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University Daily Kansan Monday. Jan. 18, 195
—Kansan Photo by Clarke Keys
MIGHTY MITE—Jack Wolfe, diminutive Kansas guard, steals the ball from 6-7 Roger Craft in fourth-quarter action Saturday. Seemingly astounded at the move are Bill Brainard (7), Harold Patterson (22), and Larry Davenport (4) of Kansas and Gene Stauffer (40) and Warren Bullock (10) of Kansas State.
High-Flying KU Meets Cyclones In Hoch Tonight
Probable Starters
Kansas
Patterson
Ai Kelley
B, B. Born
Baird
Larry Davenport
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Jowa State
Jean Lewis
Barnie Almeida
Charlie Duncan
Carl Perry Clovee
Carrie Lowe
By STAN HAMILTON Kansan Sports Editor
The Kansas Jayhawks, deadlocked with Nebraska for first in the Big Seven cage race with a 3-0 record, meet last place Iowa State tonight in Hoch auditorium. Starting time of the contest, which is to be telecast over KCMO-TV of Kansas City, Mo., is 7:35 p.m.
The Kansans of Coach Phog Allen will be out to increase their home winning streak to 25 and run to 11 their consecutive victory string over the Cyclones. Iowa State's last victory over K.U. was a 49-45 decision here in 1849.
Coach Chick Sutherland's team will be out to halt a victory drought which began with its last victory, 70-63 over Colorado in the consolation semi-finals of the pre-season tourney at Kansas City. Since then the Cyclones have dropped one non-league contest and a pair of loop games. They lost 55-63 to Oklahoma Saturday at Norman.
Kansas, onthe other hand, its morale at a high pitch after its narrow triumph over K-State Saturday, will be out to gain possible sole possession of first in the conference. If Nebraska should lose to Missouri at Lincoln tonight, K.U. would stand alone atop the standings.
The present Kansas problem is the slump of center B. H. Born, who was the loop's No. 1 scorer last year. After three hot performances in the initial trio of games, he has dropped far below his usual scoring peak. The most points he has gathered since his 22 against Tulsa in the third game, was 17 against Missouri in the Kansas City tournament.
But K.U.'s sophomore-laden bench has proved the answer. Taking up the slack have been Bill Brainard, Harold McEloy, Gary Padgett, and Jack Wolfe. This fourhouse accounted for 12 of the Jayhawks' 65 points against K-State. Padgett did not play in that game.
Iowa State has had its troubles after a fast start. Sutherland's all-letterman starting lineup is in trouble when substitutions have to be made. No other member of the squad lettered last season and none of his subs has shown particularly well to date.
Kansas will take a 16-day between semesters rest after tonight's game, next meeting Colorado Feb. 2 at Boulder. Iowa State will meet Drake Saturday at Ames.
'Cat 'Surprise' Isn't To Cagey Phog Allen
By CLARKE KEYS
Manhattan—You could tell just what kind of game it had been when you saw K.U. assistant Dick Harp run wildly onto the court and embrace Bill Heitholt at the final gun. For it had been a wild melee from start to finish with neither club in command for long.
But if you could have seen Harp, one of the nation's finest assistants—coat flying back, arms outstretched, and shouting loudly—bearing down on Heitholt, a junior who has never quite reached his potential, you would have realized that the Jayhawkers had pulled their second straight Manhattan victory out of the fire, this time 65-62.
Somehow this game was different, though, from the 80-78 Kansas win of last season that went down as the first conference loss for Kansas State in its fieldhouse. For you got the impression this time that Kansas State and the fans were defensive. They didn't have that "we never lose here" feeling, and
Kansas Loses Swim Debut
The 1954 debut of the Jayhawk swimming team was spoiled here Saturday by Nebraska, 38-47, but three of Kansas Coach Doug Wall's tank men set new varsity pool records to give the visitors a scare. It was NU's second victory in as many starts.
Jayhawk captain Dick Efin cracked two old free style records and breast stroke man Jean Schanze eclipsed the old 200-yard mark in that event.
Kansas, winning only these three races and with Jerry Jester taking first in diving, got but four first places to the winners' six. The 440-yard free style relay, however, ended in a dead heat.
The next Kansas outing will be at Denver Feb. 5, when it meets Denver university. The next day the Jayhawks will participate in a double dual against Colorado and Colorado A&M at Boulder. Not unaware then Colorado A&M provides the men, will KU be at home again.
60-yard free style: 1. Dick Eiffle (K)
2. Gradwahl (N); 3. Peterson (N). Time—31.1. (New pool record. Old record—32.1.)
120-yard individual medley: 1. Bentz
(N) Time: 3. Buchanan (K): 3. Hildek
(N) Time:
220-ward free style: 1. Hill (N); 2. Don
Burton (K); 3. Trabert (N), Time=
222-ward free style: 1. Hill (N); 2. Don
Burton (K); 3. Trabert (N), Time=
300-yard medley: 1. Nebraska (Reed, Hildek, Bentz). Tense: 3-17.5.
Diving; 1. Jerry Jester (K); 2. Goh-
dev (N); 3. Eno (N).
100-yard free style: 1. Dick Elfin (K); 2. Don Burton (K); 3. Hill (N). Time—57.8. New pool record. Old record—58.1.
200-vard backstroke: 1. Reed (N); 2. Danaferri (K); 3. Bob Fisher (K)
Time-2-292
200-vard breaststroke: 1. Jean Shmzke
(K); 2. Hlidek (N); 3. Sundtet N. (Time
—2:47.1. (New pool record. Old record
—2:51.)
440-yard free style: 1. Bentz (N); 2. Gracewalk (N); 3. Bildl Payne (K) Time
400-vard relay; Tie, KU (Burton, Bu-
cock), 600-vard relay; Tie, KU (Burton,
Lighton, Hill) Pell Ties-$350-$450.
they were the underdogs. The Cats played inspired ball, true, but seemingly without the K-State attitude of old.
Kansas State pulled what was to have been a "surprise" attack on the Jayhawks, but the big "surprise" was that Kansas knew all about it. In fact the team had practiced against the plan.
Tex Winter, Wildcat head man, practiced his charges all week behind locked doors of the massive fieldhouse. He started a lineup differing from the normal Wildcat five—a lineup combining the fastest Cat players with the best ball-handlers. It's quite likely that Winter planned to fast-break much more than the hustling Kansas defense would allow.
But Winter had the answer to that, too, or at least he hoped so. For the Wildcats slowed things down and ran a methodical attack intended to keep the Kansas defense split wide and with long passes on cuts to the bucket. K-State shot only 36 times doing this, perhaps a new low since the current regime began 15 years ago when Jack Gardner first set foot on the Manhattan campus.
But somehow cagey Phog Allen found out about the plans and drilled his club against it. And here's where the two clubs disagree. Winter maintains that his offense led the way to such a tight game, while the fans were just caught loafing, rather than being outfoxed. Whichever it was, the fans didn't worry, for it was great for them.
The plan also backfired in that it pitted Cat ace Jesse Prisock against B. H. Born and the shorter Prisock picked up too many fouls too early in an attempt to stop the big fellow.
But to get back to Heitholt and the reason for Harp's joy at his play, it was possibly the best showing for such a short period of time in three seasons for the blond junior. Always showing promise in practice and coming to Kansas with great things behind him in high school, Heitholt never could hit his stride in real action, although he held down a starting berth early last season.
The 6-3 forward made only one basket. But his driving lay-in came too late, as he scored 62 and gave the Jayhawks a 62-8 lead that held up in the final rush.
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