2nd in a seriss of three

A 6-9 lencth of lefthander, Kansas' 8% H. Born ,

 

SY pe the prime euardian of bhe post-man's unbroken string of
individual Bip Seven tournament scoring champions when the eighth
‘teed. néet gets out of the sterting blocks Saturday wien’ tn
Kansas City.

, Hite yhenenencn of pivoteman dominancs of th e
tourney peint race Was dripiadted by Oklahoma's “erald Tucker in
196, — the meet was founded in the final year of the old Bi 2
Six. fhe hefty, bol Sooner center rimied 6) ooinks over the three-
game route despite OU's first weed upset at the hends of;, Kansas
State. This whood ex a tournament record for x four yoars pefore
the Jayhauker Colussus, Clyde Lovellette, fingered home 82 markers
as a junior in 1950.

Since Tucker's auspicious start, the loop's

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centers Laven! allowed the individual point flag BEX escape the
“keyhole brigade in seven consecutive meets. Bill Waters, the pon-
derous hoes sho suceeded Tucker as 0U's top pivet, also followed him
as tournament scoring monarch with hO points in 194.7. This rep-
vegente the*-all-tine low for «4 meet BEXRX point title but it still
was good enough to edge Larélid inion, “ar forward of Keneas
State's champions by two lengths.

KU's Gene Petersen , although a forward most
of his career, ‘iaeed the post in the 1948 meet and thereby main-
tained a skein by bagging the scoring pennant at 5l.

Here is the breakdown on the current streak: