Johnson City Press from Johnson City, Tennessee (2024)

December 4, 1960

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Johnson City Pressi

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Johnson City, Tennessee

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Sunday, December 4, 1960

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T- BENCH VIEWS Tomorrow Night onntaineers' At ETSG By Jimmy Smyth Sports Editor i A-i 4 AwmW poured in 29 points as East Tennessee barely lost to Tennessee 71-68 Thursday night in Knoxville Dennis Crumley will be the other starting forward with Les Phillips at center and Jim Riddick and gtrrtets Chilton AU-OVC Chilton was one of the nation's top 10 major college spor-ers last year and won a berth on team Larry Schrader 6-4 or Bill Miller 6-6 will start at the other forward post Harold Oetting 6-3 will be at the other guard and Archibald at center Coach Jack Maxey' tafentbd rrcsiTirimr Affcjra wS Appalachian freshmen in (he 6 opener Tom Chilton heads the ETSC varsity again this season Chilfon 'W-tV I I DARRELL RANGE Jtuior Forward JOHNNY TAYLOR Sophom*ore Guard Tennessee Topples Michigan KNOXVILLE Three Tennessee players shot in double figures last night as the Vols defeated Michigan 75-64 in an intersectional college basketball game Bobby Carter led Tennessee with 11 points followed by Tommy Wilson with 11 and Eddie Test with 10 John Tidwell a 6-4 senior from Herrin 111 pumped in 30 points to grab top scoring honors Tidwell uho scored 520 points in 24 games last year for a 216 average hit 11 out of 23 floor shots The victory was third straight of the young season It was second loss in as many against Southeastern Conference competition Vanderbilt beat the Wover-ines last night 58-43 Hie game developed into a rough and tumble scrape with Skimp Campbell and Don Petroff being ejected for exchanging blows Three other Vols Test Dick Fisher and Bill Gilley went out on fouls Michigan jumped off to an early lead and led 7-0 after three and a half minutes" of play-jCarter -and Campbell sparked in a rally that shot the Vols out front 9-8 and they stayed ahead for the remainder of the game Tennessee hit 29 of 64 shots from the floor for a 453 percentage Michigan hit 17 of 53 for 321 per cent East Tennessee State College meets Appalachian State of Boone at 8 tomorrow at Memorial Building gym on the Buc-campus irt the home opener for ETSC Madison auintet wrtfDe ouf id corniita? twjmjfof'er the Mountaineers who have lost four in a rows to the Bucs since the 1956-57 season If But last year East won only 87-86 and the year before 55-53 The Mountaineers are bringing a big rangy crew over here head ed by a 6-8 center Jim Archibald Da All-Conference centers 6-4 forward points on 71 58 Washington Maryland (OT) 5J State Stale Gaiters All-America Atkins as the 1960 major college leader in rushing and scoring according to final statistics released Saturday by the National College Athletic Bureau Gaiters scored 145 points on 23 touchdowns and 7 extra points and gained 1338 yards rushing for a 679 average Closest tothe Zanesville Ohio native in rushing was Utah Tom Larscheid who piled up 1044 yards for an 842 average All-America halfback Joe Bellino of Navy was second in scoring with 110 points on 18 touchdowns and E-T Against Schedule Regulation KNOXVILLE UR Coaches and school officials at the East Ten nessce regional meeting of the Tennessee Secondary Schools Athletic Association (TSSAA) took a firm stand yesterday against two proposals aimed af regulating football and basketball schedules Representatives of more than 100 area schools voiced their opposition to these major proposals: 1 That no member school shall play a fotball game before school has opened and before students are attending regular class scs sions 2 That no team shall be al lowed to play more than two basketball games per week excluding tournaments and play during the Christmas holidays They also rejected a proposal to reduce the age limit for senior high athletes from 20 to 19 as of Sept 1 Each issue drew considerable discussion but were overwhelmingly defeated on a vote A recommendation that a single statewide meeting replace the regional sessions also was turned down Sidney Smallwood athletic