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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1940
Jayhawkers Hope To Repeat MU Jinx
By knocking off Missouri tonight at Columbia, the Kansas Jayhawkers could sweep the season's series with their old rivals, and maintain their strange Brewer fieldhouse jinx.
A victory would also improve K.U.'s chances of rising above their pres-ent sixth place position. Coach "Sparky" Stalcup's Tigers, now in third place with three wins and two losses, need a victory to stay in the Big Seven title picture.
Coach Phog Allen's club whipped the Tigers 62 to 50 in the conference pre-season tourney at Kansas City with a hot shooting display. They capitalized on 30 Missouri fouls to beat the Tigers, 42 to 35 at Lawrence Jan. 11. The last Kansas team to sweep the season's series from M.U. was the 1946 championship club which chalked up three lopsided triumphs, two in league play and one at Kansas City.
Missouri is always tough on its home court and hasn't lost a conference game there this season, but K.U.'s fast-growing Brewer field-house jinx might trip them up. Kansas has won four straight years at Columbia, and seven times in the past eight seasons there.
Both teams have been weakened by recent player losses. Missouri has lost through eligibility Dan Pippin, their leading scorer. The Jayhawks have lost Sonny Enns, hustling guard, for the same reason, together with sharp-shooting forward Harold England, who is out with a severe charley horse. England hit 11 points in K.U.'s win over the Tigers at Lawrence.
Coach Allen, pleased with the play of Charley Penny and Guy Mabry against Nebraska, said Monday that these two boys would start at the forward position instead of Maurice Martin and Gene Petersen. Penny battled and rebounded well off both boards late in the first half, while Mabry scored K.U.'s first second half basket against the Cornhuskers and started them on their late rally with his seven points.
Jerry Waugh will start at center with Bill Sapp and Claude Houchin at guards. Sapp played one of the best games of his career against Missouri at Columbia last year, throwing in 18 points in K.U.'s 58 to 46 triumph.
The loss of Pippin deprived Missouri of its best scorer, but if the Tigers missed his scoring and rebounding, they didn't show it in their last league game, a 40 to 39 on wn over Kansas State at Manhattan.
Coach Stalcup's crew has never been a high scoring team, but instead has used a rugged defense and ball control to win. M.U. led the conference in defense last year with a 47.6 mark, and tied for second place, although they hit fewer field goals than any team in the league. They are currently leading the league in defense at 39.6, but are last place in offense with 40.6.
With three giant centers, Missouri has the height needed to control the rebounds. Don Stroot, 6-foot, 8-inch beanpole, and Jerry Fowler, 6-foot, 8-inch, 225 pounder, are the tallest, but Bill "Red" Haynes, 6-foot 4-inch senior, is probably the best.
Haynes has a good hook shot from either side, and is an excellent rebounder and ball-handler. He scored nine points against K.U. at Lawrence and grabbed plenty of rebounds, but fouled out with 12 minutes to go.
With the loss of Pippin, Don McMillen ranks as the best M.U. forward. He has a good one-hand shot and is a tireless rebounder. Bud Heineman, a sophomore, is also tough to cover.
In Karl Pierpoint and Pleasant Smith, both seniors and team co-captains, the Tigers have a pair of guards with plenty of defensive ability and experience, but not much scoring power. With Claude Houchin, who threw in 12 points to lead the scoring against M.U. here, the Jayhawkers should hold an edge in over-the-top shooting. Houchin will become the first guard to lead the Kansans in league scoring since All-American Fred Prale did it in 1937 and 1938, if the rangy junior from Muncie continues at his present pace.
Tonight's meeting will be the 124th Tiger-Jayhawk cage game, one of the
Baseball Practice Starts March 17
K. U.'s new baseball coach is wasting no time in preparing for the coming baseball season. At a meeting yesterday of 35 men, Coach "Red" Hogan set Monday, March 7 as the opening date for practice to begin.
Hogan informed prospective squad members that equipment would be issued Wednesday and Thursday, March 2 and 3, and that the squad would be chosen by Friday April 1.
Tri-County Meet Starts Wednesday
The University high school will participate in the Tri-County basketball tournament which will be held at Basech, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. The league is composed of Tonganoxie, Lansing, Linwood, Easton and Basehor.
Second team competition between University high school and Basehor will be held at 5:15 p.m., Wednesday; first team competition will be at 9 p.m., Wednesday, with U.H.S. matched against Tonganoxie.
oldest rivalries in the country. K.U.'s two wins this season have increased their margin to 80 victories to Missouri's 43 in the series that started in 1907.
The following twelve players made the trip: Buddy Bull, Dave Dennis, Dale Engel, Claude Houchin, Lem Jones, Guy Mabry, Maurice Martin, Charles Penny, Gene Petersen, Bill Sapp, Lynn Smith, and Jerry Waugh.
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The intramural basketball playoffs got underway Monday night. Fraternity brothers were out in force to help their team win the coveted title. As always the Betas were very much in evidence as the "F" teams played.
By MARV ROWLANDS
From the looks of things the Phi Gams and the Sig Eps are going to be hard to lick.
Have you noticed the football players who are coaching the intramural teams? Dick Gilman was in charge of the Sig Eps and Ed Lee was handling things for the ATO's. The Oklahoma A. and M. paper carried a picture recently of the intramural basketball champs down there. All but one of the winning outfit were well known football players.
Almost as many people turn out to see these intramural games as show up in Hoch for the varsity games. Just why attendance has fallen off so much is hard to determine. Possibly it is because K.U. students aren't used to having a team that isn't always winning. More plausible though is the fact that students got tired of having to go at 6 p.m. to get any kind of seats at all for a game that starts at 7:30 p.m.
Just because basketball attendance has fallen off is no sign that he need for a new fieldhouse has disappeared.
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Anyone who tried to crowd into the tiny Robinson gymnasium pool for the K.U.-Oklahoma swimming meet knows that the need is present and great. A better field house could provide the swimming team with some badly needed better practicing conditions. Some arrangements for the indoor track team are needed, too. Because of the lack of facilities all K.U. indoor meets must be scheduled away from home.
Back to intramurals and the Oklahoma Aggie paper. Down at Stillwater they had their first annual intramural basketball free throw contest. They had 30 entries for the event. Each entrant got 25 tries at the basket. The winner made 22 out of the 25. The four top men will meet in a 50-shot shown down.
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Claude Houchin, 6-foot, 5-inch Kansas guard, has been a standout in Big Seven basketball play this season. Coach "Phog" Allen rates him as "very valuable and consistent." Last year Claude was the club's third highest scorer with 174 points. He tossed in 13 points against Nebraska to keep his sixth place among conference scorers. The junior from Turner says his biggest basketball thrill was last year's miracle basket which he fired home from just inside the center stripe only two seconds before the final gun to nick Oklahoma 39 to 38.
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