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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 10. 1953
KU Takes Big 7 Crown
Moves to NCAA With 69-60 Victory
By CLARKE KEYS Kansan Sports Editor
Columbia—The "Wonder Kids" of Kansas basketball turned the heat for a blistering eight minutes in Brewer fieldhouse last storm to a 69-60 victory over the Missouri Tigers.
—Kansan photo by Bob Longstaat
Thus the young Jayawakers climaxed a most amazing Big Seven season with their second straight outright conference title and the right to enter the NCAA regional in Manhattan Friday for Saturday to participate in NCAA crown. The Kansas will meet Oklahoma City Friday.
GOING UP!-B. H. Born (25), Kansas center, snares a rebound from the grasp of Missouri's Bill Holst in last night's game with the Tigers. Waiting for the rebounders to come down are Bob Schoonmaker (41), Missouri forward, and Harold Patterson (9) and Larry Davenport (behind Patterson), Kansas forwards.
Kansas played the Missouri game just as they have played the entire season, overcoming a 6-point disadvantage late in the third quarter to achieve the victory. The sluggish Kansans had trailed the upset-minded Tigers through most of the first half and didn't catch up until Gil Reich hit a follow-up shot with 1:05 remaining in the third period.
From then on, however, the be-wildered Missourians were out of the running, although they caught fire late in the contest.
Kansas finished the conference season with a 10-2 record and a 16-5 mark for regular-season play. Kansas State (6-3) is now relegated to second place regardless of the outcome of tonight's clash with Nebraska. Missouri finished in the third spot with a 6-6 record.
The victory scored a clean sweep by the Jayhawkers over Missouri this year. Kansas squeaked by, 66-62, in the pre-season tournament in Iowa, then blasted a furred Mizzou squad 86-2 in Hoch auditorium.
As happened before, the expected duel between the opposing centers, KU's B. H. Born and the Tigers' Bob Reiter, failed to materialize. Born, playing with a guard over a fractured thumb, dumped in 22 seconds from home. He scored 26 against the Tigers in Kansas, City and 12 in Lawrence.
Reiter had a bad night, collecting just four points. He picked up his third foul late in the first quarter and sat out the entire second and third periods. Returning to action in the game he hit twice, got another foul that couldn't fly from scoring and Sparky Stalcup pulled him.
Med Park's drive shot put the Tigers ahead 42-36 with a little more than three minutes left in the third period. Then Allen Kelley, who scored nine points in the important third quarter, hit a jump shot and 10 seconds later followed with a free throw to Mizzou, but Dean Kelly hit from the top to pull Kansas up to 43-41.
But it was up to Reiter's substitute, Bill Holst, to carry the Missouri load in first half halftime. Holst surpassed all his wit in first half that kept that Tigers ahead.
Missouri held a scant 15-14 lead at the end of the first quarter, but stretched it to 30-25 at the half. The Jayhawkers fought to within two or three points several times in the third quarter, but couldn't get over the hump.
Park hit another free throw before Born loomed in one from under the basket and the Kansans were one point behind. Ten seconds later, with
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--shots in the first half, connecting on seven of 27 attempts while Missouri was hitting 10 of 31. The Jayhawkers improved considerably in the second half, though, finishing with a 35 per cent mark.
KANASA (69)  G-Ca  F-Fa  Pf Tp 1
A. Kelley  5-7  7-12  5 17
D. Kelley  5-7  7-12  5 17
Patterson  2-9  3-6  4 7
Reich  4-10  4-6  2 12
Born  7-21  8-11  4 22
Drivenport  1-1  0-4  0 1
Smith  1-1  0-4  0 1
Anderson  0-0  0-0  0 0
Squires  0-0  0-0  0 1
Totals 22-62 25-40 23-69
MISSOURI (60) G-Ga F-Fa Pf Tf
Long 1-18 2-4 4 15
Elmwood 1-18 2-4 4 15
Landolt 3-5 0 2 14
Park 1-3 4 5 0 6
Riverke 1-3 4 5 0 6
Hughes 0-1 1-3 2 2
Schoonmaker 2-7 5-8 3 9
Holst 5-7 2-3 3 12
Fletcher 1-5 0 0 0 2
Cruts 0-0 0 0 1 0
Casteel 0-0 0 0 0 2
Totals    19-52 22-30 25-60
Sports score: Marmi Jennings, Cliff Ogden
Officials: Jim Emigrant, Cliff Ogden
105 left in the third quarter, Reich hit his goal that out Kansas ahead to stay. Dean Kelley followed with a steal and lay in to end the quarter with Kansas ahead 47-44.
The Jayhawkers didn't let up, though. Born getting five points in the first 40 seconds of the last period. Gene Landolt hit the first Missouri fielder in nearly five minutes, but Harold Patterson hit on the jump from the side, Born tipped in one and added a free throw, and Larry Davenport hit from outside to push the Kansans ahead 59-46.
Holst added a free throw for the Tigers, then Kansas built up its largest lead, 62-47, on a drive-in and free throw by Patterson.
Missouri made a vain attempt to catch the champions, but the calm Jayhawkers stalled out the game.
The first half action was sloppy for the Kansans with bad passes marring the play. The Jayhawkers outbounded, out-shot, and out-hustled.
Kansas hit only 26 per cent of its
Missouri's early surge earned them a 36-27 edge in the rebound department.
42 Report for Baseball Drills; 9 Lettermen Bolster Hopes
Forty-two men turned out for the first varsity baseball practice of the season on the varsity diamond yesterday afternoon.
Coach Hub Ulrich said the Jayhawkers have nine lettermen returning for the 1953 season, including three pitchers. Kansas will have five starter in this season and starters back this season. The outfield will be green, however.
