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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1951
By BOB NELSON
Daily Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
OUR PREDICTIONS . . . With the opening Big Seven conference basketball game slightly more than 24 hours away, we'll place ourselves far out on the proverbial limb with a few predictions of things to come.
After looking over schedules, records to date, losses and additions of player personnel, and watching all conference teams through 12 pre-season Big Seven tournament games, we can't see anything but a dead heat finish for Kansas and Kansas State.
Although K-State's record is more impressive to date and the Wildcats possess more reserve strength and a better balanced attack, we think Kansas will roll into high gear as they did last year and be near unbeatable in conference play. The Jayhawkers got off to a slow and disappointing start this year, as annually seems to be the case, but we think they'll finish strong as they did last year.
With Kansas and Kansas State likely to remain undefeated in conference play on their home floors, we think the race will end with each owning 10-2 or 9-3 records. Oklahoma will follow in third place with an 8-4 mark, then Missouri 7-5, and Nebraska with a 6-6 record. Iowa State and Colorado will battle it out for possession of the basement.
KANSAS STATE'S schedule like Kansas seems to be in its favor. Coach Jack Gardner's club plays four of its final six league games at home meeting Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and closing with Oklahoma on March 5.
The biggest question marks confronting the Wildcats are, one, can they overcome tendencies to fold in the homestretch drive as they did last year, and can they
figure cut a way to beat the Missouri Tigers? Kansas State has lost four straight to Sparky Stalcup's club and 10 out of its last 11 games to Missouri.
KANSAS opens with four straight home conference games, meeting Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado, and Kansas State. K.U. must win these games and show decided improvement before hitting the road to play Oklahoma, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa State to remain in the championship race.
In fact, Kansas must do two things in order to finish as high as we have rated them. First, win all its home conference games (should finish with 18 straight home court wins if they can beat Hank Iba's nationally ranked No.2 Oklahoma A. and M. club), and develop a better balanced scoring attack, especially from the outside.
OKLAHOMA, featuring an
entirely new starting lineup, could be the surprise club of the 1950- 51 Big Seven race. They barely missed beating Kansas State in the pre-season tournament and showed the best passing and ball handling tactics during the four-day meet. They definitely rate the darkhorse role.
To date, the Sooners' record is 6-3 and includes wins over Southern Methodist, Texas, Minnesota, City College of New York, Missouri, and Iowa State. The losses have been to Holy Cross, Minnesota, and Kansas State by three, seven, and two points respectively.
MISSOURI, with a 5-3 so-so record to date, probably won't be a title contender, but will have a definite bearing on who wins the championship. Missouri's Hoo-doo over Kansas State could knock the Wildcats out of another title if it continues.
These two teams open Saturday night at Columbia in the first crucial game of the young season.
The Tigers' 1-2 showing in the Big Seven tourney was most disappointing after a strong 4-1 start including a three-game eastern tour.
The Tigers invade Lawrence to play Kansas next Monday night and will probably give K.U. its first real test of the home season.
Missouri, badly handicapped by lack of height, has three top performers from last year returning. They are forward Bud Heineman, center Eill Stauffer, and guard George Lafferty.
Louis Expected To Fight Charles For Heavyweight Title In June
New York, Jan. 5—(U.P.) Amid the wild jubilation over the most recent showing made by Joe Louis in his comeback campaign there is a piercing overtone of two little words which caps the crescendo-box office.
The die now is well cast. After two more bouts, Louis will fight Ezzard Charles for the heavyweight championship at Yankee Stadium next June.
Louis' second victim was Freddie Beshore, a carefully-culled opponent who hasn't knocked out anybody since 1947. Joe's first was Cesar Brion, a virtual amateur among the wolves of the ring, even the toothless predators currently running with the punching pack.
There were paeans of praise for the erstwhile Bomber after he scored a technical kayo over Beshore in four rounds. Charles needed 14 rounds for the same job, they raved. The fact that Joe was down to a syllp-like, for him, $210\frac{1}{4}$ pounds also was noted with satisfaction.
But they passed over the fact that Beshore, who wouldn't even have rated membership in Louis' Old Bum of the Month Club, insisted:
"Louis can't hit a lick. He didn't daze me, and I thought he was slowing up in the fourth."
Charles relishes the prospect of a Louis fight. Without television, and supported by ballyhoo, it figures to draw a terrific gate. And Ezzard is a businessman. Still, he wonders:
"What is Louis trying to prove to self?"
For against all the established traditions of the fight game—hung up by, comebacking, champions. like Corbett, Fitzsimmons, Jeffries and Dempsey—Louis will be trying to become the first man ever to regain the crown, and at the age of 37. In boxing, that's old age.
Fitzsimmons at 35 was the oldest ever to win the title. Jess Willard was next, at 32, and Jack Johnson and Jimmy Braddock did it at 30, yet they called Braddock the Cinderella Man, because he won it when he was so "old."
