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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Dec. 5, 1952
20 Teams See Action In Women's Intramurals
By JACKIE JONES
The women's intramural basketball season opened this week with 20 teams going into action in the first round of play. No upsets were recorded, and the teams considered to be contenders for the championship crown performed as expected.
Alpha Chai Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Jayettes and Kappa Kappa Gamma should be the 'teams to beat' this year, and all came through with impressive victories in play Tuesday and Wednesday.
In Tuesday's games the Alpha Chi Omega team swamped Theta Phi Alpha, 56 to 20; Delta Delta Delta topped Watkins, 33 to 15; Jayettes defeated NC 1-2, 14 to 13; Miller for-failed to Chi Omega; Gamma Phi Beta defeated No-Co, 37 to 15, and the College Aces defeated Sellards, 28 to 14.
Wednesday evening Kappa Kappa Gamma rolled up the highest score of the week by topping Temruth, 60 to 34; Phil Beta Phi trounced Locksley, 56 to 21; Corbin Jays took a narrow margin of victory over Alpha Phi, 23 to 20; Alpha Delta Pi defeated Sigma Kappa, 24 to 21, and the Corbin Hawks defeated Kappa Alpha Theta, 17 to 8.
Such stars from last year as Ernestine Dehlinger, and two 4-year varsity players, Shirley Mickelson and Barbara Quinn have graduated, leaving their positions vacant.
Besides the fight for the Hill championship, last year won by a powerful Foster team, strong competition looms for the positions on the mythical varsity squad.
One of the strongest contenders for varsity honors is Mary Ann Mahoney, Alpha Chi Omega's little scoring machine, who averages about 40 points per game.
In the Alpha Chi's victory Tuesday, Mahoney poured through 41 points to lead her team. She received strong support play from Joan Leonhardt and Connie Maus. Rose Lozenski led the Theta Phi scoring with 14 points.
As usual, Pat Garrett led the tri-Delt scoring getting 13 points against Watkins. Marilyn Marhofer had 12. They were backed up by Zimmerman, Carter, McKibben, Loveless, and Quinn.
In the Jayettes victory over the freshmen, Joan Woody led the winners with 16 points. Geneva Fleshman, Joyce Jones, Virginia Brooks, Joan Grone, Barbara Barnes, Ro Norris, and Jackie Jones finished out the lineup. Ann McFarland led the scoring for the freshmen.
Laura Shutz led the Kappas scoring against Temruth with 18 points, and Flavia Robertson, who moved to a forward spot in the second half, registered 17.
Schmidts Outnumber Smiths
Milwaukee — U.(P.)— Proof of Milwaukee's strong German background is found in the current telephone directory. The Schmidt outnumber the Smiths, 892 to 854. These totals do not include such variations as Schmitt, Schmit or Schmid and Smith or Smthe.
Robinson Loses Boxing Crown
New York- (U.P.)-The New York state athletic commission vacated Sugar Ray Robinson's world middleweight title early today and the wheels immediately were set in motion to determine his successor.
Robinson's title was officially vacated at 12:01 a.m. because he failed to defend his crown within six months of his last defense. The announcement was made by New York state commission chairman Robert K. Christenberry. Christenberry's action held on only New York, which is not a member of the National Boxing association, but NBA commissioner Abe J. Greene announced that he would hold a "round-robin" discussion today to determine the course of action his body would take
Robinson, meanwhile, who intended to announce his future plans through Letters which were to have been made public by Christenberry or the NBA by noon today, was enroute by train to Boston when he lost his crown.
Should Robinson's letter, mailed yesterday by George Gainford, his manager, announce his intention to continue his boxing career, Sugar Ray would not automatically regain the title.
In order to regain the title, at least in New York state, Robinson would be required to participate in a tournament or else fight the winner of it. The tournament would be arranged by the four bodies which govern boxing—the New York State commission, the NBA, the European Boxing board and the British Board of Boxing Control.
The official reason for Robinson's loss of the crown was his failure to defend it within the stipulated six months. Sugar Ray last defended his crown on May 13 when he outpointed Carl (Bobo) Olson of Hawaii in San Francisco.
He was to have been required to defend again by Nov. 13 but was granted an extension until Dec. 1. Then he was granted a second extension, which Sugar Ray apparently believed to be at noon today but which Christenberry interpreted as until midnight last night.
