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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1964
Page
20
College basketball coaches and athletic directors await bids from NCAA and NIT as bids open. Villanova DePaul and Oregon State are among independents likely to receive spots. UCLA leads the nation with 21 0 while Michigan Georgia Tech and Davidson hold top conference positions. Duke and Kentucky sit strong in ACC and SEC. Vanderbilt slides in SEC after recent losses.
UCLA bounced Washington 88-60 as No 1. Michigan beat Indiana 99-87. Kentucky edged Mississippi State 65-59. Davidson defeated Richmond 95-87 and fell to Furman 7 53. Duke beat Virginia 8 59 and Davidson 52-75. Wichita State lost to Drake 66-03 but won overtime at Cincinnati 39-58. Vanderbilt fell to Georgia Tech 75-71 in OT and Tennessee 114-62. Villanova beat Duquesne 75-63 and Canisius 79-58. Oregon State beat Seattle 76-72. DePaul beat Marquette 72-69 and Western Ontario 95-58.
Collin Garstang of Pittsfield High, now with UMass, won the New England junior slalom at Pico Peak Rutland Vermont. He clocked 57 and 58.5 seconds for 115.5 total, with several Pittsfield skiers placing behind him in Class 1 and Class 2 events. The meet served as a qualifier for the Eastern Championship at Sugarloaf Maine.
Montreal defeated Detroit 5 2 in standings notes. Detroit then beat Montreal 4 1 and Toronto routed Chicago 4 0. Chicago lost 5 3 to Boston and New York beat Toronto 4 2 in other results.
Chicago Cubs infielder Ken Hubbs, NL Rookie of the Year in 1962, died in a Utah plane crash at age 22. The crash near Provo killed Hubbs and Dennis Doyle as they traveled to BYU. Funeral plans were set in Provo and Colton, with teammates acting as pallbearers. Authorities described the crash as a graveyard spiral caused by poor visibility.
Snow Basin in West Cummington Berkshire drew a large field for two weekend races the women’s intercollegiate event and the Connecticut junior giant slalom. Bradford Junior College led the women’s meet with 94.4 points Boston University, Massachusetts, and Mount Holyoke followed. Linda Burgess and Carol Temple of BU won first and second with Mary Stranahan of Bradford taking third. In the junior race 131 of 158 entries started despite poor driving conditions.
Lakeville Conn Dave Rikert of the Williams College Outing Club won the Class B Championship in the United States Eastern Amateur Ski Association Nordic meet here. Rikert covered the 15 kilometer course in 51 minutes, seconds. Richard Gardner of the Gams club was second.
In TEANECE New Jersey Vince Sho mo from New York outpointed Isaac Logart. In GUADALAJARA Alfredo Camelo Urbina from Mexico outpointed Gene Gresham of Detroit. In PESARO Giuseppe Linzalone defeated Nevio Carboi in Trieste.
The Miami Beach Boxing Commission will decide tonight if Sonny Liston and Cassius Clay must weigh in together before their title bout. Chairman Morris Klein convened the special meeting as Liston objects to meeting Clay beforehand and Clay protests a safety rule that would declare a technical knockout if a fighter is floored three times in one round.
Mount Hermon beat Lenox 5 2 as Mike Wait scored a three goal hat trick and two assists. Watt and Spence opened scoring in the first period, Lenox answered, and Mount Hermon pulled ahead with two more in the second and three in the third. Tom Harrington stopped 31 shots for Lenox and Ned Perry 38 for Mount Hermon.
NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle urged the Senate to pass a bill exempting major professional sports from antitrust laws. He defended the reserve clause, said current rules must stay, and called for extending baseball’s antitrust privileges to football hockey and basketball amid player lukewarm support. Braase and Gareff testified with Foss backing resumption of hearings.
Williams College defeated Bowdoin College 53-41 in a Brunswick Maine swimming meet Saturday. Four records were set, two by each team.
The Boston Celtics, exhausted after a 92 to 90 comeback win over the Lakers in Los Angeles, have two games in four days. They play the Philadelphia 76ers in Pittsburgh on Tuesday night and then face the Baltimore Bullets in Providence, Rhode Island, after a day of rest.
Jacky Cupit won the Tucson Open with a final round 75 to finish at 274, two strokes ahead of Texan Trex Baxter who carded 69 in the final round. Cupit earned $4,000 and a spot in the Tournament of Champions while Gary Player failed to break into the money and several others followed.
Reports from Tucson, Oberstdorf, Hialeah, New York, Corpus Christi, Garmisch Partenkirchen, and Paris highlight winners across ski jumping, horse racing, track and field, tennis, and Davis Cup venues. Notable feats include Dalibor Motejlek’s 274 in skiing, Bobby Wilson’s win in Paris, and Davis Cup 1984 site named in Corpus Christi.
The American League faces a Feb 21 meeting to decide whether to oust Athletics owner Charles O Finley after failed attempts to secure a lease with Kansas City officials. Cronin announced the session amid ongoing deadlock and Finley’s hard stance, with no agreement yet reached.
Eastern standings show Cincinnati 114 Philadelphia 97 Baltimore 111 Detroit 99 Boston 92. lone games list St. Louis 118 Philadelphia 110 and Baltimore 124 Detroit 122. Next up Saturday Cincinnati 0 New York 14 Boston 96 with Monday action San Louis at Baltimore and San Francisco at Cincinnati at Indianapolis.
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