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I 250 to Chenery The Suwanee purse was run as a substitute for the $7500 Suwanee river handicap which failed to draw sufficient entries to make a race At the start Hypostyle refused to break and galloped along many lengths behind the field' Specta tors booed as the horse and jockey Logan Batcheller passed im front of the grandstand RANK STRANAHAN ALEX GROZA COUNTS 25 POINTS IN NCAA INAL IN SEATTLE Seattle March 26 With Alex Groza as chief gunner piling in 25 points Kentucky remained na tional collegiate basketball cham pion tonight by crushing Oklahoma A 46 36 LEADS IN $10000 GREENSBORO OPEN Big Alex was a scoring wildman before a howling crowd of 12500 The 6 foot 7 inch senior center wound up his college career by winning unanimous selection as the of the Greensboro March 26 0PI Amateur rank Stranahan the the Toledo Ohio strong boy shot a two under par 69 today to cling to his one stroke lead at the 36 hole mark of the $10000 Greensboro open golf tournament Defending champion Lloyd Man grum of Chicago remained in sec ond place with another 69 for a total of 136 which was matched by Dick Metz Virginia Beach Va veteran who posted his second 68 They in turn were only one stroke ahead of three other play ers South African Bobby Locke Sam Snead White Sulphur Springs Va and George Schnelter of Ogden Utah the PGA tournament bureau manager tournament an done of the day's play over the 6630 yard Star Country club course were touched off by the largest player in the tournament and one of the smallest Burly Clayton Heafner 235 pound Charlotte professional and 140 pound Jerry Barber of Los Angeles exploded record breaking 65s for 138 totals where they were joined by Johnny Palmer Badin who fell off to seventy one today Championship Teams Almost Ignored In All Slate Picks Louisville Ky March 26 The Louisville Courier Journal to night announced the selection of its 1948 49 all state high school bas ketball team and its of the Winning lire coaching honor in the newspaper's poll was Letcher Norton of Clark county The paper said he narrowly beat out Coach Lawrence McGinnis mentor of the state champion Owensboro team Clark county team which was beaten by Owensboro in the recent state tourney here was rated the No 1 team in the state in the Ashland Daily poll conducted by John McGill and carried by the Associated Press There was no Louisville player picked on the all state team and none on the second and third teams On the all state cage squad are Cliff Hagan Owensboro Eu gene Clatk Ashland: Mason Cope Brewers Dickie Prater Pikeville rank Ramsey Madisonville Gayle Rose Paris: George Cooke Maysville Jim Wells Clark coun ty Dwight Price University High of Lexington and Leon English Sharpe The second team: Dan Swartz Owingsville Billy Parrott Bards town: Lindle Castle Clark County Bob Mulcahy Lexington Lafayette Albert White Meade Memorial: Richard White Scottsville Willard Hundemer Bellevue: Wallace Low ry Eminence: Ray McPherson Covington and John Parrott Be1 County The third team: Ivan Butcher Meade Memorial: Bill airchild Inez Harold Brooks' Corbin Bob Heim Newport Catholic: Belty Massey Somerset Joe McMurtry Tompkinsville Glen Jeffrey Mur ray: Don McGuire Hazard John Buckner Shelbyville and Harvey Hackworth Madison Central OWENSBORO SPORTSCENTER GETS WRESTLING LICENSE Louisville Ky March 26 George Wetherby director of the state athletic board of control an nounced today he has granted a wrestling license to the Owensboro Sportscentcr Wrestling club William Thompson was listed as director of the club Sports Writers awed by his dis play of scoring voted him the honor without a dissent Coach Hank Oklahoma Ag gies drew first blood and held an early lead of 5 2 but when Groza and Kentucky began to roll the final outcome was plain The big guy hit a lay ln added a free throw point to tie it up then inter cepted a pass and outraced the Aggies for the basket that put his team ahead By the half it was 25 20 our minutes after the start of the second half the last Oklahoma hope went glimmering when lanky Bob Harris fouled out By that time Kentucky was ten points to the good 31 21 rom there on the Wild cats appeared content to coast When Harris left Coach Adolph Rupp pulled Groza to the bench the big fellow having four fouls Eight minutes before the finish Rupp sent