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SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1940
SPORTSCOPE By Larry Winn
"Yes, we have no tickets left" is the cry of the athletic office, Carls, and Dr. Allen. Already 2,100 tickets have been sold on the Campus, but Earl Falkenstein, secretary of the athletic office, said yesterday that all of the tickets were gone.
It is terribly hard for a columnist to get away from the coming N.C.A. A. tournament, so I won't try right away.
Indiana's press agents are getting under way immediately by sending every paper surrounding Kansas City, an envelope full of blow-ups, mats, history and propaganda about the Hoosier team. One thing of note about the Indiana team is the fact that Paul (Curly) Armstrong, high scoring forward and Herman Shaefer, the other Hoosier front man, have been playing basketball together since the 4th grade. Both are 21 years old and juniors.
Your correspondent thought he had a scoop when he dropped in on the basketball team yesterday afternoon to find some of them practicing, but the so-called practice looked more like a bunch of boys at recess, including the green-suited doctor. It looked funny to see this care-free group compared to the same group of "battlers" last Saturday night.
It was almost curtains for the Gamma Phi spring party on this coming Saturday night because of the basketball game, but the Crescent Moon girls saw the light soon enough to change their shin-dig to Friday night. Close there . . .
Hats off to Ed Elbel: The man behind the scenes of many athletic events around here, but he gets little credit for his work. He is the man that is at the helm of the University's fine intramural program, he is the one that draws the Kansas Relays sticker every year, he announces the basketball games and will be at the public address system Saturday night, he is the general manager of the Kansas Relays, and on top of all of this, he teaches classes.
Splashes from the intramural swimming meet: Probably the biggest splashes were made by the boys that stepped in the footpath with their street shoes on. . . . Most impressive was Maier, Galloping Dominoe flash for the past three years, when he swam the 100-yard free style in 1:04.4 seconds. Not record breaking, but good for a qualifying heat. . . . A show in itself will be the fancy diving which is scheduled to take place next Monday afternoon.
Missing persons . . . at the Kansas Relays, April 20, will be the strong aggregation from Rice Institute in Texas. Although we beat the Blue and White boys from the south in basketball, their thin-clads could still show heels to our cinder-crushers. . . . Figures like Freddie Wolcott and Calvin Bell will tend to lessen the color of the coming event. Wolcott is the blond timber-topper who set the Relays record in 1938 in the 120-yard high hurdles of 14.2 seconds. Bell was anchor man on the lightening-fast sprint medley relay team that has coped first place for the past two years.
Hoosiers Play 'Fire-Wagon' Type Offense
Bloomington, Ind., March 28 Indiana University's basketball team, newly-crowned champions of the East, will pit its speed against Kansas cleverness in the final game of the National Collegiate A. A. tourney Saturday at Kansas City, Mo.
The Hoosiers worked through three practice sessions this week, and will hold their final drill on Friday on the tournament floor at Kansas City.
Coach Branch McCracken, warning his charges against the cleverness and finesse of the Kansas five, has stressed speed and ball-handling in practice.
Indiana, exponent of the fast-break "fire-wagon" type of basketball, features a running game built around an offense not dominated by any single player.
The probable starting lineup for the Hoosiers will include; Jay McCreary and Paul (Curly) Armstrong, forwards; Bill Menke, center, and Capt. Marvin Huffman and Bob (Moose) Dro, guards.
This sextet has accounted for 769 points of the total 901 points scored by Indiana during the regular season, with Armstrong the leading scorer, closely followed by Bill Menke, Schaefer and Dro.
In the Indianapolis playoff of the N.C.A.A. tourney, Indiana had five men in the top nine scorers for the two games against Springfield College and Duquesne.
Schaefer was the leading scorer of the tourney with 22 points, followed by Bill Menke, third with 14 points; Armstrong, fifth with 13 points; Huffman sixth with 12 points and Dro ninth with 10 points.
Schaefer, Bill Menke and Dro were popular choices on the all-tournament teams selected by Indianapolis and visiting sports writers.
Coach Branch McCracken has served for two years as head basketball coach at Indiana University, and each upon his teams, to regular sea
McCracken graduated from Indiana in 1930 after making an outstanding record as an athlete. He was all-Big Ten and All-America center in basketball, and won three
son play, have won 17 and Iost 3, finishing in second place in the Big Ten standing.
Bill Menke
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Bob Dro
Buckles, Trophy To Kansas Team
Those gold belt buckles that you see the members of the basketball team wearing are their souvenirs of the western playoff series of the N. C.A.A. just completed in Kansas City. In addition to the individual awards, the team received a large trophy, with several figures mounted on the base, in recognition of its winning first place. This trophy along with the first and second place trophies for next Saturday's game are now on display at Carl's.
The buckles and belts were given to the following men: Ralph Miller, Dick Harp, Don Ebling, Howard Engleman, Bob Allen, John Kline, Bruce Voran, Jack Sands, T. P. Hunter, Dean Nesmith, trainer, and Dr. Forrest C. Allen, coach.
