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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1942
--also undefeated, will meet the winner of the match which brings together the champions of Division I and II. This game will decide the championship of the University for women's intramural basketball.
With the arrival of Creighton on the campus it brings added talk and speculation as to which teams will participate in the regional, western eastern, and national N.C.A.A. basketball playoff next month.
Until the Bluejays lost to Oklahoma Aggies Saturday they were in the driver's seat as far as this section's representative in the western division play-offs was concerned.
That loss, however throws the spot wide open and at least four teams have good chances of winding up on top of the heap. In the Missouri Valley the teams are, of course, Creighton and Oklahoma A. and M.
Henry Iba's Aggies hold the advantage right now but it is very slight. The return game between these two schools comes off Feb. 23. This will be at Stillwater but the home-court advantage of the Aggies will be more than offset by their schedule.
On Feb. 20 the Aggies play the Jayhawkers here at Lawrence, return to Stillwater for the Monday game with Creighton, and still have to look forward to a return game with Kansas on that Wednesday night. Three extremely tough games are in store for Henry Iba and crew during those six days and he will be lucky indeed to emerge with two victories.
Creighton on the other hand does not have too hard a schedule to face. This Saturday night the Bluejays will play Loyola at Chicago and then return to play their five remaining conference games. The only toughie being with the Aggies and Hickey can point his players far enough in advance for this struggle.
The other two teams that remain in the running for this section's kingpin of the court are Oklahoma and Kansas, currently engaged in a battle-royal for the Big Six crown. At present both teams seem to have an advantage.
The Sooners, with Gerald Tucker back in the saddle, appear to have an unbeatable crew. But that may be their downfall. They look TOO good. In the Missouri game Saturday night four of the regulars scored 10 or more points and the other, Paul Heap, has an average of 7.2 for five games so he needn't be embarrassed by that at all.
Furthermore, Bruce Drake's outfit seems to be hitting on all five pegs. The absence of Tucker for five games made veterans out of the other sophomores and with his return, his enforced vacation looks like it was just what Drake needed to mold an outstanding team.
The Jayhawkers have a point in their favor, too, when the schedule is considered. The next two games are conference tilts, this Saturday and Monday with Nebraska and Iowa State, and both are home contests. Then comes a lay-off from Big Six warfare and the Oklahoma Aggies come in for their share of attention. Two games will be played with the Aggies, here on the 20th and at Stillwater on the 25th.
The windup of the Kansas schedule finds the Jayhawks going to Norman on the 27th for the game that should decide the Big Six title. On March 3 a real battle is in prospect when the Kansas State Wildcats are hosts to their neighbors up the Kaw. The finale for the Big Six season finds Missouri coming to Lawrence March 6.
Oklahoma on the other hand has four rough conference games remaining. Two of these games are home but they are with Nebraska and Kansas. Last year Nebraska was behind 20 points with 10 minutes to play and suddenly spurted to win 43 to 42 on Les Young's long one-handed push shot with less than a minute to play. It need not be divulged here just how tough the Kansas game will be. Already Oklahoma is planning on breaking her attendance record and both coaches are more or less secretly pointing for the game even at this early date.
The two out-of-town games are with Nebraska and Iowa State. The points previously stated for Nebraska hold up even better when they will be playing on their home court. As for Iowa State, it seems that their prestige has slipped somewhat in the past few weeks but they are bound to come back and it may be in the Oklahoma game.
IT'S COLORADO ALL THE WAY
Other teams in the western division are apt to be decided within the next 10 days. In the Southwest Conference the Rice Owls were the pre-season favorites but have been bumped off rather easily of late. However, they still look like one of the contenders that will be in the running at the western play-offs March 20 and 21 in Kansas City. Arkansas is the next top ranking team with Texas Christian farther back.
In the Rocky Mountain conference it started out to be a two-team race and now it is just a runaway. Frosty Cox's gang at Colorado are running undefeated in intercollegiate competition and have lost only one game all season, that to the independent Denver Legions. Kansas should feel right proud of this team in view of the fact that eight of the first ten squad members hail from Kansas. Leaders in this cause are Leason "Pete" McCloud of Newton and George Hamburg of Beloit, Wyoming, one of the contending teams last year at Kansas City, was thought to have a better team this year but has dropped three games already and seems definitely out of the race. Brigham Young is running second to Colorado.
