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University Daily Kansan
U.S. Coaches Pick Indiana, Kentucky
New York—(U.P.)-Indiana's hurry'in Hoosiers, with 10 players back from the team which won the national college basketball championship last year, were picked today by the United Press board of coaches to do it again this season.
Twenty-nine of the 35 leading coaches who will rate the teams for the United Press during the 1953-54 season predicted Indiana will finish on top for the second year in a row. Kentucky, returning to basketball after abandoning competition for one season, was chosen No. 2 and Duquesne third.
Kentucky and Duquesne, which are expected to dominate their sections and put up a strong challenge for national honors, each received two first place votes from the coaches. Minnesota, which ranked fourth in the coaches' pre-season ratings, and St. Louis, which was 13th, each had one first place ballot.
Completing the top 10 teams in the pre-season ratings were Kansas, last
year's NCAA runnerup; Oklahoma A&M, La Salle, Louisiana State North Carolina State, Minnesota, and California.
The second 10 teams in order were Illinois, Kansas State, St. Louis, Holy Cross, Oregon State, Dayton, Wyoming, Santa Clara, Notre Dame and UCLA.
Team Points
1. Indiana (29) 337
2. Kentucky (2) 263
3. Duquesne (2) 223
4. Kansas 157
5. Oklahoma A&M 115
6. La Salle 98
7. Louisiana State 91
8. North Carolina State 73
9. Minnesota (1) 64
10. California 57
Pension Plan Hassle Bad for National Game
Bv OSCAR FRALEY
The ratings (first place votes in parenthesis);
New York—(U.P.)-It was becoming apparent today that the U.S. Supreme Court did baseball's short-sighted owners a great disservice when it ruled recently that the so-called national pastime was a sport instead of a business.
Second ten: 11, Illinois, 42; 12, Kansas State, 38; 13, St. Louis (1), 37; 14 Holy Cross, 36; 15, Oregon State, 34; 16 Dayton, 29; 17, Wyoming, 25; 18 Santa Clara, 23; 19, Notre Dame, 22; 20, UCLA, 21.
The decision itself is even more surprising for a nation whose principles are founded on freedom. Because it supported a system of business peonage masquerading as a sport,
They were refused permission to have their counsel present and as a result refused to attend the meeting. This aggravating refusal was made even though both major leagues always are well-advised by their ever-present attorneys.
"This financial business is all beyond me. That's why we need counsel."
Kiner was as completely lost as I was, asserting with complete cando-
I attended the meeting a couple of months ago at which this increase in the pension plan was broached by player representatives Allie Reynolds and Ralph Kiner. I sat beside Kiner as Commissioner Ford Frick tossed around the pro and con figures.
And as result of that decision the baseball owners appear to be going completely berserk.
This was indicated during the player-owner hassle in the current minor league meetings at Atlanta. The players asked to take their attorney, J. Norman Lewis, into a meeting at which they hoped to discuss an increase in the major league retirement plan—founded on dollars their skills have earned.
He reiterated this yesterday when, in explaining why the players demanded the presence of their attorney, he said:
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Even more surprising was Frick's revelation that the owners have been preparing to "dissolve" the players' pension plan. He insisted that this was not being done in "pique." Yet there can be no question but what this was very poor timing to make such a disclosure. It smacks too much of the squeeze play.
Also suspect were the statements of Johnny Murphy and Dixie Walker, a pair of former major league stars who helped set up the retirement plan, when they said that the Kiner-Reynolds' demands were "hurting" them as future beneficiaries of the pension plan.
For Murphy is farm director of the Boston Red Sox. And Walker is manager of the Houston team of the Texas league, a long-time Cardinal farm. Their supreme bosses, naturally, are these self-same club owners who have been preparing this suddenly-disclosed legislation to dissolve the pension plan.
New York —(U.P.)—Two of the "little guys" in college basketball—Midwestern U. and Adelphi college—had their day today because they surprised a big-name team, Texas Christian, and a famous player, Bevo Francis.
Little Guys Have Their Day; Bevo, TCU Fall
Meanwhile, Adelphi, which lost its opening game by a thumping 59 points to Fordham, came rolling back to spoil the New York debut of the fabulous Francis and his Rio Grande college teammates by beating them, 83 to 76, at Madison Square garden.
Midwestern rallied in the last quarter last night to upset Texas Christian, 67-64, on the favorites' home court at Fort Worth, Tex.
Francis was foiled by Adelphi's collapsing defense that surrounded him with four players whenever he tried to shoot. Even so, big Bevo bagged 32 points but that was disappointing since he had announced he would try to break the Garden record of 54 points held by Harry Boykoff of St. John's.
Rio Grande, which had won 40 straight games, went into the fourth quarter with a 60-50 lead and then Adelphi, sparked by Larry McDonough, fought back to take the lead, 68-67 with five minutes left and never was headed. Francis was wounded in one of those shots that he got off only six shots in that 20 minutes, sinking three. Tonight, Francis and company meet much-tougher Villanova in Philadelphia.
A milder upset was produced at Knoxville, Tenn., where Tech. led by Jim Reed's 21 points, pulled away in the second half to beat Tennessee. 88 to 71.
Friday, Dec. 4, 1953
Wyoming, defending champion of the Skyline conference and rated 19th nationally by the United Press board of coaches in their preseason ratings, was in danger of becoming an upset victim, too.
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Adelphi 83, Rio Grande 76.
Pittsburgh 74, East Central Okla. 45.
Ft. Hays 85, Southwestern Okla.
State 74.
State 14. St. Benedict's 65, Marysville 50.
Tomorrow Last Day To Exchange IDs
Tomorrow is the last day students may exchange their identification cards for basketball tickets.
ID card holders may select one of two slates of games, four to a slate. Games on set No. 1 are Oklahoma, Iowa State, Kansas State, and Colorado. Set No. 2 consists of Tulsa, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma A&M.
Tickets may be obtained at the athletic office in Robinson gymnasium.
Oklahoma A&M placed five men on the AP 1953 Missouri Valley conference all-star team. Aggies who made the team were Bob LaRue, end; Dale Meinert, tackle; and Bill Bredde, Dorsey Gibson, and Earl Lunsford, all backs.
Maryland 81, Clemson 41.
Texas Tech 88, Tennessee 71.
Oklahoma City 64, Hardin-Simmons 52.
Kansan classifieds bring results.
mons 52.
SMU 105, Texas Wesleyan 70.
Notre Dame 64, Ball State 63.
Westernmost TCU 64.
Hillman, Neb., 64, Bethany '57.
Phillips "66", 63, Seattle Bu-
siness 58
chains 88.
Tarkio 57, Peru State 47.
Wyoming 62, Montana State 53.
Southwestern 78, Bethel 64.
Bowling Green 78, Detroit 53.
St. John's 65, Lafayette 61.
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