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University Daily Kansan Tuesday March 11,1952
Kansas Reigns As Conference King
Kansas Rei Clyde Sets Record As Colorado Falls
The Colorado Buffaloes were the victims of the Kansas scoring attack Monday night as the Jayhawkers defeated them 72-55.
The Kansas Jayhawkers are now the new Big Seven basketball champions, and with this honor goes an automatic bid to the NCAA cage playoffs in Kansas City March 21 and 22.
The game started as a fairly even affair, but in the last half the jaw-hawkers opened up their attack, and the pace was too much for the young Colorado squad.
Clyde Lovelette finished his conference cage career in a burst of glory. The All-American center hit a torrid 41 points to set a new Big Seven point record.
Colorado was extremely tough during the first half, equalling the Jayhawkers in rebounding, but falling short on the points. The Kansas squad did not play its best game of the season, but the hustle was enough to keep the Buffs off pace.
His hook shot was working perfectly as he connected for 18 field goals in 29 attempts. He added five free throws to break the old record of 39 points which he established against Missouri during his sophomore year.
The victory over the Buffs gave Kansas a record of 11 wins against only 1 defeat in loop action, giving Coach F. C. "Phog" Allen his second conference title in three years.
The largest crowd of the season, 7,000, packed the Colorado field-house to stare in awe at the scoring pace set by Lovellette.
The Kansas victory will move the Jayhawkers into the NCAA tournament against TCU of the Southwest Conference in the national playoffs in Kansas City.
This was one of his greatest performances in 73 games for Kansas.
Kansas dropped defending pion Kansas State a game off the pace last Friday, with a 78-61 victory, and again maintained its new
Varsity Tennis Schedule
April 8
Iowa at Lawrence
April 18
Nebraska at Lincoln
April 22
Kansas State at Lawrence
 April 25
Missouri at Columbia
May 2
Missouri at Lawrence
May 3
Nebraska at Lincoln
May 10
Kansas State at Manhattan
May 17
Big Seven Meet
(Note)
Two meets with Washburn—dates uncertain.
Konstanty's Comeback Ran Into Slight Snag
Tampa, Fla. - (0.U.) - Relief specifec
backcomer run into a sliding gate today.
The National League's most valuable player in 1950 who won only four games last season, was blasted by the Cincinnati Reds in his second appearance of the spring. Konstantin Kostyuk was the first to win the eighth inning which gave the Reds a 10-4 victory. It was their first of the spring exhibition season.
First-baseman Ted Kluszewski hit a three-run homer for the winners.
Tickets Go On Sale Today For Revue
Tickets for "The Rock Chalk Revue" will be sold today through Friday at the Information booth and the Student Union.
"The Rock Chalk Revue," a series of short skits on college life, will be presented at 7:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Hoch auditorium.
Tickets will be 75 cents each.
found scoring drive in sinking the Buffers.
The Buffs made a number of desperate efforts to cut the margin of the lead, but they were never able to sustain any lengthy drive. Each time that a Buff scored, Lovellette was there to equal his effort.
CU declined five free throws through the final stanza and briefly applied a full-press but never could climb closer than 13 points, as the Jayhawkers maintained pressure down to the final game.
Kansas took its first genuine control shortly into the second period when they went ahead 32 to 22. The latter still dominated to edge away from the Buffs.
The victory opens for the Javahawkers the door to the NCAA playoffs and a chance at the national collegiate championship. The winner of this event in Seattle will move against the NAIB champions for a possible Olympic position.
