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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, MARCH 15, 1945
Eight Teams to Compete Tonight In Class AA Semi-Final Tourney
The semi-finals of the class AA Kansas state high school basketball tournament will open tonight in Hutchinson and Kansas City, with eight teams competing at each place
In the Hutchinson meet, Newton will meet McPherson, Salina will tangle with Arkansas City, Wellington will be paired against Junction City, and Hutchinson will be host to El Dorado. Salina and Wellington are the favored teams in this meet, although Hutchinson and Newton are sure to give plenty of trouble. Play Begins at 7
In the Eastern division played on the Wyandotte court the Lawrence-Chanute battle at 7 o'clock will begin the evening, with the Columbus-Shawnee Mission game following at 8. The last two games of the evening at 9 and 10 o'clock are the coffeyville-Topeka and the Wyandotte-Pittsburg clashes. Chanute, Coffeyville, Topeka, and Wyandotte are ranking favorites in this division, although both the Blue Comets and the Trojans were defeated in the finals of the regionals last week. Topeka lost a thriller to the Lawrence Lions, while Chanute was edged by Coffeyville.
The tightest game of the Wyandotte tournament will probably be the Wyandotte-Pittsburg. The Bulldogs may enter the game as slight favorites, although they have lost to Parsons, a cage team which Pittsburg trounced in the regionals last week.
Lawrence Not a Favorite
The Topeka-Coffeyville clash is also rated as a close one, although the Trojans are picked to come out on top. The southeast Kansas five, however, defeated the Chanute cagers last week in their regional, indicating that they were not to be taken lightly. In the other two games, Chanute should have an easy time with Lawrence, while Columbus is rated above Shawnee-Mission, defending title-holder.
New Course Given In Statistics By Business School
For the first time a course in statistics is being given under the educational direction of the School of Business as a ergular extension course.
Dr. Bruce T. Robb, chief statistician for the Federal Reserve bank at Kansas City and formerly a member of the departmental staffs of the Universities of Missouri and Nebraska, is teaching the class in which 35 are enrolled.
Class Must Go On,
Breakfast Ruled Second
/ t Michigan State one of the professors definitely has the right idea. One morning recently, he missed breakfast. Gathering his class in Intellectual Currents, he took them to a local restaurant, with two objectives in mind — first, he didn't want to miss his morning meal, but more important, he doesn't believe that studies should interfere with a student's education!
VARSITY
FRIDAY - SATURDAY
"RIDERS OF
THE SANTA FE"
and
"I ACCUSE
MY PARENTS"
Beta's Take First Place in Basketball
A final tabulation of points won in the recent intramural basketball tournament made yesterday show that the Beta's, winner of the playoffs and of second place in the B league, walked off with first place honors with 66.8 points.
Other organizations and their point totals are: Kappa Alpha Psi, 38; Kappa Sigma, 38; Phi Kappa Psi, 34.2; Sigma Chi, 32; Phi Gamma Delta, 34.2; Delta Tau TDelta, 30.4; Draft Dodgers, 26.6; Dicks Demons, 26.6; Tau Kappa Epsilon, 22.8; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 22.8.
The Residence Halls and the Phi Delt's, finished in a tie for second place with 55.6 points apiece, while Sigma Nu garnered 53. These points won will be counted toward the sweepstakes trophy presented at the end of each school year.
Braddy and Ashton Wrote Articles For Folklore Quarterly
The intramural football tournament played last fall was also won by the Beta's, giving them an easy first place in total points thus far.
Two articles by members of the faculty of the English department appear in the January issue of the California Folklore Quarterly.
Haldeen Braddy has written an article entitled, "Chaucer's Wandering Herbert and Cabenza deVaca's Report of Bad Thing," in which he points out that a character introduced in Chaucer's "Pardoner's Tale" is similar to a character who turns up in early folklore of America.
John W. Ashton's article, "Folk Rhymes and Circular Jingles," concerns a type of popular song which goes on endlessly, with the end of the song serving as a "re-beginning" of the same song.
Sportorials
Notes on the National Intercollegiate opening night in K.C.
By Loren King
So that the lads from Eastern Washington would have something to do while in Kansas City, their English professor, Dr. G. M. Dressler, traveled with them and conducted daily classes for the Savages. It must have worked too well; the Savages lost their game with Doane College, Crete, Neb., 54-51 in the tournament's first upset.
High score in the meet so far was piled up by Pepperdine, Los Angeles, in defeating Peru State Teachers, Peru, Neb., 77-42. The all-time high in the tourney is 83, set by Indiana State, Terre Haute, Ind., in 1942. Pepperdine's tall center, Nick Buzolich, 6 feet 7 inches, was responsible for 28 counters, high for the evening.
