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THE KANSAS CITY STAR, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY °22, 1942.

 

FAN INTEREGT UP

Many Fine Teams Will Compete
in National Intercollegiate
Tourney Here.

 

SAN DIEGO MAY ENTER

 

The Defending Champion, How-
ever, Is Having Difficulty Ar=
ranging for Trip.

TWO QUINTETS ARE IN

Victories in League Races Qualify
Murray, Ky. and. Warrens-
burg for Meet.

Tournament fever, a strange
malady that turns ordinary
citizens into stark, raving
basketball fans, reappeared

here last week.

Ever since the days of the old
A. A. U. tournament, the deadly
virus has been getting into people’s
blood streams at this time of year
and its only known cure is tourna-
ment basketball, the first dose of
which will be available starting
March 9 when the National Inter-
collegiate championship gets under
way in Municipal Auditorium.

A Show of National Interest.

The current version of the week’s
court show gives promise of being
a. rip-snortin’ finale to basketball’s
golden jubilee season. Its fight for
recognition behind it, the tourna-
ment has become a national event in
fact as well as in name, And the
court customers here are well aware
of this. Perhaps the most conclusive
‘proof is found in the advance ticket
sales, which to date amount to al-
most as much as the combined
figures of the four previous tourna-
ments.

To the fan in the street, the fiela
of starters does not appear as im-
portant as the headliners. From past
years he knows the thirty-two teams
qualifying will be the best in their
districts.. The majority will be
named to the starting field by: virtue
of sectional eliminations or confer-
ence championships.

This year, the fans have centered
their attention on whether or not
San Diego State of San Diego, Calif.,
is coming back to defend its title,
and whether West Texas State of
Canyon, Tex., will make another try
for the championship,

San Diego Hopes to Return.

So far, Emil S. Liston, tourna-
ment secretary, has been unable to
answer either question. From Mor-
tis H. Gross, coach of the champion
San Diego collegians, he’s received
word the team wants to return but
is having difficulty in working out
ways and means of negotiating the
trip. The basketball revenues from
its home games were cut sharply
for several weeks owing to the fact
the school gymnasium was put to
military use. In the next week or
60, Liston hopes the San Diegans
see their way clear foy the jaunt so
that they will be back to put on
more of their story Kook finishes
that, have -characterized their play
here in the last three years.

From beautiful Texas'no word has
come from Al Baggett on that state’s
starters. Baggett is chairman of
the Texas district and passes on all
entries. He’s also coach of the
much publicized West Texas Staters
who finished third last year,

Undoubtedly, the West Texas
team can qualify, inasmuch as they
are currently rated No. 2 in the na-
tion by basketball handicappers and
the top team of the South and
Southwest. Should the West Texans
again try for the championship, the
tournament would benefit owing to
their color and showmanship.

Other Texas teams that are being
mentioned for the tournament are
Texas Wesleyan, Texas Tech and
East Texas State.

Kentucky State of Murray, Ky.,
the 1941 runner-up, and Warrens-
burg Mules, champions of M. I. A.A.,
are the only qualifiers to date, but
two or three others are aS good as
enrolled. George Pepperdine college
of Los Angeles is one. This Los
Angeles team comes highly recom-
mended by Gross, the district chair-
man, and Sam Barry, the coach of
University of Southern California. It
holds victories over such worthies as
Occidental, St. Mary’s, and Santa
Barbara State.

THE HIGH STARS

(Continued. from Page 1B.)

Fast and in Friday’s finale with
Paseo he looped two long field goals
to turn back the Pirates’ gallant bid
for an upset, Rarely a_ starter,
Soper entered the games when the
Vikings showed a tendency to fall
apart and his ‘“quarterbacking” was
priceless.

Cramer Counts 19 in Game.

- Cramer is an excellent substitute
for Bounds. The Blue Eagle pivot
had his best night at scoring in the
Paseo game, hitting nineteen points
and ended the season in sixth place
with a 7.71 average.

Huggins is a hard driver and one
of the hest-liked players in the
league. His ready smile impressed
the opponents and his swift thrusts
for difficult goals made him a stand-
out on the Southwest squad.

The honorable mention list in-
cludes players who could be inserted
on the first and second teams and
with no great drop in efficiency re-
sulting. Webber banged in nineteen

 

A ? i t
points in Westport’s 32 to 31 victory | as ae a

over Southwest Friday and jumped
from eighth to second in the in-
dividual scoring.