Box Score
Kansas (72)
| | G-Ga | F-Fa | Pt | T |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kenney | 3-11 | 6-6 | 4 | 12 |
| Kelley | 1-5 | 3-4 | 3 | 5 |
| Lienhard | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 |
| Davenport | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lovelette | 18-29 | 5-7 | 4 | 11 |
| Hougland | 1-3 | 0-2 | 4 | 2 |
| Keller | 4-5 | 1-1 | 3 | 9 |
| Hoag | 0-4 | 3-6 | 4 | 3 |
| Born | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 |
Totals ... 27-58 18-26 24 72
Corporate (53)
Koop 1- 7 4- 7 F-Fa Pt Tp
Gompert 5-18 4-5 5 14
Jeanardger 2- 4 2- 3 3 16
Bunte 5-21 2- 3 2 12
Bulkeley 0- 2 0- 0 0
Amava 4-15 0- 1 5 8
Brandy 2- 6 0- 1 5 4
Hildred 1- 4 0- 1 2 2
Stewart 0- 0 1- 3 2 1
Conway 0- 0 0- 2 0
Lawson 0- 0 0- 0 0
Munns 1- 2 0- 0 1 2
Totals ... 21-79 13-20 27 55
Score by Quarters:
Kansas ... 21 18 26 15—72
Colorado ... 20 9 13 13—55
Officials: John Lloyd and Roy
Officials: John Lloyd and Roy Gibbs
New York — (U.P.) Two more berths were filled in the NCAA basketball tournament today as Kansas was crowned Big Seven conference champion and UCLA became the Pacific Coast conference ruler.
Kansas-UCLA In Regionals
Kansas clinched its title by whipping Colorado, 72-55, at Boulder, Colo., last night as big Clyde Lovellette sank 41 points.
UCLA won the "rubber game" in a best-of-three playoff against Washington at Los Angeles, 60 to 50.
KANSAS JAYHAWKERS—The Kansas basketball team won the Big Seven cage crown last night as they defeated the Colorado Buffaloes, 72 to 53. Left to right: Kelley, Lienhard, Hougland, Kenney, and Lovellotte (knocking)
These two wins complete the entire field for the Western NCAA regionalals. In doubleheader at Kansas City, March 21, Kansas will play Texas Christian and St. Louis will meet New Mexico A&M. On the same night in Corvallis, Ore., UCLA will clash with Santa Clara and Wyoming will play Oklahoma City. The two Kansas City winners will meet in a semi-final and the two Corvallis winners will meet in the other, both-March 22. The Western finals will be at Seattle Wash. March 25.
Only three of the eight teams for the Eastern regionals already are picked-Kentucky, North Carolina State, and Illinois.
Clyde Lovellette Gets More Honors
Clyde Lovelle made his fourth All-American first team of the basketball season and missed his first one as International News Service picked him for all star honors and Look magazine shoved him on to their second team.
The 6-foot, 9-inch Jayhawker senior was named along with Johnnq O'Brien of Seattle, Chuck Darling of Iowa, Cliff Hagan of Kentucky and Dick Groat of Duke to the INS All-American team.
Sports Editor Tim Cohane of Look, in pushing Lovellette off the magazine's first team, said, "he may rate a better shooter than any of the other big men. But several of them topped him in speed and follow-up drive."
Groat, Mark Workman of West Virginia, Walt Dukes of Seton Hall, Rod Fletcher of Illinois and Darling make up the Look first team.
You Can't Win
Hartford, Conn.—(U.P.) Within a few days Mrs. Anna Katzman received notices from the katz that: 1. The tax assessment on her tenement house had been boosted 20 per cent. 2. The same tenement had been declared unfit for occupancy.
Football Players Draw Equipment
About 90 candidates for the 1952 football team checked out equipment for spring practice Monday at Memorial stadium.
Adverse weather conditions and a water-soaked practice field, however, kept the Jayhawkers from getting drills underway. Coach Jules V. Sikes said it was doubtful that practice sessions would start before tomorrow.
Under Big Seven conference rules, member schools are allowed 20 spring sessions in a period of 30 days. Sikes said he and his staff will arrange their schedule to get the maximum amount of practice time for the Jayhawkers as soon as the first good day will allow drills to get underway.
Among the hopefuls who checked out equipment was Gilbert Reich, engineering junior. A well built 6-foot 195-pounder, who was No. 1 safetyman on defense for Army's 1950 football team.
