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Dr. Forrest (Pbog ) Allen bat
iflone a lot tor the game of basket
ball In hi ton career, and bit
1933 Kansas - Jayhawkers team,
which lost to Indiana by a single
point Wednesday night at Kan
sas City In the final clash of the
'national collegiate ehampionchlp
tourney, may well have provided
even another noticeable trend for
the cage sport defense. .
The type of defense Allen used
with his red-clad demons at Kan
sas City, has the 300 visiting col
legiate coaches aghast. They
wouldn't have believed it had they
not seen it with their own eyes.
And what they saw will no doubt
be fully utilized when they again
take up their respective coaching
chores nejet season.
Here's how the Kansas defens
ive plan worked In the convincing
79-53. conquest of ; Washington
Tuesday night, and in the Indiana
game, a clash the Jayhawkers
should have won by 10 points:
The two Kansas front-court men
picked up the two opposing ball
handlers as they approached the
center line. Extremely fast with
with feet and bands, the Kansas
kids, neither one of 'em six-footers,
applied a press. They forced
the dribblers to turn wide by sim
ply staying so close to them that
they (the dribblers) bad no alter
native. Very seldom did they foul
during ' such pressing. .-
AH the while the other" three
Kansas defenders were staying
Just as close to their : respective
checking assignments,1 between
them and the balL When the
front-court men would Jam the
dribbler up again either the side
line or center line, the ball-handler
would be forced to pass. This
hurried, harassed pass would half
the time be either wild or smack
Into one of the alert Kansas kid's
possession, and away they'd go
with a fast-break storm at the
opposing basket.
These tactics, applied with re
lentlessness the entire game, so
nettle and Upset t the ' opponents
that they become completely un
tracked. Such Is what happened
to Washington. And such is what
happened in the many games the
unsung Kansas crew won dur
ing the regular season, games
they weren-t supposed to win. : ,
Indiana bad the opportunity to
scout the Kansas club at work In
the Washington game, and was
much better prepared for the
press than was . Tippy Dye's be
wildered bend of Tuesday night.
But even then the Hooslers, a
great team, bad their troubles
throughout. The ball -handling
ability of Indiana's Bob Leonard,
a truly great player, was the one
Item the Indiana team needed or
it would I have been squashed as
was Washington. .
Of course It takes personnel
with lightning-fast - bands and
feet, plus terrific stamina, to play
defense a la Kansas. But the hun
dreds of coaches who saw Allen's
lads go at It will no doubt try a
carbon copy of It .themselves next
season., 1 - -
: After aH.lt Is one way to offset
an advantage la height. The big
boys can't harm you if you can
keep the ball away from them.
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4th in Final Ballot
By JOHN CHANDLER '..
NEW YORK m The Hooslers
of -Indiana University, victors in
the. finals of the NCAA basketball
tournament this week at Kansas
City, were voted the No. 1 college
basketball team of . the 1953 sea
son Friday in the final weekly
Associated Press poIL
Coach Branch . McCracken's1
Bloomington team, champions Of
the 'Big Ten and a 69-68 winner
over Kansas in the NCAA cham
pionship game, ran away with the
14th and last nationwide poll of
the season.
Of - 159 ballots received from
sports writers and sportscasters,
Indiana received 128 first place
votes and 1,475 points scored on
a 10-9-8-7, etc., basis.
Another tournament champion.
Be ton Hall of South Orange, N. J.,
winner of the National Invitation
Tourney in New York last Satur
day, 1 finished ' in second place in
the voting. Seton Hall beat St.
John's of Brooklyn in the NTT fi
nals, 58-48.
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bad 27 first place votes, and 1,357
points. - Only one other team, La
Salle, which was rated No. 6, re
ceived a first place vote. LaSalle
bad four. !
Indiana displaced ' Seton HaH,
early leader in the weekly poll,
in the March 2 balloting, and re
mained No. 1 tn the 12th and 13th
polls.- i
Seton Hall, which had led for
six straight weeks beginning Jan.
