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A 3 PSL Journey -A- a earns WO tibi lioulls Pnirins-I'jnr. II) Our Swami: lor 16 The fearless seer of the I ree Press came out of Thursday's high school quarterfinals somewhat battered, but definitely unbowed. Despite a handful of upsets, Hal (The Swami) Schrani the renowned oracle of Michigan prep basketball managed to select 11 winners in the 16 quarterfinal frays. As the scores began to roll in, it looked bad for the ol' prophet: He was 0-for-5 in the first handful of reports. But he turned up the power on his famed crystal ball and brought in 11-for-ll the rest of the evening.

And all four of his No. 1-raled teams survived for Saturday's semifinal round. The Swami will be back in Saturday's Free Press with his selections for the semifinal round. points and a swarming CC defense forced Mackenzie into turnovers Thursday night. The Shamrocks were a heavy as they will be again Saturday against the state's top-ranked Everett club.

The other Class A semifinal will match Pontiac Central, a surprise survivor with a 15-11 record, against Saginaw (18-7) in a battle at Jenison. Rouge (23-3) will be matched against Saginaw Buena Vista (21-1) at 10:30 a.m. on the MSU floor. The hard-luck prize of the evening Thursday went to Ironwood, which traveled 350 miles toGaylord for its clash with Saginaw Buena Vista, only to be sent back home with a final season mark of 18-6. In the Class semifinals, East Catholic and DePorres are in the same bracket of the tournament draw, and so only one can survive for the finals.

They will meet at 3 p.m. Saturday in Lansing's Civic Center. All three Detroit Public School League teams were ousted Thursday night in Class A showdowns of the upset-filled quarterfinal round of the state high school basketball tournament. Of the area's powers, only the Parochial League's Catholic Central, survived the Class A eliminations, the Shamrocks bouncing Mackenzie, 90-67. No.

2-ranked Northeastern, caught up in a classic duel with Lansing Everett, the State's top-ranked team, fell in the final seconds, 59-58. Denby also dropped by the wayside, losing in a dramatic finish to Pontiac Central, 48-47. AREA TEAMS fared better in other classes. An Class both East Catholic and St. Martin DePorres advanced to Saturday's semifinal round.

East Catholic eliminated Galien, 72-6H, in overtime, and DePorres romped past Fowler, 80-54. River Rouge, a perennial power and consistent tournament winner, moved on to the Class semifinals at the expense of Royal Oak Shrine, 80-43. Pontiac Catholic fell out of the Class struggle, losing to Stockbridge, 60-57. THE MAJOR BATTLE coming up Saturday will pit Catholic Central, 22-3 for the season, against talented Lansing Everett, now 24-1, in one of the Class A semifinal showdowns. They will meet in Michigan State University's Field House at 5 p.m.

Catholic Central's guard Mike Prince scored I Lose 81 I -M Mb roiico nsn 1 4 Marquette Too Tough, 62-57 if Al McGuire, lie's Joe's Main Man! W. Maniu'tt MAROUETTE () Ellis 35-28, Tatum 5 01 0, Whitehead 5 0-u 10. Let I 00 16, Walton 6U-012, Pane 0 0 0 0 0, Rosenberoor WESTERN MICHIGAN Griffin I 0 0 2, Tyson 6 1-t 18, Cutter 8 5-5 21, Kurien 1 0-0 2, Harvey 4 2-4 10. Murray 20-0 4 Dt'Bruin 0 01 0. Total 24 4.

Halftlme: Marquette 28, Wstern Mich. Fouls: MarquO IS, W. MichifB U- 25 4 Missouri Is Next for Wolverines BY CURT SILVESTER Fret PreM Sports Writer LOUISVILLE Saving their scratching, scrambling best until last, the University of Michigan overtook Notre Dame for an W)-7(i victory Thursday night in the NCAA Midwest Regional basketball semifinals. The win sends the slow-awakening Wolverines into Saturday afternoon's regional finals. They will meet Big Eight champion Missouri, an 86-75 victor over Texas Tech in Thursday night's other semi-final game that was played before 11,753 fans at Freedom Hall.

IT TOOK the Wolverines almost the entire first half, and much of the second, to remember what it was that got them this far in the first place. But when it came Dack, it came back most effectively. Slippery little Rickey Green remembered big Johnny Robinson rn -bered fresh man Tom Staton proved he belonged in the hi a time and stubborn Steve Grole redeemed himself for past sins. It was Grote who had missed a free throw that cost ijM a victory at Indiana late Please turn to Page 3D, Col. 4 4 BY JOE FALLS Free Press Sporti Editor BATON ROUGE The giants staggered, but didn't tall Thursday night.