director at Johnson City's Science Hill High School spoke for Big Seven Conference coaches in urging the single meeting At present three sectional meetings in each of the grand divisions are held with the con-j sensus being weighed by ttar I I oifpvc TSSAA Board of Control -LHilJ JcUUl In other action basketball coaches met separately and completed plans for 1961 regional tournaments The Region 1 tournament will be held at East Tennessee State College Region 2 at the University of Tennessee and Region 3 at Bradley County High The Appalachian attack around seniors Don King a guard and Rick Howe a 6-2 Each averaged 18 a game last year and placed the all-North State Conference Basketball Results COLLEGE EASKETIAlil Tennessee 75 Michigan 4 LMU 7 4 Tuscuium 48 Florida State 43 Kentucky SI Navy 49 Pitt 43 Delawara State 72 Morgen State 71 Seton Hall II Fairleigh Dickinson Yashlva 53 CCNY 47 Davidson 45 Wake Forest 58 Duke 10 L5U 74 (OT) Yale 63 Connecticut 55 St Michaels VI 73 Dartmouth 71 Duouesne 94 St Francis Pa 48 Ulah Slate 47 NYU 45 Williams 97 Upsala 74 Holy Cross 79 Harvard 44 MIT 43 Trimly Conn 59 Auburn 44 Huntingdon 44 Miami (Fla 93 Tampa 48 Delaware 40 Lehigh 43 Bucknell 58 Rutgers 55 Western Kentucky 59 Abilene Christian Louisville 54 Wittenberg 34 Peru 75 Omahe 44 Wichita 45 Nebraska 43 Michigan Slate 77 Butler 71 (OT) Boston College I Fairfield 70 St Johns (NY I 49 Army 49 Rhode Island 78 Brown 70 New Hampshire 81 Tulle 71 PNorth Carolina Slate 88 George 48 Princeton 49 Lafayette 50 Kansas 14 Northwestern 49 Catholic University 74 Western 44 Cincinnati IS Western Michigan 54 West Virginia 74 William 8 Mary 72 Citadel 92 Richmond 70 La Salle 45 Albrioht 42 Detroit 103 South Dakota St 74 Georgia 89 Georgia Southern 48 Oklahoma 40 Minnesota 54 Long Island 42 Wagner 55 Kansas Stale 49 Texas ASM 48 Duke freshmen 101 PI Story Vi Ft Lee Va 09 North Carolina freshmen 53 St Bonaventure 92 Murray Ky 39 Indiana 80 Indiana Slata 53 Temple 73 Manhattan 55 Hotstra 73 Washington Md 80 Midwestlrn Invitation! Consolation Syracuse 74 Massachusetts II GEORGIA "INVITATIONAL Tennessee AS I 79 Dillard 51 (consolatixi) Morns Brown 13 Jackson Miss 82 (third) No 1 Rusher And Scorer NEW YORK Bob of New Mexico State replaced teammate Pervis IF MIDDLE AND WEST Tennessee follow the lead of East Tennessee be surprised if' we start having Fourth of July high school football games 4 As Comedian Johnny would say: possible" a The E-T regional meeting yesterday in Knoxville resulted in vote against two proposals concerning scheduling: Ml) That no member school shall play a football game before school has opened and before students afc attending regular class sessions 1 That no team shall be allowed to play more than two basketball games per week excluding tournaments and play during the Christmas holidays The West Tennessee meeting Is scheduled at Jackson tomorrow and the Middle Tennessee gathering at Nashville next Saturday Logic certainly played no part in the thinking of the majority that voted down the two proposals Football schedules start too early and basketball schedules are too long The facts bear out these two contentions and obvious that the schools (at least in E-T) want to continue the practice of overlapping seasons and general confusion in the sports ing picture 'r I feel that eventually this program of cramming more ana more high school athletic events into the busy schedules of the fans will suffer from its own weight In the meantime though it looks as if we'll have football games whether schools are In session or not or whether the fans come out or not Kingsport a good lesson in successful football was one of the few schools around here that waited until school started to begin its' schedule last fall Dobyns-Bennett was the state's No 1 team in most of our books Already many of our youngsters have their summer vaca-' tions curtailed badly Why? They've got to go out for football practice when rather go fishing or swimming And in the spring there's football again with other spring sports taking the back scat Certainly not opposed to high school football But I am of the opinion that it should be played In football season not six weeks before the World Series in baseball Is decided Nor on warm