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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1947
Basketball Hits Full Speed In Major Games This Week
New York—(UP)—Kentucky's basketball team was off and running like a blue grass race horse today, apparently determined to pace the nation and wipe out the bitter defeat suffered last season at the hands of Utah in the Madison Square Garden invitational.
Coach Adolph Rupp's Kentuckians, who meet DePaul Wednesday night $ ^{4} $
Title Decision To Ed Eagan
New York — (UP) — Arguments about the fight between Joe Louis and Jersey Joe Walcott may continue for years; but Eddie Eagan, Chairman of the New York Boxing Commission, was expected to announce today that Louis officially is still heavyweight champion of the world.
Eagan was expected to make this announcement after a brief hearing at which Walcott, Manager Joe Webster, and at least one attorney had pointed out that on the basis of points and on the basis of the opinion of the majority of fans and sports writers, Friday night's decision favoring Louis should be reversed. No Reversal Chance.
Boxing men agreed that there wasn't one chance in 10,000 that the decision of the two ring judges would be reversed to agree with the vote of Referee Ruby Goldstein, who favored challenger Walcott.
Meanwhile, Mayor George E. Brunner of Camden, N.J., Walcott's home town—appealed to Abe J. Greene, president of the National Boxing Association—to recognize Walcott as champion. Brunner was backed by a similar appeal from the Camden Veterans' Action committee. Although Greene is boxing Commissioner for the state of New Jersey, in addition to being President of the N.B.A., it seemed virtually certain that he would take no action on a problem that was New York State's "baby."
Orange Bowl Match Asked
New York State is not a member of the
Oceanic Realm Match Armed
Operaena Royal Match Armed
Harry Voiler, the promoter of Miami, Fla., who would have staged the return Rocky Graziano-Tony Zale middleweight fight at the Miami Orange Bowl on Feb. 12 if the Miami commission had sanctioned it, was in New York trying to interest Louis and Walcott in a return bout at the Bowl on Feb. 12.
Marshall Miles, Louis manager, kayoed Voiler's plans by stating, "we are not interested in a Miami fight. We want to fight Walcott at Yankee Stadium next June."
AAU Picks Rhodes As New Presiden
Omaha, Neb. — (UP) — James A.
Rhodes, mayor of Columbus, Ohio,
succeeded Willard N. Greim of Denver
as president of the Amateur
Athletic Union of America today.
Rhodes, who describes himself as a "has-been athlete who never earned a letter in college" was elected at the closing session of the group's 59th annual convention Sunday.
The delegates selected New York City as site of the 1948 convention to be held Dec.2,3,4,5.
steambooks twice last week, winning 72 to 18 and 71 to 22.
In the Rocky Mountain area, Utah's National Invitational Champions started the long road toward a possible title clash with Kentucky by swamping Montana State, 73 to 64. The Utes, with Arnie Ferrin and Vern Gardner back from last year's team, are out to wrest the Rocky Mountain Conference crown from defending champion Wyoming.
Wyoming gets its first test against Colorado State this week, while Denver continues its eastern tour against Georgetown tonight. Hamline Wednesday and Eastern Kentucky Saturday.
Midwest teams also begin feature competition with Notre Dame scheduled at Illinois tonight, and Michigan-Western Michigan, Notre Dame - Northwestern; Minnesota - Nebraska, and Ohio State - Marquette billed Saturday.
Minnesota, a Western conference favorite, got away to a bad start, losing to St. Louis last week, while Indiana de'dae DePauw 59 to 43 and Wisconsin, the defending champion, beat Marquette, 57 to 50.
In the Southwest, defending champion Texas fires up with a big week, meeting Texas Tech and Louisiana State tonight and tomorrow night and North Texas State Friday and Saturday nights.
On the Pacific coast, California will follow its 55 to 44 victory over San Francisco by entertaining Wisconsin in an intersection feature, while Santa Clara meets Nevada. Unbeaten Oregon State, one of the top contenders for coast honors, continued its string Saturday with a 50 to 44 victory over Canisius at Duffalo, N.Y.
Virginia entertains George Washington Wednesday and Duke Saturday, and Western Maryland plays host to William and Mary Thursday in southern headliners.
In the East, Madison Square Garden begins its second week of doubleheaders. St. John's of Brooklyn, defending metropolitan champion which lost its garden opener to Denver, meets Loyola of Chicago and City College of New York plays Oregon State Tuesday.
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Thursday matches Long Island university against Oklahoma A. & M, and New York university with Arkansas, and Saturday it will be St. John's against Georgetown.
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