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K.U. Will Decide Big Six Champ
Kansas City, Mo.—(UP)—The University of Oklahoma has a chance this week to win its first clear-cut Big Six basketball championship in 17 years.
A victory for the Sooners when they meet Missouri at Columbia Thursday night would turn the trick. The last time Oklahoma topped the Big Six was in 1929, the first year the loop operated. Since then, the Sooners have shared the top spot with other teams four times-1939, 1940, 1942, and 1944.
If Missouri wins the important Thursday night game, the Big Six finale will become a triangular scramble, for, although only Oklahoma and Missouri have a chance at the crown, both must yet meet Kansas to windup the season.
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Oklahoma can end all speculation by defeating Missouri.
These are the possibilities:
Missouri can become champion by defeating Oklahoma and Kansas—if Oklahoma loses to Kansas.
The two can tie for first place if Missouri wins the Thursday night game and then both fare equally well (or bad) against Kansas.
For what it's worth by way of advantage in weighing up the various possibilities, Missouri has both Oklahoma and Kansas at Columbia. After playing a tColumbia, the Sooners then must face Kansas on foreign boards at Lawrence.
There's more at stake than a Big Six championship. The winner is certain to be called into a playoff game with St. Louis University, champion of the Missouri Valley conference, to determine the regional representative in the NCAA western finals here March 20-21.
THE STANDINGS:
Kansas can be counted on to cause trouble in the closing sprint. The Jayhawkers have failed to measure up to the basketball giant role assigned them in pre-season estimates, but their potential was never better illustrated than on Saturday night at ChicagoE where they dumped DePaul, conqueror of mighty Kentucky, 58-41. Missouri, meanwhile, was keeping its Big Six hopes aglow with a 60-49 decision over last-place Nebraska in Lincoln.
| TEAM | W | L | PCT. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Oklahoma | 7 | 1 | .875 |
| Missouri | 6 | 2 | .750 |
| Iowa State | 4 | 5 | .444 |
| Kansas | 3 | 4 | .428 |
| Kansas State | 3 | 6 | .333 |
| Nebraska | 2 | 7 | .222 |
Vet Persuades V.A.
To Stop Checks
Washington. (UP)—The monthly pension checks which John G. Scott said he didn't want were stopped months before he asked his congressman to get the "spigot of gold" turned off, the Veterans Administration said today.
Mr. Scott, of New York, wrote to Rep. Frederick R. Coudert, R. N.Y., last month complaining that the VA kept sending him disability pension checks. He said the checks were for a disability not related to the war, that he did not want them, and that he had not been able to persuade VA to stop them.
As for the $344.17, Scott could have returned it any time he wanted to without going through Representative Coudert, the VA said.
Anyway, VA added, the money is now safely back in the U.S. treasury.
Please, Mr. President,
Keep Texas The Largest
Washington. (UF)—A Texas schoolgirl has asked President Truman to see to it that Alaska doesn't displace Texas as the largest state in the union.
Nancy Huval, 13, Pampa, Tex., said she wouldn't mind if Alaska came into the union if it was cut up into states smaller than Texas.
To make her request more persuasive, she told Mr. Truman that her mother was from Missouri, his home state.
Sooner Nemesis
Here is Gib Stramel, reserve Jay- hawker forward. Stramel played fourth in Big Six scoring. He scored 16 points against Oklahoma at Nor- leaving for the service and ranked basketball here last year before man this year.
Football, Baseball Golf, Coaches Added
Robert Coyan was named golf coach for the 1947 season and Hubert "Hub" Ulrich and Russel Sehon were appointed assistants in football and baseball respectively.
Three coaches were added to the Kansas staff Tuesday, athletic director E. C. Quigley said today.
Ulrich, an All-Big Six end under Gwinn Henry in 1941, was acclaimed one of the Jayhawker's all-time best at that position Ulrich played with the Miami Seahawks of the All-American professional league through the 1946 season. He was signed for the spring practice period only.
Coyan, a 24-year-old business school instructor from Fort Scott, has no professional experience but has been outstanding as a Kansas amateur golfer.
Sehon, now a junior at K.U., has three years of professional baseball experience. An infielder, he helped Junction City, Kansas, to the National Ban Johnson championship in 1939.
You Can Pet-If You Make It Legal
Lewisville, Tex., (UP)—it's still okay to kiss a girl in Denton county—providing you do it in private and have been properly introduced.
The new law was aimed primarily at dawn revelers and romantic cut-ups who drop into all-night cafes on the main Dallas-Oklahoma City highway.
The city of Lewisville today had joined Denton, the county seat, in passing a rigid anti-petting and antimushing ordinance with $100 fines for violators.
Otherwise, brother, you're in for trouble.
But it also makes it illegal for a man to "be attentive to...any female person unknown to him." It's illegal, too, to flirt with a gal you don't know or to make noises at her. And it's unlawful to "pet, embrace, caress or fondle" in public places.
Washington — (UP)— Twenty-two railway labor unions, representing over 1,500,000 railroad workers, have agreed to work together in a joint 1947 wage drive, union sources said today. Nine maritime unions already are moving ahead with similar plans.
IWW Defeats Watkins For Semifinals Chance
The first government life-saving stations, which were just boat houses, were erected along the coast of New Jersey in 1848.
Rail Unions Join Hands
I. W. W, won a chance in the semifinals of the women's intramural basketball tournament Tuesday night by defeating Watkins hall, 30-18.
Kappa Alpha Theta will be L. W. W's court foe at 8 tonight, and Alpha Delta Pi will square off with Kappa Kappa Gamma. The winners of tonight's games will play for the intramural championship of 1946-47 tomorrow night.
Watkins and I. W. W, each finished the regular division play with three wins and one loss. It was Watkins who handed I. W. W, its first and only loss. Pi Beta Phi gave Watkins its lone tail in the "lost column."
In their second meeting, I. W. W. and Watkins got off to a slow, close-played contest, with the lead seesawing by one or two points through the first half. Pulling away from a 15-14 half-time score, Kathleen McClanahan and Geraldine MeeGee, I. W. W. forwards, started hitting the basket for their 12-point winning margin.
Marjorie Kaff, Pearl Leigh, and Julia Fox turned in some good time at guard positions, holding Watkins to two field goals in the second half.
Jeanette Bolas, Watkins forward, scored the first points of the game on a long shot in the first minute. High scorer for Watkins was Annette Steut with 10 points. Margaret Straka, Watkins guard, hampered a heavier scoring threat from I. W. W. McGee was high pointer for the game with 14, closely followed by team mate McClanahan.
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