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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 27, 1953
By KEN BRONSON
Kansan Sports Writer
We just squandered 25 cents on the first publication of the yet-unborn basketball season only to find a conglomeration of bi-partisan Eastern publicity which was expected because the publishing company—Dell—is located in New York City.
But the cover says that 1,000 experts picked the teams and the pre-season standings. Surely some of the writers came from west of the Mississippi river.
You wouldn't know it by looking at the pre-season standings. We found Duquesne being selected by these 1,000 "experts" as the No. 1 basketball quintet in the country. We can see Kentucky ranking second and Indiana rating third but we can not understand why Duquesne is first.
We were highly pleased to see that Kansas' B. H. Born was picked as a first team pre-season all-American. Joining him on Dell's first five are Tom Gola, La Salle; Dick Ricketts, Duquesne; Bob Pettit, LSU; and Bob Leonard, Indiana.
Bob Mattick, Oklahoma A&M's stellar center, is placed on the second team and Cleo Littleton, Wichita's high-scoring forward, is on the third team.
on the third team.
Allen Kelley is picked as one of the top ten stars in the Prairie States region along with Big Seven men Bob Reiter of Missouri, Bob Waller of Oklahoma, and Fred Seger of Nebraska.
Larry Davenport and Harold Patterson join Born and Kelley in a list of the top 50 players from this region.
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The headline on the Born feature in the magazine was very appropriate. It read, "B. H. Born: Not a Born all-American but a Self-made One."
Self-made One.
The story goes on to say that Born made the grade last year after putting in two years in the shadows of Clyde Lovellette. The story said that last year Coach Phog Allen thought B. H might come for 12 points a game. Instead the 6-9 southpaw pivot racked up 107 points in the first five games and continued to improve throughout the season until he broke the Big Seven's single game record and tied Lovellette's single game school mark of 44 points.
In that game, against Colorado, Born broke his thumb making his 44th point with 30 seconds left in the contest. He played the remainder of the season with an aluminum guard on his right hand, helped the Jayhawks into the NCAA runner-up spot as well as the conference title, and with his scoring, rebounding, and defense won the coaches' acclaim as the tournament's most valuable player.
It looks like Born has now stepped out of those Lovellette shadows into some limelight that he richly deserves
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The magazine places KU at the top in the Big Seven but at the same time takes a blast at Dr. Forrest C. Phog Allen for his pressing defense. As you will remember, Dr. Allen accused the St. John's team of 1952 of playing, "Alley-cat basketball," because of its high-fouling, tight-defense game against KU in the finals of the 1952 NCAA tournament.
The magazine attributes much of KU's success last year to this same style of play, saying that the Jayhawkers won the name of "Phog Allen's Gangsters" in so doing.
The magazine goes on to say that if anyone is to beat the Jayhawkers out of the Big Seven crown it will probably have to be K-State. That sounds like an old story, doesn't it?
Kansas State, so the story goes, has terrific potential: Jim Frary, 6-7 sophomore center, should be outstanding; Jerry Jung, 6-11 Hutchinson product, may make the most of his height—but all told, the team is too full of question marks.
The experts say Colorado is the dark horse. Missouri and Oklahoma are loaded with experience, and the whole league is tougher. It may pan out to be the toughest race in years. Tougher than the ones the past three years?
Rain Stops IM Play Yesterday
Rain forced postponement of the games scheduled for yesterday in independent "A" intramural football. Four games are on tap in Fraternity "B" play this afternoon including Phi Delt vs. Sigma Chi, Delts vs. Kappa Sig, Beta 2 vs. SAE, and DU.js. Phi Phi.
According to Walt Mikols, men's intramural director, the cancelled games will be played after completion of the regular schedule.
With the final round of play beginning Wednesday, only Jim Beam in Division III of the Independent "A" league has captured its division title. Liahona, in second place behind Jim Beam, has also cinched a spot in the post season playoffs.
Both the first and second place clubs in each division gain the right to participate in the championship playoffs.
In Divisions I, II, and III of Fraternity "A", Beta, Phi Gam, and Phi Delt, with perfect 3-0 records, are assured of ties in their respective loops.
D. U. with a 3-1 mark, and Sigma Chi and ATO, at 2-1, are still in the running for the Division IV crown. Fraternity "A" play is scheduled to be concluded this week.
