SF Dons Pressed for Lead
By Kentucky, La Salle Fives
NKW YORK (API The Uni
versity of Han Francisco contin
ued to lend the college banket hall
parade toward the end of the sea
eon Monday, but dwindling sup
port for the defense-minded Dons
Indicated that It taken big games
to Impress the experts.
The Dons were voted the No. 1
college team for the fourth
straight week In the Associated
Press ranking poll with Ken
tucky and LaSalle close behind.
But while they marked up their
21st victory against a single de
feat this season, they drew only
43 first place votes and 888
San Francisco
Picked as Site
For NCAA Tilts
KANSAS CITY (AP) A
double-header in San Francisco's
Cow Palace March 8 will de
termine two at-large entries for
the NCAA regional basketball
playoffs in Corvallis, Ore., March
11-12.
Heaves Peters, chairman of the
Western selection committee, an
nounced these arrangements
Monday night:
At 7:30 p.m. March 8 Seattle
university will play Idaho State,
Rocky Mountain conference
champion. At fl:30 top-ranked
University of San Francisco will
meet the Border Conference
champion. West Texas State and
Texas Tech now are tied for the
border title.
Moving on to Corvallis, the
winner of the Seattle-Idaho State
game will meet the Pacific Coast
conference champion—to be de
cided in playoffs Friday. Satur
day and Monday between UCLA
and Oregon State.
The winner of the USF-Bor
der Conference champion game
will face Utah, Skyline confer
ence titlist. in the other region
al first round game.
NCAA to Submit
Plan for Television
CHICAGO (API The Na
tional Collegiate Athletic asso
ciation him decided upon a col
lege football program which will.
If approved, permit telecasting
of games on a national network
on five days next fall and on a
regional network on five days.
The revised program, It was
learned Sunday, which will be
more acceptable to Pacific Coast
and Big Ten conference schools,
will bo submitted to a meeting
of the NCAA in New York this
week.
It was indicated that the re
visions were made in the tele
casting program because of the
refusal of the PAcific Coast and
Big Ten conferences to go along’
with the plan as agreed upon in
Chicago Feb. 17 and 18.
In addition there was the
threat that both loops might set
up their own video programs,
which automatically would break
relations with the NCAA.
Daryle Nelson Signs
With Milwaukee Farm
Daryle Nelson of Portland,
former University of Oregon
baseball star, has signed a 1955
contract with the Milwaukee
Braves farm club at Toledo,
Ohio.
Nelson, 24, a second baseman,
was graduated from Oregon in
1953. He was a - star performer
with Selfridge Air Force base
team in Michigan.
points In thin week’ll balloting.
1.41 nt week the count wan 85 and
953.
Man Francisco, breezing
through the cloning games of
the regular neanon and look
ing ahead to the NCAA tour- !
■lament, ran out of strong op
position.
Meanwhile Kentucky, In a bat
tle for the Southeastern confer
ence title, and LaHalle, clinch
ing an NCAA tournament berth,
turned In a couple of good vic
tories apiece to lessen the Dons'
margin In the voting.
A total of 104 votes were.cast
In this week's poll and less than
half of them had San Francisco
on top. The other first-place
votes were scattered among 14
teams.
Points were scored on the us
ual basis of 10 for each first
place vote, nine for second, etc.
Next week's poll will be the last
for the regular season.
Kentucky and la Halle both
Three Teams
Nearing Titles
Three schools virtually clinched
NCAA berths Monday night as
college basketball heads into the,
home stretch.
Victorious and nearly assured
of post-season tourney berths
were Iowa, Colorado and Ken
tucky.
Eighteen thousand f£ns cram
med into the Minnesota field
house to watch the Iowa Hawk
eyes post a 72-70 win over the
fifth ranked nationally Gophers.:
Iowa has an 11-2 Big Ten record
while Minnesota dropped to 10-3.
Kentucky, unlike the Gophers,
was able to win on its home
! court, and smothered Alabama
66-52. The Wildcats had been
tied with 'Bama 10-2 for the :
Southeastern conference lead.
Colorado virtually clinched the
Big Seven title by thumping Mis
souri 65-57. The Buffs now lead
the Tigers by two full games.
Crucial games tonight find
Southern Methodist against Tex
as and Texas Christian agamst
Arkansas. TCU and SMU are tied
fpr the Southwest conference
lead with 8-3.
Webfoot Team Set
For Cue Tourney
The Inter-Collegiate Straight j
Rail Billiard tournament opens
today with the University of Ore
gon one of the 28 teams com
peting for the title. All teams
are to play on their home tables
and results will be mailed to
tournament headquarters.
The Oregon team, composed of
Bob Boyle, John Wilson and Dan ]
Garcia, will begin play at 3:30;
p.m. today in the Student Union ;
recreation area. Spectators are;
invited.
