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Stote Tourpamenf Poirings QaM A VAESITY COVBT Prep ve. HaettaiB. vfc Falls aty. vs. Omalia Teeh.

Northeast vs. North Platte. Gass WEDNESDAY. VARSITY COURT vs. South Slonx City.

vs. Ord. vs. Oerlnr. Holy Name vs.

Crete. Claos WEDNESDAY. FRESHMAN COURT vs. West Point. Prep vs.

Adams. vs. Wakefield. vs. Battle Creek.

Class THURSDAY, FRESHMAN COURT vs. Millard. vs. Mullen. vs.

Pleasanton. vs. liaeoln Bventna lournal and Nsisuslui State Journal Monday. March 10.1051—P.M. 11 Rockets Cast Wary Eye at Foes Lincoln Woman All-Events Leader GRAND ISLAND Four Class A teams, four Class teams and three singles rollers squeezed In ahead of the early leaders in the second week end of action in the Nebraska State Bowling Tournament here.

Gertrude Wendelin of Lincoln Is the all-events leader with a 1606 total, two pins more than Iris Sterner of Nebraska City. Marge Coufal, Lexington, took over the top spot in the singles shooting with a 561 scratch and a 51 handicap for a 612 total. Others who pushed ahead of Fayette Vice, Falls City, last leader, were Lavetta Seymour, Grand Island, and Bev Bednar, Beatrice. TEAMSTERS COUNCIL No. 81 of Omaha and Bomgardner Motors, Scottsbluff, each have totals of 2741 to tie for the lead among Class A teanis.

The Teamsters Council quintet posted a new high scratch of 2534 and the Scottsbluff team had a scratch of 2291. Other Class A teams pushing ahead of of Grand Island, last leaders, included Fine Liquors of Grand Island and Givens Bar of Omaha. Delay National Bank of Nw- folk turned in a 2256 performance and added 186 handicap for a new Clan team high of 2442. Meadow Gold of Norfolk. Roush Motora of Grand Island and of Central City also topped the mark of G.

I. Rendering of Grand Island, last top team. Only major change in the doubles involved Gloria Abraham and Alice Van Norman of Bassett. BEN KECK was only one duo dropped from second to behind, bowling in the same loop. sixth when an error was dis- Floyd Fidler had a pair of in their handicap.

a 623 at Bowl-Mor Lanes and a ----------------------602 at Rosewilde. He had the only double 600 reported by league sec- JUIIHI rotaries. Smoky Born Paces Men Bowlers By JIM RAGLIN Journal Sports Writer Fast-bailing Smoky Bom flapped the saplings for a 644 to pace Capital City men bowlers during the past week of league competition. Tossing his jet propelled speed ball in the Victory League at Rosewilde Alleys, Smoky landed In the select 600 list for the second consecutive week. By DICK BBCKBR Journal State Sports Editor Lincoln Northeast, starring in the role of avenger last week In knocking High out of the prep basketball scene, must be sure the parts reversed this week.

The Rockets lost a game to Lincoln, 4237, but came back with a 50-47 in the Fairbury District Toumammt Now Coach Ed men have drawn North Platte as their first round opponent in the State Basketball Tournament at Lincoln this week. Northeast pasted the Platters, 60-34, early in December. Since then Coach BiU gang has won 14 and lost only three and is ripe for revenge itself. Other first round games Thursday in Class A at the University of Nebraska Coliseum have Creighton Prep going against Hastings at 12:30, Scottsbluff meeting Falls City at 1:50, defending Champion Fremont colliding with Omaha Tech at 7:00 in the first evening game and the Northeast- North Platte tilt the windup at 8:20. THE FOUR district winners Northeast, Creighton Prep, Scottsbluff and given the seeded spots.

The four drew lor tions. The fwir district losers were then drawn from hat to complete the brackets. Northeast and North Platte are the only two teams that play in the first round and have met previously during the season. Omaha Tech, the No. 1 team in The ratings, will provide a strong test for 1951 kings.

