SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1954 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGl THREE SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1954 TIlE MICHIGAN DAILY VA(~R TWIPR . [ANAAW i 1.1{ jf.F, 9u :r, NCAAih School Cage Tourneys Decided Boston Conquers New York To Reach NBA Semi-Finals LaSalle Captures NCAA Hoop Title Routs Bradley by 92-76 Margin; Penn State Defeats USC, 70-61 Muskegon Heights Annexes State Class'A' HoopCrown Special to The Daily NEW YORK-The Boston Cel- tics won the right to meet Syra- cuse in the semi-final round of the National Basketball Associa- tion Playoffs by squeezing past the New York Knickerbockers yester- day, 79-78, in a tense, foul-pack- ed contest. A basket by Bill Sharman with but 17 seconds remaining gave Boston its second playoff win in three games. New York suffered its third straight post-season set- back and was eliminated from the Eastern Division round-robin play- offs. MOST OF the game's excitement was packed into the thrilling and dramatic last minute. Entering the Oh No! Countless numbers of local television fans watching the New York-Boston NBA playoff . game yesterday afternoon were disturbed to say the least when the contest was cut off the air P at its most crucial point. Boston was leading by one point with but 37 seconds re- maining when New York's Har- ry Gallatin stepped to the foul line to take two free throws. At this moment another program flashed on the screen. When the station failed to restore the cli- matic ending of the game to the wave-lengths, suspended viewers watching the struggle were left in ,the dark as to its result. final 60 seconds, the New Yorkers were in front by ,three points. The Celtics had possession and Sharman drove toward the hoop and was fouled as he shot. He proceeded to sink a pair of free throws, his 14th and 15th in 17 tries, and Boston trailed, 74-75. In the NBA, during the last two + minutes of the game, after each ; successful foul throw there is a jump ball, and on the ensuing tap, the winners gained possession. Aft- tr one shot was unsuccessful, BobI Cousy, Boston's sensational play- maker, dropped the rebound through for a one-point Celtic lead.i NEW YORK stormed back up the court and with 37 seconds left Harry Gallatin, the league's lead- ing rebounder, was hacked as he tried to shoot from underneath. The 6-6 center calmly tossed in two charity tosses and thus set the stage for Sharman's game- winning field goal. Ninety-two fouls were called during the encounter. When the game ended, the Celtics had five men out of the game on six per- sonals and four of their remain- ing quintet had five fouls on them. The losers were not in much better shape as four of their players were on the bench with the limit of fouls and the rest of the team had either four or five. The Knicks 'led throughout most of the contest. The first time that Boston gained the lead was in the final minute on Cousy's basket. New York held a 41-36 lead at halftime, and increased it to nine points early in the third period. The Celtics tied it at 47 only to have New York forge right back into the lead and hold it until the! heart-breaking last minute. * * * CARL BRAUN, the Knick's high scorer during the season, did not tally a single field goal during the encounter. However he did con- nect with 14 charity tosses missing only one, before he fouled out late in the fourth quarter. The Syracuse Nationals have won both of their playoff games thus far and no matter what they do in the remaining pair, they will qualify for the semi- final best two-of-three series with Boston. In the Western Division playoffs, including games through Friday Minneapolis is 2-0, Rochester is 1-1 and Fort Wayne has lost both of its games. Minneapolis is as-1 sured of a berth in the semi-finals, even if it loses its remaining two contests. The worst the Lakers can do is finish in a three-way tie for first ord in second, 'depending on the outcome of the Fort Wayne-Ro- chester encounter. KANSAS CITY-GP)-La Salle's mighty Explorers burst the Brad- ley bubble last night with a bril- liant third quarter spurt that car- ried them to a record-shattering 92-76 triumph and the national collegiate basketball champion- ship before a screaming crowd of almost 10,500. Bradley's Braves, who had par- PAUL GROFFSKY layed borrowed luck into a win- dislikes new rule ning streak that carried them al- most all the way, faded before the magic zone defense and powerful U O fl 7 ar thrusts of the Explorers after the p pu~i half time. S* k f Free Throw BRADLEY had dominated the ' first 20 minutes and led by seven points early in the second quarter 5 but its one-point halftime lead Rule O O vanished as All-America Tom Gola with brilliant help from two fine KANSAS CITY-01)-The Na- sophomores Charles Singley and tional Assn. of Basketball Coaches Frank Blatcher, tore open the con- yesterday voted to revamp the one- test between the third and eighth and-one free throw rule to put minutes of the third quarter. the premium on good shooting Penn State, ahead from start rather than inaccuracy d h to finish, staved off a desperate The recommendatin that goes to the National Rules Committee Box Score Sunday gives the fouled player a! second, or bonus shot, if the first BRADLEY G F P T shot is made. If the first shot is Petersen, f .. ..4 2 2 10 missed, the ball remains in play. Babetch, f ......0 0 0 0 * * * King, f ......... 