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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. April 2.1952
Late Rally Fails As Jayhawks Lose 62-60
Kansas came two points short of basketball's grand slam last night when Peoria's Caterpillar Diesels—national AAU champs—staved off a fourth period Jayhawker rally to down KU, 62-60 in the finals of the Olympic trials in New York's Madison Square Garden.
The Jayhawks came within two points late in the fourth period. Bob Schmidt put the Diesels on top by four with a pair of free throws.
Kansas, after trailing by as much as 13 points early in the game, and behind all the way, started its now famous last quarter run for the tape. They almost made it.
After winning the NCAA tourney, the Jayhawks downed NAIB Champion Southwest Missouri State of Springfield, 92-65, and edged LaSalle's NIT kingpins, 70-65. A win over Peoria would have given the Jayhawks a perfect record over the nation's top collegiate and AAU
Howie Williams, who turned in a stellar 18-point performance for the Diesels, scored the final basket with 10 seconds left to give the Amateur Athletic Union kings the win.
Bill Lienhack hit for the Jayhawks to make the score 56-54, Peoria, with four minutes left. Ron Bontemps scored twice from the charity stripe and the Diesels were back on top by four.
Clyde Lovellette connected with
a hook shot at the 3.15 mark. Pooria stretched the lead to three points on a free throw and went into a stall. Pooria then gave Pooria a four-point lead.
When the Jayhawks dumped La-Salle's NIT champions Monday, they insured themselves of an Olympic berth in the summer games, July 19 through August 3 in Helsinki, Finland.
John Keller scored on a tip-in to make it 60-58, Peoria with 1:45 left in the game. With 30 seconds left, he hit a three-foot Diesels on Bob Kenney's two-point.
Peporia went into a delayed freeze,
wilming the Williams with 10 seconds left.
The late period Jayhawker splurge was highly resemblant of monday night's four quarter Karttas and the eight Jayhawks a 70-65 win over LaSalle.
The Olympic trials is perhaps the only tournament in which the semifinals are more important than the finals.
Caterpillar Coach Warren. Womble will be the head coach of the United State's Olympic basketball team. Last night's game—besides deciding the nation's top amateur team—specified which coach would be head man when the U.S. Olympic team goes to Helsinki.
Kansas Coach Phog Allen will act as assistant mentor for the squad.
Fourteen players, selected from the Jayhawks and the three AAU top Olympic trials teams will make
up the U.S. Olympic team. Seven players will come from the Jawahars, five from the Diesels and two from the other two AAU teams.
Coach Allen announced Monday the seven players from the Jayhawks who would represent the collegians on the team. Lovellette, Kenney, Lienhard, Keller, Bill Hougland, Charlie Hoag and Dean Kelley were chosen by the Jayhawker coach.
All are seniors but Hoag and Kelley, who are juniors.
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Kansas (60) FG FT-A PF TP
Lovelette 7 8-13 3 22
Kelley 6 1-2 2 13
Lienhard 3 1-1 5 7
Kenney 4 0-2 1 8
Keller 1 0-0 1 2
Hoag 3 0-0 5 6
Hougland 1 0-0 3 2
Totals ... 25 10-18 20 60
Peoria (62) FG FT-A PF TP
Bontemps 4 5-10 1 13
McCabe 2 2-0 4 6
Freiberger 4 0-2 4 8
Pippin 3 2-3 2 8
Williams 8 2-3 2 18
Dempsey 3 0-0 0 6
Schmidt 0 3-3 2 7
Totals ... 24 14-23 14 62
Score By Ranking
Kansas 9 12 21 18-60
Peoria 20 11 17 14-62
27th Kansas Relays To Be Greatest In Jayhawk History
The team entry list for the 27th annual Kansas Relays promises to be the largest in history as additional acceptances swell the total number of teams expected to compete in the colorful Memorial Stadium track and field carnival to be held on April 19.
"We expect this year to be our finest relays in competition as each competing man and team will be striving to make an outstanding performance—this being an Olympic year," Bill Easton, Kansas track coach and relays director, said today.
day.
Sixteen team entries have been removed in the University class, the same number as entered last year. This present 16-team list is expected to number 20 or more before the April 9 closing date.
University class team entries to date are: Missouri, Iowa State, Colorado and Nebraska from the Big Seven Conference. The Missouri Valley Conference is sending Oklahoma A&M, Drake, Wichita, Bradley and Houston.
The Western Conference (Big Ten) will be represented by Michigan, Iowa, and Minnesota. Texas, Texas A&M and Arkansas will carry the prestige of the Southwest Conference.
One Midwestern representative, Marquette University, rounds out the University class.
