CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER-TIMES, Jan. 24, Spotlight On Sports BY Caller ROY TERRELL. aged schoolboy. He started fighting in amateur bouts that were sometimes sandwiched around 8 wrestling match or two, and his cohorts included a pair of playful mastadons named Jimmy James and George Wagner. Only then they didn't call James a later-day Nick Londos and Wagner was still years away from becoming Gorgeous George.
In fact McMahon would have you believe that if George truly became gorgeous, it was indeed much later. He went into Navy 19 years ago and fought over most of the ships and shore stations a young sailor hit back in the days between the first two world wars. In 1938 McMahon won the Yangtze River middleweight title but insists it was strictly sea-going affair and he held no claim over any "I never randa "to fight a Chinaadjoining masses. man. says, "just sailors from the "Navy's Asiatic fleet." Nine Gloves Champs in Two Years That same year, however, he did fight an Englishman, champion of the British Royal Navy, and lost.
He hung up his gloves and started training boxers and has been at ever since. McMahon, who looks trim and hard enough right now to pull on the gloves with some of his better pugilists, remembers the 1950 San Diego team as his best. "We combined the Navy and Marine champions, took them up to Camp Pendleton to train for a month, and winning six all-Navy championships." He came here a little over two years ago, just in time to coach the 1952 boxers in the Corpus Christi regional Golden Gloves tournament. That year eight local Bill McMahon leaned against the ring ropes in the hot Navy gym and watched his prospective tigers slug away at the bag and bob and weave around the room, shooting vicious jabs and hooks at imaginary foes. "This is the tough part," he said, waving a hand at the perspiring, boxers Golden getting Gloves ready tournament.
"After this, the fights are a breeze." McMahon should know. The 36- -old Navy chief holds unchalyear lenged reign as the only citizen of Corpus Christi ever to hold the middleweight championship of the Yangtze River, including most of its tributaries. And his career a fighter and boxing coach in the Navy has covered more years than he sometimes cares to reIt all started back in the old member. Clowder Gym on Houston's north when McMahon was a teen- champions went to the state meet in Fort Worth and four of them were from McMahon's Navy stable. Last year the Navy had an even better battering average, winning five of the eight titles.
But this time around, McMahon has been cultivating his cauliflower patch with even more care, for he's run into unexpected trouble. Out at the station 1952 heavyweight champion Chet Zwhar, 1953 heavyweight titlist Bill Napier, and 1953 light heavy winner, Charles Fuller, who went on the finals of the state tournament. McMahon probably won't be able to use them or seveother championship contenders. Navy Business Before Boxing Napier is expecting transfer to Beeville any day, Zwhar is in the hospital and Fuller, like some of the others, is having trouble finding to train. Capt.
Greenslade has given me the go-ahead and all the backing I need," McMahon these said, "I can't seem to convince division heads that this boxguys' ing business is important. They want them to work their regular and then stand a six-hour jobs, watch every night. And then they tell for the 'em Gloves if they want to. to go ahead and train How about that?" In addition, McMahon has been known to break into tears over the inability of his three good ro fighters to compete in the Golden Glove because of Texas segregation laws. couple of those boys are real sharp," he laments.
"Good, strong boys who can hit. But they're going to get their chance. We're sending them up to join some other Negro boys from Lackland Air Force Base who'll compete in the Kansas City tourI nament." After 19 years in the Navy, McMahon shouldn't expect miracles, but it still hurts to have to watch such talent go to waste. However he'll make out with what he has and in an unguarded moment might admit prospects aren't too bad. Leading the current list are Phil Trevino, who looked good as an inexperienced lightweight last to year and has now trained down a bantamweight with a number of fights under his belt, and Dave Sinai, from this early vantage point the class of the middleweight division.
Entry List Packed With Trouble With Trouble Al Yanez, who gave Doc Dillender such a time last year. And Calvin Rayes, the Kingsville featherweight who was twice runnerup to our Billy Trice. And that nephew of trainer Jessie Abrego, Pancho Valente, who looked like 8 million dollars in his two fights last year. It's going to be rough." He was right. From the early entry list, they've never had such a prize bunch of beak busters entered in the tournament before.
But still the Navy seems to come out all right and this year should be no different. Corpus Christi has had four state champions and all came from the Naval Air Station. In 1944 Orlan Ott won not only the Texas heavyweight crown but went on to take the national title as well. That same year Pee Wee Williams was state bantam champion. In 1947 Bill Wilson won the lightweight championship and in 1950 Bill Walke brought home the middleweight crown from Fort Worth.
