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University Daily Kansan Friday, March 13, 1953
Kansas Opens Defense of Title
Oklahoma City 1st Foe In NCAA Regional
Kanataan Assetistant Socris Eitrow
Kannasa Instant Surfaces
By CHUCK MORELOCK
Kansas's rags-to-riches Jayhawkers will launch a drive for another NCAA championship when the battling Kansans meet the Oklahoma City Chiefs in the second half of a twin bill in the NCAA regions in Manhattan tonight. Tipoff time is 9:45 p.m.
The rebuilt Kansas crew, which has just one starter from the 1952 NCAA championship squad, will be shooting for a 17-5 season's record and a spot in the regional finals. TCU and Oklahoma A&M tangle at 7.30. The winners of these contests are Oklahoma and North Carolina championship and a berth in the NCAA finals in Kansas City Tuesday and Wednesday.
A second straight national championship lies just four victories away from the Jayhawkers, who weren't supposed to go anywhere this season. But the road will be long and rocky. Chu Cai of China and Jays from the wire and could easily win if Arnold Short, the OCU outside shooting ace, is hot.
If the Jayhawkers won tonight, they will meet Oklahoma A&M Saturday for the title. Kansas played the Aggies last month in Stillwater in possession of the Big Seven lead and a high position in the Associated and United Press polls. KU returned home with a 58-79 drubbing.
The Jayhawkers will have scored an impressive win if they can just get by Oklahoma City. The Chiefs, coached by former Oklahoma Aggie star Doyle Parrack, have a glittering 18-4 season's record. Three of those defeats were by narrow margins. OCU lost to Wyoming, 49-45, Wichita, 66-62, and Tulsa, 65-63. Oklahoma A&M handed the Chiefs its own one-added loss of the campaign with 55-58. An ACU be itching for another crack at the Cowboys and thus will have an added incentive tonight. A&M should get by the Horned Frogs, Southwest conference champions.
The leading Chief scorer and one of the classiest long range shooters in college ball is Short, a 6-3 junior. Short has connected 181 times in 463 tries for 502 points and a shooting average of 39 per cent. He has scored an average of 22.8 points per round. Short can be reached with jumps from the corners and long distance sets from all over the court.
Short's tough defensive ability fits in nicely with the Oklahoma City ball control type of play. The Chiefs have yielded a total of only 54.6 points a game which puts them right behind Oklahoma A&M in defensive statistics. The Cowboys have given up 53.6 tallies.
Short has scored 35 per cent of the Oklahoma City points this season, has played the full 40 minutes in a game, and has picked up only 30 fouls.
The Chiefs are no one man team, however. Short has plenty of support in forwards Andy Likens and Jack Key. Likens, 6-3, and Key, 6-6, have scoring averages of 12.8 and 9.6 but are most feared because of their great rebounding.
Tom Bolin, 6 foot 6 inches, is the center who never played high school basketball. He's developed rapidly and is a tough defender and rebounder.
Reserve strength is provided in Clyde Nath, Don Rich, Gerald Bullard. and Billy Couts.
Kansas, which has thrived on stiff competition this year, has pulled surprise after surprise in marching to the Big Seven championship.
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KU launched its conference play by being trampled in Norman by Oklahoma. 76-61. Pre-season forecasts that the Jayhawkers would end up in the second division seemed to be strengthened by this opening game loss.
But Kansas bounced back to whip Oklahoma A&M in Hoch and Iowa State in Ames. The Kansans then went on to win nine of its next ten conference games including 80-66 and 80-78 victories over Kansas State, rated a shove-in for the title before the season.
KU victory hopes were increased Wednesday when center B. H. Born shed his plaster thumb cast for a tape bandage. The lanky Medicine Lodge junior, who has developed into a full-fledged star this season after seeing little action in '52, scored 17 points against Iowa State and 22 clutch tallies against Missouri in spite of the handicap. Born, the Big Seven scoring king with 270 markers, should be in near-perfect form with removal of the cast.
