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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1943
Black and Tucker To Clash Saturday
Junior Forward, Team Establish Scoring Marks
BY BILL PORTER
Kansas shattered six records in overwhelming the strong Missouri Tigers 69-44 in the Big Six opener in Hoch auditorium last night.
Black surpassed the conference mark of 30 points established by Jimmy McNatt of Oklahoma in 1940. Ralph Miller's Kansas high of 30 points against Wichita last year, the Kansas record for individual scoring in conference contests, 27, set by Howard Engleman against Oklahoma in 1939 and the conference field goal record also held by McNatt.
Sharp - shooting Charlie Black contributed 33 points to the Kansas total as he broke four individual scoring records.
The Jayhawkers broke the Big Six team scoring record of 68 points set by Oklahoma against Kansas State in 1934 and the 68-point high mark scored against Washburn in 1913.
The junior ace opened Big Six play last year against Oklahoma with almost as large a spree, 25 points.
In chalking up 69 counters against Missouri, Kansas has passed the 60-point mark in four consecutive games, something of a record in itself.
Scoring was slow in getting started, as Kansas missed its first nineteen attempted field goals.
Stark Scores First
Missouri scored first on a long shot by Captain Earl Stark. Charlie Black put in the first Kansas point on a free throw; then Armand Dixon sank another to knot the score at 2-all. Seven minutes elapsed before Otto Schnellbacher tossed in a setup to tally on Kansas' twentieth try of the evening.
It was Black again who opened the second half by sinking three field goals in rapid succession. Missouri closed up the score 45 to 34 with ten minutes left.
Scoring was even from then on until Black led a scoring rally in the last 10 minutes of the first period that gave Kansas a 27-18 half-time lead.
That was as close as the Tigers were able to approach as the Kansas advance guard, fed by John Buescher and Ray Evans, began tossing them in from every angle on the court. Buescher moved in for some spectacular setups, and 31 points and break the Big Six re-
CHARLES BLACK
Evans connected with long shots from his guard position
The crowd gave Black an ovation when he tossed in a one-hander from the side to bring his total to cord-with less than three minutes to go.
Then Dixon sank a free throw to bring the team total to 67, one less than the former Big Six team high mark of 68. Black hit one from the floor in the closing seconds of the game to make his total 33 and the final score read Kansas 69, Missouri 44.
Coach Phog Allen used only eight men in the contest, leaving his "iron five" to carry the brunt of the attack. Bob Fitzpatrick and Bill Brill contributed a bucket apiece. Tall Jack Ballard was the third Kansas replacement.
WE GOT 'EM — YOU CAN USE 'EM----
KANSAS (69) FG FT MFT F TP
Black, f 14 5 3 3 33
Ballard, f 0 0 0 0 0
Schnellbacher, f 4 1 1 1 9
Buescher, c 4 1 2 2 9
Evans, g 3 2 0 2 8
Fitzpatrick, f 1 0 0 0 2
Dixon, g 2 2 1 2 6
Brill, g 1 0 0 0 2
TOTALS 29 11 7 10 69
MISSOURI (44) FG FT MFT F TP
Jenkins, f 6 1 0 2 13
Matheny, f 1 0 0 0 2
Robinson, f 3 0 0 2 6
Austin, f 0 1 3 4 1
Garwitz, f 1 0 0 2 2
Hahn, c 0 0 1 2 2
Storm, c 1 2 0 1 4
Stark, g 4 2 0 1 10
Bentley, g 0 0 0 0 0
Smith, g 3 0 2 3 6
TOTALS ... 19 6 6 17 44
Jayhawk
abberwock
by Milo Farneti
RUNNING NOTES OF MISSOURI GAME
Black hit his first field goal at the $10 \frac{1}{2}$ minute mark . . . he then scored three more before the 15 minute mark was reached . . . Referee John Lance called a technical on Dixon for cussing . . . Kansas scored on 11 of 46 field goal attempts and Missouri on 6 of 23 in the first half. . Black caged 6 of 17 first-period shots . . . Schnellbacher appeared to be pressing too hard in his first Big Six game . . . Lance turned in one of the best officiating performances in the last two years.
