COLUMN

That was quite a smoke
screen Phog Allen sent up
yesterday in pre-arranging
for the dates and site for a
Big’ Six basketball playoff.
Just as if he doesn’t intend to
bump off Oklahoma at Nor-
man Friday for a clean-cut
title! The man is cagey.

Bruce Drake, young coach of
‘the Sooners, may have figured this
out. After grabbing enough of
the bait to challenge Allen’s right
to select Wichita—what about the
Big Six rule against off-campus
competition?—-Drake receded and
announced: “We're thinking only
of Friday’s contest.” Perhaps
Drake has seen Allen’s hypnotics
work on the Big Six before. At the
K,. U. coach’s suggestion, tinkering
has been done with circles on the
floor, twelve-foot baskets, bigger
hoops,- hoops with lights on them,
smaller balls, dotted lines and
dozens of other innovations. All
the while, Allen has sawed wood
and won under the rules in vogue.
Perhaps Drake and some of the
other coaches are beginning to
fathom Allen’s wizardry.

Allen’s refusal to set back
the date for the Fifth Dis-
trict N. C. A. A. playoff. be-
tween the Big Six champion
and the Oklahoma Aggies will
bring about another innova-
tion—flying to games. The
Missouri Valley champions will

 

Grass Roots—Kansas Editors’ Symposium

THE TOPEKA

Drake Questions Allen’s

 

the Metropolitan Invitation
tournament in Madison Square
Garden, New York, the night
of March 15, then grab a plane
for Oklahoma City to meet
the Big Six champs the next
night. There’s never an idle
moment with this man Allen
around.

You can hear that WIBW has
sold Ernie Quigley’s “You Can't
Do That” program to the Colum-
bia Chain, for delivery next au-
tumn. ... High school basketball
teams coming to Topeka next week
may again find housing problems.
A druggist convention also is billed
the first three days of the week.
And the D. A. R. will start coming
in on Saturday. ... Jack Johnson,
the Fort Hays State captain, will
join the E. G. Stevens ‘club of
Wichita for the Kansas A. A. U.
tournament. . . . Chicago papers
used double-column art on Wes
Fry’s mug when the ex-Kansas
State coach was signed by North-
western.

_ The six-inch board floor in

Hoch Auditorium, where the

K. U. team plays basketball,

is set on solid concrete. And

the Jayhawks can’t practice
there more than twice a week
without several cases of shin
splints resulting. Bring on that
field house. .. . Bill Monypeny,

Southwestern’s coach, recently

won the Central Conference

basketball title while in bed.

He had retired last Saturday

night when friends called to

inform him that St. Benedict’s
had beaten Fort Hays State,
that Wichita had bumped

 

the title with Hays and Pitt
as a result.
Steve O’Rourke, Detroit scout,

jhas received his. unconditional re-

lease from the Springfield Cardi-
nals of the Western Association,
according to the Sporting News,
after being on the voluntary re-
tired list for twenty years. Fol-
lowing his management of the
Cardinals in 1920, O’Rourke was
placed on the list and his name
had never been removed. Because
of his alliance with the Tigers,
Steve thought it best to remove
any technical connection with the
Cardinals which © Commissioner
Landis might question and asked
for his reinstatement so that he
could be officially released.

Joplin’s Yankee output in the
W. A. this year will work with
Binghampton, N. Y., instead of the
Kansas City Blues. ... Ferrell
Anderson, rumpus-stirring catcher,
goes to Norfolk in the Class B
Piedmont League; Outfielder Ar-
nold Traxler and Pitcher Ken
Jacobsen to Wenatchee of the
Western International. . . . Harl
Hamilton, the St. Joe owner, and
Gene Sullivan, sports editor of the
St. Joseph Gazette, visited yester-
day with Pete Mitchell, owner
of the Owls. ... Mitchell also got
a wire from Hack Wilson saying
he planned to don a suit in the San
Francisco Seal camp today.

Members of the Hi-12 Club

yesterday not only heard E.

C. Quigley ramble twenty-five

minutes thru his interesting

athletic career but they got
tokens to boot. E. C. Nash,
who introduced Quig, was pre-
sented a leather-bound copy

 

present got a miniature Na-
tional League baseball and the "
youngest received an auto-
_ graphed ball used in the third
game of last year’s world
series. . . , Billy Dewell, the
former S, M. U. athlete, is
visiting in Newton and Dodge
City prior to reporting for
pitching service at Muskogee
again.

