The Norman Transcript from Norman, Oklahoma • 8

Launch Title Defense Friday Evening It's all or nothing in the regional tourney at El Reno Friday night when Coach Chet Bryan's Norman Tigers open their bid for a return trip to the state finals. The Tigers will be spurred by their worst beating in several years when they go against Midwest City. The Bombers found Norman without a center the final game of the season at Midwest City Monday night and took an 82-59 victory. Centers Sidelined Bryan's defending state AA champs, 13-8 in the regular season, earlier had out-run the Bombers, 60-58. Midwest City brings a 14-6 total into the three-day tourney.

El Reno (16-5) and Putnarn City (7-13) open the milling tonight at 8. The Indians are odds-on favorites to win and meet Del City at 9 Friday night. Del City drew a first-round bye. The winner of that game will take on the Norman Midwest City victor for the title and subsequent journey to the state playoffs. Rick Kersey, the Tigers lanky sophomore center, was forced out of the Monday contest against Midwest by a stiff neck.

To make matters worse, Gene Bauman, 6-4 junior who has been Kersey's substitute, was sick. Jim Patterson, 6-3 senior who had been performing at forward, moved to the post and hit 21 points to pace the Tigers but he couldn't cope with 6-5 Bomber pivot Gary Talkington. Split Last Season While Patterson played a full three quarters and part of the fourth unrelieved, Talkington drove over and around him to bank in 28 points. Forward Ron Cooper netted 17. and guards Bobby Canon and Mike King chipped in 13 and 11.

The loss of Bauman and Kersey, the latter the team's best scorer, with a 15.1 average, and a leading rebounder, cannot be blamed entirely. Outside of Patterson's 21 points, only Paul Updegraff (with 10) scored more than 6 to aid the cause and the Bombers held a 40- 29 advantage under the boards. The two teams split their homeand-home series last season, giving Midwest City the distinction of being the only Oklahoma team to defeat the title-bound Tigers. Ada Plays Tonight In 1960. Norman made off with a 54-51 triumph over the Bombers in the regional at Shawnee before falling to the Wolves, 46-41.

Two Boomer teams open region. al action tonight. Ada, which tied Lawton for the league crown by downing Ardmore, 56-50, Tuesday night, takes on Hugo (4-14) at Holdenville. The Cougars wound up their season with a 19-2 total and the No. 1 rating in Class A.

Chickasha, also an A school, goes against Moore (7-13) at 8 in Chickasha. The Chicks finished in the loop cellar with a 1-9 mark but were 9-12 for the season. Friday night, Lawton (13-7) meets Altus at Lawton and if the Wolverines can duplicate last week's 65-57 victory they will meet the winner of Friday's Ardmore-Duncan game for the regional title. The Boomer could place four teams in the state finals. Ada should waltz through its and perhaps the state.

Home Courts May Help Lawton has twice beaten all three teams in its regional and the Wolverines have the advantage of their own court. The home court also should prove helpful to Chickasha, which has been a terror to all except teams i in its conference. None of the schools the Chicks may face possess an impressive record. Anadarko is 11-9, Northeast 10-9, Choctaw 8-8, Southeast 2-17 and Star-Spencer 11-10. Which leaves only Norman.

Kersey and Bauman should be back in the lineup Friday but the team probably will face the toughest battle of any Boomer representative this weekend. Bowling Notes LEAGUE: BIG 12 This Week Total Wins McCalls Campus Shop 3 Garden Center Palace Garage 3 5014 Norman Concrete Co. 49V2 Justice Marti Auto 3 49 Home State Life Ins. 11 401 Nino's Pizza 3 39 Hooper Printing 3 36 Helens Beauty Solon 35 Deignon's Steak House 3 High Women's Ind. Game 209 Ora Nemecek High Men's ind.

