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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Dec. 7, 1953
Frat Teams Open Cage Play Today
By VIC VIOLA Kansan Sports Writer
With a full slate of games on tap for today the race for the 1953-54 Hill championship in intramural basketball will get under way in the Robinson gym and Robinson annex. Today's action will include six games in Fraternity "A" and four contests in Frat "B."
Phi Delta Theta will be defending the Hill championship which it won last year by smothering Independent titlist Hodder annex 53-37 in the finals. Runners-up in their respective bracket were Beta Theta Pi in Fraternity "A" and Last Chance in Independent "A."
Last year's "B" crown was captured by Tampa winner Delta Upsilon which subdued Independent champion Gamma Delta 36-19. Second place in the Frat "B" league went to Beta, while AFROTC notched second in Independent ball. The Hill "C" trophy went to Phi Delt also as it defeated Phi Kappa Psi in the playoffs.
According to the intramural department there are 129 teams composed of over 1300 players registered to compete in the basketball program this winter. This figure represents three more teams than entered last year but is still shy of the record 150 teams that played in 1950.
As in the past there will be both Fraternity and Independent leagues with "A", "B", and "C" competition in each of them. The "A", "B", and "C" groups are divided into divisions made up of not more than six teams which play round-robin schedules. The top two finishers in each division advance to the post-season playoffs which decide the respective league and Hill champions.
In a meeting of team managers Friday, 'Walt Mikols, intramural director, said that the rules which were in effect two years ago would be used for all intramural games this season.
This will replace the present one and one free throw ruling with the former one shot per foul standard. Two charity throws will be allowed for fouls committed in the act of shooting while all fouls in the last two minutes of the game will also result in two shots.
All "A" games will be played on the Robinson annex floor while the "B" and "C" contests will be held on the Robinson gym cross-courses. Games will consist of four 7-minute quarters and will be referenced by members of the physical education department's officiating class.
Robinson Annex
Fraternity "A"
Elizabethtown B
4 p.m. Phi Delt-Sig Ep.
4 p.m. Phi Delt-Sig Ep.
5 Thurs. 11 a.m. AKI
5 p.m. Triangle-AKL.
> p.m. Triangle-AKL
5 nm. Theta Chi-DU
6 p.m. Theta Chi-DU.
p. m. Beta-TKE.
p.m. Beta-TRL.
8 a.m. Delt-Acacia
9 p.m. Phi Kappa Sig-Phi Gam,
Robinson Gym
8:30 p.m. DU-Sigma Chi (east
court) Lambda Chi-Sigma Pi
9:15 p.m. Delta Chi-AKL (east);
Beta-Phi Psi (west).
Johnny Vander Meer, double nohit former major league pitcher, has signed to manage the Richmond Va. Colts of the class B loop in 1954
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New York (UP)—The major leagues were ready today to take the first step toward wiping out the player pension plan and warding off the formation of a player union.
Pension Fate Is Doubtful
Most of the club owners willing to discuss the matter said they definitely would vote to set up a committee next Wednesday, which in turn would investigate dissolution of the pension plan and report back to the owners at a subsequent meeting, probably in February.
The high executive council of baseball met last night to discuss strategy in a top secret meeting at Commissioner Ford Frick's hotel suite. The other members of the council, league presidents Warren Gilfs and Will Harridge, and club owners Walter O'Malley of Brooklyn and Tom Yawkey of the Boston Red Sox will in turn report to their respective leagues today.
But while they weren't talking, attorney J. Norman Lewis, who represents the players, sounded off at length.
He contradicted Frick's statement in Atlanta last week that he and the league player representatives were present at a meeting of the council last Sept. 29 when a motion to dissolve the pension plan was made.
"I categorically deny, along with Reynolds and Kiner, that any such resolution or motion was submitted when we were present," Lewis said. "I also note that some effort is being made to divide the players by saying we concealed information from them. That is absurd. The first we knew about it was in Atlanta last week."
Lewis said that he would not attempt to attend any of the meetings of the owners this week because "they don't want me."
Kentucky Looms As Cage Power After One Game
New York — (U.P.)—The first basketball returns are in today, and it looks as if it's true what they said about Kentucky.
Outhsining even national champion Indiana on the first big Saturday night of the new court season, the glory-hungry Wildcats of Kentucky turned loose former all-American Cliff Hagan in a 51-point spree as they opened the season with an 86-59 walloping of Temple.
By contrast, Indiana was held to a 1-point halftime lead in its debut against Cincinnati before turning on the power for a comfortable 78-65 decision.
Hagan, a 6-4, 200-pounder, turned in the season's best individual performance so far as he flipped in 17
field goals and 17 free throws, plus grabbing about 70 per cent of the rebounds. Coach Adolph Rupp, who admits his boys did "real well" in their first game since the end of a year's suspension by the NCAA on recruiting charges, said that Hagan is once again "one of the finest players in the nation."
Cincinnati managed to hold Indiana seven at 35-35 after four minutes of the third period before the Hoosiers broke loose. Indiana went to town in the final period with 33 points but Cincinnati center Jack Twywman, four inches shorter, outscored 6-10 Big Ten scoring champion Don Schlundt, 28-20.
The saga of Bevo Francis added two more chapters during the week-end. After scoring 32 points in a losing effort against little Adelphi in New York on Thursday, the Rio Grande college skyscraper regained some prestige by scoring 39 in a losing game against Villanova on Friday and then equalled the Boston Garden record with 41 in an 89-87 win over Providence on Saturday.
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Long Idaho College Streak Broken by Houston in Bowl
Evansville, Ind. —(U,P)— Oncebeaten Sam Houston State scored a third period safety and held College of Idaho to 21 yards on the ground to win the sixth annual Refrigerator Bowl game yesterday 14-12.
The Texans' victory, viewed by nearly 10,000 fans, snapped a 14-game winning streak for the Pacific Northwest conference champions.
Idaho scored first, in the second period, when fullback George Pesut bulled over from the 1-yard line, fumbled, and teammate El Donamini recovered for the touchdown.
Sam Houston fullback Dick Gaines, voted the game's most valuable player, evened the count
on a 10-yard run the next time the Bearcats got possession.
Halfback McNeill Moore put the Texans ahead to stay in the next period with a 34-yard touchdown gallop.
The first railroad in Texas, and the second west of the Mississippi river, was the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado railroad. Service began in 1853, with 20 miles of track.
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Well-Known Reindeer Tells All
NORTH POLE, ARCTIC. Looking very dapper for an 18-point buck with chalked muzzle and matching white tail assembly, Dasher, famous front-running reindeer for the S. Claus Parcel Service, stated today:
1. Conditions on the northern tundra are pretty much the same as ever. No-o, TV hadn't affected the grazing habits of the middle-class herds.
2. That despite reports to the contrary, you don't ever thoroughly adjust to sub-zero weather, regardless of the warm esteem people hold you in.
3. Rumors of a reindeer strike for Christmas Eve are unfounded. Somebody's got a termite in his antler.
When asked about the most popular Christmas gift down through the years he replied without hesitation: "Menswear by Manhattan. I've helped haul Mr. Claus's sled, roe and buck, nigh unto forever . . . so I ought to know . . . nothing makes a man happier than shirts, sportshirts, ties, pajamas, beachwear or underwear labeled Manhattan. Don't know whether it's the live style that makes a man look and feel so good, whether it's the traditional tailoring detail, or the array of fabrics, patterns and colors that are all so unmistakeably quality. I'll admit one thing. I've kind of wished sometimes that Manhattan would make deerwear."