Hartford Courant from Hartford, Connecticut • 85

ITfln WawrM 'cofi Part II Automotive Stat Financial pap IT SUNDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 22, 1059 WW AHA X7JUCMlltLl Uconns Crusaders In Thriller ww a. wjfjijiiw 'LJ By BILL LEE Sports Editor Owls, Ha MM ust Play Preliminaries elany Shatters Indoor Mile Record. 7. 3.

IF YOU like hockey, basketball, ice shows, track meets and big time tennis exhibitions, there may be good news this morning. It is not too much to say that a civic auditorium and convention hall for Hartford is closer to reality than ever before. It is not an exaggeration to say that there is a good chance such a facility will be built in Hartford within the next few years. A civic auditorium, convention hall call it what you will has heretofore never gone beyond the dream stage. On this twenty-second day of February, anniversary of the birth of George Washington and our 15-year-old son, Jeff, the much discussed multi-purpose building may be so close that a little intelligent and vigorous leadership at this time will put the facility within reach.

For almost 20 years this column has been preaching the merit of a building in which Hartford area people could enjoy major indoor spectator sports. Others have joined forces in recent years and in a concrete manner that is beyond my poor powers. All I can do is write about the desirability of such a facility. The Junior Chamber of Commerce has done some heavy spade work on the project, although that group's efforts seem to have tailed off some since Dr. Phil Sehl led the Jaycee inquiry into the practicability of an auditorium here.

Greatest impetus the past year has 'come from inclusion of an auditorium-type building in plans recommended to the city by two developers who will give downtown Hartford a face lifting. The F. H. McGraw Co. plans revealed last March was the first to include an architect's sketch of such a building in the Front-Market Street redevelopment area.

The Baltimore firm of Rogers, Huskies In Reversal To Defeat Holy Cross From Foul Line 71-69 ilium ra 'f By BILL NEWELL Courant Sports Writer WORCESTER. Mass. Con-necticut's beleaguered basketball team did an about-face Saturday Taliferro and Lamb spotted one in their blueprints for the Church-Trumbull Street area. PRIVATE OPERATION'S MAKE MONEY Every survey ever made agrees that there is need for such a facility in Harttord. There is also solidarity in the report that municipal'y financed convention halls do not operate at a profit or even on a break-even basis.

Curiously, information funnelled into this corner hints that privately operated arenas make money, publicly run auditoriums and convention halls cost municipalities upwards of $100,000 a year. It has always seemed to this sideliner that a city the size of Hartford would find $100,000 worth of value to its citizens every year after such a building has opened its doors. The report that privately financed auditoriums operate at a profit would seem to be born out by existance of such operations in Saturday. Controlling the puck for Hawks' defenseman Elmer Vas-ko being pursued by Wings center (AP Wirephoto). DON'T FENCE ME IN: National Hockey League referee Frank Udvari (6), who has seen a few games in his time, finds it expedient to climb the fence in this instance in the Detroit Red Wings-Chicago Black Hawks tele KRAMER Springfield, Providence and New through a World War, good times the continued Hartford Draws Harding; Warriors To Face Bristol BY FRANK CLINE Arena with double headers sched- Conrant Sports Writer "led Thursday, Friday and Sat-WALLINGFORD Two defend- nof Ms week and the ing champions and the winningestifinal a week tom Tues" team in the state received top: ranking here Saturday as Con- Big Twin Bill Friday necticut Interscholastic Athletic If Hartford High gets by Hard-Conference officials met to make ing Tuesday, it will come back the ratings and pairings for the two nights later at the New Ha-three schoolboy basketball tour-j ven Arena to play Stamford in the naments which will get underway! 15 p.m.

game. Cross and Nor- EITHER WAY, IT CAN BE DONE Financing, however, is something I will gladly leave to others for the simple reason I have no understanding of such matters. Let me hasten to add that authorities in such matters have told me a facility such as the one under discussion can be financed with private funds or by the municipality without running the city into bankruptcy. Over and over again it has been emphasized here that sports events in such a building would be heavily outnumbered by exhibition-type shows, some of which 'are antique, home building, lower, automobile, furniture, dog, livestock, horse, boat, trade shows and conventions. This corner of the paper is concerned with sports events, but these would be a minority phase of the year-around booking schedule.

