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BIGHT SECOND THOUGHT mm By JoeGiimartin The atory out of Topeka yettcrday to the effect that "Iola and Ft. Smith are working, hard to field teams in the Western Association next season" is only half true at best. We can't speak for Ft. Smith, bat no individual or croup in this city is working; toward any inch a thins; right this minute Barr." president of the W.A., and also president of the now defunct KOM League, is the source for the story. Oeorge, a former major umpire, and one of the great optimists of our time where minor league baseball is concerned, says that six Hutchinson, Muskogee.

St. Joseph. Ponca City, and definitely set to operate in the Association this year, and that he still hopes (or an eight- team loop. Incidentally, both Blackwell and Ponca City will operate as independents. '(without the benefit of working agreements with major league, outfits), so the story goes.

Barr sums up prospects for his league as follows: "Our only question now is how many teams we'll have. definitely, operate, and things look very better than they did a year ago." THE TOLA REGISTER, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY TOLA, KANSAS EK Clubs Swing Into League Play; Lavin Top Scorer With holiday vacations and accompanying tournaments out of the way, teams in the Eastern Division of the Kansas Junior College League were ready this week to swing into the race for the loop crown with a vengeance. Four conference games are on tap, with the big one scheduled for Iola Friday night, when the Parsons Cardinals, boasting the best overall record in the EKL, will take on the up and coming Iola Red Devils. Actually, as far as court play goes, Iola and Parsons have identical 4-3 records, LICKING THE Sec by the papers-where an overwhelming majority of the Oklahoma players are emphatic in stating that Notre Dame is a better team than Maryland. That Alabama player who jumped off the bench to waylay a Rice back who was route to a touchdown recalls an Incident we witnessed in a small town back east a few years back.

Seems that the local high school football team was having; one of its worst seasons in history. Nobody on the team could do anything a majority of players couldn't do anything at all. One of the deficiencies, it seemed, was sloppy tackling, Well, the boys staggered into their last game with a record of no wins and eight those who said thinn possibly get worse were dead wrong: Because, by the middle of the third period, the home boys were down, 47-0, and they hadn't made more than three tackles all afternoon. Then came the perfect climax. An player steamed arannd left end and broke into the clear.

The sight waa too ranch for one of the home sabs to bear, and Just as the visitor sped by the bench, he launched a bene-crushing tackle and mimed by flat on MB face. Basket Tourney Moves to St Joseph ST. JOSEPH, Mo. If) The Women's National AAU basketball tournament-win be held at St. Joseph March 21-26.

St. Joseph was named as the host city last night for the 12th time. The tournament has been held at Wichita, the past two years. Hanes Hosiery of Winston-Salem, N. is defending champion.

but the were forced to forfeit two of their games just before 1 Christmas because of the use of an ineligible player. The Cards, rated a top club before Christmas, lost a little luster in the holiday tourney at Iola, looking rather'Wcfcadasical hV bowing to a weak Ft. Scott club and beating Chanute. However, Parsons boasts the East ern Division's top point-getter Mike Lavin, and Coach Wally Swanson's Cards- are still plenty tough! In other games this week, Chanute will take on the fuzzy-faced Pirates from Independence tomorrow night, while Parsons goes over to JEt. Scott in search of The only game the Greyhounds have won all year was against Parsons, and PJC will be out to prove it was all a mistake.

Rounding out the conference the freshman dominated Pirates will be in Ft. Scott Friday evening. Indy lost its first five games this year before finally heating JS1 Dorado in the consolation the Ark City Invitational last week, but the club has been tangling with tough Western -Division quintets most of the year. The week's non-conference slate finds El Dorado at Iola tomorrow night, and Coffeyvllle in Joplin Friday evening. Getting back to individual scoring, EASTERN.

J.UCO (All Games) Pot. PF PA Parsons Coffeyvllle IOLA Chanute Ft. Scott Independence 4 3 Sti 455 43K 3 S55 STI 5 Jttt 44S 2 543 (25 14 JBM 9H 3M 1 5 317 371 Pet. -1 1 i.m 1 i AH .0 i i LEAGUE GAMES' Coffeyvllle Chanute Fort Scott Independence in IOLA THIS WEEK'S 8CHEDTJLE TUESDAY Chanute at Indeeavience Parsons at Fort Scott Dorado at IOLA FRIDAY Parsons at IOLA Independence at Fort Scott at Joplin Non-League Games. an ORANGE BOWL halfback Bob Burris heads around left end after taking lateral from quarterback Gene Calame (31 Maryland end Bill Walker (tfO) makes the tackle, on Calame in the first period of the Orange Bowl game in Miami.

