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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 25, 1952
Kansas Plays Broncs In NCAA Today
Kansas' powerful Jayhawks and Santa Clara's surprising Broncos tangle in the second game of the final episode of the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament tonight. Broadcast time is 11:45 (CST).
Upset-minded St. John's meets power-laden Illinois in the first game. The winners meet tomorrow night to decide the national champion.
The victors tonight, as well as gaining a finals berth, will secure a position in the Olympic tryouts next week.
Kansas will be the decided favorite against the Broncos. Santa Clara reached the finals with upset victories over both UCLA, 68-59 and Wyoming, 54-48. The Jayhawkers went through the Kansas City Western Regionals with a 68-64 win over Texas Christian and a 74-55 victory from St. Louis.
Illinois was the only team in the four Regional contests—other than Kansas—to come through in expected fashion. The Illini thumped Dayton 80-61 and six-pointed Duquesne, 74-68.
Tonight's winners will play in the Olympic tryouts at Kansas City and New York next week. The first place winner will meet the NIAB champion, Southwest Missouri State, in Kansas City Saturday, March 29. NCAA runnerup will go to New York to play LaSalle, the NIT champion the same date.
The St. John's-Illini battle is supposed to be the thriller of the twinbill. St. John's, after taking North Carolina State 60-49 in the opening round of Regional play, blasted highly favored Kentucky 67-54.
If things go according to the dope sheet tonight — and there's little reason to believe they should since upsets have been the rule rather than the exception in NCAA play thus far—it'll be Kansas and Illinois clashing the all-star final tomorrow night for the NCAA crown.
The women's rifle club will hold an important special meeting at 5 p.m. today in 107 of the Military Science building.
Women's Rifle Club To Meet Today
Col. L. R. Moore will discuss a subject of vital interest to the members of the club.
OUTTA' MY WAY—Kansas' ball-hawking junior guard, Dean Kelley, will be one of five starters against Santa Clara's Broncos when the Jayhawkers and Broncs clash tonight in the second game of the NCAA tournament in Seattle. Kelley scored 10 points against Ed Hickey's St. Louis Billikens in the championship match of the Kansas City NCAA Western Regionals and played spectacular defense for the Jayhawkers.
Jappy Rau. club president, asks all members to attend unless interested. Any University women interested in the club are invited to attend.
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Newington. Conn. —(U.P.)— Five years ago Mrs. Ida Swanson, now 77, fell from a third-story window while hanging clothes. She got up and walked into the house, unhurt. Recently Mrs. Swanson tripped on a twig and landed in the hospital.
Not Lucky Twice
Line-Ups Of Teams In NCAA
Santa Clara Pos. Ht. Class
Young, Jim F. 6-3 Soph.
Sears, Ken F. 6-7 Soph.
Schoenstein, H. C. 6-5 Fr.
Brock, Dallas G. 6-3 Sr.
Feters, Bob G. 6-1 Sr.
Garibaldi, Dick G. 6-4 Fr.
Benedetti, Don G. 5-10 Fr.
Gatzter, Gary F. 6-3 Fr.
Soares, Dick F. 6-2 Jr.
Butler, Mark C. 6-5 Sr.
Simoni, Dick F. 6-4 Sr.
Illinois Pos. Ht. Class
Follmer, Clive F. 6-4 Jr.
Bemoras, Irv F. 6-3½ Jr.
Peterson, Bob C. 6-8 Jr.
Bredar, Jim G. 6-10 Sr.
Fletcher, Rod G. 6-4 Sr.
Dutcher, Jim F. 6-3 Sr.
Wright, Jim G. 6-0 Soph.
Kerr, John C. 6-9 Soph.
Makowsky, Fd G. 6-5 Fr.
Follmer, Mack C. 6-4 Sr.
Gerecke, Herb F. 6-1 Sr.
Hooper, Max F. 6-5 Soph.
Christiansen, D F. 6-3½ Sr.
Kansas Pos. Ht. Class
Kenney, Bob. F. 6-2 Sr.
Lienhard, Bill. F. 6-5 Sr.
Lovellette, Clyde. C. 6-9 Sr.
Houghland, Bill. G. 6-4 Sr.
Kelley, Dean. F. 5-11 Jr.
Davenport, L. F. 6-2 Jr.
Hoag, Charles. F,G 6-2½ Jr.
Keller, John. F,G 6-3 Sr.
Heittholt, Bill. G. 6-3¾ Fr.
Smith, Dean. F. 5-10 Fr.
Kelley, Allen. G. 5-11 Soph.
Born, B.H. F.C 6-8 Soph.
St. John's... Pos. Ht.. Class
Mehon, Jack... G, 6-1 Sr.
MacGilvray, R... G, 6-1 Sr.
Zawoluk, Bob... C, 6-6½ Sr.
Davis, Jim... F, 6-6 Soph.
Walker, Solly... F, 6-3½ Soph.
Giancontieri, F... G, 5-10 Jr.
Duckett, Dick... F, 6-0 Fr.
Sagona, Phil... G, 6-0 Fr.
McMorrow, Jim... G, 6-2 Soph.
Walsh, Jim... G, 6-5 Soph.
Fraternity Playoffs Begin Wednesday In Volleyball
Playoffs in the fraternity leagues of the intramural volleyball pgu program will begin tomorrow at 6:45 in Robinson gym. No playoffs will be held in the Independent A and B leagues since there is only one division in those leagues.
Phi Delta Theta, winner of the fraternity A division I with seven wins and no losses, received a bye in the first phase of play.
Division II ended in a three way tie as Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Chi and Phi Kappa Psi finished league play with five wins and one loss apiece. Drawings were taken and Sigma Chi was matched against Delta Tau Delta, second place winner in Division I.
