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Show Wildcats Beat Gopher Cagers CHICAGO, Jan. IT (At-A battle royal with every team packing a "knockout punch' that's the way the Big Tsn basketball title scramble scram-ble shaped up today. Minnesota, tha club which had woa three straight gamea In Impressive Im-pressive style, figuratively picked ItMlf off the floor, shook Its httd and attempted to figure out "how come" that stunning urwet defeat the Oophers took last night at tha hands of lowly Northwestern, 11 t 11. But Minnesota' defMt by tha Wlldoata, the first Iom tha Gopher have taken la 10 consecutive ganMe. waa only one surprlM development of last night's full conference program. pro-gram. Wisconsin upset Michigan 41 te tt and Illinois knocked Ohio State out of the undefMted class, is to 11, Indicating that tha race wlU be a free-for-all battle to the finish. Ben Stephen picked op nine more points to add to hla Impressive season's total at he and his Iowa mate defMted Chicago 16 to II. Purdue's champion Boilermakara, finding the going rougher than did their 1UT-U ahotmakera, suffered a M to M defeat from Indiana's Hoosisra. i ' W. U TT.' Tk Infliene a. ,,,." lav ja Illlnola i 144 1.1 Ulimeeota 1 IS 10 Ohio a la 14 114 It fn.S Ill 24 Wuronele lot 11 Furdua Ill 12 Michitan lit 4 iwthweetera tit 4i Caicese 10 las |