Announcer Ernie Pontius got a roar from the 2,590 spectators when he announced at 8:03 that Santa Fe had called Dean Paul Lawson that his train left at 8:00 p. m. . . Pontius later amended the departure time to 8:30.
Buescher fed Black time after time while ally quarterbacking the Kansas offense . . . Evans was rushing the Tigers all over the court . . . Black hit 8 of 14 field goal attempts in the second half . . . in all he scored 14 of 31 shorts for a 45 per cent average.
Phog said, "His floor play stamped him as greatest offensive player in Kansas history in a single game."
The big junior broke McNatt's record with less than three minutes to go, then made it 33 on a last second basket that also gave Kansas 69 points for a new team scoring mark . . . Oklahoma will be laying for Black Saturday . . . he fouls opponents easily and the Sooners will attempt to draw fouts from Black . . . he'll guard Tucker, his nearest competitor as the Big Six's best cacer.
FORDHAM RECOVERS FROM KU DEFEAT
Defeated only by Kansas this season, Fordham has bounced back to whip Rhode Island State 84-74 and Holy Vross 62-44. Fordham broke the Madison Spare Garden scoring record against Rhode Island, a quintet that had averaged 93 points in four games up to the Fordham defeat.
A newspaper report said that "finesse, ball handling and poise were conspicuously missing as both teams threw and intercepted court-long passes." Such a description of Eastern basketball play
Is the key to success of invading Midwestern.
...The calm zone and semi-zone defenses that fives like Kansas, Southern California and Creighton use befuddle Eastern squads brought up on harum-scarum, wild-shooting, defense-be-damned basketball. Oklahoma A-M, with its sometime colorless but scientific style, has annually trounced Eastern fives on Aggie road jaunts. "Energy is not always a substitute for skill," as Phog Allen might have said on licking his chops over the successful Jayhawk tour.
OU Looks For Repeat Of 1942 Tilt
Norman, Jan. 10.—(Special)
—If Saturday night's Kansas-Oklahoma basketball battle in the fieldhouse here is as thrilling as last season's Jayhawk-Sooner court vendetta at Norman, and it shouldn't miss it far with both playing casts returning almost intact, every fan had better bring along his own adrenalin and hypodermic needle.
The 1942 Kansas-Oklahoma game won by Coach Bruce Drake's Sooners 63-51 set four records outright;
(1) Oklahoma's 63 points was the highest score ever made by either team in the 49-game series, and was also the highest score ever made against a Kansas basketball team.
(3) Both teams together poured 114 points through the hot rings, an all-time scoring total for both clubs in a single game.
(2) Kansas' 51 points was the highest score a loser ever made in the long Sooner-Jayhawk cage rivalry.
(4) The crowd of 5.796 was an all-time attendance record for a Sooner-Jayhawk game.
Tucker, who didn't play in the Sooner's 54-32 licking at Lawrence, performed with a vengeance at Norman, passed brilliantly and scored 22 points.
All the playing wasn't done by the Sooners. Ralph Miller, the Big Six's best cager, evaded Bob McCurdy's patrolling long enough to count 18
The game had entertaining side-lights, most of them being built around the Gerald Tucker eligibility squabble.
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Condensed Statement
LAWRENCE, KANSAS At the close of business, December 31, 1942 RESOURCES
The Lawrence National Bank
Cash and due from Banks, subject to our check $3,351,207.61
United States Bonds 1,128,565.75
Municipal and Other Bonds 545,586.22
Banking House ... 20,000.00
Furniture, Fixtures and Vaults ... 2,900.00
Other Real Estate ... 5.00
5,025,359.58
22,905.00
Loans 598,152.29
TOTAL $5,646,416.87
LIABILITIES
Capital 100,000.00
Surplus 100,000.00
Undivided Profits 118,128.39
Deposits 5,328,288.48
TOTAL $5,646,416.87
Above statement is correct
GEO. W. KUHNE, Cashier.
Deposits insured under provisions of the Federal Banking Act of 1935