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University Daily Kansan Monday. February 9, 1953
Jayhawkers Score Weekend Sweep KU to Battle for First After Win Over Tigers Thinclads Trip Wildcats In First Indoor Start
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
By CHUCK MORELOCK
The Kansas Jayhawkers set the stage for a first-place battle in the Big Seven conference here Tuesday night by combining a torrid 52 per cent shooting average with a scrapy, pressing defense to roll over Missouri 86-62 Saturday night in Hoch auditorium.
The one-sided victory, along with Kansas State's upset loss to Nebraska at Lincoln, put the Jayhawkers in second place in the Big Seven, right behind the Oklahoma Sooners, Tuesday night's opponent.
By DON TICE Kansan Sports Writer
Oklahoma, with a 5-1 conference record including a 76-61 decision over Kansas at Norman last month, has been the surprise team of the conference title chase after finishing last in the pre-season tournament in Kansas City. The Sooners have played their first four games on their home court, however, and likely will be the underdogs in the contest that holds the top conference spot for the winner.
Gil Reich paced the surge with great shooting and passing. The Steelton, Pa., star hit two jumps and a layup and helped set up three other baskets by some nifty passing and ball handling.
The loss shoved Missouri into a last-piece tie with Iowa State, who lost to Colorado, 75-67. Both have a 2-4 record.
The cold Tigers had to wait until 5-50 was gone in the opening period to score their first fielder. Medford Park hit it on a set shot to pull the Tigers within three points, 5-8. Dean Kelley within a free throw then Center Bob Reiter scored on a hook to put Missouri two behind, 9-7.
The hustling Jayhawkers, who will meet Oklahoma tomorrow night in Hoch auditorium, have been guilty of 352 fouls in 13 contests, an average of 27.1 per game.
Park led the Tigers with 13. Win Wilfong and Gene Landolt had nine each.
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Seven records were shattered Friday night in the Kansas State field house as the Kansas indoor track team defeated Kansas State $64 \frac{1}{2}$ to $39 \frac{1}{2}$ in the opening meet of the season.
Missouri kept pace for about six minutes in the first quarter Saturday night, but became the fifth visiting team at Hoch this year to be trounced by the rebuilt Kansas squad.
Kansas poured it on in the second quarter white the pesky KU defense was keeping the flustered Tigers off balance. The Jayhawkers displayed a balanced attack to run up a 23-point lead at the half, 49-26.
Missouri hopes for a nip-and-tuck battle were soon buried, however, as the hot-shooting Kansans broke the game wide open to take a 21-9 lead at the quarter.
John Anderson opened the second period Kansas scoring with a layup, Reich fired in two quick baskets. Al Kelley added two free throws, and Dean Smith hit a set shot to put Kansas on top. 30-12.
Missouri chopped four points off the Kansas point spread midway in the third period, but Reich, Smith, Born, Squires, and Dean Kelley fired in 14 points while MU could only get six to boost the KU lead to 69-41 at the end of the quarter.
Missouri then managed to stay even with the sizzling Jayhawkers temporarily, but three dazzling jump shots, two by Al Kelley and one by Smith, built up the Kansas margin to 43-22.
Kansas scoring was evenly divided with Al Kelley taking shootings honors with 15 points, Gil Reich hit 13, Born had 12, Patterson nine, and Smith and Dean Kelley eight each.
Coach Phog Allen cleaned the bench in the last quarter which enabled Missouri to outscore the Jayhawkers 21-17. Marvin Deekert brought a roar from the crowd of 3,800 when he hit a rarely-seen overhead shot soon after entering the game.
The first half shooting spree saw the Jayhawkers hit 17 out of 29 field goal attempts for a prolific 59 per cent average. The frigid Tigers connected on only seven of 26 for a 27 per cent figure.
THE OLD SQUEEZE PLAY—Bill Heitholt (center), Kansas forward, gets shoved out of the play in the second half against Missouri Saturday night. Tiger players are Bill Holst left and Lee Fowler.
The Jayhawkers pulled into second place in the Big Seven conference title race with the 86-62 victory over Missouri. Tuesday, the Oklahoma Sooners invade Hoch auditorium for a showdown battle
Women's Semi-finals Set for Wednesday
The semi-final basketball tournaments will be played off Wednesday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. between the Jayettes and Alpha Chi Omegas and the Delta Delta Delta and Corbin Hawks. The winning teams will play in the finals at 7 p.m., Thursday Feb. 12.
