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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1944
From the Sidelines By Bob Bock, Kansan Sports Editor
Dr. Phog will get a big laugh out of this. Recently, Pete Lightner, Wichita Eagle sports ed, came out vociferously against the 12-foot basket as if he were making a one-man campaign against this revolutionary change in the rules, which Dr. Allen says is sure to come. Lightner said that the only reason Allen and Bruce Drake of Oklahoma were for such change was because of the seven-foot goal tending Kurland of the Oklahoma Aggies, who had taken Allen's Jayhawks and Drake's Sooners for a cleaning. This was absurd because Kansas whipped the Aggies twice last year with Kurland in the lineup and have not and will not play them this year, because of an incident in the A & M game here last year in which Henry Iba finished the game with only four players after several of his stars had gone out by way of the foul route.
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Lightner's statement is all the more false because even Iba himself has been quoted as in favor of the raising of the baskets. The Eagle man goes on to say that the raising of the baskets is a situation similar to that a few years ago when the fans in St. Louis' Sportsman's park made a howl for the raising of the fences because it was too easy for such power hitters as Babe Ruth who once called his home run in a World Series game against the Cards at St. Louis) to knock the ball over the fence. The fences were heightened with a high screen also out up with the result that it is now much more difficult to hit a circuit bout. Lightner says that now the ans are sorry, for they miss those our base pokes. And that is the argument Mr. Lightner uses against the 12-foot basket: just because you happen to have a skyscraper-cager who can dunk the ball in the 10-foot basket, everyone yells to raise the goal just like they did with the baseball fences when home runs seemed too easy to hit.
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A few days later Lightner came up with what he thought to be even a better example. He said that when a Kentucky coach was recently querier over the Bill Stern sports-reels real concerning the raising of the basket, he replied, "Well, I suppose the next thing that will come up will be some ice hockey manager raising a kick because his rival brought out a big fat goalie and for that reason the goals ought to be widened."
Lightner in concluding his remarks about "leaving the goals where they are" says that it's the averaged size men that do the scoring and not the "peeping goons" or "mezzanine hurdles," as Dr. Allen more politely terms them. In a recent series in which the "world's tallest team," Valapariso University, lost two of three with Wichita semi-pro Aircraft teams, it
was an averaged sized player that did most of Valpo's scoring rather than their six-foot eight- and 10-inch giants. Lightner says that it is the adept little fellows like Cessna's Dick Smith that time and again outscore their taller competitors.
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Phog Hates "Shinny"
Many followers have been gunning for which the Kansas U-ASTP game following the season opener in which the soldiers triumphed over the green young Jayhawks. Most fans would figure that with their recent exhibitions and the fact that they are now rounding into a "real" team, the Jayhawks would be able to take care of the soldiers. Last night the ASTP came over for a practice game. Dr. Allen who was disgusted with they way his boys were performing last night in practice said, "We might as well get the slaughter started." Before you knew it, the Jayhawks had a commanding lead, Iowan "Bud" Palmer held Ted Bean, ex-Valpo (Ind.) star who scored 22 points in the team's first meeting, to nary a field goal. It was really quite a battle but the game began to get out of hand, so Dr. Allen thought it best to call it an evening. The Jayhawks were leading 10 to 9. It was really quite a battle and there would be nothing we would rather see than these two teams matched again in Hoch auditorium with good officiating.
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ou might as well remember this: There is nothing the famous Kansas coach more despises than slam-bang "shimmy" basketball as he calls it, when both teams boot each other up and down the court in a free-for-all. This quite often occurs when officials lose control of the game. This is the reason why Kansas will have nothing more to do with either Hutchinson NAS or the Oklahoma Aggies. As Allen states, "Let's either have basketball or don't have it."
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Errorless, Today, We Hope
Errorless, Today, We Hope
Today we hope that sport information in the Kansan is free from error. Monday in the calendar of coming events it was stated that KU, will meet Hutchinson NAS there Jan. 24. With all that has been said afore and since, we thought everyone knew that the game had been cancelled. Tuesday the headline streamed that "KU, wins sixth game of season," which was a trifle misleading. It was the sixth win against college and service foes combined. Yesterday only a minor, insignificant typographical error graced our eye. It was stated that "Lyon" Williams, V-12, bolstered the Machinist's Mate five against Fort Riley. We know that "little Willie," former star athlete at Salina, is a mighty tricky little scatback, and he may be a 'social lion' for all we
The first game of the evening, between SOW and V-12, got off to a slow start, with first blood drawn by SOW with a charity toss. Lack of practice together kept the V-12's from scoring heavily in the first half, but they found themselves in the second half, pouring 22 points through the net to the SOW's 10. V-12 led at the half, 12-10.
V-12's, Blanks Are Winners In Local League
Ens. H, G. Ware, V-12 coach, used three different teams in the game, substituting freely to find winning combinations. Ed Pyle, 6 foot 3-inch from Belott, led V-12, scoring 7 points, followed by Hartzell and Lutz with 6 each. Hoke, SOW, was high man of the game, with 11 points.
V-12 nosed out the SOW Ads, 34-20, and the Blanks won a 35-33 thriller from the Ship's company in the opening games of the Lawrence Community Basketball League in the community building last night.
Bob Bock, freshman from Macksville, paced the Blanks in the second game of the evening with 13 points with pivot shots, which the ship's company were unable to block. Leo Smith, with nine points, added to the Blank's total. Tantzgwe with 10, and Ens. Ware, with 6, led the Ship's company scoring.
Eight Haskell students, under the direction of Mr. Wallace, Haskell
know, but his first name is Lynn,
not Lyon.
There is nothing like the draft for getting men. Last night a fine opening night crowd watched the first of the Community League basketball games. However, most of the men were in blue. It couldn't have been because 15 sailors from each PT were by lot selected to go to the games on their Wednesday night off and cheer their V-12 brothers on the court. Fifteen of the slips which were drawn out of the hat said "you go," so go they did.
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In the second game, Ensign H. G. Ware will have the double duty of coaching the V-12 team and of holding down his regular spot on the Ship's Company, the opponents of the V-12's.
Officials were Chaler Woodard, of Lawrence High, and Van Devere, Haskell.
The Rascals, coached by J. R. Collins, is as yet unknown, while the SOW Techs, are expected to compare with their co-team, the SOW Ads. who lost to V-12, 34-20 last night.
Tonight, the SOW Techs will meet the Irish Rascals at 7:30, and the V-12 will oppose the Ship's Company in the second game.
In attendance at the game were City Councilmen Pyne and Burgert and Lt. A. H.Buhl, commanding officer of Naval Training School, Lt. Com. W. B. Key, medical officer, and Lt. C. A. Michelman, commanding officer of V-12.
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