The Lawton Constitution from Lawton, Oklahoma • 10

I 4 4 Lawton Hosts Altus ive Quintets Bid or No 1 In inal Home Start Here Tonight 1n Last Rating Piersall Takes Issue With Casey 1 By JOEREICHLER always plays well against us i "Maybe he doesn make SARASOTA la Jimmy those diving catches that Casey Piersail Boston's irrenres likes But I blame him 1 Boucher Coombs Were Sharp Too Herman Sees Dodger Skid 4 3 Pollan Leads In Shooting Rebounds 10 it on as he WET: Sugar Ray Robinson pours LHS Net Prospects OCU Quintet May Get NIT Invitation Kansas State BILLY HtGGIXS RAMBLERS MC i DOW Sneed Acres 1ST 1S2 170 in A Two netters have graduated from junior high rank and should help David Thompson and Billy Higgins Higgins won the state Junior high crown last spring competition will get underway ri day and a large field will enter Highland Park is the defending team champion Ashlock and Leva will combine in doubles for both indoor and 1 St In i a 7 9 in S3 sn? 52 50 43 35 37 31 0 0 33 28 i TbinU 3242X5 251243195134 86 SEE ME BEORE YOU BUY AND IX 13 14 15 16 17 1 19 a Cliff Hafer slender 6 1 for ward from North Carolina State was the big gun in I'th's attack with 27 point cracking 17 after intermission Tex Whiteman 6 6 center from Oregon State buck eted 25 tallies and Junior Knigh ton 6 7 ph ot got 19 16 In the last half and girls tennis squads this season coach 13ob Shelby fcaid today our holdover lettermen return to the boys' fold including Janies Ramming Boomer conference doubles king: Pete Love Allison Woodward and David Carter Gone is Brent Parmenter who reached the quarterfinals of the state net meet last year SWANSOX A ATHER ORT MYERS la Pitcher Art Swanson of the Pitts burgh Pirates has extra incentive for making good this season His wife gave birth to a nine pound three ounce daughter Laurie Sue Monday at New Orleans Authorized Browning Dealer Reginterrd (lolt Dealer IgW Remington Winchester All Makes ta Stock We buy cell trade and loan on guns LIBERTY ARMY STORE 308 Avenue Dial EL8 3AM By TOM WRIGHT (Press Sports Editor) New hope stirred in the Lawton Wolverines on the eve of their regular season basketball finale with Altus tonight and prior to their regional tournament cam paign beginning riday at Duncan Byron Beaver the gifted Indian athlete who was sidelined during the football season with a muscu lar disease joined coach Bob Wil cage workouts Monday The four sport standout whose prep career was cut short last fall received a checkup Saturday at Ok lahoma City and got his permission to compete Just what effect the senior ath lete will have on the team 5is yet to be determined He was a regu lar ot the unbeaten squad of years ago and was a frontline re serve on last Boomer con ference tri champions "Beaver is a fine shooter with a lot of natural ability but wheth omier All American Arnold Short and his deadeye shooting Chaffee teammate coifld do little wrong last night sprinting to an 8 0 lead before 17th could find the hoop and applting the pres sure all the way tie the JIM IERSAIL CASEY TENOEL Stengel as "the best defensive outfielder I ever then went on to defend his center field rival Mickey is no Willie May in the he said "but for a fellow wbo never played there until he came up to the major leagues he does a pretty good job I know he er he can coordinate into our sys tem of play on such quick notice is hard to Williams said "He has already given the boys a psychological lift They all think a lot of Williams added use him in a spot substitut ing role help us because he can the coach said "The amount of time he plays will have to be determined as we go 5 The Wolverines hope to even lheir season record at 10 10 tonight by avenging a 50 43 loss to the Bulldogs earlier this season LHS faces Norman at 7:30 pm riday to open regional play at Duncan AH season the Wolverines have needed a third scoring threat to go with their two fine guards Bobby Pollan and Johnny Davis Occa sipnally center Duane Robison or forwards Gene Jackson and James York have supplied those points But not often enough Whether Beaver can supply that extra spark or not may be decid ed tonight OOTBALL