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NAIA Tourney Gets Underway In Kansas City
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Bv JOHN GRIFFIN
Holiday tournament in college basketball starts picking up speed tonight with a pair of top tourneys in Alabama—the Blue-Gray classic at Montgomery and the Birmingham classic at Birmingham.
The NAIA tournament, featuring smaller college teams, got underway in Kansas City last night and is slated for semi-final games tonight.
In the Blue Gray, Tennessee faces Miami (Fla.) in the opening game on the program and Auburn plays Washington and Lee in the nightcap. The winners will meet in the final round tomorrow.
Three nationally-ranked teams are scheduled for action tonight in other non-tournament games. UCLA (No. 6) meets Santa Clara as basketball returns to San Francisco's big cow palace after a year's absence; Iowa (No. 10) visits Pennsylvania in a big intersectional; and Holy Cross (No. 16) meets Providence.
The Birmingham classic features four teams from different conferences with Wake Forest, a strong combine built around potential all-America Dick Hermic, favored to win the title. Wake Forrest (Atlantic Coast conference) meets West Virginia (southern) in the first game and Alabama (Southeastern), regarded as the second choice, meeting Texas (Southwest) in the second. Again winners meet tomorrow.
Niagara, ranked 10th nationally, came through with an impressive 99-74 victory over Syracuse last night. It was the fifth win in six starts for the Purple Eagles, who have lost only to national leader La Salle by a single point in overtime and must be regarded as one of the East's strongest teams.
Ed Fleming and Charley Hoxic hit for 26 points and 23 respectively to lead Niagara as it ran up the highest score in the long history of its series against Syracuse. The Eagles sank 46 percent of their shots in the first half as they took a 54-31 lead and breezed home.
Opening round NAIA games saw upsets in all but one game. Gustavus Adolphus beat East Texas State, 59-51; Tennessee A&I beat Southwest Missouri State, 77-57; Arkansas Tech downed St. Benedict's, 87-59; and Rockhurst downed Western Illinois, 72-65. The semi-finals tonight are Arkansas Tech-Tennessee A&I, and Rockhurst-Gustavus Adolphus.
In other leading games last night, Fordham ended a two-game losing streak as Ed Conlin scored 22 points in a 55-1 victory win over Colgate; Temple upset St. John's 77-69, as 5-11 Hall Lear led the way with 25 points; St. Francis (Pa.), followed a 30-point performance by Maurice Strokes, which equaled Madison Square Garden's record for this season, to an 85-9 victory over Iona college; Western Kentucky beat Colorado State, 75-67; Florida downed Miami (Fla.) 70-61; and Oklahoma City trounced Texas Christian, 63-44.
KU 'B' Team Defeats Baker
Baldwin,—(U.P.)—Kansas university's "B" team proved too powerful for Baker and took an easy 80-54 basketball victory last night.
Baker trailed only five points at halftime but the KU crew steadily swelled that 33-28 advantage during the final half.
Ivan Malm of Baker was top scorer with 19 points. John Greene led the winners with 16.
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ID's Accepted for Second Rice Game
All student identification cards will admit students to the Rice basketball game here tomorrow night, but some 2,500 seats will be placed for sale as reserved seats. Students will sit on the stage bleachers.
With the Missouri Tigers loom-
ing as stout favorites, the annual
Big Seven pre-season basketball
equipment will get under way
Dec. 27-30 in Kansas City's
Municipal auditorium.
This year's tournament appears to be one of the best-balanced in the nine-year history of the journey. The eight-team field doesn't present any one team as powerful as some seen in recent years, but does have a powerhouse in the rampaging Missouri squad.
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After dropping their first game to Illinois, Missouri has roared back with successive victories over Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Arkansas. Top threat to Missouri appears to be Colorado's "Golden Buffaloes." Colorado, returning last year's Big Seven co-championship team intact, has compiled an impressive early season mark of four victories against no defeats.
Coach "Phog" Allen's Kansas team must be ranked as the darkhorse of the tournament. With successive, upset victories over LSU and Tulsa, last year's tournament champions present an aggressive sophomore-laden crew which shows great promise.
