European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 1948 the stars and stripes Kentucky gains Sec Cage title March 7 up Kentucky vaunted wildcats won their fifth consecutive Southeastern conference basketball defeating dark horse finalist Georgia the rambling a Cin Derella team that fought Way into the finals by upsetting seeded Alabama and had the game All tied up at 4141 with less than seven minutes to col lapsed under Kentucky final on tech had lost to Kentucky by More than 20 Points twice in the regular season and entered the game a 15point but the engineers game up with a Ball shifting zone defense and a Superb offence that produced tied scores with the wildcats on eight the Lead changed hands 12 Rollins leads scoring it was dog eat dog right Down to the end of the when Wal lace Wah wan Jones slipped in a free throw to Send Kentucky off the floor with a 2625 the second half took up the same slam bang Kentucky Kenny Rollins racked up 14 Points to Lead both the game furnished a personal Duel Between Jim Nolan and Alex with honors about although Groza outscored the husky 13 to Nolan 60 Points and excellent floor work in three previous games earned him honors Over the hulking Wildcat the Victory gave Kentucky a season record of 31 victories and two losses to carry into the Mcaa tournament in new York later this tech gains revenge they reached the finals by Down ing second seeded led by tech eliminated a team that had twice downed the engineers during the regular season and one that had been seeded right behind Kentucky in the Tournai with 15 led the Alex wifi led j Kentucky was impressive in earn ing a semifinal 7041 Victory Over there never was much doubt that Kentucky would the cats had beaten the vols twice during the regular but this was the most on sided Depaul upset victim of Loyola quintet March 7 of Chicago pulled a major Basket Ball upset by beating vaunted before fans in Chicago the defeat was Depaus sixth in 27 games this that is the record the Blue demons will take with them to the metropolitan tournament in Madison Square Garden next cops Southern Crown Al Durham March 7 Carolina taking March 7 Carolina Lead in the second went onto whip to win Southern conference basketball tournament for the second straight in driving to its 19th straight Victory 29th in 31 games1 this state had to come from behind in the Early moments of the second half before it Shook off a dogged Duke v playing their in As Many the were unable to match champions in the final a Duke puts Battle Warren Fife season Long who arely but usually saw plenty action Over the stepped into the Forward Slot vacated by ailing Dick Dickey and pumped in 20 Points to coach Everett Case made numer Ous lineup changes battling who Vious victories had irom behind in the last the first half was the real Battle As each team held the Lead five times and on one occasion the with state the teams matched two pointers three times before Duke Drew away to an eventual 2724 Lead at the carriers 10 Points kept state in the thick of it during those 20 min while Corren Youmans made four of his eight hoops in the same state wasted Little time forging to the front after the last half got As for Case said that he had not yet definitely counted out the possibility of his High scoring Star competing with the team n the National invitation tournament in new mumps forced out of play Here after he turned in 19 Points in the William and Mary Victory York bookmakers ing prices of their bookies Malce Louis nit favourites new March very wary who have been having More trouble on basketball courts than in magistrate courts this quietly installed new York University and Louis University As co favourites to win the National invitational Basket Ball v although the pairings which will be made tomorrow Are expected to alter the Odds both clubs were listed at 3 to 1 in the nearby new Jersey parlay new were Quot own As yet although most were willing to take bets for the Jersey for the Eastern Mcaa Semi Kentucky rated As a Short priced 3 to while defending Mcaa Champion holy Cross was next in line at 5 to the other teams in that Michigan and probably were listed As Long the wolverines be ing quoted at 6 to 1 and the Lions at 10 to 1 North Carolina states Wolf pack was third Choice among the invitational teams with a 5 to 1 rat while the Blue demons from Depaul were next in line at 6 to getting Good support at 8 to 1 were the Longshot longhorns from Texas and the hard driving Western Kentucky Hill toppers from Bowling Veteran bowl ing Green Ohio was listed at 10 to while la Salle of Philadelphia was the longest priced team in the meet at 15 to 1 the first round of the invitational will be thursday March with the completion of the open ing round on March the semifinals will be March 15 and the championship game on March bullets Down celtics March 7 Baltimore bullets continued their late drive for a playoff berth in the basketball association of Amer Ica by trouncing the Boston cel Oregon upsets Osc to knot pc Loop March 7 the University of Oregon knocked Oreon state College into a Pacific coast conference Northern Divi Sion basketball deadlock with the University of Washington by Over whelming the while the Osc beavers bowed to the Washington huskies Defeated the University of to share the division Leader the games were the last in the regular