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MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE NEWS

FROM :
THE CONFERENCE NEWS BUREAU
DES MOINES, IOWA

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graduation and has a good group of freshuen ready to lend a hand in 1939.

Grinnell, which was one of the pre-season favorites, did not quite
come up to expectations despite a full set of veterans including Fred
Luther, Jim LaMasney and Bill Conwill, forwards; Wilbur Luick, center;

Hal Dean and Bob Rerry, guards. The Pioneers, who started off with three

conference victories including one over the Oklahoma Ags, displayed

great scoring power but like Creighton were weak defensively. Fred Luther,

who started the seagon as a reserve, dunked in 127 points for fourth

place in conference scoring while Dean undoubtedly was one of the mid-

land's best guards. The Pioneers, who will drop out of the Valley con-

ference in the summer of 1939, won three and lost two non-league contests.

After being edged out, 41 to 33, by Minnesota and 28 to 26 by Iowa State,
they set a school scoring record by drubbing Carleton, 70 to 40, and then

won two games from Coe, 38 to 31 and 33 to 26.

Conference coaches were unanimous in agreeing that Dee Errickson
of Washburn did the best coaching job in the Valley during the season.
Starting with the remnants of a last-place team of the preceding year,
Errickson built a team which was beating the leaders as the season ended
and which went on to reach the semifinals in the national tournament at
Kansas City. The work of Lee Brown, senior center who got better and
better as the season wore on, verged on the sensational. Brown scored
48 points in his last three Valley games to finish second to Shaw in the
point race, 10 points behind the leader. #ddie Amsbaugh, guard, and Jim
Mackey, forward, two good sophomores, were other ingredients in Errickson's
successful mixture. Henry Shulties was a valuable forward, with Harlan
Schlicher and Dorsey Elliott dependable guards. Washburn won only six of
its 14 conference games, but two of thes» conquests came in the last con-
tests of the season and were over Drake and Creighton. Then in the
tournament the Ichabods polished off Winona, Minn., Teachers, 37 to 36;
upset a highly favored Marshal college outfit from West Virginia, 53 to Sl,
and drubbed Jordan college of Michigan, 44 to 21, before losing to
Warrensburg, 44 to 23, in the semifinals.

For seventh place Washineton the season was a drab one, only
four victories being scored in 21 games, three of the triumphs coming in
the conference. Forward Adolph thlemeyer probably was the best player on
Coach Hudson Hellmichts squad, which lacked really outstanding men.

Dick Douglas, Jimmy Rowan, Vaughan Devine and Bill Ferfecky usually
handled the forwards, with Claude Beeler and Desmond Lee playing center,
Charles Gilles, Rob Gerst and Otto Butterly seeing action at the guards.
Washington probably played its best game against Missouri, losing by 47 to
46, but the Bears later dropped a 45 to 28 game to the same old rival.

In the city series with St. Louis University, Washington won the first
gane, 38 to 35, but lost the next two, 35 to 32 and 28 to 23.

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