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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1945
PT's 5 and 7 Are Victors In Basketball Semi-Finals
Two closely fought games landed PT 7 and PT 5 in the finals of the Navy basketball tournament yesterday. The championship will be decided in a match between PT 7, winner in the A league, and PT 10, at GQ tomorrow.
L. E. Burch led the scoring in the game yesterday with 13 points, as PT 7 defeated PT 10, 31-20. PT 5 defeated PT 8, 33-28, with Beady Crass counting 12 points for the victors.
Know Your Team
Leading the Jayhawkers offensive so far this season with 62 points in 6 games is Charlie Moffett, only regular starter back from last year. Last season he averaged 8.7 to finish in the top six in the Big Six individual scoring race, and make second team all-Big Six.
CHARLES MOFFETT
Lettering for the second season this year in football, he was selected on the AP all-Big Six football team. Moffett was elected president of the K-club this fall.
Charlie played at Peabody high under Paul Brown, averaging more than 20 points a game, before coming to the university. This 6-footer is a sophomore in the College and a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity.
Harold Irwin Looks Forward To 1945 Christmas in Kansas
Harold Irwin, graduate of the School of Law in 1944, is stationed in Paris, according to word received by Dean F. J. Moreau.
Irwin's home is in Liberal and he practiced law in Wichita. In a letter to Dean Moreau, he said that he moved to spend next Christmas in Kansas.
Admiral Richard E. Byrd
Given Legion of Merit Medal
Washington, (INS) — President Roosevelt today presented Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, famous Antarctic explorer, the Legion of Merit medal for carrying out a highly confidential and secret war mission in the Pacific. Admiral Byrd although retired, has been on special duty with the navy at headquarters of Admiral King.
A "Ski-Shuffle," a strictly nondate affair which every one attends dressed in ski costumes, is sponsored each winter by the Husky Winter Sports club of the University of Washington.
"Ski-Shuffle" Given at Wash. U.
Sportorials
By JIM MORDY
Oklahoma's Sooners are bemoaning their lack of height. Averaging only 5 feet 10 inches through their starting five, Harold Keith, Oklahoma publicity agent, describes them as the Roundball Runts.
The Runts have been having considerable difficulty securing rebounds, according to the statistics. In their eleven games they have lost the ball 326 times on rebounds, 109 times on errors, 54 times on jump balls and 24 times on violations. be expected to be the highest, but
The loss through rebounds would perhaps not so great a loss as the Oklahoma have suffered.
Look for the Sooners to come back strong. Although losing to Kansas State, and barely beating Nebraska, Coach Bruce Drake has a strong club which can't be counted out of the title picture yet. Look for a large, perhaps 15 to 20 point margin of victory over Nebraska's Cornhuskers in Oklahoma City tomorrow night.
Kansas State plays Herington Air Base, and Missouri tackles the tough Iowa Seahawks, in other Saturday night games. The result of the Tiger-Seahawk game should be interesting to fans attempting to compare Big Six teams.
BEAT NEBRAKASI
Iowa State has lost two close games to the Seahawks, and Missouri's score against the Navy team should resemble the future score between the Tigers and the Cyclones. With this game and tonight's game between Nebraska and the Jayhawkers, a better line can be drawn between Kansas and Iowa State, the only undefeated teams in the league at the present.
BEAT NEBRASKA
The Jayhawkers looked better in the Columbia game than in any game so far this year.
Kansas should win over Nebraska tonight. The Cornhuskers did not look as good in Kansas City in the holiday doubleheader as did the Missouri team. Since the Crimson and Blue defeated the latter team on their own court by a sizeable score, they ought to be able to win from the visitors tonight.
BEAT NEBRASKA
Last year Kansas won the opening home game by a 51 to 27 score, with freshman Meffett scoring 13 points. In the return game at Lincoln the Mt. Oread five also won but by only a 56 to 47 score.
in the long series between the two clubs, Kansas has won 57 and
BEAT NEBRASKA
dropped 29. Since the formation of the Big Six, in 1929, Kansas has beaten the Cornhuskers 24 times while losing only 6 for an 80 per cent winning record. The last time the Jayhawks lost to Nebraska was in 1939 when Nebraska triumphed in their first encounter, 48 to 37, only to lose later in the season by a 40 to 46 score.
Coach Allen's five will journey to Oklahoma, just a week in the rear of the Nebraskans, to invade Sooner territory next Saturday. Tonight's game and the N. U.-O. U. game tomorrow night will give players an inkling of what to expect next week.
Louisiana State Has 2.850
Approximately 2,850 students are now enrolled in Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. This does not include the ASTRP's of which there are about 100.
Athletic Squads Will Be Guests at K-Clab Dance
Members of the basketball and football squads this year will be guests of the K-Club at a dance in the Kansas room in the Memorial Union building Jan. 27, Charles Moffett, president announced today
Charles Steeper and his band will play for the dance. All men who finished the football season and those who are now out for basketball are invited, Moffett said.
Congress May Draft 330,000 Deferred Me
Washington — (INS) — Selective service advised congress today that to meet armed forces manpower requirements of 900,000 in the next six months it will be necessary to draft 330,000 men now deferred on farms and in industry.
Secretary of War Stimson earlier yesterday in a news conference said that increasing draft needs probably will result in induction of all able-bodied youth even those in war industries, agriculture, and government jobs.
Manpower Commission Puts Ceiling on Non-war Hiring
Kansas City, Mo., (INS)—A manpower ceiling limiting the number of male employees in business establishments was ordered today in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Non-essential employers may not hire more men than were working Jan. 10, and essential employers no more than were working Jan. 25, 1944.
The University Catholic Club will have a breakfast meeting after 10 o'clock mass Sunday morning in the basement of St. John's Catholic church, Joe Swoboda president, has announced. All Catholic students are invited to attend.
the wires hum. It's a "31" order—important instructions for a train soon to arrive and for which the conductor must sign. The station agent sets the semaphore. The red light flashes its warning. The train arrives and rumbles to a stop.
This is just one of many safety measures established by Union Pacific to assure reliable transportation of passengers and freight. War resulted in a tremendous increase in rail traffic. A large part of that traffic has been directed over Union Pacific's "strategic middle route" uniting the East with the Pacific Coast.
Through constant vigilance and tireless effort on the part of employees, thousands of men and trainloads of materials have been moved efficiently and quickly to aid the Allied cause.
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