PAGE SEVEN SATURDAY, MARCH 29, I'JII THE PHOENIX INDEX, PHOENIX, ARIZONA SOUTHERN U. COPS NATIONAL COLLEGE CAGE TOURNEY I SPORTS Tom Fagan's Company 4459 Louisiana Gagers Overwhelm v C. Eagles By 48-42 jones N. State SLANTS Bags Greensboro 42 To 31 (Exclusive to SNS) noon, March 21. After a brief re- in that, with Xavier, SIAC cham- I CINCINNATI, Ohio— (SPECIAL: cess for supper, play resumed at 7 pion, the Eagles from Durham were By LUCIUS JONES —Southern University of Scotland- o’clock in the evening. Three games established favorites. All-CCC Tournament Selections in afternoon, three FEAT TEAM (SNS Sport Editor \ville, Louisiana won the first an- were played the MIIfXCULQUS CIAAGets Another Dose Os Deep South’s FIRST AMERICUS, Ga. —(SNS) —Coach l nual National Negro Intercollegiate others that night. Os all competing teams, South- LAYER Position CAMP J. Thomas Fagan, educational ad- Invitational1 Basketball Tourna- Saturday, play continued at 3 ern was the club least expected to Timothy Walker (41) LF Americus viser of Company 4459, piloted his ! ment here Saturday night by de- o’clock in the afternoon with two win the tournament, so that the Athletic Supremacy; Frank Marshall Davis Joseph Adams (21) RF well-conditioned cohorts to a spec- featingi the touted North Carolina games scheduled. Saturday night, feat of the Jaguars goes into the -Wewahitchka Eagles following sup- (31) Americus tacular victory in the District ‘B’ State of Durham, .North the usual recess for records as an epoch-making sur- Bear McCov C Tri-State Biasketball Tournament Carolina, 48-42 in the champion- per, action was resumed with the prise. ¦; Trotters James Benford (31) RG Greensboro in Recreation Hall here last Fri- ship< finals. consolation battle for third place Coincides With View On Rens, Clark of Atlanta, SIAC Henrv Lemon (4) x LG Royston day and Saturday, March 21-22. The tournament was sponsored being run off first. Last came the 1940 champion and 1941 runner-up in VIRGINIA UNION, famous “dream team” of the Col- TEAM The Americus Wildcats tripped by’ the Knoxville Alumni Club of titular contest. SECOND that tough loop, was rated a ‘dark ored Intercollegiate Athletic Association, came to the Gate PLAYER Position CAMP Coach George H. Andrews’ Com- this1 city. The tournament commit- TOUGH ENTRIES pany 4405 from Greensboro, Geor- tee1 was headed by Dehart Hubbard, Competing other than Southern horse” and did success in carrying City January 3 boasting two straight titles, 64 wins most CIAA Leonard Berlack (14) LF Greensboro gia 42-31' in the finals. former world and Olympic broad and N. C. State were Clark Col- the enthusiastic galleries over throughout the in its last 71 starts, and a sweeping triumph Willie Goss (44) RF Americus Outstanding for Americus were lump champion, while general ar- lege from the SIAC, Kentucky tournament. But College, white, in New York City. Clark’s remnants of the Grant Royston Captain Timothy and rangements were in charge of Leon State and West Virginia from the Clark fell before Southern 59-58 in John (13) C Walker Wil- Friday championship of “cooled off” Hue’s boys 38-36. Wakulla lie Goss with 10 points apiece, but Render, former Knoxville College Midwestern loop, and North Caro- an overtime period and lost team 1940 William White (16) RG to N. C. State again Saturday 61- (8) LG Lynn Haven high point honors for the evening basketball sensation and president lina A. and T., hailing from the Less than a fortnight ago, North Carolina State copped Louis Gabriel went to Coach Fagan’s towering of the local graduate organization CIAA. 54 in a free-storing thriller. the CIAA honors for 1941 with a record of 14 loop wins, no center. Bear McCoy, who threw in here. Southern brought supreme glory The tournament was staged on a defeats. The classy Eagles came to Orangeburg to play S. C. 12 points. TWO-DAY TOURNAMENT to the Southwestern circuit with double-elimination basis, two de- Six teams were entered in the her clean-cut romp through the feats being necessary to eliminate State. Victorious earlier in the year by 46-44, the Durham- BURLACK SPARKLES meet, with pairings being made various rounds of the tournament, a club. Southern and N. C. State ites, in the role of champions, bid for a more impressive tri- Thursday night. March 20, when while N. C. State, although re- swept all opposition until they SPORTDOM James Benford and C. Alex- drawing Play flecting upon the CIAA, was other, making the PREP the credit faced each umph than before. Instead, S. C. State won 40-38! ander, with eight points each. was conducted'. began at 2:30 o’clock Friday after- a mild disappointment to most fans I championship finals a “natural” . the national college tournament at Cincinnati, By SAM McKIBBEN Samuel Johnson with five, and In recent Leonard Berlack, with a dazzling the N. C. State Eagles, were rated overwhelming favorites all-court performance, sparked the with Xavier, kingpin of the SIAC and three-time conqueror losers’ bid for victory. of Bishop College, Southwestern champions, not participat- ATLANTA. Ga.