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vv 51 fuWrl I II Msoo til fciili CtaiffiiisHi, ml 1 jfSSk HH 1 it i -v v. w. wmm ep iin i iiiiiiiiii iii wiin iijnin.1 mnwmii mi i. i waniim 'wmn'ii ywi-iy. hjht" io-wmh" j)g'gMWl'wi Iowa Takes 15-4 Lead, Then Falters; Lear Gets 48 Points Evanston, March 24 (AP) The San Francisco Dons today must rank among the greatest if not the greatest collese basketball team ever put together.

They closed out a season of 29 consecutive victories and extended their string to an awe-inspiring 55 An Open Fonun Vhre Yr Opiaiwi At G4 Am Oirt by trimming Iowa Big Ten champions Friday night 83-71 to repeat for National Collegiate Ath letic Assn. title. Iowa made a courageous stab at an upset and had the crowd of Eldorado's LovelTette Will Enroll At Illinois Coach Al Adams' announcement that his ace footbal player, Iindell Lovellette, will enroll at Illinois next fall comes as no sur. prise. Adams himself played football there and was a top broad jumper on the track team.

Lovellett probably will become a guard at Illinois. In high school he started as a lineman but played fullback on offense this year. He also played basketball and is a fine weight man in track. "I won't be surprised if he tops 50 feet in the shot put and 150 feet in the discus this spring," Adams said. Adams said the 6-1, 200-pound senior, who wears long sideburns BUI MeBride, Carbondale; Dec Lingle, Duster Thomas, Pinckneyvillc; Leedio Cabutt? Herrin; Lou Leilich, Cahokia Bob Lewis, Anna; Jim Smilgoff, Chicago; Dennis Kimbro, Shawnee; Bill Abernathy, Anna; Ken Hop-son, Dongola More Than 100 Coaches Attend SIU Clinic and looks older than the average prep player, is an honor student 10,600 at Northwestern's McGavv Hall cheering wildly by running, up a 15-4 lead in the opening minutes.

"We were tight and tense," explained the Dons dapper coach, Phil Woolpert, later. "But we had trailed by 11 points against California and Holy Cross earlier this year and I was never worried." In the next seven minutes, Iowa's lead evaporated as the incomparable Bill Russell, Gene Brown and outside-shooting Hal Perry stormed the baskets. Carl Boldt's corner shot put the Dons ahead 24-23 about six minutes before half time, and they never trailed or were tied thereafter. At intermission it was 38-33 fashioned on the well-balanced scoring of Russell with 10 points, and Boldt, Perry and Brown each with 8. They widened the gap at will in the first five minutes of the second half.

Brown, Perry and Russell kept up the bombardment and San Francisco cruised ahead 59-39. To all intents and parposes victory was wrapped up at this stage. Russell ended with 26 points, Brown and Boldt 16 each and Banycky 1 Marion Wendell Starrick, Approximately 100 coaches attended the spring baseball -track clinic at Southern Illinois University Friday. witn a 4.7 average. Another Eldorado senior, Ron Charles Mathieu, Bob Gay, Wal Benton Ralph Davison, Glenn Trulove, Sherwood Pace, Gene Ernest West Frankfort Ed Dempsey Galatia Glenn Dunn Stceleville Ennis Blaine, Dail lace Peebles Pinckneyville Duster Thomas, Stroke, is taking examinations to enter die Air Corps Academy.

Paul Jim H'ich Principal speakers were Hibbs of Du Quoin and Smilgoff of Chicago Taft YVib Ragland, Glen Haimton, Art Stroke played end in football and was a basketball regular. on baseball, Warren St. James of "I lost some unusually rood boys this year as well as just about everybody on the basketball Adams said. Some of his gofd dis tance runners of last season have indicated they will not be interest ed in track this spring, Adams said. Marian, Johnston City St.

