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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1943
Spirit Is High In Jayhawkers' 1st Scrimmage
A lively squad of 86 Jayhawkers whooped it up for 2 hours and 15 minutes March 26 and concentrated on running plays in the first real work of the spring football practice period. Coach J. V. Sikes sent his players to the baseball field in a search for a reasonably dry field, but the mud bothered the runners in their attempts to break away for any long gains during the afternoon.
Only four passes were attempted as the Japhawkers put in a hard afternoon charging on the ground. Halfbacks Cliff McDonald and Bud French got two of the day's three long runs. A sophomore halfback, Henry Lamping, made the other long run.
Sikes used three backfields with Dick Gilman, Don Wilson, and Jerry Bogue at the quarterback positions. Starting in what might be called the first team with Gilman were Darell Norris and Howard Fischer, ends; S. P. Garnett and Mike McCormack, tackles; Jim Sackrider and Dick Tomlinson, guards; French and Lampin, halfbacks; and Forrest Griffith, fullback. All are lettermen except Garnett, Lamping, and Sackrider. Carl Ellis and Ed Lee are still out of the line with knee injuries.
Willie Modricin showed up well in stabs at the line, and Griffith also picked up considerable yardage through the line.
"The way those boys are working out, you'd think that they had a game coming up with the next two weeks." Sikes said after the practice. He was well pleased with the spirit. He said that the Jayhawkers would concentrate on downfield blocking in today's session.
Two Ring Officials May Be Suspended
New York, March 28—(U.P.)-The New York State Athletic commission was expected to censure two ring officials today for their widely protested decision in the fight between Jake Lamotta and Robert Villemain on March 25.
Harry Ebbets, referee, and Harold Barnes, boxing judge, were yanked to the carpet at today's commission meeting because their votes gave middleweight Lamotta of the Bronx a split 12-round decision over Ville-main of France at Madison Square Garden.
The third ring official, judge Charley Shortell, voted for Villemain, who deserved the decision by a wide margin in the opinion of most fans, writers and boxing men.
However, officials can be censured for blunders--for incompetence.
There was little chance that the commission would reverse the decision, for chairman Eddie Eagan opposes reversals unless dishonesty among officials can be proved. And there was no indication that the honesty of Ebbets or Barnes was questioned.
Their licenses can be revoked. They can be suspended indefinitely or for a definite period. Or they can be issued official tongue-lashing and a warning.
Eagen, apparently angered by the unjust decision against a foreign fighter, said he would "have a statement to make" after today's inquiry.
The 11,491 fans in the garden were so outraged by the decision that they booed and yelled their protests more than five minutes.
Eagan permitted neither Ebebes nor Barnes to officiate in the four-round "curtain dropper" that closed the show. He feared that their continuance in official capacities might incite a riot. A few fans had begun to toss coins and cigar butts at Ebebes.
East Grows Mammoth Lemon
Princeton, Mass.—U.(P.)—A Massachusetts-grown lemon has attained a 14-inch circumference. Henry N. Jefferies says the prize of his greenhouse fruit collection is 7 inches high and weighs 1 pound, 9 ounces.
—(Photograph by Bob Blank)
One of coach Sikes' biggest problems in building a strong Jayhawker football team for 1949 is that of finding several fast and rugged ends to flank his line. Here end coach Wayne Replogle is instructing the end candidates on pass patterns.
Pokey Cowpoke's 'Hank' Iba Elected Coach Of The Year
By OSCAR FRALEY
New York, March 28—(U.P.)—Henry Payne (Hank) Iba, the Oklahoma Aggies' slow burn and deep freeze man, came up with a consolation prize today after losing the N.C.A.A. crown to Kentucky as he was named basketball's "coach of the year."
Voted by the metropolitan basketball writers, it is, however, strictly district honor—likely to be®
a two-district honor—likely to be recognized only in New York and Oklahoma.
Henry Payne, who ordinarily is just that to the followers of fast, firehouse basketball, had a right good season. He lost only five games as his players, all specialists in his "control" basketball, mesmerized the opposition to win with scores minimistic of a Phillies-Cincinnati baseball game.
The law of averages caught up in the pokey Cowpokes Mar. 26 in the N.C.A.A. finals at Seattle. This time they got the 36 points. Kentucky got the 46 and the championship.
So in most districts they are going to look on Iba's New York honors as a sort of galloping poll. Somewhat along the order of how four New York teams were able to get into the recent invitation tournament—and out of it in the very first round.
The New York "coach of the year" balloting gave Iba the title with 77 points based on a 5-3-1 basis for first, second and third place votes. But in the matter of first place nominations, Hank received only seven compared with 12 for young Pete Newell of San Francisco.
Anyone who cares to make Pete their personal "coach of the year" won't be far off. He brought his San Francisco underdogs into New York for the invitation tournament and proceeded to coil all the cutlery.
But the real sensation of the city slicker selections was the fact that Adolph Rupp, the rotund gent who directs the destinies of Kentucky's N.C.A.A. champions and conqueror of Iba's club, was a poor third with only 22 points. Old Rupp and ready received only three first place votes
In the New York poll, he wound up only three points back of Iha.
Finishing down the line were:
Harry Combes, Illinois, nine points; Harold Anderson, Bowling Green, six; Cliff Welles, Tulane, five; Howard Hobson, Yale, four; Forrest Anderson, Bradley, and Tom Haggerty, Loyola of Chicago, each three; Henry Good, Nebraska, two, and Ken Norton, Manhattan, and Ed Hickey, St. Louis, each one.
There has been small doubt all season that Rupp's Kentucky club was the best in collegiate court circles. They were "down" in the invitation tournament but came right back up to walk off with the N.C.A.A. championship.
