Friday. Dec. 20, 1957 University Daily Kansan
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GENE ELSTUN—Former KU forward sinks a free throw.
Kansas City gets its share of the basketball spotlight over the holidays by playing host to the star-studded Big Eight tournament.
Kansas Citians will flock into the city's Municipal Auditorium for the 4-day event which begins Thursday and despite laws, tickets will reach as high as $30 for the probable "dream" game between K-State and Kansas.
The tournament, which has in the past featured such great national basketball players as Clyde Lovellette and B. H. Born of Kansas; Dick Knostman of Kansas State, Bob Gengenard and Burdete Halderson of Colorado; Gary Thompson of Iowa State and now Kansas' Wilt Chamberlain, who may surpass them all.
Attention Focused At Kansas City
The Big Eight tournament, with the nation's second and third ranked teams vying for the title, will probably draw more attention than the East's big holiday tournaments.
century than the East's big Kansas is trying for another Big Eight championship but Kansas State feels it's this year or never and base their argument on Bob Boozer and Jack Parr.
Both teams have won five straight and the road has not been smooth.
The slow starts, lack of speed and inconsistency of all but Chamberlain and Ron Loneski may mean trouble for Kansas in tournament play.
Kansas is starting slow, falling as many as ten points behind then depending on a second half spurt to win.
Falling behind has meant the Jayhawkers have had to leave their zone defense for the man-to-man which requires more speed.
Kansas Plays Oklahoma
Kansas meets Oklahoma at 7:30 p.m. Thursday while Colorado plays favored Iowa State at 9:30 p.m.
Friday, Kansas State plays Missouri in the first game and Nebraska meets the Big Eight's final guest team, Princeton.
The winners of Thursday's games play at 7:30 p.m. Saturday with Kansas expected to come out ahead in both games.
Friday's winners meet at 9:30 p.m. Saturday and the finals will be 9:30 p.m. Monday—Kansas vs. Kansas State. As a result one of these two teams will take a dip in the rankings.
No games will be televised.
Wandering Dodgers Still Looking For Home
LOS ANGELES—(UP)—A last-ditch effort to keep the Los Angeles Dodgers from making their temporary home in Pasadena's Rose Bowl comes before the Coliseum Commission today.
Chairman Jim Smith announced a new proposal under which the Dodgers would pay no rent for the 105,000-seat Memorial Coliseum, but would guarantee the Coliseum revenues of $350,000 from concessions.
And as an added inducement, Smith proposed that the Coliseum meet Dodger president Walter
O'Malley's objections to having home plate at the east end of the stadium by shifting the diamond so that the batter would be facing north.
Cats Get 2nd Victory
All games played in men's intramural basketball Thursday were in the Independent A and C divisions, with the Cats, CarruthO'Leary and Pearson winning in A games.
The Cats edged the Chicken Pickers 37-35 in a game which was tied 17-17 at halftime. Scoring for the Cats were James Kerr, 13. Moe Courville 5, Jerry Baker, Bob Preston and Don Feller 4 each, Ed Martin 3 and Larry Carrier and Bob James 2 each.
The plan outlined informally by Smith Thursday was for the Coliseum Commission to retain its 30 per cent gross concession revenues with O'Malley guaranteeing that the stadium's receipts over a two-year period would total $350,000.
Carruth-O'Leary ran away from the Jacks to win 59-22. Jerry Macumber led Caruuth scoring with 16, John McElinney and Dick Hall had 13 each, Jack Dysart 6, Gerald Horish 5 and Lee Crawford and Joe Sprekelmeyer 2 each.
For the losers scoring was done by Bob Krisoo and Dee Brecheisen with 9 each, Chuck Hill, Dick Welty and John Rupp 4 each, Reuben Heatwole 3 and Jim Porter 2.
Pearson produced a second-half rally to defeat Phi Chi 50-39, in a game that stood 22-19 in favor of Phi Chi at the half.
