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Show IrFiEffl DAILY cw tm jp Most of the Region 3 basketball experts are picking the American Fork Cavemen and Spanish Fork Dons to win the Alpine and Nebo division championships, respectively, and irom me way me two teams play the preoicuons iook as have been sailing along in pre-sesas gold. good Coach Don Overly appears to be building another strong team iTPrirsn Fork there have been a few years when he hasn't had a team battling for the Alpine title and those who nave seen ine on Still comparatively fresh after belting two conference champions m as many weekends, Brigham Young's cagers will meet some stiffer opposition this weekend in the thundering herd from Murray State. Having disposed of Idaho State (Rocky Mountain champion last year) and Texas Christian (South west Conference kings of '53) with a few points to spare, the Cougars will attempt to stretch their cur rent win streak to six games. Regarded as one of the coun try's most powerful "small col lege" teams, the Murray Thor oughbreds will be bringing a tall and talented crew to Provo. Three of the Thoroughbred starting five or better, not to men are six-ficenter. tion a ve m on n. 8) 5) 4) 2) s r-i- . - he-ma-n's . Budge to Compete' Pro Mil If TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1953 Utah County. Utah HERALD Kentuckians To Flash CalCage Mentor To Retire Potent Attack After 30 Years Of Coaching Cavmen in action this season have been amazed at their great speed. ever hope to "They're just about the ninningest team you could too." can shoot, really i?e," one expert said. "And, they With Boyd Hoglund and Mackey Boley ready to fire-- them into hem fm-- n outside and Merrill Bateman to hit 'em from in close, scoring punch that will be the Cavemen appear to have a three-wa- y hard to stop. Overly's big problem at the moment is to find a topnotch center to replace Ron Turner, who graduated last spring. If he is successful in liziing a first class center the. uavemen coma De nearay unoeav able this season. At the moment, Jerry Chadwick Is handling the first string post position but he seems to lack the necessary height to sweep me boards as Overly would like to have them swept. Coach Black's teams are invariably tough every year down in the Nebo division and this year he seems ta have another potential Greatest Freshman, champion in the making. is paced by a sensational Murray Sterling' Swenson and Russ Boyack appear to be headed for sophomore, Howie Crittenden, who rreat seasons which will come as anything but rood news for the is rated as the best freshman Spanish Fork's opponents. They are considered two of .the best er ever to don a blue and play gold , players in the Nebo division this year. uniform. Many of the Thorughbred However, as good as the Dons are they will probably find going Kentucky experts regard Critten a little tough this year in the Nebo loop, which appears at the mo- den as one of the top freshmen to ment at least, to have little more over-a- ll strength than the Alpine. play collegiate ball. Even under-manne- d Tintic, which has found the going pretty Crittenden, they - say. must be few in the years, could, be a surprise team this season, the man Naismlth had in mind past rugged if a floss? record means anything. Under Coach Mahlon when he first started the game of Rasmuson, former Provo High BYU and Utah State athlete, the basketball. Besides being a defen , Miners have racked up five straight victories. x sive wizard, Crittenden sparkles "But." Rasmuson cautions, "we haven't played any teams as on offense with an exceptional tonrh as those in Nebo." change of pace and phenomenal Predicting the outcome of high school basketball races is a shooting eye. perilous venture at best, but Coach Overly's Cavemen and Coach For their nrst major xrex west, Black's Dons appear to be the top quintets in Region 3 cage circles. J Coach Harlan Hodges will prob use three freshmen in his ably BYU cage fans are still talking about performances turned in by five. 