It would be pretty nice, wouldn't it. to be able to enjoy Jack Kramer's tennis troupe, a Hartford team in one of the hockey-leagues, a top drawer ice show, college and schoolboy basketball and hockey games, track meets and public skating. ICE FOLLIES MEAN'S MILLIONS TO HUB This is something that would attract to College Basketball Connecticut 71, Holy Cross 6. Rochester 77, Wesleyan 40. Trinity 72, Coast Guard New Britain Teachers 3, Poly 59.

Brooklyn Yale 72, Cornell 63. St. Thomas Seminary 78, New Britain Teachers JV's 70. Holy Cross Frost) 72, Connecticut Frosh 6i. Trinity Frosh 73, Coast Guard Jayvees 68.

Brown ti, Columbia 64. Harvard 69, Penn 60. Dartmouth 71, Princeton 59. West Virginia 89, George Washington 86. Vermont 72, Norwich 60 Clarkson 70, Hamilton 52.

Union 65, MIT 56. Springfield 88, LIU 77. Navy 80, Pitt 55. Notre Dame 76, DePaul 47. Providence 68, Colby 39.

Manhattan 94, Army 77. Muhlenberg 69, Temple 62. Delaware 86, Bucknell 39. Fairfield 76, St. Francis (Bkn.) 66.

Seton Hall 89, Georgetown 83 (ovt). Maine 94, Rhode Island 77. Bates 68, Northeastern 59. Kentucky 75, Auburn 56. Hofstra 84, Lebanon Valley 2.

Tennessee 93, Alabama 68. St. Bonaventure 90, Marshall College 79. Wagner 77, CCNY 55. Syracuse 90, Penn State 73.

North Carolina Stae 66, Villanova 56. Lehigh 38, Rutgers 36. St. Anselm's 103, Bridgeport 94. Fordham 93, Detroit 73.

Boston University 75, lona 65. Brandeis 64, Bowdoin 62. Maryland 69, North Carolina 51. St. Joseph's (Pa.) 70, LaSalle 63.

Lafayette 87, 68. Assumption 75. New Haven Teachers 54. Merrimack 101, Curry 71. Yale Beats Cornell By 72-63 Score ITHACA, New York (Special) Pulling away from Cornell in the second half, Yale University's basketball team registered a 72-63 Ivy League victory here Saturday night.

The Elis led, 34-33, at halftime. Alki Scopelitis and Captain Bill Bodman sparked the Elis second half attack. Scopelitis, who hooped 18 points, got most of them early in the second half as Yale rolled to a 55-45 lead midway through the half and Bodman kept them ahead down the stretch as tallied most of his 12 points. Yale's Eighth Win It was Yale's eighth victory in 20 games and sixth in 11 league games. Cornell has an 8-11 over- all mark and 4-7 league record.

Scoring honors for the night went to Corne Lou Jordan who hooped 22 points, 16 of them at w' jale with 19 points caging most of them in the first half. YALE Dowries Glynn Molumphy Scooelitis McFadden Bodman Ma her Pond CORNELL Pt 5 9 19 Zornow 1 2 4 Murray 3 2 4 Farley 5 I IS Jordan 3 3 9 Tukovich 5 2 12 Petry I 0 2 Furlong 0 0 0 Wynne Pt 7 1 IS 0 0 0 2 2 6 3 16 22 5 0 10 3 4 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 23 26 72 Totals 20 23 63 Score at half time 34-33, Yale. McDougald Signs Yankee Contract For Same Terms 1 vvich Free Academy will play inj the 7:45 game which will get the tournament proper underway, Friday night will be a big night for greater Hartford fans with Wethersfield playing Naugatuck at 7:45 and Bulkeley battling the winner of the Notre Dame, Bas- sick game at 9:15. Saturday night Windham meets Stratford at 7:45 and Greenwich takes on the winner of the Hall, Bristol game at 9:15. Weaver must wait until a week from Tuesday before playing its first game against Bridgeport Central with Hillhouse playing Staples or Hamden in.

the nightcap Four preliminary playdown See HARTFORD. Page 2 1TT1 nil I ll -LCH tillUUtll Tops Tigers By 71 To 59 HANOVER, N.Y. uTi-Dartmouth combined Rudy Lamsso's first half storing and a late stage freeze to defeat Princeton 71-59 and take over the undiputed lead in the Ivy League basketball race Saturday night. The defending champion Indians got 18 points from Capt. Larusso before the half and employed stalling tactics much of the final six minutes.

