Evening star., 1947-03-05
Brown, Sub Player
Month Ago, Proves
|G. US Ace in Hole

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ceive no postseason tournament
bids, but in ending Duquesne's win
ming streak last night at 10 games
the hot-shot Hoyas had the salts
faction Of walloping another en-
trant In the Madison Square Garden
affair. Their first victim was West
ern Kentucky, beaten last month,
but the triumph over Duquesne was
far sweeter and OF much more i'm
portance to Coach Elmer Ripley's
crew.
The final figures last night were
57-39 and Georgetown was pouring
it on at the finish. Duquesne was
the Nations last unbeaten quint,
but Brown, Kraus, Kostecka & Co.
acted as If they owned the visitors
after the early minutes of the first
half, when the Dukes had a frail
and short-lived 80 lead. Four
times the score was tied in the first
half, but at the intermission the
Hoyas were out front winging, 22-l8,
and from then on it was no contest.
Brown Is Hoyas' Star.
Danny Kraus was the gent who
set up the plays and engineered
Georgetown's strategy, and Andy
Kostecka was in good form pumping
16 points through the hoop. But
Mr.. Big for Georgetown was chap
by the name of Bud Brown. The
hustling Hoosier topped both teams
with 10 points, but it was his all
around floor play that sparkled like
the Kohinoor diamond on a five
and dime counter. Brown evidently
didn't know Duquesne earlier in the
day had accepted bid to Madison
Square Garden after mulling over
another invitation from the NCAA.
If he did he paid 1t no mind, play
ing circles around the taller Pitts
burgh stogies.
Curiously enough, Brown was Just
another ballplayer when Ripley un-
wrapped his 1947 quint and sent It
out for its first test of the season.
He was pretty good-anybody from
Indiana knows how to handle a
basket ball-but he played a typi-
cally Midwestern calculating bounce
ball style and it didn't jibe with
the Hoyas' give-and-go game.
Punch Costs Dukes.
Brown decorated the bench during
the early games, when his appear
ances were brief and few. But In
the Western Kentucky game Kos
tecka drew three quick fouls and
was yanked for cooling of period,
and that gave Bud his chance. He
made Ripley wonder how and why
he'd kept him on the bench and
from that game on Brown was a
regular.
Browns presence so irritated the
desperate Dukes in the second half
that the visitors Johnny Barry let
60 with a right to the midsection
and promptly was thumbed out by
Referee Curley White. BY that
time, however, the entire Pitts
burgh delegation was up in the air
and unable to get back in the
groove. x 81
Ed Dahler, whose 13 points top
PED the Dukes, presented his mates
with early leads of 20 and 80, but
he couldn't match Georgetown's
drive when it moved into high gear.
Only One G. U. Reserve.
Both Johnny Gallagher of Du-
quesne and Kostecka were chased
out on fouls late in the game, but
at that stage the issue had been
decided. Tom OKeefe, who re-
placed Kostecka, was the only
Georgetown reserve to see action.
Duquesne winds up its regular
season tonight at Quantico, Va, in
a game with the Marines, while
Georgetown goes to Philadelphia
tomorrow to ring down the curtain
against Villanova.
In a preliminary game the
Georgetown Frosh defeated Ameri-
can US frosh, SO to 40.