FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Along the JAYHAWKER trail
Basketball fans attending the 8th game of the 18-game coast-to-coast series between the College All-Americans and the Harlem Globetrotters Sunday night in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium will see one of the most fabulous cage teams ever assembled.
By BOB NELSON
Now in its 24th season, the 1951 Globetrotter club finished its regular season play with probably the greatest cage season record ever compiled by winning 153 games while losing only a four-point decision to the Minneapolis Lakers.
This 1950-51 performance is not unusual in the annals of the Globetrotters. Rather, it is a typical year. In the span of their varied and dazzling career, the Globetrotters have won 3,574 games and lost only 246 . . . up to the start of this year's tour.
And they have missed almost no points in between. They've long been considered one of the greatest attractions the round-ball sport has ever known . . . millions have seen 'em, in the big metropolitan arenas, in barn lofts, and on all kinds of outdoor and indoor courts.
Nor will their 1950-51 campaign close with this World Series. Not at all... they're going to Europe early in May to play approximately 120 games in 14 countries before Labor Day—then start the 1951-52 season grind again. That's been the Trotters' schedule ever since they "hit the road" in 1927.
With the Globetrotters, there is never a dull moment. By fliver and bus, by airplane and train, by ship. . . and in Alaska, even by dog team, the Trotters have ramped their merry, winning way from Nome to North Africa, and from the Philippines to Switzerland.
Last year's (first annual) World Series of Basketball, was played April 2-19, 1950, and drew 181,364 spectators. The Globetrotters won 11 of the 18-game series.
So, if you like basketball—and a great show along with it- you'd better plan to be on hand Sunday when these two great teams answer the tipoff at 8:30 p.m.
You'll be seeing such famous 1950-51 college stars as Ernie Barrett, Kansas State; John Azary, Columbia; Sam Ranzino, North Carolina State; Jim Slaughter, South Carolina; Bill Garrett, Indiana; Ray Ragelis, Northwestern; Don Sunderlage, Illinois; Emilio Sinicola, Niagara; Norman Pilgrim of Oklahoma A. and M., and others who have monopolized the cage headlines this year.
The Globetrotters have won three of the first four games with "Goose" Tatum—basketball's clown and the man with the longest arms and the funniest pantomime in the cage sport—leading the way. Other Trotter stars are veterans like William "Pop" Gates, Mark Haynes, "Babe" Pressley, Charley Cooper (Duquesne All-American in 1950), and others.
Brownies' Roy Sievers Wants To Prove His 1949 .306 Average Was No Fluke
Burbank, Calif. (U.P.)—Like Pepper Martin, St. Louis Brownie third baseman Roy Sievers is a guy who gets a lot off his chest.
Sievers, converted outfielder, manages to remain on speaking terms with the majority of ground balls hit down his wav.
"I try to stop 'em anyway I can",
he said, punching his banana-colored glove. "I'm not particular, so long as I come up with the ball.
"Sure, I grab a few off my chest but it doesn't worry me. Pepper Martin used to do it, didn't he? I'll get the hang of this new job in time."
Manager Zack Taylor is sure Sievers will develop into a top-notch third sacker despite two previous seasons in the outfield, Mild-mannered Roy is six feet two inches—quite tall as third basemen go—"but," reminds Taylor, "so was Pie Traynor."
Sievers, a serious minded 24-year-old, could best be described as a man with a mission. He proved himself once and now finds he must do so again. Here's why:
"I want to prove my 1949 record was no fluke," he said. "I want to prove it to myself and to Bill and Charlie DeWitt (Brownie owners) who have treated me wonderfully."
American league's "rookie-of-the-
year" award. Last year, however,
he struck a snag and wound up with
an anemic .238 percentage.
"I just don't known what it was with me last year," he muttered with his head bent. "Maybe I tried too hard . . . I know I was pressing at times . . . and I know I was overweight too."
Sievers, who has been rocketing the ball consistently so far this spring, glanced thoughtfully at his huge hands, tinted with iodine-hued Benzin to toughen them.
At 189 pounds, Sievers is 17 pounds lighter than he was last year. He feels much better, too.
New York Arena May Find Itself With Few Teams
New York—(U.P.)-The probability that city College of New York will "de-emphasize" basketball from now on left only three schools lined up today as Madison Square Garden "home teams" for the 1951-52 season.
They are St. John's university, New York university, and Manhattan college.
Long Island university, fifth Garden regular for many years, dropped intercollegiate sports entirely after six of its basketball players were arrested on bribery charges.
Wright attacked as "unauthorized" a joint statement issued by St. John's N.Y.U., and Manhattan last week, which said the group has been "assured" by Wright that C.C.N.Y. would return to the garden if the board of higher education approves.
Fraley Jolts Dodger Legend Picks His Cage All-America
By OSCAR FRALEY
United Press Sports Writer
New York (U.P.)—Fearless Fraley's facts and figures. The Brooklyn legend of invincibility, battered last season by the fighting Phillies, may be in for another rude jolt this season with the Dodger spring training season regarded as an almost complete flop.
The idea of the Brooklyn brass hats is to gear for a fast start, principally by eliminating the shuffling process previously a spring feature under the guidance of Branch Rickey. This was stymied by manager Chuck Dressen's illness, Rex Barney's inability to acquire control and Jack Banta's sore arm.
After much experimentation, the Brooks still have Gene Hermanski in left field and Billy Cox at third base—and Preacher Roe and Don Newcombe look like the only dependable pitchers . . . it doesn't appear that this team will run off and hide from the rest of the league as has been expected . . .
With the basketball season finally over, Fearless Fraley's personal all-America team is ready to argue with
anybody else's. My team consists of Roland Minson, Brigham Young; Frank Ramsey of Kentucky; Don Sunderlage of Illinois; Dick Great of Duke and Bill Spivey of Kentucky.
Maybe there are better players, but I haven't seen 'em. Nor are these lads mainly of the balcony peeping tom group. Only the seven-foot Spivey and the six foot three inch Ramsey top the six foot mark, which is just matched by the other three . . . but it would be quite a ball club . . .
There is a rising suspicion that the Cincinnati Reds, while they may not be a pennant factor, may have a lot to say about the 1951 National League pennant chase.
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