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Malemutes Capture Western Alaska Basketball Championship Fairbanks Will Play Mt. Edgecumbe Here This Week The Fairbanks High School Malemutes- last night won the right to play for the All-Alaska Championship this weekend against the Mt. Edgecumbe fiigh School team from Sitka for the state basketball title. The surprising Malemutes, after a mediocre season in Railbelt Conference play, which saw them wind up with an eight win and eight loss record took the West Anchorage Eagles into camp last night by a score of 46-38 and placed the second period on a long shot by Les McNamee and then upped it to 15-11 on a shot from the key by Maxwell, Last Lead A long shot by Ken Miller and a two-hander by Kuhns tied the score but Jim Martin again put his team ahead by two points until Miller tied the score again, 17-17. A foul shot by Maxwell put Anchorage ahead 18-17 for the last time.

Kuhns scored from the outside with 2:49 remaining in the half the Malemutes pulled tournament basketball team, away to lead 26-24 at halftime. Both teams tightened up in the second half but Fairbanks got off to a good start to take a seven point lead before the The victory, the fourth in six days for Fairbanks was enough to give them the Western Alaska Champipnship over during regular season play, but the inspired Malemutes avenged those defeats in the all-important tournament by downing West twice, 62-61 and then last night by the score of .4638. The Mt. Edgecumbe team, winners of the Southeastern Tournament that ended Saturday left Sitka this morning and are due in Fairbanks today to play the Malemutes, Thursday, Friday and Satur- trouble in the gj-jj 1 the favored West team. West Eagles could score in the half.

beat Fairbanks four behind the shooting 1 of Farris held a 38-32 lead at the three-quarter mark. Fairbanks stalled the bail in the final quarter trying to protect their lead against the explosive Anchorage squad and found themselves in ul with 3:32 remaining game and not having scored a point while West netted two field goals to make the score 38-36 and Dick Farris fouling out of the game. First Point At the 3:31 mark Kuhns finally scored a one-point foul shot for Fairbanks but less than three minutes day. Play was so close and the ability of the players was so even that president of the Western Alaska Activities Assn. Joe Montgomery of Anchorage found himself presenting trophies to 11 members of the all-tournament team.

The four Malemutes picked on the squad were Dick Farris, Carl Erickson. Larry Kuhns and Ken Miller. From West Anchorage -the coaches 'chose Lee Maxwell, Dick Unruh and Les McNamee. East placed with Herman (Tunk) Jones and Rod Steele. Bill Damery of Kodiak made the team as did Ross '7 nc th Vrlouf shotlor the McKeckme of Palmer.

Kodiak score 46 3g i won the sportsmanship award. Capacity Crowd Despite the early starting time of 5 p.m. last night the Lathrop School gym was packed almost to capacity to see the finals of the tourna- of Fairbanks Daily Mews lilinen 8 Newi-Miner, TueicUy, Mirch 10, 1959 NCAA tournament Starts Tonight With Five Games By OHIO KOBERTSOH Associated Press Sports Writer The NCAA, with all 23 brack- i Third- ranked Cincinnati, which beat NIT-bound St. Louis 57-50 earlier in the sea- J. 1JC Vt IblI all Vi ets filled, gets down to the son, Tiad to go all out to wrap business of picking its 1959! up its second straight appear- champion tonight with a triple- ance in the NCAA postseason WESTERN ALASKA CHAMPIONS The Fairbanks Malemutes, victors, over the Anchorage West team last night by a score of 46-38 line up for the presentation of trophies following the championship game.

From left to right- Ken Miller, Jesse Jefferson, Carl Erickson, Rick Downing, Mark Atkins Phil Ramos, Larry Kuhns, Dick Farris, Andy Bachner, Coach Dick McCormick and Managers Bob Clasby and George Gardner, Miller Erickson, Kuhns ami Farris made the all-tournament team. This team will play Mt. Edgecumbe of Sitka this weekend, beginning Thursday, for the first State championship. Vnt Mw Phoio Phtr Dick Unruh made two left foul MATS Hold Cage Tourney Sports in Brief By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Track and Field MILWAUKEE Ireland's Ron Delany won the Journal Mile in 4:05.4 with a last-turn MOSES LAKE, March that left Istvan Rozsavol- (ft boxers prepared jgyi four yards behind. to get into the swing of things here Monday night as the Military Transport Service boxing championships got under way.