me aiuuscu inuiuna cmuhui-u their own winning streak to 14 rnclay nignt at rrinceion While Larusso. the 6-7 senior from Brooklyn. N.Y., showed off his scoring prowess and demonstrated his no. 1 rebounding sta tus in Ivy ranks, fouled up the "Iron xx is Men from 7 vised game the moment is (4) while Len Lunde (20) i Hartford the people of cities and High Jump Record Set By Thomas NEW YORK (UPI) Irishman Ron Delany's 4:02.5 world indoor record and an all-time record high jump of seven feet, inches by Boston University Freshman John Thomas featured five world records established at Madison Square Garden Saturday night before a roaring crowd of 15,789 fans at the 71st annual National AAU championships. Delany clipped his own former indoor record of 4:03.4 in the mije and then 15,789 goggle-eyed fans saw Thomas miss twice before soaring higher than any otheri man in history.

Thomas last week had set a world indoor mark of seven feet, after a former seven-foot mark was threatened on a technicality, but tonight be bettered that as we as the seven foot, one inch outdoor mark held by Russia's Yuri Stepanov. These two performances featured five world marks written into the books. Shotputter Parry O'Brien, 35-pound weight whale Bob Backus and three-miler Bill Dellinger of Oregon all chalked up new world indoor marks in a record smashing carnival but it w-as Delany, scoring his fourth straight national mile victory, who stole the thunder in the smokey muscle palace. Trailing Hungary's Istvan Roz- savolgyi by five yards with one; lap to go, fie blasted over the spike-scarred boards to win by! 15 yards as another of the world's celebrated sub-four minute mil-j ers, Hungary's Laszlo Tabori, fin- ished a distant third. Delany did it in championship style with a 56.5 seconds closing quarter which rubbed out hisj 4:03.5 world record of last yeari for his 35th straight indoor tri- umph.

St. John's Pete Close set the; pace through the first half of the I race with a 60 second quarter and a 2:01.2 half. At times Delany was as far back as sixth. Then it became a three-man race as the two Hungarians moved on top, Tabori leading at three-quarters at 3:05 and Delany laying third. Rozsavolgyi tried to steal the race wilh two laps to go and momentarily dashed 10 yards on top.

But the Irish Olympic 1,500 meter champion drew up with! Km and then ran him into the boards on the last lap for his world triumph. O'Brien, California Olympic champion in the shot, broke hisj own indoor world shot put rec-j ord to score his seventh straight; national triumph wilh a heave ofi 62 feet, Pi inches and didn't find i out until later that his shot was eight ounces overweight. Backus, former Tufts star, scored his sixth title triumph in the 35-pound weight throw with a world record toss of 62 feet, 24 inches. Dellinger erased one of his oldest marks in the book with a 13:37 win in the three mile event which rubbed out Greg Rick's 17 year old mark by almost nine lull seconds. The featured mile was run in two seeded heats and the first! heat stars swept all the places on a time basis.

Bill Laplumv of the University of South Car-i olina won the second neat in 4:17.9 followed by Bob Godcsky; of Villanova and Jack Favve't of Philadelphia Shanahan Catholic Club. Gilbert Wins Elias Gilbert of Winston Salem.1 N.C., Teachers College got off to a flying si art to easily winj the 60 yard high hurdles in! 7.3 seconds. Big Dave Edstrom of the University of Oregon was second by a hair over Carl Brown of Winston Salem. Charles Pratt of the Philadelphia Pioneer Club, who tied the meet record of 7.1 in the semi finas could do no belter than fourth in the finals. Chunky Paul Winder of Morgan State College blazed out of his blocks to win the race in the first few' strides as he look the 60 yard dash in 6.1 seconds which equalled the world indoor I mark.

National Basketball Association Detroit 114, New York 101. Syracuw Philadelphia (niqhll. Cincinnati St. Louis (maht). St.