3 6 4 12 last-quarter rally by Southern California to win third place in, the national collegiate basketball' championships, 70-61. The contest was played under i the suggested new foul rule which reverses the one-and-one shooting f procedure and it almost cost Penn State the game. FRITZ CRISLER SOUTHERN California made the . . . seeks new field house first free throw 12 times and con- verted the bonus toss on 10 of its H u chances. F Id The recommended rule change would give a bonus shot after each successful free throw on all common fouls. If the first shot is missed the ball' is in play. I u gse Penn State had sevenchancesg for the extra shot and sank six of them. The replacement of Yost Field This was an entirely different House, fhe Sports Building and Penn State team than the one the Athletic Administration Build- badly outclassed Friday night by ing, three of Michigan's oldest and LeSalle. The Nittany Lions were most poorly equipped edifices, deadly from the floor the first s eemed to be in the near future half hitting a cool 50 perhcent of when the Board in Control of In- their shots. tercollegiate Athletics today auth- *P* * orized Wolverine Athletic Director Peoria 63, San Diego 55 Fritz Crisler to explore matters DENVER - (,P) - Peoria's Cats with an eye towards "serious and won their third straight National pressing physical plant needs." AAU basketball championship last The steps taken by the board night with a 63-55 conquest of to enlarge and renovate Michi- San Diego, a club that couldn't gan's sprawling athletic plants match the champs' manpower or came in the face of revelations finesse in the tense closing mm- that football profits skidded at the utes. University for the fourth straight EAST LANSING-Captain Mur- tice Johnson dropped in two free throws with four seconds left in the first overtime period last night to give Muskegon Heights a 43-41 victory over Flint Northern and the 1954 Michigan Class 'A' basket- ball championship. The Tigers, annexing the first cage crown in their school's his- tory, had just managed to send the game into overtime after blow- ing an early fourth quarter lead which had reached seven points at one time WITH THREE minutes to go in the game Northern tied up the con- test and then forged ahead 41-39' fifteen seconds before the final buzzer. Muskegon Heights brought the ball up the floor and exchanged two passes before Johnson cooly dumped in a ten-footer to send the game into its extra period. Flint Northern got the ball soon after the tip-off and controlled it for almost the entire three min- utes waiting for the one big shot. With seven seconds remaining, its All-State guard, Bob Failing drove in for a lay-up and missed. ** * HIS MOMENTUM carried him into Johnson causing the disas- trous charging foul which set up the new champion's victory. The losers actually dropped the verdict at the free throw line, connecting on only seven out of 20 tries from the line. The Tigers made a very respectable 11 out of 16. Failing, despite his part in help- ing Muskegon to its final two points, played an outstanding ball game and was the contest's high scorer with 16 points. * * * RIVER ROUGE staved off a frantic last half Holland Christian comeback to win the Class ' crown, 56-53. The Detroit suburban area power completely baffled its op- position in the first sixteen min- utes with close pressing tactics and left the floor at intermission withan astounding 40-18 lead. Holland failed to fold, however, and led by center Ken Scholten, who dropped in 16 points during the contest, the southwest Michi- gan five came back to force Rouge into a game saving stall * * * RALPH COLEMAN hooped 21 points to pace Lansing St. Mary to an easy 60-28 win over Marine City for the Class 'C' title. Gobles, after scrapping to a semi-final win over All Saints on Friday had little trouble wrapping up the Class 'D' title last night, trouncing Remus, 56-28. IF PASSED by the rules com- mittee, the automatic two free throws in the last three minutes would be eliminated. Infractionss while a player was in the act of shooting would still draw two free throws. Michigan's basketball captain Paul Groffsky commented that the new rule, if passed, would not cut down on the number of fouls in a game although he did think that it will tend to cause players to be- come more proficient at foul shoot- ing. "I do believe," Groffsky contin- ued, "that while it will make bas- ketball a 40-minute game again by eliminating the automatic two shots in the last three minutes, the rule won't solve the primary problem of too much fuling, either in the final 180 seconds or through- out the whole contest. I do not particularly like the proposed change." Gower, f ...... . 