European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday february 28, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 19 West Virginia rips Davidson in South meet Richmond a. A fast breaking West Virginia took a record setting step toward its fifth straight Southern conference basketball championship Here thurs Day by annihilating Davidson 100 65, in the first round of the con Ference and Mary gained the dubious privilege of meeting the mountaineers in the semifinals by routing Richmond 87-69, As All conference Roy Lange fired the Indian attack in the second first upset of the opening round occurred in the night pro Gram when George. Washington s poised colonials ranked seventh in Hie tourney walloped second seeded Vii 85-67. 36 for Mussel Munthe Citadel s bulldogs leading by .20 Points at halftime got a tremendous 36-Point performance from Art Musselman and survived a Furman comeback to whip the paladins 93-88, and qualify to meet George Washington in the Semi Virginia s monumental rout of feeble Davidson marked the first time in the 39-year history of the conference tournament any team has scored As Many As 100 its regulars playing far less than half the game the mountaineers loth ranked in the nation got a 22-Point performance from substitute Lee Patrone in Captur ing their 48th consecutive Confer ence Victory. All America Candi Date Jerry West played not much More than 10 minutes but had 18points. For Davidson Dave Hollings Worth and Semi mint each had 18 Points. Mountaineers Lead 15-lthe wildcats never were in con Tention finding no answer to West Virginia s thundering fast break. Davidson went the first 6 15 of the game without a Field goal. By then West Virginia led 15-1 and the Wildcat cause was irretrievably lost. It was 56-22 at Nick Visnic collected the Field goal with 12 seconds to play that enabled West Virginia to break the tournament scoring rec Ord of 97 Points set by Washington and Lee in 1955.and it was Visnic who put in two foul shots with one second left to put the mountaineers at an even 100 Points. New twist Terry Bronnon forme notre Dame football Oarl puts a group of Cincinnati players through a calisthenic session in his new capacity As head of the reds Spring training conditioning1 program at Tampa i Brennan denies Story he was nd9s fall Guy St. Petersburg Fla. A Terry b r e n n a n has completely denied a published Story that hews the fall Guy in the notre Dame football situation and that he is through with football coach ing because too much depends the Story appeared under Dic Kyoung s byline in the new York daily serving As chief conditioner for the Cincinnati reds in Spring training the former notre Dame football coach who was fired last dec. 21, said maybe someone else made those statements. I did Only comment is what it s always been. The decision was made by the University and it was their Dame is a Fine school and they have always been very fair with me. As far As i m concerned there is no hard feeling. It has always been my school and will always be my Issue is Young quoted Brennan As say ing there s no mystery about what happened. They notre Dame St. Joseph s gains Mcaa spot As mid Atlantic representative Philadelphia a St. Joseph s College disclosed thursday what everybody knew would happen the Hawks were invited to represent the Middle Atlantic conference in the Mcaa tournament and they accepted. St. Joseph s has a 19-3 record,5-0 in the conference s University division. The Mcaa tourney gets under Way March 10 at Newyork s Madison Square Garden but St. Joseph s has a Bye and won t play until March 13 when play shifts to Charlotte . It is the third postseason tournament for coach Jack Ramsey. His teams twice played in the National invitation tournament at new York. Olivet Mich. Up Hope College clinched at least a share of the Michigan intercollegiate con Ference basketball title thursday night by scoring Only 22 Points. Hope s opponent Olivet College scored just six Points. In winning its 12th game in 13starts Hope held a is halftime Lead. Both teams used zone de lenses Olivet controlled the Ball for 82 of 40 minutes. Olivet took ight shot from the floor and made two. Hope took 13 shots and made nine. Hope s Warren Vanderhill scored 10 Points. High for Olivet was Dick Groch with three. Action slowed up so much at one Point that while Olivet s guards were passing the Ball Back and Forth in the front court Oli vet s Owen Whitcopf and Hope s Ray Ritsema whiled away the time by tossing coins. New York up Manhattan virtually clinched a bid to the National invitation tournament thursday night when it scored a70-65 Victory Over St. John s Brooklyn in overtime. Although no official announce ment was made following the game Manhattan had entered it with unofficial assurances that a Victory would mean a bid to the nit. s already is entered in the 22-year-old tourney. Want to win More but they Don t want to do the things needed Towin. So they had to have a fall Guy and you re looking at a football future Brennan was reported by you Gas saying that he turned Down five jobs without exploring an of their possibilities. I figured it this Way. Sooner or later you have to make the decision to quit coaching. Lookaround. There Are very few men Over 45 doing s just too much Luck involved with successful coaching. Decided i Don t want to build my family s life on Kuharich succeeded the 30 year old Brennan As head coach of the Irish after Terry had led notre Dame to a 6-4 record in1958 and a 32-18 Mark Over five years at the Helm. Jose Torres wins 10th in Row with to Over Wright new York up Jose Tor res unbeaten Young puerto rican middleweight floored Eddie Wright Philadelphia three times thursday night to score a technical knockout in the fifth