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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, April 22,1952
Coach, Player, Team Given Helms' Honors
Helms Athletic Foundation of California has heaped three-fold honors on 1952 basketball at Kansas. The foundation has selected Jayhawker basketball coach Dr. Forrest "Phog" Allen as "Coach of the Year"; has chosen All-American center Clyde Lovellette, "Player of the Year," and has named the 1952 Jayhawker squad national collegiate champion.
In addition, the Foundation named forward Bob Kenney to its second team. Kenney is Kansas' No. 2 scorer behind Lovellette—the nation's champ.
His 35th year of coaching at Kansas brought the Jayhawker coach his greatest team. Dr. Alten led his Jayhawks to the Big Seven preseason tournament title, the Big Seven conference crown, the NCAA championship and into the finals of the Olympic trials.
All-in-all, the "Nation's Greatest Team" won 28 games, lost 3. Seven members of the team—Lovellette Kenney, Dean Kellley, Charlie Hag, John Keller, Bill Lienhard and Bill Houget. Four teams will play in States Olympic squad which will play in the Olympic Games in Helsinki. Finland, this summer.
In his 42 years of coaching basketball, Dr. Allen's teams won 710 games while losing only 203. No other collegiate cage coach in the country can come close to that mark. The Jayhawker coach's record is by far the most remarkable in the history of basketball.
Lovellette was named with nine other of the nation's top players to Helm's 1951-52 all-America squad. Along with Lovellette are Dick Groat of Duke, Johnny O'Brien of Seattle, Cliff Hagan of Kentucky, Mark Workman of West Virginia, Chuck Darling of Iowa, Bob Zawoluk of St. John's, Bill Stauffer of Missouri, Rod Fletcher of Illinois,
and Don Johnson of Oklahoma A&M.
Lovellette became the 10th Kansas university basketball player to be placed on the Helms team during the 32-year history of Helm's all-America clubs. He was a member of the group's all-star aggregation last year and became the sixth Jayhawker to make the team two consecutive years. He is the third Kansas player to be named "Player of the Year."
Paul Endacott was given the outstanding player award after the 1923 season. Charles Black won it in 1924. Both Endacott and Black are two-timers on Helms' all-Americans.
Other two-time all-Americans for Helms from Kansas were Tusten Ackerman (1924-25), Fred Pralle (1937-38) and Ray Evans (1942-43).
Other Kansas players chosen to the team include Gale Gordon (1926), Albert Peterson (1923), Howard Engleman (1941), and Charlie Black (1946)—not to be confused with the former Black who played for Kansas in 1923-24.
Kenney is another three-year Jayhawkervarsity player. He was a member of the all-Big Seven conference all-star team this year and played on the West team in the recent East-West Shrine game.
Helm's Foundation awards are considered among the highest offered in basketball.
HELMS CHOOSES FHOG—Dr. Forrest C. “Phog” Allen, 66-year-old veteran coach of the Kansas Jayhawkers, has been selected by Helms Athletic Foundation as “Coach of the Year.” Dr. Allen, who just completed his 35th year of coaching at KU, was already listed in the Helms “Hall of Fame”. Another Kansan, Paul Endacott of the 1922-23 seasons, also is in the Helms “Hall of Fame”. Endacott is listed as a player and as a member of the Helms all-time all-American team.
CLYDE IS TOPS—All-American Clyde Lovellette has been named by Helms Athletic Foundation as the "Player of the Year." It is the second time Lovellette has been chosen to the Helms all-American team. He is the 10th Kansan in history to be selected.
KENNEY ON SECOND TEAM— Kansas forward Bob Kenney, has been named to the Helms Athletic Foundation's second team.
"I'd Get Fined $3,000," Wails Stengel As White Sox' Lane Bargains for Bauer
New York—(U.P.)–Manager Casey Stengel of the Yankees sounded off today at Frank Lane of the White Sox for stating openly that he would like to obtain outfielder Hank Bauer in a big deal that would involve also the Athletics and perhaps the Red Sox.
"If I went around and started talking about some ball player that I wanted on some other club, I'd fined $3,000 or some such amount for fooling around where I wasn't
At the same time H. Rob Hamey, assistant general manager of the Yankees who went into a lengthy discussion with both Lane and Artie Ehlers, the general manager of the Athletics, said "they want plenty but don't want to give up much."
supposed to." Stengel said. "I don't know how that crazy so and don't gets by doing it. Maybe he thinks people will just think he's kidding."
"If we took some of the stuff they both offered me, we really would
wind up in the second division," Hamey said.
Nevertheless, it appeared that Lane, who takes the offensive in all of the negotiations, might close some sort of a deal within the next few days.
