Page 8 University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 26, 1957
BY DICK BROWN
(Daily, Kansan Sports Editor)
The NCAA championship game is over and KU is only the No.2 team in the nation.
This thought saddens many Jayhawker fans who become even more sad when they think of the senior stars who won't be back in the uniform of "Big Red" next year.
Gone are Maurice King, all-conference as a junior; Gene Elstun, fifth leading Jayhawker scorer of all time; John Parker, one of the greatest competitors ever to wear the KU colors:
Lew Johnson, who played tremendously down the stretch, and four other seniors who played a lot of ball for Kansas in their careers.
With this terrific loss of personnel, most sports experts are picking K-State to win the Big Seven title next year, as they lose only-guard Eddie Wallace off the first team and return all conference players and Jack Parr and Bob Boozer.
Also returning will be fireball playmaker Jack Matuszak, Roy DeWitz and Haydon Abbott, who was a regular on the Big Seven championship team as a sophomore but was out much of last season with a leg injury.
Only Two Starters Return
KU, on the other hand, returns only two starters, Wilt Chamberlain and Ron Loneski. But Bob Billings played a lot during the title stretch and can be counted on to give the Jayhawkers a good floorman and feeder for Wilt.
He must improve his outside shooting if the team is to relieve the pressure on the Giant Chamberlain. If he can shoot somewhere close to the neighborhood of partner's percentage, about 40 per cent, he could be the best guard in the conference.
Lettered junior John Cleland could move into King's shoes at the other guard shot if his defensive weakness can be corrected for he is as steady a marksman as the squad boasts.
Figuring Billings, Loneski and Chamberlain as the hub of the team, it is easy to imagine two of four outstanding players of this year's freshman squad playing on the team.
Taking over for King at a guard could be Phil Raiser, 6-0 Muncie, Ind. player or Bob Hickman, 6-2 Terre Haute, Ind. star
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Raisor has the offensive edge with a fine shot off the jump and a nice floor game. He displayed some of the fanciest passing seen on the Allen Field House floor this year with his demonstration in the freshman intersquad games.
However, he must correct defensive troubles if he is to gain a starting nod. An operation on both knees to remove water, showed his progress late in the year but with an outside shooting guard a must, he could have the edge.
Hickman is a tough hard-driving player who excels in defense. He has good overall speed and is a fair shot. He is definitely Big Seven caliber with his defense but his offensive play must be proven before he can win one of the starting guard berths.
Either Al Donaghue, 6-4 Kansas City, Kan., or Jim Hoffman, 6-4 Kansas City, Mo., could make the grade at forward. Both are excellent rebounders.
Both Good Prospects
Both Good Prospects Donaghue is a good outside shooter also and a fierce competitor. Hoffman has tremendous spring but must overcome a lack of aggressiveness if he is to gain a starting position.
We suggest a line-up of 5-11 Billings, 6-0 Raiser; 7-0 Chamberlain; 6-4 Loneski and 6-4 Donaghue as maybe the starting KU team for next year and our choice for the Big Seven championship.
Don't Believe Odds
LONDON — (UP) — British odds-makers apparently have little faith in Monkey Wrench, an American-owned horse, winning Friday's Grand National Steeplechase. They are quoting 100-1 odds on the horse, who represents Mrs. J. F. Bryce of New York.
To Use Five-Ounce Gloves
BUENOS AIRES — (UP) — World Flyweight champion Pascual Perez of Argentina and challenger Dai Dower of Wales will use five-ounce gloves in their title fight here Saturday. Each fighter signed official contracts for the 15-round bout Monday.
A journalism faculty member has taken Daily Kansan sports staffers with monotonic regularity on bets he has needled them into, except during the football season last fall, when a certain great gridiron power fell on evil days.
Never Argue With Him Who Knows
The fact that he usually return ed his winnings in the form of Cokes did little to lessen the sting of the losses to the sports "experts."
Last Thursday he offered to bet Sports Editor Dick Brown that Wilt Chamberlain would score the most points during the NCAA games in Kansas City, baiting Brown with the added lure of five points.
The result, as you all know:
Chamberlain, 55 points; Rosenbluth of North Carolina, 51, plus the 5-point handicap, 56.
Coaches Adopt Rule Changes
KANSAS CITY, MO. — (UP) — A modified free throw rule used this season by the Big Ten Conference was the major rule change adopted by the National Basketball committee in its two-day meeting here.
The new 6-foul rule means the one-and-one free throw rule is not in effect for the first six fouls by each team in each half.
In another effort to speed up the game, officials were ordered to warn the "responsible" team during stalls to make "a reasonable effort to get action" or be subject to a technical foul.
Another revision calls for the ball being thrown into play from under either goal, but if the ball goes behind the backboard on the throw-in it will be regarded as out of bounds. It was written to prevent players from throwing in over the backboard to tall players for "dunk" shots.
The committee also made a new rule that players on offense cannot touch the ball on the rim of the basket or directly above it unless the player carried the ball there.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo.—(UP)—Gary Thompson. Iowa State's little guard, helped win another game for his coach when he paced the West to a 64-60 victory over the East in the annual Ararat Shrine all-star classic last night.
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Coach Bill Stranigan of Iowa State supervised the winners and Frank McGuire of North Carolina coached the East team.
All-American Lennie Rosenbluth of North Carolina's national champions led the East with a 14-point performance. Big Jim Krebs of Southern Methodist was best rebounder with 15 for the West.
Thompson, who was a secondteam selection on the United Press all-American team, took scoring honors with 16 and was named "most valuable player" of the charity game.
411 West 14th
The Westerners jumped into
12-2 advantage in the opening minutes of quick goals by Krebs and Thompson.
However, the East team narrowed the gap on the shooting of Vince Cohen of Syracuse, Harv Schmidt of Illinois and Rosenbluth. They caught up at 22-22, took the lead three times, but trailed 33-32 at the intermission.
The West all-stars held a slim margin through all but 30 seconds of the second half when all-American Grady Wallace of South Carolina hit a basket to give the East a 56-55- edge.
Then Krebs hit two fielders and one free throw and Thompson stole the ball to make a lay-in to push the Western team to a lead to the finish.
The West hit 25 of 75 field attempts while the East got 29 of 69. East led in rebounding 57-54.
St. Louis And Boston Meet For NBA Title Saturday
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—(UP)—It will be the St. Louis Hawks against the Boston Celtics in the final round of the National Basketball Assn. playoffs, opening in Boston Saturday.
The Hawks completed a 3-0 sweep of the Western Division finals last night when they beat the Minneapolis Lakers, 143-135, in a stormy, 2-overtime tussle that ended in a protest by the Lakers. The Celtics previously completed a similar sweep in the east.
The Lakers' protest stemmed from the closing minutes of regulation time. They were leading, 114-112, when the clock was set back from five seconds remaining to eight seconds remaining. They claimed this was an error and gave Bob Pettitt of the Hawks a chance to drive in for the tving basket.
Pettit was the Hawks' high scorer
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League officials at the game disallowed the Lakers' protest.
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