University Daily Kansan
Page 4
Friday, March 6, 1953
KU Plays Iowa State In Final Home Game
PROBABLE STARTERS
| KANSAS | Pos. | IOWA STATE |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Al Kelley, 5-11 | F | Jerry Davis, 6-0 |
| Harold Patterson, 6-2 | F | Chuck Duncah, 6-5 |
| B. H. Born, 6-9 | C | Del Diercks, 6-8 |
| Dean Kelley, 5-11 | G | Sam Long, 5-11 |
| Gil Reich, 6-0 | G | Dutch Van Cleave, 6-3 |
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By CHUCK MORELOCK
By CHUCK MORELOCK
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
A share of the Big Seven conference championship will be at stake when Kansas closes its 1953 home court competition against Iowa State in Hoch auditorium tonight. Tipoff time is 7:35 p. m.
If the Jayhawkers take this one, and they will be favored to do so, the Kansans will have clinched a tie for the conference title. KU now has an 8-2 record and a one game lead on Kansas State, 7-3. Kansas completes its regular season against Missouri in Columbia Monday night while the Wildcats meet Oklahoma in Norman Saturday and Nebraska in Manhattan Tuesday. K-State needs to win both of these games and the Jayhawkers must lose to the Cyclones and Tigers for the Wildcats, pre-season title favorites, to win the championship.
KU scored one of its easiest wins in Ames in Jayhawk history two months ago, winning 76-57. The 1952 NCAA champion struggled for a 56-50 victory and the 1951 team eked out a 58-56 decision. KU won in Hoch last year, 86-68:
Kansas led by only two points at halftime in the previous game this year, 27-25, but displayed a scorching fast break in the third quarter to outscore the Cyclones, 23-14 in that period. Guard Gil Riech was the high point man for Kansas with 19 markers. Del Diercks, the 6-9 Iowa State center, bined B. H. Born to six points, but the fine outside Kansas shooting enabled the Jayhawkers to win going away.
Born, who scored 44 points against Colorado Monday to set a new Big Seven scoring record, will be forced to wear a light cast on his right thumb. Born fractured it after tossing in the record-making basket as he was knocked to the floor.
Dierck, who chalked up 24 points at Ames, is the leading Iowa State scoreer with 198 points in ten Big Seven games. Thats an average of 19.8. Born's Monday night performance enabled the Medicine Lodge junior to take over the conference scoring title. Born has 231 points in ten contests for a 23.1 average. Iowa State is in ninth place.
Iowa State is in fifth place in the
Big Seven with a 4-6 record. The Cyclones set a new scoring record by shelling Nebraska at Ames Monday, 93-66. I-State whipped the Cornhuskers at Lincoln, 78-60, and defeated Oklahoma at home and on the road. The Cyclones pressed Kansas State to the limit at Manhattan before losing 81-78, and dropped a pair of close contests to Missouri. Colorado and Kansas State won in Ames.
The Cyclones have two other cagers who will be dangerous if they are hot. Dutch Van Cleave, a 6-3 guard, rang up 23 points against Nebraska. Sam Long is the highest scoring guard in Iowa State history. Chuck Duncan, a 6-5 sophomore, is another threat.
If Iowa State can give the Kansans a close battle, they will be the first road club to accomplish that feat in Hoch this year. Oklahoma A&M came the closest, losing by 12, 65-53. KU has trounced the other Big Seven members at home this season. Kansas State lost by 14, Missouri by 24. Oklahoma by 28, Nebraska by 19, and Colorado by 23.
If Born is unable to go at full speed tonight, the Jayhawkers should be able to take up the slack by some sharp outside shooting. Five foot 11 inch Al Kelly has taken KU scoring honors in three Hoch games this season. Reich showed he can hit from the outside with 19 tallies at Ames. Forward-center Harold Patterson scored 17 points against the Cyclones earlier this season, was the KU high point man against Oklahoma A&M at Still-water with 18 points, and scored 15 clutch points against K-State at Manhattan.
Kansas will be looking for its 21st straight home court victory and its 10th in a row over Iowa State. The Cyclones last victory over Kansas was scored in 1949, 49-45.
B. H. BORN
Mantle to Bat In Cleanup
By UNITED PRESS
"The boy" inherited a man-sized job today when manager Casey Stengel named Mickey Mantle as the Yankees' cleanup hitter.
The move was described by Stengel as temporary, but is primarily designed to free hard-working catcher Yogi Berra from the worries of the post. Mantle, always referred to as "the boy" by Stengel, definitely will open the year in the cleanup post and will be replaced by Berra only if he fails to live up to expectations.
"It has to be the boy or Berra," Stengel explained. "And I've decided to try the boy first."
The 21-year-old Mantle struck out 111 times last season but had a high batting average and hit 23 home runs. He succeeds such siege guns as Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and Berra in the key slot and is by far the youngest player even to hit cleanup for the world champions.
The Athletics, meanwhile, welcomed their cleanup hitter into the fold when Gus Zernial finally agreed to a contract with a bonus clause based on attendance. Zernial, who hit 29 home runs and drove in 100 runs in 1952, will draw a bigger salary than his estimated $22,500 of last season if the A's home attendance figure tops 627,100.
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Graham, Giardello to Fight in Garden In Nationally Televised 12-Rounder
New York—(U.P.)-Can Billy Graham beat Joey Giardello without official assistance?
That burning question should be answered tonight when wetherweight Graham of New York and middle-weight Giardello of Philadelphia meet again in a nationally televised and broadcast 12-rounder at Madison Square Garden.
More than 9,000 fans, the punch empiorium's largest crowd this year, were expected to attend because of the stormy controversy that followed the second Giardello-Graham fight on Dec. 19.
Adding to the interest, Irish Billy
was favored at 2-1 today despite Giardello's split 10-round decisions over him in their two previous bouts.
Santee Tops Outdoor Marks
Wes Santee, Kansas' fabulous distance ace, and Newville Price, mustached Oklahoma broadjumper, exceeded even Big Seven Outdoor records in achieving the two of the five new conference Indoor marks at Kansas City. Santee's 4:08.3 effort in the mile is :03.4 below Bill McGuire's Outdoor figure of 4:11.7, which the Missouri star set just two years ago. Price's leap was one inch beyond Sol Schumitzky's Outdoor span of 24-8 recorded for Missouri in 1941
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