TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Kansas Loses Close Game To Creighton 59 To 55
Three Creighton cagers put on a sizzling hot second half performance to overcome a 9-point halftime deficit and defeat the Kansas J. Hawkers 59 to 55 last night in Omaha, Nebr. About 3,000 fans saw the contest.
Clyde Lovellette, giant Kansas center and high point man in the thriller with 28 points, and Don Knowles, Creighton captain, hooked up in a real scoring duel. Knowles paced his teams' offense with 26 points and kept Kansas in hot water with a variety of tricky shots.
With the score tied at 51-all and seven minutes remaining, Lovelette fouled out and Coach F. C. Allen's cagers missed his timely shooting off the post. Lovelette's 19-point first half scoring spree kept the Jayhawkers in the battle.
Francis Miller, six-foot three-inch Creighton center, scored nine points and guard Bob Gradoville another eight points to go along with Knowles' 12-point total as the Bluejays out-scored Kansas 31 to 18 in the final half. Kansas collected only four field goals, three by Lovellette, during the half. Ten out of 13 free throws kept Kansas in the game.
With seven minutes remaining and the score tied at 51-all, Gradoville sank a free throw to send Creighton ahead. Jerry Waugh tied the game a minute later with a free toss. Gradoville followed by hitting an over free throw to give the winners a 1-point margin. Lyn Smith tied the game up again at 53-all with a charity toss with 5:10 remaining.
A free throw by Waugh with four and a half minutes remaining gave Kansas a short lived 54-53 margin as Knowles connected with a beautiful running one hand shot to again send Creighton into a 1-point lead.
With two minutes and 50 seconds remaining, Creighton went into a stall and kept the ball away from the Kanssens until Gradoville broke into the clear for a lay-up shot with one minute and 20 seconds left to run the count to 57 to 54. With fifty seconds left, Waugh hit a charity toss after being fouled by Knowles.
Knowles ended the game hitting two free throws after being fouled by Bob Kenney on a drive-in shot just before the final gun to make the final score read, Creighton 59 and Kansas 55.
The game was a hard fought affair most of the way with the Officials. Tel O'Sullivan and Ab Hinshaw calling a total of 48 fouls and sending one Kansas player and two Creighton players to the bench. The Blueiws lost their two starting forwards before the second half was half gone.
During the second half, Kansas had a hard time getting shots at the basket and tried only 11 from the field, hitting four for 36 percent. Little Creighton hit 9 out of 16 for 58 percent.
Lovellette's offensive play off the post had the fans pretty well convinced before the game was too far along that he is destined to become a great postman with more experience. He made several beautiful first half hook shots that put the much shorter Blue-ias in trouble.
The first ten minutes developed into a see-saw battle with the lead changing hands several times before Gene Petersen playing before
many of his former home town friends, hit two quick goals to give Kansas a 14 to 11 margin with 9:20 having been played in the half.
Kansas maintained a lead most of the final ten minutes of the first half by margins that varied from four to nine points. During this period of time, Knowles kept Creighton in the game with eight points on three goals and a pair of charity tosses. He had a very effective shot that he used to good advantage while cutting across the free-throw circle and shooting on the run.
Both teams hit an almost unbelievable percentage of free throws. The Jayhawkers connected for 25 out of 32 charity losses for 78 percent while the winning Bluejays hit 19 out of 24 attempts for 79 percent.
From the field, both clubs also did a good job of shooting. Kansas hit 15 out of 38 field goal attempts for a 40 percent mark and Coach J. V. Belford's boys connected on 20 out of 47 shots for a 43 percent mark.
Following the game, the Kansas team was honored at a dinner given by the Omaha K.U. alumni association. Several K.U. officials including Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary; Marvin Small, newly appointed assistant general secretary of the Kansas alumni association; Miss Mildred Clodfelter, assistant alumni secretary; and Tom Yoe, director of K.U. public relations, attended the dinner.
