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0 11 HP IT Sec I ion 2 II MIL Traw -oris SUNDAY' MOKNINC, l.W) asketba liayl IT jf A hi By BOB COLLINS Jimmy Rayl yesterday was named Mr. Basketball which is every bit as surprising as news that Richard Nixon voted Republican in the last election. The slender Kokomo Whiz Kid will wear No, 1 when the Indiana High School All-Stars play Kentucky in a pair of benefit basketball games this summer. His' selection as "Mr. Basketball," regarded as practically a cinch by Hoo-sier fans, was certified in state-wide balloting of sportswriters and sports-casters.

And it wasn't even close. The young man who is the epitome'ot the fast-moving unbelievably accurate modern player thus becomes a symbolic choice for he the coveted Trester Medal, did not see him at his best. At his best he is hitting over half his shots, looping one-handers from impossible places, popping two-handed sets from the center of floor and driving through holes that aren't there. He was far and away the most exciting property on any high school basketball floor for the past two seasons. In a 61-game high school career he scored 1,632 points for a 26.8 average.

Last, month, in leading Kokomo to the final game of the state tourney, Rayl averaged 29.9. He was over 40 points six times during the season. He hit 18 of 30 shots and scored 45 points in one memorable spree that helped Kokomo hand Muncie Central its lone defeat of the he classed as a virtuoso, And, remember, no one ever has knocked Jose Iturbi because he can't play the banjo. Rayl is the eighth All-Star produced in the frantic, loyal land of Kokomo basketball. He will be the sec-ond to carry No.

I. Tom Schwartz won the honor in 1945. Other Kokomo All-Stars were Chct Gabriel (1940) Carl Campbell (1941) Maurice Conwell (1946), Junior Phipps (1952), Jim Butcher (1955) and Paul Conwell (1956). The 1959 Indiana All-Star team will carry 10 players. The first eight will be selected according to the vote of sportswriters and sports-casters.

The final two play-ers will be named by the All-Star Game Committee. regular season. He scored 40 points and hit the winning basket with one second left in Kokomo's classic 02-00 scmistate struggle with Fort Wayne South. Rayl'i all-time high wn 49 points against New Castle in the final game of the regular season. But he finished second in that never-to-be forgotten game.

New Castle's Ray Pavy topped him with SI. Despite his slight frame, Rayl has great endurance and good speed. He also has subtle and deceiving hand and foot action that is not always apparent from a seat in the stands. Rayl's critics like to point out he can do little other than shoot. Such statements are unfair.

And even if they were true. Rayl still would will wear No. 1 in the year the Indianapolis Star celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Blind benefit game. Indiana and Kentucky will meet June 20 in Louisville and June 27th at Butler Fieldhouse. The Indianapolis contest is sponsored by The Star, all proceeds going to Blind Fund charities.

Rayl, at 6-1 and 145 pounds isn't the most likely specimen you would pick out of a group of strangers for a game of basketball. But put the pressure on and he turns into a tiger. All by himself Rayl has at times completely destroyed an opponent. And, take it from an old Rayl-watcher, those who saw the Splinter set a new state tourney scoring record of 114 points and capture ILLW Hasbrook, member of the Board of Directors of The Star's Fund for the Blind; Rayl and Indiana All-Star Coach Angus Nicoson of Indiana Central College. (Star Photo) 'MR.

BASKETBALL' Kokomo'i Jimmy Rayl accepts congratulations on his selection ot No. 1 Indiana All-Star for the 20th anniversary games against Kentucky June 20 and 27. Left to right are Coach Joe Piatt of Kokomo, Tom im Rathmanii Sets New Race Record. Palmer, Leonard Tied For Lead In Masters rN Ik I I Amick Dies As Car Crashes At Daytona Pair Pushed By Middlecoff Augusta, Ga. (AP) Canada's Stan Leonard slammed back with a 3-under-par 69 yesterday and tied Defending Champion Arnold Palmer for the lead after 54 holes of the 23d masters golf tournament yesterday.

