THURSDAY AfWRNWN, MARCH 4, IM4
May's
Sports Parade
NEW YORK OP) A mere matter of two inches stands
today between the little College of St. Francis, In Loretto,
Pa., and a good basketball schedule.
The debatable altitude in question belong to Maurice
Stokes* star of the St. Francis team. College authorities!
list him as six fpet, five inches while victims of the team’s
IS victories against four defeats swear he Is a magnificent
six feet, seven inches. ,
"With or'without the two inches, they want no part of.
•St. Francis in the remaining year It has Stokes available. *
"We are having a terrible time getting a schedule to-
Sither,” moaned Athletic Director Vince Davis, a former
otre Dame end in the days of Hugie DeVore’s stardom.
Play Five Years __
“Sienna advised us that it couldn’t play us anymore
because it had to engage its traditional rivals,” he ex-1
plained. “How do you figure that out when they’ve only
* bedl playing five years and we played them in two of
those years?
“Then Honey Russell of Seton Hall comes right out
and tells me they’ll play us as soon as Stokes is gone,” he
concluded.
The answer, as discovered long ago by a number of
football teams, is that you can get too good for your own
good.
“We just manage to got some good boys from the
Pittsburgh area who everybody else seems to overlook,”
Davis asserted. *
Solve Dilemma >
Football teams solved the dilemma long ago by put
ting out charts bn their squads which were designed to
make their gridiron gladiators look like underfed midg-,
• ets. As example, back in the days of the great Army foot
ball teams which were spearheaded by Doc Blanchard
and Olen Davis, Doc was listed as a mere 200-pounder.
|U} Actually, the bull went closer to 225 and it didn’t
- help the opposition much that he hit like 500 pounds.
But it must have made the sacrifices feel a little bet-'
ter coming up to the game, anyhow.
St. Francis apparently adopted this psychology in
the case of Stokes. For, while he is listed as being six feet,
five inches, Davis admits that “we haven’t measured him
in three years and maybe he is about six feet, five and a
half by now.”
Loose Designation
In this case, “about” seems to be a fairly loose desig-;
nation. Because Danny Lynch of rival St. Francis in
f Brooklyn, insists that Stokes is “the biggest six feet, five
inches you’ll ever see.”
Despite its schedule difficulties, however, St. Francis
of Loretto is justly proud of Stokes, a 21-year-old who
“He's fast, a good ball handler and playmaker and he
isn’t' brittle,” Davis enthuses. “If there’s anything, wrong
with Mm, it’s that he doesn’t shoot enough.”
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State, G. Washington
Are Favorites Today
NEW YORK IW North Carolina State and George
Washington were the favorites for titles and tourney
berths today as the Atlantic Coast and Southern Con
ferences opened their post-season championship playoffs.
The victors in these two carni
vals. both of which conclude Sat
urday night, will go Into the NCAA
tournament and wIU be matched
against each other in a first-round
game at Raleigh, N. C., March 9. ■
North Carolina State, in whose
Tieltthouse at Raleigh the first ACCj
tourney in history is being held,
actually Is only the narrowest of
choices in an eight-team field.
The host Woifpack of Coach
Everett Case goes -into the tournee >
with the hast overall record to the'
league 32- 5 but finished only
fourth in the league during the
regular season. The experts give
them the slight edge because of
that record, their familiarity with
the court, and their fine form at
the close of the season.
CHAMPS
Regular-season ohamplon Duke,
which beat. N. C. State twioe >n,
close games, also is heavily-bached
as are Maryland and Wake Forest j
Opening round day games pit
Wake Forest VS. South Carolina
and Maryland VS. Clemson, while
tonight it will be Duke VS. Virginia'
and North'Carolina State VS. North
Carolina. j
The Southern Conference, from
which the ACC membere seceded :
to set up their own league, is hold
ing Its tourney at Morgantown,
W. Va., also with day and night
twin bills. In the day, it's West
Virginia VS. William and Mary -and
George Washington VS. Washing
ton and Lee, and at night, Furman
VS. Davidson and Richard VS. VMI
George Washington went -Un
beaten through an 11-game regular
season league schedule and is top
seeded and. *of course, has the
tourney's top drawing card to
Frank Selvy, the national scoring
ohamplon and all time record
holder.
State Team To Beat
At ACC Tournament
RALEIGH (IP) North -Carolina
State, although fourth-ranked, be
hind Duke, Maryland and Wake
Forest, appeared the team to beat
qAILf RECORD, DUNN, N. C.