0 Estergardc. ... 3 Carney, g....... 3 Utt, g .......... 0 Kent, g ........ 8 Riley, g ........ 1 Totals .......22 LASALLE G Singley, f .......8 Greenberg, f ... 2 Maples, f ....... 2 Blatcher, f..... ,11 Gola, c .........7 O'Malley, g..... 5 Yodsnukis, g .... 0 O'Hara, g ..... 2 Totals........37 Bradley .. 22 21 LaSalle ... 18 23 1 11 11 0 0 1 32 F 1 0 1 1 0 3 18 14 30 1 1 4 1 2 1 16 1. 17 17 0 16 3 76 P T 4 23 1 5 4 4 4 23 5 19 4 11 5 0 1 7 28 92 19-76 20-92 i i Ttyear and only two sports, football THE ILLINOIS cats held com- and hockey showed any semblance mand easily until midway of the of profit. third quarter when the determined * * * Grihalva Buicks pulled even at HOWEVER the situation isn't as 36-36 for the first time. LATE SCORES New York 5, Toronto 2 Montreal 6, Detroit 1 NBA PLAYOFFS Minneapolis 78, Ft. Wayne 73 BASEBALL Boston (A) 1, Detroit (A) 0 Pittsburgh(N) 8, Philadelphia(A) 2 Chicago (A) 5, Philadelphia (N) 0 St. Louis (N) 5, Washington (A) 3 Brooklyn (N) 8, New York (A) 5 Chicago (N) 7, Baltimore (A) 6 Milwaukee (N) 3, Cincinnati (N) 2 MONDAY TIRU WEDNESDAY Fried Disjointed Spring Chicken........... ..1.50 = (Southern Style) French Fried Fantoil Shrimp, Shrimp Sauce...............1.50 Breaded Pork Cutlets with tomato ................1.50 Prime Ribs ou jus ...............................150 Dinners Include Soup. Relish Troy, Chef Salad, Potatoes, Rolls, Butter and Beverage Children's Order-Chicken or Shrimp. . ...........90C 3715 Open Daily Jackson Rd. 12 to 9:30 P.M. - i Free throws missed-Bradley -King, Kower, Estergard, Car- ney 6, Kent 2, Riley. LaSalle-- Singleyn 3, Greenberg, Blatcher, O'Hara. bad as it might seem at first glance, for the report, which in- eluded the 1952 football campaign but not the 1953 one and covered the financial year ending June 30, 1953. For one thing, the athletic department's operating profit of $138,347 insures adequate sup- port of Michigan's million-dollar athletic program. The gridiron sport, alone, netted $632,015 in the athletic kitty, recession and all. It was pointed out that the Wol- verines' home schedule this fall which brings such box office at- tractions as Army, Illinois, Iowa, and Michigan State to Ann Arbor is sure to reverse the trend. KI BOOKSALE FOLLE IT'S State Street at North University COLLEGE MEN: Imvu a t tbaW Q~kOtf4m ELEC~N MECHANICAL .'0191 pMENl1 SOPHOMORE 'M' NCAA HOPE: Delaney Seeks Breast Stroke Crown By BOB JONES A rapidly improving sophomore holds the key to Michigan breast- stroke hopes. in next week-end's NCAA swimming meet at Syracuse, N.Y. Responding well to Coach Matt Mann's rugged work schedule, Mike Delaney has come through in the last few weeks to prove himself one of the Big Ten's better breast- strokers. If the fast stroking soph- omore can improve as much in the coming week as he did before the conference meet of two weeks ago, he'll be right up with the na- tion's best at Syracuse. i a I-4ORS OR ptISuj c b DELANEY, only mediocre dur- ing the dual-meet season, surpris- I ed Mann as well as the opposi-! tion by taking fourth place in botht the 100 and 200-yard breast-stroke events. His times were excellent. He finished only three seconds be- hind the winner, Wolverine Bumpy Jones, in the 200. Delaney's time of 2:24.8 in the final of this event represented a four second drop from his usual 200 time. His rapidly closing fin- ish in the Friday afternoon semi-final was enough to nip Illinois All-American Bob Clem- ons, and showed that in the stretch, Delaney has the neces- sarry guts. Though a slow starter in the 200-yard event, Delaney showed unexpected speed in Saturday's 100 yard test. His previous best time for the 100 was upwards of 1:04, but in the Big Ten final he went 1:02.4, losing third place to Ohio State's Van Heyde by scant inches. The event was won in record time by John Dudeck of MSC in :59.7. BESIDES Olympic swimmers IBert and Jack Wardrop, Delaney was the only Wolverine sophomore to swim in a final event. He swam the breast-stroke leg of Michigan's second place medley relay as well as the two individual events, De- laney didn't seem to be affected by "conference meet shakes," which is surprising and encouraging in a relatively inexperienced swimmer such as he. At Syracuse next week end, Delaney will be under more pres- sure, both physically and psycho- logically, than he was in the Big Ten meet. He will be swimming in a strange pool against some hot Eastern competition., Bostonians pl ENGINEERS Turns are a big factor in swim- ming, and a strange pool means extra concentration on hitting those turns right. 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