ual: SCOREBOARD Hareld Keith of Oklahoma wrote that ‘Coach Bruce Drake welcomed the Sooners’ eastern basketball | trip “with its handicaps of cracker- box courts, slick floors, weird offic- iating interpretations and hostile crowds.” Drake’s idea seemed to be, ac- cording to Tub Thumper Keith, that | the jaunt would ideally season his ‘team for “the difficult Big Six con-— _ ference race.” | Well, the Sooners couldn’t miss ‘getting plenty of seasoning, but 'what New Yorkers would like to know is when the Madison Square ‘Garden floor was reduced to the size of a crackerbox. . : | It is apparent that the good: peo- iple of the prairie have taken. Dr. ‘Forrest C. Allen of Kansas. too seriously. If they don’t watch out, Dr. Phog Allen eventually will convince them college football is on its way out. Dr. Allen has been shouting that for a decade. What happens to old ball play- ers? They go into the bowling. busi- ness, and some of them don’t wait until they’re finished. : Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons is the latest recruit—in Brooklyn. In_ addition to Cracker Schalk, Ted Lyons, Jimmy. Archer and Art Meier, latter of the Pittsburgh When Jack Benny visits his old home town, Waukegan, he rolls on Bob O’Farrell’s beds. Red Faber is an operatot at Gray’s Lake, IIl., which gave the world Jim McMillin. wrestler, Don Kolloway, ‘the White Sox ‘youngster, is an overator in DeKalb, Ill, Mike Kreevich runs alleys in Shelbyville, Il. . Lefty Grove retired to his alleys at Lonaconing, Md., Jimmy Dykes has & couple of places in Philadel- outfield, have places in Chicago. the lineman and heavyweight