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Allies Hold Japs Back At Singapore
By UNITED PRESS
Japan's all out general of fensive against Singapore smashed against sturdy British lines in Malaya today but Allied armed forces were taking an "incredible" toll of casualties and striking back at the enemy by land, sea and air.
In the air, British bombers renewed a series of American and British attacks from Burma against Japanese bases in Thailand, again striking at Bangkok.
At sea, a submarine (probably of the American or Dutch fleet) sank the 2,250-ton Japanese freighter Unkai Maru No. 1, off Izu Peninsula, southwest of Tokyo and deep within Japan's home waters. The sinking of four other Japanese ships by American submarines previously had been announced in Washington.
The Japanese high command claimed the sinking of the 11,050-ton U.S. airplane tender Langley near Johnson Island, in the South Seas, but Washington said there was no information to support that claim.
The British-American raids from Rangoon, which again was attacked by Japanese bombers, were now credited with destroying from 53 to 80 enemy planes. The allied attacks also struck through the air at Japanese bases in Malaya in an effort to lessen the force of the enemy drive down the Peninsula toward Singapore and the Japanese lost several bombers in raids against Allied bases. Both Singapore and Tarakan, an oil base off the North Borneo coast, were bombed by the enemy but little damage was reported.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
In the land fighting some 200 to 250 miles north of Singapore, the Japanese were throwing heavy tanks and dive-bombers into a powerful drive to take the key city of Kuala Lumpur. A Singapore dispatch said that they had made slight progress in their push along the Slim river front but that the enemy losses had been "incredibly high."
United Press correspondent Harold Guard, at the fighting front, reported that British comandos were carrying the brunt of the defense of Kuala Lumpur and had thrown the enemy back time after time as tanks and other armored vehicles advanced over piles of their own dead.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1942
Minneapolis — (UP) — Ted Williams, 23, American League batting champion last season, today awaited an induction call into the Army after passing his draft physical exam successfully.
Ted Williams Will Be Drafted
Draft physicians pronounced the 183-pound Boston Red Sox slugger a "healthy specimen." Williams was reclassified into class 1-A after he previously had been deferred because of his dependent mother.
Camp Barkeley, Texas — (UP) — Military routine became such a habit with Supply Sergeant Kreth White that he slipped into the military style for official correspondence when he wrote to his girl. The letter started: "Subject—Love."
Subject Love, Says Soldier
SPORTIN' AROUND
Came Late," a part of a chapter is developed. Solid rubber balls were used and the goals were placed vertical to the ground. Players dribbled the ball by striking it with their hips and the team putting the ball through the hoop first won the game.
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It seems that people were playing the sport in a somewhat primitive fashion as early as the tenth century. In Gregory Mason's book; "Columbus Came Late," a part of a chapter is devoted to "Basketball and the Toltecs."
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One of the oddities of the game was the fact that the losing team had to give up its clothes to the winner. According to Mason's version, it was the Aztecs whom the Spaniards first saw playing this game. He traces the history of the game further back by noting that scientists have been inclined to believe that the Aztecs got the game from the Toltecs, their predecessors in that region.
The Toltecs themselves were believed to have taken the game to northern Yucatan, the northern part of the area which was occupied by the Mayan civilization, when Toltec mercenaries were imported by the ruler of Mayapan to help in civil war against the other Maya cities. This must have been toward the end of the twelfth century, the book presumes.
IBA'S RECORD IS GOOD
Oklahoma A. and M. starts its Missouri Valley conference campaign tonight against Drake University. Henry Iba, coach of the Cowboys, is the man on the throne at Stillwater and rightly enough.
In 14 seasons that he has coached basketball at Oklahoma City's Classen High School, Maryville (Mo.) Teachers, Colorado University, and at Oklahoma A. and M. there's been only one year when his team wasn't first or second in its league.
During those 14 years, Iba coached teams have won 296 games, lost only 68, to gain him a lifetime coaching percentage of .813. During his seven year term as head basketball coach at A. and M., his teams have won 68 games of the 88 games played by the Cowboys in conference competition.
