The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26
ALL-TIME COURT COMBINED PICKED
 BY BILL MILLER
By ALAN COOGAN United Press Stan Correspondent

Denver, Colo (UP)-William H. (Little -ilD Miller, coach of the Tulsa Oilers, international basket ball champions, has selected eleven players as the greatest he ever has directed in the nearly 20 years he has been conencted with the sport.
 It took Little Bill" most of those years to reach the point where he could collect a squad that would win national amateur championship for him, but in March, 1888, he succeeded.
 His Oilers won the National Am ateur Athletic Unions annual tour nament, held in Kansas City, Mo, and thus became the United States amateur champions. To make things even more rosy, the Oilers defeated the Canadian champions to become international, or North America, titleholders. Little Milp prefers international"
 The Oilers were here early in January for series of games with the best of the Rocky Mountain district, and Little BilP' was per- suaded to name the players he thought were the best he ever had coached.
 Until January g, this year, the Oilers had not been defeated in regularly scheduled game in two years. The Southern Kansas Stage Line team of Kansas City, Mo, with one of Little Bill's' choices for his aIl-star team doing the bulk of the scoring, ended the Oilers winning streak after two overtime periods.
 Here is Little Bills" all-star team:
 Forwards-Charles Hyatt, Joe Brucker, Dyche Carter and Slip" Jerome.
 Centers-Matt Brucker, Tom Pickell and Carl Larson.
 Guards-Bart Carlton, Brown ie" Leavitt, Spec Futhey and Paul Burks.
 Burks, incidentally, scored three free throws in the two overtime periods to defeat his former team mates and coach by one point as the Oilers winning streak was broken the other night in Tulsa.
 Of the II men he has chosen, Miller believes that two stars of an old-time team of his, the Schenec- tady, N. Y., Eagles, were the great est.
 They are Joe Brucker, a forward, and Matt Brucker, a center. They are brothers. The Schenectady Eagles won the state amateur cha: :.lpionship for Miller approx imately 15 years ago, and gave the then worlds professional cham pions a hard fight before losing a game. Miller says that several col leges in New York drafted the stars of his team at the end of one sea- son and broke up the Schenectady Eagles.
 Miller never forgot his Schenec- tady team, and when he went to Tulsa in 1922, he started coaching a team he called the Tulsa Eagles He piloted them from 1922 to 1923, and never accomplished much In the way of national recognition.
 In 1929, he formed team called the Tulsan A. c. Eagles-stlll thinking of the past glories of the Schenectady team-and, in 1850, began 10 coach the team of an oil company caleld the Tulsa Oilers. The Oilers were put out in the third round of the national tour nament in 1881, by team they had defeated prior to the tournament- the Kansas City Athletic Club. The Oilers star, Forrest (Red) De- Bernardi, generally accounted py the entire Missouri Valley Paclhc Coast, South-in fact, by every sec tion except the East, where Nat Holman takes his place-as the greatest player who ever lived,' was not able to play in the tournament:
 In 1892, the Schussler A. c. of Chicago, which ultimately won third place in the tournament de. feated Miller's Oilers in the second | round.
 In 1883, however, the Oilers, their manpower intact, and pre- senting oen of the all-time greats, Charles Hyatt, formerly of the Uni. yersity of Pittsburgh, breeZed through the tournament and gave Miller his long sought champ'oh- ship.
 Miller says he advocates a bas- jcally eastern style, with a man for man, shifting, switching de- fense, and five variations or or | fapgl