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Friday, March 24, 1944 THE NEBRASKAN 7 Sig Chi E)uops Corn Criblbers On Finals BY REX STOTTS. The finals of intramural basket ball found the Sig Chis winning the first place bracket from the Com Cribbers 25-23 in an over time game. The Brown Palace defeated the Phi Gams 18-16, the consolation bracket. Sigma Chi Corn Cribbers. In the first half the Sigma Chi team played hard ball anil built a big lead over the Cribbers. Half-time found the Sig Chis on top. 17-0. In the second half the Coin Cribbers staged a scoring drive and closed the gap between them and their opponents. Keller, the Cribbers' tall center, followed the shots of his team mates to lead the rally. The final gun founu the score knotted at 23-all. In the 3 minute over-time both teams played careful ball, wait ing for a chance to make a sure shot. In the closing seconds the Sig Chis gained possession of the ball and Tidd scored the winning basket. The final score stood Sig Chis 25, Corn Cribbers 23. The Brown Palace Phi Gam game was close all the.vay. Both teams missed many good shots and had trouble hanging onto the ball. The score at the half stood 7-7. The Phi Gams gained a four point lead early in the third quar ter, but with four minutes left. Nigh, Fiji guard, fouled out. As the Phi Gams had no substitutes they finished the game with four players. The Brown Palace closed the gap and scored a last bucket in the final seconds to cinch the game IS to 16. Mm i M Corn Crifctwr. fK f V Ik ft I Moomaw 3 1 VHamprsky f Martz f 1 0 it BakiT t Hi'l c 4 0 0 Kellfr c Campt.cll f 2 0 0 Whit g Tiii c 2 0 01 ','rii h t Trials 12 1 2! Totals BnmR Pnltce 1V ft fl Viva f 0 O (i Jensen f 0 0 Stotts f 1 !! A nderson c 2 2 Sivh K Kuchsf-r f 1 laeohmeier ( 4 Smith c 1 Damrnas 0 Rotison 1 Totals 0 1 White g 1 01 7 4 51 Totals 3 0 0 3 12 4 0 2 0 0 1 10 0 11 1 5 I'bi f.nm tti ft f 0 0 2 0 0 0 i o 3 14 3 1 1 2 7 Utah to Replace Arkansas Five In NCAA Meet Utah university has replaced Arkansas in the National Colle giate Athletic association's west ern basketball playoffs, joining Iowa State, Missouri, and Pepper dine college of Los Angeles in the meet, scheduled for Kansas City tonight and Saturday. Arkansas' withdrawal from the meet early this week had left tournament manager Reaves Pe ters with but three teams for this week end's games. Peters was set to hold the tourney without a fourth team. But as a last resort he invited Utah to participate, and the Utes accepted. Iowa Refuses Again. Utah had previously passed up the Kansas City tourney to par ticipate in the Madison Square Garden invitational meet, where Kentucky eliminated the Ues, 46 38, Monday night. Utah's acceptance f o 1 lo w e d closely Iowa university's third re fusal to send a team to the K. C. tourney. Peters had asked Iowa already in and out of the meet twice, to reconsider their second refusal. But Hawkeye Athletic Di rector E. G. Schroeder Tuesday informed Peters that Iowa no longer had a team with which to enter the tourney. Cyclones Meet Pepperdine. Peters then contacted th Utes, who agreed to come to Kansas City direct from New York and their unsuccessful participation in the Madison Square Garden tour ney. First round games tonight pit Missouri, third place winner in the Big Six, against Utah, and Big Six champion, Iowa State, against Pepperdine college. Football Movies Will Be Shoivn Tonite at Coliseum Movie highlights of the 1943 collegiate football season and films of the complete Nebraska Stanford Rose Bowl game of 1941 will be presented -free of charge to the public at the coliseum to night at 6:45. Under the direction of Ed Weir, the program will feature scenes from the Tournament of Roses parade in addition to films of the Rose Bowl game, itself. Those attending will view the films from the south balcony. Beth Hertzlcr, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. O. Hertzler, 1650 So. 20th, is playing one of the leading roles in Oberlin college's produc tion of J. M. Synge's "Playboy of the Western World," to be pre sented April 13, 14 and 15. She has been active in the dramatic club of the Ohio college for three years. . FEM FUN BY ELEANOR KNOLL. Doubles in the badminton tour nament have begun with the sec ond set of first round games to be played Saturday morning at 11 a. m The games to be played then: Fotey-Wolford (Dorm) vs. Thorns-Price (Chi O). R nodes-Kra use (P Phi) vs. Eden-Wellensick (Dorm). Squires-Burnett (Sigma Kap pa) vs. Decker-Nelson (Chi O). At 1 p. m. Saturday, these games will be played: Bowers-Collins (Apha i) vs. Brir.kman-Milton (Alpha Chi). Johnson-McPherson (DG) vs. Olsen-Premer (Dorm). Results of the first games on Wednesday evening gave wins to Glotfelty-Legge (Pi Phi). Boyd- Winter (Alpha Xi;. and Morxon Sinclair (Alpha Phi). 9 w w Eiirhtv coeds have signed up for badminton, thus making 40 teams. Did someone say girls weren't in terested in snorts? Delta Gamma's victory' in the basketball tournament ties up the intramural race. Bv defeating the Barbs in the finals, the DGs won their third championship. Ray mond Hall, whom the DG's de feated in the semifinals, also have three titles. The race looks close from here on in! Supreme Court Justice Speaks At YW Vespers Chief Justice Robert L. Sim mons of the Nebraska supreme court will be the speaker at Ves pers Tuesday, March 28, at 5 p. m. in Kllpn Smith hall. Justice Sim mons will discuss the tie between government and religion. Native of Nebraska, jusuce Simmons was graduated from the university's law college in 1915. Tn l3S he was elected chief Jus tice of the Nebraska supreme court on a non-political ballot. He is active in the American jjegion and in the affairs of the Amer ican Bar association. Justice Sim mons has contributed a number of articles to the Journals of the American Bar association and American Judiciary society. In addition to Justice Simmons' speech, Miss Darice Conrad will give a solo. Miss Suzanne Pope is tn charge of the service. r : - it. V I " v V ! Aw V..., I ti.r.zfi) . r- t ' - V-'v't L ' V- 1 1 4 v f 'K'rt i I ? f " v, ,y if I-. I I Hi 4 , T f-": ,'fr.i.'. bit . r sr-S ' n- rt . ; 1 V ' I f : fA'l ft r ' -tr- : tj jj A xJL liV-i ? - If ) V. jt r z-- 3 d.-t&n,-. iiuMM Beauty Queen Contestants in Simon Clothes Mary Armour, Alpha Xi Delta, wears a two piece cotton with cardigan neckline and white trim. Only .$7.95 Patty Welch. Pi Beta Phi. wears a colorful pinafore dress that's a foretaste of spring $10.95 Dva Richmond. Sigma Kappa, wears a charming cotton with white eyelet trim ..$7.95 Watch for More Picture, of Iteauty Queen Candidates! t r r (138 II) WffllM a 7-i, T