Golf and Tennis Schedules Out
Again this year, the athletes competing in tennis and golf for the University of Kansas will participate the same date. For the past two years the tennis and golf schedules have been made out to coincide with each other.
Coaches "Dutch" Urhlab and Wm. H. Shannon are in charge of tennis and golf respectively. Both coaches have announced beginning practices for their squads.
The schedule:
April 10 or 16, U. of Kansas City,
(Mo.), at Lawrence.
April 17, Washburn, at Lawrence.
April 20, Nebraska, at Lincoln.
April 24, Wichita, at Lawrence.
April 27, Missouri, at Lawrence.
May 1, Washburn, at Topeka.
May 2, Kansas State, at Lawrence.
May 4, Nebraska, at Lawrence.
May 11, Missouri, at Columbia.
May 13, Kansas State, at Manhattan.
May 15, Central College, (Mo.), at Lawrence.
Beta's Lead Intramural Standings
May 17-18, Big Six Meet, at Lincoln.
Beta Theta Pi appears headed for its third straight intramural cup unless some team begins to narrow the gap. With 574.25 points, they are now 72 points ahead of the second place Phi Psi's and 102 in front of the third place Galloping Dominoes at the end of the fall sports and basketball.
The Beta's won football, tennis singles, and handball and have maintained strong teams in all of the other sports. Phi Psi tied for the championship of their division in touch football, and have been second in several events to keep in the running.
At the end of the swimming meet and the volley ball play-offs the race should be tighter between these three teams and they should enter spring sports in a neck-and-neck battle. The Beta's are traditionally strong in the individual sports and with that in mind it appears they are the ones to beat.
THE STANDINGS
Beta Theta Pi ... 574.25
Phi Kappa Psi ... 502.25
Galloping Dominoes ... 462.25
Kappa Sigma ... 439.94
Phi Gamma Delta ... 394.00
Delta Tau Delta ... 376.52
Phi Delta Theta ... 376.00
Sigma Alpha Epsilon ... 337.25
Sigma Phi Epsilon ... 315.00
Delta Chi ... 298.50
Pi Kappa Alpha ... 282.00
Sigma Nu ... 280.50
Sigma Chi ... 270.67
Acacia ... 240.00
Alpha Tau Omega ... 235.50
Triangle ... 228.75
Thgta Tau ... 220.00
Hexagons ... 170.00
Delta Upsilon ... 168.75
Hellhounds ... 162.50
Buccaneers ... 150.00
Alpha Kappa Psi ... 142.50
Galloping Dominoes II ... 142.50
Comets ... 142.50
Kapua Eta Kapp ... 121.88
IS.A. 4 ... 115.67
Warriors ... 112.50
Jayhawk Co-op.. 105.00
Alpha Chi Sigma ... 90.00
Mississippi Meteors ... 90.00
IS.A. I ... 90.00
Dunakin Club ... 82.50
IS.A. 5 ... 75.00
Ohio Ichabods ... 67.50
Hexagons II ... 52.50
IS.A. 2 ... 37.50
IS.A. 3 ... 22.50
I hate school, because if you don't get up in the morning, you miss classes, and if you do get up you have to go to them—never get any sleep because you have to study for classes and then you're too tired to get up—Iowa State Daily Student.
Coaches Gather To Discuss Rules
By Carl Lundquist
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Kansas City, Mo., March 28.—(UP) The nation's basketball coaches gathered today to find a place for the "little man who isn't there"—the runt who must sit on the sidelines and watch the tall boys take the glory.
There isn't much of a chance under present rules, they say, for a short fellow to play on his college basketball team. The game places too much emphasis on height.
The coaches will attend a three day meeting of their national association, which precedes the annual meeting of the national collegiate athletic association rules committee. The rules committee will meet from Friday through Sunday to make all changes in collegiate regulations of the game for the coming year. Also meeting in conjunction with the coaches is the national collegiate officials group which will hold a two day session on Friday and Saturday.
The most widely discussed rules change, advocated by many coaches, is the raising of basket levels from 10 to 12 feet and increasing the diameter of hoops from 18 to 20 inches.
Dr. Forrest C. Allen, a member of the rules committee and coach at the University of Kansas, is one of the staunchest advocates of 12-foot baskets. Dr. Allen, dean of the nation's coaches, is sending a team of comparatively short players into the national finals of the N.C.A.A. meet against Indiana here Saturday night, but the success of his team this year, hasn't lessened his opposition to the 10-foot baskets, which he says give all the advantage to the tall boys.
Carl Hoy, University of South Dakota coach from Vermillion, and A. E. Haylett of Doane College, Crete, Neb., are seeking to eliminate the rule which sends a player out of the game after his fourth personal foul. Both Haylett and Hoy think the penalty of giving the other side one or two free throws is enough.
Fordham Seismograph Feels Quake By the United Press
New York—The Fordham University seismograph today recorded a "quite severe" earthquake violent enough to have wrecked buildings in a populated area, about 4,600 miles from New York.
The university said it was impossible to determine from what direction the recorded vibrations came.
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