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Tuesday, March 16, 1954 THE NEBRASKAN Page 3 Scarlet Fourth Johnson The Best Hastings Plays Brilliantly In Winning Class A Title By GARY FRANDSEN Sport Editor Well, it's all over for another year, until the month of March reappears on the calendar. The 44th annual Nebraska State High School Basketball Tournament, which attracts more state-wide interest than any other single sporting event came to another noisy close Saturday night after four days of solid basketball. When the standing-room-only crowd of over 11,000 started to inch their way out of the Coliseum, four new class champions had been crowned, all four winnjng the coveted titles for the first time. The new cage kings of Nebraska are Hastings, Class A; Lincoln Teachers, Class B; Syracuse, Class C; and Western, Class D. Hastings and Syracuse both looked very Impressive in rolling to their respective championships, but Coach Earl Applegate's Class A Tigers was the team that really caught our fancy. No mistake about it, the Orange and Black was one of the finest squads to win a state tournament crown in years. The Tigers had surprising speed to go along with their excel lent height plus some well-coached basketball saavy and plenty of rugged aggressiveness. With all of these factors, the Tigers would be hard to knock off by any team at any time. CAL JOHNSON, our vote for the most outstanding player of the tournament, was undoubtedly the key man on the Hastings squad. The 6-5 senior center drove hard, played a rugged and smart brand of ball and had a fine assortment of shooting ability. Johnson, who broke Chuck Sticker's season-scoring record at Hastings this year, climaxed his prep ball career in the finale with Omaha Benson by coming throurh with a nifty 82-polnt performance that was just too much for the Bunnies to cope with. In the semi-finals against a strong Lincoln High aggregation, Johnson didn't go on any scoring rampage; but his number one assigment called for the stopping of Allen Graves, the 6-8 Link pivot who burned up the nets with a 40-point avalanche against Boys Town the night before. Graves got 17 points, far short of his opening accomplishment Everyone on the Big Six of Appiebee't came through with extra-fine performances at one time or another during the tourna ment Larry Detter, who was also an extra-bard driver, led the Tiger scoring against Scottsbluff with 19 points, added 12 against the Links and displayed excellent defensive ability and floor play In all three games. John Swanson, a 6-5 redhead, carried the Tigers past Lincoln with a fine 24-point performance while Jack McQeery came in as a substitute in the Scottsbluff clash and promptly pumped in 17 points. Dick Kleiber, another big boy and probably the most under rated player on the Hastings team, didn't do anything astonish ing in the scoring column; but did do a tremendous job in the rebounding department for the champs in all three contests. It was the best job of clearing the boards in the tourney. Tom Osborne, who alternated with McCleery as a starter, played a good floor game from either the forward or guard position. SYRACUSE, PACED by another great tournament performer in Lyle Nannan, staged somewhat of a surprise in whalloping highly-touted Franklin as easily as they did. The tussle was rated a near toss-up before game time with the Franklin crew receiving the nod of most. But the Rockets threw up a defense that stopped the Flyer offense cold with the lone exception of Forward Russ Peterson who managed to get 16 points. Center Al Stout, a Flyer ace in earlier games, was chilled without a field goal. In fact the Syra cuse defense was so tight that Stout could get only a few shots at the bucket Most of the team's shots were sets from far out . For a while' in the semi-final clash with Chadron Prep, there was a time where Syracuse's chances of reaching the finals was definitely not too good. Nannan, the all-important figure in the Rocket attack, picked up four fouls