Game 198 Gary Wheeler High Women's Series 497 June Ford High Men's 543 Gary Wheeler High Team Game 666 Garden Center High Team 3 Game Series 1878 Nino's Pizza LEAGUE: MEN'S MAJOR CLASSIC This Week Total Wins Air Force Cadets 09 10 Norman Builder's Supply Normandy Bowl 6 00.0 Nuway A.F.I.T. Village 40 Morren's Sinclair 3 3 High Ind. Game Don Hill 220 Norman Builders Supply High Ind. Series Don Hill 600 Norman Builders Supply High Team Game Norman Builders Supply 922 High Team Series Norman Builders Supply 2656 8 The Norman (Okla.) Transcript, Mar. 1, 1962 Sooners Follow Script, Jolt Jayhawks by Point By NICK SEITZ Sports Editor Dick Harp, the Kansas basketball coach, will be pardoned for thinking OU is trying to harass him.

The Sooners beat his Jayhawks by the precarious margin of one point for the third time this season Wednesday night, 63-62. Center Stan Morrison. the game's leading scorer with 23, hit a jump shot from the top of the circle as time expired to thrill 1,500 fans in the Field House. The look on Harp's face as he shook his head indicated he was not thrilled. Harp was thinking Morrison's had come too late.

He did Box Score OKLAHOMA (63) FG-A A FT -A Reb PF TP Fouts, 5-16 3-4 11 2 13 Chattin, 0-3 0-0 Morrison, 9-17 5-7 23 9 8-19 3-10 Johnson. 1-3 1-1 McCurdy 0-0 1-1 Lee 1-2 0-0 Denner 0-0 0-0 Haddock 1-3 0-0 ON TEAM Totals 25-63 13-23 47 7 53 KANSAS (62) FG-A -A Reb PF TP Sparks, 4-10 0-3 7 Gibson, 4-9 0-1 10 0 Flachsbarth, 7-12 0-1 7 Gardner, 6-17 3-3 3-3 15 Ellison, 5-12 5 Roberts 0-2 0-0 2 0 Matt 2-3 0-0 Deane 0-0 0-0 Totals 28-65 6-11 43 16 62 OKLAHOMA 27 36-63 SCORE BY HALVES: KANSAS 25 37-62 OFFICIALS: Alex George and Bill Lindquist. not say so out loud but the stares he gave referee Alex George and the scoreboard clock betrayed his feelings. It could not have been much closer, everyone agreed. Coach Doyle Parrack of OU said he couldn't tell.

George, the out official at the time, said he had a prearranged signal with the timer and that when he looked at the timer he got an affirmatire response. "That was enough for me," he said. "The decision had to be made and that's all there was to it." The Sooners set up the shot with nine seconds left, taking time out after Loye Sparks gave Kansas a 62-61 lead by scoring from 10 feet. Forward Warren Fouts was supposed to take the final poke but could not get clear on the side and Morrison wound up with the ball. Stan's shot, which went through without touching anything but the bottom of the net, would not have been necessary if guard Eddie Evans had hit Frosh Defeat WhitehandHall The OU freshman basketball team defeated Whitehand Hall, campus independents' champion, 91-45, in a preliminary game Wednesday night at the Field House.

The frosh had doubled the score by half time, 48-24, and were never in serious trouble. The box score: OKLAHOMA, FROSH (91) FG-A A PF TP Gatewood, 2-6 6-13 4-6 0-0 16 Lewis, 6-12 0-0 12 Roberts, 3-4 1-3 -de Flood, 2-8 1-1 3 5 Maxey 6-8 2-2 Chaney 3-9 3-5 Feaver 5-11 2-5 Dutcher 3-10 0-0 Quigley 1-4 1-2 Turner 1-2 Gounds 0-0 0-0 0 Totals 38-89 15-26 13 91 WHITEHAND HALL (45) FG-A FT-A PF TP Jones. Johnson, 4-13 0-0 0-2 8 Primicerio, 3-12 4-5 10 Oberly, 9 3-11 1-2 Burgess, 9 4-13 2-3 10 Daisey 2-12 4-5 Rhodes 0-5 2-2 1 Totals 16-68 13-17 18 45 SCORE BY HALVES: OKLAHOMA FROSH 48 43-91 WHITEHAND HALL 24 21-45 NO DOUBT ABOUT fouls Eddie Evans as during the first half here. (Transcript free throws. Evans missed five straight the last 44 seconds, twice getting two shots on deliberate fouls.