Since defeating Olson, Robinson has embarked on a new career as a tap dancer and master of ceremonies in night clubs. He was enroute to Boston with his manager last night to begin a run in a Boston night spot.
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Reich, who was spending the Thanksgiving vacation at his home in Steelton, Pa., joined the group in Chicago with six other players from the West and Middle-West.
Gil Reich, Kansas football star, made the long trip to New York to join 21 other players from the nation, selected to the all-American football teams by Grantland Rice and the Football Writers association.
The players will have a busy three days in New York with dinners, radio and television appearances, tours, and numerous photographs taken with Miss America, Neva Jane Langley of Macon, Ga.
Reich still is wearing a splint on his right index finger which was broken in the final game against Missouri and expects to continue wearing it for two weeks.
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Reich Travels With All-Stars
As soon as he is able, Reich will report to Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen, head basketball coach, for basketball practice. While in Chicago, Reich turned down a bid to appear on Don Sparks' club program because it would have jeopardized his remaining eligibility in basketball.
He explained the show is sponsored and it might have been construed that he was receiving compensations for appearing. A senior athlete, who had completed eligibility, appeared in his place.
Phi Delta Theta fraternity will play the pledge class of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority in a football game to be held Wednesday, Dec. 10, on the intramural fields.
Girls Gird For Gridiron
The Kappas set the rules for the clash, one of which requires the men to walk instead of run. Officials for the contest will be Korki Wahlberg for the Kappas and Hugh Buchanan for the Phi Delts.
By DON NIELSEN
Kansan Sports Editor
Big Seven officials are meeting to review conference policies on post-season athletics and other matters pertaining to intercollegiate athletics. There is an outside chance that the ban on post-season athletics may be abolished.
Going by what Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy and Coach Jules V. Sikes have said in the past, however, they will do their utmost to see that the rule against post-season athletics stays in effect. We hope they lose.
The rule as it now stands would prevent Big Seven teams from playing either in bowl games or in post-season basketball tournaments such as the NCAA tournament or Olympic playoffs. Kansas was fortunate enough to get in under the wire last year and go to the top in intercollegiate basketball play. Why should not other teams in the Big Seven be given the same opportunity?
It may be a while before Kansas has another chance to "go for broke," but when and if the chance comes, we don't want to see the Jayhawkers kept from getting a little national prestige by some arbitrary and discriminatory rule.
University officials constantly are crying for favorable publicity. The best excuse for intercollegiate sports is that they get publicity on a national scale. Last year the Kansas intercollegiate and Olympic championship basketball team rated more renown for the University of Kansas than any number of fine, new dormitories could have. Nevertheless, it was decided to do away with this opportunity to influence public opinion.
Another major argument against bowl games is that they keep players out of classes longer, and stretches the period for varsity sports interminably.
It is true that players will be kept out of classes. But how much actual time will they miss? In order to participate in a bowl game, a football player need miss very little class time because games usually are played at the end of a vacation. Thus, there would be ample practice time during the vacation if after-class practices were deemed insufficient.
As for the fact that it would make the athletic season much longer we say, "so what." People are crying for school spirit and an interest in athletics. Remember the rallies before, during, and after the triumphant 1951-52 basketball season? People started gripping then that KU students were too spirited.
People sure are hard to please.
Six of Nation's Top Twenty Teams Meet in Basketball Games Tonight
New York—(U.P.)-Six of the teams rated among the top 20 in the nation head a big program of college basketball tonight with Washington's highly-touted Huskies meeting Utah in a headliner.
Other highly-ranked teams in ac- tion will be UCLA, Seton hall, Wyoming, St. John's, and Brigham Young.
The Washington-Utah clash will be the season opener for both clubs. The Huskies, who are rated fourth nationally in the pre-season rankings of the United Press board of coaches, own one of the nation's top stars—six foot, seven-inch Bob Houbregs, a hookshot ace who averaged 18.6 points per game last
year in earning a spot on the United Press all-America third team.
UCLA, defending Pacific Coast conference champion and ranked seventh nationally, will meet Oregon State in a league game. In another loop clash, Stanford plays once-beaten Oregon.
Seton hall, ranked ninth and fresh from a win over St. Francis
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