Coach Bob Tigers will have to be at full strength to get by their opening hurdle. Prep, winner of the Omaha District Tournament, leads off against a tall, potent Hastings five, while Scottsbluff may find plenty of trouble in the short but hustling Falls City Tigers, IN CLASS the four seeded spots went to Minden, Seward, Plainview and Omaha Holy Name. Minden leads off against South Sioux City, a club that has played only a minimum of Nebraska competition. Seward is in the upper bracket with Minden and will have a rough road against a high-scoring Ord quintet. In the lower bracket Plainview meets Gering and Name tangles with tall aggregation.

The three lower elaaees all In the lame naancr. Four teama were aeeded and then drew fer the poaltioBa In the pMrlnga. The remaining four cluba were then aelectcd by a draw. DEFENDING Champion Hildreth was pitted against West Point in the opening game of Class C. The Greyhounds were seeded along with Chadron Prep, Gibbon and Friend.

Chadron Frep takes on Adams in the flrat round wltti Gibbon meeting Wakefield and Friend ehallenglng Battle Creek. The Class seeded positions went to Plymouth, Uehling, Palmyra and Edison. Plymouth drew a first round assignment against Defending Class Champion Millard, In the other top bracket game Uehling plays Mullen. In the lower bracket Palmyra goes against Pleasanton and Edison completes the first round against Melbeta. SEVEN of the eight teams in Class A were included in The last ratings before the tournament.

They were listed Omaha Tech first. North Platte second, Creighton Prep fifth, Falls City sixth, Northeast seventh, Scottsbluff eighth and Fremont ninth. Only Hastings was not In the top ten. Five ef the eight Class entrants were rated. They are Holy Name, Gcrlng, Not rated were South Sioux dty, Ord and Crete.

Three Class tourney clubs were listed with Chadron Prep second. Gibbon fifth and Hildreth eighth. The top club Syracuse was bumped from the running in an overtime loss to Adams. Also in Class three rated teams made the Lincoln carnival. They are Uehling fifth, Palmyra sixth and Edison eighth.

The top Class club Ong was spilled a playoff. ALL PAIRINGS were made by Lee Webb and the basketball committee of the Nebraska School Activities Association. Members of the committee are James Speece of Holdrege, Frank Knapple of Omaha and Russ Bonham of Superior. This group also turned down a protest by Utica High School on Its loss to Millsrd In the Clsss plsyoff at Wahoo. The protest was based on an Judgment and was not allowed.

Play starts Wednesday at the Coliseum with Class and Class in action. Class A and Class teams open Thursday. Semifinals will be held in all classes Friday with all finals on Orv Hoke celebrated his birthday in grand style last week, capping the festivities with his highest bowling series. Rolling for Tillmans in the Commereial League at Lincoln Alleys, Orv hit a 635. His game acorea were 182, 196 and 257.

League secretaries recorded Bine 600 series for the men. Donna Todd led the women Dominate CHICAGO has closed ithe books on all but the tag-ends of its sports year with five Big Ten championships on its record. The mini added three new Big Ten titles over the week end to the championships it had already pulled down in football and bas- keglers during the week. Donna scored a flashy 534 bowling ini THEY KEPT their indoor toack the Greater Lincoln a i gymnastics titles and added a League at Rosewilde. ONLY THREE PINS pacesetter was Bertha off the However, the week glory as dimmed when a surprising basketball Nelcnn Wisconsin basketball team top- of WOs! the Illini, 58 to 48.

The loss Her best effort was a 531 at affect Rosewilde, followed by a 514 at Badgers in Bowl-Mor. seventh place in the coirference. Another lady bowler scored two top series. Marie Maul hit 512 fund 502. i Smnkv Brn Krrk Orv lloka Ed Smith Fidlrr yinrt Ijinte Bill Withnan Kirth Hrt'd Jack rUmondon SftO T)onna Todd Bertha NclMm Val Martha Caiishraa Marie Maul Lony Autdenkamp Illinois pUed up 89 points at the Cbampslfli, IU track meet and set twe new UMet records.

Henry Cryer ran the 880 in 1:52.9, wtplng eat Don old math, and Rea Mitchell Jumped a record feet Inches. The Illinois swimming team fiio matched the basketball lustreless performance by coming in last in the conference iwim- iai. 514 ining match at East Lansing, Mich. 523jOhio State won its fourth con- i Monte Irvin Sees Batting Improved TUCSON. Arlz.

