Kansas Captures Western Playoffs
Daily Kansan
49th Year, No.116
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, March 24, 1952
WHOOPING IT UP FRIDAY NIGHT—With the University band leading the way, pep club members whoo it up for the Big Red during Friday night's NCAA victory over TCU in Kansas City. Prof. Russell L. Wiley, band director, is shown with his back to the camera. Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the chancellor, (in suit below Wiley) makes a face as he works out a knotty problem on his scorecard. Kansan photo by Jim Murray.
Elections Group Apportions ASC As April 2 Political Primaries Near
District apportionment for the all-student general elections Wednesday, April 9, was decided at a meeting Friday of the All Student Council election committee with the faculty advisory board.
Weeks Prepare For First Primary
Because of an All Student Council bill passed last fall, Pachacamac, Greek political party, is preparing to hold its first party primary since the beginning of the party in 1909.
Up until this year, party leaders decided on Pachacamac's slate of candidates for the general all-student elections. This year a regular party primary procedure has been set up.
If a Greek wishes to run, he must contact the Pachacamac representative from his house. The representative will check on the grade point average of the aspirant.
When approved, the candidate's name is turned in to the chairman of the Pachacamac primaries committee, who mimeographs a list of all aspirants from all houses. This list is sent to the various Greek houses and announced in house meetings.
The houses vote on the aspirants by separate votes, which are turned over to Pachacama. Votes of all houses are compiled, and the two or three receiving the most votes for each ASC or class officer position are put on the ballot for the primaries.
Because Pachacamac will run on a combined ballot with NOW, Greek women's party, the two parties which positions will be filled by either party.
Other reports are that William Wilson, engineering junior, and Frank Norris; business junior, have filed their intentions for ASC presidency so far.
Reports from Pachacamac leaders indicate that only Pachacamac will run candidates for ASC president, and only NOW will run candidates for senior class president in the Pach-NOW primary.
WEATHER
Partly cloudy, warmer in the east and south tonight. Tuesday mostly cloudy followed by rain in the east and south tonight and light snow in the northwest by late afternoon or evening.
ASC representatives for the four dices will be apportioned as follows:
District I (College and the School of Journalism): four of five men; three women.
District II (School of Engineering and Architecture): three men.
District III (Schools of Business, Fine Arts, Pharmacy, Education, and the Graduate school): four men; two women.
District IV: (Schools of Law and Medicine): one man.
These persons plus organizational representatives will comprise the ASC next year.
One interpretation, he said, is that the ASC members shall be limited to 30. The other, he added, is that the elected representatives shall be limited to 30 plus the one representative-at-large, the defeated candidate for ASC presidency.
A question on interpretation of the ASC constitution ruling on representation arose at the meeting, Don Dirks, chairman of the elections committee, reported.
The committee has set noon Friday as the deadline for those entering in party primaries, which will be Wednesday, April 2. The two campus political parties, FACTS and Pachacamac, are to have their candidates by that time. FACTS has set midnight Thursday as a deadline for those desiring to run in the FACTS primary. Pachacamac will decide on its slate of candidates Thursday night also.
Dirks said the true interpretation will have to be decided at the ASC meeting Tuesday night.
Three locations for primary booths have been set up by the committee. They are: main floor, Student Union (FACTS, west end; Pach, east end); main floor, Fraser (FACTS, north side; Pach, south side), and basement, Strong hall (FACTS, west wing; Pach, east wing).
Polls will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the election day.
ID cards of each voter will be punched, and FACTS will punch the party membership card also.
Dirks said there would be 60 election police working around the polls.
FACTS Deadline Set For Thursday
Lining up its candidates for the coming primary elections Wednesday, April 2, FACTS political party set a deadline of midnight Thursday for applications from any FACTS member interested in running in the primaries.
Any member is eligible to run in the primaries and can get application blanks from any of six sources, William Nultop, chairman of the FACTS primaries committee, announced. These are:
western Playoffs 'Operation NCAA' Picks Up Speed
Will Adams, 1537½ Tennessee,
phone 893; Lou Ann Smee, 1518
By BOB LONGSTAFT
The weekend activities flew by at a fast and furious pace as KU copped the Western NCAA playoff crown. Clyde Lovellette shattered scoring records, students snakedanced through the streets of Kansas City, and good-natured ribbing went on among rooters before the weekend jaunt was ended.
