mp Lavagefto Says Club WillRise West Virginia Battles BU, From Cellar Navy and Kentucky Fall r Jfl Improved Hitting, Better Defenses Cited by Cookie Jerry West Leads By Bradley BURTON HAWKINS Rated gte Mountaineers to •Ur BUB Writer ORLANDO. Fla., Mar. 14. Thrilling Victory m “I'm tick of the cellar.” aaya a in By tha Auociatad HHI the Senators' manager, Over Butler Prau Cookie 44 Lavagetto, who has resided Surprising Boston University, there for two years. "I don't PORTS overtime conqueror of highly like running last. I want to S' THE regarded Navy, and West Vir- get off this treadmill and NIT Feature EVENING STAR ginia, breathing I Washington, 0. C., Saturday, March 14, 1959 hard after an think we can do it. NEW YORK. Mar. 14 (AP). all-out comeback victory over “I think our overall picture —The 22d edition of the Na- A-12 Bt. Joseph’a, meet at Charlotte. la a bit brighter than It was tional Invitation baaketball N. C.. tonight for the NCAA this time a year ago,” Cookie tournament continues today GIANTS SHIP OUT ROOKIES Eastern regional baaketball "¦ ::: Iflp ' continued. "Norm Zauchln had with double-headeri on both title. pF .Hl B^h.:,- • bad wriat last spring and later the matinee and evening pro- Elsewhere in the regional ||pr* Jh fl/ pulled a back muscle. He grams at Madison Square Oar- tournament, Kentucky’s de- wound up hitting .atß. Now den and Bradley still the team Banks Could Repeat fending champions are out, but M|p' ”*V he’s fit and he ought to be to beat. first-ranked Kansas State and ashamed of himself If he The Bradley Braves (23-3) two other of the Nation’s top doesn’t boost that average way go into action tonight as 7- As National's MVP 10 still are in the running for up. I think he will. point favorites against sharp- the national championship. "Herb Plews has a good bat- shooting Butler (19-8). This By the Aasociated Press ]first inning, and a 3-run homer Tonight’s four regional win- ting ,, stroke. He should hit be- will be a quarter-final game, as Ernie Banks, Cubs short- off Ron Herbel, product. ners travel to Louisville next -¦' . '.v .™P®|l ''¦' ffl ' .J» 860.000 1 tween .280 and .300. I thought will the other half of the twinjistop, could become the first Na- Herbel was the losing pitcher week end for the championship his fielding Improved quite a bill St. Bonaventure (20-2) I tional League player to win the in the 16-12 victory for the showdown. bit late last year. He hit .298, against (17-8). player St. John's The nost valuable award in Cubs at Yuma, Ariz. Was Biggest Surprise ;; W - j=' but he’s a better hitter than pick-'em V latter is a affair. consecutive seasons. Shipped that. Ken Aspromonte figures afternoon the first Rookies Oat Kentucky, seeking its fifth - During the to play a at second base, Banks was the 1958 most ¦¦ f Bk 1 lot round was to be completed. < valuable player strength Meanwhile, the Giants sent a national crown and ranked sec- f WmaaX BP*-* Bimini something of on the too. He's seen Manhattan (15-5) was a 3- of 47 home 129 batted flock of youngsters to their ond, was eliminated by Louis- $ the majors now and should have runs. runs Evanston, |P Ik, B polnt favorite over Providence i in, and 379 total bases rookie camp at Sanford, Fla., ville at HI., last night JB P an idea of what it’s which Adolph W M & m||| -.jß- BB all about. (18-5> and New York Univer- brought the league’s slug- from where they will go to 76-61. The defeat of I’m looking for more out of him Rupp’s sity (12-7) rated 5 points over 1 ging crown. He hit five homers minor league clubs. Perry and Wildcats by a team that him than that measly .210 he Denver (14-9). Herbel, however, remain had dropped 10 of 27 games was IF hit year. i more than the Yankees’ Mickey will mmr- JHBr last (The NYU-Denver game i Mantle, who paced the Ameri- with the parent club. the most astounding of the re- j B B regional Defenses Are Better will be on television over , can League, batted in seven Mantle and four other Yanks sults of four tourna- <m r’ WRC-4 at 4 p.m.» —Norm Bobby ments. Kentucky entered the “So, we go to shortstop. i more runs than Jackie Jensen Siebern. Rich-1 game Ron Bradley played in the Garden of the Bill Skowron El- with a 23-2 mark. n Samford has lfkore range than Red Sox, and topped ardson. and this year and put an Rocky by Howard New | Navy, gained stature by Rocky Bridges showed earlier i Colavito 76 total ston —homered as which us last abrupt end to St. John’s win- York defeated Detroit, 14-8, at beating North Carolina in « B season, so we’ll be tightened oases although the Indians': a F s#**ssl SI S ning eight games. ] preliminary Tuesday, defensively streak of But, rightfielder took the major ;| Lakeland. round last there, and Ron important, the inside-the-park was by lightly-regarded should hit least even more league slugging title by sour 1 A three-run beaten ah SyP I I at as much is Braves have decision ; by Bill Virdon Boston U„ &.1 Rocky. a over points .620 to .616. shot Pirate was 62-55. Oscar Robertson and his Cin- wasted Kansas City turned! West Virginia, ranked No. ¦ .JB “Reno Bertoia will cover Mantle 1 1956-57) is one of as 10. ' 8| , ?,, \ cinnati club to their credit. back Pittsburgh, 8-3, Fort trailing by 18 points with 13 f§k H 1 m more ground than Ed Yost did , two Yankees to win the Ameri- at ;i who won the Myers. ! minutes left, sot a < * give The Braves, can League most valuable player , j tremendous HBF at third base and he’ll 1957 work well off 6-foot-5 Baltimore beat Cincinnati, lift from the dynamic stretch ¦ power. NIT. sward two years in a iff m us more The left side Billy row.; Tampa performance pivotman, Joe McDade. Catcher Yogi did 6-2, at with Gene Wood- of All-American of our infield isn't going to give Berra it in Jerry bringing The only other real tall man in 1954-55. Other American League ling homering for the Orioles West while down WEST SPARKS COMEBACK VICTORY—Jerry away as many runs as we did lineup Bailey St. Joseph’s, West of West Virginia their ia Dan Smith, a repeaters slugger Jimmy and Ed for the Reds. 95-92. West last year. were key of goes up for a shot against St. Joseph’s of Philadelphia in last night’s 6-foot-4 junior. Foxx of the Athletics »1932-33» Pitching was the at crammed 21 his 36 points ’’lt’s too early yet to know Wynn the NCAA regional tournamertt at Charlotte, N. C., as he leads the Moun- Butler is a smooth-working great of Bradenton where Early into last nine minutes. if I’ll go with the same outfield and the left-hander Cincinnati, taineers to a 95-92 come-from-behind victory. West scored 21 of his 36 outfit, which has proved to be a the Tigers, Hal Newhouser and two Chicago rookies. Ru- fifth ranked, and we had last year, but let’s sup- little weak on defense. The team dolpho Arias and Claude Ray- Michigan State, seventh, just points in the last nine minutes as the overcame pose do. Roy Sievers is (1944-45). Mountaineers an we a gets fine rebounding jobs from mond. combined to two-hit the managed to squeak into to- 18-point deficit.—AP Wirephoto. hitter. There’s solid no reason Johnny Jones and Ken Pen- Can't Compare Braves. night's regional finals. In con- why he can't have as good a Kansas Mary’s nington, who also toss in points year trast. State. St. year as he had last season Billy The first Newhouser took Cards on Top of California and California along with Scott. the prize, National Leaguer and maybe he'll exceed It. Al- St. Bonaventure did a Blasingame won in a breeze. well not look named Marty Marion was Don delivered a blte Pearson did as a good In its Oarden appearance two-run double with two out in DeMATHA IN K. OF C. CONSOLATION rookie, smart figures named most valuable player in Pairings for Tonight X s and earlier in the year against lona, | the eighth inning to bring in to impio/t. Jim Lemon's knee that circuit, and although the The s Lackey but St. John's is not oftercon- ! the decisive runs In a 5-3 St. results of last night B-CC, make him talented Marion earned the games operation ought to a fldent. Louis victory over Philadelphia produced this lineup for better v»JI player. name “Mr. Shortstop” he never tonight: “You’ve got to throw that one at St. Petersburg. Classy Carroll Faces Courtney is no push- saw the day he could clear At Virginia '’Clint out,” observed St. John's coach, Ted Williams, famed Red Sox Charlotte—West plate fences like Banks. Playing over at the and he has Joe Lapchick. "They looked bad slugger, played in his native vs. Boston University. j Ernie, for learned something about catch- who holds the major At Evanston Louisville only because they had such an city of San Diego, Calif., for vs.