Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-16
Carolina Leads
ACC After Win
Over Deacons

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pointer by Rosenbluth was the
telling blow.
Wake Forest, which had been
in a three-way tie with the Tar
Heels and North Carolina State.
led 69-68 going into that final
two minutes. Two field goals by
Rosenbluth made it 1859 and
the iron-men 'Deacons couldn't
catch UP in the time left.
So bitter was the struggle that
the two teams used only six men
each. -Four of the Deacons hit in
double figures, headed by Lowell
lefty Davis 18 points.
st. Francis Rolls On
st. Francis of Brooklyn. with
No. ranked San Francisco the
only major unbeaten teams in
the country. kept rolling along
with a 94-74 victory over Brook
lyn College. The win stretched
NIT hound st. Francis string Of
unbeaten games to 18.
AL Inness. 6-foot-7 sopho-
more already being compared
with Bill Russell. San Francisco's
All-America ace by some OBJ
servers. grabbed 81 rebounds and
scored II points for the Terriers.
who also got a 29-point perform
ance from Capt. Don Mannix.
The Terriers, whose only
name victims have been st.
Johns. Seton Hall and Manhat-
tan, have three regular season
games left - against tourney
hopeful st. Joseph's tPa.) Satur.
day and Iona and Siena next
week.
While 13th-ranked st. Fran
els was rolling along, second
ranked Dayton, also headed for
the NIT, made it 1871 by shaking
Memphis States tourney hopes.
84-74. And fourth-ranked Louis
vile, dealt a 40-point drubbing
10y Xavier (Ohio) Monday after
accepting an NIT berth, righted
itself with an 84-74 victory over
Kentucky Wesleyan. Louisville
t20-2), the only club to beat
Dayton, stages rematch with
the FLYERS tomorrow night.
Bill Uhl. Dayton's 7-foot CEN
ter, scored Is. followed by Car
men Riazzi and Soph Arlen Book
horn with 16 each, as the Flyers
played what Coach Tom Black
burn termed their best game
since beating Utah and Kentucky
last December. Forest Arnold
topped Memphis State. now IT.
a. with % points.
Louisville had no trouble spill
ing Wesleyan a second time with
Charlie Tyra scoring %.
Temple Wins 18th
Elsewhere, once-beaten and
|ninth-ranked Temple won its
18th, shutting out LaSalle, 1910,
in the last 5l2 minutes for a 60
81 margin, and st. Louis, making
|it 8-for-8 on the road this sea-
son. gained a share Of the Mis-
souri, Valley lead with Houston
by smacking Bradley, 1862.
The toughest game of the
night was played at Fort Worth
where Southern Methodist, rated
18th in the Nation, showed
championship form in over
coming Texas Christians sur
prise possession tactics, 1922,
to bolster its Southwest Con-
ference lead. TCU, l-9 in the
league. used Is or more passes
before each shot and led at the
half, 1911.
SMU, which had been averae-
ing 81 points a game, came back
to solve TCU's zone in the sec
ond half, however, and took a
$500 lead before going into a
stall of its own with almost II
minutes remaining in the game.
st. Joseph's. warming up for
the st. Francis test, defeated
Franklin & Marshall, 77-51, for
a 1874 record. Hofstra, another
possible tournament entry. de-
feated West Chester Pa.), g.
40.
In two Ivy League games.
Princeton. the runnerup. hit 70
per cent of its first half shots
and walloped Harvard, 93-46,
while Yale crushed Penn. 96-72,
as Sophomore Johnny Lee scored
81 for the EiiS