Thursday. March 5, 1953 University Daily Kansam
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The chips are down, the pot is the biggest, and the odds are the highest as the Jayhawkers swing into their final two Big Seven conference basketball frays with the conference title and a spot in the NCAA playoffs at stake. The Kansans are where nobody thought was possible just two months ago—on the threshold of a repeat championship and entry to defend their NCAA crown.
By CLARKE KEYS
Kansan Sports Editor
But the final two hurdles may be the biggest of all, especially since center B. H. Born suffered a broken thumb in the Colorado game Monday. While the break is on the southpaw's right hand and might not affect his shooting too much, it still will play an important part in the title chase by affecting Born's rebounding and causing pain that's bound to come.
Born's injury was the second blow to the team this season, although not as serious as the first. Charlie Hoag, returning Olympic squadman, was lost to the squad before he ever had a workout because of a football injury. But the Jayhawkers overcame that deficit with hustle and hard work and have surprised everyone with a 14-5 record and a fifth place national rating.
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The Iowa State game Friday will present a big test of the ability of the other Kansans to fill in the rebounding department, if nothing else. The Cyclones have a good, big team that has seemingly had more luck on the road than at home. With 6 foot 8 inch center Delmar Diercks leading the way, the Ames boys could be mighty tough.
The real test will come Monday in Columbia, however. There the Tigers of Missouri may be able to throw the conference into a deadlock between KU and Kansas State with a simple victory. The Tigers, 11-8 for the season and 6-5 in conference play, have been a tough customer to handle at home this year. Only Arkansas, which took a close-cropped 65-64 decision from the Bengals early in December, and Kansas State, which handled MU, 94-85, have been able to manage Missouri at home this season.
But the Jayhawkers have come this far on their own and likely won't be sidetracked without putting up a terrific fight. What more can you ask?
New York — (U.P.)— Pennsylvania moved into the driver's seat in the Ivy league basketball race today as a result of another brilliant performance by all - American Ernie Beck.
Beck Does Fine Job for Pennsylvania
Maxim to Fight In Heavy Division
The two teams went into last night's fray tied for first, but now Penn has an 8-2 league mark to Columbia's 7-3. Each has two games left—Penn facing Cornell Saturday and Harvard Monday. Columbia plays Cornell Friday and Princeton Monday.
The Quakers seized undisputed first place with their 59 to 45 triumph over Columbia last night on the losing Lions' court. And the key to the game was Beck as he outplayed Columbia ace Jack Molinas and, incidentally, replaced him as the league's scoring leader.
Miami —(U.P.)— Joey Maxim said today he is going ahead with plans to campaign in the heavyweight division despite his rather weak performance against trial-horse Danny Nardico.
Monday. Beck, 6 feet 4 inches to Molinas'
The former light-heavyweight champion suffered his first knockdown in seven years, but went on to score a narrow 10-round decision over Nardio last night in their nationally-televiased bout.
"Now I'm going after (Rocky)
Marciano," Maxim spouted in his
dressing room. "We'll take on Ro-
land La Starza first if he comes
first. I'm interested in the big boys
now."
Maxim's insistence on moving into the heavier division was surprising in view of the trouble he experienced against Nardico, a normal light heavyweight. The ex-Marine who now fights out of Tampa, Fla., sent Cleveland Joey to the canvas for an automatic eight-count in the seventh round and lost the decision only by a matter of a few points.
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we're up to our neck in SLACKS
6 feet 6 inches, did a fine job of guarding the Lion star and outscored him, 20 to 12. Beck now leads the league scoring with 250 points to Molinas' '249.
La Salle, hopeful of winning the National Invitation tournament championship two straight years, finished its season with a 65-45 rout of Temple, but got a bad scare when all-American center Tom Gola injured his ankle in a third-quarter fall.
Coach Ken Loeffler said his 6 foot 6 inch sophomore star suffered "a severe outside sprain," but said he expected Gola to be able to play Monday when La Salle plays an NIT quarter-final game against the winner of the first-round game between St. Louis and St. John's.
at Cleveland last night, finishing its regular season with a 28-2 record. George Dalton of John Carroll notched 41 points, but Seton Hall's 6 foot 11 inch all-American, Walt Dukes, tallied 27 to finish the regular season with 781—a 26.4 per game average.
La Salle has been seeded second in the NIT field and was established unofficial favorite in many quarters when top-seeded Seton Hall suffered two straight defeats during the past week.
Seton Hall rebounded from those losses to swamp John Carroll, 109-82.
Fabulous Clarence "Bevo" Francis of Rio Grande of Ohio tallied 54 in the first game of the Cleveland twin bill as his unbeaten school completed its season with a 109-55 rout of Wilberforce. It was the 39th win for Rio Grande, and Bevo finished with 1,354 points—a record-shattering 50.1 per game.
Manhattan, bound for the NIT,
won the mythical New York City
title by beating NCAA-bound Ford-
ham, 80-66, while in other leading
games last night: Larry Hemnessy
scored 40 to lead Villanova to a 96-
75 win over Rider; NIT-bound Niagara trounced Colgate, 86-67; NYU
routed CCNY, 82-68; Dartmouth beat
Harvard, 74-66; Princeton downed
Rutgers, 74-59; and NCAA-bound
Oklahoma City defeated NIT-bound
Tulsa, 74-60.
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