Page 4 University Daily Kansan Monday, March 15, 1950
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State Tourneys Take Over Prep Action This Week
Topeka—(U.P.)-State tournament play in four classes takes over the spotlight for 32 Kansas high school basketball teams this week as four Kansas cities prepare for the throng of teams, pep clubs, students and fans.
Play in all four classes begins Thursday night. Manhattan will play host to the state's largest schools—the Class AA teams—while Salina will host the Class A teams, Hutchinson the Class B teams, and Great Bend the BB teams.
Three schools go into tournament action with perfect records, two of them already having survived two tournaments.
In Class AA, Wyandotte has won 22 games without defeat and will rule the favorite in the Manhattan tournament.
In Class, A, Pratt's Greenbacks have won 23 straight contests and will draw the favoures role in the Salina meet.
And, among the smallest schools, the Class BB teams. Virgil has compiled a victory streak of 25 games
Only Class B is without an un-
covered content for state honors
A'ing with last year's champions, the Knoxell Broncos remained in play for the 1954 title. Sedgwick in Class B went out in its district tournament, and Shawnee Mission, Class AA, and Burns, in Class BB, were eliminated in the regionals.
The seeded big schools teams are Wyandotte, Wichita North, and Newton, which has won 11 state titles—far more than any other school. North seeks its first trophy. ?In Class A, Pratt stands out with Sacred Heart and Russell close behind.
Here are the tournament pairings for Thursday's opening games as announced by State Commissioner F. A. Thomas:
Classes B and BB present a more wide open choice, although Partridge has a good backing in B and Virgil is favored in BB
Class AA at Manhattan: Wichita North vs. Dodge City, 2 p.m.; Chanute vs. Emporia, 3:30 p.m.; Wyandotte vs. Columbus, 7:30 p.m.; Newton vs. Topeka, 9 p.m.
Class A at Salina; Nickerson vs. Hayden, of Topeka, 2 p.m.; Pratt vs. Sedan, 3:30 p.m.; Russell vs. Olathe, 7:30 p.m.; and Sacred Heart of Salina vs. Smith Center, 9 p.m.
Class B at Hutchinson: Plains vs.
Baldwin, 2 p.m.; Alma vs. Holly-
rood, 3:30 p.m.; Howard vs. Quinter,
7:30 p.m.; Partridge vs. Clyde,
9 p.m.
Class BB at Great Bend: Virgn up
Simpson, 2 p.m.; Burdette vs. Kipp
30 p.m; Strong City vs. Paradise
7:30 p.m; and Pleva vs. Paxico
9 p.m.
Semifinals will be played at 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Friday. The consolation finals will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, and the championship games at 9 p.m.
Masters List Top Amateurs
Atlanta — (U.P.)—"There will be one of the finest groups of amateurs in history playing in the Masters this year," said the former British Amateur champ, "but it still looks like the championship belongs to the pros."
Charlie Yates, who picked up the British Amateur crown in 1938, said, however, that one or two of the play-for-fun boys might finish among the top ten in the Augusta, Ga. Masters.
"For an amateur to aim at a Masters victory is setting his sights a little high. Mostly, the fond hope of amateurs is merely to make a good showing. But I believe the calibre of the amateurs this year is so high there seems an excellent chance that one or more of the simon pures can finish in the low ten."
The successful Atlanta broker, who retired as an amateur, said there are six or seven amateurs who could, with the right breaks, be right near the top at the end of the pressure-packed Masters.
Former LIU Ace Is Bullet Star
New York — (U.P.)— Ray Felix by his own admission, probably would have a tough time passing a memory test, but he is helping Clair Bee forget his woes as coach of the Baltimore Bullets in the National Basketball association.
A first-year man in the professional league, the New York-reared center has been the only consistent performer on the Baltimore squad, which has lingered in the Eastern division basement most of the current season.
Felix, who is the NBA's tallest player at six feet, 11 inches, also is one of its leading scorers. He has averaged 18 points a game for the hapless Bullets and has improved so rapidly he was picked as a starter on the fast team in this year's league all-star game.
On the court, Ray never forgets a trick. But off it he suffers frequent lapses of memory that cause both concern and amusement among his teammates.
Earlier this season, Felix was considerably embarrassed when he arrived in New York for a game against the Knickerbockers and discovered he had left his uniform in Baltimore. The Bullets' equipment manager had to canvas several New York sporting goods stores before he could find Ray a new uniform.
For that bit of forgetfulness, the abashed Baltimore rookie was hit with a $100 fine.
"I guess the other players thought
to quite a joke. Ray said later,
"but they didn't."
On another occasion, Felix showed up for a game without his sneakers and cavorted gingerly about the court in a borrowed pair—three sizes too small for his No. 12 feet. Then came this year's all-star game at New York and Ray was the only player on the court without a warm-up jacket.
"I was so excited being named an all-star, I forgot the darn thing," Ray explained.
"Ray is going to be one of the biggest stars of the game before too long," Lapchick contends. "I've always felt if he had two more years of college competition, he would have gained all-America rating."
One of Felix's biggest boosters, incidentally, is Joe Lapchick, coach of the rival Knickerbockers.
Felix enrolled at Long Island university in 1950, shortly before the college basketball scandals broke. Even though LIU eventually dropped the game as a varsity sport, Ray competed in intra-mural contests for two years and then quit college last year to play with Manchester (Conn.) in the Professional American league.
Following a sensational season in the minors, during which he scored 616 points in 28 games, Felix was acquired by the Bullets. The Knick-erbockers could have had him as a territorial draft choice, but decided instead to bid for Seton Hall's Walter Dukes.
