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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY. JANUARY 1, 1942
'Surprise No.4' Coming Up Tonight
Jayhawker Five Plays 3 Games Next Week
Three games in nine days await Kansas' successful cage travelers after tonight's contest with St. Louis University. In addition to finals, the weary Jayhawkers will play Olathe Clippers, Missouri and Oklahoma next week.
Tonight's game against St. successful Eastern holiday road
Rough Road Trip Conditions OU For Jayhawkers
Norman, Okla., Jan. 1—(Special)
—Tempered in the white-hot glow of foreign court competition against formidable foes under fatiguing war time transportation handicaps. the Oklahoma basketball team has returned home from its Eastern trip and is ready for the Big Six conference race.
Coach Bruce Drake's Sooners won their opener from the Olathe Clippers at Kansas City 42-39 in an extra period, then lost to St. John University 43-51 in Madison Square Garden, to Wisconsin at Madison 37-48, to Camp Grant at Camp Grant 34-37, and finished the tour by liking Bradley Tech at Peoria, Ill., 57-28.
"Give me all the tough games I can get before Big Six play starts," Drake declared before the Sooners left, "Our percentage column won't look so hot after we challenge all these powerhouses on their home floors, but we'll get a world of good from it."
Drake liked the Sooner feat of working three consecutive set plays in the overtime period to conquer the Clippers. St. Johns had too much height for Oklahoma, especially in Harry Boykoff, 6-foot 9-inch sophomore center.
Oklahoma might have defeates Wisconsin if Bob "Manacles" McCurdy and Allie Paine, crack Sooner guards, hadn't fouled out in the last half. Oklahoma led at the half, 19-17, and Paine had blanked Johnny Kotz, Wisconsin's 6-foot 5-inch Big Ten conference scoring champion who had averaged 21 points a game this season. But Kotz began hitting. Paine and McCurdy were banished and Wisconsin ran off with the game in the final moments.
The Sooners open their Big Six slate Jan. 9 against Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen's Kansas Jayhawkers at Norman. Last year Kansas and Oklahoma tied for the Big Six flag. The
Louis completes Kansas' most trip to date. Slated to win none
of their first three contests, the cagers upset highly favored Eastern quintets. Fordham and St. Joseph's had been defeating all opponents until Kansas snapped their victory march. Play Clippers Monday
Coach Phog Allen, prognosticator of dire defeats, will send his cagers on the court at St. Louis favored to win their fourth straight game. The squad will return Saturday, practice Sunday and meet Jack Gardner's Olathe Clippers after one day's rest.
The Clippers conquered Kansas 40-28 at Kansas City Dec. 5 in a ragged game but rate only an even break against the Jayhawks in Hoch Monday.
Wednesday Missouri will open the Big Six season in Hoch. The Tigers were erratic during December but still rank among the first three conference fives. Coach George Edwards has three veterans, Captain Earl Stark, Ed Matheny and Roy Storm, on hand to steady a sophomore squad.
Co-Champs Play at Norman
First clash of strength between the two giants occurs Jan. 9 at Norman when Kansas battles Oklahoma. The home court advantages makes Oklahoma the favorite. The game may be a repeat of the 63-51 Sooner victory at Norman last season when Oklahoma won through superior fire power.
Titanic Tucker and Charlie Black, expected to lead Big Six scoring, will superintend victory one way or the other. The cager with the sharpest eye that evening will bring victory to his five.
The home court advantage makes Oklahoma a favorite. A defeat by Oklahoma will not kill Jayhawk title chances, since the Sooners must play in Hoch Feb. 26 in what may be the championship game.
The Japanese language, which is being taught at New York University to train students for navy work, is becoming very popular. Three students have already mastered the difficult language sufficiently to pass examinations for the navy course.
Sooners had a sophomore club then, but it developed quickly after its December invasion of the East and North.
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Roy Storm, another Tiger starter, plays center on Missouri's erratic five that has lost to powerful Illinois and Oatlethe Clippers and defeated little Missouri Valley. Storm was a regular last season for Missouri's often defeated Tigers. He scored only three points in Kansas' 67-44 walloping of Missouri in Hoch last year.
ROY STORM. Center
ED MATHENY, Forward
Tiger Ed Matheny is one of Coach George Edwards three returning regulars. A former Southwest High star, Matheny will start against Kansas in Hoch auditorium Wednesday. The speedy forward is a high scorer on Missouri's "darkhorse" quintet, nominated to place third in the Big Six race.
ALLIE PAINE
Allie Paine, Oklahoma guard in 1941, returned to school this year to strengthen Coach Bruce Drake's already heavily loaded cage squad.
Freshman Gridders Will Be Backbone For 1943-Luster
Norman, Olka., Jan. 1- (Special)
Freshmen will probably form the backbone of the Oklahoma football team this fall and Sooner Coach Snorter Luster predicts these fiery first year kids will lug the special delivery.
"Freshmen make good football players for the same reason they make good soldiers." Luster opines, "They don't have the experience of the older kids, but they don't have an older player's caution, either. Freshmen are far more daring and offensive-minded.
A new radio course to train students for advanced technical study is being offered by the New Mexico College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts.
Fourteen students in the senior mechanical engineering class at the University of Dayton recently volunteered to help process thousands of fuel rationing questionnaires sent out by the OPA to householders in the Dayton area.
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