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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1950
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Spotlight on Sports
KU Won't Miss 1950 Grads Next Season - Says Who?
Bv NELSON OBER
Near the end of every football, basketball, baseball, track, and swimming season, collegiate coaches, whose lives are notoriously hard anyway, go through a period resembling the culmination of an adolescent's infatuation.
That is the coaches' unwilling realization that some of their star competitors in the respective sports must grow up and be on their way out into the hard, cruel world where no longer do the athletic departments supply a little 'pocket money' to the players.
The various athletic conferences and associations have taken full recognition of this hesitation of coaches to let go of senior stars. That the conferences have done so is displayed in their rules calling for only a limited number of seasons of competition for one athlete.
The coaches do have an outlet for the frustrating experience of seeing their star seniors leave them. They sit around and count the numbers that won't be back next year. Then they cry on each other's shoulders about how hard hit they are. And it isn't limited solely to the coaches. Sports writers associated with the specified schools indulge themselves in this activity as well.
A recent example of this was a column in the University of Colorado newspaper. The sports editor of that paper didn't limit himself to just his school, however. He did the job for all of us, or almost all. He figured that K.U. couldn't validly crv over its losses.
Here, verbatim, is what he wrote: "Six of the Big Seven schools will probably be hit pretty hard by graduation. This doesn't apply to Kansas university, where Dr. Phog Allen has built his 1950 team around a cast of sophomores. Only Claude Houchin and Gene Petersen will leave the folds of M. Oread. The venerable Dr. Allen has no fears for the future, because he's sure that his nightly prayers asking for the safe-keeping of "wonderful" Clyde Lovellette will not go astray."
We thank the Colorado writer for taking over the necessity of our counting and crying about the number of seniors leaving. But there are two corrections necessary, one a case of factualness, the other of implication.
The fact is that not only are we loosing Houchin and Petersen from the basketball ranks but also Harold England and Guy Mabry as well. All four have earned letters in seasons past.
The implications made by our Colorado colleague when he said
Carl Wins Contest Still 'Impudent'
Rita Carl, education sophomore proved that a woman's "impudence" isn't quite so "fantastic" by defeating her Physics III professor, Dr. Max Dresden, on the "field of honor."
Defending her reputation as a champion ping-pong player Miss Carl won three out of four games from Dr. Dresden. Her scores for the matches were 21 to 13, 21 to 17, 23 to 15, and 21 to 14.
The ball took a terrific beating as it was slashed, cut, chopped, and slammed across the net between the two opponents. Hard, fast drives and lazy, deceptive lobs required agile footwork and fast thinking.
A number of difficult recoveries were made which brought the aplasia and audience, which included Dr. Dresden's physics class of which Miss Carl a member is a member.
In all justice, however, it should be recalled that Dr. Dresden was far "out of condition" in practice and age, while Miss Carl has met and bested top competition the entire year in women's intramurals and the state tournament.
Still, Miss Carl very ably demonstrated that teachers shouldn't challenge their pupils" "extracurricular" activities in "curricular" sessions without full knowledge of their talents!
KU. won't be hit hard by graduating seniors was that Houchin, Petersen, England, and Mabry are valueless. We would like to take exception to that.
Houchin has consistently proven his worth throughout the season. His actions on the court can speak louder than any printed words.
Petersen, although overshadowed this season by Clyde Lovellette, turned in many stellar performances, landing in the second highest position in conference scoring in the 1948-49 season.
England, blond-headed left-hander, played his best game against Missouri here this year when he took over the guarding of hot-shot Bud Heineman and held him to three points after Heineman had scored 19 points in the first half. The forward from Halstead will finish four seasons of play for K.U., 1947 to 1950. When he was a freshman he was allowed to play varsity ball because of the shortage of athletic material due to the war. England was handicapped last season with a severe charley-horse which kept him out for half of the season.
Ambidextrous Guy Mabry, who will be another four year varsity competitor for K.U. at the close of this season, has added his athletic abilities to the Jayhawker baseball team as well as the basketball squad
So you see we could count and cry along with the rest of the conference members, "Phog" Allen could too. The other schools have their own sophomores and, in this era of big monied athletics, all we can say to the other schools is "see the chaplain" if your sophomores don't match the calibre of ours.
Girl Basketball Player Has 31-Point Average
Sumrall, Miss.—(U.P.)-Myra Ann Clinton, 15, can boast a basketball scoring record which most he-man professional players would give a lot to equal.
The 5-foot 11-inch brunette player on the Sumrall High School girls' team has scored 311 points in 10 games played by her undefeated squad. In a recent game against Eatonville High she tallied 64 points, better than two points a minute.
Under women's rules, games last only 32 minutes, but in her last nine games. Myra Ann has scored 33, 56, 30, 22, 11, 25, 64, and 32 points, respectively. She scored on 151 field goals and nine free throws.
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Class Play Ends Women's IM
Women's intramural basketball closed with four class games played Feb. 28. The sophomore "A" team garnered that division championship and the senior "B" squad won the "B" division honors. Second-place titles went to the junior "A"'s and freshman "B"'s.
Squeezing past the junior "A" squad in a close, well-played contest, the sophomore "A" team won 37 to 34 being on the short end of a 16 to 17 score at the half.
Shirley Michelson filled the basket with 18 tallies to lead sophomore scoring. Junior scoring was more evenly distributed with Lorraine Ross making 13 points and Frances Pence with 10.
Leading by a 4-point margin at the half, the senior "B" team defeated a hard-fighting freshman from 18 to 12 in another well-played game.
Surging ahead from a 2-point half-time lead, the sophomore "B" team defeated the junior "B"'s 27 to 15 in a wild scramble.
Peggy Foster made 13 points for the seniors while Betty Grone paced freshman scoring with 8.
LaVone Dailey and Joan Harris shared junior scoring honors with six points apiece. Jane Cunningham sank 14 for the sophomores and Chloe Warner added 9 points.
In an equally careless contest the senior "A" squad scored a 36 to 24 victory over the freshman "A" team after a slim one-point half-time margin.
Kathelen McKelvy paced the winners with 15 points as Janet Lull followed with 12. Joyce Jones duplicated the 12 to lead the freshmen and Adelaide Schutz added 8 points.
Quack Club Plans For Water Ballet
Quack club, women's swimming organization has begun work on a water ballet it plans to present in the spring, Patricia Perkins, secretary-treasurer, announced. The various ballet formations will represent different holidays of the year.
Having received their groundwork in technique in meetings of the entire club, the members will now meet in small groups for concentrated work on the various formations.
Recently pledged following final yearly try-outs Feb. 23 were Mary Anne Clardy, College sophomore, Grace Endecott and Patricia Glenson, fine arts freshmen.
Chimney Dismays Firemen
Taylor, Neb.—(U.P.) The fire department here is thinking of tightening up its fire prevention program. A fire which burned a building to the ground was blamed on a defective chimney. The building was the Taylor fire house.
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A meeting for all those interested in men's intramural volleyball will be held in 203 Robinson gym at 4:15 p.m. today.
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Inter-division play will start Monday, March 6, Don Powell, intramurals director, said today.
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Friday, March 3, has been set as the deadline for all team rosters to be turned in to the intramural office, Powell said.
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