round at Sunnyside Garden for his 10th straight Victory As a professional. Torres managed by Cus d Amato Pilot of world heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson scored his sixth straight knockout and his eight in 10 victories. Referee Mark co in stopped the bout at 2 10 of the fifth round when Wright was on the floor forthe second time in that session he had also been on the Cavasin the fourth round. Torres 22, weighed 163 pounds right 23, scaled 161 Vij As he suffered his first to and sixth defeat in 12 professional bouts. Alconbury selects coach Alconbury England special Chuck costello will manage the Alconbury Hill toppers during the 1959 Safe us District baseball season. I m tired Bama s coach riled by Rupp Birmingham a Alabama basketball coach or. Eugene Lam Bert took a verbal swing at Ken Lucky Mentor Adolph Rupp thurs Day. Of being badgered around by rup because we Don t play his Type of game said Lam time Rupp can t put on Ashow and b e a t. You bad the first half playing his game then lie feels he s been , i m just know now that it going to a Long time before we play or. Rupp s Rupp s wildcats beat Ala Bama 39-32, in Lexington ky., monday Rupp said that kind of basketball will empty coliseum faster than Good coaches can fill Rupp s reference was to the de liberate Ball control style of play used by Alabama in an Effort to upset the High Riding Kentucky team currently no. I in the associated press Survey. I m not interested in filling his coliseum said Lambert. The Only Way we could have beaten Ken Tucky was to play the Way we did. Any team that can t match Ken Tucky in Speed size and Power is using unwise strategy when it tries to play Rupp s Hupp letting him . Gets Bye in Davis cup zone pairings new York a forty two nations have challenged for the Davis cup the huge International Tennis trophy which the . Re gained from Australia last Decem Ber the . Lawn Tennis association revealed , considered a Likely survivor of the three zone eliminations despite the loss of two of its top players Ashley Cooper and Mai Anderson to the professionals will compete in the american zone. The Complete draw release thursday by the Usta shows 27 latin is in the european zone ight from outside Europe eight in to Eastern zone and seven in the newly divided american zone. First round matches must be competed by april 12 in the Eastern one and april 19 in the zealand South Africa Egypt Lebanon Israel Brazil co Omphia and Chile Are among the european zone challengers. Australia plays Mexico Australia Mexico and Canada vere placed in the North Section of he american zone and Australia Vas drawn against Mexico for the first round. Dates will be set later n the South Section Cuba plays the British West indies and Argentina neets Venezuela in first round hatches to be completed by May 1. The european zone draw first round Yugoslavia is Den Nark Ireland is new zealand Egypt is Romania Belgium is the Netherlands South Africa is nor Way Lebanon is Colombia Fin and is Spain Israel is Switzer and Brazil is Germany Sweden is Hungary Chile is Austria. Five nations exempted Italy which lost to the . In e in rezone final last year France Poland and Britain were named As exempted nations and Iven first round byes along with Luxembourg which will Mee Britain in the second round. Other second round pairings Tobe played by May 3, Are France is Yugoslavia Denmark Winner ital yes Belgium Netherlands Winner and Poland is Brazil Germany win Ner. Eastern zone first round pairings Are India is Korea Japan is Cey Lon Malaya is the Philippines and Iran is european and american zone winners will meet in the inter zone semifinal this year with the Eastern zone Winner going into the inter zone final. Dates for these matches have not been set. Hogan Nelson of bids to National invitation fort Worth Tex. A Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson have accepted bids to play in the National invitation Golf tournament april 29-May 3 at colonial country club Here. Both area men Are former , pea masters and Western champions. Fans turn Down club s nickname Asheville . Up the Asheville entry in the South at lactic league was without a Nick name today after the one chosen Ridge runners Drew frowns among local boosters. No sooner had the name. Bee announced Ajjan groups started calling club officials and other connected with the team protest ing it just did t sound the selection committee is accepting votes again on the other eight names which Drew the most votes in a contest to name the club. Arnett was no. 1 among nil punt returners Philadelphia up Jon a Nett who does everything Well for the los Angeles rams was the punt return Champion of the National football league in 1958, offi Cial statistics released Here Friday show. The former Southern Californi astar who also was among the leaders both in Ball carrying an pass receiving returned 18 punts for 223 Yards and an average of12.4 Yards during the season to take honors in total yardage and in average gain per return. Bob Mitchell Cleveland Browns Rookie who returned one punt 68 Yards for a touchdown against the Philadelphia eagles was second with an 11.8-Yard average for 14 returns. The Pittsburgh Steeles Dick Christy was third with a nine Yard average for 17 returns. Billy Wells Philadelphia was fourth at 8.3 Yards in 19 carries and Ken Konz Cleveland fifth with a 7.9 average for 18 , with an 8.2-Yard average for 39 returns won the Tea championship with Philadelphia second on a 7.1 Mark for 47 re turns. Only two punts among the 471 during the season were returned for touchdowns. Detroit s Yale Lary scooted 71 Yards for one and Mitchell counted the Tasseff Baltimore handled 29 punts during the year the sea son High. Lary was next with 27
