Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20
Last Games of Regular Basket Ball
Schedule to Be Played This
Week.
CHAMPS SERIES STILL AHEAD
Nebraska or Ames Will Represent
Northern Section of League.
OMAHA MAY SEE CONTEST
Eager Planning to Bring Kansas
Here for Finals.
BASE BALL PRACTICE DELAYED
Coach Carroll POstpOnes Cage Work
in Order to Civ Basket HALL
Men Use of the GYM
nasium,
.ASE BALL PRACTICE DELAYED

in order to give Basket Hall
Men Use of the GYM
nRsium.
LINCOLN, Feb. 10 especially The
final games of the regular Nebraska bas-
ket ball schedule will be played next Fri
day and Saturday nights with the Kansas
university five. Early in the winter the
invaded Lawrence, the home
of the Jayhawkers, and were defeated by
wide margins in two games. The contests
in Lincoln next week will not figure in
the standings of the two teams in the
valley conference race, but will
return exhibitions for the games played
at the home of the Kansas quintet.
The Jayhawkers will come to Lincoln
with a clean record of several games won
and none lost, and will be held as the IA
~vorites over the players of Coach Hewitt.
Kansas is the leading five of the south
ern section of the conference contest, and
has defeated both Missouri and Washing
ton, It's rival contenders for the honors of
that section, by decisive scores.
For two years the Jayhawkers have had
the championship basket ball five of the
Missouri valley conference schools, and
last winter, the first season OF the "big
seven" basket ball league, they acquired
the sobriquet of champions by defeating
the Cornhuskers in four out of five games
in the title series at Kansas City. This
winter the Lawrence tossers are possessed
of the same quintet that won the premier
honors in 1909. and it is this team that
they are sending to Lincoln next week
to play the Cornhuskers.
Earlier in the winter, and a few weeks
a. A.. y-H-..Iy RIua hnd Italian ftG trim
to Lawrence, Captain Perry and his crew
felt sure that they would be in condition
to defeat the Kansas aggregation by the
time It came to Lincoln to play return
games, but the local team has been shaken
I'D so often since then that there is little
hope for victory in the camp of tho Corn
huskers.
shy Three of Regulars.
Three of the men who played against
the Jayhawkers at Lawrence in January
have left the university squad since That
time, Immediately after the Cornhusker
five came back to Lincoln from its south
ern trip the eligibility committee got busy
with the Dig stick and declared d. c.
Mitchell, the wonderful midget forward,
ineligible for further participation In m
tercollegiate athletics. In the Kansas
games Mitchell was Nebraska's leading
player and scored most of his teams
points.
With the close of the last semester, in
January, Ingersol, guard and forward, quit
the university and was graduated from he
Industrial college. At about the same time
Ingersol left, Wood, the colored guard, was
forced to leave school and he was out Of
the games that the team played on its
trip into Iowa last week, He, however,
returned this week and is again playing
on the five.
As soon as Wood came back, though,
Petrashek, the rangy center of the team,
left school to look after his land interests
in the western part of the state. Petrashek
was playing his second season on the
team and was Just coming to put up a
remarkable defensive game. His loss
leaves the team weak at the pivotal posi-
ton.
With Mitchell, Ingersol and Petrashek
out OF the game the Nebraska quintet
will be much weaker than 1t would had
these players stayed with the team and
prepared to meet the Jayhawkers. The
loss OF these men will not make the five
any weaker than 1t was when 1t played
at Lawrence, for all the men on the squad
have improved immensely since that trip
and are playing In theiDNest form. Had
the lost trio OF players been retained, how
ever, the C~ornhuskers would probably be
in shape to take at least one game from
their southern rivals.
May Play Amea Again.
Although the games with Kansas next
week are the final ones on the schedule
OF the ~Cornhuskers, still they will not be
the last in which the Cornhuskers will
contest this winter. The winners of the
titles in the two sections OF the Missouri
Valley Conference league will nave to play
a series Of games to settle the champion
ship Of the entire conference. Nebraska
will be one OF the teams to wage battle
In this series. unless Ames succeeds in
wrestling the northern honors from Coach
Hewitt's team.
Just now Nebraska leads this division of
the league, with a record OF six games won
and two lost. Ames has a record OF five
games won and two lost. Nebraska has
played It's allotted number OF games and
the Iowa Aggies still have a game with
Drake to play. II the Aggies annex a vic
tory in that contest they will be tied with
the Cornhuskers for the championship OF
the northern section, and a series OF three
games will be played between Nebraska and
Ames to decide which OF them shall play
the winners OF the honors in the other half
OF the league.
Ames is booked to meet Drake at Des
Moines next Wednesday night, but as II
has defeated the Stadium aggregation IN
three games this winter, the chances are
excellent that 1t will annex this final exhI
bition and equal Nebraska's record for the
league. II Drake should happen to .wir
that single game, though. Ames would be
thrown out OF the race. and the Corn
huskers would be the champions OF this
northern division and would meet the win.
ner Of the southern division.
No agreement has been reached between
Ames and Nebraska about playing off the
ties In case Ames wins from Drake, though
tentative plans have been made. Wher
Manager Eager was at Ames last week
with the basket ball five he talked the mat,
ter over with Coach Williams and Il seemed