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0 SECTION 2 BASKETBALL THE COURIERJOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, 1952. SPORTS Wicklif Downs Paducah 64-48; e. aysville Advances to Semis ville. That could just about wrap up the Second Region if season By JOHNNY CARRICO Wickliffe cleared the first (16-9) convincingly in two season games, 53-47 and 57-41. Between them the rivals have won seven of the last eight regional meets.

Last year Charleston surprised the Panthers in district play and Madisonville ran out of gas in the regional final, losing to Lyon County. Dawson is ranked ninth in the state and is the Lit-kenhous choice in the Second Region. on are reUalle factors performances and district tradi- These fierce rivals tangle tonight in the Seventh District at Madisonville and the prophets contend the winner will bear the Second Region standard at the big show in Lexington. Aubrey Inglis' Panthers, with a 28-3 record, beat Madisonville rIhieiMe9 MesMits Auociated Press Wirephot GETTING IN SHAPE for Pittsburgh twin killings are shortstop George Strickland (center) and second baseman Monty Basgall who zip through their part of a fast double play at San Bernardino, Calif. Baserunner is catcher Bob Flynn.

Four teams which made the Sweet Sixteen last year are in operation tonight. Covington Holmes (17-3), which represented the Ninth Region, opposes Ludlow in the 35th at Dixie Heights. Danville (12-8), 12th Region king, launches its bid with Buckeye in the 45th at Danville. Corbin (19-6), perennial master of the 13th Region, battles weak Artemus in the 50th at Barbourville. Way-land, 14th Region titlist, is matched with Betsy Layne (20-10) in the 58th at Wheelwright.

The wide open Fourth Region will find three strong contenders preferring claims. Clarkson (21-6) meets Brownsville (12-12) in the 14th at Morgantown; they split during the season, the Red Hawks triumphing 49-45 and Brownsville winning 65-63. Central City (13-10) hopes for a second conquest of Dunmor in the 16th at Central City; at the same site Graham (26-2) is favored ta give Muhlenberg Central its third decisive whipping. College High (io-9) and Bowling Green (10-14) never met in season play but they lock horns in the 17th at Bowling Green tonight. Tompkinsville (17-7), a potential ruler in the Fifth Region, engages Edmonton in the 20th at Marrowbone.

A hotly contested rivalry will be renewed in the 21st at Greensburg when Campbellsville (28-4) squares off with Taylor County. Campbellsville, a prominent candidate in the Sixth Region, nudged Taylor County 49-46 in their only previous meeting. Tickets Lexington, March 4 (JP) Mail orders for tickets to the state high school basketball tournament will not be filled after tomorrow. Ted Sanford, commissioner of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association, said today that after tomorrow tickets may bo purchased at a ticket booth to be set up at Graves-Cox Company here. The booth will handle only over-the-counter sales and will not fill mail orders.

The tournament will be in Memorial Coliseum here March Drake Says Spivey 'Tried9 Unjustly By JOE REISTER, of The Courier-Journal Lexington Bureau Lexington, March 4. The University of Kentucky Athletic Board tonight was accused of suspending Bill Spivey without giving the cage star "an opportunity to answer undisclosed charges made against him." 1st at Fulton Milbarn 47. Hickman 38. Cayee 41. Fulton 40.

7:00 Clinton Central vs. Cunningham. 8:30 Western v. BardwelL 2d at Paducah Bandana 76. St.

Mary's 5. Wickliffe 64. Paducah Tiighmaa 48. 7:00 Ridland vs. Ballard County.

8:30 Baxlow-Kevil vs. Heath. 3d at Mayfield Wingo C7. Mayfield 53. 7:30 'Lowes vs.

Symsonia. 9:00 Melber vs. Sedalia. 4th at Murray Hardin 48, Lynn Grave 43. A into 51.

New Concord 36. 7:00 "Murray vs. Benton. 8:30 'Brewers vs. Kirksey.

7th at Madisonville Morton's Gap 55. Nortonville 4t. Earlinirton 82, Hanson 46. 7:30 Dawson Springs vs. Madisonville.

8th at Hopkinsville South Christian 62. Trenton 36. Lacy 48, Sinking Fork 46. 7:15 "Hopkinsville vs. Todd County.

