MVC Takes 2id Straight SCAC Basketball Crowa

Ittc Bena, Mississippi — Giving Mississippi Vocational College a

virtual monopoly at present on

South Central Athletic Conference honors, the Delta Devils rolled to their second straight SCAC Visi- tation Basketball Championship with a 77-66 romp over Paul Quinn College here last Tuesday night.

Led by high pointer (22) Lloyd Williams and stellar performances by Robert Sheehee, James Gra- ham, Clyde Corbitt, Walter Miller, Frank Boyland and Marzelle Mit- chell, the Devils overcame some

rather shaky shooting and outlast- ed the Waco, Texas, quintet for the important conference win.

The Paul Quinn win gave the Devils a 6-2 conferenre champion- ship winning record and gave MVC a double barreled hold on the SC- AC as the football team earlier copped conference gridiron hon- ors.

In rolling to the conference crown, the Devils not only bowled over conference foes Alcorn (1-1), Mississippi Industrial (1-1); Still- man (2-0) and Paul Quinn (2-0), but also established themselves as

a not-to-be-lightly-regarded squad by toppling such vaunted South Western Conference powers as

Southern and Jackson State. Cage mentor Paul “Ace” Col-

lins, who has guided the Devils to a SCAC Tournament title and two conference crowns since taking ov-

er in 1957, called the conference race an “uphill battle all the way” end offered guarded praises for team members.

Athletic Director & Head Foot- ball Coach John A. Bell, who snar-

ed a conference football champion- ship in his MVC debut and one

who holds no truck with second best, cited the dual conference titles as evidence of MVC’s emer-

gence as an undisputed national athletic power.

Telling of intensive recruiting efforts and only hinting at new

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Baseball Practice Begins At Grambling

By COLLIE J. NICHOLSON

GRAMBLING, La.—(Special)— Baseball practice started official- ly* at Grambling College last week with new names and strange faces at most positions.

Newcomers and shifted person- nel spotlighted the opening session as only 11 lettermen—seven pitch- ers and four infielders—returned.

President-Coach R. W. E. Jones said it will be difficult to tell the players this season without a pro- gram.

He also announced the appoint- ment of Frank Ensley as a coach- ing assistant.

Ensley is a member of the stu- dent personnel staff here and played his college ball at Gramb- ling before signing with the Chi- cago White Sox.

He later player in the Milwaukee Braves organization and managed Indianapolis of the Negro Ameri- can League.

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Alcorn Downs Stillman 127-80 In Conf. Tilt

From the first whistle, the Al- corn College Braves demonstrated complete superiority over the Still- man College Lions. The Tuscaloo- sa, Alabama five met the Alcorn Braves at the Alcorn Gymnasium, Monday, February 15th at 7:30 p.m. when the Braves were at their peak. Bobby Jones sparkplugged the Braves from the very begin- ning with long shots that had nets waving. The Stillman team fought bravely to come from behind and attempted time and time again to stop the fast-breaking Braves quintet, but they outguarded, con- trolled rebounds, and out shot the Lions from start to finish, main- taining a 40 point lead at the half. The score at the end of the half, Alcorn College 71, Stillman 31.

During the second half, Coach Simmons' magic substitution, as he emptied the bench, made the Al- corn Braves increase the lead by 7 points, and the final score was Alcorn 127-Stillman 80. This score

set a record in the Alcorn Colleges new gymnasium.

The high scorers for the Alcorn College Braves were: Bailey 17, Jones 17, Pearson 16, Williams 14, Walker 12, and Woodard 10. The high scorers for Stillman College were: McCrae and Sykes, who tied at 11 points each.

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Tenn. State Clinches Mid- West Crown Youngstown, O.—Spider Ben War- ley spread a tight defensive net and pumped in 25 points to lead Tennessee State hardwood five 94- 71 romp over Youngstown Univer- sity Monday night.

Gaining a 46-35 edge after spirited first half play, Coach Har- old Hunter’s charges galloped away in the final period to post a 20-2 season’s record. Penquin pivotman Chuck Day and forward Mickey Yuguvich supplied the firepower that knotted the game once and kept Youngstown within two points of the flying Tennesseeans until 4:23 of the first half.

With Werts doing the rebound- ing and Warley blocking shots, Tennessee’s second half play took play took all the “young” out of Youngstown, and the tall trio War- ley, Werts, and Mel Davis 25, 19, and 17 points “aged” the Young- stown quint a bit.

From the floor Hunter's Gun- ners continued their torrid net

burning. Cracking 40 of 91 at- tempts Tennessee bombed the nets 43.9 percent of the time, while Youngstown hit 32 of 90 to post a 35.5 shooting average.

On this ball-game road trip Hun- ter took his charges to sec the NIBL’s Cleveland Piper’s play in Cleveland—, and Piper Mentor J. B. (three-in-a-row NAIA champion while at Tennessee State) McLen- don sat in the stands and watched his old college team workover Youngstown.

At Central State, Tennessee State’s cagers wrapped up the Mid- western conference season’s play crown by shelling the Marauders 96-71 last Saturday.

Two loop wins in a row this week gave the tall Tennesseeans five straight wins in the conference without a defeat and 19-2 for the season. Lincoln, down once this season by Hunter’s Gunners, is the sole conference tilt remaining.

Last Friday night the three-time NAIA nation champs had to solve Kentucky State’s slow-down ball playing before Hunter’s charges could nip the Thorobreds 75-67 at Frankfort. The crowd thrilling tilt was knotted nine times with the lead changing hand seven times. Gene Werts, Tennessee’s 6-6 pivot-

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man who collected 23 points, iced the game at the charity line, sink- ing two, putting the Nashvillians in front 65-63 with less than five minutes remaining in the game.

