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-a ii ii BASKETBALL THE COUFJER.JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1952. SPORTS SECTION 2 i ay Meets Western In Tourney Final "First Fundamental of Coaching Is Finding Boys Who Can Play, Bo Advised Uncle Ed Long Ago Here for the Ohio Valley Conference basketball tourna 1 lTvV vW'i) A'-V I ment, Uncle Ed Diddle was McMillin's illness. Ed and Bo were firm friends when they played football and basketball together at Centre e-a Maroons, Herd Lose In Semis Purcell, Beshear Pace 'Breds; King, Marshall Lead 'Toppers By TOMMY FITGZERALD They said it would be a horse of another color in this year's Ohio Valley Conference basketball tournament, but they apparently didn't ask the Thoroughbreds of Murray about this. oiiege Danville 30 years ago. "A lot of people don't know that Bo played basketball.

said Ed. "But he was doggone good at putting the ball through the hoop. Some of the boys used to call him lucky, because no matter how funny he looked in making a shot, ballalways seemed to connect. Bo laughed, 'Counts saddened by reports of Bo! make 'em. Now you want to from the free throw a job coaching at Centenary 86 to 0.

Bo invited him "after what you did to me two, boys, no matter how you Dei via XMuge can't outhit you After Bo left Centre he took College, Shreveport, La. Uncle Ed became football and basketball coach at Western. McMillin invited Ed to bring his Hilltopper gridders to Shreveport for a game. Bo had been on the job only a few weeks, but that was long enough for him to collect such stalwarts as Cal Hubbard, later a big league umpire, and Swede. Anderson, who had tried football at Centre and hadn't been quite ready.

western lost by something like oyer to his home for dinner that night. "You are a fine fellow," grinned Bo, "but Ed, you don't know the first thing about this business of coaching college football." "I'll concede that," said Ed, 1 tTTI toaay. wnat's the secret?" "The first fundamental of good coaching," said Bo, "is finding boys who can play! Never forget that!" Ed pushed back his chair, flicked the ashes off his smoke, and sighed. "I've been trying to follow his advice ever since, but a lot of other fellows seem to have discovered the same principle." nnrray Keyed-Up De Paul Tests U. K.

By LARRY BOECK Courier-Jearaal Staff Writer Chicago, Feb. 22. Kentucky wind up its regular season here tomorrow night, and Coach Adolph Rupp says he's afraid that it's going. to be against a strong DePaul that is all wound up. "If they're all wound up and ready to pitch a hot game at us, we'll be in for it," said Rupp.

"You saw what happened to us when we played a fired up Notre Dame lest trip here. We barely escaped with our lives." Kentucky was down 11 points to Notre Dame early in the second half before winning out by a scant 71-66. Now the Wildcats, seeking their 18th straight victory and their 23d of the season, place their unofficial national rating as the regular season's champ squarely on the line against a DePaul Rupp says "is sure to be ready for us." Is Rated No. 1 Kentucky is rated No. 1 in the country by both the Associated Press writers and sportscasters poll and the United Press' coaches poll.

Rupp and Ray Meyer formed something of a "mutual admiration society" today as they awaited tomorrow night's clash. Rupp praised Meyer as an outstanding young coach who has a knack of kicking off the top teams when they least expect it. "The DePaul boys put the wood to Illinois and then i-ame hark to do the same thing to Oklahoma and declared Rupp. He rates the Demons stronger than Notre Dame, desnite th fart th Irish recently topped DePaul by at south Bend. Irish Are Tough "Those Irish are awful tnnph to beat there I've found that out personally," said Rupp.

Then, he added, "Yes, I know Loyola of Chicago beat DePaul right after the Irish did it. I have a hunch DePaul has lost its last two by pointing for us. It a cinch, anvwav. thev'll now be good and mad about life wnen we meet em. The friendlv and lilrpaKJfi Meyer, meanwhile, repaid Rupp's kind words with: "Rupp rates with the best of all- time.

