An Early Fourth-Quarter Flurry|
Brings 72 to 57 Victory Qver |
Nebraska in ‘Big 7 POUEMEY

BOB REITER LEADS THE WAY

Missouri’s Big Center Pours in
_ 26 Points, Most of Them
Coming in Clutch,

Huskers ‘Stay in Game - Until
Surge by Victors in 2nd Pe=
riod—Weber Paces Losers,

BULLETIN.
The University of Kansas
led Oklahoma, 59 to 52, at the
- end of three quarters of play
in the championship contest.

Missouri staged an
early third-quarter flurry
of points to outdistance
Nebraska, 72 to 57, and
take third place in the|
Big Seven pre-season bas-|
ketball tournament in
Municipal Auditorium last
night.
_ Accrowd of 9,500 packed
the hall for the third-
place game and the Kan-
-sas-Oklahoma champion-
ship battle. which fol-|
lowed. |

‘The Tigers were leading at|
the half, 36 to 30, after losing|

the lead in the early second|
quarter to a Nebraska 7 |

san Nebraska. 4
stretched their 6

fe-half minutes of!
r the intermission.)

of time as the Huskers got only}
a free throw added to their total. |
Nebraska came back to nar-|
row the gap to seven points as:
Don | Weber and -Duane - Buel
scored to make it 37-44. But
Reiter again came to the rescue
to score three more buckets in
the remaining minutes of the
period and Stewart and Bill
Holst, Reiter’s replacement,
added one each in the late min-
utes for a 55-45 Missouri lead
going into the final period,