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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Dec. 8, 1953
Jayhawks on Way To Initial Game
By KEN BRONSON
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
ENROUTE TO NEW ORLEANS — With all indications pointing to a stiff weekend, the KU basketball team left Lawrence today at 2:15 p.m. for New Orleans and tough opening games with Tulane and LSU.
The first assignment awaiting Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen and his cagers is Thursday night at 8 p.m. in New Orleans when the Jayhawkers tangle with Tulane. After a day of rest, the Jayhawkers return to action on Saturday night, this time at Baton Rouge against the tough Louisiana State university Tigers.
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Both of these Southeastern conference teams rank high in pre-season basketball predictions. LSU is veteran - loaded and Tulane has improved with transfers and sophomores. The Jayhawkers will have to go all-out to open the season with the success hoped for.
Tulane has essentially the same club the Jayhawks crashed last year, 63-50; but Green Waves have added height and reserve power. Coached by Cliff Wells, Tulane averages 6-3 in height, the tallest team in the history of the school.
Two 6-9, 235-pound giants are the biggest additions to the Tulane roster. Jim Norwakowski, a transfer, probably will open against the Jayhawkers, and Leon Vogt, a sophomore, will be the No.1 replacement. These two giants are joined by returning veterans Pat Brown (6-4), Dick Brennen (6-3), and Hal Cervini (6-0). The other expected starter is another transfer, Phil Wallace (6-6).
Tulane opened Friday night with a 68-44 victory over Pensacola Ain Base.
LSU may provide even rougher competition for the Jayhawkers. The Tigers have every man returning from its first two teams that won the Southeastern conference crown last year and then went on to finish fourth in the NCAA tournament, in which KU took second.
The big man in the LSU attack is center Bott Petit, agile 6-9 all-American. Pettit was the nation's 10th best score last year among major college teams. After scoring 359 points as a sophomore, he hit 519 last year for an average of 247.
Other veterans returning for the Bengals are Ned Clark 6-4 and Don Jones 10-4, both now with Benny McAfee and Noah Miles. The excellent set-shots, at the guards,
Last year LSU lost only three of 27 games, two of them in the NCAA tournament to Indiana and Washington.
Kansas which has been tagged with the favorites' role in the upcoming Big Seven race, will have three returning regulars to throw in against these two expected powerhouses. B. H. Born, Allen Kelley, and Harold Patterson will form a high-line of experienced veterans. At the guards, however, the Jayhawkers will have to rely on sophomores and inexperienced performers.
Larry Davenport, a 6-2 madeover forward, likely will start at one backline position with Dallas Dobbs, promising Bartlesville, Okla., sophmore, drawing the nod at the other spot.
This KU team has four other sophomores making the trip besides Dobe these are Jim Toft, Bill Brain-Harold McMhoy, and Len Mertin.
The rest of the 12-man squad is made up of lettermen Jerry Alberts, Bill Heitholt, and John Anderson.
The team will arrive in New Orleans at 10:15 a. m. tomorrow. While in the city, the team will stay at the St. Charles hotel.
Workouts are scheduled for 2 p.m. tomorrow and 12:15 p.m. Thursday. After the Thursday night game, the team will leave Friday for Baton Rouge. More workouts are scheduled Friday and Saturday in Baton Rouge.
Charleston, W. Va. — (U.P.)—Rollie Hemsley, new pitching coach of the Philadelphia Athletics, said today poor success in his first business venture prompted his return to baseball.
HemsleySigns To Coach A's
Hemsley, a veteran of 20 years as a major league catcher, dropped out of baseball after the 1952 season when he resigned as manager of the Charleston Senators of the American association.
He entered the night club field here with another former major leaguer. Babe Barna, and wanted to devote all his time to making a go of the business. But he was a much bigger success as a baseball player.
Later Hemsley started his own restaurant but before long he announced he was going to get out of it "if business doesn't pick up any better than it has in the past year." "That's one thing about this job with the Athletics," he said, "I know what I'm getting."
Hemsley, who had a lifetime batting average of .265 in his 20 years in big league ball, ended his major league days as a member of the Phils so he'll be going back to the city where he left off.
But actually, no one was happier to be back in baseball than the former catcher of such teams as the Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Browns, New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phils.
"It's nice to get back in the big leagues," Hemsley said after returning here from the minor league meeting in Atlanta, where he was hired.
He said he had gone down there to look up Eddie Joost, but it was Joost who looked up Hemsley. President Earl Mack of the A's said Hemsley could have had the job the day Joost was appointed manager but they didn't know where to contact him.
