The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-02-12
MT Selects Three
Catholic Quints
BY Lou Fabro
Times Sports Editor

One of the biggest problems an editor has to face
is to get the maximum mileage out of the available
space in his paper.
Oftentimes, he has an avalanche of good stories
to cram into his pages but simply doesn't have enough
space to schedule all of them, AS a result, he cuts
some of his stories. Others are eliminated entirely.
Faced by this problem, we'll just capsule some
items which would be of interest to our readers and
include these notes in this column.
ONE NOTABLE ITEM WAS H SELECTION of
three Catholic college basketball teams for the Nation
/. Invitation Tournament. The three teams - first
ones selected for the tourney were: Dayton, Detroit
and Villanova.
Villanova, which has lost to only West Virginia in
16 games, is considered the No l Catholic college
cage team in the country. The team was ranked No.
7 in the up and AP polls last week.
Dayton, a perennial cage power, will be making
its Fights appearance in the tourney. The Flyers have
gone to the NIT finals five times and lost. Dayton,
with a 1853 mark, is considered the No. 2 Catholic
cage team in the nation.
Detroit, which some say has the best team in the
schools history, is ranked No. 3 among Catholic teams.
A big reason for Detroit's success Q6-2) is sophomore
Dave DeBusschere. The 6-5h eager broke the schools
sophomore scoring record last week by tossing III II
points against Marquette to run his total to 431.
WLLANovA, INCIDENTALLY, PRESENTED
Coach Al Severance his 400th victory last week by de-
feating Manhattan. Severance has coached the Wild
cats for "a years.
The AP last week, listed six Catholic college
cage teams in the top 20. In order, they are: Vlllanova,
Dayton, Detroit, Providence, st. Louis and st. Bona
venture. UPI had the same teams except for Provi-
dence and Detroit.
DEDICATION or THE NEW Queen of the Shows
Church in Squaw Valley, Calf, site of the 1860 winter
Olympic games, will be held on Feb. II.
The next day, when the games begin, His Emil
nence James Francis Cardinal Mcintyre, Archbishop
of Los Angeles, will o~fficiate at the traditional bless
ing of the skis.
1t has been estimated that 40 per cent of the
skiers and skaters who will participate in the winter
games are Catholics. They represent 80 nations.
PETE NEWELL, COACH OF CALIFORNIA; bas-
ketball team, is a graduate of Loyola University UoS
Angeles and is the youngest of eight children. His
father is a Knights of Columbus official.
California, last years NCAA tournament cham
pion, has a 1871 record. It's only loss-firSt in 26 con-
secutive games-was to Southern California, Newell's
quintet was listed first in the country by the UPI last
week and third by AP.
LATEST SKiRMlSH I'M n MAJOR LEAGUE
wars (see Feb. 5 Sports Of Times) involved Don Lab
bruzzo, general manager of the Buffalo Bisons and
Frank Shaughnessy, president of the International
League.
Labbruzzo, former front office man for the Co
lumbus Jets land former member of K of c, Santa
Maria Council 1898 here) felt that 1910, 900 was a
"fair and reasonable" compensation price to be paid
to the IL for the loss of Buffalo and Toronto to the
Continental League.
Shaughnessy cracked back that big Don was
Completely out of order" by making the statement.