There was once a continent and a land bridge in what is now the Atlantic ocean, but it disappeared many millions of years before human beings developed.
NL Champs Seek First Spring Win
Phoenix, Ariz. — (U.P.)— The New York Giants were jolted out of the dream world created last autumn by Bobby Thomson's home run today to face the hard reality that it's a new year.
The 1951 National League champions still were looking for their first exhibition game victory after three meetings with the Cleveland Indians in which just about everything went wrong. They scored only six runs and made just 22 hits in three games—the latest, yesterday's 4-0 loss in which Steve Gromek, Dick Rozek and Red Fahr limited them to five hits.
Lakeland, Fla. — (U.R.) — Frank House, the Detroit Tigers' $72,000 bonus catcher, will report for induction into the Army on April 17 leaving the Tigers with only three catchers on their roster.
House, a 22-year-old 190-pounder, received his induction notice yesterday while his mates dropped a 4-1 decision to the Washington Senators.
Sarasota, Fla. —(U.P.)— Manager Lou Boudreau of the Boston Red Sox said today that rivals in exhibition games will look at his experimental lineup that has Ted Williams batting second "for a month."
Boudreau tried the batting order, which also has the pitcher hitting seventh instead of ninth, for the first time yesterday. The Red Sox lost to the New York Yankees, 7-4, but Williams cracked two singles.
Mesa, Ariz. - (U.R.)- Andy Varga 21-year-old southpaw pitcher, was assigned by the Chicago Cubs their Los Angeles farm club in the Pacific Coast League today.
Miami, Fla. — (U.P) — Manager Charley Dressen of the Brooklyn Dogders had a "new Don Newcombe" today—left-hander Chris Van Cuyk.
Van Cuyk is the fifth young Dodger pitcher to be labelled a "new Newcombe" this spring and the third in as many days. He won one game for the Dodgers last season. Newcombe, if Dressen has forgotten, won 20
New Jayhawker Tennis Coach Has Outstanding Record In Amateur Field
By BOB LONGSTAFF
Dick Mechem, a leading tennis amateur in the Mid-West, is probably one of the youngest coaches for a major college in the United States. At the age of 24, he is spending his first year at KU as a graduate student and varsity tennis coach.
Mechem, whose enthusiasm for the sport keeps him on the court the year around, usually practices with the team members to give them a work out. He plays ambidextrously — that is he switches hands to return rather than use a bicep or triceps grip to resize the difficulties of both the right and left handed members of the team.
After winning the junior high school championship in Topeka when he was 14 years old, he began to take tennis playing seriously. He was soon covered he was actually left handed and began his ambidextrous playing.
Making the switch to two handed playing occupied his spare time in the summers and winter after the discovery, but in 1945 he had time to win the state high school tennis championship.
After graduating from Topeka high school. he spent a year in the Army. In his year and a half at
DICK MECHEM
Stanford university, Mechem was ranked number one on the freshman tennis squad.
He completed work on his bachelor's degree at Washburn university in August of 1951. While a student at Washburn, he won the Central Intercollegiate conference cham-
ionship two years in a row. He is now ranked number six in the Missouri Valley league.
Charles Crawford, who was Big Seven doubles champion last year, is a three year letterman. Mechem thinks that the battle for top man on the tennis team will be between Crawford and Gene Fotopoulos, a transfer from Hutchinson Junior college.
Mechem, who had met most of the team members at tournaments before coming to KU, thinks that the prospects for this year's team are good. There will be four returning lettermen to the squad.
"Our biggest problem will be getting in shape for the first and probably the toughest match of the year with Iowa university," Meer said, blinding me mushing over the team's prospect. "Bad weather we've been having, the team hasn't been able to play on the out door courts yet," he said.
The other lettermen are Al Hedstrom, John Freiburger and Harold Titus.
Mechem, who said the team is quite deep in all types of play, thinks that Bob White could be the dark horse of the team. Another likely prospect, he said, is Fred Chen, who won the University table tennis championship.