Daily World from Opelousas, Louisiana • Page 17

DAILY EWORLD Opelousas, Louisiana, Wednesday, March 4, 1953 State Basketball Tourney Page 17 Basketball Roundup Leo wfrDIL; TCU Nabs NCAA Berth; Columbia, Penn: Ivy Fight NEW YORK (UP) Surprising Texas Christian nabbed a berth in the NCAA basketball tournamen today by winning its second straight Southwest Conference championship. Columbia and Pennsylvania will struggle for the upper hand in the Ivy League Wednesday night. Two of the best basketball ttrms in the state take the court tomorrow at Hammond in the state championship Class tournament, Coach Do Hymel's Lawtell High school team, and Grand Prairie High girls slated to go a long way toward champion TCU, picked by most "experts" Tech Dazzles jwith 82 points, tallied four points to finish last in the Southwest loop this year, wrapped up the in the extra session; tourney- pound Georgetown downed Geor- league crown with a 68 to 50 rout ke Washington, 73 to 64; and Vir ship honors. of Texas Tuesday night at Fort Gents 83-66; ginia trounced Washington and Worth, hi Fiv" i torminpHi1 and fUrth in th Lee, 91 to 76. tournament after a successful sea son.

The top three clubs in the district tournaments are entitled to play in the state finals. The Horned Frogs, with a 9-3 league record and an overall mark of 14-7, will compete in the NCAA regionals at Manhattan, along with Oklahoma City, the Oklahoma Aggies, and the yet-undecided Big Seven champion. to take the state championship. Miffed by a fluke development at district which placed them third, Hymel said his aggregation is ready for the best in the Hammond tourney. Meet Marion They'll meet Marion High school at 4 p.

m. tomorrow in first round play. Hymel will take his first Spears and Prud-homme, forwards, Warren Young, center; Terry Prudhwe, guard and team captain, and Hubert Ri The Southwest race went right Sugar Wilson To Meet Bratton NEW YORK. (UP). As a result of this split decision victory over Phil Burton Tuesday night.

Al Sugar Wilson of New York will finally get to meet Johnny Bratton in an eastern parkway arena bout on April 14. Wilson and former welterweight champion Bratton of Chic-go had originally been scheduled to meet Tuesday night, but Bratton bowed down to the last night with TCU On To IMIA RUSTON, (UP). Louisiana Tech dazzled Centenary's Gents with a 15-point scoring burst in the first five minutes of play and went on to win, 83-66, to become Louisiana's representative at the NAIA basketball national tournament in Kansas City March 9-13. The win Tuesday night was Tech's first over Centenary in three 'ties this season, and was due primarily to the efforts of 6-foot 5-inch center Chester Coker. who pumped in 18 points in tne last half of the earr.e to take scor Texas Rice all tied with 8-3 CAGE RESULTS By UNITED PRESS SOUTHWEST Hardin-Simmons 86, Texas Tech league records.

Rice was elmin-ated hen it lost a 68 to 64 deci sion to Southern Methodist, al- 84. Gene Schwinger of Rice was high scorer in the game at Dallas. TCU 68, Texas 50. SMU 68, Rice 64. EAST Syracuse 66.

Cornell Georgetown (D. C. chard, guard, and his reserve Herman Richard, Georte Vige, Levy Boudreaux, Jesse Wimberleyj and I'ercy Trahan to the state tour-. out because of sore hands. That meant that the winner of the TCU-Texas game would get r3.

George ing honors with a 23 total. He held the Centenary star. 7-foot Billy-Hester, to only two free throws. Three other Tech players, L. P.

i i i ney. Ihey will be accompanied by Washington 64. Calvin Prejean, Frank andj Massachusetts 61. Trinty (Conn.) Clinton Beajgh. j60.

The Grand Prairie Class dis- SOUTH trict third plar winners play Virginia 91, Washington Lee Rrisly tomorrow in the first go- j76. round. NIAIA TO UK A EXT Grand Prairie took third place in Louisiana Tech 83. Ctntenaiy 6. Jim Jeffries, Ex-Heavy Champ, Dead At 77 inuina, Dili xsauey ana rsiuy wig-j the crown.

The Border Conference race ended into a tie when Hardln-Simmons won its final game of the year, 66 to 84, over Texas Tech. Columbia and Pennsylvania, deadlocked for the Ivy League lead with identical 7-2 records, collide in Columbia's gym. In other leading games Tuesday night: Dayton, which snapped Seton Hall's 27 -game win streak Sunday, scored its second straight upset by beating Eastern Kentucky, 73 to 68, in overtime as big John Horan, high scorer' BURBANK, (UP). Big Jim Jefferies, heavyweight champ gins, netted lo apiece, while Art Franklin was high for the Gents with 17. Franklin substituted fo-Connie Mack Rea, who was injured in the first period and didn't return to the game.

Tech, the Gulf States Conference champion, advanced to the finals Monday night by beating McNeese State 53-50. while Northwestern ion of the world more than a half century ago, died at his home here Tuesday night. He was 77. The barrel-chested fighter fought Mamou-Sacred Heart Fights Moved To Tomorrow Night his way to the heavyweight crown in 1899 at the age of 24. State bowed to Centenary 65-59.

MAMOU. The Mamou Hitrh SCHEDULE OF THE EVANGELINE LEAGUE -1953 school-Sacred Heart High of Ville Platte boxing match scheduled for Friday night has been moved up to Thursday, it as announced here today by Coach George Johns. Jchns said the fights were moved up in order to give Coach Wallace Tate's aggregation more time in which to propare for next week's state tournament. It will be the last home match of the year for Mamou, and reserved seats will be sold on a first-rome, first -served basis. A huge crowd Is anticipated.

The probable card: Sacred Mamou Wts. Ilart T. Guillory gs D. Coriel D. Hoffpauir 90 A.

Vidrine D. Reed 95 D. W. Marcantel 1 00 H. Guillory J.

Fontenot 105 P. Soiieau C. Guillory 110 C. Dardeau D. Vidrine 115 B.

Soiieau C. Fontenot 120 Nezinat L. Hoilier 1 25 K. Guillory N. Berzas 130 M.

Fonteno. J- L. Fontenot 134 Wagley A. Smith H5 C. Deshotel H.

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The last' phase of Florida's greatest racing stason in history got underway; tcday as Gulfstream park opened its gates for a 41-day meeting. Hialeah concluded its most successful meeting Tuesday before; 18.091 fans who watched Mrs. Esther DuPcnt Weir's Royal Vale set a new North American turf course record in winning the Miami Beach handicap. Betting at Haleah showed a 2.4 per cent increase over last year's figures as 787.082 persons wager-, ed $62,084,596 during the 40-day i session. In 1952, the track drew; ni.708 patrons who ber 049.

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