Page 4
University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 11, 1954
Phog Happy With Lucky Buff Draw
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Although he saw his team's chance for a return shot at Indiana swept out the window at yesterday's Big Seven "championship" drawing, Kansas basketball Coach Forrest C. (Phog) Allen expressed no bitterness over the selection by lot and wished the winner, Colorado, only the best of luck.
Colorado Wins Right To Compete In NCAA
"We have had a fine season; we won 16 games and I am glad that it is all finished," Dr. Allen said yesterday after Colorado had won the drawing and the right to compete in the NCAA regional tournament at Stillwater, Okla.
The drawing was necessitated when the two ball clubs deadlocked with 10-2 records after the regular season was completed Tuesday night. Since NCAA regional play begins Friday at Stillwater, a playoff game was not possible.
The drawing was held in the office of Reeves Peters, Big Seven executive secretary, at 5 p.m. yesterday. A card with each team's name on it was sealed in an envelope and dropped in a hat in the presence of Dr. Allen, Athletic Director Arthur "Dutch" Lonborg, William C. Lam, assistant athletic director at Colorado, and Peters.
DR. F. C. "PHOG" ALLEN They deserved it!"
After the cards were in the hat, the press was called back into the room and Jay Barrington, sports director of WDAF and WDAF-TV
in Kansas City, Mo., selected an envelope, and Peters opened it.
Almost as soon as he'd drew the slip with Colorado on it, he collared Coach Allen and half-jokingly begged forgiveness. However, Allen explained that Colorado's team was in better shape, and was the best representative the conference could have.
of its shots it can be very rough.
He said that Coach Lee has had almost nothing but bad luck since he went to Colorado, and until now this season was a typical example. Colorado lost its first seven games of the season; then when it did begin to roll Kansas beat them by 21 points at Lawrence, and it almost blew the Kansas State game after leading by 20 points. To top things off Coach Lee's new home burned at 2 a.m. Sunday morning doing more than $10,000 worth of damage.
Mr. Lam said, "I am certainly happy that we won the right to compete in the NCAA tournament. We have had a long dry spell in basketball, and it looked at the start of the season when we lost our first seven games that it might continue another year."
He pointed out that 11 of the top 12 men are juniors and sophomores, including the starting five, and when it hits a good percentage
He said, "It is of course regretable that we are forced to play in the Stillwater regional, for Oklahoma A&M has a terrific advantage there. We have played them twice
previously and lost both games in the fourth quarter after playing them on even terms for the first three periods."
Coach Allen seconded his opinion about the regional site by saying, "It is completely unfair for Hank's (Hank Iba, A&M coach) boys to have the advantage of playing on their home court."
Dr. Allen said that the main trouble is that there are few large courts in this area, and so whenever it appears that a school will have a good team, it asks for a regional tournament, and usually gets it. Jack Gardner, former Kansas State college coach, tried it last season but he didn't accomplish the trick.
"I am since gracefully glad that Colorado is going to the tournament." Dr. Allen said. "I tried to get the boys to give them that honor at a meeting this morning. We met at 9 a.m. in the Daniel Boone hotel in Columbia, and I asked them to let Colorado go and eliminate this drawing. However, the boys wanted to play at least one more game, and so they voted unanimously for me to go to the drawing."
Last year, Kansas lost to Indiana in the NCAA finals 69-88 after defeating St. Johns, 80-63, in the NCAA finals the previous year.
"There is one more thing that I would like to say." Dr. Allen said, "That is we weren't over-confident against Missouri and we played as well as usual, but Missouri simply was too hot for us. They hit 50 per cent of their field goal attempts and 24 of 26 free throws."
Thus ended a season that has year in Kansas history. Dropping their first two games, the Jayhawkers came back to win six in a row including the Big Seven tournament championship before dropping one to Oklahoma A&M.
They defeated Kansas State and Iowa State before falling to Colorado and then won eight in a row, including revenge wins over Oklahoma A&M and the Buffers.
Three regulars have thus ended their cage careers on Mt. Oread.
Co-captains Allen Kelley and B. H. Born, along with Harold Patterson, have been the sparkplugs all year. All have used up their eligibility. ___
Larsen Tests Hopes In Main Match Today
Jacksonville, Fla. - (U.P.)-Art Larsen, former national champion who is anxious to regain his place at the top of the tennis world, tests his comeback hopes tonight against Canadian Davis Cupper Lorne Main in a feature second-round match in the Masters invitational tennis tournament.
6 Games Today In Juco Tourney
Hutchinson — (U.P.) Six more games were scheduled today in the National Junior College basketball tournament here, including two winner's bracket contests.
Snow college, Ethriam, Utah, Mo-
berly, Mo., and Hannibal-LaGrance
of Hannibal, Mo., advanced in the
winner's round yesterday.
Legend's Request
Loser's Bracket
12 noon: Conners Aggies vs. Ft.
Lewis & M.
3:30 p.m.: Arkansas City vs Northeast Mississippi.
1:45 p.m.: Centralia, Ill., vs. Trenton,
N.J.
Winner's Bracket
0.00 p.m. Fairbury. N e b., vs
Eastern Arizona.
7:45 p.m.: Moberly, Mo., vs. Campbell college. buie's, Creek, N.C.