So there's not much sense in feeling too sorry for Chief Bill McMahon and his Navy battlers here in 1954. Somehow you have the feeling he'll show up Friday night with the entire crop in tow. Anybody that can victoriously fight his way up the Yangtze River shouldn't have too much trouble wound up sixth in the eight horse getting a boxing team across the race. Oso. BASKETBALL RESULTS School St.
Lock Louie Haven 64, 75, Wichita Lycoming 58 70 High Coles 41, Seguin 40 Hardin-Simmons 72. Howard Payne 62 Ray 72. Laredo 51 Loyola (New Orleana) 06, East Texas State Mathis 44, Calallen 37 60 Jefferson 55. Brackenridge 52 Tenn. Tech 92.
Middle Tenn. 81 Austin 60, San Antonio, Tech 45 Howard 64. Southwestern (Tenn) 82 TAFT TOURNAMENT NW La. State 81, Tech Freer 54, Taft 40 Belmont 76, 57. Birmingham Southern 69 Freer 63.
Aransas Pass 46 Stephen Wyoming Oklahoma City 38 Taft 50. Refugio 48 Central Austin McNeese 61 Northeastern Reeville Ingleside Robstown 35 60 Beevilie Ingleside 70, Binton 63 Spring Smith Tulane 57 Arkansas 63 Philander College Field 51 Seton Brigham Hall Young 15. Utah State A Baylor Cabanias Joseph' 53. Temple 46 56 Kentucky 07, Tennessee 71 Utah 62 Freshmen 63. Lamar Arlington State 78 Centre Louisville Baldwin Wallace 75 Rouston U.
Wilmington (Ohio) Penn Manhattan 78, 83, Dartmouth Army 67, 66 Lindsay Murray 91, Rue 33 Auburn Georgia Georgetown Beren 57 Iowa Houston 82. Lamar Tech 69 LaSalle 83. North Carolina State 78 aha 79, Washburn 65 (overtime) Minnesota 82. Northwestern Albright Scranton 68 Missouri 75. Kansas Texas Muhlenberr 93.
Delaware Oklahoma North state 51 62, St. Peter's (N.J.) Vanderbilt 84. Georgia Tech 65 60 Western Michigan Normal Memphis Hilisdale 40 53 Northeastern 87, Tuffs 83 (overtime) 76, College (Ohio) 71 Rider 79, Newark Engineeriar 64 Detroit Tech 81, Fenn 63 Elizabethtown (Pa) 64, Juniata 57 Georgia Teachers 83. Rollins Leymoyne (NY) 72, Hartwick Clarke Benedict Findlay 80. Bluffton Tampa 51 Mt.
Union 63, Case Cornell 73. State Colgate 61. 70 Trenton Teachers 63 Kenyon 64, Ozerlin 8 62. Ta. Waynesburs Virginia Toledo Capital 83.
61. Kent Heidelberg State 63 51 Mittary Wesley- Rio Grande 96. Creighton 90 Francis (Ska) 17, Georgetown (D Grinnell Wooster Otterbein Lawrence 76 Louisiana 83. Louisiana Col- Luther (10) 63, Loras 54 Parsone 98. William Penn 80.
Texas Lutheran 59 Morningside 04. Central (Ta) 63 Teachers (2 overtimes) State Alabama 57 Tilinois Iowa Millikin 69 Panhandle AdM 66 77. southeastern Okla. 71, Northwestern Okla. Monmouth 90.
Cornell 80 (overtime) Lincoln Memorial 70. David Lipscomb 69 North Central (TL) 76. Eimhurat 70 (overtire) One 84. Knox Collece 88, Ozarke 72 Mastern 72. Beloit State 80, Union 71 Shurtleff 74.
Carthage 72. Oklahoma Baptist 69, Phillips University 52 Frennville FU 89 Eureka Brandies Brooklyn 72 Northern Illinois 68. Carroll (Wis.) 68 Drake Town State Bowling Green Professional Akron Denison Hiram 62 Rochester Philadelphia Defiance Cedarville 55 Baltimore Syracuse Ashland Ohio Northern New York Milwaukee La Fayette Bucknell Minneapolis 15, Fort Wayne 73 OLDSMAR, Jan. 23. from the stables of Dona Michelides of Baltimore, broke on top and led all the way to win the $2,500 Tampa Handicap at shine Park today.
