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DEC. iO th j 1950 s m m §Acrs a m h p o u o Browsing ^ Brower BY FRANK L BROWER NCC On Exhibition Tour O'finiont txpreited in th i* column are tho»e o f the w rite r a»d are net neeeeearUn opimiont o f the C A S O LIN A T IM S 8. mIMC/ POPULATION Have Strong Starters, HAPPY NEW YEAR DREAMS Sport Magazine Soys Ezzard| May the New Year bring you dreams as bright And lovely as the candlelight; Weak In Reserves Charles Greatest Of Them All May all things happy, good and true, Enrich the coming year for you.—UHO. riif-X(»rth Ciirolina College ed the Lions in the first rotuid When EZZard Charles, heavy- LEGAL DELEMMA HAD RUDOLPH — Was going •■Hwt'ft- currently in the midst of of the 1946 CIAA tourt^ey and eight champion of the it t'our j’Hnie lidiiiltiy I'xhibition dropped a post seawn tilt with Texas "Steers" home after the Christmas Party Christmas world beat Joe Ix>uis, believed torn- « ith the .Morgan S tate the Lincoln cagers in 1944. night, loaded and filled to the hairline with by many fight fans the greatest Returns From the Christmas spirit that we are taught to Bears, t'aec a lil-giinie Lincoln has been rated by of the mall, he defeated more experience (get your mind out of the ICKKM card .it'ter flu' iiolidays w ith u several veteran sports writer as VSItTH>OtlO N g M O A N D than one of the most touted of Nine Came Tour salon), feeling lonely having to retire to M caiva fiKO»A tried and provnd starting five havinjf the best team on paper all ring heroes, he beat a man he my apartment without benefit of consola­ OI»ABS but with relatively short and in in the Central Intercollegiate By C. E. CHAPMAN c.\perience<l reservj's. idolized and loved, reports the tion, and bumped into what seemed to be Athletic Association this season, ■V highlight of< the current ex­ current issue of SPORT Mag- TYLER, TEXAS — The Tex a red light for stop . Wasn’t anybody el 0 HQ U KO M TM hibition tonr with the Bear ine. as College Steers have just re­ but old Rudolph coming back from a party HOUR TWe MkAWCH or ottAmm •PSNOS fjuintet Is a New Year’s Day To Charles, Joe Louis repre­ turned. from nine game tour too with Santa, and was AWOL a few hours • a,T0O 1C moHT P O L tO l clash at N cav York City’s Rock­ that carried them through Illi­ from the North Pole~. Foiuid out later, t t OUT O f 9 O V B P t IS A(T Fisk Bulldogs sented the gallant, beloved All- eohnvkc£;^tTH land Palace. nois, Indiana and Oklahoma. after a bit of imwholesome conversation, fo c to eXAMIhmO American qualities of a truly m/ mAJKH O f The Engles opened the tour Defeat 'Bama great iighting champion. The Although the locals were feeble that it wasn’t a red light at all I bumped mmvm^L ru m V ITAL ^A C T O K V T\iesday, Dec. 26. at Annapolis, kind of a nationally famed fig­ in treir effort against the best into, but the guy’s red nose . He, for the Md. where they played ^lorgan A & M, 48-33 ure Charles always daydreamed small college fives in Illinois first time in centuries, was chosen to- be the iji the first of the four game Brower lead reindeer for Santa’s horses this-y^^ Nashville — Fisk University’s of becoming hack in lAwrence- and Indiana, they fared nicely serips^tind will move on to Spar­ (well they looked like horses wearing a woman’s hat) . SanttC" Ba.sketball quintet ran their ville, George, where he lived as when they returned to the row’s Point. Maryl.'^nd, Wednes­ the oldest living human, choose Rudolph to flashlight the way to POCtO VIRUS** current win,, streak to 4-0 de­ a young boy. His victory over Southwest. uAio muo TO mNO „ day. Dee. 37 for the <second con­ chemnies with his glowing red nose, as an embassador of good feating Alabam A. and M., 48- Louis was the realiZation of all Millikin, Coach Fred Long’s ■ouAL OM£ test. The two fives are scheduled will and sport like the Globe Trotters who won over “ Poorbelly” 33 at Nashville. Monday night these dreams of becoming a alma mater, dusted the Steefs JOIN t^ABCH OP OtM^eS 4AN. IS TO 3 / / to meet in Baltimore Saturday. Walker’s quint bathnite. in a slow moving contest do­ champion in his own right. But, 99-50 at D«catur, Illinois, to The Eagles and the Bears will minated by the Fiskites from in having to bjT)a8s his boyhood open the tour. Illinois