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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 1943
Jayhawk Jabberwock
by Don Keown
PHOG MAKES A SUGGESTION
Phog Allen, as usual, gets in what should be the last word in the argument over the Creighton affair by inquiring why Norris Anderson, Daily Nebraskan sports editor, if he is really so interested in the welfare of the Bluejays, doesn't go to work on a problem which the Creighton supporters have been working on for years—the placing of the Nebraska Cornhuskers on the Creighton schedule.
Allen today released a letter which he had written to Eddie Hickey, Creighton coach, prior to the Bluejay game at Omaha in which he frankly stated: "I will bring a team up to play you but it will not be these stars (Those men who were to be called up by the ERC, and who therefore desired to visit with their parents.) I cannot insist that they do otherwise when their call to service is so close."
So skittish have the Cornhuskers been of their state rivals that at one point a Nebraska state legislator and Creighton fan introduced a bill to require Nebraska to schedule Creighton in sports. Still the cautious Cornhuskers however, have ovided the Bluejay powerhouse, thus escaping incidentally two automatic cage defeats each winter.
Allen offered as an alternative to forfeit the game, but Hickey preferred to play the weakened Kansas team since tickets had been sold for the game. Said Hickey: "We appreciate what you are doing. You are the only Big Six team we have been able to schedule, and you are willing to play us not once, but twice."
TO BALDWIN BY HORSE
It seems that Ray Evans not only missed the Creighton game, but also came very close to missing the Missouri contest—a game which would have undoubtedly been lost if he had not performed. Evans decided on the evening prior to the game to remain at home with his mother as long as possible before reporting to the army, and not to make the trip to Columbia. The following morning, however, he again changed his mind and headed for the station in the car of a friend. Auto trouble, however, caused him to miss the train.
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Allen in his Columbia hotel room received the following wire from Evans: "Missed train 5 minutes. Freshman car ran out of water on way to train. Alibi. Will be in Columbia tomorrow in time for game even if I have to ride horse. Tell fellows we will make it undefeated Big Six year. Love to all—Ray."
The horse-riding was in reference to a basketball incident in earlier Jaynawk history in which a cager named Wheeler missed his transportation to Baker for a game, hired a horse and rode to Baldwin, and then proceeded to push in eight field goals to win the contest.
JABBERWOCK
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Ralph Miller, despite rumors, will not play with the Wichita Cessna team at Denver, having been declared ineligible by the AAU because of his professional football activities . . . Miller won the Wichita fans over this winter with his brilliant Naismith League play, in which he led the circuit in scoring . . . The Athletic Round Table in Spokane, Wash., is conducting a nation-wide poll to learn whether or not fans desire the continuance of the sport for the duration . . . Prizes are being offered for the best answers, so here is a chance for you baseball bugs to pick up some real money.
Charles Black, currently being honored as one of the nation's top basketball men in the season just completed, has not as yet reported to the air corps at Omaha . . . Harold Keith, Oklahoma sports service director, points out that conference records should be divided into two sections—those made before the elimination of the center jump and those made after its elimination . . . The choice of Oklahoma to represent this district in the NCAA playoffs was a wise one, as the Sooners have more color and talent than either the Oklahoma Aggies or Washington, despite the Aggies' recent victory over the Sooners . . . Here's wishing Bruce Drake's men good luck.
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Cage Records Are Released
Kansas 1942-43 Basketball Statistics
PLAYER GP FG FT TP AV. PF.
1. Schnellbacher 26 111 62 284 10.9 46
2. Buescher 27 95 77 267 9.9 52
3. Black 18 82 42 206 11.4 35
4. Evans 26 77 28 182 7. 45
5. Dixon 23 36 20 92 4. 51
6. McSpadden 19 21 10 52 2.7 27
7. Kissell 21 19 12 50 2.4 16
8. Ballard 19 11 11 33 1.7 18
9. Baker 8 14 3 31 3.9 17
10. Turner 17 11 6 28 1.6 6
11. Fitzpatrick 16 10 5 25 1.6 6
12. Forsythe 10 6 4 16 1.6 5
13. Brill 18 4. 5 13 .7 10
14. Short 6 2 4 8 1.3 2
15. Blair 6 2 1 5 .8 5
16. Dick 7 1 0 2 .3 5
17. Hansen 2 0 0 0 .0 2
Cessna Team Takes Squad Of Nine To Tournament
Wichita, March 13 — (Special) Coach Ray Piper and a squad of nine Cessna Bobcats left yesterday for Denver where they will compete in the national AAU championships which begin next week.
The nine men making the trip include Platt, Vandiver, Rankin, D. Smith, Welch, Wilhoite, and Schubert, all members of the Bobcat squad during the Naismith league season, plus two new additions—John Buescher, $ ^{*} $
new additions—John Buescher, Kansas sparkplug,and Harold Johnson, Kansas Wesleyan's high-scoring forward.
Piper indicated that there was a possibility of a lineup shift on the Cessna team so that Buescher could be given a starting position. Arrangements had been made for warmup games in Colorado Springs with the Martin Jewelers of that city.
Favorites at the Denver tournament will be the home team, and the Bartlesville Phillips Oilers. Darkhorse aggregations include the Wichita team, the University of Wyoming squad, and several Pacific Coast teams. Several members of the Cessna squad are veterans of competition in past AAU tournaments.
Marshal Petain Reported Dying
Marshal Petain, former head of the Vichy territory of Nazi controlled France, is reported in a dying condition after having suffered a stroke of paralysis several days ago. Kept secret from the French public, word of Petain's illness reached Algiers through "underground" sources.
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Paden Will Adress English Maiors
W. D. Paden, assistant professor of English, will speak to nglish majors in room 205 of Fraser hall at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon, March 18, on the subject, "Tennyson and the Nature Lovers." The public is invited.
Professor Has Poems Published
Two poems by Miss Mary Grant, associate professor of Latin and Greek at the University, are contained in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly. The poems are entitled "What Lethe?" and "Black-birds."
Sophomore Heads List In Scoring
Scoring records released yesterday by basketball coach Forrest C. Allen today revealed that sophomore Otto Schnellbacher led the 1942-43 Jayhawkers in total points scored by massing 284 points. In second place was quarterback John Buescher with 267.
Schnellbacher was far in the lead in field goals with 111, while Buescher headed his teammates in free throw conversions with 77. Forward Charles Black, however, had the best game scoring average with 206 points in 18 games for an average of 11.4 points a game. Schnellbacher's game average was 10.9 and Buescher's 9.9.
Buescher was also the team leader in total number of personal fouls during the season with 52 compared to sophomore Armand Dixon's 51, and in the number of games in which he appeared, seeing action in 27 of the Kansan's 28 games. Dixon had a scoring average of 4 points per game.
The fifth member of the Jayhawk's original Iron Five, guard Ray Evans, had a season's average of 7 points per game, having contributed 182 points to Jayhawk totals in 26 games.
Leading reserves in scoring averages were Hoyt Baker with 3.9 points a game in eight contests, Harold McSpadden with 2.7 points a game in 19 contests, and Max Kis-sell with 2.4 points a game in 21 contests.
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