NIT Still Ahead in Team Grab With Tulsa as Latest Prize
New York—(U.P.)—Eastern Kentucky entered the NCAA tournament and Tulsa accepted a bid to the National Invitation tournament today as the post-season carnivals continued their race to sign up talented teams.
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The NIT was expected to announce still further acceptances today, with speculation centering on Villanova (18-8) and St. John's (13-5).
The NCAA, lagging behind the rival tourney in the "war" for independent teams, suddenly spurted late yesterday to sign Notre Dame, Navy, and Fordham, in addition to Eastern Kentucky's Ohio Valley conference champions. That made a total of eight berths now filled in the 23-temmy merry-go-round.
Tulsa (14-7) was the seventh team to enter the 12-team NIT at New York's Madison Square garden. The Hurricanes' title chances in the Missouri Valley conference are almost gone with a 4-4 record, and as a conference "also ran" they are not eligible for an "at large" berth in the NCAA.
Rice university took over the lead in the Southwest conference last night with a 61-56 victory over pacemaking Texas at Houston. The triumph gives the Owls an 8-3 league mark, while Texas dropped into a second-place tie with Texas Christian at 7-3.
Eastern Kentucky owns a 15-6 record, including a split with Western Kentucky, an NIT team. Eastern also finished ahead of Western in the regular season Ohio Valley race.
A. C. "Dutch" Lonborg of Kansas, chairman of the NCAA committee, announced that dates and sites for playoffs between the eastern "at large" members will be announced in a few days. All four teams accepted yesterday are in that category, along with previously-announced De Paul.
Texas managed to control Rice ace Gene Schwinger in their previous meeting, but this time he fired in 22 points.
Villanova bolstered its tourney hopes with an 80-70 victory over Dayton.
North Carolina State, regular-season Southern conference king, scored a big intersectional win when it downed Fordham, 73-70, in an overtime at Raleigh, N.C.
In other leading games last night:
Duke trounced Davidson, 99-72, and
Maryland beat George Washington,
66-53, in the Southern conference;
SMU trounced Texas A&M, T3-59,
in the Southwest; Erie Beck's 22
points led Pennsylvania to a 55-48 win over Rutgers; Frank Reddout tallied 40 for Syracuse as the Orange beat Canisius, 88-76; Holy Cross crushed Dartmouth, 99-50, and Richmond beat Virginia, 88-51.
The fabulous Bevo Francis of Rio Grande of Ohio got another shot last night at Ashland Junior college, the foe against which he scored 116 points earlier this year. Unbeaten Rio Grande gained its 37th win, 70-63, but a new 7-foot-1-inch center named John Thomas helped hold Bevo to "only" 25 points.
Conferences Stay Tight
Here's how the major conferences shape up:
Southern: North Carolina State won the regular season title by beating North Carolina, 87-66. But the NCAA berth goes to the winner of the league's post-season tournament at Raleigh, N.C., March 5-6-7.
Big Ten: Illinois' surprise loss to Iowa, 67-62, leaves Indiana with a clear shot at its first undisputed league crown.
Pacific Coast: Washington (14-0 in the league and 24-1 overall) has clinched the Northern division title and awaits a two-of-three playoff with the Southern division titlist. Down there, action ends with four games this week. Pacemaking California (7-3) faces Stanford Friday and Saturday and runner-up UCLA (6-4) meets Southern California the same nights.
Ivy: Penn and Columbia are tied with 5-2 records. Columbia plays twice this week, against Yale Wednesday and Dartmouth Saturday, while Penn plays only against Harvard on Saturday.
Southwest: Rice leads with 8-3 with Texas right behind at 7-3.
Big Seven: Kansas leads with 7-2 and has three left; Kansas State stands at 5-3 with four left.
Skyline: Brigham Young (9-1) and Wyoming (9-2) collide in the big game on Friday. After that, BYU will have three to go and Wyoming two.
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The Yankees and Athletics cracked the solid front of their holdout ranks today while the Dodgers grappled with the problem of an already-signed player who wants more money to play less.
The Yankees, first in the American league last season but last in the signing derby this winter, brought 20-game winner Allie Reynolds, outfielder Mickey Mantle and Hank Bauer, and first-baseman Joe Collins into the fold as a total of six players remain unsigned, the Yankees for the first time this spring are beginning to look like world champions.
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The 210-pound slugger, acquired from the White Sox in the deal which sent AL batting champion Ferris Fain to Chicago, signed for $30,000. The figure is $7,500 more than Fain got last season and makes Robinson the highest paid member of the A's since Jimmy Foxx's heyday. General manager Art Ehlers immediately went to work in an effort to sign Gus Zernial—the other half of the A's 1-2 batting punch.
The Dodgers, however, ran head-on into a problem when third-baseman Billy Cox reported and learned for the first time of manager Charley Dressen's desire to convert him into a utility infelder.
Cox's first reaction was, "What good is that for me?" Advised that Dodger vice president Buzzy Davasi had hinted he might increase Cox's salary if he agreed to the move, Billy grunted: "He'll have to."
Snider Predicts Great Year
Vero Beach, Fla. —(U.P.)— Duke Snider, the Brooklyn Dodgers' hero in a lost cause against the Yankees last October, predicted that 1953 will be the biggest year of his career. "This will be the year I've been waiting for," he said.
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