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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1948
Houchin A Star As KU Wins
By PAUL ZEH Assistant Sports Editor
Claude Houchin and Guy Mabry doubled up in the hero role last night to start the University of Kansas Jayhawkers off on their 1948 Big Seven schedule with a hair-raising 39 to 38 overtime victory over the Oklahoma Sooners, last year's conference champs.
Houchin answered Paul Courty's field goal with five seconds left in the station by rushing to a long
Houchin answered Paul Courty's overtime session by sinking a long, long two-hander a second before the gun ended the battle. The looper was shot from about five feet back of the center line.
Mabry's one-hander from behind the free throw circle tied the game at 34-all with six seconds of the regulation time left. Potentially Game
Slow Fumbling Game
This double dose of excitement, twice robbing the Sooners of a victory, was not in tune with the monotonous defensive struggle the
BY MARRY CLADDE HOUCHIN
two squads waged most of the game. Neither offense could shake its guards consistently, and both teams missed a large percentage.
The teams were never separated by more than three points. Harold England's potent left hand kept the Jayhawkers within distance in the first half, as he sank a total of 10. It was his bucket with 20 seconds left which brought the Allen quintet up to a 19 to 19 tie at halftime.
The final 20 minutes were even slower, with only nine field goals being hit by both teams. Otto Schnellbacher, whose rebounding for the smaller Jayhawkers was brilliant in the first half, fouled out after four minutes of the second stanza, after Kansas had built its biggest lead 23 to 20.
Sooners Pull Ahead
But Harley Day and Paul Court paired a free toss and a goal to tie it, and the game see-sawed the rest of the way. Bill Sapp and Houchin countered from the field after England and Bill Waters has swapped free ones, but Day matched each of these goals with two from the corner. Then Courty put the visitors ahead, 30 to 28, with nine minutes left.
BILL SAPP HAROLD ENGLAND
From that point to the crowd-thriller by Mabry, the game was a battle of free throws, stolen balls, and close misses.
In the five-minute overtime only
five shots were taken by each team and none hit the mark, until Courty sank his one-handed push shot from the corner. Then came the thriller of the evening by Houchin. England tallied one and Jerry Waugh two clutch charity shots in the overtime, and Day converted a pair for Oklahoma.
Phog Pulls Surprise
Coach Phog Allen had the crowd, Bruce Drake, and the experts guessing when he started Sonny Enns and Gene Barr with Schnellbacher, Waugh, and Houchin. Harold England, the high scorer for the Jayhawkers, didn't get into the tussle until seven minutes had elapsed. But Allen's starters successfully hacked the visitors, for neither team scored for the first four minutes of the contest.
In addition to his "Frank Merriwell" performance, Houchin snowed Drake's center, Bill Waters, limiting him to eight shots at the basket and two buckets. Waters tallied five from the charity line to take high honors for the Sooners with nine points.
Sophomore Harold England took high honors for the game with 13 points, ten in the first half. Houchin, Day, and Kenny Pryor tied behind Waters with seven counters each.
The Jayhawkers outplayed Oklahoma under the basket, and took shots at the net, but they sank only 15 per cent of their attempts. Oklahoma was 14 per cent accurate.
A total of 24 players were used in the contest. Allen played 13 Hawkers, substituting frequently and juggling the positions of the men. Maury, Waugh, Enns, and Kissell all operated as the quarterback at various times. Schnellbeli tried out Charlie Black's vacated pivot post at times in the first half, but failed to hook any through the hoop in several tries.
Topeka—(UP)—Western Kansas counties missed most of the moisture benefits from the New Year's snowstorm, a federal-state weekly crop report asserted Tuesday.
Snow Missed Most Of Western Kansas
While some eastern Kansas areas got up to a foot of snow, the big wheat-producing counties in the west received only a thin covering.
Arn. Collins termed the thick snow blanket "very beneficial" to the wheat and to soil conditions through central and eastern Kansas.
Hubert Collins, crop statistician for the state, said that not only was the snowfall light in the west, "it blew off the fields in some cases."
Memphis, Tenn.—(UP)—A Memphis ice company received payments for a $45.60 account due but the money order was for only $45. An attached note explained: "Had to use the 60 cents for the money order. Will send that later."
Only a small amount of field work was accomplished in Kansas during the week just ended, except in southeastern counties. Plowing was interrupted there by sleet and snow.