York Giant cleanup hitter Monte Irvin believes he will improve on his .312 batting average of 1951 this season. are ndt going to get me Colorado Golfers Face NU April 26 BOULDER, duals and two tournaments have been scheduled for golf team this spring. Athletic Director Harry G. Carlsoo announced Saturday. Les Buffs open against gwinging for the fences any March 32 at Ft he said.

what hurt early Collins and meet Regis and tiie last year. When I started meet- Aggies at hmne taki ing the ball wherever it was and on a five-day trek throu0i letting the hits fall wherever they fornia aad Arizcma. They could, I have any more trouble. I care whether 1 ever hit another REPAIR sai rajcut RVRNACB I dm ikrYICB GASr-i OU 8-f889 1818 IMh Nebraska at Lincoln 28. The Buffs had a 9-4-2 dual record a year ago and placed fifth in the Big Seven Conference tournament.

Steve Wadiak Dies In Auto Accident COLUMBIA, S. C. on Stovt Wadiak, one of the great names in southern college sports, is dead, victim of a highway accident. The 24-year-old University of South Carolina All-Southern Conference football halfback was inured fatally Sunday near Aiken. The car In which he was riding left the highway and pinwheeled five or six times.

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Aas CwBOT ftm OasMS la tua laui la By Widt Dohbine Five of the top 16 In the Big Seven Conference, including the All America pacemaker, Clyde Lovellette of the University of Kansas, came to their respective schools from other states. They are Lovellette from Terre Haute and Jim Buchanan of Nebraska from Avilla, Jim Iverson of Kansas State from Mitchell, S. Sherm Norton of Oklahoma from LaGrange, 111., and Frank Gompert of Colorado from Winnetka, lU. Six New Pilots With the signing of Pitcher Bill McCahan as skipper of the Pueblo Dodgers, the Western 1652 list of pilots was completed, showing only two returning managers from last season. The are Andy Cohen of Denver and Ctoorge KisMll of Omaha.

Lincoln brought in Les Bell from Harrisburg, to succeed Frank Skaff, Harry Strohm replaced A1 Todd at Des Moines and Elmer Winegarner takes over for Joe Schultz at Wichita. Ray Mueller will haiMlle the reins at Sioux City, with Frank Genoveee moving to Minneapolis. Don Gntteridge, a former Lincoln State Leaguer, moves Into Otto post at Colorado Springs and McCahan replacet Jim Blvln at Puebo. Three Western League teams are owned outright by major league clubs, Lincoln by the PhUadelphia Athletics, Des Moines by the Chicago Cubs and Omaha by the St. Louis Cardinala All others have working agreements, Sioux City with the New York Giants; Wichita with Cleveland; Denver with Pittsburgh; Pueblo with Brooklyn and Colorado Springs with the Chicago White Sox.

Small Town With the 41st annual Nebraska high school championships coming up this week. I like to recall the 1919 tourney which taw the small town of Shelton defeat Omaha Commerce for the state crown. Coming to Lincoln with an undefeated but hardly an impressive record because of its schedule, Shelton rocketed its way into the title battle by stopping Omaha Central, 7-5, in the semiwindup. ComraerM (new Omaha had the tenmey star In MaheMy and was expected te wla wttiiMt tee much trouble. Mahoney aad his mates had beaten Aggie Mfh and Uaiversity Place to get their eiaek at tha erewa.

The was played in the old city auditorium which burned to the ground some eight years later. Commerce took an early lead and had a halftime advantage of three poinU, 10-7. They opened the second stanza with two quick field goals and things looked pretty black for the Buffalo County entry. Then pandemonium broke loose. Gorbutt, Shelton forward, hit four successive buckets from difficult angles and Center Henninger plucked off two more from far out It Sheltoa ta fywil aad the twe gaards.