Born's starting mates will be Al Kelley, the classy little McCune jump-shooting athlete, and Harold Patterson, a great rebounder and passer, at forwards. The guards will be Dean Kelley, who helped ruin Missouri with some timely goals from the defense. Gil Reisey named the "unsung" man of the Jawhawker squad by coach Phog Allen. Reich has not scored heavily this season, but has been a defender, aggressive ball-hawk, and has stabilized the Kansas squad with leadership ability on the floor.
—Kansan photo by Chuck Zuegne
Varsity Golf Call Issued for Tuesday
All men interested in varsity golf are invited to attend a meeting at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the west end of Robinson gym on the main basketball court, Coach Bill Winey Jr., said today.
Kansan want-ads bring results.
THE HOME STRETCH—These four seniors will close out their Kansas varsity basketball play as the Jayhawkers make a bid for a second straight NCAA title. Shown boarding the bus to go to Manhattan yesterday are Dean Smith, Ken Buller, Gil Reich, and captain Dean Kelley (in door-way).
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Philly Manager Unconcerned Over 6-Game Losing Streak
Manager Steve O'Neill's Phillies have lost all six of their Grapefruit league games, but the portly, affable veteran said today he is more worried over his latest attack of the gout than his team's losing streak.
"Wait until the chips are down and then watch my boys go," O'Neill said after the Phillies bowed to the Cincinnati Reds, 10-6, yesterday. "Why in 1928 the Yankees lost 13 games in succession in the spring and went on to win the pennant."
Not a single unbeaten team remained in the Grapetruit league after both the Dodgers and Tigers suffered their first losses. The Dodgers, who had reeled off five straight victories, bowed to the Athletics, 8-2, while the Tigers ran afoul of red-hot
Mickey Mantle and that superior Yankee pitching to bow, 5-0.
The Athletics received 5-hit pitching from Harry Byrd, rookie John Mackinson, and Bobo Newsom as they evened their Grapefruit record at three victories and three losses. Ralph Branca of the Dodgers made three wild pitches in one inning and the Dodgers kicked in with two errors to aid the Athletics' cause.
Outfielder Jim Piersall, getting a shot at centerfield because of Dom DiMaggio's eye operation, lifted his
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Only Two Clubs Have Repeated
The target is so distant you need a telescopic sight to find it, but Kansas's implausible Jayhawkers will be taking aim at their second successive NCAA basketball championship Friday night when they tackle Oklahoma City in the first round of the regional tournament in Manhattan.
Oddly, two teams, Oklahoma A&M a Manhattan rival, and Kentucky, already have turned this feat even though the tourney is only in its 15th year. But, if the Jayhawkers climb the pinnacle again they will add garnishment even to such a herculean double. For they will be including just one starter from the brigade that swept aside TCU, St. Louis, Santa Clara, and St. Johns last year.
Lone 1952 starter in KU's Cinderella ensemble is Captain Dean Kelley, the fiery guard from McCune. Gone are his four first-string mates, Clyde Lovellette, Bob Kenney, Bill Hougland, and John Keller. Also missing are two alternate regulars, Bill Lienhard, and Charlie Haar.
The team that Phog Allen, the veteran Mt. Oread wizard, is sending against the Chiefs, then, is four-fifths new. B. H. Born, another 6-9 scoring champion, has moved up to fill Lovellellis's shoes. Al Kellene, junior brother of Dean, and a mere squadman last year, teams with Harold Patterson, Garden City junior college recruit, at forward. Gil Reich, an all-American defensive football halfback who didn't play a minute of varsity basketball during the two years previous to the 1952-53 season, is pairing with the senior Kelley in the backline.
The odds against any club chaining together two consecutive national crowns are prohibitive. The fact that Kansas will shoot at the prize with a madeover outfit, woefully short in height and reserve strength, inflates even that percentage.
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