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5 THE NEWS-HERALD Franklin and Oil City, Pa. Monday, March 4, 1957 'Happy Daze' Upcoming For College Cage IFans Grady Wallace of South Carolina line runper-up, will receive a bid to the NIT. NIT Chairman Walter McLaughlin admitted the Madison Square Garden carnival, which opens March 16, is "very much inter-j By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer It's "happy daze' for college basketball fans this week with the wild wind-up of the regular court season and the hectic start of post-season tournament time. Eight major conference champi onships are on the line, starting tonight with the Big Ten crown that Michigan State can clinch by walloping old rival Michigan. The National Invitation Tournament may add its 10th team today, and the NCAA tourney now has filled 14 of its 23 berths.

The NCAA's brand-new "small college" tournament blazes into full-scale action Tuesday night with 15 first-round games, all at different sites. Utah To NIT? Michigan State and Brigham Young clinched NCAA berths Saturday, State by gaining at least a tie for the Big Ten crown and Brigham Young by nailing down the Skyline Conference title Thats expected to mean that Utah, Sky La I Tebbetts Rejects 'Larsen Fad' For Hacker; Prefers Windmill CLEVELAND-BOUND EAGLES. The Franklin Eagles will send a two -team entry for the first time to the Eagles International Tournament the Linz's Superior Lanes in Cleveland. The annual handicap tournament started last weekend and runs until May with more than 700 Eagles members from all the states and Canada competing. Franklin will enter the team double and single events and is scheduled to bowl the evening of March 30 and the morning of March 31.

Front row, left to right, are Larry Mong, Charlie Deremiah, Al Seaholm and Bill Baellic. Back row, left to right, are John Boughner, Len Sopher, Bob Wood, Jim Cameron, Joe Cetta and Wally Moore. (News-Herald Photo) Beetles Win 1st at YMCA; Larry Beightol's Beetles started the second half of the 1st National Junior Basketball League at the YMCA by recording their first win of the season, a 40-28 gem over Billy Richardson's Sleepers. Chuck Snell's Chuckers defeated Sonny Buck's Buckaroos, fighting off a strong second half surge to win, 43-34. The Exchange League for Grade School boys saw the Globetrotters nose out the Toppers 36-30 while the Apaches walloped the Knights 35-13.

In both the Midget and Junior High loops, special instruction was given to the boys by Carl Davis, Bill Graff and Jack Aiken with emphasis on dribbling and passing drills. Informal inter-squad games were then played with every boy participating in the gaojes. Midgets Exchange League Apaches 1 0 Globetrotters 1 0 Knights 0 1 Toppers 0 1 Juniors 1st National League 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 Chuckers Beetles Buckaroos Sleepers Schedule for Saturday, March 9: 8:30 Midget Group; Exchange League: 9:15 Globetrotters vs. Apaches; 10:00 Knights vs. Toppers.

1st National League: Junior group at Sleepers vs. Chuckers; Beetles vs. Buckaroos. Tourney Hopeful Dukes Host Owls By UNITED PRESS Duquesne of Pittsburgh and Temple of Philadelphia place their chances for a post-season tournament on the line when they meet tonight at the Pitt Field House. Both the Dukes (15-7) and the Owls (18-6) are hopeful of a bid to the National Invitational Tour-nament.

Tonight's result could be the clincher. The Owls defeated Duquesne, 64-60, at Philadelphia earlier this season. Meanwhile, the Pitt Panthers still waited hopefully for a bid to the NCAA tournament. The Panthers ended their season Saturday night with a convincing 80-65 victory over Penn State at University Park. Pitts record is 13-9.

MINNEAPOLIS: Former great basketball star George Mikan intimated that Ben Berger, Minne. apolis Lakers owner might be discriminating against him in his efforts to purchase the Lakers' franchise now up for sale. ended the regular season with '44 points in a 113-85 rout of Clcmson Saturday, push'ng his average to 31.0. He now goes into the ACC tourney, but runner-up Joe Gibbon of Mississippi (30.05) is finished and can only hope Wallace slips Kansas Clinches Tie Third-place Elgin Baylor of Seattle (30.0) has NIT play remaining; fourth-place Wilt Chamberlain of Kansas (29.29) has two regular then probably tournament play; and fifth place diet Forte of Columbia (28.64) has two regular games left. The victories by Michigan State and Brigham Young were pressed for top Saturday night honors by those of Kansas and St.