Louis Sumner, Henry Schem-mcr of University City, High and Sam Stotlar of Herrin on track. Those who registered included: Carbondale Ross Merrick, T. Meake, H. E. Perkins, Bill Thompson, Everett Todd, Lester Veath, Al Kawal, Bob Franz, Bill MeBride, Jim Walker, Jim Alexander, Frank Bleycr, Ray Berger, Roy Fowley, Al Hollister, J.

W. King, Jmes Lightle, Reid Martin, Bill Maciejewski, Leland Lingle. Herrin Leedio Cabutti, Earl Lee, Mike Sortal, Les McCullom, Bob Hutchison, Sam Stotlar Murphysboro Bill Plum- Drop Baseball This Spring Gibbs Sesscr Jim Fornear, Don Raines Obey Jack Frost, Bill Mills-paugh Shawnee Dennis Kimbro Sandoval I Ioward Lambert, John Merkelbach Cahokia Lou Leilich Trico Ralph Leinicke, Dick Ward Livingston Mac McClanahan Albion Ray Miller, Harold Orr Hurst-Bush Jerry Nordberg Ashley Hal Olson Christopher C. B. Pierce Clay City Carl Sexton Cobden Leon Sitter McLeansboro Floyd Staff New Athens Ed Thies Valmeyer U.

R. Tomlinson Johnston City Pete Trunin Zeigler Glen Whittenberg Gorham Charles Valier Menendez Du Quoin Paul Hibbs, Fred Huff Central ia Howard Cooksey, Bob McCall, Bob Schmidt Mt. Vernon Harold Hutchins, Scott Gill, Frank Charnak Anna Bob Lewis, Bill Abernathy Cairo C. K. Cole, Cliff Johnson, Fred Wood, Hank Hankla Vienna Carol 1 Belcher Bone Gap- Wayne Bennett Molinc Bill Bishop, J.

K. Wilt West Salem George Calhoun Harrisburg Lawrence Calufetti Ben Giamness Jackson, Mo. George Coulter, Marlin Craig Mounds Gene Cross Dongola Owen Davis, Ken Hopson Metropolis Dan Fahcrty, Charles Hopson Perry 14. Carj Cain Bill Sea- Marion and Johnston City will berg each hit 17 for Iowa's best. drop baseball this spring and con although the San Francisco- centrate on track alone, iierrin Iowa game was the big feature, it remained for Hal Lear, Temple's previously dropped baseball in favor of track, so no Williamson 5-11 senior guard from Philadel Countv high schools will play base Frank Charnak, ML Gene Cross, Mounds; Scott Gill and Harold Hutchins, ML Vernan; Fred Woods and C.

K. Cole, Cairo phia, to steal much of the individ ball. Carterville and HuxstBush will have track only. ual glory. lee, Jim Blackwood, Bill Furger- Lear popped in 17 field coals We won have much in track son, Julian Weatherlv, Bob Smith and 14 free throws for 48 points said Hurst-Bush's Coach Jerry Elkville Geoffrey Moore, John Nordberg.

Hurst Bush had sev in leading the Owls to a 90-81 victory over Southern Methodist Zancha, H. W. Wohlend flyers Pitches 4-Hit Shutout Ron Avers' four-hit pitching Mips Begins 30th Year is Track Coacli It SIU cral fine individual performers in Caiterville Tom Peeler, Harry for third place. recent years. Frank Olkow ski, a top distance runner for three Southern Illinoisan years, is 20 years old now and in eligible to compete his senior year.

Friday gave Southern Illinois University its second victory in four "We re still big time, laugh games of a Louisiana spring base ball trip. Avers became the first pitcher Bucky O'Connor Will Coach U. S. Olympic Cage Team Evanston, March 14 (AP) Bucky O'Connor, coach of Iowa's niiinerxrps in the National Collegiate Athletic Assn. basketball championships, will coach the 14-man college Olympic basketball squad at the trials at Kansas City next week.