Eight bouts were completed on the first day of the four- day meet and at the end of the night Scott AFB of Illinois NS Collins of Baltimore scored a shots to bring Anchorage with in one point, 39-38. A foul shot by Atkins gave Fairbanks a two-point bulge and then a driving laying by Carl Erickson and the Malemutes only field goal of the final quarter gave them a four point spread with 1:33 remaining. In the last half minute three uuire imnoa anu -1 sh eItonTesigned after 20 years clutch foul shots by Phil Ramos Azores Air Station close os coachingfa basketball at-the Archie Picks Up Purse ODESSA, Tex. March 10, W) Yankees, Braves Favored in Betting Circles LAS VEGAS, March 10, circles in this) header in New York and two games at Lexington, Ky. The field was completed Monday night when Cincinnati qualified as the Missouri Valley Conference representative and New Mexico State won the Border Conference playoff.

Cincinnati turned back St. i Louis 66-59 for a 13-1 confer- jence record although all-America Oscar Robertson sat out the last seven minutes with I five fouls after scoring 22 points. Big "0" ended the regular season as the nation's I No. 1 major college scorer with a 33.2 average. Border Title New Mexico State defeated Arizona State University 78-57 for the Border title and a 1710 over-all mark.

I With the NCAA landing bas- coveted Oscar, the VERO BEACH Fla. Invitation Tourna- competition. Second-ranked Kansas State, the Big Eight champion, also completed its regular season Dy downing Nebraska 76-54. All-America -Bob Boozer collected 29 points to raise his average to 25.9. Joe Kelly paced New Mexico State as the Aggies hit on 50 per cent of their field goal attempts in running away from the Sun Devils.

Campy Says Camp Okay gambling resort Collins ot Baltimore scored a helpless in less tnan inree three-stroke victory in the Monday night then talk- 000 New Orleans Open with about a fight with Middle- icA. j.v, World's Light Heavyweight York and Milwaukee to win Champion Archie Moore picked the American and National up an easy $5,500 by punching League baseball pennants. wrestler Sterling Dizzy Davis I The latest American League three I odds are: New York 2-o, cles in tisj Tra ining camn life favor New helpless in less than 72-hole total of 280 eight un der par. led the team standings. Lar- Basketball son AFB was second with Me- Guire AFB, Illinois and the), CHEYENNE, Wvo.

Ev who came into the ball game for Farris iced the game for the Malemutes with Atkins hit ment. Mark Atkins started the scoring with 15 seconds gone in the game with a one-hander from outside. Lee Maxwell of Anchorage made a foul shot and then Dick Farris and Larry Kuhns both hit for Fairbanks giving the Male routes a 6-1 lead. West Anchorage came back and tied the score three times in the quarter and the period 11-11. Anchorage took the lead with 1 minute and a half gone- in final score of 46-38.

Anchorage coach, Bill Mar- ineson pulled his first team! the last half minute, ap- 1 larently giving up in disgust. The win for the happy Male- mutes was their fourth in 12 games against the two Anchorage teams this year and gives Coach Dick McCormick sweet evenge for the past defeats ind gives Fairbanks an oppor- unity to play for the first championship of Alaska. hind. Champions in the finals Thursday night will compete in the All-Air Force World Wide Boxing Tourna-j ment. Winners there enter the) American Athletic Union fi-j as Air Force representa- University of Wyoming.

Hockey weight Ray Robinson. Moore swarmed the 212- pound wrestler, a former boxer, knocked him down three times in the second round and won on a technical knockout in one minute of the third, when Davis suffered cuts over his eyes. A crowd of 2,000 turned out to watch a fight Cleveland 4-1, Detroit 4-1, Chicago 8-1, Boston 12-1, Baltimore 30-1, Kansas City 100-1, Washington 100-1. National League: Milwaukee 1-2, Pittsburgh 3-1, San Francisco 4-1, Los Angeles 4-1, St. Louis 10 -1, Cincinnati 12 -1, Philadelphia 30-1, Chicago 50-1.

