The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-12-13
McComb, Laurel Dominate Big Eight;
Farraqut Named Second Team Center

The conference championship
McComb Tigers and the unde-
feated Laurel Tornadoes hogged
the BIZ, Eight first team, as Sc
lected by the Conference Sports
Writers Association in their an
nual meeting in Jackson last
Sunday,
Released TODAY, the lineup
showed McComb took four first
team berths and Laurel three,
while the other four were divided
between Biloxi, Tupelo, Vicks-
burg ard Columbus.
The McComb team also furn-
ished the most valuable player
with Rack Bill Stewart, who
pushed out his fellow back, Son
ny Car, choice for the l945 sea-
son.
Kenneth Farragut, Moss Point
center and captain, landed a sec
ond team center beth and Backs
Harry Davis of Moss Point and
Rocky Byrd of Pascagoula landed
on the honorable mention list
for the only placements of the
two local teams in their first
season in the Big Eight.
Oppose Tie-Up
The sport writers, representing
newspapers in the eighteen cities
of the conference, also Went on
record as opposing any 'tle-up'
between the conference cham
pions and a particular post-sea-
son game, holding that the cham
pions should be at liberty to
choose their post season game.
The group also voted against
changing the name Of the confer
tnce from the big Eight" to the
Big Eighteen. and recommend
ed that unauthorized persons be
kept out of the press boxes,
Drew Shackle, Columbus Com
mardial Dispatch, was elected
president of the group; Hal Adj
kinson, Laurel Leader-Call, sec
rotary: Clinton Blackwell, Gulf
port. Herald, south Mississippi vice
president and Charles kegg, north
Mississippi vice president.
Another resolution in which
coaches were urged to have COR
rect weight and jersey numbers
listed on the programs was pass
ed late in the meeting
The selections were made by
representatives of newspapers in
each of the eighteen cities in the
conference with each city hav-
ing one vote, regardless of the
number of press representatives
present at the meeting.
Those attending the assocla-
ton meeting and the newspapers
hey represent We're as follows:
Bill Parker, Greenwood Morning
Star; Nolle 7. Roberts. Pasca-
goula Chronicle-Star and Moss
ONT Advertiser: c. w. McAbee,
Corinth, Miss, Corinthian; Jack
Farley. Jackson Daily News;
fHal Atkinson, Laurel Leader
Call: Purser Hewitt, Jackson
Clarion Ledger: Norman Mat
thews, and Drew Shankle, Co
lumbus Commercial Dispatch;
Paul Tibler and Wavne Thomp-
son, Jackson Clarion-Ledger; j.
O. Emmerich, Charles Gordon
md Curtis Meek Of the McConib
| Enterprise-Journal. James Spots
wood and Robert Cleveland of the
Hattiesburg American, Charles
kerg. Grcenville Delta Democrat
Times, Earl c. Magee, Jackson
Daily News; Clinton {. Black
fwell. Gulfport Herald; Robert
Bloodworth, Biloxi Herald; Carl
Walters, Tupelo Journal; Dick
Smith, Meridian Star: Jimmie
Mcdowell, Brookhaven. Alvin
l.. Fox, V~ieksburg- Post Herald;
Carl Corbin and Edward Pagnac,
the Associated Press; Charles
Faux and f. 4. Fitzgerald,
Vieksburg Post: Earl Reyes. Lau-
rel Leader-Call: B. J. Kelton.
Clarksdale Register. W. A. Sui
Ivan, Natehez Democrat; and
Jack Hairston, Greenwood Morn
ing Star.