The College class now numbers 22 team entries as compared to 31 last year. Kansas colleges head the list with seven entries. They are: Washburn University, Baker University, Southwestern College, Ft. Hays State Teachers College, Sterling College, Ottawa University and Pittsburgh State Teachers College.
Missouri will be represented by four colleges. They are: William Jewell College, Missouri Valley College, Southwest Missouri State College, Warrensburg Teachers College and Drury College.
Sunny Texas will again send four well known college teams to this year's Kansas Relays. Included are the annually outstanding Abilene Christian College team, along with East Texas State College, Howard Payne College, and North Texas State College.
Two Nebraska teams entered are University of Omaha and Nebraska State College. Oklahoma sends its single entry, Oklahoma Baptist.
Roundting out the College class are three intersectional schools, Loyola of Chicago, St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Minn., and Long Beach City College, Long Beach, Calif.
Seven Junior Colleges are entered to date as compared to 11 teams last year.
Kansas Junior College teams are Ft. Scott, Coffeyville, Arkansas City Dodge City and Hutchinson. Missouri has entered Wentworth Military Academy and Oklahoma's single entry is Oklahoma Military Academy.
Three outstanding individual track stars will be back to defend their 1951 titles. Last year's only record breaker, Nebraska's Dou Cooper in the pole vault with a 15 ft. $ \frac{1}{8} $ in vault, has graduated.
Texas A&M's great weight man, big Darrow Hooper, will defend his mark of 51 ft. $8\frac{1}{2}$ in., in the shot put and discus toss of 145 ft. $5\frac{1}{2}$ in. Relay records appear safe in each event.
George Davis, director of adult education at Purdue university, and Donald Mallett, dean of students at Purdue, visited the campus Monday. They were on their way to Colorado Springs for the annual convention of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.
Baker University's fine all-around athlete, Kenneth Sterns, will defend his high jump mark of 6 ft. 4% in.
Kansas State's remarkable dash star, Thane Baker, will be defending his 100-yard dash crown. Baker's indoor performance has continually broken or threatened existing marks all winter.
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TV Fighter Aims At Title
New York—(U,P)-Young George Araujo came out of New England today in the hopes that boxing for television would speed his flight from poverty.
For four years this 20-year-old lightweight has been a success in and around his native providence, and as his busy fists knocked over one opponent after another, he became a gate attraction who set box office records in Boston and Providence.
But this isn't enough for Araujo. His goal is the lightweight championship and a national reputation which will assure the financial needs of a large family. Too long he has known desperate want and aching need.
His story, like that of his Friday night opponent, Charley Riley of St. Louis, is one of early hardship. Riley, another of the young seekers for security, is one of 11 children, Araujo (pronounced ah-roo-joe) is one of 17 children, 1 of whom are living.
Son of a Portuguese Steedweed, who immigrated from the Cape Verde Islands, Araujo was a quiet, intelligent boy who dreamed of graduating from high school and becoming a commercial artist. But he two years of high school he had to go to work on the docks, too.
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"WE'VE GOT A GREAT TEAM, DICK"—Coaches Phog Allen and Dick Harp look over the newly selected 1952 United States Olympic team. Clyde Lovellette, Charlie Hoag, Bill Hougland, Bill Lienhard, John Keller, Dean Kelley and Bob Kenney were chosen to the team from the Jawhaws
Allen Predicts Olympic Cagers Will Be Strongest In History
Coach Forrest C. "Phog" Allen predicted that the 1952 Olympic basketball team would be "a truly great team."
It was hailed today as a greater team than the U.S. squad of 1948 which swept every game in winning the Olympic title.
Peoria Coach Warren Womble selected Ron Bontemps, Marcus Burgerle and Dan Williams. Frank Mirette and Dan Pfannenstiel from Olympic trial champion Caterpillars.
Clyde Lovellette, John Keller, Bob Kenney, Dean Kelley, Charlie Hoag, Bill Hougland and Bill Lienhard were chosen earlier from the Jay-hawkers by Dr. Allen.
Bob Kurland and Wayne Glasgow of the Phillips Oilers—who trounced teammate 92-84 for third place last night—were chosen to round out the team.
"The 1948 squad, with the Phillips
Oilers and that fine Kentucky crew, were a good team," said Allen. "But this year's team will have much more power—much more all-round power. It will have everything—terrific height in Clyde Lovellette, Marcus Freiberger and Bob Kurland—and great shooting."
"You see," Allen pointed out, so happens that the players who were selected complement each other beautifully to form a fine team, not merely an all-star collection. If our opponents try to gang up on our big fellows, why outside shooters like Howie Williams, Ronnie Bontemps, and Wayne Glasgow will murder them."
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