And _ for good

favorites
garnished

mounting a 4-1 level vapieh the
early going.

Staleup’s club is built on solid
veterans. Two of these, Bob. Rei-
ter, 6-9 center, and Med Park, 6-2,
20:-pound forward, are playing
their fourth season. The other reg-
ulars are Norm Stewart, strapping
6-4 junior forward who ranked with!
Kansas’ Dallas Dobbs as the loop’s
‘finest sophomore last ‘season; Red
Reichert, lettered junior, and Lio-
nel Smith, talented 6-14 sopho-
more, who man the backline.

Cal Is Guest Team

Colorado and guest team Cali-
ifornia both are regarded as better
than the two Kansas schools at this,
‘writing. How good both might be
\likely will be reflected from analy-
sis of their weekend series at
Berkeley.

Missouri and Colorado are clus-)
tered in the tourney’s upper brack-
et which means, of course, that
only one of them could reach the.
finals. '

First round games in the upper)
bracket pit Colorado against Okla-
homa and.Nebraska against Mis-
souri Monday, December 27. The
next night, Kansas plays Iowa
State and K-State meets California |
in lower bracket play.