play and Sherwood is doing a good job of ite He came out rather late in the
season after some Navy restrictions, but is showing improvement with

every gamee

Bob Turner, V-12, from Seattle, Washington, went home during the
Christmas holidays, as did Lloyd Palmer. They got none of the fundamentals
that the boys generally get during Christmas, so there has been quite a
turnever. The men who stayed at Christmas time, many of them, are not
playing on the team now, meaning that had we had many of these other boys
during Christmas our team perhaps would have been further alonge

Charles Moffett, from Peabody, was inducted into the service, went
to Ft. Leavenworth for three days and developed a very bad case of asthma
and hay fever when they put him to sweeping out the barracks. He was
discharged from Leavenworth, and played a sterling game at tailback in
football and is doing a fine job in basketball.

Joe Brasch, V-12, fran Spokane, Washington, has been coming along but
has not broken in any of the games. Gordon Stucker, alternate to Amapolis,
is a local boy, having played a fine game at end on the feotball team, and
started out brilliantly at the beginning of the season in basketball but has
suffered a slump in his offensive powere

At the present time the line up is Don Barrington and Charles Moffett
at forward; Homer Sherwood at center and quarterback; and Bob Turner and
Sparky MeSpadden, captain, at guarde Bill Lindquist, Gordon Stucker,
Willard Frank, Don Diehl, Bob Malott and George Dick are first alternates,
but it seems that no canbination will work from one game to the next. It
is like shuffling the boys' names in a hat and drawing them oute I never
can pick a line-up from one game to the next. The boys that play splendidly
in one game will play disappointingly in the next.

But why should this not be the case? All of these boys come from
different sections of the country, under different systems, and being
freshmen in all cases, with the exception of Sparky, naturally we should
not expect moree But this is a war year and we are hoping the thing will
be over some time when we can all get back to old Mt. Oread and show our
friends that Kansas still has the punch.

I want to say that this group of boys is a fighting bunch, but they
lack intelligent fight. They fail in their fundamentals, which, after all,
is real basketball. In times of excitement one reverts to previous experiences
and this accounts for many lapses in strategy and good fundamental playing
that would have brought us victory had we carried through on our fundamentals.
For instance, we lost to Oklahoma 24 to 23 at Lawrence on January 21 because
Oklahoma made 10 out ef 12 free throws, and we made 3 out of 8e We outscored
them in field goals, as we did at Norman last Saturday night, by a 3 goal
margine Oklahoma got 15 out of 17 free throws and Kansas got 5 out of 15.
The boys just tighten up on the free throw mark and can't hit. I have never
hada team that was consistently this poor on free throws. And yet every
day we throw 50 free throws against competition and I go around from fellow
to fellow working on them. They hit good in practice, although some of them
are as discouraging as my good old friend, Lt. Johnny Kline, who threw them
up there from every angle and by every known and unknown method. But Johnny
did come through, but it wasn't his first year that he did it. It was when
he became a seniore I am sure that if we had a few sophomores and juniors
on the outfit instead of freshmen we would make a better showing.

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