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...deadeyed Forward Sherman White poured in 24 points for the L.I.U. Blackbirds to boost his three-year point production to 1,053. Long-legged Sophomore Center Ray Felix (6 ft. 11 in.) tapped in ten more L.I.U. points before he fouled out. These two lanky Negroes are Bee's main scoring threats, but because opposing teams concentrate their defense against them, Bee's other sharpshooters also get plenty of scoring chances. Says hard-to-please Clair Bee, who knows that 30% is a good basket-shooting average: "I expect my boys to hit the basket...
...victory over Bowling Green was L.I.U.'s 363rd (against 75 defeats) since Clair Bee buzzed into the scene 18 years ago. Included in his coaching record are two national championships (1939 and 1941) and 135 consecutive home-court victories...
...Much? As one trophy of his pace, Bee now nurses a permanent batch of milk-fed ulcers. But nothing in the world, he likes to think, could persuade him to slow down or give up one of his jobs. He gets too much satisfaction out of his multiple roles...
What was the biggest satisfaction he ever got out of the job as assistant to L.I.U.'s President Tristram W. Metcalfe? That was the day in 1946, says Bee, when Metcalfe was away, and Bee, as his assistant, had to answer a letter from the University of Kentucky. Somebody at Kentucky wanted to know what, in the light of L.I.U.'s experience with basketball coaches, they ought to offer to pay Coach Adolph Rupp. Bee answered that at L.I.U. the basketball coach considers his job just a labor of love-and doesn't care about money...
There is a grain of truth to that. Bee has no idea how much L.I.U. pays him for coaching. In the course of a year, he collects about $20,000, for being Clair Bee...