The Cincinnati Post from Cincinnati, Ohio • 14

(wfem v- a- I THE CIMXNNVri i 1ST WUNtLAY Miliiil i Tag 14 By Joe Aston IXavier-UC Rated Even in Garden Title Game iLaSalle W-M Open Post Sports Editor Spring If Here Again! Play Would Thai Interest Anyone? Well You Never Can Tell Oil (WAV VflO Wl MLI UC and Xavier level their big guns on the Cincinnati Collegiate Invitational Tournament basketball championship Wednesday night in the new Garden Everything joints to a red-hot game down to the final whistle The Bearcat-Muskie battle follows the consolation tilt between William and Mary and LaSalle which starts at 8 Major interest is in this second HERE! Beautiful spring! Leave at dawn without your topcoat and you land back home for Hirinpr in the evening with your ears half frozen off Fickle spring! Far away in sunny Tampa all the Redlegs huff and puff while the baseball writers blandly publicize the bums of last year as the champs of It's a sift a trick A straight face and a smooth imagination's all you need The public loves it In the spring Spurns Ezz Walcott 'Title' Contest ARISTOCRATS OF TURFDOM get Iheir play April soon will come te Kecneland to Churchill Downs in the Rnsey Derby What a mess! But the horses aren't io blame Ai: the better 3-year-olds already have begun to run Kunnel Winn bless his heart can he go the route once more? Fetcr Horback still is president of our spacious River Downs There's a meeting set for June but who's to run the thing Pete would like to know Now that it's spring PRETTY UTTIX CROCUSES Pushing up through sod on lawns that felt as hard as concrete last July How a crocus do it? Up they come and snip snip snip their heads are gone It's that blasted rabbit that cavorts about our lovely neighborhood at night time He should go live somewhere else And Just why we'd like to know would a normal little rabbit have his mind on crocuses In the spring NEW YORK March I (UP) Promoter Joe Louis still hoping to stage a title fight la New York switched his attention from the heavyweight division today to Welterweight Champion Ray (8ugar) Robinson and Featherweight Champion Willie Pep Louis asked the State Boxing Commission yesterday to recognise his Esxard Charles-Jersey Joe Walcott bout aa a heavyweight title fight and was officially turned down Tho ex-heavywelght king said ho would probably stage the Chari es-Walcott match In Chicago In June where It has been premised recognition ss a title bout by the National Boxing association NEWS FROM INDIANAPOLIS SPEEDWAY Race car owners dusting off old junkers Wiring pistons into place for one more loud "Five Biggest ticket sale in history says the man at Indianapolis Fastest cars that ever burned the bricks New grandstand is going up close to where the cars roar through the south turn Walls along the main stretch being reinforced for safety Drivers itching for a chance to get behind the wheel agair 'Round and 'round Craziest show that eve was put en Men get killed at Indianapolis Nearly always in the spring Ray Nolting In New Job CAGE SPORT DYING SLOWLY Only tourney play remaining Who can beat Kentucky No one? Heap of dough for Wildcats as they battle for the crown High school teams drive onward Which will come out champion in the district regional and state? Lots of fun for high school kids and older people too Wholesome healthy sort of madness Always with us in the spring meeting between the crosstown rivals although the LaSalle-Wil-liam and Mary affair may develop into a fine attraction in its own right Because and Xavier are In the championship round a capacity crowd of IS 004 may turn out (nr the double-header However plenty of seats still were available early Wednesday according to Sam Fein berg tourney director for Queen City Basketball Inc Xavier and the Bearcats advanced to the title game by virtue of first round victories Monday The Musketeers defeated the Indians from Williamsburg Va 82-65 and avenged an early season loss by nipping the LaSalle Explorers from Philadelphia 50-49 This set the stage for the second game between Coach John Cats and Coach Lew Hirt's Blue Battalion In the first meeting on Feb 5 the Musketeers won 71-64 on their own fieldhduse court That advantage will be lost on the neutral Garden floor At the