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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FEBRUARY 10,1947
By BOB DELLINGER (Daily Kansan Sports Editor)
The last week of conference play in the Big Six hasn't done much to clarify the situation, and has only made the position of the league leaders a little stronger.
Missouri is still out in front by a half-game, with Oklahoma right on the Tiger heels. These two are the only teams to win half their conference games, and they are sailing along two games out in front of the field.
Either Kansas or Nebraska has a chance to tie the leaders by winning the rest of the league games, and by hoping that someone else will knock off the winner of the Oklahoma-Missouri game.
Kansas, after a 13-day layoff, will go out of the league, but at home it will be the Cornhuskers trying to protect a slim title chance against the Iowa State Cyclones. The Cyclones defeated Nebraska at Ames, but the Huskers will be more powerful on their own court.
Friday and Saturday will see all six conference teams in action, with Missouri at Iowa State for a toughie, Oklahoma at home solidly entrenched for the coming of Kansas State, and on Saturday, Kansas will defend its home court against Nebraska.
The Oklahoma Aggies suffered two consecutive losses for the first time in years by dropping contests to Loyola and Drake. Both were considered upsets, although Drake has gone out with the best this year.
Both games were fairly one-sided, and that may mean that the Aggies are starting to slip, or that they will be red hot against Kansas tomorrow.
The concensus on the campus is that the Jayhawkers will take this one, even though it is on the opponents' court. Gallagher Hall is an irregular gym, so that may make a difference.
By comparative scores, the Jayhawkers should be able to take DePaul at Chicago Feb. 22, and if they can do it without wearing out the first string, so much the better.
On Thursday, it's Kansas vs. Kansas State; Saturday will take the Jayhawkers to DePaul; and Monday will bring the Aggies to Lawrence for the return match of tomorrow's game.
Jayhawkers Place In Michigan Relays
The Jayhawkers opened the indoor track season Saturday night in the 25th annual Michigan State relays and placed in the distance medley, sprint medley, and broad-jump.
Running at East Lansing, Mich., coach Ray Kanehl's thinclads tied for third with Illinois in the distance medley, took fourth in the sprint medley, and fifth in the broadtime.
Michigan State copped first place in the distance run with a time of 10:28.6. Michigan was second, and K. U.'s team composed of Earl Jones, John Jackson, Hal Moore, and Bob Karnes followed in third place along with Illinois.
In the half-mile stretch of the distance run, Jones, freshman runner who holds the Missouri state prep 880 record, dropped the baton and fell about 20 yards behind the pace setters when he stopped to pick it up.
the sprint medley relay team composed of Dick Shea, Dick Wagstaff, Ken Dannneberg, and Pieratt Johnson took fourth place behind Illinois, Ohio State, and Michigan State.
Bob Crowley, freshman from Longview, Texas, placed fifth in the broadjump with a leap of 22 feet 4 inches. The event was won by Michigan State with a jump of 24 feet 6 5-8 inches.
No championship was declared at the meet in which 12 Michigan State relays records were broken.
Jayhawkers Plan to Break Oklahoma Aggies' Jinx Tomorrow
The Kansas Jayhawkers hope to crack the Oklahoma Aggies' four-game string of victories over them tomorrow night when the two squads tangle at Stillwater.
The Cowpokes walked off with the only two meetings last year, and have handed the Jayhawkers two defeats this season. The Ags whipped
Kansas 47-37 at Kansas City Dec. 20,
and nosed them out by a 42-39 margin in the All-College Tournament at Oklahoma City Dec. 28.
Coach Howard Engleman of the Jayhawkers will again employ his two-team system, and the blond mentor insists that it's here to stay. Starters will be Charlie Black, Otto Schnellbacher, Owen Peck, Wendell Clark, and Ray Evans.
On the second line Engleman will have Johnny Dewell, Jack Eskridge, Hal England, Bill Sapp and Claude Houchin. In addition to that five, Sonny Enns, newton freshman, will return to the firing line with the reserve quintet after being sidelined from two games because of an injured knee.
The Jayhawkers will go into the contest well rested, with a 13-day layoff, while the Ags have played three games in the last week and have lost two of them.
The Cowboys will be especially tough on the rebound after dropping upset victories to Loyola of Chicago and to Drake.
Black and Schnellbacher, who have taken turns leading the Jayhawker scoring reached the two-thirds mark in the schedule sharing the top spot at 207 each. The 'Hawk' also stands in the midst of the Big Six race with an average of 12.20 good for second in the present standings.
Kansas scoring: FG FT F T TP
Black, f 71 65 71 207
Schnellbacher, f 69 69 59 207
Evans, g 41 15 45 79
Clark, g 27 26 34 80
Eskridge, f-g 23 14 23 60
Stramel, f 20 11 12 51
Peck, c 13 24 38 50
England, f-c 12 8 14 32
Juror Finds Courtroom Isn't Good Bedroom
Birmingham, Ala. (UP)—Judge C. S. Smith, presiding over a $50,000 damage suit against the Birmingham Electric company kept turning toward the jury box until finally he rapped his gavel and halted testimony.
Smith sent a court attach to poke one of the jurors who had been snoring and mumbling in his sleep.
Black, Schnellbacher Scoring Rates High
The Missouri Tigers climbed back into a half-game lead in the Big Six race Friday night by edging Kansas State, 49-43, in a cage game at Columbia. The defeat dropped the Wildcats back into the league cellar.
The victory shoved Missouri aheau of Oklahoma in games won, but each team has dropped a single contest, and the Sooners will have a chance to tie it up before two weeks have passed.
The Sooners and Tigers remain the only two teams in the conference with an over- .500 percentage, with third-place Kansas and Nebraska deadlocked at two won and three lost.
Nebraska will entertain the Iowa State Cyclones tonight, and will rate the edge over the fifth-place club by virtue of home court. The Iowa State squad has won only three of twelve away from home.
Big Six standings:
W. L. Pet. G.Bh.
Missouri 5 1 .403
Oklahoma 4 1 .800 .5
Kansas 2 3 .400 2.5
Nebraska 2 3 .400 2.5
Iowa State 2 4 .333 3.
Kansas State 2 4 .286 3.
Individual scoring:
G. T.P. Aver.
Tucker, Oklahoma 5 73 14.60
Black, Kansas 5 61 12.20
Retherford, Neb. 5 59 11.80
Howey, Kansas State 7 81 11.57
Pippin, Missouri 6 64 10.67
Brown, Neb. 5 52 10.40
Schnellbacher, Kansas 5 50 10.00
First Atomic Oven Was Spontaneous
Berkley, Calif. (UP)—The first atomic oven was designed millions of years ago and not by atomic bomb scientists, according to Dr G.lenn T. Seaborg, a leader in atomic research.
Seaborg said spontaneous fission in the earth works incessantly to produce plutonium, one of the essential elements in the making of atomic bombs.
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