balmy evenings when warm-weather sports still beckon Perhaps the schools even if this proposal is voted down by the two other sections of the state will use their good judgment in not playing until school is in session And better still maybe the Board of Control of TSSAA which has acted so forcibly in many other cases will uce its better ement this time and tell the schools that neither wise nor al to play football in August nor basketball three or four times a week As inclined as I might be to overemphasize the importance jot athletics In the development of a boy or girl be the last to -say that students of school should be out until 10 or later on several occasions a week on "school when they should be at home in bed getting in proper test for the ftext day's nourishment of their mental capacities The old saying is that you can overdo anything and I think ft's particularly true about the hap-hazard basketball scheduling which threatens to kill spectator interest in the high school-variety I know fans will eventually tire of the runaway games Noticed some of the scores lately? There is no substitute for quality the advertising posters say and they must be right So the quality of high school basketball must remain on a high level to attract fans Loyalty to the school appears to be getting fans out most of the time now but how long can this myth last? What can stir a fan to go out aud see a game where the ability of one team is 50 points leu than Us opposition? There are a lot of timely questions which I feel haven't been explored fully by the majority If the smaller schools need these long basketball schedules for financial existence perhaps the TSSAA should dip into its treasury to subsidize high school athletics If the decision is based only on dollar value then it's a shaky decision hope that restraint by the schools themselves is more in existence than the vote of the majority would indicate (Staff Ftwta) MOST VALUABLE Ron Quillen 196-pound senior halfback from Kingsport was voted the valuable on the 1960 East Tennessee State College football squad Quillen is the ground-gaining and scoring champion of the Ohio Valley amassed 728 yards rushing and scored 42 points during the season Quillen holds the MVP trophy which was presented at ceremohies at the Majestic Theatre the All-Ohio Valley Conference team Before the week is out ETSC must face title-favored Western Kentucky'" ah important OVC clash at Bowling Green The game "is scheduled for Friday Western shares billing Vith Eastern Kentucky as perhaps the-two toughest teams in the OVC The Bucs themselves are in the 'desirable position of being lightly-regarded because of inexperience Home Jab 5 After tomorrow night ETSC be home again until Jan when Georgia Southern comes here The Bucs play Georgia Southern at Statesboro Dec 19 and the next night play Georgia at Statesboro On Dec 29-30 ETSC goes to Laurel Miss to play in a tourney involving Mississippi Southern Davidson and North Texas State On Jan 2-East Tennessee plays its second OVC game at Eastern Kentucky Snead Ups Palm Beach Lead To 3 WEST PALM BEACH Fla (AP) They tried to catch old Sam Snead in the third round of the 115000 West Palm Beach Open golf tournament Saturday but all they could do was make him run faster Snead started Saturday at 138 with a two-stroke lead on the field When the shooting had ceased Sam was leading by three strokes with a three-round total 207 He carded a three-under-par 69 Saturday In second place was surprising Johnnie Pott of Shreveport La who had a five-under-par 67 for the best round of the day and a 210 total Art Wall Jr of Pocono Manor Pa had a great chance to over take Snead when he went out witn a four-under-par 32 after starting the round at 142 four strokes back of Snead He ran into three bogies in a row on the incoming nine and finished with a 70 in a four-way tie for third place at 212 Sam Snead Johnnie Bolt Bobble Nichols Art Wall Jr -Arnold Belmer Jim Ferre John Bernum Howie Johnson Bert Weaver Ted Kroll Bob Goetz Wes Ellis Jr Al Johnston Al Balding Mason Rudolph Oow Finsterwald Doua Began Frank Boynton John Guslin Julius Boros Georg Bayer 48-70-49-207 77-71-47-220 49-73-70-217 40-73-71-212 72-40-73-213 2'3 75-77-48-2)5 74-72-70-2)4 74-73-70-217 