Evening star., 1953-12-21
.Hoosiers Match
SchIundt With
Beavers Giant
Kerr Faces Mottick;
Cola and Hogon Play
In Kentucky Tourney
BY the Assoeioted Press

-Four of the biggest basketball
players in captivity and a couple
of Little" All-America players
see action tonight in a lively pro-
gram that has six of the top 10
teams playing games.
The four giants clash head on,
with the biggest pair on exhibi-
tion at Corvallis. Greg, where
top-rated Indiana meets Oregon
State. Don Schlundt. 6-foot-l0
center who helped the Hoosiers
win the MEGA title and No. l
ranking last year, for a change
will look up at his opponent.
Wade (Swede) Halbrook, T.
foot-3.
The other pair of big boys will
meet at Champaign, H.. with
Oklahoma A g. Ms 6-foot-11 Bob
Mattick enjoying the edge in
height over 6-foot-9 Johnny Kerr
of Illinois.
The All-American stars, g.,
foot-6 Tom Cola of La Sale and
6-foot-4 Cliff Hagan of Ken
lucky. will play in the Kentucky
invitational tourney at Lexing-
ton. first of the seasons bumper
crop of holiday basketball tour
haments. They won't oppose
each other tonight-La Sale
meets UCLA and Kentucky plays
Duke-but they probably will in
the finals tomorrow.
Seek Upset of Season.
Oregon State, just outside the
top 10 at No. IL, will be count
ing on Halbrook to spring the
upset Of the season. The big
boy looked great against Nebras-
ka Saturday, hitting on 10 Of
% field goal attempts and nine
of IL free throws Ior 20 points
in an 1885 romp. That's lot
points for Halbrook in four
straight Oregon State victories,
but Schlundt may hold him
down.
Kerr dumped in 81 points
Saturday as the Illini. ranked
fourth in the country. won their
fifth in row and ended De-
Pauls Six-game winning streak,
1866. He. too. will find life
more rdifficult against Mattick,
who has led the Aggies to a
I'll record and a No. ranking.
Kentucky and LaSalle, like In
diana and Oklahoma A8SM. were
idle Saturday night. Duke. tun-
ing UP for the tourr. ament,
scored IL straight points in the
third quarter and hung on for
a 67-64 victory over West Vir-
ginia. and UCLA whaled Denver.
66-45, but they'll still be UNDER
dogs. Kentucky is ranked second
in the country.
GOphers and LSU in Action.
Other top teams in action to-
night are Minnesota and Louisi-
ana State. Minnesota, No. 6
team. romped to a 74-46 victory
over winless Colorado, But LSU
probably lost the No. 5 spot be-
cause of Wisconsin's messing de-
tense and accurate shooting Bob
Petit scored 33 for LSU, but
Wisconsin hit on 81 per cent of
its shots for an 1886 victory.
Minnesota plays at Tulsa to-
night and LSU entertains North
western.
Duquesne, rated third in the
country, can thank its sensa-
tional sophomore, 81 Green, that
it escaped Louisiana States fate
against Toledo. With less than
three minutes to play, Duquesne
trailed by three. but Green
drove In. for two field goals and
Duquesne won out, 60-57.
Western Kentucky, No. 10.
had to squirt at the end to down
st. Bonaventure, 82-76, behind
Art Spoelstra's 28-point scoring,
while Fordham, one notch
higher, broke open a weird con- 4.
test with Columbia by scoring %
in the last quarter for a 51-24
victory. Columbia played pos
session ball SO thoroughly that
the score was 1913, with Ford
ham leading at the half.
North Carolina State, No. 8.