Oregon years const conference Washington will play off tuesday night Here for the right to meet Cal Southern division for the coast whips Mckenley Iii k of new March 7 George Guida of Villanova won the featured Casey 600yard run in the knights of Columbus indoor games As Herb olympic 400 meter wound up so badly beaten he did not even finish the Guida won the cheers of fans in Madison Square Garden by passing Mckenley on the final Lap As if he were standing still to score by five Yards in Frank Fox of Seton Hall finished second in the six Man another five Yards in front of Hugh Short of the new York Pioneer co Holder of the world indoor record of for the with Royce Crimmin of Brown a close for the race proved that 600 Yards simply is too Long for the former Illinois who holds the National aau 400meter title and the world Quarter mile summary of other results Twomey Tommy Quinn new York Gerry Karver Penn Browning Ross 60 con veil Shore Bill Matfus Tom Carey Pioneer Joe Cianciabella Manhattan 60yard High son Dillard James Gehrdes penned Digger Dayton Bill Mitchell George Polk tie Earle Meadows Dick Morcom new Hampshire and Bob Richards Illinois 6 two Stone Shana Han Catholic Horace Ashen Felter Penn Forest Efaw in Jack Milne North Caro Thigpen Seton Joe Nowicki new York Dave Smith Reggie Pearman mile High Vislocky new York Arv Dick Phillips 6 Al Magidi wins Santa Anita Derby March 7 into High gear in Hie drive Down the the favored captured the Santa Anita Derby in n with Bell As Santa Anita wound up its 1948 turf Meetin Giff jockey Johnny Longden brought the owned by wealthy William of Helis of Orleans and los wire Justin time to Collar the Fly ing Robert howards a 491 Long finish 1 Victory for the strapping Young baby son of a Pur Chase by Helis two years was Worth brought the youngsters winning to Titae off record it was Salmagundi second major stakes Victory in a two weeks ago he ripped this same Call owned by miss Mary of Northridge by a length and a half for a the time for the mile and one i Goth distance was which was slow compared to previous runnings of the by Seabond skipped the route in in trailing the three leaders in order1 were May solidary flaming Beau and starting who bolted on the Back stretch and dropped out of the flaming Beau set the Pace and held it Over May Call Bell and virtually in the until near the turn of the Back finished with Kush May fourth in the crowds favor at the betting came and As the pack hit the stretch Call with Jackie Westrope grabbed the Ion Den then gave Salmagundi the word and he surged Forward and caught Call Bell at the and the Eye of the in the photo 7702nd takes Cage playoffs March 7 special the 7702nd and red after dropping their first two contests in their Best three out office series with 547th of Gellhausen for the Neucom basketball captured their third straight game and the title today by walloping the red the red devils evened the series at Towall saturday right by scor ing a 4947 As a result of today the red devils prepared to depart for Bremerhaven immediately after the where they will represent in the Northern regional championships there this today tilt never was in Desco who scored 17 rang the first goal within five seconds after the opening and from there on it was an Al Frankfurt the red devils held 3011 and 4620 leads at the end of the first three in saturday nights the 7702nd won in the final seconds on a goal by John after leading All the the red devils fell behind at 4647 in the closing Center Jim Taylor made Good on a Charity toss to knot the then Applegate connected with a Field goal to give the raiders their second Victory in the Winninger of Frankfurt and Paul Mcmorris each tallied 16 Points for scoring Stags Bow to 6132 March 7 special the Regensburg slags suffered their worst defeat of the 194748 Cage bowing o the 250th Star Reward in Louisiana March 7 a Foury Earold cot that got left at Flie Post his last time came Back to win new Orleans jockey Steve Brooks got for his winning ride instead of the poke in the jaw that an irate bettor gave him when Star Reward failed to get going in a lesser race two weeks Brooks booted Star Reward out of the Gate held him Back for the first then took command to win by 10 lengths Jack was White Carolyn Winner of the Handicap last closed fast to the sizeable attracted by the closing feature of the fair grounds 75day Diamond Jubilee backed Star Reward the Dixiana stables per former returned and across the John Letellier Jack l paid and and Ben Whitaker Carolyn paid Star Reward ran the mile and on sixteenth in Good time for the soggy Irish Dunn Marquette in hoop finale March 7 notre Dame closed out its Basket Ball season with a 7662 Victory Over although the Hill toppers Gene Berce poured in 35 the Well balanced Irish squad had a fight on its hands through out the first holding a 3834 Lead at but after that Marquette slowed under the Baas Best Howie Dallmar gets most valuable player award March 7 up the Philadelphia basketball writers voted Howie Dallmar of the Philadelphia warriors the most valuable player for the 1947 1948 season in the basketball association of the former Stanford and University of Pennsylvania player also was named to the league All Star team selected by the 18 other first team players named were Dallmar teammates Joe Fulks Max of the Chicago Stags de Boston Bob Washington