NOTE: Danny Griffin prize halfback who exploded for a 98 yard touchdown gallop against Lawton high last September reportedly has de cided to play football at Oklahoma or a long long time Griffin was favoring Baylor because of his reli gious aspirations Short the 6 2 former OCU and Phillips 66 flash sank 32' points although closely covered to set the pace but he got plenty of help from center Bob Huckaby with 24 for ward Duane Mettler 23 and guard Jim Plumedahl 18 Short hit 13 field goals six in the first half and seven after intermis sion He sank fade away jump shots and also scored fast break layups The hook shooting Huckaby man aged eight of his 12 buckets in the last half after Mettler helped car ry the load before intermission netting 20 of his 23 counters Al though just 6 5 and 6 4 respective ly the two men helped Short con trol the boards The halftime count was 59 42 and Chaffee's lead mounted to 30 points twice after intermission at 83 33 and 93 63 before 17th rallied late layup with 6:40 left enabled the All Stars to hit the century mark with a 100 72 cush ion TULSA SIGNS HURLER TULSA IB Pitcher Garland BriU who had a 9 6 record with Colorado Spring? of the Class A season has been signed by the Tulsa Oilers of the Texas League By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The college basketball season ended on a sour note for one Oklahoma team and came close to a dismal end for another last night There is no more action on the major state college slate until Thursday when Tulsa closes its season against St Louis at Tulsa Oklahoma wound up with its third straight loss and sixth in its last seven games last night bow ing to Iowa State 66 35 The Soon ers closed out the season with a 13 10 mark the best in three years under Doyle Parracka In the Big Eight Conference Oklahoma fin ished with a 5 7 record Oklahoma State which finishes up its regular season Saturday against Wichita at Stillwater Tost another one this time to St Louis 54 53 The Cowboys have now lost five of seven since being named NCAA playoff entry for this area Dropped to 18th in The Associat ed Press poll OSLI is now 18 8 for the seasori and cannot reach the 20 victory mark which seemed as sured a few weeks ago It was another typical St Louis OHahoma State game with the Billikens pulling it out in the last 20 seconds on Rich 20 foot jiimpishot The Cowboys re turned to their sharp shooting form hitting 52 per cent but St Louis was sharper canning of per cent of its field goals The Sooners made it close com ing up to a 49 31 deficit on Joe King's basket in the closing min utes but the Cyclones then hit seven straight points to put victory on ice King closed out his brilliant Oklahoma career with 16 points to lead the Sooners A Grand Guard Combination Makes inal Home Bote The Wolverines open their cam paign Thursday in the Wichita alls invitational meet which runs through Saturday Both boys and girls teams will compete Babs state girls queen is back to bolster the girls' squad Other returning letter winners are Julie Ashlock and Linda Leva rancie Green state junior high winner last season and Sherrie Burton round out the quin tet our teams have entered each of the and divisions of the Wichita alls indoor meet Thurs day They are Lawton ort Worth Polytechnic and Dallas in the bracket and Law ton Amarillo and Highland Park in the play in addition to the host squad Boys doubles and girls singles Junior Slate Tonight iTornlluwa Gmt 6:15 art Sill Indian No 1 ort SIU YAC No 2 7:10 Lion ort Sill Indian No 2 8:05 ort SIU YCA No 1 Globe trotter SAVE ON AUTO SPORTSCASTERS EQXT NEW DORK Guy LcBow a sportscaster for WOR TV is the new president of the New York Sports Broadcasters Assn Other officers are Mel Allen of the New York Yankees first vice presi dent Charles Morey of the Asso ciated dent: Press secretary and Joe Galla gher treasurer ON ANY GOOD SEE US IRST! Just West of Hotel Jjttvlonisn RENT i A SPORTS CAR Imported foreign sports cars and American cars Low rent al rates 319 South Third EL 3 7609 or EL 3 8600 7 a Kentucky l'l 6 10 Kansas 17 5 Paymono LNSURANCE REAL ESTATE ELS 1885 EL5 5050 Of