The Daily Inter Lake from Kalispell, Montana • 5

Man of the Hour A 6 EMSTMPBw Hbrf JHt i'lj'i 7 rrBR THE LATHEAD BRAVES swarm all over Herbie Smith (center) after the lathead sharpshooter had dropped in the winning basket in the last two seconds of riday's game against Billings lathead defeated the Brones for the second time this season 62 60 Butte Public Wins AA Crown rT Cut Bonk Defense Wins 60 54 irst Quarter Spells Victory Hy TON I IIRLONG lead at the end of the third quart united Press Sports Writer Of THE INTER LAKE March 17 1957 5 ZrfWiMIIIMIII'llll' pcw Seventh Win or Champs held li Manager (64J ft ip i) Choteau Halts ip 3 0 Whitefish Bid Haddow Will 12 17 a first period Run Course 17 22 5 ALLS (1LNS) The Kalispell Golf Wolf Point OUL as each quarter ended wide in with three field goals and 10 of BENGALS TRAIL assocla and five Second Canto Pace Wins for 2 Butte Central 0 3 Tarheels Set Record Butte Maroons Beats Anaconda 27 24 9 Polson Matmen 2 5 26 64 at the SCORES Kansas Wins blist 54 (NIT Wheaton Wins Small NCAA Title Ken Neill De Jim Barrier Wins 16 29 vic Plan Season post womens golf city have Join lef he five two last has announced at the course Wolf Point started put the game on ena Bui and won Ogden unk but free ft 0 12 14 10 14 women out at 2 Kali will is 4 Wolf the state period of play be Mike Allen broke Hank and scored ft 6 0 5 3 0 0 ii out first with free 63 he 5 (I 3 0 8 0 2 8 0 HELENA (UP) The Montana ish and Game Commission will meet here Monday and Tuesday to make final plans for the 1957 53 Montana big game season 2 0 itself late With the 2 i crowd even is 4 4 2 ft 1 3 3 4 5 61 8 2 10 0 6 21 2 8 7 0 2 the 49 2 0 3 a 2 ail the Hel bas 17 Pt 2 2 ennto the Blsons fnir all by Cnrior In the iourlh frame Butte conch Bol Hao poured his reserves onio the floor al will and Bison couch Bob McKay lealizmg the sltui Hon was hopoless also gnvv his resol ves a erm al ehainiiKinshlu association an that Haddow It attendance unofficial Score by quarters Butte nipping in the times 32 36 unablu of the third Thursday games in the state chani playoffs The Bulldogs their peak in the North Divisional tournament DALLAS Tex Tremend ous Wilt Chamberlain and a pair of his short staturc teammates Maurice King and Lew Johnson sparked Kansas into the NCAA semi finals last night with a last half surge that buried Oklahoma City University 31 61 Chamber lain got 30 points guard Keith oster forward Collegians Win 'BOZEMAN (UP) unk Monson's Bozeman Collegians the state AAU basketball tourna ment riday night with a 89 73 defeat of the Dillon Merchants Markle's of Glasgow downed Bing and of Havre 83 69 for third and fourth places onen men partici pat imj in the Tills by the end of the third from the fait the load Anaconda Central i ft 5 BUTTE (UP) The Butte Cen tral Maroons exploded for 25 points in the third quarter to down a cold shooting Anaconda five 50 Saturday and advance to consolation finals of the Class state basketball tournament The Maroons came back in third period after trailing 23 18 at the half to completely outclass their shorter opponents After hitting only 13 per cent of their field goal attempts in the first half they connected on 9 of 18 in the third period for a ering 50 per cent Kentucky Upset LEXINGTON Ky (UP) Big Ten ehampion Michigan State led by Jack 22 points upset Kentucky 80 68 last night in the N1CAA basketball tournament to qualify for the semi finals at Kansas City next weekend I he to 41 saw I he deci yenr in BASEBALL RESULTS Chicago (A) 17 Detroit 12 St Louis 7 New York (A 4 Pittsburgh 5 Washington 1 New York (N) 12 Cleveland 7 Milwaukee 2 Philadelnhia 1 Cincinnati 4 Kansas City 3 Brooklyn vs Boston at Miami boned rain (S 0 4 3 3 6 0 0 1 EVANSVILLE Ind (UP) Wheaton College of Illinois over whelmed Kentucky Wesleyan 89 65 riday night to win the first small college basketball championship The Crusaders racked up their 21st