Central ranked as the highest
scoring team with 208 points, and
East took top defensive honors, al-
lowing opponents only 117 points.
The final standings:

 

 

 

 

 

 
    
  

 

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Manual ........ 4 3 .571 172 178
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Westport Doo ego - 205: 176 = 203
Southeast eek 6 +143 177 241
Paseo lates Tn S 43 135 180
he scoring list:
F.G. F.T. Pts: Aver.
French, Central ... 18, 64, 9.14
Webber. Westport . 9 ‘59 8.42
Dethlefsen, Manual 14. 56 8.00
Saizow. Southwest .. 15 55 7.85
Cramer, Central . .. 2B TTL
Bounds, Northeast 13° 53}. 7.57
J. Nelson, East, . 135-7535, 57
‘Taibi. Northeast Denna iene Os Td
, DeLuna, Manua 20 44 6.28
Ramsey. East 10 42 = 6.00
Huggins. Southwes! By 88) B.S
Andres, Southwest B 38 5.43
Whaley. East ... 13° $10 #36 5,14
Churchill, Southwest.. 14 5 33 4.71
“Fahey, Southeast .... 9 15 33 4.71

 

SPORTS BRIEFS. :

Once Famous Jockey Dies,

RocHester, N. Y., Feb. 21—(A. P.)
—William S. Shaw, once one of
America’s best known jockeys, is
dead at 60. He rode for such turfmen
as Pittsburgh Phil Smith, William
C. Whitney and Davy Jchnson. In
Europe he carried the colors of
Baron Weinberg of Germany and of
members of the Rothschild family.

Star Rookie to Red Sox,

Lira, O., Feb, 21—(A. P.) —Gene
Kavanaugh, for two years an out-
fielder for the Lima Pandas of the
Ohio State league, will report March
1 to the Boston Red Sox training
camp at Sarasota, Fla., it was an-
nounced today. He hit 318 last sea-
son,

Detroit Player to Air Corps.

Furnt, Micw., Feb. 21—(A. P.)—
Pat Mullin, 24-year-old Detroit
Tiger cutfielder, disclosed tonight
that he planned to enlist in the
army air corps before the start of
the American league baseball season
and that he would not report to the
club’s training camp at Lakeland,
Fila.

REPEAT OVER HAWKLETS

 

 

WARD LOSES AN EARLY LEAD,
THEN SCORES A 35-31 VICTORY.

 

The Kansans Rally in the Last
Five Minutes of Play and Cling
to Ball After Getting
Back in Front.

 

Ward high school’s fighting Cy-
clones capitalized on the closing min-
utes of the basketball game to edge
out the Rockhurst high team, 35 to
31, last night at the Mason-Halpin
fieldhouse, for their second close vic-
tory in as many nights. It was the
secqnd Cyclone triumph over the
Hawklets this season,

Rockhurst, which has been enjoy-
ing a very mediocre season, bounced
back hard against the Ward visitors
and with five minutes left to play
in the final period were leading the
victors, 30 to 27.

Ward pulled out in front in the
third quarter and seizing most of
the rebounds gained a 26 to 23 ad-
vantage. Paul Carney followed Len
Lecluyse’s free throw with a field
goal, to tie the score and Bill
Modrcin replied for Ward by sinking
a charity toss.

Rockhurst’s hopes were highest
when Charley Male arched a long
one from the floor and B.! Richter
banged home a basket on a fast

break, to give the Hawklets the lead, |

81 to 28. With the clock ticking
off late seconds, the Cyclones staged
a rally as Jack Fagan and Bill Lind-
quist teamed up on their scoring to
stem the Rockhurst tide, Fagan
counted one and Lindquist two con-
secutive buckets to clinch the game
for the Kansans. Changing their
zone defense to man-to-man tactics,
Ward held the ball for the remain-
ing minutes.

Rockhurst went on a scoring spree
to overcome an 8 to 16 handicap
in the second quarter. When the
scramble was over the Hawklets
were ahead at the half, 20 to 18.

The Rockhurst second team won
the preliminary game from Ward’s
reserves, 17 to 13.

 

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Fagan, f ,..-6 l|Ellinger, f 4 1
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Totals ...14 712! ‘Totals ...12 7 8

Half score—20 to 18 Rockhurst.
Officials—Ed Ellis and Larry McKeever,

REACH PRO NET FINALS. -

Barnes Defeats Skeen for Tour-
ney’s First Upset.

(By the Associated Press.)

Tampa, Fra., Feb, 21—Finals in
both singles and doubles -were
reached today in the first annual
Dixie pro tennis championship tour-
nament at. Davis island.

