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Cage GamePopular InSouthlandmW(nlt;(By WHITNEY MARTIN)NEW YORK, March 1ST—t/T.—Despite the war, or, perhaps becaus oi it, basketball is ooonung m uilt;: outhern states, our secret operativereports. He is so secret we will giv«. yiu nothing but his name, wlncn i.-ogi. Li. M. Mickey McConnell, nowsucticned at New Orleans.The top team iu toe south tnis season, tit: says, is the Camp Claiborne club, winch won the Eignth service command and Southern A. A. u. tournaments. The members of the squad range m height from ti-l to G-5. and have the sjaeed and savvy to make them potent in any competition.The ace playmaker and sctrer is Johnny Rayz of Kentucky U.. but lie received ample help from Billy Daniels of Oklahoma Aggies, Leland riuifman ot lexas A. lt;v M., Winnie Williams of Baylor and Claude Stout -nine a iiorida piepsler who will uc quite a college prospect when he severs his service with Uncle Sam.Incidentally, it was this Claiborne club which eliminated our transportation corps schc ol five in both meetsCharlie Latins, who had a freshmanyear at St. John's in Brooklyn, pitched in 24 points for our T. C. team. Most of our players come from | J small colleges, but have done right well for us. They include Tom Cr ss ot College of Puget Sound, Chuck Rcd-nall of Santa Clara, Connie Lowney of St. Vincent’s, I’a., Don Browhlec of Lehigh, Lou Bonder of Lasalle an Charlie Williams of Erskine.Basketball should beet me a majorsport in the south in the post-wui txTiod. The big handicap is lark of avmns. bui a large field house is being planned tor New Orleans as a living war memorial, and L. S. U. has announced it will built a field house which will house 11 courts. That should be quite a layout.One of the top prep cagcrs m New Orleans is Larry. Gilbert's son.Tcoky,” who rated all-city “honors at Jesuit high school- He is only 17 and a junior, but is. (i feet 2 m height now and may be the bestHon er« m the family.“Three members of the transportation corps school team returned to the cage sport this winter after tours of duty on foreign shores. Cc nnic Downey played in all-nations competition m India, where united nations troops did their dribbling and clunking outdoors. Chuck Rednall has been sweating of the insulation lie used to combat the biting breezes if the Aleutians, and Norvin Baker, a nvoduet ol the hotbed of basketball—Indiana—is a veteran of the Central Pacific circuit.
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Somerset Daily American
Somerset, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Mar 20, 1945
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