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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 31, 1947
By BILL CONBOY
After his annual tour of the spring baseball circuit, Oscar Fraley, United Press sports writer, picks the major league teams to finish in this order:
American league, Detroit Tigers,
Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees,
Cleveland Indians, Washington Sen-
tators, Chicago White Sox, St. Louis
Browns, and Philadelphia Athletics.
National league: St. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Braves, Chicago Cubs, Pittsburg Pirates, New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies.
Fraley is not following the beaten path in his selections. Most sports writers have been inclined to string along with the Boston Red Sox in the American and the Brooklyn Dodgers in the National.
杂事
The biographical sketch tells of Tucker's prowess in former years, emphasizing quite naturally the fact that he holds the season scoring record for the Big Six at 175 points. Only one game is cited to illustrate the Sooner center's play of the season just completed. This is the reference:
Returning to the subject of Friday's column, we think the case of Gerald Tucker is a good illustration of the ways an all-American is made. We do think big Tuck is deserving of the honor, but by reading the True magazine writeup of the Sooner pivot man we gained the impression that he made the grade of national recognition almost wholly on one game.
"After watching him score eight field goals against Wisconsin, Roundy Coughlin, the newspaper sage of Madison, Wisconsin, wrote: "This Tucker is the best visiting basketball player I have ever seen in the field-house here and I was here when they built it too."
One game, a game in which the Big Six champions defeated the Big Nine title holder, was enough to send reports flying to New York. We are glad Tucker made it, but we feel that he might have played even better games some other times in the season, which no one in New York ever heard of because they weren't with Big Nine schools or on ones on the eastern seaboard.
It's high time that all-American teams began to represent more than a birds-eye-view of the court picture as seen from Madison Square Garden.
Chicago Gears Win Western Playoff
(By United Press)
The Chicago Gears, western champions in the national basketball league, are ready to meet the Rochester Royals or the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons for the league championship.
Chicago took the western title Saturday night by defeating the Oshkosh All-stars, 61 to 60. The Gears won the first two games of the scheduled three-game series.
Mountain Climbing Is Handy On Campus
"My mountain climbing equipment and experience comes in handy on Mt. Oread." Dr. W. W. Davis, professor of history, told the Geology club Thursday night.
"When the ice and snow get too bad on the Hill, I put on my Swiss ice cleats and go whizzing by all the people."
The animal called the slowworm or blindworm is neither slow nor blind nor is it a worm. It is a legless lizard.
Dr. Davis lived for many years in Europe, both as a student and an instructor at the Sorbonne in Paris. He learned mountain climbing by spending his summer vacations climbing the Alps.
Longhorns Dominate Texas Relays; Big Six Sweeps Field Events
The University of Texas dominated its own relays Saturday, by taking first place in most of the relay events.
The field events, however, were dominated by schools of the Big Six. Men from these schools won first in every field event except the high jump. Monte Kinder, Nebraska, tied for first with Haws of Texas A. and M. and Coffman of Rice, in this event to complete the Big Six sweep.
Crowley Wins Broad Jump
Bob Crowley took first place in the broad jump for Kansas with a leap of 23 feet $5 \frac{1}{2}$ inches. The Kansas two mile relay team of Johnson, Moore, Jackson and Karnes placed second behind Texas, and Karl Ebel was fourth in the javelin to complete the Kansas scoring.
Rollin Prather of Kansas State was high point man of the university college division with ten points. He took first in the shot-put with 50 feet $8 \%$ inches and the discus with 151 feet $2 \frac{1}{4}$ inches.
Tiny Jerry Thompson of Texas was named the outstanding performer of the carnival. He ran a 4:13 mile and a 1:53.8 half-mile in anchoring two quartets to victory in the medley and two-mile relays. Texas A. and M. Breaks Record
Texas A. and M. covered the distance of the mile relay in 3:17.8 to better the university mark of 3:18.4 set by the University of Chicago in 1929. This was the oldest record on the books for the relays. However, this is not the meet record. In 1941 North Texas State did 3:15.4 in the college division.
The Jayhawk track team will meet Emporia State Teachers college Thursday at Emporia in their first outdoor dual meet of the season. Tryouts for this meet will be held at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at the stadium.
McKenley Hails Wint As Track Sensation
The Big Nine, in the midst of one of the greatest seasons in conference indoor track history, heard of Arthur Wint, a "Paul Bunyon" performer who is better than world 440 champion Herb McKenley.
McKenley, who retained his league quartermile title earlier this month after setting a new American indoor mark during a second flat, pre-raced season at Winston-Kingston. Jamaica, would be a future track sensation at Illinois.
Wint, who is 6 feet, 5 inches tall and has a 10 foot stride, has whipped up his crazy time they have jaced over 220 yards during the last several years.
The 25 year old Wint, also a product of McKenley's Calabar High school in Kingston, defeated the Illinois star in the Pan American games in Colombia last summer, in which he lost time or seconds flat set a new Pan American record as did his winning 1:54 in the 800 meters.
McKenley, who holds the indoor and outdoor records in the 300 and 440 yard dashes, says that Wint, a mother's son, now is being demobilized from British royal force, and will enroll at Illinois probably this summer.
In Sweden last summer, Wint ran the 400 meters in 47 seconds flat for the second record McKenley also credits Wint with a broad jump of 24 feet, 9 inches.
Colusa, Calif.-(UP)-Harold (Ha) Chase, who gained immortality with the New York Yankees as "the greatest first baseman of them all." fought for life in Colusa Memorial hospital today.
Former Yank Star Is Fighting For Life
The condition of the 64-year-old baseball star, who was credited with revolutionizing the playing style for first basemen, was reported unchanged last night after a slight rally Saturday.
His physicians said it was doubtful that he would ever walk again if he recovers from a kidney ailment and other complications.
Texas Tennis Meet To Begin Today
(By United Press)
The 13th annual River Oaks invitation tennis tournament opens today with six of the nation's 10 best amateurs competing in Houston.
Three of the nine seeded players will see action in the first round pairings.
Jack Kramer, national indoor and outdoor champion, is top seeded for the tournament. Frankie Parker, is seeded No. 2.
The other seeded players are defending champion Gardnar Mulloy, Bill Talbert. Eddie Moylan, Pancho Segura, the Ecuador star; Sam Match of Rice Institute, Frank Guernsey, and Bitsy Grant.
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