PAGE 4 University Daily Kansan Friday, Dec. 11, 1953
Tulane Nip KU Loses Initial Contest of Season
By KEN BRONSON
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
New Orleans—Kansas ran into a barrel of real trouble last night and escaped with nothing but scars from the hacking and whacking of Tulane's go-and-get-'em Greenies, who hung the Jayhawkers from the rafters while scampering to a 69-65 victory.
The Jayhawks now must come back against the strong LSU Tigers at Baton Rouge tomorrow night. It's a must game for the Kansans if they are to end the present Southern series with an even record.
The simple story last night was that the Green Wave outhusited and outshot the Jayhawkers, especially at the charity line where the Greynes sank 17 of 19. Kansas, led by big B. H. Born's 28 points, held the upper hand most of the game but a strong last-minute Tulane surge accounted for the difference.
Sparked by little 5-11 guard Hal Cervini and string bean 6-6 reserve center Phil Wallace, Tulane cashed in on its favorite pastime, the free throw, in busting the Kansans in the last few minutes.
Three free tosses by Bob Delpit, a reserve guard who saw action only in the final quarter; two tossed by Dick Brennan, and two by Cervi pushed the Greenies past the Jay-hawkers, who went stone-cold in the last minute of action.
During the rest of the contest, however, Kansas led almost all the way, twice stretching the advantage to six points. Harold Patterson got 10 for KU, Al Kelley got 14, and Dobbs got seven, while Larry Davenport, the other starter, failed either to shoot or score.
The second period was somewhat slower and the Jayhawks grabbed a 34-33 lead at the intermission, mainly on the efforts of Born and Patterson.
The first quarter's action was extremely fast, and the Jayhawkers finally came out on the short end, 19-23.
Kansas continued to hold the lead in the third quarter. Twice KU threatened a runaway, but the pesky Greenies kept coming and finally tied the score after one minute had elapsed in the final quarter. From there Tulane kept the advantage on the marksmanship stripe to go on and win.
The Jayhawks must come back fast if they expect to win Saturday against Louisiana State, which has back eight of its top 10 men of last year.
Leading the way for LSU is 6-9 Bobby Pettit, sensational scoring giant who is one contest this year garnered 60 points.
Starting with Pettit will be Don Belcher (6-3) and Ned Clark (6-5)
at forwards, and Benny McCardle
and Norm Magee, both 5-11 guards.
The Jayhawkers are expected to
open the same lineup that started last night—Kelley, Patterson, Born, Dobbs, and Davenport.
Davenport played little time last night, yielding to Bill Heitolt, John Anderson, and Harold McElroy. If Coach "Phog" Allen chooses to replace Davenport, Anderson likely will get the nod.
The box score:
| KANSAS | G-GA | F-FA | F |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kelley | 6-21 | 2-2 | 2 |
| Patterson | 4-9 | 2-2 | 2 |
| Born | 10-16 | 8-11 | 3 |
| Davenport | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 |
| Dobbs | 3-10 | 1-2 | 0 |
| Martin | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 |
| Toft | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0 |
| Heitholt | 0-2 | 2-3 | 4 |
| Anderson | 1-3 | 0-1 | 1 |
| Brainard | 0-2 | 0-0 | 2 |
| McElroy | 0-1 | 0-2 | 1 |
totals ... 24-64 17-27 16
TULANE G-GA F-FA F
Browne 3-7 2-2 4
Brennan 3-11 2-2 2
Nowakowski 1-6 0-0 4
Cervini 8-11 4-6 4
Stoll 3-7 1-1 0
P. Wallace 7-12 5-5 3
R. Wallace 1-1 0-0 1
Kriebel 0-0 0-0 0
Delpit 0-0 3-3 0
Totals ... 26-55 17-19 18
Wichita Wallops Washburn, 70-48
Wichita — (U.P.)— Wichita's Shockers, at the moment at least, rate as strong contenders for the Missouri Valley basketball crown.
Coach Ralph Miller's club last night handed the Washburn university Ichabods their first defeat of the season. 70-48.
The convincing exhibition found the visiting Teopakens holding Wichita pretty well in check through the first half, with the Shockers gaining only a two-point, 30-28 lead at halftime.
Then Wichita's attack caught fire in the last half. In the first four minutes after the intermission the Shockers ran up a 10-point margin and did not let the Ichabds get any closer the rest of the way.
There was no outstanding individual scorer. Cleo Littleton and Bob Hodgson got 11 points each for the winners
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Each Big Seven Team in Action Saturday Night
Every Big Seven basketball team will be in action tomorrow night as the 1953-54 cage season gets into full swing.
Highlighting the Saturday schedule will be the Kansas-Louisiana State contest at Baton Rouge.
| | W | L. Pt. Op |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Missouri | 1 | 75 43 |
| Iowa State | 1 | 76 62 |
| Kansas State | 1 | 136 133 |
| Kansas | 0 | 65 69 |
| Colorado | 0 | 44 54 |
Nebraska | 0 | 64 75 |
Oklahoma | 0 | 61 88 |
In other Saturday games Missouri will be at Wisconsin, Iowa State journeys across the state to Creighton, Oklahoma plays at Ohio State, Kansas State hosts Wyoming, Iowa of the Big Ten plays Nebraska at
Lincoln, and Oklahoma A&M will meet Colorado at Boulder.
How They Stand
Fifteen other games are on tap before the Dec. 26-30 Big Seven preseason tournament at Kansas City.
In the first round of that tourney Kansas plays Colorado and Iowa State opposes Missouri on Saturday night, and Kansas State meets Nebraska and Oklahoma takes on guest team Washington on Monday.
The pre-tournament composite schedule:
Dec. 14 Oklahoma at Wisconsin.
Oklahoma, A&M at Colorado
Okla. A&M at Colorado.
Dec. 15. So. Dakota at Nebraska.
Dec. 16. Okla. A&M at Oklahoma.
Tulsa at Oklahoma.
Dec. 18 K-State at Washington
Dec. 19 Missouri at Arkansas.
Colo. A&M at Iowa State.
K-State at Washington.
Nebraska at Oregon St.
Colorado at Minnesota.
Dec. 21 Nebraska at Oregon
Columbia at Iowa
Dec. 22 Iowa State at Drake Nebraska at Oregon.
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N. Carolina State 67, Phillips "66" 65 (overtime)
Notre Dame 72, Detroit 45.
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Boston 113, New York 108.
Tomorrow night the Jayhawk basketball team closes its opening swing of the season with a contest at Baton Rouge against Louisiana State university.
And the Tigers, at least from their showing in their 128-74 romp Monday over Louisiana college, seem to have a real powerhouse. Last year LSU rolled to the Southeastern conference championship and took fourth in the NCAA national playoff at Kansas City. LSU won 24 and lost three contests last year.
The big man in the southerner's attack is 6-9 center Bob Petit, who is one of 13 of the top 15 men left over from last year. Last season the big boy was the nation's 10th high scorer with a 24.7 average. He got 573 points in 23 games.
Pettit set a new single game scoring record for Southeastern loop schools Monday with 60 points in the blasting of Louisiana college. In the other game LSU has played, it defeated Pensacola Air Force Base 109-68 last Saturday. In three seasons Pettit has 1,131 total points.
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