The great John L. was the first man to try the bumpy road back. Four years after he lost the title to Corbett he fought one bout, and quit after a no-decision effort.
Corbett, after a two-year layoff.
was kayoed by Jeffries. Not convinced, he tried again three years later with the same result.
Fitzsimmons lost to Jeffries and tried unsuccessfully after a two-year layoff to win it back.
Jeffries followed the inevitable pattern when, six years after his retirement, he came back and was knocked out by Johnson.
Willard went down before Dempsey's hammering fists in 1919. Four years later he had the far from original idea that he might still have it. Kayoed in his second time out, he stepped down for good.
Dempsey, losing to Tunney, lost his rematch a year later. Then, broke after four years away from the ring, he had many fights but they were strictly capitalizing on his name without any meaning. And Sharkey, after losing to Carrera, failed in a comeback a year later.
"My reflexes were gone," the Boston gob explained. "That it was it." Louis' reflexes, too; had departed when he fought Charles last September. That feared right hand had lost its lightning and it's something that never comes back.
Careless Play Shown In Women's IM Games
By MONA MILLIKAN
This week's women's postvacation intramural basketball games were characterized by careless playing as the third round of the season schedule was played off.
Locksley defeated the Corbin Hawks 41 to 29 to give both teams one victory and one loss. Luella Schmalzried scored 20 points for Locksley, high mark for the evening, and Ernestine Dehlinger scored 17 for the Hawks.
Kappa Alpha Theta scored their second victory with a 39 to 28 defeat of Jayettes. Barbara Quinn paced the Theta's scoring with 20 points to tie for scoring honors for the evening and Virginia Loveless scored 14 for the losers.
Monchonsia rallied in the second half to register their 23 to 19 victory over Alpha Omicron Pi. Mary
Pitts was high-point woman for the winners with 13 and Beverly Pepper made 8 points for the A.O. Pi's.
Sigma Kappa squeezed out a 23 to 21 victory over Chi Omega. Joan Bingham scored 13 points for the losers, but Sigma Kappa scoring was divided among Bonita Clark, Marrian Miller, and Patricia Watson with 8, 8, and 7 points respectively.
Pi Beta Phi coasted through on their first-half margin to defeat Watkins 27 to 23. Pi Phi scoring was paced by Jean Denny with 11 points and Watkins' Virginia Turk was close with 10 points.
Delta Gamma ground out a 26 to 14 victory over Gamma Phi Beta. Jerre Mueller dominated DG. scoring with 11 points and Jane Henry paced the losers with 9 points.
Schedule for next week's games is:
Tuesdav. Jan. 9
New York univ. 66, North Carolina 60
Pittsburgh 68 Westminster 62
Tampa 120, Patrick Air Base 22
MIDWEST
Long Island univ. 69, Bowling Green. 63
EAST
Missouri 66, Houston 48
San Francisco 64, John Carroll 41
LaSalle 86, Baldwin Wallace 67
DePaul 53, Cincinnati 52
Bradley 69, Detroit 65
Muskingum 71, Case 69
Augusta (S. Dak.) 65, Yankton
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Oklahoma trimmed Iowa State in the fifth-place game in the tournament, 68 to 50, while Kansas handled
Thursday's College Basketball Results
Nebraska easily in the third-place game, 62 to 47.
Kansas State, Oklahoma and Kansas will be favored.
Big 7 Play Tonight
Beloit 86, San Jose State 57
Kansas City, Jan. 5—(U.P.)—Kansas State figured it was on the spot today in the Big Seven basketball race as a result of winning the preseason tournament in Kansas City during the Christmas holidays.
Missouri won the tournament in 1949 and then collapsed in the regular season, finishing sixth with a 4-8 record.
The Big Seven race jumps off tomorrow night with three games.
Kansas State's two losses in 11 starts were to Long Island U. in New York City, 59 to 60, in the Wildcats' first game of the season, and to Indiana in the new K-State fieldhouse, 52 to 58.
7:15 p.m. Alpha Chi Omega vs.
Miller
Alpha Phi vs. L.W.W.
Alpha Delta Pi vs. Temuthi
9 p.m. Kahons vs. Theta Pi Alpha
8:45 p.m. Harmon vs. Kappa Kappa Gamma
A Delta, Pita vs. Temruth
Kansas State's nine team, showing a 9-2 pace-setting record in games played so far, will meet Missouri (5-3) at Columbia, at Ames, Iowa State (5-3) will play host to Oklahoma (6-3), and at Lawrence, Nebraska (5-6) will clash with Kansas (7-2).
9 p.m. Kahops vs. Theta Phi Alpha
Corbin Jaxvs vs. Tri-Deits
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9 p.m. Monchonsia vs. Sigma Kappa A.D. Pi vs. Kappa Alpha Theta
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