him back and Groza added ten counters to the fifteen he collected in the first half He fouled out after only three minutes more of play The Aggies worked smoothly in the opening minutes cracking the Kentucky defense open for lay in shots which they could not convert Rupp solved style of attack by halftime and the Aggies did not get a field goal for 13 minutes in the second half Three minutes from the end Oklahoma lost scrappy Parks on fouls and Kentucky stalled the rest of the way Nobody came close to scoring efforts Harris and Parks each had seven when they left the game orward Jack Shelton of the Aggies was second man to Groza with 12 Speed by all hands and the dyna mite of Alex Groga under the boards carried Wild cats to a 25 20 halftime lead It took Kentucky all of a minute and a half to score and three more minutes to overtake the Aggies at 5 all Then big Alex who counted fifteen points in the first half put the defending NCAA champions in front at 7 5 and A never caught up Kentucky TP Jones 1 1 3 3 Line 2 1 3 5 Groza 9 7 5T 25 Beard 1 1 4 3 Barker 1 3 4 5 Barnstable 1 1 1 3 Hirsch 1 0 1 2 Totals 16 14 21 46 Okla A TP Yates 1 0 1 2 Shelton 3 6 4 12 Harris 3 1 5 7 Bradley 0 3 3 3 Parks 2 3 5 7 Jaquet 0 1 0 1 McArthur 0 2 1 2 Pilgrim 0 2 1 2 Smith 0 0 1 0 Totals 9 18 21 36 ree throws missed: Parks Gro za Line Jones 2 Beard Bradley 3 Jaquet Shelton Technical foul against Ken tucky Coach Rupp charged to Capt Groza Shots attempted: Kentucky 57 Oklahoma A 34 Illinois Beats Oregon State Seattle March 26 The Uni verslty of Illinois came from be hind to squeeze past Oregon State college tonight 57 53 and earn third place in the National Collegiate Athletic association's basketball finals NEW ARRIVALS Congratulations on the at the Owensboro Daviess County hos pital of: a son to Mr and Mrs Sylves ter Wright 1921 McClarty avenue March 25 a daughter to Mr and Mrs Elbert Oglesby 1127 Moseley street March 25 a daughter to Mr and Mrs Lincoln Travis Bernard St Joseph Ky March 26 REILLS or EVERSHARP BALLPOINT PENS WAHL EVERSHARP SLIM JIM and POCKETTE ELITE CIGAR CO 318 rederica Si Phone 650 NEWSPAPERS MAGAZINES Army Is Testing New Wonder Drug In Malaya (Continued rom Page One) and safe in treating scrub typhus and typhoid fever (a bacterial dis ease) as the natural one was found to be almost a year ago by the same scientists The team also will see If the new product can be used also to pre vent scrub typhus which struck thousands of Yanks in the South Pacific during the last war the new tests' are success said the army new possibilities may open up for treat ment of other febrile i fever) dis eases caused by rickettsial organ (Not only has the natural drug proved potent against epidemic and scrub typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever but it also has shown promise against still another typhus disease called or flea borne typhus (It also is the first effective drug weapon to be found for curing typhoid fever a bacterial disease) The army reviewed the record of the natural which also has shown experimental promise Members of the board of direct ors of the Green River A will leave today for Louisville to attend the annual meeting of the Kentucky Rural Electric Coopera tive corporation at the Brown hotel March 28 29 and 30 Attending will be: A Cecil president Oscar Camp vice president Crutcher secretary Leet and Robert Reid members and Miller manager Registration will be held in the hotel lobby from 9 a to 12 noon Monday The program at the first general session which will be held in the Crystal ballroom be ginning at 9 a with Charles Stewart president presiding follows: Address of w'elcome Mayor Charles arnsley presi report Qharles Stewart secretary report Mar vin DeBell demonstration on light ing Westinghouse report of execu tive manager Smith dem onstration on running water film General Electric Supply Corpora tion address Look Into the Phillip Ardery state wide attorney Barkley Clements Speakers ollowing luncheon the second general session will open at 12:30 with President Stewart presi Ing Claude Wickard A administrator will give an address also Keen Johnson former gover and Clark McWhorter presi dent of the Reynolds Metals Co A Heard About Town Amos Owensboro oil con tractor has started drilling on the Zack Terrell farm about a mile outside the city on the Leitchfield road It