Louis. Kansas clinched at least a tie for the Big Seven crown by rallying to beat Colorado, 68-57, as Chamberlain scored 31 points, and St. Louis clinched at least a tie for the Missouri Valley title by routing Houston, 102-84, as Joe Todd scored 27. Basketball Slate Tomorrow SCHOLASTIC Cranberry vs. Mercer, at Meadville, 8 p.

Tri-County League title at stake. St. Joe vs. St. Agatha at Mercer, 8 p.

Erie Diocese Western Division challenge round. COLLEGE RESULTS EAST St. Peters 99 Wagner 77 Canisius 80 Niagara 67 Dartmouth 75 Princeton 74 Fordham 76 Seton Hall 75 Syracuse 100 Colgate 70 Yale 75 Harvard 67 Pittsburgh 80 Penn St. 65 Columbia 83 Penn. 66 Cornell 82 Brown 50 Navy 53 Army 47 MIDWEST Iowa St.

69 Kans. St. 67 Ohio St. 84 Northestern 70 Oklahoma 70 Missouri 68 Purdue 85 Wisconsin 66 Michigan 83 Iowa 79 Bradley 103 Detroit 93 Michigan St. 76 Indiana 61 Minnesota 86 Illinois 75 SOUTH Louisville 91 Toledo 56 Kentucky 93 Tennessee 75 S.Carolina 113 Clemson 84 N.C.

State 75 Wake Forest 71 SOUTHWEST St. Louis 102 Houston 84 TCU 74 Texas 60 Oklahoma AM 69 Wichita 63 SMU 87 Arkansas 59 Tulsa 85 Drake 70 WEST Kansas 63 Colorado 57 Oregon St. 70 Washington St. 49 S. Cal.

71 Oregon 62 Stanford 71 Idaho 63 LONDON (UP)- Harold Connol ly, America's Olympic hammer throwing champion, hopes to mar ry Olga Figotova, Czechoslovakia's Olympic women's discus throwing champion, and settle down in Boston. Celtics Clinch East NBA Title Sports Parade By OSCAR FRALEY the other two berths will go to: The winner of tonight's Duquesne-Temple game in Pittsburgh, and the runner-up in the Missouri Valley Conference, wljich isn't decided yet. Only action in the "small college" tourney tonight finds City College of New York at Mt. St. Mary's of Maryland.

The NAIA small-college tournament, which opens at Kansas City, Mo March 11, today announced six of its 32 teams West Virginia Tech, Southeastern Oklahoma, Louisiana College of Pineville, Troy (Ala), State, Stetson (Fla), and New Haven (Conn) St. The titles and tourney talk stole the spotlight from the major-college scoring race, this weekend, but that remains as hot and wide-open as ever. in 1953, and made him into a pitcher won his first 13 decisions and finished the campaign as a 19-game winner And Tebbetts is certain he'll give Cincinnati its first National League pennant since 1941 if he gets similar results with Hacker. The Milwaukee and Brooklyn Dodgers were also taking special interest in a couple of pitchers comebacks Chet Nichols and Ralph Branca. Nichols, the NLs earned run leader as a rookie, pitched one-hit ball for four innings in Sunday's intro-squad game and reported the sore shoulder which bothered him last season felt fine.

Branca, only 31 despite the fact he was a 21-game winner 'way back in 1947, pitched two scoreless innings in the Dodgers' first intra-camp game and wdn a promise from Manager Walt Alston that he'll be given "every opportunity" to make the team. WEEKEND SPORTS NEW YORK: Villanova won the IC4A team championship and Ron Delany captured the a run and the two-mile event before ,000 track fans at Madison Square Garden. 7 WASHINGTON: Rep. William E. Miller (R-NY) called for a complete congressional probe of professional sports, with the emphasis on pro-football.

DAYTONA BEACH, National champion Joe Leonard flashed to a new record, winning the annual Daylona Beach 200-mile motorcycle race. Travelers Bow In Loop Close Oil City's Travelers wound up their WPIBL season Saturday night in Indiana with a 76-72 loss to Indiana Legion. It was the fourth straight time Indiana had defeated the Travs this season. Bob Ungren scored 20 points for OC to take game scoring honors. With the exception of two Indiana games, the loop season is complete.

