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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1943
Jayhawks Corner Statistical Honors
As the Big Six basketball race starts into the second half this weekend, the Kansas Jayhawkers maintain a stranglehold on conference offensive-defensive honors.
With four victories and no defeats, the Jayhawks are perched atop the standings with Oklahoma nipping their heels, only a half game behind with four.
Offensively the Kansans have averaged 50.3 points a game to top Oklahoma's mark of an even 50 points a game. On the defensive side the Jayhawks have a more commanding advantage. In four games opponents of Kansas have been held to 32 points and Oklahoma is once again second with an average of 35.2 points.
Among individual scorers four of the Iron Five crew are among the top seven point-makers in the loop. Tied for first place are Charlie Black of Kansas and Gerald Tucker of Oklahoma, two all-Big Six stars last year as sophomores, with averages of 16 points a game.
Paine Runs Third
Allie Paine, who played independent ball last year after a sparkling sophomore season at Oklahoma, is in third place for the Sooners followed by Missouri's first-year star, Thornton Jenkins.
Next three men in the individual standings all hail from Coach F. C. Allen's starting five. Ray Evans, hard-charging guard, leads the tric with an average of 10.5 followed by Otto Schnellbacher and John Buescher with 10.2 and 8.7 points a game.
This weekend finds the Jayhawk-examining on a rugged road trip with two games to be won minus the services of Black. Nebraska will be met for the first time this season on Saturday night and the return game with Iowa State will be played at Ames Monday night.
May Be Finished
Black, who is still in the campus hospital with pneumonia, may be lost to the team for the remainder of the season if present plans of the Army Air Corps to call all enlisted men this month are completed.
Replacing the junior ace will be the smallest man on the Kansas squad, 5-foot 10-inch Sparky McSpadden who played 26 minutes against Iowa State Saturday.
Devers Sure of African Victory
Fort Knox—(INS)—Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, chief of the U.S. armored forces after a visit to Africa reports: "I am confident the Americans, British, and French troops can and will drive the Germans and Italians out of Africa, or if they make a stand, annihilate them."
Allen Commissioned Naval Flight Ensign
William R. Allen, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Allen of North Kansas City, won his Navy Wings of Gold and was commissioned an ensign in the Naval Reserve this week following completion of the prescribed flight training course at the US Naval Air Training Center, Pensacola, Fla.
Prior to entering the Naval service, Ensign Allen studied at the University of Kansas and was a member of the college varsity baseball team.
Allen completed preliminary training at the US Naval Air Station in Kansas City, in September before reporting to the "Annapolis of the Air" for basic and advanced training. Ensign Allen will be stationed at the Pensacola base as a flight instructor.
ROTC Team Shoots In Second Round
The second stage of the Seventh Service Command Intercollegiate Gallery match will be completed by the end of this week, Lt. Col. Jack Gage, in charge of University firing, reported today. Only a few of the sitting position targets have been completed. Two more weeks remain in the contest which is to end with firing at targets from the standing position.
The University entered one ROTC team consisting of 15 men. The five best marksmen will be chosen to enter the William Randolph Hearst ROTC rifle competition.
Scores attained in the first stage are William Acker, 99; Dale Linglebach, 99; Edwin Crowley, 98; George Robb, 98; Charles Searle, 97; Robert Harris, 97; Leonard Diehl, 95; Jack C. Bower, 95; Frank Tyler, 94; Charles Allen, 92; Billy Stanton, 92; Herbert Borgman, 91; Hillman Dickinson, 91; Ralph Ward, 90; and Delbert Perkins, 83. Team average for the prone position was 94.
... BUY WAR STAMPS ...
Coop Jumps To Division Leadership
Tonight's Games
8:30 —DU vs. Sig Ep
—Phi Psi vs. Pi K A
9:30 —Kappa Sig vs. Teke
—Phi Gam vs. Sigma N*
John Moore outfought the Blanks Tuesday night to come out on the long end of the score, 36-30, and take over first place in Division III standings.
Blanks were handicapped by the absence of mainstay Junius Penny who might have been the difference between a loss and victory. Fenny's teammate Bert Bell hit 15 points for high scoring honors. Heaston and Bill Bartlett led the Coop attack with eight points each.
Penny Absent
It was a dead heat at the half, 15 all. John Moore began to hit the basket and with lanky Bob Heaston rebounding the Coop built up its six point margin for victory.
Harry Wherry and Carl Unruh paced Hellhounds to another victory, 27-14, at the expense of 4-F. Wherry and Unruh scored 11 and 10 points respectively. Lloyd Svoboda threw in six points for 4-F.
Rock Chalk came out on the long end of a 26-23 score in a Tuesday night game with Allen Semi-Coop. Dick Pfister, Ray Reed and John Reber took care of the scoring for Rock Chalk, counting 24 points. Allen's Gene Frazier was high man of the game with 11 points.
Morgan Frazier 11
Moser Scores 21
Ted Moser, scoring 21 points and grabbing most of the rebounds was head man in Theta Tau's defeat of Battenfeld hall, 40-32. Battenfield had Ray Thayer to match Moser,
Jayhawk jabberwock
by Milo Farnet
LIEF IN 1905
One member of the 1905 world-champion Buffalo Germans still recalls vividly the three-game cage series with the Kansas City Athletic Club, manned by Phog Allen and his brothers. Robert Craig, now field representative for the Extension division at Kansas City and previously a safe company salesman, tells of running across this particular cager in a Buffalo bank.
When Craig mentioned Kansas City the staid banker remarked that he'd been in KC only once but had good reason to remember it as a violent period in his life.
Led by the then undoctored and unphogged Allen, KCAC had whipped Buffalo two straight and was finding it rough going in the third game. Fouls were heavy—like the Oklahoma Aggie game here—and tempers short as the champion Germans attempted salvage of one game.
Pete Allen (now an Army colonel and commandant of Stanford's ROTC) slugged the reminiscing banker, cooling him with rabbit punch.
The referee, conveniently occupied elsewhere, hadn't seen the bout so Phog, as manager of the team, demanded that he heave Pete:
Forrest C. weighed somewhat less than 200 at that time—Pete was a huge man, weighing a bruising 210 pounds. Irrégardless, Phog decided.
"Get him out of here—he slugged that guy!"
Since he hadn't seen the punching, the official couldn't and wouldn't eject Pete.
Still sore at his brother's "unsporsmanlike conduct" Phog brooded over the incident while mates carried the cold easterner off the court.
"Take a shower, Pete. We can play without you."
(P. S. KCAC won the third game also and became known as world champion—Phog's first great basketball team.)
the only thing Thayer lacked that Moser had was about five inches in height, but he outhustled the Theta Tau's to keep his team in the running and scored 15 points himself. Homer Cunningham, a perennial engineer point maker scored 10 points.
Alpha Chi Sigma kept its record clean by downing A K Psi 24-21. With Harold Wright unable to play, the winners' Warren Lowen sacked
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