TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIV
Claude Houchin Will Join Oilers
Claude Houchin, captain of the 1949-50 University basketball team, will join the National A. A.U. champion Phillips 66 Oilers next season, Coach Cab Renick of Phillips recently announced.
Houchin, a four-year letterman, was second leading K.U. scorer during the 1949 and 1950 seasons and was selected on the All-Big Seven second teams the same seasons.
The 6-foot 5-inch 185-pounder from Muncie will be the ninth Jayhawker to play with Phillips. Other Kansas players who joined Phillips following their college cage careers were K. S. Adams, Paul Endacott, Twink Starr, Jay Wallenstrom, Ray Ebling, Fred Pralle, and Howard Engleman. Harold Schmidt, another Jayhawker star, did not play with the Oilers, but coached the team from 1936 to 1939.
Phillips, 1950 A.A.U. champs for the eighth time since 1937, recently retired four top players from their team. They are Gerald Tucker, Dick Reich, Roy Lipscomb, and Lew Beck.
Houchin, who has given a fine all-around performance game after game for four years, will join two other Big Seven cagers who will play for Phillips next year. They are Milt Whitehead, 6-foot 9-inch Nebraska star, and Wayne Glassow, Oklahoma's all-conference forward.
Another scoring wizard, George King, Morris Harvey college, will play for Renick's club in 1951. He
CLAUDE HOUCHIN
scored 967 points in 31 games to better the All-time record set by John Abramovich of Salem in the 1941-42 season.
Phillips, which won the United States Olympic play-offs by defeating the University of Kentucky, 53 to 49, in 1948, just completed one of its most successful seasons. The 1950 club won 52 and lost one game, a 55 to 51 setback to the Caterpillar Diesels.
Houchin, who played in the last 76 Kansas basketball games, scored 40, 174, 248, and 196 points respectively in the past four seasons for a total of 658 points. In 1950 Big Seven games, Houchin led the conference in free-throw percentage by scoring 37 of 44 attempts for 84 per cent. He scored 77 per cent of his free throws for the entire season.
Claude's scoring 10 points, plus his fine all-around play, against Kansas State March 7 of this year was probably the greatest single game performance turned in by him. He consistently cleared both backboards against taller opponents by outstulting them.
Houchin, a 24-year-old business senior, is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fraternity and also secretary of the senior class.
Pittsburgh-(U.R.)-Mrs. Theresa Singer and her daughter, Mrs. Ida Helbing, believe in large families. Between them they have raised 31 children, of whom 22 are living.
Big Things In A Big Way
Jayhawker Del Norris Enters Decathlon
K. U.'s own Delvin Norris, defending champ Jim McConnell of Nebraska, and California darkhorse Brayton Norton will head a field of ten entries in the decathlon at the silver anniversary Kansas Relays Friday and Saturday.
Returning to defend his championship in the Glenn Cunningham mile will be America's best miler, Don Gehrmann of Wisconsin. Five hand-picked runners will oppose Gehrmann.
Also entered in the decathlon are the fourth and fifth place winners of the 1949 Relays, Cornelius Anderson of Missouri Valley and Mickey Dunn of Wyoming. Rounding out the field will be freshman Ronnie Dobson of Tulsa, Willis Kleinsasser of Tabor college at Hillsboro, Kan., Herb Falkenburg of Trinity, Paul Berry of Tulsa, and Anthony Persha of Marquette.
Opposing/ Gehrmann in the mile
will be Javier Montez of West Texas State, Howard Johnston of Trinity, Al Holmberg of Tennessee, Frank Prince of Savannah, and Bill Conrady of Loyola at Chicago.
Norris, senior football letterman and ordinarily a high jumper for Coach Bill Easton's Jayhawker squad, will be making his first start in a decathlon. McConnel was the surprise winner a year ago, beating out former national champion Bill Terwiliger by a mere 30 points. Little is known about Brayton, who represents Santa Ana Junior college, except that he recently compiled a 6,907-point total in California. That's
Cold War Is Forgotten Momentarily As Major League Baseball Takes Over
New York, April 18—U.R.)The 1950 major league baseball season opened today, giving millions of Americans a chance temporarily to forget the Cold war.
President Truman led the parade of 250,000 fans to eight major league ball parks. Millions more fans huddled around radio and television sets.
The season really gets underway with the day's principal attraction—a game between the American league champion New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox in Boston. Other opening American league games were St. Louis at Chicago and Detroit vs. Cleveland at Cleveland.
The president was to throw out the "first ball" at 3 p.m. E.S.T. at Washington, where the Senators met the Philadelphia Athletics. But this "first ball" ceremony wasn't the real McCoy since several other games began earlier.
As they banked the fires all over the hot stove league and prepared to go into action once again, there was a forecast of threatening weather which might cause postponement of games in some sections.
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209 points better than McConnell did in winning the 1949 championship.
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Montez may be Gehrmann's toughest competition. He recently went 4:17 in the Arizona Relays. Holmberg is champion of the 1950 Sugar Bowl.
Gehrmann, co-holder of the Relays record of 4:10.1, has gone as low as 4:09.4 during the indoor season.
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