Wtrephoto.) Changing World Test for Jays Big 7 Clubs Innaugurate RegularCampaignTonight KANSAS CITY Ufi The Big Seven Conference basketball race' opens tonight with three games, including a test of the defending champion Kansas Jayhawks. Coach Phog Allen purred with satisfaction and the other Big Seven coaches watched with dismay as, his Jayhawks. humbled Oklahoma 82-73 last week in the finals of the league's preseason tournament. That game disclosed Allen's Sunday punch a bench stocked with reserves who can win when the regulars drop out. Lavin is well out front with average of 21.7 points a game.

The.Parsons scoring wisard with By 0RLO ROBERTSON the wide variety of has pump- NEW YORK Basketball ranked home 54 field goals and 44 free lngs nre due for a sna ice-up when throws in the aeren games played' Shuffle Expected In Cage Ranks As Result of Holiday Tourneys by Parsons to date. A distant second to Lavin In the point parade is Ed "Sugar" Cain of Cpffeyville. The Raven ace has an average of MA tallies for six contests. Cnsnute's defending champion Black panthers are averaging 674 tallies per game to-lead in team scoring, but the stamina short Panthers are the easiest team in the Went to score on so far having yielded 78.1 points per game. TOP JUCO SCORERS Player Mike Lavin Ed Cain Merle Blair Darold Elrod Jim Lander CHUCK SISSON Gene Dean Ludlum JERRY GLEASON Bob Storey FRANK SPECHT JOHNNY TAYLOR Don Brown Tom Moriarty Willard Wilson Mike Callahan Raymond Scott Kermit Nelson scoring records above are unofficial, and are compiled by the Register Bureau of Sports Statistics.

They include only players who have scored a minimum of SO points. School F.G. F.T. Pts. Game Parsons 54 44 152 21.7 Coffeyvllle 40 21 101 16.8 Independence 40 18 98 16.3 Chanute 34 54 122 15.2 Chanute 41 39 121 15.1 IOLA 36 35 107 15.1 Coffeyvllle 37 14 88 14.6 Chanute 41 33 115 14.3 IOLA 39 22 100 14.2 Independence 34 13 81 13.5 IOLA 27 34 88 12.5 IOLA 23 42 88 12.5 Coffeyvllle 22 20 64 10.6 Chanute 27 13 67 9.5 Parsons 18 24 60 8.6 Parsons 17 21 55 7.9 Parsons 17 21 55 7:9 Chanute 25 10 60 7,5 Rookie's Paradise Tigers to Bank on Youth In 1954 Pennant Struggle HOCUS POCUS Lefty Davis of Wake Forest seems to.

be attempting to hypnotise the ball, but actually is fumbling in Reynolds Coliseum, Raleigh, N. C. Tulanes Phil Wallace is puszled when he puts his hand out for the ball and it is not there. Wake Forest WQJ4 (NEA) By JOE REICHLER NEW YORK Ufi The Detroit Tigers' youth movement is in full swing. by the jump from last place to sixth in 1953, made possible by the high turnover in the vigorous rebuilding operation, ntweom- ers to their Lakeland, camp next north.

Nineteen of these are freshmen. On the 44-player roster will be 19 pitchers including seven rookies. Heading the list of hopefuls is.Frank Lary, one-time University of Alabama righthander. Lary won 17 and lost 11 for third place Buffalo of the International League after finishing, his army service. Another 22-year-old with a college backgroun is Jim 6-4 Southwestern Wins KCAC Tournament MCPHERSON Southwestern, the team that was invited to the Kansas Conference basketball Tournament to round out the schedule, won the event by defeating McPherson, 83-75, Saturday.

Southwestern went into the lead in the second quarter and stayed in front to the end. Jim Stotte scored 20 points for the winners. Gene Smith's 16 topped McPherson's scoring. Bethel defeated Baker, 79-66, for third place and was paced by Arley Loeffler's 27 points. Kansas Wesley an won fifth place by defeating College of Emporia, 94-81, and Bethany took seventh With an 88-62 triumph over Friends.

righthander from Xavler University, Cincinnati. Tiger officials, disregarding his 5-12 record at Little Rock, are sold on bis potential. Another Little Rock graduate is Milo Johnson, slender right-hander who won 16 and lost 11. Johnson, rs-tHe sole to the accent on youth. Paul Foytack, 23, and Milt-Jordan, 36, prepped in Buffalo last year.