8:30 Pembroke vs. Clifty. 9th at Providence 7:30 Poole vs. Slaughters. 10th at Henderson Corydon 61.

St. Agnes 24. Morganfield 65, Uniontown 37. 7:30 'Sturais vs. SDOttsville.

9:00 St. Vincent vs. Hebbardsville. 13th at Flaherty Lewisport 57. Cloverport 56.

7:30 Irvington vs. Meade County. 14th at Morgantown 7:00 Brownsville vs. Clarkson. 8:30 Caneyville vs.

Leitchfield. 15th at Hartford Beaver Dam 73. Centertowa 68. 7:00 Hartford vs. Rockport.

8:00 Fordsville vs. McHenry. 16th at Central City 7:00 'Muhlenberg Central vs. Graham. 8:30 'Central City vs.

Dunmor. 17th at Bowling Green 7:30 Alvaton vs. Brtstow. 8:45 College High vs. Bowling- Green.

18th at Lewisburg Auburn 61. Adairvllle 36. 7:30 Lewisburg vs. Olmstead. IHtepoirTt Loser of Western-Louisville Game Would Give U.K.

Warm-Up And $15,000 For Red Cross "Let's be fair about this proposed Red Cross Blood Bank basketball game," cautions Ray Wimberg, energetic amateur sports worker. "Let's be fair to everybody and everybody be fair! "Now Dr. Donovan has been under great strain and Kentucky has been struggling under the most trying circumstances. We shouldn't call on them to do anything that's unreasonable. But what could be unreasonable about this? "Kentucky says it wants and needs a practice game before the N.C.A.A., preferably for March 15.

Coach Rupp thinks a loser from the N.I.T. could be got. "Western and Louisville meet in the first round of the N.I.T. One of them, sad to relate, will be a loser. An early loser returning right back to Kentucky.

"Right there you have a warm-up game for Kentucky and about $15,000 for the blood bank sending blood to the boys in Korea. How could any of the three schools turn that one down!" 19th at Scottsville 1:30 'Alien County vs. Austin-Tracy. 20th at Marrowbone t.30 'Tompkjnsville vs. Edmonton.

21st at Greensburg Columbia 36. Lebanon X6. Bradfordsville 47. St. Augustine 33.

7:00 Campbellsville vs. Taylor County. 8:45 St. Charles vs. Greensburg.

22d at Hardyville 8 00 'Memorial vs. Buffalo. 23d at Fort Knox RineyviHe 39, Lynnvale 3ft. Fort Knox 55. Eilzabethtown 42.

7:00 Sonora vs. Vine Grove. 8 30 Howevalley vs. Elizabethtown Catholic. Continued on Page 4, Column 1 Js? Cliff Hagan On U.

P. All-America 1950-51 United Press All-America team, was a first or second team selection on the ballots of 81 per cent of the voters this year. Groat was chosen on 70 per cent of the ballots, Darling on 66 per cent, Hagan on 63 and Workman on 57. First Team Pos. Player and School Are Ht.

Wt. Class F. Chuck Darling. Iowa 21 6-8 220 F. Mark Workman.

W. Va 21 6-9 21S Sr. C. Clyde Lovellette. Kan.

21 240 Sr. G. Dick Groat. Duke 21 S-0 ISO Sr. G.

Cliff Hagan, Kentucky 20 6-4 200 Jr. SECOND TEAM THIRD TEAM J. O'Brien. Seattle F. B.

Houtirega. Wash. F. Ramsey, Ky Meineke. Dayton B.

Pettit. L.S.U, -C. Duieee. Seton Hall R. Fletcher.

111. Stelner. St. Louis Zawoluk, St. John's Tucker, Duquesna KENTL'CKIANA HONORABLE MENTION Baechtold.

Eastern; Beshear, Murray; Brown, Louisville-, Leonard. Indiana; Leslie, Notre Dame; Lochmueller. Louisville; Marshall. Western: McNulty. Purdue; Miranda.