in the opening quarter; but he failed to draw number five and Coach Joe Moss's team rallied to win. The big unexpected came with Western winning the Class D laurels. The tall team from southern Nebraska wasn't figured to do too much in the pre-tourney evaluating. Instead, Palmyra, Millard and Edison were the squads that looked like champion ship material. In the Class D. finals Millard, a short team who picked up most of their points from out-court, started red hot and it looked like dead-eye Gary Reimers and his mates were in. But the Western height finally paid off as big Don Hinzmann and Boyd Thomas scored from close in as well as grabbing most of the rebounds. JIM THOM, the 6-7 center for Lincoln Teachers, was just too tall for the other Class B clubs to halt.' When Thom was out of the lineup, the Teachers' offense sputtered. This was plainly evi dent in the Tecumseh skirmish when Thom fouled out early in the fourth quarter and Tutors nearly lost the game after blowing a sizable lead. In picking a tournament team we would have a first five something like this: Cal Johnson, Hastings; Al Graves, Lincoln; Lyle Nannan, Syracuse; Erik Olsen, Benson; and Gary Reimers, Millard. 1 V f " . . .. 1 1 I V ' ! 6 -Vt :'-V N J ' V 7 x, J v "V or oni f 91 i f'l)2 V"-34 21 v.'ty ..iV y.i i iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii - I, . .riT-fi-ir-nr-irn -irT'- in im in n 11 i r'lnr-mim " ....-. New Class A Champions Courtesy Sundir Journal uid Star a , i-oacn jan AppieDees lau ung liters acieaiea joenson in inunncy, vuuu wauutc, ij.v-h wkusuu, xuvau, iVu- uocw t; - B 4v, the finals 58-42 Saturday night. Rutherford. Standing: Norman ert Brandes, Coach Earl M. Hastings Tigers are the new Seated from eft). Det. Adams Tom Osborne, Dick Applebee. Class A champions. The hust- ter, Jack McCleery, Maynard Kleiber, Cal Johnson, John Sig Eps Take Frat Crown; Dubbers Independent King Brandon, Enge! Pace Sig Eps Past Cold Phi Delts; Lee Dobler Leads Dubbers Over Frosh Dent Team By FRANK SORENSON Sports Staff Writer Sigma Phi Epsilon and the Dub bers were among the champions crowned in the Coliseum Satur day. Phi Delta Theta and the Den tal Frosh were the victims of a scoring barrage that saw both of their unbeaten records go by the boards. The Sig Eps took advantage of a cold Phi Delt team to romp to a 52-32 win. Meanwhile, the Dubbers were having no trouble at all with the Dents by coming out on the long of a 52-30 count. Jim Walsh opened the Sig Ep scoring parade with a charity toss and the Phi Delts' Joe Carter tied it up with another toss. Bill Giles put the loser's ahead with a gift shot only to have Corky En gel hit a side shot for a 3-2 mar gin. Giles again put the contenders NU Rifle Squad Second In Meet The University of Nebraska rifle team won second in an eight team meet in Lincoln Saturday The Husker marksmen finished with 1,383. points, eleven short of the winners, Coe College of Iowa. Sixty-three men represented the eight schools participating in the meet. The Creighton team can celled its appearance because of weather conditions. Individual honors went to Claire Seglen of Kansas State who hit 193 of a possible 200 targets. Ne braska's Paul Jordon led his team in the various events. Another Ne braska entry was Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Team placings: (1,500 possible ) : 1. Coe College 1.394 2. University of Nebraska 1.383 3. Omaha Unlveraity 1.381 4. Iowa State 1.3R0 5. Iowa University 1.374 6. Kanaaa State 1.360 7. Missouri School of Mines 1.3.19 8. Washburn 1.312 (. Phi Delta Theta (NU) 1.3M ' USE 'NEBRASKAN" WANT ADS" ft A ;: ':, : ': -Mi ' 'VI:?:-. Courtesy Sunday Journal and Star Two Small Men Meet , , . - .r-i-, h hail with Omaha Benson's urday night's battle between the tings squad wins the battle for (50). All the action came in Sair A title. ahead for the last time with two tosses from the line. Another two pointer by'Engel, two by Duane Schmelling and one by Dave Brandon gave the winners an 11-5 first quarter