Dees at 427 li Associated With RAYL INANCE CO AND STELLA PUTTKAMER AGT NEW YORK (UP) Kansas State and Cincinnati which will clash in: the second round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament March 14 stood 1 2 today in the United Press major College rat ings with only one week left to decide the regular season champi onship Kansas State which wrenched the Big Eight Conference title from Kansas this season held the No 1 spot for the fourth straight week Coach Tex Winter's Wild cats (20 21 received 26 first place votes and 324 points in the latest balloting by the 33 outstanding coaches who rate the teams NEW YORK Xt'P) The Pre major rileze basketball ratins flrt ptce vote and won lost record through Marrn I in parrnurc'c 1 Kana' St 2 1 SILL 911 8 Hafer Andrew 23 hr rrn 24 Knigh'tn 32 Bright 18 Chestnut 2 Johnson 1 Barnes HO Total Chaffee 59 42 Air Conditioned Station Wagon Americans 4 Door Sedans Metropolitans GET THE BEST t)EAL WHERE THE OVERHEAD 13 LOW! Trader jbi has sold more ramblers in aw Ok lahoma BECAUSE HIS PRICES ARE BIGHT THE INANCE IS RIGHT: AT BANK RATES ROM A BANK WILL Vlf By GENE THRASHER (Staff Sports Writer) ort fast breaking All Stars gun for a season series vic tory over ort 17th Group to night after routing the post champs 110 91 at "Honeycutt gym last night Game time for the fourth game of the series is 8 pm Chaffee now holds a 2 1 series edge after the teams split a two game set earlier this year at Chaffee BOR 8HI1BV outside play while Ramming will team wnth either Love or Higgins in doubles Shelby called Love thg most improved player on the squad Both' boys and girls teams will play fiye singles matches and two doubles in matches in their dual meets this year Coach Ray Builders raced away in the fourth quarter for their win over Lawton in the first meeting 2 3 zone was riddled in the first half as LHS took a 20 12 advantage But Danny Metcalf found the range and fueled the Bulldogs in rally which cut the lead to 25 24 by halftime He and junidrPhlUip Ray led the second half surge to victory Metcalf wound up with 20 points and scoring laurels and Ray hit 14 Starting along with this pair of six footers will be 6 3 center James Walker 6 3 guard Bruce Rotan and 5 11 guard Joe Dockery Lawton's starters will be Pollan and at guards Robison at center and Jackson and York at forwards Jackson will the assign ment of stopping Metcalf and York will defense Ray Robison who held Walker to two points wall guard the Bulldog pivot again Pol lan takes Rotan and Davis gets Dockery But 'lhe thw prongod attack was hardly enough to keep 17th in the game last night as they couldn't cope with the All siz zling attack Chaffee also outhors ed 17th under the boards and hand led the ball more smoothly Tonight's game is the final home game for the Cannoneers who play twice at ort Hood late this before entering ourth Army tourney beginning March 10 at Brooke Army Medical Center Last box score: CBAI EE lt Andrrsnn Mettler Huck by Short Brjant Avant Row let Total ights Last Hight SYDNEY BtUy Todd Australia outpointed Billy Stanley 147 Australia 15 SALT IAKE CITY' Gene ullmer 159 West Jordan outpointed Mtlo Savaze ii Salt take Ctty NEW YORK Suxr Hart 147 Phila delphia outpototed Duke Harris De troit Jh Davey Dupes 140 New Or leans outpointed Gale Kerwin 139 Valley Stream NY 10 JM 2nd Aveno Dial EL 8 2310 Bradley Micluzan State I4 5 North Carolina 17 7th Carol: a State I7 5 Mississippi State 5 Auburn 1 16 6 Maryland t7 fi Oldahoma State (1S Seattle 17 St Bonaventure 13 3 SUGAR IS SOAKING pounds light bag during workout earlier this week at his training camp in Greenwood NY' He is preparing for bis middleweight title bout with Champion Carmen Basilio scheduled for March 25 at the 'Chicago stadium (AP Wirephoto) 5 6 t2 3 6 5 8 J9 3 1 4 5 1 1 0 0 24 Beaver Joins LHS Squad OICE SUPPLIES OICE URNITURE Deski Chair iles Terms 509 Avenue Dial EL5 2079 By DON WEISS The Associated Press The stse is set for a four or five team firc for all for the mythical national college basket ball championship in next week's final Associated Press pull of the '58 season courtesy of