Top-seeded Wayne Sabin of Port-
land had perfect control of his shots
and defeated Welby Van Horn of
Los Angeles, 6-1, 6-4, 9-7.

Bruce Barnes of Houston pulled
the first surprise of the tournament
when he defeated second-seeded
Dick Skeen of Los Angeles in
straight sets, 8-6, 6-1, 6-3. Barnes,
on top of his game all through the
meet, is given a chance to upset
Sabin in the finals tomorrow.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL
RESULTS.

 

At Lincoln, Neb.—Oklahoma 46, Ne-
braska 41.

At Manhattan—Kansas State 42, Mis-
souri 35.

At Kansas City, Kansas—Kansas City,
Kansas, Junior college 59, Chillicothe 36.
At Grinnell, Ia.—Grinnell 37, Beloit 22.

At Cedar Falls, Ia—Iowa State Teach-.

ers 47, Omaha U, 42, :

At Champaign, Ill.—Illinois 48, Ohio
State 31,

At Iowa City, Ia—Iowa 59. Michigan 38.

At Madison, Wis.—Wisconsin 59, North-
western 47,

At Chicago—Purdue 51, Chicago 27.

At Minneapolis—Minnesota 47, Great
Lakes Naval Training Station 39.

At South Bend Ind.—Notre Dame ‘0,
Western Reserve 39.

Pa,—Penn State 33,

At State College,
Pitt 28. ¥

At Philadelphia—Pennsylvania 52, Dart-
mouth 49.

At Swarthmore, Pa.—Swarthmore 50,
Dickinson 41,
ae P'ttsburgh—Geneva 47, Carnegie
a 5

e 5
At Princeton, N. J.—Princeton 58, Cor-
nell 36. ‘

At Tulsa—Creighton 40, Tulsa 30,

At New York—New York university 54,
Lafayette college 37. .
‘ At_| New York—Fordham 52, Manhat-
an 38.

At Raleigh, N. C.—North Carolina State
4, Wake Forest_38.

At Athens, Ga.—Georgia 38, Georgia
Tech 37.

At Charleston, S. C.—South Carolina 54,
The Citadel 52 (overtime).

At Fayetteville—Texas 58, Arkansas 37.
aca Lexington, Ky.—Kentucky 44. Xavier

At Auburn, Ala.—Auburn 38. Florida 36.
t Annapolis—Navy 42. North Caro-

lina 39 (overtime).

At Hays—Southwestern (Kas.) 54, Fort
Hays 33.

At Providence—Army 49, Brown 42.

At New Haven—Georgetown 55, Yale 52
(overtime) .

Syracuse, N. Y¥.—Syracuse 54,
Rutgers 43.
noxville, Tenn.—Tennessee 39,

At Rochester, N. Y.—U. of Rochester 41,
Colgate 33.

At Pittsburg, Kas.—St. Benedict’s Col-
lege of Atchison 33, Pittsburg Teachers 43.

At Milwaukee—Michigan State 47, Mar-

quette 45.
At Edmond, Ok.—Hast Central (OK.)

State 46, Central (Ok.) State 38. ‘
At Hays, Kas.—Southwestern (Kas.) 54,

Fort Hays 33. |
At Indianapolis—Butler 32, DePauw 28.
At Grinnell, Ia.—Grinnell 37, Beloit 22.
At St. Louis—St. Louis U. 37, Drake 25.
At_ Boulder, Colo.—Colorado 59, Den-

ver 28,

At Fort Collins, Colo.—Utah 38, Colo-
rado 27.
, At Fayetteville, Ark.—Texas 58, Arkan-
Sas 37.

At College Station, Tex—Texas A. &
M. 33. Texas Christion university 27.

At Houston, Tex.—-Rice 65, S. M. U. 31.

At Tahleanah, Ok.—Northeastern (Ok.)
State 29, Oklahoma City U. 27.
pee pyuscaigonas Ala.—Alabama 38, Spring

1, .

At Los Angeles—Stanford 36, University
of California at Los Angeles 28.

At Berkeley—University of California 43,
University of Southern California 34.

Bs Greeley, Colo.—Wyoming 50, Greeley

, Neb.—Chadron 43,
(Denver) 39.

At Moscow, Idaho—Oregon 35, Idaho 30.