lead. THE HAPLESS Phi Delts could could manage only three field goals in the second stanza while Schmelling, Walsh, Engel, Bran don and Don Peters connected to give the Sig Eps a 26-12 halftone lead. In the last half the lossers found the range a little better with the third frame ending 37-19. In the final quarter the winners out scored the Phi Delts by only 15 13 to bring the score to the final connt. Engel and Brandon led the win ners with 13 points apiece while teamate Walsh and Schmelling garnered 11 and 9 respectively, garnered 11 and 9 respectively. Giles was high for the Phi Delts with 10. Blima Phi Bp's (52) Phi Bella Theta (3D Ensel 6 Peters 2 Walh 3 Brandon S gchmellini 8 Uehllng 0 Benedict 0 Konetni 0 ft 1- 2 2- 2 5-6 3- S 3-8 0-0 0-0 0-0 Of Giles V J Carter S Falloon 4 Rom 1 ""Rammers 0 Ccderdahl 0 filoan 0 Beechner Mastin ft 4-5 2-3 1-4 0-0 0- 0 1- 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 18 14 23 8 12 8-13 20 GOOD PASSING and shooting featured the Dubbers 52-30. con quest of the Frosh Dents for the Independent title. Bob Pelligrino opened the scor ing with a fielder and a charity toss for a 30- lead. Then Lee Dob ler hit three straight buckets fol lowed by fielders from Pelligrino and Phil Haas for an 18-6 first quarter lead. The Dents, who just couldn't do anything right, did not score a field goal in the first half while the winners hit 12 from the floor for a 21-9 halftone lead. The count went to 33-12 before the Dents found the range. Then, on baskets by Bill Shainholtz and Bill Ellison, the losers trailed by 39-24 entering the final stanza, outscoring the winners 15-8. In the final quarter the scoring just about reversed itself with the champions hitting 13 to the run nerup's 6. The Dubbers scoring was very balanced with Lee Dobler hitting 13. Bob Baker and Shainholtz led the Dents with 8 markers apiece. The Dubbers earned their tick et to the finals by downing the NROTC 47-34 while the Dents overpowered the Ramblers 47-34. The Dubbers and the B Cham pions, Alpha Gamma Rho, are the only two unbeaten teams in the University leagues now. Dubbers (52) Frosh Dents (30) it ft pf it ft nf 8 14-22 14 Shainholtz 2 4-7 Clouse Dobler Haas Pelligrino Andrews Jensen Lantz Woods 3 3-4 3 Allen S 3-6 2 Baker 2-6 2-8 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 Ellison Heinzle Barlow Finki Nybert 2-2 4-6 1-1 3-6 0-0 0-0 0-0 20 11-18 IS S 14 22 14 Johnson, Matzke Honored Recently Bill Johnson and Stan Matzke, two University of Nebraska bas ketball stars, were honored dur ing the half of the Friday night clash between Hastings and Lin coin High. Johnson, a senior and starting center on the basketball team, received a chest of silver for be ing nominated as the Huskers' most valuable player during the 1953-54 season. A poll of the conference coaches decided the honor. Johnson was this year's high scorer on the Husker team and also was third high scorer in the Big Seven. Fred Seger received last year's award. Matzke received the Joe E. Brown Sportsmanship Award. The honor was decided by a vote of Matzek's teammates, Mrs. Brown presented the trophy. Matzke, a junior forward, will be back next year. Last season the honor went to Joe Good, a senior guard. MaxKitzelman Scores Win In Big Seven The strong Oklahoma wrestl ing team won their fifth con secutive Big Seven Conference title Saturday night at Mannat tan. Kansas. Onlv two Sooners won individual titles, but three others reached the finals of their respective weights. The Oklahomans got 35 team nnints to win the meet while Iowa State was second with 27 points. Colorado was third with 19, Kansas State had 16 and Ne braska managed 15. Missouri and Kansas did not compete in the affair. Max Kitzelman, Husker foot baller, won the heavyweight division by outpointing- Ken El lis of Kansas State 7-5. Kitzel man was the only Husker to reach the finals. Three Huskers Hibnere Deines, Chick Gra ham and Charley Bryant lost semi-final matches. Iowa State led the first-place winners with three. Kansas State was the other team besides Oklahoma and Nebraska to grab a first place. There were no falls in any of the final matches. Summary: 122 Pounds Hugh Linn. Iowa State, outpointed Tom Torgerson, Colorado, 6-1. ISO Pounds Don Hart, Oklahoma, out pointed Jinn Jong. L-oioraoo, i-i, reieree decision. 