TUESDAY.MAY 28.1940.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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SPORTSCOPE By Larry Winn
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Several times during the year, our attention has been brought to an Osborne county high school basketball player, who chalked up a basketball record this more season that is drawing the attention of college coaches throughout the country.
Last December, Max Kissell, a six-foot senior at Portis, wasn't drawing more than his usual share of attention being high point man on the Portis team. But as the season progressed, it became the exception rather than the rule for the 17-year old athlete to score less than 20 points in a game.
In the state regional tournament Concordia, Kissell had the spectators sitting on the edge of their seats while he scored field goals from any position on the floor. In one tournament game he scored a 60-foot field goal. Including the arc, the ball traveled about 75 feet, and after the game, high school coaches were going out of their way to meet this Portis boy.
Records from the past season show that Max scored 491 points in 24 games to average over 20 points per game. In his top eight games he average 30 points per game. Eddie Brietz, well-known New York sports columnist, referred to him recently as the highest scorer in the nation in high schools. Since this outstanding record, Kissell has received tempting offers for next year from coaches all over Kansas and other colleges outside of the state including the University of Southern California.
The grapevine news association has released rumors that head basketball coach, Jack Gardner, of Kansas State, really has his eye on this Portis boy.
ANY OLD DAY that a baseball club can win 11 straight games like the Kansas City Blues did lately, must have SAME ball team. In Saturday's game against the St. Paul Saints, Johnny Sturm, Blue's first baseman, made 21 put-outs himself. The American Association record is 27.
Michigan did it again, when they took the Big Ten outdoor track title last Saturday. The battle cry of the other Big Ten schools for the last few months had been "stop Michigan," but the other cinder teams could not seem to match strides with the Wolverines. Indiana was a poor second.
So Far, So Good. With 33 cars already qualified to race in the Indianapolis Speedway classic this Thursday, a few more drivers will attempt to qualify today for the grind. Already one driver has met death, and unless a miracle happens, others will feel the scythe of the famous old racing driver reach around their neck and make them join the other 35 drivers, mechanics, and spectators, that have been killed since the race started in 1911.
Tout Undergoes Appendectomy
Tout Undergoes Appendectomy James Tout, c'43, underwent an appendectomy Sunday at Watkins Memorial hospital, attendants at the hospital announced today. Tout's condition is good, it was said.
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Kansas Nine Ends Season in Cellar
The Jayhawks returned from their final baseball road trip of the season, still holding tenaciously to the last place spot in the Big Six standings which has been theirs ever since the day in early May when they claimed it by dropping the second game of a doubleheader to their only serious rivals for the cellar—the Nebraska Cornhuskers
All was not darkness and despondency, however, as the Jayhawks packed away their bats and gloves for another year. In the first place, the Kansas nine had disputed all the way one of the three contests they played with the Iowa State Cyclones last week-end. Not only that, they had taken one game in fourteen innings, 3 to 2; extended the Cyclones to 12 innings before a second contest 2 to 1; and lost a third struggle by a score of 5 to 2. For almost the first and only time this year, the Kansas defense and pitching succeeded in finding days on which both departments functioned satisfactorily.
In the second place, nine of the Jayhawks who played regularly during most of the season will be back again next year. Monte Merkel will return to bolster the catching department. Infielders Larry Hensley, Bob Chilson, and Dorus Munsinger all have another year of competition as do outfielders Miller Cameron and Ramie Beims.
Knute Kresie, sophomore right hander, who should be one of the better pitchers in the Big Six next year, may head the hurling staff with "Red" Dugan and John Burdge giving him plenty of assistance. A severe loss to the inner works will be the departure of Jack Sands, veteran first baseman, who held the infield together all year and batted well over the 300 mark.
Larry Hensley, outfielder and second baseman, who will be wearing a Kansas uniform for the third season next spring, was elected captain of the team for 1941 following the last game with Iowa State at Ames.
Women's Intramurals
I. W.W. walked away with the women's intramural baseball championship when they downed Corbin hall 13-3 Friday afternoon.
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By CECIL KING
The winning independent team exhibited good co-ordination and accuracy. Wanda Horosko was pitcher and Virginia Bell was catcher to make up a star battery. Third baseman Evelyn Herriman, left fielder Marjorie Rader, and first baseman Barbara Lingenfelter played an outstanding game.
Officially called in the fourth inning because of rain, the winning class teams game between the freshmen and the seniors was decided in favor of the freshmen 10-9 yesterday afternoon.
On the organized house team Lenora Grizzle was the pitcher and Phyllis Struble was the catcher. Alta Bingham played well on first base.
Because of "virus" disease, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, is losing some of its potatoes.
The 10 freshmen runs were all scored in the last half of the fourth inning when the senior fielders blew up.
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