time of the first meeting the Musketeers were rated above the Bearcats who were la a (lump by Dick Dunkel By tho rad of the regular season last week the picture had changed somewhat and with a mark of 20 wins la 25 collegiate games was placed No 8 In the country Xavier although playing fine basketball against some tough opposition ended regular play with a 15-9 record and was placed No 34 by Dunkel The Dunkel ratings expected to mean much Wednesday The game will be ployed on its own merit and it looks to be a fairly even money proposition In the first game it was Dick Dallmer who carried the big load for the Bearcats with 20 points For Xavier it was Capt Malcolm McMullen with 16 Wednesday it may be two or three others Both teams had workouts Tuesday to make last-minute adjustments The consolation game will give Chester Glermsk country's second leading scorer from William and Mary a chance to perform again Glermsk scored 35 points against Xavier LaSalle is a heavy favorite over the southerners but have to atop Giermak and that' tough assignment for anyone Jimmy Phelan a guard who showed best against may have the starring role for the Explorers Championship trophy will be presented following the final A trophy to the outstanding player also will be made Based on tournament play for Monday leading contenders are Giermak Phelan Dallmer and Joe Luchi of and Bill Cady who made 24 and Bobby Alston who scored 18 both of Xavier in the opening round Girls Tangle Joust In Tag Ray Nolting former University of Cincinnati football coach has taken the post of backfield coach with the New York Bulldogs of the National Football League The new posi SPEECH-TIME'S PAST for football coaches Out to practice now they go Set to teach the latest hocus-pocus to ihe hig tough speedy guards and tackles Blocking technique's hard to learn Switch-off system makes it harder Fellow's got to have a brain of some sort in this modem game of football Greatest freshman squad in history (they were called that late last fall) now starts working out with varsity Slam and bang and hit harder Cal it fun Call it work Faster backs are what they need Faster faster Gotta hurry Only five or six short months to practice and to get in shape for opener in the autumn when the leaves start coming down Leaves that fall in autumn now just buds Spring buds tion will pay him about 2S per cent more than he made at The Bulldogs r-mcrly the Boston NFL entry are owned by Kate Smith and Ted Collins Nolting starts to work July Since the job will entail six i First lady tag team wrestling: match in several months is sched-j Juled Friday night at Music Hall Arena i I This contest paira violent Viola' iVian of Denver and Helen Olsen! newcomer from Norway against June Byers of Texas and Dot: Dodson of New Orleans i It will be a two of three falls limit engagement Frank Sexton London heavyweight rated top man in iXew England collides with Ron-nie Ethisnn of St Joseph Mo in the 90-minute limit feature match Ethison broke Dr Ed Meske's winning streak last week Thej Purple Heart Third Army veteran' scored the only fall of his match with Mpske Den Eagle Iroquois Indian from Quebec takes on tough Tony Leone of Roston in a 60-minute limit contest ZkJt Ray Nolting work BILL WeSTERFEtD BEARCATS' CO-CAPFAIM FINISHES HIS WORK AS A COLLEGE BASKET -BAUER WEDNESDAY NIGHT AGAINST THE MUSKETEERS AT THE CINCINNATI GARDEN UCHA5 WON ONE CO-TITLE AND TWO OUTRIGHT CHAMPION' 5HIP5 IN THE LAST THREE SEASONS IWITh 'WESTY AT THE PIVOT POST SAMUEL BECKER big promoter planning outdoor boxing show for summer Gotta be a big one maybe for the title of the world Muscle boys in underwear running leaping tossing hunks of iron to win a cherished letter in the track sport Track is called the basic sport but how hard it is to find a man who wants to pay a buck cr two to watch it Kids with padded gloves and heavy bats ganging up on Saturday Out to make the knothole baseball tear Fly a kite Roller skate Better still try cutting caper on the ice at Charlie's Garden Catch a cold Fal in love Listen to the birdies call here Beautiful spring Aw nuts No not nuts Nuts are for autumn Well not exactly Some people are that way the year ound Anyway spring year he may move his family east Bulldog head coach