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March 3, 1957 Democrat-Time 52 olin O'Donnell's OFFICIAL THREE I LEAGUE SCHEDULE -1957 I Season Closes September 8 Season Opens April 28 KNIGHTS (Continued From First Page) Knights were on top most of the rest of the way. The 1957 History and Records of National Collegiate Chamoion- raips, including 13 sports, hit the desk Saturday afternoon, and it is Noonan. McCleary and Car- jpSmething of which Walter Byers, NCAA Executive Director, may tfll be proud. There is a wealth of information in it. Sports writers, in partic ular, should be happy about the book for it will answer a lot of those questions which come over the phone, morning, noon and night.

i It is a good addition to the sports library, which is topped by Biie late Frank Menke's Encyclopedia of Sports. Here are some of the things you may and may not know: Ohio State and Michigan, two perennial football powers, are waging a battle for the most National Collegiate individual championships, with the Ohioans irirrently ahead by the slim 'margin of 125 to 119. Tbey have the only 100-plus counts among the 450 member -colleges and universities of the NCAA. And how do they get that way? Believe it or not, swimming championships are their forte. jjChio State has 84 of them, Michigan 80.

f-ij Take a school like Vale University. Where dors it excel? In AT AT AT AT AT AT BURLINGTON CEDAR RAPIDS DAVENPORT EVANSVILLI KEOKUK PEORIA May 25, 26, 27 May 13, 14, 15 May 7, 8, 9 Apr. 28, 29, 30 May 10, 11, 12 BURLINGTON J. 9 10. II, 12 Jun.

17. 18. 19, 20 Jn. 29, 30. July 1, 2 nJu 21, 22, 23.

24 Ma, 28, 29, 30. 31 (Beet) July 28 29, 30 July 22, 23, 24 July 13, 14, 15 Au9. 3, 4. 5 July 10, 11, 12 Aug. 26, 27, 28 Aug.

30, 31, Sept. 1 Aug. 19, 20, 21 Sept. 2 3, 4 Aug. 7, 8, 9 a Bih, 3 May 4, 5.

6 May 22, 23, 24 May 19, 20. 21 May 13, 14. CEDAR RAPIDS Jm 13, 14, 15, 16 July 25. 26, 27 July 3. 4.

5, 6 June 5. 6, 7. 8 Jun. 1, 2. 3, 4 (Raiders) July 19, 20, 21 THR" 1 "AGUS Jun, 25, 26, 27, 28 July 31, Aug.

2 July 16, 17, 18 July 7, 8, 9 Aug. 16, 17, 18 Sept. 6, 7, 8 Aug. 30, 31, Sept. 1 Aug.

13, 14, 15 Aug. 10, 11, 12 May 22, 23, 24 Apr. 28 29, 30 May 10, 11, 12 May 7, 8, 9 May 19, 20, 21 DAVENPORT July 3 4V 5f 6 Junt 2i, 22, 23. 24 fflf.BiTP, June 5, 6, 7, 8 Jun. 1.

2. 3, 4 Jun. 9, 10, 11, 12 (DavSox) July 31, Aug. 1,2 Aug. 3, 4.

5 fctLtKAit Jg )g Juy 7f gf 9 July 28, 29, 30 Aug. 23, 24, 25 Sept. 2, 3, 4 Aug. 13, 14, 15 Aug. 10, II.

12 Aug. 16, 17, 18 May 19, 20. 21 May 16, 17, 18 May 2, 3 May 13, 14, 15 May 4, 5. 6 EVANSVILLE jn. 1, 2, 3, 4 Jun.

17, 18, 19, 20 May 28, 29, 30, 31 cnTU Jun, 13, 14, 15, 16 Jun. 25, 26, 27, 28 (Bravea) 7, 8, 9 July 22, 23 24 July 10, 11. 12 50 July 19,20,21 July 25, 26, 27 Aug. 10, 11. 12 Aug.

