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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1942
Sportin' Around by Chuck Elliott
MESHION
by JAY SIMON
(Editor's note: Jay Simon was sports editor of the Kansan during the championship season of 1939-40 when the Jayhawks went to the finals of the N.C.A.A. tournament in Kansas City. Simon took his physical examination at Leavenworth yesterday and expects to be inducted into the Army within the next few days. He is at present sports editor of the Coffeyville Journal.)
You know those scenes in the movies when the gigolo is making love to the hero's wife and you have a feeling that Mr. H. is about ready to walk in? Well, that's just how I felt when Phog Allen was making those statements about Bruce Drake in convocation this morning.
Dr. Bruce Drake in conversation this morning, "Wouldn't it be good if Brucie were in the audience," I mused while cocking an ear from the balcony. And just about that time the Sooner "Shanghai" walked onto the arena floor.
haier" walked onto the arena floor.
Doctor Allen had his coat in his arms and placed it on the chair beside him.
Drake peeled off his chocolate-colored topcoat and laid it down. The two rival basket coaches were stripping for action.
DRAKE WAS EAGER TO TALK
Allen called off the Rock Chalk with a wave of the hand and marched to the mike to introduce the young Oklahoma coach and let him say a few words. All Drake's squad paced to the front of the student gallery and sat down across from the players they'll face in tonight's Big Six cage opener. In this auditorium when we did" Drake began.
"I was very glad we came into this auditorium when we danced. Bruce hadn't needed to rub his ears to take out the sting when he came in from the nippy outdoors. They were burning plenty. Phog had wound up his talk by saying that Bruce Drake was a subsidized athlete. By saying that Oklahoma's Jap Haskell had connections with the Boston Red Sox and had a ball player in school by the name of Lester Layton, who was being paid from the fabulous bankroll of the Bosox's Tom Yawkey. He'd accused Oklahoma of kidnapping Gerald Tucker, middle-man in the current Big Six squabble. Phog said "Oklahoma calls this a Pearl Harbor incident. I say Oklahoma is acting like the Japs did at Pearl Harbor."
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(continued from page one) defeated 36 to 35 in the opening game and the next night the cagers trampled Bethel College at Newton under a 61 to 28 count.
Jayhawks Seek Revenge---as a sophomore and junior but over the Christmas holidays he improved considerably. Potentially the great- not yet tuned to the basket but est scorer on the team, his eye is he is due to hit any time.
The Sooners on the other hand have played five games but have won only two. In the first game the Oklahomaans surprised by running up a 57 to 34 count against Southern Methodist. Tucker scored 19 points and A. D. "Chattering Ug" Roberts tallied 14.
Drake's squad then went on an eastern tour which saw only one victory gained, that against George Washington University. Tucker again led with 14 points. Mitch Simon, substitute guard and the only senior on the squad, tallied five points.
Lose All In East
The three losses were to St. Johns College in Madison Square Garden, De Paul University at Chicago, and Bradley Tech at Peoria, Ill. Tucker made 19, 14, and 11 points respectively in these losses. Roberts scored eight, eight, and nine points in each game. Against Bradley Tech Richard Reich, center, scored 11 points.
Oklahoma features an extremely young team this year with Simon the only senior on the squad. Five other lettermen are returning this year but these are not the ones that Drake is banking upon to carry him through a successful season.
In the starting line-up which was used most frequently in their opening five games, three sophomores were included. The other two members were both regulars last year, Paul Heap and Roberts.
Heap plays guard and specializes in hawking the ball and rebounds. He is a quiet, popular fellow and a real team player. He was all-state at Central High in Tulsa.
Roberts is the hustler and chatterbox of the team. When he is hot, he is apt to score six or eight field goals on any team. With Tucker out of the lineup tonight, the offensive burden will be on Robert's shoulders. He has averaged 8.2 points in five games this year.
Outstanding among the sophomores "eligible" to play tonight is Richard Reich. He is potentially the best sophomore now on the squad. Bob McCurdy is the sophomore guard and an all-around athlete.
Replacing Tucker in the line-up tonight will probably be Tom Rousey. He played very little last year because of an injured knee. He is a former all-state player from Illinois and played wing-back on Oklahoma's gridiron team this fall. Black Will Start
Kansas' starting line-up tonight will be the third which Allen has used in three games. Starting for the first time in his college career will be Charlie Black, lanky, black-haired sophomore. Black has averaged nine points in the two games thus far and has been, along with John Buescher, the hottest man in practice the past few days.
At the other forward slot will be Ralph "Cappy" Miller. He has not yet demonstrated the form which made him so valuable to the team
At the center or "quarterback" position will be the sweetest ball-handler on the team. He is John Thin Man" Buescher. Bisch has been hitting all types of shots in practice, with his specialty being a one-handed shot which is nearly horizontal in its flight with very little arch.
Solly Is Captain
The guards have proved to be strictly defensive thus far. The acting captain for tonight's game will be Marvin Sollenberger, only returning regular from last year. He is a steady player who concentrates on defense more than he does upon his own scoring.
Aonther sophomore, the third, breaks into the starting lineup at guard. He is Ray Evans, former all-state player from Wyandotte.
Evans has not yet hit his stride this season, most of his shots rimming the hoop and dropping out. He is expected to aid the offense as well as hold down his defensive position later in the season when his basket eye improves.
Allen will have plenty of capable substitutes to rush into the game at the first sign of weakness by any of his starting players. At guards, T. P. Hunter and Charlie Walker,
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Gerald Tucker Ineligible For Play This Month
After the storm of protest from Norman, the loop faculty heads got together and went over the entire case yesterday, softening the verdict of the eligibility trio. In order to clear Tucker now, Lawrence "Jap" Haskell, Oklahoma University athletic director, must write to M. F. Ahearn of Kansas State asking if the Aggles have any objections to Tucker's transfer. If Ahearn voices no objections, Tucker will be eligible for competition during the second semester.
Gerald Tucker's future as a Big Six athlete rests entirely up to the Kansas State athletic department, it was decided by the conference's faculty committee at Kansas City yesterday.
Under the decision handed down by the eligibility jury of Dr. W. W. Davis of Kansas, H. H. King of Kansas State and H. D. Bergman of Iowa State, Tucker would be forever banned from competition in the Big Six.
Tucker is barred during this semester under the rule that requires an athlete to be in residence two complete academic semesters before he may compete in varsity athletics.
It's a cinch that Titanic Tuck won't play here tonight, nor will he play any more this semester. However, if the Wildecat school clears Tucker of the "migrant athlete" charge pinned on him by the Big Six eligibility board last week, he will be ready to take his place with the Sooner cage team beginning next semester.
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