Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-22
Baylor Ex-Spingarn STAR Leads
Seattle in NCAA Finals Tonight
Kentucky Nips
Temple to Earn
Try at 4th Title

Elgin Baylor carried Seattle
into the National Collegiate
championship basketball finals
against Kentucky tonight and
the scoring punch Of the Wash
ington, d. c., boy could pos
sibly deny the Wildcats their
bid for a fourth NCAA title in
10 years.
The spectacular Chieftains
from the Pacific Northwest will
meet the Wildcats at 10 pm.
EST, after Temple and humili-
ated Kansas State settle third
place starting at 8 o'clock.
Adolph Rupp's scrappy Wild
cats snapped Temples Is
game winning streak. 61-60, as
Vern Hatton drove through the
Owls defense for the winning
field goal with IL seconds left
in last nights semiflnal.
Kansas State Routed
Seattle became the first at
large team in the national
finals in eight years by swamp
ing Kansas States tourna-
ment favorites, 1851.
A record crowd of 1886 at
Freedom Hall, left limp by
Kentucky's victory, just sat
back and had themselves a ball
in watching the smooth-work-
ing club. led by Baylor, humble
the Big Eight champions from
Manhattan, Kans. The ex-
Spingarn High School star was
tremendous, scoring % points,
grabbing % rebounds and gen.
orally writing basketball's How
to Do 1t" book.
The record turnout could
have been much larger if Louis
vile authorities had not ruled
out temporary seats ear
lier in the day. They rescinded
the order just before game time
and Freedom Hall officials went
ahead with a plan for tempo
rary seats. The crowd topped
by lot the previous NCAA tour
nament record for a single ses-
sion of 18,479 at New York's
Madison Square Garden in
1916.
No Decided FavOrite
You can take your choice for
the winner tonight. depending
on whether you like the shoot
in from the hip kind of bas-
ketball of Kentucky's Coach
Rupp or Seattle's brilliant COM
bination of the solid and the
spectacular.
The Kentucky and Seattle
systems worked like charms
last night.
Hatton was an old nemesis
to Temple again in the nerve
numbing opener.
Temples All-Americe, Guy
Rodgers, gave Kentucky it's
chance when he missed on a
one-and-one free throw chance
with 81 seconds left and the
Owls from Philadelphia, lead
ing 60-59.
Ed Beck, whose rebounding
was a tremendous factor in the
victory, tipped the rebound out
to Adrian Smith and the
Southeastern Conference peren-
mails called time-out. Ken
lucky came out with a set-play
after budding with Coach
Rupp. and Johnny Cox fed
Hatton beautifully as he drove
to the basket. The fuzzy
haired Kentucky backcourt
man cut easily past the Temple
defense, under the basket with
a lay-up.
Lost Once Before
1t was old stuff for the Owls.
who had lost to Kentucky last
December z thanks to a 47-foot
set shot by Hatton that tied
the score as the buzzer sounded
ending the first overtime period.
That was the first of only three
defeats suffered by the Middle
Atlantic Conference team this
season and Kentucky, thanks to
Haitian. bagged two of them.
Cox and Rodgers shared scor-
ing honors with % each, while
Hatton. who doubled more IN
quarterbacking than shooting,
scored a mere Is.
Seattle-Kansas State was a
basketball game for only half,
which ended with the Chief
tains leading, 1882.
Baylor, who had been double
teamed and limited to 10 points,
broke out with four quick field
goals in the first two minutes
OF the second half. The Kans-
ans scoring only one field goal
and a free throw in the stretch,
sped into a 1887 lead.
Get Within 7 Points
After Jerry Frizzells two free
throws for Seattle, K-State had
its last fling, moving to within
seven points at 47-40 on a jump
shot by Bob Boozer and Wally
Franks three-point play.
Franks free throw dropped
with 1910 remaining and the
time had licked down to 6:4l
before Kansas State scored
again.
While Kansas States shooting
eyes went from cold to frigid.
the Chieftains turned real cool.
exciting the big crowd with a
Harlem Charlottesville exhi-
bition Of passing, shooting and
dribbline.
So smooth was the Seattle
nall-handling and floor play,
the Chieftains worked loose for
a batch of under-the-basket
setups that caught Kansas State
hatfooted.
Seattle hit 81 of 81 for a 45.7
percentage. But the big sta
tistic was in rebounds. where
Seattle had a 56-33 advantage
over a team that had two play
ers 6-foot-8 and another g.
fOOt-0 in ifs front line