Monday. March 23. 1959 University Daily Kansan
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University Daily Kansan SPORTS
By Dave Butcher
Four division championships will be decided today in the final rounds of the intramural volleyball playoffs.
In Fraternity "A." Phi Gamma Delta will meet Beta Theta Pi in the last round. The Phi Gams gained the finals by defeating Alpha Tau Omega 2-1 Friday, while the Betas were winning over Sigma Alpha Epsilon 2-0.
The Medics will go against the Chicken Pickers to determine the Independent "A" champion. There were no semi-finals in this division.
IM Championships Decided Today
In Fraternity "B," teams from Phi Gamma Delta and Beta Theta Pi will again meet in the final round for the division crown. In the semi-finals the Betas defeated Sigma Nu 2-0, and the Phi Gams won a 2-1 contest from Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Foster will play Sigma Gamma Epsilon in the Independent "B" finals. Foster defeated J. R. Pearson 2-0, and the Sig Gam Eps whipped Pearson Hall 2-0 Friday.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon II will play Beta Theta Pi II, and Beta Theta Pi I will play Sigma Nu in the Fraternity "C" semi-finals Monday. The two winners will meet Tuesday for the championship.
First round results of Fraternity "C" playoffs are:
Sigma Alpha Epsilon 2, Phi Gamma Delta II 1; Beta Theta Pi II 2, Sigma Chi I 0; Beta Theta Pi I 2, Phi Gamma Delta I 0; Sigma Nu 2, Beta Theta Pi IV 1.
Block, Brownfield Bid For Tennis Team Berths
By Tom Clark
Pete Block and Jim Brownfield are climbing in the ranks as fourteen Jayhawkers continue their bid for a berth on Coach Denzell Gibbens' tennis squad.
The challenge rounds, now in progress, will determine each player's numerical position on the team.
KU begins its season with a three-day trip to the south, invading Wichita April 2, and following with successive matches against Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, defending conference champion.
After four challenge rounds, Brownfield has climbed three notches into eight place after three consecutive victories, including a tough three-set victory over Charles Studt Thursday afternoon. Block, a sophomore, successfully defended his fourth place rating against Stan Allen in the first round, then followed with an upset of junior letterman Dave Coupe. He meets Jerry Williams in the next challenge round, with the second position at stake.
Tabbed to play in the top position, Lynn Sieverling, Burdett senior, has thrown off the wraps and started working on his net game. Quick and agile, Siever-
ling excels at the net and has a hopping-fast serve as an added weapon. He will meet tough opposition from Olathe junior, Jerry Williams, and possibly Block, for the top rung.
Results of the challenge matches:
Salvit Lekagul defeated Bill Sheldon 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.
First Round
Charles Studt defeated Bill Gochis 10-8, 6-2.
Jim Brownfield defeated George Hollinsley 6-2, 6-1.
Bob Krisko defeated Jim Hodge 9-7, 4-6, 6-1.
Second Round
Block defeated Coupe 6-2,
6-4.
Lekagul defeated Allen 6-1, 6-2.
Brownfield defeated Gochis 6-4. 6-2.
Sheldon defeated Studt 7-5,
6-0.
Brownfield defeated Studt 6-1, 4-6, 6-1.
Gochis defeated Hollinbery 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.
Aural Swenson defeated Hodge 6-2, 6-1.
Sheldon defeated Allen 6-3,
6-0.
Third Round
Two Added to All-Star Team
Fourth Round
Hollinbery defeated Swenson 10-8, 6-3.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI) — Two guards, Mike Mendenhall of the University of Cincinnati, and Bob Smith of West Virginia, today were named to the East team for Saturday's 8th annual Shrine East-West all-star basketball game.
Mendenhall averaged 13.5 points a game for Missouri Valley winner Cincinnati, the past season. Smith averaged 13.1 for West Virginia, the Southern Conference champion.
bob Booster, an All America, and Don Matuszk of Kansas State, who will play for the West, and Johnny Cox of Kentucky (East).
With these two backcourt players in the fold, it brings the total to five of those selected to perform in the charity contest. Previously chosen were Ron Loneski of KU,
Dick Harp of Kansas will coach the West team while the East will be handled by Adolph Rupp of Kentucky.
KUTeamsAreSecond In Two Tournaments
Two Kansas University teams walked away from the two volleyball tournaments held on KU's campus last weekend with two second place trophies.
KU's "B" team grabbed the runner-up spot in the Mt. Oread tournament. The Kansas "C" team, a group formed last week of intramural players, placed third in this tourney.
Kansas' "A" team was defeated in the finals against the Wichita YMCA 15-0, 15-9 in the upper division Jayhawk Open Tournament.
