w.. —— sporting a 1-2 record in noncon- ference competition, will get into the thick of action while students| _ are enjoying Christmas holidays. | The cagers have five ae sched-}: uled: during: this period... Brie . Saturday night ‘Wildcats an ay play a home game against Wash-|_ ington, a team. the Cats - defeated oS ‘three times © Tuesday - Ahearn Field House. The K-State cagers will play three games at| ...—-.. . the conference preseason tourna- ; ment, with California the first K-| |. State opponent. who started his first game of the season in the 70-50 Wildcat win over Wyoming last week, is pacing the Cat scoring attack with a 3- game total of 38 points for a 12.7. average. Smith has tallied on 7 of 14 field goal attempts and 24 of 34 freé throw tries. Vicens, sophomore Puerto Rican| - 7. guard, who has tallied 30 points, along with center Rove aa Vicens has con=ected Poet OF 14 * sghets from the free-throw line. Craft has a 40.7 field-goal aver-| age, with 11 goals in 27 tries. “~mwelve Cat cagers have their names in the scoring column SO0| ». | far this season. Other Cats who ; have scored are J. R. Snyder. 25.5] Joe Powell and Kent Poore 17, Gene Wilson 14, Dick Stone 12, Jerry Jung 8, Bill Hull and Ron|1. Flynn | §, and Fred. Schneider 5. Saturday, received honorable men- tion. in the United Press cage rat- ings this. week on the strength of z 89-60 and 69-58 — wins over the}: - University: of Hawaii. -Cagers Huskies Are Court Foes On Saturday ' K-States basketball squad, last season. Next! Indiana ~- will JIM SMITH, senior forward Right behind him is 5-9 Pachin . ‘Washington, K-State’ s foe. here | PACING THE HUSKIE team again this season is 6-8 center’ Dean Parsons, wee — int ' ae mS tiv dde. ie Se