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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Dec. 4, 1964
KU Tops Lobos in Home Opener
By Roy Miller (Managing Editor)
DAVE BRILL . . . "we're No. 1"
Coach Ted Owens, making his debut before an Allen Field House crowd, lauded his No.1 assistant. Sam Miranda.
Observers lavished praise upon KU's defense.
"Best damn defense I've ever seen," said Bob Lamson, an Iowa State scout, to a sports writer.
A well-wisher stuck his head inside a room where Owens was talking to reporters with the same message.
Irregardless of the source, the Jayhawkers defeated New Mexico, 59-40, here last night in their home opener of the 1964-65 basketball season.
"Sam deserves 90 per cent of the credit for everything," Owens said. "He had us well-prepared. He wanted this so much, I'm so pleased for him."
Miranda was in a good position to have the Jayhawks "well-prepared." He came to KU after serving as a New Mexico assistant coach.
"They did exactly what we expected," Miranda said of the Lobos. "They've done the same thing the last two years."
While players and coaches were obviously happy after their second straight victory of the season, Owens expressed a word of caution.
"I wished we had a week to be pleased, but Northwestern is supposed to have the finest sophomore team in the country," he said.
KU meets the Wildcats here Saturday night. Tipoff time is 7:35.
Last night, the Jayhawkers held only a 24-21 lead at the half. But largely through the defensive and offensive efforts of Al Lopes, Garden City Junior College transfer, the visitors' hopes were eliminated early in the second half.
Besides holding his defensive assignment, Dick Ellis, to eight points, Lopes shared KU scoring honors with Ron Franz with 14 points.
Despite the bad weather, a crowd of 4,000 was on hand. But the crowd's enthusiasm couldn't come close to equalling that of the KU players.
After the game, for example, Dave Brill ran toward the dressing room, saying:
He was referring to the fourth-place national ranking given KU by Sports Illustrated magazine.
"No. 4. hell, we're No. 1."
As for Saturday's game with the Big Ten school, Northwestern, Owens answered a question by saying:
"We know their personnel, we tried to recruit a bunch of them.
"They have great speed and quickness and I don't know how we'll do against a team like that."
KU and Northwestern play the eighth game of an intermittent basketball series and it's likely there still are a few shock waves vibrating in the Wildcat camp from its second invasion of Allen Field House.
This was the opening game of the 1956-57 season. It also was the debut of the Jayhawkers' much-ballyhooed sophomore Wilt Chamberlain. Only folks who had seen him in action could believe all the things said and written about him.
But nobody was quite prepared for what happened that night, least of all Northwestern, which
PROBABLE STARTERS
PROBABLE STARTERS
KU NORWESTERN
Ron Franz (6-6½) Don Jackson (6-5) F
Riney Lochmann (6-5) Ron Kozlicki (6-6) F
Walt Wesley (6-11) Jim Pitts (6-8) C
Del Lewis (6-1) Jim Burns (6-4) G
Al Lopes (6-5) Walt Toberi (6-1) G
came in with a good team hubbed by a good rookie center of its own, Joe Ruklich.
"I felt like a little boy out there," muttered Ruckligh, a nifty 6-9 operator whose 22 points were buried in the 87-69 holocaust.
KU has no Chamberlain this year. Nor does Northwestern harbour a Rucklick. But both are flooring promising young quintets. The Wildcats slugged Western Michigan, 95-81, in their opener Tuesday night.
The Jayhawkers will be seeking to double their edge over Big Ten opposition in this one. They now own an 11-6 bulge in intermittent warfare dating back to 1940. Most of this has been wrought with a 6-1 cushion in the series against Northwestern.
Texas Medical Center Performs Big Marvels
HOUSTON—(UPI)—A mile or so from downtown Houston lies a city-within-a-city where a person can have his heart patched, borrow a kidney, or add some life-saving dacron to his vascular system.
It is the Texas Medical Center and in its operating theaters work some of the world's top surgeons. Students learning their techniques watch through protective plastic-observation domes and crowd the classes of Baylor University College of Medicine, the main academic arm of the center.
The center spreads a $125 million array of buildings across 134 acres of what was once a splash of woods through Houston's southwest quarter.
One of the latest great advances in surgical medicine was the development of the heart-lung machine. De Bakey invented the key to its success—the pumps that move blood through the artificial system without crushing the molecules.
BUT THE STORY of a medical center is not told so much by its impressive physical plant as by the men who work the medical marvels within it.
De Bakey's "roller pump," looking something like a big tape recorder with two spools and with a tough plastic tube taking the place of the tape, is one of more than 50 surgical instruments he has invented.
There is Dr. Michael Ellis De Bakey, a medical perfectionist of endless energy affectionately called "the Texas tornado."
The balding, bespectacled surgeon also developed the knitted, crimped dacron tube that was the ideal solution to problems of artificial transplants of blood vessels.
The Texas Medical Center seems
restless with the present and anxious for the future. Already, plans have been announced for a $14.7 million expansion of Children's and St. Luke's hospitals. A clinical research and pediatric-orthopedic hospital will come next, under the auspices of Methodist Hospital.
GSP Basketball Team Captures Women's Title
Gertrude Sellards Pearson No. 2 defeated Lewis, 42-35, to win first place in the women's intramural basketball tournament Wednesday night.
Beverly Gray, Peculiar, Mo., freshman, led the winners with 23 points.
"Basketball comes naturally with me," she said. "I learned everything from my dad who was a high school basketball coach."
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