}
DECEMBER 12, 1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Sooners, Razorbacks Favored In Three-Day Big Six Tourney
Arkansas and Nebraska opened the 1946 Big Six tournament in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium at 2 today.
At 4, Oklahoma will take on Kansas State, and, in the first night game at 8, Missouri will tangle with down-trodden Southern Methodist.
Kansas and Iowa State will finish off the evening as they meet in the final game at 9:30.
Win, lose, or draw, the Jayhawkers will be there for three games, as the tournament system determines all eight places in the six sessions of play.
Coach Louis Menze of Iowa State took his squad down to Kansas City Wednesday. The 15 players include Jim Myers and Bill Block, former Iowa State stars.
The Oklahoma Sooners are favored to take the tournament because of longer practice and preseason game periods. The Sooners went into the tournament with almost three months of practice for all members of the squad, none of whom are grid men.
Arkansas, another favored team will bring giant center George Kok 6'10" scoring ace. The Razorbacks have almost all of last year's Southwestern runner-up sundown returning.
Kansas is still experimenting to find a starting lineup. Coach F. C. Allen is also working two ace grid men into his first string basketball team. Reconversion is the main trouble for the Jayhawkers, but if the right combination is found by game time, the Kansans might roll through.
Nebraska has rolled up impressive scores in taking its first three victories. The Huskers are also free from football worries and will put a powerful team on the floor against Arkansas.
Missouri can be classified with Kansas. While the Tigers don't have the champs returning as do the Jayhawkers, they are still troubled with fitting football men Kenny Bounds and Jim Austin into the picture.
Kansas State has suffered the only Big Six loss to date, but that was to powerful Iowa from the Big Nine. The Wildcats had been doped to wind up in the cellar before the season opened, but have shown up well in early games against formidable opponents.
Southern Methodist is considered the weak point in the tourney. The hapless Ponies haven't won a game this year, and Missouri is considered lucky in drawing them for first round opponents.
Rifle Team Fires Match Today
In its first postal gallery match, the University NROTC rifle team lost to the Duke University NROTC rifle team by a score of 861 to 736, it was learned today when mailed results of the match, fired last Thursday, were received. Billy Bryant was high scorer for the local team with a record of 154.
The team, the first the NROTC unit has had, is composed of freshmen, and is coached by Plt. Sgt. Arthur J. Allen, USMC. Its next gallery match, with Ohio State university, will be fired today. In the course of the year the team will fire against at least 52 teams from other university NROTC units.
Individual scores of last week's match were; Billy Bryant, 154; Cleo Blodgett, 151; Theodore Tober, 150; William Kirshner, 145; Lawrence Mische, 136.
K.C. Labor Leader To Address Liberal Group
Sam White, a member of the executive committee of the C.I.O. in Kansas City, will speak to the Liberal group at 7 p.m. Sunday in the nine room of the Union, Wendell Link, chairman, said today. Mr. White will talk on the aims and problems of labor.
The Liberal group, sponsored by the Unitarian church of Kansas City, discusses social and political problems at its meetings, which anyone may attend, Link said.
Rifle Club To Pick First Team Tuesday
The first team of the Women's Rifle club will be chosen Tuesday, according to M. Sgt. Arthur Millard, club adviser. This team will fire in competition with women rifle clubs throughout the nation.
Matches have already been scheduled with clubs at the University of California, George Washington University, Wheaton college, University of Wichita, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, Columbia university, Texas State College for Women, Ohio State university, Colorado A & M, Drexel, and Cornell university.
***
PROF. WILLIAM SIMPSON
Flying Club Still Alive
Despite a reduction in its membership, the Jayhawk飞wing Club has not been disbanded, according to Prof. William Simpson, faculty sponsor. Only seven members out of the original 48 remain.
If you see a big husky fellow strolling down Oread drive with a bright red sweater emblazoned with a bold blue "K",you could probably guess correctly that he earned it on the gridiron.
Can't Tell A Thing By the 'K' --- Could Be Earned In Any Sport
But a fellow with average build and of medium height may be Dave Schmidt, lightweight end, of the grid squad, cross - country man Hall Moore, or Owen Peck, quarterback of the basketball team.
Today, there's no way of telling by looking at the letter. It hasn't always been so.