the tall Comhuskcrs of the Uni versity of 'Nebraska Nebraska a turn about basket ball team if there ever 'was onc reached up to yank down NCAA bound Kansas State 35 48last night ati Lincoln only a few hours afterK Statc had been voted the na tion's No 1 for the fourth straight week In their previous Big Eight start the Comhuskers had flagged Wilt Chamberlain and Kansas aft er having lost to the same Jay hawk crew by 60 point? a few games' before Kansas State's loss coming on the heels of its noticeable dip in prestige Jn the weekly balloting ought to throw the final account ing wide open with the Wildcats from Manhattan Kan challeng ed by West Virginia XMnclnnati San rancisco and Temple the numbers 2 3 4 and 5 con tenders In this poll of sportswriters and sportscasters Sooners Lose inal Contest 0 1 6 7 4 4 ohnAjon ft Turn 20 21 (Tnc inn1! 31 i2? 2 Wet Virginia 2 23 11 4 Sn rarcrn 11 23 11 Temple 22 21 Duke 17 61 Michigan Slate I6 5 Notre Dame 11 (21 4) SnA 5 Dayton 23 21 Second IS Croup 12 Oklahoma Stale Una State 24: 14 North Carolina 25: 16 Indiana Maryland 12 18 tie Caliot St Bonaventure 11 each 30 State 8 Press second vicc prcsi rank Litsky of United CBS TV spgrts producer guess any two players have had as muph pressure on them for an entire season here as those Lawton high Coach Bob Williams remarked yesterday as he sent his Wolverine cage squad through' its for home finale against Altus The little cage skipper was referring to his stylish guard combination of blond Bobby Pollan and scrappy Johnny Davis had to take most of our shots this year be cause the other boys been able to hit consistent ly Every defense has been set to stop Bobby and Johnny but given me all they had all the way expect much more from the two kids I would have hated to play this season without Williams added softly Lawton high has had finer individual guards than Pol lan or Davis down through the years but this observer recall a pair of guards which could compare with the dandy senior duo which plays before the home folks for the last time tonight in tyolverine togs Williams agrees that they comprise the best guard combination he's coached at LHS and added: definitely hit better than any guards coached but so much of the offensive burden has been on them that they haven't really been able to concentrate on defense Bright This Season Prospects are high for banner and doubles are on tap Thursday seasons for both Lawton high boys! in the indoor meet The outdoor By LEO IL PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor BRADENTON la Until the Los Angeles Dodgers replace their older players they have "had so far as winning Na tional League pennants is con cerned That was the prediction today of Billy Herman the former great seedhd baseman who went to the Milwaukee Braves as a coach this season after" serving six years ih that capacity with the Dodgers when they played in Brooklyn "Age is catching up with Pee Wee Reese Duke Snider Carl ii rillo and Gil Herman emphasized "They were four ma jor reasons while in the six years I was whh the Dodgers they won four pennants finished second once and third once" Have Passed Potential "I don't mean to say that any of them are at the end' of the road especially Snider but they all have passed their potential and that is lxund to be bad news for the Dodgers "Why outside of Warren Spahn and Andy Pafko we haven't any player who have reached their he claimed is good enough as he is while Pafko doesn't figure to be out there every day sure the Braves of today have an even brighter future than the Dodgers did when 1 startedcoaching for them back in 1931" Billy doesn't agree with thosevho think the change from Eb bets ields Brooklyn to Los An geles will give such players as Reese Snider urillo and Hodges "a shot in the been around too Herman reasoned "A change like that is likely to benefit the young er players but not the older Mfghfy Valuable He said he just couldn't de scribe "How badly I felt 'when I heard about Campy" Roy Cam panella an ace catcher foj the Dodgers' suffered a broken neck in an auto accident and his play ing career probably is ended