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Johnson Shines in Season Finale
Kansan photo by Nancy Collins
Kansan photo by Nancy Collins UP IN THE AIR—Kansans Lew Johnson (25) and Bill Brainard (7) go up for a rebound against Oklahoma's LeRoy Bacher (behind Johnson) early in the game here last night, which KU won 71 to 67. Two Sooners and an obscured Jayhawk also are on the action.
Two Top Teams Win in NCAA
Defending champion LaSalle and national champion San Francisco both displayed stunning scoring power as they led eight preliminary round winners today into berths in the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament.
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Advancing along with the two hottest early favorites for the title by victories at four sites last nigh were Caniusis, Villanova, Marquette, Penn State, Bradley, and Seattle.
But LaSalle, smashing the tournament's single-game record by thrashing West Virginia, 95 to 61, and San Francisco, almost matching that total, by walloping West Texas State, 89 to 66, were the most impressive winners.
Besides LaSalle, other victors in the preliminary round tripleheader at New York's Madison Square Garden were Caniusis by 73 to 60 over Williams and Villanova by only 74 to 73 over Duke. At Lexington, Ky., Penn State nipped Memphis State, 59 to 55, and Marquette was forced into overtime to beat Miami of Ohio, 90 to 79.
In a single game at El Reno, Okla., Bradley ousted Oklahoma City, 69 to 15. At San Francisco's Cow Palace, San Francisco was joined in victory by Seattle, 80 to 63. over Idaho State.
Friday night winners will meet Saturday night at the same sites. The regional winners then will go to Kansas City where, next Friday, the Philadelphia and Evanston winners will meet for the Eastern championship and the Manhattan and Corvallis winners will meet for
the Western championship. Eastern and Western champs will meet the following night for the national championship.
At the conclusion of the 1954 baseball season, George Sisler (St. Louis—22) and Ty Cobb (Detroit—11) were still tied for the all-time American league batting average at 420.
Santee Runs 4:08.5 Mile
Former KU distance runner Wes Santee won the mile run in 4:08.5 in Houston last night in a warmup meet for the Pan American games. Santee finished 30 yards ahead of rivals Fred Dwyer and Bob Mc-Millen, pulling away in the last 200 yards.
By JOHN McMILLION Kansan Sports Writer
The lead see-sawed back and forth at the start of the second half until Dobbs put on a scoring flurry of six straight points and put the Jayhawkers back into the lead for good, 53 to 51.
Led by center Lew Johnson, who has come a long way since the beginning of the season, Kansas beat Oklahoma. 71 to 67, last night in the Allen fieldhouse before 9,500 fans in the final game of the season
Oklahoma was paced by pint-sized Jimmy Peck, who was high point man of the evening with 25. After Peck and Johnson, scoring honors went to KU guard Dallas Dobbs, who had 15. Dobbs had only two points at the end of the first half but put on a second half flurry that put the Kansas team back in the lead after OU had taken a 45 to 43 edge.
Johnson played the best game of his career as he poured in 24 points and captured 24 rebounds to lead the Jayhawkers. The big center hit a torrid 60 per cent of his shots and played a fine floor game. He also shackled LeRoy Bacher, the OU center who has caused trouble to every team in the conference. Bacher got only 13 points.
Kansas took an early 3 to 0 lead on free throws by Gene Eldun and John Anderson and was behind only once in the first half. Oklahoma went into the lead, 10 to 9, in the early minutes of the game on Lester Lane's set shot after two bad KU passes. Kansas regained the lead, after a free throw by Johnson that tied it up, when Elstun dropped in a one-hander from the keyhole.
Kansas never was out of the lead after that in the first half as Johnson, Elstun, and Bill Brainard controlled the boards and provided some nifty shooting. The half ended with Kansas ahead, 36 to 32.
KU went into a stall with about three minutes to go and fancy ball handling by Dobbs and John Parker forced the OU guards to foul several times. Lane scored two points with 10 seconds to-go to make it 70 to 67, KU's favor, and then Parker sank a free throw in the final seconds to make it 71 to 67. Kansas used only seven players in the game.
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Footballers Get Contact Work
The KU football team continued to take advantage of the fine spring weather, as Coach Chuck Mather rent the squad through a one-hour and 30-minute contact work out in the second drill of spring practice.
Mather appeared pleased by the workout, and praised the team for its hustle and drive.
The squad gained added experience at the halfback position as Rex Sullivan, a letterman and a senior-to-be, joined the squad after missing Monday's initial workout.
Yesterday's practice stressed both offense and defense, with all players seeing action in the contact work. No injuries were reported.
The 1952 championship Kansas basketball squad piled up a 2.209 point total for the season, which is 400 points higher than any Jayhawker team has posted to date.
Three changes appeared in Mather's tentative first unit yesterday, with tackle John Drake, guard George Remsberg, and quarterback Tom Slaymaker winning promotions. The remainder of the group was unchanged, with Don Martin and Lavern Fiss at the ends. Gene Blasi as tackle, Don Pfutzenreuter at guard, Frank Black at center in front of Slaymaker, halfbacks Ralph Moody and Dick Blowey, and fullback Al Stevenson.
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KU Yearlings Top Nebraska
The KU freshman track team scored an easy $76_{23}$ to $27_{14}$ victory over the Nebraska frosh in a postal meet held last week. The junior Jayhawks won eight of 10 events, losing only the mile relay and pole vault.
KU's Dave Freeman was the standout performer of the meet, winning the 60-yard dash and both flights of 60-yard hurdles. Freeman had to share honors with teammate Jerry McNeal, who picked up firsts in the 830, mile, and two-mile.
Other KU individual winners included Bob Lida in the 440, Bob Cannon in the high jump, Kent Floerke in the broad jump, and Al Oterin in the shot.
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Wade Stinson, right halfback on the 1950 Kansas grid team, holds the KU record for ground gaining in a single contest-239 yards, and the season high on offense-1,129 yards.
Bob Feller set an American league record in 1938 for bases on balls at 208 while with the Cleveland Indians. In 1946, Feller set the strike-out record (348) while still with the Indians.