At Ottawa, Kas,—Kansas Wesleyan 57,
Ottawa university 49. i

At Seattle—Oregon State 51, Washington

‘state 29

Regis

 

“LAND OF THE FREE AND HOME OF THE BRAVE—”

“The courage of our nation’s youth, in an athletic way, at least,
probably is best exemplified in Golden Gloves competition, the na-
tional tournament of which begins tomorrow night in Chicago. The
team from this sector was selected in the recent Tournament of

Champions here and two members

of that aggregation paused yester-

 

day at Kansas City’s Liberty Memorial in consideration of the free-

dom of endeavor that is theirs as young Americans and the immediate |
big task ahead of them as Golden Glovers in Chicago.
pions are Vic Bailey (left) and Casey Williams, both of whom were

Joplin, Mo., winners here.

 

—Kansas City Star Photograph.

The cham-_

 

 

TITLE GAME IS NEXT

CHESTNUT INN MUST WIN OR
SHARE CHAMPIONSHIP,

Naval Air Base to Make Deter-
mined Bid in the Final Heart
of American League
Clashes,

 

THE STANDINGS.

W. iL. Pet. Pts. O.P:
Chestnut Inn .....7 2 .777 320 295
U. S. Naval Air B.6 2 .750 299° 241
Jewish Com. Center 5 4 1555 332 316
Sheffield Steel .... 5 4 1555 343 303
Gateway Sports .. 3 6 .333 283 369
Sarr slabs cients, O 8 .000 261 314

TUESDAY’S FINAL GAMES.

(At Redemptorist High School.)

7:30 o’clock—Gateway vs. Sheffield

8:30 o’clock—Naval Air Base vs. Chest-
nut Inn.

9:30 o’clock—Karnes ys. Jewish Com-
munity Center.

Chestnut Inn’s high-scoring Heart
of America league leaders must win
their final game of the season Tues-
day with the Naval Air Base’ or
Share the 1942 championship with
the airmen, :

Jewish Community Center, in the
third place, postponed the title game
a week by upsetting Chestnut Inn
last Tuesday and now the matter is
strictly up to the Navy.- In first
place with seven victories in nine
starts, Chestnut Inn will finish in
a deadlock with the air base if the
present second place occupants are
victorious.

Gateway and Sheffield open the
3-game program at 7:30 o’clock with
the Navy-Chestnut Inn clash fol-
lowing immediately. Karnes and
Jewish Community Center close the
action,

Echoes—Chestnut Inn, with pen-
nant land beckoning, found the way
barred by Jewish Community Cen-
ter in last week’s semi-final series.
The small Jewish cagers, in repeat-
ing a first round triumph, bottled
up the Chestnut attack and poured
in goals on their own account to
win, 43 to 26. Held to three points
in the first half, Chestnut per-
formed on equal scoring terms with
their rivals in the final session.

United States Naval Air Base met
with strong resistance from Gateway
Sports in the first twenty minutes,
but in the final stages opened a
scoring barrage that netted a 46 to
25 victory. Clarence Garner’s rec-
ord-making total of thirty-one
points. was the highlight of Shef-
f2ld’s 49 to 38 defeat-of the Karnes.

REBOUNDS — The determined
Navy crew held Gateway to two
field goals in the second half, one
by St. Louis in the first minute
and the other by Brody midway of
the period . . . Sheffield gave the
“whistle-tooters” an easy time, play-
ing the entire first half and two
minutes of the second without com-
mitting a foul. Then Elliott fouled
Fleming, and before the game ended
the Steelmen added ten more rules
infractions... . The 11-point loss
by Karnes was the largest margin
of defeat this season, the cellarites
usually bcwing by only a few points
. + . Garner just couldn’t miss as
he banged in the points. His first
five shots in the opening eight min-
utes of the last half split the mesh-
es. He hit thirteen goals in nineteen
attempts before retiring on personals
with a little over a minute of the
game remaining. The lanky center’s
goal shooting put him back at the
top of the individual scoring list with
117 points, sixteen more than his
nearest rival.