Seven tourney-bound teams were
to action Wednesday night, but *h;
most momentous game saw Penn
sylvania gain a tie for -second
place to the -Ivy League race wftU
an 97-46 triumph over (Harvard at
Philadephla.
The win deadlocks the Quaker?,
who are the defending league
champions, with Princeton for sec
ond with 9-3 records, and gives'
them the chance to throw the race
wide open by beating pacemaking
Cornell 10-2 on Saturday.
n the only gktoe Wednesday
night that matched two tourney
bound teams, Fordham NCAA
tourney defeated Manhattan Na
tional Invitation, ‘73-0, in over
time.'
Two other tourney-bound teams
were beaten. St. Louis whipped
Bradley NCAA, 89-79, and Siena
beat St. Francis of Brooklyn NIT.
87-80, at Albany, ts. Y., to break
th* Terriers’ 16 game winning
streak.
OTHERS
But Connecticut NCAA beat
Columbia. 80-64; Wichita NTT
downed Oklahoma City. 76-80 and
Louisville Nit defeated Eastern
Kentucky, >3-77.
day 1 °fgiSt Wedntv
lona V Rog*r
points ted Kansas State, to a 90-6 S
Victory oyer Oklahoma; and
Creighton deftated Brake, 87-78.
Brigham YpUng. whose selec
tion Wednesday completed the IS
, team NIT field, plays . New Mexico
tonight While Santa Clara meet'
San Franaisco. Other leading
games tonight include; home
, team listed first Miami Ohio
—Cincinnati, NYD-CCNY, Trial ty
| Columbia. Denver-tJtah, and Penn
'St Georgetown 0:0.
today as the first . .Atlantic
Coast Conference, basketball tour-,
ferefice born lesa, than a S mo,
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Opening' '.reund
Upper bracket:
WaW Foisst (8-4) ,vs'South Carbr
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Low* bracket; %■ • ■% ‘,
jOuM Wil w , Virginia at
N. G State (5-3) vs North Caro-
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as expected the seml-BnMi will.
State and Maryland' v B
est. That iSwhire anySUW OOUtd
h»pp<n.
SP Winner of the finals Saturday
night will advance Into a special
ion oi the IfcnSSt Southern Con
ference, 9e be decided in a sim»*r.
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neat week. f
Duke was the logical favorite. '
Coach Hal Bradleys classy Blue
De-rite defeated Maryland and 1
Wake Forest in addition to N. C. 1
State during the regular season. 1
Their only league loss was In early i
January to Wake Forest. i
But N. C State, with as strong
a bench as Ddke’s, developed slow- I
ly toward an apparent March peak,
lied tot sophomore stars Rennie
Bhavlit and Vic Molodet and by
captain Mel Thompson, Coach Ev
• erett Case's Woifpack has swept six
-games to a row going into the tour
nament and is ranked nth In the
nation.
Wake Forest is led by all-confer
. ence ranter Dickie Hemric, boasting
a 94.1 point per game scoring ave
[■ rage. The Deacrns nipped N. C.
State 71*70 to the finals of last
years Southern Conference toum
• ament and won two of their three
’ meetings this year.
Maryland which plays the con
,l trol game boasts another all-con
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and the Terps may be the most <
feared team in the tourney because i
of their possession-style of play. •
Virginia, playing in its first ;
league tourney since 1936, has its
hopes wrapped up in guard Richard
Wilkinson, all-conference star who
is the nation’s third-ranking scor
er.
SPORTS SHORTS
MORGANTOWN, W. Vn. (ID
The Southern Confp-mce Basket
ball Tournament opens- here today
; in unfamiliar location with such
■ old familiar favorites of past years
; a3 North Carolina State, Duke
and Wake Forest no longer around.
- George Washington, which didn't
l get scratched in 10 regular con
- ferenoe games, is a heavy favorite
:. to win the tournament and the
t official league championship that,
- goes with it, and more important,
e the Colonials will be after the auto
matic NCAA tournament bid that
- goes to the winner.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (IP) Henry
e G. (Hank) Crisp began serving
double duty today, as live coach
of the Alabama football -team, a
position he has held since 1939, and
asOacting athletic director succeed
ing P. W. (Pete) Cawthon who
resigned yesterday because of ill
ness. Dr. O. C. Carmishasl. presi
dent of the Uuniversity -of Alabama,
announced Crisp’s appointment as
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