I ft I 'tic pi i to slide on a 31 -degree slid 300 feet, struck a ond then rolled end over was driving a Bowes Seal (AP Wirephoto) AMICK DEATH CAR-George Amick of Rhinelander, died yesterday after 0 smashup in this racer in the last lap of the 100 mile race ot the Doytona Beach (Fla.) International Speedway. left hand corner at 15:34. The only assisted goal of the night came at 17:30 when Bob and Gus Braumbcrger had a break away on the Chiefs' net. Indianapolis, needing only one victory to turn the action to its home ice next Wednesday, played heads-up hockey for two periods and took a 1-0 lead 23 seconds after the initial faceoff. Red Leger knocked the puck past Ramsay on the left side following up on Vinel's re-bound shot.

THE KOMETS tied it up at 9:10 of the first period when Roger Maissoneuve scored unassisted from the left side. The second period was one of the best in the playoffs so far. The Chiefs were unable to capitalize on a 5-4 manpower situation at 9:36. And Hicks continued to play The car started banked turn, guard roil end. Amick Fast Special.

Chiefs Lose 3d Straight Plavoff Game To Komets To Err Is Human But Not In Golf Augusta, Ga. (AP) Peter Thomson of Australia was disqualified from the Masters golf tournament yesterday for turning in an Incorrect score after he had shot a 218 for 54 holes, six strokes behind the leaders. The tournament committee said the error was made by Thomson's playing partner, Chick Harbfrt. Harbert put down a four for the Australian on the 18th hole whereas he actually took a five. Thomson checked the score but didn't discover the error.

The committee pointed out that both players correctly certified Thomson's 18-hole total to be 37-3572. Under United States Golf Association rules, the committee had no option except to disqualify Thomson. ing him seven strokes behind, Hogan, putting uncertainty on the front nine, came in with 76 for a 223 total. Billy Joe Patton broke par with a 71 and tied with four seasoned pros at 216. They were Fred Hawkins, who came from far behind with a third round 63, Billy Maxwell, a 72 shooter, yesterday, and Wal ter Burkemo and Jack Fleck, who had 71s.

It took something better than par on this still, sunny day at Augusta National to break up the scoring jam that existed at the halfway point of the tournament. COE'S 67 WAS the best, but he had been seven strokes behind Palmer when the round started. Masters coring 5' ft' 1 0 lOvfWl ff AvM Pe.r 71 -70 2 Vm liwi -7 o-i 'i t- yVnh: 75 7071-2 jnk 74 M.71-? trt 77-7I-M-2I6 iy 73 71J-JI ft Mr ji fonen 75.79.71- iy H.b. I 71 TJ-Ti 7 i 75 71-717 Jul.ul livm 75 69 74-1 71 75 70-2 I Pfi th.r,n 77 74 7J-? -t wVo'l 7J.74 7I-Ji Iw, H-lt 72 75 7J.JI9 CNwl Mnpf 71 74 74-J I Jn-vy 74 7 70- t. I Mt.

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The record is for a 100 mile race over a closed trock. Rathmann was holder of the previous record, .166.78 miles on hour, (AP Wirephoto) Concluded From Page I nel. When Rathmann saw Amick losing control, he headed underneath the sliding car. Rathmann said he saw flames "nearly every color of the rainbow" made by the friction of the magnesium wheels and the body." But the fuel tank didn't catch fire. Amick's body stayed in the car.

Fellow driver Bill Chees-bourg of Tucson, Ariz' purposely spun his Wright-Knight Special into the infield to try to help Amick. But Chees- bourg walked over to Amick's car. took one look into the cockpit and walked away silently. AMICK'S attractive wife, Helen, was among the slim crowd of some 10,000 persons who saw the race. She rushed to the hospital and went into a state of shock when she learned he was dead.

Driver Rodger Ward of Los Angeles, who finished second In the 100-miler at a speed of 169.733, had a close brush with disaster in the second or Formula Libre race when his Racing Associates Special spun twice at nearly the same place as the Amick accident and was brushed by Christie's Federal Engineering Special. The tail of Ward's Leader Card 500 Special was dented but it wasn't seriously damaged. Ward was not hurt. Ward was leading the race when his accident happened on the fifth lap. TONY BETTEMHAUSEN of Tinley Park.

national driving champion, said he is through with running on the Daytona track for all time. Bettenhauscn made his declaration to his wife, Valerie, as they stood at the hospital The Vitkers were unable to hit during the early part of the first half but managed to stay within striking distance by cashing in on the free throw line where they hit 14 of 20 shots. They made only 12 of 43 field goal attempts. The All-Stars' during the same period connected on 15 of 41 from the floor and 10 of 19 from the foul stripe. CIU 5'i III' 10 7 12 4 Wnlnii I9 if 7 I0 3 I j- 3 1 1-3 5 1 2 i- 2 I I.