don't think the Dodgers were counting on him to catch every day this year but he would be a mighty valuable player to havearound for spot Herman believes the Dodgers can "come mighty close to match ing the in pitching the one department they aren't hurting he said in the outfield and the in field age is catching up with them They still are going to be tough to beat but we should do it this year and in all the years to come until they get replace ments for their older players" GUESS Don Boucher and Harvey Coombs are prob ably the best defensive combination coached but they played on teams with more Williams explained Boucher and Coomios teamed at the LHS guard slotsthree years ago Boucher is now playing at Oklahoma Baptist university which just recently nailed down a berth in the NAIA tournament at Kansas City and Coombs will start his third season in the Los Angeles farm system was the best defensive man I've coached at the guard slot but I believe Davis dr Pollan could have been as tough as Don if they have to cany so much of the load on the fiery Wolverine coach commented Williams has steadfastly refused to compare Davis and Pollan know which is best hate to think wherewe would be without either one of them this Bob hedges neatly But he did whip out his basketball grading book which has a complete breakdown on the play of the flashy guard combo during the season After a long inspection of chart some definite impressions can be made Pollan appears to be the best marksman of the two while Davis is definitely the steadiest floor man Johnny usually draws the task of patrolling the outstanding 'little on" the rival team too THE CU: Coach Abe Lemons says his Okla homa City university Chiefs are being considered for a berth in the NIT tournament at Madison Square Garden talked with NIT officials yesterday and they sound ed encouraging know in a day or affable Abe said while in town last night to watch former OCU All American Arnold Short play with the ort Chaffee All Stars Short by the way was his usual tremendous self while hitting 32 points as the classy Chaffee crew trimmed the towering 17th Group Range Hawks 110 91 in the opener of therr two game series here Inch for inch there is no doubt that the clean cut Short is the greatest basketball player produced in the Sooner state Arnie' still has that unguardable fade away jump shot which he hits with deadly accuracy from out front or along the base line After being thrilled by unorthodox jump shot for the umpteenth time last night Lemons recalled that he still gets calls from coaches who have another Arnold Short 9 now and then some coach will call say got a boy who shoots exactly like Short Of course we check and find that the kid may shoot like Arni6 but one big difference the kid will average only six or eight points don't believe anyone can copy shot and hit Abe declared West Virginia 23 1) and Cincin nati 22 2 had come close enough to wresting the top spot from Kansns State even before the up set costing thejyildcats their sec ond ross'in 22 games and their first since Dec 30 The Mountain cers drew 570 points compared to 574 for State Cincinnati was on ly another small step back with( 563 for third place' Right behind were San rancis co 436 Temple 426 followed by Duke Notre Dame Dayton Ken tucky and Kansas Nebraska a mere 10 12 for the season pulled away in 1he second half of a ball control game as Kansas State playing without ail ing 6 9 Jack Parr lost scoring ace Bob Boozer on fouls with min utes left'" The Wildcats however were 10 points behind when Boozer scor ing 20 points went to the side lines Willie itzpatrick led Ne braska with 19 Other Monday features saw Ari zona State ot Tempe clinch the Bonier Conference title and a place in the NCAA tournament with a 78 76 victory over Arizona and Indiana whipping Illinois 96 86 move into a first placewith idlaSMichigan State in 'Big 4 10 Bradley named along with Kranri: Pa In thp National vitation Tournament earlier yes terday celebrated with an 85 80 Missouri Valley Conference victo ry over Wichita St: Louis one of several teams under consideration for the last