—(SNS)— students are rallying behind the In the semifnals, also played Sat- to get the funds. urday evening, disposed Must drive Americus Rens, Blame NATIONAL CAGE Trotters PREP Globe ing. The entire CIAA and the Eastern seaboard in general TOURNEY THIS WEEK-END SPORTSDOM OBSERVES cf Wewahitchka, Florida, coached gloated over the encouraging outlook that fatten their pride ’N machine. THISSA THATTA bv Educational Adviser Francis I. beyond end, despite no collapse of the great Union State high school basketball Conspicuous by their absence Long, 35-22 as Walker and McCoy But Southern University of Scotlandville, La., not even rated champions and runner-ups, along from the Georgia State basketball roped 11 points apiece, while Hunt High of Fort stopped Royston, Themselves For Defeat--Davis a “dark horse”, tripped the Eagles 48-42 to capture the cov- with a few other sextettes and tournament: Greensboro Geor- proved ability, all Valley, champions of the North gia in bat- tournament and leave the great CIAA badly humiliated. quintets of from 28-19 a stout defensive moments, be- York victory. eted assemble at Middle Georgia Conference; Hen- tle which Berlack and Casilo By F. M. DAVIS until the final lost cede a New over the nation will in they personal this High, Jackson, visitation Hughes paced winners with cause committed 24 These recent basketball bombshells are highly reminis Tuskegee Institute, Alabama derson the CHICAGO (ANP) Both the fouls neither Sonny Boswell Anxious to grab the kail, Detroit national champions- of the same conference, points each. and cent of football disasters suffered in comparatively recent week end to vie for the Harlem Globe Trotters and the could find the committed another foul. Again the championship Henry County, McDonough, for ELIMINATED FRIDAY nor Bernie Price hooking interscholastic in and FOUR New York Rens will have to wait The Rens, behind until Rens took it outside. Now there years by CIAA clubs up with SIAC combos. four years champion of the In first round battles Friday basket. go. both divisions. until March of 1942 before either 30 seconds, because wer e only 30 seconds to In NMGAC. afternoon and evening in the order the last lost Back State’s Terrible Trojans were can again hope to wear the crown and went Capt. Eyre Saitch and Wilße in ’39, Virginia Already recognized as the great- Kirkpatrick, Athens High Americas routed Perry, they muffed nine free throws F. L. listed. of official world’s professional bas- admittedly dazzling pass- Smith, dazzling defense men. Into sweeping everything in their wake up in the CIAA and est prep school event of its kind coach president of the North- Georgia 62-15, Wewahitchka spank- the most and ketball champions. That honor game, control play went the leather, flying from Langston’s lion-hearted Lions were blasting all opposition in the country, this, the seventh Georgia League, ed Due West, S. C. 33-22, Greens- ers in the couldn’t east Athletic went Wednesday night to the white sphere a a one brown hand to another. Sud- annual national invitational inter- proved “most cooperative” prep boro tripped Wakulla, Florida. 39- the half minute on in the Southwest. They came right down to the last barrier formally the Detroit Eagles in the final game denly there was a flash of white scholastic tournament will as 24, Royston trimmed Lynn throw-in from out of bounds. tied with seven wins, no defeats, one tie to to their credit school coach of the year, so far and 12,000 spectators at the In- fingers. As the crowd gasped, Bud open Wednesday evening, March Sportsdom Haven, Florida, 37-23. before and national championship a mere formality for Big goes. ternational amphitheatre. The The Rens, frankly, looked tight- Jeannette of the Eagles stole the the 26, at eight o’clock. Goss set the tournament high for up began Bouquets are tossed to Coaches Rens did save third