Hill aad Cearey, feaght desperately aad aauffed eat a dylag Commerce rally. The ftaal score was 29-18 with Mahoney getUng 11 polato fer the lesers aad aa tvaa 18 ter tba There were eight classes In the tourney in 1919 with Sutton, Hardy, Chester. Gretna. Holbrook. Ansley and Wayne winning the lower division trophies.

Omaha Has 20 Spring Games OMAHA Omaha Cardinals have scheduled 20 spring training axhibltion games during their four weeks in camp at Albany, the Cardinal office an- nmmced Monday. Kansas Can Sew Up Title Tonight Lovellette Crew Husker Drills Begin Nebraska University Football Coach Bill Glassford said Monday that player will go both ways in as he inaugurated the annual Husker spring training grind. What Glassford meant Is that every man will be asked to work on both offense and defense. But Glassford said he sure whether that means the end of the two-platoon system for his squad. He said that question will be answered when he finds out how many capable offensive and defensive players will be available.

THE HEAD MAN indicated, however, that Nebraska may stick to the T-formaUon. There was some question whether the Huskers would abandon the for the single wing. Glaaaford said the team would work Monday aad Tueoday ta tho floldlioaae. thea adjoora drills for the basketball tournament. aad probably resumo work Mxi Monday.

Under present rules the squad is limited to 20 practice sessions in 30 days. Darling Heads All-Big Ten CHICAGO (AV-Hubbed around unanimous center choice, Chuck Darling, the 1952 All-Big Ten basketball team named for the Associated Press by conference coaches represented five different schools. Championship Illinois n- tributed only ono all-star performer from Its well-balanced lineup. Guard Rod Fletcher. The honor lineup also includes Ohio brilliant sophomore, Paul Ebert, and Carl McNulty, at forwards, and the lone repeater from 1951, Ab Nichols, at the other guard.

On the second team were Irv Bemoras of Illinois and Ed Kalafat of Minnesota, forwards; Don Srhlundt of Indiana, center; Bob Masters of Indiana and Bob Clifton of Iowa, guards. Pairings Set In AAU Meet A 1 SPRING DRILLS BiU Glassford (left) was cracking the whip Monday as spring football drills began for 116 Nebraska gridders. He is shown above with Floyd Bottorff, Huaker equipment manager. The spring training grind will be climaxed April 5 with the annual Varsity-Alumni Game. To Meet Colorado Big Seven Standings COXFKRRNCK Ki OStalMM I I 4 7 4 7 NKBBA8EA pU.

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IS MalMa, Mak. It 75 67-72 43 207 17.25 30-44 27 194 1S.3S 60 46-61 32 166 15.1 03 46-67 47 172 14 3.1 SO 42-63 22 142 14.20 52 61-tl 23 155 14.00 62 30-37 23 154 14.00 54 31-45 45 1.39 12 64 46 33-51 27 125 10 43 44 16-34 42 104 9 45 33 52 113 9.42 S9 U-M S4 112 S4 SMT sa 103 a.sa 44 toe S.M Seeded NIT Quints Open Play Tonight NEW YORK teams will be on display for the first time in the 15th National Invitation Basketball Tournament at Madison Square Garden tonight when the original field of 12 will be reduced to six. The schedule calls iot the second straight tripleheader composed of two quarter-final games and one first-round affair. The quarter-finals will send NORFOLK Skylane of Lin- coin wiU face Odebolt, Sioux City champions, at 6:30 p.m., in the Midwestern AAU basketball touniament here Thursday. The 5 p.m.

game pits Kelly- Ryan of Blair against Grocery of Osmond. Offutt Air Force Base goes against the Wayne Collegians at 8, and Jamcos of Sioux City, favorites along with Kellv Ryan, meet the Omaha regional champions at 9:30. Semifinals wiU be held at 5:30 and 7 p.m. Friday, with finals at 9:30. highly regarded LaSalle (21-9) in the second game.

Holy Cross (23-3) faces Johnny Seattle (29-7) in the first round encounter as the grand finale. TOP-SEEDED Duquesne (21-1) and St Louis (21-6), No. 2 seed, will get their tournament Tuesday night with the Dukes taking on the Holy Cross-Seattle winner and the Billikens matching fourth-seeded St. Bonaventure baskets aeaiMt (19-5) against Western Kentucky 3). last in the opener and third-seeded St The semi-finals will be played Thursday and the finals Saturday.

