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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Dec. 18, 1952
Oklahoma A&M Trims DePaul In Top Cage Tilt
New York—(U.P.)—An impressive victory over previously unbeaten DePaul boosted the national prestige today of the Oklahoma Aggies, masters of defensive basketball.
The Aggies, ranked fifth nationally by the United Press board of coaches, rung up their sixth win last night by a lopsided 62-51 count over DePaul, ranked 19th nationally, on the Aggies' court at Stillwater.
The Aggies always boast one of the best defensive clubs in the nation, and they went into last night's fray with an average of 40.8 points allowed per game—a mark that De-Paul boosted slightly. The Aggies broke fast and took a 13-point lead in the first quarter, center Bob Mattick accounting for 10 points in the spurt.
DePaul never caught up after that, although the Demons' Jim Lankin emerged as the game's high scorer with 16 points.
Second - ranked LaSalle, 10th-ranked Notre Dame, 13th-rated Louisiana State, and 15th-ranked Navy each won an expected easy triumph in other games last night.
LaSalle, on a tour to the West coast, rolled to an 87-68 victory over Arizona at Tueson, Ariz. The unbeaten Explorers, gaining their seventen win, moved to a 40-32 lead at halftime and held a 24-point margin in the fourth period before easing off. Pop-shooting Fred Lehle led the Explorers with 31 points.
Loyola of Chicago tried a possession game in hopes of upsetting Notre Dame, but the Irish broke through for a 53-45 victory at South Bend. Joe Bertrand tallied 14 points to lead the Irish to their fourth win. Louisiana State gained its fifth victory by 58-45 over Alabama in the Southeastern conference.
Jayhawkers Drill For SMU Games
The Jayhawkers drilled on offensive and defensive plays and patterns in practice sessions Wednesday but did not scrimmage.
Most of the time was spent in getting used to the Hoch auditorium floor, which has just had the wax removed that was used for the Military Ball. The Jay-hawkers will meet SMU in a two game series at the auditorium Friday and Saturday.
The team worked on rebounding the rest of the time. Assistant coach Dick Harp said that failure to control the backboards last Saturday led to the Jayhawkers defeat by Rice.
Probable starters for the SMU game Friday will be B. H. Born, center; Larry Davenport and Jerry Alberts, forwards, and Bill Heitholt and Dean Kelley at guards, Harold Patterson and Al Kelley have been pressing for starting berths, however, and could be inserted into the starting lineup.
MU to Play Host To TCU Cagemen
Columbia, Mo. —(U.P.)—University of Missouri basketballers play their third home game in six days when they meet Texas Christian here tonight.
Coach Sparky Sialep said after Missouri's first loss in two starts that his team made too many mistakes and just threw away the game.
The Tigers, losers to Arkansas in a 65-46 thriller Tuesday, went through short workouts yesterday to correct passing and rebounding errors committed in the game with the Razorbacks.
Tonight's opponent, Texas Christian, is potentially a good club despite its inexperience, Stalcup said. The Texans have two wins and one loss, an 89-76 defeat by highly-rated Bradley.
Hoag Returns to Class After Knee Operation
A sewer hole has played havoc with Kansas prospects for a successful cage season by stripping the Jayhawker squad of the "greatest sixth man in basketball." Charlie Hoag.
Hoag, a sparkplug of the 1952 Big Seven and NCAA championship team, was counted on to provide Phog Allen's green basketball squad with speed and scoring ability, before he was shelved with a knee injury suffered in the Kansas State football game.
The injury occurred when the Oak Park, Ill., senior was forced out of bounds and in trying to regain his balance, stepped in a sewer hole and jammed his knee.
Hog was forced to miss the Nebraska and Oklahoma A&M games and his loss crippled the Jayhawker offense. He was an offensive starter for the Missouri game but lasted only one play as the knee popped out of joint.
Just before Thanksgiving vacation, doctors decided that he should have the knee operated on at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City. The operation took place two weeks ago today, and Hong still is forced to wear crutches part of the time. He said that he won't need the crutches in about two weeks but that at present he is not able to bend his knee.
The Blanquita theater in Havana Cuba, has the largest seating capacity of any theater in the world, with 6,- 500 seats.
