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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1943
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By Matt Heuertz
WERE SOLD ON THE 12-FOOT BASKET
The longer we ponder over the subject of the 12-foot basket for collegiate basketball games, the more we are convinced of its value and necessity.
Old timers can still recall when the game of basketball was a game of skill in which the little man could hold his own against taller players. As a matter of fact, ten years ago, when we were still in grade school, tall men were uncommon in collegiate basketball circles. On the average, the tallest man on the best teams was about 6 feet tall. The average height of a basketball team was about 5 feet 10 inches.
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HEIGHTH GOES UP AN INCH A YEAR
In ten years the average height of members of the first five of first rate college teams has increased nearly an inch a year. Players 6 feet 10 inches tall are no longer uncommon on the basketball court. Bob Kurland, Oklahoma A & M's 17-year old freshman has raised the ceiling on tall players to 7 feet—and he's still growing.
Yet, despite this continued increase in height of players, the basketball rules committee has neglected to compensate for this height increase by increasing the height of the basket above the court. But that change over to a 12-foot basket will have to come sometime in the future before players get so tall that they can just place the ball in the basket.
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TALL MEN WILL KEEP AN ADVANTAGE
A 12-foot basket, we grant, will take some of the premium value off the tall men who can tip in shots missed by their teammates. But dunking is not basketball. However, these tall men will retain several advantages over their less gifted opponents. They will still be able to shoot passes or to receive passes from their teammates without much danger from their opponents.
Another advantage that they will have is that of being able to shoot field goals over the heads of their opponents. Jayhawker fans still recall the game in which Charlie Black sank five straight field goals out on the court despite the presence of several guards. All he did was to extend his arms straight over his head, placing the ball out of reach of his smaller opponents, and then, with a flip of his hands, sink a field goal with uncanny skill.
Sue McCluggage Strikes Out 12
Striking out twelve opponents in five innings, Roberta Sue McCluggage sparked Gamma Phi Beta in edging out Watkins Hall 3-2 in Gamma Phi's second victory in the women's intramural softball tournament. Lucy Lee Thompson caught for Gamma Phi.
Violet Conard who played roving short field for Watkins scored both of her team's points. Althea Shuss, pitcher, and Alice Goff, catcher, made up the Watkins Hall battery.
IND forfeited to IWW because of lack of a sufficient number of players. When a game is forfeited, the team forfeiting receives no points, and their opponents are given two.
Matches Must Be Played Soon
All three round singles in men's horseshoes, tennis, and handball must be played by Thursday evening, Henry Chenk, director of men's intramurals, announced today.
The second round in the women's tennis doubles tournament must be played off by Saturday, Miss Ruth Hoover, assistant professor of physical education, said today.
All first round matches not played off by last Saturday were scratched from the tournament.
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Evacuation of residents along the Missouri river lowlands because of flood was started Saturday at Kansas City.
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Despite inadequate transportation facilities, sixty-one state high schools intend to bring track teams to the 39th Interscholastic Track and Field Meet, Saturday, in Memorial stadium, Earl Falkenstein, treasurer of the athletic association, reported today.
Eentries received up to noon today in the class A group included: Argentine, Atchison, Augusta, Coffeeville, Council Grove, Emporia, Fort Scott, Hiawatha, Holton, Highland Park, Hutchinson, Junction City, Lawrence Liberty Memorial, Newton.
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Ottawa, Paola, Rosedale, Seaman,
Shawnee Mission, Sumner, Topeka,
Turner, Wichita East, Wichita North,
Wyandotte, Washington Rural, and
Manhattan.
34 Have Entered Class B
Sixty-One High Schools Enter Meet
Class B entries include: Admire, Andale, Ashland, Axtel, Baldwin, Bentley, Blue Rapids, Burlingame, Burns, Burrton, Emmett, Eudora.
Florence, Havensville, La Cygne,
Linwood, Lyndon, McCune, Miller,
Mulberry, Neosho Rapids, Overbrook,
Oxford, Peabody, Perry,
Robinson.
Olathe School for the Deaf, Tonganoxie, University High (Lawrence), Valley Center, Valley Falls, Waterville, Wellsville, and Winchester.
Missouri To Play 10 Baseball Games
Columbia, Mo., (INS)—The University of Missouri baseball team will play a schedule of ten games this season. Don Faurot, chairman of the University coaching staff, announced today.
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Newark, N.J., (INS)—The war has hit no club in the major leagues any harder than Tom Yawkey's gold-plated Red Sox.
The Boston Red Sox . . . Gold-Plated Sox Have Been Hard Hit By War
By JOE CASHMAN
Among the players Manager Joe Cronin had at Sarasota, Fla., last spring and hasn't at Tufts College, Medford, Mass.,
Among the players Manager J Fla., last spring and hasn't at T this spring are Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, Dom DiMaggio, Lou Finney, Bill Butland and Charlie Wagner.
Williams was the Fenway flock's regular left-fielder. He was the 1942 American League leader in batting, in fashioning home runs, in knocking in runs and in scoring runs; one of the few players ever to walk off with the four-cornered crown.
In case that doesn't give you a clear idea of the extent of the hose losses, listen.
Williams Led In Batting
Johnny Pesky was the regular shortstop. He was the runner-up for the league batting championship and regarded by many as the rookie of the year.
Dom DiMaggio was the regular centerfielder. He was rated the best lead-off hitter in the loop. If there was a greater defensive centerfielder, it was only his illustrious older brother, Yankee Joe DiMag, now in the U S Army.
Lou Finney was the Sox regular rightfielder. If he wasn't brilliant, he was ever steady in the difficult sun garden.
Wagner and Butland were among the starting pitchers who worked in turn. Wagner turned in fourteen decisions. Butland had an 8-1 card at the finish.
In short, the Red Sox have lost the League's two leading stickers of a year back. They've lost their entire 1942 outfield. They've lost their infield spark plug. They've lost two
With these aforementioned star-spangled performers, the back bay entry ran second, for the fourth time in five years, to a pennant-winning New York Yankee machine.
Without sailors Williams, Pesky, DiMaggio and Wagner, soldier Butland and farmer Finney, the Red Sox this year will, in the words of skipper Cronin, "Do the best we can."
Maybe the Sox will again finish on the heels of the Yankees, but that's very improbable in the event the Yanks manage to cop the flag again.
The Red Sox don't shape up as serious 1943 pennant contenders; not on paper, at least.
Sox Will Have Fair Pitching
They'll have fair pitching even with Butland and Wagner missing. Returning are 'Tex' Hughson, 22-game winner last season, Dick Newsome, Joe Dobson, Ken 'lefty' Chase, Yank Terry, Tom 'lefty' Judd, Mike Ryba, and Mace Brown. Coming up for trials, carrying better than average records out of class AA, are Louis Lucir from Louisville and Al 'Leis' Olsen and Norman Brown, both from San Diego.
They'll be pretty well set in the infield with Tony Lupien again on first, Bobby Doerr back to play second, Jim Tabor remaining on third and E'die Lake, a highly touted rookie from the Cards' farm at Sacramento, coming in to battle
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