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Show Central Division Held Best in Cage Loop ; NEW YORK. Nov. IB (JP There's no doubt where the power lies in th National Basketball Assn. The central division comprised of Minneapolis. Fort Wsyne. Chi-' Chi-' cago. Rochester and St. Louis is by fsr the 17-team circuit's most potent grouping. The midwesterners have won, as a unit, 21 games while losing only 11. That's a .656 percentage. The other two divisions the eastern and western are both below .500. i The eastern sector has a .455 ! mark with 20 victories and 24 set- backs. The west has a .425 rating I with 17 triumphs compared to 23 i defeats. 1 Chicago and Rochester Tuesday ' night added to the central divison's swelling victory column. Chicago clubbed Washington. 77-63. in the first half of a double-header at New York and Rochester whipped Tri-City, Tri-City, 93-81. at Rochester. The second sec-ond half of the New York twin bill ssw Syracuse shsde the New York Knickerbockers. 77-74. i Other NBA games saw Anderson Ander-son whip Indisnapolis. 83-72, and Baltimore trounce Boston, (1-72. A Madison Square Garden throng of 15,145 witnessed the two games at New York. Max Zaslofsky, Chicago's Chi-cago's slick forward, at usual led the Stags' offense. Zaslofsky canned 18 points. Jsck Nichols was hot and rimmed 31 points for Washington. Washing-ton. Adolph Schsyes, former NYU star, paced Syracuse to Its victory over the Knicks. The ( ft 7 In. guard tallied 13 points as the Nationals Na-tionals scored their seventh, victory In eight starts. Vine Boryla was New York's top man with 19 points. Despite his team's loss to Anderson, Ander-son, Alex Groza managed to rim 22 points for Indianapolis. It gave the former Kentucky ail-American a total of 197 points for the season, sea-son, which is high for the league. - Rochester canned 33 of 41 free tosses . to down Tri-City. Arnold Risen, the string-been center, scored 17 points for the winners. , while little Murry Weir potted 19 I for the losers. Psul Hoffmsn. the rugged ex-Purdue ex-Purdue star, biased 27 points to ' gJlltimoT 10 letorT over A '. .' ... ' |