This Fourth!
Place Matter

pe fourth place fuss with
Kansas City has our Leigh-
ton Hap Emms in a twit.

He isn’t dashing about nib-
bling at his nails. Nor does he
otherwise advertise the nervous
tension under which he’s living.

His grin’s still infectious, and
his’ voice is as friendly and
warm as a napping spot on the
south side of the barn on a
bright May afternoon.

But watch him handle his
cigar. He frays it with his teeth.
He neglects to touch fire to
the tip.

He hasn’t much farther to go
with his cigar before he’ll be
faithfully emulating old Pa
Schulte. Pa, as the world knows,
used to eat a large portion of
Pittsburgh’s annual stogie out-
put. :

* * *

Hockey’s That Way
H* said yesterday that Oma-

ha is taking the Knights’
presence in the playoffs as a
feat already accomplished. He
added that he wished to heaven
it were.

But it’s far from that, and as
evidence he pointed to what
Kansas City did to Minneapolis
Monday night.

Alert and aggressive again
after having floundered for 10
days in a slump that was
greeted with happy yips of joy
in this neighborhood, Kansas
City licked Minneapolis, 8 to 3.

That’s one intriguing—and dis-
tressing—aspect: of this hockey
game. Without warning, and
seemingly without reason, a
team becomes unable to lick
anybody. Then just as suddenly
and-unforecast, the team be-
comes able to lick almost every-
- bodys

 

* * &
So Viva Hickey!

ASKET  BALL—even _ this
rn ; owe
" Senseless scarom—offers
something of a parallel. At least
the marvelous Dr. Allen insisted
Tuesday that it did. And likely
Dr. Allen could haye obtained
indorsement of his views from
Edgar S. Hickey, whose pupils
on Monday night punctuated
with’ an outsize exclamation
point the end of a season that
must stand as a -tribute to Mr.
Hickey’s talent for. policing

undergraduate males.
Mr. Hickey’s wards beat the
-~marvelous Dr. Allen’s specialists
by two points, a happening
- which was logically and easily
explainable by both winners
and ‘losers as further evidence
of the unpredictability of basket

ball. ;