It was Evans, though, who was the game's second high scorer, with 19, made the layup that put OU in front, 61-60, with 1:09 to go and grabbed two key rebounds down the stretch. Parrack, with his team lagging, 60-59, and 1:25 left, called time and ordered an all court press. Swift Nick Denner, inserted just for the occasion, harried Jayhawk star Nolen Ellison into a bad pass that CANS, 22 IT--Jerry Gardner of Kansas the OU guard shoots on the run of Wednesday night's game Evans scooped off the floor and turned into two points. Evans, assigned Gardner, and Fouts, on Ellison, did solid defensive jobs on two of the league's top scorers. Gardner got 15 and Ellison 14, several points below their averages.

The Sooners, tied with Oklahoma State and Nebraska for fourth with a 4-7 record, led nearly all the second half by as many as nine points after Kansas had led nearly all the first period by as many as eight. OU plays Nebraska here Monday night in its next action. Major Holdouts Give No Ground to Bosses By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rocky Colavito, the slugging Detroit outfielder, got $35,000, is offered a reported $42,500, wants "over Orlando Cepeda, the San Francisco Giants' National League home run champ, got $30,000, is offered $42,500, wants $60,000. Joey Jay, 21-game winner of the Cincinnati Reds, got $15,000, is offered $25,000, wants $30,000. That's the status of the three major holdouts in major league baseball today.

Colavito, who became an official holdout Wednesday, remains at his home in Temple, Pa. "I think what I am asking i is very reasonable." he said. does my wife. The trouble is the Tiger management and I differ in opinion on what is a reasonable increase." Last year, Colavito rapped 45 home runs, drove in 140 runs and batted .290. The Giants, stung by estimates Cepeda earned $27,500 last season when he batted .311, hit Liston Refuses Bid For Patterson Fight PHILADELPHIA (AP) -Sonny Liston said today he has refused an offer of per cent of the total receipts for a heavyweight title fight with champion Floyd Patterson.

The No. 1 challenger for Patterson's crown said, "'The others got 20 per cent. Why not me?" Liston said Patterson wants 55 per cent and promoter Tom Bolan the remaining per cent of the expected multimillion-dollar The 28-year-old Philadelphia fighter said it appeared as if they were trying to "rob me blind." Reminded that he once said he'd fight Patterson for nothing if he could get the champion in the ring, Liston said: "I said I'd fight him for nothing in the gym. But if a million people are going to be watching I want to get paid." The challenger said he and his attorney, Morton Witkin of Philadelphia, have been negotiating with Bolan for the fight. "First, they offered me 10 per League Titlists Face Obstacles InTournaments By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS West Virginia and Wake Forest, which won their respective conference races, now have to do it all over again in order to gain first berths in the NCAA eastern regional basketball tournamentand it isn't going to be easy for either of them.

The Southern Conference tournament opens in Richmond, and the Atlantic Coast Conference tourney at Raleigh, N.C., today with the eventual winners gaining the NCAA tourney spots. Duke Dark Horse West Virginia, 21-5 over-all and 12-1 in the Southern, probably will gain the favorite role at Richmond, but can expect trouble. Wake Forest, 12-2 in the ACC and 15-8 over-all, has its work cut out at Raleigh. Duke, 19-4 over-all, second i in the ACC and ranked eighth in the nation, i is in the field Wake Forest must Tenth-ranked Utah can assure itself of at least a share of the Skyline title if it beats Colorado State U. tonight.

That, however, may prove difficult. Colorado State (10-2 in the league) owns a 74-59 triumph over Utah in a previous match. Utah is 10-1 in the league and 21-3 over-all going in. Utah State, also 10-2 in the league, will try to keep pace against Denver. Second-ranked Cincinnati and seventh ranked Bowling Green also are in action, against nonleague opponents.

Cincinnati (23-2) tries Xavier of Ohio and Bowling Green (20-2) goes against NIT-bound Loyola of None of the ranked teams were in action Wednesday night and only a sorry record set by Syracuse enlivened the light schedule. Orange Loses No. 27 The Orangemen fell before Niagara 86-58 for their 27th consecutive loss over a two-season span, an NCAA major school record for successive defeats. It topped the previous record of 26 in a row by Georgia Tech. In other major games, St.

