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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 1. 1962
Jayhawks Lose In Last Second
Center Stan Morrison scored a field goal a split-second before the game ended to give Oklahoma a 63-62 win over the Kansas Jayhawkers last night at Norman.
With KU leading 62-60, Morrison's shot was still in the air when the horn sounded.
NINE SECONDS earlier, KU's Loye Sparks scored what at the time appeared to be the Jayhawks' winning basket. But, after a series of Sooner passes, the ball was fired to Morrison who provided the Sooner victory.
The Jayhawks, who once trailed by nine points in the second half, led 60-59 with 1:45 left to play. Sooner guard Eddie Evans stole a KU pass and scored, giving the Sooners a 61-60 advantage with a minute left.
After Evans' basket, the Hawkers moved into scoring position and missed five consecutive shots. Evans, 5-9 and shortest player in the
PERSONAL HIGH—Lee Flachsbarth, Jayhawker starting center, hit a personal scoring peak of 14 points last night against the Oklahoma Sooners. Flachsbarth's previous high was 10 points.
EVANS MISSED his chance from the free throw line, and Jayhawker John Matt rebounded.
Big Eight, rebounded with 44 seconds of play left and was fouled by KU's Nolen Ellison.
Once again Evans took the ball away from the Hawkers and was fouled by Jerry Gardner.
The officials ruled that Gardner intentionally fouled Evans and awarded Evans two free throws. Evans missed both attempts.
THE SOONERS retained possession of the ball and for the second time in five seconds, Gardner intentionally fouled Evans. Evans missed his fourth and fifth consecutive free throw attempts.
The score was still 61-60 before Sparks scored for KU and gave the Hawks the one-point lead with nine seconds left.
Morrison, besides scoring the winning goal, led the Sooners with a 23-point performance and was the game's leading scorer.
OU's Evans scored 19 points, 14 coming in the second half.
KU GUARD Jerry Gardner, who fouled out, scored 15 points for KU.
Lee Flachsbarth set a new personal game career high as he scored 14 points. The 6-5 center's previous best was 10 points.
The other half of KU's backcourt duo, Nolen Ellison, scored 13 points.
THE GAME marked the third straight time the Sooners have downed KU by the slim one-point margin. OU nudged KU 61-60 in the Big Eight pre-season tournament and won in a contest here nine days ago by a 67-66 score.
A crowd of about 1,200 persons watched the game.
OU held a 27-25 half-time advantage. Harry Gibson opened the second half with a field goal to tie the score.
THE NEXT TIME Kansas tied the score late in the second half with only four minutes remaining to play.
During an eight-minute Sooner scoring attack early in the second half, the Sooners maintained leads of five, seven, and nine points.
With ten minutes left in the first half, KU established its biggest lead, 23-15. The Sooners' accurate free throw shooting closed this gap. The Sooners hit nine of 12 free throw chances in the first half.
The loss dropped the Hawkers further into the conference cellar. Coach Dick Harp's team holds a 6-15 record for all games and a 2-7 mark for league play.
BATON ROUGE, La.—(UPI)—Four Masters champions and three of the all-time money winners of golfdom were set to tee off today in the opening round of the 72-hole $20,000 Baton Rouge Open golf tournament.
Sport Briefs
Entries from Arnold Palmer, winner of the Baton Rouge Open for the past two years, Cary Middlecoff, Doug Ford and Jackie Burke caused one open official to boast it was the best field ever to play ir a golf tournament in Louisiana
Middlecoff, not a regular on the winter pro circuit, served notice Tuesday that he'd finish in the top money, firing a six-under-par 66 to take top pro money on a pro-am warmup.
Other top favorites include Bo Winniger, winner of the New Orleans open last week. Howie Johnson, Doug Sanders and Bob Goalby.
Pahner missed with pro-am event. His private plane was grounded at Mobile, Ala., with engine trouble. He was ill when he arrived, suffering from nausea and loss of equilibrium, and had both ears lanced to relieve pressures caused by abcesses.
