Show St. St Patricks Patrick's Feature I Go Against NYU in Garden Finals By John Chandler NEW YORK March 17 OF St. tD-St. SU Louis university and New York university two of oC College basketballs basketball's basketballs basketball's basketballs basketball's basket basket- balls ball's teams battle this St. St Patricks Patrick's night in the National National National Na Na- Invitation basketball tourney finals at Madison Square Sq Garden At t stake will be a place in the the Olympic trials and with the odds odds- makers calling it up even-up it looks like the luck of the Irish might determine the winner After N NY YU's Us U's showing against Texas last week when they were almost eliminated by the Longhorns Longhorns Longhorns Long- Long horns things appeared bad for the Violets in their semifinal with DePaul De- De Paul Monday However the fiery Violets Violets' turned In a great performance to scuttle De Dc Paul 72 59 and regain considerable considerable consid consid- erable favor oI in the eyes of the critical G Garden fan No less impressive were the of St St. Louis who battered battered battered bat bat- down top-seeded top Western Kentucky 53 in in the other half of the double bill What the rival coaches cook up in the way of strategy remains to tobe toe toe be e seen Howard Jake Cann ol ot N NYU Y U told his team to outs peed DePaul and the thc plan worked Ed Hickeys Hickey's St St. Louis club features a fast-breaking fast game and in that type of ball balt much can and probably will vill happen At first we couldn't make up our minds whether to run with DePaul or try to slow them up Cann Canu declared later We Ve decided to try to run with them hem and I Iguess Iguess Iguess guess we did Its It's generally agreed that if the so shrInking Violets get as hot Wednesday night as they did against agaIn t DePaul they can beat about any collegiate aggregation DePaul's coach Ray Meyer had no trouble agreeing If N NY NYU Y U plays as they did against us they'll take St St. Louis Louts Louisor or almost anyone else Hickeys Hickey's boys showed they could couk run and keep it up In their decision over Western Kentucky The blue bluegrass bluegrass bluegrass grass went ahead of ot the Monday In an art attempt to speed out-speed St Louis but r ran n out of g gas Now ov the question is JS s. s which has the greatest supply of ot octane high-octane St. St Louis or N NYU Y U Ti Two string-bean string centers all all- America foot 6 Inch 8 Ed Macauley on St. St Louis and N NY NYU's Y Us U's Adolph 7 6 figure to provide an individual duel In themselves And Coach Hickey also mus must worry about the Violets' Violets I Ray Iy y Lumpp who ruined DePaul with his southpaw hook shots good for 11 field goals The teams have never met before In basketball With mutual opponents opponents op op- op- op St Sl Louis twice defeated Notre Dame 42 40 and 68 51 while white the Irish conquered N NY NYU Y U 64 59 St. St Louis split with DePaul winning winning win wina ning 58 56 in overtime and losing 52 The Violets and Billiken both beat Georgetown and Mis Mis- soud |