| Show Eastern Toss Rivals for Losses B By Ted Meier NEW YORK Dec 22 UP The P-The The east winning six of nine games took ook top honors in Tuesday nights night's major intersectional college basketball basketball basketball bas bas- games The east compiled a percentage of as C C N NY Y beat Oklahoma 53 51 Duquesne defeated Arizona 57 51 St. St Johns of or Brooklyn trounced Iowa State 71 47 VIllanova Vilanova Villanova Vil- Vil lanova anova trimmed William and Mary 70 43 Seton Hall humbled Detroit 55 43 and Marshall nipped Har- Har Simmons din 62 These offset Cornell's loss to Illinois 71 47 Pitts Pitt's 58 52 defeat at the hands of or Miami Fla and Yale's 78 62 licking icking by Stanford The midwest with a win six and andose lose ose six mark in 12 games the Pacific coast with a 3 record and southern teams with a 2 mark tied led for honors at Southwest teams lost three of four games for a percentage Stanford U UCLA C L A Duquesne St. St Louis Ind Indiana ana Purdue and Miami Fla remained in the undefeated class but perhaps the most outstanding outstanding outstanding out out- standing feature of last nights night's play was the upset of the University University University sity of or Washington by the virtually unknown College of Puget Sound 48 41 The Huskies defending champions champions champions cham cham- of the Pacific Coast conference conference conference confer confer- ence w was s' s within hailing distance at 38 36 until Puget Sound put on ona ona ona a strong finish Eight Straight Stanford ran its winning streak to eight games by overwhelming o Yale 78 62 in the feature of a twin bill at the San cow palace Michigan 1 Big Nine champs romped to a 53 37 win over Santa Clara in the opener In a doubleheader at Los Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- geles U UCLA C L A chalked up its sixth straight a 44 49 triumph over Northwestern Southern California whipped Wisconsin 36 31 in the theother theother theother other game Duquesne dunked Arizona 57 51 for its third straight at PIttsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pitts PItts- burgh while at St. St Louis the St. St Louis rang up No 5 with an easy 74 to 47 triumph over Rice Easy Ed Macauley as usual sparked the bills with 26 points In another game at St. St Louis Indiana won its sixth straight against Washington of St. St Louis 51 44 Purdue took its fifth straight against Drake 71 Miami of Florida stayed unbeaten unbeaten un- un beaten by sinking six points in thelast thelast the thelast last 40 seconds to nip Pitt 58 52 Close Finish A crowd of thrilled to another another another an an- other close finish in Madison Square Garden as C C N NY Y squeezed by Oklahoma 53 A tap-in tap by substitute te Norm Mager with only two seconds left provided the winning winning win win- ning margin Brooklyn St St. Johns swamped Iowa State 71 47 in the opener of the garden twin bill North Carolina State Southern conference champs headed for games on the Pacific coast bowled over O Nevada 70 In other standout games Illinois overwhelmed Cornell 71 47 Southern South South- ern em Methodist beat Missouri 59 49 Ohio State humbled California 74 60 Colgate smacked Boston university 74 52 Boston college nipped Harvard 47 45 on a long longshot longshot longshot shot in the last 46 seconds Indiana State nicked Los Angeles Lo Loyola ola 56 54 in an overtime struggle Bowling Green Ohio sunk South Carolina 83 54 Nebraska shaded Western Vestern Reserve 83 80 and Louisville Louisville Louisville Louis Louis- ville be beat t Louisiana State 79 |