'Crittenden, the-- only BYU's Tom Karren and TCU's Hank Ohlen in last weekend's Cougar-Hor- starting sure holdover from last year, will Frcg series. be teamed with Rich Starkey (6-Karren's great plav in the third quarter was the factor that turn at center. John Fowless (6-will ed the tide in the Cougars' favor in Saturday night's, game. Most be Crittenden's running mate t experts were convinced tha.. his whirlwind performance in the third guard, and Francis Watrous (6-period was the greatest of his career. The Cats scored a total of 19 and Powell Smith (6-at forward. points in the third period and Karren tanked 11 of them. With another giant operating at Ohlen may not be too versatile a basketball player; but there the opposition's post, BYU's Nick certainly doesn't appear to be too much wrong- with his scoring-effortwon t have much of a Mateljan 33 points he as can be seen from the record-smashin- g to relak. Nick ' had his chance dropped thronjh the hoop Saturday nifht, ; hands full. with TCU's Hank Ohlen has been censured by some icribes quite severely last week, Mateljan and Starkey could be :s ratiser lackadaisical ruarcnnz of omen, especially in Friday as difficult in the right's game. And, perhaps his defensive play could have been a little What little edge pivot. the Cougars hold at the moment will probably But it must be admitted that Ohlen Is a pretty tough man to if Tom Karren, the Y's handle with his long arms and unerring hook shot. When he cut be erased doesn't respond to forward, driving loose wi:h that hook shot, he reminder this writer of a giant-stea- ' a sprained ankle. treatment for shovel scooping up a load of dirt. . Tom limped off the floor Saturday It seens, as if Texans. like the majority of other Southerners, after coming down oa his Isok upon basketball as a sissies game. Football is still the big game, night ankle during" a driving charge to a real sport, podner, in the Lone Star state. the basket that netted the Cats As a result, basketball doesn't draw too well in Texts, actwo points. cording to Jim Brock, assistant sports publicity director for TCU. So far most of the Cougar scor lie said that for last year's championship fame La the .Southwest has been shared by three of ing Conference only a little OTer 5000. fans were in attendance in an Watt's key players Karren, Dean arena that will seat more than 9000. Larsen and Nick Mateljan. With "It seems as if Texans merely tolerate basketball," Jim said. out of the lineup, the Thor Karren The TCU players were really thrilled by mountain scenery and could halt the Brig- oughbreds the sr.ow around Provo, according to Brock. v offensive. ham's scoring "It was the first real snow some of the boyi had ever seen," r Only Three Reserves Jim Said. In last week's game the Y had very little opportunity to season his bench. Only three reIn serves were called Into action in two contests with the Texas the NEW YORK (UP) Don Budge troupe would be Frank Sedgman, Horned Frogs, mainly because cr.e of the finest players in tennis Pancho Segura and Pancho Watts dared not risk it with only history, will emerge from retirea few the two ment to participate in the profesThe red - haired 38 - year - old squads. points separating sional tennis .tournament which Budge, only man ever to sweep the If this year's edition of the c??.--j at Madison Square Garden, American, British, Australian and Thoroughbred quint is anything Jan. 4. French singles titles in the same like last year's the fans can exPromoter Jack Kramer," who season, has not made a regulation to see some high scoring. Of made the announcement today, tour since 1945 when he beat Bob pect" 27 games played last year the the iiii the ether members of the by Riggs, 24 matches to 22. Murray Staters scored an average of 74.4 points a game. From Provo the Kentuckians will head to .Louisville and the Ken tucky Invitational involving such teams as Houston, Villanova, Siena, Xavier, Eastern Kentucky, West CR0SLEY AU70I71A7IC ern Kentucky, and Louisville. pre-seas- .f U7 "I lost the worrying jwhen --they Clar got together and let out a warence Merle (Nibs) Price is 64 2 whoop in the dressing room just years old and must retire as head before going on the floor for the basketball coach at University of Santa Clara game," says Price California at the end of this sea- "Now I think that by the time the son after 30 years at the helm of PCC schedule opens we'll be in By HAL WOOD SAN FRANCISCO (UP) By JOHN GRIFFIN - 1-- . Bear teams. v As a result, he has a gang of youngsters "putting out" for him in such a way that they may bring him another title to place among youngsters "putting