place by drub- ened as the game and ball and dribbled madly down the Jeff’s boys if they could span orris Brown in the classic meet in Logan Hall a single game when he bagged 30 Coacnes will Joe Green (Beach of Savannah), bing the mixed Toledo White Hats, Detroit led at the end of the first arrangement. brackets will be made, seed- points in the Perry encounter, floor, a Ren in wild pursuit, to Peach Blossom where B. T. Barrow (Ballard of Macon), with 57 to in what developed into a quarter, 13 to 10. During the en- and the drawings of oppon- Cantain Walker roping 20 for sec- 42, flip the final two points. Jeannette and Joe Daniel (Hubbard Training between and tire second quarter no New Yorker The feat did not look rat- play may ond honors. Other top marks of contest was fouled and Detroit carried the formidable for Morris Brown ents will follow so that School) for the Chuck made a field basket although five place losses, (ings an early horn* same reason—co- the meet were by Benford with i7 Chuckovits. sphere out with 10 seconds to go. ed fourth in SIAC with a record of five wins, two get underway at operation on a large scale. free shot s were made an d the Thursday. points against Wakulla and by Detroit won the title by topping at The gun went off as the New and two defeats—having gone the entire month of Novem- Frank McCoy, senior at Georgia Eagles were ahead, 24 to 15, in- Yorkers Teams from states usually at- White Wakulla with 10 points in Oshkosh, Wis., 39 to 37 after pre- fought desperately to gain ber but one outright victory (over Clark in starts). 35 State College, and Coach Bailey, of termission. But in the third period, game with five year's tourney may the same game against Greens- viously nosing out the Rens, 43 to up control and the ended. De- tend but this Fair Street Gainesville, and the Rens got going and rang larger of partic- boro. 42, Tuesday night, and taking the troit 43, Rens 42. But Morris Brown had what it takes to tame the Tro- attract a number Homer B. Scretchins, coach at eight two-pointers, three of them ipants due to an added swing to- GOSS SETS TWO RECORDS Trotters, 37 to 36, Sunday night. Puggy Cooper jans and smashed through with a victory that gave Marietta, are three of the best single by Bell. Tarzan MISSED 9 OF 15 FOUL SHOTS 13-7 ward prep basketball in different Aside from setting the The Motor City quintet therefore went out on personals to his Langston the title. young basketball officials this col- game Americus due undisputed sections of the country. high, Goss of also performed the unbelievable feat of to stop giant Ed Sadowski, Although the officiating def- umn orbed in action at the differ- players scoring efforts was WILL led tournament in trouncing the two greatest Negro 6 foot 1-2 inch, 224 pound Eagle initely pro-Eagle, tire Rens still hopes at GEORGIA ent state tournaments this year. Cap- 7 Last season, Florida ruined A. and T.’s lofty with 44 in three contests. team s in basketball as well as the points, must for BE REPRESENTED 41, center who garnered 16 blame themselves the loss. the outset with a 7-0 victory, later deadlocking hitherto un- School, BEST PERFORMERS tain Walker ranked second with champions of the National league, Their nine throws Beach High Savannah. of total of free beaten and untied North Carolina State 7-7. At the close ! year’s national, and OF THE YEAR followed bv McCoy, also Ameri- Oshkosh, which had eliminated on LEI) 42-41! missed 15 is an almost finalist in last Greensboro, out of of the year, Morgan pasted up an undefeated but once-tied runner-up in the 1941 Georgia If Sportdom attemiTVd to name cas, and Benford of Monday night the great American unheard-of mark lor this great i of with 31 each. the Philadelphia Playing ball that final record in the CIAA, but declined all invitations to sepia State tournament, will be one (he most outstanding prep basket- league kingpins, brilliant team. alone failed on players The eight teams entered from Hebrews, 38 to 31. Detroit, inci- five, “bowl” the state schools to attend the ball in the Peach State, it 10 minutes, the Rens crept closer Smith on two and Bell arid clashes. tourney. would start out with Claude (Rpd) Georgia, Florida and South Caro- dentally, had consistently lost all King] one each. Scoring star for i represented 80 every and as the crowd yelled itself The Orange and Peach Blossoms events are established School, Macon, Georgia George, a lad able to play guard, lina players, season