PRAGUE Czechoslovakia--- fc defeated the united seems to be good therapy for Roy Campanella, the Dodgers' great catcher now confined to a wheelchair -from auto accident injuries. He smiles often. And he indicated Monday he's pleased Al Johnson May Contend tar Title J.UH1W.I.1UI1 i NEW YORK, March 10, meat field of 12 was eme mber the the addition of onzo Johnson He nlay runner-up in the Missouri Val- P(W tPnrW runner-up ley. Bradley had a 12-2 conference record. After tonight's tripleheader at New York's Madison Square Garden and the doubleheader at Lexington, it will take a at the aggressive approach to at Lexington, it will take a catching John Roseboro has'single game Wednesday nignt begun to assure under his tut-j at Las Cruces, N.M.

to re- rhQ TiolH fnr fhf oring. duce the field to-16 for the rvfmnv'c aicn piatpd ahruir the four regional tournaments Campy also elated aoouti the tribute Dlannedita'him in I starting Friday at Charlotte, The one-sided win earned ne 7 IN.C, Evanston, 111., Lawrence, rangy youngster an April 6 heavyweight contender within a year. The 23-year-old former National AAU Champion from Pittsburgh stretched his winning streak to 10 Monday night by pitching a near shutout against veteran Jimmy Slade New York at St. Nicholas luulljliijl jArena. The one-sided win earned the Los Angeles May 7.

Basketball and San Francisco. fight at St. Nicks against Billy Exhibition Major League Baseball By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cincinnati 7, Los Angeles 2 Philadelphia Washington 1 Detroit St. Louis 0 Milwaukee 1, New York 6 Chicago (A) 7, Pittsburgh 5 Kansas City Baltimore 1 5-1, Canada blanked Fin land 6-0, and Czechoslovakia defeated Sweden 4-1 in first round games of the final series for the World's Amateur Championship. Racing ARCADIA, Calif.

($9.80) scored a nose victory in a blanket three horse finish in the $52,350 San 'Bernardino Handicap at Santa Anita. mat went Moore said he would return A mn to San Diego today start i iwMn, ft fitrhf luifn Hnnin- ct T) S1 Univ city 11 appreciate even more I thoughtfulness that prompted Game Lineup wonderful thing." In pro about two years, Johnson displayed an accurate and left jab, a crisp Jeft nook, working on a fight with Robinson. If he can't get that, he said, he would seek another scrap with Vvon Durelle, the Canadian, whom he knocked out last December. Cornell fencer Raoul Sudre, a 5-foot-7 junior, comps from Casablanca. He weighs pounds.

Central (Okls) SI 72, Kentucky St 45 Pacific Lutheran 78, Western Montana 40 Arkansas Stale Teachers 70, PlkeSvlllu (Ky) 67 Indians State 87, Mornlngslde ti Minnesota Duluth 87, Austin Sherman, Tex. Fort Hays State 73, Westminster (Utah) 40 West Virginia Wesleyan Whlltler (Call!) Cincinnati 64, St. Louis SI Kansas State 76, Nebraska i4 sti et a a CrIS et AT NEW YORK-West and lenty of pojse He worked mia (25-4) vs Dartmouth (22- immv over the head anr bodv Oklahoma 43, Colorado 1 5 f)tMissouri 68, lows Stale 47 Niagara 78, Buffalo 66 Williams 65, Amherst riwni By THE New YorK Alonro Johnson, 188, Pittsburgh, outpointed Jimmy Slade, 174Vj, New York. 10. Providence, R.I.

Roger Harvey, U2Vj, Hamilton, Bermuda outpointed Walter Byars, H5, Boston, 10, Lake Worth, Fie. Tony Paddron, 126, Caracas, Venezuela, outpointed Ray Estepa, 129, Miami, 10. Sydney, Australia Willie Vsuorm, 160, Los Angeles, stopped Freddie Cross, 160, Wales, 10. ton University (18-6), North Carolina (20-4) vs Navy (16-5). AT LEXINGTON Eastern Kentucky (16-5) vs Louisville (16-10), Bowling Green (18-7) vs Marquette (22-4).

Wednesday night Idaho State (19-6) tackles New Mexico State (17-10) at Las Cruces. with Judge Joe Agn (same as the A Brunello made eree Barney Johnson's rec Slade's 26-17-4. knockdowns, over the left Jimmy over the head and body Slade was cut The best-known secret in brewing Tennessee Bids for Third Title KANSAS CITY, March 10, The Tennessee State Tigers open their bid for an unprecedented third straight National Intercollegiate Basketball title tonight and if they follow he early script in the six-day tournament they will make "the grade. The Tigers, with three members of their championship lineup still in harness, will meet capable but not too tall Nebraska Wesleyan (23-4). The Tigers have a 27-1 record.

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