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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1948
By PAUL ZEH Assistant Sports Editor
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The time has come for all good sports fans to turn "eyes front" and look to a new, and we all hope, a better year in 1943. It's not easy to take that backward glance off the Orange Bowl, or soon forget about Ray Evans, Charlie Black, and the many thrilling deeds of our 1947 teams and players. But now it's time to look ahead.
With the New Year's day dream game officially starting of the year with a bang, let's speculate on what else we can expect in the coming twelve months.
Basketball action will fill our thoughts for the next few months. Our Jayhawkers, we fear, are in for some rough evenings on the court when they tangle with such veteran quintets as the Oklahoma Sooners and Aggies and the cousin Wildeats from Manhattan. But a few men are still around to cause trouble for Phog Allen's foes, such as Schniellbacher, Houchin, and England.
We can figure to improve more than any other team in the Big Seven, and might wind up with a third place. Those remarkable Wildcats have really got IT, and the veteran Sooners of Bruce of the year in the conference looks Drake aren't far behind. The player of the year in the conference looks like Bill Waters, Oklahoma's new Tucker, or Hal Howey, who is doing a great job (along with Jack Gardner and teammates) to bring the fast break to Big Seven basketball.
A highlight of the 1948 sports year on Mt. Oread will be the Bill Eaton-version of the K. U. Relays, on April 16 and 17. The Relays have been big in past years, but "big" is a long way from "colossal." That "Glen Cunningham Mile" will put the meet in the national spotlight, and Bob Karnes' performance in that run may put the University in the national picture again. Tom Scofield hasn't hit his peak yet, and will be even greater this spring in the high jump. In fact, Easton's athletes may do a lot of unexpected things on the dinders, such as running the Missou Tigers into the ground for the Big Seven championships.
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While Jayhawker athletes are sunning themselves through the summer, we can always peek in on the national baseball arena, where the action is always packed with thrills and surprises. The Superteam of the year shapes up to the Boston Red Sox, currently loaded down with pitchin', power, and brains, the latter in the person of Marsh Joe McCarty, thier new boss. Add Vern Stephens, Stan Spence, and Jack Kramer to Williams, Pesky, Don DiMaggio, Hughon, Ferris, Doerr, and Co. and you've got the team that's gonna beat the Yankas.
The National League still has the Cardinals, who are as star-studded as ever. But watch that other Boston entry, which is build-in 'fast for a pennant. If some gaps are filled around Spahn, Sain, Bollioff, and Tommy Holmes, they'll take it. The Dodgers and Giants will make it another dog-fight.
And then comes football—that's the game we played in the Orange Bowl. No Evans next fall, but don't be too sad, Griffith, Pattee, and French will be back to run, Hogan will be around to pass, and a guy named Willie Modric may do a lot of both. These, along with most of those Palomino forwards and a few nifty freshmen. Will make the Jayhawkers the team to beat again in the Big Seven.
But watch out for Missouri, with Braznell and Carras; Oklahoma, with Junior Thomas; and Nebraska, with Novak and Pesek, Hutton and Adams. And don't overlook Iowa State, the dark horse already. Colorado's inaugural grid season will make it interesting.
For another Big Seven curtainraiser, the Nebraska Cornhuskers travel to Ames, Iowa, to engage the Iowa State Cyclones. Unbeaten Kansas State (such a contrast), rapidly becoming the title favorite, takes on Long Island U. in the Garden tonight in an intersectionsal tilt. Colorado and Missouri, upset victor over Michigan State, are idle tonight.
The effects of seasoning are showing up in Jayhawker play. The squad returned from a four-game West Coast trip with a creditable two-two split, after placing third in the Big Seven pre-season tourney in Kansas City.
Coach Bruce Drake's plight hasn't been overpowering, however, as he has had the material to rebuild a squad. Big Bob Waters, 6 foot 5 inch replacement for Tucker last season has moved up to a starting berth, and has averaged close to 10 points per game all season. Hardy Day, Paul Merchant, and Jim Pryor also are canable replacements.
KU-Sooner Clash Tonight To Start Big 7 Cage Play
Jim Still (42) eludes Kansas ends Otto Schnellba her (39), and Dave Schmidt (45) to fire a pass upfield early in the game. Other Kansas players in the picture are Hugh Johnson (47), tackle, and Joe Crawford (43), guard. Georgia Tech players shown are Captain Bill Healey (56), Ralph Slaten (61), Lewis Hook (25), and all-American tackle Bob Davis (57).
Kansas Squad Improves
The University of Kansas Jayhawker basketball squad will open the 1948 conference basketball season at 7:30 tonight in Hoch auditorium when Kansas entertains the defending champion Oklahoma Sooners.
Oklahoma will bring a rebuilt ball club to Lawrence tonight. Gone are such stars as all-Americans Gerald Tucker and Allie Paine. Also missing will be two other 1947 reporters, Dick Reich and Jack Landon. Only remaining starter is lefty Paul Courty.
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Otto Schnellbacher, three-time a squad tonight for the first time this bowl football game New Year's Day. Coach Phog Allen today tabbed him certain starter agains the Sooners. Givn Courty Returns
Otto Schnellbacher, three-time all-Big Six forward, returns to the squad tonight for the first time this season after playing in the Orange
Phog Allen of the Jayhawkers has been faced with the same problem, only more so, after the loss of Charley Black. Ray Evans, Owen Peck, and Wendell Clark. The only experienced man on the squad is Schnabbler, who will be putting on a varsity suit for the first time this year.
—University Daily Kansan photo by Sam Jones
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Basketball Results
North Carolina 52, Tennessee 43
South Carolina 65, Wake Forest 60
Duke 53 Maryland 42
Purdue 58 Indiana 49
Wisconsin 59 Minnesota 59
Illinois 52 Northwestern 47
Iowa 49 Iowa State 41
Notre Dame 77 Georgetown 69
Kentucky 67 Miami (Ohio) 53
Bradley 91 Arizona 66
Missouri 46 Michigan St. 44
Texas 59 Rice 44
Denver 59 Colorado A & M 53
Kramer Tops Riggs For Third In A Row
Duffalo, N. K.—(UP)—Jack Kramer of Los Angeles, who now apparently is confident enough of his mastery over Bobby Biggs to risk abandoning his "play it safe" back court game, today led the U. S. professional tennis king, 4 matches to 3, in their 65-match cross-country exhibition tour.
The former national amateur champion dropped his usual tactics in the final set last night as he defeated his fellow Californian, 3-6, 6-3, 8-6. It was Kramer's third straight victory over Riggs in as many nights. The lead see-sawed in the last set until Kramer broke his opponent's service with overhead smashes to score the only love victory in the match.
Francisco "Pancho" Segura of Ecuador defeated Dinny Pails of Australia, 6-3, 8-6, in the preliminary attraction.
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