Returning pitchers are Jack Stone-street, one of the Big Seven's top hurlers last year, John Brose, and Wayne Tiemier. Stonestreet is a senior, Brose a junior, and Tiemier a sophomore.
John Trombold returns at first base, Frank Wolf, shortstop, John Perry second base, and Bill Pulliam third base. Galen Fiss and Dean Smith are the catchers.
The KU mentor said that the Jayhawkers should have a fairly strong squad if Harold Patterson and Gil Reich from the basketball team turn out for practice upon completion of their training. The Jayhawkers have "lots of ifs" which could mean the difference between a winning and losing season.
Coach Ulrich said the Jayhawkers drilled on hitting exclusively in yesterdays practice session. He said that the team would have to drill indoors this afternoon because of the rain.
Kansas will drill Saturday afternoon noons if weather permits, Ulrich said. The Jayhawkers are tentatively scheduled to open the 1953 season
COACH HUB ULBICH
against Oklahoma A&M in Stillwater April 6-7.
Kansas posted an 8-6 record to finish in third place in the Big Seven in 1952. Missouri won the championship and went all the way to the NCAA finals before losing to Holy Cross in the national title game.
Mantle Has Hot Batting Average
Mickey Mantle, 21-year-old boy wonder tentatively named the world champion Yankees' 1953 cleanup hitter, was responding to the biggest challenge of his career today with a .500 batting average.
By UNITED PRESS
The brilliant young centerfelder—asked by manager Casey Stengel to assume the burden formerly carried by Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, and Yogi Berra, sent his Grapefruit league average soaring to that dizzy height yesterday as he smashed a home run, double, and a single in the Yankees' 6-4 victory over the Red Sox.
Paced by Mantle, the Yankees truly resembled the "Bronx Bombers" or "window breakers" of previous years. Mantle's homer travelled far over the right field fence at Sarasota, Fla., and was followed by another over the same wall by Berra.
Volleyball IM Schedules
WEDNESDAY
Robinson Annex
7:30 TKE-Sig Ep (W)
4:00 Kappa Sig-Phi Delt (E)
4:45 Theta Chli-Lombe (Ch E)
4:45 Delt-Sigma PI (W)
Independent "B"
¢45, Betterfield, Irliffe (F)
6:45 Battenfeld-Jolliffe (E)
6:45 AFROTCI I-AFROTCI II (W)
7:30 Llahoma-Six New Men (E)
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Phi DU I-Beta II (E)
8.15 Phi PSI I-Delta Chi (W)
9.00 Phi III-DUI I (E)
9.00 Phi Delt IV-Delt I (W)
Robinson Gym
Protocol, "C"
NCAA Tourney Starts Tonight
New York — (U.P.)—The NCAA basketball tournament, its 22-team field at last completed by the addition of Kansas and Pennsylvania, gets underway tonight with preliminary round games in four cities.
Kansas, last year's NCAA champion, qualified for another shot at the crown by clinching the Big Seven championship last night with a 69 to 60 victory over Missouri. B. H. Born scored 22 points to lead the Jayhawkers, who will meet Oklahoma City university in a first-round tourney game in Manhattan Friday.
Penn locked up the Ivy league crown as it walloped Harvard, 77-49, with all-American Ernie Beck scoring 27 points to show the way. The Quakers will meet either Notre Dame or Eastern Kentucky in Chicago Friday.
The National Invitation tournament in New York completes its quarter-final round tonight with top-seeded Seton Hall facing Niagara and third-seeded Western Kentucky meeting dark-horse Duquesne.
Giant manager Leo Durocher talked about the possibility of moving Dark to second base back in January and Spencer's smoothness at bat and in the field this spring has just about convinced him.
Quarter-final games in the National Invitation in New York last night saw St. John's come up with another big upset, whipping defending champion La Salle, 75-74, and third-seeded Manhattan romp to a victory in history, while another game which completed the preliminary round, Niagara beat Brigham Young in an overtime, 82-76.
In Stanford, Calif., Hardin-Simmons, the Border conference champion, meets Santa Clara. The winner of that game will face Wyoming in the Corvallis, Ore., regional. And the Corvallis rival of Washington will be determined by tonight's game in Seattle between Idaho State, the Rocky Mountain conference champion, and Seattle, with its sharp-shooting O'Brien brothers.
The opening round of the NAIA tournament for smaller colleges in Kansas City concludes with nine games tonight, Defending champion Southwest Missouri meets Gonzaga in the headliner.
Dark, always better offensively than he was defensively, said during the winter that he is perfectly willing to play wherever the Giants are going to be, probably will shift to second base with a minimum of reluctance.
Preliminary-round NCAA games at Fort Wayne, Ind., tonight send Notre Dame against Eastern Kentucky, the winner to meet Penn, and De Paul against Miami of Ohio for the right to play Indiana.
In Philadelphia, Fordham plays Lebanon Valley for the right to meet Louisiana State and Holy Cross goes against Navy, with the winner to meet Wake Forest in the Raleigh, N.C., regional.
Phoenix, Ariz. —(U,P)— Rookie Daryl Spencer was busy locking up the Giants' shortstop job today making it more and more evident that Alvin Dark will be shifted over to second base.
"The last shortstop who broke in as well as Spencer was Pee Wee Herman." Spencer makes the right moves instinctively and makes 'em with ease.
Rookie Shortstop Could Win Spot
Spencer, meanwhile, takes nothing for granted. He bounces around the infield as if he was born to the shortstop spot and he has demonstrated that he can make the long throw from deep in the hole.