Leading the Fraternity "B" standings are Phi Gam, 3-0, and Beta, 2-0, in Division I, while Sigma Chi, 2-0, and Phi Psi, 2-0, top Divisions II and III.
A tough battle continues in Division I of Independent “A” with Stephenson, 2-1, setting the pace. Pearson, Battenfeld, and Jolliffe, with identical 1-1 slates, all are pushing the league leader. In Division II, Twin Pines, 2-0, still is atop the loop standings.
Orioles Set Players Plan
Baltimore, Md. — (UP) — Arthur H. Ehlers, newly-appointed general manager of the Baltimore Orioles, today outlined a three-point program by which he hopes to make the American league's baby franchise a pennant contender.
Ehlers, who gave up his post as general manager of the Philadelphia Athletics to accept the new challenge, made it clear that:
1. He is willing to trade any player on the Orioles roster—including shortstop Billy Hunter.
2. Would first attempt to strengthen the Orioles pitching staff.
3. Would not attempt a sudden rebuilding job by handing out lavish bonuses to untested high school "phenoms."
In addition, the 56-year-old Ehlers said that he would reveal the identity of the Orioles' 1954 manager in "two or three weeks." Ehlers said he would confer with manager Marty Marion within that period and then announce the team's manager. Marion has a year to go on a two-year contract and the Orioles also are committed to paying off the final year of a three-year contract signed by Rogers Hornsby before the team was switched from St. Louis.
Top three scorers in the Big Seven are Corky Taylor, K-State, 37, and Veryl Switzer, K-State, and Larry Grigg, Oklahoma. 36.
The KU freshman cross country team was victorious in a pair of telegraphic meets over the weekend both by identical 10-30 scores.
Freshmen Win 2 Telegraphic Meets
The little 'Hawks defeated Nebraska and Iowa State for their second and third consecutive wins of the season.
the playoffs.
Milie Swanson of Abilene took first place honors in both meets with a time of 9:59.5, over the 2-mile course, run on the track. Second was Bernie Gay in 10:11; third was Lowell Janen, 10:45; fourth, Corky Eggert, 10:19, and fifth, Jan Howell, 10:21.
Pro-Football Giants' Player Is Valuable 'Handyman'
"When I first came to the pros all you had to do was stop the runners." Sulatis explained as he stepped out of the shower following a workout at the Polo grounds. "We used to play for the runner and had little to worry about the passing. But it's a different story today as the introduction of the T-formation by the Bears has changed the game, almost, to a strictly passing attack," he added.
First for Nebraska was Bill Poehling in 10:45, and Iowa State's Jack Hawbaker took first for his team in 10:22.8.
New York—(U.P.)—Joe Sulatis, the New York Giants' 32-year-old "handy man" who has seen the best of them in his 11 years with the club, believes the advent of the "aerial circus" has made professional football a tougher game to play.
This weekend the KU freshmen will take on Michigan and Texas A&M in separate dual meets.
Sulatis, coach Steve Owen's "team specialist" has played at every offensive and defensive position except offensive center—and he practiced at that for a whole week— during his long tenure with the Giants.
Cross-Country Team Wallops Drake 14-24 Arkansas City Held to Tie With Wes Santee leading the way the Jayhawk cross country team sloshed to its third consecutive triumph of the season here yesterday over Drake, 14-24.
The No. 2 team by the AP last week, Wichita East, narrowly missed being dumped by winless Hutchinson but the Blue Aces pulled out a 7-6 victory for their fifth win of the season against one loss.
Conteyville, ninth ranked last week, pulled one of the major surprises of the weekend when it dumped tough Bartlesville, Okla., 14-12.
Only three major schools in the state now remain undefeated and untied. St. Joseph's of Hays won its sixth straight ball game Friday night, defeating St. Mary's of Wichita, 33-18. Independence chalked up its sixth win by measuring Columbus, 26-7, and Haskell marked up win No. 6 with a 20-6 triumph over Emporia.
Only Vic Sears of the Philadelphia Eagles, now in his 13th year, has been in pro football longer than Sulatins among the active players today. Frank Kilroy, also of the Eagles, is in his 11th season, too, while Bill Dudley of the Washington Redskins is playing in his 10th year.
