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University Daily Kansan
Monday, March 8, 1954
Tough Tigers: These four men, along with Coach Sparky Stalcup (above), will lead Missouri against Kansas tomorrow night. Left to right, they are Lloyd Elmore, Norm Stewart, Stalcup, Bob Reiter, and Med Park.
Jayhawks Tangle With Tough Tigers In Game to Decide Big Seven Title
PROBABLE STARTERS
| KANSAS | Pos. | MISSOURI |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 5-11 Al Kelley | F | Red Reichert 6-1 |
| 6-1 Harold Patterson | F | Med Park 6-2 |
| 6-9 B. H. Born | C | Bob Reiter 6-8 |
| 5-11 Dallas Dobbs | G | Norman Stewart 6-4 |
| 6-3 John Anderson | F | Lloyd Elmore 5-11 |
By DANA LEIBENGOOD
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
The Kansas Jayhawkers face their most crucial game of the basketball season tomorrow night when they tackle the Missouri Tigers in Brewer fieldhouse in the game which will decide the 1954 Big Seven conference championship.
Since Colorado has already finished its season with a record of 10 victories and two defeats, it's essential that Kansas defeat Missouri. The Buffs finished their season with a 79-76 victory over Kansas State in Boulder Saturday night.
If Kansas should lose the game with the Tigers, the conference would end in a tie and the Big Seven representative to the NCAA regionals at Stillwater, Okla., would be decided by a flip of the coin.
Although Missouri has had a rather dismal season, the Tigers are extremely tough at home. Kansas has won the last two years at Columbia by the narrowest of margins.
Two years ago Kansas won, 60-58 in the last 20 seconds of the game, when Dean Kelley hit a jump shot to give Kansas its margin of victory. Last year, Kelley started the rally which gave the Hawks a 69-60 victory. Kansas had trailed most of the way through the game until Kelley stole the ball twice and hit a right-hander to overcome a six-point Tiger advantage late in the third period. B. H. Born and Harold Patterson then hit to give Kansas a 47-44 lead at the end of the third quarter.
Born, Patterson, and Al Kelley fueled the Hawks past the Tigers in the tournament game; as Patterson and Born each scored 17 points and Kelley accounted for 11. In the conference game, Dallas Dobbs was the big gun, scoring 23 points to tie Bob Reiter, Missouri center, for game scoring honors.
Born then hit five points in the first 40 seconds of the fourth period, and Kansas was on its way to its second straight conference championship with a record of 10 victories and two defeats.
So far this season Kansas and Missouri have met twice with KU winning both games. KU edged past the Tigers 69-67 in the semi-finals of the Big Seven conference preseason tournament, and then routed them 86-69 in its second conference game of the season in Hoch auditorium.
In both games this season. Missouri has gotten maximum mileage out of its centers. In the first game Reiter got only 10 points, but Bill
Holst, his replacement, added 10 more. In the conference game, Reiter scored 23, and Holst dropped through 11 more to give the Missouri pivot men 34 points, almost half of the teams total.
Reiter has outscored Born 35-30 in their personal scoring dual this season. While Born is the leading KU scoreer, Reiter has broken the all-time Missouri scoring record for a season by scoring 383 points. The former record was set in 1952 by another Jayhawk nemesis, Bill Stauffer.
Starting with Reiter in the Missouri lineup will probably be Med Park and Red Reichert at the forward positions, and Noman Stewart and Lloyd Elmore at the guard slots. Park and Stewart consistently have been high scorers for Missouri all season. Stewart scored 24 points against the Hawks in the two previous games, and Park has scored 19 points.
Dayton Beach, Fla., -(U,P)—Bobby Hill of Columbus, O., who has been knocking on the winner's door a long time, captured the 200-mile national championship motorcycle race today with an average speed of 94.24 miles per hour.
Although Missouri has been hard to beat on its home boards, both Kansas State and Colorado have accomplished the feat this season. Colorado beat the Tigers 66-62 in the first conference game of the season, and Kansas State won 79-78 nine days ago.
Hill Wins Motorcycle Title
Starting for KU will be Kelley and Patterson at the forwards, Born it center, and Dobbs and John Anlerson at the guards.
Baseball Roundup
Dodgers Get Two Hits As Braves Win Again
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It's only spring training, but you can't sell the idea to Milwaukee pitchers, who keep buzzing that baseball in mid-season style.
Only a pair of scratch hits in the ninth inning prevented Lew Burdette, Jim Wilson, and Ernie Johnson from hurling a combined no-hitter yesterday as the Braves captured their second straight game from the Dodgers, 9-2, at Miami. Fla
That pitching performance, coming on the heels of Milwaukee's 3-2 triumph over Brooklyn on Saturday, caused Manager Charlie Grimm of the Braves to comment that his team's mound staff might be "second to none" this season.
Held hitless until one man was out in the ninth, the Dodgers finally broke the spell when Bill Antonello beat out a topped ball down the third base line. Ted Bartz followed with exactly the same kind of "bleeder" and that ended Brooklyn's hitting for the day.
A two-run homer by Dick Kokos in the 10th inning gave the Baltimore Orioles an 8-6 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Bob Turley of the Orioles distinguished himself by striking out seven batters in the three innings he worked.
There was no shortage of base hits at Phoenix, Ariz., however, where Cleveland hammered out 20 safeties in burying the Giants, 23-10. Outfielder Dave Pace paced the Indian assault with a pair of homers off knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm while Rocky Nelson, Jim Lemon, Owen Friend also homered for the winners.
Billy Consolo, the $65,000 bonus boy, tripled in the eighth inning to drive in Karl Olson with the winning run as the Red Sox nipped the Phillies, 2-1, at Sarasota, Fla. Following the game, Ted Williams left the Red Sox camp for Boston
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Vic Power, obtained from the Yankees during the winter smashed a three-run homer and also collected a single in leading the Athletics to a 7-3 conquer over the Senators at Orlando. Fla. Gus Zernial also homesed for Philadelphia in a six-run third inning.
Former Cincinnati outfielder Willard Marshall also hammered a three-run home to help the White Sox beat the Reddicks“A” squad, 8-3, at Tampa. The Chicago victory was tempered by the fact that catcher Sherm Lollar suffered a split index finger on his right hand during the fourth inning. X-rays will be taken of the injury today.
Douglas Wins HoustonOpen
Houston, Tex., — (U.P.) — Lanky
Dave Douglas hit the Houston Open
golf tournament's "magic number"
and it laid off to the tune of $6,000.
For three straight years, the 72-hole tourney had been won by a final score of 277 strokes—and that was exactly the score posted by the lean pro from Grossinger, N.Y., as well as the first tourney victory of the year yesterday with a five-under-par 67 on the final round.
Douglas thus finished two strokes ahead of defending champion Cary Middleoff, who earned $3,400 for his second place finish.
Middlecoff, the Memphis, Tennessee dentist, led the field after the first round with a six-under-par 66, but ran into trouble the second day when rain and cold weather rocketed most of the scores.
Cleo Littleton, Wichita forward, was picked to the Associated Press Missouri Valley basketball team for the third consecutive year.
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