Box Score
Kansas (86) g-ga f-fa pf tp
Alberts 0-0 0-0 1 0
Buller 0-0 0-0 0 0
Kelley, A. 4-8 7-8 5 15
Davenport 1-4 1-1 0 3
Patterson 3-6 3-3 5 9
Born 5-9 2-2 5 12
Nicholson 0-0 0-0 1 0
Whitney 0-1 2-2 1 2
Anderson 1-1 0-0 1 1
Deckert 1-1 0-0 0 2
Dye 0-0 1-1 1 1
Squires 2-4 2-4 1 6
Heitholt 0-0 0-0 2 0
Kelley, D. 2-5 4-8 4 8
Reich 5-7 3-4 2 13
Smith 3-4 2-7 0 8
Taylor 0-1 4-4 1 4
Wolfe 0-1 1-2 0 1
Totals 27-52 32-48 20-8
Missouri (62)  g-ga  f-fa  pf  tp
Cruts ... 0-2  0-0  2  0
Fowler ... 1-2  0-0  2  2
Landolt ... 7-5  5-1  9
Oligschlaeger ... 0-0  0-0  0  0
Park ... 3-8  7-12  4  13
Schoonmaker ... 2-5  3-7  3  7
Holst ... 3-6  1-7  0  7
Reiter ... 2-7  1-2  4  5
Elmore ... 0-2  1-1  3  5
Filbert ... 2-5  2-4  4  6
Hughes ... 1-4  1-1  2  3
Wilfong ... 3-9  3-4  4  9
Totals ... 19.57 24.43 29 62
Halftime score—Kansas 49, Missouri. 26.
Officials—Cliff Ogden and Ike Craig.
Swimmers Take First Meet In Revenge Win Over NU
Anchorman Terry Williams finished a foot aobed of Nebraska's Jerry Desmond in the final event of the day, the 400-yard freestyle relay, to power Kansas to a 50-43 victory in a dual swim match at Lincoln Saturday afternoon.
The win reversed a 50-43 Cornhusker victory over the Jayhawkers last month at Lawrence. It was the Kansans first win of the season against two defeats, one to Oklahoma.
Runner Bids For Record
New York—(U.P.)-Mal Whitfield who is so good he can call his shots will bid for his second straight world record when he meets teammate Herb McKenley and Germany's Heinz Ulzheimer in the 600-yard run in the National AAU indoor track championships at Madison Square Garden Saturday night.
Whitfield, two-time Olympic champion at 800 meters, set a new world indoor 500-yard record of 56.6 seconds Saturday night during the New York Athletic club meet. Both Whitfield and McKenley run for New York's Grand Street Boys club.
As soon as he clipped three-tenths of a second off the mark of 56.9 set by Villanova's George Guida in 1949, Whitfield said the 600-yard, 800-yard, and 800-meter world standards were his next 1953 targets. The former Ohio State star had predicted he would crack the 500 mark.
"I believe I'll be able to better the records for 800 meters, 800 yards, and 600 yards this season," Whitfield said. "McKenley made the 500 record possible by setting a fast early pace."
Williams, an Iowa University transfer, also finished second in the 50-yard freestyle. The Jayhawkers, who will meet Iowa State at Ames Saturday, showed considerable improvement over their performances in the other two Kansas meets.
Co-captain Dilk Eflin starred fo. Kansas in winning the 150-yard individual medley and the 100-yard freestyle. Dallas Chestnut added additional Jayhawker points by capturing the one meter diving event.
300-yard medley relay—1. Nebraska (Lloyd Reed, Dick Hlidek,
Jerry Desmond). 3:14.4.
220-yard free style—1. Calvin Bentz, Neb; 2. Sammy Perkins, Kans.; 3. Jack Trabert, Neb. 2:25.7
50-yard free style—1. Mahlon Ball,
Kas.; 2. Terry Williams, Kas.; 3.
Dave Gradwohl, Neb. : 26.3.
150-yard individual medley—1
Dick Eflin, Kas.; 2. Gordon Peterson,
Neb.; 3. Hlidek, Neb. 1:46.4.
One meter diving—1. Dale Chestnut, Kas., 221 points; Gene Cotter, Neb., 219.4; 3. Jerry Jester, Kas., 197.1.
100-yard free style-1. Effin, Kas,
2. Ball, Kas; 3. Desmond, Neb,
:58.5.
200-ward backstroke —1. Lloyd Reed, Neb.; 2. Pat Healey, Neb.; 3. John Welsch, Kas.; 2:30.
