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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 27,1947
By BILL CONBOY
Tuesday's Daily Kansan carried an editorial reprinted from The Oklahoma Daily for March 14. The Sooner student newspaper apparently resents the fact that "Colorado was admitted to the loop and Oklahoma A. and M.'s plea for admittance was temporarily ignored."
The people in Norman are pretty good at this ignoring business themselves. They have chosen to ignore why it was that the Aggies from Stillwater were not looked on with favor by the conference fathers at their last confab.
Aggies Not On Blacklist
The Aggies were not temporarily rejected because they happened to have their school in Oklahoma. The Sooner state is not on any Big Six blacklist. But schools which do not conform with conference athletic principles are and should be on a blacklist.
The Stillwater school has built up a reputation in the past several years of measuring its athletic teams by dollars and cents. And the Aggie athletes are recruited on the same basis.
The right or wrong involved in such a policy is not the question. The point is that Big Six schools would be at a serious disadvantage to bring in a new member which uses methods of obtaining athletes denied to the others.
If and when reports from Stillwater indicate that Aggie authorities have abandoned their over-ambitious recruiting policy, there will be a much greater disposition on the part of conference representatives to admit the A. and M. school. Independent Sooners?
The Oklahoma editorial went further to say:
"Ueless we want O. U. to sink into the mire of intercollegiate mediocrity something must be done, and soon. As an example, what's wrong with withdrawing from the conference and becoming temporarily independent?"
Can it be that the Sooners see the handwriting on the wall? For several years it has been rumored that the Oklahoma school has been the black sheep in conference voting. The Sooners have openly disapproved of many Big Six policies, criticized advantage, telegic advantage. No one wanted a five-school league, so no one openly opposed their views. Oklahoma could always threaten to withdraw as a means to gain a point.
Some observers have speculated that the addition of Colorado was arranged, in part, to offset this Sooner talking point.
Skeletons in Closet
Also, perhaps the Norman school is becoming worried over how clean her own hands are. Head football coach Jim Lookabaugh of the Oklahoma Aggies charged last season "now far from here"—and he looked very good. He had spent $200,000 in attempting to produce a winning football team.
The recent ousting of Lawrence E. "Jap" Haskell as Sooner athletic director further indicates that the Norman athletic closet may contain a good many skeletons not pleasing to the eyes of other conference schools.
U.P. Writer Picks Tigers, Cardinals
Oscar Fraley, United Press sports writer, today predicted the Detroit Tigers and the St. Louis Cardinals to finish first in the pennant races in the American and National leagues respectively. His prediction of other standings is:
American League: Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Brown, and the Philadelphia Athletics.
National League: St. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Braves, Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds, and the Philadelphia Phillies.
Faculty Flashes Snow Varsity, 19-10; K-Club Whips Intramural All-Stars
The Faculty Flashes used original methods to upset the Varsity cagers 19 to 10, and the K-Club defeated the Intramural All-Stars 47 to 32 Wednesday night in the two top post-season games of the season.
The Flashes, top team which has spent more hours in college than any other, started the game as underdogs. Their star forward, Dean Paul B.
Lawson, had been injured in a pregame practice. Those who rated them as underdogs did not take their secret weapons into account, however.
Flashes Use Funnel
Over their own basket the Flashes had erected a strange looking instrument resembling a funnel. The Flashes literally poured field goals through it.
As the game was about to start, the Varsity brought out their own secret weapon. He was Earle "Round Man" Stanton, a fast, sharp shooting center from the ham sandwich league. Most of the Varsity plays were built around Stanton. In fact, the whole Varsity team was built around him.
At the opening tip off, the ball went to Lawson, of the Flashes, who tucked it under his arm and ran for a touchdown. The officials ruled that the touchdown counted two points, but Lawson overruled the officials and the touchdown counted six points. The game from this point was a little difficult to follow.
Basket Wired Shut
The Flashes quickly scored their point-after-touchdown and led by a score of 7 to 0. The Varsity then took possession of the ball. On their first try for a goal, another Faculty stratagem was discovered. It was a wire net covering the Varsity basket. To remove this slight obstacle, Schnellbacher stood on Lukens' back and cut it away with a pair of wire cutters. Schnellbacher also scored the first field goal for the Varsity, from Lukens' back on a pass from Stanton.
The Varsity was no match for the fast moving Flashes. At the half the score stood at 19 to 4 with the Flashes on the heavy side—of the score that is.
In the second half the Varsity defense tightened, and the Flashes went scoreless. The half ended only two minutes, because the Flashes had worn themselves out in the between halfs practice.
The Varsity looked good, especially when Ray Evans, their coach, put the whole team of more than 10 men on the floor at once. Even this failed however, and the final gun sounded before the Varsity could omass over six points.
Stanton Paces Varsity
In the second game of the evening, the K-Club outpointed the Intramural All-Stars in a slow ragged game. The winners, a squad of former Jayhawker lettermen, shot more accurately to come out on top.
Stanton was the high scorer for the Varsity with four points and Lawson led the Flashes with his six for a touchdown.
Sherwild paced the winners with a total of 11 points. Williams followed him with 9 and Diehl scored 8. Thompson took top scoring honors for the All-Stars with 8 points.
By the first half the score stood at 16 to 14. Both teams missed many shots during the first periods but improved after the half.
K-Club
Barrington 2 2 6 1
Sherwood 5 1 11 2
Forsythe 3 0 6 2
Diehl 3 2 8 0
Stucker 1 0 2 0
Fitzpatrick 1 3 5 2
Williams 4 1 9 0
The box score:
Total 19 9 47 7
Intramural All-Stars fg ft tp pf
Pibblad 2 0 4 2
Thompson 4 0 8 3
Brilley 0 0 8 2
Gillin 3 0 4 4
Short 1 0 2 1
Dodson 0 0 0 0
Hargis 0 1 1 0
Quiring 2 0 0 0
Connelly 3 1 7 2
MacFerran 0 0 0 0
Daugherty 0 0 0 1
13 Cindermen Leave For Texas Relays
Thirteen members of the track team left today with Coach Ray Kanehl for Austin, Texas to compete in the 21st annual Texas reals tomorrow and Saturday. The University team won two titles at last year's meet, the high jump and the 880-yd relay, but neither title will be defended this year. Jayhawker entries include:
Distance Medley: John Jackson, Pieratt Johnson, Hal Moore, and Bob Karns.
Sprint Medley: Bob Hill, Bill Binter, Kenneth Danneberg, and Dick Shea.
Two mile relay: Hal Moore, Pieratt Johnson, Bob Karnes, John Jackson, and Harold Hinicee.
Mile Relav: Hill, Binter, Danneberg, and Shea.
Shotput and Discus: Leroy Robison and Bill Wygle.
Total
Javelin and Discus: Karl Ebel.
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Sarasota, Fla. — (UP)—Outfielder Joe Dimgaggio, whose injured foot has kept him out of spring training, is scheduled to resign his New York Yankee teammates to tony The Yanks, fresh from a 10 to 1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals, will try to celebrate the Yankee Clipper's return by defeating the Boston Red Sox.
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