is Charley Ewart formerly pf Wesleyan and one-time general manager of the Philadelphia Eagles Nolting will be returning to familiar scenes in the NFL He was for nine years a backfield star of the Chicago Bears and played in the top pro backfield of all time He coached at hia alma mater four years His 1947 eleven was the best of all time for St Xavier Hamilton la Class A Tourney Class A Box ScoresSemi-Final Games College Basketball Outdoors With Wally Forste FcrAFMrr tf FG FA FM fr TPlIfamlMoa (63) BY THE UNITED PRESS Knit Ithaca 83 KoChester Tech 86 Mt Xavier (38) Dunnings Auhcrgir BuiMt Wilks Baldwin Ballsy 4 in 1 8 3 13 3 OriMirptr IjWiefhi BY JOE QUINN St Xavier's Bombers co-champions of the Catholic League are the final hurdle in the path of the Big Blue team of Hamilton Public on their way to the Southwestern Ohio District Class A scholastic basketball championship Sports Show Set At Williams 1 11 4 ft 3 3 1 3 3 1 0 Wll Smith Bogenscbuti Conway -Helmcra -Ramhrr -McDcvitt Wrvnn -Meyer Okruhllca Knodsi Karot 0 McGricrc Olavctto 13 23 14 16 38 34 18 15 30 63 Tofala FGFAFMFFTF 1 4 3 6 COME EARLY: it will be first come first served the set-up Friday night at Emery Auditorium when Ben East of Outdoor Life screens his the Great under the auspices of The Post Doors to the auditorium will open at 7:30 The free show starts at 8 Emery Auditorium is at 1116 Walnut street Outdoorsmen and gals will not (38) Totals -Norwood (30) CaMldy Koch Stanford farmer jr -Hetnaacfe Oshton FG FA FM rf TF 3 1 Westers Mutt Zimmer IK Anselm'i 68 Lowell Textile 78 Wert Virginia Tech 90 Berkley 55 ftyracuse 70 Niagara 60 New York University 65 Ctty Collets of New York 52 Felrmoat State 93 Wert Virginia Wee-leyan 64 Midwest Iowa itate 49 Xanas 48 Morris Harvey 70 GlenvUU 69 Langston 69 Llnoohi 65 NA1H tent at Kansas City Iowa State Teachers 45 lUver Falla (Wise) Teachers 64 Northwestern Louiaiana 70 Puget Sound 58 Beloit 96 Weynertmrg (Pa) 56 Texas Tech 79 Montana College of umiIh 4S North Dakota TO Hawaii 83 outhwait Miaaourt Ttachna 50 Fort-land Ural Tl Xraklna 4T Loyola (MS) TO Cadarvllk a Coltos team that played well enough for most occasions But the Big Blue was alert and aggressive every minute of the game and so well did they do on defense that they limited the Maroons to a single field goal in the entire first half The visitors had an 11-4 lead the quarter and were in front 28-9 at the half They stretched their advantage to 39-16 at the ineir auvanwge oo-io ai me A sports show will be held at the Williams YMCA starting at 8 pm Saturday Walker Knopf chairman' has scheduled a judo exhibition by Robert Hall and Jack Mason a volleyball game between two leading teams of the intramural league a weight-lifting demonstration by Fred Richards Robert Huber's boy gymnastic team Han-Dell hand-balancing act Robert Sarsfield'a boy tumbling team and junior gymnastic troupe and i Frank Mixie's gymnastic team TI it Bluett Stephenson Gannon Bludau 9 Frey Kulxman Hamilton which had been a heavy pre-tournament favorite was to oppose the Bombers at 8:30 Wednesday at Xavier Fieldhouse in the title game On one game is scheduled and a mission is 75 cents St Xavier defeated Norwood 38-30 to win its way to the finals while Coach Warren Scholler's Big Blue club ran roughshod over Western Hills 63-28 in the semifinals played before shout 3500 Tuesday night at the Fieldhouse 3 3 12 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 9 30 13 17 30 Sample Ijuie Totals Officials Back and Vann Half fleors: St Xaviar 10-14 Kiederhelman Mangold -York be the only persons interested In Friday night's show Conservationists Boy and Girl Scouts and travel-minded persons will find "Alaska the Great right down their alley And all it will cost them is their time S3 Total! op n- three-quarter pole and the rc- 1 rabert to 1 lay serves played the final six minutes of the game In Pittsburgh per-mutational sun Meet Tony Trabert the tennis star of the University of Cincinnati will participate in the Pittsburgh Invitational Tennis Tournament at the Pittsburgh IL D8 Christ OlUrch Country Club Saturday and TT rr-i day Trabert recently won the 1 -lay lor ilOOp 1 ltle Legend FG floor goals PA attempted: FM foul ehote made FF foul TF total point Bcnsauonai