Kansas Shatters Inept
Missouri Club, 73-56

"KANSAS CIEY: Mo., Ded °30.—
Kansas’ fast-moving Jayhawks
showed the form.that prompted
the experts to make them Big
Seven conference basketball title
favorites here Thursday night as
they scored an easy, 73-56, «tri-
umph over an inept Missouri club.

Kansas faced only two threats
from the sour-shooting Tigers
who the night before Had to go
all out to knock off an underdog
hut determined Nebraska five:

| Four times in the second half
Aascoui came back to within
fi ur points. of the Jayhawkers,

oi Mes , 39-48, 43-47, 45-49 and. 47-51
vats but could get no closer as
the Jayhawks worked out of a
comparative ‘deep freeze” to
“regain a eomntoriable: pee and
coasted in.

Eight ‘quick pofiits i four by
Lew Johnson and two each by
|Dallas Hobbs and Gene Elstun..
, in a two-minute 21-second stretch

.|to. the Tiger cause.

 

early in the ate
killing blow to the Tigers

Except for
the second h
never pressed
sixth victory again!
losses.

Big Chuck Denny and Bill Haas
collected Missouri’s points in its
ili-fated rally but couldn’t keep
pace with the point production
of Kansas’ Elstun, Johnson and
Lea Green with the pressure on.
Elstun’s 22 points was the game’s
best effort.

Ross and Norm. Stewart split
scoring honors for the Tigers with
14 points each but Stewart’s poor
average of six-for-24 from the
field certainly was a detriment
The rugged
6-foot 4-inch senior had been

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scoring at a 26.3-per-game aver-,
age going into the tournament.
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