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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1943
No Surprise If KU Loses This Weekend
What started out as amusement turned into amazement for the Jayhawkers as they iost to Camp Crowder Saturday night but that won't be the situation this weekend in Kansas City for the Kansans realize the power of their two opponents and will be out to re-assume their high standing in the nation's basketball rankings.
Friday night Coach Phog Allen's men will face Lt. Jack Gardner's Olathe Clippers for the third time in their four-game series. The collegians opened their season against the Navy cagers and were trounced 40 to 29 in a dismal showing. Immediately after their return from the all-victorious Eastern jaunt, the Kansans sped to a 60 to 32 win. Howey, Menke Lead Scoring
In the two previous games leading offensive threats for the Sailors have been Harold Howey, formerly an Iola Junior College star; Bill Menke, Indiana University all-Big Ten selection; Homer Wesche, erstwhile Kansas State all-Big Six performer; and Grady Lewis, former all-American with the Phillips Sixty-sixers. If Friday night's game appears to be a minor skirmish, then the tilt Saturday night against the Great Lakes Naval Station will be a major engagement to the fullest extent. Last season the Illinois sailors came to Kansas City with an outstanding aggregation of stars and drubbed the Jayhawks 53 to 37
Almost A New Team
Of the 12 men who participated in the Navy rout last year, nine have been commissioned ensigns and sent to combat duty. Bill Menke was transferred as a naval aviation cadet and is now stationed at the Olathe base. The two remaining players, Forrest Anderson and Dick Klein, have been made regimental adjutants and are now training new men at the Great Lakes base. They will be seen in action Saturday night along with 10 other new Sailor stars.
Unlucky 13 proved the downfall of the Kansans at Camp Crowder Saturday night as the Signallers played inspired ball before their campmates while the Jayhawkers were cold and cocky. Only five times in the 45 years of basketball at Kansas has a team won over 12 consecutive games and this makes the fifth time a Jayhawk team has been stopped at 12 wins.
Games Last Night
Oklahoma 59, Ft. Sill 25
Indiana 64, Iowa 43
Great Lakes 64, Chicago 35
Notre Dame 45, Butler 34
Bill Hargiss Calls Indoor Trackmen
Fifty Are Training At Stadium
Bill Hargiss, varsity track coach, today issued a general call for all men interested in track to report for the sport at Memorial Stadium at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon.
A group of 50 men has been working out under Hargiss at his invitation in the stadium. The indefiniteness of track plans, however, had previously prevented a general call.
The track mentor stated that it was now definite that the Jayhawk track and field men will enter the Big Six indoor meet at Kansas City Feb. 27. The date of the conference meet has been moved up from March 3 so that Kansas City's huge Municipal Auditorium would be available.
Hargiss stated that he hoped to have a squad of a hundred men participating in the sport this year. He pointed out that track and field practice offers to University men not interested in varsity competition an excellent means of physical conditioning. He said that several men have already reported for that purpose.
Wants 100 Men
Early indications are for an improved Jayhawk squad, the coach said, with several promising sophomores already on the squad roster. The freshmen tracksters, eligible for competition after March 1, are "the best in recent years." There is a possibility, Hargiss declared, that frosh will be made eligible for the conference indoor meet.
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The physical conditioning obstacle course interferes with the jumping and vaulting pits formerly used, the coach said, but temporary pits have been constructed elsewhere so that vaulters and jumpers are already hard at work. High jumping prospects are especially bright this year.
Practice sessions are beginning at 3:30 p.m. daily. The stadium facilities are used by Naval trainees up to that time.
At present the practice sessions are being held in extremely cold weather, but the track coach expects such conditions to improve in the near future, and urges all men interested in the sport to report at once so that the maximum amount of training can be received before the date of the indoor meet. He pointed out that at other conference schools, track squads are already hard at work.
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Kansas' caging Jayhawkers, at the apex for 12 straight games, finally returned to normal in the Camp Crowder loss Saturday. A team can hardly maintain the form throughout the season that the Iron Five displayed on the Eastern road trip and against the Olathe Clippers and Missouri. The recession set in slowly in the Oklahoma victory more than two weeks ago and continued against Oklahoma A-M and Kansas State.
This does not indicate that the Jayhawks are in for a losing streak. They may easily lose both Navy games at Kansas City Friday and Saturday, but can recover in time for Big Six play. Their present "slump" is not serious compared to Kansas' early December flop.
Jayhawk jabberwock
Playing thirteen games in 29 days, excessive traveling and general squad distemper are factors in the slowdown. The firewagon is not as zippy as earlier. In six games, from St. Bonaventure to Missouri, the speedbots averaged 56 points a game
NO. 13 STUMPS CAGERS
Since then, against lower quality opposition, Kansas has averaged 46 points. If the large triple-header scores against inferior opposition at Kansas City Jan. 16 are not included, the Jayhawks averaged only 38 points a game during their letdown. Statistics, at least, prove that Kansas is not as potent as during late December and early January.
MAYBE AN INVITATION
If Kansas is displaced by Creighton as Fifth district representative in the NCAA western playoffs, Phog Allen will have another invitation in the offering. The Jayhawks trounced the East's best in St. Joseph's and Fordham and garnered plenty of publicity on the trip. A Big Six championship would probably land Kansas in the Madison Square Garden invitation tournament even if the NCAA passed up the Jayhawks.
Two hundred twenty-six of the University of New Mexico's 1,200 students are from states other than New Mexico, and five are from foreign countries.
Phi Delt's Blitz Triangle Quintet
TONIGHT
10:00—ATO vs. Delta Chi.
10:00—ATO vs. Delta Chi.
Phi Gam vs. Phi Psi.
WEDNESDAY
9:15—Blanks vs. Deadheads.
AK Psi vs. Hopkins.
10:15—Sigma Chi vs. Delts.
Sigma Nu vs. Sig Ep.
Phi Delta Theta blitzed Triangle in intramural basketball last night by the season's largest score, 91-20. In a big second half the Phi Delt's kept the net sizzling by pouring in 57 points. Big guns in the victor's attack were Wait Quiring, 24 points, Kirk Scott, 21 points, and John Dewell, 16 points.
Don Diehl, Beta, accounted for 29 of his team's points in beating ATO 59-33. George Robb led the ATO's with 9 points.
Phi Gamma Delta kept its slate clean by defeating the Tekes 45-23. Larry McSpadden of the Phi Gam showed championship form and scored 17 points.
Kappa Sigma outpointed DU in one of the only close games of the evening, 32-24. Lawrence Ochs, Kappa Sig and Jack Berkly, DU, topped scoring with 12 points apiece.
In the nightcap Allen Semi Co-op down 4-F 40-32. Jack Beal and (continued to page five)
Sooners Play NU In Only Big Six Game This Week
Big Six Standings
Team W. L. Pts Op.
Kansas 3 0 157 108
Nebraska 2 1 118 114
Iowa State 2 1 118 118
Oklahoma 1 1 101 86
Missouri 1 2 132 142
Kansas State 0 4 141 172
Nebraska has improved greatly from a dismal start. Ever since the Huskers lost to powerful Indiana 40-39 Dec. 30 they have been on the upgrade. The Huskers have defeated Kansas State and Missouri.
Only one Big Six game is scheduled among the six games to be played by conference fives this weekend. Second place Nebraska travels to Oklahoma in a game that will determine just how much of a title threat to Kansas the Sooners will be.
Oklahoma, with Gerald Tucker taking over scoring duties, has re (continued to page five)
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