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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1939
Kansas Faces Missouri In Crucial Big Six Tilt At Columbia Thursday
By Clavelle Holden. c'40
"The 'bookies' are still accepting bets on the Big Six Court race, but the "wise boys" won't bet—not even counterfeit money. Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma all have a chance to be crowned king of the Conference basketball teams.
This year's court race has developed as many possible winners as a Kentucky Derby. But everybody is sure of one thing, that some body is going to win, although the winner might have a dual-personality. In other words there is a strong chance that two schools will share the title this year.
The Jayhawkers, perennial winners, travel to Columbia Thursday night to meet the Tigers. By the best means of reasoning, one comes to the conclusion that this "natural" will make the Spanish rebellion look like a W.S.G.A. tea party for fireworks and excitement.
For pure drama, even those creators of the impossible, cinema script writers, couldn't touch all the angles of this game. In the first place the game will be the 100th time the two rivals have met on the pine wood court.
The first athletic contest between these two schools was held on the football field in 1891, which makes the Kansas-Missouri sport feud one of the oldest in the Middlewest. The two schools got around to basket-ball in 1907, 16 years after the sport was invented.
The two teams are tied for the lead at the present time with six wins and three losses. The victor of all this important clash is assured of at least half of the first place laurels. Another entrant appears to have a good chance of claiming part of the title—the Oklahoma "Boy Scats." Saturday night the Sooners invade the north to tangle with the Cornhusker in Lincoln, and on their way home they will stop off at Manhattan and pit their court strength against the Kansas Aggies.
Coach Drake's team will be co-champions if they can win these two games. If but the Sooners should
The University athletic office announced yesterday that they would not have any tickets to sell for the game in Columbia. In a telephone conversation with Missouri authorities they learned Missouri does not intend to send any tickets to Lawrence for fear they will not be sold. The demand for tickets has been very strong as a result of the championship tie between deans who want tickets are advised to wire for them immediately.
have an off night and lose either one of these games, the winner of the Kansas-Missouri clash will be the undisputed ruler of the Big Six.
The village wise boys are laying their money on Oklahoma. The "Boy Seats" are undoubtedly one of the outstanding offensive teams of the Big Six, and should be able to overpower their two opponents with a huge advantage in the season Nebraska and Kansas State have shown nothing unusual.
All prognostical roads lead to Columbia, because the winner of that engagement will enter the winners circle for their share of wreaths gate receipts, back slapping, and All-Conference selections.
Kansas will probably enter the game as the underdog in spite of their 37-23 defeat of the Tigers here earlier in the season. Game averages this season have shown that a team playing on its home court is 10 points better. In the 26 games played in the conference this season 23 have been won by the home team. Of the three visiting team wins, Missouri chalked up two and the Jayhawkers one.
Kansas Breaks Three Records
★ Bird, Masonon, Friedland
Set New Marks in Their
Specialties
Although the Jayhawk track team lost a dual meet with the Missouri Tigers last Saturday night at Columbia, three Jayhawks broke dual records. There were seven broken in the 66 to 38 Tiger victory.
Don Bird, Kansas pole vault,
broke his own vaulting record of 13
feet, 3-4 inches by soaring 13 feet, 5
1-4 inches. Paul Masoner, who
both hurtle races, ran the lows in
7.1 seconds. This performance broke
the mark of John from Missouri.
Ran them in 7.2 seconds last year.
Chester Friedland shattered the shot record with a heave of 46 feet, 6 inches. Doss Richardson of Missouri held the old record of 42 feet, 10 inches. Other marks were fourteen and forty-four. 440 yard dash and the two mile-run.
Vincent Graves, Jayhawk 440 yard dash man, was spiked when he ran his specialty at Missouri Tuesday. Four stitches were required to close his injury. Coach Hargis says that Graves will not be able to compete in the Big Six indoor meet next Friday and Saturday at Columbia.
Ray Harris has not as yet completed his scholastic thus being ineligible and Lyce Foy is definitely using his line-up with a pulled muscle.
The summary:
Two-mile run-Won by Burrus
Missouri; Rucker, Missouri; second
Ryan, Kansas, third. Time 9 minutes.
33.7 seconds.
880-yard run—Won by Reeves Missouri; Brown, Missouri, second Klann. Kansas, third. Time 1 minute 59.2 seconds.
Pole vault—Won by Bird, Kansas Crocker, Missouri, second; Bevan Kansas, third. Height, 13 feet 5 1-4 inches. (New meet, record).
Shot put—Won by Friedland, Kansas; Counsel, Missouri; second; Ewong, Missouri; third; 6-14 inches. (New meet record). 440-yard dash—Won by Berg, Missouri; Cox, Kansas, second; Nabok, Missouri; third, Time. 32.8 seconds.
60-yard high hurdles—Won by Masoner, Kansas; Baldwin, Missouri; second, St. Dennis, Missouri ; third, Time 79 seconds
Mile run—Won by Muski, Missouri; Klans, Kansas; second, Crane, Mississippi; third. Time 4 minutes. 19.1 seconds. (New meet record).