Indiana and Marquette, the nation's No. 1 and 2 teams, survived a pair of frightening finishes to set up a "dream game" in the Mideast Regional of the NCAA basketball tournament. The top-ranked Hoosiers got the scare of their lives before eking out a 74-r)9 victory over Alabama. Marquette, the second-ranked team, held on to outlast Western Michigan University, 62-57, before more than 14.000 persons in LSU's Assembly Hall. Indiana and Marquette will tangle Saturday afternoon, with the winner favored to go on to Philadelphia and take it all in the finals next weekend.

But both teams will remember this steamy evening in the heart of the Bayou c.iuntry. The Hoosiers, who came into their game a 2S-0 mark, nearly blew their bid for the national title in the final minutes against Alabama, while Mnrquet'e (26-1) had all it could do to hold off Wesiern Michigan's scrappy Broncos. turned out to be the darlings of the crowd. The Alabama team received a standing ova-lion as it headed for the buses back to Tuscaloosa in the middle of the second game, and Western Michigan earned a warm ovation following iis gallant effort against Marquette. Of these four teams.

Western Michigan was rated the outsider. But the Broncos proved they could play with the big boys by pushing Marquette for the full 40 minutes. Ranked No. 10 in one of the nation's many polls, the Broncos actually led, 51-50, with 7:15 to play. Rut despite some tine-man heroics from center Tom Cutter, Ihey couldn't stay with Marquette the rest of the way.

Cutter scored all of WML" 7 I vf if" BATON ROUGE Of all the people at this basketball tournament, the one I wanted to meet most was Al McGuire, the coach of the Marquette team. I've been a secret admirer of his for years, though at one time in the long ago of the early 1940s I hated him. Oh, how I haled him. He and John Delemonica. I despised them both.

This is when I went to high school LaSalle Academy, an all-boys school taught by Christian Brothers on Second Street and Second Avenue in the heart of the tough Bowery section in New York City. It wasn't really what you think of nowdays as a high school. It was just another building tucked in among thu tenement houses, and the only thing that made it different is that there was a small cemetery right next door to the school. It was strange to look out the window and see the endless rows of houses with the endless rows of wash hanging from the clothes lines and the crowded streets with the peddlers pushing their carts down to First Avenue where they could set out their wares old clothes or lamps or rugs or maybe cucumbers or tomatoes if that's what they were selling and there, in the middle of this teeming scene, was this small patch of green, so silent, so still, so dignified. It was hard to find much dignity on the lower east side of Manhattan.

We didn't have a schoolyard at LaSalle, so we didn't have a football team. Basketball was the game. The only game. We had good basketball teams at LaSalle. And so now in the early 1910s we would play for the City Championship the Catholic League championship and the game would be played in Madison Square Garden.

The Garden. Uptown. The Bigtime. You can imagine how excited we got. And, lo, there were the two dark-haired, dark-eyed guys from S.

John's Prep one named McGuire, one named Delemonica who kept driving on the basket driving and scoring and keeping St. John's Prep two points, three points, ahead of mv school, until that's how it ended: Something like 44-41 or 42-39. 1 was crushed. For vears I followed McGuire's career first with St. John's of Brooklyn, then with the New York Knicks, then with a strange-sounding school named Belmont Abbey somewhere in the Carolinas and finally with Marquette, the Jesuit school on the other side of Lake Michigan.

What a llappy-Go-Luchy Guy I don't know what happened to John Delemonica, but I've always been aware of Al McGuire's whereabouts and it is strange that my job would take me to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, before I would met him for the first time. I came to admire McGuire by reading about him in other newspapers and even the magazines. He seemed like such a happy-co-lucky guy, a nut who enjoyed life to the fullest. He Ml UPI Photo IN FACT, thf 'wo losers Please turn to Page 2D, Col. 3 Indiana's ken llt ii-on 'hooks in omt llama's I.ron Doiifilas HATHAWAY'S PATCH II: THE DRESS SHIRT WITH THE FITTED EUROPEAN BODY Tigers Greet Training Like 'Bunch Kids thought nothing of taking off by himself for a month or so and TP 7 A go hitch-hiking tnrougn lew Or maybe sit on the shores of Tahiti and look at the sun set for a couple of weeks.

He was a man you could envy and admire at the same time. He was a street guy who talked in the language of the street but could live the life only a few could afford. He was a free spirit in every sense of the word. Now Larry Donald, the guy I wrote about yesterday, the managing editor of The Basketball Weekly, was saying in the LSU arena, "Hey there's Al over tuere now let's go talk to him." Larry knows McGuire maybe better than anvone. They've been friends for '2 I Hathaway's been studying in vM Europe, and what they majored 3T i in is the slim-cut, body-following I Vili' dress shirt.

The body is tapered, ia py the back is tailored in Body Darts" 1 e.w to fit smoothly, the sleeves are i iT7" TC tapered, and the tail is square ")A Nv I so there's no spare fabric any ftjfr A where. Except in the spaciously V-M lWfi A 1 spread collar. Of permanently- I pressed Dacroncotton in blue, Of i PP b'W-B it fllL lSfi I Ki. i BY MM HAWKINS Free Press Sporti Writer LAKELAND Ah, spring training at 'ast. Willie Horton was so excued, he woke 'ip at 6 o'clock Thursday morning and couldn't gc back to sleep.