"Why, the Yankees ought to deal me Bauer just to let me get even for what the gues has done to me," Lane said. "I sent him up to the Yankees when I had the Kansas City farm.
By JOHN HERRINGTON Kansan Sports Editor
Hold on to your hats! The Trail just got a preview of one of the finest pictorial histories we've seen—that of the 1952 Jayhawker basketball season.
Three University students—Jim Murray, senior; Maurice Prather, junior, and Rich Clarkson, sophomore—have put together a complete review of the past basketball season in pictures.
It's slated to go on sale Friday, April 25 and will sell for $1. And from what we saw, it'll be worth every penny.
Included in "The Jayhawk Championship Story" are action shots, stills, complete team photos, background pictures and everything on film—that went into the making of the nation's top basketball team.
All journalism students at the University and all crack photographers, Murray, Prather and Clarkson have assembled over 100 photos of team members, the coaches, player's wives, pep rallies and all the trimmings.
"We've discarded prints any photographer would be glad to have in an effort to get the best," Murray said. And from our "sneak preview" seat, it seems they got the best.
Five thousand copies of the 52-page "pictorial history" will be printed with additional copies being printed if the demand for the book is great enough.
At least one picture from each of the 31 games the Jayhawkers played over the past season will be presented. The book will be published on an 8 by 11-inch layout.
It looks like a good buy from any angle.
RUNNING IT INTO THE GROUND DEPARTMENT. We wonder what Mr. Cohane of Look magazine thinks of Mr. Lovellette of Kansas now. Too bad the Helms Foundation doesn't put out a magazine; we'd change our subscription.
Clyde Lovellette will join the sales department of the Phillips Petroleum company, Bartlesville. Okla., June 1.
Needless to say,he'll be wearing the uniform of the AAU Phillips Oilers next year.
But the professional Milwaukee Hawks didn't give up without a fight. The Hawks drew Lovellette's name in the 1952 cage draft and rumor has it the Hawks offered the giant Jayhawker a salary reaching the $25,000 per year mark.
Bobby Thomson Comes Back After Hitting Slump Spree
New York—(U.P.)-Bobby Thomson, the cure-all for New York Giant problems in 1951, was back at the old stand today with familiar medicine.
And he was just in time to prevent Manager Leo Durocher from pulling out his few remaining gray hairs.
The home run hero of the 1951 pennant race, whose bat had been strangely silent this year, burst out of his coma last night with a tremendous homer which sparked the Giants to a 10-4 victory over the Phillies. Bobby had entered the game with an anemic .143 batting average which had caused Durocher to fear that Bobby did not take kindly to his "life in a goldfish bowl" created by his story-book homer which won the '51 pennant for the Giants.
Then, Bobby, in his first game on the road, dispelled Leo's doubles. He sent a Howie Fox serve in the first innning soaring to the roof of the left field pavilion at Shibe park-Whitey Lockman, who had walked, trotted home ahead of Bobby. The rest of the Giants took heart, grabbbed their bats and went to work.
When the night was over, Don Mueller had also crashed his first homer of the year and Willie Mays and Henry Thompson had clouted
Vic Raschi made his life-threat mark a spectacular 22-2 against the Athletics at the Yankees rolled to an easy 5-1 victory and Cuban Julio Moreno off the Senators, only pitcher to beat the Red Sox this year, did it a second time with a 3-2, seven-hit job. Towering Paul Minner pitched a three-hitter as the Cubs defeated the Pirates, 7-1, in the only other game.
triples in the Giants' heaviest outburst of the season. The Giants were back at the .500-mark.
Jim Hearn, who dissipated a five-run first-inning lead in his season debut against the Dodgers, went 7% innings to record his 12th victory over the Phillies in 14 decisions. The victory also marked the Giants' eighth straight triumph over the Phillies at Shibe park dating back to late 1951. Left-hander Dave Koslo took over for Hearn in the eighth inning and finished up.
Frank Stranahan, Vincent Fitzgerald Meet in North-South Opening Rounds
Pinehurst, N.C.—(U.P.)—Frank Stranahan, who won the title in 1946 and 1948, faces Vincent Fitzgerald of New York, and Frank Strafaci, winner in 1938 and 1939, opposes Bob Black of Chapel Hill, N.C., in the two first-round feature matches today of the North and South Invitation amateur golf tournament.
Defending champion Hobart Man-ley of Savannah, Ga., ran into trouble and soared to a four-over-26 while Dick Chapman, British amateur champion and former U.S. amateur titleholder, shot a 72.
The three-way tie for medal honors was the first such deadlock
in the 52-year history of the event
Yesterday's medal round failed to determine the 64 entrants out of the field of 150 who will participate in match play since 12 golfers were tied at 80.