Louis 121, Cincinnati 120. around. I hat it would bring millions to Harttord business there is not an iota of doubt. Leo Monahan had an interesting column a few days ago in the Boston Record in which he said at the beginning that the arrival of the Ice Follies in Boston would touch off a spending spree conservatively estimated at a Leo expected to be challenged and 'night, grimly battling Holy Cross to the wire to claim a 1 to 69 upset victory on some brilliant foul shooting at the finish. In contrast to recent outings the Huskies displayed fine teamwork, and plenty of hustle before a crowd of 2,100 in the Worcester Auditorium in avenging a pre vious 24 points setback at Storrs.

It was close, hotly contested battle all the way with John Pipczynski, Bob Countryman and' Jack Rose supplying the vital points in a roaring last five minutes. Actually it was Rose who sent the Uconns in front for keeps with a jumper 2:11 before the final gun. This put the score 65-63 in favor of the Nutmeggers. Free Throws Decisive Pipczynski added two frea throws with 1:12 remaining for a four point bulge but George Blaney's jump shot reduced it two at the 48 second mark. Ths Crusaders, who have been having their troubles of late, lost Captain 'Jack Whelan on personals four conds later and Rose converted once from the foul line to restora I a fiR-fi5 lead.

Tim Shea's jumper with 33 seconds later and Rose conv -'Pc seconds to go cut the Uconn lead to a point again but Shea fouled Countryman and the former Hart-Weaver High player converted twice under extreme pressure with just 20 seconds left. Rose Sparkles For Huskies Brandt scored 18 points in the first half which was dominated by Holy Cross, 38-35, and wound up with 27 for the game. Little Jack Rose again sparkled for the Uconns with a 20 point performance but Countryman, Eddie Martin, Pipczynski, Wayne Davis and Pete Kelley were very much in the fracas. During the first half Connecticut managed to get a four point lead once' before falling behind by six and then rallying to trail by only three at intermission. Neither team could fashion more than a four point spread at any time during the second half.

Big Ralph Brandt, the Holy Cross pivot from Palo Alto, California, who topped all scorers. followed with a basket at the 12 second mark, again cutting Con necticut's lead to a mere point. Then, with six seconds on the clock, Blaney fouleJ Pipczynski. Pip made the first of a one and one award but missed the second and Holy Cross, getting the rebound, called time. When the ball was put in play Brandt threw a floor length pass to Blaney who took a hurried shot from the side that failed to drop and that was it.

Superior foul shooting plus hustle won this one for Connecticut. The Huskies now have a 15-6 record and have reduced the Crusaders series lead to 14-9. At the free throw stripe the Uconns canned 25 of 34 tries with 16 for 20 during the clutch second half. Holy Cross, which had 17 for 28 1 me seconu nan. 1 Cross won the freshman 72-64.

CONNECTICUT HOLY CROSS Pt Pt 7 1 15 vis Pipczynski Keiiy Cooper 3 1 7 Blaney 5 5 15 Shea 1 2 4 Ccrvinl 0 0 0 Breslw 5 4 14 Brandt 3 5 11 Imwall 6 20 Whelan Attar 2 10 0 0 7 27 4 4 1 1 Total 23 25 71 Totals 2 17 6 Score at hall time 38-35, Holy Cross. HOLY CROSS CONN. FROSH ri Or I Foley 11 1 23 King 1 1 3 McLaughlin 3 4 10 Roqersi 2 12 Slattery 5 15 Daniel 6 1 13 Canavan 0 10 Carlson I 4 20 McClory 5 2 12 Burke 6 3 IS Matelii 10 2 Kessel 0 0 0 Schanne 0 0 0 Kellerman 0 1 I Zdunczk 0 0 Totals 30 12 72 Totals 26 12 64 High score 41-29, Holy Crosi. Sports i Detroit vs. Syracusa (Pro Basketball) 1 Ch.

i) this week. To the surprise of no one nude-j feated Wilbur Cross, defending state and New England cham- pions. were top ranked in Class! A field with a rating of 4.93. Dari- en. which won the medium school title last winter, paced the Class field with a 5.50 rating while St.

Thomas Seminary High of Bloomfield, with a 24-0 record, received the top ranking in the Class rankings with a 5.61 rating. 66 Teams Qualify All' told, a total of 66 teams qualified. As usual. Class has the largest field with 26 teams listed wnue Class a ana a nave; teams apiece. i Windham, Central Connecticut Interscholastic League ranked second in Class A with Weaver, Capital District Confer ence title holders, grabbing off third place honors.

