WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1940
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Upsets Dominate Intramural Playoff
Not a single team in the fraternity "A" division basketball league remained on the unbeaten lists today following four staggering upsets Tuesday night. But Aces Hi, 1948 champion, lived up to their pre-season rating by walloping Deuces Wild 42 to 28.
Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Delta Theta, fraternity "A" division favorites, dropped out of the running and Sigma Phi Epsilon and Delta Tau Delta, both undefeated in division play, fared no better in first-round playoff games.
Four division runners-up, Beta Theta Pi, Kappa Sigma, A.T.O., and Phi Kappa Psi jumped off to early leads and then went on to gain easy victories.
In other independent league "A" games Newman club, sparked by Bob Enright who tallied 13 points, trounced Last Chance 28 to 18 and Spooner Thayer won from Alpha Phi Alpha by forfeit.
Beta Theta Pi, 1948 fraternity champion, displayed its best form of the season in turning back highly rated Gamma Delta 42 to 26.
It was a close game for three quarters, but the Betas pulled away in the last seven minutes. The losers scored only one point in the last quarter, while the Betas, led by Claire Gillen and Jack Winter, netted 16.
The Phi Gams took a lead in the opening minutes of the game and held it through the first quarter. At the start of the second period Phi Gam led 12 to 7, but the Beta's rallied, and went into an 18 to 14 half-time lead.
The third quarter was even as Joe Mendenhall, Gillen, and Winter exchanged baskets with Jim Potts, Jack Shields, and Lou Smith. Potts added two free throws for the Phi Gams and the score stood at 26 to 25, the Betas ahead, as the third period ended.
It was then that the Phi Gams cooled off and the Betas went on their scoring spree.
Winter and Gillen were high scorers for the winners with 11 points each. Mendenhall got 9. Amberg led the losers with 8 and Potts got 7. Phi Delts Upset
The A.T.O.'s jumped into an early 4-1 lead and never relinquished it as they defeated the Phi Delts 32 to 19.
The Phi Delt's couldn't cope with the A.T.O.'s superior height under the basket and were forced to take most of their shots from far out. While the losers seemed to have trouble finding the range, the winners were deadly from the field.
Wade and Aitken, A.T.O., and Quiring, Phi Delt, tied for high point honors with eight each. Phi Delt was able to collect only six field goals.
Kappa Sigs Win
Kappa Sigma moved into the semi-finals for the third straight year by whipping the Delt's 31 to 25, but had to stop a sizzling fourth-quarter rally to do it.
Going into the final quarter the Kappa Sig's held a seemingly safe 22 to 9 lead but the Delt's zoomed to within one point of a tie before the Kappa Sig's managed to pull away. Baskets by Bob Drumm and Harlan Ochs, along with free throws by Les Phibliad and Dave Shivel, were all that were needed to clinch the game for the Kappa Sig's.
Both teams made 11 goals but the Kappa Sig's sank 9 of 13 charity tosses while the Delt's were able to make only 3 of 14 tries. Big Bob Drumm starred for the winners, scoring 10 points and controlling most of the rebounds. Teammate Les Pihblad scored eight while Bill Curry paced the Delt's with 10.
*Deluna High Scorer*
with Lou DeLuna and Bob Van Sitters accounting for 23 points, Aces Hi, 1948 "A" division champions, breezed to a 42 to 28 triumph over Deuces Wild, the same team they defeated in a first-round play-off game last season.
The Aces piled up a 19 to 9 halftime margin and then coasted to victory. DeLuna took high-point honors with 12 and Van Sitters, the only new man on the squad this year, making 11. Marshall Martin collected 10 for the losers.
Baseball Practice Starts March 7
Baseball Coach "Red" Hogan has set Monday, March 7 as the date for baseball practice to begin. Tuesday's Daily Kansan mistakenly said March 17 in a headline.
Prospective squad members will be issued equipment Wednesday and Thursday, March 2 and 3. The squad will be chosen by Friday, April 1.
Louis To Continue To Defend Crown
Chicago, Feb. 16—(U.P.) Heavyweight champion Joe Louis said to day that he hasn't decided when he will quit defending his crown.
Louis leaves for Miami today, and a spokesman of the brown bomber said he would fight "a local boy" in an exhibition bout at Montego Bay, Jamaica, Saturday.
The champion will box in Kingston, Jamaica, Monday, and will appear in three more bouts in the West Indies "at times and places yet to be determined," the spokesman said.
"If I did hang up my gloves as champion this year," Louis said, "I'd still travel around the rest of the year and next year doing exhibitions. I don't know about 1951 yet."
A smooth-working Phi Psi quintet avenged its only regular-season loss, by walloping the Sig Ep's 34 to 27. Phi Psi led 19 to 17 at half-time, and never once trailed, although Charley Carson knotted the count at 19-all when he made the first score of the second half.
quuck buckets by Scott Kelly and Ron Roberts then put the Phi Psi's out in front to stay. Kelly led the winning attack, bagging 11 tallies, but high-point honors went to Short, who scored 14.
Don Pierce, K.U.'s able sports publicity director, is in Kansas City, Mo. where he will work on publicity for the Big Seven track meet with Reaves Peters, executive secretary of the Big Seven.
I neglected to point out the past week that only two schools in the Big Seven have ever won the swimming title. Iowa State has won the title 13 times and Nebraska has come out first five times. Two of those titles were shared by the two schools.
By MARV ROWLANDS
It is hard to break the dominance of a school like Iowa State in swimming. They recently defeated Minnesota the defending A.A.U. national swimming champions.
Practice conditions here do not allow for as much conditioning as at other conference schools. The pool in Robinson gymnasium is only 50 feet in length and 19 feet wide. That means that only four men can swim at a time and that makes practice difficult for the team. The pools at other schools like Oklahoma are much longer and therefore this small pool is a snap for their swimmers who are used to the greater distances.
However, in spite of these difficulties the team does well. They were leading the Sooners here until the final distance events.
Bruce Drake, Oklahoma head basketball coach, must have found a way to insure magic finishes to basketball games. A United Press story in the Daily Kansan Monday said that O.U. breezed through its first games with Kansas, Iowa State, and Colorado. But actually the biggest margin the Sooners had was three points.
The handsome Drake must have taken good notes when he watched the Cornhuskers hand K.U. a defeat in Hoch auditorium. At least he came up with a rousing finish at Norman and the top spot in the conference standings. ___
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West Point, N.Y. Feb. 16—(U.P.)-Any city can play host to the Army-Navy football game as long as its pocketbook is big enough, the Army's Graduate Manager of athletics said today.
But, he added, only Philadelphia has been able to handle the massive promotion in recent years.
The Graduate Manager, Lt. Col. Orbi statement that New Orleans could have but turned it down because it would have lost $100,000 even with 70,000 seats sold at $20 each. for
"We have certain stipulations," Krueger said, "and any city that meets them can stage the Army-Navy game. However, they are pretty tough to meet.
"First of all, we consider the game is for the students so the transportation of the entire cadet and midshipmen corps must be paid.
"Then, since football pays for all the other athletic programs at both institutions, we must have a guarantee.
"So far, only Philadelphia—because it is close to both West Point and Annapolis, and because it has the second largest college football stadium in the country—has been able to meet the stipulations, financially speaking."
Krueger said cities are always sending feelers to stage the Army-Navy game. "We always reply with the requirements, and that ends it.
"We're not against playing the game anywhere, but it does cost a lot. you know."
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