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SECTION 3 Chicago QKbune WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1964 SPORTS BUSINESS (01 11 9 1 mm Among Big Ten's Best MURRAY ST. Resume Prep Chase Tonight K. sm I Fit I it1 IS VICTIM IN McGAW HALL Not Too Many Got Away from Johnny Illinois Prep Sectional Meets BASKETBALL TEAMS BATTLE la each sectional, the mum listed first will played today with the second ome beini lored tomorrow. The cbam-ienshio tame will be elered Friday. AT ARLINGTON HEIGHTS Waakeiaa vs.

Mondeleia. Eraastaa vs. St. Patrick. AT AURORA EAST Elaia vs.

Downers Grove. Naoerville vs. Gleneard East. AT BRIDGEPORT EHimha vs. Olney.

Kea Gastafsoa Gary Bradds TonrVoa Arsdale Dick Vaa Arsdale Ohio U. Ousts Louisville AT 15 SITES GARY BRADDS OHIO VALUABLE Road to Illinois Crown Rocky Eligible for Second Fred Thomanu Duane Thoren NCAA Playoffs LAST NIGHT'S RESULTS MIDEAST REGIONALS At McGaw Hall First Round Ohio 71; Louisville, 6 Loyola, lot; Murray State, t. FAR WEST REGIONALS At Eugene, Ore. First Round Utah State, 92; Arizona State, 0. Seattle, el; Oreooa State, 57.

BY ROY DAMER About 2 hours before game time last night, Coach George Ireland of Loyola said he would gladly settle for a victory by two or three points. For awhile, it appeared he would be lucky to get it. But after being rudely shoved Centralia vs. Paris. AT CHAMPAIGN Heoeestea vs.

Areola. Daavillt vs. Chanipoifn. AT DIXON Sterlina vs. Rockford Aabara.

Kamlaad vs. Freeaort. AT EAST MOLINE Kewanee vs. Rock Island Alleman. MorrlSM vs.

Galva. AT ELDORADO Harrisbara vs. Cova-ia-Rock. Cobdt vs. Carmi.

AT JACKSONVILLE Jacksonville vs. Pleasant Hill. Manite Forma vs. Lenphier. AT KANKAKEE Tkanrtoa vs.

Jaliet. Da La Sallo vs. Bradley. AT NORMAL Stephea Decolor vs. Octovio.

leaaiiiftoa vs. Raatool. AT PEORIA Lincoln vs. Pekia. Williamsfield vs.

Peoria Woodruff. AT PINCKNEYVILLE Herria vs. Pinckneyviile. Belleville vs. Johnson City.

AT QUINCY Warsaw vs. Roshvilkf vs. Qvina. AT STREATOR LeSalle-Perv vs. Streatar.

Pontiac vs. Tolact. AT VANDALIA Hillsbaro vs. Stoninston. Hishtond vs.

Colliasvilla. BY JOHN LEUSCH The road to the Illinois high school basketball championship begins getting rocky and bumpy tonight as 60 teams resume pursuit of the title in 15 sectional tournaments. Few, if any, "push-over" teams remain at this stage of the battle for the crown recently vacated by Carver of Chicago. From here on, a team can only survive with its best effort. inseparable and identical on and off the court that their teammates could not decide between them, today were voted the Hoosiers' co-most valuable player of the basketball season.

The twins, 6-5 juniors from Greenwood, paced the Hoosiers thru a season in which six losses by a total of 15 points into a 13-point deficit, the national basketball champions got their jet age offense soaring and winged to victory over a 'dragged the team to eighth Silver Basketball Columbus, March 10 Special Gary Bradds, who led Ohio State to a share of a record fifth consecutive Big Ten basketball title, today was named the Buckeyes' most valuable player. Thru his selection, Bradds becomes eligible for the Silver Basketball, awarded annually by The Chicago Tribune to the most valuable player in the Western conference. Bradds won the coveted trophy last, year. Bradds, senior center from Jamestown, was a sensational performer this season as Ohio State surprised by staying on top of the standings with an 11-3 mark.Gary scored 474 points in 14 conference' games for an average of 33.8. He made 174 field goals and in two seasons totaled 907 points.

All the above figures are Big Ten records. Dick Ricketts, junior guard who is an excellent shot from the outside, was voted captain courageous but outmanned Murray State team, 101 to 91. In the first game of the Na Johnny Egan of Loyola chases loose ball that went out of bounds last night in Ramblers' 101 to 91 N. C. A.

