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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1940
Billikens Thump Blackbirds; Kentucky Shades Falcons
New York, Jan. 12—(UP)—While the St. Louis Billikens rambled easily along in front of the college basketball pack today, the Wildcats of Kentucky were finding the road back a rough and rocky trip today.
The unbeaten Billikens, who dealt the Cats their only loss, gained more prestige last night when they trounced Long Island university, 58 to 47.
before a packed house at Madison Square Garden. It was the 10th straight victory for St. Louis.
Kentucky, which had not played since bowing to St. Louis in the Sugar bowl, went into Cleveland eager for a resounding win over Bowling Green that would get them rolling again on the victory trail. But the Wildcats ran into a peck of trouble and had to stall for the last 90 seconds to down the batting Falcons. 63 to 61.
Bowling Green, paced by Chuck Share's 25 points, could have had a stunning upset victory except for free throw weakness—the Falcons muffed 11 of their 22 chances. Gum-chewing Ralph Bard, playing a great floor game, looped in 20 points to pace the Kentucky attack.
St. Louis rolled to a 38 to 20 halftime margin over LIU, and coated home although their ace center, Ed Macauley, was held to 10 points.
The roster of seven major unbeaten teams remained intact with St. Louis' triumph. Hamline's 10th straight by 55 to 40 over Macaulay, and Akron's 10th straight by shipping Fenn 83 to 49. Minnesota and Western Kentucky were idle while tonight Villanova will seek its ninth straight against Fordham and Chincinnati will go after its seventh against St. Francis of Brooklyn.
A leading Ivy league game tonight finds Yale and its ace Tony Lavelli visiting defending champion Columbia. Two Southern conference games have North Carolina (8-1) at Wake Forest and George Washington and Georgetown. Other leading clashes are Canisius-Cornell, Maryland—Pennsylvania, Muhlenberg-Lafayette, Pittsburgh-Army, Seton Hall-Rutgers, and Louisville-North Carolina State.
Royals Move Into Tie For Second
BY UNITED PRESS
The Rochester Royals made another bid to regain their lead in the Basketball Association of America's Western division today by pulling into second place tie with Minneapolis, only 13 percentage points behind the front-running Chicago Stags.
In the only other game, the revamped Indianapolis Jets took an early lead and held it all the way to pound the hapless Providence Steamrollers, 90 to 67.
Rochester moved up from third place last night by staging a 32-point rally in the third period that stymied the Philadelphia Warriors, 83 to 71. Both Minneapolis and Chicago were idle.
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They Do Lots Of In Brooklyn!
Topeka, Kan., Jan. 12—(UP) —Joe Louis, appearing in a four-round exhibition here last night, was still a champion.
Louis Defends
Title In Topeka
With gangling Orlan Ott of Chicago as his opponent, Louis uncorked only a sample of his fisticuffs and still won the bout handily.
More than 4,000 paid customers saw the champion spar two rounds with Ott before he opened In the game. The champion had 6-foot- 6-inch, contender groggy.
In the latter stages of the fourth round, Louis again became the aggressor but Ott was on his feet when the fight ended.
The Big Seven basketball conference today saw Kansas get into the win column after two early defeats, but Oklahoma still rated a solid margin as the league's best.
OU On Top In Big 7
By UNITED PRESS
Oklahoma has won its first three conference starts.
Kansas ended a three-game losing streak, which included a pair of conference losses, by trimming Missouri, 42 to 35, last night at Lawrence. Missouri, hitting only 15 percent of its shots in a frigid exhibition, scored only 12 points in the first half.
It was Missouri's first setback since the Tigers lost to Kansas in the Big Seven tournament in Kansas City. After that loss, Missouri defeated Nebraska, Colorado, Northwestern and Kansas State.
Last night's other game featuring a Big Seven entry was a rough, 48 to 45 victory for Nebraska over Washington University of St. Louis. The game was played at Lincoln. It was marred by 51 fouls.
The win was Nebraska's sixth in 12 starts.
This week's remaining games are all scheduled for Saturday night. They include: Iowa State (0-1) vs. Nebraska (1-0) at Lincoln; Colorado (0-1) vs. Kansas State (0-1) at Manhattan; Missouri (1-1) vs. Oklahoma (3-0) at Norman, and Kansas vs. Washington university, at St. Louis, the latter a non-conference tame.
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College Station, Tex., Jan. 12-(UP)-The Texas Aggies aren't likely to win the Southwest conference basketball championship but they may command a great deal of respect before the season is over.
The 6-foot 3-inch senior from Dallas was only a reserve last season and suited up only when another uniform was needed on the bench. He was even asked once to remain in the dressing room because he was the 13th man to suit up and his mates were superstitious.
Texas A&M Has A Big Man
The big man in their plans—in more ways than one—is Jim Kirkland.
Now he gets the lower berths on the train or the most comfortable seats on the bus when the Aggies are on road trips.
JAYHAWKER
Where last season Kirkland got into only a few games—then when the Aggies were far behind—and scored only 13 points, this season he has been in every one and in 14 games has counted 141 points which ranks him among the top 10 in the conference.
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Kirkland has scored more points in several single games this season than he did in his entire 1947-48 campaign, with his best individual performance being 22 points against Seton Hall on the Aggies' Eastern tour.
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