23, 24, 25 Aug. 7, 8, 9 Aug. 26, 27, 28 Sept. 6, 7, 8 May 4, 5, 6 May 10, 11, 12 May 16, 17, 18 May 25, 26 (2) May 1, 2, 3 KEOKUK Jun, 25, 26, 27, 28 May 28, 29, 30, 31 June 29, 30, July 1, 2 Jun. 9, 10, 1 1, 12 akjmivfikary Jun.

17, 18, 19, 20 (Kernels) July 25, 26, 27 July 10. II, 12 July 13, 14, 15 July 28. 29, 30 ANNIVER5ART J(jy 2J 24 Sept. 6, 7, 8 Aug .7, 8, 9 Aug. t9, 20, 21 Aug.

16, 17, 18 Aug. 30, 31, Sept. May 16, 17, 18 May 7, 8, 9 May 25, 26, 27 Apr. 28, 29, 30 May 22, 23, 24 PEORIA Jun. 5, 6, 7, 8 Jun.

29, 30. July I Jun. 13, 14, 15, 16 Jun. 22, 23. 24 July 3, 4, 5, 6 July 16, 17, 18 July 13, 14, 15 July 19, 20, 21 Aug.

3, 4, 5, 6 July 31, Aug. 1, 2 Aug. 13, 14, IS Aug. 19, 20, 21, 22 Aug. 26, 27, 28 Sept.

2, 3, 4 Aug. 23, 24, 25 hi which it leads the country Alan Howard of Davenport will bi happy to hear that for he helped supply some of the-tatTes. With 21 team golf championships. Vale leads with a 25 total followed by Southern Cal with 23. Of that number.

19 track and field Championships are included. Oklahoma Aggies has 21, including 19 wTestling crowns. Tabulations are made over the 74-year, 14-event history of th moay eacn naa lour points in the third frame, while McWil-liams had four to lead Davenport. Davenport went ahead by 36-35 late in the period on Villin-is' only basket of the period, but Cornick cancelled it with a jumper when the Knights got the ball back. Then Jack Leabo made his first bucket of the night for a 38-37 Davenport lead, but Carmody swished another set shot and Ambrose was ahead to stay.

Noonan sank a jump shot for a 41-38 Ambrose lead at the end of the quarter, then made seven points in the fourth frame and the Knights held on stubbornly to the lead. Villinis and Hillcbrand scored 11 of Davenport's 16 last -period points. Villinis' last bucket of the night brought Davenport to within one at 51-50 after the Imps hal trailed by five at 47-42. Noonan made a lay up, was fouled on the shot and converted the free throw attempt, giving Ambrose a 54-50 lead with a minute and a half to go. Leabo bounced down the middle and laid one in to cut the count to 54-52 before Smith drew a mid court foul from Gary Gardner and made both free throws for a 56-52 Ambrose lead with 12 seconds left.

With a couple of seconds remaining Hillebrand swished an anti-climactic one-hander and the game was history. Davenport built up its first half advantage at the free throw line where the Imps made 10 out of 12 attempts to St. Ambrose's 7-for-12. But in the second half, St. Ambrose shot 50 per cent from the field (12-for-24) and 100 per cent on charities (5-for-5), while Davenport was missing on seven of 13 free throws.

national championships conducted by the NCAA. 130 Gam, Schedule Denotes Sunday and Holiday Garnet The latest publication shows that there has been no corner yfin National Collegiate and individual team titles. Student- 7, athletes from 157 different institutions more than one-third of Cyclones Win, 69-67 Dav-Sox Get More Names On Contract Four more signed contracts ISTC Wins Two In 4Y' Mat Meet Wrestlers from the Iowa State NCAA's total membership have won Individual champion-pships and 64 different institutions have won team titles. All told, 1,782 collegiates have staked claim to the "National Collegiate Champion" label. Southern Cal, thanks to 53 track titles, ranks third in number J.