One of the Kansas teams in the tourney, Wichita University, lost its game with East Texas State, Canyon, Texas, 54-43. The Wichita
Lt. Lloyd Svoboda Wounded While Serving in Germany
Lt. Lloyd Svoboda, son of Major and Mrs. J. J. Svoboda, was seriously wounded while serving in Patton's Third army in Germany, according to information received in Lawrence.
Lieutenant Svoboda was attending the University prior to his entering the service. He went overseas in September, 1944. He is the brother of Joseph Svoboda, Jr., an instructor in chemical engineering at the University, and Charles Svoboda, a senior in the Lawrence high school.
R.O.T.C. Inspection in May
The annual R. O. T.C. inspection will be sometime in May, Col. W. L. McMorris said. Headquarters of the Seventh Service Command notified Colonel McMorris of the inspection but the exact date will be furnished later.
Lt. Geppelt Visits Campus
Lt. Elmo Geppelt, '45, returned to visit the campus after serving 30 missions on a Liberator in the Eighth air force in Europe.
Betty Lindbauer, '46, visited with him. They will be married in Kansas City next week before Lieut. Gpeppelt reports for re-distribution.
bunch averages only 17 1/2 years.
one of the youngest teams to play
in the Kansas City tourney. 'Phon to Coach Five, Mary'
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"FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS"
ENDS TONITE
'Phog to Coach Five More Years
Our own "Phog" Allen, in his announcement that he will serve five years longer as a basketball coach, has insured himself a niche in athletic history, according to a correspondent quoted in C. E. McBride's sports column in the Kansas City Star. Other conference coaches, the writer suggests, should be willing to concede to 'Phog' three championships in those five years, leaving only two to fight for.
Spring Football Squad L. H.
with Janet BLAIR • Lee BOWMAN
MARC PLATT • LESLEI BROOKS
Caren Play by Lezoy Simmons
and Abben Fischl - Songs by
Jalee Steve and Sammy Cahn
IN TECHNICOLOR
Spring Football Squad Is Question
Coach Shenk has no word yet as to what his spring football squad will be like. Having announced the date for reporting, he has yet to learn what new material he can hope for. Omitted from the original list of last season's players who are still around to start early drill was the name of Keith Bradley, end on the 1944 squad.
GRANADA
FRIDAY
AND SATURDAY
McIntire Promoted To First Lieutenant
James E. McIntire, 22, of Clay Center, bombardier on a B-17 Flying Fortress, has been promoted from second lieutenant to first lieutenant. Lt. McIntire is a veteran of more than 30 Eighth Air Force bombing attacks on German industrial targets and military strongpoints in the path of Allied armies on the Western front.
Allen for Change In Free Throw Rule
Before entering the AAF in February, 1943, he was a student in the University. He is a member of the 34th Bomb, Group, a unit of the Third Air Division.
She was graduated from the University in 1940 and has been in the navy for two years.
Another rule change has been proposed by Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen, proponent of the 12-foot goal, this time calling for revision of the present free throw procedure. Dr. Allen said yesterday that intentional fouling would be eliminated by the giving the free-throwing team the ball out of bounds at mid-court whether or not the free throw is made. This practice would eliminate the time-consuming lining up around the free-throw alley and would make it impossible for 7-foot giants to fight for missed free throws.
The present war-time play, which he considers an interlude between normal serious periods in the history of athletics, would make the ideal time for trying out rule changes such as Dr. Allen's latest, the Jayhawk coach insists.
Statting that the game is getting a bad name from its rough and rioting nature, Allen pointed to the out of bounds after free throws as a welcome lull in the game which he described as being pell-mell.
Definition of Justice
Barbara Owens of the Women's Auxiliary Volunteer Emergency service recently received the promotion to lieutenant junior grade. Lieutenant Owens is doing war research work in the department of bacteriology as an assistant to Dr. C. M. Downs.
Barbara Owens Has Promotion
True justice is when the stenographer spits her gum out of a 54 story office window, and then steps on it as she leaves the building for lunch.
JAYHAWKER NOW
SENSATIONAL! IS THE WORD FOR IT
NEW DICK POWELL Hard Boiled, Two Fisted. He Follows a Trail of Violence, Blackmail and Murder
3 DAYS
DICK POWELL
IN THIS NEW KIND OF RED BLOODED MYSTERY!
CLAIRE
TREVOR
ANN SHIRLEY
MURDER MY SWEET
MICKEY ROONEY — SUNDAY