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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 31, 1940
SIMONIZING.. SPORTS
By JAY SIMON
Guest Conductor Horace Mason,'37
Basketball, the people's choice, is enjoying a banen year in Kansas high schools. The Sunflower state long has been a hotbed of the game which draws a larger attendance than any other sport in the world. Year in and year out Kansas produces high school basketball of a caliber that is compared with only by that played in Indiana.
Keynote of the excellence of the interscholastic teams of the state in the Winfield High team. The Vikings captured the state championship last year and are back in the field with an even better team this season. Four regulars from last year's quintet are back in action and every one of them is six feet or taller.
Outstanding player in the state last year was Gerald Tucker, big Winfield center. Now in his final season at Winfield, the 6 foot 4 inch Tucker is a heavy favorite to capture the Ark Valley scoring champion. From last year's team are Jack Weddle, guard, and Jim Roberts and Chiff Sickles, forwards. Weddle is one of the state's finest guards.
Two sections which frequently dominate the high school scene, the Ark Valley and Kansas City, Kan. are loaded to the gills this year. In addition to Winfield's outstanding team in the Valley, Ellercole, Hutchinson, N c w t o n, and Arkansas City.
ElDorado, which met Winfield in the final of the state tournament last March, has its two stars, Dale Covert and Bob Kent, back in action. Covert is a 6 foot 5 inch captain who stars on defense and as a rebound man, while Kent is the shocker. Hutchinson boasts four regulars from last year's team, including the Mitchell brothers, 6 feet 3 inch scoring aces. Newton has its usual strong team this season, featuring two fine guards, McCloud and Nebergall. Ark City's team is built around three regulars from the 1939 quintet which finished fourth at the state tournament.
In Kansas City there are five high schools and KCK is batting a 1,000 percent this year. There is not a weak team in the city. As usual, Wyndotte heads the parade, and this season that is something, as Argentine, Rosedale, Shawnee Mission, and Ward all have fine teams
From last year's crack team, Wyattone has three regulars back. All three of these men are 6 feet 1 or taller and the result is that Wyattone unquestionably rates as the finest team outside the Ark Valley, Star of the Bullsdog is big Ray Evans, a brilliant guard. He is the team's leading scorer and strong on defense and rebounds. Playing on the first team for the third year is lanky Bill Brill, one of the finest defensemen in the state. He is listed as a forward, but Bill always guards the opposing team's high scorer. The other regular back is Leo Headrick, rugged center, a fine all-around player. Johnny Noone, a "deadeye dick" forward, and Clem Williams, hard driving guard, round out the team.
Argentine has a well balanced team in Terry, Gutierrez, Jeffries, Doyle, and May. Every man in the lineup is a potential high point man.
How They Stand
| Team | W | L | Pct. | Pts. | Op. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Oklahoma | 4 | 1 | 750 | 215 | 180 |
| Kansas | 4 | 1 | 750 | 151 | 125 |
| Missouri | 3 | 1 | 750 | 149 | 115 |
| Kansas State | 2 | 2 | 500 | 167 | 137 |
| Nebraska | 1 | 4 | 200 | 167 | 202 |
| Iowa State | 0 | 4 | 000 | 104 | 154 |
| Kentucky | 0 | 4 | 000 | 104 | 154 |
Friday — Oklahoma vs. Kansas State at Norman.
Saturday—Nebraska vs. Missouri at Lincoln.
Monday—Kansas State vs. Missouri at Manhattan.
Ward, as has been true in recent years, has one of the best coached teams in the state. With only one man back from last year's first 10, Ward exceeded all expectations during the first semester. Now the Cyclones have Lynch Lynch, crack guard, eligible agimp and should be even better. Other Ward standouts are Duilembo Cameron, and "Duke" Dutilleuw, two academics.
Rosedale has enjoyed a good season, losing only two games to date. Star of the team is Rudy Hau, six foot scoring sensation. Prominent in the Rosedale defense is Wilbur Fry, brother of K.J. Kake Fry. Shawnee Mission has not been up to expectations this winter, but still has a classy team. The Indians have two particularly fine performers in Paul Turner, forward, and Clarence Garner, lanky center.
Out in Central Kansas the class of the field appears to be Salina's Maroons, Salina has dropped only one game this season and that by two points. Pacing the team's attack have been Junior Williams, high scoring forward, and Bill Cochrane, big center. Out farther west Dodge City has been outstanding, despite a recent defeat. High scorer of the team is a forward named Evans.
In the SEK league, Ralph Miller's former stamping grounds, a sophomore has come into the lineup who is being compared with Miller. A sensation in football, Dale Hall of Parsons is now going after Miller's records in basketball. In seven conference games he has averaged 17.5 points a contest. Only 5 feet 10 inches tall, Hall depends upon superb floor play and a good shooting eye for his point getting.
Other stars of the SKE are Floyd Chronister of Coffeeyville, Jack Broadhurst of Fitzburg, and Doran Myers of Columbus. Chronister, 6 foot 3 inch center, is playing his third year as a regular and is a player with two goals. Burg's tall, skimpy guard, is one of the leading scorers of the league and a real battler. Myers also is well up in the scoring.
