as the tournament is
concerned. The DeaCons are too
far down in loop standings to make
a comeback.
In the other game Involving a
conference team, the Citadel plays
at Eastern Carolina.
NEAR RECORD
Last night Washington and Lee
took an 63 tb 72 shellacking at the
hands of Roanoke College. W&Lk
Jay Handlan stretched his four
year total points to 1342 as he
racked up 27. This is Just 22 short
of Tony La vein’s record. WAL has
a game at Rockymount, Va„ Sat
urday against the Roanoke Rebels
which should give Haildlan a record.
In a conference game last night
Richmond took VMI 77 to 64. Fur- <
man played outride the loop in out
: scoring Wofford 01 to 10.
figSHBSi
By UNITED PRESS / -
, CHlCAGO—Johnrfy Bratton, 140
Chicago, outpointed Vic .
, 146, Hartford, Conn. IQ,/
DES MOINES, la.vlQien Flana
gan, 129, St. PaulPhlinj, knocked
out Jimmy White.
leans 4.
It. Bobby Bryan
Back In Norfolk
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> Port USS Latimer, to the 125~
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