Sport: Olympic Basketballers

College basketball teams in the U. S. get the most publicity but they are not necessarily the ablest. Last week, in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, the five college teams that qualified for the tournament to decide U. S. basketball entrants in next summer's Olympic Games fared poorly. Basketball representatives of two organizations as thoroughly nonacademic as Universal Pictures Corp. of Hollywood, and Globe Oil & Refining Co. of McPherson, Kans., met in the final.

"McPherson Oilers" and "Universals" had met twice before. Both times—once in the final of the National A. A. U....

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