Bernie Guest, the Athletics farm director, grabbed Hemsley when he entered an Atlanta hotel lobby and hustled him off to the Athletics headquarters. The job was waiting.
Baton Rogue, La. — (U)P—Louisiana State's high-scoring center Bob Pettit last night broke a Southeastern conference scoring record by hitting for 60 points as LSU romped over Louisiana college 128-74. LSU meets Kansas Saturday at Baton Rouge.
In the Monday night bowling league play this week ASME defeater DU; Murder, Inc. won over the 69ers, and Phi Gam beat Crazy. Team standings are now ASME, DU, Murder, Inc., Crazy and Phi Gam, tied, and the 69ers.
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Indiana 92, Kansas State 66.
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DEMON ON DEFENSE—Little (5-11) Al Kelley, brother of departed letterman Dean Kelley, will be one of three veterans in the starting lineup Thursday when the Jayhawkers meet Tulane at New Orleans in the opening encounter of the 1953-54 season. As a junior last season Kelley contributed 12.9 points per game and this winter is co-captain of the defending Big Seven champions, with center B. H. Born.
Missouri 75, Drake 43.
Oklahoma A&M 62, Texas 60.
Minnesota 62, Tulsa 60.
Wisconsin 75, Loyola (Chicago) 54
Notre Dame 75, Northwestern 66.
Marquette 92, Creighton 73.
LSU 128, Louisiana college 74.
Duquesne 83, St. Francis 58.
Colorado A&M 54, Colorado 44
Wichita 97, Portland 63.
Kansas Tech 63, Central col-
klee 61.
Akron 64, Oberlin 55.
N Carolina 52, S. Carolina 31.
Phillips "66" 86, Florida 54.
De Paul 90, St. Norbert's 47.
S. W. Missouri 62, Texas West-
ern 52.
Vanderbilt 71, Duke 66.
Niagara 79, Toledo 62.
Hamline 61, Centenary 60.
Culver-Stockton 82, Wm. Penn 52.
Presbyterian 95, High Point 82.
Oklahoma Aggies Trip Texas, 62-60
Austin, Tex. — (U.P.) 6-11 Oklahoma A&M's all-American 6-11 center Bob Mattick proved the difference Monday night when the Aggies defeated a spirited University of Texas team, 62-60.
Mattick led the evening's scoring with 21 points and contributed the important ones during the last half.
KU quarterback Dick Sandifer, who threw only 18 passes last season, still finished up tenth best in the Big Seven in total passing yardage. He completed seven for 167 yards.
The game was in doubt until the final seconds when Aggie guard Tom Fuller hit a set shot to push his team ahead, 61-60.
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OU's Larry Grigg Misses Title by 3
Oklahoma halfback Larry Grigg missed the national scoring title this past season by just three points, official figures released today by the NCAA service bureau of statistics showed.
Grigg, who got 78 points for the Big Seven champion Sooners, lost out to Paul Lindley of Utah State, whose 81-point winning mark is the lowest top total in the nation since 1936. Second in the nation was Bobby Cavazos of Texas Tech. Grigg was third.
The top conversion kicker in the country in 1953 was Stanford's Bob Garrett, who made 86.7 per cent on 26 successes in 30 kicks. The best average in the Big Seven was posted by Oklahoma's Buddy Leake, who kicked of 18 for 94.4 per cent.
Zeke Bratkowski of Georgia, while he couldn't save the Bulldogs from their worst season in many years, managed to win the major college punting championship for himself and his team.
He punted 50 times for 2,132 yards, an average of 42.6 per boot. Georgia's team average, with other players kicking 11 times, was 41.2 yards.
Indiana Rocks Cats, 92-66
Kansas State, which defeated Denver Saturday night, had the tables turned Monday night when Indiana's defending NCAA champions racked the Wildcats, 92-68.
Indiana's starting five was in action less than half the game, yet Don Schlundt, the Hoosiers all-American 6-10 center, scored 25 points to pace the Indiana win. Thirteen men scored in the Hoosier runaway, Wally Choice dropping in 16 points and Eddie Kraak adding 11.
Jesse Prisock hit 16 for Kansas State and Gene Stauffer added 11. Jerry Jung, 6-11 Wildcat center, scored only one point but his predecessors, Jim Frary and Roger Craft, hit five and eight points, respectively.
Schlundt was unstoppable in the first half as he hunked eight of ten tries while playing only 15 minutes. He played only seven minutes in the second half and added another seven points.
Indiana blazed to a 28-13 first quarter edge, oppeted to 47-35, and then put on the clincher with a 28-point outburst in the third period that set the score at 75-50 going into the final quarter.
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