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Show Sfl5E--HaC511--glIKlIE,:a-S0: Denver Five Tired From 1 Long Jaunt BOZEMAN, Mont, March I WV-Elated WV-Elated by a 61-49 opening game trie umph ever Denver university. Moo tana lUU'i snarling Bobcats primed today (or a supreme of (art to clinch tho Rocky Mountain eoav. (aranea baakatbaU titla tonight. Tha Bobcats, tha league's waatarm divlaloa champion, need only ana victory la tha remaining two aariaa gamaa to aaw up tbalr ft rat mile-hlfh mile-hlfh loop ehamplonahlp la eight yaara and probably thalr last. Montana State waa ona of five eoUeges orphaned whan Denver aad six of tha othar larf ir achoola announced an-nounced thay wara withdrawing from tha circuit after next fall, wracking tha conference. A franilad crowd of 100 fana packad tha Stata college gym laat night aad howlad appro Tai aa tha Bobcata took tha aariaa opanar from the train-weary Pioneers, eastern division champs. Take Barry Lead Paced by Eddie Exum, Bill Of la and Jim (Flash) Taylor, Montana Stata Jumped to aa early lead, fell behind and came back to win, pulling pull-ing tha gama out of the fire In the final six minutes. Exum topped tha Bobcat scorers with II points. Ogle had IT and Taylor la. Despite their king ride and stranf a surroundings, Rollle Young and Jim Babcock of Denver turned in the outstanding scoring performances perform-ances of the evening. Young, a forward, for-ward, tallied SI counters and Babcock Bab-cock IS. Coach John (Brick) Breedon of Montana Bute, a stellar guard aa the Golden Bobcat champions ef a decade ago, sounded a note of caution cau-tion to Jubilant local fans. -I think we were lucky to win ha aald "Denver showed tha effects ef-fects of the long trip." Tha Ploneera ended a 10-hour train ride leaa than eight hour before the game. Attack ef Jitters' . "If all tha team eaa ecore, tha verdict will ha different tonight," predict d Coach Clyde Cao) Hubbard Hub-bard of Denven "Young and Baa-leock Baa-leock got no help aa offense from the rest of the" team." Denver's quintet seemingly suffered suf-fered an attack of "Jitters" at tha i tart of tha gama and Montana Btats scored as It pleased until Baa-cock Baa-cock broke the Ice with tha first Pioneer basket after 11 minutes. That made the count Montana State 17, Denver a, Thereafter things began. to happen. hap-pen. In three minutes Babcock and Young had Denver la tha thick of things. The lead ding-donged back and forth tha final few minutes o the half, with tha Bobcats finally holding a U-11 edge. Denver went ahead M-M aftar Intermission, but Doyra and Taylor quickly put Montana Stata back In fovM fu.... klna min mt 40-40, before Exum led a final drive which brought results. Th evort: MONTANA rrTX I DCNVBlt O orripi g r ft r Teylor, f.. t SlielTornif. I., j t 1 2S Eium, t . . T 4 4 181 Plmat, f . . 6 0 S 0 Doyra, e. S S T Bibcock, e I S t IS Oik, f . . f ft 1 IT Johnaoa, f. Illl Vivien! i, llll BmllhTfT. I 1 I r,ldma. lliiO HrWlllma, (lii Lllll,. .. 6 0 0 0 Drelwr, . I 1 1 1 Coeou, f . 8 0 0 0 WiUoa, .114 1 TotU 23 16 IS SI Totale IT 15 IT 4e Officials Vldal (C. U.), Baarr (Mia. eouri). |