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Like most Indiana youngsters, Ron Bonham started dribbling almost as soon as he stopped drooling. As a high school senior in 1960, Bonham was a basketball coach's dream: he scored an average of 29 points a game, led Muncie's Central High to the finals of the state championships, and headed an Indiana All-Star team that trounced the Kentucky All-Stars, 101-64. Indiana coaches and sportswriters voted him "Mr. Basketball," touted him as the brightest college prospect to come out of the Hoosier State since the great Oscar ("Big O") Robertson (TIME cover...
...other college in the nation, slick-shooting Sophomore Bonham, 19, would be a sure first-stringer; at second-ranked Cincinnati (season record: 10-1), he is content at the moment to be the best substitute in college basketball. The reason: there were only two seniors on last year's power-packed Bearcat squad that ran up 22 straight victories and defeated top-ranked Ohio State, 70-65, for the N.C.A.A. championship. Massive (6 ft. 9 in., 235 Ibs.) Paul Hogue, a rugged rebounder, is back at center, no longer fouls out of important games. Lanky...
...sturdy (6 ft. 5 in., 200 lbs.) Ron Bonham, Coach Jucker has the best benchman in the business-a cool-headed righthander whose delicate push shot barely ruffles the basket's netting. Although he plays only about 20 min. a game (v. Center Hogue's 32 min.), Bonham is averaging 12 points a night, is the man Jucker calls on when Cincinnati needs a quick clutch of baskets. Fortnight ago, in Manhattan's Holiday Festival, Cincinnati was trailing St. John's, 30-33, in the final moments of the first half, when Jucker beckoned to Bonham...
...methodical Ed Jucker, popping baskets is only half the game, and Sophomore Bonham still has a lot to learn about ball handling and defense before he earns a regular starting position on the solid Bearcat ball club. Explains Bonham: "In high school, the coach always put me on the weakest player we faced. He didn't want to take a chance on my fouling out; he just wanted me to shoot. It hurt me in college." Determined to improve, Bonham often staggers away from Jucker's two-hour daily practice sessions so exhausted that he collapses...
Died. Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, 79, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for a record 49 years. Speaker for an unmatched 17 (more than twice as long as his nearest competitor, Henry Clay); of cancer; in Bonham, Texas (see THE NATION...