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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 10,1947
By BILL CONBOY
Kansas failed to win the Big Six basketball championship this year; but we're hoping that some of the Jayhawker individual stars will not be forgotten when choices are made for the East-West All-Star game back at Madison Square Garden.
Charley Black played for the West last year and scored 6 points as the East team squeezed out a 60 to 59 victory. Prior to the game, the West squad had been heavily favored to turn back their eastern rivals.
With Bob Kurtland of the Oklahoma Aggies stretching up to a height of 7 feet and Don Otten of Bowling Green reaching 6 feet, 11 inches, the West squad had seemed assured of rebounding superiority. In the game, however, the smaller eastern stars controlled the backboards much of the time and hawked the ball on the floor to come out on top.
On the 1946 East squad were Ken Shugart of Navy, Harry Donovan of Muhlenberg, Ernie Calverley of Rhode Island State, Sid Tanenbaum and Frank Mangiapiane of New York university, Bob Meyers of Dartmouth, Jim Joyce of Temple, Harry Zeller of Pittsburg, Harry Boykoff of St. John's, and Ernie Vanderwege of Colgate.
With the West team were Ray Snyder of Ohio State, Dave Strack of Michigan, Warren Ajax of Minnesota, Wilbur Schu of Kentucky, Ken Sailors of Wyoming, Floyd Larson of Purdue, Leo Klier of Notre Dame, Kurland, Otten, and Black.
Vanderwege of the East and Sailors of the West tied for high point honors in the contest. Both scored 16 points on 6 field goals and 4 free throws. "Foothills" Kurland dropped in 13 for second honors.
The coaches last year were Harold Olsen of Ohio State for the West and Joe Lapchick of St. John's for the East. Olsen had piloted his Buckeyes to the Big Nine title while Lapchick's Redmen had represented metropolitan New York in the National Invitational tournament.
Perhaps this year's West coach, Hank Iba of the Oklahoma Aggies, can chalk up a victory over the East squad under Nat Halman of City College of New York. Even better, maybe Charley Black or some other Kansas Jayhawker can be the player to clinch that victory.
The contest is held for the benefit of the Herald Tribune Fresh Air Fund for underprivileged children. The gate receipts last year were the highest for any game played at Madison Square Garden during the 1945-46 season. As a result, over 1,000 children from New York's tenements were sent to the country during the following summer.
The geographical dividing line for this year's game is different from that used last year. In the 1946 contest, the East squad drew players only from the region of the Atlantic seaboard states to the Alleghenies. This year, the territory including the Southern and Southeastern conferences has been added to the East zone. The remainder of the nation comes under the West.
New York fans are reported to have objected last year when the 1946 ruling allowed Wilbur Schu of Kentucky to play on the West team. Evidently, changes were made this year so that some of Adolph Rupp's talented charges can be eligible for the East squad in the 1947 game.
If each Kansas student will send in a ballot to the Herald Tribune, including the name of his or her favorite Jayhawker basket star, the chance is excellent that the University will once again be represented in the New York cage classic. After all, 9,000 votes can carry a lot of weight. Vote now. Clip out the ballot that the Dally Kansan has printed and send it in. In all entries must bear a postmark not later than March 18 to be considered.
Jayhawkers Beat Missouri 48-38 To Win Third Place In Conference
The Kansas Jayhawkers pulled themselves into a tie for third place in conference standings by defeating the Missouri Tigers, 48 to 38, at Columbia Friday night.
Getting a 21 to 9 lead in the first 17 minutes of play, the Kansas cagers held the upper hand throughout the contest. The Tigers were unable to score a field goal during the first **\* ___ eight minutes of the game. | ___
With three minutes to go in the first half, Missouri caught fire and pushed in 10 quick points to make the score 24 to 19 at the intermission. Ray Evans and Charley Black combined to pull the Jayhawkers out of danger as the second half got under way.
A Tiger rally in the last half narrowed the Kansas lead to four points at one time as Don Stroot, skyscraping Missouri sub center, shoved in two baskets. Evans took command to run up a safe margin for Kansas.
Charley Black looped in 17 points on 5 field goals and 7 free throws to pace scoring for the evening. This total elevated the "Hawk" into second place in the Big Six scoring race behind Gerald Tucker of Oklahoma. Thornton Jenkins led the Missouri offensive with 14 points on 3 field goals and 8 free throws.
The game was rough from start to finish. Sixty-one personal fouls were called by the officials, 33 on Missouri and 28 on Kansas.
The entire starting Missouri lineup
fouled out before the game was
over. Otto Schnellbacher and Jack
Wilson arrived to leave the
floor for Kansas.
Some 200 spectators watched the game. Brewer field house normally accommodates 6,000, but an influenza epidemic on the Columbia campus brought forth an official ban on student attendance at the contest. A few Columbia business men, varsity athletes, newspapermen, radio announcers, and coaches made up the crowd.
The victory was sweet revenge for Coach Howard Elegman's crew who dropped a 39 to 34 decision to the Tigers here in Lawrence at the start of the season.
Kansas (48) G FT F
Schnellbacher, f 0 3 5
Black, f 5 7 3
England, f 1 0 2
Penny, f 1 1 2
Houchin, f 0 0 1
Sapp, c 1 3 4
King, c 0 0 0
Evans, g 4 2 4
Eskridge, g 3 2 5
Clark, g 0 0 0
Stramel, g 0 0 1
Mabry, g 0 0 1
Totals 15 18 28
Missouri (38) G FT F
Jenkins, f 3 8 5
Pippin, f 0 2 5
Shockley, f 0 0 0
Garwitz, f 3 1 0
Nelson, f 0 0 0
Rudolph, c 0 1 5
Bounds, c 0 0 4
Stroot, c 2 0 3
Smith, g 0 2 5
Lorrance, g 2 0 5
Wadleigh, g 0 0 0
Pierpont, g 2 0 1
Burt, g 0 0 0
Totals 12 14 33
Score at half—Kansas 24, Missouri 19.
Missed free throws — Kansas:
Black 5, Schnellbauer 4, Evans 2,
Houchin 1, England 1. Missouri:
Lorrance 4, Jenkins 3, Smith 2,
Stroot 2, Rudolph 2, Garwitz 1, Pippin 1.
Officials—Clay VanReen and Fay Ferguson.
To Show Baseball Films
All members or new candidates for this year's team are urged to attend, Bradford said.
Baseball films will be shown at 3 p.m. today in the visual aid department in the basement of Fraser hall, baseball coach Vic Bradford said.
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100th Anniversary of the Birth of Alexander Graham Bell·March 3, 1947
He gave the world a new voice
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