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Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen has done it again, and this time it is none other than Reeves Peters, secretary of the Big Seven, who caught the full force of his blast.
By JACKIE JONES
Kansan Sports Editor
The tickets which were sold at KU went directly to us, the student body. Kansas City is within easy driving distance and the interest shown in the team just about rules out scalping. Students buying tickets actually plan to attend.
The main target of Allen's latest attack is the fact that St. Louis university was sent 2,000 tickets to the NCAA tournament this weekend, while we were given just 500 more than that.
Wednesday, March 19. 1952
To this corner Allen's argument did not seem particularly valid at first glance, but there may be something in it after all.
The tickets sold at St. Louis will go to the followers of a team already defeated in one tournament, the NIT. This fact alone would cause at least some decrease in interest, but the main problem is that the cost of a weekend trip to Kansas City from St. Louis will be expensive.
Few of the students will be able to afford the trip, at least not 2,000 of them. What then will happen to the tickets which KU students would gladly stand in line hours to obtain? Many of them will in all probability go to the highest bidders.
The people who can afford the tickets are also the people who can afford the weekend jaunt. This won't include the little guy who loves the game. Instead we may expect the "top hat crowd" which goes because "it's the sporting thing to do."
The people who support the team all through the season should be the ones to share the victory at the end, but they are the men and women who can't get tickets.
The NCAA tourney in Kansas City will be packed both nights, but it will be because a Big Seven team is playing. Those million TV fans aren't planning to mob every avail-able supporter, so the squads match baskets, like everyone else, they are hoping to see Loyellette and company.
While the St. Louis business men sit in the auditorium, the KU students will be home listening to "our" team play via radio.
So to the Jayhawker cagers. we wish you the best of luck even though about 4,000 of us won't get to see the play.
Cleveland—(U.P.)—Danny Nardice of Tampa, Fla., was a slight favorite today over Dick Wagner of Portland, Ore., in their 10-round feature bout on tonight's card at the Cleveland Arena.
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The light-heavyweights tangle in the first show here since Dec. 5, when Nardico also headlined the card against Harry Mathew. Although he lost the decision, Nardico made such a good showing that the fans clamored for his return.
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Jayhawkers Go To KC For Thursday Practice
Phog Allen's KU Jayhawkers will work out on the Municipal auditorium court in Kansas City from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday in preparation for their opening NCAA contest with Texas Christian Friday.
Sending the Jayhawks into the last day of home practice before the NCAA tourney, Coach Allen still was concerned today about Bill Houghland's freshly-aggravated leg injury.
A fine rebounder and set shooter, Hougland suffered the injury in the Kansas State game March 7. It was reinjured in the season's windup game with Colorado three days later. It was giving the senior star more trouble yesterday.
Houland may be below peak form when the tournament opens in Kansas City Friday.
Meanwhile, last minute polishing is being applied to the Jayhawk defensive and offensive games in preparation for their 4:55 p.m. battle with the Horned Frogs of TCU
Three straight wins are needed by the Jayhawkers to carry them to the payoff game in which a win would mean recognition as the nation's top major college basketball team for 1952.
Two of these four NCAA tournament games will be played in Kansas City. A loss in either of these games would knock the Jayhawkers out of the final and semifinal competition.
By winning the Kansas City contests, the Jayhawks will be entitled to travel to Seattle, Wash., March 25 and 26 to compete with other regional winners—three others—for the national championship.
Should Kansas win both games—from Texas Christian and from the winner of the New Mexico A&M-St. Louis game—it would meet the Corvallis, Ore., regional winner in a March 25 game in Seattle.
If the Jayhawkers lost to TCU, they will play the loser of the St. Louis-New Mexico Aggie affair for third place in the regional competition.
The Jayhawkers will ride into the Texas Christian game atop a current nine-game winning skin. They provided one of the most convincing finishes in KU basketball history and ended the regular season sporting a 22-2 won, lost record. The two losses came at the hands of Kansas State and Oklahoma A&M and were both avenged later in the season.
Much of the credit for the spectaculair Jayhawker finish is due the "eat-'em-up" type of defense Coach Allen's men have exhibited in recent games. The "grab-it-and-run" type ball has pulled many a tight contest out of the proverbial fire recently.
