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Tiger Fan · 08-14-2024, 01:46 PM

FEBRUARY 4, 1952

TIERNEY GOES THE DISTANCE TO SET STAGE FOR TITLE FIGHT AGAINST CLINE

Keystone Arena, Philadelphia, Pa. – Lewis Jones (26-4-1, 11 KO) vs. Joey Tierney (24-1-0, 15 KO) – After a worthy matchup last week in Boston where Tommy Cline outpointed Max Bradley to earn a title shot, tonight’s fight at Keystone Arena in Philadelphia will sort out who Cline will face. Bradley was the top-ranked contender and Cline pulled off the upset. Bradley was Hector Sawyer’s final opponent, while Cline never faced the all-time champion.

Tonight, Lewis Jones, the second-ranked contender with a previous bout against Sawyer swapped punches with Joey Tierney. Tierney hoped for the same scenario to play out, where the underdog who had never faced Sawyer would emerge victorious.

Jones lasted into the 13th round in the October 1949 fight against Sawyer and he was set to be the heir apparent when Sawyer retired. But Sawyer did not retire until last September and Jones did not fare well in the eight fights since his title shot, going 6-2 while keeping his powder dry.

Tierney took control of the first minute of action, landing a few glancing blows before a sharp combination stunned Jones. Jones recovered and used his uppercut, but Tierney kept coming. The two boxers took the action to each other and in times like this, one wayward punch could leave a lasting mark on both the fighter and the bout. With a few seconds left in the first round, Tierney threw that punch. It was an uppercut that marked Jones almost immediately, as a mouse quickly developed under Jones’s right eye, which suddenly started to swell.

The swelling became progressively worse during the bout. It hampered Jones’s ability to defend punches, but it also stopped him for punching effectively. Tierney continued to throw punches, gearing up for haymakers, which often landed with desired results. While Jones was only knocked down once during the bout, Tierney was constantly on offense, so Jones barely had time to collect himself before Tierney was after him again.

Jones’s last major scoring punch was early in the 7th round. His vision was blurred, and it was described ringside as a “ugly mass of swollen flesh”. Tierney was at his most dominant in the eighth round and while the swollen right eye of Jones earned an assist, Tierney earned the only knockdown of the night, landing several big blows in tight and in rapid succession to send Jones down. Jones barely made it to his feet on an eight-count and the fight continued, though in retrospect, referee Ernest Byrd may have been better off calling the fight right there.

Tierney connected on multiple Big Boppers in each of the ten rounds and outscored Jones on major scoring punches by a 27-7 margin. The judges unanimously awarded eight of the ten rounds to Tierney. Rounds Three and Four were the only rounds where Jones even received any support for taking a round, but that was more about Jones catching Tierney with a couple of power punches rather than controlling the play.

While the fight went to the judges’ cards, Tierney won in a walkover. Tierney was much more precise throughout the bout and never seemed to be in any kind of trouble, offering fewer punches throughout the bout, but connected at almost twice the rate (52.8% for Tierney, 19.2% for Jones). Tierney’s corner was probably game-planning for Tommy Cline in between rounds.

Sawyer’s delayed retirement hurt Lewis Jones, who waited patiently while Sawyer played out his fight card. Jones’s candidacy for a heavyweight championship waxed and waned in the meantime. Tierney, as well as Cline and Bradley, all represent the next group to fight and win the belt. Jones might be a cautionary tale to carpe diem, to seize the day, because laying in wait allows others to pass you by.

BOLOGNA’S BIG BOPPERS
Round 1: Tierney, 3-1 (J: 1:02 uppercut; T: 0:32 combo, 2:29 hook/side, 2:53 uppercut)
Round 2: Tierney, 2-1 (J: 0:45 hook; T: 1:33 right/midsection, 2:09 combo)
Round 3: Tierney, 3-1 (J: 1:42 combo; T: 0:44 cross, 1:28 hook/head, 2:06 right)
Round 4: Tierney, 3-2 (J: 0:37 hook, 1:09 right; T: 0:20 cross, 1:30 right/head, 1:54 combo)
Round 5: Tierney, 3-1 (J: 1:22 hook/jaw; T: 1:08 combo/midsection, 1:51 hook/midsection, 2:41 hook)
Round 6: Tierney, 2-0 (1:24 hook/midsection, 1:38 combo)
Round 7: Tierney, 2-1 (J: 0:27 combo; T: 1:12 right/head, 1:48 uppercut/face)
Round 8: Tierney, 3-0 (0:17 combo/knockdown #1, 0:45 hook/ribs, 3:00 hook)
Round 9: Tierney, 3-0 (0:51 left, 1:14 right/body, 1:57 left hook/body)
Round 10: Tierney, 3-0 (0:13 cross/face, 0:34 uppercut, 1:38 uppercut/face)
TOTAL: Tierney 27, Jones 7

RECENT KEY RESULTS

Heinie Verplanck, the veteran welterweight, knocked out Fred Morris in the 6th round of their scheduled 10 rounder in Richmond, Va. Thursday evening. The 31-year-old Verplanck is now 24-8-1 for his career.

UPCOMING MAJOR FIGHTS

February 9 - Minneapolis, MN: Highly touted young heavyweight Brad Harris (21-2-1) faces Steve Clark (10-3)
February 16- National Auditorium, Washington DC- welterweight contender Ben Burns (21-1) meets Danny Julian (31-4-2)
February 22- Lakeside Auditorium Chicago: World Welterweight champion Danny Rutledge (25-1-1) defends his title against Dale Roy (40-9-1)
February 28- Bigsby Gardens, New York: heavyweight contenders Evan Rivers (19-3-3) and John Jones (20-3-1) face each other.

COWBOYS STAR CHAPPELL NAMED GRID MVP

Winning Most Valuable Player awards is nothing new for Pat Chappell but the Kansas City Cowboys quarterback just won his first one in the American Football Association. The 29-year-old already owns three MVP's from his days of leading the Cowboys in the old Continental Football Conference and now he adds one from the AFA after guiding the Cowboys to the league finals.

Chappell threw for an AFA best 21 touchdowns while leading the Cowboys to eleven straight victories to start the season before their bid for an undefeated year was ruined by the St Louis Ramblers in the season finale. Chappell, who completed 106 passes and threw for 1,922 yards -both numbers second in the AFA this season- was injured in the Cowboys semi-final playoff win over Detroit and forced to sit out the championship game, one in which the Cowboys lost to Pittsburgh ending their bid for a second straight AFA title.

The former three sport star at St. Magnus, where he was an All-American but in basketball rather than football, has been the Cowboys star quarterback since the Continental Conference was formed in 1946. When that league folded following the 1949 season, Chappell, who led the Cowboys to three CFC titles in four years, moved with his teammate to the AFA and won another title in 1950.

Chappell may have been named the Most Valuable Player but he was not recognized as the top offensive producer. That award went to Los Angeles Tiger halfback Lou Grossman, who ran for 1,057 and tied for the league lead with 11 rushing touchdowns. Grossman, who played his college ball at Indiana A&M, was in his second season with the Tigers. The top defender was also a second year player as former Pierpont All-American George Klavich, now with the Philadelphia Frigates was named the Defensive Player of the Year. Klavich led the AFA in tackles with 155 and sacks with 19.

