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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1943
--wizard on Mt. Oread, for three years, has been awarded at least one gold basketball emblematic of the conference championship. Many of the players have three.
--wizard on Mt. Oread, for three years, has been awarded at least one gold basketball emblematic of the conference championship. Many of the players have three.
Jayhawk abberwock
by Don Keown
By MATT HEUERTZ, Guest Columnist
Congratulations to Gerald Tucker for living up to pre-season predictions that he would break some kind of a scoring record. His 18 field goals and 2 free throws against Nebraska last night, with two and at times three Cornhuskers guarding him, certainly deserves honorable mention in any sport's column. * * * * *
Last night another conference had two of its scoring records broken. Andy Phillip of Illinois sank 40 points to aid his teammates roll up 92 points in crushing Chicago 92 to 25 in a Big Ten conference game. Both are new Big Ten records. Chicago in the meantime continued its record losing streak by dropping its 40th straight conference game.
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ALLEN TO VISIT BRIGGS
Dr. Forrest C. Allen will visit Col. Raymond W. Briggs of the Seventh Service Command in Omaha before the Jayhawker game with Creighton Thursday night. Relations between the two gentlemen are not as strained as we have been led to believe because of their recent squabble over the eligibility of Charlie Black. Colonel Briggs attended school at Fort Sill and Fort Leavenworth with Col. Pete Allen, brother of "Phog."
--wizard on Mt. Oread, for three years, has been awarded at least one gold basketball emblematic of the conference championship. Many of the players have three.
It seems like the Big Six faculty representatives should be ashamed of themselves for shelving the bill which would permit colored athletes to participate in conference track meets.
WHITWORTH TALKS TO BIG SIX TRACKMEN
Roger Whitworth, Kansas colored star, was at the Big Six indoor meet in Kansas City, Saturday, and purposely asked Missouri and Oklahoma track men what they thought of colored students participating in track meets. They told him that they had nothing against competing against colored track men. As a matter of fact, they said that they would have liked to run against him.
Record Proves Allen No.1 Coach in Nation
When Coach Forrest C. "Phog" Allen's University of Kansas cagers turned back the University of Oklahoma Friday night to win undisputed possession of the Big Six flag for 1943, they established a record that no other major university basketball team in the United States has ever remotely approached. Between 1922 and 1943, every University of Kansas player who has played under the Naismith
When the Helm's Foundation two weeks ago rated Dr. Allen as America's number 1 basketball coach, there were few throughout the land who would dispute it. Many, however, as down through the past quarter of a century, have continued to shake their heads in amazement and to wonder how the doctor does it.
Allen's record bears out the statement that he has always opposed the practice of subsidizing athletes. As a matter of fact, he has probably approached fewer team prospects among secondary school luminaries than any coach in the country. Dr. Allen, except when his sons, Milt and Bob, were playing with the Lawrence Memorial High teams, has never attended the state high school basketball tournaments. He has been sure that had he done so, the hue and cry would have gone up that the Doctor was "ivory hunting." Consequently, he has stayed away.
Against Subsidized Athletes
There are no athletic scholarships for basketball players at the University of Kansas. Dr. Allen maintains that a subsized athlete won't fight as hard as a scholar. Down through the years, he has maintained that studies come first. Which, he believes, is one of the reasons
his teams have consistently been winners. Of the current crop of sophomore standouts, one of the brightest luminaries came to Dr. Allen at the start of the basketball season with the problem that he was down in five hours in the school of engineering, and asked what he should do. Allen reminded him that he was at Kansas first to study. When he had made up his delinquency and if he still wished to come out for basketball there would still be time. And that sophomore has broken the backs of many heroic opponents in the stretch drive this year with timely baskets.
Allen insists that his players have at least a "C" average in their grades to participate in the annual freshman-varsity gmae which is the kickoff for the cage season each year.
"It is a matter of record," said Allen, "that all I promised him was three of the toughest years of competition he would ever find anywhere. By now, I guess he knows he has had two of them."
When Oklahoma's great Gerald Tucker was casting about for a school where he could utilize his excellent cage ability in the stiffest competition, he had a chat with Dr. Allen.
