JACK TINGLE Junior, forward, letterman and captain of 1944-45 team, which won 22 of 26 games and registered the greatest number of points ever made by a Wildcat quintet. As high-scorer of 1945 team, Tingle tallied 124 field goals and 45 free throws for 293 points. Tingle, in his freshman season (1943-44), counted 78 field goals and, 21 free throws for 177 points. Thus, during his collegiate career, he has amassed 470 points on 202 field goals and 66 free throws. Tingle played six years in high school as center of the Trimble high school at Bedford, Ky., which is located about midway between Louisville, Ky., and Cincinnati, Ohio. He has played, only at forward during his college career. Jack is 21 years old, 6 feet-three inches tall and weighs 185 pounds.
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JACK PARKINSONJunior, guard, letterman (1944 and 1945), second high scorer on last season's Wildcat team with 112 field goals and 47 free throws, totaling 271 points. In his freshman year (1943-44), he made 64 field goals, 17 free throws, 145 points. At beginning of current season, his college scoring totaled 416 points, on 176 field, goals and 64 free throws. Parkinson is a graduate of Yorktown, Ind., high school, where he played basketball for three years. He is 21 years old, 6 feet tall and weighs 174 pounds. He's one of the nation's best long-shot artists.
RALPH BEARDFreshman, guard, scored 509 points in his senior year at Male High school, Louisville, where he captained the team. Beard was All-Kentucky guard in his junior and senior years at Male. He and his teammates won the Kentucky state championship last season. During the summer, Beard teamed with Wallace (Wah-Wah) Jones of Harlan, another Kentucky freshman, to lead an All-Kentucky team to victory over a group of Indiana All-Stars. The game was played at Indianapolis. Beard scored 14 points to gain high-scoring honors for the Kentuckians. Ralph is a great "break-away" player, who specializes in stealing the ball and driving under the basket for crips. He is 17 years old, five feet-10'/2 inches tall and weighs 165 pounds.
WALLACE (WAH-WAH) JONES Freshman, forward, greatest player in history of American high school basketball, established national high school scoring record of 2,398 points in four years of competition at Harlan, Ky., high school. During his senior year, when Harlan went to the state semi-finals, Jones registered 831 points. As a junior in 1943-44, when Harlan won the state championship, he tallied 828. The lanky Kentuckian has been playing basketball since he was in the third grade. He made the Harlan Green Dragon team as an eighth grader, and then was named an All-Kentucky player as a freshman, in 1941-42, as a junior, in 1943-44, and as a senior, in 1944-45. Jones missed another chance at All-State honors when the Harlan team was upset in a sectional tourney in .1942-43 and never reached the state tourney. Jones played with the Kentucky All-Stars against the Indiana All-Stars at Indianapolis last summer. Kentucky won 45-40, with Jones scoring 11 points. Wah-Wah is 19 years old, six feet-four inches tall and weighs 205 pounds. He was an end last season on the University of Kentucky football team.