O'Connor accepted the appoint to go the full nine innings. The opponent Friday was North- western Louisiana of Hammond, which lost 2-0. The Sa'ukis had previously won ment after Phil Woolpert of San one of three games with South EDITED BY MERLE JONES SOUTHERN ILLINOISAN, SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 1955 Carbondale Herrin Murphysboro western Louisiana at Lafavette. They dropped the odd game of the Page Nine Teams Have Compiled 117 Dual Wins, 32 Losses Lcland P. (Doc) Lingle this week begins his 30th year as head track co3ch at Southern Illinois University.

SIU's track history can actually he traced back to Lingle's coming to Southern in 1927 the fiist ear SIU had a regular track schedule. Prior to that time Southern had had only two track meets, a conference meet at McKendree College in 1916 and the other at old Ewing College in 1925. As a faculty assistant, Lingle took over track in 1927. Actually, Lingle has been connected with Southern Illinois University as either a student or faculty member since 1919. ed Elkville's Geoffrey Moore.

"We'll play baseball one day and have track the next." "We'll have track only at Ses- ser," said Coach Don Raines, "but I wouldn't be surprised if we couldn't field a stronger baseball team. Carbondale Community will have one of the biggest spring sports programs. Baseball and track will be continued and tennis and golf teams have been authorized. Murphysboro, the defending district track champion, will have track and baseball and figures to be strong in both. Only four South Seven schools will have baseball this spring Centralia, Mt.

Vernon, West Frankfort and Harrisburg. Sparta series Wednesdav, 7-4, and were rained out Thursday. Outfielder Wayne Williams of State Tourney Mooting Best Ever Du Quoin made his debut as a pitcher Wednesday. He allowed three runs and three hits in five rrancisco NCAA champions turned it down. Arthur (Dutch) Lonborg, chairman of the college group of the Olympic Basketball Committee, appointed O'Connor Friday night after Woolpert's refusal.

The appointment was to have gone to the coach of the National Collegiate Athletic Assn. champions but Woolpert pulled out after his Dons whipped Iowa, 83-71, in the championship game. "The Olympics will be held in November and December," Wool-pert said. "This will interfere with our basketball season. I couldn't get leave, and besides I'd like to notched .533 (18 of 33) when he did fire.

West Frankfort's Wayne Meibel, with .533 (16 baskets in 30 shots) and Peoria Central's Gene Toms, innings The Salukis were slated to play Northwestern Saturday and then return home. State Tournament Shooting Year SA FG FT FTM Avg. 51 2025 744 446 293 .367 52 2073 717 445 265 .346 53 1936 710 569 213 .367 54 1928 736 492 179 .382 55 1748 679 548 225 .388 56 1837 754 515 258 .410 First Round Games Brought Highest Team Percentages A breakdown of last week's state high school basketbal tournament statistics, believe it or not, dirows new evidence into the camp of those who would bring back the old Sweet Sixteen. Leland Lingle has been the only Southwest Egyp tian schol with no baseball. Harrisburg Basketball SEBRING DRIVERS AIM AT NEW TRACK RECORDS Sebring, March 24 (AP) With new speed records in Job Open; Bland To Quit Heath Resigns fit Sullivan Charles Chester Heath, basket Step-by-Step Figures for '56 SA FG FT FTM Avg.

Gene Bland, Harrisburg basket ball coach who was sidelined with 1st Seven of the eight best games and much of the hottest shooting occurred back at the eight super-sectional sites. The '56 tourney including those super-sectional games produced a record-shattering .410 ov a heart attack this season, has def round 859 367 264 122 .427 prospect, 6U ot the rastest sports cars made in Europe and America were ready for the starter's flag today in the 12-hour International ball and track coach at Sullivan relax for a while." O'Connor, 42, has been head basketball coach at Iowa for five years. His Havvkeyes repeated as Big Ten champions this year. Last initely decided not to try coaching Quarter High School, has resigned effec next year. with .538 (14 in 26) led those who played only through the quarter-finals.