74-72-71-217 217 74-73-49-218 70-77-71-211 75-71-72-218 45-75-78-211 MacKay Captures Net Crown MELBOURNE (AP) Barry MacKay lugged out an 8-6 5-7 8-6 6-3 victory over Earl (Butch) Buchholz in the historic all-American final of the Victorian Tennis championships Saturday but gave the US Davis Cup team a few anxious moments in a nasty spill on the slippery grass court Fortunately with the interzone finals against Italy just five days away the No 1 US singles player suffered only a mild groin injury in the fall which came in the second game of the fourth set MacKay from Dayton Ohio shrugged off the injury after the match just a little sore all" he said get some heat treatments and will be as good as new I feel It was fifth success over Buchholz the edgy and temperamental youngster from St Louis BULLETIN LOS ANGELES (AP) Champion Gene Fullmer the billy goat belter from Utah retained his world National Boxing Association middleweight title fight Saturday night in a 15-round draw with fivetime ex-champion Sugar Ray Robinson of New York Jr Bucs Collide Tuesday XL night to highlight a 12-game area schedule Hampton and Mary Hughes however kick off the high school action Monday night at Unaka Coach Bob Paynter's Junior Bucs have rolled to eight consecutive wins and are one of the two remaining undefeated teams the other being Elizabethton Science Hill takes a 3-1 record into the contest after taking the measure of Tennessee High Friday night in a Big Seven Conference battle at Bristol Tied For Big 7 Lead The along with Elizabethton and Kingsport are tied for the Big 7 lead Elizabethton rode over Greenevlller 81-57 -and Kingsport whipped Morristown 68-55 Lamar took over second place in the Washington County League by downing Boones Creek 62-58 as Doug Howell tossed in 28 points Training School i pacing the WLC Happy Valley continues to lead the Watauga Conference with a Other Friday action found Hamp-2-0 worksheet in play ton bowing to Rutledge 66-50 Cioudland turning back Jonesboro 56 38 in a Watauga tilt Training School routing Erwin 77-34 Washington College dropping its seventh game to Church Hill 51-34 and Mary Hughes stopping Lynn View 60-41 Ketron nipping Blountville 52-51 Holston Valley turning back Holston Institute 63-34 and Bluff City bowing to Sullivan 68-60 in Upper Lakes Conference games The standings- BIO SEVEN Coniartnct AH I The game started off as a seesaw battle in the first quarter with LMU pulling ahead 16-14 as the quarter ended LMU forged ahead by 12 points early in the second period but the Pioneers closed the gap 34-28 at halftime Football Results COLLEOI POOTBALL UCLA 7 Duka 4 South Carolina Virginia 8 NAIA POOTBALL PLAYOFFS Northarn Michigan TO Lanolr Rhyng 0 I Lenoir Rhyna awarded garni on nal yard gained) Tennessee AVI 25 Jackson Miss Slat 2 Milligan Beaten By Lipscomb Tucker Voted No 1 Coach LOUISVILLE Ky Ole Santa can scratch Wilburn name from his list because a "man who has everything" like the commercials say Tucker got what he wanted tnost when his Tennessee Tech eleven swept all sue Ohio Valley Conference football games for the loop crown this season But icing was added to the cake when his Golden Eagles from Cookeville Tenn were invited to meet The Citadel in the Tangerine Bowl Dec 30 at Orlando Fla Now Tucker has another honor been voted OVC of the by his colleagues in the coaching ranks Kaiser Leads iaTech By Furman ATLANTA Roger Kaiser fired 31 point? Saturday night and got ample assistance from a talented trio of sophom*ores in escorting Georgia Tech to a onesided 80-54 basketball victory over Furman The victory was second in a row and Kaiser's point total stands at 56 after the first two games Sophom*ore Jerry Smith led Furman now 1-1 with 18 points At St Louis Lewis Gass Wins Laws Memorial ELIZABETHTON Senior tackle Lewis Gass Friday became th ninth winner of the Bulldog Laws Memorial Trophy which is annually presented to the outstanding Elizabethton football player selected by the Elizabethton Jay-cees The award given in memory the late Edwin Law who was an outstanding Elizabethton and Milligan College gridder the 1940s was inaugurated in 1932 Dickie Phillips was the initial winner of trophy Johnny Holsclaw who is a sophom*ore at Tennessee is the only two-time