Hoag, all-state basketball selection in his senior year at Oak Park, Ill. High in 1949, lettered in his sophomore year at KU and developed into a great player last season. He rarely started, but became one of the most valuable utility players in the nation because of his tremendous hustle and speed.
His loss is a severe jolt to Kansas basketball prospects and Hoag said "I'm disappointed, but can't do much about it." He added that he thinks the Jayhawkers will do all right without him.
OUT OF ACTION-Jayhawk guard Charley Hoag, who helped spark the 1952 Kansas team to the Big Seven and NCAA titles, will miss the current season because of a bad knee.
bad knee.
AFROTC Wins Close IM Game
KANSAS CAPTAIN — Dean Kelley, the only starter returning from the 1952 Jayhawker team, is a good floor man, shooter, and a great defender. He developed rapidly last year and was named to the NCAA all-tournament squad at Seattle.
Providing innumerable stories within a story, the International competitions as a whole drew more interest—and newsprint—than any other event in the entire history of sports. The top 10 in order appear here to be:
A thriller in which the AFROTC shaded the Know Nothings by two points, in the independent "B" division, highlighted the five-game intramural basketball slate yesterday.
In a nip and tuck game which saw the lead change hands several times, the AFROTC defeated the Know Nothings 37-35. The Know Nothings held a slim 21-18 halftime lead, but were out-played in the second half by a sharp shooting Air Force quintet. Ronald Sams carried the scoring load for the Air Force with 19 points, while Dick Radley was high for Know Nothings with 13.
AFROT C 37. Know Nothings 35
New York—(U.P.)—Because of their world-wide interest, the 1952 Olympic games today were awarded top spot in Fearless Frailey's annual ranking of the year's 10 best sports stories.
Kappa Sig 41, Delta Chi 35
Duane and Archie Unruh scored 20 and 10 points respectively to lead Kappa Sigma to a 41-35 victory over Delta Chi in the only fraternity "A game yesterday. Glyn Shaver scored 11 points to pace the Delta Chi quintet.
Alpha Tau Omega held a hapless Triangle team to two points in the first half, and six in the second as they won an impressive 86-8 rout. Darrell Walker was high point man for the ATO's with 20 points. This game was in the fraternity "B" division.
ATO 86. Triangle 8
Independent "B" SCORES
Gamma Delta 29, Nu Sigma Nu 19
Black Knights 31, Gnip Gnips 26
OTHER SCORES
Fraley Picks 10 Top Sports Stories
TODAY'S GAMES Robinson Annex
4 Don Henry-Battenfeld
5 Stephenpson-Jolliffe
6 Sterling-Oliver-Pearson
7 Last Chance-ISA
8 Jim Beam-Theta Tau
9 AFROTC-YMCA
Robinson Annex Independent "A"
Robinson Gymnasium
Independent / DIl
8:15 NROTC-Aluminum Five (E)
8:15 win Pines-Oread (W)
Friday
9:15 DU III-Delta Tau Delta II (E)
9:15 PG DU-Relta Teta Ei W(J)
No intramural basketball games are scheduled for Friday because of Christmas
1. Olympic games.
3. Marciano-Walcott heavyweight championship.
z. world series.
- Kentucky derby.
* Boros wins U.S. open
4. Kentucky derby
5. Boros wins U.S. open.
6. Sedgman-Connolly.
6. Sedgman-Connolly U.S. - Wimbledon grand slams
7. Kentucky - Bradley basketball suspensions.
8. Despirito's ride on the records.
6. Desipitre rite on the records.
7. Robinson-Maxim "heat collapse".
9. robinson-maxim "heat collapse"
10. Walcott - Charles Fight.
By CLARKE KEYS
Kansas Assistant Sports Editor
It's Kansas State all the way. That's our opinion after witnessing the methodical 81-60 defeat the Wildcats handed San Francisco Monday night.
The Wildcats have been picked all along to be the team to take over the top spot in the Big 7 and national scene from the Kansas Jayhawkers, but Coach Jack Gardner's charges have looked so good, so early, that they may surpass everyone's guess.
Paced by Dick Knostman and four other lettermen, the Wildcats have taken their first three games of the young season. Two, over Drake and Indiana, were squeaks, but with the sophomore bench that the Wildcats have, that could be understandable. But even the sophomores looked tops against the SFU Dons.
