Page 6 University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 12, 1957
3 Talented Teams Clash in NCAA
By CHUCK MORELOCK
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
There'll be talent to burn when the NCAA regionals open in Manhattan Friday with three of the nation's top teams, Kansas, Oklahoma A&M, and Oklahoma City, entered along with a dark horse from the Southwest conference, TCU.
The winner of the K-State fieldhouse event will go on to Kansas City for the national finals Tuesday Night. Now KU's Aggies, and Oklahoma City are rated on about the same level with the Horned Frogs of coach Bryon Ernanson being picked for the underdog position.
Kansas and A&M have split a pair of contests this season. The Jay-Lawyers upset the Aggies in Hoch auditorium two months ago, 63-53. Two boys gained revenge at Stillwater last month by shelling the Lakers, 79-58.
Jayhawkier-Aggie duels are usually tense, thrill-packed affairs with no team being able to whip the other with any consistency. KU whipped the Aggies here last year, but A&M previously had upset the Jayhawkers in Stillwater. And in 1951, the Cowboys defeated the Jays in Hoch but Kansas rebounded to stop the Aggies in Stillwater.
KU meets Oklahoma City at 9:45 Friday night while A&M and TCU Angle at 7:00. The winners play no-hit for the regional championship.
Oklahoma A&M posted a 21-6 record during the regular season and won the Missouri Valley championship. The Stillwater crew was placed in sixth place in the Associated Press poll this week, a notch below Kansas in fifth. Oklahoma City was in 19th place.
The Aggies led the nation in defense in the latest NCAA statistics. A&M has given up an average of just 33.5 points, a slim total in these games. The basketball team, Oklahoma City were behind with 54.8 and TCU was fifth at 55.8.
Oklahoma A&M has some potent shooters to combine with its stingy defense. Bob Mattick, a 6 foot 10 inch junior from Chicago, hit around the 20 point mark most of the season and tellied 24 points against Kansas in Stillwater. He hit 15 in Lawrence.
The Cowboys have clever play-
makers and floor men in Harold
Rogers, Kendall Sheets, Gerald
Stockton, and Don Haskins. All are
fast, tough defensively, and can hit
from the outside.
Texas Christian's surge to the Southwest conference championship parallels the Jayhawk's great rise to the Big Seven title. TCU won the loop flag in 1952 but were dropped by Kansas 68-41 in the opening round of the regionalists in Kansas City. The Bengals beat the four other seniors from that squad and were picked to finish in the second division in '52-'53.
Coach Brannon assembled four sophomores, a junior, and just two seniors, and guided the Frogs to the Southwest league title. The Frogs lost six of their first ten games and dropped their first two SWC contests. But TCU started to click after that and finished with a 14-7 overall record and a 9-3 league mark.
Hank Ohlen, a 6-7 junior, is the center. He scored 300 points in 21 games to finish with an 18.1 average. Against KU last season, he picked up 22 points, most of them coming from national books from the far corners.
Johnny Swaim, a forward, is a classy dribler, the top playmaker, and a good defender. Forward Dick Allen is a tough rebounder and 5-11 Buddy Brumley is the Frog's top set-shot artist.
Kansas led TCU most of the way in last year's game in Kansas City and opened up a 17 point bulge in the final period, but the Frogs fire against the Jayhawker reserves to end up only four points behind.
Fast-Climbing Oklahoma City To Play Nation's Best in Meet
Oklahoma City—(U.P.)—Oklahoma City university, which hardly had a basketball team worthy of the name five years ago, will race some of the nation's giant this week in the NCAA western regionals in Manhattan.
Credit for the school's fast rise goes directly to Doyle Parrack, the youthful coach who learned basketball with Henry P. Iba of Oklahoma A&M.
Parrack silis directly between the much larger recruiting guns of A&M, 60 miles to the north, and Oklahoma university, 20 miles to the south. But he has taken Oklahoma talent and molded a teamful of stars year by year. He's never had an out-of-state boy on his playing roster.
Parrack arrived at Oklahoma City in 1947 following a year in professional ball and a stint as a high school coach. Since then, Oklahoma City has come to be feared by even the high-riding Oklahoma Agries.
Pavrock's teams have twice carried off the title of the All-College tournament, staged annually at Oklahoma City. In his third year at Oklahoma City, he took the Chiefs all the way to the NCAA Western playoffs at Corvallis, Ore.
Quack Club to Hold Tryouts
You don't win basketball games unless you shoot. Under Parrack, the Chiefs don't shoot—with rare exceptions—until they run their set pattern of plays. This Parrack insists on.
"We play for percentages," he said. "As long as we have our hands on the ball, we know the other guy won't be making points. When we let go of it, we want to make sure it's counting for us."
