PAGE 4 University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Feb. 13, 1952
Final Playoff Begins In Intramural Basketball
By BOB WOHLMAN
Large crowds and rough play were the order of the day in the first round of the intramural basketball playoffs Monday.
Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta,
Kappa Sigma and Delta Upsilon
came out with the laurels in the
fraternity "A" playoffs at Robinson
annex.
Beta Theta Pi completely overpowered Sigma Chi 47-19 in the curtain raiser at 5 p.m.
Mark Rivard and Hal Cleavinger paced Beta to victory with 12 and 11 points respectively.
Phi Delta Theta broke a close game wide open in the final quarter to defeat Sigma Nu 37-26. Phi Delta had led 18-11 at the half, but Sigma Nu made the game close. The Phi Delt power was too strong for Sigma Nu in the final minutes.
Henry Buchanan led the Phi Delt offensive with 13 points. Jerry Ivy was high point man for Sigma Nu with 12 points.
In what was probably the roughest game of the night, Kappa Sigma defeated Alpha Tau Omega 35-24. Kappa Sigma's slow possession basketball was just too strong for the fast-breaking ATO boys. Duane Unruh topped all scorers with 19 points to pace the Kappa Sigma attack. Merlin Gish scored 10 points for ATO's losing cause.
In the most thrilling game of the night Delta Upsilon had their hands full, but they had enough power to edge out a 25-24 decision over Phi Kappa Psi.
A set shot from the corner by Dick LaGree of DU, with a minute and 45 seconds remaining, provided the margin of victory, but it took a minute and a half to preserve it. Ron Mercer of the losing Phi Psi was the only man in the game to score in double figures. He scored 11 points on two goals and seven foul shots.
In the fraternity "B" playoffs, Delta Upsilon, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Delta Theta, and Beta Theta Pi
survived the first round of play.
Delta Upsilon, paced by the one-two scoring punch of Merle Hodges and George Michale was led to an impressive 49-35 victory. Hodges scored 20 points on six goals and eight fouls, and Michale totalled 17 on seven goals and three foul conversions.
Phi Gamma Delta ran up the highest score of the night when they completely overwhelmed a hapless Delta Tau Delta five 76-21.
Ben Dalton led the Phi Gamma attack with 23 points. He also had some scoring assistance by Monty Walker. They had 17 and 15 points respectively.
Phi Delta Theta broke a close game wide open in the final quarter as they scored a 36-23 decision over Sigma Chi.
Burwell Shepard paced the Phi Delts with 20 points on 9 field goals and two foul shots. Dan Dibble had 11 points for Sigma Chi's losing cause.
Beta Theta Pi crushed Kappa Sigma 57-24 in a game which turned into a near riot at the end.
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Albert Mulliken led Beta Theta Pi with 20 points on four field goals and 12 out of 13 charity heaves.
Two games were played in the Independent "B" class.
Jolliffe defeated Navy 52-39 in a racehorse basketball game, and Roger Williams defeated Phi Chi 52-24.
In the Navy game, Don McCoy and Dick Cummings capped the Jolliffe squad with 14 and 10 points respectively, but it was Navy's Jim Gillett who gained scoring laurels with 15 points.
Roger Williams defeated Phi Chi 52-24 in the final game of the evening, Phi Chi, who was a last minute replacement for Oread, was no match for the accurate shooting of Roger Williams.
The winners' well balanced scoring machine showed the following results. Don Ament 16, Gary Glasscock 14, Tom Smith 11, and Howard Stringham 11.
New Leaders In Southwest And Southern Races
New York—(U.P).A pair of upsets gave the Southwest conference and the Southern conference new leaders today as the basketball races in all sections of the nation began to heat up.
West Virginia was elevated to the top spot in the Southern loop when North Carolina State, which had been first, suffered a 71 to 58 back-set last night at the hands of Duke. And Texas Christian took in the Southwest's Texans suffered a stunning loss to Baylor, 71-59.
Other results last night saw independent Dayton strengthen its bid for a tournament berth by shading Bowling Green, 70-68, and highly-ranked Oklahoma City upset by Siena, 55-50.
