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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1942
From all the comments of the Jayhawker basketball squad-members the recent road trip was a howling success. A couple of added sidelights of the Chicago portion of the trip were eating a $1.35 dinner on the diner en route to Chicago and the gigantic stage show which the squad saw in Chicago Friday night. Included in the program was a demonstration match between the second and third ranking badminton players of the country.
But the real highlight of the trip remained to be experienced after the team reached Kansas again and even after their last game, against Wichita. While grabbing a bite to eat in the Pup Lunch of the Allis hotel they were approached by Larry Stanley and Dave Wilson, sports announcer for radio station KFH.
PLAYERS WERE QUICK WITH REPARTEE
Stanley, who broadcasts football and baseball games for KFH, persuaded Trainer Dean Nesmith to let the players go up to the studio and make an informal broadcast. Nearly the entire squad was present for the event. Stanley counting 21, when the commercial program was interrupted at 12:10 a.m. for the special occasion.
Nesmith was the first victim. Stanley, after hearing that Nesmith was the fellow who told the players when they should go to bed each night on the trip, accused him of being a meanie but the popular Kansas trainer retaliated by saying, "I make it back however because I also control the money when it comes to food and it's surprising how nice a bunch of fellows can be around meal time."
After Nesmith the regular varsity line-up was called to the microphone, one at a time. The entire broadcast was impromptu and some of the cracks that the players ad libbed with would have done justice to many of the better commercial programs on the air at the present time.
Especially were Ralph "Chanute" Miller and John "Illinois" Buescher quick on the trigger with their replies. Bich's first words were, "Well, as you all should know, I'm from Beardstown, Ill. That's nearly in central Illinois, about 30 miles from Springfield. The best basketball players in the country come from that state and since I'm from Illinois I haven't heard anything about a lot of these boys from Kansas and Oklahoma. Consequently these teams around here don't scare me much."
teams around here don't scare me much After Bisch had taken a crack at Miller about him shooting so much "Cappy" got up and told the radio audience, confidentially, that "Buescher was responsible for my getting so many points tonight. He promised me before the game that he would feed me constantly so I could make most of the baskets. But since Bisch is a modest fellow he wouldn't tell you that."
The entire program was conducted in a hilarious state but it was a good thing, perhaps, that a script wasn't prepared for the players. If it had been several juicy little remarks would have been deleted. Two remarks especially, one on Charlie Black and the other by Ray Evans, created minor riots among the players.
60 PERCENT ISN'T BAD
Notes from the Wichita-Kansas game: "Cappy" Miller scored 10 points in the first ten minutes. . K.U. led then, 14 to 5. . Wichita was held scoreless for the first six minutes. . Miller was held scoreless for eight minutes when he dumped his sixth goal out of eight shots in the first half. One of the funnier decisions of another poorly refereed game was when "Red-dog" Ettinger came barreling down the floor and knocked teammate Miller a-spinning... That was comical but the climax came when a foul was called immediately upon Miller, who was then sprawled on the floor. No one knows vet what the foul was called for.
one knows yet what the Miller's scoring for the last half went like this: he opened the half with a long swisher and then went scoreless until the seventh minute. . . . In the next three minutes he plunked three buckets through the hoop. . . . Next a three minute silence and then two goals in 50 seconds. . . . For five minutes no points then a final fielder, which made 14 goals and, with two free throws interspersed, gave a total of 30 points. . . . For the entire game he shot 23 times, making 60 per cent of them for a most remarkable record. . . The K.U. team made 22 out of 69 shots during the game.
Phog Allen's explanation for the poor refereeing this year put the blame entirely on the rule makers who took out the center jump. "The game is just too fast these days for any person to keep up with the fast action," he says.
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Dick Amerine, shirt-tail flapping halfback of Jayhawker football teams from 1937 to 39, was commissioned today as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve at Corpus Christi, Texas. He enlisted last March in Kansas City and was appointed a cadet June 12. While at Corpus Christi Dick specialized in flying the Navy's fast fighter planes (the type used aboard carriers) during the advanced training stage.