It was the second win of the meet for Shrewd who ran the six furlongs in 1:11 2-5 the fastest time in that sprint for the season. Shrewd finished a length ahead of Mestiza who outran the third place horse, Second Look, by two and a half lengths. Allen Rose was up, posting his 14th win of the meet. Shrewd's victory paid win ticket holders $10.90. The favorite, Top Spring, Penn Names Steve Sebo Head Coach PHILADELPHIA, Jan.
23. (AP) Steve Sebo, 39, a three-year man on Michigan State's coaching staff, became the new head football coach at the University of Pennsylvania today. Sebo, who will hold the rank of associate professor on the Penn faculty, succeeds George Munger, who had coached Penn teams for the last 16 years. The new coach tutored Clarence (Biggie) Munn's rampaging backfield at Michigan State for last three years. He was freshman coach in 1950.
The new Penn coach graduated from Michigan State in 1937. Sebo, who served in the U. S. Army Air Force from 1941 to 1946, was named head football coach and director of athletics at Alma, College after his demobilization. He held the post for three years.
In 1948 Alma was one of 13 unbeaten and untied football teams in the nation. The following year he served as backfield coach at Harvard and went to his alma mater in 1950. It was during Sebo's three years of varsity football at Michigan State that the Spartans, last season's co-champions of the Big Ten Conference and Rose Bowl victor, came into national prominence. Sebo is married and has a twoyear old son, Jimmy. While an undergraduate Sebo, a halfback, led the Spartans to eight victories in nine games in 1934.
It was that year that Michigan State defeated its traditional state, Michigan, for the first time in 19 years. Munger, who won 82 games while losing 42 and tying 10 dur. ing his term as coach, assumes his duties as Penn's director of physical education on Feb. 1. Munger resigned as coach last fall and was immediaetly offered the job of director of physical education.
Mathis, Whiskered Wizards Get Wins MATHIS (Sp) Mathis High defeated Calallen and the Whiskered Wizards beat the Mathis Lakers in a double header basketball card here Saturday night. Mathis beat Callallen, 44-37, as Tom Karkaska pitched in 15 points to pace the victory. Carl Wooten of Callallen had 12 to set the range for the Wildcats. Cy Medley scored 18 points for Mathis as they fell before the Whiskered Wizards, 68-58. A full house saw the two games.
Houston Awarded '54 Minor League Meeting HOUSTON, Jan. 23. (AP)-Houston was awarded the 1954 minor league baseball convention o- day and promptly began plans to submit a bid for the major league meeting. George Trautman, president of the National Association of Pro. fessionai Baseball Leagues, notified Art Routzong, general manager of the Texas League Houston Buffs, that minor league officials will open their convention here Nov.
29. Miami, Quebeck, Louisville and Rochester also had submitted bids for the convention to the association's Routzong executive said a committened effort will be made to have the major league meeting held here immediately after the minors. "We are wiring all major clubs asking them to hold their convention here and the city of Houston and the Chamber of Commerce are doing likewise," Routzong said. From 1,000 to 1,200 baseball men both minor and major, are expected for the minor league meeting. The major leagues do not take an active part in conventions but keep close watch on proceedings.
The convention will headquarter at the Rice Hotel. Major league club representatives will headquarter at the Shamrock. Trautman advised Routzong today the Houston bid had been proved unanimously by the Executive Committee that includes Herman White, president of the Northern League; Frank Shaughnessy, president of the International League, and Tommy Richardson, president of the Eastern League. Miss Helen King, secretary to Trautman, inspected Houston facilities for the convention last week. While Trautman will be the convention's presiding officer, J.
Alvin Gardner, who resigned last I month after 24 years as president AAU VICE PRESIDENT Littrell Produced 3 State Champions To some people, rubbing elbows with a champion in any sport is thrill second to none. To Lt. Glenn Littrell of the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station, it's just run of-the mill. For the 10-year Navy man, director of athletics at NAS, has produced champions of his own by the basketful since he coaching almost 18 years ago in Iowa. His list of accomplishments as a coach include state champions in football (1939), basketball (1940) and track (1938) at Winnebago, High, a school for Winnebago Indian tribe youngsters.