Pearson scoring was done by Arthur Henry with 11 points, Eugene Crochet 10, Dallas Musgrave and Roger Whitten 8 each, Bud Johnson 7 and Pete Curran 6.
Leading Phi Chi scoring is P. J, O'Connell with 14 points, followed by Gene Klingler with 9, Jim Webb 6, Bill Maddix and Rick
Barnes 4 each and Bob Dodson 2.
Phi Games 2.0
After two weeks of competition
Phi Gamma Delta leads Fraternity
A division 1 with a 2-0 record. Sigma
Phi Epsilon is 1-0.
Sigma Chi has a 2-0 record to lead division 2. Beta Theta Pi is 1-0 in that division.
Phi Delta Theta is 2-0 in division 3, followed by Lambda Chi Alpha and Alpha Kappa Lambda, each 1-0.
Three teams are tied for the lead in division 4. Alpha Tau Omega, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Phi Kappa Psi are each 1-0.
In Independent A division 1 Oread and Carruth-O'Leary each have 2-0 records to lead the field.
The Cats are now 2-0 which is good enough for first place in division 2. Stephenson has a 1-0 record.
All six teams have played one game each in division 3. The three winners, and thereby leaders of the division, are Pharmacy, Templin and the Bierhawks.
In division 4 Varsity House and the Blackhawks have each won a game and lost none to share the division lead.
Tarheel Streak On Line
By UNITED PRESS
North Carolina places its 36-game winning streak on the line and 10 other nationally-ranked powers risk their ratings tonight to get the Christmas-week college basketball whirl off to a flying start.
The top-ranked Tarheels, unbeaten since their final game of the 1955-56 campaign, face Minnesota, the country's 16th-rated power, in the opener of the Kentucky Invitational tournament. With sixth-ranked Kentucky facing 14th-ranked West Virginia in the other half of the opening bill, the tournament posed the biggest threat to North Carolina's national rating since it beat Kansas in the finals of last season's NCAA tournament.
The key tournament is the Kentucky Invitational. Should North Carolina advance past this one, it might even take a run at San Francisco's record 60-game winning streak. And, should Kentucky come through as champion, it would erase the stigma of losses
to Maryland and Southern Methodist.
San Francisco's meeting with Seattle features the opening of the Blue Grass tourney which also includes Army vs. rugged Louisville, tall enough to give anybody trouble.
The holiday schedule began Thursday with a collection of games that more or less followed form.
Wisconsin downed Butler, 59-58,
Indiana beat St. Mary's of California,
79-66, Purdue whipped South Dakota,
74-62, western Kentucky walloped Seton Hall, 101-75, and New York University romped over South Carolina, 81-66, in games Thursday.
UP Selects Hank Aaror
MILWAUKEE —(UP) Milwaukee Braves outfielder Hank Aaron has been named Wisconsin's "athlete of the year" by Untied Press radio and newspaper sports editors.
Other scores Thursday:
Independent C—Army ROTC 36
Navy ROTC 20; Backwoods men 43
Carruth-O'Leary 19; Hicks over
KHK, forfeit; American Society of
Mechanical Engineers 39, Jim Beam
15; AIA 22, Joliffe 21.
Newton Tops High School Poll
The ratings, sponsored by the Topeka Daily Capital, showed the top three teams in AA, A, B and BB classifications.
TOPEKA —(UP)— Newton, a perennial powerhouse that is undefeated in four games so far this season, today held the No. 1 spot in Kansas high school basketball in the first poll of the season.
Newton led the AA, followed by Topeka (2-0), and Ward high school (3-1).
Russell, undefeated in four games, led in class A, followed by Medicine Lodge (4-0) and Hugoton (4-0).
Class B also featured three undefeated teams, Inman (4-0) in first, Arma (4-0) and Morrowville (5-0).
Assaria led class BB with a 5-0 mark. Selden (5-0) was second and Mullinville (4-0) third.
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