“SHORT SHOTS—A goal and a
free throw by Richard Sapp early in
the game was the sum of Chestnut’s
first half scoring against Center...
Rus Cottrell rang up six field goals
and two free throws to lead the
Karnes attack .. . Ted McCrary,
Chestnut forward, sank four out of
five free throws, three of them in
Succession when awarded a throw
on a technical, coupled with a multi-
ple foul . . . Jewish Center’s free
throwing was greatly improved over
last week, with eleven accurate toss-
es in sixteen attempts. Louis Wall-
man paced his mates with six for
six. The leading scorers:

 

 

 

Garner, Sheffield’ ....... Shek 4y7,
Clurman, Jewish Center.. 35 31 9 101
McCrary, Chestnut. ..... 41 18 13 100
Wallman, Jewish Ce - SL 18 197280
Lackland, Gateway .. 27 16. 14 70
Lewis, Jewish Cente: - 26 16 16 68
Thompson, Sheffield pene DO: MTEC BL
Gates, Naval Air Base .. 25 9 13 59
Hanson, Naval Air Base. 25 7 18 57
Kasinac, Naval Air B 22, 6 11 50
McCulley, Gateway . 5 18 45

 

 

Brains and brawn find a ready mare

 

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(Continued from Page 1B.)
ball” as soon as he can get to it after the whistle blows, so from then

on there may be no replacements,
We like that one,

 

Here’s a

Puzzler,

HAT’S the answer to this one?
Private club boxers are in better physical condition than

army fighters.

Long has boxing been touted as a great sport and a, splendid —
physical conditioner formen in the ..wwmy and navy. Army and navy

 

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their boxing instructors and really

=\go in for the sport.

But if one may judge from the recent four
nights of amateur boxing that constituted The
Star’s Golden Gloves finals the boys outside the
army came up to the championship tournament
in better condition than the army fighters. Not
necessarily better coached, but in better phys-
| ical condition to travel a fast pace for the three
rounds of A, A, U. boxing.

That was the opinion of a majority of the
S$) experts on boxing and physical training who
saw the bouts.

Undoubtedly there is a reason or reasons, but what are they?

C. E. McBripeE.

 

 

TRANS HERE MAY BE OFF

INDICATIONS ARE OFFICIALS WILL
CANCEL GOLF TOURNAMENT.

In a Letter to Hap Goodwin of
Country Club, President Both-
well Expresses Belief Event
Should Not Be Held.

That the men’s Trans-Mississippi
golf championship, scheduled for
the Country Club course here next
June, probably will be called off was
learned last night.

Hap Goodwin, a Country club
member who is on the Trans board,
announced receipt of a letter from
Don Bothwell of Tulsa, Trans presi-
dent, in which Bothwell expressed
the personal belief that “in view of
conditions, the tournament should be
called off.”

Bothwell wrote that he had cor-
responded with Blaine Young of
Omaha, secretary of the Trans asso-
ciation, expressing that belief and
suggesting that Young contact each
member of the board -for their
opinions.

“Bothwell asked me to express my
opinion, as a Country club member
and not as a member of the Trans
board, whether the tournament
should be staged,’ Goodwin said.

What will be Goodwin’s reply?

“I believe,” Goodwin said, “the
club would prefer not to shoulder
the financial responsibility attached
to the staging of a major tourna-
ment such as the Trans-Mississippi.”

A MAT FOE FOR VILLMER.

John Grandovich Will Appear in
Independence Wednesday.

 

THE CARD.

‘Main event—Ray Villmer ys. John
eer Odo two falls out of three to a
in: -

 

‘Special feature——Boy Scout title elim!-
nation bout, 30-minute time limit.

Referee—Harry Cohen

Time—8:15 o’clock.

John Grandovich, “The Mad Rus-
sian,” has been signed to meet Ray
Villmer, former holder of the belt
emblematic of the national cham-
pionship, in the feature bout on
Wednesday night's wrestling card of
the Tirey J. Ford post of the Ameri-
can Legion at Memorial hall in In-
dependence. The bout will be two
falls out of three to a finish.

The Grandovich-Villmer bout was
made after attempts to match either
Ray Steele or Abe Freidman with
Edwon Schultz, the Dlinois “upside
down” wrestler from Peoria, failed.

Both headline performers have ap-

peared in Kansas City before.
Grandovich has spent the last two
years touring Russia, where he has
five brothers: fighting against the
German invaders.

The semi-windup will see George
Lapell meeting “Flying” Bettes. A
1-fall, 30-minute time limit bout be-
tween Gillian Hall, vanquished by
Lapell last week, and Ted Yates has
been arranged. . ;

Another in a series of elimination
bouts between members of the In-
dependence Boy Scout troop will
open the program at 8:15,

BENTON HIGH KEEPS TITLE.

Pony Express Honors Won in De-
feat of Hornets, 38-33.

(By The Star’s Own Service.)

Sr. JosepH, Mo., Feb. 21.—Benton
high school retained its Pony Express
conference championship by defeat-
ing North Kansas City, 38 to 33, as
the league season closed on two St.
Joseph courts tonight. Lafayette
{| dropped William Chrisman of Inde-
pendence, 27 to 17, for the Sham-
rocks’ first victory in the conference
this season.

