]Winner Will Take Undis-|
puted First Place in Cage
Standings

K. §, DEFENSE STRONG

Epeliead Has Not Been
Stopped Yet and K.U. Will

Rely on His Aim

Probable Lineup
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Officials—Parke Carroll, Kansas City
U., and Ted O’Sullivan, Missouri. |
Time—7:30 o’clock. |

A victory tonight would place |
either Kansas or Kansas State in!
undisputed first place in the Big
Six basketball standings—at least
for a day or so.

Each team has won two confer-
ence victories and each has suf-
fered a defeat.

A Kansas squad of ten men left
here by auto at noon today for
Manhattan. Tonight’s game will
start at'7:30 o’clock before a limit-
ed crowd, including Gov. Payne
Ratner, in Nichols gymnasium.

K. U. hopes are pinned on How-
ard Engleman and Bobby Allen.
Engleman hasn’t been stopped so |
far this season by conference foes. |
Coach Jack Gardner has scouted |
the Jayhawkers three times so far)
and may have devised a plan for |
bottling up the blond shotmaster. |

The Ninety-first Game

Tonight’s will be the ninety-first
game to be played by the two
schools since 1907. The University
has been victorious 60 times. .

Leading scorer for Kansas State
is chunky Jack Horacek who has
averaged seven points in three con- |
tests. He tied for eighth in the|
scoring last season with a 6.8 aver- |

age,

The Wildcats have the oldest |
team in the conference, members
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Big Six Standings

WwW Pct Pts
-667 123
.667 118
-667 99
500 81

Kansas .:....... Set a 2
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Kansas State ......

Iowa State .... i
N6Drasks os 1 303 94
Missouri 22.008 ki 0 000. 78

Games This .Week
Tonight—Kansas at Kansas State.
Missouri at Nebraska.
Friday—Missouri at Oklahoma.
Saturday—Nebraska at Iowa State.

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years. Oldest man is Tom Guy, a/
Los from Coffeyville, who is |

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Coach Phog Allen’s team won|
both games from K-State last year, |
34-88 at Lawrence and 44-33 .at |
Manhattan. The last time the Wild-
cats defeated K. U. was in 1937
when they knocked the Jayhawks
out of undisputed first place by a
33-32 overtime victory.