"Second place in the Jayhawk
Open is actually quite a little better than the second and third places in the Mt. Oread tournament." volleyball coach Kevin Jones said, "Since only three teams showed up for the Mt. Oread Tournament."
Coach Jones' "A" team volleyball schedule will be the Missouri Athletic Club Invitational, April 4. Seven teams will participate in the tourney.
Coach Jones still praised the two Kansas teams in the Mt. Oread playoffs;
"Both our teams probably would have beaten Phillips or Oklahoma University if they had showed up as KU looked pretty good. Our teams kept improving as the afternoon went along."
The next tournament on
"Wichita is having a journey about two weeks before the National Collegiate Volleyball Championship (May 6-9) and we will probably participate in that to warm up for the Championships," Coach Jones said.
Cal and St. John's Relax and Look Ahead
Last year KU's team came out second in the national championship, compared to third place the year before.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — (UPI) — Defensive basketball, especially as played on the West Coast, took on new prestige today as California's ball-hugging Bears carried home the NCAA title on the strength of a 71-70 thriller over West Virginia in the finals here Saturday night.
The defensive side of the collegiate game has been making a slow comeback in the past two seasons from the days when most teams were content to have their defense described as "a wave, a shout and a dirty look."
The scoring average per game has sloughed off 10 points since it reached a high of 146.5 (both teams) in 1956 and 1957, and with the new limitations placed on the dribler this season, California slow-gated to the national title by holding its opponents to just over 50 points per game.
Even though West Virginia, with Jerry West alone getting 28, rolled up the season's highest total allowed by the Bears, it still was California's error-free, deliberate attack and clinging man-for-man defense that proved superior to the Mountaineers style of run and shoot in the showdown.
West Virginia coach Fred Schaus in defeat gave all the credit to his rival coach Pete Newell for "coming up with the best defensive club we've seen all season."
Jerry Old and John Dillard will represent KU's fencing team this week in the NCAA meet at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland.
It took the Bears 10 minutes to set those defenses in the title game as West Virginia streaked to a 23-13 lead in the first nine minutes. But the Bears doggedly played the game they knew best, and held the Mountaineers to a single field goal for the rest of the half.
Last year Old, Dan Grover and Marvin Pratt were chosen by fencing coach John Giele and went to the NCAA at Annapolis, but none of the three placed. Old is the only returning member of the trio on the squad this year.
Old, Dillard Leave Tuesday for NCAA
That gave California the 39-33 halftime lead, and when West collected a fourth personal foul early in the second half, the issue was sealed, even if West Virginia did refuse to concede it.
Old, team captain and a member of the epee squad, and Dillard, foil squad captain, will leave Tuesday afternoon for the matches to be held March 27-28 at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland.
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Graduation will wreck St. John's newly-crowned National Invitational Tournament Champions, but Conch Joe Lapchick is expected to build another basketball powerhouse next season around "most valuable player" Tony Jackson.
Jackson, the sophomore sensation who scored 21 points and grabbed 27 rebounds in the Redimens' 76-71 overtime win over Bradley in Saturday's nationally-televienced finale, is the only St. John's starter returning next year.
Gone will be little Alan Seiden, who was a unanimous choice along with Jackson today on the all-NIT team picked for United Press International by 16 sports writers who covered the 12-team carnival at Madison Square Garden.
But Jackson will be back, and that alone seems to guarantee the Redmen a top-flight team for next season. At tourney's end, observers were widely predicting future All-America honors for the six-foot, four-inch jump shooter who had a total of 81 points and 76 rebounds for four tourney games.
To build up Jackson, St. John's will have members of the most successful freshman team in its history—a squad that rolled up a 24-0 record and includes a six-10 center, Leroy Ellis, and Willie Hall, one of the nation's most coveted high school players last year.
Japan imports from 100,000 to 120.000 pounds of tallow from the U.S. each year.
Temple Looks To Rookies
Of the five returning lettermen, the team will have only Bob Marshall, team captain and center fielder, Art Megler, second baseman, and Carl Lauter-jung, catcher, who have had conference experience at their positions.
Two other returning lettermen have found themselves at new positions. Harl Hanson, former outfielder, has been moved to shortstop and Lloyd Nichols has been moved from the outfield to first base.
Rounding out the rest of the team will be Roger Hill at third base, Larry McKown in left field and Curtis Melton in right field.
The pitching staff lacks the needed experience in conference play. Without the needed experience, Floyd Temple, head baseball coach, will have to look to a rookie staff for his support. At the present, Temple is expecting to get the most mileage from Tom Hollar, Bill Clinkenbeard and Joe Doolittle.
By Gabby Wilson
Five returning lettermen will form the nucleus of KU's rookie studded baseball team this year.
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