Show Olympic Trials Pit Colleges Against Clubs B By Will Grimsley NEW V YORK March 2 UP UP- UP Eight of oC the country's ribbon blue-ribbon nonprofessIonal basketball squads will assemble here Saturday Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the Olympic trials but long Ed Macauley and his St. St Louis sharpshooters sharpshooters sharp sharp- shooters will be missing from the firing line The who won the re recent recent recent re- re cent national invitational were withdrawn from the fast Madison Square Garden field Sunday night by the university's athletic board which decided the boys should stay home and study New York university runner up to th St. St Louis in the Invitation figUres fig fig- ures tires to ge get the vacated spot al although ni- ni though theres there's some talk the berth may go to the winner of Thursday nights night's west east-west star all r game The Olympic basketball committee committee commit commit- tee will meet Tuesday to decide Louis Wilke chairman previously announced N NY NYU Y U would get the bid 1 if St. St Louis refused Others Arc Aro Set The rest of the field field to to be made up of four independent teams and four college combines combines Is is set Carrying the independent banner ban ban- ner ncr will wUl be the Okla Okia national A A U champions Denver's Nuggets and Oaklands Oakland's Bittners the 3 2 teams in the theA theA A AAU A U tourney and Brooklyn's Prospect Park Y YMCA MeA winner of the national Y YMCA M C A crown The college group will vill be com corn composed composed posed of oC Kentucky the eastern N C A A champion Baylor winner of the western N C A A playoff Louisville N NAIB A I B and NY NYU N Y U if chosen to fill St. St Louis Louis' position The draw hasn't been made but Olympic plans call for the Independents independents independents inde inde- to have it out in one bracket and the college boys in the theother theother theother other with the victors clashing In Inthe Inthe Inthe the final Then the Olympic team of 14 men men half half Independent and halt half collegiate will collegIate will be chosen Starts March l 27 The first games will be staged in the Garden Saturday March 27 with subsequent ones March 29 and March 31 Ordinarily the tourney-tough tourney in in in- dependents p p a art r t i c cui u 1 a r 1 y the classy Bartlesville would would be favored over the colle college collece e but the stout showing of Kentucky in the eastern N C A A eliminations have thrown the Wildcats into the to team-to-beat role Kentucky has another bit of business before it can tackle the Olympic field The Southeastern conference champions engage Baylor Bay Bay- lor br the Southwest conference champ and victor in the western playoffs for the N C A A championship championship championship cham cham- Tuesday night in the Garden Garden Gar Gar- den Kentucky led by Alex Groza and Ralph Beard defeated Holy Cross in the eastern finals Saturday 60 to 52 1 Identical l Score Baylor meanwhile was wa taking the measure of Kansas State by byan byan byan an identical score at Kansas Kansa's City A scrapping club the Texans came from Crom behind to win Holy Cross Cross' and Kansas State Stale play the consolation game at the Garden Tuesday just before the championship contest Bartlesville's led by Bob Kurland and G Gerald e era r a I 1 d Tucker breezed to their sixth straight A AAU A U title by defeating Denver's Nuggets 62 48 at Denver Oakland Oak Oak- land clinched third place in the A AAU A U and the Olympic berth by humbling D Denver nver Graybeards 69 to 43 Brooklyn's Prospect Y completed com corn the independent bracket by defeating Hoboken 59 45 In the national Y YMCA M 11 C A finals at Brook Brook- lyn S |