Joseph's (Pa.) mauled St. Peter's (N.J.) 99-72 and Temple had an easy time of it, 75-60 over Penn State in a Philadelphia doubleheader; Dayton took Miami of Ohio 63-52: and Oklahoma scored a 63-62 Big Eight victory over Kansas. Lehigh took Rutgers 78-68, Massachusetts outlasted Coast Guard 61-56, Louisville beat Ohio University 95-86 and MIT dropped Tufts 58-51 for the Engineers' 14th consecutive victory. They're 16-4 for the season. Billy McGill of Utah came through with the biggest scoring burst of his three-year varsity career last Saturday night, boosted his per-game average to 38.4 points, all but wrapped up the major college basketball scoring title for 1961-62.

The 6-9 center poured in 60 against Brigham Young, the highest output of the season. Jack Foley (33.4) of Holy Cross and Nick Werkman (33.1) of Seton Hall are closely contesting the runner-up spot, while Len Chappell (30.9) of Wake Forest and Terry Dischinger (30.7) of Purdue are in a tight duel for fourth. Death Claims Louis Wilke CHICAGO (AP) Louis G. Wilke, 65, of Bartlesville, former president of the Amateur Athletic Union and a U. S.

pic team official, died Wednesday of a cerebral hemorrhage. Wilke was born in Chicago Oct. 10, 1896. He was graduated from Northwestern Oklahoma State at Alva in 1916. Survivors include the widow, Maxine; a son, Louis of Colorado Springs and a daughter, Mariann, a student at the University of Oklahoma.

TIGER SWIMMERS PRACTICE--Coach Butch Simpson (on diving board) and team members (clockwise) Robert Fleener, Robert Reed, Pete Mabe and David Wilson are working out daily. (Transcript Photo) Sports In Brief Goodno's Wins Event Goodno's defeated Ball Chain, 2,865 to 2,841, in a roll-off Wednesday night for first place in the team event of the men's city bowling tournament. The two teams had tied with totals of 3,116. Dale Deain topped the losers with a 633 and Jim Rowan led the winners with a 625. Pokes To Grapple STILLWATER (AP)-Oklahoma State wrestlers go after their 34th in a row and 11th this season in a dual meet here tonight against Colorado.

Still missing from the Oklahoma State lineup is defending national champion Phil 1 Kinyon, at 157 pounds, who suffered a knee injury. Dead Ahead Favored MIAMI, Fla. (AP)-Cain Hoy Stable's undefeated Dead Ahead and Mrs. Moody Jolley's Ridan are probable co-favorites for Saturday's Flamingo Stakes, first major race of the season for derby age colts. OCC Names Coach OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)-Haskell Sinclair, freshman basketball coach at Abilene (Tex.) Christian College, has resigned to become head basketball coach at Oklahoma Christian College, it was announced today.

Golf Postponed BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Heavy rains forced postponement until Friday of the start of the $20,000 Baton Rouge Open Golf Tournament. Ex-Trainer Dies TULSA (AP)-Wilbur M. Jenkins, a former athletie trainer at the University of Tulsa, died of cancer Wednesday. He was 64.

Jenkins was trainer at Tulsa from 1946 to 1957, after he had held similar jobs for the University of Miami, and a Louisville, professional football team. He played pro football in 1916-20 at Akron, Ohio. Norman High Mermen Travel to Enid Friday The Norman High swimming team goes to the mark Friday afternoon in Enid for a meet preparatory to the state finals here next weekend. The Tigers are coached by OU senior Butch Wilson and Wray Littlejohn. Wilson was a member of the first swim team at Norman High in 1957 and later swam with the University freshmen.

Littlejohn is an assistant football coach. The Tigers were beaten by Enid, 69-25, in a practice meet last Friday and earlier lost to Oklahoma City Harding, 80-15 and 69-25. "The scores are not a real indication of how the team per- NHS Thinclads Enter in Texas Nine members of the Norman High track team will be among 2,000 thinclads competing this weekend at the 39th annual Fort Worth (Tex.) Track and Field Events. It will be the first time the Tithinclads have entered, but Coach Bob Williams, in his first year here, has been 12 times. He competed and later took Ardmore cinder teams.