straight victory and their 28th win of the season against only one defeat to Beloit Earlier Mount St Mary's spark ed by Jack second stad ium scoring record in three games with 43 points won third place in the tourney with an 82 72 tory over Los Angeles State maintain the ter with another jump shot 56 54 Sam Lowman knotted the count with two free throws but then Helena got three straight baskets from Terry Screnar oster and Jay Hatz to go ahead 62 56 The HPnnn rvnr atra iraiipn i they held on to their lead until I 4 1 I 1X1 SIS zf AJ 14 nVIXAnr GREAT ALLS (Up) The Cut Hank Wolves held (he Ana conda Conlral Saints to four polnls In tile quarter and scored 12 points themselves Io capture tlie state class basket ball title 60 54 hero last night Cut Bank took a uno point lead 15 16 al the end of the first quarter which featured a nip and tuck battle with the lead changing hands a dozen times zXnaconda Central spurted ahead during tlie second stanza loading the Wolves 3(1 32 nt halftime However the lend was shortlived once the third gan as captain loose foe Cut six points The Wolves piled up a six point Dons Whip Cal CORVALLIS Ore (UP) fending national champion Uni versity of San rancisco moved into the semi finals of the NCAA basketball tournament last night with a spine tingling 50 46 victory over California Whllellsh (81) Baker Buckland Smith McNeillv Stoll Knapton Paolini Hinman TOTALS Choteau (64) oeiener tianaow Dunckel Snvder McCracken Jackonetty Manson Rustad Crary The two teams were deadly fromj the free throw line lathead hit 19 of 23 shots for 83 per cent but Helena sizzled even more with 23 out of 27 attempts for an 85 per cent mark The Bengals hit 25 field goals the Braves 23 the Tony Cackonetty who potted eight straight points in two minutes late in the first quarter saw their alls marked their bvvund lowest point product ion of Kalispell held the Blsons a game at Kalispell Public Markovich Sl Slim tz O'Ullovirh Mvrretl Slack Coidu St Bonaventure 90 Cincinnati ia ii nrst Memphis State first round) Xavier (O) 85 first round) Dayton 79 St BUTTE (UP) The Butte Cen tral Maroons blistered 17 points through the net in the second quarter while holding Helena scoreless Saturday night to win third place in the class AA state basketball tournament 85 69 The win atoned for a Helena 43 44 victory in first round play which knocked Butte Central out of championship running Maroon center Dan Sullivan and the Bengal pivot man Terry Screnar tied for high point hon ors for the night with 22 tach Next high for Central was guard Dennis erriter with 20 and for ward Ted McElhenny with 16 Trailing Screnar in the Bengal scoring were with 18 and with 15 Tops Shelby GREAT ALLS (UP) Point Saturday advanced to consolation finals of the Class basketball tournament de feating Shelby 87 69 Wolf Point starting strong saw the lead change hands frequently in the first half The northeastern Montana team had a narrow 22 19 lead at the end of the first period and was able to hold onlv a 43 41 lead at halftime However in the third quarter to score 26 points with six nnp put the Wolves ahead 69 54 Utah Upset in NIT NEW YORK (UP) Xavier of Ohio wasted away a 10 point lead and then rallied with the help of free throws to defeat Seton Hall 85 79 and little Jack Butcher scored nine of Memphis last 10 points for 77 75 upset victory over Utah Saturday in the I first round of the National In vitation Basketball Tournament Seton Hall 79 Peters 71 NIT first George Haddow former spell city golf champion manage Buffalo Hill Golf Course next year for the Association Officers of the nounced Saturday had been hired for the coining season Tlie association recently acquired the lease for the mun icipally owned course when Dave Cameron long time operator of the golf links decided against renewing his lease The association has announced that Haddow will manage both the clubhouse and Hie pro shop