Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-12-23 | Page 20 | Kentucky Still Heads Nation's Top Cage Teams in Tripping Tulane

Kentucky Still Heads Nations Nation Top Cage e Teams in Tripping Tulane By Ted Meier NEW YORK Dec 23 UP R Mighty Kentucky Wednesday night turned back another challenge to Its collegiate basketball supremacy This time it was previously unbeaten unbeaten unbeaten un un- un- un beaten Tulane which had pointed nearly a year for its meeting with the N C A A champs The score was Kentucky 51 Tulane 47 For 15 minutes a crowd of at the Louis Louisville He armory thought the might do it But Kentuck Kentucky Kentucky Ken Ken- tuck tucky rallied to take a 19 18 lead and pulled away to a 30 44 1 advantage advantage advantage ad ad- vantage early in the second half Tulane led by Jim chopped this down to only three points with three minutes left Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Ken Ken- tucky froze the ball in the last two ho minutes to keep the lead Tulane which numbered a strong Texas quintet Amon among its earlier victims gets another crack at Kentuck Kentucky Kentucky Ken Ken- tuck tucky in the Sugar bo bol l tourne tourney at New Orleans next week and perhaps a third chance in in the thed I d Southeastern conference tourney next March The victory was unbeaten Kentucky's Kentucky's Kentucky's Ken Ken- tucky's seventh straight and Tulane's Tulane's Tulane's Tu- Tu lanes lane's first defeat In nine starts LaSalle and Temple turned in triumphs In a doubleheader before 2839 at Philadelphia LaSalle kept Its unbeaten string intact by whipping whipping whipping whip whip- ping Georgia Tech 67 59 after Temple had nipped Colorado 51 50 A field goal and free throw by Eddie Lerner in the last 35 seconds gave Temple its victory Notre Dame dunked Navy 70 62 and Chicago Loyola walloped DePaul 56 44 before In a Chicago doubleheader It was Notre Dames Dame's fourth straight win winand winand in inand and the third setback for the touring touring touring tour tour- ing Navy quintet Unbeaten Purdue Minnesota and Bradley au all ail kept their records clean Purdue trimmed Drake 5 1 I 47 Minnesota trampled St. St Marys Mary's I of California 52 42 and Bradely whipped Los Angeles Loyola 60 60 Pitt bounced back from its Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day night defeat to w wallop llop Miami of Florida 80 to 48 and shatter Miami's unbeaten mark in decisive fashion On the Pacific coast Ohio State again licked California 68 64 while Wyoming took Oregon 56 Iowa nosed out Texas Christian 47 46 in an overtime struggle at Iowa Cit City Ia la at Syracuse N. N Y Yf Syracuse walloped Iowa State 67 46 behind Jack Kiley's 31 points William Villiam and Mary started a new winning streak by trouncing Albright 73 54 at ReadIng Reading Reading Read- Read Ing Pa North Carolina State Southern conference champs now touring the Pacific coast lost the services of oC first string guard Eddie Bar- Bar Coach Everett erett Case announced Bartels had been dropped from the squad because of oC an infraction of oC training rules Case termed the dismissal a disciplinary action He declined to give any details