Williams said the meet will have the largest prep turnout of any in the nation. He rates 880 man Robert Clark and miler Phil Oviatt as the Tigers' brightest prospects in the two-day event. Both are seniors. Also performing at Farrington Field will be sophomore Gary Corrotto, 100 and 220; senior Mike Ritz, 440; senior Coy Kersey and junior Ken Farris high jump; senior George Capehart, shotput, and senior Dwight Johnson, hurdles. Kersey, Clark, Oviatt Ritz will team for the 440 and mile relays.

The Tigers' first dual meet is Tuesday at Duncan. formed," Wilson said Wednesday at the OU men's pool where the mermen are working out two hours daily. "If we had been in the water earlier, we'd be in a lot better shape. We had quite a bit of trouble before we got this pool and the kids have had only about a month to practice. "But they are coming along real well better than I expected since most of them are young and inexperienced.

They all try real hard. I think we'll be able to tell at the state meet how much they can do." About 30 boys are working out. Only six are seniors and three are sophomores. Juniors Bill Woodson and Lanny Layman will enter the 50-yard free style and junior Robert Reed and sophomore Rick Olney will go 100 yards free style. Steve Bonner, a senior, and Layman will compete, in the 200- yard free style.

David Wilson, senior, and Rusty Reed, junior, will swim the 400-yard free style. Senior Robert Fleener and Wayne Cheek, a sophomore, will be in the 100-yard back stroke, Robert Reed and junior Frank 01- ney in the 100-yard butterfly. Relay Teams Ready Alex Whistler and Jim Rowan, seniors, will go in the 100-yard breast stroke. Whistler also will enter the 200-yard individual medley. The 200-yard medley relay team will be composed of Cheek, back stroke; Reed, breast stroke; 01- ney, butterfly; and junior Tommy Thompson, free style.

Making up the 400-yard freestyle relay will be Fleener, Woodson, Bonner and Mabe. Diving for the Tigers will be George Farley, a senior, and Tommy Hazelwood, a sophomore. The state meet will be the indoor pool on South. Campus. Norman High has never placed above 10th in the meet but Wilson has high hopes for a better showing this year.

The Tigers have one other meet on their tentative schedule. an AAU match at Little Rock, in April. BOWLING WINNERS GET TROPHIES -Actor James, left, singles winner Ken Hansmeyer and doubles winGarner (second from right) presents trophies to cham-' ners David Burr and Jim Swain. The tourney ended pions of the city men's bowling tournament. From Wednesday with a roll-off.

(See Story on Page 7) AA Schools Play Regionals Tonightin State 8 cent, and then upped it to 121," said Liston. "'When I asked for 20. the usual amount for a challenger, Bolan told me it was out of the question." How did the negotiators leave things? "I told Bolan 121 per cent doesn't sound like: 20 to me." Patterson could not be reached immediately for comment. His attorney, Julius November. said he did not know what percentage Liston was offered.

"I understand Liston has been saying he was ready to fight for nothing just to get the chance against Patterson. Knowing Patterson as I do, I know he wouldn't want anyone to fight for nothing or anything like nothing." he added. "But the fact remains that a smaller percentage of the great potential of this fight would be much greater in dollars than the 20 per cent Liston refers to about other fights." THE ASSOCIATED PRESS By for the state's class A and Regional basketball tournament play AA high schools is scheduled at sites tonight. Winners of the re10 gional tournaments will compete for the state Class AA and Class basketball titles next week in A Oklahoma City. Three defending state champions are among a field of 32 in the small schools basketteams ball tournament which begins in Oklahoma City today.

Six Unbeaten The defending champs are Taft of Class Cordell of Class A girls and Bray of Class girls. Cordell, which won the Class championship last year, did not make it to the state tournament this year. Six teams in the tournament are undefeated this season. They are Atoka, Pittsburg and Kaw City boys and the Tushka, Ames and Oologah girls. Activity is scheduled at three sites, Municipal Auditorium, Oklahoma City University and Northwest High School.