Jack Tighe, Bison manager, says Foytack can't miss now that he has acquired control. His record there was 1310. Jordan, who started last season with Detroit, finished up with Buffalo and was the International League's most effective pitcher with a 12-1 record. The Tigers fcave brought Mp seven new infielders in the hope of strengthening the weak right side. Manager Freddie Hutchinson, satisfied with Ray Boone at third and Harvy Kuennr the rookie of the year; at shortstop, presumably will start with holdovers Walter Dropo at first and Fred Hatfield at second.

Aspiring to replace Hatfield at second will- be rookies Frank Boiling from Buffalo and Harry Bright from Memphis. Boiling, a of young, shortstop, batted .321 in 57 games at Buffalo. He' is regarded as a fine glove man. Bright, 23, was an early sensation in the Southern Association, batting around .400, but leveled off to .295. Originally owned by the New York Yankees, Bright, $7,500 draftee, ranged 14 homers and drove in 77 runs, with the Chicks.

the ballots are counted, in this week's poll but nothing in the past or on the immediate horizon figures to Jar Kentucky and Duquesne off their lofty one-two perches. Top-rated Kentucky has been idle since knocking sixth-ranked Minnesota out of the unbeaten class a week ago for its seventh win against no defeats. But the Wildcats don't figure to drop lower than second place, and perhaps not even that, in the Associated Press poll. While Adolph Rupp was giving his Kentuckians a rest, many of the nation's foremost teams fought it out in a wide assortment of tournaments. Duquesne was one of some two dozen tournament winners.

And on the basis of their triumph in the Madison Square Oarden Holiday Festival In New the towering Dukes could well supplant Kentucky at the top. The towering beat well- regarded Niagara in the Oarden tournament and then last Saturday smothered the University of Mexico That was No. 11 in the Dukes' perfect string. Kentucky has what shapes as two easy assignments this week. The Wildcats face Xavier of Cincinnati tonight and open their Southeastern Conference schedule against Georgia Tech.

Both are home games for Kentucky. Duquesne could well have a tough job against Dayton tonight but should have a romp. Saturday at Johnstown, against St. Francis" Third-ranked Indiana (7-1), which opened the Big Ten campaign last Saturday with a victory over keyed-up Michigan, faces two more conference opponents this week- Wisconsin tonight and Minnesota Saturday. Minnesota shapes up as the Hoosiers' chief contender for the conference title they won last year.

Since being $inked-fourth a week ago, largely on the basis of a defeat of Indiana, Oregon State has Student Meager Plays for Dukes PITTSBURGH UP) There's little chance that Len Jeffreys, student manager of the all winning Duquesne University basketbitil team, will get into the Dukes try to make it 12 in a row against Dayton University here tonight. But Jeffreys won't mind. The student manager, who said he always wanted, to play college basketball, finally got his chance as the Dukes trounced Mexico University 99-35 Saturday night. Coach Dudey Moore, cleared his bench, finally sent in Jeffreys who played eight minutes, and scored four points. "I'm saving all the newspaper clippings and a copy of the official score book," Jeffreys said last night.

"That's something I've dreamed of but never expected to. hflppen." 0 Pitt Trips Taylor PITTSBURG GrV-P i 11 State's basketball team thumped Taylor University of Upland, 89-58, Saturday night for its seventh victory, in nine games. Pittsburg's Dick Maupin scored. 16 points while Howard Habegger of Taylor scored 20 for, high, point, honors. Zatopek Startles Track World Again LONDON UH Emu Zatopek's New Year's eve feat in Brazil of running 7,300 meters (about 5 miles) in 20 minutes and 30.4 seconds had track and field statisticians 43-checklng their slide rules today.

They looked up from their tabulations and proclaimed that Zatopek's clocking 7 indicates the incredible Czech probably passed the .5,000 meters and the three miles in faster time, than the world records of 13:58.2 and 13:32.4 set in 1942 by Gunder (The Wonder) Haegg of Sweden. No official intermediate ings were announced for the Brazil race. But Zatopek in Brazil ran another 2,300 meters, or almost a mile and a half further, after sweeping by the standard metric and linear distances. If the man who did it was anyone but Olympic Winner in there might have Ibeen some doubts as to the length of the course. Yet, as Norrls McWhirter, official collector of figures for publication of the' documents of the International Association of Track and Field Statisticians, said, "Zatopek's time is electric but understandable." First, track experts have long ago decided Zatopek can do almost anything.