He's smart, knows how to instill his knowledge into the boys and has an inspirational aualitv which every good coach possesses. "But aon xorget Kupp also has the players." Left behind when the Wildcats left Lexington was forward Shelby Linville, who is sidelined with leg injury. It's Up To School Special to Tha Courier-Journal Chicago, Feb. 22. Coach Adolph Rupp is not opposed to Kentucky competing in both the N.I.T., and N.C.A.A.

tournaments, he said here today. "I'm not opposed to it if the boys want to go," said Rupp. "However, it isn't up to me to decide. "It's up to the administration." A university official told The Courier-Journal today he doubted the administration would approve both Courier-Journal Photo by Al Blunk BLOCK THAT PUNT! This is a basketball game, not football as it appears in this action during the Murray-Eastern game. Kicking the ball is Eastern's Jim Baechtold who is being held by Murray's Melvin DeWeese.

The "quarterback" is Bennie Purcell (21) of Murray, who had just fired a shot, and at left is Bill Bales (30) of Eastern. a-aaaa- a uupimwwww I i Vr'! "5 Who Is He? Paul Bryant, football coach at the University of Kentucky was surprised, he said at report in a C-J news story this morning that one Wildcat gridder received $250 a month. "If a boy is being paid $250 a month he sure should pay income tax," he said, "but he shouldn't be playing football for us, and I don't want him." of the first half to enable Eastern to lead 30-28 at the rest. Eastern had led practically th entire period. Where Purcell left off In the first half, in which he tallied 14 points, Garrett Beshear and Charley Lampley took over to in the second half.

They totaled 24 of Murray's 39 points the second half, Beshear getting 14 and Lampley 10. Beshear had 19 for the game, Lampley 16 and Purcell 20. Baechtold topped all scorers with 24 points and in doing so broke two and tied two tourney free throw marks. He made 12 of 14 free throws, all 12 of them in a row to break the record of 11 set the night before by Art Spoelstra of Western for consecutive free-tosses in both a single game and a series of games. He tied Spoel-stra's mark for most free throws in a single game and tied Flavius Smith's record for most frees attempted in one game 14.

Murray had a 30-28 edge at intermission. Nine times the score was tied in the third quarter and eight more times the lead shifted sides. For the last six and a half minutes of the torrid, see-saw quarter, they matched baskets. The biggest lead in the quarter was four points, held early in the period by Eastern. The last eight minutes no more than three separated the teams and Eastern had (his edge at 48-45.

Marshall Went Ahead Marshall led Western 26-22 at the end of a wild scoring first quarter. Twice Marshall was ahead by seven points early in the milling. Western led only threa times during the whirlwind quarter and by two points each time. Marshall went ahead 23-22 on, a free by Lamb and Walowac followed with a goal and a free to give the Herd its four-point edge at the first stop. The lightning-fast Herd quickly streaked into a nine-point lead in the second quarter.

But Western bounded back and trailed by only 43-39 at the half. Bight at the start of the third period, Lamb scored to lift Marshall's lead to 45-39. Then Marshall slowed down and this was damaging. Speed had been its greatest asset up to now. Western got 12 points before Marshall could score again White, Spoelstra, Rhodes getting goals, Dan King grabbing two and Marshall dunking a couple of frees.

U. K. Paper Blasts School's Handling of Basketball Scandal Depth, Desire' Biff Three Bo McMillin valuable to a. tournament time, coaches here Condition, Tournament named them in this order: 1 physical condition, for the unusual strain of long tournament play, 2 depth of good material, so that good men may replace good men in the semi-finals and finals, and 3 desire to win at all costs, because inspiration is a necessity if a team is to catch fire arid stay hot through three days of play. "Don't Play Follow Leader" The best advice these same coaches had for fans in The Courier-Journal Pick-The-16 Contest is don't play follow-the-leader.