20, skidded from the top after late
season' defeats at the hands of
Dayton and Louisville. Seton Hall
bad won 27 games without defeat
until that final disastrous road
trip. Indiana finished with a 23-3
record, Seton Hall with 31-2. ;
LaSalle led for the first two
weeks and Kansas State for three
weeks before Seton Hall took over.
Kansas, the Big Seven cham
" pions who missed the NCAA hon
ors by a basket, wound up In
third place with 1,212 points. Kan
sas was defending NCAA cham
pion. - -
The University of Washington,
Pacific Coast champions and a
semiflnalist in the NCAA tourney,
rated the No. 4 place with 1,041
points. No other team had 1,000
points. .
leeeod BSd-West Title
This is the second time Indiana
has been voted in the "Top Ten"
since the AP basketball poll was
Inaugurated in 1949. The 1951
Hooslers were rated No. 7. It is
the second Mid-west team to gain
the championship honor, Bradley
having been voted No. 1 in 1950.
Kentucky was the No. 1 team
last year, also in 1949 and 1951.
Ijouisiana State, also an NCAA
semi - finalist, finished No. 5 this
year with 632 points, followed by
LaSalle with 484, St. John's with
449, Oklahoma A & M with 318.
Duquesne with 235, and Notre
Dame with 196.
The Top Ten teams: . (First
place votes and season records
including tournament games, in
parentheses)
1. Indiana (128) (234) 1,478
I. Seton Han (27) (31-2) 1,357
t.. Kansas (19-6) 1.212
4. Washington (30-3) " 1,041
5. Louisiana St. (24-3) , 632
. 6. LaSalle (4) (254) 434
T. St. John's (Bkn) (17-6) 449
8. Oklahoma A & U (23-7) 318
t. Duquesne (21-8) - 233
10. Notre Dame (194) ' 196
Tbe 8ecead Tea:
11. minols (1M) 191
12. Kansas St. (17-4) 168
11. . Holy Cross (204) 134
14. Seattle (23-4) 119
13. Wake Forest (23-7) 80
16. Santa Clara (20-7) - 64
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ST. PETERSBURG, Ha. Ufl
The New York Yankees shelled
three rookie hurlers for 16 hits
Friday and trimmed the Philadel
phia Phillies, 84. j
The champs, in enjoying their
best hitting afternoon of the spring, j
blasted a total of 27 bases.
Yogi Berra boomed a homer.
TAMPA, Fla. UR The Cincin
nati Reds overcame an early six
run lead of their own during a
weird ninth inning as they bowed
to the Detroit Tigers here Friday
13 to 12.
' Consecutive borne runs by Walt
Dropo and Bob Nieman, the form
er's coming with two aboard, pow
ered the Tigers to a six-run lead
as they whacked Howie Judson for
eight hits, seven of them in a row,
in the first inning.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. UB
Dick Gernert's two-out home run
off Pitcher Joe Coleman tied the
game in the ninth and men two
errors by the Philadelphia Athletics
la the 10th handed the Boston Red
Sox a 5 to 4 Grapefruit League
victory here Friday, j
BRADENTON, Fla. Winning
their first game as the Milwaukee
Braves. Manager Charlie Grimm's
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Sauer's Broken Little Finger -Held
Key to Cubs' Flag Hopes
1 By BOB MYERS
SAN BERNARDINO. Calif. W
It may be a little finger, but it
Is a matter of big importance to
the Chicago Cubs, this brokenfin-
ger nursed Friday by Hank Sauer.
It may keep Big Hack, the 1922
"most valuable player" in the Na
tional League, out of action for a
Catcher Optioned
To Eskimo dub
EDMONTON ill Tbe Edmon
ton Eskimos of the Western Inter-
national " Baseball League an
nounced Friday that promising
young Catcher Ylnce Pisani has
bees optioned to the club by New
York Yankees.
Pisani, fresh from university and
a hitch in the United States Army,
attended the Oendale. CaUL. ad
vance camp for top Yankee pros
pects last month and was observed
there by Eskimo playing Manager
Bob Sturgeon. .