In collegiate circles, Southeastern State and Oklahoma Baptist University meet at Durant 1 tonight in the first game of a playoff to determine the state's representative to the NAIA basketball tournament in Kansas City. Southeastern Won Title Southeastern won the Oklahoma Collegiate Conference title, edging OBU by two games. The playoff is a best two-ofthree affair. The second game will be played Saturday at Shawnee. If a third game is necessary, it will be played here next Tuesday.

Southeastern defeated OBU twice this season. de OU Swimmers SeekTo ToRepeat AMES, Iowa (AP)-With Kansas and Iowa State providing the strongest challenges, Oklahoma aunches its bid tonight for a seventh straight Big Eight Conference swimming title during a three-day meet here. Defending champions have returned in 10 events and there are record-holders in eight events, making the field the best in conference history. Oklahoma swimmers will shoot for repeat championships in four events, with John Day defending his 1500-meter free style and 200- yard back stroke titles, which he won in record times a year ago, and Carl Zahn attempting to better his record-winning times in the 100 and 200-yard butterfly events. Iowa State has swimmers defending five titles, including Paul Witherell in the 100-yard free style and 220-yard individual medley, Art Paterson in the 220 and 440- yard free style events, and Bud Pierce in the 100-yard back stroke.

Pierce and Witherell won their events in record times last year. The other defending champion and record-holder back is Eldon Ward of Kansas in the 50-yard free style. Preliminaries and finals in the 200-yard individual medley and finals in the 1500-meter free style will be Friday night. Preliminaries in seven events will be Friday afternoon with finals in those events Friday night. Diving finals and preliminaries in six events will be Saturday morning, with the six finals scheduled for Saturday afternoon.

46 home runs and drove in 142 runs, broke precedent Wednesday and revealed he made $30,000. Manager Al Dark said reports that Cepeda has been offered $42,500 for this year were just about right. Jay, who never had won more than nine games in a season before, has five working oil wells in West Virginia and is threatening to concentrate on them at the expense of baseball unless his $15,000 salary is doubled. General Manager Bill Dewitt of the Reds made a counter -offer of $25,000 Wednesday night and Jay said he would make up his mind whether to accept it on Friday. Elsewhere, outfielder Jim Lemon of the Minnesota Twins, who may have learned last year what an extended holdout can mean, continued to impress his manager and coaches with his slugging Orlando, Fla.

Lemon rapped 38 home runs and drove in 100 runs in 1960. Last season he held out for 17 days and never did get into stride after he reported, winding up with 14 home runs and 52 RBI. Injuries hit several other camps. At Vero Beach, Dodger outfielder Tommy Davis -who has a history of back troubles-strained his back and may rest for a couple of days. West Plays In 2nd Game The West Wildcats play Holdenville tonight at 7 in the second game of the annual Central Junior High invitational tourney in the Cub gym.

Coach Jim Sandefer's Cubs opened the action against Drumright this afternoon. The winner takes on Putnam City Friday at 8 p.m. Following the West-Holdenville game tonight, Monroney takes on Kerr at 8. Winners of tonight's two games clash Friday at 7 p.m. The Wildcats, coached by Karl Malthaner, tied Kerr for the Central Junior High Conference crown and had a 12-3 record for the season.

The West Holdenville game will be the first contest between the two teams this season. Wilt Needs 235 Points By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wilt Chamberlain's magic number is 235 today. The 7-1 adding machine of the National Basketball Association aiming at the first 50-point season average in history, can do it now by scoring 235 in the Philadelphia Warriors' remaining five games. His 61-point burst against the Chicago Packers at Chicago Wednesday night shoved his pergame average for 75 games--to 50.2 and his season total to 3,765 points. The Warriors whipped the Packers 128-119 after the New York Knicks, sealed in last place for the third straight year, opened the Chicago Amphitheatre doubleheader with a 119-109 decision over Detroit.

In the only other action Boston's Celtics won their 54th of game the season, 129-123 in overtime over Cincinnati. Giants Steal Passes NEW YORK (AP)-The New York Giants, led by defensive backs Dick Lynch, Jimmy Patton and Erich Barnes, topped the National Football League in pass interceptions for the 1961 season with a neat 8.5 per cent on 33 steals of 386 passes thrown by opponents..