Girls interested in joining Quack club for the spring semester will try out in the Robinson gym pool at 7:30 p.m. today. Girls must bring their suits, caps, and towels.
Hank Sauer Looking Good
By UNITED PRESS
Hank Sauer, the National league's most valuable player, was picking up right where he left off in 1952 today while Alvin Dark, the league's all-star shortstop, embarked on a new career as a second baseman.
The Dodgers and Tigers, meanwhile, continued to roll on undefeated, the Dodgers making it five straight victories with a 4-2 triumph over the Athletics and the Tigers reeling off No. 4 in a 14-10 slugfest with the Braves.
But the 205-pound slugger already has blasted three home runs and knocked in 10 runs in the Cubs' five grapefruit league games. He hit his second homer in two games yesterday as the Cubs defeated the Indians, 6-4.
Many experts predicted that Sauer's brilliant 1952 season, in which he led the league in runs batted in and tied for the lead in homers, was a "one-year fling."
The Giants began Durocher's "great experiment" of switching Dark to make way for rookie Daryl Spencer in a 7-3 triumph over the White Sox. The first reaction proved favorable.
Most bricks are red because all clay, containing iron in practically any form, will burn red when exposed to an oxidizing fire.
NO TURNING BACK—These five Kansans will get the starting nod Friday night when the Jayhawkers begin defense of their NCAA championship against Oklahoma City university. The game, to be played in Kansas State fieldhouse in Manhattan, will start at 9:45. Left to right are Harold Patterson, B. H. Born, Allen, Kelley, Coach F. C., "Phos" Allen, Dean Kelley, and Gil Reich.
—Kansan photo by Ken Coy
Born Sheds Cast In KU Cage Drills
B. H. Born shed his plaster finger cast for one of tape, then worked overtime in practice yesterday as KU drilled intensively for its contest with Oklahoma City in the NCAA regional in Manhattan tomorrow night.
Born was the concentration center of the drill and was shooting his favorite lefthand jump-turns from the post. He fractured a thumb last week as he was knocked to the floor in the Colorado game while setting a new Big Seven scoring record with 44 points.
Kansas Team Loses In NAIA Tourney
Kansas lost its representative in the NAIA basketball tournament in Kansas City last night, but the Missouri representative, the Springfield Bears, rolled right along.
St. Benedict's college of Atchison lost in the second round to Tennessee A&I, the first all-Negro team to compete in the journey, 56-79. Penn was second behind and fell behind after holding a 12-12 tie late in the first quarter.
The Springfield Bears, defending tournament champions, easily handled Stetson, 98-71. The Bears started fast and never let up, leading 22-12 at the end of the first quarter.
The Tennessee Tigers held a 42-22 lead at the half.
--in winning 13 of its last 14 games. Jim Walsh, 6-5, who has "come alive" in the tourney with brilliant rebounding and scoring after a mediocre season, may move into the starting lineup in place of 6 foot 2 inch Jim McMorrow. And sparkplug Marty Manty (5-1) may start in place of set-shot Frank Giancontieri (5-10).
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Duquesne, Seton Hall Favored in NIT Tilts
New York —(U.P.)— Duquesne's high-scoring "iron giants" are favored to end the cinderella hopes of St. John's and top-seeded Seton Hall is picked to beat third-seeded Manhattan tonight in semifinal games of the National Invitation Basketball tournament.
Dquesus is picked by six points and Seton Hall by four.
Height is expected to be the key factor in both games—the combined altitude of Duquesne's Dick Ricketts and Jim Tucker in one, and the 6-foot 11-inch length of Seton's all-American Wally Dukes in the other.
Duquesne coach Donald "Dudey"
Moore indicated that these three giants, plus set-shooters Alan Bailey (5-10) and Don McLane (5-4) will go the entire 40 minutes.
Rickets, a vastly-improved player since last season when the Iron Dukes were upset in the semifinals of this tourney, stands 6 foot 7 inches and Tucker towers 6-8. In addition, 6 foot 4 inch Fletcher Johnson is so good that he gives Dukes a three-man 'gang' of rebounds retrievers.
To counter Duquesne's rebounding strength, St. John's is considering switching the starting lineup used
Coach Honey Russell gave his Seton Hall team only a "50-50 chance" of beating Manhattan, but the majority of the experts favored the first-seeded Pirates from South Orange, N.J.
To cope with all-American Dukes Manhattan will alternate 6 foot 8 inch Junius Kellogg and 6-6 Ed O'Connor at center. The two pivot men are of about equal ability and hard-driving tactics by them might lure the gigantic Dukes into fouling out.
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