College JOHNNY MARKS RED NOSE REINDEER — Before wrap up their holiday exhibi­ t the opening minutes of the hero, Charles fought a silent gave them a lesson in the cage tions with the'.Tan 1. s^rap nt went to the empty loniness of my apartment, and into the game, fight with his pairt ideals, as sport in Jacksonville, Illinois to happy or unhappy New Year, 1 had to finish this 1950 busi­ NeAv York well as with Ix)uis in the ring, the tune of 82-62. Quincy Col­ ness of a new reindeer getting into the act this Christmas The NCC cagers, with one Fisk forward Robert White for his future and the cul­ lege at Quincy polished Coach sliowed greatly improved floor . I had already heard about the reputable guy down at SeORTSDUST conference victory tucked away minating tritimph that brought Giles W right’s charges 71-63 O’Brient’s from a friend who told of foreign homes bereft play as he and teammate Robert on the season at the expense of crowning significance to his and Eastern Illinois dropped and bare this Christmas because of wicked war . N. C. Mu­ the Bluefield State five whoiu Matthews shared scoring honors main ambition in life — heavy­ them 72-40 in Charleston. WITH McLENDON for the victorious Bulldogs with tual girl friends lifted their water glasses in toast to- this they defeated 65-53 in Durham, weight champion of the world, Wheaton had a tough time with character who symbolized the holiday, and who persuaded Dec. 13, boast of a starting five 10 points each. The remainder the Purple and Gold but came of the Fisk scoring was divided ■ 111 his long, arduous battle to Santa to save some of his goodies for needy families later on (FDITOR’S NOTE: SPORTSDUST this week con­ which averages over jsix feet, one out on top 77-69 in Wheaton, almost evenly through the the top, Charles met and^efeat- in the Happy New Year. tinues John B. McLendon’s statistical summary of bas- inch. But Boach Johnny jMc- Illinois and Taylor University squad as Coach Thompson clear­ ed such outstanding fighters as - TWO FRONT TEETH OF THE PIGTAIL SET — A young­ Vetball play in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Asso­ Lendon will have to rely on in­ Anton Christoforidis, former over in Upland, Indiana after ed the bench early in the sec­ ster of the pigtail set, and heir of an ins\Mrance worker requested ciation. Last week’s column was a summary of 1950 bas­ experienced and short reserves light - heavyweight champion, being held 68 all with six min­ ond half of the game. us to print the lyrics here of “ Rudolph The Sed Nose Reindeer” ketball play among Cl A A teamsi This week McLendon this season. Ken Overlin, ex-middleweight utes to go, broke loose to win from the pen and imagination of Johnny Marks, so she would gives the CIAA’s all-time records in basketball). In the unsual starting five, , The Aggies Grant Nelson champion, Pittsburgh’s Charley 89-69. the lilagles list euards Tom turned in the best indi\idual Burley, Joey Maxim, presently Closing the long jaunt the be ready to sing it next Christmas . You know Dasher »nd Dan­ Ramey, 6 ’1” soph, and Ernest performance of the game by the light-heavj'weight champion Steers were on the long end of cer and Prancer and Vixen . Comet and Cupid and Donner'aiid ' CIAA All-Time Records In Basketball Wai’Iick, 6 ’4” junior; fo'nvards sinking .seven field goals for of the world, Jimmy Bivnns, two very good games with Lang BlitZen . But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all? Troy Weaver, 5’IQ” senior and 14 foints to win high points ston 68-67 in Oklahoma City .. Rudolph the red nosed reindeer . Had a very shiny nose . INDIVIDUAL RECORDS Jersey Joe Walcott and Gus Jay Petersen, 6’11’ soph.; ami honors. Stopped in the pivot Lesnevich. Charles wa.s only and another 63-61 thriller in And if you ever saw it . You would even say it glows . All I. Highest in Individual Scorinji; for Siufrle Season (Total George Greene, 6 ’4” center. So position by Fisk Center -Bill knocked out once in his career, Tulsn. They wound up the treke of the other reindeer . Used to laugh and call him names . games) — Rudoljjh Koberson, 1943 — 19 pames, field goals, free far, so good, inasmuch as all ex­ Smith, Nelson began hitting by Lloyd Marshall, but the by walloping the Southwest Col­ They never let poor Rudolph .