The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 22, 1954, Page 7

Indiana Can Clinch Big Ten Cage Tie With 5 Hoosiers Ranked hind Bob Kurland, could clinch an-'the Pacific Coast probably will bein the home-and-home series with) Eastern—Penn (:8-2), Thi d I N ti other Missouri Valley Conference|determined by Saturday, but then|Oregon since State has a 10-4 mark (7-2) and P: . be coe there’s the matter of a playoff.'to the university's 84. title—-No. 8 in 11 years—by be ling Wichita again Wednesday. That As Season Wanes Wrists cuits: the fithranked Aa! gies automatically for the NCAA By RIP WATSON Tournament since the NEW YORK w — Indiana’s Valley is one of 15 conferences |S°U h | Hoosiers can wrap up the Big Ten|sending representatives directly to,Ofegon State will settle for a split/stretch jthe basketball title tonight and qualify the tournament | for the NCAA Tournament, which) Three conference representatives they won last year. jalready have been named to the A victory over Iowa’s fading NCAA tourney, and the next two Hawkeyes will give Coach Branch\weeks are the weeks of decision MecCracken’s boys at least a tie/for the collegians, with both big for the Big Ten crown. And should postseason tournaments £ Wisconsin whip Illinois, the Hoos-|like a pair of camels in fers will have the title without any| Besides Duquesne, the NIT further argument. ready has fourth-ranked West , ranked third nationally|Kentucky, Dayton, Louisville, in the latest Associated Press poll,| Wichita and Niagara in its 12-team has a 10-1 record in conference field. The roster should be com competition, with lowa (8-3) and/pleted by the end of the week Illinois (7-3) the only challengers. |The gompetition gets under way A three-way tie is theoretically|March 6. possible but not likely, The I La Salle of the Mid-Atlantic Con- and the Hoosigrs meet in the wind-|ference joined Idaho State of the up March 6, |Rocky Mountain and Tof&do of ‘The Hoosiers could well go into the Mid-American in the NCAA the NCAA Tournament as the fa-|cast over the weekend and cele- vorites since first-ranked Duquesne brated by thumping St. Joseph's already is in the National Invita-|of Philadelphia 78-67. Seventh- tion Tournament in New York and ranked Seattle, Oklahoma City and the three stars of second-rated|Bradley have been named as “at WRentucky—CiMf Hagan, Frank/large” teams. Ramsey and Lou Tsioropoulos—| Colorado A&M, trying for its may not be welcome in the NCAA first Skyline Conference title, can Tournament because of their post-|join the NCAA club by beating graduate status Utah and Brigham Young this § Oklahoma A&M, which won the | weekend NCAA crown in 1945 and 1946 be-| Champions in both divisions of Sports Roundup serie id TULSA, Okla. &® — A Tulsa mo- By GAYLE TALBO% jtorist who told police he was “be- NEW YORK (#—Tony ,Trabert'ing very carefut to drive good so cooled off very little, if any,/as not to attract any attention” since he returned from Australia,/attracted lots of attention yester- and he still intends to give that\day. country’s tennis officials and fans! Officer Orval Bennett followed & powerful blasting in an official,/the car of motorist Troy James written report to the head men of| Bethany for three blocks enthralled the U.S. Lawn Tennis Assn. at the fine driving performance Here for the indoor champion-| ‘I stopped to congratulate him ships, the nation’s No. 1 player dis-\on his g#od driving,” said Bennett closed that during his long stay in} But when he asked for his li- Australia with our Davis Cup team/cense, Bethany admitted he had this winter he carefully jotted down|been driving seven years without in a notebook all the things thatja license. irritated him, from foot fault calls) “I had no choice but to make to gallery bad manners. We gather jthe arrest under the circum- that he nearly had to buy a second |stances,” said the officer, notebook before he was through. {| 60 by the time Tony finishes} Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and checking out his formal hymn of California raise practically all the hate he will have gone to consid-|rice produced in the United States. erable trouble, and it is too bad that) —_—_—-—_ . it won't do him or anybody else|to raw feelings. Tony means well, & bit of good. Our officials un-/but he could have saved the doubtedly will read the indictment effort. with some interest, and they will) There really isn’t much of any- whisper of its contents to one an-|thing the men who run the game other, but there isn’t a chance in|in Australia can do toward cor- the world that it will go any furth-jrecting the situation which has «. grown to exist within the past few Tennis officials stick together.|years, They have seen tennis he- Our intrepid leaders are on first-|come a sort of national madness, name terms with those of Austra-/quite on a par with horse racing lia, and they correspond frequently | and ricket, and they can’t suddenly and fervently. None of ours is go-)return it to its original social back- ing to write anything to one o|ground just because our players theirs that might conceivably Jead|are sensitive. , Monday, February 22, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 7 NAVARRO, Inc. SPECIALS For Tuesday Only 8 A.M. till 9:30 P.M. 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