200-yard breast stroke-1. Hlidek, Neb.; 2. Jerry Scott, Kas; 3. Gene Schanze, Kas.; 2:46.
440-yard free style—1. Bentz, Neb;
2. Perkins, Kas.; 3. Dave Moxley,
Kas.; 5:18.8.
400-yard free style relay—1. Kansas Jester, Effin, Ball, Terry Williams). 3:59. 4.
ading men were Wes Santee for Kansas and Thane Baker for Kansas State, both members of last summer's Olympic track team.
Santee ran the mile in 4:12.5 for his first new record, eclipsing his own meet record from last year by almost six seconds. He then came back to outrun Dick Towers and teammate Art Dalzell in the half for the record time of 1:54. Dalzell held the former record, also set last year, of 1:36.
But Baker pulled the most impressive individual feat of the evening when he sprinted 60 yards in 61 to tie the world record in that event for the second time in his career. He then came back to edge out Don Smith and John Reiderer of Kansas in the quarter at 51.1, and finished his evening's work by running the anchor lap for the Wildcat's record-breaking mile relay team.
Kansas supplied the depth, however, to mark up its ninth straight dual-meet victory. Coach Bill Easton's squad overpowered the Wildcats both on the track and in the field events to hand K-State its first loss of the year against one victory.
Mile-1. Wes Santee, Kansas; 2. Lloyd Koby, Kansas; 3. Ted Hanson, K-State. Time: 4:12.5. (New meet and fieldhouse record, former record, 4:17.9 by Santee, 1952).
The other record breakers were Veryl Switzer of Kansas State, who bettered his own broad jump mark, and Bob Smith and Kernit Hollingsworth, both of Kansas, who tied for honors in the high jump at 6 feet, 1.5-8 inches.
Broad jump= 1. Veryl Switzer, K-State, 2-3. 7. Bob Smith, Kansas, 21-8½. 3. Buzz Frazier, Kansas, 21-6 3-4. (New meet and fieldhouse record, 22-4½, Switter, 1952).
60-yard dash—1, Thane Baker, K-State; 2. Jerry Mershon, K-State; 3. Don Hess, Kansas. Time: .061. (New meet and fieldhouse record. Former record. .062 by Baker. 1952).
440-yard dash—1. Thane Baker, K-State. 2. Don Smith, Kansas; 3. John Reiderer, Kansas. Time: 51.1.
Shot put-1 Merlin Gish, Kansas 46-77%, 2. Dick Knowles, Kansas, 44-97%, 3. Gene Vignetle, Kansas, 43-91%
Relay—1. K-State (Jim Loomis, Jerry Rowe, Johnny Caldwell, Thane Baker). 2. Kansas (Adolph Mueller, Frank Rodkney, Frank Cindrich, John Reiderer 3). Time: 3:23.6. New meet and fieldhouse record. Former record, 3:26.2 by Kansas, 1952).
High Jump= 1. Tie, Bob Smith, Kansas, and Kermit Hollingsworth, Kansas, 6 1½%. 3. Tie, Tom Machin, K-State, Don Roberts, K-State, Wes Wilkinson, K-State, 5-10. (New meet record. Former record, 6-1½) by Frazier, Kansas, 1952.)
The Jayhawkers' Norn Steanson pulled one of the biggest surprises vaulted 15 feet, $4\frac{1}{2}$ inches to set a new meet record in the pole vault.
Two Mile—1. Dick Wilson, Kansas; 2. Keith Palmquist, Kansas; 3. Jim Jorns, K-State. Time: 9:37.8.
60-yard high hurdles-1. Bill Bil-
berstein, Kansas. 2. Adolph Mueller,
Kansas. 3. Jack Railsback, K-State.
Time: 07:9.
880-1. Wes Santee, Kansas; 2. Art Dalzell, Kansas; 3. Dick Towers, K-State. Time: 1:54.3 (New meet and fieldhouse record. Former record 1.56, Dalzell, 1952).
60-yard Low Hurdles -1. Corky Taylor, K-State; 2. Veryl Switzer, K-State; 3. Adolph Mueller, Kansas. Time: 07:0.
Pole vault—1. Norm Steason, Kansas, 13-4½; 2. Veryl Switzer, K-State, 13 feet; 3. Tie, Kermit Hollingsworth, Kansas; Tom Machin, K-State, Fred Wingert; K-State, 12-6. (New meet and fieldhouse record. Former mark, 13-2¾ by Floyd, Kansas, 1952).