Qualifying rounds limited the field to the top 140 pros and 10 amateurs. Eighteen holes will be played today, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and the field will be cut to the top 60 pros and 10 amateurs at the midway point.
KANSAS CITY. Mo.-(UPI) Kansas guard Jerry Gardner has replaced teammate Nolen Ellison as the leading scorer in the Big Eight conference.
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Gardner, in 11 conference basketball games, has scored at a 19.4-point clip. Ellison dropped to 18.4 points, the same as Nebraska's Tom Russell. And in fourth place is Colorado's Ken Charlton at 17.9 points, followed by Missouri's Ken Doughty at 17.7 points.
Rounding out the top ten: Mike Wroblewski, Kansas State, sixth, 16.8 points; Wilky Gilmore, Colorado, seventh, 15.5 points; Eddie Bunch, Oklahoma State, eighth, 13.3 points; Pat McKenzie, Kansas State, ninth, 12.9 points; and Vinnie Brewer, Iowa State, 10th, 12.8 points.
Kansas State boasts the best offense, both for the season and in loop play, with 70.5 and 69.4 points, respectively. Defensively, Oklahoma State is the leader with 56.2 points for the year and 56.4 points in the Big Eight.
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BOSTON, Mass. — (UPI) — The Boston Celtics have won six straight Eastern Division titles because there's always a take-charge guy.
The National Basketball Association champions had two such personalities last night when Frank Ramsey and Bob Cousy spearheaded Boston to a 129-123 overtime victory over Cincinnati.
Ramsay, the greatest "sixth man" in pro basketball history, came off the bench to lead a Celtic charge in the fourth quarter that overcame a 15-point deficit. He scored 18 of Boston's 37 points in the period to end regulation play at 116-all. Included was the tying basket with 16 seconds to go.
Wilt Chamberlain scored 61 points as Philadelphia defeated Chicago, 128-119, and Richie Guerin led New York to a 119-109 win over Detroit with a 34-point barrage.
Cousy tallied seven of Boston's 13 overtime points.
Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati had a game high of 41 points, while Ramsey collected 30.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — (UPI) — Ace right harter Jerry Walker yesterday became the first casualty in the Kansas City Athletics spring training camp and will be out of service a few days.
The 23-year-old pitcher hurt his back and was taken to a nearby hospital for X-rays, but no dangerous injuries were found.
A physician diagnosed the injury as a pulled muscle in the lower back and said Walker will be out of action four or five days.
Manager Hank Bauer is counting on Walker to be one of the main-stays of his pitching staff. Walker broke into the major leagues in 1957 with the Baltimore Orioles, right out of high school.
By Steve Clark
Kansas track coach Bill Easton expects this year's Big Eight indoor track meet to be a "cut each other's neck" affair.
He expects the meet which will be held tomorrow and Saturday at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo., to have the best overall balance its had in years.
"THEERE ARE too many top performers in the league this year for one team to walk away with the meet." Easton said. "We're going into the meet in pretty good shape, but we're going to have to be 'up' for the meet.
"Last week against Oklahoma State and Kansas State we were 'down.' We wanted to be 'down' however, because we were 'up' the week before. It's not good for a team to try to be 'up' for every meet. So, there was a reason in our being 'down.'
Easton looks for Nebraska and Missouri to have the strongest teams among his competitors. He cites Colorado, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Iowa State as being "tough" because they have "competitors who can cut up the opposition."
NEBRASKA, Easton relates, has its best team in many years. The Cornhuskers have a strong team balance in comparison to teams with a few outstanding individuals which they have had in past years.
He lists Missouri, one of KU's conquests this year, as another top contender for the crown. He credits Missouri also with overall strength
Easton says the Cornhuskers have a better team than when they had Jamaican spinner Keith Gardiner.
HE LISTS the Jayhawkers' strong events as the 600, 890, 1000-yard dashes, the mile, the high jump and the pole vault. He expects points in the hurdles and the dashes hard to come by.