K-State didn't give the Dons much of a chance to find themselves as they tore to a 20-11 first quarter lead and went on from there. The Wildcats hit on 38 per cent of their shots from the field while a cold San Francisco club, forced to go over the top, connected on only 22 per cent. State dominated the backboards too, clearing 35 rebounds to 49 for the Dons.
The biggest moan coming out of the Wildcat camp this fall has been the loss of speed in Jim Iverson, "Hoot" Gibson, and Gene Wilson, all gone off last year's conference runner-up team. But if the Cats are slower this season, they must have been mighty swift last year.
Following that old Gardner custom, this year's Wildcats continually speed and drive for the bucket. They very seldom stop to run a real pattern. They got most of their shots from close in off the drives, but if the defense keeps them out, boys like Gene Stauffer and Bob Rousey pump over the defenders to hit.
As far as rebounding goes, very few teams have ever had the board-clearing power that Gardner has at his finger tips. Instead of getting shorter, the substitutes Gardner puts in tower nearer and nearer toward the rafters in the new field house.
Gardner didn't give his starters much of a chance to play Monday, but their brief appearance convinced the crowd of 11,500 that they are every bit as good as reported. Knostman played only 14 minutes, well under half the game, yet scored 15 points. He also cleared seven rebounds in that time, plus acting as that important feed man in the Wildcat offense.
An all-American last year, apparently nothing can keep him from such an honor this season.
Then there was controversial Jack Carby who grabbed nine points and nine rebounds in playing a fine game. Most of Carby's points came on tip-ins and he proved that he really can jump.
Jesse Prisock is another big letterman who will really be tough to outplay. The junior from Emporia scored 11 and took seven rebounds against the Dons.
The Wildcats put up a mighty stiff defense against San Francisco and only some fine second half long distance shooting enabled the Dons to score much at all.
Yes, the usual boisterous K-State crowd should have plenty to cheer about this season.
USC Starts Intense Drills In Hopes of Rose Bowl Win
Los Angeles—(U.P.)—Southern California, its aura of invincibility dispelled by Notre Dame, buckled down today with determination to restore Pacific Coast prestige in the Rose Bowl New Year's day with a victory over Wisconsin.
Gone was Southern California's dream of its first perfect season since 1932. But the Trojans still can salvage a large measure of greatness for 1952 if it becomes the first team to whip a Big Ten representative since the start of the bowl series with the Midwest conference.
It was a bitter blow to Coach Jess Hill and his team when they fell before Notre Dame in the final game of the regular season, 9-0. Whether Southern Cal can survive the blow and come back against Wisconsin will be answered New Year's Day. Before the Irish "champion-wreckers" laid them low, the Trojans were favored strongly here to beat the Badgers. But the Trojans couldn't come back last year after a defeat and there are some who feel they can't this season, either.
Hill's usually genial attitude was replaced by one of grimness as he worked his players for the Rose Bowl. A winning coach can't be considered "on trial." But the Notre Dame defeat revived talk of Southern Cal's sputtering offense, talk that had subsided after the Trojans' last three conference wins over Stanford, Washington and UCLA.
The greatest team in the west on defense, Southern Cal had its defensive might matched by the Irish.
That means Hill must be able to generate sustained drives that lead to touchdowns if he hopes to beat the Badgers. And he "Has the horses" to do the job if they click as a unit.
In Jim Sears, Southern California fields the best all-around seen in the west this year. Flanking him are Al Carmichael at wingback under the Hill single-wing system, George Bozanic as blocking back, and Leon Sellers at fullback.
who also were able to generate a scoring thrust. Although Hill would not say it, Trojan fans believed that the defense would rally against Wisconsin. No team, however, has kept Wisconsin from scoring this season.
Villagers Must Stop Smoking
Great Neck, N.Y. — (U.P.)— Residents of this Long Island community located near the Sinclair Refining company depot were warned today to give up smoking or else.
Police and volunteer firemen warned residents against smoking or lightning matches after a 188,000-gallon high octane gasoline storage tank sprung a leak underground and gasoline bubbled from the ground in half a dozen places.
About 60 per cent of all U.S. visitors to Canada cross the border at Ontario.