CHICAGOLAND CAGE COMMENT

By JIM ENRIGHT
Sports Writer and Official, Herald-American

 

ORREST COX, Colorado coach, calls Mike

Dougherty, Loyola's 6 foot 7 inch center, a goalie
due to his ability to bat the ball away from the
hoop on defense. . . . One of the best one-man
offensive stands in the Midwest was Notre Dame
Center Bob Faught's 25-point spree against Mar-
quette. ... A one-minute interview‘with Ward Lam-
bert, Purdue coach: ''We have another good team
at Purdue, but the boys have only one fault. They
just can't hold an early lead."

Warren Brown, sports editor of the new Chicago
Sun, is going “all out" in his basketball coverage.
When Illinois opened the second half of its Big Ten
schedule undefeated Brown assigned staff men to
the Northwestern game at Champaign and the
Illinois-Indiana game at Bloomington. . . . Members
of the Chicago Basketball Writers Association were
treated to a return of Coach Phog Allen's verbal
blasts on Oklahoma in connection with the Gerald
Tucker hearing when the Kansas mentor invaded
the Loop.

There's a brother act among the regular officials
in the Big Ten this season. The duo is composed. of
Earl and Johnny Townsend, formerly of Michigan,
now residing in Indianapolis. . . . Eddie Jacquin has
been promoted from sports editor to managing
editor of the Champaign News-Gazette. Jacquin,
who has been associated with Illinois sports doings
for many years, plans to close out his officiating at
the end of the present season.

In the Wisconsin-Chicago game at Chicago, Feb.
10, Johnny Kotz, veteran Badger forward, scored
18 points after missing 23 straight shots in the
second half. . . . One of the best individual players
to show in Chicago this season is Captain O'Grady
of Georgetown. He was about the entire show in
the Hoyas’ 35 to 34 decision over Marquette.

To Creighton goes the honor of having polished
off Great Lakes fives in two different wars. In World
War No. | the Bluejays trimmed the Gobs, 25 to 20.
In their World War No. 2 meeting Eddie Hickey's
crew racked up a 59 to 45 decision. .. . Dr. Clarence
Spears, Toledo's athletic director, rates Bob Gerber,
the Rockets’ star center, on a par with Chuck
Chuckovits, Toledo ace of former seasons. Coach
Andy Anderson of the same club says he has seen
nights when "'we could use both of 'em."

"| guess we were still up in the air," was Clair
Bee's first comment after Long Island dropped a
44 to 43 decision to De Paul early in January. Fol-

 

lowing out his usual. policy, Bee flew the Blackbirds
to Chicago and return.

Arch Ward, ,Chicago Tribune sports editor, and
his Wake of the News column readers have had lots
of fun this Winter digging up low score basketball
games. The present low is I to 0.

Willie Wendt, De Paul mentor sitting in while
Capt. Tom Haggerty continues his stint in the army,
is passing the cigars these days. It's a girl, the
Wendt's first... . Bradley Tech, robbed of its home
court when the Army took over all armories in
Illinois, played its first tour games on as many courts.
The Braves opened at Woodruff high in Peoria,
moved to near-by Pekin high school for its second
game and hit the road for their next two starts at
Denver and California.”

Len Sachs, Loyola mentor, continues to hit the
Chicago newspapers with his blast on officials. His
latest entry into print was a word by word account
of his verbal tiff with Official Nick Kearns at a recent
meeting of the Chicago Basketball Writers Asso-
ciation.

 

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FORREST B. COX; Colorado Coach‘

Member, -Board of Directors National. Association