MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1948
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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Aggies Arrive Tonight Seeking Big Seven Title
An undisputed Big Seven conference championship—their first basketball crown in 31 years—will be the goal when Kansas State's title-crazed Wildcats battle the Jayhawkers at 7:30 tonight in Hoch auditorium.
Thanks to Iowa State's surprising victory over Oklahoma in Ames
urday night, 55 to 35, the championship flavor was added to tonight's this
Post-Season BB Shapes Up
New York, March 1—(UP) The basketball fireworks worked beeping below the Mason-Dixon line today as the Southeastern and Southern conferences readied tournaments to declare their champions.
The Southern tourney begins Wednesday at Durham, N.C., and the Southeastern meet gets underway Thursday at Louisville.
The favorites to win the two tourneys already have been invited to the big national championship events-Kentucky to the N.C.A.A. playoffs and North Carolina State to the Madison Square Garden Invitational.
Cowboys, Cats Vie In Midlands
However, Tulane makes a bid to the Southeastern for a berth in the invitational. The New Orleans quintet carts a shining 21-2 record into the Louisville competition, and a creditable showing, even if Kentucky wins the title, might land the club in New York.
Elsewhere, the tournament lineups were shaping up nicely. Oklahoma A&M won the Missouri Valley crown with a 36-27 decision over Creighton Saturday. Kansas State could clinch the Big Seven title by downing Kansas tonight, and the N.C.A.A. bid for the Midlands territory would go to an Aggie-K-State playoff winner unless one or the other concedes.
Michigan and Iowa meet tonight at Ann Arbor for the Big Nine title, a situation set up by Michigan's 40 to 36 in over Ohio State and Iowa's 54 to 50 triumph over Minnesota Saturday. The champ probably will go to the N.C.A.A.
N. Y. U., the only major undefeated team in the nation, faces Notre Dame in another spotlighted game tonight. However, regardless of the outcome, N.Y.U. seems assured of either the N.C.A.A. or the Invitational.
Utah apparently sewed up Rocky Mountain representation in the N.C.A.A. with a 63 to 48 win over Denver Saturday. Brigham Young won the conference title but is going to the N.A.I.B. meet in Kansas City.
California must play the Northern division winner likely to be Oregon State, for the Pacific Coast Conference title and the eighth N.C.A.A. position.
4 Already in Invitational
Four teams have been named to the Invitational, and the other four should be assigned berths this week. Prospects to join North Carolina State. Western Kentucky, Texas, and St. Louis are Tulane, Depaul, which beat St. Louis Saturday; West Virginia, Muhlenberg, a 17-3 team. Long Island U., City College of N.Y., and Utah, should the Utes not land in the N.C.A.A.
Ten of the 32 teams to play in the N.A.I.B. at Kansas City have been selected, with the remainder due this week. On the line are Marshall, Lawrence Tech, Brigham Young, Indiana State Teachers, Arizona State, Mercer, Peru State, Southern Oregon, New Britain Teachers, and Manhattan.
J. V. Sikes To Arrive In Lawrence Today
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J. V. Sikes, new varsity football coach, should arrive in Lawrence sometime today, E. C. Quigley, athletic director, has announced. Sikes is driving from Aitens, Ga., so his time of arrival is indefinite. Sikes was chosen from a field of 65 candidates to head the Jayhawker football staff this year.
a certain previous Triumphant in two previous meetings, 56-42 and 48-29, the Wildcats are already assured of a title, and need only to defeat K.U. again tonight to accomplish two major objectives.
Can Clinch Championship
First, victory would mean a clear cut, undisputed championship—the first court title for K-State since the 1917 team ran away with the old Missouri Valley league honors.
Second, victory would mean an end to the jinx that K.U. has held over K-State in Lawrence since 1935. It has been 13 years since a K-State team defeated a Kansas quintet here. It has been a long time, but patience finally may get around to delivering a reward.
For Kansas a win would edge the Jayhawkers away from Colorado, now resting in the conference cellar as well as opening the gate to a drive toward the first division. Phog Allen's gang still has three games left, with Nebraska, Colorado and Iowa State, and if they could climb back into their earl season stride against the Wildcats, have a chance of hopping above .500 per cent for the league season.
With a season record of 19 and 3, Kansas State is the prohibitive choice any way you compare them, man for man, team for team, or record for record.
Brannum Is Game Captain
Big Clarence Brannum will be game captain for K-State and on this count the Wildcats believe they are seizing an opportunity. They're happy that the Wildcats' big chance after all these years without a shirt—should come in a Lawrence setting in the home atmosphere of "Phog" Allen, whose charges all season of Brannum's brilliance only last Saturday were overrilled by the faculty representatives in their meeting.
Brannum is eligible, the faculty representatives ruled as they voted down a motion by Dr. W. W. Davis, KU. representative, that would have barred the Kansas State center from play for one calendar year beginning September 1, 1948.
