| Show p Gain Quarterfinals Ecker Ecker Ecke Five r Faces Big Te Test t I f In Fracas T t Special to the Telegram DENVER March 18 Salt 18 Salt Lake Eckers has the dubious privilege of meeting the defending champion Phillips in the quarterfinals o of the National A AAU AU basketball t tournament and the Eckers must do the Impossible and get past the KANSAS CANSAS CITY March 18 UP ACoach fJ A Coach Jack Gardner of Kansas State came up Thursday with his first pessimistic pessimistic- statement of the basketball season hes he's worried about his his' teams team's opponent in the western regional N C A A pl play play- y- y offs K Kansas State which earlier In Inthe Inthe the week defeated Oklahoma A. A and M. M for the fifth district bid and the University of I Wyoming Rocky Mountain area representative tive meet i in inthe in the first of ot two nights of oL headers double-headers beginning at pm p.m. CST Friday The Pacific coast champion University University Uni Uni- Uni of Washington Wahington Huskies and Baylor university Southwest conference con con- terence ference are are paired in the second game at 9 30 pm p.m. 66 68 boys in order to stay In the he running for an Olympic trial berth The Important clash Is set iet for 7 30 pm p.m. Thursday with the Eckers Eck Eck- ers era boys pitting such outstanding gents as as' as Utah's Vern Gardner Dick a and d Elaine Crowther Crowth r Kansas State Co Coach ch Fears Wyoming Gardner said his Kansas State cl club b w was handicapped by having never seen Wyoming play Everett S She Shelton h el I t ton o n W Wyoming coach scouted us In our our district game with Oklahoma A. A and M. M and Wyoming will know something about our style of play he saidI saidI said I 1 know that Wyoming plays a slow dellb deliberate rate game G Gardner continued but It differs from the Oklahoma A. A and M. M attack also a deliberate game and Im I'm afraid it will fill c cause cuse use my kids plenty of trouble Winners Winners' of Friday Friday- nights night's games will meet meat for lor the western honors Saturday The champion will clash with the eastern play offs winner for lor the national N C A A in New NewYork York next Tuesday along with B BY Y Us U's Joe Nelson and Brady Walk Walker r against the Bob Kurland George Carpenter and Gerald Tucker Tucke According to the present set up three teams will vill have a chance of going to the Olympic trials The winner up runner-up and the third place winner will move along with the N C A A winners and the N NIT IT and N A AIB I B champs Other Im important battles find Oaklands Oakland's Bittners going ng against the Kokomo Ind md Stars All-Stars in the opening battle at 6 pm p.m. At 9 pm p.m. Fox Century-Fox of Hollywood battles the highly touted Denver Nuggets while the final battle at 10 pm p.m. finds the Navy Blues of Annapolis Md fighting It out with the Murphy-Mahoney Murphy quintet of Denver On the basis of to tournament nt records records rec rec- records rec- rec the Ecker five has branded itself as one of the strongest teams in the tournament and has piled up some of the most sided lop-sided scores of the meet The last vIctory victory victory vic vIc- vic vic- tory was Vas a convincing 70 51 triumph tri trI- i over the Owl Athletic club of Chicago |
