K.C. Makes Bid for Tourney

If a turnout is any coenian|
| Kansas City will have the
IN. C.A.A. basketball tournament
as an annual affair for last night
an official count of 8,551 paid
admissions jammed into the Mu-
[eee Auditorium for the West-
iern Divisional semifinals.
crowd was the largest ever to see

a collegiate basketball game in)

‘Kansas City.

A crowd of equal propor-
tions is expected for the di-
visional finals tonight in
which Kansas and Southern
California will meet.

Half an hour before game time
‘the outer lobby was so crowded
ithe Rice Institute players had dif-
‘ficulty in reaching the court and

‘the spectators with tickets could} '

hardly. get in to use them.

All but about 10 seats “upstairs”
were occupied and many were
| standing on the arena floor.

Few halls in the country
will accommodate more spec-
tators and none is more ideal-'

ly located. A crowd of 5,500
home state fans watched In-
diana reach the Eastern fi-
nals at Indianapolis last
night.

Games tonight should draw
equally well and, if Kansas
\reaches\the National finals, which
| will be presented at the Audi-
'torium March 30, extra bleachers
/may have to be provided.
| Kansas Turns Out

-A good part of last night’s
attendance was made up of

Kansas supporters ... When

the Lawrence, Kas., High

School band came out with

“Alma Mater,” the Jayhawk

song, nearly half of the audi-

ence .came to its feet...

The |

 

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"What's He Doing?’

Sam Barry, coach of the U.S.C...

team, points out to a sub the
mistake of a Trojan player.

 

Kansas was the crowd fa-
vorite, however, for even
the Missouri players who
watched the game were pull-
ing for the Missouri Valley
representatives.

Jayhawks Accurate

Kansas had by far the: best
bucket eyes last night...
The Jayhawkers connected
on 33.9 per cent of their shots

. . Southern California hit
on 25.8 per cent, Rice on 26.7
and Colorado on only 16.7 ~
per cent.

Kansas got 21 buckets from 62
tries; Southern California, 15 in
56; Rice, 20 in 75, and Colorado,
11 in 66. . . Donn Hendricks,

 

‘La. “Texas
across. a part of the balcony and
-leame armed with cowbells, but

-| U.S.C. coach,
‘the. bench.
-|tions during a*game are master-

 

mr one of Colorado’s leading marks-

men, hit only 3 in 25 attempts.

A band of Rice supporters had
” “banner — stretched

found few occasions to use them
. . . Howard Engleman, of Kan-
sas, high scorer for the night, got

‘great hands from the crowd

when he left or re-entered the
game... The Jayhawks, led by
Dr. F.C. Allen, coach were nearly
swamped by well-wishers after
the game . . . Both Kansas and
Rice stayed ta see the second
game..

The crowd contained scores
of former Kansas athletes,
among them Hook Fisher,
Duteh Schaake, Armin Woes-
temeyer, Rub Thomson, T. C.
Bishop, Fred Bosilevac, Art
Lawrence, Theno Graves and
Vern Wilkin ... . Dick Harp,
the former Rosedale athlete,
was the K.U. captain for the
game... Kansas started off
in race horse fashion and Bob
Allen was ‘particularly  jit-
tery. -His first three or four
shots nearly. knocked the
backboard down.

Kinney was covering Engle-
man, but Coach Brannon, of Rice,
later shifted Palmer on the K.U.
scoring ace Sam Barry,
is a wild man on
His facial contor-

pieces . C. Quigley had to
reprimand the Trojan student
manager for shouting instruc-
tions to the team . . Selman,
husky Rice guard, apologized to
Don Ebling after charging into
the diminutive Kansas. forward

. . Bob Doll revealed why he
was selected the most valuable
player in the recent New York
tourney. ‘The big Coloradon was
a power under both baskets.

 

K.U.Given |
Good Chance
Tonight ©
© Southpaws

Hold Stage.
In N.C.A.A. -Finals

Starting Line-Ups

No, Kansas Pos.
y Ebling ay eras
Engleman aC See
2 Allen C
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4 Miller
20 Harp Lipper
Officials—Lou Vidal and Ab ‘Curtis,
No. Rice Pos, Colorado.
22 Graddock :
12 Gomez P Hendricks
23 Kinney Cc arvey
Thurman, _

25 Selman area
10
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No.
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19 Carswell G Ha
it Officials—-Dud DeGroot and Ted
van.

By Norb Garrett

A pair of sharpshooting ‘south-
paws, Howard Engleman of Kan-
sas and Ralph Vaughn. of the
University of Southern Califor-
nia, have been cast for the. lead-
ing roles in the basketball drama

tonight in the Municipal Audi-
torium that will determine the
western champion of the Nation-
al Collegiate Athletic Association.

There is more than a minute
possibility that a:>member of the
supporting. east will. steal - the
show tonight as Kansas -and.
U.S.C. struggle for the right to
represent the West. against the
Eastern regional: winner here one
week from tonight. For, neither
team is a 1-man aggregation by
any measurement, and the hero
tonight may be Ralph Miller,
Dick Harp, Don Ebling, John
Kline or Bob Allén.of Kansas, or
Don Sears, Jack Morrison, Tom
McGarvin or Jack Lippert of the
Trojans.

_ U.S.C. Edge on Paper ‘
On paper: the husky Califor-

nians rate a very mild edge, but

the performances of the two