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Cowboy CagersWin MythicalNational Title! BY JACK CUDDY1 New York. April 2. lt;UP) Basket-| ball, which seems to have becomea contest of altitude because of! the inroads of glandular goons, mezzanine peepers and other per-; formers approaching the seven-jfoot mark, attained the ultimate jin height lftst night when the University of Wyoming team won the imythical national championship at Madison Square Garden This quintet operates from a campus at Laramie that has an altitude of 7200 feet - an altitude i which gives most visitors a nose i bleedBut the New York price makers, blinded bv their own skyscrapers.basketball player of' this season, there is a big fellow at the University of Brigham Young named Gerald Walker who is far superior Walker stands six foot seven, hut he has everything the best player we've seen all season ”Coach Shelton said it was a pleasure to coach his champions as they won 23 of their 24 regular season games, losing only to Duquesne on their first trip East and on a small, cramping court. Too, because his meager squad won the NCAA playoffs at Kansas City, and came on to New York to heat Georgetown in the NCAA final, before meeting St. John’s last night—the national invitation winner—for the title.Women BowlersTo Hold MixedDoubles Tourney'The Galveston Women’s Bowling Association voted to sponsor a xj * mixed doubles tournament as they5? t**®.* at th* Guaranty build-ing to elect officers. The mixedSt. John's, made the St. Johnsteam an overwhelming favorite in last night’s Red Cross final for the national title before moie than 18.000 fans in the garden,..Wyoming, unquestionably Yhe better team, proved its sftp^iqrity over St. John's hv winning,Y52.;ip 47, in an overtime game. 'Afterward, the Wyoming coachI doubles event will he held Sunday. 'April 11. and proceeds will be used to buy cigarets for servicemen overseas.Sue Davia was re-elected president of the association.; Other officers elected included Margaret Risbey, vice president;hesprctarlod Evoroit Shrlton ad-5,'“h k * e r r e 1 * r ■ n?riamittrd .hat tha Wyoming triumph.®?™^’'!'. tfnumvn': and Mar-wa» duo larcolv in alni.ido. not in Kennedy. •K«ant at arbi.vthe heights that rnuld ho moaaurcut ■ ^waids \\eie made to winners by engineers, hut rathe, to tffi'Ithp c.tywide womensheights attained psyehoioRirally ‘fiy’.‘. 5? R tottr.namept. ___a team that was determined to win-in its war-caused last performance and season.Coach Shelton, a machine * :sergeant in the last war at.Chat i -Thierry and Belkau I • I have been coaching I for 20 years. I have hanttter!1 teams that apparently \y£re*[ equal of mv current squad phyfucat-_ I ly. hut never have I had , 1 bovs whose team spirit ;that you could almost see it• 4 •-Pal Ankenman(UP)Houston. Tex.. April 2. a band of .Diminutive Pat Ankenman. the lit-was siteh' tie infielder-who last year pilotedthe New Orleans Southern Asso-Rrtdit Thievery game, T felt fHAt ciation baseball team into the*that spirit gave us a sixth man on Shaughnessv playoffs hut was de-noor” nosed this vear. has left the St.This team, sparked by Captain Louis Cardinals’ farm svstem to Ken Sailors- most brilliant Vper- join the Brooklyn Dodgers, he an-former to hit the gat den hoaids in nounced todav.r=5fvears -knew it was making its last performance, because the entire varsity squad, arui even the freshman squad is going into service.ft wanted to add a new and brilliant chapter to the. tradition of Wyoming basketball a tradition that long has been respected wher-iever the rearing Rockies cast their : shadows.i These lads from the cioudlands i were unimpressed when they came ! to the city skyscrapers and were ifaced with Harry Bovkoff of St.1 John’s, who measures six feet nine. :They had a man who could take I care of Roykoff. He w as Milo Ko-menich. uho boasts six feet seven. Coach Shelton explained after the game that Komenich packs power with his weight, but. Bovkoff has only altitude without power.Shelton said: “Although Boykoff probably is the most publicized“I will leave Saturday to join the Dodgers” he said.Branch Hickey wired me that Brooklyn has puchased mv contract from New Orleans and asked if I would he interested in playing for the Dodgers. I told him T was.”Ankenman. a product of Houston sandlots, developed into’h fine baseball player at the University of Texas under Coach Rillv Pisch. After leaving school, he was signed up by the St Louis Cardinals and plavrd on several of their farm teams He is the son of Fred Ankenman, former president of the Houston Texas League hasebail club, who onlv recently resigned from the Cardinals’ farm system. ,Blue Jackets BeatJaycee Ten, 2 to 0
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Galveston Tribune
Galveston, Texas, US
Fri, Apr 02, 1943
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