Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-11
Mounfdineers'
AZ Title Ace
Now Tutor
Buric's Return in New
Role Is Example Of
Wars Franks
BY HAROLD CLAASSEN,
Associated Press Sports Write

Associated Press Sports Write
NEW YORK, Jan. 11.-Rudy Barrie
Of West Virginia University Is offered
as the prize example of how topsy-
turvy the war has made the college
sports world in single year.
Ayear ago Barrie and his Cinderella
teammates essayed a journey to New
York where they were seeded last
in the National Invitational Basket
Ball Tournament.
They remained long enough to win
the title. Barrie. known to every
spectator and player as The Coon"
took added honors as the Journeys
most valuable PLAYER.
This week the Mountaineers re-
turn with Barrie, still student at
West Virginia, not as player but
the teams coach-and as Mr.. Barrie
to the public and the athletes. He
took over when the previous mentor,
Dick Raese, joined the Navy.
Although the Mountaineer squad
has back only one of the eight reg
ulars of last season, the 1913 Noun
taineers have won four of their first
five games. and Wednesday en-
counter the unbeaten New York
University outfit.
Some Other Choice Affairs.
That game sparks this weeks cage
menu along with such other choice
morsels as Arkansas VS.. Rice, South
ern California at Stanford, George
Washington at Duke, Kentucky at
Tennessee, Oklahoma Aggies at
Creighton and Illinois at Wisconsin.
All are conferences games involving
title favorites.
Arkansas, which shared the South
west Conference Crown with the
Owls last year and will be the host
this week end in two-game series,
already has won a pair of duels
from Southern Methodist while Rice
was stopped by Texas. Texas Chris
tan, another favorite, was crushed
by Texas A. and M, SO to 26, Satur-
day but has the chance to regain
some prestige tonight against Rice.
The Pacific Coast Conference also
starts the campaign by offering a
crucial contest with Stanford, last
years national collegiate king, at
home to Southern California, always
Coast cage threat. In the north
ern half of the loop, Oregon State
doesn't begin defense of its division
crown until next week.
Tennessee, which already has won
two Southeastern Conference games
and is at the top of the ladder, helps
Kentucky open the Wildcat cam
paign at Knoxville Saturday. The
Vols, paced by Dick Mehen, had the
best percentage last season but Ken
lucky triumphed in the title tourna-
ment. They again are rated one
two.
A similar conditions exists in the
Southern loop with Duke, the de-
Tending champion, tonight enter
tanning George Washington. The
Capital City lads make up the team
expected to extend the Blue Devils
most. Duke has beaten Davidson,
so to so. and Virginia Military, A to
43, in family tests this year.
Co-champions Collide.
Creighton and Oklahoma Aggies,
co-champions of the Missouri Valley
circuit last spring and both with
outstanding records to date, collide
at Omaha Saturday. Each boasts a
conference victory from last week.
In the neighboring Big Six circuit,
Kansas has taken its usual place at
the head of the parade by smother
ing Missouri and then nicking
Oklahoma on the Sooners' floor, 48
to A. In the Missouri contest
Forward Charley Black poured in 80
points for the victors.
Illinois finds out how good 1t Is
tonight when it invades Wisconsin.
The Badgers, their attack built
around Johnny Kotz and Ray Pat
terson, outlasted Northwestern Sat-
urday night, ST to IS, while Illinois
won as it pleased from Michigan,
At to "a, in Big Ten openers.
Chicago has only meager chance
of winning its first league game in
80 starts Saturday when it enter
tains Indiana.
Dartmouth, the Eastern Inter-
collegiate League champion for the
last five years and with George
Munroe and Jim Olson still in the
lineup, goes after title No. 6 Satur-
day night with Red Roles Yale five
as the foe. Harvard is at Pennsyl-
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