out" for him in such a way that they may bring him another title to place among the many he has accumulated over the years. . . These include 10 Pacific .Coast Conference crowns and 12 southern division titles or ties - for, the champitmsip. The Bears this year are one of the favorites to come home in front in western competition. For a while, Nibs has been worried about all . the publicity given the boys. But right now he thinks . "they'll do." good shape." So far this season the Bears 10-rou- nd Eastern . .J one-tw- o punch of Don with Basketball Scores six-foo- points. He sank 10-in- ch -- 42-2- 7 halftime, Kentucky and Duquesne, Indiana's chief rivals for national honors right now, also rolled up important victories last101-6-night. Kenvictory tucky raced to a over the Wake Torest team that previously upset North Carolina State, and Duquesne allowed its subs to complete a 2 conquest of Carnegie Tech. Louisiana State, ranked fifth nafirst tionally, piled up a period lead and coasted to a 5 win over the Texas Aggies as big Bob Pettit again set the scoring pace with 25 points. The once-beatOklahoma Aggies, ranked seventh, had to come from behind to beat Colorado, 3 65-4- 12-poi- nt 77-5- en TO-5- 7. MIDWEST Alabama 63 Bradley 61 Oklahoma 69 Wisconsin 65 Indiana 66 Notre Dame 55 Drake 79 South Dakota 53 Marquette 82 Valparaiso 74 SOUTHWEST Oklahoma A&M 70 Colorado 57 day Patterson would be scheduled . Louisiana State 77 Texas A&M for no more eign-- . v..v v we have him Under commitment 56 WEST for a fight on Jan. 25." , Floyd, who scaled 167 4 pounds Portland 82 Pepperdine 76 to Wagner's 177 was voted "rookie of the year" last week by the Eastern Boxing Writers Association. He is ranked eighth the world's light heavyweight contenders. " 21" 1-- 1-- 4, TV GIT OUT Panter Signs To Meet Girdello SALT LAKE CITY, (UP) Garth Panter, former Dayton, Ida., farm now calls Salt Lake City home, today looked forward to a shot at the "big time" in middle- boy who . weight boxing. 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It was. parDuquesne 65 Carnegia Tech 42 tially successful because Schlundt Xavier (O) 74 Georgetown 54 was held to nine points, compared Mount St. Marys 75 Catholic to 22 for Irish center Dick RosenUniversity 61 thal. Muhlenberg' 63 Leigh 13 But the Irish strategy backfired, SOUTH for it permitted Leonard lots of Baltimore 119 Kings College 81 tox shoot from long range. room Furman 103 Virginia Tech 75 And star guard was deadly. the Kentucky 103 Wake Forest 69 10 of 25 shots to wind up sinking Rice 53 Tulane 49 have won four and lost one game, the defeat being the opener to University of San Francisco. The Bears take on Washington State, which has lost only one out of six starts this year, in games on Friday and Saturday night. Meanwhile, the other' three schools in the southern division. all unbeaten, attempt to continue their win streaks. USC Trojans meet Iowa at Iowa City Friday and Michigan State at East Lans ing on Saturday; UCLA meets Denver at Denver both nights; Stanford plays host to Hawaii on Saturday; Oregon meets Nebras 63 ka; Washington takes on Kansas Fisk 60 Peru State of Nebraska State at Seattle. 57 Floyd Patterson Blasts Wagner Into Retirement By JACK CUDDY NEW YORK (UP) RooH- - of the year Flovd Patterson, xahn blasted light heavyweight Dick Wagner into retirement last night, win De rewarded with his first bout on Jan. 25. Matchmaker Teddv Brenner of Brooklyn's Parkway Arena announced todav Patter son's opponent would be Yvon Durelle of New Brunswick, lieht heavyweight champion of Canada. xoung Patterson of Brooklyn, Olymnic middleweight chamDion in 1952. achieved his ninth consec utive victory as a professional last at tne parkway by scoring nignt a technical knockout over veteran Wagner of ToDDenish. Wash., at 2:09 of the fifth round. It was a television fight. Wagner, floored three times and gashed on both brows, announced he would hang up his gloves and go into, the tavern business in Portland, Ore. It was the fourth time he had been stopped in 50 com mercial fights. All nine of Patterson s pro bouts were scheduled for only eight rounds because he is but 19 years old. Only Wagner, in April, and Wes Bascom lasted the distance with explosive Floyd. Matchmaker Brenner Insisted to baffling Indiana's Schlundt and Bob Leonard. NEW YORK (UP) PEORIA, W. i |