SOUTHERN U. COPS NATIONAL COLLEGE CAGE TOURNEY I SPORTS Tom Fagan's Company 4459 Louisiana Gagers Overwhelm V C
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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 Basketball 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 Brooklyn 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.