The box score:
Creighton (59)  g- ga ft- a pf  af
Gilchrist, f  2  3 1 2 5 1 5
Schneider, f  0  0 0- 1 0 1
McClelland, f  1  8 1- 1 5 3
Miller, c  5 1 1 2- 4 11
Knowles, g  9 20 8-10 4 26
Tukeg, g  0  ' 2-2 1 2 2
Grady, g  0  0 0- 0 0 0
Gradoville, g  3 4 6-7 4 12
Boedeker, g  0 1 0- 0 4 0
Totals... 20 47 19-24 28 59
Kansas (55) g ga ft-a f ap tf
Petersen, f 2 3 0-0 1 4
Kenney, f 1 4 1-1 3 3
Mabry, f 0 0 0-2 0 0
Houghtland, f 0 0 4-2 4 4
Bull, f 0 0 1-1 1 1
Lovellette, c 9 19 10-14 5 28
Carb, c 0 0 0 1 0 1
Houchin, g 2 6 5-5 1 9
Smith, g 0 1 1-2 1 2
Waugh, g 1 5 3-4 4 5
Totals ... 15 38 25-32 20 55
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Non-League Tilts Set Big 7 For Conference Play
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Test-hopping for basketball teams in the Big Seven conference entered the vigorous stage today with 10 more games on this week's slate, none of them league affairs and some of them by no means breathers.
Only Missouri will remain idle, the Tigers waiting until Dec. 12 to make their 1949-50 debut at home against Texas Christian university.
Kansas State, whose Wildcats finished third in the conference last season behind the deadlocked leaders, Nebraska and Oklahoma, will travel as far as New York City's Madison Square garden to get in three games during the busy week.
Iowa State and Colorado each will play two more games, Kansas is scheduled for one, and Oklahoma and Nebraska one each.
Jack Gardner's K-State team, expected to sizzle this season, will meet Wisconsin at Madison Tuesday; mix with Long Island U., in the Garden Thursday, and engage Canisius at Buffalo, N.Y. Saturday.
The Wildcats opened their new year last week with an 83 to 34 victory at home over Rockhurst college of Kansas City. Two nights later they whipped Emporia State, 59 to 50.
Iowa State, co-occupant of the cellar with Kansas in the 1948-49 campaign, dusted off Luther last week, 49 to 39, won 70 to 59 over Grinnell Monday at Ames; and prepared for Bradley at Peoria, Ill., Thursday, and Drake at Ames Saturday.
Colorado, whose Buffs finished last season with a 4-8 record in conference play, opened the new year Monday with a 55 to 45 win over Emporia State Teachers at Boulder and plays Emporia again tonight. Saturday will catch the Buff matched against Northwestern University in Chicago's stadium.
Thousands Pray For Girl Who May Lose Right Hand
Coach Bruce Drake's Oklahoma team a top-favorite in the Big Seven, opened against Texas last week with a convincing 65 to 48 triumph. Towering Marcus Freiberger led the Sooners as they prepped for a game at Norman Saturday against Illinois.
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Brownsville, Tenn. —(U.P.)—The simple faith of 10-year-old Betty Lou Marbury, facing amputation of her right hand, has been strengthened by the news that thousands of people had included her in their Sunday prayers.
"I firmly believe I'm going to get well with God's help" he said.
get well, with God's help, she said. But while churchgoers for miles around prayed that God might see fit to spare Betty Lou's afflicted hand, her own prayer was not for herself alone.
In her own Sunday School class at Holly Grove Baptist church here, Betty Lou prayed: "Bless all the sick people and help them get well."
Meanwhile, churchmen here and in nearby Memphis and all over the nation answered the plea which Betty Lou made through a newspaper last week to "pray that I may not lose my hand."
The Memphis Commercial Appeal published the little girl's letter. Soon messages began pouring in to Betty
Lou and churches of all creeds scheduled special services and prayers for the afflicted child.
Boy Hunter Drowns Deer
Despite the decision of bone specialists that they will have to amputate her right hand next month to halt the spread of a bone malignancy centered there, Betty Lou was firm in her belief that "praying will help save my hand."
Rupert, Vt.—(U.P.)—A 14-year-old boy bagged a deer by drowning it. John McCraw fired two shots, the second wounding the deer so that he was able to drag it to death in a nearby stream.
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