HE GOES IN FOR DEFENSE
In all the years of Iba's coaching he has been a stickler for defense and comparatively low-scoring games. He makes his players work the ball in close to the basket before shooting and he doesn't favor anyone taking too many shots.
In a pre-Christmas game against Wichita the Aggies shot only 27 times. This is in comparison with the 83 shots the Jayhawkers took Tuesday night against Oklahoma. The Sooners on the other hand took 64. In one of Kansas State's games on the West Coast the University of Washington Huskies took 92 shots and made 19.
What makes the shooting record of the Cowboys stand up against these other teams is their number of completions. They made nine of their shots for a 33 percent average. Twenty-three of the Aggies shots were taken within a ten-foot radius of the basket.
"ROPE" GOES DEFENSIVE
Odds and ends: When Howard Engleman played for Phillips 66 against Wichita Boeing the other night, he did not take a single shot. This is in direct contrast to his previous appearance at the Forum when he set a new scoring record whil eplaying for the Jayhawkers against Oklahoma. . . . One of the members of the Boeing Bomber team is Home Wesche, former Kansas State scoring flash. He transferred from a Kansas City Naismith league team to take a defense job with the airplane factory and play on their basketball team. . . . Coach "Phog" Allen will journey to Ames Saturday night to do his first scouting of the season. He will view the Iowa State-Missouri clash. Missouri is the next opponent of the Jayhawks, the game being played at Columbia Wednesday. . . . Johnny Kline, last year's defensive ace of the Jayhawker quintet, is in business in Hutchinson with his father but is Navy-bound soon.
Raid Shelter for Entire Town
Crooksville, Ohio — (UP) — An abandoned coal mine, large enough to accommodate the entire population of Crooksville, has been converted into a bomb-shelter. The mine is conveniently located at the head of Main Street.
Blade Imbedded 27 Years
Drumright, Okla. — (UP) —Charles Carter, 49, Sac and Fox Indian, came to a Drumright physician with a sore spot under his right arm. The physician probed and pulled out the end of a knife blade. Carter recalled that 27 years ago he had a fight with a man who slashed him with a knife.
SUNDAY — 4 DAYS
WALLACE BEERY in "The Bad Man" and "Buy Me That Town"
War Upsets Baseball Moguls' Contract Plans
"None of us knows what to expect," MacPhail said. "We are all waiting as long as possible to send out contracts to try and get a line on what may happen."
MacPhail said that he had heard all sorts of rumors pertaining to baseball's future, among them;
New York—(UP)—Major league club owners are very much up in the air about the war, Larry MacPhall, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, revealed today in discussing baseball's future and the contract situation.
That the majors wouldn't finish the 1942 season.
That night baseball will be banned.
That the government's demands on our railroads and airlines won't permit the western trips.
The civilian defense won't permit large crowds, day or night.
The Yankees, who rarely mail contracts before Feb. 1, plan to follow the same procedure this year. The Yanks may have the toughest man in baseball to sign—Jolting Joe DiMaggio, who, on the basis of his 1941 season, should get a handsome raise. Joe is now somewhere around the $30,-000 class—nobody knows for sure—and he has $50,000 ideas.
"Birth of the Blues"
Guards Protect
$9,000,000 Dam
On Smoky River
Kanopolis, Kan.—(UP)—A force of armed guards will protect the partly constructed $9,000,000 Smoky River flood-control dam near here during the winter shut-down of construction work.
Freezing weather brought suspension of work on the dam until spring.
What Next, Santa?
The half-mile long diversion tunnel has been completed and the dam how is about one-third completed. Armed guards stand a 24-hour watch at each end of the tunnel.
Santa Rosa, Calif — (UP) — The Luther Burbank Pet Club sponsored a Christmas tree for birds this year. Instead of the usual tinsel, lights and decorations for human beings, the tree was strung with prunes, suet, popcorn strings, bread crumbs, peppers and everything that birds eat. They ate it, too.
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