DECEMBER 9,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Emporia Played Rough, But That Wasn't Unusual; K.U. Won, 48-42
By BOB DELLINGER
(Daily Kansas Sports Editor)
The Jayhawkers outfought a big, rough Emporia State team Saturday night to take a 48 to 42 victory in the cage session opener at Emporia.
Charley "Hawk" Black paced the Jayhawker attack, netting five goals and four frees for 14 points. Bill Litchfield led the Hornets with four and three for 11 points.
The Jayhawkers sank 16 of 27 free throws, while the Hornets could drop in only 6 out of 21. The Hornets outscored the Jayhawkers 18 goals to 16 from the field.
Merideth Litchfield, Emporia guard, dominated play for the first few minutes as he dumped in three goals and a free to keep his team in the running through most of the first half.
The Hornets started out with a bang; roughing it up and making the going tough for the Jayhawkers for the first 15 minutes, but these tactics proved to be Emporia's downfall.
Emporia held a 9 to 16 lead with eight minutes of the game gone, but Black went to work and gave the Jayhawkers a one-point margin which they increased and held for the remainder of the contest.
Coach E. D. Fish's squad tried the old system of intentional fouls to hold down Black, K.U.'s scoring ace; but, as usual, the system failed.
The Hornets kept Black from shooting by fouling him as soon as he got the ball, but lost three starters in the process, and weakened their own scoring attack.
Three of Black's goals and only one of his free tosses came in the second half after two Hornets had left the game on fouls.
Wendell Clark, Kansas guard,
dumped in two goals and a charity
toss late in the first half as the Jay-
hawkers began to surge away from
their opponents, but his well-known
sharp break was limited by the slippery floor, and those were his only points.
Otto Schnellbacher, playing his first game at quarterback, rang in three goals and two free toes for an eight-point total.
Gib Stramel, forward, racked up eight in the first half but added only one more in his short playing time in the second stanza.
Coach F. C. Allen used 11 men during the contest, three of them freshmen who played in their first K.U. game.
In the preliminary contest, the Jayhawker 'B' squad downed the Hornet reserves, 41 to 33. Coach Howard Engleman used 18 players
as the Kansas squad rang up an early lead and coasted in.
Kansas (48) FG FT PF TT
Stramel, f 3 3 1
Black, f 5 4 4
Peck, c 0 1 14
Evans, g 0 1 3
Clark, g 1 1 1
Schiellbacher 3 2 4
Turner 0 0 0
England 1 1 2 3
Bean 0 0 1 0
McSpadden 0 2 2 2
Sapp 2 1 0 5
Emporia State (42) FG FT PF TI
Smiley, f 3 0 3 6
B. Litchfield, f 4 3 5 11
Reeser, e 1 0 5 2
Wright, g 0 0 5 0
M. Litchfield, g 4 1 0 9
Campbell 3 1 1 7
McVey 2 1 2 5
Wilson 1 0 1 2
O'Donnell 0 0 1 0
Score at half: Kansas 23, Emporja State 15.
Free throws missed; Kansas (11)—Black (5), Stramel (2), Peck, Schnellbacher, England, Sapp. Emporia State (15)—Smiley (3), B Litchfield (5), Reeser (2), M. Litchfield, Campbell, McVey (2), Wilson. Officials: Oden and Oberhelman.
K.U. Net Player In National Ranking
A University student today ranks first in the junior boys division of the Missouri Valley Tennis association, and unofficially ranks 11th in the nation in the same division.
He is Erwin Busiek, College freshman from Springfield, Mo. Winner of the junior play in the Heart of America, the Jayhawk Open, and the Arkansas Open tournaments this past summer, he is expected to be one of the K.U. players in next spring's Big Six tennis championship defense for Kansas.
The Missouri Valley rankings were announced Sunday, while the unofficial national ranking went to Busiek from American Lawn Tennis, influential magazine of the sport.
A Dozen of the Big Games You Read About or Listened To on the Radio
Kansas “B” (41) FG PT PF TT
Mabry, f 5 2 2 12
Eskridge, f 1 4 2 6
Clothier, c 0 0 5 0
Winter, g 0 0 2 0
Houchin, g 0 1 1 1
Van Citters 2 0 0 4
Kelly 0 0 0 0
Payne 1 0 0 2
Martin 0 1 1 1
Ashley 1 2 1 4
Lukken 3 2 2 8
Lueley 3 2 2 8
Ewarts 0 0 1 0
Haines 0 0 0 0
Brown 0 0 0 0
Moon 0 0 1 0
McDonnell 1 1 2 3
LaRue 0 0 1 0
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Emporia S. "B" (33) FG FT PF TT
Lusk, f 0 1 1 3 1
Spatz, f 0 1 0 1 1
Powell, c 0 1 1 3
Stokes, g 0 1 0 1
Griffiths, g 2 0 3 4
Pedigo 2 1 1 5
Shanalec 0 3 1 3
Holdridge 0 1 0 1
Taylor 0 0 0 0
Greenlee 1 1 5 3
Lamb 4 3 3 11
Wilson 0 0 0 0
Coleman 0 0 1 0
Schultz 0 0 0 0
McAnarny 0 0 1 0
Georgia vs. Alabama
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Army vs. Columbia
Harvard vs. Yale
Navy vs. Notre Dame
Score at half: Kansas 22, Emporia State 11.
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