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APRIL 4, 1920
SAN FRANCISCO WINS NCAA HOOPS TITLE
Sam Hightower scored 25 points and added 8 rebounds to lead the University of San Francisco to the college basketball National Championship. San Francisco beat Texas 71-56 in last night's title game.
The Dons built an early 12 point lead only to see Texas rally late in the first half to close to within 1 at the break. The Dons used their size to a great advantage as forward Sam Hightower scored 11 points and added 3 rebounds and 3 blocked shots in the opening 20 minutes. San Francisco center Jefferson Harley had 7 rebounds at the break. Texas picked up the tempo midway through the half and that allowed the Longhorns to get back into the game. It was 29-28 San Francisco at the break.
Texas stayed close for the first 15 minutes of the second half. The Longhorns matched buckets with the Dons but Texas could never pull even as San Francisco always remained a point or two ahead. Texas only held the lead twice in the game, both times in the opening 3 minutes of the contest.
Sam Hightower all but put the game away with 4 minutes to play as he scored 7 points in a span of just over a minute to help San Francisco go up 58-47 as the Dons went on a 11-2 run. Texas could not recover.
Guard Matt Rogers led the Longhorns with 18 points.
April 15, 1920
BASEBALL IS BACK! OPENING DAY
Another major league baseball season begins with a wild game in Cleveland where the Indians and the visiting St Louis Browns combined for 17 runs in the 8th and 9th innings and 10 more in the 10th. The Browns won the offensive battle 18-14. The game was actually 4-3 St Louis through 7 when the bats exploded.
The Browns scored 5 times in the top of the 8th, 3 on a Jack Graney homerun, to take a 9-3 lead. Cleveland got one back in the home half but when St Louis scored two more in the ninth to go up 11-4 you had to figure the contest was over. Not so fast as Cleveland plated 7 in the bottom of the ninth to force the game into extra innings.
St Louis scored 7 in the top of the 10th while the Indians could only manage 3 runs in the home half. The offensive stars for St Louis where Graney, with 4 hits and 6 rbis, and catcher Vern Clemons, who had 4 hits and 3 rbi's. Elmer Smith, who homered twice and had 5 rbi's, led the way for Cleveland. The two clubs combined for 38 hits and 7 errors.
In other American League action Herb Pennock tossed a complete game 7-hitter as the defending American League champion Philadelphia Athletics beat the visiting New York Yankees 5-3. Boston doubled Washington 6-3 as Lyn Brenton outpitched Walter Johnson while in Chicago Fred Nicholson and Larry Doyle each drove in a pair of runs as the White Sox beat Detroit by the same 6-3 score.
The defending World Series champion New York Giants started the season off in style. Frankie Frisch, Heinie Groh and Ray Haley each had 4 hits as the Giants clobbered visiting Boston 12-0. Rosy Ryan pitched 8 shutout innings with Christy Mathewson closing things out in the ninth.
Elsewhere in the National League, Pete Alexander tossed a 6-hitter as visiting Philadelphia beat Brooklyn 3-1. Catcher Patsy Gharrity's 3-run homer provided more than enough offense as Cincinnati blanked the Cubs 8-0 while Pittsburgh built an early 8-1 lead and hung on to win at St Louis 8-6.
April 23, 1920
GIANTS LOSE HOYT FOR 6 WEEKS
The New York Giants will be without Waite Hoyt for 6 weeks after the 1919 National League Rookie of the Year suffered an elbow injury in an 8-3 win over Boston. Hoyt is 1-0 in two starts this season with a 2.63 era. Last year he helped the Giants win the World Series by going 16-10 with a 2.28 in 27 starts.
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