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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1949
Oklahoma Places Three On Daily Kansan All-Star
The Oklahoma Sooners placed three men to dominate the Daily Kansan's All Big Seven basketball team for the 1948-49 season. Paul Courty, Wayne Glasgow, were first team selections, and Paul Merchant made the second team.
Other members of the first team are Jerry Waugh, Kansas; Claude Retherford, Nebraska; and Rick Harmon. Kansas State.
No school had more than one man on the second team. Besides Merchant, Milt Whitehead, Nebraska; Ernie Barrett, Kansas State; Claude Houchin, Kansas, and Bob Peterson of Iowa State were chosen.
K. U.'s two outstanding players were named for the All-Star honors. Waugh earned his first team position with his season-long hustle, his calmness and poise under fire, and his remarkable ability to hold the opponents' high scorer in check.
Courty is well known to Kansas fans as the Oklahoma "jinx." His last minute shots handed K.U. two defeats this season. In the pre-season tournament in Kansas City he tossed in the winning goal to give the Sooners a 52 to 49 victory. Another Courty shot helped his mates to a 38 to 36 win at Norman.
Houchin proved his ability as a standout guard in league play this year. While not as brilliant as Nebraska's Rethford, the Munice athlete was a steady rebounder, and second high score for Kansas during the season.
Glasgow sparked the Sooners with an 18 point barrage in their third win over Kansas at Lawrence.
The Big Seven scoring champion is Claude Retherford and he had a large share in the Cornhuskers' success this season. He scored 149 points.
Any All-Star selection would have to include Rick Harmon, the Kansas State jumpingjack, who led the Wildcats to a number of wins this season almost single handed. Harmon has been a terrific rebounder throughout the campaign and a high scorer in league play.
Paul Merchant was practically a coach on the floor for Bruce Drake's passing demons, setting up plays and never letting the ball stop moving on the Sooner offense.
Ernie Barrett was the outstanding sophomore in the K-State camp this year. He teamed up with Harmon for a good share of the drive in the Aggies' final games. Peterson was Iowa State's leading scorer with 197 points for the season. He is considered the greatest guard in Cyclone history.
Whitehead was his teammate Retherford's biggest help in carrying the Cornhuskts to their first share of the title since 1937.
First team:
Paul Courty, Oklahoma Wayne Glasgow, Oklahoma Jerry Waugh, Kansas
Laude Keilherford, Nebraska
Raleigh, Kansas State
Second team;
Paul Merchant, Oklahoma Milton Whitehead, Nebraska Ernie Barrett, Kansas State Claude Houchin, Kansas Bob Peterson, Iowa State
Pittsburg Boxer Out For Title
New York, March 11 —(U.P.)—Bob Baker, a 22-year-old Pittsburgh rug-cleaner, today was just one fight away from what he hoped would be the biggest cleanup of his amateur boxing career—the National Golden Gloves heavyweight championship.
The Methodical Pittsburgher won the Eastern golden gloves heavyweight crown with a three-round decision over Van Curry of Hempstead, N.Y. at Madison Square Garden Thursday night. It was a slow bout but the shuffling Baker controlled the action and floored Curry for a count of nine with a left hook in the second round.
Baker and the seven other Eastern championships will meet the Western fitlists in the National Golden Gloves finals at Madison Square Garden, Monday, March 28.
Sam Houston's birthday also falls on March 2, Texas' Independence Day.
New York, March 11— (J.U.P.) Kids up to 11 will be put on the ice today to develop red hot hockey players who soon will enable the United States to challenge Canadian supremacy in the sport.
Plan Hockey For The Kids
The pee-wee program will stage its first national championships at Madison Square Garden on Sunday with teams from Springfield, Mass.; Lake Placid, N.Y.; New Haven, Conn., and New York.
But since inception of the idea in those cities the program has blossomed in Pittsburgh, St. Paul, Eveleth and Hibbing, Minn., and Saranac Lake. Lester Patrick, the famed "grey fox" of the ice, predicts that within two years "there will be a pee-wee team every place in which they place ice hockey."
Canada has been promoting the kid teams for a quarter century, thus ever dominating the game which it invented. Few cities in the United States, however, have the long periods of cold weather which make every pond and lake an arena for Canadian youngsters.
And with the building of arenas in the United States, throughout the Midwest, Southwest and Pacific coast, the kids still were overlooked as teams imported Canadian stars.