Charlie Smith gained some confidence which he has been needing for some time last Friday. Smith
won the 60-yard high hurdles defeating Kansas State's Jerry Hooker.
treating Kansas State's Jerry Hooker. Smith has all the tools to be a good hurdler, but he has never quite reached the frame of mind to become a champion. Some observers believe Smith defeats himself before the race starts.
RICH ANDERSON, another hurdler, is a person to watch. Anderson is improving continuously and may be up with the big boys soon.
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Easton believes that Yul Yost can place in the shot put if he can get the iron ball out over 54 feet.
IT LOOKS as if the hard-running halfback is headed toward San Diego. With his ineligibility decided he can concentrate on landing a professional contract.
Jottings from the note pad: It was kind of sad to hear that Bert Coan was found ineligible for further collegiate competition. Coan has had more than his share of tough luck and perhaps things will start picking up for him.
John Uelses, world record-holder in the pole vault, had to cancel his Kansas City appearance tomorrow because a Knights of Columbus track meet was rescheduled for Friday instead of Saturday.
We will never forget his debut as a Jayhawker here against his cxteammates from Texas Christian. Coan was one of the most skillful runners we have seen.
Beta Theta Pi did it again in intramural "A" competition. The Betas captured the Hill Championship defeating the Harriers 41-39 in a close-fought contest. Our capsule summary of intramural basketball will run sometime next week.
Intramural volleyball will swing into action soon. Team applications are due tomorrow in the intramural office.
The Kansas State-Colorado basketball game will be televised Saturday night on WIBW-TV, Topeka, Channel 13.
Sonny Liston Declines Patterson's Fight Offer
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Now it's Sonny Liston who is rejecting the big June fight with heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, for which he could sign today if he would accept terms.
It's Liston of Philadelphia who is yelling "No, no! no!" It was learned authoritatively.
It's big Sonny who, for the past week, has been rejecting terms offered by Championship Sports, Inc. and has been demanding 20 per cent of all net receipts for what may be a $10,009,000 fight.
Championship Sports has offered 27-year-old Sonny $12½ per cent, backed by a $200,000 guarantee, it was learned.
Listen and attorney Morton Witkin in Philadelphia insist that they want no guarantee but they do want 20 per cent of all net receipts.
The vehemence of protests by Liston and Witkin and the number of meetings in New York among Patterson, attorney Julius November and the promoting brothers Tom and Al Bolan of Championship Sports indicate a deadlock that may extend beyond Patterson's March 13 deadline.
Although Liston received his largest purse of $80,000 for knocking out Albert Westphal of Germany in the first round on Dec. 4, it is the contention of Sonny and attorney Witkin that neither the $80,000 purse nor the offered $200,000 guarantee has any bearing upon what the challenger deserves for the June extravaganza with Patterson.
No one connected with the negotiations would comment today — no one connected with the promotion or with either fighter.
KU Frosh Play MU Frosh
Hoping to reverse last year's season record, the KU Freshman basketball team meets the University of Missouri fresh tonight at Columbia. Mo. Tipoff time is 8 p.m.
However, it was learned that attorney Tom Bolan, president of Championship Sports, and Patterson's attorney, November, are positive that the NBA will not vacate Flovd's championship on March 13 should he fail to sign by then for a defense against Liston—if big Sonny rejected the $200,000 guarantee as challenger.
That was the deadline re-established last Sunday by the National Boxing Association's executive committee when 27-year-old Patterson must sign for his eighth defense against an approved challenger, preferably Liston.
Last year the Freshmen, who now have a 2-1 mark, compiled a 1-3 record.
THE JAYHAWKERS, who have have Kansas State twice by scores of 69-49 and 61-52 and lost to Coffeyville Junior College in a 54-52 game, face a team of equal height tonight.
Both teams' starting lineup averages 6-3 per man.
Probable starters for Coach Ted Owens are center George Unseld, 6-7, forwards Mike Shinn, 6-5, and David Brill. 6-5, and guards Wayne Loving, 5-11, and David Schichtle, 6-2.
Missouri's starting lineup includes
players 6-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3, and 5-11.
Coach Owens who saw the Tigers beat Iowa State in overtime, considers the Missouri team "good."