get them we will get someone else. I want to give every fellow
a chance to make that first teame

We have a lot of wonderful material - potential, I should
say, but just whet'we do with it will depend upon how the pleyers
and the coach react to one of the Saliuhest situations thet we
have ever experiencede

Maybe the funny man who drew the pakier fumny cartoon in
the Jayhawker about the Kansas basketball team and its coach
‘picking easy opponents had strabismus (eye squint) sufficiently

‘bad to blind him from the fact that the Kansas football team,

_ “>the Kansas baseball team,’ the Kansas track team, the Kansas tennis

team, the Kansas golf team and the Kansas swimming team « all were
striving valiantly to win the Big Six championship in their res-
pective sporting events, and that is exactly wheat the Kansas
basketball team did, after getting knocked flat on their backs
in the first gene with Okiatiee.

Any asinine, contracted nitewit who would caricature such
a thing, or the pimple-brain who gave the idea to the cartoonist
did not appreciate the Kansas varsity basketball players ' effortse
Of course, we played those smaller weneets to get ourselves in
condition to play our Big Six opponents. That was Setup why
we did it, because we did. not aw the strength of so many of
our untried men. And the intelligence of such a course was proven
because our team developed after playing these weaker teams. Had
we struck stronger competition at first our boys would have floumdered
so badly that we perhaps would not have come through the way we dide

Anybody who would say that Morningside and Southwestern were weak

sisters <= well, they just don't know their basketball. Maybe Baker 5