For North Carolina State, which was ranked 16th nationally by the United Press board of coaches, last night's loss to Duke was the eighth in 24 games—the second in 11 conference games. West Virginia which defeated Richmond on Monday night, has a 9-1 conference record.
Last night's upset gave Duke revenge for a 72-70 loss to N.C. State earlier this season.
Texas Christian ran its Southwest conference record to 6-1 last night by rolling over Rice, 83 to 49. George McLeod hit for 20 points, Johnny Earle scored by Hyvne Hornne for 14 to pace the easy Horned Frog triumph.
Meanwhile, Texas bowed to Baylor—which now has won only four out of 20 games. The favored Long-horns trailed in every period of the game at Waco, Texas, and were sunk when three key men fouled out in the third period. Ralph Johnson's 22 points led Baylor. The loss dropped Texas' league record to six wins and two losses.
Oklahoma City, ranked No. 17 nationally, saw its record slump to 14-4 with the loss to Siena, which now has a 16-3 record.
Tri-Delt's Victors In Women's Basketball
By JACKIE JONES
Foster hall and Delta Delta Delta took the first round of women's intramural basketball playoffs with impressive victories
Foster rolled to a 46 to 18 victory over the Freshman AA squad and the tri-Delts came through with a 46 to 18 win over Sigma Kappa.
In action tonight, Foster will meet Kappa Alpha Theta and the tri-Delts will face the Jayettes in the semi-final matches.
Sigma Kappa was unable to put up a strong scoring offensive, and the sharp shooting of Pat Garrett of the tri-Delts was too much for their defense. The little forward dumped in 32 points.
Marian Miller led the Sigma Kappa scoring with 12, Vernie Theden had 2 and Patricia Hessling scored 2.
Chloe Warner scored 2 points for the winners and Mary Marhoffer scored 10. The tri-Delt defense was Joan Carter, Virginia Loveless and Sue Quinn.
At the half, the Sigma Kappas trailed 15 to 6 and in the second period the tri-Delts stretched it to 44 to 16.
Foster hall showed its usual scoring power in winning over the freshmen. Their offense, which is the best in intramurals, was too much for the freshmen guards.
The scoring for the winners was led by Shirley Mickelson with 19, Ernestine Dehlinger had 18 and Anita Philipp had 9.
Virginia Brooks, Jappy Rau, Mar-
 Peterson, Emily Smith,
x660 for the FOPker, six
The Foster defense held the AA's to 18 points, two more than Sigma Kappa scored against the tri-Delts.
Mary DeMeritt led the scoring for the AA's with 11 points, Judy Timmins had 4 and Janice Stone scored 3.
Gracie Harris, Marlene Gray and Betty McCoy were the starting guards for the freshmen.
Both Delta Delta Delta and Foster should give their opponents plenty of opposition in the action tonight, and either team might go on to win the Hill championship.
Sammy Snead Needs Money
Miami, Fla. — (U.P.) — Slammin'
Sammy Snead was moanin' the money blues today as he prepared for a swift return to the golf tournament trail.
The man who reportedly has more money buried in tomato cans than there is in Fort Knox recently decided to build himself a house in Coral Gables, and to hear Sam tell it his new shanty cost more than a diamond-studded cost of the Tai Mahal.
"Ive got to get back to work," complained the man who came out of the Virginia Hills with little more stylish swing and unconfined bunions.
It was quite a parlay. Maybe he isn't a first cousin of Captain John Smith, but the slammer soon became known as an "FFV." Usually that stands for "First Family of Virginia." In his case it meant "First Financier of Virginia." Nor was Samuel Jackson exactly prodigial with his pennies. But to hear Sam 'ell of his current house-building troubles, he's down to his last few kopeks.
"I came down here from West Virginia and all I wanted to do was build me a little old house for about $20,000," Sam wailed. "Well, the contract called for $41,500 and so far the danged thing has cost me $60,000."
"Man, I ain't got that kind of money," he insisted.
That last part may cause a chuckle among his fairway constituents. For, while the slammer doesn't live up to their theory that he makes a copper Indian squeal, old Jackson can keep a right tight squeeze on Uncle Sam's lovely green bond, any denomination.