European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 1948 the stars and stripes Page Golf play wonon284 by Harbert March 15 Chick har Bert of Detroit blasted his Way Over puddled and windswept fairways to win the Jacksonville open Golf tournament by one gradually improving his game after joining the Winter professional tour late at new in an even Par 72 in his last round for a total of 284 this edged out skip Alexander of Southern whom Harbert tied in the third and Vic Ghezzi of Kansas Alex Ander had a 73 and Ghezzi a71 for Herberts Victory was Worth with Alexander and Ghezzi splitting second and third Money totalling Otto Greiner of Baltimore collected fourth Money of for his and Pete Cooper of Ponte got for his fifth place last years runner up to pea Champion Jim who had not won a major tournament since 1942 when he copped attributed his Victory to perfect like most of the other com Harberts putting was ragged on the Brentwood municipal course greens which had been soaked with two Days of heavy rain earlier in the Chandler Harper of Only one stroke under the Leader ended up with a 76289 in sixth place in spite of an Eagle three on the second Reddish takes siding Crown March 15 Jack american olympic rider competing for the ski won the North Amer ican ski although Kalle norwegian Exchange tied the Winner in the slalom Reddish and Nergaard twisted Down the double slalom run in for two Reddish and Bill Farreau of Salt Lake City took third in slalom with a time of Jack Reddish for two the Aspen downhill course is three sad on half Miles one of the longest runs in the Maude Banks won the women championship on strength of a Victory in the she finished a shortened course in 3 Kentucky quintets in National spotlight new March 15 took Over As the nations leading basketball state from now on the youngsters in the Blue grass country probably will desert the horses and barns for the leather balls and the Hardwood and heres Why the University of Louisville won the Nib in Kansas City by Downing Texas aggie capture title in track meet March 15 Texas a College won the team title with Points in the University division of the Border five fell As the thinly class in the University and College divisions competed under the arcs before with the University of Texas speedy Charley Parker setting the he won two first broke his own record in the 220yard dash with a seconds end wound up As leading individual scorer with la the aggie had team honors even before the final mile to Nail Down the Victory in convincing the men from College station streaked Home with a 35yard Lead Over Oklahoma a m in record time of other records were broken by George Kadru of Texas a m in the shot 11 inches East Texas state colleges mile relay and Luther Fambro of North Texas in the col lege division Broad 22 9vi North Texas won team honors in College division with 44 trailing the Texas aggie in the University class were University of Oklahoma a and Louisana before he blazed to the new record in the 220yard Parker had rung up a seconds Victory in 100yard Francis accepts commission Kansas March 15 Sam Nebraska foot Ball player and recently football coach at Kansas state has accepted a commission As Lieuten an colonel in toe army Quarter master Indiana state of Terre and became the first quintet to qualify for the eight team olympic tryouts in March 29 and Western Kentucky state is in the semifinals of the National invitation tourney in Madison Square Garden and stands a Good Chance of win Ning the meet and a berth in the olympic olympic candidates the of Kentucky opens its bid for the Mcaa title in the Garden thursday night against the two finalists in the dribble Derby automatically enter the plym Pic Kentucky is rated r Strong favorite to cop the Mcaa thus Kentucky May wind up with three teams in the olympic the nit meet will finish wednesday night and the following evening the Eastern Mcaa cagers will take the Garden court for the Start of their the Eastern finals will be staged on March the Eastern Mcaa finalist will meet the Western Winner for the Overall Wyoming picked two of the Western Mcaa berths were filled during the the Western Mcaa eliminations will be held in Kansas March 19 and Wyoming was awarded the District seven position Over Baylor earned the right to rep resent District six the hard the texans won a playoff with k arizonans Border conference Cham two games Winner of the Southwest conference whipped Ari and Washington and battling for the Pacific coast Confer ence Crown As Well As the District eight Post in the were dead locked at one game each in the Hestoft free series at Oklahoma a m and Kansas state Settle the Duel for the District Slot tonight in one game at Kansas the aggie Are the Missouri Valley champions and Kansas state is the big seven Millard sets 2 Marks March 15 win wallaces Brilliant Harrison Dillard cracked the american in door 70yard Low and High hurdles records As Illinois and Michigan Normal successfully retained team crowns in the 17th Illinois tech Northwestern Bill Porter also matched Dillard in shaving a tenth of a second from the american 70 Yard Low hurdle Mark of i the top olympic hurdling got his other new record with an High hurdle Triumph which also shaved a tenth of a second from the american Dillard and