Monday, Jul. 12, 1948
Winning Ways
Even in an air-cooled auditorium basketball seemed out of place in July. In Kansas City last week, the crack University of Kentucky team and the equally talented Phillips Oilers (which together make up the U.S. Olympic squad) tried it.
The game ended with the score tied at 61 points. Then, in the second overtime period, with the Oilers leading by one point, somebody threw a firecracker. Thinking it was the final gun, the Oilers walked off the floor. A Kentucky player playfully grabbed the ball, and shot a basket. Then the regular gun sounded, ending the game. Hundreds of fans swarmed on to the floor, to find out what had happened. The answer was simple: Kentucky had won the game, 70 to 69.
Other winners last week:
P:At Carnegie Lake, N. J., the University of California took high delight in dumping an old foe, favored Washington (TIME, July 5), in the Olympic crew tryouts. Then Coach Ky Ebright's Californians beat Harvard and Princeton in the U.S. Olympic finals. Next stop: the Thames River.
P:At Milwaukee, Herb McKenley, long-legged Jamaica Negro, ran the 400-meter National A.A.U. championship in 45.9 (slicing a tenth of a second off the world record). Next day, Negro Harrison Dillard lost his first race in 83 starts; he overdid himself by running four races in little over one hour, lost two finals.
P:At Detroit, 200-lb. Bob Lemon of the Cleveland Indians, a revamped third baseman, took a big stride toward becoming 1948's pitcher-of-the-year by twisting the Detroit Tigers' tail as no pitcher had before him in 26 years. He gave no hits, only three walks. It was his eleventh win of the season (against six defeats) and the American League's first no-hitter under lights.
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