For the first time the AFA also presented rookie awards with the top newcomers being Nat Oldham and Chuck Kane. Oldham, of the St Louis Ramblers, led the AFA in rushing yards with 1,189 in his first pro season after playing college ball at Coastal State. Oldham's yardage total for the season was the second highest ever seen in an AFA campaign, falling 70 yards shy of Greg LePage's 1947 record. On the defensive side of the ball the top rookie was Cleveland linebacker Kane, who finished third in tackles with 139 this season.

BEES SHOWING SIGNS OF LIFE

The Boston Bees have moved into a tie with the Toronto Dukes for third place in the NAHC after a big 3-1 victory over Toronto on Saturday evening at Dominion Gardens. One of the preseason favourites, along with Toronto and Detroit, the Bees have simply meandered along all season, never getting to high or too low but instead have just provided solid consistent play. Boston is middle of the pack in both goals for and against, sitting at 117 in each category at the moment. The Bees also lack a big time scoring star with age starting to catch up to both Wilbur Chandler and Tommy Hart but they have a strong group of defenseman and are getting steady netminding from Oscar James.

The Bees were the class of the NAHC in the 1940s, winning five Challenge Cups that decade and never missing the playoffs. That changed two years ago when Boston fell to the cellar of the NAHC but rebounded to finish fourth last season before a surprising playoff run that saw the Bees knock off the first place New York Shamrocks in the semi-finals before pushing Montreal the full seven games in the Cup finals a year ago. That title bid, which would have been the 8th Cup win in franchise history, fell just short but the Bees -who have played in eleven of the last fifteen Cup finals- may just be gearing up for another one.

NAHC RESULTS FROM LAST WEEK
TUESDAY JANUARY 29

Detroit 0 at 3 Boston : A statement win for Boston in a game between two clubs battling for the final playoff spot. The Bees now have their sights set on third place Toronto after blanking Detroit 3-0 on the strength of a 25 save effort from Oscar James. The Bees 28-year-old netminder earned his 4h shutout of the season and 22nd of his career in the victory which moved Boston to with two points of third place Toronto. Jake Durand, Mark Dyck and Wilbur Chandler scored the Boston goals.

THURSDAY JANUARY 31

Boston 1 at 3 Chicago : Tommy Burns 12 game point scoring streak came to an end but it did nothing to slow down the first place Chicago Packers, who dumped Boston 3-1. Stanley Royce, Bert McColley and Ed Delarue scored for Chicago with Mark Dyck getting the lone Boston tally. Chicago has won six of its last seven games and went 8-2-3 in January.

New York 2 at 4 Montreal :The Montreal Valiants snapped a 3-game losing streak with a 4-2 win over New York. The loss, coupled with Chicago's win over Boston, leaves the Shamrocks four points behind the Packers in the battle for first place. Adam Sandford had a goal and an assist to lead the Montreal offense while veteran Vals goaltender Tom Brockers had another strong game, turning aside 36 of 38 New York shots.

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2

Detroit 3 at 0 Montreal : The bottom two teams in the standings met at the Montreal Arena with Tom Brockers putting on another clinic in the Vals net but it was in a losing effort this time around. Millard Touhey stopped 21 Montreal shots for his third shutout of the season in the 3-0 Detroit win but it was Brockers, who stopped 46 of 48 shots, that had the building buzzing. Bob Pilon and Graham Comeau were the Motors shooters to each put a puck past Brockers and Mike Schlegel, with his first goal of the season, added an empty netter.

Boston 3 at 1 Toronto : Boston pulled into a tie with the slumping Toronto Dukes for third place by beating their hosts 3-1 at the Dominion Gardens. All the scoring came in the opening twenty minutes with the Bees taking a 3-0 lead just over eight minutes into the game. Craig Simpson, Ben Voyechek and Willis Beane scored for Boston with Lou Galbraith getting the only Toronto goal late in the opening period. The Dukes are struggling once again, with five losses in their last six outings.

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 3

Montreal 2 at 2 Boston : Ed McRae and Adam Sandford scored early as the Vals took a 2-0 lead less than three minutes into the game but Boston battled back to earn a single point in a 2-2 tie. Jacob Gron's 9th of the season got the Bees on the scoreboard midway through the opening period and then Mark Dyck, with his 6th of the season but third goal this week, scored the tying marker on a third period powerplay.

Toronto 5 at 5 Chicago : A wild first period in Chicago saw the visiting Toronto Dukes take a 4-2 lead after twenty minutes before the first place Packers roared back with three goals in the middle frame. There was just one goal in the third period. It came on the power play as Les Carlson moved into a tie for the goalscoring lead with Chicago's Tommy Burns when the Toronto winger connected on a power play goal with the man advantage to make the final score 5-5. Chicago outshot the Dukes 50-32. Carlson had two goals and an assist while Burns had two helpers for the hosts.

New York 7 at 2 Detroit : Simon Savard and Ryan Kennedy each had a goal and two assists to pace the New York Shamrocks to a 7-2 rout of Detroit. It was 3-1 after forty minutes before the Greenshirts exploded for four goals in a 13-minute span early in the third.

UPCOMING GAMES
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 5
Chicago at Boston

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 7
New York at Chicago
Montreal at Detroit

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9
New York at Boston
Montreal at Toronto

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 10
Detroit at Boston
Montreal at Chicago
Toronto at New York

RESTED DUKES DROP TO FOURTH IN NAHC

After a grueling two weeks rest for the team did not seem to be the answer as the Toronto Dukes were winless in two games last week with a loss and a tie. The Dukes are now technically in fourth place, tied with Boston at 49 points, due to the Bees having played one less game.

The Dukes and Bees met in the Gardens Saturday night. If the 13,848 in attendance expected to see a rejuvenated, rested team to come out flying they were sorely disappointed as the hometown heroes were slow out of the gate. For all intents and purposes the game was over before it was 9 minutes old. The Dukes seemed tentative in their puck movement, there was no flow to their attack after the opening puck drop. Boston pounced on early giveaways of the puck to jump out to 3-0 lead on goals by Craig Simpson at 2:30, Ben Voyechek at 4:41 and Willis Beane at 8:16 as Gordie Broadway was clearly fighting the puck although he was not given much help by his mates.

Lou Galbraith closed the gap to 2 with just over 3 minutes left in the opening period buy that was as close as the Dukes would get. Oscar James was a story of the night. The Boston netminder stood tall, not allowing another puck to find the twine in the final 40 minutes stopping all 24 shots the Dukes. Toronto did seem to find its form after a shaky start but could not solve James. Broadway also settled in not allowing the red light to go on behind him in the last 51:44. The three early goals were too deep a hole for the Dukes to climb out of, Boston captured the important two points 3-1.

Following an overnight train ride to Chicago, the Dukes faced the rags to riches Packers on Sunday afternoon at Lakeside Auditorium. In a game where backchecking, picking up your check was an afterthought the visitors stormed out to 4-2 lead after a period. The fans seemed to enjoy the wide open, up and down the ice, much more than Barrell who was constantly animated behind the bench. Much of the discussion was said to be about defensive assignments. Packers' staff changed the attack in the middle period seemingly confusing the Dukes further in their defensive zone much to Barrell's chagrin. Chicago stormed back with 3 , two in the last 4 and a half minutes, on 18 shots to take a 5-4 lead into the second intermission. Scott Renes continued his strong performance in net during the third allowing Les Carlson, with his 23rd, to even the score with Chicago's Mike Geiger off for high sticking with just under 8 minutes to play. Toronto took a couple more minors after tying the score. Renes, who again faced 50 shots, denied the Packers a winner with Dukes escaping Lakeside with a point in a 5-5 game.

