PAGE 2 FOUR UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1942 KU Athletics Headed For More Cuts Jayhawk abberwock by Milo Farneti BEE LUKEWARM TO 12-FOOT BASKET Pic. one of the numerous picture magazines that displays Amazonian pin-up girl Jane Russell in various forms and thereby keeps on a paying basis, has an article by Clair Bee in its issue to be released Dec. 8 describing sky-giant basketball goal tenders from the Middlewest at work. Bee, successful coach at Long Island University, doesn't care for F. C. Allen's 12-foot basket idea preferring to pit his skill against the boys who bat the ball out. INTRAMURALS BEGIN WEDNESDAY If you're worried over the later start of intramural basketball this season, consider some of the difficulties hard-working Henry Shenk is having: 1. Physical education classes, fine arts classes and varsity and freshman basketball are using Robinson gymnasium and Hoch auditorium at regularly scheduled and unscheduled times. Whenever the Navy, CPT, fine arts or varsity-frosh basketball want the two buildings, intramurals suffer (even now, playing times have not been definitely set). Team entries are almost as large as last season. To date, 32 teams are entered in Class A and 19 in Class B. Entries are also being turned in late at the intramural office. Play in the 32-team Class A league of four divisions and the Class B tournament begins Wednesday night and will continue for 10 to 12 weeks. Division placements and schedules will be released Monday. Class B will be conducted as a single-elimination tournament. B teams eliminated in the first round will enter the consolation bracket, assuring each B sound of playing at least two games. The 112 games to be played in Class A and additional Class B games are scheduled late at night, beginning at 9:30. Friday nights beginning at 7 and Saturday afternoons. Varsity cagers, now practicing at 5:30 Tuesday and Thursday, may begin working out at 3:30 Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Under this setup, intramural basketball would have Robinson courts for games every evening. ALLEN WARM TO 12-FOOT BASKET Phog Allen, in support of 12-foot baskets as an equalizer for big men, reports that "80 per cent of fouls are made around the short basket, owing to congestion." The little man almost necessarily has to "chop the big man down to keep him from running his scoring totals into the dozens." Another alternative supported by Allen is raising the value of field goals from two to three points. "Two free throws were never regarded as the equivalent of one field goal by Dr. James Naismith, inventor of the game. Too many games (52 per cent) are won on free throws." Company Basketball Succeeds Under KU Grad "Why not a company basketball squad to stir up a little enthusiasm among the gang around the plant?" Kenneth S. "Boots" Adams, employee of an oil company in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, asked Frank Phillips, president of the company, about two decades ago. Thus was formed the first Phillips cage team, according to an article by A! Wesson in Es6. Thus was formed the first an article by Al Wesson in Esquire, that has been one of the leaders in the rapid growth of industrial basketball. "Boots" was a court star at the University before he took a warehouse job about 1920. Now he is president and five other members of that first squad of his are top executives in the firm. "Our players receive the usual beginning salary for the position for which they are hired, work the same number of hours as other employees and practice on their own time. Adams says. Howard Engleman, Fred Pralle LAWRENCE Business College Lawrence, Kansas. Visitors welcome School at 7th and Louisiana St. Ray Ebling and Harold Schmidt, cage greats from Kansas, are men- Cage Coaches Want Frosh To Play Now Kansas City—(Special)Big Six basketball coaches meeting with Commissioner Reaves Peters Saturday recommended that faculty representatives meet here next Friday and Saturday make freshmen immediately eligible for basketball competition. The present double round-robin schedule is satisfactory to the cage coaches. Suggestions have been made that Big Six schools play doubleheaders to cut down on road trips. Coaches said this would have caused cancelation of many scheduled games. Adoption of this proposal would also automatically make freshmen eligible for track in the spring and football thereafter for the duration of the war. Coed Commando ★★★ Rather Tough Running a modified obstacle course is the Friday program for women in the physical conditioning course. Piano benches and table tennis tables serve as tunnels through which they crawl. They hurdle booms and horses. They run up steps three feet high and jump off. Backing down balance beams is required as well as going frontward. Swinging from their hands, they go the length of the horizontal ladder. Miss Jean Bliss of the department of physical education said that the course will be coordinated and made more difficult within a few weeks. Christmas Is Coming And The Shopping Rush Is On ioned examples of the business-minded type of athlete that the firm attracts. Under the leadership like this, industrial basketball has made considerable advances. With the draining of college material by the armed forces and the lack of time in most training camps to be devoted to big-time athletics, the industrial game may be expected to boom during the next few years. Drop in and Look Over Our Wide Assortment of Mrs. Stover's Gift Candies and Nut Meats. Also-Dinners and Fountain Service Always the Best at--activity fees and football gate receipts falling $15,000 short of expectation, the Athletic board will cut still further during this month. WIEDEMANN'S GRILL Board Considering Several War Changes BY MILO FARNETI Kansas Sports Editor With only a little more than $20, 000 to be received for the year from More Cuts Coming Resignation yesterday of Vic Hurt, for four years assistant football coach, paves the way for more economy cuts by the Athletic board. Hurt said that he did not ask for renewal of his $6,000 yearly contract, expiring January 1, because of the low status of the athletic treasury and poor drawing power of Javhawk football. Aggies Look Strong In Season Opener Against Doan-50-32 The Athletic board, composed of faculty members, alumni and one student, meets on the Hill tomorrow night to discuss the general athletic situation and advise Prof. W. W. Davis on the policy it wishes him to follow at the Big Six faculty representative meeting at Kansas City Friday and Saturday. Henry Only Coach Remaining Playing under new Coach Chilli Cochrane, the veteran Wildcats looked like Big Six contenders. Bruce Holman, Fred Kohl, and Marlo Dirks led the scoring. Hurt's resignation leaves Gwinn Henry as the only coach on the football staff. The probability that college enlisted reserves may be called before September and expectation of small crowds for football games, if played at all, may make a rearrangement necessary in the veteran athletic director's $7,000 contract that expires in the summer of 1943. Yearly salaries of Henry, Hurt, F. C. Allen, Bill Hargiss and Wayne Replogle, who has gone to the navy, total approximately $25,000. Operational expenses travel, suits, other salaries, maintenance) plus coaching salaries require a large income from student activity books and attendance. Manhattan —(Special)— Kansas State opened its cage season here Friday night with a show of strength, trouncing Doane College, 50 to 32. Basketball makes a small profit each year and is probably safe from the axe. The Kansas Relays, annual track carnival, "will not be held this year." Outdoor track will be reduced and telegraphic meets, involving no travel, may be the main fare. Maybe Hargiss or Shenk If football is played here next season (no accurate decision can be made until the standing of college enlisted reserves is cleared and transportation rulings are decreed by the Office of Defense Transportation), there is a possibility of utilizing Bill Hargiss, if he remains. Another possibility is Henry Shenk, coach at Junction City before he joined the department of physical education. Hargiss, released as head football coach in 1932, and former professor of physical education, is also being considered as an addition to the undermanned physical education staff. He receives about $3,500 as track coach. R. R. Strait, recently acquired instructor, expects to be drafted in the near future, cutting the staff down to Dr. Allen, head of department and Shenk. Make Your Next Suit Suiting That Suits You Because It's Made to Your Measurements. Come in and choose from our latest materials. SCHULZ THE TAILOR THE TAILOR Suiting You—That's My Business