SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Jayhawks Oppose Wichita Shockers In Mid-Year Game
Wichita University's struggling Wheatshockers are pointing for the Jawhawk basketball squad which invades Wichita next Monday as the final step on their three-game mid-year road trip.
In his first season at Wichita, Shocker basketball coach Jack Starrett is finding tough sledding.
PAUL HESSE
His team has been toppled 11 times, and has won only once, that by a 35-32 margin over Friends University.
Wichita Has Young Team
The Shocker's squad this year is young—both in experience and years. The average age is 19½ years and average playing experience 4-10 a year. There are but two returning lettermen — Marvin McDonald, and Maurice Curry.
Last year Kansas defeated Wichita on the Shocker court 54-39, but it was a close game until the Jayhawks pulled away with eight minutes remaining. With their early season star, Tom Kinkaid, out for the season owing to a minor operation, the Shockers will have but one player, McDonald, who saw action against Kansas last year.
McDonald Is Scoring Threat
McDonald, a starter on last sea- an's Wichita quintet, is rated a specialist at both long and short shots. He was all-Ark Valley at Wellington High School. Curry, a junior, has earned a starting berth this season, his coolness under fire make him a smooth ball passer.
In his first year out, Paul Hesse, a senior, has shown ability in floor work and is a contender for a start-
Inconsistent Iowa Has 8 Lettermen
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Coach "Phog" Allen's Jayhawkers will hike right back up to the territory where they suffered their only reversal of the season when they tangle with the Iowa Hawkeyes at Iowa City Thursday night.
This will be the first game of the only extended trip which the cagers will make this year. The 10-man squad will leave Wednesday, arriving on the University of Iowa campus Thursday morning.
Eight major lettermen and two minor lettermen have returned to make Coach Rollie Williams' team one of the strongest in his 13 years of coaching at Iowa City.
Outstanding member of the team this year is Vic Siegel, co-captain and leading scorer of the team for the past two years. Siegel has been transferred to guard this year but is continuing his scoring tendencies by averaging 8.6 points a game in 10 contests. Siegel is a senior, weighs 150 pounds, and is five feet ten inches tall.
Co-Captains at Guard
At the other guard is the other co-captain and another senior, Rudy Soderquist. He's a good scorer and ball handler and a hard driver. He is six feet three and one-half inches tall and married.
At center is the giant of the squad, six foot six Milt Kuhl, who is a first semester senior this term. He has clever wrist and finger action on rebound shots and his good coordination and courage make him a real jumper. He is just fair on defense but one of the best scorers on the team.
HEADING THE HAWKEYES
Co-Captain Rudy Soderquist, guard; Coach Rollie Williams; Co-Captain Vic Siegel, guard.
Chapman Leads Offensive
At right forward is the leading scorer on the team this year, Tommy Chapman, a six foot one junior who is the second married regular. He is an unorthodox player who often gets away with his
freakish style by his scrapping tendencies.
At the other starting position is Wendell Hill, a five foot ten senior who is not too good on scoring because he must wear glasses while playing. He is a clever ball-handler and best as a floor man and feeder.
Iowa has split even in 10 games this season, averaging 43.8 points a game to their opponents' 41.6 points. Nebraska defeated the Hawkeyes in December by a 41 to 34 count. Iowa's best game was a 49 to 45 defeat pasted on Wisconsin, last year's N.C.A.A. champs.
Kansas, however, will not find
DePaul Due For Rebound
In the second game of their three-game road trip, the Jayhawkers will face the De Paul University Demons in the Chicago Stadium Saturday.
Despite his two-team combination Wendt has had reason to sing the blues already, and faces a tough schedule for the remainder of the season.
The Demons started their season with a rush, but have lost all of their four contests in 1942. On the credit side of the ledger, the tall Chicagoans claim victories over Oklahoma, even with the gold-plated Gerald Tucker, by a 40-26 margin; Oregon, by a 27-23 count; Concordia, 55-24; Kalamazoo, 47-22; Chicago Teachers, 35-20; Arkansas Teachers, 73-26; and Chicago University, 43-25. Defeats came at the hands of Purdue's Boilermakers, 26-30; Southern California, 48-54; Toledo, 37-50; N.Y.U. in a 37-38 heartbreaker; and the Gargantuan West Texas State team, 43-60.
Coached by "Specks" Wendt, a former De Paul court star, the Demons operate in typical mid-Western firetruck style. Wendt has been experimenting with two complete fives. One is composed of veteran captain Bob Wosney and sophomore Tony Kelly at the forward spots, 6 foot five inch Frank Wiscons at center, and Bernie Wekslers and Dick Starz's senior and sophomore respectively, at guards. The second quintet is made up of promising sophomore Mel Frailey and junior Jimmy Cominsky at forward, sophomore Bill Ryan at center, and veterans Marsh Webb and Cliff Lind at guards.
the windy City team a soft touch, as witness the Oklahoma game.
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