to the Rens, Trotters and the was Sidat- Ballard being restricted to 10 men. hoarse, Pop Gates looped in a bril- losers Wilmeth and must go, their promoters feel. So with logi- may go. Henderson High, Jackson, center of forward with equal sauad , Oshkosh. Singh who had five baskets and commodities ¦ Captain R. Myer, com- liant one hand toss to put the New Georgia, will be there according to adeptness. George captains the William free toss for 11 points. cal Morgan snubbing every effort to line her up in post- ¦ manding of Company 4459, MAY BLAME Yorkers in front, 42 to 41, with just one a letter from Coach Carl (Peanut! State All Tournament team and officers THEMSELVES season competition, officials of the two “bowl”classics had | host unit at AimerLeus, was in 45 seconds to go. Gates wa s fouled Dixon. Henry A. Hunt, Ft. Valley, the B. T. Washington Bulldog two sepia aggregations, KING-CKFCKOVITg DUEL charge general arrangements, But. the as he shot and elected to take the to center their efforts in the Midwestern and Southwestern Georgia, contemplates attending squad. |' of Fagan. who dominated the tournament in ball outside. Because of the Rens’ circuits. meet. (Pete) Turner, also assisted bv Mr. quint ahead at the Robert COLORFUL BUNCH both 1939 and 1940, have only them- reputation for keeping the ball min The Toledo was B. Washington. Atlanta, \Ga., BTWHS, would follow. Mel Hun- end of first guarter, 11 Prairie View was setting the woods afire at invitation I T. advisers other than selves to blame for their failure. utes at a time without the opposi- the the to state champions, plan to go ter, captain, Savannah, Wal- Educational 10 against the Rens so an attempt was made to land Sam Taylor’s men. AL 1941 Beach Fagan, and Long with Against Detroit, both were inept.. tion even touching the sphere, the Rens, but the time, . reports from Harper, High captain, Andrews, at grounds the Texas athletes but from released ter Athens entries In the meet were Herman L. The Trotters, which led all the way rabid throng* was willing to non- turned on the heat to lead the flat declination followed on the | Reuben Taylor, chairman of the Leonard Hols-ey, Ft. Valley, and half, 28 to 21, and at the start of class, would lose must McClain, Wakulla; Alphonso Bar- had already lost considerable time from ! athletic committee, the team Walter Washington, Beach, of Sa- Due the fourth quarter, 46 to 26.. By The ron, Perry; Clarence Ross, more because of the nature of the 1940 schedule, and could 1 overcome financial difficulties. vannah would follow in the order Nathaniel Arnold, Lynn this time the personal duel between \oys capa- West; afford additional absence from the classroom that wouldl named. All of the are W. B. James, Roy- King and Chuckovits was the point not ble of any are Haven; and a “bowl”acceptance. playing position and ston. of interest. The Toledo sensation be the net result of outstanding guards. are crack had already tourna- All The 10 outstanding players of broken the By elimination, the Midwest was the only field of se- Pro Basketball shots —what a combination they the tournament in the opinion of ment record for total points and would make. Giant gunning a new one-gama Beaten was for the writer, who here both lection. She had two excellent representatives—undefeated prep was 25. the Huts Atlanta’s basketball classic days referee games of the meet, total of So White once-tied Wilberforce and once-tied Kentucky State, lick- between to sphere but of the season—a .clash listed above, with their re- tried to feed the to Chuck by point, 13-12, only by the great ’Force. 1 Results Dunbar High School, 1941 cham- are sought give ed one spective point totals indicated in while the Rens to Dol- pions of Kentucky (Lexington) basket. The The Green Wave accepted the Orange Blossom bid and 1 FIRST ROUND the parentheses opposite their ly open shots at the . Washington, King having 23 was tied 0-0. Kentucky State grabbed off the Peach Blossom 1 Detroit Eagles 56 and B. T. 1941 Geor- names. gam e ended with ( gia champions—will be played Times points on 10 baskets, five of them Kautsky’s 4 43 Down 28-6 by All-Americans MIXED GALLERIES invitation and was trimmed Morris Brown. Tuesday night, | March 25, at Sun- Mixed galleries witnessed all in the third, and three free throws Later, ’Force, still unbeaten but then twice-tied, signed set Casino. Louis, weighing a mere while the White boy had a , Trotters 38 I tournament games and thrill