However, Dukes wound up with the Harlem Globe Trotters and the Knicks wound up without the good big-man they sorely need.
Holy Cross Wins NIT Title
New York—(U.P.)-Holy Cross won the National Invitation tournament here Saturday night, defeating favored Duquesne, 71-62, in the finals.
Silly Names?-- Kentucky Derby Has All of Them
New York—(U.P.)-The Kentucky Derby is in danger today of having its nickname changed.
By OSCAR FRALEY
Up to now it has been known as the Run for the Roses. Henceforth, or at least this year, it could well be called the Culinarv Canter.
Because the names of some of the horses nominated for the May 1 pony promenade make it sound like a fire sale in a delicatessen.
Give a listen. There are, for instance, the Pie King, a well-regarded oatburner tabbed Porterhouse one labeled Mr. Mustard, another called Giant Cracker and something listed as Sugar Dad.
All of which brings Fearless Frailey back to his annual theme that it must be tough for a horse to run like a champion when he Iugs a name of such sort. Go back through the years and the great derby winners were colts with such impressive handles as Exterminator, War Admiral, Count Fleet, Assault, and Citation. All of them were names with which to conjure and must have been worth two to three lengths loping down the stretch.
Sure, nags with such lethargic titles as Old Rosebud and Winter-green managed to scamper home on top in the big one at Churchill Downs. Don's ask me how. They must have been running against hayburners with names like Chewing Gum, Cold Molasses or Step-infetchit.
It always has been my theory that a colt who can run them all into the ground has to have a name which will stand the strain of time. Old Fearless warned you last year that anything with a tag such as Native Dancer had two strikes against him going into the paddock. It would seem slightly substantiating that a one-shot named Dark Star burned off the Polynesian kid's grass skirt.
How in the name of a $2 show ticket, for instance, can you expect to hear 100,000 fans roaring home such animals as "Baby Tucky" or "Wrinkle Wink" come Derby Day. It's no spot for infants and not even the most courageous tout would give "Wrinkle a wink."
Then there are such probable entries as Bonded Joe, Model Busher, Catspaw, Next Page, Hot Pursuit, and Diving Board.
Can't you just see one of these being led into the winner's circle? I can't, either. Bonded Joe is, of course, in a great spot for a bonded product, Louisville being the home of some fine bourbons. But he'd do better pulling a truckload.
Model Busher must be the Winterbrook favorite for all the baseball rookies who can't hit a curve ball, either, while Cataspw undoubtedly is. Next Page will finish that far back in all the derby stories while Diving Board might go better on fight night at Madison Square Garden. As for Hot Pursuit, I want my equine hero leading the pack, not being interested in even a photo finish second.
Of course the best name of all, particularly with March 15 just around the weekend corner, is the one dubbed "Taxpayer." His old man's name was Spy Song and his ma was "Last Message"
My hot tip at the moment is a coil called Cannonade. This kid sounds like he has the makings whether he can run or not.
St. Augustine, Fla. — (U.P.)—Mrs. Grace DeMoss Smith of Coral Gables, Fla., won the Florida East Coast women's golf championship by defeating Mrs. Marge Lindsay Mc-Millan of Decatur, Ill., 4 and 3 here Saturday.
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Hall of Fame Never Mattered to Terry
One of baseball's most rugged in dividualists, Memphis Bill said: "What I did in baseball is in the record books for any one to see and that's all that matters."
Vero Beach, Fla.—(U.P.)—Bill Terry made it plain once and for all today that "as far as I was concerned, it never mattered to me whether I ever made the Hall of Fame or not."
"I decided a long time ago that if I ever made the Hall of Fame it would be fine, but that if I never made it that was perfectly okay too," he said.
The old Giant first baseman, looking almost as trim and muscular as when he batted .406 back in 1930, confirmed that he had told all newspapermen "no comment" when they telephoned to congratulate him on his election to the Shrine last Jan. 21.
"That's exactly what I said then and it still goes," he said. "I did it because I didn't want to hurt the feelings of a lot of old-timers in baselall who had been for me all the time and who probably thought I should have been in there before."
A bystancer on the sports beat asked Joshingly, "Is it okay, Bill, if your friends are glad you are in there?"
"That's exactly the point," he answered. "I love baseball and I love to be around where the old-timmers gather and where the game is discussed for hours at a time. Why do you think I would be here in the Dogger camp if I didn't love baseball? Why do you think I was around the Cincinnati camp a few years ago helping out a little?" It was because baseball always was and always will be my game."
The ex-Giant manager, who sometimes had feuds with the baseball writers, said that "I always knew who were my friends in the
Terry said he told his wife on the day of his election, "Those boys must be scraping the bottom of the barrel."
business," and he named a number of them.
"I knew how they felt about me and that's what really counted." he added. "What the others felt didn't count when I was in baseball and it doesn't count now. I may be wrong about this but that's how I feel and I can't help it."
"The same old Bill Terry," a writer remarked and he echoed the remark:
"That's r i g h t—the same old Terrv. I never changed."
But he still was a guy who had prospered in business—as a cotton broker in Memphis and an automobile dealer in Jacksonville—a man who could take a party of friends aboard his yacht and cruise down the Florida coast for a few days of relaxation.
And it was no coincidence that he docked at Vero Beach—the nearest port where there was a major league ball club. Even if it happened to be the spring home of the hated Dodgers, the one club that he battled contemptuously throughout his career.
Toski Wins at Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, La. — (U.P.) — Bob Toski of Livingston, N.Y., won the $10,000 Baton Rouge Open golf tournament with a 72-hole total of 279 here yesterday.
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