Indiana; Purcell, Murray. .1 S1 ic ff in our presence and in the presence of Dean (A. Kirwan of the University of Kentucky. "During all this grilling, Spivey stoutly maintained his innocence and on the following day (Wednesday) appeared before the grand jury and there reaffirmed that he was not guilty of accepting bribes or participating in the 'fixing' of any basketball game, particularly the Sugar Bowl game of 1950." Drake declared that after he and Spivey returned to Lexington, "neither of us had any further contact with the athletic board until Sunday at 5 o'clock." The athletic board's report "mentions there was other evidence shown to Dean Kirwan by the New York district attorney's office upon which the board's decision was partially based." Not Available This information "was not made available to us, nor was any evidence shown us," the attorney charged. "It is our feeling that we should have been informed of the nature of the accusations and the facts upon which the accusations were based and given an opportunity to answer them at the board meeting.

We also feel that young Spivey should not have been suspended without the opportunity to be heard upon these undisclosed accusations. Hagan Is Only Junior To Make UP All-America; Lovellette Tops Other Fans Write Help, help! The sports desk is covered with other letters for and against the proposed U.K.-U.L. contest. I'll print as many as space will allow. "Dear Earl: I am breaking a lifetime precedent in writing this letter.

Never before have I written I )' "For many reasons it would be a fine thing for I if teams to Pay kis game for the Red Cross. I Many of the boys who are now playing on these I Vv I basketball teams will be in the armed forces in the Paul Garrett near future. It wutera President themselves will New York, March 4 (UP) Six-foot-nine Clyde Lovellette of Kansas, the leading scorer in the major college ranks, was the outstanding choice on the. 1951-52 United Press All-America basketball team announced today. Dick Groat of Duke, Chuck Darling of Iowa, Cliff Hagan of Kentucky and Mark Workman of West Virginia were the other players selected in a nationwide poll of more than 200 sports writers and radio broadcasters.

The mythical team thus was made up of two players from the South, one from the Midwest, one from the midlands, and another from the border state of West Virginia. Lovellette, a repeater from the ma or hurdle in its pursuit of a i irst tegion slot wnen it outlasted Paducah Tilghman 64-48 last night in the Second District tournament at Paducah. Maysville, the hardy perennial of the 39th District, moved into the semi-finals at Maysville by belting Minerva 62-46. Earle Jones' Bulldogs have missed a ticket to the Tenth Region meet only twice since 1932. Fern Creek rurnished the upset of the night when Charley Ruter's Creekers took out Eastern 53-42 in the 26th at Masonic Home.

Fern Creek won only two games in 18 starts in season play and had taken a 72-36 shellacking from the Eagles earlier. Rollins Snags 26 New Haven sprang a surprise on Simon Kenton in the 34th at Florence by winning 49-42. New Haven could scare up only seven victories during the season. Another upset victim was Clover-port in the 13th at Flaherty; Lewisport stung the Royal Aces 57-56. Fort Knox bested Elizabeth-town 55-42 in the 23d at Fort Knox despite a 26-point splurge by the Panthers' Bishop.

Frank Selent tallied 18 for the winners. Phil Rollins spouted 26 points as Wickliffe built up a 30-26 lead at halftime. Runner-up to Cuba in the First Region last year, the Blue Tigers have a crucial engagement with Lone Oak tomorrow night in the quarter-finals. Dawson Springs vs. Madison- Kansas State Coach Issues Challenge to U.K.

Des Moines, March 4 (JP) Jack Gardner, Kansas State College basketball coach, today dared Kentucky "to put it on its schedule next year." Gardner issued the dare in commenting that basketball polls are "just popularity contests." "Any team out in the sticks, like we are, can't get the support the teams in the bigger cities do," Gardner said in an interview. Kentucky ranked No. 1 and Kansas State was in third place behind No. 2 Illinois in the final Associated Press poll released Monday. "Kentucky is a good team, all right, but it would lose from three to five games each year if the Wildcats played a Big Seven schedule.

"I dare Kentucky to put us on its schedule next year. Those Southeastern Conference teams never beat anyone of consequence outside their own league, and that's the league Kentucky generally wins, year after year." Kentucky defeated Kansas State 68-58 in the finals of the N.C.A.A. tournament last spring. district tournament, it again was Kentucky in the first round. This year it's Western.

Many Louisville fans have begun to wonder whether it's pure accident and coincidence after all. Seton Hall is the only team in the'12-club tournament that has played both Louisville and Western during the season. So we asked Norton how he thinks the two rivals will stack up. Louisville and Western didn't meet each other this season or last season. Even Without Petersen Td say, it's about even up with Louisville's big boy (7-foot Bob Petersen) gone," he said.