A. regional victory over Murray State. Egan was far ahead of Gene Pendleton of Kentucky team. tional Collegiate Athletic association Mid-east playoffs, Ohio Champions in all 15 sectionals will be crowned Friday night They, along with Crane Tech, which already has captured the Chicago Public league championship, will comprise membership in the exclusive lodge known as the "Sweet Sixteen." Action on Three Fronts Here in the Chicago area, interest this week will be focused on three fronts Arlington place in the Big Ten. Dick scored 533 points and Tom 512, the two together getting 1,045 of Indiana's 2,035 points.

Dick pulled down 298 rebounds and Tom 295, accounting for 593 of the Hoosiers' 1,074 rebounds. Jon McGlocklin, 6-5 junior from Franklin, who played at center, forward and guard during the season, was elected honorary captain of the High Court Rule Halts university won a 71 to 69 Banks Hurt; Landis Evades Injury Luro Case thriller over Louisville in overtime. Thus, Loyola will meet Michigan, co-champion of the Big Ten, in a "natural" for mid-western fans in Minneapolis on Friday night. In the opener there, Ohio will test Kentucky, ruler of the Southeastern con Finger Cracked Fence Traps Foot Heights, Aurora, and Kankakee. The winner of the Arlington Heights sectional will meet Crane Tech next Tuesday in by Line Drive BY RICHARD DOZER Chicago Tribune Press Service of Sox Veteran BY EDWARD PRELL Chicago Tribune Press Service! of the Buckeyes for next ference.

Burial Fans Startled Northwestern university's McGaw hall in one of eight super-sectional battles to be Mesa, March 10 Er Sarasota, March 10 waged across the state. nie Banks was added to the Chi Miami, March 10 LP) The Gulf stream Park stewards were startled today by an attorney's disclosure that they had suspended Horatio Luro, the well-known race horse trainer, under a rule found 17 years ago to be unconstitutional. The attorney, Dan Chappell, produced a Florida Supreme court decision of May 6, 1947, which held that the rule making a trainer personally responsible for anything that happens Illini Name Thoren The Charlie Metros won a moral victory today. They Winners of the Aurora and cago Cubs' casualty list today Kankakee sectionals will cross proved that the Tony Cuccinellos when he suffered two injured fingers on his right hand. But, paths next Tuesday in Aurora, The sectional and super-sec Nell's in N.

L. -1 fl 3 Id according to the veteran ln- are only human, after all, by holding them to a 3 to 3 tie after having lost. the first two six-inning matches of the White tional action in Aurora is all scheduled in Aurora East High fielder, he will be ready to play as soon as Bob Kennedy wishes Honor Gustafson Madison, March 10 Special Ken Gustafson, 19-year-old sophomore from St. Charles, was elected Wisconsin's most valuable basketball player today by his teammates. Gustafson, a 6 foot 3 inch forward, led the Badgers in scoring with 359 points and a 14.9 average, and in rebounds with 235.

Mike O'Melia, senior guard from Rhinelander, who missed the last few games because of a broken hand, was named honorary captain of the squad. and that means tomorrow school's gymnasium. Sox intrasquad series. But, regardless of whether to his horse denied him the right of due process of law. The revelation broke up a A crowd of 8,500 turned out in McGaw hall to see the burial of Murray State, but the Ken-tuckians acted like anything but a corpse in the astonishing early minutes.

Altho Loyola had knocked off another Ohio Valley conference champion, Tennessee Tech, 111 to 42, in its opening N. C. A. A. test last year, it quickly found its crown tilted a bit last night.

After Ron Miller dunked a shot for the Ramblers immediately after the tip-off, the Thorobreds scored on their first two shots and shocked the crowd by taking a lead. But more fun was to follow. With Loyola playing a lackadaisical defensive game and its St. Patrick 24-2 More than 4,000 fans will jam the Arlington High school gym Champaign, March 10 Special Duane Skip Thoren, 20-year-old junior from Rockford, achieved double honors at the annual Illinois banquet tonight. Thoren was elected captain of the 1964-65 Illinois basketball team, and also was selected by teammates as most valuable player.

Thoren set an Illinois accuracy record this season of .501 from the field with 187 baskets in 373 shots. He topped Illinois scoring with 488 points and a 20.3 average and also led the Illini in rebounding with a 13.8 average. hearing to determine whether tonight to see Mundelein, co- against the Los Angeles Angels in Mesa. Banks was struck on the tips of the last two fingers by a line drive off the bat of Dale Long during a hitting and running drill. X-rays revealed a slight crack near the tip of the ring finger.