The Association of College
Unions and the Billiard Congress ;
of America sponsor the annual
event. The Webfoot team placed !
fifth in the tournament in 1954. I
Workouts Begin
For Baseballers
Frosh baseball coach Bob
Basich will put his gharges
through their first workout of
the year today at 3:15 p.m. in
McArthur court. Pitchers and
catchers have been taking light
workouts for several weeks, but
this will be the first chance for
Basich to see what all of his boys
look like in action.
First game in the Ducklings’
16-game schedule is slated for
the first week in April.
attracted more first place bal
lots than they did a week ago,
bufr their point totals of 723
and 640 reflected little change.
The big switch in the rank
ings came as a result of Du
aueane's second defeat at the
hands of its prospective National
Invitation tournament rival,
Dayton. That dropped the Dukes
from fourth place to eighth and
moved Dayton up from 11th to
10th. Duquesne is seeded No. 1
for the NIT and Dayton No. 2.
Another result of Duquesne’s
defeat was the Marquette, North
Carolina State, Minnesota and
Utah each moved up one place in
the rankings. UCLA didn't bene
fit by the change, remaining in
ninth place even after winning
the Southern Division champion- ;
ship in the Pacific Coast con-!
ference.
The Uclans still have to play
14th ranked Oregon State, the
Northern Division winner, for a
place in the NCAA tournament.
Utah already has clinched the
Skyline conference title and a
place in that tournament.
North Carolina State, Inelig
ible for the post-season tour
naments, knocked tieorge
Washington out of a top-ten
ranking. The Colonials slid
from 10th place to 13th on the
heels of a 68-39 beating.
Alabama, tied with Kentucky
for the Southeastern conference
lead, and Iov/a, tied with Minne
sota at the top of the Big Ten,
advanced to the head of the sec
ond division of the rankings.
The leading teams with won
lost records through Saturday in
parentheses:
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Kentucky
lea Salle
Marquette
North Carolina State
Minnesota ...
Utah ...
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Layton
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TAMPA, Fla. <APi The Na
tional league appeared a far
better balanced circuit, from
stem to stern, than the rival
American league as the 16 clubs
prepared to open their spring
training season today in prep
aration for the long grind ahead.
Here in Florida 13 teams will
spring into action with the em
phasis on conditioning drills. The
other three will train in Ari
zona.
The teams will have just 10
days to get players ready for the
first exhibition games, which
start March 10.
While the American league
race figures to be strictly a
two horse affair between
Cleveland and New York, the
National league campaign
shapes up as a torrid seesaw
with perhaps six teams hav
ing a shot at the brass ring.
All observers agree that the
defending champion New York
Giants, Brooklyn and Milwaukee
will be in the thick of things
from start to finish. St. Louis,
Philadelphia and Cincinnati
could be real threats with a
break or two. Only Chicago and
Pittsburgh appear out of it.
A1 Lopez, manager of the In
dians, believes his team will be
better than it was last year. If
that is so it will be a black
mark for the rest of the league
for the Indians may win 120
games.
Lopez is counting on Herb
Score, the minors’ top pitcher
last year to bolster an already
strong mound corps. He also ex
pects Ralph Kiner to add right
handed batting strength to the
lineup.
The Yankees may have
solved their pitching problem
with the deal that brought
righthanders Bob Turley and
Bon Larsen from Baltimore. If
Billy Hunter ean fill the short
stop gap, or If Billy Martin is
sprung by the Army in time,
the Yankees may dethrone the
Indians.
The Chicago White Sox, who
finished a sagging third, 17
games off the pace last year, are
still seeking a hardhitting out
fielder.
Boston and Detroit, loaded
with kids, may not be ready to
threaten. If Ted Williams does
i not decide to unretire himself
the Red Sox can start building
: for 1956. Washington, Baltimore
and Kansas City apparently are
in the league for decorative pur
poses.
Breaks may decide the Na
tional league winner. The
Giants need another pitcher to
help their big four of Johnny
Antdhelli, Sal Maglie, Ruben
Gomez and Don Liddle.
Karl Spooner, rookie southpaw
who fanned 27 in his two shut
! out triumphs last September is
expected to strengthen Brook
lyn's staff of Carl Erskine, Billy
Loes. Russ Meyer, Johnny Pod
res and Don" Newcombe.
The Dodgers’ pennant chances,
however, rest on Roy Campa
nella’s left hand, which under
went surgery after the World
Series.
The CaVdinals may run off
with the whole thing should
sophomore pitchers Brooks Law
rence and Gordon Jones pick up
where they left off last year,
and if rookies Bill Virdon and
Ken Boyer live up to their press
notices.
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