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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 2, 1954
Jayhawkers Trip Colorado,
83-62
Victory Moves Kansas to Top In Big Seven Cage Scramble
By KEN BRONSON Kansas Sports Editor
The Kansas Jayhawks, getting another double-barrel assault from their senior co-captains, cinched at least a tie for the Big Seven championship last night, drubbing Colorado's Golden Buffaloes. 83-62.
The victory moved the Jayhawks within one game of racking up their third straight Big Seven championship. Only Missouri, which the Jayhawkers meet next Tuesday, stands in the way to a clear-cut title and another berth in the NCAA playoffs.
B. H. Born, 6-9 Medicine Lodge senior, dropped in 23 points to again lead the Kansas surge but his senior sidekick, Al Kelley, was close behind with 20. Harold Patterson, the third part of the senior triplay their last home game, chipped in with another 13 points.
But Colorado hardly noticed his Joss. He didn't score a field goal until 2:15 was gone in the second quarter and he had only four points at halftime.
Little Charlie Mock led the impotent Colorado attack with 16 points, Tom Harrold getting 11, and Bob Jeangerard, 10.
Burdette Haldorson, the conference's leading scorer, scored only five points and lasted only 22 minutes and 50 seconds in the ball game, fouling out with 7:10 remaining in the third period.
It was the 29th straight home court victory for the Jayhawkers, who now stand 10-1 in the Big Seven and 16-4 for the year. Colorado, who came into the game tied with Kansas for the Big Seven lead, now has a 9-2 league mark and a 10-9 mark for the year. They close out their season Saturday night, playing host to Kansas State, the only team besides Kansas to defeat them in conference play this year.
The game was halted for 22 minutes because of a power failure, in the final period, that being about the only thing to stop the Jayhawkers all evening. The highly-touched Colorado defense had little success after the first two minutes of the game.
At that point, the Buffs were still in the ball game, 9-8. But then the Jayhawks went to work and the startled Buffs were never again in the ball game.
The score at the end of the first quarter was 20-10 but the jammed-packed Hoch auditorium crowd knew it was all over but the shouting.
Dallas Dobbs hit a charity. Born scored on an easy one-hander, and Patterson hit a lay-in after a Kelley steal to give the Jayhawks a 14-8 lead. After Harrold's free throw brought the Buffs up to 14-9, Kansas then went on to take charge.
Kelley took over the scoring in the second quarter, tapping in nine points during the period to push the Jayhawkers out to a 38-24 half-time bulge.
Kelley and Born then pushed Kansas to a 47-27 lead with 5:45 left in the third period and from then on in, the Jayhawkers merely toyed with the frightened Buffs.
Kansas' biggest lead came with seven minutes left in the ball game when Kelley followed a six-point spree by Dobbs with a driving lay-in to make the score, 72-45.
Coach Phog Allen cleaned his bench after that, the Buffs coming up some but never getting closer than 17 points.
It was ironical that the margin of victory was the largest the Jay-hawkers have had this year against a Big Seven opponent. Their largest margin before last night was the 86-69 victory over Missouri here Jan. 9.
Jordan Top Coach, Writers Say
New York—U.K.) Johnny Jordan of Notre Dame today was named "coach of the year" by the Metropolitan Basketball Writers association. Under Jordan's direction, the Irish have won 19 of 21 games this season and will appear in the NCAA championships for the s e c o n d straight year.
Box Score
KANSAS 83 G-Ga F-Fa Pf Tf
Alberts 1-2 0-0 1 2
Brainard 0-1 2-4 2 2
Daventport 0-1 1-2 1 2
Kelley 9-18 2-2 4 20
McEroly 1-1 0-0 0 2
Padgett 0-1 0-0 1 0
Patterson 5-13 3-4 2 13
Born 8-15 7-9 5 23
Anderson 1-1 0-0 5 2
Dobbs 4-11 4-6 3 12
Heitholt 1-5 1-3 3 3
Squires 0-2 2-4 0 2
Wolfe 0-0 0-0 1 0
Divich 0-0 0-0 1 0
Totals 30-71 23-36 29 83
COLORADO G-Ga F-Fa Pf Tr
Coffman 1-6 4-5 2 6
Jeangerand 3-17 4-8 3 10
Ranglos 0-3 3-5 5 13
Walter 0-0 0-0 0 0
Haldorson 2-10 1-1 5 0
Hannah 2-6 5-7 2 9
Harroll 2-11 7-10 2 11
Mock 4-8 8-9 3 16
Peterson 1-1 0-0 0 2
Totals 15-62 32-45 22 62
Kansas 20 18 13 22 83
Colorado 10 14 17 21 62
Officials: Ron Gibbs and John Lloyd
A home-and-home series with Arkansas of the Southwest conference will feature Kansas' 1954 non-conference baseball schedule.
Razorbacks Top Baseball Slate
The Razorbacks will appear here April 12 and 13, after the Jayhawkers meet them in Fayetteville 5 and 6. Twenty-one games fill the overall slate, announced yesterday by Athletic Director Dutch Lonborg.
Wichita, Tulsa, and Rockhurst will complete KU's non-league slate.
Floyd Temple, recently appointed Jayhawker baseball coach, is working with a squad of 35 men including nine holdover lettermen. The pitchers and catchers have been drilling under Dick Gilman, one of KU's best hurlers in recent years, since February 8.
