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University Daily Kansah Thursday, May 1, 1952
Milwaukee Scribe OpposesProHawks
Lloyd Larson, sports editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel, has come out in direct opposition of efforts to call Clyde Lovellette, Jayhawker all-America center, a professional.
Larson, along with Russ Lynch,
sports editor of the rival Milwaukee
Journal, were two backers of the
professional Milwaukee Hawks' attempts to get Lovellette to sign to play pro ball.
But in a recent column, Larson said:
"What started out as a lively argument with pro basketball and the Milwaukee Hawks looming up as winners over Clyde Lovettele and amateurism as practiced by the AAU, at least in the course of public opinion, has degenerated into a pointless battle over contamination. Pointless for two reasons:
"1. Trying to make a pro out of the giant Kansas all-American via such a devious route was bound to swing sympathy in his direction.
"Tm all for the sharpest possible line between pros and amateurs, but I wouldn't think of declaring him a pro because he played against a guy who played against another guy who once was supposed to be a pro.
"Most of this nation's bona fide amateurs conceivably could get hooked on the same or similar grounds. No reasonable person would want to go that far.
"2. The AAU was a cinch to laugh that one off in a jumble of double talk. Which it did, promptly."
Larson said that, "As I saw them, there were two prime objectives: 1. The Hawks understandably wanted to lure the hottest attraction in basketball into the fold; 2. The pro league as a whole sought to show up the AAU circuit as a phony operation. Neither was accomplished by taking the long, winding trail leading to possible contamination.
"Lovellette probably will be more determined than ever to stick with his announced future-and-security policy. And his prospective employer, Phillips, will be just as determined to keep him.
"With the AAU, too. That organization, no pushover at best, as many have discovered, very likely will close its eyes to more and more things that smack of professionalism. It will be ready for a fight.
"The smartest move the Milwankee club could have made was to accept Lovellette's decision to join the Phillips organization. Friendly acceptance might have paved the way for having him change his mind again, as he admittedly has done before, after the Olympics.
"Upsetting the AAU is too big a project for any one club. That's a job for the entire National Basketball association."
Jansen-Maglie Combination After New Mark
New York- (UO)-Sal Maglie and Larry Jansen, distinguished New York firm of curve-ball manufacturers which negotiated 46 victories in 1951, appear headed for even greater returns this year.
Jansen notched his second victory of the campaign yesterday with a neat three-hit, 4-1 victory over the Reds less than 24 hours after Maglie had won his third game with a three-hitter over the same team. Jansen didn't win his second game last season until May 8 and Maglie didn't win no. 3 until May 9.
The Dodgers, Phillies and Braves meanwhile, were disappointed by shabby mound performances.
For the Dodgers, big Chris Van Cuyk failed to last one inning and Carl Erskine was also pummelled as the Cardinals rapped out 14 hits for an easy 14-2 victory.
The Phillies were sadly disappointed when Bubba Church was knocked out of the box when the Cubs scored seven runs in the third inning. The Phillies battled back to send the game into extra innings only to lose, 9-8, in the 12th.
Manager Tommy Holmes of the Braves had an even sorrier performance to ponder as he watched five pitchers issue a total of 12 walks as the Pirates snapped their 10-game losing streak with an 11-5 triumph.
Spivey Out on Bail, Rupp Comments In Latest Basketball Developments
Event piled on event today in the latest butburst of claims and counterclaims concerning the University of Kentucky and the newest basketball scandals.
Bill Spivey, 7-foot former Kentucky basketball star, was arrested on a fugitive warrant and released on $500 bond today pending a hearing May 26.
Spivey was indicted by the New York county grand jury Monday. The jury accused him of perjury in connection with testimony concerning the national basketball scandal
And in Winchester, Ky., Coach Adolph Rupp of the Kentucky Wildcats, prime target of a New
York jurist's blistering attack on University of Kentucky basketball policies, declared:
"I am willing for the citizens of Kentucky to be the judge."
This was the veteran coach's only reference to criticism leveled at him and the university by Judge Saul E. Streit in New York yesterday.
Later, Rupp asserted he favors "de - emphasizing de - emphasis" saying he doesn't know what critics want de-emphasized.
"I'm a little tired of this de-emphasis business," Rupp said. "Do they want de-emphasis on ability in sports, spectator interest, or on winning games?"
Rupp said yesterday, "The only statement to be made (relative to Streit's blast) will be coming from Dr. Donovan's office."
Dr. H. L. Donovan, University of Kentucky, president, was reported out of Lexington, due back on the campus this weekend.
Wrestling Fans Are Fussy
Syracuse, N.Y.—(U.P.)—Arnold M. Abrann learned the painful way that whistling and wrestling don't mix. Abrann's merry whistling during a wrestling match so irked two other fans that they hit him on the head, cutting his right ear.
Heitholt, Davenport, Born To Play in Exhibition Games
Sophomore B. H. Born and freshman Larry Davenport and Bill Heitholt will join the seven Kansas players on the U.S. Olympic basketball team—Clyde Lovellette, Dean Kelley, Bill Hougland, Bill Lienhard, John Keller, Charlie Hoag and Bob Kenney—when the Jayhawkers play an Olympic exhibition game with the Peoria Caterpillars plus Phillips Oilers Bob Kurland and Wayne Glasgow June 25 and 27 in Hutchinson.
Another exhibition game is scheduled for July 1 in Peoria. But, it's not certain whether the three Jayhawker extras will follow the Kansas Olympians to that third game.
All the U.S. Olympic cage representatives, plus coaches Warren and Phil Allen of the Gymnastics and Phog Allen of the Jayhawkers, have to be in New York by July 5.
Overseas travelers are required to be at the point of embarkation two days before they leave. Takeoff time is slated for 12:30 p.m. July 7.
The U.S. team is due in Europe July 8. Between the 8th and July 18—the Olympic team is due in Helsinki, site of the 1952 games—the Olympic committee hopes to have its club stage some exhibition contests for the servicemen in
NCAA President Calls for Probe
Chicago—(U.P.)—President Hugh C. Willett of the National Collegiate Athletic association said today that he has asked the NCAA membership committee to investigate athletic policy at the University of Kentucky, whose basketball setup was criticized by a New York judge.
Willett, here to attend an educators' meeting, said that press reports of the criticism by Streit of "certain athletic practices alleged to have existed at the University of Kentucky" were detailed and important enough to instigate the probe.
The membership committee is the enforcement arm of the NCAA. Willett's statement, released by an NCAA spokesman, said:
"The press reports of the incident by Judge Saul Streit of certain athletic practices alleged to have existed at the University of Kentucky are of sufficient detail and importance to prompt me to request the membership committee of the NCAA to initiate inquiry as to the present status of athletic policy and athletic practices at that institution."
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