Activities got underway with a pop rally at the Muehlebach hotel Friday at which about 100 persons heard Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen speak. The first phase of "Operation NCAA" ended successfully as Kansas defeated Texas Christian university 68-64 in the opening game.
During the final game Saturday, the St. Louis rooters exhibited a sign directed to "Phog" via "the underground." It stated that "We've got the most tickets, and we've got the best team," signed by the "500 club."
Kansas, not to be outdone in the sign making project, brought forth a "Make St. Louis Blue" sign. Throughout the game good-natured joshing was displayed by the fans of both teams.
At the Muehlebach hotel, which was jammed with an over-flow crowd of well-wishers for both teams, the chiding back and forth began all over. The St. Louis fans again show the "500 club" sign. The Kansas fans chanted "You got the tickets, we got the game."
In return the St. Louis cheerleaders showed good spirit during the contest, chanted, "You've got Lovellette, we've got a team." Answering this new challenge, the Kansas rooters started singing the "St. Louis Blues" and ended with the chant, "You'll go back to St. Louie, We'll go on to Seattle."
The Jay Janes and KuKu club later investigated the prospects of going to Seattle, but reported the $3,000 cost of sending about 20 members eliminated the idea.
The Kansas team, was in good spirits as it boarded a chartered plane at noon Sunday for the first leg of the trip to Seattle. The team was to arrive in Minneapolis about 2 p.m. The Illinois and Kansas teams were to fly directly from Minneapolis to Seattle on a chartered TWA skycruiser. They were to arrive about 10 p.m. CST.
Bill Lienhard, Bob Kenney,
Clyde Lovelette, Bill Hougland,
John Keller, Allen and Dean Kelley,
Charlie Hoag, B. H. Born, Dean
Smith, Larry Davport, and Bill
Lilac lane, phone 980; "Winkie"
Stewart, North College hall, phone
4280; Marc Hurt, 1416 Tennessee;
phone 1555; Shirley Thomson, 1506
Lilac lane, phone 900, and William
Nultron, 1425 Tennessee, phone 552.
Heitholt are the team members making the trip.
They were accompanied by Coach Allen; Dick Harp, assistant coach; Dean Nesmith, trainer; Wayne Louderback, student manager, and the University's No. 1 basketball fan, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
Don Pierce, sports publicity director; Bill Mayer, sports editor of the Lawrence Daily Journal-World; Jack Gardner, Kansas State college basketball coach, and Cliff Ogden, Big Seven official, also were on the plane.
The team will be staying at the Meany hotel in Seattle. Any telegrams sent by individuals or organizations should be addressed in care of Coach Allen.
On the campus a student subscription movement was started. Bearing the inscriptions, "On to Helsinki," and "Back the Jayhawks," a stand was set up in the Hawk's Nest of the Union to get student names for a telegram. Attempting to get 4,000 names with a charge of 5 cents. per name, the movement plans to send a telegram of good luck to the team in the form of a scroll.
WREN, with Max Falkenstein announcing, will broadcast the Kansas-Santa Clara game from Seattle Tuesday night. The game will begin about midnight CST.
If Kansas should lose the first game, the team will play in the consolation bracket against the loser of the Illinois-St. John game. If Kansas wins the first game but loses in the finals, the team will go to New York for the Eastern Olympic playoffs. If Kansas wins the NCAA title, the team will return to Kansas City for the Western Olympic playoffs.
A TREED BUT HAPPY GANG OF JAYHAWKERS—This is how the Jayhawkers looked Saturday night after their thrilling 74-55 triumph over St. Louis university in the NCAA tourney in Kansas City. All-American Clyde Lovellette, who set a NCAA tournament scoring record with 44 points, appears exhausted after playing the best game of his career. The team meets Santa Clara in the tourney semifinals in Seattle Tuesday night—Kansan photo by Jim Murray.