In Class B basketball, individuals have stood out more than teams to date. Best of the prospects in the smaller high schools appear to be Engelland of Nickerson, Kissell of Poris, Baker of Peabody, Hamilton of Weir, and De Weese of Medicine Lodge.
Shoulder Dislocations Set Record
West Plains, Mo. (U.P.)Harold Judd, 22, has had his shoulders dislocated so many times he didn't even awaken when he turned over in bed the other night and the right shoulder slipped out of joint. It was the third such accident to the right shoulder, bringing it up to the record set by the left.
Lightning Is Good For Arthritis
Lighning is Good for Arthritis
Saratoga, Cal. (U.P.) — Justice of the Peace W. A. Rice has found something better than bee stings as a cure for arthritis. Since being struck by lightning two weeks ago he reports not a single joint has given him a twinge.
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ARROW HANKIES
Bruce Reid Heads South After Finals
- Jayhawkers Will Lose Star Forward as Reid Decides To Go to Texas After All; Will Return Next Fall
The Jayhawker basketball team was short a veteran player today after the announcement by Bruce Reid, senior forward, that he is leaving schools as soon as his finals were over.
A report that he was going to leave school appeared in the Arkansas City Traveler last week. However, when Reid was asked about a video from a sports editor Saturday, the variety eager fatly denied the story.
Monday afternoon Reid informed Dr. F. C. Allen that he would not be in school next semester as he was going to Texas to work. The Arkansas City boy's father is employed by the Humble Oil company near Benton City, Texas. His father got him a job with the same concern.
He's Cultivating the Aggies
Reid said that he was coming back to school here next fall to finish work on his degree. However, he will not be eligible for further basketball competition as this was his third year with the Jayhawkers.
Reid was described by Doctor Alen as "one of the bell ball handlers and passers in Kansas basketball history."
Longhorn cattle of Western plains were surely, easily frightened; hence the cowboy songs sung to quiet a milling herd.
Entomologists Postpone Meeting
Entemologist Postpone Meeting
The Entomology Club meeting,
which was scheduled for Monday,
Feb. 5, will not be held.
The future date for such a meeting has not been announced.
In 1938, Germany produced 24,000 tons of pork and lard from pigs fed on garbage. The stall-feeding method was used in 1200 controlled barns.
Ham From Leftovers
It's Oklahoma For the Title Says Dr. Allen
Joyhawk Coach Can't See Any Team but Sooners Taking Big Six GigfonLA After Downing Missouri
"It appears that the Oklahoma Boy Seats have definitely grown up," says Dr. F. C. Allen, University of Kansas basketball coach, "and my guess is that they will be the 1940 Big Six basketball champions.
"The tight squeeze at Columbia Monday night practically puts the Soonees in a class by themselves. They have but one Big Six team to play away from home, and that is Iowa State at Armes, while Missouri each have four to play away from home, with Oklahoma on both lists.
"Oklahoma has a beautifully synchronized team with seniority, versatility, speed, and power in their makeup," continues Doctor Allen. "Only Missouri can match them age. With this advantage for Oklahoma, and playing on the Sooners' home court, in my opinion, is too much of a task for any of the challenges to the Sooners."
In regard to the national collegiate tournament, Doctor Allen says, "It looks as if the playoff between the Big Six and the Missouri Valley to determine the fifth district N.C.A.A. semi-final championship flight will be an all-Oklahoma institution, Henry White." The Valley, last year OU, and Oklahoma A. M. and M. meet at Oklahoma City with the Sooners emerging victorious after a thrilling battle. Oklahoma defeated Texas, but lost to Oregon, the national champion, at Gate Exposition at San Francisco.
Both the N.C.A.C. a. semi-finals and the N.C.A.C. a. national championships of America will be played this year in the Municipal auditorium in Kansas City. The semi-finals will be played March 22 and 23, and the finals will take place March 30. In the finals the winners of the four districts west of the Mississippi river will meet the winner of the four districts east of the Mississippi. At the same time the National Basketball Coach Associations and the National Basketball Rules Committee of the United States and Canada will meet in Kansas City. Doctor Allen is chairman of the fifth district of the N.C.A.C. and is in charge of the national tournament. He also is a member of the coaches association and the rules body.
Early Coin On Display
Burlington, Vt. (U.P.)—One of the first coins ever minted in America now is on display at the Fleming Museum of the University of Ver-
safety, and another one is a one-reale piece, worth twelve-and-a-half cents.
Thief Wants To Come Clean
Rowe, Mass, (U.P.) — Police never have been able to figure out why a shifty broke into the tool shed or stole and stole a bathtub, rake and spade.
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BACK TO SCHOOL WITH THE
COKE VARSITY
A NEW DEAL DANCE for a New Semester
with tables and cokes on the ballroom floor
MONDAY
Feb.5
9-12
DALE BRODIE and his orchestra
MEMORIAL UNION BALLROOM
STAG OR
DATE
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