Show Nuggets in sl Fina Finals By Ben DENVER March 20 UP IP The national l j champion Bartlesville Oile s and the Denver Nuggets with with a couple of bad b ball l gan games o out of their systems will systems will meet Saturday night at 9 pm p.m. MST for the national A AAU A U basketball championship Their floor play was wa ragged and their shots shots shots' 11 i were wild as the tho two top seeded teams came through Friday night semifinal round by a whisker Bartlesville seeking it its its sixth consecutive national title defeat defeated 1 the Oakland Cat Cal entry with witha a J minute last-minute drive after alter Referee red Ted O'Sullivan had fouled out th the en entire entire en- en tire first string except f for r lIUI liti Mushy sh Silver The score was 41 41 37 37 remarkably low for time big-time Industrial basketball basketball basket basket- ball and it the was Yas o opinion of of many onlookers that this years year's Bartlesville team Is slower and lets accurate than the five national champions that have cor come out o of of that Oklahoma town since 1943 s Nuggets Squeeze One i Denver's Nuggets the team that had been considered all aU I the wa way was as M- M the one most likely to end BartI 3 villes ville's long reign needed an over time period to get past the e Denver M Graybeards a t tea team e a m of aging 3 1 A AAU A U veterans 60 g si I II Their victories qualified Battles Battles- i yule ville and Denver for the Olympia play oils starting In New York J March 27 The winner of Satur Satur 3 day nights night's pm p.m. consolation 1 game between Oakland and the Graybeards also will be given a berth in the Olympic tournament 1 1 An audience of absolute Capacity capacity ca- ca for Denver's old municipal 1 auditorium turned out for the the- semifinal games Trying to root underdog Oakland 1 home against Bartlesville they rat 1 tied ed the town barn bar with boos boor boosI I when O'Sullivan a whistle tooter who gets more exercise than any player on the floor blew Don 3 Barksdale Warren Taulbee Bob Bobs Alameida and Les out of ot the game r Rough Contest Until then the contest had been beena a rough see-saw see affair but against the Oakland reserves r. r was able to build a seven-point seven lea lead T Tand and stall it Jt out There wasn't a man on either i club who could hit Jilt consistently j and Taulbee's 10 points were enough to give him scoring honors Robert Ace Gruenig year 35 old veteran of several of Denver's n national a t I ion 0 n a I championship teams team nailed 24 points as he almost led the Graybeards to victory over o the Nuggets Nug It was the second big ni night ht for Gruenig who scored 41 42 points Thursday against the Annapolis Annapolis An An- team and probably clinched him a place on the America all team to be chosen by the press press' and tod radio Sunday SundayS night 5 It s free throw w wM 15 seconds to play that tied tt th nt score at at- all 51 at the end of the regulation time In the overtime Jim Darden and Roy Lipscomb quickly built the Nuggets a f four four- ur- ur point lead which they protected bj by freezing the ball The box scores C 4 G f af-f-f T F P G. G TF O. T Fp 3 0 5 6 6 10 5 22 6 1 5 13 5 S 3 1 13 3 2 3 8 4 4 1 12 11 a 0 0 1 0 2 Z 0 5 54 6 4 1 1002 0 0 2 Carlson 1 1224 2 2 4 8 8 1 24 A 2 I 1 1 4 5 f 0 1 5 1 I 1 1052 a 0 5 2 o 0 0 5 0 o 0 a 0 3 0 Ji 22 12 33 56 Totals 20 20 IS 60 Halftime loon sora Graybeards 24 Nur NUl X t-X- ie seta get 20 Missed tree free throws throw Graybeards Graybeards- Weimar Rothman 5 4 3 LI Lipsomb comb B Balks lk 2 Dirden 2 I Phillips I OT or 0 0 3 0 B kf t 2 1 g 55 2 2428 4 2 S 2 5 5 9 5 5 8 2 2004 0 0 4 ReIch I WW IL 0 0 3 O 0 1 1244 2 4 4 Curlande 1 14 4 5 4 0 2 8 T 5 0 0 2 2337 3 3 7 CArpenter 1 1032 0 3 31 22 2 1 1214 2 1 4 Pitts 1 1012 0 1 2 I 1 1123 1 2 3 1 Renick 1 I 1 I 10 1 10 13 3 I 1 J. J 1 3 NUh 0 0 0 0 14 1318 13 18 41 U Totals Total 13 II 11 23 |