Coach Barrell- "At times I am at a loss with this group. We stormed out in October, now we are a below .500 team with 49 points in 50 games. Every time I think the team has finally turned the corner it seems the corner we turned is a dead end then we go full speed to crash in a wall. I have lost count of the number times our goaltenders have been tested 50+ times in 60 minutes, that is not winning hockey. It is time to get back to basics with everyone doing their job not trying to do more than their job, We at times are running around out there like headless chickens. We can, will turn this around starting next weekend we have 5 days to get our game sorted out."

FABL UNVEILS '52 SCHEDULE

The 1952 FABL season will get underway with a full slate of games on Tuesday April 15. Gone, at least for this year is the traditional single game from the Federal Association, usually contested in the nations capital as all eight Federal Association clubs are set to stage their opening days on the same afternoon including the Washington Eagles, who will face Boston. The Continental Association's eight clubs will also begin on the 15th of April with the first-ever game to be staged in Kansas City that afternoon as the transplanted Brooklyn Kings entertain the Cleveland Foresters. The Philadelphia Sailors, winners of the World Championship Series last October, open in Toronto and fans will have to wait until that Saturday for the first game at Sailors Park and the traditional raising of the World Championship Series banner.

Other notable events have the All-Star game slated for Tuesday July 8 in St Louis, the regular season to come to an end on Sunday September 28 and the World Championship Series slated to begin, barring the need for a playoff tie-breaker like the Federal Association required last season, to open on October 1st.
*** Its' Official. Dudkiewicz Takes Kings Helm ***

The Kansas City Kings made it official by naming Jim Dudkiewicz as their manager for the club's debut season in the west. The 66-year-old had been ex-skipper Tom Barrell's right hand man since 1946, when he was appointed as the Kings bench coach. When Barrell announced in December that, for family reasons, he had decided to resign his position and remain in the New York City area, it had been expected that Dudkiewicz would take over.

The other FABL club to make a manager change recently was the Toronto Wolves who also tabbed their former bench coach for the job. That would be Dick Dennis, who had been the Wolves bench coach since 1937 and likely had no designs on the top job but that changed quickly when now former skipper Fred Barrell resigned in a show of solidarity for his brother Dan. Dan Barrell was recently fired as FABL president after a coup was organized with Wolves owner Bernie Millard widely considered to be the ringleader of the call for Barrell's replacement.

KINGS COUNTY STADIUM TO RAZED

One of the great historic ballparks in FABL history will be torn down as Kings County Stadium in Brooklyn is set to be demolished this spring. City of New York Parks & Recreation Director Robert Moses announced plans to use the Flatbush Avenue location to build green space and a city park which will be named after Brooklyn sporting legend Daniel Prescott. Demolition will begin within two months.

Built in 1883 and upgraded in 1912, Kings County Stadium had been the pride of the borough of Brooklyn for decades and was home to the city's only championship baseball team in 1937 when the Kings won their lone World Championship Series. The park had been showing signs of age and it was clear that it was no longer capable of supporting a big league baseball team. Prescott, the Brooklyn bottling magnate who purchased the club two decades ago, had pressed for a new stadium to be built but he and Moses were unable to come up with a suitable location or plan. Realizing the team could not continue in Brooklyn and not wanting to leave a legacy of being the man "who stole the Kings from Brooklyn," Prescott sold the Kings to Kansas City businessman Chester Coleman. Coleman immediately announced plans to move the club to his hometown and after finishing out last season as a lame duck franchise in Brooklyn the Kings have been relocated.

The park will honor Prescott's great contribution to Brooklyn. Prescott's bottling company is known worldwide and a unique canning process for carbonated soft drinks and beer made the former Kings owner very wealthy. In addition to the Kings, Prescott also brought professional basketball to Brooklyn and his Red Caps cage club won six titles in the now defunct American Basketball Conference as well as one in the Federal Basketball League before Prescott folded the team.

The annual caravan arrives and the equipment is unpacked. Players begin the annual ritual of getting ready for the long season. Most of the team will look the same, unless there is an unexpected late deal. There may be a competition in the outfield for CF and RF spots. Certainly his strong showing in Cuba should vault Jim Allen into a prime shot at the opening day RF position. Billy Moody is the frontrunner to return as the everyday CF although he will be pushed by Chief Lewis. In addition 1950 first overall selection Earl Howe will get a long look in spring training.

For the moment the rotation seems to be set with Ed Bowman and new acquisition Ed Cornett locking down the top spots followed by 18 game winner Buddy Long and Cuban Winter league star Ted Beaven. Jim Morrison seems to have the 5th spot for now.
It will be interesting this season to see if any jilted Brooklyn fans make their way to Queens to catch some major league baseball. Or do they remain CA fans and make the trek to upper Manhattan? Certainly Gothams ownership will be happy to have less competition for the local fans dollars.

We have a few weeks until games start. Look for us to catch-up with a member of management and with the always chatty Bud Jameson.

Minor League musical chairs precipitated by the transfer of the Brooklyn Kings franchise to Kansas City. The Packers, a long-time affiliate of the Washington Eagles won recently lost that affiliation when the Eagles moved their AAA operations closer to home in Richmond, are forced out of Kansas City entirely. The Packers, now playing as an independent, will shift their Century league franchise to Denver and rebrand themselves as the Bruins. A new stadium has recently been constructed in that city and has a seating capacity of 18,000 which will make it by a large margin the largest stadium in the Century loop.
The Bruins mean a return to the Century League for the city of Denver. The Denver Plainsmen played in that AAA league from 1907 until 1928 before the franchise was shifted to the Western Baseball League, a class A independent league.
The Bruins move to Denver means the Class A Plainsmen are also on the move. The Plainsmen franchise is going to Lincoln, Nebraska and will be known as the Legislators.
There was a Heartland League team in Lincoln, that is a Chicago Cougars affiliate and was also known as the Legislators. They will be no longer, as the Cougars have moved that franchise much closer to the Windy City. It will play out of Rockford, Illinois and be known as the Rockford Wildcats. They will play out of the recently constructed Rockford Municipal Stadium.
The Cuban Winter League wraps up today with its title game. CWL season victory leader Alex Vaughan (9-1, 2.25) is scheduled to take on Don Hillshire (3-3, 5.40) as starting pitchers in the winner take all title game. Both teams, the Matanzas Buccaneers and the Camaguey Coyotes, finished the season with 25-17 records. Mantanzas won the season series head to head 4 games to 2.

CUBAN CHAMPIONSHIP GAME SET FOR TODAY

Both finalists in the Cuban Winter League championship stumbled down the stretch but it will be the Matanzas Buccaneers and Camaguey Coyotes each making their first appearance in the title game of the six year old development league. The Buccaneers, supplied players by FABL's Philadelphia Sailors and Pittsburgh Miners, lost their final two games of the season and ended up tied with two-time league champion Havana but the Buccaneers earn the division crown by virtue of their better head-to-head record against the Sharks this season.