In an old Daily Kansan clipping, the letters are described thus:
In the early 20's, six different letters were awarded to Jayhawker stalwarts — for football, baseball, cross-country, tennis, basketball, and track—and all were as distinctive as the sports themselves.
Football—"The football 'K' is of a type which seems to have dispensed with the artificial curliques and
Baseball—"Glance at the baseball letter with its long straight lines and supple body. It seems as everlasting as baseball itself. Its stout base lines give it the strength of our national sport today."
stands hard and significant like the football man and his big, plain life."
Tennis-"Even the 'baby' of varsity sports has a letter with definite distinctiveness. Its flexibility shows that it is a sport of quick action and speed, and, all in all, a bit exclusive."
"And the other 'Ks' are just as distinctive of their sports. The unchucked 'Ks of cross-country伞球' represent a sense of endurance and duty.
The K's of basketball and track are formed of quick, flowing lines suggesting speed and integrity; the principles on which are built the sports they emblemize."
So, maybe you can't tell whether that guy earned his letter in football, basketball, or tennis, but at least you can tell it's a "K".
—MAY WE SUGGEST—
Artur Rubinstein (Unbreakable Vinylite)
Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto
and
All types of records, $2 and up
U.H.S. Cagers Lose To Eudora Wednesday
BELL MUSIC CO.
925 Mass.
Eudora High School swamped University High, 30 to 12, in a basketball game at Eudora Wednesday night.
Phone 375
This was the second loss of the season for the Eagles in two starts. The Eudora game was not a league game.
Young and Weidensaul, Eudora center and forward, led their team in scoring with nine and eight points respectively. Eugene Rilling of University poured in three-fourths of his team's total by dumping in four baskets and a free for nine tallies.
Eudora jumped into an early lead with two goals by Young, and led, 4 to 2, at the end of the first period. University high hung on until the half when Eudora led 9 to 7, but lost sight of the home squad in the third period.
The University High "B" squad staged a rally in the final period of the preliminary game with Eudora reserves, but it fell short by the margin of two free throws, Eudora's only fourth-quarter points.
The Eagle seconds trailed by ten points, 24 to 14, at the beginning of the fourth quarter, but two goals each by Dunham and Elliott and a single basket by Sommers pulled them up.
Basketball Scores
Illinois 73, Marquette 40.
Syracuse 73, Boston U. 36.
Vermont 61, Yale 59.
Pennsylvania 53, Swarthmore 39.
Fordham 64, Iowa 51.
Drake 65, Iowa Central 51.
Tulane 63, Houston 49.
IM Cage Schedule
Tonight:
6:30-Alpha Phi Omega vs. Married Men
6:30—ATC Club vs. Triangle
7:20 Y M C A vs. Arroyo
7:30 - Y. M. C. A. vs. Army
7:30—Newman Club vs. Po Dunks
8:30—Mom's Boys vs. Theta Tau
8:30—Frat Busters vs. Delta Upli-
9:30—Navy Officers vs. Kappa Sigma
9:30—Alpha Phi Alpha vs. Sigma Nu
---
SEE A SHOW TONITE
NOW — Ends Saturday
MYSTERY!
MURDER!
THRILLS!
The Year's Most
Exciting Woman Hunt
You've Ever Seen!
George RAFT
Lynn BARI
"NOCTURNE"
ADDED
LATEST WORLD NEWS,
CARTOON AND MUSICAL
TODAY — 3 Days
TODAY 3 Days
The Worlds Most
Exciting Brunette
JANE RUSSELL
"Young Widow"
LOUIS HAYWARD
PENNY SINGLETON
Also: Color Cartoon News
Owl Sat. & SUNDAY—4 Days
DAN DURYEA — ELLA RAINES
WILLIAM BENDIX
"White Tie and Tails"
VARSITY
TODAY — Ends Saturday
FOOTBALL HIGHLIGHTS OF '46
CHARLIE CHAN
CHARLIE CHAN "Dangerous Money" AND KEN CURTIS WESTERN MUSICAL
"Lone Star Moonlight"
SUNDAY — 3 Days
GARY COOPER
"WEDDING NIGHT"
Patee Now - Ends Saturday
MUSICAL WHIRLWIND IN TECHNICOLOR
"EASY TO WED"
★ VAN JOHNSON
★ ESTHER WILLIAMS
★ LUCILLE BALL
★ KEENAN WYNN
COMING SUNDAY "RENEGADES"