TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1948
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Coast Ball Called Best
Santa Clara, Calif.—(UF)—The brand of basketball played by Pacific Coast colleges this year is "noticeably" better than the rough hoop game displayed in the east, Coach Ray Pesco of Santa Clara declared today.
Returning from a barnstorming tour to New York, Peso said Eastern countets were superior in ballhawking and high-pressure tactics but he believed that western sharp-shooters gave teams from the coast a definite edge" in all-around performance.
"In the East, they're still relying to a great extent on two-handed set shots." Peaco said, "whereas the one-handed push shot developed by Coast players is equally as accurate and speeds up the game.
"If 10 western teams played 10 eastern teams on neutral courts, the Pacific Coast clubs would have a definite edge."
Pesco emphasized the West's advantage would be on "neutral courts" only—mainly because of "lax" eastern officiating, which he said was "distinctly different" from what western teams could expect on their home courts.
"We found there was considerably more body contact, bruising and bouncing around in Madison Square Garden games, for example", he said. " than my boys were accustomed to here."
Santa Clara, considered only an average team in Coast competition, broke even on the tour. The Broncos edged Temple, currently the East's No. 1 basketball power.
FRANK LEAHY, Notre Dame football coach, dropped by at a Kansas practice session to have a few words with Coach George Sauer, with whom he is shown here. Leahy told University Daily Kansan reporters that he had great respect for Sauer and the job he has done at Kansas.
Texas, Kentucky Favored To Repeat Championships
New York—(UP)—Texas in the Southwest and Kentucky in the Southeast today appear as the teams most likely to defent successfully their basketball championships as the nation's college teams buckled down to conference races.
Texas suffered its first defeat of the season last week to Oklahoma
—University Daily Kansan photo by Sam Jones.
This is the one that did the damage. Jim Patton, Georgia Tech halfback, stretches to take the winning touchdown pass from Jim Still in the third quarter as Otto Schnellbacher and Bud French try vainly to stop him. Bob Jordan, Engineer end, looks on.
Phi Psi, Beta, ATO Loom As Powers In Intramural Fraternity 'A' Basketball
Phi Kappa Psi, Beta, and Alpha Tau Omega loomed as powers in intramural basketball as they came through with convincing wins last night to remain in the unbeaten ranks.
Using their superior height to control the backboards, the Phi Psi's slipped past the Sigma Chi's 27 to 23. Big Bill Richardson and hustling Ron Roberts led the well-ballanced$\textcircled{4}$
Beta's Breeze In
After a cold first half in which they were held to an 8 to 7 disadvantage, the Betas returned to the floor a revived team and when the final whistle blew they held a 26 to 17 lead over the Tekes. Moon and Winter were the big guns in the Beta offensive, racking up 12 and 19 tallies respectively.
Although leading 23 to 13 at the midway mark, the Phi Kappa's were forced to sweat out a 32 to 30 triumph over Alpha Phi Alpha. The losing five got hot in the fourth quarter and nearly caught the oncebeaten Phi Kap's before time ran out. Culhane rang up 13 points in the first half for the winning cause but made only a brief appearance in the remainder of the contest. Accounting for 10 markers, Browder was high point man for the losers.
Sparked by Joe Levy, who buckled eight from the field, the ATO's walked away with a 40 to 16 victory over Triangle. Also starring for the victors was Weldensau, who hit 11 counters. It was the ATO's third win in as many starts.
Alpha Kappa Psi staged a surprise win, rambling over the Delt's 34 to 22. Spearheading the A.K. Psi attack were Briley and DeYoung, who chalked up nine points each, while Harris and Coburn paced the losers with five-point showings.
ment clash at Oklahoma City, but these 10 victories the Longhorns have amassed this season made them look mighty good in the run for the top money in their own ballwick.
Pai's attack with six points each. Lenoid of the Sigma Chi's was the game's top point-maker with seven tallies.
Kentucky does not defend its Southeastern conference title until the league tournament comes up later this year, but Adolph Rupp's crew appears ready to recent. Victories over Creighton and Western Ontario this week stretched the win string to 10, against one defeat—an upset loss to Temple.
Elsewhere around the nation, the fortunes of 1947's champs were not so bright.
St. Louis university, defending the title in the Missouri Valley conference, is still undefeated after seven games but plays that tough Oklahoma A & M crew Saturday. The Aggies lost only to unbeaten Kansas State, and are ready for the early showdown clash this week.
Two Southpaw Troubleshooters Will Aid Jayhawker Basketball Cause This Year
Illinois seemed headed for the Big Nine crown with an undefeated record in seven games until it ran up against Wisconsin Saturday.
The late John McCraw, fiery pilot of the old New York Giants, used to like to have a couple of lefthanded trouble shooters on his pitching staff. Phog Allen, who often has been called the McGraw of basketball, may apply the same theory this season.
The play pattern of this year's Jayhawker five won't take definite shape until the Kansas youngsters return
until the Kansas youngsters return from the Far West to ouen their Big Seven season against Oklahoma here. But right now it looks like Phog will come up with a pair of southpaw clutch performers who are destined to spread a lot of grief throughout the circuit this season.
These figures aren't exactly spectacular, but the clutch shooting of the pair is. It was England who
The lads in question are Harold England, the wan-faced sophomore forward from Halstead, and Jack Eskridge, six-foot four-inch front liner from Independence, Mo. As the hawjackows return from their western swing, England and Eskridge ranked second and sixth, respectively, on the Red and Blue scoring chart.
DiMag Sions For 1948
dropped through a port-side free throw in the last 12 seconds against Nebraska to force their Big Seven tournament game into overtime at Kansas City last Saturday. Harold also added a bucket in the extra session. However, most of the damage there was done by Eskridge who rimmed six overtime points in forging the 64-60 win over Harry Good's profile-scoring quintet.
New York—(UP)—Joe Di Maggio of the New York Yankees signed his 1948 contract today and although terms were not announced, it was believed that he will receive in the neighborhood of $70,000.
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