"It's natural to take Dr. Litken- It -J gSKSTT hus ratings as how many time predict that Warren County, coached by Ed Diddle, will be hard to beat, despite Allen County's great ball club. They like Newport over Holmes, Somerset as a possible upsetter over Lily and Hazel Green, and Inez as a possible giant killer over Pikeville and others in the mountains. U. K.

officials has done nothing to improve the situation of the university in the eyes of the public" The editorial lauded football Coach Paul Bryant's plan to stop recruiting of out-of-state players, saying it was the only move "that showed an inclination on the part of the administration or faculty at U.K. to take any definite action concerning the improvement of the athletic system." 'It's Going To Come Out' Dr. Herman L. Donovan could not be reached for comment before the U.K. basketball team enplaned for Chicago.

However, a U. K. official, who refused to be quoted, told this reporter: "It's all going to come out soon and then the public, students and others will understand what the university has been doing in order to clear up the situation." He pointed to the fact that Assistant District Attorney Vincent O'Connor of New York had praised President Donovan, Governor Wetherby and U. K. for its co-operation when he was at Lexington probing U.

part in the scandal. "O'Connor said that we had co-operated better than any school," said the official. Tourney Facts Event Ohio Valley Conference basketball tournament. Place Jefferson County Armory. Last night's results Murray 69, Eastern 59; Western 89, Marshall 74.

Saturday's Schedule 8 p.m. Western vs. Murray Asked What mialitinc ara mnr( high school basketball team at for the OVC Ed Diddle a measuring stick," said one, "but has his favorite won? They Eddie Stanky of the Cardinals had game, Then LJitino Camct mt Prcn PROGRAMS 6 A.M. lA.w It a HIGH James with Basketball: tournament WKLO, KrM 'A Why Stanky Chose Riddle mm mmf aa i i i if iT ri A Fighter Anyway, the Thoroughbreds, the defending champion, had their say about the matter last night at the Armory and they spoke with conviction- as they beat favored Eastern 69-59 in the first of two semi-final games. In the othr semi-final game, the top-seeded Western came through, but the crowd of 6,500 had many a thrilling and uncertain, moment before the tall, young 'Toppers could stop Marshall 89-74.

So, Murray, which had to beat two such stalwarts as Eastern and Western the same day to win the championship last year, must repeat that feat only with opponents reversed and two nights to do it in. Count Tied 16 Times Their final foe this time is Western instead of Eastern and the championship tussle is set for 8 o'clock tonight. The Thoroughbreds had more stamina in the drive to the wire. They won in the last furlong after they and Eastern Had battled neck and neck for three furious periods. Sixteen times the score was tied and nine times the lead changed hands before the Thoroughbreds broke away from Eastern in the final quarter.

Eastern faltered in this final chapter after Jim Baechtold had pulled them even at 53-53 just at the start. It was the only field goal Eastern was able to make in the entire period. They lost their eye along with their wind. In one of the biggest scoring games in tournament history, Marshall offset Western's greater height and superiority under the boards with terrific speed the first half. Breaking terrifically fast, Marshall led at the half 43-39.

Poured In Points They couldn't keep up this killing pace and when they were forced to slow down to get their breath, Western poured it on. Western won in two three-minute spurts. Trailing by six points at the start of the third period, they made 12 points while Marshall was going pointless to move into a six-point lead. In the final period, with Marshall still in the game, being behind by only five. Western again splurged.

This time they got" 10 while Marshall was failing to score and this streak won the game. Dan King and Tom Marshall, with 20 apiece, and Art Spoel-stra and Dick White, with 19 each, led the Western 'assault. Walt Walowac, with 27, and Jim Lamb, with 23, kept Marshall a troublesome Herd most of the way. Purcell Sparks Murray Little Bennie Purcell, Murray's sensational scorer who set an all-time scoring record for Murray this season with 506 points in 26 games, was held to one field goal the first 15 minutes by Eastern's Shirley Kearns. But when Kearns got three fouls on him and was taken out' iur wuiecuon, jrurceu.

a ariD- bhng and jump-shooting little 5-8, 140-pound wizard, scored nine points the last three minutes KAISER CO. now a fistful of applications for a coaching vacancy. This fact caused the sportswriters to wonder a bit when he picked Johnny Riddle, an old American Association favorite who had been out of baseball a year. "Well, I'll tell you," Stanky explained to Roy Stockton. "Several years ago when I was with Milwaukee we played Birmingham an exhibition during spring training.

