JAYHAWK REBOUNDS
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No. 14

March 14, 1945

Final Big Six Conference Standings in Basketball

: WoL Pts OP Pet
Towa State.

: Sede 6 24% OF 2800
Kansase eeesnecersenest & OS SEF 760
Oklahoma, «2«+«2es2ee2285 § 420 412 .500
Missouri. *eoenpeeeeste 5 §& S77 468 2000
Kansas States «2. -2«ees-et% S&S 445 448 400
Nebraskas, «eee eececeel 9 447 509 100

Dear Fellow Jayhawkers:

My, how time flies§ That was impressed upon me years ago when I was a teen-
age youngster as I walked in Heinie Kaboobler's liot Air Cafe, and staring me in
the face was a big clock, the second and minute hands stepped up twenty times,
electrically. As those hands went whigg$ng around the clock, the caption below
was, "My, how time flies."

That seems to me literally true now because as the years roll by the second

hand and the hour hand seem to accelerate themselves, and now I find that my last

Jayhawk Rebounds was written on January 19. And I had promised in my own mind and
heart that you fellow Jayhawkers on the seven seas and the many fighting fronts
would have a letter fromm each month. To err and to procrastinate is human. I
guess I am one of those guilty fellows.

  
 

The day before we started for Iowa State at Ames on March 1, I was sure that
the Rebounds would have been dictated and I would reserve a flash for the result --
we were hopeful then} But with the myriad of duties I have deferred until today to
write this letter. But this morning - the day when we go to Dean Corder's domicile
at Welda, Kansas, where his father, Lee R. Corder, is superintendent of schools,
for the purpose of a basketball banquet, = I am going to write this, come hell or
high water. You remember the old grandpappy down in Arkansas, When the floods
came the neighbors had all gathered on a high hill, and as the river rushed down
the narrow valley they noticed a straw hat moving to and fro across the water, The
neighbors marveled, and said, “Look at that straw hat moving back and forth, and
not downstream’ What a peculiar phenomenon!” (although the Arkansawyers used a
different word.) One young hillbilly said, "Why, don*t you remember, Grandpappy
said he was going to mow that lawn, come hell or high water." .. . That is a
rotten joke, but I had to make my point. ;

Now, into the story of the Big Six Conference race. In my January Rebounds I
gave you the set-up of the race and the personnél of the team. You will see from
the final Big Six Conference standings that Iowa State had what it took. They de-
feated Oklahoma at Oklehoma City, and Kansas State at Manhattan, on Saturday and
Monday night prior to meeting us at Ames and defeating us on the following Friday.
They defeated Nebraska earlier in the season at Lincoln, That was the difference.