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Phillips and DenverGunder HaeggMeeting AgainTo Run AgainFor U. S. Cage TitleOklahomaWonTwo Denver MeetsDenver. March 24.—(/P)—For the fourth straight year those twin powerhouses of AAU basketball—Phillips “66” and Denver—tonight take up their option on the floor of city auditorium for the finals of the national cage tournament.Phillips’ All-Stars who have taken the championship back to Bartlesville. Okla., the past two years, upset Twentieth Century-Fox last night, in the semifinals and Denver Ambrose moved with clocklike precision to a decision over the Cessna Bobcats of Wichita, Kan.The four-year monopoly the two cage giants have held on finals of the classic began in 1942 when the Denverites, then known as the Legionnaires, squeezed the Oilers out to take the championship.As different as day and night in their style of play, they will write still another chapter tonight in that never-ending argument:Is it better to outrun the opposition to the basket or use finesse to outmaneuver him?Phillips put up a fine debate last night by speeding down court for driving shots and fuming furiously around Frank Lubin’s Hollywood cagers whenever and wherever they got the ball.They scored 62 points and harassed the moviemen into making many bad passes. But Lubin and his mates scored 5 2 and might have done better if theFollowingCleveland, March 24.—(/P) Gunder Haegg, Sweden's most persistent stalker of the four-minute mile, said he again would take to the boards in Buffalo a week from today following his first victory of iis current American tour at the fifth annua] Knighta of Columbus games here.Haakon Lldman, teammate, quoted the crack cravat salesman as saying he was disappointed with his winning time of 4:10.7 which was 2.2 seconds slower than his Chicago effort last week.Aiming at a 4:12 mile here, Haegg blew his chances for that mark in the second quarter when he slowed to 75 seconds after a 6,Vseeond first.aroinwiortotoalfeMPlt;blt;TolUItctsIPIstar hadn’t gone out on fouls early in the second half.Ambrose, using its junior members as the spearhead of an occasional running attack, contented itself with controlling the ball and working in close for laying. They scored only 43 points but Big Ace Gruenig and Jack McCracken put the brakes on all except one of Cessna's shooting artists. Little Dick Smith, who like McCracken is playing in his fifteenth tourney, pitched five fielders for the Wichitans.The losers in last night’s semifinals meet for third place tonight at 7:30 o’clock, an hour before the old reliables turn up for the finale.eiclclsiCVieccsfiiiicv Ic 1 t 1Chicago Bout SetChicago, March 24.—(/P)— Jake Lamotta, New York middleweight, and George (Sugar) ( Costner of Cincinnati will meet lt;in a 10-round boxing bout at Chicago stadium Monday night.
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Helena Independent
Helena, Montana, US
Sat, Mar 24, 1945
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