Show I Edge Bradley Blackbirds Tip Tp I I Bj J Milo 1110 Farneti Farnell NEW V YORK Jan 2 27 OP It It It took an overtime to do it but the Oklahoma Oklahoma Okla Okla- homa again worked with the precision of diamond cutters to prove that possession basketball pays for some teams Especially when taught b by Hank Iba His used their unhurried r ned ried ed passing game plus a tight defense defense defense de de- de- de to outlast Bradley 4 49 48 at Peoria IlL Fr Friday day night The man who swung the important important important im im- im- im victory to the is Keith Smith He toed the free throw line with three seconds left and dropped in the winning one- one pointer only score of oC the five- five minute extra per period od A standing room crowd of oC first saw Don Johnson of the thc A is i's send the game into overtime with less than a minute left a tie at atI 48 I I Then Bradley controlled the ballI ball I more than four minutes before I taking a wild ild shot with 23 seconds left With three seconds to go little Gene fouled Smith and there went ent the game The victory is the most important of the campaign for the No 3 rank ranking ng in this weeks week's Associated Press poll They have a season mark of 1 17 1 l and a 5 0 record in inthe inthe inthe I the Missouri 7 Valle Valley league Bradley 3 18 3 18 No 4 1 ranking dropped to third in the league with 4 2 behind St. St Louis 1 4 No 2 ranking Long Island university university uni uni- 16 0 continued its alII all all- I winning winnin streak a against mediocre San Francisco 58 52 in an unexpectedly unexpectedly tough contest It was as the first of a game five intersectional tour for the Brooklyn five i The lead changed hands several times in m the second half and L LIU I U held only a point one margin with four m minutes left before pulling out of reach Sherman White paced the visitors visitors visitors tors with ith 22 points Clair Bees Bee's won von the game at the foul line the Blad Blackbirds birds counting 24 free throws to San Francisco's eight The entire San Francisco first five fouled out in inthe inthe inthe the last nine minutes against the taller visitors L LIU I U has another battle coming up Saturday night with California Then Arizona Jan 29 and the two tough ones at the end of oC the tour tour tour- No 9 ranking Kansas State 2 12 Jan 31 and No 10 St. St Louis 13 4 Feb 3 ct t |