Monogram winners include John Trombold, second-team all-NCAA firstbaseman last year; pitchers John Brose, Wayne Tiemeier, and Ben Dalton; infielders Bill Pulliam, Harold Bergsten, and Harold Patterson, and outfielders Bill Heitholt and John Perry. Patterson and Heitholt will not report until the close of basketball season.
1954 Kansas schedule:
April 12-13, Arkansas at Lawrence
April 14-15, Kansas State at Law-
w
April Wichita at Wichita
5-6
April Yagetteville
4-7, Tulsa at Tulsa
rence
April 19-20, Nebraska at Lincoln
April 23-24, Iowa State at Lawrence
April 30-May 1, Missouri at Columbia
May 4, Rockhurst at Lawrence
May 7-8, Colorado at Boulder
May 12-13, Oklahoma at Lawrence
Miami — (U.P.)— Forty-year-old Gardner Mulloy showed the tennis fathers today that he still is a man to be reckoned with as he took home the Miami Invitation tournament championship for another year. He retained his crown with a 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 victory over top-seeded Art Larsen, 11 years his junior in the final round.
Mulloy Wins Miami Tourney
Seaura Wins on Tennis Tour
-Kansan photo by Rozanne Atkins
Albuquerque — (U.P.) — Francisco (Pancho) Segura defeated Australia's Frank Sedgman, 13-11, last night to come within $600 of Sedgman's leading money total in the Jack Kramer profession tennis tour.
WHOA—Colorado's Bob Jeangerard dribbles away as Allen Kelley
gives chase.
Raschi's Sale to Cardinals Ends Cleveland's Hopes
New York—(U.P.)—Vic Raschi's sale $ \textcircled{8} $
to the Cardinals, admittedly designed to discourage any possible complacency among the Yankees, represents a course of action that the Cleveland Indians have attempted unsuccessfully for the past three years.
General Manager George Weis, in sending Raschi to St. Louis, said he wanted to shake the complacency out of the five-time champions and prove that none of them are indispensable. He was "putting a fire" under his players, in baseball parlance.
Like Weiss, Greenberg decided to do something about it.
His first act was a determined campaign to acquire scrappy Clint Courtney from St. Louis. He has tried for the past two years but the defunct Brown's always had asked too much.
The Indians, runnersup to the Yankees since 1951, also are occasional victims of compacency andberg has mentioned it several times.
"Jim Hegan (the Indians' No. 1 catcher) is an excellent receiver and a great handler of pitchers," explained one Brownie official last season. "But he's not the take-charge hollering type.
Courtney is, and for that reason the Indians want him badly. They want him to light a fire under the rest of their players."
The cocky Courtney, who plays every game as if his life depends on it, realizes he is a fire-brand. Asked what he thought about the Indian's attempts to obtain him, he merely grinned and said, "They'd probably win the pennant if they got me."
Failing to land Courtney, the Indians went on this winter and acquired hustling Mickey Grasso from the Senators. Grasso, in addition to being an able receiver, is the kind of player who invariably exhorts his teammates to greater efforts.
Yankee Manager Casey Stengel claims that "no one loafs on my club." Raschi, himself, is one of the hardest workers in baseball! and his sale, as Weiss pointed out, was no reflection on his hustle.
Sophs Win All-Star Game From Juniors
The Sophomores won the intramural all-star championship last night, defeating the Juniors 44 to 41 in a close game in which the lead changed hands throughout.
Punky Hoglund was the leading scorer of the game scoring eight field goals and four free throws for 20 points. Bob Richards led the winners scoring three from the field and five from the charity line for 11 points.
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First Workout Knocks Williams Out of Action
By OSCAR FRALEY
New York—(U.P.)The breaks still were running against Ted Williams today and, psychologically, they couldn't have come at a worse time.
The latest was a broken collar bone, suffered in his first workout of the spring training season with the Boston Red Sox. The kid fleeing a fly ball and was expected to be out of action about five weeks.
It was an even tougher break than it appeared on the surface because emotionally the greatest hitter in baseball needed a physical outlet at the moment.
Needed it desperately, as a matter of fact. Because since he and his wife separated recently, Williams has been a bundle of ragged nerves. I saw him in Miami last week and Ted appeared like a boiler with a full head of steam and the safety valve tied down.
We didn't talk baseball but discussed fishing. Yet you could feel in his manner that he was looking ahead eagerly to the baseball spring training season. He always has had a restless temperament but the addition of all his personal woes converted him into a tigerish pacer who couldn't even sit down to eat his breakfast.
Disturbed as he was underneath, he handled a fishing rod with a savage dexterity and you didn't have to ask him to know that he was anticipating lashing into a baseball with all his terrific, pent-up energy. That always has been his chief forte in baseball—hitting the ball farther and more often than any other active player.
He has done just that, too, despite a series of bad breaks which might have ruined most other ball players. Just to refresh your memory, this is the man who batted 406 in 1941 before he marched away to become a marine flier.
Ted came home to hit the heights again and suffered a fractured elbow in the 1950 All-Star game. Over that, he was called back into service during the Korean conflict and at 35 was flying jets in combat. He was surprised that he made it back after surviving a crash in flames as well as a bout with pneumonia.
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STANDS OUT in play
• Harder Smashes
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STANDS UP in your racket
- Moisture Immune
- Lasting Liveliness
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Multi-Ply Braid ..$5.00
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Choice of The Champions