"No kidding, I was nervous as hell," the 32-year-old veteran of a doon Tiger training camps confessed. "You never get too old to be nervous." So Horton called his kids back in Detroit thought I was going crazy, calling so did his daily exercises, then headed for Marchant Stadium, where he hit for halt-an-hour in the batting cage out back, building up the callouses on his hands, before some of the other players climbed cut of lx-d. MEANWHILE, OYER in Tampa, Rusty Staub was pulling on his sweat pants with the New vork Muts monogram eo the side, preparing for his morning run along the-edge of the bay, when he heard the radio anouncer say bahaU tommisfioner Bowie Kuhn had ordered the owners to open the training camps. Staub, who had sat in on most of the rocept negotiations but had skipped Wednesday's sessionwouldn't believe it. "There have been so many ficticious called.

Jim Campbell to find out if it was really true," said Staub. Informed that he was due on the field in uniform in less than an hour, Staub climbed in his jeep, without bothering to change clothes, and headedown he interstafe toward Lakeland. But Staub wasn't the only ontJ whb missed the commissioner's order to open Wednesday night-; Pitchers Bill Slayback and Steve- Grilli both showed up at Henley Field Thursday morning', fully' expecting to find the Tiger volunteers working out on their.own. I tWatched the news every Al McGuire years and now Larry was going to introduce me to him. I had it all planned.

I would say: "I'm going to bust you right in the mouth for what you did to me in 1943," and imme-diately he would understand and immediately we would get along. I never got the chance. By the time we walked around the end of the court, the other writers saw McGuire standing there in the hallway and in moments literally seconds he was surrounded by maybe 25 guys, all eager to listen to what he had to say. He Can Freeze the Opposition So I remained on the edge of the crowd and this is what I heard: "Naw. we're not big on studying.

Like our guys take flight until last night." ad-tn it-ted Slayback with, a (itightly embarassed prin. "I figured there was no way thoy were-coins to Open, so I didn't Shop and Advatfce Shop. Shop is wnen you mane a cnau, au-vance Shop is when you paint it." "I just can't recruit when there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before 1 feel comfortable enough lo go in and talk to your parents. "We play in the same style as always a while offense and a black defense.

"We love to get teams like South Carolina to come and play us in Milwaukee. They die in that cold. They freeze to death just walking over to' the arena from their hotel. Of course, we keep the back door closed and let them bang on it a while before we let them in. "Coaching is the only job I know where the older you get, the dumber you get.

"Why am I carrying the camera? 1 just want to have an Oriental look, that's all. "I grew up in Rockaway Beach, and my folks had a bar. We lived in the back. Drunks used to interrupt our dinner looking for the men's room. "I gotta tell you something.

I'm about 75 percent con, and the other 25 percent is basketball. "I don't have any problems with my players. I don't hold philosophy classes with them. 1 just dictate. "I keep telling my players that this isn't diving.

You don't get points for style. "Honest, guys, I don't know myself when I'm telling the truth and when I'm full of bull." That's my man all right. Al McGuire. Right oft the streets of New York. It's not so bad to lose 44-41 or 42-39.

We made it close didn't we? Ariz. Ousts Vegas in OT ANGELES (AP) -Guard Herman Harris led a second-half rally and then hit four clutch free throws in overtime Thursday night as lf)th-ranked Arizona stunned third-ranked Nevada-Las Vegas, 114-109, in the NCAA West Regional basketball tournament. Harris brought the Wildcats back from a three-point deficit in regulation time with two clutch fallaway jump shots, and his free throw with 14 seconds to play tied the game at 103 and sent it into overtime. In the overtime, Arizona connected on II of 15 free-throw attempts without a basket. The Rebels could hit only four baskets.

bother to watch. And 'hen whainmQ there I was at Wenlcy Field, all by myself." GRILLI PLAYED golf Wednesday afternoon, then 'w-enf to Jbed right after dinner. Jto was sitting in the locker room atllenley Field, wonder-HiR, why, everyone else was Into the grounds keeper bldliim.he had the wrong ball partt. I but 11 of tire 39 Tigers on (h major 'league roster Showed up for Thursday's first Official practice: of the spring. And, according lo manager Ralph Houk, the others have aUvbeen contacted and are en 'route.

Most In fact, will proba- JT-j MAIL PHONE ORDERS I 5, 4 0S1-3C60 HUGHES MATCMEI3EI I iiWy boon the field Friday, or i 'Saturday at the latest, as the i Please turn to Page 21). Col. 3 MOST HUGHES HATCHER STORES OPEN EVENINGS. MOST HUGHES HATCHER STORES OPEN SUNDAYS. m.jj..mf.lff.M imMmm.mf-,f-.