The fingernails were loosened, and there was some bleeding, but Ernie said it would not interfere with his play. Trainer they lose Thursday in the final warmup before the 30-game exhibition season, the Cuccinellos are camp champs for the fourth successive year. Berry Hits Homer This one was by far the most exciting of the three games and was worth the price of admission an occasional visit to the refreshment stand for the 2,000 Thomann for Spartans AP Wirephotol Nellie Fox, long a fixture on south side of Chicago, takes determined cut yesterday in Cocoa, training base of his new club, Houston Colts. East Lansing, March shooting far off form, Murray Al Scheuneman, who sent Banks State kept boring in, scornful Indiana Picks Twins to a hospital for X-rays, may of the Ramblers' advance billing. Soon the Kentuckians had have different ideas, however, 10 Special Fred Thomann, center from Taylor Center, tonight was named by teammates as most valuable Michigan State basketball player for the 1963-64 season.

and Kennedy, Cubs' head coach, a 21 to 8 advantage in what Bloomington, March IP Special Indiana's Van Arsdale twins, Tom and Dick, so champion of the Tn-County conference, tackle Waukegan in the opening game of that sectional. Evanston will meet St. Patrick of Chicago in the same tourney tomorrow night. St. Patrick, which has won 24 of 26 starts, owns the best record in this field.

At Aurora East, action will start tonight with a meeting between Downers Grove and Elgin, two teams that have lost a total of 14 games. Downers Grove, however, is the real surprise team of the two. The Trojans, fourth place finishers in the West Suburban conference, upset Proviso East, champion of the Suburban league and the state's sixth ranked club, to win its own regional tourney last week. Thornton and Joliet, South Suburban league rivals, will doubted that he would play for Luro should be barred from the tracks for the balance of the Florida racing season on a horse drugging charge. Far-Re aching Implications It also cast a shadow over similar rules in effect in every racing state but New York.

Luro had been suspended temporarily when a urinalysis on Gay Lothario, taken after the horse won Wednesday's 10th race at Gulfstream, revealed the presence of a drug. The stewards, despite evidence that Luro was personally innocent, had no choice but to suspend him under the rule which makes a trainer absolutely responsible for his horses, regardless of any action by a third party. Supreme court records at Tallahassee revealed that the rule was held unconstitutional in a case brought by Joseph J. Palio, a trainer, against the Florida state racing commission. two or three days.

because of a strong wind from center field. "Old Cheerful Self" Kennedy has not mapped out a definite training program Banks Gets 1 Hit "I'm kind of glad now that Report Gun on Liston for Banks, but indicated that tourists in Payne field. Each team made six hits and each recorded three extra base hits for a tying total of 11 extra base hits. Included was a freakish home run by Ken Berry, last of three runs scored in the fifth inning off Mike Joyce, to achieve the deadlock for the Cuccinellos. Bill Burns, farm hand catcher, had hit a pinch single, scoring Gene Stephens, who had walked, and Gerry McNertney, who had doubled to start the rally.

Burns was feeling pretty good about it and was almost picked off first base by Camilo Continued on page 3, col. 1 bordered on an unbelievable occurrence. Fast Break Erupts But then Loyola started acting like a champion. It broke out of its laxity on defense and got its magnificent fast break rolling in for basket after basket. Unfortunately for the Thoro Ernie got some extra hitting the other day," said Kennedy, who recalled that Banks was Fight Decisions he wanted him to play some in every game possible.

In Ernie's best years as a Cub, he played nearly every inning in the batting cage for nearly a half hour over the week-end. Ernie has had only one hit Denver, March 10 Cf) Sonny Liston, former, heavyweight boxing champion, was arrested tonight on charges of speeding, reckless and careless driving, and carrying a concealed weapon. Liston was released after he was taken to jail where he posted $300 cash bond. during spring training, but, at 33, there is something to be LAST NIGHT LONDON Bill Nielse stooped Billy Walker 81. New York Oscar Bonavena, stoooed Wendell Newton, 151.

Police reported finding a seven-shot .22 caliber pistol on Liston. in three exhibition games thus far, a double. But he has hit the ball hard several other breds, this was not a 3-furIong race. And once the Ramblers got going, they pulled away said for pacing himself. Banks, still weighing 192 and Continued on page 2, col.

4 times, and last Saturday open play in the Kankakee meet Continued on page 2, col. 1 he was denied a home run only tonight. (DjcwuL fondon. Chicate Tribune Press Service POMPANO BEACH, March 10 The weird world of professional prize fighting, a racket that would nauseate a rattler, continues to go downhill faster than Satan on a sled. Boxing's greatest need is no longer a gang of 1920 vintage press agents to holler up the attendance did not the commission halt Gay's psychotic tantrums and order an immediate rest to see if his pulse returned to the normal beat of near 60? With Telstar and closed circuit television affixing the eyes of much of the world on this match a match that already was controversial and subject to criticism the Miami Beach commission had a responsibility to exercise a vigilance never before exercised over a boxing match.