Not only to Matanzas reach the single game championship showdown but they will get to host the game because the West Division champs also won the head-to-head series with Eastern champs Camageuey. The Coyotes lost each of their last four games and five of their final six but still won the division by four games over Manzanillo. That losing streak forces Camaguey, which his comprised of prospects from the Brooklyn Kings and St Louis Pioneers, on the road for today's winner take all championship game.

The Washington Statesmen have won 5 straight and are now a full 9 games up on second place Philadelphia in the East Division with a 28-7 record. Their .800 winning percentage, if it holds up, would be the highest single season mark in FBL history going back to the league's debut in 1946. The Statesmen, who have won the last two league titles, own the current record when they went 54-14 (.794) in 1948-49, the year they jumped from the ABC to the FBL. What is more impressive this year is that 1948-49 mark was in a 17-team league with many of their opponents - now long gone - far below the standards of the current crop of ten survivors in the league.
Cleveland is on a four-game winning streak to pull to within four games of Western Division-leading Rochester. The Crushers are coming home after a perfect 3-0 road trip, which boosted their road record to 4-14 on the year. The road trip took Cleveland to Chicago for a pair of games where the Crushers won 100-75 and 75-64, followed by a game in New York, where Cleveland took care of the Knights, 98-91. Ziggy Rickard, the league's top scorer, went for 42 in the first win over the Panthers and lit up New York for 31. A big game awaits back at Lake Erie Arena on Wednesday, when the Crushers and Rockets will battle, followed by a home-and-home with the second-place Mustangs. The Mustangs may very well be in first place by the time they play Cleveland.
These are tough times in Baltimore. The gambit of signing former FBL players of defunct teams who were barnstorming across the country had fallen flat and the league did not allow the Barons to fill out their roster. There are seven players on the roster and two -- forward Mike Carter and guard Rod Bookman -- are out with multi-week injuries, leaving the "starting five" to be the "only five". One of the many drawbacks occurred against the Statesmen in the Barons 84-54 loss in Washington when Jack Hirst fouled out with eight minutes to play. Rather than forfeit, play was allowed to continue, as the Statesmen took it easy on the last-place Barons, only outscoring them by five points the rest of the way.

LAST OF THE UNBEATENS FALL

There will be no undefeated team in collegiate basketball this year after Western Iowa, the last school standing with a perfect ranked, tumbled from the ranks of the unbeaten with a 66-57 loss at home against Central Ohio on Thursday. The Canaries did rebound with a win over St. Magnus two days later and are tied for second in Great Lakes Alliance play at 3-1, a game back of the number one ranked Whitney College Engineers.

The only undefeated team in college basketball history was the 1949-50 Noble Jones College Colonels as the club, led by a strong tournament showing by then-sophomore Charlie Barrell, capped a 32-0 year with a win over Liberty College in the title game at Bigsby Gardens.

Both Noble Jones and Liberty are ranked in the top ten this season with the Bells close to wrapping up their season as the independent school from Philadelphia owns a 21-1 record and the 4th spot in this weeks rankings. The tenth ranked Colonels are 3-1 in Deep South Conference play and 13-4 overall. Noble Jones College won a pair of road games last week with victories over Bayou State and rival Georgia Baptist. Barrell, who must soon contemplate whether he wants to return to the Cincinnati Cannons baseball club or wait and see what the Federal Basketball League and American Football Association drafts have in store for him, had a big game in the rivalry rout over the Gators. Barrell scored 14 points and had 6 rebounds as the Colonels dominated by a 60-33 count. Full college results can always be found here

WEEKLY RESULTS FOR RANKED TEAMS
MONDAY JANUARY 28
at #4 Liberty College 73, Ellery 44
at #19 Perry State College 54, Dudley 21
at #22 Frankford State 59, Penobscot State 53

TUESDAY JANUARY 29
No game involving ranked teams

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30
#10 Noble Jones College 64, at Bayou State 60
#13 Lane State 65, at Spokane State 46
at #15 Opelika State 47, Northern Mississippi 36
at #18 Lubbock State 58, Pueblo State 53
at #19 Perry State College 59, College of Cairo 38
at #24 Bluegrass State 62, Alabama Baptist 41

THURSDAY JANUARY 31
#1 Whitney College 72, at #16 Lincoln 60
#4 Liberty College 63, at Narragansett 50
#6 Carolina Poly 64, at Charleston Tech 55
#7 Indiana A&M 69, at Wisconsin State 56
#12 Central Ohio 66, at #3 Western Iowa 57
#14 Detroit City College 48, at Minnesota Tech 38
at #17 Mobile Maritime 46, Maryland State 36
at #20 North Carolina Tech 51, #25 Lexington State 44
#21 Great Plains State 56, at Topeka State 53
#23 Brooklyn Catholic 66, at Brooklyn State 58

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1
at #2 Coastal California 62, #5 Redwood 42
#8 Rainier College 51, at Northern California 46
at #9 CC Los Angeles 61, Idaho A&M 45
at #11 Annapolis Maritime 63, Central Maryland 47
Eastern Oklahoma 59, at #18 Lubbock State 52

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2
#1 Whitney College 70, at Wisconsin State 60
at #3 Western Iowa 58, St. Magnus 47
#6 Carolina Poly 57, at Richmond State 46
#7 Indiana A&M 66, at #12 Central Ohio 50
#10 Noble Jones College 60, at Georgia Baptist 33
St. Ignatius 55, at #14 Detroit City College 47
#15 Opelika State 46, at Central Kentucky 29
at #16 Lincoln 72, Minnesota Tech 63
#17 Mobile Maritime 66, at Petersburg 52
at #19 Perry State College 49, Orrville 46
at #20 North Carolina Tech 65, Huntington State 55
at #21 Great Plains State 55, Dudley 42
at #22 Frankford State 61, Hamman 41
#23 Brooklyn Catholic 53, at Empire State 39
at Mississippi A&M 49, #24 Bluegrass State 42

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 3
at #2 Coastal California 49, Northern California 39
#5 Redwood 63, at Spokane State 36
#8 Rainier College 58, at #9 CC Los Angeles 45
#13 Lane State 61, at Portland Tech 55

The Week That Was
Current events from the week ending 2/03/1952

Egypt's new Premier, given the helm of the government in the wake of wild, anti-west rioting, says he has the full support of Egypt's four man political parties.
President Truman has called on Congress for "immediate" approval of the St. Lawrence power and waterway project as a joint endeavor with Canada.
Senator Maybank, Democrat of South Carolina and a key man in Congress on many administration measures, says he is against another term for President Truman. He predicted most of the south will untie behind Senator Russell of Georgia for the party's nomination.
Senator Taft of Ohio announced he would take part in the New Hampshire primary and contest for delegates to the Republican national convention in opposition to Gen. Eisenhower. Meanwhile Truman says his name will be withdrawn from the New Hampshire primary but that would not preclude his running for re-election.
Thieves broke into a car owned Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy in Washington DC and stole $33,000 worth of jewels. It is the fourth time he has been robbed in major jewel heists. The car was parked at the home of his son, Representative John F. Kennedy.
The Federal Communications Commission is launching an investigation into any use of Western Union telegraph facilities in connection with illegal gambling operations.