Note to Kenny (Pitt Sun
Simons: I say Ernie (One Grand
Schmidt was six-feet-three whe
he played in your town. My op
ponent in a small wager says h
was only six-two. Who wins?..
Incidentally, Schmidt’s  scorin;
record in the Central Conference
was not broken by Francis Lync!
of St. Benedicts, as some have i
ferred. Schmidt’s 1932 averag
was 15 points per game. Lyncl
averaged 13.6 which was bette
than Lloyd Tucker’s 13.4 of a yea:
ago. ... The Ottawa Herald fron
paged an editorial on Dick God
love following his seventh straigh
Kansas Conference championshij
Monday. The essence was this
“Godlove’s teams are smarter tha
their rivals.”

Basketball
Popularity
Is Growing

New York, March 6.—(A. P.)
Basketball is fifty years old, bu
it keeps attracting more and more
attention.

 

: play on the final program of

Pittsburg. His team shared

- of the Guide. The oldest man

In answer to an Associated

 
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SPORTS

Thursday, March 7, 1940

 

Authority on Playoff Arrangements

‘Press query on what is what in
the cage game and why, the na-
tion’s coaches and observers all
agreed on one thing—the growth
in popularity of the game is the
most encouraging and universal
sign noted.

N. Y. U. Plays Before 18,318

As a prime example, the collegi-
ate doubleheaders in Madison
‘Square Garden this year played to
212,672—and baskethall’s biggest
crowd, the 18,318 for the New
York University-St. John’s and
Long Island doubleheader was sur-
passed only once all winter and
that. by a fight mob of nearly
20,000 that turned out to see Lou
Ambers give Al “Bummy” Davis
a boxing lesson.

In the New England area there
has been increased interest both
in number of spectators and
schools playing the game,

Holy Cross has put a quintet on
the floor now, and Boston College
will follow suit as soon as it has
a gym. Other New England schools
to take up basketball recently are
Maine, Bates, Colby and Assump-
tion College—and the Maine col-
leges have been playing to packed
houses all this year!

Grows in Southwest

Possibly the next most impor-
tant growth of the game has come
in the Southwest. The tip-off that
basketball has finally reached an
unquestioned status there are
those crowds of 7,000 that filled
the beautiful new Texas Univer-
sity fieldhouse all season.

2 :
University of Michigan intra-
‘}mural department is experiment-
ing, with convex basketball back-
boards.

 

 

 

Sooners Want Vote
lf Race Is Tied;
Games to Wichita?

Allen's N.C.A.A. Dates
Force Aggies to Fly;
K. U. to Norman Friday

Norman, Okla., March 6.—(A.
P.)—Bruce Drake, University of
Oklahoma basketball coach, ex-
pressed surprise tonight when in-
formed that Dr. F. C. Allen, Kan-
sas coach, had announced a Big
Six Conference playoff—in event
of a tie—would be held at Wichita,
Kan.

“It’s news to me,” said Drake.
‘I don’t know a thing about it.

What’s more, I don’t care—much..

All we're thinking about down here
is Friday night’s game with Kan-
sas.”

Jays May Cinch Title

Oklahoma,and Kansas wind up
the season here. Friday night.
Kansas must defeat. the Sooners
to earn a clear-cut claim. to the
title. If Oklahoma wins, the title
will be shared jointly by Kansas,
Oklahoma and Missouri.

The playoff then would be neces-
Sary on March 11 and 12 to deter-
mine the Big Six representative
in the N. C. A. A. Fifth District
against the Oklahoma Aggies, Mis-
souri Valley champions. —

“However,” Drake said, “it looks
to me as if we should have’ a voice

jin selecting the site of a playoff

than 2:50 o’clock the afternoon of
the sixteenth. That won’t slow
our boys down any more than a
train ride from Nebraska or Kan-
gas would, and they’ll still have
five or six hours to rest.”
The Aggies qualified for the N.
C. A. A. district playoff by win-
ning the Missouri Valley title.
Kansas now leads the Big Six race.