Rantoul's Dave Moran and Jerry Zachary, with 35 points apiece, tied as scoring leaders of the two game group. Zachary also was a free throw leader with 17 conversions in 20 tries. West Rockford's long John Wessels, who wound up two points short of the individual scoring record for one game when he hooped 36 against West Frankfort in the quarter-finals, also missed the field goal record of 16 by one. Dunbar's Mel Davis also came within one of the basket During the past 29 years Lingle' has won numerous conference championships and has compiled an overall dual meet mark of 107 victories compared to only 30 losses. He's done even better in triangular meets, capturing 10 and dropping two, giving him an impressive dual triangular 29-y car record of 117 wins, 32 losses a .785 percentage.

'Track' says Lingle, "is the basis of almost all sports. In track," he explained, "You run, jump and throw. Now what do you do in basketball? You run, jump, 8nd throw. In football it's the same way. And it's also true of 477 187 132 64 .392 finals "We need a head basketball Grand Prix of endurance.

tive the end of the school year, it was announced today by Unit Semi coach who had football experience year Iowa finished fourth in the Unless the brutal pace bums up finals 243 95 68 39 .391 erall shooting average, which paled the .388 figure of last year, a Superintendent Virgil Bingman. NCAA playoffs. third the more powerful cars in the mar and can assist me in football, Athletic Director Lawrence Calu Heath did not announce any 152 53 23 21 .349 record itself. This year's mark, however, was place plans for the future. fetti said.

Title A former OIney prep star and SPARTA COUNTRY CLUB ELECTS NEW OFFICERS L. R. Reid was re-elected presi Was there any chance Caluf et-. 106 52 28 12 .491 same Eastern Illinois State College grad who twice has been a tempor helped tremendously by .427 first-round firing at the eight scattered locations. At Huff Gym the pace was a fancy .396, but for the same uate, Heath is in his first year at dent of the Sparta Country Club ary basketball coach in the past three years, would head basket to second place with .691 (76 of Sullivan.

His basketball team had a 14-10 record and finished sec in the club annual organizational stretch of game ruarter-finals on record in the third-place game. 110). Second place Edwardsville, ond in the Okaw Valley race with "Track," Lingle continued, "is One final argument for Sweet last year the average was .430. Without the West Rockford-Ed- a 9-1 record. moreover, outshot conqueror West the world oldest sport because it athon battle around an abandoned wartime ir "base, the speed record book should be completely rewritten.

In the practice runs around the 5.2-mile asphalt and concrete course, Juan Fangio of Argentina, world champion driver, was clocked unofficially at 3 minutes, 27 seconds on one of his faster laps. This was 11 seconds faster than the lap record for the race. Several other cars, notably the Maseratis of Italy and the D-type Jaguars of England, were locked in the record-breaking time, al ball? "Nobody ever asked me ot take the job," he said. "If they (the board) did ask, I don't know what I'd say," Sixteen advocates is the fact that wardsville tussle for the title, the is based on a person iundarnen just 79 boys got to play in Huff Rockford from the field over the four-game tourney stretch, .489 Manager Birdie Tebbetts of the tal urges. Youngsters in other Gym this year.

One hundred and meeting this week. Committee appointments include Golf Carl Morganthaler Grounds Earl Henderson Cottages Earl Glasscock Entertainment William Morgan Lake W. John Bron. Mrs. Ina Gibson will operate the Mosey Inn Restaurant on the club countries who may never have 36 did so last March.

Cincinnati Redlegs believes his pitcher Hcrshel Freeman is heard ot basketball, baseball, or football have the same basic urges (113 baskets in 231 fires) to .446 (100 buckets in 224 shots). The Salem super-sectional boasted the hottest team for a single outstanding relief hurleT in the Bud Nangle, Chicago Daily News reporter who has covered the state basketball tourney many years, Carlos Van Auron, whose Ran Huff Gym lialf of this year's tourney was' unexciting and unspectacular. The first seven of the last eight games were decided by from 12 to 27 points. In contrast, seven of the eight super-sectionals were settled by from two to eight points. The best shooting, on the whole, National Leaeue.

toul Eaeles technically tied for of running, jumping and throwing. Track simply develops more came. Ihut was Anthony ot fifth place in the state tournament ments. fullv these skills. when they were eliminated by gets a nice switch in assignments this spring.

