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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
DECEMBER 12, 1946
By BOB DELLINGER (Daily Kansan Sports Editor)
Game notes:
Those who complained about the many empty seats at Wednesday's game, didn't stop to think where they were. The seats were empty enough, but you can't see much of the floor from the last few rows of the second balcony.
Kansas fans were wondering what had happened when the Vandals put in their "second string" to start the game. It seems that, with Fred Quinn out of the lineup, it's their regular first string.
Quinn's absence was another mysterv to all the fans who expected him to be in the game. He sprained an ankle in the Vandals' game at Georgetown and hasn't recovered vet.
Jack Phoenix is not another George Mikan, Period.
Both Idaho and Kansas missed an astonishing number of shots, but it was Idaho's first team that was doing all the missing as a second string forward scored almost half their points.
The Kansas bench was teeming with activity as Coach Allen substituted constantly.
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The whole baseball world mourns the death of Walter Johnson.
Johnson was acclaimed the "greatest pitcher of all time" by practically every system of rating in the country, and he deserved it from all of them.
The big man with the blazing fast ball mowed down all the opposition he faced, but got into a World Series only after he was well past his prime.
Even then he was almost the goat because of his weak-hitting club ball but he pulled through with a victory in the final game to earn the series for his mates.
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He has gone into the biggest league of them all.
The issue of Negro intramural bowling will get more investigation from this department and from the intramural office itself.
We realize that it is a private concern and that it really is the manager's decision to make, but that doesn't make it any more fair to the parties involved.
Oklahoma will be favored to take the Big Six tournament starting in Kansas City tonight, but Arkansas and Kansas can give them no end of trouble.
The Porkers will have the services of 6-foot 10-inch George Kok, who was a mighty asset to them during last year's season.
The Jayhawkers will put all Americans Charley Black and Ray Evans on the floor with Gib Stramel, Otto Schnellbacher, Owen Peck, and Wendell Clark coming along.
Oklaahoma, with last year's entire lineup returning, plus the services of Gerald Tucker and Allie Paine, will have the edge in this tourney because of extra pre-season games, but watch that edge disappear when the regular season starts.
Foster Hall, Theta's Win Women's Basketball Games
Kappa Alpha Theta and Foster hall were second round winners in the women's basketball tournament in Robinson gym Wednesday night.
On the short end of the scores were Delta Delta Delta and Alpha Chi Omega.
Final scores were:
Kappa Alpha Theta 21—Delta Delta Delta 6.
Foster hall 22—Alpha Chi Omega
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Elected By Coin Flip
Crawfordsville, Ind. (UP)—Glenn Wilson, Democrat, won the election for township trustee when he and his Republican opponent flipped a coin to decide the result. Wilson and Virgil Dazey both received 418 votes. The ballots were counted again and they were still tied, so they tossed for it.
K.U. Fans See 1946 Champion Five In First Home Game
These five K.U. cagers, who last year swept through the Big Six season without defeat and who lost their only two games of the entire year to the national champion Oklahoma Aggies, all saw action in last night's 42-28 defeat of the Idaho Vandals.
They are, from left to right, Owen Peck, Otto Schnellbacher, Charley
Children Get Dog's Goat
Draw poker is not gambling, anyway, Frank Irvine, operator of one of the clubs, contended. "It's a game of skill, and not of chance," he said.
Vancouver, B. C. (UP)—An unidentified woman called police today asking them to keep the youngsters in her neighborhood quiet, and said "they are so noisy my dog suffered a nervous breakdown."
Legal Gambling Pays Gardena City Taxes
So long as the house does not bank the game or take a percentage of the money played, everything is within the law.
Gardena, Cal. (UP)—Swank "card rooms" that rival the palatial gambling casinos of Reno and Las Vegas pay most of the municipal taxes in this quiet little town.
Women, incidentally, comprise most of the six clubs' clientele, though the games are strictly of the he-man variety. Limits are as low as $1, but pots often total thousands.
Only draw poker is played at the elaborate establishments. Players pit their skill against each other. House operators merely furnish the necessary equipment and a pleasant meeting place for people who want to gamble.
The "house take" is limited to a small fee, averaging about 50 cents a person an hour, which is collected by pretty "chip girls" who arrange games between players who want to gamble for about the same limit.
Their neon signs lighting up the main street like the Great White Way. the draw-poker palaces are legally operated under a state supreme court decision handed down June 27, 1865, and are licensed by the city.
Black, Wendell Clark, and Ray Evans.
All of the five except Schnellbacher started the game, and the rangy Sublette star football and court man came through with high point honors. Evans was second high scorer for K.U.
(Daily Kansan Staff Photo)
ROTC Rifle Team To Practice Each Tuesday, Thursday
The newly-organized ROTC rifle team will practice from 4 to 6 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday, Major E. C. Witt, team adviser, announced today. All prospective members and others within the unit who are interested should attend the tryouts on those days.
On the agenda for the team will be firing matches in January and a trophy match in February to determine the best ROTC rifle team in the country. The award is the William Randolph Hearst trophy.
Co-op's, Delt's Win I-M 'B' Contests
Two "B" schedule intramural basketball games were played Wednesday night.
The Co-op's defeated the Nine Old Men by a score of 40 to 25. Sparks sparked the victors with 13 points. Shank bucketed 9 counters for the Nine Old Men.
The Delta Tau Delta "B" team was victorious over the Alpha Tau Omega second squad, 20 to 14. Neel rang up 11 points to pace the Delt's. Dillon scored for the A T O's with 8 counters.
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