Officials Back and Brandt Half fteore: Hamilton 28-9 Attendance foul Stars Coaches Fathers To Be Guests at Dinner IT WAS THE opener that provided most of the night's excitement since Norwood and St Xavier battled head and head until the final two minutes of the the Iwclth lake said: "Come on out! is fine for catfish Everbody is catching them" So the boys hiked to the Millcreek Valley lake from Norwood They fished and they fished and they fished So did a dozen other people In four hours not a bite was had by anyone So the boys hiked back at Norwood Dave got a bright idea He called the pay pond they had just left he asked "Cone on out! Fishin' is fine for catfish Everybody Is catching Enticing as it sounded the boys didn't return Dave is the son of Ckpt Harry Stull of Fire Co No 43 HAMILTON HAD a shooting percentage of 36 second best of the season while Western was able to hit only 18 per cent of its game I shots The St Xavier triumph was Even at the free throw line reversal of their previous meeting I Hamilton was on fire making the National Indoor Junior RECORD CRAFFIE: Martin Krentz of 3935 Marburg avenue Oakley probably set a local record when he caught a giant crappie the other day Mr Krentz took a 24 pounder on a minnow and fly rod at the Boone Lake Club Walton Ky The fish was 16 inches long 13 inches in girth Biggest crappie we've ever heard of was 41A pounder Phil Williams says was caught at Herrington Ky Lake won 45-40 at Harrison and Christ Church meet Wednesday at 8:30 Harrison for the of the Har- which Norwood Norwood Fathers of all the boys who are selected on The Post All-Star basketball squads in each section will be guests at the third annual All-Star high school basketball dinner which is scheduled for 6:39 Monday at Hotel Sinton In addition the players selected MEN IN CLINIC Head Coach Sidney Gillman of championship at the University of Cincinnati and rison Senior Basketball League first 11 before a miss and getting 15 of 18 for the night Only one of the 12 men who got Into the game failed to score and Bemie Griesinger was top man with 12 points Jim Stephenson who collected 15 points and Don Zimmer were the Hills standouts Wcstemwhere his assistants George Blackburn Both teams won round titles Joe Madro and Paul Dictzel will without losing a game and each leave Monday for Pa has beaten the other New York they will participate in thej Tech and College of Pharmacy Coatesville football clinic imeet in the prelim AFTER BATTLING even hairway through the first period Coach Nick Weiler's St Xavier crew sparked by Huck Budde's Bass on Dead Bait Spring Drill Set by Cats Spring football drills start out- closed Tom Cassidy tied up the ide March 21 Head Coaeh Sid Rme at 23-23 with a free throw seven straight points went into a 14-8 lead at Ihe end of the period Norwood fought hack in the second frame and closed the gap to 19-16 at halftime Shortly before the third stanza as well as the coaches from all the Hamilton county schools and coaches of high school teams in northern Kentucky Clermont Brown and Butler counties in Ohio and Ripley and Dearborn countie in southeastern Indiana also will be guests of The Post The public is Invited to attend the dinner and many reservations already have been made Anyone desiring to make a reservation may do so by calling PArkway 1111 line 135 The fee is $375 per piste gregation was the team of three years back Which went under the nickname of the Whiz Kids That team broke several Illinois and Big Nine records and was regarded as one of the best quintets in basketball history ANOTHER FEATURE will be the showing of the Kentucky-St Louis films taken by Lexington photographer Mack Hughes in the finals of the Sugar Bowl tournament It was in this game that St Louis handed the Wildcats their only setback of the year winning 42-40 They Fish Differently in Florida LIVE AND LEARN: Maybe they should make an amendment to that old saw about all fishermen being liars The other day Dave Stull of 1678 Alcore terrace Mt Washington and Tom Mullin 5341 Warren avenue Norwood decided they wanted to catch some fish So these 13-year-olds telephoned a dozen fishing lakes to see how things were The first eleven told the truth: No good But the man on the 'phone at three successive