9:30 p.m.: Lon Morris vs. Benton Harbor.
Mobberly scored a 67-51 victory over Centralia and Hannibal-La-Grange a 78-72 win over Arkansas City to advance last night.
Bismarck, N.D., was the first team to be eliminated from the tourney. They suffered an 80-76 licking at the hands of Brewton-Parker, Mt. Vernon, Ga.
In other games, Campbell college defeated Trenton 66-63, and Snow college handed Northeastern Mississippi its third loss in 45 games this season. 72-69.
Floyd Charles of Northeastern Mississippi scored 35 points to equal his first night's performance.
Billiard Team Places Third
Russell Welchel and Duane Smith tied for fourth place in the individual scores by shooting 62 points. Dudley Meyer of the University of Cincinnati, placed third with a score of 63, keeping Welchel and Smith out of the finals by one point.
Scoring 159 points, KU's billiard team placed third in the Intercollegiate Straightrail billiard tournament.
The University of Cincinnati and the University of Utah tied for first place in the tournament, shooting 165.
Michigan State college and the University of California have signed a new home and hnoe football series. The first game of the series will be played in 1957.
Haynes Happy He 'Gave Up' Pro Football
Saratoga, Calif., (U.P.)—Handsome Hall Haynes, considered by professional football players as one of the better defensive backs of 1953, has no misgivings about giving up the game.
The former Santa Clara university star who was a standout on defense for the Washington Redskins in 1950 and again in 1953 (two years out for a tour of duty in the service), has quit the game to take a post with the San Jose civil defense director.
"I feel swell to know that I'm going to be home with my family," he said today. "Actually, I like playing football. But I don't like being away from my family.
"The idea of money never entered into my decision to quit football."
Haynes will get slightly over $450 a month in his new post—or about $5,500 per year. He admits readily that he got "less than $9,000" while playing for the Redskins last year.
Considering the fact that he had to keep up two homes on the Redskin salary, he isn't taking too much of a cut in pay.
Is he through with football for good?
"If I could get a leave of absence from my job at San Jose, I might be interested in playing for the San Francisco Forty - Niners. Then I could live at home when the team wasn't on the road. But I would not even go as far away as Los Angeles to live for a full football season."
Haynes, one of the greatest stars in Santa Clara football history, has a degree in political science and is an accomplished speaker.
"Yes, as far as playing for any team that would cause me to be away from my home too much is concerned," he says.
Haynes is 25. After being graduated from Santa Clara he played with the Redskins in the fall of 1950, where he was one of the outstanding rookies of the National Professional Football league. Then came two years of duty, part of which was served in Korea in combat. Then came the 1953 season with the Redskins. Four years away from home, his beautiful wife and two little children, probably cured Hall of all wanderlust.
"I may be interested, but that would be a long way in the future. Right now I'm only planning to do a good job in the civil defense setup."
Asked if he was considering going into politics, he replied:
Furman Ace Glad 'Glory Ride Over'
New York —(U.P.)— Frank Selvy, everybody's all-American on the basketball court this season, was glad today that the glory ride was over.
"It's been a great thrill all the way," explained the kid from Kentucky who rewrote all the collegiate scoring records, "But I've got to get to work to help my family."
Furman university at Greenville, S.C. will be sorry to see him go. Because Franklin Delano Selvy, honored yesterday as the best player to appear in New York this season, put the Purple Paladins on the basketball map.
But the handsome, modest young man from the little railroad town of Corbin, Ky., has been sweating out his responsibilities. Except for one brother, he is the eldest of a family of nine children. The father is unable to work because of injuries suffered in an accident in the coal mines of southern Kentucky. That puts it up to the big kids.
Frank, who wears his brown hair in a cut, has his path all figured out.
"I'd like to give pro basketball a try," says the southern sharpshooter who is certain to attract some fancy basketball bids. "Then, eventually, I hope to be a coach."
Looking back over his fantastic collegiate career, Selvy picks as his big moment an incident which is a long man with large family worries.
"I guess it was the night my whole family came up to see me play," he grinned. "That night I scored 100 points—and you could hear the kids yelling all the way back in Kentucky. It really felt great to make good in front of the folks."
In his career at Furman Selvy scored more points, one game, one season and total, than any other player who ever performed on a major collegiate circuit.
The nice part is that it left him untouched, a nice, shy young man of 21 with a steady, sensible head on his shoulders. Not only that, but he doesn't think he is the best player in the Selvy family.
YOUR EYES
should be examined today. Call for appointment, or rearrangement duplicated.
LAWRENCE OPTICAL CO.
Phone 425 1025 Mass.
It's a Landslide!Arrow "Oxfords"Voted Style Kings
Large majority of collegians favor trim good looks of Arrow "Gordon Dover Button-down"
"Lasting good looks" was the main reason cited for the overwhelming popularity of Arrow Oxfords. These fine shirts . . . which retain their fresh good looks all day long . . . are available at all Arrow dealers — in white or colors.
TRADE @ MARK
SHIRTS • TIES • UNDERWEAR • HANDKERCHIEFS • SPORTSWEAR
Get Your ARROW Oxfords At CARL'S
Gordon Dover Button-Down
Radnor Button-Down
Gordon Sussex
905
Phone 905