On The Line, continued.

Dutch Clark, who helped the world discover Colorado University
some years belrore Whizzer White, was saying down at the Pro Football
League meeting not long ago that White is a better basketball player
than he was a footballer, The record would seem.to bear him out, for
Whiz was an all conference basketball guard for three years at Colo-
rado, where he made the conference football team only His last two
years, “ ogres STE of” GEA Tepe eae oo Boe kee
_. But the whigzer, who Shocked. the: tender nerves: of American’

_. Sports fans not long ago by ijturning down «.$15,000 a year job with

Art Rooney's football Pirates, to become a Yank at. Oxfond,:is not
the star of .the ‘Coloradans, The star seems. to be Swisher Schwartz :
(try that after two martinist)., who averaged 17.7 points a game dur-
ing the seacson ,just closed, . The 7, we believe, was one.of ‘those
long shots, that scoot around the ‘hoop a-couple of ‘times before de-
ciding not to go through, peertis we Be Zt. .

_.-:. Temple, the only Bastern. team to knock off Hank Luisetti's
Stanferd ¢lub, is built around..a large Hebrew named -Meyer Bloom a

6-fout-6 behemoth.of a:center who has scored in 69 consecutive .var-
Sity games, -The-:kosher cCarnera is tenrifids:. «262.0% ) tw ih

-.-; The Bradley-bunch is: interesting, Tney call. themselves the
Braves, none of them has ever been to New york,,,all of them are
working their way .throuch school(which should-attract a great curio-
sity trade to the tournament) .and to send the substitutes along with
the team .the natives of. Peoria chipped in and raised a transportation
fund. The. local radio. station is sending an announcer to the Garden
to pipe back the deathless battle of, the lean,. lithe Braves,
sie y ESQMa, Ghat. just missed invitations were George Washington, of
Washington, D.C., and Marquette. The writers made. goo-goo eyes at
Stanford and Notre Dame, .too, but the Indians ‘were’ embroiled in.
their Coast conference. and Notre Dame. has recently instilled a rule
against post season games, __ old Ae Ce ee aa

:, Something in the neighborhood of 50,000 spectators may see the

hot, quick tournament, which caps a record-breaking basketball seagon
as 1t has never been capped,and lends for the. first time a note of
cohesiveness to a badly-scattered sport, Hi Ae ag

 

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