WPIBL Standings Indiana Legion 12 2 Franklin Re-Arm 13 3 Oil City Travelers 7 9 Fredonia Seidle 4 12 Meadville Eagles 2 12 O.C. Y-Travelers FG FP FT TP Hynes 10 12 Ungren 9 2 2 20 Kraft 5 5 7 15 Hartz 6 1 4 13 D. McFadden 5 4 6 14 H. McFadden 3 0 2 6 By UNITED PRESS Manager Birdie Tebbetts of the Cincinnati Redlegs rejected the "Don Larsen no-windup fad today when he set out to rewrite the Brooks Lawrence Story with Warren Hacker in the starring role. Tebbetts' strategy is' the direct opposite of Larsen's "perfect game tactics" which have caught on with so many other pitchers.

Specifically, Birdie wants Hacker to elaborate on his normally moderate windup and perhaps produce something akin to the Bobo New-som windmill delivery. The fact that the 33-year old Hacker had a 3-13 record for the Chicago Cubs doesn't scare Tebbetts in the least. Only a year ago he took Lawrence, who had a 3-8 mark for the St. Louis Cardinals Loblciws Is 1st In Bowling Loop Honors were divided four ways in the Wednesday Industrial Bowling 'League last week. McKissick took team high (779) single, Colonial team high (2254) triple, Ward Sucher of Brown Boiler individual single high (193) and George Sperry of Loblaws high series (315).

Other team highs: W. Collins, McKissick, 184; J. Wilson, Shaw Industries, 174; L. Whitman, Colo-, nial, 179; B. Wheeling, Shingle-decker, 161; R.

Weaver, Super Value, 180; and Dickinson, Joy, 150. Standings: Loblaws, 20-4; McKissick, Shaw, Wti-IVi 13-11; Brown Boiler, 13-11; Shingledeckcr, 7-17; Super Value, Vk-Wk; Joy, 6-18. By UNITED PRESS After 11 frustrating years, the Eastern Division championship of the National Basketball Association today belongs to the Boston Celtics. Boston blasted Rochester, 111-102, Sunday to cop its first division title in 11 years. Ex-All-American Bifl Russell was the standout performer for the Celts, garnering 30 points and 24 rebounds.

Other games saw the Syracuse Nats, led by Dolph Schayes' record-breaking 47 points, down Philadelphia 112-86, to deadlock the Warriors for second place. The St. Louis Hawks revived dormant title hopes, defeating first-place Fort Wayne, 112-102, to move within a game and one-half of the Pistons. A 71-point second half splurge gave the Minneapolis Lakers a 119-108 win over the New York Knickerbockers as Dick Garmak-er scored 29. Cage Tourney Planners Meet Members of the YMCA Basket ball Committee are scheduled to meet tonight at 9:00 in the local association, preparing for the 2nd Annual Invitational Basketball Championships, March 11-16.

Chairman Wayne Harton, Bob Davis, Vince Curran, King Richardson, Carl Davis, Rich Vidun-as, Jim Hedglin and Walter Thomas are handling the general committee details. The committee is hopeful that at least eight teams will register for both divisions High School and Open before the deadline this Wednesday, when drawings will be made. All proceeds from the tournament will go towards defraying the cost of conducting a newly planned YMCA-American Legion Baseball program for the youth of this area 15 to 18 years of age. Gil Turner vs. Gwin NEW YORK (UP)-Gil Turner seasoned Philadelphia middle-weiglit, is favored at 11-5 to beat Rudy Gwin of Cleveland at St.

Nicholas Arena tonight because of Rudy's meagre professional B. Foyer 0 2 2 2 Totals 29 14 24 72 Indiana FG FP FT TP McDonald 3 2 2 8 Anderson 5 1 2 11 Bulas 4 6 6 14 Lezanic 8 1 4 17 Vitalie 5 2 2 12 Stapleton 0 12 1 Crosson 5 3 5 13 Totals 30 16 23 76 y.Travelers 12 24 20 16-72 Indiana 19 27 16 1476 NEW YORK (UP)-Listen to the fight mob and they'll tell you that Garnett (Sugar) Hart, a Philadelphia welterweight with Elivs Presley sideburns, is the hottest fistic item since Sugar Ray Robinson. Hart is the moustachioed slugger you'll gander on television Friday night when he meets Walt Byars, another 21-year-old from Boston, in the 10-round feature from Madison Square Garden. The word is that Hart, a rock 'n roll record collector, will rock and that Byars will roll. New Faces Needed One thing is certain, boxing can use some good new faces, particu larly the kind which don't cut too easily or get flattened out too quickly.