Eskridge To Start
Against this lineup, Allen will use Jack Eskridge and Otto Schnellbacher at forwards, Jerry "Sheriff" Waugh at center and Claude Houchin and Bill Sapp at guards, Kansas, beaten in its last six starts, now has a season record of 8 and 11 and faces its first season under 500 percent since 1929. The Jayhawkers have four remaining conference games, including tonight's, and they need all of them.
Coach Gardner, content with two previous successes against Kansas, will start the same five again tonight—Rick Harman and Harold Howey at forwards, Branum at center, and Howard Shannon and Jack Dean at Guards.
To what tactics Kansas will turn to try to humble their hard-driving neighbor remains to be seen. The Jayhawkers tried to keep up with Gardner's fast-breaking crew in the clubs' first meeting in the loop tournament at Kansas City, but faded out of a 39-39 tie at the 35-minute mark to drop by 14 points.
Allen came up with a fake-stall at Manhattan Feb. 18, but this broke down after a half and the Cats went on the score their biggest win in history. However, the foxy doctor is certain to come up with something to disconcert his arch foe. His club turned in a good battle in bowling to Oklahoma only 46-50 at Norman in its last outing and has been drilling hard since with an eye toward a late drive to the league's first division.
State Needs Only One
Kansas State needs just this one tonight. If the Wildcats win this one, it won't make any difference what happens when they windup their conference schedule a week from tonight against Oklahoma in Norman.
| | W | L | Pct | Pts | Op |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kansas State | 8 | 2.800 | 469 | 458 | 488 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | 4.556 | 458 | 423 | 523 |
| Iowa State | 6 | 5.546 | 520 | 535 | 553 |
| Missouri | 5 | 5.500 | 491 | 483 | 589 |
| Nebraska | 6 | 4.400 | 530 | 589 | 595 |
| Kansas | 3 | 5.375 | 375 | 381 | 386 |
| Colorado | 3 | 7.200 | 465 | 506 | 507 |
Big 7 Standings
Tonight—Kansas State vs. Kansas at Lawrence, Oklahoma vs. Nevada at Lincoln, Colorado vs. Missouri at Columbia.
This week's schedule:
Thursday-Kansas vs. Oklahoma A. and M. at Stillwater
Friday—Missouri vs. Oklahoma at Norman, Iowa State vs. South Dakota at Ames.
Saturday-Kansas vs. Nebraska at Lincoln.
Beta Wins Frat Crown
Beta Theta Ii picked the fraternity "A" team basketball championship with a surprising 26 to 19 victory over the Phi Delt's while the Trudeale Tigers took the independent "B" team championship with a 37 to 33 win over the A. V. C.
Jack Winter paced the Beta's with 11 tails, eight of which came on long one-handed push shots. Mitchell was high for the Phi Delt's with six points, and Walt Quiring, the high scoring Phi Delt forward, was held to one field goal by the winners
Leading 17 to 12 at the half, the Truesdale Tigers maintained their lead to roll to a 37 to 33 victory from the A. V. C. Gurtner starred for the Tigers scoring 15 points and playing well under the boards. Briley potted 10 to assist the winners. Kaiser matched Gurtner point for point as he paced the veterans with 15. The Tigers beat the Y. M. C. A. 27 to 23 move into the finals, and the A. V. C. beat Beta Kappa 35 to 24 in their semi-final game.
In the Independent "A" team league the Y, M. C. A. earned the right to play in the finals by downing the Nubbins 40 to 38. The winner of the Aces High-Last Chance game today will meet the "Y" in the final contest.
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The Phi Delt-Beta feud will carry over from the "A" team league to the "B" team when the two squads square off today. The Phi Delt's hold playoff decisions over the Sig Abbs, and Delta Chi's while the Beta's have beaten the Phi Gams and the Phi Sisi.
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Spring Training To Start Today
New York, March 1- (UP) - Sixteen big league clubs camped in Arizona, Florida, California and far-off Latin America inaugurated the 1948 spring training season today with only a few scattered holdouts marring an otherwise "grand opening."
The more stubborn holdouts included outfielder Bob Thomson; shortstop Eub Kerr and pitcher Ken Trinkle of the New York Giants; outfielder Harry Walker of the Philadelphia Phillies; first baseman George McQuinn of the New York Yankees; infielders Eddie Stanky Wee Reese and catcher Bruce Edward Pike and Brooklyn; pitcher Johnny Sain and Carvel Rowell of the Boston Braves; shortstop Eddie Lake of Detroit, and pitcher Johnny Vander Meer of Cincinnati.
The St. Louis Brown, with six unsigned players, and the Braves with five, appeared to have the biggest salary problems, although both Brownie and Brave officials expressed confidence that the holdouts would agree to terms shortly.
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