08-14-2024, 01:46 PM	#1006
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,769	February 4, 1952 FEBRUARY 4, 1952 TIERNEY GOES THE DISTANCE TO SET STAGE FOR TITLE FIGHT AGAINST CLINE Keystone Arena, Philadelphia, Pa. – Lewis Jones (26-4-1, 11 KO) vs. Joey Tierney (24-1-0, 15 KO) – After a worthy matchup last week in Boston where Tommy Cline outpointed Max Bradley to earn a title shot, tonight’s fight at Keystone Arena in Philadelphia will sort out who Cline will face. Bradley was the top-ranked contender and Cline pulled off the upset. Bradley was Hector Sawyer’s final opponent, while Cline never faced the all-time champion. Tonight, Lewis Jones, the second-ranked contender with a previous bout against Sawyer swapped punches with Joey Tierney. Tierney hoped for the same scenario to play out, where the underdog who had never faced Sawyer would emerge victorious. Jones lasted into the 13th round in the October 1949 fight against Sawyer and he was set to be the heir apparent when Sawyer retired. But Sawyer did not retire until last September and Jones did not fare well in the eight fights since his title shot, going 6-2 while keeping his powder dry. Tierney took control of the first minute of action, landing a few glancing blows before a sharp combination stunned Jones. Jones recovered and used his uppercut, but Tierney kept coming. The two boxers took the action to each other and in times like this, one wayward punch could leave a lasting mark on both the fighter and the bout. With a few seconds left in the first round, Tierney threw that punch. It was an uppercut that marked Jones almost immediately, as a mouse quickly developed under Jones’s right eye, which suddenly started to swell. The swelling became progressively worse during the bout. It hampered Jones’s ability to defend punches, but it also stopped him for punching effectively. Tierney continued to throw punches, gearing up for haymakers, which often landed with desired results. While Jones was only knocked down once during the bout, Tierney was constantly on offense, so Jones barely had time to collect himself before Tierney was after him again. Jones’s last major scoring punch was early in the 7th round. His vision was blurred, and it was described ringside as a “ugly mass of swollen flesh”. Tierney was at his most dominant in the eighth round and while the swollen right eye of Jones earned an assist, Tierney earned the only knockdown of the night, landing several big blows in tight and in rapid succession to send Jones down. Jones barely made it to his feet on an eight-count and the fight continued, though in retrospect, referee Ernest Byrd may have been better off calling the fight right there. Tierney connected on multiple Big Boppers in each of the ten rounds and outscored Jones on major scoring punches by a 27-7 margin. The judges unanimously awarded eight of the ten rounds to Tierney. Rounds Three and Four were the only rounds where Jones even received any support for taking a round, but that was more about Jones catching Tierney with a couple of power punches rather than controlling the play. While the fight went to the judges’ cards, Tierney won in a walkover. Tierney was much more precise throughout the bout and never seemed to be in any kind of trouble, offering fewer punches throughout the bout, but connected at almost twice the rate (52.8% for Tierney, 19.2% for Jones). Tierney’s corner was probably game-planning for Tommy Cline in between rounds. Sawyer’s delayed retirement hurt Lewis Jones, who waited patiently while Sawyer played out his fight card. Jones’s candidacy for a heavyweight championship waxed and waned in the meantime. Tierney, as well as Cline and Bradley, all represent the next group to fight and win the belt. Jones might be a cautionary tale to carpe diem, to seize the day, because laying in wait allows others to pass you by. BOLOGNA’S BIG BOPPERS Round 1: Tierney, 3-1 (J: 1:02 uppercut; T: 0:32 combo, 2:29 hook/side, 2:53 uppercut) Round 2: Tierney, 2-1 (J: 0:45 hook; T: 1:33 right/midsection, 2:09 combo) Round 3: Tierney, 3-1 (J: 1:42 combo; T: 0:44 cross, 1:28 hook/head, 2:06 right) Round 4: Tierney, 3-2 (J: 0:37 hook, 1:09 right; T: 0:20 cross, 1:30 right/head, 1:54 combo) Round 5: Tierney, 3-1 (J: 1:22 hook/jaw; T: 1:08 combo/midsection, 1:51 hook/midsection, 2:41 hook) Round 6: Tierney, 2-0 (1:24 hook/midsection, 1:38 combo) Round 7: Tierney, 2-1 (J: 0:27 combo; T: 1:12 right/head, 1:48 uppercut/face) Round 8: Tierney, 3-0 (0:17 combo/knockdown #1, 0:45 hook/ribs, 3:00 hook) Round 9: Tierney, 3-0 (0:51 left, 1:14 right/body, 1:57 left hook/body) Round 10: Tierney, 3-0 (0:13 cross/face, 0:34 uppercut, 1:38 uppercut/face) TOTAL: Tierney 27, Jones 7 RECENT KEY RESULTS Heinie Verplanck, the veteran welterweight, knocked out Fred Morris in the 6th round of their scheduled 10 rounder in Richmond, Va. Thursday evening. The 31-year-old Verplanck is now 24-8-1 for his career. UPCOMING MAJOR FIGHTS February 9 - Minneapolis, MN: Highly touted young heavyweight Brad Harris (21-2-1) faces Steve Clark (10-3) February 16- National Auditorium, Washington DC- welterweight contender Ben Burns (21-1) meets Danny Julian (31-4-2) February 22- Lakeside Auditorium Chicago: World Welterweight champion Danny Rutledge (25-1-1) defends his title against Dale Roy (40-9-1) February 28- Bigsby Gardens, New York: heavyweight contenders Evan Rivers (19-3-3) and John Jones (20-3-1) face each other. COWBOYS STAR CHAPPELL NAMED GRID MVP Winning Most Valuable Player awards is nothing new for Pat Chappell but the Kansas City Cowboys quarterback just won his first one in the American Football Association. The 29-year-old already owns three MVP's from his days of leading the Cowboys in the old Continental Football Conference and now he adds one from the AFA after guiding the Cowboys to the league finals. Chappell threw for an AFA best 21 touchdowns while leading the Cowboys to eleven straight victories to start the season before their bid for an undefeated year was ruined by the St Louis Ramblers in the season finale. Chappell, who completed 106 passes and threw for 1,922 yards -both numbers second in the AFA this season- was injured in the Cowboys semi-final playoff win over Detroit and forced to sit out the championship game, one in which the Cowboys lost to Pittsburgh ending their bid for a second straight AFA title. The former three sport star at St. Magnus, where he was an All-American but in basketball rather than football, has been the Cowboys star quarterback since the Continental Conference was formed in 1946. When that league folded following the 1949 season, Chappell, who led the Cowboys to three CFC titles in four years, moved with his teammate to the AFA and won another title in 1950. Chappell may have been named the Most Valuable Player but he was not recognized as the top offensive producer. That award went to Los Angeles Tiger halfback Lou Grossman, who ran for 1,057 and tied for the league lead with 11 rushing touchdowns. Grossman, who played his college ball at Indiana A&M, was in his second season with the Tigers. The top defender was also a second year player as former Pierpont All-American George Klavich, now with the Philadelphia Frigates was named the Defensive Player of the Year. Klavich led the AFA in tackles with 155 and sacks with 19. For the first time the AFA also presented rookie awards with the top newcomers being Nat Oldham and Chuck Kane. Oldham, of the St Louis Ramblers, led the AFA in rushing yards with 1,189 in his first pro season after playing college ball at Coastal State. Oldham's yardage total for the season was the second highest ever seen in an AFA campaign, falling 70 yards shy of Greg LePage's 1947 record. On the defensive side of the ball the top rookie was Cleveland linebacker Kane, who finished third in tackles with 139 this season. BEES SHOWING SIGNS OF LIFE The Boston Bees have moved into a tie with the Toronto Dukes for third place in the NAHC after a