berth nipped NCA bound Oklahoma State 54 33 on Rich Rogers' fielder With 20 seconds remaining Oregon State baftling California for the Pacific Coast Conference title and an automatic NCAA spot climbed to within a half game of the Bears crushing Washington State 69 31 Among the scoring jeaders Red Murrell of Drake ffred in 51 points and moved up from seventh to fifth with a 2672 average The NIT opening March 13 in New York has one vacancy to round out its 12 team field with St Louis Miami la and Iona considered possibilities Th with pjint on a 10 9 7 4 3 21 nasi (first place ne and in reconls throujh Saturday en in parrntrese Kansas Sta'e '7 201 574 West Vrinni 231 570 Ctneirrau 14 2 563 San rancisco 23 1 436 426 34S 235 719 203 POLLAN has fired 223 times this year connecting with 85 of them for a 37 per cent clip Considering that most of hisshots have been fired at long range with the defense concentrating on him shooting av erage is certainly commendable Davis who has missed one of 19 games with an injury has put up 207 shots and connected SO times for an accuracy rating of 32 per Pollan has also been a triflesmore accurate at the free throw' line hitting 53 of 74 for 72 per cent while Johnny has hit 47 of 74 for 64 per cent Blond Bob about two inches taller than Davis also leads in rebounds 80 57 but has comfnitted more mis takes or example Davis has only 14 bad passes this year compared with 28 for Pollan Johnny has been flagged down for only seven violations compared with 12 for Bobby 'and Davis has fumbled only five passes from his team mates compared with 10 for Pollan In assists the vital department where passes are made to team mates who score the two guards are about even with Johnny holding a 28 26 edge So overall the two court dandies are just about a tossUp Pollan is more deadly as a shooter while Johnny stacks up better as a playmaker Together they are a splendid combination Without them LHS would be far off the 9 10 record it takes into the Altus finale tonight i The Lineups ALTTS TAWTON Kay wacKtan Mrtralf Yerk 6 1 Walker 4 Ratan ullan Dwkery ral 5 T1O: pm IJIS flrldlm Mama Him Anyone who has had as much trouble with his legs as Mickey should never attempt a diving catch Instead of urging Mantle to go all out more Casey should tell him to be more careful and pray that Mickey hurt his legs Casey and the Yankees need Mantle the American League needs him all baseball needs Piersall said he made only one diving catch last season against Mike Garcia of Cleve land rarely ever attempt fe he said nothing wrong with my legs I think foolish to try for them because you make only one out ot 10 and the nine you miss go for extra a 1 0 the LAWTON CONSTITUTION TuJay March 4 1 958 60 54 11 Tiradley 32: 29 13 North Carn Kentucky 26 IS Canrorrua acid Orernn l) 8'7 9 22 2 2 0 1 2 0 04) 43 11 17 HALTIME: Temple 7 22 2' rjk 17 6 Notre Dame t5i 21 4 1" A ICl a tr sible outfielder said today he was surprised at a recent criticism of Mickey Mantle and could not understand why the New York Yankee manager would want to "run down" his most valuable player "I think it as real bush of Casey the way' he publicly criticized Mantle's fielding in" Jthe World Series telling report ers that Mickey would have to go back io school to learn how catch flyc said Pier sail he thought Mantle needed more practice in the field this spring why he just tell that to Mickey instead ot running him down to the press" Piersall once labeled by Hockey At I Glance NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGVE I Pt 4 Montrol 38 13 10 215 125 Xew York 27 23 11 65 166 172 Drolt 24 25 11 59 141 178 RnVn 22 26 12 20 33 10 Chlcasn 46 1W1C Tt TnATH GAMES Boston Detroit MOXIMY RESULTS No firm sc heduied WEONESDAVS SCHEDCIJS Chics jo Tororto BASILIO LOOKS SHARP SYRACUSE NY Mid dleweight champion Carmen Ba siEo will spar again today in preparation for his defense against Sugar Ray Robinson at Chicago March 25 Basilio cut loose Monday for the first time in training and had a sparring partner in trouble three times ii 11 Chaffee Sill Close Series 8 0 a AJH wteSaHP' 4 1 ft t' St On I 3 I Yl" HL rm I a H4 I.