Phi Gamma Delta and Delta Upsilon were thrown into a two-way tie in Division III as each team won five and lost one. Again a coin was flipped and Phi Gamma Delta received a bye while Delta Upsilon was pitted against Beta Theta Pi in the lower bracket of play.
Phi Delta Theta won first in division III with four wins and no losses. Sigma Phi Epsilon slipped into second place with a three and one record.
In the pairings for the playoffs, Delta Upsilon received a bye while Sig Alph is pitted against Sig Ep in the upper bracket of play. The Phi Delt team received a bye. Lambda Chi plays Sigma Chi in the lower bracket.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, first place winner of Division I of the fraternity B league, ended the season with a four won and no loss. record
Delta Upsilon copped the first place title of division II with a 5-0 record. Lambda Chi took second with four wins and one loss.
Division II saw the Betas win first with five wins and no losses as the Phi Delt team no. 2 took second with three wins and two losses. Division III excluded the Phi Delts as Alpha Tau Omega and the second Beta Theta Pi team tied with three wins and one loss apiece.
Alpha Tau Omega received a bye in the first line of play. The Phi Gams are matched against the fifth Phi Delt team. Beta team no. 4 will play the Phi Psi team no. 2. The first Phi Delta Theta team is pitted against the first Beta Theta Pi team.
Phi Kappa Psi scored five wins against no defeats to take the title in division IV. Phi Delta Theta roared in second with a 4-1 record.
The Phi Delt team no. 2 will play the Beta team no. 2. The Phil Delta Theta team no. 4 received a bye to round out the pairings for the fraternity C league.
By JACKIE JONES
Kansan Sports Writer
The bitter rivalry which seems to exist between the coaches in the Big Seven took a serious blow this past weekend, and it makes one wonder if all the word battles are not just for publicity.
In the Kansas cage tilt with St. Louis Saturday night, one of our most faithful fans was none other than Kansas State Coach Jack Gardner.
When we were trailing by six points early in the contest, it was Gardner who assured those around him that there was nothing to worry about; he had complete confidence in the Jayhawkers. Sunday when the KU team left for Seattle Coach Gardner was along with them.
Coach Sparky Stalcup of Missouri also got into the act. Phog Allen, in a mood of pessimism, bought a plane reservation for Seattle just in case. . . When the Jayhawkers won the Western NCAA at Kansas City, he gave his ticket to Stalcup who did not have one. The Missouri coach made the trip, but the hostess called him Dr. Allen for most of the trip.
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An interesting sidelight developed last week in regard to appropriation of athletic funds.
Last fall one of KU's outstanding football stars was brought before the ROTC board of approvals for not attending drills or participating in the ROTC program. The board recommended that he be dropped from the program.
The football star was not dropped, and is still participating in athletics.
Recently the women's rifle club, sponsored by the Air Force ROTC, requested from the athletic department funds to buy new rights for the rifles used by the club and the University rifle teams
The results were negative. It's interesting to note how well the various parts of the University co-operate with each other.
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One of the saddest stories of the year comes from Coach Bob Ferrick of the Santa Clara basketball team. He said, "We'll be playing Kansas blind. We have never seen them in action or scouted them. We'll have a freshman who is only 18 years old, attempt to guard Clyde Lovellette."
The Jayhawkers are in a similar situation, but when it comes to guarding Clyde Lovellette, well . . . maybe his sorrows are justified.
Bob Kenney, Lovellette, Hoag Make All-Star Cage Team
All-American Clyde Lovellette and Bob "Trigger" Kenney were chosen to the Kansas City Western Regional NCAA all-star team by radio announcers and sports writers Saturday night.
Charlie Hoag, spectacular Jayhawker ball-hawk, was named to the all-tourney second team.
Boxing Purge Hits Big Snag
New York—(U.P.) —Pudgy Willie Ketchum, manager of Lightweight champion Jimmy Carter, refused to be the Leo Durocher of boxing.
In a case which parallels the 1945 suspension-without-reason of "Lee the Lip," Ketchum has been denied a second's license by the New York State Athletic commission. No reason was given other than that move was in the "best interests of boxing."
But by coaking its findings in secrecy and adopting the say-nothing announcement technique which helped to remove A, B. Chandler as baseball commissioner, it isn't helping its case.
In a move to clean up boxing and eliminate the hoodium element, the New York commission has compiled a "kickout list" reported to include the names of 20 managers and seconds with shady connections.
But rotund Willie, belying his timid appearance, demands a public hearing to make known the reasons for this move.
"I'm not gonna be a Durocher," he said, "I haven't done anything wrong and I haven't anything to what. What I want to know is why the hunt witch?"
St. Louis' runners-up placed Ray Steiner, their diminutive guard, and set shot artist Lou McKenna on the all-touney first team. The New Mexico Aggies claimed the fifth all-star position with Jim Tackett.
Spunky little Johnny Ehridge and Long Jim Ohlen placed on the second team from Texas Christian, St. Louis landed Tom Lillis and Fred Kovar on the second team. Hong rounded out the second five.
In other phases of final tournament statistics, Lovellette led the scoring parade with a stunning 75-point total. He picked up the pointage of 29 field goals and 17 charity tosses.
New Mexico's Jim Tackett was the closest competitor with 35 points. Bob Kenney came in fifth on the list with a 23-point two-night stand. Texas Christian, though placing third in the tourney, came through with five of the 10 top scorers in the tournament. Ohlens placed fourth for the Horned Frogs with 27 points.
"I'm not hooked up with anybody." Willie insisted. "In boxing you know a lot of people, from the president to the bottom—and down. Where can you go in boxing that you don't bump into undesirables? But I have no connections with any such, no partners and nothing to hide. I've had no shady deals and never have been mixed up in anything wrong."