Lafayette led throughout its game
with Chrisman, but Benton had to
overcome a Hornet half-time ad-
vantage of 22 to 21 to gain its second
title in as many nights. The Cardi-
nals made a successful defense of
their intracity league honors Fri-

    

 

 

 

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A DUAL TO THE HUSKERS.

A New Mark Is Set as Oklahoma
Is Defeated, 62-42.

Lincotn, Nes., Feb, 21.—Bobby
Ginn wiped out Francis Ayres’s 10-
year-old varsity mark in the 2-mile
and Bill Smutz equaled his own
Husker record as the Nebraska track
team defeated Oklahoma, 62 to 42,
tonight to write finish to an all-vic-
torious indoor season.

Oklahoma’s Bill Lyda, with firsts
in the 440-yard dash, 880-yard run
and second in the 60-yard dash was
high scorer with thirteen points.

 

HAWKS FACE TOUGH FOE)

FAULTLESS, CHAMPIONS OF NAI-
SMITH LEAGUE RIVALS TODAY,

Game in Mason-Halpin VField-
house Is Feature of Double-
Header Program—Chestnut
inn Vs. Rockhurst ‘‘B,”

 

Rockhurst’s collegiate cagers, bat-
ting .500 after two starts against |
Naismith league rivals, run against
the Faultless Naismith champions
in Mason-Halpin fieldhouse this
afternoon in the feature of a basket-
ball double-header program.

In the 2:30 o’clock opening game,
Chestnut Inn of the Heart of
America league will encounter
Rockhurst “B”,

HAWKS AT TOP STRENGTH,

The Hawk varsity, beatén by the
Ropes, but later triumphant over
the Muehlebachs, will have top
strength for today’s major clash,
a game that likely will mark the
final Kansas City appearance of
Faultless this season,

Coach Jack Hayes will start at
center Bob Sullivan, the rangy lad
who opened the season with the
Faultless squad only to return to
school at the start of the second
semester.

GOLFERS GET A BREAK.

Improvements Have Been Made
at Quivira.

When golfers play the fifteenth
and seventeenth holes at the Quivira
Country club next spring they will
bat their eyes in disbelief, for during
their enforced winter hibernation
large areas of “impossible rough”
squarely in the middle of those two
fairways have been removed by
tractors and bulldozers.

The improvements are a part of
a $20,000 renovation project en-
compassing the entire lake and club
property ten miles west of Kansas
City. The waters of the lake were
lowered more than ten feet and ex-
tensive removal of silt and moss oc-
cupied a crew of workmen much of
the late fall and winter. The board
walk, golf clubhouse and main club-
house are being repainted and re-
paired and a new heating system
has been installed in the golf club-
house.

TIGERS WIN THE MEET

 

 

THREE RECORDS» FALL ‘AS
STATE LOSES, 48-56,

K-

 

Aussieker Puts Shot 49 Feet 3%;
Rothwell Vaults 12 Feet 6,
and Wildcats Take Relay
in 3:32.4,

 

(By The Star’s Own Service.)

Cotumsta, Mo., Feb, 21—The Uni-
versity of Missouri and Kansas State
track and field teams divided the
first places, six and six, but the
Tigers did better in the seconds and
thirds to defeat the Wildcats, 56 to
48, in their indoor meet in Brewer
fieldhouse here tonight.

Don O’Hara, with victories in the
low hurdles and the broad jump and

third in the high hurdles, led the
Scoring, with eleven points. Albert
Rues, Kansas State distance ace,
who won both the mile and the
2-mile, was the only other double
winner,

THREE RECORDS SET.

There were three meet records,
Elmer Aussieker’s 49 feet 3% inches
in the shotput for Missouri; Billy
Rothwell’s 12 feet 6 inches in the
pole vault for the Tigers and the
Kansas State relay team’s 3 minutes
32.4 seconds in the 4-man mile event.
Rothwell is a former St. Louis Ben
Blewitt high school star.

Owen Joggerst, former Kansas
City Southwest high schocl sprinter,
surprised to beat out.his team-mate,
Don Walters, Big Six indoor sprint
champion, in the 60-yard dash. His
time was 6.2 seconds, which tied the
meet mark,

O'Hara’s 7.1 seconds to win the
low hurdles was a tenth of a second
Slower than the meet mark set by
Joe Knappenberger of Kansas State,
but it tied the Missouri record for
Brewer fieldhouse.