winner He won the trophy in 1957-58 while running the Cyclone team from the quarterback position Other winners include Danny McCall (1953) Bobby Law (1954) Buddy Nidiffer (1955) Johnny Taylor (1956) and Jerry Webb (1959) Training School's undefeated Junior Bucs and Johnson once-beaten Hilltoppers clash on the hardwood Tuesday AFL Set -To Finish Grid Draft DALLAS (AP) The bustling year-old American Football League promising more remuneration through competition finishes its draft here Monday expecting to grab off most of the top talent from the colleges didfbelteF than anyone" expected this said Commissioner Joe Foss "and we'll do even better this time in signing our draft The first six rounds were conducted by telephone last week leaving 24 to be run off Monday attempts in the first half while Lipscomb hit 17 of 37 The Buffs made seven of 11 free throws in the first half to seven of eight for Lipscomb The story changed sharply in the second half as the flu-weakened Buffs ran out of steam Milligan even faltered on free throws in the last half hitting only one of seven The Buffs return home to play King College Tuesday night and Sewanee Friday- both at Cheek gym on the Milligan campus Paa Milligan (it) DavM Llpitomb (91) Black Jayle 3 Taylor 9 Dowdy 7 Tester 13 Peterson 24 Williams 12 Waller 14 Harrell 1 Mayes 5 Milligan 'subs' Frasure 4 Hall 2 Vaughn Stevens 4' Herndon Nicholson 2 Lipscomb subs: Casbon 2 Dixon 2 Martin I McCgrlt 14 Davis 2 Eisenber 4 Ramsey 10 Halftime score: Milligan 41 Lipscomb 81 to expand to 10 clubs adding New York and Houston in 1962 The American league has voted to expand to 10 clubs by adding a new Washington franchise and Los Angeles in 1961 In the face of National League objection by owner Walter O'Malley of the Los Angeles Dodgers the American offered to settle for nine clubs in 1961 if the National also would become a nine-club league and would agree to an interleague schedule The National is believed opposed to the nine-club idea If the leagues can compromise on an amendment or if an amendment can be drawn up that Frick will approve the American plans to go through with its plans to play in Los Angeles next season although no owner has been announced The only alternative is an eight-club league without any Washington franchise Can Bucs Frighten Mountaineers? EAST TENNESSEE STATE which scared Tennessee Thursday night will- be out to frighten Appalachian Mountaineers tomorrow night at ETSC Memorial Building The Bucs lost a 71-68 decision to U-T but only after Tom Chilton and his mates did a lot of impressing before the Volunteer fans accustomed to seeing tough basketball in the Southeastern Conference Fans will be watching another gdme this week loo when The Bucs visit Bowling Green Friday night to play Western Kentucky The Ililltoppers as usual are expected to be terrific After showing against U-T many Buc fans who figured this might be just another year somewhat similar to the last two were spurred by the promise of the 1960-61 edition ETSC faces a formidable slate and teams tougher than the Vols are probably still ahead As for the Mountaineers the Bucs can remember only last year when they escaped with an 7-86 decision at Boom or the year before when the score favored ETSC 55-53! Appalachian is always tough and a look at the overall height of this club would indicate the Mountaineers are good again They have two six-fours a six-two a six-three and a six-eight in the starting lineup with a six-six ready for duty As if the varsity game enough to attract fans the ETSC freshmen who defeated the varsity 101-95 will be mak- ing their debut against the Mountaineer frosh This opener will start at 6 with the main attraction at 8 Pulaski Middlesboro In Appy? PULASKI VA and Middlesboro Ky are still possible entries in the all-rookie Appalachian League for 1961 The two cities were mentioned in the meeting at Louisville Ky last week and if major league backing becomes available quite likely the Appalachian will go to eight teams The major league directors indicated they'd be happy with an eight-club operation or even a seven-club league the picture at present: Johnson City St Lous Cardinals Kingsport Pittsburgh Pi-rales Morristown Chicago Cubs Wythevllle Washington