Thursday, Feb. 11, 1960 University Daily Kansan
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Correll, Gardner Spark 64-62 Win
TWO POINTS FOR BILL—Bill Bridges, KU center, drops in two of his 16 points in last night's KU victory over Kansas State, 64-62, in Allen Field House. Mike Wroblewski, K-State center and KU forward Dick Gisel follow the play.
By Dan Felger
Two heroic efforts by Al Correll and Jerry Gardner sandwiched a Kansas victory last night and boomed the Jayhawkers back into the Big Eight running with a 64-62 win over Kansas State.
Big play number one came with Kansas down 62-59 and 2:40 left in the game. A Kansas try from the field bounded high into the air and headed towards a K-State cager camped over near the foul line. Correll charged in from the corner, grabbed the ball and dribbled into the clear. Then he spotted Wayne Hightower in the open for a short jumper.
Two seconds later the Jayhawkers were behind by one point.
The score remained 62-61 as both teams traded rebounds. Then Kansas got a break when 6-8 Mike Wroblewski shot the ball out of bounds.
Back in The Lead
Seconds later Hightower shoved Kansas into the lead with a hook. With 15 seconds to play Bill Bridges stepped up to the gift stripe and iceed the margin, 64-62.
He missed the second toss. In the battle for the rebound Hightower tied up Wroblewski. The tip was controlled by Kansas. Suddenly a K-State player stole the ball and tossed it to Wildcat guard Sonny Ballard. Ballard and his running mate sped down court so quickly the Jawhawkers couldn't get back in time to cover.
Kansas State never got another chance as the Jayhawkers put away their fourth conference win of the season. 64-62.
At midcourt Jerry Gardner dived between Ballard and Ewy and sprawlingly slapped the ball to High-tower. Then he fell heavily to the court.
"Those plays that Correll and Gardiner made saved the game for us," Coach Dick Harp said with relief as he reached for a bottle of pop in the dressing room after the contest.
"Especially that play of Jerry's—he knew he was beat at the other
end of the court if his timing and judgment were off."
"But they sure weren't, were hey?" Harp added happily.
The big plays by Gardner and Correll, besides salting the ball game away for the Jayhawkers, were the only spectacular efforts of a second half that saw Kansas lose a 20 point lead, 47-27, and go into the red by three tallies before the final margin of victory.
Biggest Halftime Score In the first half the Jayhawkers ran up their largest halftime score of the year, in the process making
Olympics Hurt by Hollywood
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — (UPI) — Former World Decathlon Champion Bob Mathias said yesterday he would give up his starring role in American Television if he could compete for the United States in the Rome Summer Olympics.
The 28-year-old track star, who now lives in Hollywood, said he is barred from Olympics competition because of his career.
Mathias said the tight restrictions of the Amateur Athletic Union were hurting the U.S.'S chances of winning the Rome games next August. He said the regulations made it difficult for athletes to earn a living and still retain amateur status.
The former Stanford athlete, who won the decathlon gold medals and set world records in the 1948 and 1952 Olympic games, feels that he can do it again.
Mathias pointed out that Rafer Johnson, America's top decathlon competitor at present, is out of competition because of an injury—and as a result the Russians are favored to win the event.
Mathias said he read news stories in which Daniel Ferris of the AAU said Mathias would "never be considered an amateur" for further olympic competition because of his acting roles.
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their opponents appear to be anything but the Big Eight conference leaders. Dick Gisel scored the first basket of the game with 19 seconds gone as the Jays raced to an early advantage.
Spectacular passing, a healthy 44 per cent shooting average on 16 of 36 tries from the field, rugged rebounding and a stout defense spelled Wildcat woes in the first half.
When the second half started, the Jayhawkers were flat-out stale, Bill Bridges, the big, burly center whose scoring and rebounding antics in the first half forced K-State coach Tex Winter to call his star center Ced Price to the bench in consternation, could manage only two of his 16 point total in the second half.
The rest of the Jayhawkers, with the exception of rookie Al Correll and his flashy dribbling, also played
way below par as the Wildcats came clawing back from their 20 point deficit.
Big Mike Wroblewski spearheaded the Wildcat drive with a tremendous shooting display in the second half that saw him drill hooks, jumpers and lay-ins with machine-like precision. Wroblewski hit three straight attempts from the field to pull K-State into a 62-69 lead with three and a half minutes to go.
Hero to Goat
A minute and a half later is was Wroblewski who hurt the Wildeats
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If the Wildcat regulars looked bad in the first half, the Jayhawkers matched their appearance in the second half.
Across the hall from where the coach was speaking, the Jayhawkers were sitting and talking about the game.
"We just didn't do anything then," Harp said, "I guess it looked as if we were playing our delay game, but we didn't set it up that way."
Bob Hickman, who played in the last game that the Jays took from the Wildcats, a 61-44 victory two years ago at Manhattan, pulled the tape off his ankle and said, "Things sure didn't go good for us in the second half at all."
Kansas State went most of the way in the second half with its second string which proved more effective than Frank. Price and Co. in stopping the Jayhawks attack.
Frank, the seasonal scoring kingpin of the Wildcats, finished the evening with only eight points.
"But this was an important game —we've got a long way to go, and now we know we can," he added.
A high school boy walked in, spotted Hightower and asked him to autograph a program.
"Okay," the Tower agreed, "but after the way I played tonight, I really shouldn't."
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