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SPORTS CLEANINGS
By BILL BELL • Sports Editor
XSIDA THOMPSON, «• Champtoa av., senior at Central H-gh school, U pictured aa ____ received
the batoa from a running mate la a recent relay competition which netted another victory tor Ohio
Track Ch*.   She ia president ot t.AA aad runs aac ho r leg oa Ohio Track <Sob 4to Relay Team.
Girl O.ymp.cs Champ Runs Here
Ohio's thousands of sports fans
.;- ere "In" for what promises to be
some history-making and sizziing-
hot competion, come Saturday,
March 11. when world-famed Wilma Rudolph dons hcr spiked shoes
at Ohio State university's French
Field House. She will be the "top
spark" with Tennessee State university's women's track team,
which will seek <ts seventh straight
national team title, in the 1961 National AAU Women's Indoor Track
and Field Championships. The
event is sponsored by Ohio Track
Oub.
Their hottest competition ls expected to be generated by the 19«0
runnerup Mayor Daley Youth
Foundation club ol Chicago. It
will be Miss Rudolph's first and
only Ohio appearance during the
winter track season. One of the
events in which she will perform
— the 100-yard dash. In tbe afternoon — will be' under the sponsorship of The Ohio Sentinel.
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Some 150 individuals and 14
teams are entered to the 12-evcnt
program. The preliminaries will
begin at 10 a.m., and the finals
at 2 p.m.
..AS THE world knows, young
Wilma Rudolph is the only American  woman  e.er  to  win  three
Gold Medals in the Olympic
Games. Last summer at Rome,
she won the .00 and 200 meter
dashes and anchored the winning
U.S. .00-meter relay team.
Just a few days ago. Miss Rudolph further amazed the experts
when, all tired and bedraggled,
she arrived in Louisville. Ky.. just
_. minutes before the opening ot
the Mason-Dba»n games, and set
a new record '.n the women's 70-
yard dash. In doing this, she
crashed into a barrier and painfully bruised her hip, but this
failed to stop he.   from going on
to anchor the women's Olympic
champion 440-yard relay team to
a rousing victory'.
Tennessee State's renowned Tt-
gcrbcllcs team, which is coached
by part-time postman Ed Temple,
last lost a National AAU meet In
1854. He won worldwide acclaim
last August wh.n his squad won
its world record in the Olympics.
Ohio State Arena ticket office is
in charge of advance ticket sales.
Tickets can also be purchased at
the office of Tho Sentinel, _30-t__t
E. Long st. Reserved seats are
$2.10 and general admission Is $1.
A EAST, WEST and South
mode valiant effort* Tuesday night
to stage upsets in the quarter finals of the District basketball tournament In Fairground Coliseum,
but when the smoke of the battles
had cleared, East had bowed to
Newark 47-4J, West had lost to
mighty Linden 57-61 and South had
carried Gahanna into two overtime periods only to be vanquished
63-61.
East and West lost the battles
at the free throw line. East not
only had a poor night shooting
from the foul line, but they also
lost their star center. Art Milner,
who was controlling the banking
boards, In the first minutes of the
fourth quarter, by the foul route.
East made only four out of 13 free
throws, while Newark was tossing
In 17 out of 30. East led most ot
the way until they lost Milner.
West led Linden from early In
the first quarter until the last period, when the strain began to tell
and they lost their touch at the
free throw line. Linden hit on 13
out of 16 Ann Oakleys. In the final
quarter, which gave them the victory although East outshot Linden
from  the  floor.
South led by Al Wilson and Gene
Harper, had »he Gahanna Lions
tied at 57,all at the end ot the regulation game. The first overtime
period ended 61-61. But South
failed to score in the second overtime period and Gahanna went into
Uie semi-finals with a 63-61 victory.
O THE SEPIA scoring stars
on the various ttams were: East,
Milner and John Marlon, with 12
[Xtints each; Linden, Tom Bowman and Tony Kent, 12 each; West
Dwight Newman and Llewellyn
Coles, 11 each; South, Al Wilson.
24, and Gene Harper, 15.
Newark meets Grand.-tew and
Linden meets Gahanna in the semifinals, Thursday night, with the
winners meeting in the finals Saturday night.
The Columbus Critics bowed tn
the State AAU semi-finals, at Dayton Sunday, 79-67, to the Dayton
Inlands.
Garland Equipment runners-up
In the Women's District AAU
tournament was eliminated from
the State meet by Dayton National Cash Register, 3_-_2.
B BEATTY CENTER'S Roy Ector, the lone Columbusite In the
Chicago Golden Gloves tourna
ment. has fought his way Into the
semi-finals. Roy ls a light heavyweight.
Ohio rules the college world lit
NCAA basketbalL For not only
was Ohio State voted the number
one college team, but both press
associations, but they voted Cincinnati U. .the number two team,
displacing St. Bonaventure, who
moved down to third. Ohio is 23-0
Cincinnati is 23-3.
Walt Belamy of Indiana who was
picked with Tom Stith of St. Bonaventure for NEA All-American
team, finished fourth in scoring In
the Big Ten, with 4M points.
B WILT CHAMBERLAIN has
already broken his NBA scoring
record and the season Is not over.
In 76 games, Wilt hit for __»7
points, for a game average of 500
per cent. He also set a "new rebound mark of 2066.
Elgin Baylor of Los Angeles U
second In the scoring race with
2103 points for a 34.8 average. Oscar Robinson of the Cincinnati
Royals is third with 2073 markers
for a 30.5 game percentage. Oscar
is the first NBA rookie to break
2000 points In his rookie year.
The Milwaukee Braves still have
contract troubles. Among their
holdouts are outfielder Wcs Cov.
Ington and utility man Felix Mantilla.
Note to Mr. Richard Banks:
Your letter was very timely, and
as It was too good to cut to fit my
column, you wlil find It In the
Letters To The Editor department*
Thanks, and please write again.
Panel On Bird Control
Phelton Simmons, supervising
sanitarian in the Columbus
Health Dept.'s insect, rodent
and bird control program, wiU
participate in a panel on "Bird
I Control in Urban Areas" at Cincinnati on March », Jointly ap_o»
sored by the U. S. Fish nd Wild,
life Service and the Cincinnati
Pest Control Ass'n.
Simmons lias had outstanding
success in ridding Columbus of
excess pigeons. In the two
years the program bas been underway, reliable estimates indicate some 50,000 pigeons have
beep trapped or have left other
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