NO CHANGE IN DATES
Kansas City, Maren 6.—(A. P.)
—Dr. F. C. Allen, Kansas Univer-

|sity basketball coach and manager

of the Western N. C. A. A. final
tournament, said today the Big
Six representative and the Missouri
Valley champion would meet in
Oklahoma City March 16 to de-
termine one of the meet’s entrants.

Oklahoma A. & M., Missouri
Valley titleholder, will compete in
a New York tournament March 11
to 15 and will fly to Oklahoma
City during the night for the game
next day. ;

If Oklahoma defeats Kansas
Friday night the three Big Six
teams, Missouri, Oklahoma and
Kansas, which will share the con-
ference title will select their repre-
sentative in a playoff at Wichita
March 11 and 12.

A Jayhawk. triumph ‘Friday

would give Kansas the title and

eliminate need of the Wichita

meet.

Three other quintets from west
of the Mississippi and the March
16 winner will compete here March
22 and 23 for the right to oppose
the Eastern champion on the same
ie March 30 for the national

itle, ;

 

 
if we’re going to be in it. Nobody
said anything to me about it. I
don’t know whether George Ed-
; wards, the Missouri coach, was
consulted or not.”
Drake added he didn’t want to
“cross any bridges before we come
to them,” indicating he was willing
|to.wait until after Friday night’s
game before discussing the situa-
tion further, *

Sets Playoff for March 16

Allen, as chairman of the N. C.

A. A. Fifth District, has set the
| playoff between the champions of
the two conferences for March 16
at Oklahoma City.

Stillwater, Okla., March 6.—(A.
P.)—It’s a long jump between New
York and Oklahoma City, but the]
|Oklahoma Aggies—fast enough to
show their heels’to their basketball
foes in twenty-five consecutive
;|games—are going to romp _ in
Madison Square Garden and Okla-
homa City’s auditorium on succes-
| Sive nights. |

Coach Henry Iba, who must have
his Missouri Valley champions
|back in Oklahoma City March 16
|to meet the Big Six Conference
winners in the fifth district N. C.
A. A. playoffs, accepted an invi-
tation today to play in New York’s
Metropolitan tournament, March
| 11 to 15.

|To Travel by Plane
“We're going to keep faith with
jour followers at home and enter

‘

jsaid, “hut we’re going to New
| York, too.

“This may seem a little hoggish,
but my seniors want to make the|
trip East and it may be the last
|time that an A. and M. team ever
|has such an opportunity.

“I’ve scouted the possibilities of
|playing in both tournaments from
|every angle and here is what we
|can do:
| “We'll leave Oklahoma City
next Tuesday morning by _air-
plane. Tuesday is the twelfth, but
we don’t have to play in the Gar-
den until March 13. We automat-
ically go into the semifinals. Win|
or lose in the semifinals, we play|
again Friday night, March 15.

“Ned Irish (promoter of the New
York tourney) promised me over|
long distance telephone this morn-|
ing to start our game early enough
the night of the fifteenth so that]
we will be able to reach the airport|
in time ot catch that 11:10 p. m.
plane out of New York.

Plenty of Rest

“Our kids will go right to bed in
a fourteen-passenger sleeper and|
arrive in Oklahoma City not later

|
|

 
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Chairman, Sth District, NCAA.

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WESTERN UNION

Wichita, Kansas
Mare} 1 ye 1940.

Dre Forrest Ce Allen.

Edwards fevors plan judging by telephone conversations
Assured me they would be ine Things looking great heres
Do you need comtract? Contact me before leaving for Normans
Will see you theres Regards. -

Jack Copeland, Sports Editor,
Wichita. Beacons

 
 

March 7, 1940.

George Edwards, ;
University of Missouri,
C olumbia, Moe

each of
Have conferred with mmrkiom Big Six faculty representatives.
All, with exception of Dre Shirkey, Have their unequivocal approvalefor
NeCoAeke committee handling Big Six play-off this year. Please notify

Dre Shirkeye

Forrest C. Allen,
Chairman, 5th Diste NeCoAehe

 
 

 

March 7, 19406

George Edwards,
University of Missouri,
Columbia, Moe

Have conferred with one: Big Six faculty representatives.
All, with exception of Dr. Shirkey, pave their unequivocal approvalefor
NeCoAshe committee handling Big Six play-off this yeare Please notify
Dre Shirkeye

Forrest C. Allen,
Chairmen, Sth Distse NeCeAehs

 
 

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Norman, Oklehortie

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