SPORTS NEWS SERVICE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI MARK COX, director Release Wednesday Pelle Probable Starting Lineups MISSOURI POSITION KANSAS Cooper z | Miller W. Harvey r Ebling Currence Cc Allen Lobsiger | | g Harp Nash g Vyoran Time----8:00 Thursday, Jan. 18. Place---Brewer Field House, Columbia, Mo. Officials---Parke Carroll (Kansas City) referee; Moe Pressley (Omaha). Coluibin. Mo., Jan. 15----A premature denouement in the Big Six title race finds the University of Missouri's dauntless basketball team pitted against the Kansas "Pony Express", here Thursday nights As the title race evolves into heated battle, the saga of another Kansas rush to the forefront becomes 4 reality. With Oklahoma already having been sidetracked by the precision- like attack of the Kansas com. successful defense of the Missouri- Oklahoma co-championship laurels falls to Goach George Edwards' Tigers The Fates have been kind to the Missourians and the impending en- counter finds the Jayhawks meeting the titleholders on the Brewer Field House court where the Tigers have won 10 consecutive games. In their last appearance before a Missouri crowd, the Kansans were deci» sively trounced. Big guns of the Kansas attack are Dick Harp, Bob Allen, Ralph Miller, and Howard Engleman. Their cooly executed floor play, calcu- lated shots, and driving finishes have earned them the title given to the historic figures who ones raced across the broad sweep of Kansas (more ) “ered aati al se 5 ni Sheth