Jf individual titles won, 78. Other high-ranking individual winners 'are Yale, fourth, with 75; Illinois, fifth, with 73; Oklahoma sixth, with 68, and Stanford, seventh, with 51. FG FT TF TP 4 8-14 4 16 3 5-7 3 11 on-oio 6 1-2 4 13 5 6-9 1 16 5 3-4 2 13 23 23-36 15 69 were received Saturday by Len Iowa State Spoils Cats' Title Hopes Teachers College won two of eight titles in the open division of the FG FT PF TP IOWA STATE Crawford, Vogt. Krocheski, Medsker, Thompson, Frahm, Totals KANSAS STATE Dewitz, Boozer, Abbott, Parr, Wallace, Matuszak, Kiddoo. Totals Towa State Kansas State fifth annual Davenport YMCA 2 1-2 5 5 Bucks Stay Alive; Top Cats, 84-70 EVANSTON, 111.

(UP) Ohio State exploded for 29 points in a final seven minute rally Saturday night to score an 84-70 victory over 6 Right behind the team leaders are the Wolverines, who have tournament Saturday night. Teachers winning titles were 1 10 4 5 0 28 5-6 4 17 0-0 2 2 3-5 3 23 2-4 2 10 0-1 5 10 0-0 1 0 11-18 22 67 31 3869 26 4167 Patton and Jones, while Davenport High School's Elliott rolled to the title in 177 pounds. Clinton's Stottlemeyer was on top AMES, la. UP) Gary Thompson, Iowa State College ace playing his last home game, and John Crawford gave the Cyclones a 69-67 overtime victory over Kansas State Saturday night, virtually ruining the Wildcats' chances of tieing for the Big Seven basketball championship. Northwestern and jumped into a second place tie with Indiana in in 147 pounds and Morris Barn- hill, former Davenport prep star the Big Ten basketball race.

now at the University of Iowa, won at 123 pounds. Frank Sidle, a six -five inch junior, was the Dig gun in me Davenport took six of the titles Monheimer, business manager of the Dav Sox team. They are: Harold Clark, a rookie right-handed pitcher from Bristol, Va. He is 6 feet, weighs 170, is 19 and single. He played part of the 1956 season with Holdredge, Neb.

Samuel Williams, a veteran right handed pitcher from West Springfield, Pa. He is 6 feet 2, 162, age 24 and last year was on the restricted list. Robert Louis McClish, a limited service first baseman from Des Moines. He was drafted from the Yankee organization and was a mild holdout. He bats and throws left handed, if 6 feet 3, 300 pounds, married and just turned 21.

In 1956 he was with McAlister, of the Class Sooner State League, a Yankee farm club, where he hit .304 in 120 games and drove in 86 runs. Thomas Nelson Plath, a limited service second sacker from Chicago. He bats and throws right handed, is 5 feet 11, 168, 18 years old and single. He play in the high school division and the outstanding award went to Brain-erd of the University of Iowa. Buckeye second half offensive.

Sidle sank seven points two minutes to break the ice after Ohio State held only a narrow three-point margin. Cage, Results LOCAL OPEN DIVISION 123 pounds Barnhill SUI defeated Garcia. SUli 3-2 Augustana 78. Carroll 65 Dick Johnson opened the second half for Northwestern with a field goal to put the Wildcats only three 130 pounds Brainard, SUI, defeated Lane, I.S.T.C.. 7-3.

137 pounds Jones. ISTC pinned points behind. The score remained this close until with seven min Gourley, I5TC, 5:30 147 pounds Stottlemeyer. Clinton referee's decision over Ray, ISTC (Overtime) 157 pounds Patton, ISTC default over Dye, ISTC. 177 pounds Elliot, Davenport, utes to go, Frank Howard, the league's second ranking scorer, in by scoring 17 points in the first eight minutes of the second period while their teammates went scoreless.

The Wildcats began to click as the game neared its end and Roy Dewitz gave them the lead again at 58-57 with two minutes to go. Crawford regained the edge 58-58 and the Cyclones either lead by a point or were tied until Don Medsker sent the winners into a 65-62 margin. Then came Parr and DeWitz to tie it up. Parr paced Kansas State with 23 points. Kansas State now is 8-3 in the loop.