big 3-1 victory over Toronto on Saturday evening at Dominion Gardens. One of the preseason favourites, along with Toronto and Detroit, the Bees have simply meandered along all season, never getting to high or too low but instead have just provided solid consistent play. Boston is middle of the pack in both goals for and against, sitting at 117 in each category at the moment. The Bees also lack a big time scoring star with age starting to catch up to both Wilbur Chandler and Tommy Hart but they have a strong group of defenseman and are getting steady netminding from Oscar James. The Bees were the class of the NAHC in the 1940s, winning five Challenge Cups that decade and never missing the playoffs. That changed two years ago when Boston fell to the cellar of the NAHC but rebounded to finish fourth last season before a surprising playoff run that saw the Bees knock off the first place New York Shamrocks in the semi-finals before pushing Montreal the full seven games in the Cup finals a year ago. That title bid, which would have been the 8th Cup win in franchise history, fell just short but the Bees -who have played in eleven of the last fifteen Cup finals- may just be gearing up for another one. NAHC RESULTS FROM LAST WEEK TUESDAY JANUARY 29 Detroit 0 at 3 Boston : A statement win for Boston in a game between two clubs battling for the final playoff spot. The Bees now have their sights set on third place Toronto after blanking Detroit 3-0 on the strength of a 25 save effort from Oscar James. The Bees 28-year-old netminder earned his 4h shutout of the season and 22nd of his career in the victory which moved Boston to with two points of third place Toronto. Jake Durand, Mark Dyck and Wilbur Chandler scored the Boston goals. THURSDAY JANUARY 31 Boston 1 at 3 Chicago : Tommy Burns 12 game point scoring streak came to an end but it did nothing to slow down the first place Chicago Packers, who dumped Boston 3-1. Stanley Royce, Bert McColley and Ed Delarue scored for Chicago with Mark Dyck getting the lone Boston tally. Chicago has won six of its last seven games and went 8-2-3 in January. New York 2 at 4 Montreal :The Montreal Valiants snapped a 3-game losing streak with a 4-2 win over New York. The loss, coupled with Chicago's win over Boston, leaves the Shamrocks four points behind the Packers in the battle for first place. Adam Sandford had a goal and an assist to lead the Montreal offense while veteran Vals goaltender Tom Brockers had another strong game, turning aside 36 of 38 New York shots. SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2 Detroit 3 at 0 Montreal : The bottom two teams in the standings met at the Montreal Arena with Tom Brockers putting on another clinic in the Vals net but it was in a losing effort this time around. Millard Touhey stopped 21 Montreal shots for his third shutout of the season in the 3-0 Detroit win but it was Brockers, who stopped 46 of 48 shots, that had the building buzzing. Bob Pilon and Graham Comeau were the Motors shooters to each put a puck past Brockers and Mike Schlegel, with his first goal of the season, added an empty netter. Boston 3 at 1 Toronto : Boston pulled into a tie with the slumping Toronto Dukes for third place by beating their hosts 3-1 at the Dominion Gardens. All the scoring came in the opening twenty minutes with the Bees taking a 3-0 lead just over eight minutes into the game. Craig Simpson, Ben Voyechek and Willis Beane scored for Boston with Lou Galbraith getting the only Toronto goal late in the opening period. The Dukes are struggling once again, with five losses in their last six outings. SUNDAY FEBRUARY 3 Montreal 2 at 2 Boston : Ed McRae and Adam Sandford scored early as the Vals took a 2-0 lead less than three minutes into the game but Boston battled back to earn a single point in a 2-2 tie. Jacob Gron's 9th of the season got the Bees on the scoreboard midway through the opening period and then Mark Dyck, with his 6th of the season but third goal this week, scored the tying marker on a third period powerplay. Toronto 5 at 5 Chicago : A wild first period in Chicago saw the visiting Toronto Dukes take a 4-2 lead after twenty minutes before the first place Packers roared back with three goals in the middle frame. There was just one goal in the third period. It came on the power play as Les Carlson moved into a tie for the goalscoring lead with Chicago's Tommy Burns when the Toronto winger connected on a power play goal with the man advantage to make the final score 5-5. Chicago outshot the Dukes 50-32. Carlson had two goals and an assist while Burns had two helpers for the hosts. New York 7 at 2 Detroit : Simon Savard and Ryan Kennedy each had a goal and two assists to pace the New York Shamrocks to a 7-2 rout of Detroit. It was 3-1 after forty minutes before the Greenshirts exploded for four goals in a 13-minute span early in the third. UPCOMING GAMES TUESDAY FEBRUARY 5 Chicago at Boston THURSDAY FEBRUARY 7 New York at Chicago Montreal at Detroit SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9 New York at Boston Montreal at Toronto SUNDAY FEBRUARY 10 Detroit at Boston Montreal at Chicago Toronto at New York RESTED DUKES DROP TO FOURTH IN NAHC After a grueling two weeks rest for the team did not seem to be the answer as the Toronto Dukes were winless in two games last week with a loss and a tie. The Dukes are now technically in fourth place, tied with Boston at 49 points, due to the Bees having played one less game. The Dukes and Bees met in the Gardens Saturday night. If the 13,848 in attendance expected to see a rejuvenated, rested team to come out flying they were sorely disappointed as the hometown heroes were slow out of the gate. For all intents and purposes the game was over before it was 9 minutes old. The Dukes seemed tentative in their puck movement, there was no flow to their attack after the opening puck drop. Boston pounced on early giveaways of the puck to jump out to 3-0 lead on goals by Craig Simpson at 2:30, Ben Voyechek at 4:41 and Willis Beane at 8:16 as Gordie Broadway was clearly fighting the puck although he was not given much help by his mates. Lou Galbraith closed the gap to 2 with just over 3 minutes left in the opening period buy that was as close as the Dukes would get. Oscar James was a story of the night. The Boston netminder stood tall, not allowing another puck to find the twine in the final 40 minutes stopping all 24 shots the Dukes. Toronto did seem to find its form after a shaky start but could not solve James. Broadway also settled in not allowing the red light to go on behind him in the last 51:44. The three early goals were too deep a hole for the Dukes to climb out of, Boston captured the important two points 3-1. Following an overnight train ride to Chicago, the Dukes faced the rags to riches Packers on Sunday afternoon at Lakeside Auditorium. In a game where backchecking, picking up your check was an afterthought the visitors stormed out to 4-2 lead after a period. The fans seemed to enjoy the wide open, up and down the ice, much more than Barrell who was constantly animated behind the bench. Much of the discussion was said to be about defensive assignments. Packers' staff changed the attack in the middle period seemingly confusing the Dukes further in their defensive zone much to Barrell's chagrin. Chicago stormed back with 3 , two in the last 4 and a half minutes, on 18 shots to take a 5-4 lead into the second intermission. Scott Renes continued his strong performance in net during the third allowing Les Carlson, with his 23rd, to even the score with Chicago's Mike Geiger off for high sticking with just under 8 minutes to play. Toronto took a couple more minors after tying the score. Renes, who again faced 50 shots, denied the Packers a winner with Dukes escaping Lakeside with a point in a 5-5 game. Coach Barrell- "At times I am at a loss with this group. We stormed out in October, now we are a below .500 team with 49 points in 50 games. Every