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Education Is First In All Competition "Scholarship," the Doctor continued, "should be used as a halter to lead these young broncos in the right direction. Education is the competition. Then at 60 or 65, the star who has also made the most of (continued)...
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Kansas Seeks Ninth Victory In Big-6 Play
The Kansas Jayhawkers, with the 1943 Big Six basketball title securely tucked away, will attempt to make it nine straight conference victories tonight at Columbia against Missouri.
The Jayhawkers will have to continue their winning streak to equal the record of the 1936 Kansas team which went through conference play without a defeat. That year the team won 16 games without a setback. This year's team has won 20 out of 25 games.
Missouri has a chance to take second place in the Big Six if she upsets Kansas tonight. Otherwise the best that the Tigers can hope for is a tie with Oklahoma, if they defeat the Sooners Saturday night at Norman.
The players which Coach "Phog" Allen took to Columbia yesterday are Ray Evans, Jack Ballard, Otto Schnellbacher, John Buescher, Harold McSpadden, Max Kissley, Hoyt Baker, Paul Turner, Bill Forsyth, and Bob Fitzpatrick. Bill Brill was left at home.
Coach Allen probably will play most of the squad if the game fares well for the Kansans. Buescher, Ballard, McSpadden, Forsyth, Kissell, and Turner should see a lot of action tonight for they will be the only players left for the game with Creighton Thursday night in Omaha.
Clothing Sales Skyrocket, Retail Stores Report
New York, (INS)—Women, fearful that rationing of shoes presages a similar action in the garment field have been on a buying "orgy" which has skyrocketed sales to Christmas season levels, retail stores reported last week.
Executives of large shops disclosing what they termed a "senseless buying spree," said the trend was even more pronounced in cities outside New York.
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The following named cadets have been chosen as contestants: Frank B. Tyler, Edwin Crowley, Hillman Dickinson, Dale Linglebach, and Leonard Diehl. Each man shoots only one target in each of the four positions, which means four practice shots and 20 that count. Firing will be done under the supervision of Lt. Col. Gage, who is "confident that the team will make a credible show."
Targets for the recent Seventh Service Command contest have been sent to headquarters at Omaha, Neb. and results should be released in about two weeks, according to Lt. Col. Jack Gage, director of rife marksmanship at the University.
Tucker Sets Record In Big Six Scoring
"Join the Red Cross"
Five of the fifteen University marksmen, who completed the Seventh Service Command Intercollegiate Gallery match Feb. 28, will enter the William Randolph Hearst National ROTC rifle competition this week. Every senior university and college in the United States is eligible to enter the Hearst competition, for which targets must be completed March 12.
Marksmen Compete In ROTC Rifle Meet
Results of the fourth stage of the contest were considerably lower than the others, high scores being made by Frank Tyler with 81 points and Edwin Crowley with 77 points
Value of this training was portrayed in Hearst's Journal American, in which two pages of pictures of war heroes who had competed in Hearst matches were shown.
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Gerald Tucker, Oklahoma's 6-foot $4\frac{1}{2}$ inch center, set a new Big Six individual scoring record last night by collecting 38 points again Nebraska at Norman where the Sooners drubbed the Cornhuskers 65 to 48.
The old record of 33 points was set by Charlie Black on the local court against Missouri on January 5. Black had broken the record of 30 points made by Jimmy McNatt of Oklahoma in 1940.
Kansas State broke its 8-game conference losing streak last night at Manhattan by upsetting Iowa State 43 to 36. Dean Lill, K-State center, collected 16 points for high scoring honors. Close behind him with 15 points was teammate Joe Ridgeway. Kansas State comes to Lawrence Saturday night to meet the Jayhawkers in the final game of the season for both teams.
Mayes Gives Talk On Infantile Paralysis At Medical Fraternity
Following dinner at the Phi Chi medical fraternity Thursday, Dr. Fred Mayes, director of child welfare of the public health service of Kansas, Topeka; spoke to the members of the chapter house on the "Kenny Treatment of Infantile Paralysis."
Doctor Mayes took a special course for physicians at the University of Minnesota. He lived at a center for continuation study. Twenty-two states were represented here by members of the medical profession, who are trying to increase the use of this treatment.
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