Jayhawks Are Unsteady Heading Into Tourney ' ! | | JAYHAWK SCOREBOARD. Record to Date—Ninety-one Northwestern 70: 56 Wichita .55; 74 Wisconsin 66; 61 S, M. Y. 81; 66 Rice 75; 62 S. M. U,. 58s W. 4, Li. 2s ‘ Aebiienthe ‘Lettermen—(9) ae Brainard, | f3° Dallas Dobbs, g.; Elst a i : Lee Green, f.; Blaine Hollinger, ie Se c.; Ron Johnston, nurite King. Bi John Parker, g. 195 om ela Finish—Fitth, 5-7; all games: erioee: Toarhdee ent Finishes—1946- 2nd; 1947-3rd; 1948-2nd; 1949-6 1950- 3rd; 1951- ‘1st; od, 2nd; 1953- ist? 1954-7th (W. 18. L. .667). Remaining Pre- Hpueha tiene Games—None. First _Round Opponent—Cornell, 9: 30 Wednesday. ANSAS, which has reached the Big Seven “tournament finals more than any other team, has struggled fitfully to gain the 4-2 record it will carry into the tenth annual affair which opens [Tuesday for a 4-day run in Mu- nicipal Auditorium. | The Jayhawkers, most high- jFanked Big Seven team in the ivarious pre-season polls, have} pene sharp .only ih.their open-|t jing 91-70 annihilation of North- |western, a club which has lost jall five games to date. |were pressed to the limit to |Wichita, 56-55; Wisconsin, 74- ie 5 M. U., in a.return match, 162-58. Meanwhile S. M. U. meted lout) an -81-61 flogging in the jteams’ first meeting at Dallas and Rice beat them by nine, latter once leading by 19, 75-66, jat Houston. | Play in Spurts. ? Bmbeotdered™ by a full comple- ‘ment of seasoned starters and ‘more lettermen than any tour- mnament. team; nine, Kansas has F been. ‘playing in spurts. It has} not enjoyed a .genuinely hot shooting night yet, something that was expected at least once or twice during the first six games. It is’ experiencing grief with both its. defense ‘and per- sonnel and taking a fearful ‘whipping off the backboards. | The Jayhawkers have out-re- bounded only Northwestern and |S. M. U., the latter by one carom in their’ ‘second game ... while falling far short. against its other four opponents. This is traceable. to two factors: (1) Lack of a modern- -day giant, and (2) an-attitude of non-aggression, | Lew Johnson, holdover varsity jcenter, is 6-644; not lofty by mod- ern post standards. He is the Hawkers’ tallest regular, which brackets them with Oklahoma and Missouri in that department. The unaccountable docility of this year’s edition is a far cry from all previous Jayhawk edi- tions of this decade. Another unlooked-for item is absence of bench strength. Phog Allen, starting his 39th season at Mt. Oread, thought he was going j {Bill Brainard, who closed as a} ts be able to employ ten men at the outset of the season. Instead six or seven are carrying the entire load. Until some of the second liners’ arrive, the Ole Kinghawk of the Kaw will be) playing with as little depth as| any. club in the league Save| Oklahoma. | The Potential Is There. Even with their weaknesses] showing, the Jayhawkers own| enough potential to shoot down! any tournament team. Their) backline fire-power from Capt.| Dallas Dobbs and the rising) Maurice King is second only to} that of Missouri’s Norm Stewart! at Lionel Smith (29.3°points per} 8). The revolv-| se places an added defense since all e Dobbs can work what once was called ey have employed the o games seldom ‘offers a shgdting gallery for any team. e zone also helps this club off e defensive boards where it »}can present no 200-pound regu- lar as well as no real loft. Dobbs, because of his out-| side shooting touch, is- a rare} weapon: His current~ 14.9 av-) erage is no eyebrow lifter, but he has been known to explode in torrid stretches of three or four games during which he fires at a 25-point average. Such a Streak during the tournament could vault the Kansans into| their sixth finals berth in ten| meets, King established a new career| single-game high of sixteen | the los sat Dallas then followed with successive nights of twenty against Rice and S. M. U, Gene Elstun, who scored fifty- eight points as a sophomore last year tojfinish fifth among meet| scorers, handles one forward.}| | regular opposite him last year, started off in the same spot. However, his shooting tailed off to the point where Allen played Ronnie Johnston, junior letter- man, most of the way against Rice and started Lee Green, 6-5 lettered junior, in the S, M. U. encore, Cornell Is Capable. Cornell, this year's . guest) team, appears capable of top-| pling Kansas in the finale of the} 4-game first-round card, at! 9:30 p. m., Wednesday. Mis-| souri and Nebraska play the) opener that night at 7:30. Colo/| rado’s defending conference champions open against Okla-! homa at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday with Iowa State vs. Kansas State fol-. lowing. TOP TEN SCORERS SINGLE Sa Side Lovellette, ec, Kansas Clyde Lovellette, c, Kansas | Maynard Johnson, c, Minnesota ;Chuck Duncan, a Towa State wc. |Dick Knostman, . oe State