Evening star., 1963-12-18
5-FoOf-9 Star
Aims for Gaze
Scoring Title
By the Associated Press

Nanny Newsome, a 5-foot-
8 sparkplug from Western
Michigan. is making an early
bid for the major college bas-
ketball scoring crown in a year
when it seems likely it will take
a 30-plus average to make it.
Nick Workman averaged 2e.5
points a game for Seton Hall
last year to 29.3 for Barry
Kramer of New York U. and
became the first scoring cham
pion in IL years to win the
crown without averaging go
points a game.
Both are back in the battle
this season, but the big sur
prise has been the point pro-
duction of Newsome, two-time
scoring champion in the Mid
American Conference, who.
wound up 18th on the list in
1862 with a 23.1 average.
Newsome has been scoring at
such a rate his average dropped
to 31.8 last night when he
scored 81 in Western Michi-
gan's $3.50 victory over Notre
Dame. 1t was only the second
victory In six games for the
BroncoS.
But Newsome and Western
Michigan have been playing
some of the top teams in the
country-North Michi-
gan State, Marquette, Loyola.
Michigan and now Notre Dame.
And Newsome has scored heav-
lily against all.
Other Big Scorers
Outstanding one-man shows
also were turned in by Rick
Barry. who made all II of his
foul shots and collected 35I
points in Miami of Florida's
1888 victory over San Fran
cisco, and by Marvin Mitchell,
who hit 13 of 18 from the
floor and scored 80 points as
West Texas edged Western
Kentucky, 84-83.
Chuck Richards scored 35
points and hit for the winning
basket with three seconds left
as Syracuse edged Cornell, &c.
"a, and Clemson also won with
three seconds left, edging Vir-
ginia, 1882, on a final shot
by Mike Bononak.
In other games, Carroll
Hooser clicked for 81 points
in SINUS 97-75 triumph over
Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech
rode Howard Pardue's 20-point
effort to a BITS victory over
Georgia, Wisconsin crushed
Gonzaga, lis IL; Oklahoma
State walloped Long Beach
State. 91-66; Texas Tech
clipped Oklahoma, 1856;
Princeton defeated Rutgers,
1850; Ohio U. downed st.
Johns IN. ", 1884, and
Morehead beat Mars h all,
103-83.
Irish Come Close
Western Michigan moved in
front Of Notre Dame with 1852
left in the half and was never
headed, although the Irish
came within a point three times
in the last minute and is sec
onds. Newsome was there
whenever the Broncos needed
help. Jay Miller led Notre
Dame with % points.
San Francisco cut a 1910
deficit to l point with 5 min
utes to go on Russ Gimina's. 8
points and baskets by Howard
johnson and Jim Brovelli.
Barry then came through for
the Hurricanes, sinking a Jump
shot to protect the lead. Ollie
johnson topped the Dons with
"a points.
Fouls Help West Texas
West Texas and Western
Kentucky battled down to the
wire. Jim Strahan finally put
the Texans ahead with 5:33 to
go on two foul shots and Joe
McWilliamS clinched it with
another foul shot with 1902 re-
manning. Darel Carrier was
high scorer for the Hilltoppers
with 81.
Richards shared the starring
role for Syracuse with Dave
Bing, who scored 26 points as
the Orange beat Cornell for the
first time in four years. Bob
McCready paced the Big Red
with 20 points.
Virginia pulled out front of
Clemson in the second half
and led, 52-51, when the Tigers
decided to stall and play for
one shot. Bohonak made the
strategy pay off, the second
time he had done it this sea-
son. Chip Conner scored 18
points for Virginia while Jim
Brennan had Is for Clemson.
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