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U.¢ C.L. A. Starts Tee Water Trickle

 

GREAT THAW

By WILL. CONNOLLY

AW NOT k HERE YET

Although the first faint trickle of melted ice water from the great freezeout of 1935 was
heard the other day when University of California at Los Angeles admitted Santa Clara to
its football schedule, we feel it our duty to warn Hopeful independents not to expect the thaw
to come in the immediate future. __..

It would be a shame to lift the expectations of the Northern California untouchables too

high, only to dash them to ground, more miserable than before.

U. C. L. A. was more anxious to
obtain Santa Glara for the No-
vember 18 open date in the Los
Angeies Coliseum than the Bron-

cos were to oblige the Bruins, if
the truth were known. Santa
Clara was already fixed with the
most attractive and representative
schedule it has enjoyed in many a
season, what with Utah, Texas A.
& M., Purdue and Michigan State
aligned, in addition te standard
rivals, and* the Bronco did the
Bruin a mutual favor by agreeing
to go south.

The U. C. L A. open date was a
worry to the management, so
much so that University of San
Francisco, a new power, and Loy-
ola..of Los Angeles, lifted by the
appointment of Mike Pecarovich as
coach, were solemnly considered
before the Broncos were signed.

Both U. S. F. and Loyola .asked
for the date, but Santa Clara had
its oar in front, dating from the
time Coach Buck Shaw was inter-
viewed by Bruin officials with a
view toward interesting him in re-
placing Bill Spaulding.

Buck politely rejected the honor, -

but being a tender man, softened
the severity of his refusal by sug-

‘| gesting the Broncos were willing -
*, to play the Bruins, just to show

no hard feelings existed.

The union of Santa Clara and
U. C. L. A. for one year only, so
far aS we can see, is merely a hot
water bottle placed at the cold

_feet-of-the- independents and not

JOHN BUNN

a complete resuscitation from the

rigors of exposure.

Just yesterday,
clined an invitation for a 1940
booking with U. S. F. with thanks,
and the possibility of Santa Clara
being returned te the California
schedule is highly remote until

‘such time as the southern mal-

contents, U. S. C. and U. C. L. A.
exert their influence to modify the
round robin.

The Trojans, in particular, now
being in the ascendancy, think it
beneath their dignity to play be-

fore county fair gatherings of -

10,000 or 12,000 souls in the far
reaches of Oregon and Washing-
ton, University of Washington ex-
cepted, when a St. Mary’s or a

‘Santa Clara or even a U.S. F. or
_ Loyola game in-the home coliseum

 

Stanford de- |

would produce thrice the tariff
and no wearisome travel.

When the break of the ice jam —
does come, if it does, it ‘will be
from the Trojans and Bruins, our
maligned southern neighbors, who,
we are beginning to think, are not

/a bad sort after all.
©" An encouraging piece of news is

that there is agitation among
some of the finer minds of basket~
ball, including Dr. Phineas “Phog”
Allen of Kansas, the patriarch, to
lift the basket: from its present 10
feet above the floor to 12 feet.

These men are inspired to con-
sider a change in the practice
of concentrating tall or on
teams whose 6 foot 4 and 6 foot 5
inches come to the level of the
basket rim when they reach for
tap-in shots.

A 6 foot 4 man, of which there
is a plentitude roaming basketball
courts, may actually drop the ball

‘into the hoop instead of shooting

it upward, ac originally intended
by the founders.

The presence of so many long
fellows has reduced basketball to
a freakish demonstration and has
put an almost unbearable handi-
cap on finer athletes of normal
height, say, 5 feet 16 or Il.

We have seen tall clowns born
without any gift for athletics,
prosper in basketball solely on the
accident of extreme height. In

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