Tigers Favored To Take Tourney
This year's guest team, California, could show the conference teams a lot of trouble. They must be considered as a potential title threat after their impressive early season start. There is always the possibility of Kansas State, Nebraska, Iowa State, and Oklahoma coming through with surprise victories—something for which this tourney is famous.
The opening night of the tournament features Colorado against Oklahoma at 8 p.m., and Nebraska against Missouri at 9:45. On Tuesday, Dec. 28, Kansas will play Iowa State, after which Kansas State will oppose California.
A "get even with Missouri rally" has been planned by the pep rally committee for Monday. Jan. 3 on the baseball diamond. The rally will be held from 8:30 to 9 p.m.
Pep Rally Planned For Missouri Game
Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen and the basketball team will be present at the bonfire rally which will be held before the conference opening basketball game scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 4, in Hoch.
Missouri has been rated as one of the top teams in the nation and the Jayhawks are protecting a 31 game win streak on the home court.
Speaker Roster Selected for YM-YW Meet
A roster of speakers for the quadrennial National Student Assembly of the YMCA and YWCA to be held here Dec. 27-Jan.2 was announced today.
William Allaway, YMCA secretary and chairman of local arrangements, said Philippe Maury of Geneva, Switzerland, will speak. Mr. Maury is general secretary of the World Student Christian federation.
Kirtley F. Mather, professor emeritus of geology at Harvard University and a past president of the National YMCA council, will be both assembly speaker and chairman of the faculty seminar conducted within the larger meeting.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will address the faculty seminar on "The Meaning of Democratic Freedom." The seminar will analyze relationships of personal, group, academic and Christian freedom and their preservation.
J. Coert Rylaarsdam, Old Testament authority on the University of Chicago faculty, will deliver a series of talks developing the assembly theme, "Where Art Thou?"
Other assembly leaders will include Prof. Roy Fairchild, Occidental college, Los Angeles; Prof. John Hutchinson, Williams college, Williamsburg, Mass.; Muriel Jacobson, UNESCO staff, New York City; Maxine Thornton, national board of the YWCA, New York City; Walter Anderson, Antioch college, Yellow Springs, Ohio; Prof. Edwin E. Aubrey, University of Pennsylvania; Prentiss Pemberton, associate director of the Danforth foundation, St. Louis, Mo.; Warren Ashby, Woman's college of the University of North Carolina, and Walter J. Harrelson, Andover-Newton Theological seminary, Andover, Mass.
Washington —(U.P.)—The Defense department planned to unveil today the administration's sweeping new military manpower program combining a four-year extension of the draft with modified University Military Training.
Military Program Unveiling Readied
Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson arranged to outline the details for the first time at a news conference this afternoon. If approved by Congress, the program will affect the lives of virtually all of the nation's draftage young men.
Secretary Wilson had charts, diagrams and lengthy statements to give the plan a full-dress public launch. It will be a top priority administration item and possibly the most controversial issue in the next Congress.
Administration leaders feel it will take all the prestige and power of the administration to sell a plan embodying the principle of Universal Military Training to Congress and the people.
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Case Against Dr. Sheppard In Hands of 5 Women,7 Men
Cleveland—(U.P.) The murder case against Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard went to a jury of five women and seven men. They may decide his fate before nightfall.
The life, or death, of the handsome osteopath and brain surgeon accused of bludgeoning his wife to death, rests with the jurors. A verdict of guilty of first degree murder would mean death in the Ohio electric chair.
The state of Ohio vs. Sam H. Sheppard. Verdict. We, the jury in this case being duly impaneled and sworn, do find the defendant . . . "
The trial was ending after nine weeks. The long trail of injury, accusation, and world publicity that began for Dr. Sheppard in the dawn hours of July 4 will come to an abrupt turn when the jury handes the judge a printed form that begins:
What the jury finds may be any one of five possible verdicts—plus the possibility of a hung jury, unable to agree on any decision.
Gross to Receive Award
Lorraine Gross, college sohohmore from Bucklin, will receive the Gamma Phi Beta Christmas scholarship this year. The $100 scholarship is offered each year at this time by Sigma chapter of Gamma Phi Beta.
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