Evening star., 1955-02-03
And So Whut if Utuh Won?
Cooch's Genius Hits Height
In Elevated SoIes for Players
ZAP wirephoto.

wore what Elliot calls cripple
soles." They are made of CORFU
gated plastic rubber which in
profile look like the teeth in a
saw. Elliot claimed they added
an inch and half in jumping
ability in addition to an inch and
three quarters in height.
The st. Louis Oklahoma Ag-
gle game was more conventional.
To Hickey. IBA is something like
an itch on the bottom of your
foot. All Eddie can do is grin
and bear it.
Hickey's been bearing it" now
for IL years. He hasn't won at
Saltwater since 1943.
Tough Loss for Hickey.
The latest defeat was one of
the toughest for Hickey-who
has a 1923 mark against IBA.
The Aggies are at an all-time low
this season and for once don't
look to figure in the Missouri
Valley title race.
Hickey, meanwhile, was riding
high on a 20. league mark with
Dick Boushka, All-America pro-
Spect, firing at an average of "a
points conference game. 1t was
1925 A. and M. at the half and
st. Louis never got closer than
six points the rest of the way as
Mack Carter and Tom Maloney
held Boushka to IL points and
found time to score IS points be-
tween them.
The st. Louis defeat made
Tulsa Coached by Iba's brother
Clarence) a bolder bidder for the
crown at 80. Tulsa plays st.
Louis Saturday and already has
won at Saltwater.
Boston College upset Tufts,
1854. in the pro" go at Boston.
Both teams got a little ratified
in the first half trying to avoid
the 24-second violation (the pros
have to take a shot within that
time limit after gaining possess
sion), but they calmed down in
the second 20 minutes.
Garden officials said the game,
paired with a st, AnSlem's s.
Bridgeport game played under
College rules, made it the fastest
college double header ever
played in the arena. (St.
Anselm's whipped Bridgeport,
81-58.)
Only two other ranked teams
were at work, and both won
easily against lesser competition.
LaSalle, No. 3, rocked George
town, 1888. Duquesne, No. 4,
ran over Westminster (Pa), To-
Sc, as Dick Ricketts,. All-Amer-
lea hopeful, mixed it up with
Harold Davis of Westminster
after Dicks brother Dave lost
his glasses in close contact with
Davis.
Southwest Records Set.
Texas Christian and Texas
A&M also had something new
-four Southwest Conference
free throw records as TCU
strengthened its league lead,
92-62. The records came when
Dick O'Neal Of Texas Christian
sank % foul shots. The two
teams staged 102 free throw at
tempts and made 10 and TCU
bagged 40 of them.
Wake Forest beat Virginia,
$500, in Atlantic Coast Confer
ence play despite 80 points by
Buzz Wilkinson, No. 3 scorer in
the Nation. Columbia stayed
close to the Ivy Leagues CO.
leaders. Penn and Cornell, as
Chet Forte scored "a points in
a 1851 victory over Brown.
In the Southern Conference,
Furman - the Nations team
scoring leader--was held to a
mere 60-58 victory over Virginia
Tech, the lowest Furman total
since the 1872 season.
Elsewhere, Penn State went
into overtime to beat West Vir.
ginia a second time, 77-68
scoring the last 6 points in 80
seconds: Arizona gave Bradley
NCAA runnerup, it's seventh
straight defeat, 88-77, and Ford
ham surprised once-beaten Con-
necticut in the last 4 minutes
70-65.