One point up at intermission (39- 38) in Tennessee’s favor the first half was tied six times, and Ken- tucky’s Carvey Jones missed a

crip that would have given the Thorobreds a halftime edge.

Thorobred Charlie Capps, on a

jump shot from the coroner put Kentucky ahead 58-57 with less than 10 minutes remaining in the game with a long jump shot from the corner that created pandi- monium among the partisan fans. From that point the game was

knotted three times with the lead changing twice before Werts fired his free tosses.

The hawk-eyed net burners from Tennessee fired 67 salvoes, hitting the target with 33 to register 49.2 from the floor. Kentucky’s con-

trolled ball handling insured them 29 baskets of 66 attempts. Ken- tucky’s 43.9 shooting from the floor gave both team better than 40 percent from the court.

At Wilberforce the Marauders stayed within range of the first 10 minutes of the game. In that time the tilt was knotted five times and the lehd changed three. With less than 13 minutes remaining in the half, Bob Clark pumped one

from the corner to put Tennessee ahead to 13-11, by halftime Hun- ter’s Gunners had a 43-39 edge.

Opening the final frame Tennes- see scored 23 points in ten minutes while the Marauders could only muster 10 tallies. Hitting 44 of 96 from the floor and paced by Spider! Ben Warley’s 28 points and Bob Clark’s 20, Hunter’s Gunners fired a murderous 45.8 percent from the floor.

Tougaloo Bulldogs Grab Gulf Coast Basketball Crown

Tougaloo, Miss. — The hustling Tougaloo Bulldogs won the Gulf Coast Athletic basketball champ- ionship last week-end with two road game wins over Philander Smith and Rust College. These two games gave the Red and Blue standard bearers a record of 8 wins and 2 losses in conference play while Tougaloo’s two nearest opponents, Dillard of New Orleans. La. and Huston-Tillotson of Aus- tin, Texas finished with identical records of 6 wins and 2 losses.

This year’s team proved its :lass the hard way. The team got off to a slow start, losing eight of ‘ts first eleven games then did a

'omplete about face to grab ten of its last twelve including six straight conference games. The ca-

nines also became a tough defen- sive club, limiting its last five op- ponents to an average 62 point total per game.

This marks the second Gulf Coast crown for the Bulldogs during the last three campaigns but it is Tou- galoo’s first outright championship in eighteeen years. The Bulldogs and the Dillard Blue Devils shared

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Alcorn Braves SCAC Chnps

The Alcorn Braves trounced MVC to capture their 16th South Central Athletic Conference bas- ketball title over a fighting state rival. The MVC “five” did not re- linquish their four year monopoly without a bitter battle. The Braves, however, were equal to the task, although, they were playing their second game within a span of seven hours, having defeated a never-say-die quintet from Mis- sissippi Industrial College in the afternoon session 87-79.

Alcorn was led by Davis 39, Walker 27, Harris 22, Cooley 22, Williams 19, and Jones 17 for* the two games.

Graham and Corbitt, MVC, scored 43 points in a futile attempt to retain the championship.

Jesse and James Brown (twins) whose combined efforts provided 41 points to give Braves support- ers many uneasy moments during the Mississippi Industrial game.

The Alcorn College team, play- ing the first season in the new

gymnasium, closed out their sea-

son without a defeat in its con-

fines. The future looks promising as

the tournament squad of ten play- ers was composed of 6 freshmen, 3

1 sophomores, and one junior. Two freshmen, John Wesley Cooley (Dayton, Ohio) and Ira Williams, Fort Worth, Tex., were all-con- ference selections. Art Walker, sophomore from Greenville, Miss, and Tommy Davis, freshman, Nat-

the 1957-58 crown.

Coach J. T. Braxton announces

that the Tougaloo vs MVC game has been moved to Tuesday, Feb- ruary 23. This shift was made so

that there would be no conflict with the Jackson College vs. Prairie View game. This Southwest con-

ference clash has championship im- plications and could produce both a champion and a team-at-large in the week-end NAIA (District 6A) tournament tentatively sche- duled for Grambling, Louisiana. The Southwest champions and the Gulf Coast champions will get au-

tomatic invites.

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School. The police announced that the

investigation was continuing and that ten more persons had been questioned during today. No mo-

tive was given. Charges of damaging property

with an explosive were filed to- day against Ms jo Antonio Binna Jr, 31 years old, and Herbert O- dell Monts, 17. Young Monts is a student at the all-Negro Horace Mann High School at Little Rock.

Conviction on this charge carries a prison sentence of one to five years and a $600 fine, or both.

The arrests of the Negroes in the bombing of the home of Car- lotta Walls, the Negro student, in- dicated that the police had dis- counted a theory that segregation- ists were responsible.

Pulaski County Prosecutor J. Frank Holt filed the charges to- day in Pulaski County Circuit Court. In Municipal Court the pair earlier pleaded rtot guilty to the bombings.

The home of the Walls family was damaged on the night of Feb. 9. Carlotta, her mother and two other Walls children who were

sleeping on the opposite side of the house were not injured.

chez, Miss, made the all-tourna- ment team.

Coach E. E. (Doc) Simmons, a

graduate of West Virginia State College, Institute, West Virginia, and Springfield College, Spring- field, Mass., Athletic Director, re-

built the team and piloted it into a tournamen tchampionship.

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