at the course and will give les sons to students and beginners Target date for opening of the course is April 15 weather per mitting Officers of the association are now negotiating for a qualified grecnskecpcr to course The and association in the cd In the Kalispell Golf Asso ciation A special meeting will be called before the end of March to elect a new and larger board of directors of the association Nine members will be elected to the board three of them Details of the coming operation will be ironed the special meeting Annual meeting tion will be the in April The association that membership for the coming season will be husband and wife $50 plus tax single man or woman $30 plus tax students $10 plus tax they collected 20 points They zipped to eight straight points at the beginning of the second frame to by pass Helena 23 19 Zauner Smith and Lowman hit throe baskets second later and the Braves enjoyed their biggest mar gin of the day 29 22 It was still the same advantage at 31 24 less then a minute later before Helena caught fire to cut the margin to three points at the half Midway through the third per iod the Braves had another seven point lead 48 41 but hang on to it as the Bengals were de termined to come from behind The loss ended lathead's sea son with a 14 11 record In tourna ment play the Braves won one and lost two 'Helena hit 25 out of 79 from the field for 317 per cent iathead was better with 23 of 70 for 328 per cent The Helena game finished tlie high school playing careers of sen iors Jack Keith Zauner Lowman Smith and Rydquist Second Trophy Jim Barrier CHS student won the trophy in the ninth and tenth grade division of the Bill Barnum Memorial Junior Ski Meet at Big Mountain Saturday It wag the second consecutive year Erfrier won the trophy Other winners were Mike Mul down of Whitefish in the fifth and sixth grade division and Ron Kop pang of Columbia alls in the sev enth and eighth grade division NA I A Pacific 85 (consolation) NCAA Small College Tournament NCaA tournament at Corvallis Ore Brigham Young 65 Idaho State 54 (consolation) NCAA tournament at Lexington Ky Notie Dame 86 Pittsburgh 85 (con I solation) Michigan State 80 Kentucky 68 (quart er finals) 1 NCAA tournament at Philadelphia Canisius 82 Lafayette 76 (consolation) North Carolina 67 Syracuse 58 (quart er finals) NCAA tournament at Dallas Southern Methodist 78 St Louis 68 Kansas 81 Oklahoma City 61 (quarter finals) Butte Public 64 Great alls 42 (Cham 1 i i Butte Central 85 Helena 69 Cut Bank 60 Anaconda Centra! Choteau 61 Wolf Point 59 District Stoll hit his last of five long handers and Buckland added fiee tosses with 17 Seconds for the final margin Jim Baker sidelined with sprained ankles played the six minutes of the game' after sitting out riday's battle against Cut Bank Stoll subbing for Bak er and Smith carried the brunt of the Bulldog scoring attack with 14 points apiece Stoll had six fielders and two free tosses while Smith had three from the field and eight from the charity line Buckland added 12 points and Mike McNeilly picked up 10 Choteau's Jackonetty was top scorer for the game with 21 points on eight Held goals free throws All Negro Team Makes History KANSAS CITY Mo (UP) Tennessee of Nashville la st night became the first all Negro team to win a major basketball tournament in history by down ing Southeastern Oklahoma State of Durant 92 73 for the cham pionship of Hie 19th annual Na tional Association of Intercollegi ate Athletics tournament Pacific Lutheran of Parkland Wash led by substitutes Bob Roiko and Luther Jerstad won third place over Eastern Illinois state of Charleston 87 85 school baskeiball Hile 64 42 Tlie victory marked tlie sev enth state tournament champion ship among the big schools for Htilte it tied the Hulldogs will) Helena as Hie leading city in statu titles Earlier Hie Butte Central Mo nnins blistered 17 polntK tluoueh Hie net in Hie