Bulkeley squeezed into the eighth slot just ahead of Norwich Free Academy which has the unwelcome honor of playing Wilbur Cross in the first round. Wethersfield and Hartford High each had 3.11 ratings with the Eagles landing in the coveted twellth slot with the position determined by lot. As a result Wethersfield avoided becoming involved in a preliminary playdown game. Hartford, William Hall of West Hartford and Bristol will be the upstate, teams taking part in the four preliminary playdown games which will be played at regional sites on Tuesday night. Some Confusion Some confusion was caused at the meeting when it was first an-! glee in providing supporting evidence.

Eddie Powers, Garden treasurer, is quoted SEHL saying that around 200,000 would pay to see the 20-show run of the Follies, meaning a gross of around $450,000. Walter Brown, Garden general manager, points out that revenue from two ice shows and the income from concessions makes the difference between profit and loss for the entire ear. The concessions do around $100,000 for the run of the show. Madison Hotel manager Paul Morris told Monahan that the Ice Follies brings his biggest influx in room, restaurant and bar business and that uptown hotels and restaurants also profit. The Boston columnist relates that the manager of San Francisco's famed Mark Hopkins Hotel once said that the Ice Follies are worth ten conventions to the hotel and restaurant trade.

Ice show business would come to Hartford if we had the place in which to book it. Haven. These places have lived and bad. towns for miles million dollars. took no little von and Abbott Tecn each one St.

Anthony was second in Class with 12 votes. Vallev Re- jLi Owl, Harding Tickets Go on Sale Tuesday Tickets for the Class A preliminary playdown game between Hartford High and Warren Harding of Bridge port, which will be played at Lyman Hall high in Walling-ford Tuesday night, will be on sale all day Tuesday at Hartford High. Both student and adult tickets will be available from 9:00 a.m. until 4.00 p.m. As Monday is a holiday there will be no ticket sale at Hartford High.

Rochester Five Upsets esleyan ROCHESTER N. Y. (SpeciaD-Rochester broke a basketball losing streak of 19 games dating back to last winter Saturday night by upsetting Wesleyan of Connecticut, 77-60. Not only did the locals score their first win of the winter after 14 setbacks, but they snapped a Cardinal winning skein that rdLiiru nine in a ivt woi muni' at Schenectady. It was Wesle-I vivc cifh lntc in 1P.

ttnmnc 00 The rivals waced a nip-and- uck struggle throughout the first 20 minutes with the lead changing! hands often until Frazier and Cadigan converted free throws to give Wesleyan a 33-31 advantage at the intermission. Pics In The Sky The dogfight continued with the resumption of play for fully 10 minutes into the second half before Rochester's Doug Pies, starting for the first time, fired three successive hoops for a 53-49 lead. Then the locals gradually pulled away from the Connecticut collegians down the stretch. Pies wound up with 20 points on 10 field goals for scoring hon ors Next jn ine came Bi Yantz with 18 and Tom Flvnn with 17., uoii sKiniier ana uave noni lai lied 14 apiece for the visitors. Up until tonight Rochester had dropped its last five a year ago and all 14 this winter so that the victory was quite a feat in addition to the accomplishment of snapping the Wesleyan win streak at nine.

Rochester wesleyan 8 Pt Flynn Wilmcr Pies Yantr 5 17 3 5 Sk innr 0 70 Carhqan 2 18 Hohl 2 Mallory 1 3 Wenner 2 2 Woodbury Johnson i4j 0 6 i 2 t4 2 1 7 4 ToM! 31 15 Total 14 12 60 Halftime core: 33-31, Wesleyan. Frank Sullivan Signs SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. Frank Sullivan, Red (LTD -Sox right hander, Saturday agreed to con- tract terms, after a lengthy scs- ision with General' Manager Buc ky Harris. Sullivan won 13 and lust I1IIIC I last season. His signing leaves only catcher Live Duckpin Bowling Matches To Be Televised By Channel 18 Duckpin bowling will poach on country.