His 1940 cage champions earned him Coach of Year honors in Midwestern schools which embrace the three South area Dakota. of Nebraska, Iowa Since coming to the Naval Air Station in 1947, Littrell has pilotthe Comet basketball team to the Eighth Naval District crown every year but one, besides producing the Naval Air Training champ in 1947. He had one year out of the coaching ranks since being stationed here, serving in 1945 at sea on the aircraft carrier USS Independence. A graduate of Morningside, College where he began his coaching career as freshman coach in 1936, Littrell was the all-around type athlete, participating in football, basketball and track, and has followed that pattern as a coach, guiding teams in football, basketball and swimming. Littrell hasn't confined all of his activities to Navy team sports, however.
He's also produced an individual champion of is own in his son, Gary, who has racked up 8 Junior Olympic diving championship and is one of the brightest prospects on the W. B. Ray High football and track teams. The Navy officer is vice president of the South Texas Amateur Athletic Union and serves on the swimming, basketball and redistricting committees. In his pacity as the AAU representative in this area, Littrell will handle AAU registration of all boxers who will compete in the 11th annual Golden Gloves tournament which opens Friday.
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Louis Cardinal manager and now a Houston oil and insurance executive, will assist in handling local arrangements for the convention. It will be the first time for the minors to meet in Texas since the 1933 convention at Galveston. 82 Entered In Golden Glove Bouts NEW PENN COACH Steve Sebo, named today as head football coach at the University of Pennsylvania, accepts the symbol of his trade from his predecessor, George Munger (right). Sebo, a graduate of Michigan State in 1937 and backfield coach there the past three years, is the 14th man to take the Penn coaching job. Munger recently retired after 16 years as head coach to become Director of Physical Education at Penn.
(AP Wirephoto) IN SPORTS UCC Beats Cabaniss In Overtime, 54-51 University Corpus Christi broke even in its weekend series with Cabaniss Field, 54-51, at University Heights last night. The night before the Fliers had defeated the Tarpons, 66-61, at Cabaniss Gymnasium. Tyrus Haw- Dub Johnston and king led the Tarpons to victory in overtime affair after UCC came from behind to tie the game up at 46-46 at the end of the regulation game. Johnston and Hawkins made the difference as the Tarpon offense clicked off eight points in the overtime and their defense held the Fliers to only five. Johnston led the scoring parade with 21 points, while Hawkins had 11.
Bob Smith, with 12, and Jim Kliegl had 13 to set the pace for Cabaniss Field. Cabaniss led the Tarpons 10-8 at the end of the Freer Cops Sinton Meet SINTON (Sp) Freer High School won its third tournament of the year here Saturday night by detentine. Taft, 54-40, in the finals Sinton Invitational Tournament. Julius Whitley and Charles Lee paced the winners with 13 points each. Buddy Watts made 20 for Taft.
Freer beat Aransas Pass, 63-46, to reach the finals while Taft turned back Refugio, 50-48. Ingleside won the consolation bracket with a 46-41 victory over Beeville, despite a 30-point showing by Billy Baker of Beeville. Timmy Attaway led Ingleside with 16. Earlier Ingleside defeated Sinton, 70-63, and Beeville beat Robstown, 47-35. Named to the all team were: Weldon Hesseltine of Sinton, the only unanimous choice, Baker, Watts, Attaway and Lee.
Freer won the Taft and George West tournaments earlier this year. AGGIES LIMIT FIELD TO FOUR COLLEGE STATION, Jan. 23. (AP) The Texas athletic council today named four top candidates to be interview. ed next week for the head football coaching job here.
The men, listed without preference, are Johnny Vaught, of Mississippi; J. V. Sikes of KanSas: Mike Michalske, Texas line coach, and Dick Todd, assistant Southern odist coach last fall. The four will be interviewed Wednesday or Thursday. Dean W.
L. Penberthy, council chairman, said the council is convinced that successor for Head Coach Ray George will be named from its list of Your. George resigned Jan. 4 enter private business. The council reduced list of 45 coaches to the four top candidates.
The chosen coach will pick own assistants, the council said." Hi-Y Basketball Loop Begins Play at UMCA Primus defeated Exitus, 34-26, Sodalis beat Excelsior, 35-20, and Amicus whipped the Senior Boys in opening round games of the HI-Y Basketball League at the YMCA yesterday afternoon. The league will play every Saturday afternoon for the next five weeks. High scorers for the individual games include Joe Losoya of tus with 11 points, T. Floyd of Excelsior with 10 points and Terry Wood of Amicus with 11 points. a Here is the list of entries received up to noon yesterday for the tournament.