Second, there's something which drives a runner on in a road race wherein spectacular times have been recorded. Roadways seem to give the runner more bounce. Oklahoma will try to get even with Kansas at Lawrence tonight. Nebraska will play at Iowa State and Colorado at Missouri. Oklahoma's Sooners gave Kansas an qven-up battle last week until the officials began shooing the regulars off the court.

Sooners wilted when they lout big Bob Waller and Les Lane on fouls in the third period. On the other hand, Kansas lost its top hand, B. H. Born, and its sparkplug, Allen Kelley, about the same time but they were hardly missed. The -reserves, headed by sophomore Bill Brainard who got 22 points, ran away from the SooiY- ers in the last quarter.

Missouri gave Kansas Its roughcast time in the tourney before losing 67-69, and the Tigers are expected to have llttl etrouble tonight with Colorado, which has won one game in eight starts. In comparing the Nebraska and Iowa State teams, consider these tournament results: both teams lost to -Missouri by rather similar scores, while Nebraska beat Kansas-State 78-74 and K-State whipped Iowa State 98-77. Three more Big Seven games will be played Saturday with Oklahoma at Nebraska. Missouri at Kansas, Colorado at Kansas State. Non-conference games this week have Michigan State at Kansas State Tuesday and Iowa State at i Bradley Saturday.

The all-game standings: I Won Lost Pet. Kansas State 6 2 .750 Kansas 4 2 .667 Missouri 4 3 .571 Iowa State 3 4 .429 (Oklahoma ....3 4 .429 Nebraska 3 6 .333 Colorado 1 .125 HE GOT AWAY TO SCORE FOR unidentified East tackier throws his arms around back Veryl Switzer's leg in an effort to stop him on his touchdown run in first period of East-West game in San Francisco. Switzer, of Kansas Sta'te, ran 20 yards to score first touchdown for the West. Others are Wirephotd.) dropped two Navy and Duke in the'Dixie'Classic 1 at Raleigh. The Beavers can look for a decline in national ranking.

They now have a 7-3 record. The Fifth-rated Oklahoma gies, who rating by winning the All-College Tournament at Oklahoma City to run their record to 12-1, opens its Missouri Valley season against Houston at Stillwater Saturday. Western Kentucky (12-0), the winningest major team following in the Louisville tournament, hopes to make it 13 against Murray State Saturday. Illinois (6-2), with an 84-72 defeat at the hands of Minnesota last Saturday, tackles Northwestern and Michigan State this week. North Carolina State 69-65 winner over VII- lanova Saturday, has engagements Virginia Tech Tuesday and Duke Saturday.

Duke, winner of the Dixie Classic, and N. C. State figures to be the chief contenders for the Atlantic Coast Conference crown. And Fordham (7-1), ranked 10th, faces a busy week with New York University tonight, St. Francis ot Brooklyn Wednesday and Army Saturday.

Man Who Started Forward Pass Dies BIRMINGHAM, Mich. Death has come to O.us Dorais, through whose Imagination the forward pass probably will live forever in American football. The 62-year-old famed former coach died at his home just outside of DetroU yesterday. He was the little man who revolutionized football as a Notre Dame player in 1913 with his overhand forward passes. Dorais, former University of Detroit and Detroit Lions coach, had been ill the last six months.

It was Dorais and the immortal Knute Rockne who Introduced the forward it Is known football before World War I. They were' the ones who also laid the solid foundation on which Notre Dame built its fabulous grid dynasty. Dorais was the quarterback, the heady signal-caller, and Rockne the end on the Notre Dame team which went East in November 1913 1 to meet an Army team which was expected to name its own score. But Dorais stunned the and the football world as throwing overhanded passes which led to a 35-13 upset. Throwing in his then unorthodox manner.

Dorais completed 12 straight passes to Rockne and other Notre Dame players. The forward pass had been used prior to this game but only sparingly and the ball was thrown underhanded, not ftt all like Dorais' long, arching, passes. Checker Title Goes To Parsons Player GREAT BEND The new state checker champion of Kansas is Eugene Frazier of Parsons, Frazier won the. title for the third time in a three-day tournament which ended Saturday. The state Checker Association also elected new D.

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