Only a double defeat of first place Kansas by Colorado would give the Wildcats a chance to play Kansas for the title March 6. Iowa State takes over third place on its 6-5' mark. defeated Stevens. Cornell, fi-4. Heavyweight t- Sleek.

Mt. Vernon, Iowa State led, 31-26, at the half, and kept the lead much of the second period until Jack Parr's basket and Roy DeWitz free throw gave Kansas State a 65-65 tie to send the game, into overtime. Thompson and Crawford, each hitting 16 points, collected two free throws apiece in the overtime to send the Cyclones into a 69-65 lead. Iowa State managed to control the ball in the last minute until Jack Parr snared it and toppled one in to make the score 69.67 just as the gun sounded. The two teams exchanged leads in the first half several times before Iowa State managed to get its five point intermission margin.

Parr and Bob Boozer managed to keep Kansas State's hand Sidle and Gene Millard began pouring in buckets from all sides. Joe Ruklick, Wildcat center, defeated Choat, Davenport, ui. HIGH SCHOOL DIVISION 95 pounds Lundy, Rock Island defeated Jenkins, Davenport, 4tO. 103 pounds Bueker, Daven bagged 13 points in the second St. Ambrose Academy 58, Davenport 54 BIG TEN Minnesota 86, Illinois 75 Michigan 83, Iowa 79 Ohio State 84.

Northwestern 70 Michigan State 76, Indiana 61 Purdue 85, Wisconsin 66 COLLEGE Iowa State 69, Kansas State 67 (OT) Oklahoma 70, Missouri 68 Kentucky 93, Tennessee 75 Washington and Lee 73, Virginia 69 Tulsa 85, Drake 70 Bradley 105, Detroit 95 Navy 58, Army 47 Columbia 83. Penn 6fi North Carolina State 75, Wake Forest 71 Pittsburgh 80, Penn State 65 Yale 75, Harvard 67 Syracuse 100, Colgate 70 South Carolina 113, Clemson 84 Xavier (Ohio) 100, Miami lOhioi 80 ila (Chicago) 106, John Carroll 80 Fo.dham 76. Seton Hall 75 Kentucky 93. Tennessee 75 Holy Cross 88, NYU 78 Wheaton 96, Calvin 84 Millikan 92, Lake Forest -57 half to keep his team in the fight. port, defeated Hancock, Dubuque, ed with Holdredge last year and hit .327.

Ohio State jumped off to an early 8-0 lead before Northwestern broke ijjread 16 national titles over six different sports the greatest if rsatility in the championship series and Ohio State and Illinois, jpfjth 13 apiece. Besides being a partner to the domination of swim team titles fix against Ohio State's 10), Michigan owns six of eight ice hockey jowns. i Other leaders in the championship series are: Wisconsin, box-ijjg; Illinois, gymnastics; Denver, skiing; UCLA, tennis. Each has nearly half of the team championships contested in these borts. Baseball, basketball, cross-country and fencing are without domination by a single institution, although cross-country borders pn the line because of Michigan State's six championships.

Basketball has three repeaters, headed by Kentucky's three-time thampions. Texas is the only team to repeat as a baseball champion, end fencing is the most evenly-divided of all events, with Columbia Jtolding a slight edge. Wisconsin has a record hard to beat in boxing. il The Badge 13 top the country with eight national team championships and 35 national individual championships. Idaho -Vand Michigan State are the only challengers.

In 1943 and 1956 the Badgers won five individual titles and if our In 1939 and 1948. Chuck Davey of Michigan State gave college boxers some-thing at which to shoot: He won the national championship four 'iflimes, at 127 pounds, 135 pounds, 136 pounds and 145 pounds. Wisconsin holds the national record for the NCAA boxing iournaments. 49,800 in 1948, 38.900 in 1947 and 38,034 in 1956. 'J The NCAA book shows a picture of Charley Jones of Iowa tmiversity nosing out Henry Kennedy of Michigan State in the closest finish in the 19-year history of the National Collegiate Crosscountry Championships In 1955 at East Lansing.