137 Pounds Sam Rusio, Iowa State outpointed Lee Young. Oklahoma, 1-1. (Referee decision'). 147 Pounds Tommy Evans, Oklahoma, outpointed Don Ellingson, Iowa Stale, 8-1. 157 Pounds John Eagleton, Oklahoma, outpointed Con Gerdes. Iowa State, 11-4. 167 Pounds Ron Larson. Iowa State, outpointed Royal Smith, Colorado. 1-1, (Referee's decision). 177 Pounds Ted Weaver, Kansas State, outpointed Gene White. Oklahoma, 12-4. HeavyweiKhl Man Kitreiman, Nebraska, outpointed Ken Ellis, Kansas State. 7-6. In Big Seven Swim Affair Fourteen records wert smashed as the Oklahoma swim ming team splashed their way to an impressive Big Seven Title. The powerful Sooners finished with 154 points compared to second-place Iowa States 119 points. The Sooners and the Cyclones won every first in shattering four national collegiate records and 10 Big Seven marks. Iowa State's Mike Lamair hurried through the 100-yard breast stroke finals in 1:01.1 to rut one tenth second off the collegiate mark he set in the preliminaries Saturday morning. The Cyclones also had the only triple winner of the meet in Jim McKevitt. McKevitt broke the collegiate mark in winning the 120-yard individual medley in i:il.B. Kansas was third with 26 points, Nebraska had 23 and Colorado managed 20. Missouri and Kansas State did not enter. t-Meter Pivins 1. Esrl Hallum. Okla homa, 393.05: 2. Tom Gilbert, Oklahoma. 353.0; Ernest Deiong, Oklahoma. 346.0t 4 Jerry Jester, Kansas. 844.25: fi. WallT Snow, Colorado, 337.85; 6. John KicboU Iowa State. 304.1. 1 nfl-Yard Back Stroke 1. Lynn Merrtnav Oklahoma; 2. Loren Braught, Iowa 6tatel 3. Melvin Van Helsdingen. Oklahoma; 4. Joe Wilson, Iowa State; S. David Bangh, Oklahoma; 6. John Green, Oklahoma. Time: :59.5. (New Big Seven record of ;57.8 set by Meiring in preliminaries.) 100-Yard Breast Stroke- 1. Mike Lamair. Iowa State; 2. Julian Dyason, Oklahoma; 3. Bob Best. o State; 4. Jim McKinney. Oklahoma: 5 Bill Thombura. Iowa Ststel 6. Roger Koppock. Oklahoma. Time 1:01. (Betters National Collegiate and Big Seven record of 1:01.1 aet by Lamair in preliminaries.) 100-Yard Free Style 1. Jim McKewftU Iowa State; 2. Sandy Stewart. Iowa Statet 3. Gerry Deiong, Oklahoma; 4. Maunu McCullen. Iowa State; 5. Bob Hollowell. Iowa State; 6. Dick Storts, Oklahoma. Time :51.4. (Big Seven record of 51 seconds flat oy McKevitt in preliminaries.) 440-Yard Free Style -1. Graham John son, Oklahoma; 2. Peter Duncan, Oklahoma: 3. Jack Hurtack, Oklahoma: . lAltls BEIS'TZ, NEBRASKA; 6. Charles Toms, Colorado; 6. Leigh Stratton. Kansas. Time 4:!S. (New Big Seven record. Old mark by Duncan pf Oklahoma 4:47.7 in preliminaries.) 120-Yard Individual Medley 3. Jim Mo TCpvltt. lfwt State: 2. Melvin Van Hels- dinger. Oklahoma; S. Bob Best. Iowa State; 4 Jim McKinney, Oklahoma: ft. mi la. HILL. VFBRAflKA; 6. Hal Donnelly. Colorado. Time 1:11.9 (New national col legiate record. Old time 1:12 aet in pre liminaries by McKevitt.) 800-Yard Medley Relay 1. Iowa State (Loren Braught, Mike Lamair, Jim Valleau): 2. Oklahoma; 3. Kansas; 4. Colordo; S. NEBRASKA. Time 2:53.7. (New Bis Seven record. Old mrk 3:01.5 by Iowa State in 1951.) Alain Feature Clock Varsity: "Beat The Devil, 1:42, 3:41, 5:40, 7:39, 9:38. State: "The Joe Louis Story," 1:00, 3:54, 6:48, 9:42. "Captain Scarlet," 2:39, 5:33, 8:27. i i 11 1 J 1 m WEEK-END GOLFER... OR TITLE HOLDER THESE CLUBS WILL SAVE YOU STROKES! Shooting to break 100 ... 90 ... 80 ... or to take a title? Spalding's sensational advance in clubs new 54 Synchro Dyned woods and irons - can do more to cave you strokes than any other dubs you ever played! Reason? Try a few swings - and see. Every wood, every iron now has identical contact feel. 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