will be a 1600 foot Me Closky test Owner of the lease the and Oil company New port Ky Miss Marjorie McManus student director was a member of the staff at Colorado college Denver Colo producing the annual all school resh man play recently She is a daugh ter of Mrs Paul Held 1535 Mill court Several members of the Owens boro Military Advisory committee attended roundtable and dinner meetings yesterday of the state organization in Louisville Among them were Criley Mayor Glenn Lovern John Polkinghorn Hugh Whitaker Major Richard Carver oust Mrs Logan Miss Anna Williams Mrs Bennett James Elliott Capt Acy Murray and Mr and Mrs Jeff Bryant Dr Haynes Barr will address the nurses of Owensboro and sur rounding territory on socialized medicine and how it concerns the nurse at 8 Monday at Our Lady of Mercy hospital All inter ested nurses are invited to attend A defective wiring resulted in a blaze and a run by the trucks of the fire department at 12:20 a today to the apartment of George Randolph 224 West Ninth street The damage was small MACEO HOMEMAKERS LIST PROJECTS OR NEXT YEAN Tire Maceo Homemakers club met at the school riday afternoon There were fourteen members and two visitors present Including Mrs Walter Wood and Mrs Goebel Bartlett Devotionals were led by Mrs Dillehay The thought for the day was given by Mrs Houston Miller The club voted a $10 donation to the Cancer Control oundation $5 to the Red Cross and $1 to the Youth Ex change program The club will pro vide fifty sandwiches for the 4 club rally April 22 The program topics for next year were voted upon and include health plain sew ing home improvement speech improvement The recreation peri od was directed by Mrs Miller The major project the Easier was given by Mrs Taylor Refreshments were served by a group of Maceo 4 girls under the direction of Mrs Clarence Carter The banana actually is a gigantic herb according to the Encyclopedia Britannica Licensed Sanilone Cleaners NATIONAL CLEANERS 1604 Triplett Phone 821 Special 1 Day Service agams certain viruses and some stubborn bacteria like those that cause whooping cough and undu lant fever (Victory over any of the viruses would be a remarkable achieve ment because these wily organ isms have resisted all the big guns in medicine's artillery including penicillin and streptomycin) it is too early to ven ture to predict the future uses of said the army swift rise to acclaim in the field of chemotherapy suggests lim itless possibilities and gangrene caused by gas bacillus are among those conditions which it is hoped will respond to treatment with the new antibiotic la term describing a substance derived from a living organism which is then used to destroy other is continuing at the army medical research and graduate school to test Chloromycetin in the treatment of a virus in fection similar to (virus) pneumo nia which developed in epidemic form among American troops in Italy in demonstration on electric cooking by Smith Distributing Co and a television demonstration by the Southern Products corporation will be held Open house will be held in the roof garden from 5 to 7:30 with special entertainment courtesy of the Blue Grass engi neers Lexington Ky Among the speakers Tuesday morning will be Murray Lincoln president of the Cooperative league and Clark McWhorter presi dent NRECA Governor Earle Clements is scheduled for an ad dress at 2:15 'in Tuesday and Alben Barkley vice president of the United States will give an address at a banquet to be held at 6:30 in the Crystal ballroom The guest speaker will be Wilson Wyatt attorney Election of offi cers will be held Tuesday after nocn Dancing in the Crystal ball root 'll close the day I Programs or Women Cooper Lexington former Senator will give an address at 11 a Wednesday and the meeting is scheduled to close at noon Special entertainment will be provided for the women guests A reception will be held in the roof garden this afternoon a luncheon in the Crystal ballroom Monday: tea and fashion show in the Orchid room by the Stewart Dry Goods company Tuesday and Wednesday program will be held Mrs A Cutter Word was received here of the death of Mrs Arvilla Cutter mother of Mrs Marvin Pugh ol Owensboro who died at her home in Washington Thursday uneral services and burial were held Saturday in Washington" 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