Senators Salem San Francisco Giants and Bluefield Baltimore Orioles Presdient Chauncey DeVault of Bristol indicated that 1961 book-tickets would be ordered immediately and would be available for fans to give for Christmas presents With the Cardinals coming back to Johnson City this sale of tickets is expected to get a big boost The local ball park was known for 19 years from 1937 to 1955 as Park" The familiar ring is likely to stir pleasant memories among many of our oldtimers who have continued to follow the Cardinals ail of these years NASHVILLE Milligan College battled David Lipscomb to a 41-41 first half draw but ran out of gas as the Bisons pinned a 91-60 defeat on the Buffs here last night Larry Peterson Lipscomb center scored 24 points to pace the winners Milligan hit 17 of 29 field goal Big Seven Meets Here 1 The Big Seven Conference meets at 1 today at the John Sevier Hotel The conference will probably pick its all-star football squad and conduct business relative to the basketball season that is in the other These amendments drawn up in New York during a two-day so-called conference will be considered by the National and American Leagues at their separate meetings Monday and Tuesday If they fail to agree Frick will cast the decisive vote atg joint meeting Frick and Presidents Joe Cronin of the American League and Warren Giles of the National League have declined comment on the proposals pending action by their leagues The National League has voted 15 DECEMBER 4 I960 AL Expansion Expected To Evolve From Meetings Happy Valle Hampton Cioudland Boones Creek Mountain CHY Unaka Jonesboro The schedule this week: Big Savin Coherence Morristown at Brntol (Friday) Erwin at Kingsport (Friday) Johnson City al Graenavilla (FritflV) Non Conference' Bristol Holstw In-titute (Tuesday) Oak Ridge at Elizabethton (Friday) McMinn Erwin (Saturday) Greeneville at Chuckey-Doak (Tuav Training School at Sclanc Hill (Tu-dsv) Science Hill at Blountvlll (Saturday) Klngtaort at Ketron (Tuesday) Jefferson City at Morristown (Tuesday) Washington County CaMarenc Jonesboro at Fall Branch (Friday) Lamar at Washington Collage (Tuaa-dev) Nan-Conference Blountville at Boones Creek (Tuesday) Hpapy Valley at Boones Creek (Friday) Bluff City at Jonesboro (Tuesday) Fall Branch at Unaka (Tuesday) Lamar at Hampton (Friday) Cioudland at Sulphur Sorlnos (Tuesday) Sulphur Springs at Church Hill (F-l-day) Training School at Science Hill (Tues-Mountaln City at Training School (Friday) Washington College at McDonald (Friday) Watavg Conference Happy Vlel Boonas Creek (Frl-day) Happy Valley at Meunlaln City (Tuesday) Nan-Conferanct Blountville 1 Boones Creak (Tuesday) Cioudland' at sulphur Springs (Tv-day) Hamolnn al Mary Hughe (Monday) Lamar at Hampton (Friday) Oak Rldgt Vs Hampton at Unaka (Saturday) Newport at Happy Valley (Thursday) Bluff City 1 Jonesboro (Tuesday) Jonesboro al Fall Branch (Friday) Mountain City at Training School (Friday) Fall Branch al Unaka (Tuesday) Mary Huohes at Unex (Thursday) Surgolnsvlll at Unaka (Friday) LMU Trims Tuseulum ST LOUIS (AP) A 1-club American League extending into Los Angeles in 196L is expected to evolve from a series of important meetings of feuding baseball officials starting Monday Locked in a bitter dispute about territory the presidents of the two major leagues and Commissioner Ford Frick have hammered out several suggested amendments to Rule 1 on exclusive tights to territory The unamended rule requires unanimous approval by all major league clubs to include in one league a city ID) RROGATE Tenn UR Lin-Memorial's five starters play-lie whole game and all shot ouble figures last night as the splitters 'defeated Tuscuium I in a Smoky Mountain Con-ice basketball contest Johnston hit the net for 17 ts Dick Wilkes had 16 Hank He 15 Jim Cigliano 14 and ik White 12 as they carried whole load for LMU Miles led scor-ith 27 points followed by Al who hit 16 OUT (Halt Photo) BULLDOG LAWS Gass (right) Elizabethton tackle is presented the Bulldog Laws Memorial Trophy by Jaycee President Johnny Geagley The award goes annually to the outstanding Cyclone gridder Gass captained the Cyclones during the 1960 season JOHNSON CITY TENN SUNDAY (4 i i.

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