Jayhawkers Hit Sailors On Rebound
Navy Tries Comeback
KANSAS Pos. NAVY
Miller F Lobsiger
Black F Menke
Buescher C Klein
Evans G Rung
Sollenberger G Andres
Officials: Ted O'Sullivan, Kansas City, and E. C. Quigley, St. Marys.
How the Kansas Jayhawkers rank with the best basketball teams of the Mid-west will be determined tonight in the Municipal auditorium at Kansas City when "Phog" Allen's cagers tangle with the Great Lakes Naval Training Station squad.
There will be no more intramural basketball games until Monday night because of the enrollment in Robinson Gymnasium. The tables for the semester's enrollment will not be moved from the floor of the gym until after the late enrollment is completed Saturday night.
The game tonight will be the Jayhawks eleventh battle while the Sailors will be entering their twenty-third contest. Until last night the Great Lakes team ruled a prohibitive favorite but this opinion was rudely shattered by the Creighton Bluejays at Omaha when the latter came through with a smashing 59 to 45 victory.
"Point a minute" teams as well as individual players were an amazing thing in basketball at one time but tonight both will be on display. The Jayhawkers have averaged 49.2 points a game in 10 contests while the Navy team has averaged 52.5 in 23 games.
Closest to this fantastic objective as an individual comes Johnny Adams, an All-American at Arkansas and now a star forward on the Great Lakes team. A regulation 40-minute conference game with Texas Christian last year found Adams storming the nets for 36 points.
Intramural Games
The Big Ten individual scoring record for one game was held several years ago by Ernie Andres of Indiana, an All-American guard as a senior. Playing against Illinois in his final intercollegiate game, Andres stuffed 31 points in the goal from his guard post. His play with Great Lakes this year has indicated that his shooting eye is as good now as it ever was.
On the Jayhawk's side, Dr. F. C. Allen has Ralph "Cappy" Miller, who whipped 30 points into the basket against Wichita Monday night, although not playing the entire 40 minutes.
As a high school sensation, playing in games only 32 minutes long, Miller hit his peak with a 42 point spree against Iola. Other big night for "Cappy" at Chanute High School included tallie of 37, 36, and 35 points.
The games will be played as soon as the new semester's schedule is arranged.
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Rangy Creighton Team Invades Hill Tuesday
Next Tuesday night one of the strongest collegiate teams in the entire country will come to Lawrence to try and upset the Jayhawkers on their home floor. This team being the Creighton Bluejays of Omaha.
The Bluejays are rated odds-on favorites to capture the title in the tough Missouri Valley conference. Oklahoma A. and M. and Creighton are the two top-ranking teams, year in and year out, but this year Coach Ed Hickey's squad gains the nod over the Oklahoma outfit. This will be decided definitely Saturday night when the two teams meet, for the first time this year, at Omaha.
Last night the Bluejays perhaps reached a climax in their brilliant playing by swamping the tough Great Lakes Naval Training team by a 59 to 45 count. Leaders in this victory were Ed Beisser, Gene Haldeman, and Ralph Langer, scoring 16 points each.
Ed Beisser, a junior from Des Moines, was named on the 1940-41 All-Missouri Valley five and is doing yeoman work at center again this season in spite of a leg fracture sustained on a summer job. Beisser's long suit is an uncanny pivot shot.
Langer is the aggressive player on the squad, being a junior forward. He was all-state in basketball two years and one year in football at Ainsworth, Nebr., High School. He is very rugged, a clever floor man, and has a good eye for the basket despite an unorthodox method of shooting.
Omaha, Neb - Sparkplug of the Brighton university quintet is this vry senior guard, Capt. Gerlaldeman, Aberdeen, S.D. He and three other 1940-41 lettermen form he backbone of Coach Eddie Hickey's Missouri Valley championship squad. This final year of Haldeman's competition bids fair to his greatest.
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