MILLER TIES THE SCORE,

The Wildcats, who had been
counted a comparatively easy vic-
tim of the Missourians before the
meet, trailed most of the way, but
they gave the Tigers a scare when
Rufus Miller defeated Missouri’s
Ray Rayl in the 860-yard run to
pull up to a 36-36 tie with four
events remaining,

The Tigers moved ahead by a
point, however, fohen O’Hara won
the broad jump and widened the
margin to safety as returns from
the pole vault came in and O'Hara
went on to win the low hurdles.

60-yard high hurdles—Won by Darden,
Kansas State; Shy, Missouri” second;
O'Hara, third. Time, 7.6 seconds,
,2-mile run—Won by Rues, Kansas State;
Sa Eanes State, second; French,
iris ird, 9 i

eee minutes, 55.5
880-yard run—Won by Miller. Kansas
State; Rayl. Missouri, Second; ‘Cunning-
ham, Kansas State, third. Time, 2 min-
utes 1.2 seconds.
Broad jump—Won by O'Hara, Missouri:

Time,

 

 

But Sullivan, who was understudy
to Frank Schwarzer, while on the;
Faultless squad, won’t be opposed by |
his onetime teammate today |
Schwarzer has joined the army, |

STRONG FAULTLESS OUTFIT,

Spink and Martel, forwards, and
Muckenthaler and Kurash, guards,
complete the starting Rockhurst
line-up. Coach Red Anderson of
Faultless will use Conley and Self,
forwards; Wells, center; Mitchell
and Hahn, guards,

Named to oppose Chestnut Inn are
Rex Ulricksen, former Southeast
high star, and Vincent Lovett, for-
wards; Dick Brink, center; Jim
Swift and Ralph Kerr, guards.
Ulricksen has been the leading
scorer for the Rockhurst reseryes
throughout the season.

@Rockhurst invades Emporia to-
morrow night to play a return game
with C. of E., beaten in a previous
clash with the Hawks here. Rock-
hurst high also travels tomorrow,
visiting Leavenworth, Kas., for a
meeting with Immaculata high.

ROCHE OUT FOR REVENGE.

Weatherly to Meet Illinois Heavy
Thursday Night.

 

, THE CARD,

 

Main event—Dorv Roche, 223, Decatur,
Ill., vs, Hercules Weatherly, 300, Nash-
ville, Tenn.; best two of three falls to

a finish.

Semi-final—Lee Wyckoff, 227, Os-
borne, Kas., vs. Frank Sexton, 228,
Columbus, O.; best two. of three falls

with a 45-minute time limit.

Special event—Steve Brody, 207, Great
Bend, Kas., vs. an opponent yet to be
signed; one fall or 30-minute time limit
and referee's decision.
_Preliminary—Principals ye
signed; one fall or 30-minute
and referee’s decision.

See Cea ae oe e
With no holds barred, Dorv Roche,
223-pound Illinois heavyweight, and
Hercules Weatherly, 300-pound Ten-
nessee rougher, will clash in a fin-
ish return meeting {n the feature of
the American Legion wrestling card
Thursday night in Memorial hall,
Kansas City, Kansas.
The encounter is a sequel to the
finish event in which the heavy-
Res weights met on
the Memorial
hall mat early
in January,
when Weather-
ly won.
Still

t to be
time limit

  

 

ambi-

ruler of the
heavyweight
division here,
Weatherly
agreed to a re-
turn. meeting
with Roche
with the un-
derstanding
that no holds
be barzed.
Lee Wyckoff,
former “Big Bad Wolf” of mat no-
toriety, will return after a_ brief
absence to clash in the semi-final
event with Frank Sexton, c@irdy
Ohio contender who made his irXtial
appearance on the Memorial hall

DORV ROCHE,
In feature mat event,

 

tious to become |.

Rockhold, Kansas State, second: Fiesen,
Kansas State, third. Distance, 21 feet 114
inches. ‘
60-yard low hurdles—Won by O'Hara.
Missouri: Shy, Missouri, second: Darden
Kansas State, third. Time. 7.1 seconds. ©
Pole vault—Won by Rothwell, Missouri;
Lucas, Missouri, and Nelson, Kansas State,
tied fdr second. Height. 12 fest 6 inches,
Mile’ relay—Won by Kansas State (Chain
Grandfield. Johns, Upham), Time, 3 min.
utes 32.4 seconds (new meet record, former
record 3 minutes 32.5 seconds) . z
Mile run—Won by Rues, Kansas State:
Boe peony second;
ate, third. Time 4 minutes 2. s.
60-yard dash—Won peers
souri; Walters, Missouri, second: J. Tracy,

 

IN A TIE FOR CELLAR

 

K-STATE MOVES UP BY DEFEAT#
ING THE TIGERS, 42-35,

 

Dirks Paces the Victors With Four,
Field Goals and the Same Num-
ber of Free Throws—Ben-
gals in Front at Half.