Riddle Continued on Page 3 Column 2 LIGHTS Farley plays Twenty Questions Bill Slater. WGRC 7 p.m. Ohio Valley Conference final, WHAS, WAVE, WINN y-DePaul TODAY'S RADIO Astrid Varney. Set Svanholm, Walburga Wegner and Elizabeth Hoengen sing in Strauss' "Elektra." WKLO 1 pjn. Endless Frontier features story of Korean medical units.

WAVE 6:30 p.m. 7 'V As rid Varney SATURDAY'S WINN 8:30 and WKLO 9:45 p.m. Tim TO 5 By LARRY BOECK Courier-Journal Staff Writer. Chicago, Feb. 22.

Univer sity of Kentucky officials were criticized editorially for their handling of the basketball scandal in today's issue of The Kentucky Kernel, weekly school newspaper. The university administration was accused of adopting a "know-nothing" attitude in the editorial headed "University Should Take Stand in Current Basketball Scandal." Along with the editorial was a cartoon. It showed five basketball players, walking along with bowed heads and drooping shoulders, while behind them stood a balding, pot bellied figure labeled 'U. K. Administration." Under the cartoon was the line, said by the official "I don't know anything except what I read in the papers." The players bore the numbers of those named in the scandal.

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Sports 10 Rehearsal Call .3 Near.) Weether Mystery Film Createet Pifkta Hoaaa Theater Cat sice fetara 11 3 the basketball scandal, but what makes it even more unpalatable to us is the fact that the administration has taken no definite steps to get the matter completely cleared up so that U.K. can start to rebuild its good name in athletics," the editorial said. "University officials have had definite knowledge of the scandal since the middle of October when the first U.K. players were arrested, but they have yet to take any real stand in the matter. Instead, they have been content to let things drag along, watching the university receive more and more bad publicity.

"Had Obligation" university, it seems to us, had the obligation to institute an investigation of its own and to find out just where it stood. After O'Connor came to U. K. and talked to administration officials, it would have behooved them to take some kind of stand, at least in the case of the two boys who then were enrolled in school. "If the administration had thought the players were guilty, it should have seen that justice was done.

If it thought the players were innocent, it certainly was the university's place to see that they were cleared as quickly as possible. The 'know-nothing attitude which has been taken by Iowa, Illinois To Break Tie Tonight Champaign, 111., Feb. 22 Iowa and Illinois, fourth and fifth best college basketball teams in the nation, battle to smash the'r first-place deadlock and settle the Big Ten championship tomorrow night. The title showdown will cram Huff Gym with a capacity 6,905, be telecast by a Chicago stadium, broadcast by 26 Midwest radio stations, and reported by 35 sports writers. Iowa scoring star.

Chuck Darling, who has averaged 26 points in 10 conference games, was reported feeling "much better" after nursing a severe cold in an Iowa City Hospital overnight. Will Be Favorite The winner here tomorrow night will be an odds-on favorite to emerge champion in the 14-game conference race and capture an N. C. A. A.

tourney berth. Illinois finishes out against Purdue, Northwestern and Wisconsin. Iowa's final three foes are Michigan State, Northwestern and Wisconsin. Third-place Minnesota (9-3) still has at least a chance to share the title, but must beat Purdue at home tomorrow night and Indiana away March 1 to keep it alive. Mum on IT.

XL. "Nothing to announce yet, said Roy Mundrorff. athletic director of University of Louisville, about Louisville's decision whether or not to accept a bid to the National Invitational Basketball Tournament. Mundrotf said he had talked again to Asa BushnelL chairman of the tournament committee, about the eligibility of the five seniors on the Louisville squad. They are in their fourth year cf varsity competition and ineligible for the meet, which will be run this year according to NCAA, rules, unless the rule is suspended.

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