"It's a tough, hard game." Joe smiled. "You have to like to play football for more than just the money in it to get mixed up with the pros."
Arkansas City, Kansas high schools' top team for the past three weeks, was held to a 6-6 tie Friday night by E. Dorado in the only major upset of the week. All of the other Kansas powers were victorious although several barely escaped from getting beaten.
Here is how they fared: Wyandotte over Ward, 13-0; Topeka over Manhattan, 27-14; Lawrence over Argentine, 33-0; Shawnee Mission over Atchison, 26-7; McPherson over Abilene, 33-7; Wichita West over Winfield, 19-14; Wellington over Wichita North, 28-19; Parsons over Pittsburg, 33-6, and Ottawa over Leavenworth, 19-0.
The state's remaining top teams won as expected over the weekend:
Elsewhere in the state: Plainville over Quinter, 48-0; Hays over Russell, 46-6; Clay Center over Junction City, 12-6; Great Bend over Stafford, 39-7; Ellinwood over Chase, 56; St. Francis over Oakley, 18-0; Cherryvale over Eureka, 26-0; Marysville over Minneapolis, 13-0; Concordia over Beloit, 35-20, and Palco over Ellis, 14-6.
Other Kansas high schools, undefeated but tied, are their records are Ark City, 5-0-1; Wyandotte, 5-0-1; Shawnee Mission, 4-0-2; McPherson, 5-0-1; Hays, 5-0-1, and Great Bend, 5-0-1.
Defense is Secret In Spartan Upset
Lafayette, Ind. — (UP)—A possession game and a stubbier defense engineered Purdue's classy, 6-0, upset victory over mighty Michigan State, coach Stu Holcomb said today.
“Our scouts did a good job, and we figured the best way to succeed would be to try and keep possession as much as possible.” Holcomb said. “As a result, we had the ball one-third more than they did.”
Drake's Bob Soth captured third in 16:00; fourth was Dick Gordon of Drake. 16:15; fifth, Dick Wilson, KU, 16:22; sixth, Lloyd Koby, KU, 16:33; seventh, Tom Rupp, KU, 16:39; eighth, Ray McConnell, Drake, 16:47; and ninth, George Eldridge, Drake, 20:57.
"We shifted Leonard Zydza to left end, Frank Paparazzo to left tackle, and Phil Ehrman to defensive fullback, and all three did a great job."
20:51. Santee, last year's Big Seven individual champion, was an easy victor and did not have to push himself in the cold weather. Soth, league titlist last year in the Central Collegeate conference, finished third, almost 40 seconds behind the winner.
The Ashland Antelope traversed the 3-mile layout in 15:21.3, to finish about fifteen yards ahead of teammate Art Dalzell who took runner-up honors in 15:27.
KU sophomore Al Frame, who took sixth last week against Texas and Oklahoma A&M, was reported to have a bad cold and did not run against the Bulldogs. Rupp, another sophomore, filled in capably and took seventh.
This Saturday KU will host Missouri at 10 a.m., and the last meet before the Nov. 14 conference championship race will be against Oklahoma at Norman, Nov. 6.
Victor Wants Shot at Olson
"Tve licked nearly everybody in the division now," explained the speedy 23-year-old Philadelphia. "And I demand consideration for a title shot before they go outside the class and take welterweight Kid Gavilan as challenger."
New York —(UP)—Joey Giardello of Philadelphia, whose strong finish beat Walter Cartier, "demanded" consideration as middleweight challenger today.
The three ring officials favored Giardello on rounds as follows: referee Petey Scalzo, 5-4-1; judge Harold Barnes, 7-2-1; judge Artie Schwartz, 8-1-1. The United Press favored him, 6-4.
Giardello won the unanimous 10-round decision over 29-year-old Carlier of New York last night in their bruising television fight before 2,260 at Brooklyn Eastern Parkway arena.
Cartier suffered a 12-stitch gash in his left brow in a ninth-round head collision.
Duesseldorf, Germany — (UP)—Cuban heavyweight boxer Mino Valcez has solved the problem of autograph hunters. He met fans who greeted him at the airport here with a rubber-stamp signature. "It's faster and easier," he said.
Leading conversion kicker in Big Seven play is Missouri's Ed Merrifield, who has booted nine. Dahnke of K-State, and Leake of OU have eight apiece.
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