 

(By The Star’s Own Service.)

Manuattan, Kas., Feb. 21—Kan-
sas State college’s Wildcats, powered
by a pair of potent sophomores,
outsnarled the Missouri Tigers to~
night, winning their second Big Six
conference contest of the season, 42
to 35. The loss put the Missourians
into a last place deadlock with K-
State.

B. B. Marlo Dirks, the scholarly
center, paced the Kansas State ate
tack that found the range late in
the second half. Dirks, who re-
placed Senior Danny Howe, poured
in twelve points on four Pivot shots
from the field and four direct hits
from the free throw line.

Little Herbie Gregg, former North-
east high school star from Kansas
City, was the Tiger high point man
with eight points before he fouled
out in the final period. The Bengals

|bombarded the backboard in the

first half and at intermission held an
18 to 15 advantage.

__ The cagers from Columbia cashed
in on early buckets by Ralph Carter
and Gregg and grabbed a lead that
was not overtaken until twelve
minutes had elapsed in the final
period when K-State pulled away.

The Tigers clamped the lid on the
scoring efforts of Jack Horacek, K-
State’s leading scorer and held the
Wildcat senior star to a single effort
from the field.

Ken Messner, Wildcat sophomore,
was waved to the sidelines in the
second half with his fourth miscue,
Both Storm and Gregg, the two Tiger
starters, also went out on fouls,

Four former Greater Kansas City
high school aces opposed each other
tonight, Gregg played under Coach
Reeves Peters at Northeast. Sopho.
more Ed Matheny, Gregg’s team-
mate, was an all-city forward from,
Southwest high. Fred Kohl and
John Bortka, two sophomore K-State
forwards, played at Paseo high and
Wyandotte high in Kansas City,
Kansas, respectively.

  

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Score at half—Missouri 18, Kansas State

Officials—House, Kansas City: Pulian,
Grand Island, Neb.

A BOUT FOR JACK HALEY.

Jimmy Salvatore Is Rival Tuesday
of 126-Pound Kansas Citian.

Jack Haley expects to initiate a
busy boxing campaign, starting in
Sioux City, Ia., Tuesday, March 2,
Jimmy Salvatore, Dodge City, TIa.,
featherweight veteran, will be the
rival for the 1941 National Golden
Gloves featherweigut champion on
that program. Minneapolis wants
Haley there March 6 against an op-
ponent yet unnamed. Other offers
for fhe red-headed Kansas City
Irishman have come from St. Louis, ~
Indianapolis and Chicago,

DART BASEBALL STANDINGS

DOWNTOWN LEAGUE.
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Missouri, third. Time ‘6.2
meet record by Raleigh, Missouri, 1937
High jump—Won by’ Steff
Meyers, Missouri, and O'Hara;
tied for second. Height 6 feet.
440-yard dash—Won by Upham, Kansas
State; Johns, Kansas State second; Pot-
ter, Missouri, third. Time 52.4 seconds.
Sht put—Won by Aussieker.
Duwe, Kansas State, second; Renner. Mis-
souri, third. Distance 49 feet, 334 inches
(new meet record, former record 47
inches by Hackney, Kansas State, 1940).

LOOK TO A. A. U. CAGE MEET.

Faultless Seeks Financial Assist-
ance for Trip to Denver,

Officials of the Faultless cham-
pions of the Naismith basketball
league met yesterday with Missouri
Valley A. A. U. officials in the Hotel
Continental, hopeful of obtaining
financial assistance needed if the
Faultless team competes in the
National A. A. U. tournament in
Denver next month.

When the session was over, the
A. A. U. had failed to give any
definite word as to what financial
assistance, if any, would be granted.

According to Kenneth Sells, the
A. A. U. would like to stage a Mis-
souri Valley tournament here. No
definite date or site has been ar-
ranged and Officials don’t know
which teams would be interested in
such an event.

“Until we know more about this
tournament,” Sells said, “we can’t
commit ourselves in regard to
financial assistance to the Faultless
team.”

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