second quarter while holding Helena scoreless to win third place (15 69 I it tic 5 7 Bobby O'BIlovich led Hie Bulldogs to their greatest vic tory of the season with 19 points The diminutive Bulldog spark plug lime and again Intercepted Bison passes harrassed dribblers mid personally accounted for 11 rebounds Next high Cor tlie Bulldogs was junior forward John Morrett with 1(1 points and team captain Louis Markovich with nine orward Jan Carter who stands 0 1 led the game hut completely outclassed Blsons with 12 points orward Tom Sullivan with nine was next high for the Blsons The first period was evenly played with botli teams showing signs of tournament pressure The score at the end of eight min utes of play was knotted at 14 14 However tlie bulldogs ten found the range and led 25 19 at the half and 42 23 at the end of the third period The Bulldogs hit 21 of 58 field goal attempts for 38 per cent Butte was deadly at the free throw line hitting 20 of 26 Great alls hit 15 of 51 field goal tries for 23 per cent The Blsons could not find the range at the charity line hitting only 11 of 22 The final night crowd was esti mated at 8500 bringing the four day tourney total to 35800 appeared to be a new record according to figures Butte began to find in the second quarter score 21 19 O'Bilovich hit a driv ing iayin after intercepting a Bison pass and center Don Shurtz hit a one hander from 10 feet out with 12 seconds on the clock to give the Bulldogs their six point halftime lead ouls were exceptionally low in the first half Butte had six and Great alls five However Butte hit four of eight charity tosses while the Bisons could manage only one of seven In the third period Butte step ped up the pace and its fast break offense plus a tight zone defense completely baffled the taller boys from the Electric City O'Bilovich and guard Gene Slack hit driving layins to start the second half and increased the Butte lead to 29 19 With all five starters hitting the basket at will the Bulldogs moved to a 42 21 lead before Carter could lilt two free throws While the running Bulldogs amassed 17 points in the third BY DICK MULLINS United Press Sports Writer (UP) A hustling Huttc showing the class and poisu ol' tournament veterans downed a cold shoot Ing mid jittery Great alls Bisons suuml last nlglit to li i wui the class AA Montana high 11V I Cut Bank then clamped tlie lid on holding the Saints scoreless during most of the fourth quarter Tlie only points tor the Saints came near Hie end ol the period when Terry Trovough sank two free throws and a field goal Cut Bank scored 12 in Hie Iourlh Cut Bank forward Bob risbee had ill to pace all game scorers Behind lilm in team scoring were guard Mike Allen with 15 and guard Glenn Wheeler with 12 The best could do was 14 from forward Don' Joyce Guard Jim had' 11 I Choteau jumped to an early lead and held grimly on to edge Wolf Point 61 59 for third place In the tourney Choteau Edges Wolf Point in Going into tlie Inst period Bel trailed by two points 54 52 Ken Neill tied it as soon as final frame opened Keith os put the Bengals in the lead AAU Basketball playoffs at Baseman Utah Beckers 91 Bozeman and Monson 69 Icumamenf at Kansa City Lutheran 87 Eastern Illinois 11 free throws Screnar was the lad who wreck ed lathead jus! as he had opponents he has faced in tournament lie was high for ena with 24 points on seven kets and 10 out of 12 free flips but 14 of those tallies came in the second half when the Bengals came to life A southpaw shooter Screnar us es a fine jump shot from as far out as 30 feet to garner most of his points Dave Cunningham another ty proved hard to handle as added 19 Helena points on buckets and nine free connections After the Braves jumped front to an 11 6 lead in the period Helena came back eight points six of them on throws to take a 14 11 margin be fore Lowman hit two free shots to as put the Braves one behind 