_The K.U. NEWS BUREAU

W. A. Dix, Director

UNIVERSITY OF Kansas, LAWRENCE

get the ball for his team in the manner he formerly did. Before, he
stbod a strong chance of getting the ball for his team after every
goal. The team with the smaller center usually started with a virtual
handicap of 8 or 10 points. Although the shorter team may steal the
ball, it cannot do this very often against a smart tean, which keeps
chamgeing the direction of the tip.
Contact around the center circle always chilled me. The
vicious way in which players would smack together in attempting to
get the ball after it had been tipped, even jolted the spectators
and often led to unpleasantness among the players. On jump balls in
the present gane, possession of the ball is not so important and the
players do not spread out as much, thus do not have the running start.
In the Lawrence high-Rosedale game here last week, on the
opening tip-off, one of the players went high into the air after the
ball and someone else rushing up caught him across the back of the
legs. The player lit flat on his back and if his head had hit the floor,
he probably would have been knocked unconscbous. This sort of thing can
happen on other plays too, but with the center jump you have the situation
for something of this sort every time.

The matter of centers jumping into their opponents also
enters in. I remember Bill Hohnson used to take a terrible knocking
around this way. Other centers, especially Oklahoma's,would knock
Bill clear out of the circle sometimes in their efforts to wear out the
Kansas scoring ace. When you begin to get tired, this must hurt.

Because the game is longer, there is more scoring and
the game seems to have been speeded up too. Throwing the ball in after
a goal seems to get the teams in a running mood. I've never seen two
good g@ast break teams play, so am not qualified to speak on that style
of play. 3 Pitt HMM