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flspRTSQo 0—STUFFBob Will*•4JWhen Tony Leone, the Morgantown restaurateur, broughthis WVU All-Stars here earlier this month for an exhibition gameagainst a Moose Club team he said the reception his boys gothere was one of the best they had received in a tour that includesstops in most of the state’s biggest town*.* * *HE EVIDENTLY wasn’t kidding seen here, about liking the way things are done here for, on his own initiative, he has arranged to bring his team back for a second showing.That event is scheduled Friday' night at the Recreation Building I when Lelanri Byrd, Freddy Schaus,Clyde Green and co. will take on a similar All-Star aggregation j from West Virginia State at Institute.You know the type of super- j lative basketball the ex-Mountaln-eers are capable of. As far as ac- I tual eye witnesses are concerned the State team is more or less an unknown quantity, but the fact that it is the only outfit to' defeat Leone’s team is reeommen-i dation enough in itself for the game.The State team handed the WVU quintet its first laeinr In a game at Charleston just the Saturday before the AILHtara h appeared here. Later the All-Stars beat the State outfit twice n In Huntington, before State i1 evened the count at Morgan- , town last week. Then Sunday. (In a game at Clarksburg, Leone’s again went ahead with a 53-51 triumph, scored in the last sec- , onds of play. iThe State team Is pared by Earl I Lloyd and Bob Wilson, stars of; the Institute team which won the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic |Association (CIAA) crown a year1 ago and were runners-up this I year. Lloyd, described by lad and 1 Byrd after the game here, as i one of the best performers he has 1 ever seen, is good enough to have been recently signed by the Har-1 lent Globe Trotters, probably the peer of all basketball teams.With Bob “Baggy” Jackson again putting on his juggling act between halves, the Friday night i show promises to be the best in the way of basketball ever to be 1
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Raleigh Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Tue, Apr 25, 1950
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