time I think the team has finally turned the corner it seems the corner we turned is a dead end then we go full speed to crash in a wall. I have lost count of the number times our goaltenders have been tested 50+ times in 60 minutes, that is not winning hockey. It is time to get back to basics with everyone doing their job not trying to do more than their job, We at times are running around out there like headless chickens. We can, will turn this around starting next weekend we have 5 days to get our game sorted out." FABL UNVEILS '52 SCHEDULE The 1952 FABL season will get underway with a full slate of games on Tuesday April 15. Gone, at least for this year is the traditional single game from the Federal Association, usually contested in the nations capital as all eight Federal Association clubs are set to stage their opening days on the same afternoon including the Washington Eagles, who will face Boston. The Continental Association's eight clubs will also begin on the 15th of April with the first-ever game to be staged in Kansas City that afternoon as the transplanted Brooklyn Kings entertain the Cleveland Foresters. The Philadelphia Sailors, winners of the World Championship Series last October, open in Toronto and fans will have to wait until that Saturday for the first game at Sailors Park and the traditional raising of the World Championship Series banner. Other notable events have the All-Star game slated for Tuesday July 8 in St Louis, the regular season to come to an end on Sunday September 28 and the World Championship Series slated to begin, barring the need for a playoff tie-breaker like the Federal Association required last season, to open on October 1st. * Its' Official. Dudkiewicz Takes Kings Helm * The Kansas City Kings made it official by naming Jim Dudkiewicz as their manager for the club's debut season in the west. The 66-year-old had been ex-skipper Tom Barrell's right hand man since 1946, when he was appointed as the Kings bench coach. When Barrell announced in December that, for family reasons, he had decided to resign his position and remain in the New York City area, it had been expected that Dudkiewicz would take over. The other FABL club to make a manager change recently was the Toronto Wolves who also tabbed their former bench coach for the job. That would be Dick Dennis, who had been the Wolves bench coach since 1937 and likely had no designs on the top job but that changed quickly when now former skipper Fred Barrell resigned in a show of solidarity for his brother Dan. Dan Barrell was recently fired as FABL president after a coup was organized with Wolves owner Bernie Millard widely considered to be the ringleader of the call for Barrell's replacement. KINGS COUNTY STADIUM TO RAZED One of the great historic ballparks in FABL history will be torn down as Kings County Stadium in Brooklyn is set to be demolished this spring. City of New York Parks & Recreation Director Robert Moses announced plans to use the Flatbush Avenue location to build green space and a city park which will be named after Brooklyn sporting legend Daniel Prescott. Demolition will begin within two months. Built in 1883 and upgraded in 1912, Kings County Stadium had been the pride of the borough of Brooklyn for decades and was home to the city's only championship baseball team in 1937 when the Kings won their lone World Championship Series. The park had been showing signs of age and it was clear that it was no longer capable of supporting a big league baseball team. Prescott, the Brooklyn bottling magnate who purchased the club two decades ago, had pressed for a new stadium to be built but he and Moses were unable to come up with a suitable location or plan. Realizing the team could not continue in Brooklyn and not wanting to leave a legacy of being the man "who stole the Kings from Brooklyn," Prescott sold the Kings to Kansas City businessman Chester Coleman. Coleman immediately announced plans to move the club to his hometown and after finishing out last season as a lame duck franchise in Brooklyn the Kings have been relocated. The park will honor Prescott's great contribution to Brooklyn. Prescott's bottling company is known worldwide and a unique canning process for carbonated soft drinks and beer made the former Kings owner very wealthy. In addition to the Kings, Prescott also brought professional basketball to Brooklyn and his Red Caps cage club won six titles in the now defunct American Basketball Conference as well as one in the Federal Basketball League before Prescott folded the team. The annual caravan arrives and the equipment is unpacked. Players begin the annual ritual of getting ready for the long season. Most of the team will look the same, unless there is an unexpected late deal. There may be a competition in the outfield for CF and RF spots. Certainly his strong showing in Cuba should vault Jim Allen into a prime shot at the opening day RF position. Billy Moody is the frontrunner to return as the everyday CF although he will be pushed by Chief Lewis. In addition 1950 first overall selection Earl Howe will get a long look in spring training. For the moment the rotation seems to be set with Ed Bowman and new acquisition Ed Cornett locking down the top spots followed by 18 game winner Buddy Long and Cuban Winter league star Ted Beaven. Jim Morrison seems to have the 5th spot for now. It will be interesting this season to see if any jilted Brooklyn fans make their way to Queens to catch some major league baseball. Or do they remain CA fans and make the trek to upper Manhattan? Certainly Gothams ownership will be happy to have less competition for the local fans dollars. We have a few weeks until games start. Look for us to catch-up with a member of management and with the always chatty Bud Jameson. Minor League musical chairs precipitated by the transfer of the Brooklyn Kings franchise to Kansas City. The Packers, a long-time affiliate of the Washington Eagles won recently lost that affiliation when the Eagles moved their AAA operations closer to home in Richmond, are forced out of Kansas City entirely. The Packers, now playing as an independent, will shift their Century league franchise to Denver and rebrand themselves as the Bruins. A new stadium has recently been constructed in that city and has a seating capacity of 18,000 which will make it by a large margin the largest stadium in the Century loop. The Bruins mean a return to the Century League for the city of Denver. The Denver Plainsmen played in that AAA league from 1907 until 1928 before the franchise was shifted to the Western Baseball League, a class A independent league. The Bruins move to Denver means the Class A Plainsmen are also on the move. The Plainsmen franchise is going to Lincoln, Nebraska and will be known as the Legislators. There was a Heartland League team in Lincoln, that is a Chicago Cougars affiliate and was also known as the Legislators. They will be no longer, as the Cougars have moved that franchise much closer to the Windy City. It will play out of Rockford, Illinois and be known as the Rockford Wildcats. They will play out of the recently constructed Rockford Municipal Stadium. The Cuban Winter League wraps up today with its title game. CWL season victory leader Alex Vaughan (9-1, 2.25) is scheduled to take on Don Hillshire (3-3, 5.40) as starting pitchers in the winner take all title game. Both teams, the Matanzas Buccaneers and the Camaguey Coyotes, finished the season with 25-17 records. Mantanzas won the season series head to head 4 games to 2. CUBAN CHAMPIONSHIP GAME SET FOR TODAY Both finalists in the Cuban Winter League championship stumbled down the stretch but it will be the Matanzas Buccaneers and Camaguey Coyotes each making their first appearance in the title game of the six year old development league. The Buccaneers, supplied players by FABL's Philadelphia Sailors and Pittsburgh Miners, lost their final two games of the season and ended up tied with two-time