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,1 0 (5- 0 0 I 0. 0 0 1-20 I 0- 0 Tmuli 3JII3J32 4 3 I5S Ex-champion Cary Middlecoff, moving in with a 4-under-par 68, was only a stroke off the pace as Leonard and the muscular Palmer, of Ligonier, forged a deadlock with 212 totals. So the game is on for today the defending titlcholdcr. the ex-champion and the relatively unknown in the three-man showdown of this "lassie at massive Augusta National. That's the way Leonard, a calm.

44-year-old veteran from Vancouver, expressed it after the third round had eliminated virtually all the other contenders. Leonard, posting his second 69 of the tournament, set the target. Palmer, needing a birdie on the hole to tie for the lead, made it on a 12-foot putt and scored a 71 for the day. Middlecoff, arso needing one birdie on the last three holes to make it a three-way deadlock, parred his way in and failed by a strrrke to catch the others. But his 68 gained him the position he likes where he can win with a strong finish.

IT WAS A finish that provided every kind of thrill for a crowd estimated at 40,000 to 50,000 probably the largest in the history of American golf. And it set up another likely thriller for today. Only the three really remained in the running although National Amateur Champion Charlie Coe was only three strokes behind with 215 after a superb 67, the best score of the tournament. The three contenders all are players who have been tested by competition. Leonard, the oldest, was a club pro in Canada for 17 years before he tried his skill on the U.S.

tour. He has won two tournaments and has a calm, unworned attitude. Middlecoff. 38. has won two U.S.

opon championships and was Masters champion in 1955. He didn't play the circuit this winter but won the first tournament he rntcrcd at St. Petersburg. last month. Palmer.

29. was U.S. Amateur champion five years ago and reached a peak in his successful pro career last spring when he became the youngest Masters winner in 21 years. NEARLY TWO DOZEN players appeared to have some sort of chance when the third round began with 42 survivors of the original field of 87. Two of the greatest, Ben Ho-gan and Sam Snead, who have accounted for five masters titles between them, shot their way out early.

Snead scrambled to a 72, even par for the 6,980 yard Augusta National course, leav- Fort Wayne, Ind. (Spl.) Fort Wayne's Komets breaking loose for four goals in the final period, put the Indianapolis Chiefs on the verge of extinction in the International league hockey playoffs here last night with a 6-1 victory before 4.023 fans in Allen County Memorial Coliseum. The Komets drew out to a 3-0 lead in the best of seven-game series and have a chance to win a berth in the cham pionship round opposite the Louisville-Troy winner with a victory in this auernoon game at 3 o'clock. BOTH goalies. Cliff Hicks of Indianapolis and Glenn Ramsay of Fort Wayrie.

were never better as they repeatedly turned back key shots to finish with 37 and 28 saves respectively. The big difference was Fort Wayne's bear-type defense around the net which saw no less than 20 Chiefs' shots deflected before ever reaching the Komet netminder. Frank Gallagher, president of the 1HL presented Thomson of Fort Wayne with the 1958-59 Gatschene Trophy for sportsmanship just before the start of the third period and perhaps that spark kindled the Komets in the stretch drive. With a 2-1 lead Ronson made it 3-1 at 1:21 when he stole the puck at the red line and scored all alone, hitting the corner on the left side from 15 feet out. Eddie Long, who has scored five goals in three games, dug the puck out of his own zone and rode down the right side to outskate defi-nseman Jean Picard and beat Hicks in the left hand corner.