Meantime, one NCAA bracket was filled over the week end when North Carolina State whipped Duke, 77-68, for the sixth successive Southern Conference crown In the first three games of the NIT Saturday Dayton defeated New Yora University, 81-66; LaSalle turneo in an 80-76 upset triumph over Seton Hall, and Western Kentucky eliminated Louisville, 62-59. of Brooklyn (22-3) against Nubbins FaU To MANHATTAN, skyscraping freshman basketball team defeated the University of Nebraska team. 82-59. Bob McGhee, a comparative shortie at 6-1, however, led the Wildkittens with 19 points. McGhee had scored 17 as the Staters beat Nebraska in Lincoln.

82-66. Gary Renzelman of Scottsbluff By WALT DOBBINS Journal 8porta Editor Colossal Clyde Lovellette, who put on a one-man show against the Colorado Buffaloes at Lawrence in early February, hopes for a repeat performance at Boulder tonight. Lovellette sifted 34 points through the net on his home court to pace his Jayhawk mates to a narrow 5-point victory over Coach Be be squad, 73-68. Kansas is assured of a tie for the loop crown by virtue of a 78-61 victory over Kaiuas State last week. It can win a clear cut title by beating the Buffs regardless of the outcome of the Okla- home-Kansas State game at Manhattan tonight two contests will end the regular Big Seven season.

68-53 defeat by Missouri dropped the Huskers into last place. Iowa State broke even during the week, winning from Colorado, 69-62, and losing to Kansas State, 88-66. Should Colorado and Oklahoma lose their final contests, the Cyclones will share fourth place with the Buffs and Sooners. Missouri ended up with a 6-6 record and third place in the final standings. 88 pelnta agatnst the WUdeato shot his total fer the seasea to 295 points aad a 26.92 average for 11 garooe.

(Bneky) Bnchanaa set a eovpto of NU records hy reg- Istorlag 196 points and a 16.31 average. He is currently fourth in the individual standings and it will take a 31-point scoring splurge by Sherm Norton of Oklahoma Cushing Wins for tiie Nubbins with ToilTIlCy The K-Staters led 40-25 at halftime, but the Nebraskans nar- polished Cush- irig team snowed under Ashton, Noble Faces James Motley GRAND Noble, the versatile Grand Island athlete, will go after his 13th straight pro- feuional boxing victory here Thursday night, March 20. He wUl battle James Motley ot Alliance in an eight-round main event on the Veterans of Foreign Wars fight card at the Liderkranz. Noble and Motley, both former Midwestern Golden Gloves champions, were to have at Hastings earlier, but Noble suffered a cut eye while training with Clarence Henry and the bout was postponed. rowed the gap midway in the third 47-14, to win first an- quartor to make it a close School Basketball But then Renzelman, Don Muen- Tournament, ster, Pat Malletto and Lee Dobler D.

Scheibe had 19 points for fou ed out and the Wildkittens Cushing, which led 19-5 at pulled away again. time. D. Lonowskl of Ashton Jerry Jung, K-State cen-. scored six points, ter who did not play at Lincoln Boelua beat Palmer, 41-20.

for because he was ill, got just three the consolation title, after rolling points against Manhattan. the Nubbins at up a 22-7 advantage at intermission. STARTING WEDNESDAY Al l2iS0 P.M. NEDRASKA HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL CHAmpioNsmps At UniYHnity of Nobroika Coliioum Went 12, IS. 14 and If FIRST ROUNIW WMawiaif lliia tut r.M.

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S. C. OFV-Th, Cincinnati Reda announced the signing of two Negro baseball players, one a Cincinnati resident Eugene Roley of Cincinnati, 23- year-old second baseman, and James Allen Davis 21-year- old shortstop from Lake Wales, were signed to Class contracts. Bill McCarthy, president of the Class A Columbia farm team, said they were the first Negro players ever signed by Cincinnati from such a camp. DRINK OSINK ftr HOME Betdei mmier littlo" TULSA Only 4 hrf.

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