chunky Charlie Arthur Keller of the Pott editorial la who hat tithed the Ohio River and nearby ttreamt many years wrote the following after hit return from a recent fithing trip to Florida Gillman announced Wednesday I that followed Nine veteran of some of the' long shots by best years of football will-Kuntzman graduate in June a Those leaving according to Gillman' list are: Roger Ste- BOBBY AUHERGFR opened phens Tom Blake Jim Doughertyjlhe fourth quarter with a pair of Hall Drake Lc Heizmann Tom field goals for the Bombers but Jesscn Eikton Pitts Al Richards' two free throws by Bob Koch and and Floyd Shorts a twist shot by Bob Ashton kept Players preparing to play their-Norwood two (joints behind fourth season at include I Then Bur de came through with Quarterbacks Tom O'Malley and: two more floor shots to mark the ADMIRAL New 1949 Televiaton RE 7420 For Homo Detno PRINCIPAL speaker will be Doug Mills athletic director at the University of Illinois Until the past two seasons Mills also was head basketball coach at the Champaign school and was noted for the brilliant teams he developed Probably his best known ag consoled see that the slack is out of your line when you strike" He then caught one and made It look easy have to admit I wasn't too successful at this type of fishing We had plenty of opportunities hut I never seemed to handle things just right I caught some bass but I missed more "runs'' than I should have missed Meanwhile continued to hook almost every and at the end of the day we had a fine string of bass We who fish for bass in the Ohio River Valley section of the country generally use an artificial lure or live bait For 9919 riAivnrrn niivfkton OPEN MON FNIe MAT NITEB Toiler £ZrcU fRVtCL McMillan Linemen Sheldon Dunlap Stan Klimczak John VII-koski Lowell Storm and John Pramik LOW SWEET game'n turning point and put the winners into a commanding lead with four minutes left For SL Xavier Budde Jim Bunning and Aubcrger were standouts both in the scoring column and in their fioor play and rebounding Slim Stanford Koch and Kuntzmnn were best for Norwood FOR meaty sides were sliced off and these in turn sliced into sizable chunks fold those pieces so that the black sides are inside Put one on your hook and cast it near the edge of those hyacinth beds' advised Somewhat skeptically I did so The bait had hardly settled into the water until the line began to jerk and the reel spin slightly I grahhed my rod prepared to tussle a bass but C's warning stopped me not a bass a small snapper working on your bait Let him go People down here tell me the snapper will attract attention to the he explained "In this type of fishing bass don't strike hard They take the bait lightly and move off slowly You'll know it's a liess when you see your reel begin to revolve It wasn't long until it happened just that way The reel began to turn I grabbed up my rod "Hit iim my instructor yelled I jerked prepared for the hard rush of a hooked bass I missed him "You'll soon get the knack of Next: Using live minnows as fault Remove hi Toxins Flush the Bowels catfish we use dead bait or chunks of meat Therefore it was something of a shock to discover that in Florida bass sre taken on dead bait and chunks of fish My brother Keller of 304 Eighth avenue Dayton Ky showed me how it was done on the Chas-sahowitxka river which empties into the Gulf of Mexico about 60 miles north of Tamps Al fixh dock we purchased some roach a blackish kind of fish taken in nets by commercial fishermen for sale as bait After scaling them the MIOIV1NG a complete reversal of their poor form of the previous evening Hamilton was hotter than a tropical afternoon as they poured in points in machine-gun fashion against a Western Hills TtSNun (Miuniwa Jim to niHi al FOOD ar MINK SKIN IRRITATIONS DUK TO FUKGUS Com It'll Open' Your Fynl JOHN BABE REISING INC II YEARS IN OF AUTO ROW 2358 GILBERT WO 1678 Cincinnati's Firit 10-Point Select Nath Dealer KINS MACK IAIEL Vrtai Whijky Stftif WNskNk f0 Grain NtuM Spirits Prat OLD FORESTER BoMstf la Bond Ktriudv 'AtnigM Bourbon Whisky 100 Proof Dm apptttMfJft prMww raulU krlnglitf grateful krkiNmIMgmnii from ifri first iwr ImW IMi 4 worker al year 4iaulrt8l06 I OINTMENT (MU4) WIN-ZER HEW BEAUTIFUL DESIGN.