"In the fall of 1946 the Rangers sent me to New Haven and I found that the only time I could get the rink for the kids was in 6:30 in the morning," Patrick said. "I didn't think we'd get more than 11 or 15 kids at that time of the day. But the very first morning there were 65 kids waiting for me when I got to the rink—and some had been waiting from 5:30 a.m."
Thus was pee-wee hockey introduced to the United States and the idea has been spreading like wildfire. When the first call for kids was announced in New York more than 400 youngsters from the sidewalks stormed Madison Square Garden.
We had to close the doors finally,
because we couldn't take those kids
who were woke holes night in the ice.
The white-thatched senior Patrick, fiercely proud of his Canadian heritage and players ever produced in the dominion, agrees that there is "no reason why players from the United States can't be equal to Canadians."
As in many another American city, the first water system in Chicago used pipes made of hollow logs.
Houchin Named To Second Five Of UP Stars
Kansas City, Mo., March 11—(U.P.)
Nebraska and Oklahoma, top runners in the Big Seven basketball conference, each landed two men on the United Press All-Conference team today. A fifth position went to Kansas State.
The team was picked by coaches, sports writers and radio broadcasters in the six-state area in which the Big Seven operates.
Nebraska's Huskers, a half-game ahead of Oklahoma in the skin-tight Big Seven championship drive, placed center Milt Whitchead and guard Claude Rethford.
Oklahoma's left-handed scoring ace, Paul "Jinx" Courty an All-Big Seven choice has caused Kansas and other Big Seven basketball teams many a headache during his years at Theo school.
Coach Bruce Drake's Sooners, which can tie for the title if they beat Colorado tomorrow night, planted their brilliant sophomore forward, Wayne Glasgow, and guard Paul Courty on the first team. Kansas State, which threatened the conference leaders with its late spurt, placed Rick Harman.
The men who cast ballots in the U.P. poll were impressed with Rethierford's work in lifting Nebraska to its high place after a mediocre showing by the team in the preseason Big Seven tournament here in December. They picked him as the outstanding player of the conference and named his coach, Harry Good, as the outstanding basketball teacher of the year.
Second team places were filled by forwards Bob Petersen of Iowa State and Claude Houchin of Kansas; Center Bob Rolander of Colorado, and guards Kenneth Pryor of Oklahoma and Lloyd Krone of Kansas State.
First team:
f. Rick Harman, Kansas State
f. Wayne Glasgow, Oklahoma
e. Milt Whitehead, Nebraska
g. Clugde Retherford, Nebraska
g. Paul Courtho, Oklahoma
Second team:
f. Bob Petersen, Iowa State
f. Claude Houchin, Kansas
g. Bob Rolander, Colorado
g. Kenneth Pryor, Oklahoma
g. Lloyd Krone, Kansas State
Gardella Enters
$300,000 Suit
New York, March 11—(U.P.) The attorney for suspended baseball player Danny Gardella was working today on papers which he said he will file Monday in federal court asking that Gardella's five-year suspension from baseball be lifted immediately.
Attorney Frederic A. Johnson said he will ask a federal judge on Monday to sign a "mandatory injunction" instructing organized baseball to show cause within one week why Gardella's suspension should not be lifted.
Johnson said that the injunction would be similar to the "show cause" order obtained last Tuesday by suspended St. Louis Cardinal pitchers Max Lanier and Fred Martin, who, like Gardella, have been set down for five years for "jumping" to the Mexican league in 1946
Johnson said a favorable ruling on the mandatory injunction would have the effect of restoring Gardella to active status in baseball and also give him a chance to play with independent teams. Gardella, a wartime outfielder with the New York Giants, now is a $36-per-week orderly in the Mt. Vernon, N.Y., hospital.
Baseball must answer Lanier and Martin in court next Tuesday.
Johnson said the effect of the injunction would be only temporary, however, pending the outcome of Gardella's $300,000 damage suit which is awaiting trial in federal court.
Johnson said that Gardella's case was different from the $2,500,000 damage suit brought by Lanier and Martin, in that Gardella "was not a contract-jumper" but merely violated baseball's reserve clause which binds a player to the same team from one season to the next.
Rick Harnon, Kansas State's hustling maker, who appeared today as a top choice on both the United Press and the Daily Kansan All-Big Seven teams.
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