"Western is a young club and is bound to have improved since we met them and beat them by about 10 points early in the season. We got them on the weary end of a four-game trip up here." "If I had to go on the basis of play of the two teams against us," Norton amended, "I'd have to pick Louisville. But Western is young and surely must have improved since we played them, judging from their record." He conceded that Louisville, a veteran club, has "better ices, such as the blood bank service. "I know that a great many citizens and alumni would like to, see such a contest. After all we are at war, and general precedents and policies are often put aside under conditions as they exist today.

Arthur II. Almstedt, Louisville." could be quite possible that they receive some of the Red Cross serv II. L. Donovan IT. K.

President a. 1 ''jfip If Not This One, Maybe Other? "Dear Earl: I can appreciate Dr. Donovan's position fully, and I am not too sure that fans would go for the game long after the season is over. But you have this heartening set-up: Adolph Rupp has said Jus team needs a warm-up game before the N.I.T. Dr.

Donovan has said several times that the The five players, chosen from among the thousands throughout the nation, represent a coach's "dream team." The quintet averages six feet, six inches per man and has a combined scoring average of 24.5 points per-man per-game this season. Lovellette, Groat, Darling and Workman aro seniors; Hagan is a junior. Lovellette and Groat were placed at their normal positions of center and guard, respectively. But Darling, Hagan and Work man, who are regular centers for their teams, were shifted to other posts. With the diminishing emphasis on positions in modern basketball, the balloters were permitted to vote for centers at other positions.

Darling and Workman thus were placed at forward and Hagan at guard. LOUNGE vvnieiic uepanraeni nas a surplus or someining like $800000- So the school could get along without I the "take" from this prep game. So, if the U.K.-U.L. in a prepared statement, Elmer Drake, Spivey's attorney, also declared that in invoking the suspension, the board acted "arbitrarily and without any consideration of the rights of the accused." Barred Permanently The 7-foot All-America center Sunday was permanently barred frc athletics at the U. of K.

The athletic board, in a lengthy statement issued at that time, said it believed Spivey was "implicated in a conspiracy to fix Kentucky basketball games during the 1950-51 season. The board's statement explained there was evidence to indicate this occurred during the Sugar Bowl cage tourney in December, 1950. Drake's statement tonight referred to the fact that last week Dr. H. L.

Donovan, president of the university, stated publicly there would be "no vulgar haste" in crJling a meeting of the board consider Spivey's request for reinstatement to athletics eligibility. Requested Appearance "Yet, at 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, Dr. Donovan advised me by telephone that the board requested the appearance of Spivey and myself at 5 o'clock that same afternoon," Drake asserted. "Upon being called before the board, we were advised that the group already had acted on Spivey's request for reinstatement and the report as released to the press later that afternoon was then read to us. It was a surprise and a disappointment to learn that Spivey had been permanently suspended.

In referring to the athlete's appearance before the New York County grand jury last week, Drake stated: "Bill Spivey submitted himself to an all-day grilling by Mr. O'Connor (Vincent O'Connor, assistant district attorney for New York County) and his assistants Jim Line Testifies Special to The Courier-Journal New York, March Jim Line, former University of Kentucky player, testified today for two hours before the grand jury investigating the college basketball scandals. After his testimony, he was excused by the grand jury to return home subject to call again. Line is charged with being one of three Kentucky players who accepted bribes to shave points in two games during the 1949-50 season. The other two are Walter Hirsch and Dale Barnstable.

Line's questioning also covered the 50-51 season when Line was back at Kentucky pursuing his studies and serving in a minor coaching capacity. Seton Hall Picks U. L. By TOMMY FITZGERALD Crarier-Joaraal Staff Writer New York, March 4. Norton "Honey" Russell wasn't all pie and honey himself, as he discussed the National Invitational Basketball Tournament draw wtth your correspondent today.

