Tuesday, Feb. 9, 1965
University Daily Kansan
Page 9
Jayhawks Down Missouri; Keeps Big 8 Hopes
KU continued its fight for the Big Eight championship last night when it knocked off the Missouri Tigers, 71-60.
The victory raised the Jayhawks' conference record to 5-3 and made the season tally 13-6. The defeat left the Tigers with a 3-4 conference record.
KU's victory broke a seven-game winning streak the Tigers held on their home court. Last Saturday Mizzou had edged the undefeated Oklahoma State team at Columbia.
Walter Wesley, league-leading scorer, again turned in an amazing performance scoring 34 points against the tight Missouri defense. He fouled out, though, with 3:38 remaining.
Al Lopes, who was moved to the starting forward position in Saturday's game with Oklahoma, also racked up 14 tallies against the Tigers.
Lopes was also an outstanding figure in the KU defensive effort. He led the Jayhawkers in rebounding, hauling down 10.
Missouri scorers were led by center George Flamank who netted 19 for the Tigers. Like KU, Mizzou only had two men shooting in the double figures. Gary Gardner followed Flamank closely with 17 tallies.
While scoring was important, fouling by both teams was abundant. During the second half, most of the leading scorers in the game were playing with three and four fouls against them.
Wesley fouled out, and a minute and a half later, Lopes received his fifth counter and left the game. Missouri's Ron Coleman finished his series of five with less than a minute remaining.
Free throws were extremely important in the Jayhawk victory.
During the first half, KU completed every free throw attempt and they had run the string to 15 out of 15 before they missed a tally 10 minutes into the second half. The Jayhawks finished the game with an impressive 21 of 27 free throws completed.
KU's performance from the free throw stripe was coupled with 47 per cent shooting from the field to produce a combination the Tigers couldn't beat with their 31 per cent from the outside.
The victory kept KU firmly in the running for the championship after they went into the contest ranking third in the conference behind O-State, 6-1, and Colorado, who boasted a 4-2 record.
Although most coaches agree that Big Eight competition is tough enough that a team with four losses could still tie for the honors, racking
Bill Easton's Jayhawk squad opened the indoor track season Friday with a 99%-26-221% triangular victory over Southern Illinois and Pittsburg State.
up the fourth loss with so many league contests remaining could have been disastrous.
The Jayhawks have been fighting for their "conference lives" since the Iowa State Cyclones handed them their third defeat in a televised game Jan. 23. KU managed to rally and defeat the Oklahoma Sooners last Saturday in a game at Lawrence.
Fierce fighting on the boards and fine shooting from the outside, especially by Mike Rooney, kept the Sooners threatening for most of the game.
lead in the opening minutes of the game. However, they were soon caught by the spunky Oklahoma squad. The scoring for the remaining part of the first half was nip and tuck. Oklahoma had a two-point lead at the half.
The victory was KU's fourth in the four-year history of the meet and stretched the Jayhawks winning streak in dual and triangular meets to 23.
Although the Sooner team was ranked low in the conference, the victory was not easy for the Jayhawks. Oklahoma leads the conference for rebounds and team scoring.
A more fired up KU team took the court for the second half. Rooney of OU had cooled off and the Jayhawks took the lead. The final flourish for KU came in the last five minutes of the game, though, when Kansas began to dominate the back-boards instead of OU and the entire game moved at a faster pace.
Jayhawks Triumph During Break
KU will meet Oklahoma Saturday in KUNI Field House.
Wesley turned in a stunning performance while he tallied 34 for the Jayhawks. Lopes and Wesley managed to haul down enough rebounds, 12 each, to give them honors among the jumping-jacks of OU.
The Jayhawks swept to an early
KU downed Colorado and Oklahoma State in dual swimming meets over the semester break. Colorado fell to the Jayhawks, 66-29, and O-State suffered a 75-20 defeat. KU will meet the Iowa State squad at Ames next Monday for the last meet before the Big Eight competition.
The Junior Jayhawks swamped the Ft. Scott Junior College basketball team Saturday, 80-54, even after heavy fouling and no bench strength reduced the KU squad to four players for the last minute. Paul Welch, Ft. Scott coach, also reduced his squad. The victory gives the Frosh a 4-3 season record.
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If you look hard enough, you might find these same four adversaries under attack in Don Marquis's classic, archy and mehitabel (Dolphin, 95€). Don Marquis first introduced archy, the poetic cockroach, and mehitabel, the worldly-wise alley cat, in his newspaper column in 1916, and if you haven't yet met them, you are in for a treat. The songs and meditations of archy, composed late at night on the boss's typewriter, are as pointed and to-the-point today as they were back in the 1920s, when quoting Don Marquis was a national pastime. Why the lower case title? archy, philosophically inclined as he is, isn't strong enough to make capital letters:
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