Women's Finals Began Tuesday In IM Sports
By JACKIE JONES
The final week of the Women's Intramural basketball program began last night, with ten teams seeing action.
Freshman BA defeated Chi Omega 29 to 17, Freshman AA defeated Cohops 30 to 15, Theta Phi Alpha forfeited to Freshman KMM, Kappa Kappa Gamma won over Alpha Phi 17 to 4 and Pi Beta Phi defeated Watkins hall 34 to 26.
In the Freshman BA-Chi Omega, Barbara Barnes made the difference between the two teams. She poured in 16 points as the freshman defeated their opponents by 12 points. They led 16 to 7 at the half, but Chi Omega matched them for the second period.
The Freshman AA team had little trouble in defeating another freshman squad, the Cohops. The AA's are the best of the freshman yanks, and should give some of the more experienced squads plenty of trouble in the finals. Mary Demeritt led the winners with 13 points.
Kappa Kappa Gamma has just too much power for the Alpha Phi team, and won easily by 13 points. The Kappa defense was tight all the way and allowed the opposition to score only two points in each half. Kathryn North and Martha Combs turned in the best game for the losers.
The best game of the night was the Pi Beta Phi victory over Watkins hall. The defense of both teams was considerably less effective than the offense, allowing the opponents to score freely. The score was close for the first half, but the Pi Phi's went ahead in the second and Watkins could not catch them.
Ann McLaughlan led the Pi Phi attack with 28 points, and Martha Thomson scored 13 for the losers.
The rest of the division titles, not decided by play last night, will be settled in the final games tonight.
Along the JAYHAWKER trail
By JACKIE JONES Daily Kansan Sports Editor
Monday evening while sitting in the balcony of Hoch auditorium, I noticed several things which have been bothering students for quite some time, and like many others who are interested in the KU athletics I was bothered too.
Organized cheering (led by cheerleaders) was practically nonexistent. The few sparks of enthusiasm shown for the Kansas basketball team came only when the band was playing some march music.
On the only two occasions when I actually saw a yell being led by the cheerleaders, there were only six on the court. There may have been a reason, but there were more than six elected!
The KU basketball team does a great deal of work during those forty minutes that the clock is ticking in a game, and since they are doing it for us we should at least support them with all the enthusiasm possible.
In the game Monday, Colorado was too close for comfort in those last few minutes, but with better support from their fellow students the boys might have had more incentive for a last quarter drive, and a game which was almost lost might have been a great victory.
Coach "Phog" Allen has one of the finest teams in the nation, and it certainly deserves more support from the students than it is getting.
To get that support organized, so that the team may know it is appreciated, there must be someone to co-ordinate and to lead. I have always been under the impression that this is the reason we have cheerleaders. True, they cannot support a team by themselves, but it is to them that the students look for leadership.
Monday night and a lot of other nights, that leadership hasn't been there. We have one of the best teams in the country and one of the greatest players in cage history, so why not let them know it?
This lack of school spirit is not a figment of my imagination. Bill Mayer of the Lawrence Journal-World commented in his column recently that there was an amazing lack of enthusiasm among the students for the KU athletic teams.
We are all supposed to be in college for an education, but certainly this great search for knowledge should not compel us to become indifferent to sports and to the boys out there playing for us
Drake Relays Are Headaches
Des Moines, Ia. —(U,P)— Drake track Coach Tom Deckard, boss of the annual Drake Relays, has an easy-going manner that hides a multitude of worries.
Deckard has been director of the Relays, the midwest's oldest outdoor track carnival, since 1948. He has grown accustomed to the average headaches of the big show each season, but this year he again has the additional problems which come with the Olympic Games.
His meet provides a good test for Olympic hopefuls, warming up for the final trials later in the spring. The Olympics also place added interest on track, but add to Deckard's problems as relays boss.
Despite the chill temperatures Deckard has been working on the 1952 edition since Christmas. His busiest months are February and March.
Deckard said the Relay events will
be run on the yardage rather than metric basis because a change would cause too much confusion in determining starting posts and the finish line.
"We queried coaches in 1948 and again last fall about the hammer throw, but found no interest," he said.
Deckard's job as Relays boss is an added load to his duties as track coach, grooming Drake athletes for indoor and outdoor competition. His 1951 team was an example to show he doesn't shirk his coaching work. Drake's mile relay team captured
"The AAU and NCAA meets probably will be on a metric basis," he said. "But that's individual competition, not relays."
Two events will be added in view of Olympic competition, the hop-kip-and-jump to the field events and the 440-yard hurdles, comparable to the Olympics' 400-meter hurdles, to track events.
two important indoor victories, including the champion of champions mile relay at the Chicago relays.
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New York—(U.P.)-Peerless Kentucky and unbeaten Duguesse shoot for their 13th and 16th straight victories respectively tonight in the headline attractions of a feature program of college basketball.
Kentucky's Wildcats, rated the best team in the nation by the United Press board of coaches, play host to Mississippi in a Southeastern conference game.
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Duquesne's Iron Dukes own the very best record in the nation, 15-0, and are ranked No. 8 by the coaches board. Tonight they're on the road at Niagara Falls playing a Niagara U. squad that has lost 12 out of 17 games.
When the Wildcats tangled with Ole Miss earlier this season, they set a new conference record by rolling up 116 points to Mississippi's 58, and chief interest tonight centers on how close the Kentucky sharpshooters come to that fantastic total again.
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North Carolina State, ranked No. 16, nationally, absorbed a 70 to 61 beating by William and Mary in a Southern Conference game. It was the seventh loss in 21 games for the Wolfpack, especially surprising in view of their easy 82-46 decision over William and Mary in their first meeting this year.
The chief danger to the Iron Dukes could be that they will be "looking past" Niagara to their heralded clash at Pittsburgh on Friday night with St. Bonaventure, the only other unbeaten major team in the nation. If the Dukes can get past these two games, the remaining hurdles to a perfect season will be Cincinnati, Villanova, Akron, Geneva, and Baldwin-Wallace.
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