He leaves soon for Florida to follow the White Sox the first half of the season. though the drivers insisted they One of the changes which he Effingham, which blazed away for a .642 clip (27 baskets in 42 shots), yet bowed to Edwardsville. Dunbar in the quarter-finals, jok Lingle also pointed out how cheating cannot exist in track and were making no special effort to still won eames. thoush in the ingly claimed fourth place for his reach top speeds in the tun cup how a poor or lazv performer can a. team.

finale Edwardsville, better than West Rockford from the field, fell runs. not denend on the rest of the Quincy Hot and Cold Top free throwing teams in two down at the tree throw line to fcsaia to pull him up. Will track records continue to lose. A 7-7 (.500) performance games we yulncy, converting "Look, Dunbar beat Oak Park in the game for third place, 73-56. We lost to EHinbar, 73-58.

That makes us two points better than Oak Park, doesn't it?" Leon Brinkopf, former Chicago Cub outfielder who coached at Thebes this year, will move to Cape Central High School next season. He will be head baseball coach and assist in other sports. NO DEALS Scottsdale, March 24 (AP) at the line in the title hit marred for an average of .821 (32 of 39) the Tigers' marvelous .547 (29 be broken? Lingle believes thev will be. ''Track is a science. High school and college coaching and and Rantoul with .766 (45 of 58), Oddly, Quincy was coldest from the field in a single game, baskets in 53 shots) afield.

West Rockford's great free throwing grounds. COLLEGE BASKETBALL NCAA Tourney San Francisco 83, Iowa 71 Championship Temple 90, So. Methodist 81 (for 3rd) Natl AAU Tourney (Semi-finals) Phillips Oilers 71, Mobile ADA Oilers 69 Seattle Buclian Bakers 85, Milwaukee Alien-Eradley 75 Natl Junior Collep Tourney (Semi-finals) Hannibal-LaGrange Mo 82, Pueblo 81 Kilgore (Tex) 68, Mobcrly Mo6 track facilities are becoming better feels is not good is the change of attitude of many athletes. "I'm deeply concerned," said Lingle, "about the danger of present day sports programs whereby many athletes are competing in a sport because of what it offers them in scholarships and other financial aids rather than what the sport itself can contribute to them and to their own self-improvement." Lingle was a high jumper and middle distance man while attending Cobden High School. Before coming to Southern, he was principal and head football, basketball, and track coach of Sikeston, High School for four years.

21 of 26 for compensated each veax. Industry lias sided track, managing only .241 in its quar ter-final. lor its lesser .434 (23 of 53) from too, hj providing discuses and hvelins redisirned for greater dis the field. John McFeron, SIU graduate from Anna, will not return as coach at Columbia High School next Tear. This was his second season there.

COAL BELT OFFICIALS MEET SUNDAY IN HERRIN Officers and managers of Coal Belt Teen-age Baseball League will meet Sunday at 2 p. m. in the Herrin City Hall. James Manager Paul Richards who admits to coveting another first-rate pitcher and some infiejd help for bis Baltimore Orioles, said Friday: "We aren't even close to completing a deal at this time." "One thing 1 have been trying hard to do is buy a player or two that could help us," Richards said, "but so far I haven't had much success alone those lines." Edwardsville's deadly Govoncr Vaughn posted the highest field goal mark over the four-game route, tance end better poles for pole Oddly enough, Edwardsville had been far and away the top free raulters. He pointed out how SIU's old throwing team of the meet, and even with its 7-7 final still wound hitting .557 widi 39 baskets in 70 shots.

Runner-up was West Campbell, Herrin, president, said Rockford's Nolden Gentry, who the group will map plans for the Ashley High needs a basketball game away from home to complete its 1956-57 schedule. clav track was replaced by a modern cinder cval and how most ichoolt have had similar improve- up with the leading average of .764 (68 of 89). West pulled up passed off more than he shot but coming season..