GAL oEEMS TOUGH

This Year’s Big Seven Tourney
‘Guest Team May Be Strong-
est Hote in Some Time.

GEARED TO BOB M’ KEEN

Fhe 6 Foot 7, 220-Pound Bear
Center Is One of Pacific
_ Coast's Best Performers.

(This is the third of a series
of analyses of team personnel
of the clubs which. will partici- |
pate in the annual Big Seuen
conference . tournament. The
4-day affair. opens. December
27 in Municipal es

BEAR SCOREBOARD
‘Bt a pn 64, Oregon. 52: 77,0 i i vig oe
ate regon, ollege a-
a a ): 64, St. Mary

cific 84 ouble overtime

51; 57, Colorado’44;-59, Bets 46.
Returning Lettermen—(6)—Bob Blake, f;
rank Hess, g; Bert =a it? ian Mc-
95 c; Floyd or £3 yne,

 

4°P. 0.0. ch itnird southors i-
vision, 6-6; all anton 42-7

Previous ‘Tournament Finishes—First year
eompeting.

Remaining Pre-Tournament Games—To-
night, Ohio State at Berkeley; tomorrow,
Sito State at Berkeley.

First. Round Opponent—-Kansas State, 9:45
p. m. December 28.

California, hubbed by a fear-
some front line, will make the
most serious guest team. bid)
since Minnesota reached the|
1950 finals when the ninth an-
nual Big Seven basketball derby
plays a 4-day run in Municipal
Auditorium next week.

Of late, guest teams have not
made much dent in the confer-
ence proper field. Washington
lost all three games last year;

ale two'of three the previous
December. And Stanford, al-
though winning two of three in
1951, was a first-round victim.
K-State Is First Foe.