Too often the "new Rob-'insons" or the "new Billy Petrel-los" become shopworn before the cellophane is off their hopes. But Hart looks to most of the experts as if he's a cinch to make the big grade. Fast and graceful in the Robinson manner, and with a similar wasp-waisted "built," the five-foot 11-inch pulverizer has won 19 of his 20 professional bouts 17 of them by knockouts and the last seven in a row by drawing the curtains on his opponent. Once known as "Skinny to his schoolmates, Hart got into boxing Are you listening, Maxie? because of girls. It seems that a gymnasium opened in his neighborhood and the local lassies would line up adoringly at the plate glass window in the front to watch the local heroes train.

Well, Hart wanted the gals to look at him, too So he became an amateur and, in between itmes when he was posing in the plate glass window, won the National AAU lightweight and welterweight titles. Ready To Fight Anyone "He's ready right now to fight any welterweight in the world, including Carmen Basilio," lauded Teddy Brenner, the St. Nick's matchmaker, after Hart bombed out former contender Hector Constance, whose victims include Kid Gavilan and Tiger Jones. "I'm only 21 and I'm in no hurry," publicly says Hart, who privately thinks he can whip any vvelterweight extant. "Maybe by (fall." 1HE RfllQ Most glamorous car In a generation Lossless Tarheels Still Top Ratings NEW YORK (UP)-The United Press college basketball ratings (2ith first-place votes and won-lost records through March 2 in parentheses): Team Points 1.

North Carolina (26) (24-0 341 2. Kansas (7) (19-2) 305 3. Kentucky (1) (22-4 264 4. SMU (21-3) 232 5. UCLA (21-4) 130 6.

Seattle (22-2) 128 7. California (18-4) 86 V. Michigan State (14-7) 85 9. Louisville (1) (20-5) 80 10. Bradley (19-5) 67 Second 10 teams: 11, St.

Louis, 46; 12 (tie), Dayton, West Virginia and Indiana, 19 each; 15 (tie), Brigham Young and Vanderbilt, 33 each; 17 (tie). Notre Dame and Kansas State, 12 each; 19, Iowa State, 11; Ohio State, 9. Others: Oklahoma City Utah, Canisius and Washington, 5 each; Xavier (Ohio) and Oklahoma A 3 each; Manhattan, Idaho State, Morehead (Ky) State, Iowa and NYU, 1 each. Jenkins Wins Title David Jenkins, 20, kept men's world figure skating championship in the United States Saturday night with his flawless display before 3,000 in the Broad-moore Ice Palace. His brother, Hayes Alan Jenkins, won the championship from 1953 through 1956, but did not compete last last week.

MIAMI: Bold Ruler, ridden by Eddie Arcaro, edged out Gen. Duke by a neck to win the Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah. Pitchers Indians 13 victories were the circuit's highest number of wins. Gray, with 10 wins and seven losses, had a 2.72 ERA. Daley, who joined the club in July, scored 11 victories against one defeat while Pitula was 15-4.

Hank Aguirre, a southpaw like Daley, had won 10 games and was leading the league in the ERA department with a 2.50 mark when he was called up by Cleveland to replace Daley. Lefty Dick Tomanek, bothered the past two seasons by injuries, is another cx-Indianapolis hurler highly regarded by Farrell. From Mobile's club of the Southern Association, Farrell has three right handers in Bill Dailcy. Gene Lary and Carl Thomas. Dailey led the league in earned runs 3.13 as he won 15 and lost eight.

Lary, the league's most valuable player and a brother of the Detroit Tigers' Frank Lary, was 19-7 and finished in sensational style by winning 17 of his last 19 decisions. Thomas has a commendable ERA of 2.61 in his brief stay at Mdbile after his graduation last spring from the U. of Arizona. BOWLERS AT THE COURT RECREATION We Have Afternoon Bowling Automatic Pinspotters PRICE REDUCED No Reservations Necessary Open Alleys 2 p. m.

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This was probably best exemplified last season when the team, with a .244 batting mark that was lowest in the majors and worst the Indians had compiled in many, many years, still remained the most serious threat to the New York Yankees. That the Tribe will continue to be a strong contender in the American League for many years to come is predicated on a rookie pitching group here that could be the finest any big league club ever had in its spring training camp. Manager Kerby Farrell, in discussing his young pitchers recently, stated that he had anywhere from six to 10 young hurlers in camp who could be regulars for just about any other club in the majors. Farrell has here tht pitching leaders of the top minor league circuits where Cleveland has affiliates. From his 1956 Indianapolis club which he led to the American Association pennant and playoff title plus the Little World Series championship, Farrell has John Gray, the league's earned run leader; Bud Daley, the loop's percentage champion, and Stan Pitula whose Have You Tried the NEW PILSENER DRIVE IN TO Peter C.

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