TUESDAY; FEBRUARY 8. 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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By MARV ROWLANDS (Daily Kansan Sports Editor)
Jerry Waugh returned from Ames with a severely bruised right heel. The Jayhawker quarterback will probably see some action against K-State Wednesday. According to Dr. Allen, Waugh received the injury near the end of the K.U.-Iowa State game when Paulsen, the Cyclone center, collided with him. Waugh landed with his right foot twisted under him.
"Phog" thinks Jerry will be able to play but he won't be at his best for the game. Also suffering on the sick list are Gene Petersen and Dave Dennis. Both will probably be ready for the battle with the Wildcats, though.
If Waugh can't handle the quarterback spot against the Aggies, Dr. Allen will probably use Guy Mabry in his place.
One of the interesting sidelights to the K.U.-Kansas State game will be two former high school teammates opposing each other. Ernie Barrett, one of the Wildcats' outstanding sophomore guards, and Jerry Waugh were members of the Wellington, Kan., team in 1944-45. Ernie was a sophomore and Jerry was a senior.
In that year the Crusaders won the rough Ark Valley league's basketball title only to lose in the state playoffs to another member of the loom-Eldorado.
The two former teammates have already met this year in the preseason Big Seven tournament in Kansas City, Mo. Barrett made 10 points against the Jayhawkers then, but Waugh tossed in 18 to help his team win 60 to 46. They were each high scorer for their team in the game. Ernie saw his friend chosen the outstanding player of the tournament.
Gene Petersen, the Jayhawkers' Pr high scorer, is likely to get the job of guarding Clarence Brannum, the much discussed Wildcat center who is back in his perennial slot.
With Big Boy Brannum back among the Wildcats it was especially gratifying to see Missouri win at Manhattan, doubly so since Sparky Stalcup was so unconventional in announcing the loss to the Tigers of their two scoring aces, Dan Pippin, forward, and George Lafferty, sophomore guard.
In telling of the loss Sparky said "technically, I suppose, I could go ahead and play both men, against Kansas State, since they are eligible until the registrar informs me to the contrary." Caution seems to be Sparky's idea regarding eligibility.
Just what Jack Gardner and K-State's ideas on eligibility are, are hard to determine. It isn't easy to understand just how Big Boy Branum gets into and out of school so freely.
It is assumed that Brannum had a well paid position with the Caterpillar Tractor company with whom he played A.A.U. basketball in Peoria, Ill. Most A.A.U. players are given jobs which keep them supplied with the necessities of life.
The obvious question then is just how can Big Boy afford to return to college and give up his job? And only to foul out in his first appearance with just three points for his efforts!
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Colorado's Hills Is Bad For League's Top Scorers
Boulder, Colo., Feb. 8—(U.P.)—On the team roster, he's listed as Kendall Hills, forward. But the top cage scorers around the Big Seven conference refer to him more reverently as "Mr. Handcuffs." And after four games, the boys in the press box are learning why.
Hills, playing for Colorado university, has held the league's top scorers
Hills, playing for Connex to a total of three field goals in four games. Men who normally count it an "off night" unless they collect 10 or 15 points leave the floor after meeting him with the baffled feeling of players who've had their heads in a bag and their hands in a bucket of cement.
It took Hills a little time to attract the attention of the boys in the press box who were side-tracked early in the season by the flashier trick shot artists. But now the murmur is that it will be hard to pick an all-conference team without including the 20-year-old pre-med student who runs an "A" average on his classes on the side.
Coach Forrest "Frosty" Cox just smiles. He knew it all the time. "Kendall is a coach's dream. He is the first to adjust to a new situation, drives from whistle to whistle and makes so few mistakes that they aren't worth counting. He's a dandy," Cox says.
In every game Coach Cox delegates Hills to put the opposing team's top scorer "under wraps" and he's done, it with moralus success.
Oklahoma was the Buff's first opponent in league play. As expected the powerful Sooners won, but Paul Courty, the Big Seven's top scorer in 1948, got the "handcuff" treatment from Hills and got off with two measly buckets. Lucky Hills? Not on your life.
Next in line was Kansas State and the Colorado defense-man deluxe succeeded in blanking Rick Harman, K-State's leading scorer, from the floor. His next victim was Kansas university's Claude Houchin who got one field goal.
Then, to complete his domination of the so-called hot shot scoring men, Hills put the damper on Don Paulsen, Iowa State center. Paulsen was leading the conference in scoring when Hills put a short leash on him and kept him from scoring a single field goal.
That's not a bad average. Running up against four top men in successive games, "Mr. Handefuws" gave up three baskets, while he also doubled as an offensive wizard to help Colorado win two league games.
Feller, Di Mag Finally Sign
Wright are the new assistant sports editors. Arlo Bailey and Jim Van Valkenburg will do most of the writing that appears here. We invite your comments, suggestions, and news at any time.
Melvin C. Cottom, electrical engineering instructor, presented a technical paper Monday at the winter general meeting of the Institute of Electrical Engineering in New York. His topic was "Electrical Noise at the Sliding Contact."
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Cleveland, Feb. 8- (U.P.)—B ob b y Feller of the Cleveland Indians headed into "conference" with his boss, Bill Veeec, today and from that heralded huddle was due the "official" announcement that the ace hurler has signed his 1949 contract for approximately $72,000.
Feller, who reportedly came to terms in New York prior to Sunday night's Baseball Writers' association dinner, was understood to have agreed to a cut of some $10,000 from his 1948 salary which totalled $82,000 and ranked as one of the highest stipends ever earned by a ballplayer.
The Cleveland right-hander, who won 19 games last season, still falling short of expectations, reportedly will receive the same base salary of $40,000 that he received last year with the added $23,000 coming in the form of a bonus arrangement based on the club's attendance. The bonus has been revised downward from 1948.
In New York, the Giants became the first major league club with all players signed when catcher Walker Cooper agreed to terms following a brief conference with Manager Leo Durocher in Kansas City, Mo. Cooper, 32nd Giant player to accept terms, said he was "completely recovered" from a knee operation which was performed during the winter.
"I hope I can return to my 1947 form," Cooper said after signing. "I had a bad year last year (he hit 266) but I think I can do better in 1949 because my knee won't be bothering me."
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Jolting Joe Di Maggio of the Yankees signed a one-year contract that was believed to make him the highest-paid Yankee player in history, even exceeding the $80,000 paid Babe Ruth during 1931 and 1932. The slugging outfield star said he was quite satisfied with the terms and was ready for a good year.
Di Maggio, who drew approximately $68,000 last year, was due to arrive in Mexico City by plane today for a fishing trip.
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