.Pisani is a graduate of Californ
ia's. Santa Clara University. .
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13. DePaul (19-9) 2
20. Southwest Mou (24-4) V 47
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lads swung away for 17 "hits Friday
to hand the St. Louis Cardinals
their worst defeat of a losing
spring, 11-2. :
- Biggest blow in tbe Braves' at
tack was a three-run borne run hit
by Rookie Bob Mainzer off Pitcher
Bob Tiefenauer in the eighth in
ning. SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (It
Rookie righthander Don Larsen
smacked his second home run of
the spring Friday to give the St.
Louis Browns a 3-4 victory over
the Chicago Cubs.
Larsen's home run came with
the bases empty in tbe sixth to
ning. PASADENA. Calif, (fl The Chi
cago White Sox B team vanquished
the Tokyo Giants Friday in an
exhibition game, t to 4, although
the Japanese outhit the Chicagoans
by a 104 margin.
Bob Wilson's home run was the
big difference. The White Sox out
fielder personally accounted for
five runs. 'HV-
SAN DIEGO. Calif. (J)' The
San Diego Padres overpowered the
Naval Training Center Bluejackets
11-4, here Friday to make it seven
straight exhibition wins and No. U
for the spring training season.
month, and throw, him out of
stride for two months. -
The Califoraian broke the fin
ger If s the right little digit
in a slide earlier this week.
Sauer himself regards the mis
hap as no tremendous calamity,
arid even said be hopes to be ready
to play on opening . day. , -
"I can stDl do most everything
except bat, so I dont think Til
be set back too much. I figure
by the time we get back to Chi
cago next month ru be ready to
hit a little.
"Maybe,, be said, "a few days
work in the batting cage wSI get
me back to form, I sure hope
SO. .. ' -' -
So do "Cub fans, to whom Hefty
Hank is quite a hero. They re
joiced last year when be walloped
37 - homers to share the league
four - bagger honors with Ralph
Einer . and . when be lead the
majors in runs driven in with 121.
So does Hank's manager, Phil
Cavarretta, who must depend on
the Sauer bat again if the Cubs
are to hold on, or go np from
their fifth place finish.
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MELBOURNE, Australia OR
Tbe Organizing Committee of tbe
19SC Olympic Games Friday night
voted Itself a ten - day -r""
of time to prepare a report to
the International Olympic Com
mittee after two possible solutions
to the housing problem bad been
proposed.
Tbe report must be delivered at
tbe IOC meeting in Mexico City,
April it. '
Friday had been set as the dead
line, but the organzfng commit
tee found itself unable to say any
thing definite about plans for
building an Olympic village to
house the athletes after various
schemes had been turned down.
Arthur Coles, chairman of the
Olympic Control Committee, visit
ed Canberra Friday to present a
compromise plan for federal fi
nancing of the construction of an
Olympic village.
A subcommittee of tljs Mel
bourne city council came up with
another. The latter apparently re
ceived t favorable consideration
from the organizing committee.
Afterj the meeting. Chairman W.
S. Kent-Hughes said:
"I am feeling more confident
tonight,? than I have felt the last
few months.
The Melbourne plan Is to build
apartments to tbe Carlton area
which, after the games, win be
used to bouse old people as part
of a Melbourne slum clearance
plan, i
Hawkins Leads
Links Tourney
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (II Fred
Hawkins shot an eagle deuce on
the 18th hole for a 7-under-par CS
and leadership in the first round
of the Jacksonville Open Golf
Tournament Friday. . ..
Hawkins, 29-year-old professional
from MJ. Paso, Tex- used a 9 iron
to sink bis second shot oa the 41S-
yard hole. The ban hit the green
about 'a foot from tbe cup and
bounced in.
Al Zimmerman of Portland, Ore-
was one of nine golfers who shot
70s to rank among the top 23.
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(b) Oik Bidge; (c) Soo Canal; (d)
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