Other entries will be received before noon, after which no more entries will be accepted. All of the entries in the following unless list are from Corpus Christi, another city or town is designated. NOVICE CLASS Abbie Flyweight, Pesina. 112 Bene Peres, Robatown; Bantamweight, Featherweight, 118 Lalo Asocal. 126 pounds: Gaiten V11- Janueva; Rudy Valdez, Al Berne, Robstown: Lightweights, 135 pounds: Evandro Guz man; thews: Antonio Rene Fernandez: Bobby Trevino; Alfred Lopez Willie Martinez; Welterweight, Kenneth 147: D.
Bob Davies, Naval Air UN; Ayer Dick A. Heid. er. Seaton. Cosme (Rocky) NAS: Mendez; L.
B. Kingsville Kingsville NAS. Le Roy Brown, Middleweight. 160: Steve Garvel, Clinton Glenn, Aransas Pass. Light University Heavyweight, of Corpus 175: Eugene Parker, Christi; Wiiliam Debner, Kingsville NAS.
Heavyweight: Allen Boone, USN, tached: HIGH SCHOOL Robert Flyweight: Valdez, Dan Miller Rich School; Ray: mond Chapa, Miller. Bantamweight: (No entries) Featherweight: David Ray: Jake Cervanez, Miller; Ricardo Ortiz, Orange Grove High School; Gu riguez, Orange Grove. Grove Lightweight: High Juan School; Hernandez, Orange Dale Shepard, Robert Dale Golden, Miller; Raul Zamora, Miller: Lockwood, Ray; Jerry Cormick, Ray: Kenneth Gammons, Or. ange Grove; Dominco Dominguez, Mil. ler.
Welterweight: Bryan Lee, Ray: Faustino vena, Miller; Jerry Griffin, Beeville; Rosalez, Orange Grove; Raymond a SteLarry White, Aransas Pass. Middleweight: Donnie Grant, Ray; Roger Colmenero, Miller. Heavyweight: Demetrio Durante, Orange Grove; R. D. Williams, Aransas Pass.
OPEN CLASS Flyweight: Bud Glibert, Naval Air Station. Bantamweight: Phil Trevino, Naval Air Walter H. Warner. Featherweight: Jimmy French, Naval Air Station; Encarnacion Vasquez; Tony Cuestes: AI Yanez, Del Mar; Pete Nestell, Kingsville NAS. Lightweights: Miller, Naval Ale Station: C.
Adams. Naval Air Station: Steve A viles, Naval Air Station; Jerry Ponton. (W. B. Ray) J.
B. Robb, ville NAS. Welterweight: Paul Miller, Kingaville: Leo Gonzales, Robstown Jack Edwards, Kingsville NAS: Willam Stokes, NAS Kingsville. Middleweight: Dane Sinai. Naval Air Dan Rock: Brandon, Agua Dulce: tion: Harry (Kid) Warren; Tim 1 Brown: Joe Louis Ayel, Light Naval Air heavyweight: Station: Bo Clint A Naval Air Station: Odie, Strain, Sinton: Don er: Donald Maurice Hansen; B.
Mason, NAVCAD; (Tiger) Le Bas. Heavyweights: Everett Don Naval Air Station: E. Clark, Bruce P. Smith: Robert Kingsville. (Bucky) Harris, Frank GLENN LITTRELL first period and held a 21-20 lead at the half time period.
As the fourth quarter started the Fliers were still on top, 34-32. voc (54) FG FT PF TP Nonkes Moff Davis Johnston on Maxfield Free Hawkins Totals 18 12 54 CABANISS FG FT Pr TP Franz Balding 3 Bower 12 Vermilya Kliegl 13 Totals 20 17 51, Score by Periods UCC 20 32 54 CABANISS 21 34 46 51 McMahon might be tempted predict a few more victories but he had a peek at the entry list from Corpus Christi clubs and area towns and knows enough about South Texas amateurs not to go overboard on his own boys. "There's going to be a lot of good fighters in the tournament this year," he pointed out. "Look at Leo Gonzales of Robstown, a defending champ. Then there's Shrewd Wins 'Cap At Sunshine Park.