The voters' reasoning, if it may be flattering by such a description, seems to be that St. Louis defeated Kentucky, 42 to 40, in the Sugar Bowl tournament. And that Iba's Oklahoma Aggies then bested St. Louis twice.
Along the same line of alleged brainwork, some of the voters contended that Rupp's job was easy. He had a band of near-professional seniors and Olympic champions who needed little coaching. That's like telling grandma she can't have any shortcake because she made it.
And the tap-in typewriter termites emphasized that Iba won the Missouri Valley conference crown for the eighth time; in 13 all-college tournaments at Oklahoma City since 1936 his teams bagged eight, and that he won the N.C.A.A. title in 1945 and 1946.
But they are sure to note outside of Oklahoma and New York that Rupp's Kentuckians won the N.C.A.A. "this year" and that Newell's San Franciscans won the invitation "this year."
"Coach of the year" is fine, but what year, fellows?
New York, March 28—U.(R.) Nearly 19,000 fans were expected to attend the 22nd renewal of the inter-city Golden Gloves championships between the best amateur scrappers of the East and West at Madison Square Garden tonight.
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The Western squad comprised the cream of the crop from the territory west of the Allegheny mountains to the Pacific coast, and the Eastern contingent was made up of the best youngsters from the Atlantic seaboard and Puerto Rico.
Sixteen bouts were scheduled—eight for national titles and eight for alternate laurels.
Tonight's principals were survivors of three-months competition in all sections of the country.
Chief sponsor of the Garden show was the welfare association of the New York Daily News.
Seattle, Wash., March 28—(U.P.) Thirty-six points just aren't enough to beat the Kentucky Wildcats any more, the Oklahoma Aggies ruefully admitted today.
Kentuckv Wins National Title, Groza Hits 25
Washington State has seven national parks.
Time was—back in the 1974 Sugan Bowl—when you could tally 36 points yourself, tie the Wildcats in knots and walk off with a 36 to 30 triumph. That's what the Aggies did the last time they played Kentucky.
But the same deep-freeze tactics didn't work quite so well this year. The Wildcats didn't get as many points as usual, but they still registered a 46-36 win over the Aggies in the finals of the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament on March 26.
Coach Hank Iba, who taught his Aggies to become the country's best defensive unit, had hoped his Bob Harris could put the clamps on Alex Groza, Kentucky's 6-foot, 7-inch scoring machine.
Harris couldn't manage the job and fouled out after only four minutes of the second half. That was the "tell" on the game and Groza went on to score 25 points—giving him an N.C.A.A. record of 82 in three games, busting the tourney mark set two years ago by Bob Kurland of the Aggies.
There was no hiding Kentucky's jubilation at having redeemed its defeat in the National Invitation tournament. The Wildcats felt, and everybody agreed with them, that they had re-established themselves at the top of the collegiate heap.
The only team that could dispute that at all was San Francisco, winner of the National Invitation.
"This is the one we've been waiting for," said Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp when the finale was over. "We've been playing steadily for almost two years and we're glad it's over."
During those two years, the Wildcats compiled one of the most amazing record in the history of the game. Last year they won the N.C.-A.A. tourney, sent five men to the Olympic games and had them tour Europe after their Olympic triumph. This year they had an overall record of 32 victories and two defeats.
Coach Iba had no excuses.
"We looked bad," said the master of the slow-down. "It was rugged—rugged and fast. We were hitting better than—the other boys in the first half, but we just weren't hitting enough."
The game was witnessed by more than 12,000 fans, 116 of them members of the National Association of basketball coaches, who Mar. 21 concluded three days of discussion of the cage sport. They forward a list of suggested rules changes to the National Rules committee, which scheduled closed meetings Sunday and today.
Most of the coaches told the N.C.-A.A. rules and research committees they were fed up with the battles royal waged during the dying minutes of games. They left more than a-dozen suggestions on rules changes affecting the final 120 seconds.
The consensus was that something should be done to prevent a winning team from "freezing" the ball, forcing the opposition to resort to rough stuff in attempting to regain possession during the waning minutes.
One of the foremost suggestions was the substitution of the word "must" for "may" in the present rule saying an official may call for a jump ball when a closely-guarded player is withholding the ball from play. The coaches agreed the change would take the burden of decision from the referee's shoulders.
Padres Take Two Straight
San Diego, Calif., March 28—(U.P.)
The San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast league held two straight decisions over the Chicago White Sox today after a 5 to 2 victory Sunday.
Pitcher Bill Wight was tagged for four of the Padre runs. One of the Sox tallies was a homer by Dave Philley.
Kansas Meets SMU In 1952
A four-year pact between University of Kansas and Southern Methodist of the Southwest conference has been announced by E. C. Quigley, athletic director.
K. U. and S.M.U. will meet on a home and home basis beginning in 1952 with an October 25 date in Dallas as the first game. The Ponies will make their first Lawrence grid appearance here October 24, 1953. The remaining dates are October 23, 1954, in Dallas, and October 22, 1955, in Lawrence.
The series will mark the two schools' first football rivalry. Only previous athletic meetings between Kansas and Southern Methodist have been five basketball games.
The Jayhawkers clipped the Mustangs twice early in the 1938-1939 season at Dallas, and repeated the feat in Lawrence the following year. S.M.U. nicked Kansas, 49 to 46, in the finals of the first Big Seven preseason tournament in Kansas City, in December, 1946.
Never Steal Police Car
Spokane, Wash.—(U.P.)—Police caught an auto thief in what probably was record time. One-half hour after a truck driver stole the automobile, he was in the city jail. The police had a personal interest in the case; the stolen car was a police prowl car.
Judge Stops At Nothing
Lapeer, Mich., (U,P) - C i r u i t Judge George Des Jardins fell on the ice and broke his leg. He was carried to court, where he heard a case before letting the doctor treat him.
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