High jump—Miller, Missouri,
Hilton, Missouri, tied for first; Bird
Kansas, third. Height, 5 feet 10 3-8
inches.
60-yard low hurdles - Won by Manor, Kansas; Baldwin, Missouri second; Sklarz, Missouri; third
second; 7-1 seconds. (New meet record.)
60-yard dash--Won by Sklarz,
Missouri; Mathes, Kansas, second;
Klamm, Missouri; third. Time, 6.5
seconds.
Broad jump—Won by Schumitzky,
Missouri; Slayton, Missouri, second;
Kansas; Worcester, Mass., second;
23 feet, 12 feet. (New meet record).
Mile relay—Won by Kansas. Missouri was disqualified for four in batten. Time 3 minutes, 34.5 seconds.
Let's get behind the boys and get another cup. Thursday night is the night!
UNDER the WIRE By MILT MEIER
"the be or not be” . . . that is the question facing the Missouri and Kansas cage teams in their game Thursday night . . . . assuming of course, that the Sooners win their remaining tilt on the road . . . incidentally that assumption may about us but not about anybody's notebook and gossip . . . the Huskers and K-State will be tough for the Oklahoma lads . . .
The 1500 people that crowded into Hoch auditorium saw plenty of basketball Saturday night . . . it had them in the aisles, and that is no fooling . . . spectators were standing in the balconies and on the main floor, sitting in the aisles of the main floor and were squeezed in every place . . . the crowd was so large to the fact that Kansas sure could use a field house . . .
Wonder what all was going on inside Doctor Allen's mind as Howard Engleman dropped those last two points through the hoop and broke the old Kansas scoring record . . . the one that "Phog" set way back in 1900 . . . and Jimmy McNabb, who sojourned if his sojourn as record holder of Big Six scoring in one game was to be so shortlived. . .
You can bet that Engleman will be covered in the Tiger game like the walls of a college Joe's room. Bruce Voran and Ralph Miller will come in for their share of attention by the Tigers . . . in fact, the eye strain in that game should be something terrific . . . both teams have key moments . . . the importance of the game makes every man the "man of the hour" . . .
Some basketball fans take their basketball seriously . . . Ray Conklin, Jayhawker letterman in baseball, not in school this semester, hitchkicked 200 miles to see the game Saturday night . . . , some "hoofin," that is.
Ernie Vanek, one of Dr. Allen's disciples, has his Herington High team out in first place in the Central Kansas league . . . his quiett defeated the McPherson High Team, early pace setters, to move into first place. Winfield High seems to have the Ark Valley in the bag again.
Beat Mizzou!
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Ames, Iowa. Feb. 27 — *Ustate State* Cyclones, minus the services of their rang scoring ace, Gordon Nicholas, who suffered an appendicitis attack, turned in an easy 41 to 28 triumph over Nebraska's erratic Cornhuskers in a lattest basketball game here tonight.
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Iowa State Drubs Nebraska, 41-28
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Gwinn Henry to Address K-Club in Meeting Tonight
Paceed by Bob "Red" Harris, fast stepping forward, and Darrell Don Carlos, substitute center, who scored 30 points between them, the Cyclones held a 16 to 10 lead at halftime and went on to win going away. The victory assured the Iowans of one last chance and dropped the Huskers to fifth and within striking distance of Kansas State's cellar dwellings. It was the last game of the Big Six season for Iowa State.
"Better Athletes and How We Can Help" will be the subject of Gwinn Henry, director of athletics, in a talk tonight at 7:30 o'clock before the K-Club in the K room in Robinson Park. He said the midst of a plan to aid the athletic department in securing athletes and assisting freshmen athletes.
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The names of the girls who have made the class basketball teams were announced today by Miss Ruth Ann important professor of physical education.
Those on the senior team as forwards are: Willett, Dutton, Montgomery and Van Cleave. Guards
are: Woods, Lattner, Busenbark,
Learnard, Bigelow, Allen, Heitman
and Paden.
The junior team includes: McAdoo, Lemoine, Anderson, Blaney, and Barclay as forwards. Ulm, Barclay, and McVey are the guards.
Those representing the sophomore class in basketball are: E. Irwin, Grillziel, Brides, Jenkins, V. Bell, Huber, Fisher, and Parker are forwards. The guards are: Ruse, M Green, and Smythe.
The freshman line-up includes:
Bitter, Smith, Staplaus, Tulley and
Lundy as forwards. Leydard, Her-
der and Doble are the guards.
The class tournaments begin tonight at 8:30 with the seniors playing the sophomores, and the juniors playing the freshmen. The next game will be played Thursday night, March 2, at 8 o'clock when the seniors meet the freshmen and the juniors play the sophomores. Tuesday night, March 7, the seniors will play the juniors and the sophomores will plav against the freshmen.
The first games in the ping pong tournament will be played by tonight.
The deck tennis tournament starts today at 4:30 o'clock when Corbin hall meets Westminster hall. At 5 p.m. the Independents play the TNT's. The deck tennis teams are made up of five girls each and they play two games of doubles and one game of singles. Tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock the Sigma Kappa's play the Alpha Delta Phi's and at 5 p.m. the Pi Phi team plays Corbin hall.
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