14 13 But Helena snurted and had a the final buzzer ended lathead four point margin going into the activity in the four day meet second canto The Braveshad their After that trio of buckets Herb best quarter in the second when smiin nn a jump snoi lor me Braves but Screnar came back with a jump shot and Neil) swiped a pass to lay up another fielder and a 66 58 margin the largest ad vantage either team enjoyed dur ing the game lathead came back with seven straight points on two baskets by Smith two tree throws by Lowman and a lone charity shot by Zauner on fifth foul At this point Helena reeled off seven uninterrupted points to as sure itself of playing Butte Central in the third place game The Braves got only three bas kets in the last quarter all three by Smith while Helena had its most productive quarter The game was close all the way to the final few minutes lathead had control of things most of the way and enjoyed a 35 32 halftime round) 77 Utah Murphy ish Young TOTALS 15 Score by quarters: Butte 1 1 Great alls 14 By JIM HARMON Inter Lake Sports Writer GREAT Whitefish High School Bulldogs were edged from the state Class tournament competition by nnwh rhntrt! A PI 3A I I 1 tl VJllUllUl Saturday morning in a rough en counter that saw seven players j(i have the game via the foul route Li After trailing 4 0 at Hie outset of Hie first period the Bulldogs rallied to take a 9 4 lead with five minutes remaining and held an 11 9 edge with 2'i minutes left in the first stanza But tlie fast breaking Choteau quintet caught fire and scorched the basket for 10 straight points to take a 21 13 first quarter lead that held rated in the nation set a major 1e Same in the same period college record last night when they i Choteau won their 30th straight game Whitefish unable to stop a 67 58 victory over Syracuse as uncanny shooting of they qualified for the semi finals of the NCAA tournament Kansas next week (riday) CLASS AA AT BUTTE Butte Central 87 Bozeman 62 (loser out) lathead 62 Billings 60 (loser out) CLASS AT G3EAT ALLS 69 Roundup 65 (loser out) Choteau 70 Harlem 63 (loser out) STATE AAU AT BOZEMAN Markies of Glasgow 95 Poplar In dependents 76 (loser out) Bing and Bob's of Havre 85 Boze man Merchants 70 (loser out) COLLEGE BASKETBALL RESULTS (riday NIghi) NCAA Tournament (Second Round) California 86 Brigham Young 59 San rancisco 66 Idaho State 51 Kansas 73 Southern Methodist 65 (overtime) Michigan State 86 Notre Dame 83 Syracuse 75 Lafavette 71 Kentucky 98 Pittsburgh 92 Oklahoma City 75 St Louis 66 North Carolina 87 Canisius 75 NCAA Small College Tournament Mt St Mary's (Md) 82 Los Angeles State 72 (Third Place) I Wheaton 89 Kentucky Wesleyan 65 (Championship) NAIA Tournament (Semi finals) Tennessee 71 Pacific Lutheran 70 Southeastern (Okla) 95 Eastern (IJ) State 81 Marine Tournament Quantico 69 San Diego 52 GEORGE HADDOW Tourney GREAT ALLS (UP) Choteau jumped to an early lead Saturday night and then held on grimly to edge Wolf Point 61 59 for third place in the state class tourna ment here Through the second and third cantos ing to terms Still Choteau registered a lead The half ended with Choteau in front 34 29 and the third quarter show ed the winners in front by two points 45 43 Choteau started strong in the fourth quarter to go ahead by a substantial margin but Wolf Point spurted on a point by forward Jerome Loendorf and came to within two points again rom then on the lead kept changing hands right into Hie last second of play Leonorf paced game scores with 24 points He was trailed in team scoring by guard Bob Lowry with 14 Carrying the honors for Choteau was center Duke Crary with 15 Guard Roger Jefeller had 14 and forward Dunckel 10 Smith again led the Braves in SCfirltlP with 1R nnlnlw nn nlnn lviu kets but strangely enough didn't have a free throw after sensation al efforts at the charity strijM in earlier games Cnbbage and Lowman gave Smith