On the basis of their blazing finish, the Jayhawkers will go into the Kansas City regional a slight favorite with the experts calling for a St. Louis-Kansas game Saturday night in the championship bracket of the tournament.
But in Texas Christian (21-3), the champions of the tough Southwest conference, Kansas will meet a club with size, speed, and hustle. The Frogs have lost only to Oklahoma City university, Arkansas and Manhattan college.
Texas Christian has three outstanding members on its team.
Bill Lienhard Back Into Starting Lineup For Jayhawker NCAA Battle
AAU Basketball Enters Round 2
Ethridge, a sturdy 5-foot, 8-inch guard, has a lightning speed much on the same order of Kansas' Charlie Hoag He is the owner of a deadly accurate jump shot from medium range and is one of the best ball hawks in the Southwest.
By DICK THARINGER United Press Sports Writer
Denver — (U,P) — Competition started to get tough today as the national AAU basketball tournament entered its second round.
Senior Bill Lienhard was back in the Jayhawker starting lineup for practice last night, replacing knee-injured Bill Hougland.
McLeod, 6-foot, 7-inch senior center, plays the post for TCU and fires with either hand. He led the league this year in points scored.
The original field of 43 entries was whitted down to 16 teams, and most $ \rho $ the weaklings have been eliminated and sent packing. Along with the week-end cage squads, four supposedly tough quinthes have been sidelined, three in the first round and one in the preliminaries.
Eight games are scheduled today with the winners slated to go into Thursday's quarterfinals. Four of them shape up as close battles, a welcome change after the lopsided affairs of the past three days.
Fromme, a forward, specializes in long, one-handed push shots. He is a terrific rebounder and is expected to give the Jayhawkers' Clyde covellette a fight for rebounding monors.
Top game is between the Phillips Oilers and the Naval Air Station from Los Alamitos, Calif. Both teams won their debuts by one-sided scores, and the winner almost is a sure bet to reach Friday's semi-finals.
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and Harvey Fromme.
Other top-notch tilts will be between the Denver Central Bankers and Fibber McGee and Mollys of Hollywood, both of the National Industrial Basketball league; between the NIBL Allen Bradleys of Milwaukee and the Air Force all stars of Tinker Field, Okla.; and between the Caterpillar Diesels of Peoria, Ill., and the upset-minded Jussel Electrics of Denver.
Feb. 11 because of flu. It wasn't until after the Missouri game Feb. 25 that the ailing Lienhard got back into action.
Defending champion Stewart Chevroletos of San Francisco, Oakland's Atlas-Pacific Engineers, Artesia, N. M., Rea Travelers and Kirby Shoes of Los Angeles, all seeded teams, have fairly easy battles on tap.
The KU camp was hoping today for a comeback from the angular forward for the weekend's NCAA regional tournament in Kansas City.
The sharpshooting Newton star took over at forward for the Javhawkers. John Keller and Bob Kenney alternated at bringing the ball up court with regular guard Dean Kelley. Clyde Lovellette was in at center.
Lienhard, an accurate hitter from the outside during his three seasons here, started the first 18 games of the season but was forced out of action after the Iowa State game
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Jim Iverson, Kansas State guard, has been named to the College All-Stars basketball team which is to play the Harlem Globetrotters in a series of games starting in Madison Square garden March 30.
The two teams will start their third annual world series of basketball with the stint in the "Garden," and will appear in nearly all the major cities of the United States. The series will close in Indianapolis on April 13. The two teams will clash in Kansas City, Mo., on April 3.
Jack Gardner, Kansas State basketball coach, was greatly pleased by Iverson's selection.
Iverson, a three-letterman at Kansas State is the second Wildcat ever to be named to an all-star team. Ernie Barrett, All-American guard last year, was named to the All-Stars last spring.
"He is one of the best boys we have had play for us at Kansas State," he said, "and is deserving of the honor given him."
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The Sox marked up their fourth one-run victory of the season yesterday, 2-1, over the Cleveland Indians as rookie Hector Rodriguez singled home the winning run. The Giants lost by the same margin, 3-2, to Pittsburgh after breaking a scoreless tie with two runs in the top of the 11th inning.
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mendous tourney debut by taking a lopsided 109-45 victory over out-classed New Mexico sellers of Albuquerque. It was the highest score ever run up in the AAU tournament, topping the Phillips Oilers' 1947 score of 103-26 over the Roanoke, Vail, Candles.
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