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U U SERI SERIE E Petty Sparks Late Rally Enabling to Beat Jayhawker Quint 42 3 Special to The Telegram KANSAS CITY Mo March 27 Utah 27 Utah remained in in th tb Olympic basketball picture here Thursday night by defeating Ka Kasas Kan KanI Kanj sas 42 to 37 with a sensa sensational ional rally in the last five minutes of pl pisto pis' pis I to even the intersectional series at one V t The victory for Utah State meathe meathe mea mean meaT T the teams will clash in the thir thu thir and deciding game game here night with the winner earning tb th right to represent this district Ithe I 1 tho the pre Olympic tryout finals Apri 2 3 and 4 in Madison Square Gar Garden Garden den at New York City Kansas wo wo the opening game Wednesday 39 39 37 7 in an overtime peri period d. d Wade Vade Out on Fouls Foul It was wa the unexpected return t tc the tho lineup of ot Captain Cleo Glee Pet Petty Pel that turned the tide in favor of or th Thursday after Ed Wad Wadi was forced out of of the game wi three minutes left to play of ot excessive fouling Th TM Utah State Staf captain his knee kneel 8 heavily bandaged stepped Into Inte the fray and hl his mere mere presence changed the entire picture of tJ the thi battle Ebling made good both f throws on Wades Wade's foul to send Kansas Kan Kansas sas into a 31 34 to 32 lead But Roll Gardner came back with a long on oni onto onto to tie the count at 34 Tn Th Petty took the ball at the free line cleverly eluded the Ka Kans guard and looped through a on on one handed shot That goal sent U UState UState State into a lead it never relIc relin relinquished in the closing minutes o 0 play In fact the visitors add add to the margin as u Kansas hurrie hurrie- in its excitement to tie the the- coun count to tossed sed wild passes into the arms o a opponents who turned the misplay into goals See Game Gamo amo Utah State proved to the the spectators that they are made vi championship material for the th shook off a big lead to win Leby Le Leby Leby by Ray Ebling Jayhawker hig big scorer Kansas ran up a command commanding ing 31 to 23 advantage wl with only t te f minutes remaining to play IK It looked hopeless for the tho Roc Roe mountain titleholders Kansas ha begun to play the brand of at ball tha carried it to the Big Six champion championship championship ship and 22 victories in a row fo to the season I 1 But the visitors were equal t to toj the tho occasion and with Wade Vad Elmo Garf f and Kent Ryan p pavin the way 11 soon were barking at th tl heels of th the Jay hawks Once Ut Uti State camo came within striking di dl tance and with Petty in the line lineup lineUP lineup up there was little doubt of the outcome If It Pettys Petty's knee permits him t play Saturday night Utah Stat Star will go into the battle as favorite favorites because the flashy captain prove proved to the fans tans here hero last night he hit Is Isreal Isreal real court leader although they sav sa him in action only a a. few minute minutes Fouling again marred the game gam with 13 being called against Via Uta State and nine against Kansas a a. matter of fact Utah States State's ex cx excessive excessive fouling almost cost the game am amt t Free Costly i Kansas made only 11 goals fro the field compared to 19 for the I In Invaders but collected 15 char charlt tosses to four tour for Utah State anthis anthis an one this margin of at 11 points made th tb going extremely heavy for thi th t i. i t. t Ebling who has paced the B BI BIjj Six in scoring for the last three sea seasons seaSons sea sei sons topped the field again Thuri Thur day night hanging up five lid fiel l goals and a like number of ot fn ir throws for 15 points He was f fo fol followed lowed closely by Pralle guard wb vh scored 13 points for the Jayhawker Shelby West Vest and Gardner tied f t. t to high scoring on the Utah team e cac c contributing eight points jj Kansas ansas opened the scoring in lb fi first st ten seconds of ot play w e Pralle guard grabbed the tip and sent a long one looping the meshes Vest West tied it two ml utes later with a a. bucket only t have Noble convert on Gardner foul loul and send Kansas into a 3 t to lead f si Six Points Ahead Watson then made mad good a fra fr throw to knot t. t the count again o olto ol 1 to see Kansas go on a scoring ra raO page following the next Continued on Following Pone PAr Square SquareS J iI Kansas Kansas' Series S l j C Continued fro from Preceding P Pe i. i run its advantage to 10 to 4 after arter eight minutes of play But Ryan and aid West hit their stride for Utah State and the Aggles Ag Ag- gies cut the Kansas margin to 13 to 9 with seven minutes remaining in th the period With four minutes to go the Ag Ag- gies were trailing by only three points baskets by West Vest and Watson Watson Watson Wat Wat- son for Utah State and a basket and charity toss toas by Noble of Kansas Kans making the tho count 16 to 13 Th Then n the passing clever-passing visitors really went into action Gardner dropping two through th the meshes and Watson adding one to send Coach Dick Romneys Romney's boys out in front 17 to 16 with a minute to togo toga go Ebling retaliated with two free tree throws l to give Kansas the lead only to have West Vest drop In a difficult one one- hander bander to knot the count a as the gun sounded Bounded the tho intermission |