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Box Score
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Schnellbacher, f 1 0 5
Waugh, f 0 3 1
Enns, c 0 0 1
Barr, g 0 1 1
Houchin, g 3 1 3
Stramel 0 0 0
Penny 1 1 2
Martin 1 0 1
England 3 7 2
Mabry 1 0 7
Feagans 0 0
Kissell 0 1
Sapp 2 1
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County, f
Jones, f
Waters, c
Pryor, g
Merchant, g
Lynn
Day
Hughes
Speegle
Terrell
Leake
Pi Kappa Alpha and Sigma Phi Epsilon will resume their torrid race for the inter-fraternity bowling title Thursday night deadlocked for the league with 23 wins and seven losses each.
Sig Ep, PiKA In Bowling Tie
The Sig Alph's pulled into a tie for third place with the Sigma Nu's in the last matches before the holidays, and Triangle continued its rise by winning two from the Teke's.
Thursday night schedule will pit Triangle against the leading PIKA's in the feature. The Sig Ep's will meet Teke. The schedule: Sigma Chi vs. A. T. O.; Triangle vs. Pi KA; Sigma Nu vs. Phi Delt; Kappa Si vs. Sig Alph; T. K. E. vs. Sig Eg.
The individual star of the matches on Dec. 18 were Myton Husband, and Doyle of the high 10 and Adams of the Sig Ep's who rolled 508 for the high 30.
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Some BB Tickets Still For Sale
Basketball single admission tickets will cost $1.30 this season.
Unsold season tickets will be used for the singles.
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Students may still buy season tickets for $2.15 with their activity books. Only group one tickets are available. Included are games with Drake, Nebraska, and Kansas State. The game Tuesday night with Oklahoma was in group one. This will cause no reduction in the price of the tickets however.
First Loss For Aggies
New York-(UP)]-Jack Gardner of Kansas State today joined a growing group of frustrated college basketball coaches who spend a goodly portion of their time wondering what happened to their teams in Madison Square garden.
Gardner's Wildcats, riding a string of 10 straight victories, including Eastern triumphs against Canisius and St. Joseph, lost to Long Island university last night in New York's rambling indoor sports palace, 65 to 47.
New York—(UP)—Jack Gardner
Gardner had said before the game that most of his boys were visiting a big city for the first time. It was a sad stopover. Coach Clair Bee's blackbirds posted a 32 to 22 halftime lead and then scored 12 points in four minutes to wipe out a 39 to 38 Kansas State advantage midway in the second half. Forward Lou Lipman, who led L.I.U. to a victory over Southern California on New Year's Day, dominated the Blackbird rally with three field goals and a free throw.
L. I.U. center Jack French, who got 11 points in the first half, was the game's high scorer with 17.
Kansas State, which was a sevenpoint favorite on the basis of victories over such capable teams as Oklahoma A. M. , Indiana and Oklahoma, appeared to suffer from the "stage fright" experienced by many teams playing in the garden for the first time.
St. John's completed the double- header by upsetting its metropolitan rival, City College of New York, 38 to 34.
At Boston Arena, undefeated Columbia began defense of its Ivy league title and was forced to play two overtime periods to defeat Harvard. 55 to 53.
In the Southwest, Oklahoma A. & M. won its 11th victory in 12 starts by throttling Tulsa. 49 to 25.
Kansas edged Oklahoma, 39 to 38.
Iowa State defeated Nebraska, 55 to 44, and Cincinnati beat Western Reserve, 71 to 55, in feature games in the Midwest.
In the South, Davidson beat Duke, 44 to 42, Tulane swamped Florida, 62 to 35, Georgia defeated Furman, 49 to 44, and Virginia defeated Washington and Lee. 73 to 54.
On the West coast, two 19-year-old sophomores, Rich Evans and Jack Curran, led Gonzaga to a 61 to 55 triumph over Idaho. Washington State stopped Whitman, 71 to 33, and Whitworth defeated Farragut Weech, 55 to 32, in other coast games.
Major games tonight send Southern Methodist against Texas Christian at Dallas, Tex.; Brown against Columbia at Providence, R.I.; Pennsylvania against Princeton, at Princeton, N.J.; and Notre Dame against Butler at South Bend, Ind. The Irish will be after their 36th straight home-floor victory.
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