Hartford is one of the the television preserve, hitherto! principal centers of duckpin bowl- i u- a tuii'iR. with some 20,000 active, dominated by big pins and candle-; b' pins, when Station WHCT (Chan-'p Wrifpfc' nel 18) premiers a live half-hour! front office has changed its lM game maue uve aV.t r.ii MiimnW ariwd tn terms. The voter an infielder sienrd his 1059 con tract Saturday for a reported 000, the same amount he drew last season. Mr, l.nr tj.mnrl fnr a nounced that Sacred Heart of while snapping Princeton at 12. Watcrbury would be the twenty-1 Dartmouth has won all 11 of its first team in Class A.

(TAC otii-: starts. The loss was the first in cials, after being questioned by! 11 league contests for the Walerburv newsmen, checked The two clubs meet in the se-their figures and found Sacred fond half of their home and home "Martin $3,000 cut in the Yankees' original countryman 0ffor. Rose program from its studio on Pick According to Edward D. Tad-! dei. president and general man-1 WALLINGtORD (Special) -ager of the local station, two The scholastic members of the regulation 60-foot, bowling lanes Connecticut Sportswritors All-are being constructed on ir.e Wilbur Cross third floor of the 555 Asylum Class A East Haven ass t.

-1 1- i B. and St. Thomas Seminary in Street building and the program Cass as pre-tournament fa- will he earned every Wednesday: mcmbm ii Wilbur Cross being the only "Strikes Spares will match three teams, each composed of A Weawr slaniford one man and one woman The, am, NauBatlK.k each rOTciml six contestants will be selected on votes mmiso had fourt VVind. the basis of their averages as ham and Norwich ono compiled by the Hartford County FoIlowjng East avcn in class Duckpin Bowling Association. The i Lyman Han wilh tei1i team scoring the highest total, Painvjiie nine Wilcox Tech four, in the first three-frame match' Smlthington three and North Ha- Sloan ston Heart had been civen credit for a Class win which thev could not get credit for.

Under the rules a team must win 51 per cent of its games against teams in its own class or higher. The Class win did not count the Hearts were out. As a result, Wethersfield. which had been down to play Warren Harding in a preliminary playdown game, moved up a notch and Harttord High (No. 13, as determined by lot, drew Harding.

The Owls vs. Harding game will be played Tuesday at Lyman Hall school here in Wallingford (U U.AA wmic lilt: iiiic'uiil nas iitiv. meeting was Bristol and Hall. CCIL foes which split in two games this winter, That leaves only five members nf iUfi unrlft nhr.imnmn(a nnsifnod Mickey Mantle, tho switch swinging slammer, and Whiley Ford, the stubby southpaw who can have a raise if he agrees to be good after hours. The good conduct clause, also included in the contract offered Mantle, was not in McDougald's contract.

McDougald, 30, always has been considered a good family- jman type and it's believed the in-i tnrnnnti tlint he was heinff brack- il, kl, ctfntm I'lL'U ill lilt; scuiik iiuioi with Mantle and Ford hastened the end of his pseudo-holdout. National Hockey Leaqu Montreal 6, Boston 0. Deiroit 7, Princeton with a chocking zone defense. DARTMOUTH PRINCETON Pt! Pt? 4 1 4 3 II 10 2 22 0 1 I 7 2 16 Vandeweghe Laruo Farnsworth 4 7 15 H. Belt 22 Burns 0 4C.

Belr 3 7Klein soinowiki rn" Totan 5 19Branqan 0 2Swan 0 0 Hyland 0 0 2 0 0 24 23 71 Totals 25 59 Princeton Dartmouth JV I CoJf.T"ck ww remain to compete aam; a second team of challengers dur ing the half-hour spot. It they -win tlieir second maicn.i giona was next with eight. Litch-they will remain on. the scene irj fjeiti seven, Durham two and St. subsequent matches (two each' Basii 0f Stamford one.

Wednesday night) against ail, Eacn writer voted for throe comers until they are de-throned. teams in each class with points According to the National Duck-; awarded on a three, two and one Jin Rowling Congress, there 'arc basis, over 25 million people who en-i 1 i.i Scholastic Hill gage in bowling throughout the, tumcien High Loom i. will meet Tuesday at the Wes- Frosh 64, Connecticut Cammy White, inheklers rump-Jeyan cage in Middle-town. FArmya4-i, Harvard lsie Green, Joe Tanner and Ted The tournament proper will get! Bt mit 45. 'Lepcio and outfielder Jackie Jen- .1 Minnesota 63.

Iowa 5' underway at the New Haven i seuem unsigned..