Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-29
Tar Hee|sMe
Deacons Tonight
For Dixie Title
chamberlain Scores
|. IS as Kansas Wins;
Kentucky Squeoks By
BY the Associated Press

AA~AN
the Dixie Classic finals tonight
while Utah, which blitzed West
Virginia. 1856, last night in the
tournaments first major upset,
meets DePaul in the consolation
bracket finals.
North Carolina, ranked second
best in the Nation in the latest
Associated Press poll. whipped
ninth-ranked Duke, S7-71. last
night behind the 32-point shoot
ing Of Lennie Rosenbluth. the
play-making Of little Tommy
Kearns. and the blackboard con-
troll Of Pete Brennan. 1t was the
10th straight victory for the Tar
Heels.
Wake Forest, winner of the
recent Carrousel tournament in
Charlotte. outhustled North Car
DINA State, defending champion
in the Classic, yesterday after
noon, 1896, for the Deacons'
first victory over the Wolfpack
in 10 games. Wake Forest. which
now has won seven straight. last
defeated the Wolfpack in the
1853 Classic.
Fast Start for Utah
Utah, perhaps the Classics
classiest passing team, found the
range and outhustled fourth
ranked West Virginia, 1866. Be-
fore the Mountaineers knew
what hit them. the Ute's held a
50-31 halftime lead.
Hot Rod Hundley and his
Mountaineer mates never had a
chance to gain their poise and
get going. Hundley led his team
with 16 points.
In other consolation final
round play. Iowa, which lost to
DePaul, 1912, in an overtime
thriller. meets West Virginia this
afternoon. Duke and N. C. State
tangle for third place at 7:30
pm. with the championship
match following at $3.50.
For the second straight time
yesterdays games were played
before afternoon crowds Of 1000
and a nighttime selIout of H.
400. making the two-day total
attendance 1890 and virtually
assuring that the 1865 three-day
record attendance of $1,000 in
Reynolds Coliseum will be broken
today.
Chamberlain Hot Again
Meanwhile. followers of Kan
sas' top-ranked college basket
ball team were a happy group
today because Wilt (The Stilt)
Chamberlain appears to be back
on the beam.
Held to a mere IL points in
an opening-round game against
Iowa State Wednesday, Cham
berlain banged in 36 points last
might as the Jayhawks moved
into the finals Of the Big Seven
tourney by defeating Oklahoma,
1885.
Chamberlain scored 10 points
in the first half against the
Sooners. He was removed from
the game with 1921 left, only
three points short of the tourna-
ment record of 80 set by Sher-
man Norton Of Oklahoma in
1851.
The Jayhawks (8-O) will meet
Colorado for the title tonight.
The Buffaloes set a free throw
record of AZ points while getting
past Michigan State. 90-87.
In other holiday tournament
action. third-rated Kentucky
needed a basket in the last seven
seconds to nip Virginia Tech,
56-55. in the Sugar Bowl semi
finals.
Sub John Brewers drive-in
field goal enabled Kentucky to
advance to the finals against
Houston. which surprised Ala
bama. 1868. The Wildcats
trailed. $3.50. in the final minute
but two free throws by Lewis
Mills, and baskets by Earl Ad-
kins and Brewer pulled it out.
Other teams to move into the
final rounds were Notre Dame
and Manhattan in the ECAC
holiday festival in New York
City: Penn State and Lafayette
in the Richmond (VaD Invita-
tional: Pittsburgh and Connecti-
cut in the Orange Bowl; Seattle
and Oklahoma City in the ALI
College tournament; Southern
Methodist and Arkansas in the
Southwest Conference and Day.
ton and host Louisville in the
Blue Grass competition.
Georgia Wins Gator Title
The Gator Bowl championship
went to Georgia. The Bulldogs
nipped South Carolina, 64-62, In
the windup.
Notre Dame had a fight on its
hands in the first half but the
Irish rallied to finish strong and
beat Brigham Young, 9l-66. in
the ECAC competition in Madi-
son Square Garden. Manhattan
surprised by trouncing Ohio
State. e2-67.
Lafayette beat Washington
and Lee, 1850, staving OF a late
rally at Richmond. Penn State
battered Penn. $3.50. in the
opening seminal game.
Bill Schmidt's rebound as the
final buzzer sounded gave Con-
necticut q 57-56 triumph over
Stanford in the Orange Bowl,
Pitt moved past the semifinals
by tipping Western Kentucky,
1881.
Southern Methodist's tough
Mustangs got slick shooting
from Jim Krebs and Larry Sho-
walter TO defeat Texas AIM. S.
46, and Arkansas battered Rice
81-70, in the Southwest Confer
ence tournament action. Navy
was beaten By Texas Christian