On the West coast it was Stanford in a breeze until the past weekend when they were nipped 27 to 23 by Southern California. The Indians from Palo Alto still rate the nod however as the best on the coast.
The only thing that seems to be definite east of the Mississippi is the fact that Illinois, another one of those supposedly invincible teams, got whipped last night by Indiana, 41 to 36. The Illini led during the first 36 minutes of the game and only a fast closing rush by Branch McCracken's cager nipped the undefeated Big Ten leaders.
Phi Psi's RoutPflashes
Alpha Chi's To Victory With Wright
Bv DON KEOWN
Alpha Chi Sigma last night opened second semester intramural basketball play with its first victory of the year, defeating the Kappa Sigma quintet 38 to 23.
Feature of the chemist's attack was the fine long-range shooting of center Harold Wright, who garnered 18 points for the game. Wright received able assistance from Dick Werling and Herb Hoover, a newcomer to the Alpha Chi Sigma roster.
High point man for the losing Sigma Kappa squad, hard hit by between-semester losses, was Bob Southern with nine points.
Phi Kappa Psi set the scoring pace for the night as they massed 64 points to 15 gathered by the out-classed Pflugerville Pflashes. Bill Hodge's ten field goals were high for the winners, while John Pfitsch paced the Pflugerville attack with nine points.
A tall Newman II squad used its height well to trounce the Jayhawk Coop's 54 to 15. Don Graham, flashy forward, spearheaded the Newman attack with 19 tallies. Carroll Clawson and Harold Fields were the Jayhawk standouts.
In a class "B" contest Sigma Alpha Epsilon led all the way to defeat Delta Upsilon 42 to 17. The Kappa Sigma "B" squad forfeited to the Alpha Tau Omega second string.
DOUBLE ROWS
PHI KAPPA PSI (64) fg ft
Hodge, f 10 0
Krum, f 6 2
Hallberg, c 4 1
Kyle, g 4 0
Glover, g 0 3
Meade, g 5 0
PFLASHES (15) fg ft
Pattie, f 2 0
Bradford, f 1 0
Peterson, c 0 0
Hickey, g 0 0
Pfitsch, g 4 1
ALPHA CHI SIGMA (38)
ALPHA CHI SIGMA (38) fig
Wagner, f ... 1
Vandermerf, f ... 0
Amstutz, f ... 0
Blaylock, f ... 1
Sulton, f ... 0
Wright, c ... 8
Johnson, g ... 0
Hoover, g ... 4
Werling, g ... 3
KAPPA SIGMA (23) fg
Finney, f ... 2
Southern, f ... 4
Lowe, c ... 2
Rankin, g ... 2
Dumler, g ... 0
Shoaf, g ... 0
Totals
TONIGHT'S SCHEDULE
5:30 Phi Kappa Psi “C” vs. Kappa Sigma “C”
5:30 Alpha Tau Omega vs. Tau Kappa Epsilon
10:00 Alpha Kappa Psi vs. Newman I
10:00 John Moore Coop vs. Fountaineers.
TOMORROW'S SCHEDULE
TOMORROW'S SCHOOL
6:00 Phi Delta Theta "B" vs. Phi Kappa Psi "B"
6:00 Phi Gamma Delta "B" vs. Sigma Nu
9:00 Sigma Alpha Epsilon "C" vs. Sigma Chi "C"
9:00 Phi Gamma Delta vs. Acacia
10:00 Delta Upsilon vs. Delta Tau Delta
10:00 Newman III vs. Hellhounds
Women's Intramurals BY SHIRLEY HENRY
Semi-final games in women's intramural basketball will be played Thursday night with the undefeated teams of Kappa Kappa Gamma and Corbin Hall holding the spotlight. These two squads will play for the championship of Division II.
In the other semi-final game the Kappa Alpha Theta's will oppose the Arrow girls of Pi Beta Phi. The Theta's are undefeated, having won four consecutive games, whereas the Pi Phi's have lost one out of four. This game is for the championship of Division I.
I. W.W., winner of Division III and
Peggy Davis, Theta, and Peggy Ballard, Kappa, make up one semifinal match in the aerial darts competition and the other finds Evelyn Herriman, I.W.W., opposing Phyllis Struble, Corbin Hall.
A meeting of all intramural managers will be held at Robinson gymnasium at 4:30 p.m. Thursday. Managers will be asked to turn in their entry blanks for the second winter season which will include the following sports: swimming, deck tennis (team), badminton (singles), and table tennis (singles).
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