SOUEAK FOR K. U,

Fouls Play Major Role as Mis-
_souri Bows, 69-67, in Big 7
: Tourney Semifinals,

PLAY 10 CROWD ‘OF 9,500

Tigers Post 23 to 21 Margin in
* Field, but Can’t Match Kan=
=.’ sans on Charities. _

Jayhawks Lose 9-Point Halftime
Lead and Just Manage to
to Stave Off Late Rally.

ce BULLETIN.

2 Nebraska held a 40-34 lead
over Oklahoma at half-time of
the second game of the Big
Seven tournament semifinals
last night.

<While 9,500 fans cheered
and jeered and the of-
ficials blew their continu-
ous whistle obligatos,
Kansas and Missouri bas-
ketball teams hacked and
chopped their ways
through each other in the
semifinals of the Big
Seven pre-season basket-
ball tournament last
night. Kansas won, but
only by a nervous 69 to 67

score. |

“Fity-eight fouls were called
im the game, thirty on the Tigers
and-twenty-eight on the Kansans.
In- the final analysis it was the
whistle which decided the game.

Missouri got twenty-three field).

goals, to twenty-one for Kansas,

byt the Jayhawks converted
throws to

twenty-seven free

twenty-one for the always press:|

ing Tigers.
The game was a..0
demonstration of the ski
defense. Both teams determi
early that the opposition had to

walk over bodies to get to the p
basket and that was the way|Jxoh

they played it for an hour. and
forty-five minutes.

Kansas had been favored by
six and one-half points but this
was strictly survival of the fit-
test. |

“" Tigers Close the Gap.

Kansas led throughout the
game but never in the final stan-
za was the lead healthy except
forthe early minutes when the
_Jayhawks started with a 9-point,
58 to 49 bulge. In less than two

Injury May Sideline K-State’s!

J. R. Snyder Today.

“J. R. Snyder, Kansas. State’
forward who was injured late
in the game against Washing-
ton yesterday afterrioon in the
Big Seven pre-season tourna-’
ment, has either a cramp or
Charley horse, Coach .Tex:|
Winter-said last night.

“Whether or not Snyder will |
be available for today’s game |
against Iowa State will not be |
known until some time this |
morning, Winter added.

Snyder fell to the floor late |
in the fourth quarter and was |
carried from the floor. The in- |
jury was to his left knee..

 

sas went ahead with Patterson,
Dallas Dobbs and Larry Daven-|
port scoring to make it 18-7 for
the Jayhawks. Missouri man-|
aged to cut the gap to seven |
points twice in the period but}
wound up trailing, 15-23. =|

Again in the second Missouri |
got within seven points twice}
but never could narrow the gap]
to less than that figure. Kansas
at-one point held an 11-point
margin, 35-24, but wound up at
the-half with a 42-33 lead.

A technical foul on the Kansas
bench at one juncture. of the
second quarter caused a crowd|
uproar. Missouri converted it
into a point. Missouri had been;
able early in the game to break
men loose under the basket by
pulling the Kansas defense out,
but the Jayhawks got onto the|
strategy quickly and closed up.

Kansas's defense switched off

and closed the middle effec-
tively and the front line men
were hawking the ball consist-|
Missouri ball}
handlers. : 4
Karnisas
ounding during the}

uarters taking twenty- |

issouri, ten.

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Missed free throws: 2,
Patterson 2, McElroy 5, Born 4, Dobbs 1.}
Missouri—Park 3, Stewart 4, Cruts 2, Hols
. Elmore, Schoonmaker 6, Casteel, Sally 2,
Hughes 2.

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