valuable aid in the scoring department with 16 points apiece Cabbage had six baskets and four i ii n''ncuf ill till LIIHU qUHlitl foul tosses while Lowman ehipped Wo)f Point boke tbe wi in U'lfh finlrl rrnn 1 early lend melt to 21 13 deficit Choteau scoring break maintained throughout the second quarter un til Smith hit two free throw nnd Paul Hinman connected with a lay up to cut the gap to 31 26 But Choteau's flashy left handed Diirtnlznl lill a Imeizi up a Dtinftrt tu idi'op Whitefish seven points back 33 26 at halftime The Bulldogs kept i away' at tlie Choteau lend llilrd quarter and three moved within four points 34 38 and 36 40 but were to halt Jackonetty who preserv ed the Choteau lead with three timely jump shots Score at end of the third period was 43 in favor of Choteau Top CHS 24 23 POLSON (ILNS) A much improved Polson wrestling team defeated the lathead County High School matmen Saturday night by a one point margin 24 23 Mero of CHS pinned Reynolds of Polson Kimes CHS decision ed Latts Olson of CHS pinned Storm Swayne of Polson decision ed Petersen Streets of Polson pinned Mather Mash of CHS pinned Barnett Noel of Polson pinned Olson Milner of Pol son decisioned Barfoot Holmes of Polson pinned Mather Peterson of CHS pinned Mahler: and Milner of Polson decisioned Burns of CHS By DON PLARSKI Inter Lake Sports Editor BUTTE ilLNS) lathead Coun ty County High School bowed out of the 1957 Class AA state cham pionship tournament here Satur day morning as the Braves Helena come from behind in last quarter to tiike a 73 65 sion The Bengals broke things open In 117k final period with a furious rally that saw them out score lathead by 10 points 21 11 That then was the tale of woe for Hie Braves Just when it ap peared as though the lathead eagers were on their way to a third place with Butte Central Sa turday night (lie Bengals sudden ly got hot while the Braves ran into a cold spell CONSISTENTLY The two clubs fouling consist ently in the final quarter ex changed point for point until one two left Helena Stops Braves 73 65 VanNulnnd TOT A US 21 Greet alla (42) Sullivii) Gre 1 j' Small Bloom SECOND LOSS The loss was the second for Coach Rollie Bulldogs in three pionship who lilt westei'n earlier this month to win a berth in the state finals had clobbered Roundup 75 50 in their first game Thursday night to move in to the semifinals but riday night the tall Cut Bank Wolves edged the locals out of the champion ship bracket with a narrow 51 48 win Tile Bulldogs playing Choteau for the right to play for third place night outscored the snappy Northern Division five the final three quarters (hopped tlie game at the throw line even though they hit more than 50 per cent of their gift tosses Whitefish missed 19 ol 46 free throws while Choteau erred on only 12 of 37 A total of 50 fouls were called 26 on Choteau and 24 on White fish with four Choteau players and three Bulldogs collecting five each or Whitefish Gary Smith i Isir Cfz kll nv4 1 (ihu uuug ixnapion PHILADELPHIA (UP) The fouled out in the final quarter polished and poised Tarheels of obert Gefelier Jay Dunckel North Carolina unbeaten and top en Bustad and Duke Crary left for 1 at': IML 7'' 'W i 't I 1 TOTALS 19 26 Score by quarters: Whitafish 13 13 17 Choteau 21 12 16 Buita Cantral (85) fg ft pf fp McElhenney 6 4 2 16 Vanio 3 2 3 8 Sullivan 9 6 2 24 erriter 7 4 3 18 McDonald 2 7 4 11 Delanger 0 4 0 4 Hannifan 2 0 0 4 TOTALS 29 27 14 85 Ralana (It) fj ft pt tp Retz 113 3 ester 6 6 5 18 Screnor 7 8 4 22 Cunningham 0 2 4 2 Neill 1 1 0 15 Milot 3 3 4 9 TOTALS 24 21 20 69 lathead (65) ig ft pf tp Smith 9 0 2 18 cabrage 6 4 4 16 Rydquist 2 0 3 4 Tinney 10 2 2 Zauner 2 5 4 Lowman 3 10 1 16 Olson 9 0 0 TOTALS 23 19 16 65 Helena (73) fg pf ip Ratz 110 3 Neill 7 15 15 Screnar 7 1 1 24 oster 3 0 4 6 Cunningham 5 9 2 1 Milot 2 2 1 6 TOTALS 25 23 13 73 Score by quarters: lathead 15 20 19 (55 Helena 19 13 20 21 73 1.