league champion Havana but the Buccaneers earn the division crown by virtue of their better head-to-head record against the Sharks this season. Not only to Matanzas reach the single game championship showdown but they will get to host the game because the West Division champs also won the head-to-head series with Eastern champs Camageuey. The Coyotes lost each of their last four games and five of their final six but still won the division by four games over Manzanillo. That losing streak forces Camaguey, which his comprised of prospects from the Brooklyn Kings and St Louis Pioneers, on the road for today's winner take all championship game. The Washington Statesmen have won 5 straight and are now a full 9 games up on second place Philadelphia in the East Division with a 28-7 record. Their .800 winning percentage, if it holds up, would be the highest single season mark in FBL history going back to the league's debut in 1946. The Statesmen, who have won the last two league titles, own the current record when they went 54-14 (.794) in 1948-49, the year they jumped from the ABC to the FBL. What is more impressive this year is that 1948-49 mark was in a 17-team league with many of their opponents - now long gone - far below the standards of the current crop of ten survivors in the league. Cleveland is on a four-game winning streak to pull to within four games of Western Division-leading Rochester. The Crushers are coming home after a perfect 3-0 road trip, which boosted their road record to 4-14 on the year. The road trip took Cleveland to Chicago for a pair of games where the Crushers won 100-75 and 75-64, followed by a game in New York, where Cleveland took care of the Knights, 98-91. Ziggy Rickard, the league's top scorer, went for 42 in the first win over the Panthers and lit up New York for 31. A big game awaits back at Lake Erie Arena on Wednesday, when the Crushers and Rockets will battle, followed by a home-and-home with the second-place Mustangs. The Mustangs may very well be in first place by the time they play Cleveland. These are tough times in Baltimore. The gambit of signing former FBL players of defunct teams who were barnstorming across the country had fallen flat and the league did not allow the Barons to fill out their roster. There are seven players on the roster and two -- forward Mike Carter and guard Rod Bookman -- are out with multi-week injuries, leaving the "starting five" to be the "only five". One of the many drawbacks occurred against the Statesmen in the Barons 84-54 loss in Washington when Jack Hirst fouled out with eight minutes to play. Rather than forfeit, play was allowed to continue, as the Statesmen took it easy on the last-place Barons, only outscoring them by five points the rest of the way. LAST OF THE UNBEATENS FALL There will be no undefeated team in collegiate basketball this year after Western Iowa, the last school standing with a perfect ranked, tumbled from the ranks of the unbeaten with a 66-57 loss at home against Central Ohio on Thursday. The Canaries did rebound with a win over St. Magnus two days later and are tied for second in Great Lakes Alliance play at 3-1, a game back of the number one ranked Whitney College Engineers. The only undefeated team in college basketball history was the 1949-50 Noble Jones College Colonels as the club, led by a strong tournament showing by then-sophomore Charlie Barrell, capped a 32-0 year with a win over Liberty College in the title game at Bigsby Gardens. Both Noble Jones and Liberty are ranked in the top ten this season with the Bells close to wrapping up their season as the independent school from Philadelphia owns a 21-1 record and the 4th spot in this weeks rankings. The tenth ranked Colonels are 3-1 in Deep South Conference play and 13-4 overall. Noble Jones College won a pair of road games last week with victories over Bayou State and rival Georgia Baptist. Barrell, who must soon contemplate whether he wants to return to the Cincinnati Cannons baseball club or wait and see what the Federal Basketball League and American Football Association drafts have in store for him, had a big game in the rivalry rout over the Gators. Barrell scored 14 points and had 6 rebounds as the Colonels dominated by a 60-33 count. Full college results can always be found here WEEKLY RESULTS FOR RANKED TEAMS MONDAY JANUARY 28 at #4 Liberty College 73, Ellery 44 at #19 Perry State College 54, Dudley 21 at #22 Frankford State 59, Penobscot State 53 TUESDAY JANUARY 29 No game involving ranked teams WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30 #10 Noble Jones College 64, at Bayou State 60 #13 Lane State 65, at Spokane State 46 at #15 Opelika State 47, Northern Mississippi 36 at #18 Lubbock State 58, Pueblo State 53 at #19 Perry State College 59, College of Cairo 38 at #24 Bluegrass State 62, Alabama Baptist 41 THURSDAY JANUARY 31 #1 Whitney College 72, at #16 Lincoln 60 #4 Liberty College 63, at Narragansett 50 #6 Carolina Poly 64, at Charleston Tech 55 #7 Indiana A&M 69, at Wisconsin State 56 #12 Central Ohio 66, at #3 Western Iowa 57 #14 Detroit City College 48, at Minnesota Tech 38 at #17 Mobile Maritime 46, Maryland State 36 at #20 North Carolina Tech 51, #25 Lexington State 44 #21 Great Plains State 56, at Topeka State 53 #23 Brooklyn Catholic 66, at Brooklyn State 58 FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1 at #2 Coastal California 62, #5 Redwood 42 #8 Rainier College 51, at Northern California 46 at #9 CC Los Angeles 61, Idaho A&M 45 at #11 Annapolis Maritime 63, Central Maryland 47 Eastern Oklahoma 59, at #18 Lubbock State 52 SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2 #1 Whitney College 70, at Wisconsin State 60 at #3 Western Iowa 58, St. Magnus 47 #6 Carolina Poly 57, at Richmond State 46 #7 Indiana A&M 66, at #12 Central Ohio 50 #10 Noble Jones College 60, at Georgia Baptist 33 St. Ignatius 55, at #14 Detroit City College 47 #15 Opelika State 46, at Central Kentucky 29 at #16 Lincoln 72, Minnesota Tech 63 #17 Mobile Maritime 66, at Petersburg 52 at #19 Perry State College 49, Orrville 46 at #20 North Carolina Tech 65, Huntington State 55 at #21 Great Plains State 55, Dudley 42 at #22 Frankford State 61, Hamman 41 #23 Brooklyn Catholic 53, at Empire State 39 at Mississippi A&M 49, #24 Bluegrass State 42 SUNDAY FEBRUARY 3 at #2 Coastal California 49, Northern California 39 #5 Redwood 63, at Spokane State 36 #8 Rainier College 58, at #9 CC Los Angeles 45 #13 Lane State 61, at Portland Tech 55 The Week That Was Current events from the week ending 2/03/1952 Egypt's new Premier, given the helm of the government in the wake of wild, anti-west rioting, says he has the full support of Egypt's four man political parties. President Truman has called on Congress for "immediate" approval of the St. Lawrence power and waterway project as a joint endeavor with Canada. Senator Maybank, Democrat of South Carolina and a key man in Congress on many administration measures, says he is against another term for President Truman. He predicted most of the south will untie behind Senator Russell of Georgia for the party's nomination. Senator Taft of Ohio announced he would take part in the New Hampshire primary and contest for delegates to the Republican national convention in opposition to Gen. Eisenhower. Meanwhile Truman says his name will be withdrawn from the New Hampshire primary but that would not preclude his running for re-election. Thieves broke into a car owned Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy in Washington DC and stole $33,000 worth of jewels. It is the fourth time he has been robbed in major jewel heists. The car was parked at the home of his son, Representative John F. Kennedy. The Federal Communications Commission is launching an investigation into any use of Western Union telegraph facilities in connection with illegal gambling operations. __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles Last edited by Tiger Fan; 08-14-2024 at 01:47 PM.