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By Dick Friendlich - San Francisco
Chronicle.

"Tl may not known art, but I know what I like,"

That's the reaction of most of the 1500 fans who saw Phillips
Oilers of Oklahoma lose to Golden State Creamery, 22-21, Tuesday
night at Kezar,. From the standpoint of basketball, it certainly
was art, but few of the fans would like it as a consistent diet,

They prefer the driving, fast-break style that Stanford, Santa
Clara, 3.F.State and other local teams play most of the time,

even though it lacks the perfect execution which marked the Oilers-
Creamery battle, sith

The Oilers are good, They won the Missouri. valley A.A.U.
title this spring, were runners-up to the Denver Nuggets in the
Nationals last year, losing 25-22 in the finals, Note that 25-&2,

Actually, the Oilers were playing the same kind of basket-
ball thetwas prevalent all over the country ten years ago- figure-
of-eight passing outside the circle and screen: off the "spot,'

The Oilers guards didn't-drive into the basket, -but. kept moving
ce wae outside, trying to set up the play, te

“Sometimes they started to move in, Pour ‘themselves checked,
‘pivoted and passed out again and st arted the Figure- -~eight all
over again, The Creamery played the same style, although the for-
wards broke across a little more. of tert than : did the Oilers, But
the total ‘points scored give you tae idea, ©

Had eitner team played a gone defense. aeuk Ofek,
the score would probably have been 3 to ©, No tiiank you,

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With “Dick Hyland, Los sngeiesTines.

Nibs Frice, Californie coach, ‘who is more on the smart side
than not when it eomes to things ba sketball, comes out wham-vang
with the statement tnaat Jackie Robinson is the best basketball
player in the United States, I don't know whether that is so, but
—-do know hé- is the best I've seen perform, This would odrinarily
mean little because of the limited number seen, dut it assumes
proportions when among those seen are several whom the Bast, Mid-
west and North have hailed as great and double- great, Robinson's
better than they are, in my boox,

Cn >erformence around here, Jeok Robinson has looked the
‘Best 2 “He: has a natural, instinctive quickness, straightaway. speed
body control and judgement of distanae Vaaes is “sO eg toianding it
is difficult -to Ge here bes | at

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It's not too late to record a recent prank of. thas: cute
‘California —. section — must: be seen and heard bcd be

‘When. ti1g.4Bo0 ir--and U. 30s cagers cla shetie weck
‘ago thé U.C .rooters: got: into the swing of things and booed lustily
every time a Trojen ae? ped up to the ‘fres. throw line,; That. was on
' Friday night, Before saturday night's. gcme. started, Lloyd Whitman,
“the: California yell Redden took! over .the loudspeecker end asked
_ that the rooters, ‘in. the: name of common courtesy, refrain from
--pooing Trojans on the’ free tarow line, waitman's eens qui te
we SNISA AT was greeted witn boos,

“The game hadr't gone a ninute before Ralph Vaughn,
star Trojan forward, was fouled, As ne stepped up to shoot his