sweeping both hurdles races in the College and University were the Only double winners As More than 700 athletes from 51 Midwest Ern schools competed at the University of Chicago Illinois outlasted 53vi to in a close Battle for the varsity division team third was notre Dame with while the rest of the 12team University Field was Strung far Michigan normals third straight College division Crown came easily with Baldwi Wallace was far behind in second place with a total of 26 colleges figured in the team Michigan Chuck Fonville tossed the shot 56 2 for a new University division rec Lorenzo Wright of Wayne University leaped to a new College division Broad jump Mark of 25 Loyola of Chicago pulverized the meet College mile relay record by More than three seconds with a North Central of set the former Mark of defending team Cham copped the University two mile relay in the comparatively slow time of the College two mile relay was won by Miami of Ohio quartet in Wisconsin Georgia Kailas successfully retained his Broad jump title with a leap of 22 10 Well behind his winning 235 last Bill leonards Strong finish on the Anchor mile Lap gave notre Dame a Triumph in the University distance Medley Illinois was Purdue and Wisconsin Naib Crown won by five Kansas March 15 up the University of Louisville won Theta in championship and a place in the olympic basketball playoff bracket by fighting off a second half Challenge by the Cinderella kids from Indiana state College of Terre scoring an 8270 for the Indiana it was a Case of always a never a they were run Klueh most valuable in Naib tourney Kansas March 15 the gang Ling Indiana state teachers College Flash who kept his team in the Naib tourney to the was acclaimed the most valuable player in the 1948 Al Nib and hit Bob r o y e 1946 were selected for the tournaments Al America team tournament Cham placed one Jack its tall on the Allstar Johnny Orr of Beloit and Hal Ila skins of Ham line completed the class b quilts open Southern playoff today March Neucom Southern regional basketball championship will get under Way tomorrow afternoon atthe Horsch ing eight teams will compete in this five Day double elimination tour in which games will be played every afternoon and night with the exception of Day of the 7773rd of Munich tops the eight team the signal together with the 525th fighter representing safes Southern have been in stalled As the top two other teams in the championships include 505th my of Salz representing Ufa the 7776th circus Al stars of Nurnberg 7845th of Stutt Gart eyes of Garmisch Grafen Wohr Regensburg my champs and c 28th of Constana Eastern the two finalists of this tournament will compete to a fou team tourney with the finalists of the Northern which begin to Morrow in in the Neucom championships at Regensburg next Alfo Limey team named Fly Ufa March 15 crack 505th my from the Ufa company level basketball placed two players on the Al tournament team which was selected by officials and Melton and Eddie Horn were the other members of the first five included Eddie 202nd maps Bay 124lh and Robert 430th Cic the second Al tournament team included Frank 524th maps James 505th maps Pat 202nd maps Jack 505th maps and Don 430th a Nerup in the tourney in with Jack Coleman and Deward Compton Clearing the backboards for and with the Indiana Able to hit Only eight out of 50 tries in the first tha kentuckians left the floor at inter Mission ahead by a comfortable 4125 but it was soon whittled sharply As the great last half fighters from Indiana went to work with Venge with six minutes remaining o the score was 6460 and the a packed crowd of More than that was Indiana last Roy Combs and Kenny Reeves poured the Ball through the cords for and trying futilely for another great comeback such As they staged against Ham fouled repeatedly and Intel during the second Hall the pow Erful Duane Klueh of Indiana hero of the overtime Battle with found his Basket he fired in a total of 29 but there were no others who hit More than 10 in the game for third place in the Joe son of the Hamline University dropped a free throw with five seconds to play to defeat Xavier University of canadians clip new 631 new March 15 led by Maurice who scored four the Montreal canadians Defeated the new York to remain in the running for a National hockey league Stanley cup playoff the fiery Richard showed the style which made him the top goal getter in the league last notching two goals in both the second and third the loss dropped the rangers into fourth a Point behind the Boston the Victory enabled Montreal to move within four Points of the the canadians have two games to play and the rangers and the latter need Only e tie or Victory to Clinch a playoff Richards final two goals came in the last minute of play with Ranger goalie Jim Henry on As the rangers threw six men Tor Gilbert elected Eta head March 15 Ike Penn state graduate manager of was elected president of the Eastern intercollegiate boxing he succeeds Thomas Carruthers of the University of most valuable Iowa Murray Wier named Bio wines March 15 Murray High scoring Iowa was named As the Western conferences most Able basketball Wier received twice As Man Points As his nearest Pete Elliott of in the voting by big nine coaches and officiate and Tribune sports