The Seton Hall coach dropped a few sour remarks, too. He's also critical of the pairings for the annual Madison Square Garden tournament that opens here Saturday night with two Kentucky teams Louisville and Western meeting at 6 o'clock in the first game of the first round. Your correspondent observed what a coincidence it is that the two Kentucky teams in the meet drew each other in the very first game of the very first round and asked: "How do they pair the teams anv-way? Is it a blind draw? "Draw he said. "They don't have any draw. They just pair the teams arbitrarily the way they want "Are you sure of this?" "Oh, positive." "But do they admit this Is the way it's done? I understood it was a blind draw," your correspondent pursued.

a 1 a rhilip Davidson l'. 1. President fed game becomes the proceeds of Cross workers Louisville." "Dear Earl: I on whether or and U. L. should Cross and boys in Dr.

Donovan's the would impossible why can't U. K. give the game it does play and get Red busy selling tickets? J. M. Gerber, read today's articles pro and con not the basketball teams of U.

K. meet for the benefit of the Red overseas. Frankly I am disappointed attitude and arguments. He says game create ill will between the schools. go mi en mi ltd gj ground op em) odd TJiat is a slap in the face of students, alumni and faculty of both schools.

He admits, you might say, that he and the other administrators are incompetent to handle the situation. Secondly, when he states that one of the big reasons for U. K. having such a good national ranking is that they do not Auoctated Pret Wirephoto LISTENING to a statement prepared by his attorney, Elmer Drake (in bed), is Bill Spivey, former University of Kentucky eager. Although confined to his home at Lexington by illness, Drake released the statement yesterday.

play one another. Well, this year's already is posted and this game Taul Nervell, Louisville." "Dear Earl: I think it would be U. K. and U. L.

basketball teams national ranking can't "affect it. a fine thing for tr nla a nntt. even better if they could arrange for the big meet. Terry Brown. season game for such a worthy cause as the Red Arlhur Almstedt DINING COCKTAIL Coach Raps Draw; to Defeat Western Cross.

It would be I between tournaments, to give U. K. the practice says it needs IS i Adolph Rupp Louisville." 'Humanitarian "Dear Earl: II. L. Donovan great interest the be played between suggest benefit of athletics Cause' This letter was addressed to Dr.

yesterday: Dear Sir: I read with request for a basketball game to U. K. and U. L. I most sincerely that you consider this game for the in Kentucky and for the hu BARRET OAK SOUVENIRS FOR THE LADIES MUSIC fine whiskies-mixed ri ks-liqueurs short orders, fine steaks, choice sandwiches de luxe service-spacious quarters for private parties "Oh, I don't know whether they admit it or not, but there's no draw.

That's for sure." He said the four seeded teams Duquesne, St. St. John's and St. Bonaventure were chosen on their records and the strength of their schedules. Then "Honey" got bis personal beef off his chest.

3 Home-State Foes "Sure, they put Louisville and Western together to get one of them knocked off early. Neither has much potential pull at the gate up here. But why did they have to put us in the same half of a bracket with St. John's? Why, we've already sold 4.000 tickets to our first game in the tournament (with La Salle Saturday night). It doesn't make sense to throw us against St.

John's in the second round if we win and kill one of us off early in the meet when we're both strong local drawing cards. I can't figure out." In the last four years, Louisville has been in three national tournaments and each time it has met another Kentucky team in the first round. In the Olympic trials four years ago, it was Kentucky in the first round. Last year, in th N.CA-A. regional manitarian cause, the Red Cross.

The Red Cross sponsors the Blood Program, and due to the Korean situation, thousands of our boys' lives have been saved by this blood program. I suggest the game be played in Lexington to give more people an opportunity to see it. Your approval of this contest could possibly mean the saving of the lives of several fine American Ernest Aorful. Louisville." "Dear Earl: Why, I would like to be informed, should the president of one, or either, of two universities be so prompt and exact in a refusal to consider a game for such a worthy cause? Surely the consideration of this important matter should be predicated on the benefits which would be forthcoming to the American Red Cross, and not predicated or previous decisions of any athletic board, or with the approach that antagonism might develop among students and alumni. Gil Adams Louisville." OPEN 9 A.M.

TO 1 A.M. FREE PARKING ON PREMISES FOR THE PAST 17 YEARS IAMB CONTIMl'IMG TO OPERATE) AT FIOYD AND BRECKINRIDGE "Dear Earl: I think it unfair when persons interested in pushing the University of Louisville use the Red Cross, the Korean situation and public war nerves to try to force the University of Kentucky into an unwelcome contest. You always have been fair toward U. K. and I know you will see this new move in its true light.

Beraa Bourwier, Frankfort.".