Jones won the duel on a snow-covered course in 19:57.4. Jones wore long underwear that day. '0. It wasn't until 1934 that the Yale-Harvard-Princeton-Dartmouth itrangle-hold on the national golf championships was broken. Then fttichigan moved into the picture.

Since then, just like in football, the power has moved to other jbarts of the country. 'A Stanford, Ohio State, Notre Dame, San Jose, Southern Methodist, jtouisiana State, Houston and North Texas State, four times, have Raptured the big golf title. Ice hockey has been sponsored by the NCAA since 1948. year the national championship event has been held at Colorado Springs. Michigan has taken the crown six out of nine times.

There have been only three skiing tournaments held, startling in 1954. Denver has won all of them. Would you happen to know that Chicago University, now only dimly recalled in the sports picture, won 12 consecutive national championships in track and field and that there has never been an Eastern school take the crown? The 1957 event will be held in the South for the first time, June 14-15 at the University of Texas. into the scoring column. Jay Hook paced the Wildcats in the first half with 11 points.

Sidle with 22 points, Ruklick with l-o. 112 pounds Wilson. Dubuque, defeated Schaal, Clinton, 1-0. 120 pounds Tillema. Clinton, defeated Gooding, Davenport, 14-13.

127 pounds Miller, Davenport, pinned King, Davenport, 3:30 133 pounds Goff Davenport, defeated Nesbit, Clinton 3-2 138 pounds Brainerd defeated Parker, Clinton, 4-0 145 pounds Mosier, Davenport defeated Kyler, R. I. 4-0 154 pounds Stahl, Clinton, de. feated Fitzjarrell, Davenport -3 165 pounds Campbell, Davenport defeated Buell, Clinton. 3-1 Heavyweight Walters, Davenport defeated Carr, Clinton 3-1 Kaiser Ordered To Take Physical MESA, Ariz.

(UP)-Don Kaiser, brilliant young right handed pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, Saturday was ordered by his Oklahoma draft board to take a physical examination. 21 and Hook with 19 were the game's top scorers. OHIO STATE FG FT PF TP 8 0-2 4 16 10 2-4 3 22 4 2-3 3 10 7 3-4 2 17 5 5-6 2 15 2 0-10 4 36 12-20 14 84 FO FT PF TP 0 0-1 0 0 Women's World Wrestling Champ On Davenport Card Howard. 1 Sidle, Huston, Laughlin, Millard, Barkstall, Totals NORTHWESTERS Lose, Schulz, Warren, Duhart, Ruklick, Mast, Hook, Johnson, Mantis, Totals Ohio State Northwestern 0 14 0 21 0-0 4- 4 0-0 5- 5 0-0 5- 2-2 0-0 2 19 10 4 16-21 16 70 34 5084 29 4170 Purdue Rolls June Byers, the women's world wrestling champion, comes to the Quad-Cities for the first time in three years this week when she puts her title on the line in the feature match at Davenport's downtown Central Turner Hall Friday night. Miss Byers, the reigning queen of pro wrestling for the past four years, will tangle with Betty Hawkins in a two out of three fall match with an hour time limit.

In the men's feature match Bobby Bruns and Chief Kit Fox will IVUGIE- Over Badgers By 85-66 LAFAYETTE.Ind. (ID-Purdue jumped to an early lead over Big Ten cellar-dwelling Wisconsin Saturday night and never fell behind, finally dropping the Badgers, 85-66. Two sophomores, guard Willie Merriweather and forward Bill Greve, paced the Boilermakers with 15 points apiece. af mm 44 nllMil TOA 1 charge, scoring 10 points In the next three minutes to spark the decisive Viking thrust. Nine straight Augustana points gave gave the home five a 67-60 margin with two minutes remaining, and they coasted to win.