For the same reasons, Liston, his physicians, and his associates and managers, if you are able to unravel and identify all of the latter group, were also charged with the responsibility of informing authorities that Liston had been under medication. The bursitis may be a feeble excuse for a decision to quit and default the title so quickly that the Miami Beach commissioners might not have been aware of the mischief transpiring. Worse than that, the hiding of it was a fraud on the public. NOW COMES FLOYD Patterson, the former champion, hollering for a fight with Gay. Sport needs that about as much, as it needs a match between a girl wrestler and an alligator.

If Gay is as strong as his record is touting you to believe, Patterson's chin would crumble like a house of cards. the money I get as commission doctor, I'm not going to expose myself to that kind of treatment." Today, that senior physician, Dr. Alexander Robbins, told The Tribune: "I examined Liston in the presence of his physician. His physician said Liston was in excellent shape. Neither made any mention of bursitis or any other complaint.

I questioned Liston about the knee injury, which forced cancelation of the Liston-Floyd Patterson fight in Miami Beach last winter. Liston said he had not had any trouble. I found his blood pressure and pulse normal." This brought up another question for the commission physician: Hadn't he found Clay with an abnormally fast pulse at the weigh-in physical, a pulse of 120, and why hadn't there been a precautionary check on that? "Clay did have a pulse of 120," said Dr. Robbins. "That was consistent with his appearance at the time.

Clay was perspiring, jumping around, and excited. I would have been worried if his normally slow pulse had not been faster. Gay's normal pulse is between 56 and 66, and as I remember it, we found the pulse was 62 when he went into the ring." THE AFOREMENTIONED makes one wonder about the Miami Beach Boxing commission. Why was only casual mention made of Clay's pulse as in "excess of Why Because altho you may question Gay's ability, you cannot question the strength of Patterson's jaw. The rankest novices found the Patterson jaw an inviting target Ingemar Johansson proved it vulnerable.

Liston proved that the only thing more vulnerable than Patterson's jaw was Patterson's body. Liston twice knocked out Patterson in the first round. In retrospect, one wishes that Patterson could have lasted thru the first round each time so we could have seen if Tiger Liston would come out for the second round. The Illinois Athletic commission brought the first Liston vs. Patterson bout to Chicago despite admonitions that such a match would make the stock yards seem like a perfumery by comparison.

Still the fight came to Chicago. The excuse was that the taxes provided great revenue to our state. There's the answer: Questionable boxing and its questionable characters will be permitted to flourish as long as there is tax revenue and big purses from closed circuit television. But that is hardly the fault of sport It rather is a sad commentary on our present life; in sport, business, even government, today we find that money can accomplish almost anything. It even can destroy integrity.

for a fight, but for fumigators to remove the stench afterwards. It is not unlikely that next year the inventor of D. D. T. will be honored as the man who has done the most for boxing.

As the man who has done the most to boxing, one could nominate Charles Sonny Liston, the mild bull who squatted in the corner like a wallflower while forfeiting his heavyweight championship. Of course, there would be a write-in vote for Cassius X. Clay, the present front runner in the double cross derby. This violent essay has been in Sonny Liston BNMULLINS Who, mo WHENEVER PON'TCHA -EVER GET I FEELTHE SYMPTOMS COMING ONI PLAY rim spired by yesterday's revelation, in Miami, of more chicanery in the Liston-Clay championship bout that infected this state last month. Yesterday, one of Liston's personal physicians revealed that for two months prior to the match, Liston was given daily cortisone treatments for bursitis.

The physician told a Miami newspaper that he believed the medication was terminated a few days before the bout. He further admitted that he was puzzled by the appearance and demeanor of Liston during the fight So were millions of others, including the chumps who paid $250 for ringside pews to watch Liston, the Miami Beach boxing commissioners, and their physicians, all sit on their haunches at the termination of that controversial sixth round. THE MIAMI HERALD collared the senior physician of the boxing commission and yesterday quoted him as not suspecting that Liston had bursitis. The physician was quoted: "Liston was not the most gentle person to examine. He has a very nasty attitude.

For LONESOME VMILE YER i i i i UJLHIIN'? SOME Remember Back When: Everylime you smoked a cig- aret you were pnttinr a nail in your coffin? La of Pontiac. Lone; engagements were more common than short marriages? K. Klover. The little voice inside was called "conscience' instead of pocket radio? The Farmer's Daughter. Ten Years Ago Today Eight new Golden Gloves champions were crowned in Chicago- Stadium before 19,488.

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