Brown Routs Five, 75 to 61, As Crimson Drops to Cellar

The varsity basketball team dropped into a tie for last place in the Eastern Intercollegiate League last night. On the basis of its last-quarter performance against Brown, the team might just as well keep dropping, completely out of the league. The defeat was the Crimson's seventh straight, and fifth in Ivy competition.

Brown, which never led by more than five points until that final period, posted a runaway 75 to 61 victory for its second triumph over the Crimson this year. The win moves the Bruins up to tie the varsity for the cellar.

The discouraging thing is that it was a close and interesting, although never polished game, throughout the first three periods. The Crimson trailed by only three points at the end of each quarter, and twice went into a brief lead.

But with Captain Lou Murgo and Ed Tooley each hitting for eight fast points in the fourth period, all chances of an ultimate varsity rally failed. Murgo collected 27 points, Tooley 14. The team didn't score a point until six minutes of that final period were gone, and by then, second squads were in for both teams. Even the Crimson subs couldn't hit, and the team scored only one field goal in the entire quarter.

Murgo and Tooley got the visitors off to a fast start in the first quarter, but the Crimson kept close until halftime. Sacks, who scored 24 points, added four more foul shots in the first four minutes of the third period to tie the score, and then substitute guard Rollin Perry dropped in a backhand hook that gave the Crimson its first lead, 43-42 at the five-minute mark.

But Brown junior Ray Malkiewicz, who totaled 18 for the game, took over when Tooley's scoring tapered off, and helped his teammates regain a slight advantage, 53 to 50, by the end of the period.

Crimson Hurt by Fouls

In the fourth, however, there was neither hope nor scoring for the varsity. In the first two minutes, Murgo alone threw in four baskets on a beautiful deadly push shot. Here Sacks fouled out, and he was followed to the bench almost immediately by Bob Bowman, emergency starting center, and starting guards Ed Krinsky and Ed Condon, all with five fouls.

A freak accident before the game benched usual starting center Dick Manning; he suffered what is believed to be a sprained ankle in the pre-game warm-up, and may be out for Saturday's game with Cornell.