I if ft jttbounds to boost the Viking Ul. Then, with center Pat Moran jutting from the key and guard 3ohn Schreiber hitting from out-side, Carroll pushed back to within two points at halftime, 16-34. nigh man tor Augustana was join forces in a tag team bout with Tommy O'Toole and Bob Geigel. It'll go two out of three falls to the finish with no time limit. In a telephone conversation late Saturday Sam Muchnick, president of the Wrestling Alliance of America, agreed to assign Sam Menackcr, his referee in chief, to the Davenport tag team bout because it is expected to be a rough match to handle.

Bruns suffered an injured eye in last week's bout with O'Toole and was forced to withdraw in a bout which brought many of the fans into action. A third match will open up the 8:30 p.m. card for which tickets are now on sale at all Quad-City agencies. Mail order requests may be sent to All Star Wrestling, Post Office Box 300, Rock Island, 111. Miss Byers is the proud holder of more trophys and titles than any other girl in the history of the wrestling world.

Her earning power, even when viewed with a caustic eye, is around $50,000 a year. She is an attractive, intelligent lady, who stands 5-6 in height; weighs an agile 148 pounds; and hails from the state of Texas. In wrestling circles, she is "Miss Big." and wherever she appears, the S.R.O. sign is an absolute necessity. She travels almost 150,000 miles per year, and wrestles to packed houses wherever she appears.

Schweinberger with 28 points, MA 14 coming from the free throw line. Pat Moran was the Pio neers' leading scorer with 18. Sch reiber tallied 15 for the losers. A five-minute Viking scoring -drought gave Carroll the chance to move out to a 40-36 margin before Tom Anderson scored the Augustana fga ff ftm ft pf tp 6 3 2 2 3 8 Beese Lindstrom Anderson Schwein first field goal of the ispcond half with 15:20 left. Two berger jOiccessive free throws by Sch Pewe 7 I 11 3 8 0 2 42 5 5 14 6 3 0 1 9 35 4 1 3 17 3 8 3 4 0 0 1 2 45 IT 3 iltriber and a jump shot by Les i' WISCONSIN FG FT PF TP Litzow, 7 3-3 3 17 Demerit, 2 2-2 16 Borland, 5 5-7 3 151 Gross, 0 2-4 2 2 1 Radke.

0 0-1 3 01 Kocourck, 11-2 2 3 Kulas. 11-113 Pammperin. 10-12 2 Rogneby, 10-0 0 2 Holt, 4 3-3 2 11 1 Stephens, 2 1-4 2 5 Anderson, 0 0-0 10 Totals 24 19-28 22 86 ri'RDL'E FG FT PF TP Greve. 7 1-3 4 15 Hnber. 0-0 0 Alvarez, 0 0-0 10 McCormick, f- 7 1-2 1 13 Eddy.

11-3 0 3 Lundy. 5 4-7 14 Cummins, 10-0 0 2 Lvons. 0 0-0 0 0 Campbell, 4 5-7 2 13 Ridenour. 10-13 2 Zimmerman, 2 1-2 15 Kehrt. 10-0 0 2 Fehnrmn, f-e 3 S- 4 9 Loer.

0 0-0 3 0 Totals 54 17-52 21 WUrnnsln 32 34 6 Purdue 4 3 5 gave Carroll their Widest margin of the evening at with 14:07 left. fga Ik ftm fta ff tp 7 Paced by Clyde Lundgren. the 4 4 2 4 Lundgren Soderberf StiegU Ferns Tstal Carroll Lenenrher Johnson Moran Schreiber Krause Bundrlck Preufer Brewer Total! Ancustana Vikings scored six straight Joints to move within a single II 13 10 7 1 0 10 5 8 5 2 2 2 1 3 4 1 30 2 tK)int. 44-43. Trading baskets for Gopher Drive Halted Minnesota's George Kline is thwarted in his drive for the basket by Illinois piiard Don Ohl (44).

The Gophers won the televised Big Ten game, 86-75. (AP Wirephoto) i the next four minutes, Augustana Ifaw the Pioneers again take a 22 21 4271 14 31 65 Carroll Moran's hook shot, 57-53 Dale Schweinberger took JUNE BILKS Officials: DeReus, Grothuson.

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