THE CHIEFS didn't let up but good fortune continued to shine on Fort Wayne as Ronson picked up a loose puck at the red line and had the defense beaten is he skated in to score from the brilliant hockey in the nets. The actual winning goal came at 17:34 when Ronson and Norm Waslowski had a breakaway on Hicks without a defender in sight. f.rt Wrn 11 H.V Mry ShlH Hoytt Piiy M-lO'i i Woi'nwiil C. MintvtJv I iprt t'l'Ch, 5 ly f'id I.H n-o-i' 1 rt-1 fo'i I I 4- i t) I IM 1 IV't Mt'l 2 '-v Vt-- 8 I--' TO 5 .6 M'(Jk I Q' lCfc Ql ft-" IS iO. fv'H 14 19 St'T-f ft 3 i't Will-.

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i-chnU 130. ly Hfkl 7 11-37 1 1 77 -ty Green, were the powerhouses for the All-Stars. West, one of six players fouling out of the roughly played game, picked up 20 points. Robertson took high scoring honors with 27 and Green, although low In the coring column, did most of the rebounding for the win. ners.

Wichita lost its two big men. Don Boldebuck and Bert Born, early in the second half. The first half ended with the All-Stars out in front 40-3S, but they quickly spurted ahead in the first four minutes of the final period with Robertson and West clicking away in the shooting department. Wichita, the national AAU champion, just didn't have it. College All-Stars Win Pan-American Net Trial Thomson of Boycrtown, in a Racing Associates Special; eighth.

A. J. Foyt of Houston, Tex. in a Dean Van Lines Special; ninth. Pat Flaherty of Chi-cago in a John Zink Special; 10th, Jim Packard of Indianapolis in a Glessner Special; Ihh, Don Branson of Urbana.

in a Bob Estcs Special; 12th, Chcesbourg; 13th. Al Keller of Green Acres City, Fla. in a Central Excavating Special: 14th, Bill Randall of North Reading, Mass. in a Safety Auto Glass Special; 15th. Jimmy Davies of Pa-coima, Cal.

in a Green-man-Casale Special; 16th, Jud Larson of Tampa, Fla. in another Bowes Special; 17th, Wilson in the Hoyt car; 18th, 19th, Eddie Sachs of Center Valley, Pa. in the Peter Schmidt Special and 20th, Lcn Sutton of Portland, Ore. in -the Wolcott Memorial Special. ONLY THE Speedway cars started the formula libre race.

None of the big sports cars entered it. Order of finish in the sec ond race: Jim Rathmann, Dick Rathmann. Christie. Thomson, Packard, George, Cheesbourg, Branson. Wilson, Davies, Keller, Randall, Ward.

Flaherty. They were the only cars starting it. Jim Rathmann won $9,950 out of total purse money of $32,160 paid for the two races. He was fined $100 by USAC officials for disregarding th yellow caution light in the second race after yard's after learning of Amick's deaih. "I'll never turn another wheel on this race track," Beltcnhausen said.

"One mistake here and you're done." "George and 1 had promised each other before the rare that we wouldn't take any unnecessary chances. George didn't either." Bettenhauscn left the first race after the end of six laps in the Racing Associates Spe-ial. He struck the fence on the fifth lap. DEMPSEY WILSON of Lawn dale, who had wrecked his Hoyt Machine Special on the 28th lap of the first race, the championship event, replaced BeHenhausch for the second race and finished ninth. In his 100-mile victory, Jim Rathmann bettered his own previous mark for the world's fastest race by more than three miles an hour.

He set the old standard of 166.722 for the entire 500 miles at Monza. Italy, in 1958. He ran one of the three sections of that race at 167.399. Finishing behind Rathmann and Ward yesterday in the championship event were: third. Christie in the Federal Engineering Special; fourth, Amick, who was awarded the place since the red flag stopped the race right after his accident; fifth, Dick Rathmann of Speedway in the Su-mar Special, sixth, Elmer r.nnrna nf SnfrtwaV in the HOW Special; seventh, Johnny Louisville.

Ky. (AP) The College All-Stars turned back Wichita 8S-80 last night to wrap up the championship of the Pan-American basketball trials. In the second game, the Bartlesville (Okla.) Oilers defeated the Armed Forces All-Stars, 74-72. The All-Stars, only undefeated team in the three nights of play, earned the right to place five and no more than seven of its men on the 20-man squad that will train for the Pan-Am Games in Chicago in late August. The remaining players will be picked from ther teams which took part in the trials here.

Three men. Oscar Robert ion, Jerry West and John.